On November 4, the Japanese army that invaded Shijiazhuang finally showed a decline.

It is said that the artillery shells brought from the mainland have just arrived at the port of Tianjin, and when they arrive in Zhengding County, it is expected that it will take three days at the earliest.

Fortunately, the devil's air force was still able to support well, otherwise the Japanese would not have been able to hold their existing positions, although they had only occupied half of the Shijiazhuang positions at present.

When Liu Yun returned to the army, the Huaxia Air Force gradually regained its strength.

Within a few days, the ground staff of Huangjiayu Airport had excellent maintenance skills, and within a few days, they rushed to repair more than a dozen damaged fighters, and at the same time, they also secretly brought in some new fighters from the rear, so that the number of fighters that can participate in the war has reached more than 50.

In addition, Deng Xihou, Li Jiayu and others were also ready to counterattack on all fronts, striving to annihilate at least one division of the Japanese army during this Jedi counterattack.

In the early morning of November 5, the air counterattack officially began.

More than 20 Leopard fighters, under the personal leadership of Major General Liu, rushed to attack the Japanese army's heavy artillery positions.

These evil heavy artillery equipment are the real culprits for the Japanese army to attack Shijiazhuang, and once the Chinese defenders want to launch a counterattack, these things are the biggest obstacles.

The weapons carried by the fighter group this time are not rockets, but 500-kilogram cluster bombs, which are the artifacts of ground attack.

When this kind of bomb is dropped by air, when it is still 50 meters above the ground, it will automatically explode three times, and more than 100 small bombs can be split into more than 100 small bombs, which will be scattered relatively evenly in the vicinity of the target, and as soon as the scheduled time arrives, it will explode immediately, covering an area of more than 20,000 square meters.

The lethality of a cluster bomb is no less than that of more than 100 75-mm mountain guns, and the effect of firing at the same time is really a major "murder weapon in the world" for killing people and setting fires.

Originally, cluster bombs are not difficult to do, as long as three or four grenades are bundled together, it is the simplest and most primitive cluster bomb, but the real difficulty is still in the control, such as the landing time of the air-dropped bomb, the best detonation time, and how to distribute it evenly.

But when Commander Liu has the assistance of his brain, everything is not a problem, there is really no way, and he can also make a simple parachute for cluster bombs, so that the cluster bombs can split while floating in the air, and scatter them like raindrops, but the accuracy of the bombing is slightly smaller.

Because the materials are limited, the time is too rushed, and there are only six ant robots on the Phantom mecha, so they have not been able to create too many cluster bombs, the total number is only about a hundred, but it is enough for all the fighters to be airdropped twice, just to solve all the exposed heavy artillery units of the Japanese army.

Because the Chinese heavy artillery has long been lost, and the air force has long been disabled, the Japanese heavy artillery units have gradually become rampant, and there is no intention of hiding or concealing at all, so the fighters are not too troublesome when looking for them.

Major General Liu's temporary bomber group began to roll call one by one.

The effective radius of cluster bombs is about 100 meters, and they are especially "favored" for military personnel who have no shelter and no defense, even in the face of semi-open fortifications, they are still very powerful, and there is no negotiation for collapse and collapse, so there is no need to be too precise when dropping bombs.

An unsuspecting artillery position, just in time to concentrate the bombs to maximize their power.

In a short period of more than 10 minutes of air raids, more than 20 Flying Leopard fighters dropped nearly 30 cluster bombs on the enemy's heavy artillery positions near Zhengding, blowing up the Japanese army's large and small heavy artillery and its surrounding facilities into ruins, as if plunging the entire Zhengding county into a sea of fire.

All of a sudden, the losses of all kinds of materials, large and small weapons, and all kinds of personnel of the Japanese army were countless, not only tens of thousands of Japanese troops turned pale like dirt, but even Kenji Tohihara was also a little shaken, and suddenly realized a problem, he came to attack Shijiazhuang, I am afraid it was a big mistake.

A standard 75-mm shell weighs only six or seven kilograms, and if you exclude part of the loss when fired, when the shell enters the enemy's position, the actual weight of the shell and the power of the explosion are not too far from a small bomblet in a cluster bomb.

Therefore, dropping nearly 30 cluster bombs is equivalent to firing 3,000 75-mm artillery shells at Zhengding and its surroundings at the same time.

All of a sudden, the flames, gunsmoke, shrapnel and air waves raged together, and the black flames that burst into the sky made matters worse, and even the ghost soldiers who were slow to react couldn't help but gasp.

