Chapter 668: Arrival
Mitsutake Hosono, who noticed an anomaly below, shook the wings of the plane, and the wingman saw that he stretched out his left hand and gave a thumbs up to indicate that he had received it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Then Hosono Mitsutake pushed the control stick, and the whole plane rushed towards the ground, followed by the wingman who followed closely, and the two fighters quickly dived to a place seven or eight hundred meters above the ground.
It was only at this time that Hosono Mitsutake found that there was a long line on the ground heading towards the north, but because of the distance from Taiyuan, he couldn't see the number of this team clearly, in order to be able to see more clearly, Hosono Mitsutake pushed the joystick again to reduce the height to five hundred meters, at this time the team on the ground began to be a little chaotic, he even saw some people began to run towards the side of the road in a panic, and others raised their rifles to shoot at him.
"Baga, it's the Chinese army!"
At this time, Hosono Mitsutake immediately identified the identity of this team, he didn't hesitate to swing the fuselage, and when the plane flew to the center of the team, he pressed the button on the control stick, and two 60-kilogram bombs broke away from the belly and fell to the ground.
"Boom ......"
Two huge explosions sounded behind him, and Hosono Mitsutake looked back while pulling the nose of the plane high, and found two puffs of black smoke rising up from behind, even if it was already a little far away, it could be seen that the ground was already a mess. Just as he was complacent, two more explosions sounded, and it turned out that his wingman also dropped the two bombs under the belly of the plane, and looked at the chaotic team below Hosono Mitsutake and laughed.
"Yo Xi, these damn Chinese finally know how powerful our big RB Empire aircraft are!" Mitsutake Hosono, who was piloting the plane to a height of three thousand meters, smiled so wildly, looking at the chaotic team on the ground, he thought about it and decided to attack the ground again to try to get more results, he made a gesture to the wingman who flew back behind him, the wingman nodded to indicate that he had received it, and then the two fighters swooped down towards the ground one after the other.
At this time, the team on the ground was already in chaos, and Guo Jingtang, who was the acting commander of the 98th Army and the commander of the 169th Division at the time, was surrounded by several guards in a ravine, looking at the sky and swaggering towards the Japanese planes attacking the team.
"These bastards who have no ** sons, lay eggs on Lao Tzu's head all day long, and if they have the ability, they will come down and fight with Lao Tzu with bayonets!"
In the last Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the commander of the army, Wu Shimin, was martyred, and the 98th Army also suffered heavy losses, and retreated to the rear before he finished resting and was transferred by an order from Wei Lihuang, who ordered the 98th Army to rush to Maojindu within a week to prepare for the battle to recover Zhongtiao Mountain. After seeing Wei Lihuang's order, the new army commander Liu Xicheng almost didn't tilt his nose, Zhongtiao Mountain is what they can recover now? Not to mention the Japanese army, which still has several divisions and regiments entrenched on the current Zhongtiao Mountain, it is said that the current 98th Army has not even replenished the lost weapons and soldiers, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to regain Zhongtiao Mountain with the current strength of the 98th Army. However, as a soldier, obeying orders is the first day of duty, although he was very reluctant in his heart, Liu Xicheng still had to reluctantly order Guo Jingtang's 169th Division to set off first, but before he arrived at Maojindu, he was dismounted by the RB plane, with many years of experience, Guo Jingtang knew that the casualties that were caused by the Japanese fighters just now must not be small.
However, Guo Jingtang is also a veteran soldier who has been in the army for many years, and after scolding his mother, he quickly pulled the adjutant on the side and said: "Quick, order the troops to hide quickly, and tell Battalion Commander Zhao to protect those mountain artillery, if there is any mistake, Lao Tzu will shoot him!" ”
The 98th Army was a unit that had just been established in March 1939, and its equipment and combat effectiveness were relatively weak, and the heavy weapons of the 169th Division were only six mountain artillery battalions composed of six 75 mm caliber mountain guns.
