The voices of the same voice sounded at the same time.
Political Commissar Ping said excitedly: "We have been fighting with the Japanese Air Force for more than half a month, and today we finally saw the outcome."
Commander Liu couldn't restrain his excitement and waved his hand fiercely: "This time we destroyed more than a hundred Japanese aircraft. Neji Okamura will not be able to compete with us for air supremacy in the short term."
"Yeah...it's really not easy for us to win."
Gao Hongming was not too excited. Instead, he sighed softly and looked at the sunset on the horizon. "In order to compete for Shanxi's air supremacy, our pilots have made too many sacrifices over the years."
Seeing that Gao Hongming was actually feeling a little emotional, Commander Liu and Political Commissar Heping finally realized that the price paid by the Liantai Flying Corps in the past half month was not small. They lost more than 30 aircraft alone and more than a dozen pilots lost their lives.
At first glance, these losses may seem insignificant compared to the casualties of hundreds or thousands of ground troops, but don't forget that there is no comparison between pilots and ordinary infantry.
The training of a qualified pilot requires real money. Once he is killed in battle, not only will all the previous hard work be in vain, but also the fighter plane worth hundreds of thousands of oceans will be destroyed.
This can be seen from the fact that although the Eighth Route Army now has hundreds of thousands of troops, it has not been able to form its own air force until now.
Thinking again of the request of the 115th Division in the telegram, Commander Liu and Political Commissar Liu were scratching their heads.
But who is Gao Hongming, of course he will not embarrass his partners.
In order to support me, they traveled a long way from Shandong and marched all the way. Now it is rare for them to open their mouths to me. If I don't help in this way, am I still a human being?
He thought about it and immediately understood that this matter should be done sooner rather than later, so he said to the two of them: "After this air raid, the Japanese air power in Shanxi and even North China has been obviously weakened a lot. It should be impossible to compete with us for air supremacy in the short term.
In this way, we can also support the 115th Division. Don't worry, I will arrange this immediately.
The 115th Division has come all the way, and our Liantai Militia Group always has to show its kindness to the landlords. Now, please ask your staff to provide us with the radio contact password of the 115th Division."
On a remote mountain trail, Commander Lin, who was riding on a war horse, looked at the soldiers passing by with a trace of anxiety in his heart.
The troops have set out from Shandong for a week. Originally, everything went smoothly, but the situation changed after entering Shanxi.
Different from Shandong, due to the large-scale raids by Gangcun Neiji, Shanxi can be said to be dotted with large and small densely packed bunkers and gun towers. These things are like shackles that densely block the entire Shanxi.
Under such circumstances, it was okay for the small force, but it was simply impossible for the large force to march quickly without alerting the Japanese army.
To make matters worse, they had been discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes since the day before yesterday, and what followed was constant harassment by Japanese planes.
Moreover, the Japanese army is also very cunning. Due to the current tight military strength in various parts of Shanxi, after detecting that this is the main force of the Eighth Route Army with tens of thousands of people, they cannot mobilize too many troops, so they send out planes to harass and bomb continuously.
The 115th Division was forced to leave the main road and take some remote mountain roads. This also caused the troop's marching speed to drop sharply. Seeing that there was no way to reach the destination as scheduled, Commander Lin's heart was lying if he said he was not in a hurry.
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"Guard!" Commander Lin suddenly shouted.
"arrive!"
"Bring me the map!"
As he spoke, Commander Lin got off his horse, walked to a grassy area by the roadside and sat down on the ground. The guard beside him took out a map from his bag and spread it in front of him.
Before Mr. Lin could look at the map, a deep voice sounded behind him.
"Old Lin, you are looking at the map again!"
The person coming was none other than Political Commissar Luo of the 115th Division.
"yes!"
Commander Lin was very familiar with Political Commissar Luo, and he said without raising his head: "The Japanese planes are really annoying. We have drilled into the ravines as much as possible, but they are still unyielding. I want to see if there are any more
Is there any road that is relatively remote and difficult to find?"
Political Commissar Luo said helplessly: "Old Lin... I'm not talking about you. If there are really unknown remote roads, our guide will know about it. It's useless even if you see through the map. If you have the time, you might as well think about it.
How to get rid of the Japanese plane so that we can travel more comfortably."
"You think I don't want to."
Mr. Lin said angrily: "It's just that the Japanese planes are in the sky, and we don't have the wings to fly up to the sky to shoot them down. What can I do?"
"So." Political Commissar Luo walked to Commander Lin and sat down next to him, "You have this time to think about the map, why not think about how to ask for some support from Commander Gao, we are here all the way.
, the consumption of weapons, ammunition, medicine and food is not small. If it is not replenished, I may not be able to cope with a slightly larger battle."
"Buzz buzz..."
As soon as Political Commissar Luo finished speaking, a low roar came from the sky. Upon hearing this sound, the expressions of both the two men and the marching soldiers changed.
Immediately afterwards, voices resounded throughout the team.
"The plane is coming, hurry up and conduct air defense!"
Following the order, the soldiers who were on their way left the road and ran towards both sides of the road, but how could it be so easy to hide them all in such a huge team?
Before the team could finish hiding, several aircraft appeared in the sky. This was a small formation consisting of four Type 96 attack aircraft and two Type 1 fighters.
They just circled in the sky for a while to determine the identity of the ground troops, and then pounced on the marching team.
The first ones to rush down were two Type 1 and Type 2 fighters. Compared with Type 1, Type 2 replaced the original two 7.7mm machine guns with 12.7mm and installed self-sealing fuel tanks. It was more powerful and safer.
A certain improvement.
"Dong dong dong..."
It is difficult to express in words what it is like for a plane to shoot at the ground with a 12.7mm machine gun. If you have to use images and sounds to express it... In the later movie, the 7th company in the Changjin Lake was strafed by US fighter planes on the gravel field.
This scene should be relatively close to reality, and using flesh and blood to describe it is definitely not an exaggeration.
As the Japanese planes fired, several soldiers who had no time to dodge were beaten to pieces on the spot.
Fortunately, the fighter plane was very fast and had to climb back up after a dive and strafing attack.
But then four Type 96 attack planes also began to rush down towards the ground, and the four aerial bombs mounted under the wings shone coldly in the sun.
Seeing this scene, the eyes of the soldiers on the ground showed expressions of grief and anger. Everyone knew that if the Japanese planes were to drop all the bombs, how many casualties would be caused, but at this moment they had nothing to do.