The enemy plane dragged two plumes of black smoke and staggered out of the effective range of the anti-aircraft machine gun.
A look of disappointment quickly flashed across the company commander's face, and he sighed and replied: "What a pity!"
"We were so close to destroying the plane."
"Company commander, the plane seems to be landing!"
A subordinate next to him suddenly shouted, his face full of excitement.
The company commander's disappointed expression disappeared instantly, and he also became excited: "It's going down."
"That's the enemy plane we damaged just now. It must have been too badly damaged and it couldn't hold on and was about to fall."
The enemy plane dragged two plumes of black smoke and plunged diagonally towards a hilltop not far away, getting faster and faster.
The pilot in the middle tried to save himself and kept raising the nose of the plane, trying to climb back up.
But these efforts don't seem to be working.
After more than ten seconds of continuous tossing, a white parachute appeared behind the slowly landing enemy aircraft. After a few seconds, the injured enemy aircraft directly hit the top of the mountain and exploded into a huge fireball like a mushroom cloud.
Including the initial results, two planes have crashed!
Faced with this result, both the air defense battalion and the artillery battalion burst into excited cheers.
Chen Quan was an exception. Not only did his serious face not show a smile, but instead there was a flash of solemnity.
Three planes attacked the ground at the same time, knocking out only one, and the remaining two planes escaped unscathed. This result was not what he wanted.
More importantly, during the entire exchange of fire, a total of four air defense positions were attacked successively.
The two air defense positions were exposed at the beginning, and the two air defense positions were just exposed.
After the aircraft attacking the artillery battalion was intercepted by the air defense fire network, the attack target was decisively changed.
And he was not polite at all. He directly threw an aerial bomb at an air defense position that intercepted him, and then used an airborne machine gun to attack another air defense position.
It is certain that all four anti-aircraft positions suffered heavy losses in the crossfire.
At this moment, there are still four aircraft in the sky that can continue to fight.
Chen Quan didn't know if the air defense battalion could last until the end.
"Weng buzz..."
The huge roar reached Chen Quan's ears again.
"Company Commander, the Japanese planes have started to attack again. This time, the remaining four planes are attacking us together." Facing the four planes that were eyeing the enemy, the observation post had a clear flash of panic on its face, and he was speechless.
"Stay still, listen to my order before shooting." Chen Quan quickly suppressed the worries in his mind and gave a serious order.
"We haven't been exposed so far. The Japanese don't know our existence. Moreover, our anti-aircraft firepower is the strongest, so everyone is keeping calm. Whenever we fire, we must achieve a fatal hit."
The four planes roared and screamed down at the same time, pounced on the four newly exposed air defense positions with a vengeance, and seemed to completely destroy them.
When the plane was still more than a thousand meters away from the ground, four positions began to counterattack.
Some positions still have half of their anti-aircraft firepower, and some positions have less than one-third of their anti-aircraft firepower.
But no one retreated, they were all firing desperately, firing out the most bullets at the fastest rate of fire, making the anti-aircraft fire network denser.
Only in this way can they have a chance of hitting the plane.
"Battal Commander, the enemy plane opened fire, and another anti-aircraft machine gun from the third company misfired," the observation post reported nervously.
"The second company has a heavy machine gun and an anti-aircraft machine gun that misfires."
The first company commander was anxious: "Batalion Commander, shoot! If you don't shoot, the second and third companies will be wiped out."
"Wait a little longer, the time hasn't come yet!" Chen Quan was also very anxious, but in the end his reason overcame his impulse and he swallowed the command that had come to his lips.
What Li Hao once said to him kept repeating in his mind.
"Calm down, as the commander of the air defense force, you must be more calm!"
That was what the commander of the air defense company told him when the air defense company was first established. He has always kept the original words in his heart and dare not forget them.
"The aircraft flies so fast that it is definitely more difficult for a bullet to hit it than it is for a rifle to hit a one-thousand-meter target."
"So you must be calm on the battlefield, learn to wait, seize the fleeting opportunity, and give the enemy a fatal attack at the best time."
This is what the leader himself said to himself.
Although the enemy planes have begun to attack the ground, in order to avoid the air defense fire network, they have been lingering in the airspace of 500 to 600 meters to launch attacks, and do not dare to fly low.
To counterattack at this distance, although the bullets fired from the anti-aircraft machine guns can reach them, the hit rate is too low and it is almost impossible to achieve a fatal hit.
"The opportunity has come!"
Chen Quan suddenly shouted, and then focused his attention on the enemy aircraft attacking the first row of air defense positions of the second company.
Seeing that the air defense fire network launched by a row was getting sparse, the Japanese pilots finally couldn't help but start to dive, preparing to attack at close range and completely destroy the air defense position.
It was too late, but it was too late. Chen Quan did not let go of this fleeting victory.
"Goal: attack the enemy planes in the second company and the first platoon, hit all the firepower, and follow my orders before shooting again."
"Five hundred meters...four hundred meters..."
The enemy planes were getting faster and faster, and the machine guns on the aircraft kept spraying flames towards the ground, reaping the lives of the soldiers.
Just when the enemy plane flew to an altitude of 200 meters and was about to climb, Chen Quan spoke.
"Fire, aim at the belly of the plane, and hit me hard!"
The sound of gunfire soon rang in my ears, and more than a dozen tongues of flame intertwined and flew towards the enemy plane at the same time.
At this moment, the enemy plane just started to raise its head and climb, and most of the belly of the plane was exposed in front of the first company.
Bullets hit the plane like a rain of bullets, including anti-aircraft machine gun bullets and ordinary heavy machine gun bullets.
"boom……"
The moment the fuselage was riddled with dozens of bullet holes at the same time, there was an explosion.
It exploded into a ball of fire at an altitude of more than 200 meters, without any chance of reaction, and then slowly hit the ground.
"Change the target and concentrate your firepower on the enemy planes above the heads of the second platoon of the third company!" Chen Quan didn't have time to appreciate his results, so he took the time to order.
The fighter plane is fleeting, and he must seize this opportunity to make a surprise attack and take down more enemy planes.
"Rumble..."
Ten seconds later, another explosion sounded in the air.
The enemy plane was hit by a fuel tank as it climbed to retreat and burned into a large fireball on the spot.
"Free fire, keep an eye on the remaining two enemy planes, and hit them hard. Don't let them slip away easily." Chen Quan continued to order.
The speed of the plane was too fast, and when they saw a large amount of anti-aircraft fire coming from the ground, the two pilots immediately realized that they had been fooled.
At that time, the aircraft began to climb and retreat.
By the time the company killed the second enemy plane and switched targets to fire at them, the two enemy planes had climbed to the edge of the effective range of the anti-aircraft machine guns, and were still climbing.
"Consider them lucky!" Chen Quan shouted helplessly as he looked at the two enemy planes returning to high altitude above his head.
Then he began to issue orders: "If nothing else happens, the remaining two planes should not have the guts to continue attacking us."
"The company is on alert. If they dare to attack again, we will kill them resolutely."
"Others will immediately clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded."
"Also, report to the political commissar and chief of staff that there is a Japanese pilot parachuting in the northeast. We hope that the main force will dispatch to capture him."
