The three planes flew one after another and hovered over Lingqiu City for less than two minutes before one of the planes couldn't help but start taking action!
Quickly breaking away from the formation, with a huge roar, they swooped down towards the south gate where Hong Linfeng was located like a sharp arrow from a string!
The roar of the aircraft engine mixed with the screams rang out over the battlefield, which was particularly harsh!
Hong Linfeng hid in the corner of the city wall, watching the planes flying closer and closer overhead. He would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous!
The power of the aerial bomb is so great that it will blow up a large area! The entire Lingqiu City may be bombed everywhere. No matter where you hide, as long as the bomb hits you, you will be devastated and killed instantly, with no possibility of survival!
Everyone, including Hong Linfeng, was praying that aerial bombs would not fall around them!
"Boom boom boom..."
Three explosions sounded like thunder on the battlefield, and the ground beneath my feet shook like an earthquake!
The nearest explosion point was at least forty meters away from them. Although they felt a wave of hot air coming towards their faces, it had no lethality!
Hong Linfeng's tense nerves suddenly relaxed!
Just as I was about to relax, the company commander not far away hurried over and reported solemnly!
"Chief of Staff, one of the three bombs hit the top of the city, one inside the city, and one outside the city! Because the troops were scattered, we probably lost an infantry squad, and the specific casualties are still being calculated!"
"But if a hole is blown in the city wall, the Japanese will definitely use this hole as a breakthrough to enter the city!"
A flash of murderous intent quickly flashed across Hong Linfeng's gloomy face, and then he replied: "I'm still afraid that the Japs won't have a breakthrough, and relying on their superiority in troops and firepower, they will launch attacks everywhere, making it impossible for us to defend against them!"
"Now that there is a breakthrough in the city wall, it will be more beneficial to our defense!"
"Immediately arrange a heavy machine gun, find a position fifty meters away from the breach, set it up, and aim at the gap, but it must be well disguised so that the little Japanese pilots in the sky cannot see it!"
"If the Japs really launch an attack from this gap, after they rush in, the machine guns will fire directly at the gap. We will kill as many Japs as they come!"
The bombing by the planes did not stop. It lasted for half an hour before all the eighteen bombs they brought were dropped!
Seeing more than a dozen plumes of black smoke rising from the city, Hong Linfeng ordered anxiously: "Count the casualties immediately and treat the wounded. It is believed that many soldiers were killed and injured by the bombs!"
Within half an hour, the instructor from the third battalion rushed over with a very solemn look on his face!
Hong Linfeng had a bad feeling in his mind!
Before he could speak, the instructor lowered his head and reported: "Chief of Staff, the casualties are a bit heavy! A total of 58 people were sacrificed, and 21 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. Almost a company is gone!"
There are only more than a thousand troops defending the city. Even if all 500 prisoners are used to replenish the troops, there will still be less than 1,600 troops!
Before the Japanese launched an attack, an air strike caused direct losses of nearly 80 people to the troops!
For Hong Linfeng, this was a huge blow, and the result was beyond his expectation and beyond his expectation!
He frowned and asked with disbelief on his face: "Why are there so many casualties!"
"Aren't our troops all dispersed? The county is so big. I don't believe that the bombs dropped by the little devils were so accurate and so lucky that they all hit the hiding place of the soldiers!"
The instructor also had a heartbroken expression on his solemn face, and then explained!
"Chief of Staff, the troops are dispersed, but they are attacking us!"
"Even if the final flight height is still several hundred meters, the sudden dive from an altitude of several thousand meters is too shocking!"
"The new recruits who have been in the army for more than a month and the captive soldiers who have just replenished the army have never seen such a battle. Many of them were frightened, and then they subconsciously thought of running for their lives!"
"The veterans stared at them one by one without keeping an eye on them. They let them run out of their hiding places, exposed their targets, and were eventually targeted by Japanese planes!"
"The troops are gathered together in squads and platoons. If a soldier exposes the target, it means that at least one infantry squad is exposed!"
"When three aerial bombs hit, all living things within a radius of tens of meters will be blown up completely, let alone people. Therefore, one bombing by the little devil plane can at least wipe out one of our infantry squads, and the soldiers will not be able to hide."
A place to hide!"
Hong Linfeng frowned and fell into deep thought!
This problem is too difficult!
It is too difficult for recruits and captives to overcome their fear of airplanes, and it is impossible to do it in a short time!
The strength of the army is limited. If you want to defend Lingqiu City, you cannot do without these new soldiers and captured soldiers!
Solving this problem from a Japanese plane is even more difficult!
After the loss of a plane being destroyed yesterday, the little devil is particularly cautious today!
Even if the bomb is dived and dropped, the flying height is still two to three hundred meters!
Except for heavy machine guns, bullets fired from light machine guns in the air pose no threat to them at all!
And the heavy machine gun does not have a bracket for shooting in the air. It is simply impossible to shoot down the aircraft in the sky!
Hong Linfeng's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he racked his brains and couldn't think of a solution!
At this moment, the radio operator from the communications platoon who stayed in the city suddenly rushed over!
"Chief of Staff, the commander of the regiment is calling urgently!"
Hong Linfeng frowned and took the telegram. He only read half of it, then his frown relaxed, and he shouted happily!
"The regiment leader is the regiment commander. Even outside the city, he can calculate the problems we are facing now. What a wonderful calculation! As soon as we were thinking about how to reduce the casualties of the troops in the aircraft bombing, the regiment commander sent us the solution by telegram.
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The battalion commanders all frowned and thought about solutions. When they heard the chief of staff's words, their brows suddenly relaxed!
He stared closely at the telegram in Hong Linfeng's hand and asked: "Chief of Staff, what did the regiment commander say? How can we reduce the casualties of the troops in the aircraft bombing!"
"Smoke!"
Hong Linfeng spit out these two words!
Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Hong Linfeng immediately explained!
"The regiment leader said that he saw the bombing just outside the city and asked us to set fire to all the oil, tires and everything that could be ignited inside the city!"
"The more black smoke is released through combustion, the better, it is best to cover all our heads!"
"If the Japanese plane wants to bomb us again, it will have to fly through the black smoke and fly right above our heads if it wants to find the bombing target!"
"If the Japanese do this, we will use machine guns to teach them a lesson!"
"The whole regiment is equipped by itself, plus the ones captured inside and outside the city last night. Even if we don't have a hundred light machine guns, it's not much different. It's enough to deal a fatal blow to the Japanese planes!"
"As long as we scare them away from dropping bombs on us at low altitudes, and the bombs they drop from high altitudes can only be a matter of luck, our casualties will be greatly reduced, and we can do things with planes overhead!"
"Repair the fortifications when it's time to repair the fortifications, fight the devils when it's time to fight the devils, and minimize the impact of the aircraft on us!"
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