The orange sunset hung obliquely on the top of the mountain in the distance, indicating that today's day has come to an end, and it stands to reason that this time is the time for people to stop the day's work and get off work, eat and rest, but on several peaks in the south of the small county town of Zhouning, fierce battles have continued, and there is no end in sight. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Zhigang, the commander of the 582nd Regiment, was lying in an inconspicuous bunker, using a 6*30 Zeiss telescope to observe the Japanese troops several miles away, and from the telescope, he could clearly see that about a squadron of Japanese troops two miles away was attacking the position of the second battalion under his command under the cover of artillery fire.

I saw that one shell after another kept falling on the hillside, the violent explosion blew up the hillside soil and rocks, countless dust and gunpowder smoke shrouded the entire hillside, and the defenders behind the hillside were obviously not to be outdone, one by one the shells also kept falling on the Japanese offensive formation, from time to time there were Japanese screams rolling down the hillside, in the face of the defenders' dense mortar fire, the Japanese army obviously had no good way, because of the ballistics, the Japanese artillery wing obviously had no way to take the artillery located behind the hillside, He could only watch his troops fall on his own soldiers by the enemy's shells.

"The mortar company did a good job!"

Zhou Zhigang nodded while watching, the unique trajectory of the mortar on this kind of terrain takes a big advantage, this kind of feeling that I can hit you but you can't hit me is really refreshing. Because Su Jin has always attached great importance to artillery, the regimental-level troops are not only equipped with 27 M1A1 75 mm mountain artillery battalions, but also equipped each infantry battalion with an 82 mm mortar company, and each company is equipped with a 60 mm mortar platoon, so that the formation of a staggered firepower configuration of far and near, in today's combat effectiveness, dozens of mortars under their regiment have caused heavy casualties to the attacking Japanese troops, forcing the Japanese offensive speed to be forced to slow down.

Looking up at the sky, and then at the Japanese squadron on the hillside that had suffered three percent casualties but was still unrelenting and unstoppable in attacking the hillside, even Zhou Zhigang, who hated them, had to sigh at the tenacity of the Japanese soldiers.

"This is an army of madmen who are mad not only against their enemies, but also about themselves. But do they think they can take Lao Tzu's position in this way, they are too small Lao Tzu, right? ”

Just as Zhou Zhigang was muttering, a slight buzzing sound began to come from the sky, Zhou Zhirou carefully distinguished the direction from which the voice came from, his face immediately changed, and he grabbed the phone and said loudly: "All the troops' ideas...... Immediately entered the bomb shelter, the plane of the little devil came, and the anti-aircraft artillery company immediately prepared for air defense! ”

After throwing down the phone, Zhou Zhigang thought about it and turned to the communication soldier beside him: "You immediately contact the 1st Air Division and tell you to request air support!" ”

"Ah......" The communications soldier was stunned, the Japanese plane has not yet seen, you began to call for air-weight support, is it so outrageous!

Looking at the communication soldier who was stunned, Zhou Zhigang couldn't help but scold: "What are you still doing in a daze, didn't you hear my order?" ”

"Ah...... Oh......" The communications soldier who had been scolded began to hurriedly put the radio on the ground and began to adjust the channel and call the 1st Air Division.

I have to say that Zhou Zhigang, as a veteran, has a wealth of experience, just after the signal corps called for air support, there was already a roar in the sky, and four dark green Type 96 planes had already swooped down from a high altitude towards the position of the 582nd Regiment, and several bombs fell on the hillside from the sky.

"Boom ......"

Thick gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and several huge puffs of smoke almost enveloped the entire hillside, and for a time the sound of huge explosions covered out the gunfire of the entire position.

"These Japanese mongrels, is he going to overturn the entire position!" The huge explosion could be felt even by Zhou Zhigang two miles away, let alone the soldiers at the center of the explosion.

As a veteran, Zhou Zhigang knew that the bombs just now were at least more than 800 kilograms, otherwise he would never have made such a big movement, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help but worry about the soldiers stationed on the hillside.

His feeling was not wrong, and soon the second battalion commander's phone called, and the second battalion commander's crying voice came from the phone: "Tuanzao, my sixth company...... My six companies and more than a hundred brothers are almost ...... Almost all of them were blown up by the little devils! ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhigang felt that his heart was tight, and the whole person felt that his breathing was not very smooth, and his right hand tightly grasped a handful of clods of soil beside him, and he was so distressed that he was almost speechless, the casualties of a whole company, that is to say, one-ninth of the strength of the 582 regiment was gone, how could this not make him feel distressed. I saw him gritting his teeth and saying with a hideous expression, "Little devil, I'm not done with you!" ”

"Contact the First Air Division immediately...... Be ...... fast"

At the same time, in the sky above Zhou Ning, Narita Ryohei drove a Zero fighter plane hovering more than 2,000 meters in the air, looking at several huge plumes of smoke rising from the ground, he nodded with satisfaction, experienced he could estimate that the defenders within a radius of more than 300 meters at the center of the explosion must have suffered heavy casualties, even if they did not die on the spot, they would lose their ability to resist, this is the power of thermal weapons.

