Chapter 19: Perseverance
P-26 fighters, this is the fighter formation that Chen Ming saw, and there were only 8 P-26s in total from the southwest. However, as if there were 80 or 800 planes, they fearlessly slaughtered more than a dozen Japanese 96 planes.
The Type 96 in the distance also apparently spotted the Chinese fighter jet, which circled in the air for a week and flew back, apparently looking. The Chinese fighters have a small number and are ready to shoot down the Chinese fighters.
Although the scale of the air battle between more than 20 fighters was not large, the fight was extremely fierce, and both sides were desperately trying to grab the high point and grab the back sun, and the bullet chains dragged out by the machine guns were staggered back and forth in the air.
Chen Ming could see clearly through the sniper scope, but he didn't remember that at this point in time, there was an air battle, but no matter what, this air battle did happen.
More than 20 fighters circled and struggled in the air, and they actually slowly fought back to the vicinity of Chen Ming, and a group of three Type 96 fighters should have wanted to copy the rear path of the Chinese fighters by circling in a big circle, and looking at the flight trajectory, it should be possible to fly near Chen Ming.
Chen Ming's eyes lit up, he looked around, jumped on top of another house, and used the spire of the house to set up a shooting point.
"Damn, let you chase me! It also gives you insight into what it is to fight. Plane! β
The flight speed of the Nine-Six Type is not fast, far less than that of his Zero Junior. Relying on the fact that the Chinese army had no anti-aircraft weapons, it swept unscrupulously from the extremely low air and sneaked towards the formation of Chinese fighters.
Chen Ming lay down on the roof steadily, roughly estimated the distance, and waited for the opportunity for the plane to pass over the position in the front row, and fired a shot steadily.
"Bang"
The strong recoil force smashed the roof tiles and knocked them flying. One of the three Type 96 swept past the low altitude, and a puff of black smoke came out of the engine.
Chen Ming quickly pulled the bolt, put a bullet into the chamber again, and with a little aim, another shot shot out.
"Bang"
The second bullet hit the other plane accurately, slamming diagonally into the cockpit from above the left wing, a mist of blood erupted, and while the first plane was still struggling in the air, the second plane that was hit simply fell headlong.
System Prompt: Congratulations on shooting down two Type 96 carrier-based fighters, and the evaluation value will be settled after the battle.
The remaining plane, seeing that his companion had been shot down, hurriedly raised his altitude and tried to escape, but unfortunately he flew too low before, and a rain of bullets suddenly broke out from the position below, and its density was simply outrageous.
The Type 96, which had not yet had time to climb, was hit by a dense rain of bullets, and it staggered and planted itself on a house not far away, and then there was an explosion.
In the distance, the Type 96, which had been engaged with Chinese fighters, saw that the three planes that had been trying to copy the back road were inexplicably shot down, and fled to the east like a swarm.
The planes of the Chinese army did not pursue, circled in the air a little, and then returned.
There was a cheer from Roy's communicator, and Robert's voice was heard: "Hey, good job! Knock down two, do you use a cannon? β
"What do you use compared to me? Can you hit such a big rain of bullets? Chen Ming is curious about this question.
"It's a secret!"
Before Robert's voice could completely die out, distant shelling came.
A roaring roar came from the sky in the distance, like the hum of a train drilling through a tunnel, and flew straight in the direction of Chen Ming with a long tail note.
Chen Ming knew that this was an extended shooting, and two or three rounds of shooting would plow the front and rear of the position into a scorched earth, suppressing the possible living forces on the position to the greatest extent.
But Chen Ming didn't quite know the power of the extended shot he was about to face, because he had never been bombarded by artillery above 200 mm, and it was not a piece of equipment that the army could drag around.
When the first shell landed more than 100 meters behind Chen Ming, Chen Ming knew that he had made an extremely serious mistake.
"Inertial thinking kills people!" Chen Ming scolded in his heart while holding his head.