It's just that things in this world are so weird, and the more you are afraid of something, the more something will come. As soon as Guo Jingtang's words fell, he saw the two Japanese planes swooping towards the back, and the adjutant's face immediately changed when he saw it, and he said: "It's not good, the two planes of the RB people are heading in the direction of our artillery battalion!" ”
Everyone's faces turned pale in unison, the 169th Division had not recovered its strength in the first place, and if even the artillery battalion was blown up, then this battle would not be fought.
At this moment, a staff officer suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted: "Look, there is another plane coming over there!" ”
Everyone looked in the direction the staff officer was pointing, and higher in the sky, several black shadows were swooping down towards the ground. Seeing that everyone's already pale faces here became even more pale, Guo Jingtang didn't even have the intention of scolding, and muttered: "The 169th Division is going to be miserable this time!" ”
For the 169th Division, which had no anti-aircraft weapons, it was an unsolvable problem when it encountered Japanese planes, and there was no other way but to carry it to the death.
When the entire 169th Division was messed up by two Japanese planes, two more fighters appeared in the sky, which further intensified the panic of the 169th Division, and when the whole division was in chaos, I saw that the two fighters that were supposed to attack the ground actually poured flames into the two planes, and one after another tracer bullets with orange fire hit the two Japanese planes that were strafing at a low altitude, and with the sound of explosions at two distances, the two Japanese planes suddenly turned into two fireballs in the air.
Seeing that the two Japanese planes that were still raging just now were scattered to the ground like this, the officers and men of the 169th Division, who originally thought that they would not be spared this time, were all stunned. What's going on, are the RB people starting to fight in the nest?
Guo Jingtang was as confused as the officers and soldiers of other countries at first, until a sharp-eyed staff officer suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted loudly.
"Sir...... It's us...... It's our plane...... Our plane is here to help us! ”
The staff officer's voice became hoarse because he was so excited, and his face turned from pale to red in an instant.
After these two fighters shot down the Japanese planes, they did not immediately rise and leave, but began to circle at a low altitude, and more and more officers and men on the ground saw the two planes clearly, and the huge blue sky and white sun badge on the wings was clearly visible, and countless officers and men began to cheer loudly, and many soldiers were even so excited that they burst into tears.
The scene of seven or eight thousand people cheering in unison was so spectacular that for a time the whole valley resounded with the sound of cheers.
After the cheers, the officers and men of the 169th Division, whose morale was greatly shaken, buried the bodies of their fallen comrades, carried their guns and continued to walk towards Maojindu, where they wanted to rush there to avenge their brothers who had died in battle not long ago......
Although the 169th Division continued to march towards its destination, before leaving, Guo Jingtang did not forget to report what had just happened to the First Theater Command in Xi'an......
In fact, at the same time as Guo Jingtang sent the telegram, Wei Lihuang was taking a group of generals from the First War Zone to the newly expanded Western Suburbs Airport, like many people, he was very interested in the army that he had never seen but was famous, although he knew that this time they were only a local security force, but this could not reduce his curiosity about this army.
In addition to Wei Lihuang, the commander of the theater, there were more than a dozen high-ranking generals, including Tian Zongmou, chief of staff of the theater, Li Tiejun, commander of the 76th Army, Sun Lianzong, commander of the Second Group Army, and Pang Bingxun, commander of the 40th Army.
Looking at the bright weather in the sky, Li Tiejun asked Pang Bingxun on the side with some curiosity: "Old Pang, how many people do you think that guy Su Jin will send?" ”
Pang Bingxun touched his head, which had no hair left, and grinned with a wrinkled old face: "My old man is here to see the excitement, how do you know how many people that Chief Su will send." But did people also say it, what kind of national police division is coming, the old man estimates that there are seven or eight thousand people, if it is too little, Chief Su's face will not look good. ”
Li Tiehan pouted, "You can pull it, the Third Army is thousands of miles away from us, if you walk on two legs, you won't even think about it for a few months, so their people can only rely on airplanes, how many people can you transport in one plane, and how many planes will it take to transport a whole division of seven or eight thousand people here?" ”
"Hiss......" Pang Bingxun also took a breath, touched his brain and said: "That's what you said, but in fact, my old man doesn't ask Chief Su to send many troops over, as long as he can send a few more planes over, don't wait for the war to start when the RB planes are always on our heads, my old man will be satisfied." ”
The surrounding generals listened to Pang Bingxun's words, although they did not echo it, but they all nodded secretly in their hearts, in their opinion, using planes to transport soldiers is simply a joke, a plane can transport twenty or thirty people if it dies, if you want to transport all the troops of a division, you have to transport it to the Year of the Monkey, or Pang Bingxun is right, it is the greatest help to them to send a few more planes to help, as for those infantry, at best, they only symbolically send hundreds of soldiers.