He turned on the communicator and ordered: "Bomb the formation, continue to circle and observe, once you find the defenders of Youzhina, drop bombs immediately, and make sure that the ground troops can occupy Zhouning today!" The attack planes that had already dropped bombs continued to strafe the ground, and returned to their homes as soon as the strafing was complete! ”

"Hay!" The pilot's answer came from the headset.

With Ryohei Narita's order, the nose of the four planes that had already dropped the bombs was lowered, and the 7.7mm machine gun mounted on the nose immediately erupted tongues of fire and continued to strafe at the hillside.

After the four attack planes returned, the Japanese on the ground relaunched a new attack on the defenders on the hillside, trying to take advantage of the heavy casualties of the defenders to occupy the positions on the hillside. However, when they relaunched the attack, there was another whistling sound from behind the hillside, and a dense number of mortar shells fell on their heads, and the surviving defenders on the hillside also opened fire on them, and the dense fire forced the attacking Japanese troops to return again in vain.

Seeing such a situation, Narita Ryohei couldn't help but be very annoyed, and shouted: "Attack aircraft formation, immediately bomb the artillery positions in China!" ”

"Hay!"

The three attack planes immediately broke away from the formation, circled in a circle, and then dived down to the mortar position behind the hillside, and the huge 800-kilogram aerial bomb under the belly of the aircraft emitted a formidable cold light in the sunlight.

Just as the three Type 96 attack planes entered the attack channel and dived towards the target, three round figures suddenly appeared in the sky, and they let out a sharp whistling sound and rushed down towards the three attack planes that were diving, and the eight Browning large-caliber machine guns equipped with the fuselage burst into flames at the same time, and hundreds of bullets were poured out in just a few seconds, forming a dense barrage in front.

The 24 bullet rain sent out by the three P47 fighters at the same time shrouded the three attack planes that were about to drop bombs in a barrage, and at this time, the weakness of the Japanese planes, which had always been thin and stuffy, was suddenly revealed; after a rain of bullets, one of the three attack planes exploded in a volley on the spot, and the other two planes fell towards the ground in flames, and the two pilots who had not had time to parachute also emitted huge columns of smoke as the planes exploded on the ground on the spot.

The sudden appearance of the Huaxia fighter not only did not make Ryohei Narita, who was directing the battle in the air, panic, but gave him a fierce fighting spirit. I saw him push the joystick and yelled: "See, the fighters of the Zhina people are coming, the warriors...... Follow me up and destroy them! ”

Narita's self-confidence is not without reason, these days, most of his squadron has been equipped with the new Zero fighter, for this excellent performance fighter he likes from the bottom of his heart. Although he did not personally fight the Third Army's Vixen fighters, he still believed that the Zero fighters were the best in the world.

Seeing more than a dozen Zero fighters flying in front of him, the Thunderbolt fighters on the opposite side were not to be outdone, and they also began to meet them.

The leader who led the team to help this time was Du Changfeng, who was relegated to the newly built P-47 squadron of the Air Third Regiment, and when he saw more than ten Zero fighters rushing towards them on the opposite side, he sneered and pulled the lever violently, under the roar of the R-2800-21W engine, the powerful output of 2300 horsepower made the five-ton fat thunderbolt let out a roar, and rushed straight up to the sky with his head held high. Until it had gained enough altitude, the entire plane was like a sharp sword and swooped down towards the Zero below.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The scene of twenty thunderbolts firing at the same time was truly amazing, and the entire sky was almost filled with the light of tracer bullets, and the two Zeros that were caught off guard were blown up on the spot.

"Yaga Yalu, all the fighters dodge and go around behind them to kill them!" The pilots of the Zero heard the roar of Ryohei Narita in their ears.

Ryohei Narita was really annoyed, because the wave of attacks just now was very unexpected to them, and the diving speed of the opponent's fighters was so fast that they couldn't reflect it, and the two downed Zero fighters were shot down like this.

"Yaga Yalu, what kind of fighter is that, why is the dive speed so fast!" Looking at the fighters rushing past him at almost lightning-fast speed, Narita Ryohei was almost taken aback, and based on his rich experience, he estimated that the dive speed of those fighters just now was at least more than 600 kilometers. (To be continued.) )