Standing in the woods, looking at the trucks speeding up on the simple road, Tang Dao's heart felt like a knife piercing his heart.
The seventeen truck drivers were all selected from various departments of the advance group according to his orders.
Having personally experienced the Battle of Songjiang, no one knows better than them how terrifying the power of a 250-kilogram aerial bomb is.
When an aerial bomb falls, all living things within a radius of 30 meters and nearly half a football field will be wiped out. No matter whether you are hiding in a trench or in a car, the splashing shrapnel and huge shock wave caused by the explosion are only the most superficial damage, causing huge damage.
The vibration can easily shatter the internal organs of the human body within this range into pieces, and no one will be spared.
That means that as the most obvious targets, they will definitely receive the attention of the Japanese machine, and the chance of death is almost 100%.
But the seventeen people still had no hesitation. After leaving a suicide note, they boarded the truck.
Before the Japanese plane arrived, they ran at full speed. Naturally, they hoped that the convoy would break away from the advance guard infantry, so as to consume as much of the Japanese plane's heavy bombs as possible, and at the same time give the infantry hiding in the woods and scattered into the wilderness a better chance of survival.
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Yang Bicheng, who was lying at the foot of a hilly gully, looked up at the racing convoy and cried again.
Looking at those people leaving without hesitation, he thought of his cousin again.
Two days ago, his third brother drove a truck in this way, luring the Japanese planes down from high altitude, and successfully broke the backbone of the Japanese plane formation, allowing him and his comrades to survive.
But now, almost the same scene reappears.
Only this time, there were more brave people like his cousin.
Not only were the trucks still driving on the main road, but there were also cavalrymen dragging tree branches and fleeing into the wilderness.
The cavalry and their horses could have hid in the woods like them, but they could not. After they took off the heavy equipment carried by the horses, they had to flee farther away according to the military order of Commander Tang Daotang.
Firstly, it was necessary to create the illusion that there were many people on the ground, and secondly, because the target was obvious, the Japanese aircraft could be taken away from the infantry gathering area.
Less death in exchange for more life, this is Tang Dao's tactic.
However, when I think about these elites who could have killed more Japanese invaders, they can only become cannon fodder. Like Yang Bicheng, countless soldiers looked at the figures of their comrades who were trying hard to earn a chance for themselves, and all the soldiers looked at them with tears in their eyes.
With hot tears, I buried my head in pain, not wanting to see that heartbreaking scene.
On the battlefield, sacrifice is inevitable, but if you watch your comrades choose to use your body to block the bullets fired at you, this is an unforgettable tragedy for any soldier.
Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will live in the shadows for the rest of their lives.
But now, they must endure it and try to survive.
Because they are also the shield of another group of people, which is an order and a responsibility.
But as a commander, with his body upright like a pine tree and his back facing all his soldiers, Tang Dao was not only suffering from his own choice, he was also anxious.
Twenty minutes ago, he received a secret message from Lieutenant General Wu: After fighting with the theater headquarters, the Air Force will send fighter planes to protect the Baihe Port Bridge. Intelligence agents in the Songhu area had already sent a message to Jinling when the Japanese plane took off from the sea.
The secret message reminded that if nothing unexpected happens, air force support should arrive on the battlefield soon.
Tang Dao was greatly relieved by the news that the air force was about to come to the battlefield, but no one knew when they arrived at the battlefield. They arrived too late. The Japanese bomber formations pressing down like dark clouds in the sky may have already dived and bombed several places.
all over.
Not only was the advance group's losses extremely heavy, but what was even more frightening was that after the Japanese fighter formations dropped their heavy loads and were raised to high altitude again, the Chinese fighter planes that entered the battlefield later would completely lose their only opportunity to win.
The Chinese Air Force has suffered heavy losses in two months of air battles. If they can send 10 fighters to participate in the battle this time, it may be the limit that Jinling can bear.
And now there are nearly 20 Japanese aircraft in sight, and there may be a second wave of aircraft in the future. Thinking of this, with Tang Dao's tenacity, he can't help but sweat on his forehead at this time.
Even though he is a little butterfly who traveled from the future, is proficient in various special operations tactics, knows the general trends in this time and space, and has participated in defensive battles with thousands or even tens of thousands of people, but in this kind of battle-level
On the battlefield, whether in the future or now, he is still a newcomer.