They all realized a problem - "the Chinese army has begun a full-scale counteroffensive, and the general trend of the Japanese army has gone."

When Major General Yumono, Major General Tokutaro Sakai, and other generals, large and small, explicitly suggested to the commander Kenji Dohihara that the Japanese troops should retreat to Xinle, Dingxian, and even Baoding as soon as possible, but the chief of staff, Tadayoshi Sano, slowly took out a telegram.

It was the news that tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Texas were heading for Gaocheng.

This news made the Japanese army excited again, this time to conquer Shijiazhuang is no longer a dream, no matter how big the casualties in front of you are, as long as you can capture Shijiazhuang, all the sacrifices are worth it.

The situation on the battlefield is often changing rapidly.

The real situation of the Japanese army in Dezhou was far superior to the imagination of the Japanese army, and the tens of thousands of attacking Japanese troops were mainly based on the 20th Division, with the independent first and second armored vehicle brigades of the North China Dispatch Army, as well as the sixth and fourteenth tank brigades.

In the eyes of the Japanese generals, they concentrated a permanent division, five tank and armored brigades, nearly 200 tanks and armored vehicles, and also took advantage of the North China Dispatch Army of nearly 200,000 troops to attack Shijiazhuang.

What's more, the route of the Japanese army on this road was in the plain area of North China, and there were no regular Chinese troops along the way, so the entire rush operation should be unstoppable.

When the Japanese army received the news, Deng Xihou, Li Jiayu and others also received this hostile situation, as for Liu Yun, who had set up the special squad in advance, of course he knew a little earlier, and even knew the number and number of the Japanese army who came to attack, but he did not dare to disclose these data at all.

Nearly 200 tanks and nearly 30,000 Japanese troops were not at all the exhausted 22nd Army, which could resist behemoths that would even scare away some ordinary officers and soldiers.

So Major General Liu made an understatement and boiled it down to the following, "This is a small group of Japanese troops, about five or six thousand people, originally intended to sneak attack the rear of Shijiazhuang, but now that the counterattack is imminent, these Japanese troops are trying to escape in response to Tufeiyuan."

Deng Xihou and Li Jiayu both breathed a sigh of relief.

Their main force is still trying to annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division as soon as possible, as for this small group of Japanese troops, it will be handed over to the young master soldiers of western Sichuan, with their equipment, there should be no problem in defending for a day or two, right?

Now it is indeed difficult to ride a tiger, the western Sichuan bomber group that took off from Zhengzhou is already on the way, and in more than ten minutes, it will go north along the Pinghan railway line, bombing the Japanese army assembly points in Liulinbao, Zhengding, Xinle, and even Dingxian and other places along the way, as well as related roads and bridges.

Therefore, even if there was a pot of raw rice in front of them, Deng Xihou and the others had no choice but to eat it.

They had no choice but to pray to God and worship Buddha, and only hoped that the young master of western Sichuan would not be too defeated, as long as they could hold it for half a day.

"Half a day?" Brigadier Guo Qixun, who is ready to go, how could he agree.

The Chinese army in Shijiazhuang has been fighting for more than half a month, and the Chinese army and civilians have suffered countless casualties, except for a sneak attack on Xinle County and four heavy artillery battalions that have been participating in the war, the rest of the people have been nesting in Yuanshi County as "young master soldiers", which is really a bit of a nest.

Now that the Japanese army encounters the Great Plains, how can it take half a day, as the so-called "narrow road meets the brave wins".

Brigade Commander Guo thought that in just one hour, he could defeat the attacking Japanese army.

At 8:45 a.m., more than 110 Flying Bear medium bombers flew over Shijiazhuang one by one, almost each carrying two 750-kilogram bombs.

The group of planes followed the predetermined target and route, and attacked various important places of the Japanese army on the Pinghan Railway, and a part of the Japanese army was preparing to launch another offensive, and the queue happened to be in a semi-assembled state, and a bomb fell, just after all the accounts were settled, and they went to Kudanzaka (Yasukuni Shrine) to reincarnate.

When the first bombshell falls, it's the best signal flare for counterattack.

Li Jiayu and all the officers and men of the 47th Army, relying on the Shijiazhuang fortress group, sounded the horn of counterattack in an all-round way, and the long-cherished Type 72 infantry guns, M2 heavy machine guns, and G34 general-purpose machine guns were all taken out.

Sun Zhen and the main force of the 41st Army immediately set out from the area of Dahe Town in Shijiazhuang, crossed the Hutuo River several hundred meters wide with pontoon bridges and sheepskin rafts as vehicles, and immediately captured the Quyang Bridge position west of Zhengding.

