Zhong Chenggong frowned and asked: "Captain, do you mean that the Japanese plane will come again!"
"It's very possible! It's still an hour and a half before dark, and it won't take more than an hour and a half for the Japanese plane to return. If a plane comes to kill us now, it can fly arrogantly above us for at least twenty minutes!" Wang Ping affirmed.
Then he raised his telescope and looked at the battlefield!
All grain trucks parked on the road have been towed off the road, and all ammunition boxes scattered on the road have been emptied.
At a glance, there was nothing on the road that stretched for several kilometers except for scattered corpses of Japanese soldiers.
There were three battles on the battlefield, two of which were coming to an end. Due to heavy casualties, the troops commanded by the Japanese Major had to abandon their positions and fight hand-to-hand with the attacking troops~
"Rumble..."
After watching it for less than five minutes, a faint roar came over.
Next to him, Zhong Chenggong's expression suddenly changed: "Captain, you are right, the little devil indeed has a plane to kill him~"
"It is so easy to use aviation to bomb us, and the opportunity to kill us in large numbers is in front of us. The leader of the Japanese division will definitely not let it go!" Wang Ping analyzed.
"If I were the commander of the Little Japanese Division, I would definitely deploy more aircraft to bomb us with all my strength, and conduct a covering bombing of the entire battlefield. Immediately let the troops disperse and hide, and the three aircraft should not be underestimated. At least bring
Come over with eighteen aerial bombs, even if a blind cat kills a mouse, it will cause us a lot of casualties!"
"The air defense battalion is ready for battle. Don't let us down this time. You must find a way to take down a plane for me!"
"Rumble..."
With a huge roar, the three planes finally arrived on the battlefield.
They must have known that the Eighth Route Army on the ground had released weapons. They did not rush to dive and drop bombs, but circled back and forth in the air to search for attack targets.
Wang Ping was not in a hurry. He knew that the three planes overhead would stay here for at most twenty minutes. Therefore, the longer they hovered, the shorter the time to attack would be.
Two minutes later, the two planes moved, left the formation, formed a small attack formation one behind the other, and then rushed toward a high ground on the battlefield with a roar.
If Wang Ping remembered correctly, an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon was stationed on this high ground!
He immediately raised his telescope and stared at the two Japanese planes swooping down.
One thousand meters in the air, there is no movement on the high ground ~
Five hundred meters in the air, there is still no movement on the high ground~
Wang Ping couldn't help but become nervous at this time. Seeing that the Japs plane rushing at the front had opened fire, thick tongues of flames hit the ground for two days, and quickly extended across the mountain top, and when they were about to cover the machine gun platoon, the air defense battalion finally began to fight back...
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The three anti-aircraft machine guns were spaced thirty or forty meters apart from each other. They were not concentrated on the top of the hill, but scattered on the slopes around the top of the hill.
Three lines of fire suddenly appeared, intersecting with each other, and directly enveloped the Japanese aircraft.
At this moment, there was movement on the three nearby hills. A total of nine anti-aircraft machine guns fired at the same time. The dense bullets, like rain, all flew towards the front plane.
Because he was holding a telescope, Wang Ping could clearly see the bullets making countless bullet holes in the fuselage of the aircraft.
The kid piloting the fighter plane was obviously a veteran. Under his control, the plane dodged left and right in the air like a falcon.
At first, it could dodge most bullets.
The two tongues of flames fired by the plane also successfully extended to the top of the mountain, destroying an anti-aircraft machine gun position. Seven or eight soldiers fell to the ground, either missing arms or legs, or were beaten to a bloody mess. It was very bloody and tragic.
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At the same time, thick black smoke erupted from the tail of the Japanese plane, and then it began to climb, trying to leave the effective range of the anti-aircraft machine gun.
At the same time, another plane also opened fire and dived towards one of the hills, hoping to disperse the ground anti-aircraft firepower and reduce the pressure on the squad leader.
The little Japanese plane that had been hovering in the sky also moved. It swooped down from the sky like a bomb and rushed towards another mountain.
To the dismay of the Japanese, the air defense battalion was not fooled!
The last time the air defense failed, a very important reason was that the air defense firepower was too dispersed and the air defense troops were too concentrated. Not only did they not achieve any great results, but they were also killed by the Japanese in one fell swoop, killing two anti-aircraft platoons!
This time they learned their lesson directly and further dispersed the remaining twelve anti-aircraft machine guns on various hills, and issued death orders to each squad and platoon. No matter what accident occurred, everyone would only focus on the first aircraft to shoot.
, even if he has been targeted by an airplane and is about to die, he cannot change the target of the attack.
Battalion Commander He Pengyu's death order worked.
Under the crazy fire of more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns, the Japanese plane, which was just emitting black smoke, suddenly burst into a huge fireball, and then the entire plane was dismembered into two pieces and smashed to the ground.
After the first aircraft was shot down, the remaining anti-aircraft firepower on the ground was quickly divided into two and fired at their respective targets.
The two aircraft that destroyed a machine gun position each seemed to be frightened by the explosion just now. They immediately climbed up and avoided the fatal attack from the ground!
The fighter plane piloted by the squad leader was hit and exploded on the spot. The two planes that lost command directly chose to avoid the ground anti-aircraft fire and dropped all the bombs they carried at the suspicious targets they found using high-altitude bomb drops in just five minutes.
Then he retreated.
"Commander, the air defense battalion shot down a Japanese plane. We lost two anti-aircraft machine guns and suffered 28 casualties!" the chief of staff rushed into the headquarters and reported with excitement.
As soon as he finished speaking, Rong Jun also rushed in.
Compared with the smile on Zhong Chenggong's face, Rong Jun's face was much more solemn.
Frowning, he reported: "Commander, the casualties of the troops have been counted!"
"In the bombing just now, the Japanese planes destroyed the hiding places of four of our companies. Fortunately, the troops were very dispersed and were not overwhelmed by the bombs dropped by the little Japanese..."
"However, the losses of the troops are still huge!"
"Almost half of the four companies suffered casualties..."
"I want the final result. How many people did the participating troops lose in the entire ambush battle? You can tell me first about the three battalions you have!" Wang Ping stared at Rong Jun and asked.
Rong Jun hesitated and replied: "There were 2,658 people in the three battalions before the war. Now there are only 1,586 troops that can continue to fight. There are more than 1,000 casualties, of which 862 were killed directly in battle. At least half of the casualties were caused by Japanese bombings."
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"The casualties are too great..." Wang Ping's face became serious and he shook his head in reply.
"The aviation force, the biggest threat to us from the Japs is the aviation force... We must find a way to solve this threat, otherwise we will have too many worries in future operations!"
"Where's the guard camp? How big are the casualties of the two companies?" Wang Ping immediately turned his attention to Hong Ruijun!
"The casualties in the guard camp are not big~" Hong Ruijun shook his head and replied.
"Both companies are strengthened companies. There were more than 480 people before the war. Now there are 428 fighting soldiers. 46 people were killed and 26 were injured and lost their combat effectiveness. Most of the casualties were caused by Japanese bombings!"
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