On November 16, 1940, the Japanese army independently mixed into the 12th Brigade, as well as more than 5,000 puppet troops in Suxian, Bengbu, Linli and other places in Anhui Province, with more than 30 tanks, under the cover of several aircraft, attacked the Huaishang area.

The Kuomintang troops stationed in the area were frightened and fled in the direction of Taihe and Fuyang, and the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of Commander Peng Xuefeng, fought back.

Peng Xuefeng is a famous general with outstanding creativity, and the "Xuefeng Cavalry Knife" currently used by the Special Cavalry Company is a kind of cavalry knife designed by him himself, which is suitable for the size and overall situation of the Chinese.

In this battle, the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army was victorious, and at the same time, a machine gunner shot down a plane with a light machine gun with a light machine gun while the ammunition soldier held up the tripod with both hands, and strafed the plane covering the retreat of the Japanese at a low altitude, killing all three people on board.

This is the first successful example in the history of our army to use "machine guns to hit planes," and it is still several months before this incident happened.

At that time, the appearance of this miracle was not only appreciated by everyone at the top of the Eighth Route Army, but even Wei Lihuang, commander of the First Theater of the Kuomintang Party, specially sent a commendation order to express his admiration.

The downed Japanese plane was also transported to Shenqiu, Luoyang and other places for exhibition, attracting the crowd to watch.

The reason why Xing Feng dared to speak out this time and fight a few little devils' planes to come down to play was because of this case, as well as the super firepower of his own cavalry company, and more importantly, this terrain, plus this special battle.

Combined with various factors, a very suitable and perfect tactic will appear in Xingfeng's mind!

Of course, this formed rifle fighting formation has never appeared in the entire Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it really appeared in the 50s and 60s, and the main battlefield was the Korean aid war.

By this time, China's volunteer army units had a mature operational concept of light weapons shooting at the air!

Xingfeng's combat method this time absorbed some of the tactical concepts that only appeared in later generations, and at the same time, according to his own unique understanding and the actual situation of this battlefield, he also made some relatively large changes.

First of all, this firing position!

In the past, there were two main types of anti-aircraft firing methods of small arms in the past.

The first is that when the conditions are insufficient, the bolt-action rifles used lie down to "shoot on the back", such as the 38 big cover, the Mauser rifle and so on.

The continuous firepower of bolt-action rifles is ultra-low, and the success rate of efficiency is naturally very unsatisfactory, and the method adopted in general production is to "predict" the position of the aircraft according to the distance between the enemy and the enemy, and the person with a strong sense of distance will "predict" the position of the aircraft and shoot collectively at the same time.

For example, within a thousand meters, the predictability of two aircraft bodies!

In this way, shooting is usually carried out in platoon and company units, not to mention that the hit rate is very low, but the main thing is that the danger is extremely high.

Even if you are lucky enough to hit the front propeller or fuel tank of the plane, as long as you don't break through the aluminum skin, kill the pilot inside, and give the aircraft machine gun time to fire.

The result is minced meat all over the ground, exchanging lives for planes!

Of course, in this kind of rifle fight, even if a platoon is killed, it seems that it is profitable to be able to change an aircraft at that time.

The second method is to set up light machine guns or heavy machine guns by a platoon, squad, or even a company-level unit when conditions are relatively good, and form an anti-aircraft fire position.

Due to the use of automatic weapons, this method has a strong guarantee of continuous firepower, and the way of firing has also changed greatly.

Instead of using the anti-judgment shooting method of relying on Meng, automatic weapons are controlled by teams of two, and the whole position is uniformly defined at an angle, with a unified muzzle at 90 or 45 degrees, and a fixed point and full firepower.

On the flight path that the little devil plane must pass, a dense network of bullets is formed in the air at high altitude.

Suppose a platoon of 30 people, each with a light and heavy machine gun with a rate of fire of more than 600, forms a 60-square-meter firing formation.

Then within 0.1 seconds, there will be a 60-square-meter metal sheet bullet net formed by 30 bullets, which will be scattered from the ground to a certain point in the sky.

That's 1 second, that's 10 metal meshes!

If a light machine gun is equipped with a 30-round magazine, it is a vertical metal barrage of 30 metal nets that lasts for more than 3 seconds, and will connect from the ground to an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.

The speed of the aircraft in World War II was not very fast, usually only a few hundred kilometers, the ability to maneuver sharply was also very poor, and there was no fire warning system, and everything was left to the pilot's visual observation.

If it is not detected in advance, it is difficult to escape such a dense network of fire!

A lucky plane may just hit an inconsequential position, but a bad luck plane, then there is only one consequence -

Smoke, woo down!

Of course, when this tactic first came out, it was still very effective, but when everyone knew about it, pilots were not stupid.

As long as it is not a target that must be attacked, it usually raises the fuselage, either escapes or uses long-range strafing to counteract.

If conditions permit, there is an easier way, which is to bomb with bombers dropping bombs from high altitudes, and after dispersing the formation of small arms fire, the fighters will dive down and strafe to complete the deadly harvest.

As a result of the peculiar antagonism between the two, the aircraft's response has been escalated, as has the tactics of small arms fire.

The formation method of taking cover for protection, or running after the fight, changing places to continue the formation, and so on, has also been derived.

The combat method adopted by Xingfeng this time is the second one, but it is not a stupid copy of the original method, but according to the actual situation of his own battlefield, several major modifications have been made.

First of all, it is still a positioning full firepower shooting, but the punishment style is not a two-person system, but a specially designed one-man shooting.

The advantage of this is that it can save a lot of manpower and double the firepower intensity!

With the number of the main force of the cavalry company, plus Xingfeng and a few squad leaders, the total number of people is one hundred and twenty-five, minus the five men guarding the horses, that is a full 120 points of fire.

Once the fire is fired, it will form a "shaped" anti-air barrage of more than 1,000 square meters with an anti-slope "zigzag" position connected from the ground to the sky, plus two points of the 92nd infantry artillery position and the mortar position on the top of the mountain.

As long as a plane comes to attack, it will definitely make the intruders suffer greatly!

Secondly, in order to prevent long-range strafing by fighters, bomb attacks by bombers, and to force planes to come and attack cavalry companies, Xingfeng made very large modifications to the fortifications of the position according to the needs of the battle.