Tang Dao did not expect that the Japanese naval commander would be so determined. In the first wave of attacks, two squadrons would be deployed. More fighter planes might arrive later, just to bomb the 20,000 troops being chased by 100,000 people.
, this is completely disrespectful of martial ethics!
You must know that the largest air battle since the war between China and Japan did not take place in Songhu at this time. In the Wuhan Defense War a year later, the Japanese army dispatched 36 fighter planes and 18 bombers, and the Chinese side dispatched 48 fighter planes.
But that was a major battle in which both sides invested nearly 1.5 million troops. Unlike now, it was just a corner of the battlefield!
As for the day before yesterday, Lei Xiong's troops relied on ground anti-aircraft gun positions to ambush six Japanese planes in one fell swoop. Rather than saying that the tactics were appropriate, it was more that the Japanese were too arrogant and sought their own death, and Lei Xiong and others were extremely lucky.
, even Niu Er can kill a Japanese plane with one shot.
Otherwise, one-third of the Baihe Port defenders would have survived because of cheating.
The nearly 20 Japanese planes that are attacking now will never fall into that trap again. Tang Dao even dares to conclude that they will use some of the Japanese planes to bomb the infantry, while the other half will wait for the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns to fire, and then drop bombs to attack them.
After destroying it, bombs and machine guns were used to kill pure infantry.
There is nothing wrong with Tang Dao's idea.
Even though he had made adequate preparations, he sent a secret message to Lei Xiong last night to transfer his 7 anti-aircraft guns, 9 modified anti-aircraft machine guns, and two MG34s with long barrels. In addition, he also asked the headquarters to request
Established an anti-aircraft battalion with 12 Oerlikon machine guns and 12 anti-aircraft machine guns.
The strength was at least twice as strong as the day before yesterday, but Tang Dao was still not sure that these ground weapons alone could stop the Japanese bombing.
He had won one victory by relying on luck and the opponent's neglect, but as a commander, Tang Dao could not put his soldiers' lives on it.
What's more, because it was impossible to determine when the Japanese planes would arrive, Tang Dao was almost in ruins. A total of 19 anti-aircraft guns and 23 anti-aircraft machine guns, along with the personnel, were carried by carriages and six cavalry companies and exposed in the wilderness.
If the Japanese plane cannot be discovered three minutes in advance, and the Japanese plane launches an attack as soon as it arrives, then Tang Dao's only sharp arrow that can launch a counterattack against the Japanese plane will be completely destroyed.
Fortunately, Private "Hammer" lived up to his trust. The guard dogs that have been domesticated in China for thousands of years may have average combat effectiveness, but their hearing is definitely poor.
Using these three minutes, the fleeing carriages and cavalry placed various heavy anti-aircraft firepower and personnel in the woods and shrubs along the way, giving them the opportunity to aim their guns at high altitudes.
However, this time they did not have perfect fortifications and their defense power was zero. Not to mention the terrifying bombs hanging under the wings of the Japanese aircraft, even with the machine gun installed on the nose of the aircraft, they could easily be shot dead in the field.
Once fired, the anti-aircraft gunners were like infantrymen rushing out of the trenches with bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, while their opponents were Japanese firepower points that had high speed and could maneuver.
What can determine the outcome of the battlefield this time will ultimately depend on the Chinese Air Force, which has no idea when it will arrive.
Tang Dao did what he could, and could only leave the rest to fate.
And fate is so wonderful.
In order to cover up his humiliating battle, the commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, knew that the fleet had dispatched twelve fighter planes the day before and only six returned.
The ground firepower possessed by the Chinese army did not arouse particularly high vigilance.
The six Japanese HNA pilots who could remind him were coldly mocked and silenced as soon as they spoke because their military ranks were too low.
Of the 18 Japanese fighter planes that came menacingly, except for the six 96-ships that maintained a high degree of vigilance, the remaining 4 96s and 8 96s were still arrogant and arrogant.
So, Goddess of Luck, she fooled the Chinese soldiers again.
Even Tang Dao can only be dumbfounded and think that this may be a benefit specially given to him as a time traveler by the big guys who sent him to this time and space!
