"There must be something wrong here!" Wang Ping said with shocking judgment.
"Think about it, if the Japanese have no conspiracy against us, even if they send troops to monitor us, they will only need to send one or two people to follow us to confirm that we have really returned to the base and not stayed outside the mountain.
"And now? The little Japs have sent so many scouts around us. What do they want to do? They just want to keep an eye on us when we return to our base. Do you believe it?"
Cheng Xiao also frowned: "Really, if I were the Japanese commander, I would definitely not send so many scouts to keep an eye on us for no reason! There must be something wrong here! Commander, do you have any ideas?"
Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "No!"
"This is what I'm most worried about. I wonder what the Japanese will do next?"
Then he directly ordered: "Order the convoys to disperse as much as possible and not to gather together. In this way, even if they are attacked by the Japanese, they will not be attacked all at once. Also, order the troops to march together in company units, so that they can quickly attack after being attacked."
React!"
Every move of the independent regiment was quickly reported to the Japanese brigade headquarters.
"General, the Eighth Route Army suddenly changed its marching formation. Do you think the Eighth Route Army has noticed something? It knows that we are going to air attack them!" Staff Zhang asked with a frown as soon as he read the telegram in his hand.
"They must be aware of it, but they definitely don't know that we plan to send planes to bomb them!" Ono affirmed.
"If the Eighth Route Army knows that there are planes going to bomb them, what they have to do now is to hide instead of spreading out and moving!"
"By the way, have the military headquarters received a call back? How many aircraft do they plan to deploy to support us and bomb the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment?"
The chief of staff immediately replied: "One fighter squadron and one bomber squadron, a total of six planes. Now they have taken off, and they will arrive in Laiyuan territory in one hour to bomb the independent regiment!"
"Yo Xi! Contact our air warriors. When you get to the bombing point, bomb their troops first, and then the supplies!" Ono was very satisfied with the arrangement of the military headquarters, and then ordered.
"These retreating Eighth Route Army troops are all veterans, and they happen to be grouped together in companies. Maybe one bomb can wipe out half of their infantry companies?"
The chief of staff looked suddenly enlightened and replied: "General, I understand! Without veterans, even if the Eighth Route Army transports these equipment and supplies back, it will not be able to form combat effectiveness immediately. When we are ready to attack the independent regiment's station and eliminate them, these equipment
and supplies will be snatched back by us!"
More than an hour later, the retreating troops were only more than two hours away from their station in the mountains.
At this time, the tired expressions on everyone's faces became even stronger.
Although the number of Japanese scouts active around him remained the same, the tense expression on Wang Ping's face relaxed a lot.
The closer you are to your base, the fewer chances the enemy will attack you.
"Buzz buzz..." At this moment, a faint roar suddenly reached everyone's ears.
"Where's the artillery fire? No, it's thunder! No more, there shouldn't be thunder now!" The surrounding soldiers expressed their thoughts one after another.
Wang Ping frowned, and a bad feeling quickly came over him.
Before he could speak, Cheng Xiao's face turned pale, and then he shouted loudly: "It's a plane. The little devils are sending out planes to bomb us!"
"The Japanese are so cruel, so many scouts are staring at us to guide the planes to bomb targets!" Wang Ping reacted immediately, and then saw some brightly colored smoke suddenly coming out from both sides of the road.
Without any judgment, you can tell that the smoke was just released by the Japanese scouts, with the purpose of marking the aircraft's bombing targets.
"Quickly order the troops to hide and rush all the carts to the roadside. They are all targets for Japanese bombers. The troops are scattered on the spot and lie down to hide. No one can get up without orders!" Wang Ping followed the order with an anxious look on his face.
The order was given quickly, but the plane arrived even faster.
Not long after, the six small black dots on the edge of the sky turned into six airplanes, and the huge roar was like thunder, vibrating everyone's ears.
More than 90% of the soldiers in the independent regiment saw airplanes for the first time, and they saw so many airplanes at once.
Facing the six roaring fighter jets and bombers, many people actually forgot Wang Ping's order, looked up at the sky, and stood dumbfounded.
"Bah bang bang..." Without saying a word, Wang Ping took out his gun and shot several times in the sky, and then shouted loudly.
"Don't you want to live anymore? That's a plane that can kill people. It belongs to the Japanese. Everyone, please take cover!"
The soldiers around Wang Ping were the last to react and quickly took cover amid the company and platoon leader's yells.
But the soldiers further away were not so lucky. Two bombers swooped down on everyone with a scream.
When it was still nearly 200 meters from the ground, two black bombs suddenly flew out of the aircraft's cover. Then the swooping aircraft flew back into the sky with a dull roar, but a total of four bombs overturned.
The scream continued to hit the ground along the direction of the plane's dive just now.
"Boom!" The bomb exploded, and several earth-shaking explosions immediately spread across the battlefield.
One of the bombs exploded not far from Wang Ping, and the hot air wave almost overturned Wang Ping.
Although Wang Ping was fine, Wang Ping clearly saw that the explosion caused death or injuries within ten or twenty meters of the surrounding area. At least twenty people fell to the ground without moving.
One bomb killed and injured more than 20 people, and four bombs killed nearly a hundred people in total.
Wang Ping's face turned gloomy instantly, and his heart felt as painful as bleeding, and then he shouted loudly.
"Hidden, take cover now! Everyone lie down!"
Four bombs fell from the sky. The huge power not only shocked Wang Ping, but also stunned ordinary soldiers who had never seen an airplane.
The moment the explosion spread, many people panicked and forgot Wang Ping's order for them to lie down and hide on the spot.
If a company platoon leader is nearby, he will be scolded immediately, and then he will react quickly and lie down on the ground.
Those who didn't have the company platoon commander around were either dumbfounded or shooting everywhere with panic on their faces.
At this time, the Japanese's second round of dive bombing began.
Three combat aircraft, three bombers, all joined the battle.
The swooping bombers kept throwing their bombs into the chaotic crowd, causing waves of bloodshed.
The arrogant combat power, for the sake of military exploits, actually flew close to the ground. He used his airborne machine gun to kill the Eighth Route Army he saw on the ground like a massacre.
In the face of the huge crisis of aviation bullets, no matter who they are, as long as they are touched, they will lose their arms and legs. If they are still alive, they will have a blood hole like the mouth of a bowl directly punched in their bodies, and they will die in an instant!
