A Dream of Jinling Chapter 322 Solving the Cow (35)

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Li Shaokang lowered his head and lay on the telescope, the design of the reconnaissance plane of the Liberation Army Air Force was quite humane. The downward-facing telescope has a set of adjustments that can be manipulated directly from the rear seat of the two-seater. Looking down condescendingly, there are many white traces of waves on the surface of the lake.

"Lower the altitude and fly back along the shore of the lake." Li Shaokang gave the order to the driver.

Whether the pilot is looking at the lake or the ground, his job is to operate the plane well. After hearing the order, the driver asked, "Captain, what's the situation?" ”

Li Shaokang replied: "There seem to be a lot of boats on the lake, let's lower the height to see where they are going." ”

The pilot didn't seem to support Li Shaokang's point of view, and he said loudly: "Captain, those boats can't run fast, let's go back first." After repairing the plane, take off to reconnoitre, those ships can't go far. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a strange crashing sound from the plane. Li Shaokang and the pilot in the cockpit threw the enemy situation under the plane out of the clouds in an instant. The shock wave from the impact reached the two men, both of whom were very familiar with the plane, but in the face of such a situation, both of them widened their eyes in horror and failed to react at all. This cannot be blamed for these two being so helpless, the accumulation of the air force is far from giving these two the ability to make air adjustments.

A moment later, with a loud impact, all crashing stopped. Not only did the impact cease to exist, but all the machinery of the aircraft stopped. Li Shaokang could no longer feel the slight tremor of the entire plane, what he could feel was that his own body was trembling uncontrollably in such a situation.

"Captain, Captain! Sit tight! I'm now trying to get the plane to circle and see if we can fly back and land on our position! In the silence, the pilot shouted.

Li Shaokang instinctively held the barrel of the telescope tightly with both hands at this time, although this thing was not at all to help fix the body in times of crisis. Li Shaokang didn't notice this, he just said to the pilot in a voice as calm as possible: "Our lives will be handed over to you." Don't worry, drive well, I can trust you! After finishing speaking, Li Shaokang leaned back on the back of the flight seat, his lips were tightly closed, and he didn't say a word.

The plane was several hundred meters above the ground, and even if he looked up, he couldn't see movement in the sky. So Hu Xingzhi didn't know that his old friend Li Shaokang was encountering an unprecedented crisis in the air. Hu Xingzhi was faced with the cold eyes of the officers and soldiers of the third battalion at this time, and the soldiers who retreated with stretchers were silent, and they saw that the deputy battalion commander Wei Jianjun waved his hand and asked them to act quickly, so they carried the stretcher around Hu Xingzhi and walked quickly towards the rear.

was treated so coldly, if it was in normal times, Hu Xingzhi would probably be a little angry, at least a little unhappy. But looking at the long line of stretchers, he didn't want to say anything more. Hu Xingzhi took a few steps to the side to make way for the stretcher team to walk better. Not only were the wounded on stretchers, but not only those who were carried down to the battlefield. Many of the fighters who participated in the stretcher team also wore white bandages on their arms, and it seemed that they were not without injury. As for Wei Jianjun, who was in front of Hu Xingzhi, a large piece of square cotton yarn was pasted with adhesive tape on his face. It was still a relatively obvious wound, and Wei Jianjun still had several small wounds on his face that had dried up and had not even had time to deal with them. One of the long wounds was not far above his eyebrows, and a centimeter lower was Wei Jianjun's eyes.

"How many troops are left in the third battalion?" Hu Xingzhi gathered his mind and raised questions related to the war.

"There is less than a company that can fight." Wei Jianjun replied coldly.

"Do you think this place can still be guarded?" Hu Xingzhi raised the issues he was most concerned about.

Wei Jianjun was very angry by this question, and he replied unceremoniously: "Can you just see for yourself?" After getting angry, Wei Jianjun didn't pick a pick, he then said angrily, "It's all stone ground here." If an enemy shell lands on muddy ground, we still have a place to hide. Now on this stony ground, the stones blown up by the shells are like shrapnel, and I probably looked at it, and most of the wounded comrades were not wounded by shrapnel, but by stones. If we don't have a proper bomb hole, we don't stay here. The enemy is not afraid to come up, as long as he fires a cannon here, the enemy will die as many as he comes. ”

Hu Xingzhi also felt that what Wei Jianjun said was reasonable, but he didn't want to give up like that. This large area is not conducive to artillery defense, but it is conducive to attack. At present, the offensive battle is only afraid that it will start immediately, if there are no troops here, once the command gives the order to attack, Hu Xingzhi will have to delay time. No matter how undefensible this vast expanse of land is, it's really good for offense.

"Let's go! Let's go see the terrain! Hu Xingzhi said to Wei Jianjun. After saying that, he took the lead and walked forward.

The two of them had not walked far, and the guard of Hu Xingzhi suddenly pointed to the sky in front of him and said, "Commander, there is something over there." ”

When Hu Xingzhi looked up, he saw a reconnaissance plane flying lower and lower, heading towards this relatively flat area, and it seemed that it had a tendency to land directly. Hu Xingzhi was dumbfounded when he boarded, there are special airports for planes to take off and land, what does it mean for this plane to land by the lake?

