Suzuki Nagaji turned his head angrily and scolded: "Yaga, Kono-kun, you are still so stupid, didn't the rows of Jingguan in the back make your wooden head sober up a little?" ”

Suzuki Nagaji's words poured cold water on Kojiro Kono's head, and the pyramid-shaped Kyokan made of loess and corpses on the side of the road appeared in his mind again, and even he, a self-proclaimed cold-blooded man, couldn't help but shiver.

I wanted to say something cruel, but I swallowed it back when the words came to my mouth, and finally I could only say: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, please rest assured, I will definitely avenge the jade broken chariot brigade, I promise!" ”

"I don't know if your guarantee is useful or not, I only know that the current Zhina people have long been prepared." Speaking of this, Suzuki Nagaji pointed ahead and said: "You see, the Shina people have already set up at least three positions in front of their positions, and they have also set up anti-tank trenches and barbed wire, if you attack with infantry alone, do you know how many casualties you will have to pay?" ”

Kono Kojiro looked at it carefully, and nodded approvingly: "Yo Xi, Your Excellency the Brigade Commander is right, but I suggest that we can let the aviation force bomb the positions of the Shina people first, so that we can attack better." ”

Suzuki Nagaji snorted coldly: "I originally thought the same thing, but look at it now, can those guys in the aviation force complete the task of opening up the passage?" ”

Kono Kojiro looked at the bombers that were blocked by the barrage in the sky and could only hover and hover at a high altitude to drop bombs, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, it seems that it is not possible to rely on the aviation alone, and we can only rely on our artillery wing to open up an offensive channel for us." ”

Suzuki Choji nodded: "There is another half an hour for the artillery wing to be ready, you go down now and get ready, after half an hour of shelling, it will be your turn to attack the seventy-sixth wing." ”

Kono bowed to Suzuki Nagaharu and said loudly, "Hai...... Please rest assured. I will certainly plant our wing flag on the Shina position and prove our bravery to His Majesty the Emperor and the people of Great Japan! ”

Suzuki Nagaji nodded with satisfaction: "Yo Xi, then I'll be here to watch you make new contributions, and then I will invite you to drink the sake of my hometown!" ”

"Hai...... Thank you Brigade Commander for your concern! ”

The confrontation between the Japanese planes and the ground troops lasted for half an hour, and the air defense company led by Wang Tiezhuan also became ruthless, and the gunners used their artillery to shoot a dense barrage of bullets in the sky as if they were crazy. Later, even the nimble Type 97 fighters lost two, and in the end they could only circle around the position of the independent regiment continuously, not daring to approach too closely. As for those bulky bombers, they did not dare to lower their altitude, and could only drop bombs at an altitude of five or six thousand meters. The height is high, and the accuracy naturally decreases, until they finish dropping the bombs, and they only blow up some painless positions, and the real losses are small.

Half an hour later, the Japanese air force, which had finished dropping bombs, finally retreated. Before the soldiers of the Independent Regiment could breathe a sigh of relief, another sharp whistling sound was heard in the sky.

"Whoosh ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

With a rapid whistling sound, a round of shells landed on the hillside, kicking up puffs of smoke and dust.

The 17th Division belongs to the B division in the Japanese army, which is commonly known as the pack horse division, and the artillery wing to which the division belongs has four brigades, with 36 75mm mountain guns and 12 75mm field guns, and now 48 guns are firing at the artillery positions together. Immediately, the mountain cannon was blown into the dirt, and the dust and gunpowder smoke in the sky seemed to envelop the sky. The vision dimmed suddenly.

Su Jin hid behind the earthen wall of the observation post and covered his ears and grew his mouth to reduce the damage to his eardrums due to the sound of cannons. At this time, two observers next to him were talking while observing the landing points of Japanese shells, and one observer joked.

"The Japanese shelling was not very accurate, many shells hit the open field, and it is clear that their observation posts are not good!"

As soon as the observer's words fell, another observer pointed to the sky and shouted, "Sir, look." There's a big guy on the Japanese side! ”

Su Jin looked up, good guy, in the hazy smoke of gunpowder, a huge hot air balloon slowly rose in the air three kilometers away from them, and there was a spider plant under the balloon. The huge hot air balloon is so eye-catching even through the smoke of gunpowder.

Seeing the hot air balloon, Su Jin's heart couldn't help but sink secretly, he knew that this must be the observation balloon of the Japanese army, and now it must be positioning the Japanese artillery, if you wait until the Japanese army on the observation balloon calmly positions the Japanese artillery, everything on their position will become a meal on the plate of the Japanese, and they can hit wherever they want.

