Chapter 481: Reinforcements Arrive
There was a distant shrill machine gun sound and the roar of a dull engine in the sky, and as soon as Okuyama Kazeta heard it, he knew that a plane was firing, and his spirit was immediately shaken, and his originally exhausted body suddenly had strength, and he didn't have time to say anything, so he immediately ran up to it......
In fact, what Okuyama didn't know was that less than 100 kilometers away from him, a rather large fleet including two aircraft carriers, Chicheng and Kaga, as well as seven destroyers including Fukiyuki, Hatsuyuki, Shirayuki, Isina, Uraba, Shikinami, and Ayana, and three troop carriers, was heading towards Taizhou with great momentum.
Rear Admiral Ugaki stood on the bridge deck of the aircraft carrier Chicheng, looking at the hazy sky in front of him, his expression looked very excited, but behind him, the captain of the Chicheng, Kusaka Ryunosuke Osa, asked with some concern: "Your Excellency Ugaki, according to the intelligence, the people of China have a flying unit with considerable combat effectiveness, and last time Teraoka Jinhei Daisa suffered a big loss for this, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past." ”
Just two months ago, he commanded the Chisei to dispatch 56 carrier-based aircraft to fight a tough battle with the flight group of the 202nd Army in Kangping, in which the Akasei lost a total of 32 carrier-based aircraft, and the remaining fighters lost three more in the process of returning to the ship. Now, when Kusaka Ryunosuke mentioned the flight brigade of the 202nd Army, he was a little frightened.
Ugaki glared at Kusaka Ryunosuke and scolded, "Yaga...... Now that the Chicheng has been replenished and has completely recovered its combat effectiveness, besides, we still have the Kaga fighting with us, and the most important thing is that we have the latest fighters to help in the war, so it can be said that it is foolproof, what are you afraid of? ”
"Hay, Your Excellency is right, I am too worried." Kusaka Ryunosuke bowed to Taro Iwasaki and quickly apologized, secretly praying in his heart that his carrier-based aircraft group could rescue the army trapped on the beach as soon as possible so that they could return to their homeland as soon as possible......
At the same time, in the neighborhoods of Taizhou Linhai, the battle is still continuing, groups of Chinese soldiers and Japanese soldiers are fighting each other on the street, looking down from the air, groups of soldiers in gray uniforms launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army under the cover of the same painted gray tanks, one after another shells continue to explode around the Japanese bunkers, dense bullets are also swept towards them, and the bunkers of the Japanese are constantly injured in the air, although there are constantly Japanese soldiers launching suicide attacks on those tanks, But the effect was very small, and most of the soldiers were beaten into a sieve by the dense rain of bullets when they rushed to the ordinary distance.
Just when the Chinese army was on the rise, with a roar in the sky, one Japanese plane after another suddenly appeared in the sky of the two warring sides, only to see the nose of the Type 97 carrier-based attack plane lowered downward, roaring down, and a 250-kilogram aerial bomb broke away from the belly of the plane and fell rapidly to the ground.
Suddenly, a bright and huge fireball rose from the ground, just like seeing lightning and then hearing thunder, and after several seconds, there was a "boom" explosion. Seeing that the fireball was getting bigger and bigger, it finally swept over the heads of the soldiers on both sides of the war at a very fast speed, and hit a building next to the street, and the huge shock wave suddenly swept across the ground, knocking a large number of soldiers who were fighting to the ground, and the building immediately collapsed, and the broken wall bricks, soil fragments and broken glass flew in all directions, and for a while the smoke and dust were filled, and I only felt that the earth shook like a big drum being beaten, and a No. 4 tank that was firing was also affected. The 25-ton tank was swept away by a powerful shock wave for more than 10 meters like a toy, and finally smashed a house to smithereens. ”
Dong Hongyun, who was standing on the turret and commanding a No. 4 tank to attack the Japanese army, was stunned when he saw this scene, and he was so frightened that he didn't have time to think about it, he swooped into the inside of the tank, grabbed the microphone with his left hand, and quickly switched to the public channel with his right hand and shouted: "Eagle's Nest...... Eagle's nest, here are geckos, we are being massively bombed by the Japanese, we are being massively bombed by the Japanese, ask for reinforcements, repeat, ask for air support...... 100,000 urgent! ”
While he was talking, several more Type 97 carrier-based attack planes dropped bombs, and several bombs accurately fell into an attack team, accompanied by a huge blazing fireball, dense metal shrapnel flew in all directions, and for a time blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the streets were buildings collapsing, rubble flying, and smoke and dust......
In the face of the sudden bombardment, the attacking troops were a little caught off guard for a while and suffered a lot of losses, and Adele, the commander of the first battalion of the armored regiment who was responsible for directing the attack, immediately ordered the troops to evacuate urgently and reported the situation to Fred.
Fred was also a decisive person, and while reporting the situation to the division commander Huang Weiguo, he urgently transferred the air defense battalion to the scene of the incident to contain the Japanese air force.
The anti-aircraft battalion of the armored regiment was equipped with a total of 48 Whirlwind 20-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and Dongfeng 37-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
In this anti-aircraft firing, the whirlwind self-propelled guns equipped with four 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns took the Japanese bombers that were constantly raging on the ground by surprise at the beginning, and when the 24 quadruple 20-millimeter machine guns fired at the air in unison, it was like a metal storm that suddenly smashed the two Type 97 carrier-based attack planes that were diving and bombing with their heads down, and turned into two hot fireballs and fell heavily to the ground.
The more than 10 Type 97 carrier-based attack planes behind them were startled when they saw this, and hurriedly pulled up their noses and fled towards the air.
Almost at the same time, more than a dozen Type 96 planes that were hovering in the air were not to be outdone, roaring towards the ground and pounced, and then relied on their own maneuverability to attract the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and for a time the sky and the ground fought extremely fiercely.
This time, there were more than 60 planes attacked by the Japanese army, and they launched attacks on the ground again and again under the command of the formation commander Yasui Kuneshi Shaosa, although the air defense battalion tried its best to counterattack, but because the number of Japanese planes was too large and the firepower was too fierce, the air defense battalion began to suffer casualties in a short time, and the number was increasing rapidly! (To be continued.) )