Just when Hu Xingzhi was at a loss, the sound of artillery bombardment came from the air, and it can be judged from the sound of the shells cutting through the air that the Yankees' artillery was firing in the direction of the plane, that is, the direction of Hu Xingzhi. A thought suddenly popped into Hu Xingzhi's mind: Why am I so unlucky?

A strong arm grabbed Hu Xingzhi's clothes and yelled, "Follow me!" Hu Xingzhi was dragged by Wei Jianjun and went straight behind a large rock nearby. Hu Xingzhi's guards also followed the two of them straight to the safe place.

After the three of them threw themselves over the rock, the Yankees' shells were already whizzing. When the shells exploded violently in front and back, left and right, Hu Xingzhi could no longer care about his image, he, Wei Jianjun and the guards, all held their heads in their hands and huddled tightly behind the stones.

This terrifying experience made Hu Xingzhi chaotic at first, and he never imagined that he would suddenly fall into such an embarrassment. In the midst of the chaos, Hu Xingzhi's mind tried to find the problem. Then a thought suddenly popped up, making Hu Xingzhi's mind bright, "If only I had come here to inspect it from the beginning!" ”

If he had known about the situation on the shore of the lake from the beginning, Hu Xingzhi would have probably thought about how to arrange his position if he was shelled. If he had known about the situation on the shore of the lake from the beginning, Hu Xingzhi would have been able to come up with a suitable solution immediately after the 3rd Battalion was subjected to such heavy shelling. If he had been here in the first place, at least Hu Xing would not have fallen into such a dangerous situation now. You know, in the previous two days, the Yankees had not carried out a large-scale shelling of the lakeshore.

In addition to this reflection, Hu Xingzhi also remembered the education in the military academy, "Commanders should have as comprehensive a comprehensive understanding of the environment in which the troops are located. ”

Sandwiched between the guards and Wei Jianjun, Hu Xingzhi knew that his chances of survival were the greatest among the three. "If I can do it all over again, I must not repeat it next time!" Hu Xingzhi thought in his heart. At this moment, Hu Xingzhi suddenly felt that his left arm was pierced by a hot thing, and then a sharp pain deep into the bone marrow entered his brain. He wanted to scream, but the pain was so severe that Hu Xingzhi couldn't even scream.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the military headquarters received the news. The reconnaissance plane in which Li Shaokang of the Air Force Brigade was flying broke down and was forced to land on the shore of the lake. The plane was almost completely destroyed, Li Shaokang was seriously injured, and the pilot was killed.

At the same time, Hu Xingzhi, who was on the shore of the lake, was attacked by US shelling while inspecting the three regiments under his command, and Hu Xingzhi was hit by shrapnel in the left arm and was seriously injured. The deputy regiment commander, who went to pick up the wounded of the 3rd battalion, was directly hit by artillery fire and unfortunately died.

Although the accident of the captain and regiment commander of the Air Force Brigade did not affect the entire situation of the 24th Army, two familiar names appeared in such a report, and the feeling in Qi Rui's heart definitely could not be called good.

And what made Qi Rui even more unhappy was that the air force's reconnaissance report also came out, and the US military was leaving the port of Port Duluth by boat. Although this group of U.S. troops has the possibility of going around behind the Liberation Army to launch an attack, Qi Rui believes that this is actually unrealistic. The commander of the U.S. ** team, Omo Xiàn, made a rather decisive decision, and he chose to flee Duluth City. Let Qi Rui's wish to annihilate the defenders be frustrated. This made Qi Rui feel very unhappy.

Of course, the significance of this unhappiness is limited. Brigadier Arthur had already boarded the ship and left Duluth by this time. Although he claimed to be retreating from Duluth, in fact Brigadier General Arthur only evacuated Duluth from the elite troops he identified with. The locals and some of the non-elite were left behind in Duluth without mercy, either waiting for the fleet to return or retreating on their own. As for whether the gang would succeed in escaping, Brigadier Arthur was not confident, and he actually didn't bother to care anymore.

Facing the officers who had fled Duluth with him, Brigadier General Arthur exclaimed, "Guys, I'll be back!" I'll definitely call Duluth back! ”

After the successful retreat, the officers were in a good mood. In any case, they knew what it would be like to continue to be surrounded by Chinese. In such a relaxed situation, hearing Arthur's almost "go back to his hometown" speech, the officers couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Brigadier Arthur didn't say anything more, he just stood on the bow of the ship with his hands behind his back, looking out at the city of Duluth farther and farther away.

It was also at this time that Captain Shi Qian received an order to attack the port. Wei Jianjun was on a flat field south of the port, and Captain Shi Qian was on the mountain north of the port. After receiving the order, Captain Shi Qian immediately led the company forward. Last night they worked until ten o'clock in the evening to put all the barbed wire in place. Now if they want to attack the American army, they have to cross this obstacle first.

Looking down condescendingly through a telescope, Captain Shi Qian noticed that the Americans near the harbor were scrambling for some small boats, and some of them were squeezed out of the boats and fell into the lake during the scramble. Some of the Yankees threw some of the wood into the lake, then jumped into the lake and began to swim away with the wood.

Since the enemy was already in such a state, Captain Shi Qian put down his binoculars and ordered his subordinates with a grin: "Speed up and go straight to the port!" ”