Since its establishment, the Liantai Militia has adhered to the principle of putting firepower first. The recruits were told on the first day of training that on the battlefield, if you can use bullets to destroy the enemy, never use bayonets, and if you can use cannonballs, never use bullets.
With such guiding principles and Gao Hongming's almost unlimited supply of ammunition, the Liantai militiamen, from officers to soldiers, never knew what frugality was. Both officers and soldiers always fought openly when fighting, like
Great American soldiers for later generations.
It goes without saying that the benefits of this style of play are obvious. The Liantai Militia Group has been established for more than two years. They relied on this style of play to make the Japanese army in Shanxi lose their temper. However, the shortcomings of this style of play are also obvious, that is, they are extremely dependent on
logistics.
Just like now, the 789th Battalion relied on ferocious firepower to take down the three lines of defense of the Japanese army, but the price was to use up all the ammunition they carried. Now, except for a small number of riflemen, those armed with automatic weapons
Almost all the soldiers had consumed all the ammunition they carried, and could only watch helplessly as the Japanese reinforcements came over.
"Batalion Commander...what should we do?" a soldier asked.
Lei Huo gritted his teeth. The artillery battalion had told him that all their ammunition had been exhausted. The ammunition truck would not arrive until twenty minutes at the fastest, but they still had twenty minutes. Thinking of this, he took the lead.
He pulled out the pistol from his waist and shouted loudly: "Everyone listen to my order and fix your bayonets!"
"Ren... rub... rub..."
Accompanied by the constant sound of metal clashing, the soldiers all raised their rifles. Many soldiers also threw away their MP40 submachine guns and picked up the Type 38 rifles scattered in the trenches or pulled out their engineer shovels.
"Brothers... everyone is following me..."
"Buzz buzz..."
Before Lei Hu finished speaking, there was a low buzzing sound in the sky, and the originally clear sky began to become a little dark.
Looking up, they saw a swarm of aircraft flying towards them.
Soon, the communications soldier carrying the radio on his back stumbled over and handed him a microphone: "Battal Commander... Battalion Commander... The aircraft group in the sky wants to talk to you."
"Hey... I'm Lei Xianghe, the commander of the ninth battalion. Please tell me if you have anything to say!"
Soon, a young voice sounded on the microphone: "I am Major Xue Shaogong, commander of the fourth temporary brigade of the bombing formation. I have been ordered by the regiment commander to support you. Do you need help now?"
"Major Xue, I believe you have seen our situation. The attack just now has exhausted the ammunition we carried. Now the Japanese have launched a coalition-level counterattack. If you don't come again, I will lead my brothers and the Japanese
Fighting.
Since you have been ordered to support us by the regiment, I have only one request, which is to blow back all the Japanese in front of us, at least until our ammunition supplies are brought up."
"As you wish!"
Only a brief voice sounded from the microphone.
The arrival of the Liantai Flying Corps gave the attacking troops, which had run out of ammunition, a shot in the arm. Originally, whether it was the soldiers of the New Regiment or the soldiers of the 789th Battalion, almost everyone was ready to make peace with the counterattacking Japanese army.
Be prepared to die together.
But when they saw the almost endless fleet of aircraft in the sky, everyone understood that the battle was safe, because the Liantai Militia Corps had never let down the infantry brothers who trusted them since its establishment.
Less than a minute after the call with Lei Xiangdong ended, the Stuka dive bomber flying at the front broke away from the formation and dived towards the ground. Along with the dive, a shrill and piercing siren began to echo over the battlefield.
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander...the plane...the Chinese plane is coming!" A staff officer pointed at the black planes in the sky and shouted in horror.
On the ground, the captain of the 52nd regiment, Tomomi Disi, who was directing the soldiers to launch a counterattack against the Liantai militia, looked at the sky with a particularly gloomy expression. Without saying a word, he slapped the staff officer and angrily said: "Baga...just a few Chinese aircraft."
It's just a plane, why are you panicking? Immediately order the troops to evacuate and speed up the pace. We must find a way to get together with the Chinese people. The speed must be fast!"
"Hi!" The chief of staff came to his senses after being slapped in the face and ran away quickly.
The idea of the fourth floor of Tommidi is very simple. As long as he gets involved with the armies of both sides, the other side's aircraft will not dare to open fire unscrupulously. In this way, he still has the opportunity to use his superior strength to wipe out all these Chinese armies.
They were driven out of their position, but the planes of the Liantai militia were thrown into danger and could only
It has to be said that Tammidi's idea on the fourth floor does make sense, but he underestimated the speed of the plane as he rarely encountered air attacks.
Amidst the low sirens in the sky, a group of black vultures swooped down from an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The ground was originally swarmed with soldiers from the 52nd Regiment and the 108th Regiment rushing towards the Liantai Militia and the New Regiment.
The soldiers all looked up to the sky.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a somewhat silent explosion, a napalm bomb weighing two hundred kilograms fell into the Japanese charging formation. An orange-red fire dragon tens of meters long and ten meters wide appeared. The temperature was thousands of degrees.
With a flame that was more than ten meters high, it instantly enveloped the area.
"ah……"
Different from the low explosion, after the red fire dragon appeared, a shrill scream resounded throughout the position. It was the sound of the Japanese soldiers who were enveloped by the fire dragon.
"Boom, boom, boom…"
Explosions sounded one after another, and dozens of napalm bombs fell on the Japanese army formations, forming deadly walls of fire. These walls of fire were so powerful that the 2,000-degree high temperature burned everything around them to charcoal.
Not only that, when these napalm bombs exploded, countless liquids as sticky as lard splattered on the bodies of many Japanese soldiers and began to burn. For a time, the Japanese charge formation was in chaos, and countless Japanese soldiers could no longer
Inspired by the spirit of the Bushido of the past, they howled wildly, their voices shrill and high-pitched. Each of these burning men were like sinners being judged in hell.
The Stuka squadron just dropped nearly fifty napalm bombs in succession, forming a wall of fire nearly one kilometer long. This wall of fire was only more than two hundred meters away from the third line of defense, so everything that happened in the Japanese army formation
It was also clearly seen by the soldiers of the New Regiment and the 789th Battalion, and many Eighth Route Army soldiers looked pale when they saw it.
A strong wind blew by, and there was a smell similar to barbecue in the air. However, after smelling this smell, many soldiers of the new regiment turned even paler. Many of them even held on to the parapet and vomited.