Fortunately for Xiong Changhe, the three Japanese planes hovering over Linfen did not drop bombs.
After circling back and forth five times, it flew away, leaving nothing behind.
"Chief of Staff, the commander of the regiment has an urgent call!" Suddenly, the radio operator rushed in.
Xiong Changhe, who was next to him, immediately asked: "Chief of Staff, what did the commander say? Are the Japanese coming to kill us?"
Xiong Changhe replied angrily: "Old Xiong, you are really a crow's mouth, so you are right!"
"A strengthened Japanese army is marching towards Linfen City in a hurry. It will take at most half an hour to engage in firefights with our troops outside the city!"
On the other side, Xiao Yunshan’s brows quickly wrinkled!
"So fast? Chief of Staff, this is not good news!"
"The Japanese arrived at Linfen City more than an hour in advance to attack us. The purpose is very obvious, to maximize the utilization of their aircraft reinforcements. Use more aircraft to consume us, kill us, and take Linfen City from our hands!"
"Not bad!" Xiong Changhe affirmed.
"The leader also had this worry, so he sent us a telegram with a solution!"
Xiao Yunshan's frown suddenly relaxed, and he asked eagerly: "What can I do?"
"Two ways!" Xiong Changhe affirmed.
"The air defense battalion has arrived outside the city. The regiment leader asked us to send people out to respond!"
"The anti-aircraft battalion has more than 20 anti-aircraft machine guns in total, which will definitely pose a great threat to the Japanese aircraft! Xiong Changhe, go and meet them, and then cooperate with them to set up air release positions!"
"The second method is smoke, and it also has thick black smoke. It is best to cover the entire sky above the battlefield. In this case, even if the Japanese have planes, they will not be able to accurately drop bombs on us, unless they choose to drop bombs at low altitude. However,
As long as they do this, the air defense battalion that is about to enter the city will definitely teach them a big lesson!"
"The two methods complement each other and combined with each other will definitely minimize the threat of Japanese aircraft to us!"
"Xiao Yunshan, you can arrange this matter. It's best to dedicate two companies to do this!"
"In addition, the regiment leader asked us to arrange all the troops outside the city into the city, rely on the city wall to attack the Japs, try to reduce the scope of the battlefield, and create more smoke to blur the sight of the Japs pilots, so that they cannot carry out high-altitude bombing!"
In a reinforced concrete turret one kilometer outside Linfen City, Lieutenant General Kato stood behind the firing hole on the second floor, holding a telescope and staring motionlessly at Linfen City with a gloomy look on his face.
The chief of staff next to him also looked very unhappy.
He hesitated for a long time before replying: "Division commander, the Eighth Route Army is so cunning that they covered the battlefield with thick smoke. In this way, the threat to them from the Imperial Army's aviation forces will be much smaller, and they will be unable to carry out precise bombing!"
Lieutenant General Kato replied solemnly: "These Eighth Route Army troops are indeed more cunning than we thought."
"However, the Imperial Army is not a vegetarian. The aviation force cannot accurately drop bombs at high altitudes. They can drop bombs at low altitudes with better accuracy!"
"In addition to aviation, we also have artillery! Although the heavy artillery is gone, the remaining mountain artillery, infantry artillery, and mortars are also very powerful!"
"Now that we have aviation cover, the Eighth Route Army has artillery and dare not use it. What we have to do is to seize this opportunity, use all the power of the remaining artillery, try to kill the Eighth Route Army in the city, kill them, and capture Linfen City!
"
After finishing speaking, he gave the order without waiting for the chief of staff to speak.
"The plan remains unchanged. We will launch the attack in five minutes and try to capture Linfen City in two hours!"
"There are not many Eighth Route Army troops in the city. As long as our offensive is strong enough, we will definitely be able to do it."
"Da da da... boom boom boom..."
The sound of gunfire and explosions soon enveloped the entire battlefield.
There were more than ten mountain cannons, more than twenty infantry cannons, and three times the number of mortars. The shells were dropped on the top of the city for free.
Not long after, the city was covered in heavy artillery fire.
Fireballs mixed with thick smoke rose into the sky, and black smoke pillars rose into the sky, intertwined with the black smoke created by the defenders themselves, and formed a continuous cloud. From a distance, it looked like a dark cloud rising from the sky.
It pressed down, blocking out the sky and the sun, giving people the feeling that dark clouds were pressing down on the city and threatening to destroy it.
However, no matter how fierce the enemy's artillery fire was, the more than twenty fixed firepower points on the top of the city were not destroyed.
Bullets flew out of the city like rain, mowing down the attacking Japanese troops to the ground.
More than a hundred meters outside the city, two to three hundred corpses had fallen scattered.
"Division commander, we can't charge anymore~ The dozens of fire points on the city wall must be permanent fire points, and our cannons can't blow them up at all. With such fierce blocking fire, as long as they have enough ammunition, no matter how many attacking troops we have, they will
Kill them all!" the chief of staff reminded with a painful look on his face.
Commander Kato's heart was also bleeding.
Less than ten minutes after the battle began, and before the real attack began, the two infantry squadrons were gone.
He couldn't imagine how many men he would have left in the infantry regiment he had brought with him if he continued to fight at this rate of losses and the real attack began.
He gritted his teeth and ordered: "The troops stop attacking..."
"The aviation force will immediately bomb the Eighth Route Army's firepower points on the city wall. Destroy them for me!"
"Buzz buzz..."
The aircraft responded very quickly. As soon as the attacking troops withdrew, the roar of the huge engine started.
A plane slowly lowered its altitude and rushed towards the city where smoke was billowing.
Just as the plane was about to rush to the city, ready to drop bombs.
A series of dull machine gun fire sounds suddenly sounded at the top of the city, and then eight or nine lines of anti-aircraft fire appeared on the smoke-filled city top.
All this firepower was concentrated on the aircraft less than 200 meters above the ground. Lieutenant General Kato held up the telescope and could clearly see that several bullets penetrated the fuselage, leaving a row of bullet holes in the aircraft.
The pilot was also frightened by the sudden anti-aircraft fire. Regardless of whether he aimed at the target or not, he pressed the bomb release button, pulled up the aircraft's control stick and began to climb.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he stared straight ahead, dodging the aircraft left and right to avoid the anti-aircraft fire directed at him from the ground.
Two hundred meters...three hundred meters...
Seeing that the plane was about to rush out of the effective range of the anti-aircraft machine gun, the pilot couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Suddenly, there were several crackling sounds from the plane's engine, and then the high-speed engine of the plane stopped spinning, and there was a pop-up.
A puff of black smoke.
"idiot!"
The pilot became desperate and cursed loudly.
After feeling that the plane had changed from climbing to free fall, although I was unwilling to give in, I still decisively pressed the escape button and made the decision to parachute to escape!
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