Undoubtedly, regardless of the performance of the aircraft, a two-aircraft formation with wingmen assisting the lead aircraft has an advantage over the single Japanese aircraft that have been separated and fighting alone.
The fighter planes of both sides chased each other for twenty or thirty kilometers. Some fighter planes flew all the way to the front line of Niangziguan, fighting from an altitude of 3,000 meters to 1,000 meters, 800 meters or even lower than 600 meters. They were fighting on the ground. Tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese soldiers engaged in a life-and-death struggle before their eyes.
On the battlefield, waves of mountain roars and tsunamis sounded.
"Victory, victory!" That was the cry of the Chinese soldiers.
The two planes with the blue sky and the white sun flag on their tails were chasing the single plane with the red sun tail. Even the stupidest people knew that the Chinese Air Force had the upper hand in this air battle. What's more, one minute later, right in front of their eyes, two painted planes appeared in succession. The Japanese plane with the red sun tail was hit with thick smoke. After the pilot bailed out, it hit the cliff and exploded into a ball of fire.
The four Chinese fighter planes that won the chase and were painted with the blue sky and white sun flag on their tails lowered their noses and altitude to 500 meters amid the roaring tsunami on the Chinese positions. In front of tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers, they flew from the east to In the west, the formation was the same as the original 24 Japanese planes, with two fighters in one row and two rows in one column, using two 12.7mm machine guns on the nose and two 7.6mm machine guns on the wings. The wife-to-be closed the Japanese position directly in front and plowed the entire area.
The Japanese soldiers of the 78th Infantry Regiment, who had been beaten into silence, hid in the field trenches without even daring to risk their heads.
Then, they swayed their wings amidst the tsunami of "Long live the Chinese Air Force!" to express their salute to the Chinese Army, pulled up the nose of the aircraft and jumped to an altitude of a thousand meters again to draw an arc and head east.
Although precious fuel was consumed, they also used up all the ammunition to reduce the load, which did not violate military orders. These young men of the "Aviation Volunteer Army" could only express their respect for their tribesmen in this way.
From the sky, they could see very clearly. As far as they could see, the Chinese positions were scorched black and full of shell craters. However, countless Chinese soldiers were still holding on to their positions, as they saw on the meat grinder battlefield in Songhu. The same.
Although they can only live in this country for a year at most, this group of soldiers who are sworn to defend the country and the nation have used their performance to let them know that the battle they came thousands of miles away to participate in the battle to defend their mother clan is what they have done in their lives. The most correct choice.
Just like their companions who left suicide notes before rushing to the battlefield said: Dear Mom and Dad, the battle is about to begin. I may die, but I will not be afraid, I will only be proud, and pride is as black as these and mine. My comrades with black glasses and yellow skin fought side by side and died proudly with them. Because I finally know why our Chinese nation can last for thousands of years because of them. If I die in battle, please don't Sad, please tell your younger brothers and sisters that you must return to this land in your lifetime to see that our mother race, with its strong backbone and soul, will one day rise on this planet. At that time, they can proudly say to any race ,We are the Chinese nation.
Through this war, the Chinese young men who have suffered humiliation and discrimination abroad have deeply understood that before leaving the American continent, Liu Lang clenched his fist and firmly said to them: Dignity does not depend on the amount of money, but on the fist. How hard.
Even as powerful as the Japanese invaders, now they can only tremble and cry under their machine guns.
Because of the weakness of the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese army, including the unnecessary standing divisions with excellent combat effectiveness, was not equipped with sufficient anti-aircraft firepower. Faced with the machine gun bullets poured out by the "Volunteer Army" boys, they had no choice but to hide in the trenches
They endured it silently. Far worse than the Chinese who they looked down upon but dared to focus fire on Czech-style light machine guns in the air and Japanese aircraft at all costs.
Hiding in the brigade headquarters in the mountains, Yoshito Takagi looked at all this with a telescope and was so depressed that he almost vomited blood. But he did not dare to order the 26th Artillery Regiment to head towards the Chinese position where the cheers were louder than the waves.
The people launched artillery fire in retaliation.
He was really afraid that the artillery position would be exposed and discovered by Chinese planes and suffer disaster. God knows if those Chinese planes that seemed to have flown away had any spare ammunition. If such a few bombs were dropped on the artillery position, he would be in trouble.
I really want to cry.
Without artillery, if tens of thousands of Chinese attacked him, he would not dare to guarantee victory even with three or four regiments, let alone one and a half regiments under his command.
Major General Yoshito Takagi just hopes that the Chinese planes will cause trouble for the 40th Infantry Brigade and not attack him. As for why the Imperial fighter planes failed in this air battle, what happened to the Chinese planes?
Arriving at the Niangziguan battlefield is not something that he, a small brigade commander, can take care of. That is something that the commander of the division, His Excellency Bunzaburo Kawagishi, and His Excellency General Juichi Terauchi should worry about.
He couldn't even worry about the battlefield dozens of miles away. It should be the battlefield of the 40th Infantry Brigade executing the detour strategy of the division commander. Even, let alone worrying about it, Takagi Yoshito would be a little happy if they were there
Encountering a tenacious blockade by the Chinese, at least it shows that Yamashita Fengfumi is just talking on paper. The so-called roundabout attack is just a stupid idea. It is better to listen to his suggestion and concentrate the main force of the division to break through the frontal battlefield of Niangziguan, using the division's advantage
The military force carries out the most powerful blow to the Chinese. As long as the main force of the Chinese is annihilated at Niangziguan, Taiyuan, Shanxi, is just like a fish on the chopping board, easily accessible.