"The little devil is going to blow us up to ashes with artillery fire, and even the observation balloon has come out." Su Jin secretly slandered himself, and he said to the communication soldiers beside him: "Connect the air defense company immediately." ”

Soon, a hoarse voice sounded in the headset: "Tuanzuo, I am Wang Tiezhuan, what instructions do you have?" ”

Su Jin didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Wang Tiezhuo, have you seen the big guy on top of your head, are you sure to beat him down?" ”

The other end of the walkie-talkie paused for a moment, presumably observing the altitude and distance, and then said: "Tuanza, now the Japanese hot air balloon is six thousand meters away from our air defense position, which is beyond the range of anti-aircraft guns, and if I can attract it to a distance of four thousand meters, I can definitely shoot it down." ”

"That's it......" Su Jin pondered for a while before saying: "Okay, that's it for the time being, your air defense company is ready, and I will find a way to lure the hot air balloon over." ”

After ending the call, Su Jin connected to another channel: "Hey...... Is it a cannon company? I'm Su Jin, and now I order you to immediately cast smoke bombs in front of our position, and let's see the effect by playing a round first! ”

"Understood!"

The other party simply ended the call, less than three minutes later, a whistling sound exploded in front of the position of the security group, and with the sound of the explosion, puffs of brown smoke began to disperse, and soon the entire position was covered with smoke.

In the gondola of the observation balloon that had just been lifted into the air, a Japanese observer who was holding a telescope to observe the position of the security regiment was so angry that he scolded: "Baga...... Those people are so cunning that they even use smoke to protect their positions, and now we can't see anything! ”

Another senior soldier said with some frustration: "Your Excellency, the Chinese people have released smoke and we can't see anything, and the artillery is still waiting for our observations?" ”

The captain groaned for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "No matter how much, quickly signal the people below to let them put the rope long, and then we will lower the height and approach the position of the Chinese people." ”

"Close?" The senior soldier was taken aback: "Your Excellency, you have also seen that the anti-aircraft artillery of the Zhi Na man just now hit so fiercely, it is very dangerous for us to get too close!" ”

The captain shook his head: "There is no way, the artillery wing on the ground is still waiting for our observations before they can adjust the firing Zhuyuan, if we don't provide them with coordinates, they can only fight blindly, not only will it have no effect, but it will also be a waste of shells, you must know that we don't have many shells from afar, and we can't afford to waste them." And we'll only stay for a few minutes, and as soon as we're done, we'll back off! ”

"Hay!"

Hearing the captain say this, the senior soldier stopped talking. This is the case in the army, once the superiors make a decision, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, they have to walk over.

Through the blurred smoke, seeing the hot air balloon in the sky slowly drifting towards his position, a smile floated through the corner of Su Jin's eyes, it seems that the Japanese are really in a hurry, knowing that they have anti-aircraft guns, they dare to come over, is it possible that he really thinks that the thin hot air balloon is invulnerable.

Soon, the hot air balloon slowly approached the position of the security group, and the distance also moved from six thousand meters to five thousand meters. The Japanese captain on the gondola held a telescope and tried to observe the target on the ground, but the smoke bombs below exploded one after another in front of the position, enveloping the entire position in thick smoke.

"These damn Chinese rats, what kind of ability are they to only emit smoke." The captain scolded angrily as he observed, and he turned to the other senior soldier and said, "Quick, lower the height a little more, we have to get closer." ”

The senior soldier on the side couldn't help but say, "Your Excellency, we are already very close, if we get closer, we will be too dangerous!" ”

The captain stretched out his hand and slapped the senior soldier, "Baga, now that I am the commander here, when will you come and talk to me about these words when you become a young man!" ”

Well, the officer is a senior who crushes people to death, not to mention that the captain is more than one level higher than the others, and the senior soldier can only operate the hot air balloon and slowly lower the altitude and continue to approach the position of the security regiment.

Slowly, the hot air balloon got closer to the position of the security regiment, and the captain held the telescope and stared at the target on the ground without blinking: "Okay...... That's it, I've already seen their artillery positions, recorder, hurry up and write it down, the directions ...... 2315…… In 3564, an artillery position of the Chinese army was discovered, with a total of twelve mortars...... Oh...... What is that...... Damn, that's the anti-aircraft gun of the man! Not good, they're shooting at us...... Hurry up and avoid ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The captain's exclamation came too late, and in a roar, the hot air balloon close to the position of the security regiment was torn to pieces by four Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and seven or eight Japanese soldiers on the gondola also fell from the air like dumplings...... (To be continued......)