As a mature soldier, military affairs will be given priority at this moment.
Completing the military orders of superior officers is what soldiers should do.
But he is Lei Xiong.
A passionate, brave and resolute Chinese soldier.
Why did he hold on to the retreat route of the entire army, for the lives of 30,000 brothers? No, it was more than that. What he held on to was actually the determination of the Chinese soldiers to defend their homeland.
Lei Xiong’s home is still in distant Shaanxi, still a long way from the front line of the Japanese army.
However, just watching his compatriots die whining and dying in the bombings of Japanese aircraft and even machine gun fire, he would think about what he should do if one day his son and his wife would do the same.
Fight!
He is a Chinese soldier, and he should protect the Chinese people.
Even if the strength is not symmetrical.
Three anti-aircraft positions faced a Japanese formation of 12 bombers.
Don’t think that having anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns can stop Japanese bombers flying in the sky.
In terms of strength, the bomber formations with high-altitude and high-speed advantages naturally far surpass the air defense forces that are almost fixed on the ground.
Actually, it is not accurate to say that the 12 Japanese fighter planes hovering at high altitude at this time were bombers. To be more precise, they should all be carrier-based fighter planes.
It’s not that China and Japan can even confuse bombers and fighters, but that fighters that can take off from aircraft carriers are destined to be smaller fighters.
The main role of these fighter jets is not to attack and bomb the ground, but to seize air supremacy, allowing larger land attack aircraft with more ammunition to attack the ground.
It was just that at this moment when the Japanese carrier-based aircraft had completely occupied air superiority, they lost their air opponents, so they changed their identity and attached bombs to act as small bombers.
The main fighter aircraft equipped by the Japanese Navy at this time was the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, Japan's first all-metal monoplane fighter, with a length of 7.5 meters, a wingspan of 11 meters, a maximum speed of 430 kilometers per hour, and two 7.7mm machine guns.
As the main combat weapon, there are hooks on the belly and under the wings, which can carry one 250kg aerial bomb and two 30kg aerial bombs when necessary.
To put it bluntly, the fleet of aircraft hovering at an altitude of 1,500 meters and constantly dropping bombs on the refugee gathering places in the wilderness is a fighter group that can engage in air combat at any time.
Once the mounted bombs are dropped, the twelve Japanese fighter planes can transform into the most beautiful aircraft in the sky, flying freely in the sky at a high speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour.
For air defense positions on the ground, the Oerlikon machine gun firing at a height of 2,500 meters may still be a bit of a threat, but the bullets of the Maxim heavy machine gun used for infantry combat may not even be able to reach its exhaust.
High altitude and high speed are their biggest advantage over the ground.
Once the air defense position opens fire, perhaps the high-altitude Japanese fighter formations can level the air defense position simply by dropping bombs, without the need for an air-to-ground battle with Chinese anti-aircraft artillery.
Lei Xiong knows this better than anyone else.
But, we still have to fight!
Of course, we have to fight, but we can't just show what we are doing at the beginning, and fight hard with swords and guns and open fire.
To do it hard is to seek death.
There must be a position or a valuable target as a bait to lure the Japanese fighter planes down to lower their altitude, in order to ensure the hit rate of the air defense position.
The Japanese nation, especially dogs, will not run away with its tail between its legs unless you beat it to hurt it.
However, this also means that there must be a position and terrible sacrifices must be made.
Just like fishing, the fish takes the bait, but the bait will be eaten.
The formation of twelve Japanese aircraft was divided into four groups, circling in the air for observation. Once they found a moving crowd on the ground, they immediately drew an arc representing death in the air and dropped a 30-kilogram aerial bomb.
A 30-kilogram aerial bomb dropped from an altitude of 1,200 meters is no less powerful than a 305-caliber heavy artillery shell. It will destroy all humans and animals within a 50-meter radius of the impact point.
The refugees are all ordinary people who don't know much about military knowledge. They are either so scared that they lie on the ground motionless, or they run around like headless flies on the ground. When they encounter bushes, they plunge into them, thinking that they will be safe.
In the face of air waves and violent ground vibrations caused by explosions, these are the most deadly.
One aerial bomb can often take away the lives of dozens or even hundreds of people.
Lei Xiong knew that the Japanese planes were not only doing this for revenge, but they were also using the lives of Chinese civilians as bait to stimulate the hidden Chinese soldiers.