It can be said that Bunzaburo Kawagishi received the news about the emergence of the Chinese Air Force and the defeat of the front-line air force, not from the front line of Shigen Village but from Yoshito Takagi on the Niangziguan battlefield. The somewhat confused Japanese Lieutenant General did not wait for 30 seconds.
Come to God.
How could there be Chinese fighter planes here? In addition to the airport in Taiyuan, Shanxi is also the Yangmingbao that the Japanese army has occupied. However, the intelligence sent by the Japanese spies in Taiyuan shows that there are not a large number of fighter planes dispatched. To be precise, that airport is not at all
There are only a few useful military aircraft, and the outdated bi-wing reconnaissance aircraft that dare to fly to the battlefield are just a side dish of the 38th Air Wing.
But there was no way Yoshito Takagi could deceive him on this matter. Thousands of Imperial Army soldiers witnessed two fighter planes of the 38th Air Wing crashing into the mountains of Shanxi, China. Four Chinese fighter planes were still showing off after destroying their own planes.
The fact that the ground bombarded the infantry position wildly before flying away is proof of this.
The angry Japanese lieutenant general almost broke his back teeth. It didn't matter who won the air battle. Even if all 24 fighters of the two squadrons were destroyed, it didn't matter, although that was impossible. What he cared about was that he was defeated.
The 40th Infantry Brigade, which was besieged by more than 10,000 "Tuba Road" troops, and more than 6,300 people, must not be damaged too much.
However, perhaps because the signal in the mountainous area was too poor, no matter how the division headquarters called for reports, there was no response from the 40th Infantry Brigade.
While reporting to the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters that a large number of Chinese fighter planes had appeared in the Shanxi theater, requesting them to identify the source of the aircraft, they also telegraphed an infantry brigade and two baggage squadrons of the baggage regiment preparing to depart from Jingxing County, increasing the reinforcement strength to one infantryman.
The brigade has four baggage squadrons, with a total strength of 3,000, nearly one infantry regiment.
Bunzaburo Kawagishi naturally had his reasons for doing this. The 20th Division's baggage regiment has 3,400 people, a total of 6 baggage squadrons, each with more than 500 people, and two baggage squadrons are equivalent to an infantry brigade.
Don't think that the Japanese army's baggage regiments are scum. In fact, in the Japanese division sequence, all the soldiers lost in the battle of the infantry brigade are replenished from the baggage regiments, and their combat effectiveness is not weak at all.
In the battle of Pingxingguan, the 115th Division faced two baggage squadrons from two baggage regiments, with more than a thousand men. It was these Japanese reserve soldiers who suffered a 1:1 battle loss against the elite red troops.
This shows how strong their fighting power is.
Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who sent a force equivalent to three infantry brigades to supplement the 40th Infantry Brigade, was not just trying to rescue the 40th Infantry Brigade. He also wanted to increase the number of troops in the roundabout force to 9,000, so that he could seize the queen in one fell swoop.
The dream of breaking through and encircling tens of thousands of Chinese troops on the Niangziguan front line.
To put it bluntly, in the mind of the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, although the Air Force's defeat was very bad, it was by no means a catastrophe. Even without the planes, the 9,000 infantry artillery could still roam the land of China.
Except for crabs, there is no other creature that can vividly describe them.
In just a few minutes, the troop deployment of the Japanese 20th Division changed again due to the air battle. However, the air battle would not stop because of the different moods of the people on the ground.
Zhou Dapeng, led by Chen Buping, was chasing a Japanese plane.
This is definitely a cunning opponent. During the second battle between two aircraft formations at an altitude of 3,000 meters, Zhou Dapeng noticed him. It was he who flew the aircraft numbered 009, nicknamed "Pupe", to the deputy captain of the 2nd Squadron.
A row of bullet holes were made, including in the cockpit glass cover. If the armor of the cockpit were not strong enough, Zhou Dapeng estimated that "Pipe" would not have the chance to continue holding the cigarette butt and bragging to everyone.
And he himself, at a relative speed of up to 900 kilometers per hour, not only hit his opponent, but also cleverly used the wing vibration to cause the high-speed aircraft to have slight trajectory changes, thus avoiding the vital point, and several aircraft attacked him crazily.
The 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary bomb only penetrated the skin of its fuselage, but did not cause damage to its engine fuel tank, cockpit and other key parts.
An absolute ace pilot.
When he led 6 Japanese planes back to the battlefield, after experiencing a two-minute fight with Zhou Dapeng, and finally losing strength and starting to flee under the cooperative attack of the two planes, Zhou Dapeng was even more sure that this was not only the Japanese army's
The ace pilot was one of the strongest opponents he encountered after entering the Chinese battlefield.
Not only does he have superb flying skills, but the most rare thing is his extremely tenacious will to fight.
During several hedging fights, he had several opportunities to lock on to his aircraft and destroy it, but he either made a desperate Saburo-style exchange of fire, which Zhou Dapeng, who did not want to damage the fighter plane, had no choice but to dodge, or he dived to a low altitude close to China.
The position was too close, and Zhou Dapeng was afraid that the plane would not hit him when he threw his rat weapon, but would hit his own head with a bullet chain, which would make it impossible to draw.
But now, taking advantage of wingman Chen Buping's plane to attract his full attention, Zhou Dapeng, who made a small-radius turning maneuver at low altitude and then rushed to high altitude again, finally came behind him, occupied the most advantageous position, and began the final battle.
chase.
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"The Foolish Emperor", book friends who like history can collect it and grow it as a sapling. It is indeed not easy for a new author, and Feng Yue understands it deeply! It is his honor to have such a die-hard reader.