As for what he scolded, it was not for outsiders, anyway, after Chen Ming saw that only one shell had collapsed the two houses next to the landing point, he made up his mind to leave quickly and left just now. This roof of the plane.
jumped off the roof directly and ran all the way down the street, Chen Ming was like a mouse who was anxious by a dog.
"You have to find a strong enough bunker, there will not be many guns above 200, three or four are up to the sky, as long as you can defend against 150mm guns!"
As he ran wildly, he looked left and right to find it, and the humming of the sky and the explosion behind him were already connected.
After only running out for more than ten meters, Chen Ming gave up, Luodian is a standard Jiangnan ancient town, all the houses are made of a mold, and the continuous river system does not allow too strong houses to exist.
When the fire behind him was about to lick Chen Ming's back, he gritted his teeth, and Chen Ming threw himself directly into the river.
"Don't be too unlucky! Don't! The moment he entered the water, Chen Ming kept praying in his heart.
Flames and the rubble of the bricks and rubble that had been engulfed by the explosion flew out of the river, rippling the surface of the river with the rubble that fell into the river, and more with amazing kinetic energy, whirling more houses into honeycombs.
The fire ignited immediately, and then was blown out by the blast wave of the explosion in an instant, turning into puffs of green smoke that spread farther with the shock wave.
Chen Ming, who was potentially underwater, turned around and swam back in the direction he came, and the place that had been blown up would theoretically not be bombed again. As the saying goes, two shells will not hit the same crater, although this sentence has been proven wrong, but Chen Ming sincerely hopes that it is true.
After diving for more than 50 meters in one breath, the stones and rubble that kept falling around him sank from Chen Ming's side to the bottom of the river, and by the time Chen Ming could no longer hold his breath and came out of the water, everything in front of him had changed.
Collapsed houses, burning trees, blaze and devastation.
Chen Ming didn't think much about it, quickly climbed ashore, and rushed towards a lucky house.
The shelling was still stretching forward, already sweeping through the trenches and spreading towards the trees in the distance, which was what Chen Ming saw on the roof of the house that was still intact.
Just as he was about to hit the edge of the woods, the shelling stopped, and Chen Ming was glad that the shelling only lasted for this round, because he could already see the shadowy crowd in the distance from the battlefield covered with gunsmoke.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ming understood that naval artillery is not an artillery unit after all, and the side effect of super power is that the number is small and the loading is slow, and it is impossible to complete several rounds of artillery bombardment repeatedly and at a very fast speed like an artillery unit.
Chen Ming was a little worried about Roy's group, took off the communicator and yelled, "Roy, do you hear that?" The shelling is over, it's time to watch your show! β
After a while, Roy's voice came out of the communicator: "Ahem, I heard it, this shelling is too fierce, but no one is hurt!" We're going to get into the firing position right away, and you pay attention to the support. β
"Understood! overοΌ β
After ending the call, he looked around, and the three previously selected sniper points had all been blown up, and now Chen Ming could only temporarily find a shooting position with a good field of vision based on experience.
"It's going to kill someone! Again, this is not an exam! β
Chen Ming looked around left and right, there were not too many places that could be used as sniper positions, and most of the places with good vision and easy to transfer were ruins with green smoke.
But Chen Ming's battlefield intuition for many years still made him quickly choose a location, which was a small building more than 50 meters in front of him on the left, half of which was blown up, and the remaining half had a wide field of vision, but it was not very conducive to transfer.
"!" wiped a handful of black mud on his face: "What so many good things for me to catch up, it's him!" "It didn't take long to rush through the distance of 50 meters, but it took some effort to climb up the half-fallen building, set up the rappelline, and just set up the sniper rifle, a smaller explosion appeared on the position.
There was a lot of scolding from a few people on the communicator.
"Damn, how can there be so many mortars?"
"Who, did we run into a mortar battalion?"
