Boom Boom Boom! As dozens of Japanese bombs fell, the entire forward position was enveloped by an earth-shattering and violent explosion.

Clouds of red light and smoke rose into the sky, quickly covering the entire position.

Due to the timely transfer of the air defense battalion, no air defense combat vehicles were impacted, and all 30 Humvee military vehicles successfully avoided danger.

However, the muzzle of the gun was quickly turned and the guns were fired into the air together, and the hot and dazzling tongues of fire staggered in the air to form a dense network of intersecting anti-aircraft fire.

At that time, more than 20 Japanese bombers flew in formation in the air in order to ensure the bombing effect, and the distance between them was very close, so so many dense anti-aircraft fire networks suddenly appeared on the ground.

Bombers that were far inferior in maneuverability to fighters and reconnaissance planes, did not even have a chance to evade.

Bang bang! Countless scorching anti-aircraft armor-piercing shells hit the target one after another, and although the Japanese bombers' defensive armor was thicker than that of ordinary fighters, they could not withstand the crazy intensive attack of 127mm anti-aircraft machine gun shells.

Soon, some bombers were pierced through the defensive armor, and one after another burst into flames and smoke, and then exploded.

There are even planes that lost their balance and control because they were pierced through the wings, and with thick smoke and piercing screams, they fell headlong from the sky.

At this time, Xu Wen also ordered all the vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine guns of the tank battalion to concentrate their firepower on the air to fire.

The intensity of its own anti-aircraft fire was further strengthened, and under the fierce attack of the powerful anti-aircraft fire of the independent brigade, six Japanese bombers were finally shot down one after another, and many were damaged and hastily pulled up and fled the battlefield.

In this air raid operation, the Japanese army lost more than one-third of its 30 fighters, which was a very heavy loss for the Japanese navy.

Because the fighters had already been beaten away, and without the cover of the fighters, the devil bombers could not pose a substantial threat to the air defense of the independent brigade with extremely strong ground maneuverability, so they had to return home.

As I said earlier, since Japan is an island country, more than 90 percent of its strategic resources need to be imported, so their air force fighters are more precious than ground tanks.

Especially pilots, the cost of training a pilot is enormous.

Therefore, after losing 10 fighters in succession, the Devil's air raid group did not care about the effect of this bombing, and directly returned to the battlefield one after another.

On the Japanese position, Gu Shoufu saw that his fighters were shot down and crashed one after another, and his face became very heavy.

When he discovered that the sea-based air force had stopped bombing and had turned back on its own, his face turned pale with anger.

"Yaga Tooth Road! How did they retreat without permission? With only one wave of bombing, can all the tank units of the Chinese army be wiped out? ”

Chief of Staff Tian Jiu Toshio persuaded on the side: "The general is angry, after all, the Chinese army on the opposite side is not the life-and-death enemy of the navy, and it is impossible for those guys in the navy to risk killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of their own lives, and continue to carry out air raids at any cost, so it is reasonable to return home." ”

Gu Shoufu snorted disdainfully: "Hmph, these wastes! It's not that they made a tactical mistake, but they were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of the Chinese army, causing themselves to fall into passivity! ”

Tian Jiu Toshio didn't dare to refute, but changed the topic and asked: "General, anyway, the bomber group of the imperial army has been successfully dropped just now, should we try to launch another attack to see if the tank unit of the Chinese army has been wiped out?" ”

Of course, Gu Shoufu was not willing to stop there, and immediately instructed Major General Ushijima, the commander of the 36th Brigade: "Ushijima-kun, please personally command the troops and launch another attack!" Be sure to defeat the enemies in front of you and take their positions! Please! ”

Ushijima hurriedly stood up and said, "Hai! Please rest assured that the general will do his best! ”

Then he turned around and strode towards the forward offensive position, where the devils of the 45th Infantry Wing had not yet recovered from the heavy losses and blows just now.

Many soldiers, under the command of some officers, were powerlessly cleaning up the bodies of their comrades killed by the crashed plane.

Seeing the arrival of Ushijima Man, the commander of the 45th Infantry Wing, Kanda Masasa Daisa, hurriedly greeted him with two adjutants, and then stood up and saluted him: "Brigade commander, why are you here?" ”

Ushijima looked at the chaotic offensive position with solemn eyes, and said to Kanda solemnly: "Kanda-kun, Your Excellency the Commander ordered another attack and ordered me to come and command the battle!" ”

Kanda Masa said with some surprise when he heard this: "General, you have also seen that the previous attack on our unit suffered a lot of casualties, and hundreds of people were accidentally injured by our own crashed fighters, and now the strength of the whole wing can be put into battle, which is less than half."

