At 6 o'clock in the morning of June 25, 1938, shortly after the end of the combat meeting of the New Second Brigade, 18 Japanese light bombers began to fly over Pingding County under the escort of six fighters.

After Umezu Mijiro reported to the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Toshiichi, the flight team attached to the North China Front began to receive combat orders.

At this time, the North China Front Flying Corps only had one fighter squadron and two bomber squadrons, and there were only 42 planes in total, but this time the Japanese army dispatched 24 planes to the skies over Pingding County, which shows how much importance they attached to this operation.

After 18 bombers came to the sky over Pingding County, they began to disperse, and six bombers flew directly over the county seat of Pingding County, and one aerial bomb after another began to fall in the county like an old hen laying eggs.

Loud explosions began to sound, houses shook, and houses collapsed from the impact of the waves.

Huge craters began to appear on the ground, shrapnel flew everywhere, and gunpowder smoke filled the sky over the entire county.

Fortunately, the people have been entering the tunnel one after another since last night, and the number of people in the county is not very large at this time.

But even so, there are still some people who died directly in this air raid.

An old man in his 60s was in the house, and an aerial bomb of the Japanese army fell directly on the side of his house, and the air wave completely destroyed his house, and the old man's body was blown up by the air wave, and the old man's body floated into the air, and seven or eight shrapnel hit the old man's body, and by the time the old man fell heavily on the ground, he had already lost any breath of life.

The Japanese bombardment lasted for half an hour, and the county seat of Pingding County was filled with black smoke, and fires began to break out in many places, and the flames were burning.

The smell of charred corpses was disgusting, and the scorching air was suffocating.

Inhaling the air, which was full of dust and smile particles, many people began to cough violently.

Six Japanese bombers began to circle at low altitude, and the occasional sight of a living person walking down the street would be immediately strafed by the bombers' machine guns.

The Japanese bombers knew that there were six fighters escorting the troops around Binh Dinh County, and they were not afraid, circling and strafing at low altitudes, and they were provoking the troops of the New Second Brigade.

There are many deep craters on the ground of the county, and seven or eight out of ten houses have collapsed, and the smoke of gunfire fills the entire county.

After the six bombers circled at low altitude for a while, they never found the target they were shooting, and then the six bombers raised their altitude and slowly left.

Beginning at 6 o'clock in the morning, 18 Japanese bombers bombed all parts of Pingding County for half an hour, and after the bombing was over, they circled at low altitude and strafed for more than an hour, and only after 8:30 did the 24 Japanese planes leave the skies over Pingding County triumphantly.

The Japanese planes left, black smoke rose over all parts of Binh Dinh County, and the neat houses were blown into ruins.

More than 100 people who did not enter the tunnel were all killed, and the people who came out of the tunnel saw their homes being bombed into ruins, and their feelings can be imagined.

The bereaved people wept and cried out helplessly, but the dead loved ones would not make any answer.

In the county seat, the new second brigade headquarters.

Sun Weiguo shook the dust off his body, he looked at the map with a calm face, and Qin Xianliang, the chief of staff, reported the losses on the side.

Sun Weiguo, who looked at the map, seemed to be indifferent to all this, but the brigade headquarters personnel could clearly see Sun Weiguo's tightly clasped hands.

"Brigade commander, can you ask the air force to dispatch and let them send a few fighters to deal with the Japanese planes, so that if they are beaten passively, their morale will be affected, even if the people don't say it, they will inevitably have complaints in their hearts."

After Zhu Jianwei, the deputy chief of staff, hesitated for a moment, he came to Sun Weiguo and said softly.

Last time, the air force units assisted in the operation and shot down several Japanese planes, which greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men of the new 2nd Brigade.

But Sun Weiguo didn't want to continue to send power to ask the air force for help this time, because he knew that the more important battle than his own was the Battle of Wuhan.

The Battle of Wuhan was a battle in which China and Japan invested the most troops, and this battle was related to the fate of both China and Japan, and for the Chinese troops, this battle was a life-and-death battle, if hundreds of thousands of troops were completely annihilated in Wuhan, China would have no troops to resist, and the Japanese army would be exterminated against China.

The importance of the Battle of Wuhan is self-evident, and Sun Weiguo does not want to continue to transfer the already weak air force units to fight in Shanxi.

"Keep the hatred in mind, we can't fight the little devil's plane, but we can beat the little devil's infantry, and when the little devil infantry comes, give me a hard beat, and let these little devils know that it was a wrong decision for them to come to China."

Sun Weiguo's right fist slammed the map, and an angry expression appeared on his face.

On 25 June, Japanese planes appeared in the sky over Pingding County one after another, and aerial bombs were constantly dropped on various parts of Pingding County.

Bombing, low-altitude strafing, leaving, the Japanese troops went back and forth, and it was not until after five o'clock in the afternoon that the Japanese planes became quiet.

The North China Front Flying Corps continued to bomb Binh Dinh County for a day, believing that the Chinese fortifications must have been completely destroyed.

However, how would the Japanese flying team know that the fortifications of the new 2nd Brigade were all reinforced with reinforced concrete and wood, and except for a few fortifications that were directly hit by aerial bombs, most of the remaining fortifications were intact, and the various units had begun to continue to strengthen the fortifications.

As the Japanese air team ended the bombing of Pingding County, the headquarters of the First Army officially began to set up a command post in Taiyuan City, Shanxi, and Naosaburo Okabe, the chief of staff of Lieutenant General Okabe, who supervised the war on behalf of the North China Front Headquarters, also began to come to Taiyuan, Shanxi.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of 25 June, the headquarters of the First Army issued an operational order to the 21st Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Brigade, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade participating in the battle.

The Japanese troops had already begun to make preparations, and the Japanese army, which had indirectly participated in the operation, had also begun to enter Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang respectively, and they could support the front-line operations at any time.