Chen Ming shouted at the communicator: "Roy! Grenadier! Kill them! β
Putting down the communicator, Chen Ming swept the Japanese positions in the distance through the sniper scope, and the trees and gunsmoke provided reliable visual obscuration for both sides, and it was not easy to search for the location of the grenadier in this situation.
Out of the corner of his eye, he swept a ballistic path emitting green smoke and cut a parabola through the distant woods and landed in front of the position, blasting out dust several meters high.
Chen Ming turned the muzzle of the gun and saw two Japanese soldiers reloading from the sniper scope.
At a distance of four or five hundred meters, Chen Ming was not sure that he had not calibrated the gun, and after a slight adjustment based on experience, Chen Ming shot out.
The bullet that exceeded the speed of sound hit the soldier holding the grenadier with an incomparably huge kinetic energy, and directly tore the soldier's upper body and pulled it more than two meters away before falling to the ground. The two legs were still in a half-squatting posture on the ground, and it took a few seconds before he fell to the ground.
Another soldier in charge of loading on the side was stunned by the scene in front of him, the shell in his hand unconsciously fell to the ground, the firing pin on the warhead was knocking on the ground, and with a roar, the soldier in charge of loading was also blown apart.
With the explosion point as the center, within a radius of four or five meters, a burst of shrapnel flew sideways, beating the surrounding people into a wolf howl.
In the other direction, Roy also knocked down another grenadier with one shot from the sniper position.
According to the Japanese troop formation, a squad with two grenadier canisters and two machine guns. The two grenadiers have been killed by Chen Ming and Roy, and the next thing should be...
The brutal positional battle began, the 500-meter position, usually requires a company to defend, but Roy They are full of more than 20 people, relying on strong firepower, a few people can be regarded as guarding a drop of water, the distance of 100 to 150 meters in front of the position is covered with corpses, blood filled large and small craters, like red mud puddles, exuding the smell of blood and burnt flesh.
Bobosha's slightly dull "sudden" sound and the crisp "ding" sound of Gardland's empty position came and went.
After defeating the two waves of Japanese charges, everyone had a relaxed smile on their faces, and they took advantage of the gap in the battle to smoke and chat, looking extremely leisurely.
Chen Ming crouched on the sniper position in the rear, his brows were furrowed, he picked up the communicator and asked loudly: "Roy, do you hear me?" β
"Yes, Lone Wanderer, it's clear, what's the problem?" Roy's voice came clearly.
"I need you to reduce the intensity of your fire and put the enemy within 50 meters before fighting."
"Why?" Daniel's voice came over the communicator: "Are you crazy? 50 meters, do you know how much risk we have to take? β
After speaking, there was an angry voice complaining to the people around him: "He is very idle, hiding in the distance, it is we who take risks!" β
"Shut up, Daniel! Lone wanderer, can you give me a reason? The accuracy of the shooting of the Japanese soldiers was quite high, and the distance of 50 meters was really dangerous. Roy's voice came over the communicator.
"Touch the barrels of your guns, guys. You've just had at least half of your bullets in the air, and if you continue like this, with two more waves, you'll have to hit people with the butts of your guns. Chen Ming said indifferently: "And if you keep pressing the enemy a hundred meters away, I don't dare to guarantee that the other party will come two more rounds of bombing." β
Roy groaned for a moment, and ordered in the communicator: "Shoot within 50 meters, ensure the accuracy of the shooting, guys, we only have two spare barrels, and we have to stay in this place for at least 36 hours." β
"Is Robert there?" Chen Ming asked again.
"Yes, Lone Wanderer, I'm here, what's the matter?"
"I have one more thing to remind you that in the next 30 hours we will face an increasingly urgent situation, and the attack will change from the front to all sides and even behind us, Robert, do you know what I said?"
There was silence in the communicator, and it wasn't until a long time before Robert's voice came to mind again: "Guys, there's a good chance we're going to face something more terrifying than the Lone Wanderer said. Luodian was lost under repeated battles, so if the other positions are broken through and we stay here..."
The faces of the people who were chatting with hippie smiles turned pale for a while.