The most important thing is that the troops are exhausted, and at this time they should stop attacking and rest for one night, and fight again tomorrow!

Forcing the attack will make it difficult to break through the positions of the Chinese army, and it will only increase casualties. ”

Ushijima was very displeased when he heard this, and reprimanded: "Kanda-kun, you are an imperial general, and your first task is to obey orders!" Have you forgotten the principle that soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty?

If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you are not willing to lead the team to attack, then let me, the brigade commander, lead the team! ”

Kanda Masa was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed his head and apologized: "The general is angry, and he will reorganize the attack immediately!" ”

After speaking, he resolutely turned around and took the order to leave.

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Although the Devil's air raid failed to cause substantial losses to the armored units of the Independent Brigade, it dealt a devastating blow to the three regiments remaining on the position.

The third battalion of hundreds of people was intensively bombed by devil bombers, killing and wounding everywhere, and almost half of the casualties were lost.

After repelling the devil's air attack, Xu Wen immediately dropped the three regiments that had been serving as reserves in the city, and asked Chen Tianxiang to retreat to the city with the disabled regiment and take over the three regiments.

The commander of the third regiment is Li Dakui, who was born in the Sichuan army, and there is a very eye-catching scar on the left side of his face, which is said to have been stabbed with a bayonet by a devil soldier on the battlefield of Songhu.

After receiving Xu Wen's order, he had been watching the fire from the other side of the back, and he was immediately ordered to rush out of the south gate with three regiments and two battalions, and take over the defense task of the forward position from the hands of the first regiment as quickly as possible.

After the deployment of troops, Li Dakui immediately came to Xu Wen's Tiger tank, saluted Xu Wenlizheng, and said: "Brigade seat, the third regiment is ordered to come to report!" ”

Xu Wen stood on the Tiger tank, looked Li Dakui up and down, and said with a heavy expression: "I estimate that the little devil will definitely launch another attack before dark, and the task of your Sichuan Army is to nail me to the position, and to block the enemy no matter what!" Can it be done? ”

Li Dakui immediately said with a fierce face: "Please rest assured, the people are in the position!" As long as we Sichuan Yankees still have a gasp, we will never let an enemy pass through the forward position! The little devil wants to pass through here, unless he steps on our corpses! ”

"Very good, this sounds uplifting! Lao Tzu will fight side by side with your Sichuan army! Xu Wen praised his head.

Before the reorganization of the independent brigade, although many Sichuan troops, Yunnan troops, Gui armies, and Hunan armies were scattered and distributed to various regiments and battalions.

However, most of the soldiers of the Third Regiment were still from Sichuan, and they were worthy of the name of the Sichuan Army in the independent brigade.

However, their regiment is not the same as before, after following Xu Wen to win the 16th Division, it was equipped with a large number of Japanese-style weapons, and now the whole regiment is all Japanese-style equipment, and its combat effectiveness has increased by I don't know how many times compared to before.

This is also where Li Dakui's confidence lies, and after a few simple greetings, Xu Wen ordered Li Wu and Fang Shengli to take the tank battalion with little ammunition left, and the air defense battalion retreated to the south gate to stand by.

Xu Wen didn't plan to let them join the war for the time being, because they needed to keep ammunition and fuel to prepare for the night attack at night, otherwise now that the ammunition was gone, what would they use to attack the devil's artillery position at night?

The Tiger tank was left behind by Xu Wen, because the Tiger tank still has a lot of shells, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns and grenades are also sufficient, so it can be left to serve as a steel fortress of the three regiments and provide them with fire support at a critical time.

After arranging everything, Xu Wen took out the Mosinagan sniper rifle that had been exploded earlier from the system's warehouse, and sneaked into a bunker in the second trench on the forward position to hide.

Xu Wen did this not simply to motivate the soldiers of the three regiments, but to wait for an opportunity to hunt down Japanese officers, and it was best to kill a big Zuo, so as to obtain a better explosive effect, so as to replenish his own troops with more advanced weapons and equipment.