As they spoke, a dull roar came from the sky, and then a group of black shadows began to appear in the sky.
"Here we are...... Here it comes! ”
The crowd, who had been waiting impatiently, looked up one after another, and a few minutes later, a large group of black clouds began to appear over the airport. Yes, everyone thinks that it is more accurate to use dark clouds to describe these "giant birds" that are slowly falling from the sky, and when the first plane appeared above the airport, everyone was stunned, and almost all of them set off a storm in their hearts.
This is a large transport plane that is more than 30 meters wide and more than 20 meters long, and is full of three or four stories high, when the six pairs of huge load-bearing wheels under the belly of the first transport plane touched the ground and emitted rolling green smoke and dust smoke, everyone felt a slight shock under their feet, and many people's faces changed a little, and this alone is enough to prove how heavy this transport plane is.
"My good man, my old man has lived for so long, and it's the first time I've seen such a big plane!" Pang Bingxun on the side couldn't help but crack his mouth, revealing two rows of teeth yellowed by tobacco leaves.
As the first transport plane landed, dozens of transport planes lined up behind it also began to land on the nearby runway at one time, and at this time, the generals, including Wei Lihuang, also noticed that there were dozens of "small and slender" fighters hovering in the sky when these transport planes landed, and it was not until all the transport planes had landed that they began to slowly land on the rest of the runway.
By the time all the planes in the sky had landed on the ground, half an hour had passed.
“55、56、57…… 60……”
When the last plane landed on the ground, one of the staff officers also read the last number in a trembling voice.
After the staff officer finished counting, he turned his head to Wei Lihuang and said, "Chief Wei, they ...... They sent sixty planes, including twenty of those large planes and forty warplanes. ”
"I saw it, I don't need you to tell me." Wei Lihuang is worthy of being the commander of the theater of operations, and his knowledge is naturally not comparable to this staff officer, so he turned his head and said to the generals behind him: "Everyone came with me to greet the brothers of the Third Army who came thousands of miles to support us. ”
"Yes!"
Soon, a group of generals jumped into their cars and galloped towards the end of the runway in the distance.
When everyone got off the bus next to the large transport planes parked on the runway, they saw the hatch on the left side of the tail of the plane slowly open, and a soldier wearing a gray-green military uniform and an M35 steel helmet walked out of the cabin in a neat queue.
"All in line!"
"Turn left...... Look forward! ”
Seeing that these heavily armed soldiers quickly lined up in a neat queue under the leadership of the officer, the generals who had just gotten off the car glanced at each other one after another, and their eyes showed meaningful looks. None of the generals present were soldiers who had fought old nose battles, and they knew at a glance whether a team was well-trained. Judging from the performance of this team just now, this is a team that has undergone at least more than a year of rigorous training and has seen bloody battles. Moreover, they also found that these soldiers were all ruddy and full of spirit, without the slightest anxiety about just getting off the plane and arriving for the first time, such a team can definitely be regarded as the elite of the elite in the First War Zone, not to mention that they even noticed the unified standard rifles and a large number of submachine guns, machine guns, mortars and other weapons in the hands of those soldiers, such a well-trained and well-equipped unit will be coveted no matter where it is placed!
Chief of Staff Tian Zongmou took a deep breath and asked Wei Lihuang with some hesitation: "Chief Wei, they ...... Are they really just a garrison? ”
Wei Lihuang smiled bitterly: "You ask me, who do I ask?" ”
As the two spoke, the team had been assembled, and more than 2,000 heavily armed soldiers lined up near the runway, and a colonel in a steel helmet ran towards them...... (To be continued.) )