Chapter Sixty-Nine: A Soldier Has Died!
As soon as the 12 fighters of the 1st Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army took shape, as many as nine of them were shot down by Tian Zheng's air defense squadron in the first wave! The three planes that managed to escape were all staggering, dragging the fuselage emitting black smoke and fleeing into the distance.
"Attack the Japanese bombers with all your might! They can't drop the bomb! "Seeing that the enemy's fighters were fleeing, Meng Changliang, the squadron leader of the air defense squadron, did not give the order to continue chasing and fighting, but immediately shifted the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at the group of more than 20 mobile and bulky bombers in the sky!
The bombers saw that their fighters were basically wiped out in an instant, and they were so frightened that they wanted to climb up the fuselage that they had just pulled down. But it was too late, their fuselage was much heavier, and each bomber was loaded with bombs because one of the defenders of Shenyang City had no anti-aircraft weapons, and the climb was even slower!
The ground of the various anti-aircraft machine gun positions of the air defense squadron was already full of a thick layer of shells! Before the Japanese bombers could continue to climb, they were covered by the firepower of these anti-aircraft machine guns!
At this time, the bomber, which was not protected by fighters, was like a prostitute stripped naked and waiting to be raped, completely exposed to the anti-aircraft fire net of the Wolf Independent Regiment, and the sky was covered by an overwhelming number of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets. This is due to the difference in the speed at which sound and light travel through the air.
There were also a few bombers that did not explode in mid-air, but fell to the ground with black smoke, and then the bombs carried on the fuselage exploded! Suddenly, all the mountains and forests were reflected in the sky!
Fortunately, it was still early autumn, the trees were luxuriant, and the water vapor in the mountains was quite heavy, and the forest fires caused by the explosion of the bomb were not only extensive, nor long-lasting. By the time it dawned, it was almost all extinguished.
"Report Captain! Nine enemy fighters were shot down, three were seriously injured and fled the battlefield! The bombers were all shot down! One of our air defense positions was hit exactly when the enemy's fighters fell, losing an anti-aircraft machine gun, killing a machine gun shooter and seriously wounding a secondary shooter on the spot! Looking at the data reported by the squadron's combat staff officer, Meng Changliang, the leader of the prevention and control squadron, suddenly tightened his heart!
"Finally, some soldiers are starting to die!"
Meng Changliang's heart was a little uncomfortable. Isn't that what war is all about, though? We are all human beings, living flesh and blood people, not invulnerable immortals! Can there be immortals in war?
"Order the positions, begin to carry out camouflage transfers, quickly reach the second reserve position to arm defenses, and prevent the next wave of enemy air force attacks! You wait and report the squadron battle situation to the regiment commander! After Meng Changliang gave the order, he walked alone to the position that was smashed by the Japanese falling fighter jet.
He wanted to see the two soldiers who had been brought out by himself to eat, sleep and train together!
Meng Changliang didn't expect that when he arrived at the position, there were already people standing there.
"Leader......" Meng Changliang said excitedly.
Tian Zheng waved his hand and didn't let Meng Changliang continue. Seeing this, Meng Changliang held back the tears in his eyes, stood quietly behind Tian Zheng, and silently mourned the souls who were walking away over the air defense position that had turned into a sea of fire.
"It is the honor of a soldier to die on the battlefield! It's also inevitable! But I want my soldiers to save their lives as much as possible! Only by staying alive can you deal a bigger blow to the enemy! I think it is entirely possible to avoid the crash of an enemy plane this time! If these two soldiers, predicting that the enemy plane was about to fall here, immediately abandoned their positions and looked for cover on the spot to hide, then such a thing would not have happened! Tian Zheng said bitterly.
"But, Commander! As a member of the air defense squadron, I was educated by me from the time they followed the training. It is better to sacrifice for the country by guarding anti-aircraft weapons than to lose our weapons in vain! I am afraid that there are tens of millions of troops in the whole of China combined, but how many troops can have such advanced air defense weapons? Maybe they will be willing to change to a unit with backward weapons and let them exchange the lives of a company of soldiers for such an advanced large-caliber high-level dual-purpose machine gun! Although our squadron has been distributed a lot, I will not allow my soldiers not to cherish these weapons! Meng Changliang wiped a handful of tears fiercely.
Tian Zheng turned to look at Meng Changliang, "Changliang," Tian Zheng patted Meng Changliang on the shoulder.
"I know you don't want to waste weapons! However, what I want you to understand is that for these weapons that we can make out of the ground, as long as we have money and raw materials, the number of these weapons is theoretically unlimited! But it will take at least a few months to train a good machine gun shooter! Regardless of emotion, but purely from the point of view of reason that is beneficial to war, I believe that the life of a talented person is far more valuable than weapons and ammunition! What's more, these are all brothers who we get along with day and night? I hope you will be able to change your perspective. Don't be afraid to run out of weapons in the future, I won't be short of your weapons and ammunition! But I'm afraid that if I give you weapons and ammunition, you won't have anyone to do it! In the future, there will be more advanced air defense weapons and equipment for you, and the burden on your shoulders will become heavier and heavier, but the number of talents cannot be cultivated in a short period of time! You know what I mean? Tian Zheng sighed softly.
Meng Changliang was shocked!
"However, none of the other troops have such advanced weapons? You see, when the Northeast Army of Beidaying fought with the Japanese army, there were only three heavy machine guns, six or seven crooked handles, and the rest were all rifles of different old and new, even old sleeves! When I saw them fighting with the Japanese devils, I felt that if we didn't protect the weapons in our hands well, we would be committing a crime against the country! Meng Changliang's eyes looked in the direction of Shenyang City.
"If other troops want these weapons, they need to develop the local people's livelihood, and only with an economic foundation, a scientific and cultural foundation, can they obtain more high-end weapons!" Even if they can't develop it themselves, but the economic conditions are good, they can completely order it from our arsenal! We are not here to make money, so that all the troops can be equipped with advanced weapons, then the little devil would have been driven out of China a long time ago! But we can't provide it for free, because we can't afford it! And, most importantly, if you look at the troops stationed in various places, the better ones have the country to pluck, and the almost ones who occupy the mountains on the spot are kings, and they don't want to forge ahead, so they can only rely on a few gunfish to flesh the people! Do you think there is still salvation for such a unit? If you want to save the country, in addition to military and economic, the most important idea! It is the cultural enlightenment of the whole people! We in China have been closed off for too long! The gap from the Western powers is getting bigger and bigger! ”
Tian Zheng's eyes were looking in the direction of the entire Huaxia Kingdom, and there was a bottomless worry hidden in his eyes.