As long as we do nothing, we can only watch them kill Chinese civilians wantonly.
“Batalion Deputy, Position No. 1 is requesting fire!” Cheng Tietshou’s voice came from the phone.
There was not only an infantry company left in the 43rd Army camp, but also a communications platoon and a medical team. Although Lieutenant General Guo decided to rush to Songjiang with most of his capable soldiers for a decisive battle, he still could not bear to give in to 43rd Army.
The entire army was wiped out, but the communications platoon and medical team directly under the military headquarters, which had little combat effectiveness, were all left behind.
Although the communications platoon is not very capable, it can set up telephones, which saves Lei Xiong a lot of trouble. At least the communication between positions around the bridge can be done by telephone instead of flares.
Unintentionally, Lei Xiong experienced the treatment that only a lieutenant general and division commander can receive this time.
Three main anti-aircraft positions and two infantry positions deployed a few hundred meters away on the south bank of the bridge have telephone communications.
The fire support platoon leader Cheng Cheng is responsible for the No. 1 air defense position located on the south bank of the bridge.
His position was on a hill on the west side of the bridge. Around the hill, which was not too large, he deployed two Oerlikon machine guns and three Maxim heavy machine guns. He was also equipped with an additional Suloton.
Twin mounted machine guns and an MG34 machine gun.
There are field trenches built by two infantry platoons around the No. 1 air defense position. Once a large number of Japanese infantry attack, the air defense position can instantly become a fire support position. Once the three anti-aircraft guns are leveled and fired, the three auxiliary
A heavy machine gun and an MG43 with a high rate of fire can definitely become a nightmare for any light infantry.
It can be said that the No. 1 position facing the direction of Songjiang is the sharpest spear among all the positions currently under Lei Xiong's command.
Either against the air or the ground.
Once Position No. 1 is lost, Lei Xiong’s air defense and ground firepower will be reduced by half.
Lei Xiong replied without hesitation: "No!"
With extremely anxious eyes, he passed over several cars parked in the woods five hundred meters away, and an idea came to his mind.
“Call me the number of Company Commander Zeng of the 67th Army in charge of this position!” Lei Xiong puffed up his cheeks and finally made a decision.
Erya, who has become Lei Xiong's communications soldier, quickly made a call.
"Company Commander Zeng, the Japanese planes are now hovering at high altitude. I need to lure them to a thousand meters below. Therefore, I decided to use a convoy of three cars as bait, but each car must be empty. Every car must be empty."
The car only needs one driver to drive towards the bridge. If the Japanese plane does not pursue it, then go onto the bridge."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
In the original words Erya later wrote in his memoirs: Perhaps after following Commander Tang Dao for a long time, our brothers in Sihang Camp learned from him long-range sniping, how to lay booby traps, and how to deal with the enemy coldly, but they also learned how to
Cruel.
Just like Commander Lei Xiong in the Battle of Baihe Port, he knew he was going to die but still wanted to let others die.
His order was to let three brothers from the 67th Army and three trucks take the initiative to enter hell.
"I know this is a difficult decision, but we have no other choice. Either we die or watch the people die. Company Commander Zeng, this is not an order. This is just a request from me, Lei Xiong. You can refuse!" Lei Xiong!
Xiong continued with firm eyes.
No one could hear the strangeness in his voice. Only Erya, who was closest to him, could see that his hands were clenched extremely tightly and the veins were exposed.
Erya knew that when he cruelly used his comrades as bait to die, Commander Lei could not be as calm as he appeared on the surface.
…
"Commander Lei said, this is not an order, just his request, but I think this is an order." The captain, who was located 700 meters away from the main position of the bridge, hung up the phone and was silent for ten seconds.
He summoned all the people he could muster.
"It's just that the person who issued this military order is not Commander Lei, but our compatriots. If we don't receive this military order, then they will sneer at us weaklings from the sky, just like we in the Northeast six years ago
It's the same as when the army surrendered the Northeast to the people.
Brothers, what do you think we should do?"
There was a moment of silence.
A loud noise of "Boom!"
A burst of gunpowder smoke rose in the distance, and the ground trembled slightly.
Japanese aircraft dropped another bomb.
You don’t need to look at it to know that dozens of lives have disappeared again.
“Company Commander, I’m one of them!” A sergeant strode out of the queue.
"And I!"
"I!"
Under the leadership of the sergeant, six or seven people walked out of the crowd at once.
