Outside Lingqiu City, seeing the plane finally flying out of the range of the ground to release its firepower, the captain's tense nerves relaxed!
If in order to capture Lingqiu City and kill the Independent Regiment, the imperial army loses two aircraft here in a row, the price will be too high!
It will definitely arouse the lieutenant general's anger even more!
But the good mood did not last for a few seconds. The captain's nerves that had just relaxed started to collapse again!
"What's going on? Why is the plane still climbing? Hasn't it already broken out of the ground's anti-aircraft fire network?" the captain yelled, frowning!
The subordinates didn’t speak!
They have no way to directly contact the pilots in the sky. They can only use their eyes to see like the captain, but they can't see anything either!
At this time, the pilots of the two remaining planes in the sky were anxious!
He immediately flew the plane to catch up with the injured fighter plane that was still climbing. One of the planes almost touched the other plane and kept calling on the radio! However, the injured plane was not affected in any way and continued to climb without stopping at all.
mean!
After climbing all the way to an altitude of three to four thousand meters, due to the thin air, the lift generated by the air on the aircraft suddenly dropped, and the Japanese pilot was injured and unconscious, unable to control the aircraft!!
The entire plane felt as if it had been hit hard by a punch, and it stumbled and crashed to the ground. Finally, it hit a big mountain outside the city and exploded!
Six aerial bombs exploded together with the plane, and fireballs and smoke shot up into the sky. Everyone on the battlefield could see it!
"Bageya Road, I'm going to raze Lingqiu City to the ground and blow up all the Eighth Route Army inside!" the lieutenant leading the Japanese flying team yelled, like an angry lion!
No one could have imagined that China's most powerful aviation force on the battlefield would fall to an Eighth Route Army that was not even equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, and that it would lose two consecutive battles and lose two aircraft!
"Continue the bombing, I will raze Lingqiu City to the ground and avenge the pilots who died in the battle!" the lieutenant shouted with a murderous look on his face!
As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of his subordinates admonishing came from the earphones!
"Sir, calm down! The Eighth Route Army is too cunning. They set off smoke on the ground to block our sight and force us to carry out low-altitude bombing, and then used light and heavy machine guns to shoot at our aircraft! If we continue to carry out low-altitude bombing, we will be fooled by them!"
"I just observed that the Eighth Route Army has too many machine guns firing in the air. If it conducts low-altitude bombing, I will not have the confidence to escape unscathed!"
"idiot!"
The lieutenant finally calmed down and made a decision after hesitating for a long time: "Then we will bomb the city wall and create a gap in the wall for the ground attack troops to cover their attack!"
"Let them take care of the Eighth Route Army in the city and let them avenge the pilots who died in the battle!"
Twelve bombs from two planes finally hit the four city walls, leaving five huge gaps!
In Lingqiu City, looking at the little Japanese plane flying away, Hong Linfeng sneered and ordered as soon as he received the report from his subordinates!
"The old method is to place a heavy machine gun behind each gap. Now add an infantry platoon and two crooked guns!"
"With the thick smoke above our heads, the threat from the Japs' planes to the city is directly reduced to a minimum. Then we will use these gaps and the street fighting fortifications we are building to fight against the Japs!"
Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng's face showed a murderous expression of excitement!
It was as if I had seen the tragic scene of the Japanese taking heavy casualties in the gap in the city wall!
"Yes, Chief of Staff!" Huang Sheng, commander of the third battalion, was also looking forward to it and immediately took the order!
Now that the plane that was the biggest threat to the Independent Group was solved, the expressions on the faces of everyone in the Independent Group were much more relaxed!
Hong Linfeng then added: "Don't be anxious yet!"
"Although our mission is to defend Lingqiu City, we don't need to defend every position!"
"Hold on until dark and ensure that Lingqiu City is not completely occupied by the Japanese. Our mission is over! In addition, we also have a very important mission, which is to kill a large number of Japanese attacking troops through defensive battles!"
"So tell us the troops guarding the gap in the city wall, they don't need to defend it!"
"After each gap causes a large amount of damage to the Japanese attacking troops, they can retreat!"
Outside Lingqiu City, the Japs Captain looked terrifyingly gloomy!
One plane crashed, and the remaining two planes also stopped low-altitude bombing because they were worried about following in the same footsteps. They blew a few holes in the city wall and retreated!
This means that to capture Lingqiu City and kill the independent regiment, we can only rely on our infantry!
The only thing that made the captain happy was that the plane had already blasted three gaps in the city wall in front of him!
When the time comes, if you use cannon to bombard it again, the gap will definitely continue to expand.
With these gaps, it will definitely be much easier for the troops to enter Lingqiu City!
"Sir, two reinforcements have arrived. They are going to the north and east of the city respectively. The reinforcements from the west of the city will arrive in half an hour!" The adjutant's report suddenly interrupted the captain's thoughts!
But he was not angry. Instead, he shouted excitedly: "Well done, contact them right away!"
"The military headquarters has ordered that I will temporarily command all the siege troops until the new brigade commander is in place!"
"Order them to take the time to rest and replenish their physical strength and dry food. We will launch an attack on Lingqiu in an hour and strive to capture Lingqiu before dark and kill the independent regiment!"
"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning, and night fighting is what they are best at, so we must avoid night fighting with them!"
In Lingqiu City, the atmosphere among the defending troops also became tense!
Standing on the top of the city, Hong Linfeng could clearly see the Japanese making final preparations before attacking!
Mortars, infantry artillery, and mountain artillery were all set up!
Boxes upon boxes of shells were moved to the cannon, fuses were attached, and they were ready to be fired into Lingqiu City later.
The third battalion commander, Huang Sheng, was now his temporary deputy. He hurried over and reported with a serious face: "Chief of Staff, just now the Japanese have arrived in another reinforced brigade!"
"As of now, there is a little Japs strengthening the brigade in each of the four directions of Lingqiu City!"
The chief of staff immediately ordered: "Order the troops to prepare for battle, the Japs are about to attack!"
"The troops at the top of the city, the troops defending the gaps in the city wall, must fight according to our battle plan. No one can be impulsive and fight against the Japanese!"
"The troops must retreat after one third of their casualties. I don't want to hear the bad news that the whole company has been destroyed!"
"During the defensive battle, the troops must pay attention to anti-artillery! I saw that the Japs in each direction are equipped with four mountain cannons, two infantry cannons, and more than ten mortars. The artillery fire is very powerful! Once the troops are targeted,
The loss must be huge!”
"The other thing is the street fighting after the Japanese enter the city!"
"Although many commanders and fighters have never fought, the regiment leader said that street fighting is not as difficult as everyone thinks, especially for our Eighth Route Army, so it will be easier!"
"Our Eighth Route Army is the ancestor of guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare. When fighting street fighting, we directly treat the county under our feet as a forest, and integrate the fighting methods of guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare. We will definitely be able to fight street fighting well!"
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