Chapter 146: Viper's Air Support
"Shuffle, how can this group of remnants of China be defeated, how can they stop me from winning the footsteps of the state soldiers......" Hearing the news that the first line of defense of the Chinese army was torn apart, the commander of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army said with a light smile, for him, this was already expected, and if there was no such situation, he would not be able to figure it out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Just as a large number of Japanese troops were pouring in from the breached defensive line and the Chinese army was struggling to deal with it, a sudden buzzing sound passed over the Chinese army, because the battle in the battlefield was too fierce and it was night. Therefore, not many people paid attention to this situation, and no one checked it.
"Kill to ......"
"Sudden to ......"
The situation had been opened, and the Japanese soldiers were very high, and at this moment, suddenly a fierce cannon sound slanted down from the oblique sky, and the fire formed by the cannon rain fell down like a fireball, directly rushing to the middle and rear positions of the Japanese attacking troops.
The terrifying and dense explosion of "boom, boom, boom and ......" directly submerged a large area of Japanese troops, and miserable howls came and went.
The sudden appearance of such a change in the rear was like a slap in the face, which made the momentum of the attacking Japanese army shrink.
Defending this position was the 26th Division, the commander of which was General Liu Yuqing, who belonged to the Sichuan Army, but on the Songhu battlefield, it was called one of the five divisions with the greatest military achievements, which showed its merits. General Liu had been supervising the battle on the front line, and even the temporary headquarters was within range of enemy fire, but he did not flinch in the slightest.
The order given to the 26th Division from above was to defend to the death and not to retreat, even if the defense line was opened a big breach just now, General Liu did not think about retreating, he had already prepared for the worst. If he could not contain the Japanese attack, he would personally lead the reserves to kill them.
At this moment, General Liu, who had been observing the battle situation on the front line, suddenly saw a rain of fire falling from the sky and rushed towards the Japanese position. Immediately, General Liu knew what was going on.
"Our reinforcements arrived, and immediately told the brethren that General Wei and General Tang were giving us air support. Immediately organize a counteroffensive of the troops......" General Liu was immediately excited, and he was also very good at seizing the opportunity.
"Yes......" immediately a herald went to give the order.
"Our reinforcements are coming......"
"General Wei and General Tang have come to reinforce us, brothers, kill ......"
Under the deliberate propaganda, the news of the arrival of reinforcements spread quickly, and the exhausted troops seemed to have been injected with a dose of boosting spirit at once, and their morale was greatly boosted.
"Kill......"
"Rush, ......"
The Chinese army's shouts of killing shook the sky, and the momentum was like a rainbow, while on the Japanese side, due to the impact of the fire in the backyard, the morale of the attack could not help but decline. Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi did not stop at all, and immediately moved to the middle and front after strafing the middle and rear positions of the Japanese army with machine guns.
Not afraid of getting too close to the Japanese army, the Viper directly pressed down to a few tens of meters in the air to strike closely.
The ferocious cannons of the "Bang Bang Bang ......" tilted down frantically, and the rain of bullets kept exploding in the formation of the Japanese army, the stumps flew sideways, blood sprayed, and the unwilling Japanese soldiers howled miserably and cursed at the same time.
Wei Qidong's purpose was very simple, while killing and injuring a large number of Japanese ground personnel, he would disrupt their formation as much as possible, and once the formation was chaotic, it would be easier for the Chinese army to clean them up.
"Haha...... The officers and soldiers of the 26th Division have never seen the real scene ......of Wei Qidong's massacre of Japanese troops in Shanxi, they have only heard of it, and now they have seen it with their own eyes, and the mood of excitement and relief suddenly soared, and their morale rose more and more.
"Kill, ......" The warriors no longer had any fear, and the defense quickly turned to a fierce attack.
Under such a joint attack on the ground and the air, even if the Japanese troops of the 13th Division were brave and good at fighting, they could not stand it at this time, and had to start fighting and retreating.
However, how could Wei Qidong let them retreat easily, and the viper quickly rushed to the rear of the Japanese army and began to strike frantically, cutting off their retreat, forming a flanking attack on the Japanese army with the Chinese army.
When the state soldiers learned that one of their wings was facing the danger of being encircled and suppressed, they were shocked, but when they heard that it was Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi who had come to reinforce them, they knew that this would not be fake.
"Immediately mobilize artillery to cooperate, and use anti-aircraft artillery to shoot him down for me. The 58th Wing was ordered to fight and retreat, the 65th Wing to outflank to the left, and the 104th Wing to outflank from the right, and once the Chinese army pursued, it immediately encircled and suppressed ......" The state soldiers quickly issued a series of orders.
In fact, during the day, the state soldiers received the news that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi were reinforcing in the direction of Shanghai, but during the day, the two were fighting in Jiaxing and Suzhou, but they didn't expect to kill Shanghai non-stop at night. Could these two be robots? Don't know how tired you are?
If Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi were to answer, they would naturally be very tired, but which of the Chinese officers and soldiers who were fighting hard below was not more tired than them?
The Japanese army also moved very fast, in order to lock the viper, the Japanese army fired a large number of flares, and in addition to the high-power searchlight to cooperate, the only thing lacking was that the Japanese army in Shanghai did not have night fighters to cooperate. This is not because the Japanese army did not have night fighters available, but because the Japanese army only had time to establish a small field airfield in Shanghai, and did not station night fighters, and most of the rest of the planes were carrier-based aircraft, or long-range bombers flying from Taiwan and Nagasaki, which did not have the function of night combat.
Without night fighters, the only way to deal with the Viper was to use anti-aircraft guns. Because it was known that the artillery of the Chinese army was almost completely lost, the Japanese artillery was even more unscrupulous, and the artillery positions were built not far behind the forward positions, just for a more convenient strike.
With the range of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns, the Viper at this time was completely within the range. So after the order was given, the Japanese army used almost all of its anti-aircraft firepower.
The fire of the "bangbangbang......" anti-aircraft guns was fired in all directions, and although the range of the anti-aircraft guns was relatively long, the sight of the Japanese artillerymen who were responsible for firing was not so far.
The viper's body is not large, and it is night, so it is not easy for the Japanese artillery to aim and lock on the viper, and they mainly rely on the fire exposed by the viper, and the direction in which the rain of bullets falls indicates that the viper is in this area.
Therefore, the Japanese counterattack is often after the viper shot, Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi also know this, they don't stay in one position at all, quickly strafe for a few seconds, and then immediately stop attacking and move position. Although the air guerrilla warfare was played by the two of them with ease, the viper was still very dangerous, after all, the enemy had too much firepower, and it was a lifeless indiscriminate strafing, and it would be difficult to completely avoid it for a long time.
Wei Qidong suddenly stopped and stopped attacking. And Tang Xinyi lowered the height of the viper while flying backwards, as if she wanted to get out of the battlefield.
The viper did not attack again, and seemed to have been driven away. However, the Japanese did not expect that the Viper had only circled in a half-arc and appeared on the left side of the Japanese position from another direction.
Previously, another purpose of Wei Qidong's anti-aircraft fire counterattack was to quickly find out the Japanese artillery position. At this moment, Wei Qidong was silently peeking at the 2nd Brigade behind the Japanese army's field heavy artillery, the executioner who brought great trauma to Shanghai in the Battle of Songhu.