Chapter 533: Aircraft VS Anti-aircraft Artillery (I)
After Yang Xiaoshi came out of Lehua, he drilled into the forest and did not go to the railway and the avenue; Otherwise, he will find that the railway that was good when he came is now less than four kilometers out of Lehua; Under He Jianye's order, nearly 10,000 people spent nearly six kilometers in the middle of the night to go back, and now the brothers are still holding the remaining three kilometers of railway near Niuxing; As for the railway from the south of Kongmu Lake to Niuhang Station, of course, it is still there, this is their own territory, and of course it is the last place to open up!
"Put it here, hurry! Come on! Before the devil came, he picked up the rails and sleepers, and the heavy artillery of the bunker built by this thing was fine as long as it didn't hit directly! "Several battalion commanders were already sweating profusely, and they all started in person, shouting vigorously;
As for breakfast, they didn't look at the frames and barrels; If you don't build a bunker, they will take their lives when the devils come; If you work for a while now, you can have a little more hope of surviving!
"What's the situation?" Yang Xiaoshi was full of suspicion and entered the headquarters of Niu Xing;
"Commander, we entered Lehua at four o'clock in the morning; After searching, it was found that the 32nd Army had retreated in a planned manner, and the front of the wounded soldiers, food, and ammunition had been withdrawn; They shouldn't have been discovered by the devils when they left, but when the devils attack at dawn, they will know that they have been fooled! Yang Xiaoshi reported,
"As I expected, let's go eat and rest! It's been a busy night! He Jianye said,
"Commander, what are the brethren busy outside? Where did you get so many rails and sleepers! Yang Xiaoshi asked,
"I asked them to pick it up last night on the Nanxun line, and reinforce the fortifications! Don't ask, hurry up and rest, and wait for the fight to start; Your spy battalion has an important mission! He Jianye said,
"Yes" Yang Xiaoshi hurriedly left, he was tired and nervous last night, and now that he is in a safe place, his body has already reacted!
The sky was already completely bright, and there was a muffled thunderous sound on the horizon;
"It seems that the devil is starting to fire at Lehua, according to the speed of the devil; They will arrive at the cattle store in the afternoon at the earliest, and order them to hurry! The construction of the fortifications must be completed by noon! Don't pick up the rails and sleepers behind the line of defense, and use what we have on hand in the line of defense; He Jianye looked at the direction of Lehua and said,
Now the brothers working on the front line are even more persistent, each with a loaf of bread in their mouths; When he was thirsty, he picked up the water hyacinth hanging on his waist and poured a sip of cold water; As for the guns and ammunition, they were concentrated in the trenches......
At this time, the front line of Wanshou Palace has entered a tense time, and the anti-aircraft artillery battalions have been adjusted in place overnight, and the two 88 anti-aircraft artillery battalions have 24 anti-aircraft guns; The anti-aircraft range of the 88 gun is as high as more than 10,000 meters, and the main fighter equipped by the flying regiment of the devils in this era is the 96 type land attack, which is a monoplane integrating fighters and bombers, with a maximum speed of 350km/h and a ceiling of 7,500 meters; This aircraft is now the main station aircraft of the 3rd Flying Regiment under the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, because the 11th Army of the Japanese Army is the key mobile corps, the 3rd Flying Regiment has been strengthened, and there are four aviation teams under it; more than 150 combat aircraft; Moreover, they can also be supported by naval aviation, and the skies of Wuhan and Nanchang are basically not visible to the fighters of the Nationalist Government;
"Buzz, buzz......"
As soon as the sun rose, there was a brigade of devils' planes in the sky, and the black pressure came in the direction of Wanshou Palace; Today, the 3rd Flying Regiment received an order to bomb Wanshou Palace with all its might, plus yesterday they lost a few planes here, and as soon as it came up, it was a wave bombardment of 40 planes from a squadron, and planes continued to take off in several fields in Jiujiang and Wuhan, and they were ready to wipe out this place with dense bombs and open a passage for the Panzer Group......
"Instructor Wu, look! Devil's plane! An artillery observer's voice trembled visibly, and he shuddered;
"You really look up to me, it's such a large fleet of planes; However, labor and management like to play bombers in dense formations! Wu Bing muttered,
Since yesterday evening, Wu Bing has accepted the position of artillery commander here, and he now has two anti-aircraft artillery battalions, two air defense battalions, and two 75mm field artillery battalions; He's rich now; Chinese officers have a habit of living a poor life, and they don't know how to show off when they encounter such a good day, no, under the order of Wu Bing, his anti-aircraft artillery battalion is not concentrated at all, one artillery and one position, all over the Wanshou Palace to the front line of the city council; The positions of the air defense battalion are still arranged according to the company, after all, the range of anti-aircraft machine guns and 20mm anti-aircraft guns is insufficient, and once the devil planes drop in altitude, they still have to rely on the barrage to get the devil's planes......
|“ anti-aircraft battalions, anti-aircraft artillery battalions; Get ready to fire! Wu Bing shouted loudly,
"Whoa!" The artillerymen lifted the jackets of the anti-aircraft guns, and the ammunition men were urgently reloading; The anti-aircraft machine guns and 20mm anti-aircraft guns in the bunker are also rapidly moving towards their positions, and as for the 88 gun, such a big man, there is no way to dig a bunker for it!
"Set the height at 5,000 meters, load! The angle of shelling is 55 degrees! "The 88-gun anti-aircraft guns were equipped with observers, and the command to reload was given loudly;
The ammunition loader next to him will naturally set the explosion time of the fuse according to the different commands, which is really a technical job!
"Don't wait for the devil to approach! The planes of the devils are completely within the range of our anti-aircraft guns, 88 guns! Give me all the fire! Wu Bing roared,
In his telescope, the devil's plane is getting closer and closer......
"Boom, boom" shells roared out of the muzzle and headed towards the group of devil planes flying far away, and the Japanese pilots still looked leisurely, they had seen 88mm anti-aircraft guns produced in Germany on the battlefield in China! The dozens of 88 guns purchased by the Nationalist Government from Germany were all naval types, which could only be used as fortress guns, which were bulky and inconvenient to move; In actual combat, it was basically damaged under the shelling of the devil's heavy artillery; The mobile anti-aircraft 88 gun is the first time it has appeared on the Chinese battlefield......
"Yaga! Stupid only that man! Is their artillery trying to hit our planes? "The Japanese pilots were not worried at all, because they were flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and the army's mountain and field artillery could not hit such a high altitude at all......
"Boom, boom, boom" The Japanese planes did not dodge the whistling shells at all, but continued to carry out bombing missions according to their own flight routes, and the 88 guns that were performed for the first time on the Chinese battlefield also got off to a good start, with a salvo of 24 guns, the shells exploded at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and the scattered strings of shrapnel killed the devil plane! The two planes that broke into the area of dense explosion of artillery shells had no room for resistance, and were directly smashed into a sieve in the air and exploded; The rest of the planes in this airspace didn't go well either, with five planes blazing and six struggling with black smoke......
At this time, without the orders of the devil commander, all the planes are desperately doing tactical moves to increase their altitude; Of course, the planes that caught fire soon exploded, and the planes with black smoke hurriedly threw bombs downward, desperately trying to reduce their weight, hoping to fly back; However, they should not carry too much ammunition, the three 7.7mm gyratory machine guns on the plane have at least 500 rounds of ammunition, and they also carry 800kg of aerial bombs, which has reached their maximum weight......