Deng Xihou's ambition was even greater, he didn't even want to defend the Niangzi Pass, and directly led his 45th Army, as well as the troops directly under the 22nd Group Army, tirelessly crossed the Taihang Mountain, went around a big circle, and touched down from the upper reaches of the Dasha River, preparing to seize the Dasha River railway bridge and completely lock the retreat of the Japanese army.

With the appearance of the bomber group, Kenji Dohihara's face turned pale.

You don't need to look to know that Shijiazhuang, Zhengding County, Xinle County, etc., large and small Japanese positions, were bombed into a sea of fire by bomber groups, and he immediately understood everything, and thought of everything, and the grand blueprint that he had been thinking about for many years was blown away by this group of bombers.

It was difficult to accept this reality for a while, and Kenji Dohihara spurted out a mouthful of blood, his eyes were dark, and he immediately fainted at the headquarters.

With the fall of Tu Feiyuan, the generals and generals all panicked, and the entire headquarters was in chaos.

Taking advantage of the might of the bomber group, tens of thousands of elite fighters launched a counteroffensive almost simultaneously, carrying out a fierce assault on the Japanese defense line in Shijiazhuang, Zhengding, Xinle and other places.

On the contrary, the Japanese soldiers were as white as ashes.

In the face of such a crazy attack, even the most elite Japanese army was a little overwhelmed, so they had to retreat under the banner of "turning in".

The Japanese army that was originally wedged into the Shijiazhuang position was also driven out one by one, and some of the Japanese troops who were unwilling to defeat still wanted to keep the bridgehead of Liulinbao, but there was bad news that the Quyang Bridge was broken through by the enemy in the north of the upper reaches of the Hutuo River, so they had to wade back to Zhengding County in despair.

"Want to run?"

How can there be such a cheap thing.

Li Jiayu's 47th Army, before and after tens of thousands of soldiers participated in the war, in the cruel Shijiazhuang defensive battle, more than half of the dead and wounded, and the Japanese army had already formed a blood feud, now these two-legged brutes want to run, not to mention the door, not even a seam, from the general to the soldiers are all crazy.

Deputy Army Commander Luo Zezhou made a decisive decision on the spot, once again showing his ferocious and ruthless nature, ordering the mortars and Type 72 infantry guns under his command to sweep the Japanese firepower points on the north bank of the Hutuo River, and he himself personally led more than 3,000 death squads, like clouded leopards, closely following the fleeing Japanese troops.

The Japanese army in Zhengding County has long been in chaos, even the command headquarters of Tufeiyuan has secretly retreated, and the remaining more than 10,000 Japanese troops don't know what to do at all.

The most terrible thing is that some small units of the Japanese army that are more active have quietly "transferred" to Xinle County, and the overall Japanese army is obviously completely chaotic.

It has always been "blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular".

Compared with the 20th Division, the Japanese army in Zhengding was lucky, after all, the Japanese army in Zhengding still had city walls and fortifications available, and the Japanese troops rushing from Dezhou were much more miserable, and before their vanguard could defeat the militia in Gaocheng, they suddenly flew out a large number of tank troops from the flank of Gaocheng.

It's good to appear, Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo is not afraid of this, he has nearly 200 tanks, he really wants to have a hard time, and in the end, who is afraid of who is not certain.

Lieutenant General Kawagishi was the commander of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, which was formed in Yongsan, North Korea, so it was also called the "Yongsan Division", but these places have always been known for being closed and backward, and the officers and soldiers were relatively arrogant and stupid, which led to the gradual degeneration of him, the division commander.

Therefore, this guy has not thought about how the tank unit should be used, and as for the problems of tanbu coordination, air supremacy, etc., they are too advanced and profound, and he himself does not understand.

When more than 20 flying leopards appeared, Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who was holding his glasses in the distance and quietly watching, was directly stunned, even if he wanted to immediately summon the air force to come over to help, it was too late, because the fighters taking off from Pingjin were searching for the Huaxia bomber group everywhere, and they had no time to take care of these ground troops.

What's more, whether they can win the Flying Bear bomber, even the Japanese fighters are secretly worried.

The pilots on the Flying Leopard fighter planes, as soon as they saw the large group of Japanese troops, who were still in a half-marching state, were immediately happy, and they really liked them so much.

This group of Japanese troops is different from the Zhengding Japanese army, there are no fortifications and defenses at all, and they are still lined up neatly, and if a cluster bomb goes down, it can directly empty a large area, and drop more than 20 pieces, which can definitely harvest thousands of people.