The enemy planes swooped down on Nangong.

Li Yimo carefully observed through the telescope, and the air defense post reported that it was indeed 36 enemy planes. Judging from the flight speed, there were 24 light bombers and 12 heavy bombers, and the signs on the wings clearly told Li Yimo that this was a carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese military navy.

Li Yimo glanced back at the smoky Nangong County behind him, and ordered to prepare for battle.

Concentrated fire melee combat is concentrated fire melee combat, and the essence is to use anti-aircraft guns and enemy planes to fight bayonets. The premise is to have a spirit of sacrifice and not be afraid of enemy planes bombing anti-aircraft positions. The main tactical point was to concentrate several anti-aircraft artillery batteries and aim at one aircraft to increase the hit rate.

The first air defense regiment was laid out in a triangular position, with four antiaircraft artillery companies and two antiaircraft machine gun companies in one group, divided into three large groups, and further divided into six combat groups, consisting of two antiaircraft gun companies and one antiaircraft machine gun company. In Liu Yimin's words, as long as any enemy plane collides with it, it will be torn to pieces.

The only drawback is that it is located on a plain and has no terrain to cover, and once the enemy planes discover the anti-aircraft position, it will be a vicious battle to the death.

At 10:10 a.m., the enemy planes began to reduce their flight altitude and swept towards Nangong.

The anti-aircraft position of the 1st Air Defense Regiment was established on the side of the city wall at the north gate of the South Palace, facing the north. The reason why it was built here was to think that in case the enemy planes were so large that the troops suffered too many casualties, they could be evacuated to temporary bomb shelters under the city walls.

When the enemy's plane could be clearly seen with the naked eye, Li Yimo gave the battle order.

Long Huwa was Liu Yimin's machine gun shooter when he formed the Red 34th Division's top platoon in Xinwei. Since meeting Liu Yimin, Long Huwa and her younger brother Long Huzi have participated in all battles of Liu Yimin's troops and won the Special Meritorious Service Medal twice. After the 1st Air Defense Regiment arrived at Nangong for training, Li Yimo found Liu Yimin and asked Long Huwa, a special meritorious hero of our army, from the heavy machine gun regiment to serve as the commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun reinforced battalion.

At this moment, Long Huwa, with two anti-aircraft machine gun batteries and four anti-aircraft artillery regiments of the 1st Air Defense Regiment, formed an awl of a triangular position and kept an eye on the roaring enemy planes. His other four anti-aircraft machine-gun companies, led by instructors and deputy battalion commanders, together with other anti-aircraft batteries, formed two other anti-aircraft fire groups in the triangular anti-aircraft position.

As the enemy plane approached and approached, Long Huwa waved the flag in her hand and gave the order to open fire, and the bullets and shells fired by the two antiaircraft machine gun companies and the four antiaircraft gun batteries immediately erupted and blocked the enemy plane.

At this time, military planes had no radar, let alone other identification equipment, and relied entirely on the pilot's naked eye to search for targets. In addition, since the carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet of the Chinese Army supported the North China battlefield, they had never encountered such fierce anti-aircraft firepower, and they suffered a big loss at once.

After calculating the amount of dragon and tiger baby in advance, it is equivalent to putting a gun into the sky and waiting for the machine to collide. If you don't have a defense, you will be unlucky. With the volley explosion of the first plane, the antiaircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns of the Eighth Route Army fired even more happily, and the bullets and shells were splashed into the sky as if they did not need money, forming an endless network of firepower. The five light bombers immediately behind the first plane did not have time to make any evasive moves, and crashed into the fire net one after another, and were smashed into burning fireballs one after another.

When the enemy planes behind saw such a powerful firepower on the ground, they hurriedly pulled up, trying to escape the fate of being hit. At this time, the other two anti-aircraft firepower groups commanded by Li Yimo, Yan Yaohui, and [***] Feng joined the battle group, and they used the tactics of concentrated fire and close combat, in which one firepower group bit an enemy plane, and let the aircraft rise, accelerate, and turn, and take a series of evasive actions.

After all, the planes had the advantage of speed, and although they were ambushed by ground anti-aircraft fire and suffered heavy losses, the 16 light bombers behind and the 12 heavy bombers that had just arrived still pulled up, bypassed the anti-aircraft fire network, and after regrouping in the air, they viciously pounced on the position of the first air defense regiment.

At this time, there was already smoke all around Nangong Castle, and the visibility of the machine was very low, although it was eager to retaliate, but it was also afraid of the blow of anti-aircraft fire, so it could only maintain a certain altitude and drop bombs.

Under the command of the cadres, the first air defense regiment was divided into six fire groups, chased after the figure of the plane, desperately strangled it, and shot down eight heavy bombers with a slightly slower speed.

Seeing that it was not a joke, the commander of the carrier-based aircraft leading the team immediately ordered the rest of the planes to shift their combat targets, ignoring the air defense positions and the smoke-shrouded Nangong Castle, and directly pounced on the next bombing target.

In addition to the most miserable county seat of Xinhe, other counties such as Ji County, Ningjin, Longping, Yaoshan, Renxian, Pingxiang, Guangzong, Qiu County, Quzhou, Wei County, Julu, Zaoqiang, Gucheng, Qinghe, Wucheng, Linqing, Xiajin, and Gaotang all suffered heavy losses.

After the bombing was over, Li Yimo returned to the brigade headquarters and asked all localities to report the losses. At this time, there were cries everywhere in the base area, and the troops, militia, and cadres were busy saving people and putting out fires, where could they report losses so quickly. A county magistrate shouted directly at Li Yimo on the phone: "Brigadier Li, stop for a while!" When the plane came, I didn't see your air defense brigade, and when the plane left, you had to report the loss. Tell you, Lao Tzu is not available! I want to sue you in front of Senior Commander Liu and Political Commissar Luo, and ask for an explanation for the villagers who died! After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, and the joy of Li Yimo's little air battle victory that he had just won immediately disappeared.

On the way to Dexian, instructor and division commander Liu Yimin received a report of a large-scale bombing of southern Hebei and the air defense brigade shooting down 16 enemy planes. After careful consideration, Liu Yimin believed that this was only the first step in the retaliation of the Syrian army, and he was afraid that the planes of the Syrian army would soon come to bomb and retaliate, and in the future, the Syrian army would take advantage of its air superiority to constantly bomb and retaliate against southern Hebei and Luxi, and the bombing targets would be shifted from the county town to the villages and towns, with the aim of completely destroying the base areas in southern Hebei.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin felt a little depressed, the harder he fought, the heavier the army's retaliation, and he turned the base area of the Eighth Route Army into the focus of the army's attack. You have to think so that Shouichi Terauchi doesn't dare to bomb the base area unscrupulously.

The national strength of this little man was so strong that he destroyed his air regiment stationed in North China twice, and took away the weapons, ammunition, and material reserves of the North China Front Army from Tianjin. It seems that only when Xiao Yuben fights with the United States and cuts off his own economic lifeline, will the devil become poor.

Liu Yimin couldn't help but think of Ni Hua, this girl doesn't know where she is now, and she doesn't know what the result of lobbying President Roosevelt is, why the United States continues to maintain trade with Japan as it has done in history. If they break off the deal with Yueben, Liu Yimin believes that the North China Front will not dare to use a large group of planes to bomb in such a big way. It seems that the course of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the suffering China will be relatively long.

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin immediately took measures. First, Li Yimo was strictly ordered to immediately inform organizations at all levels that the army would inevitably come to bomb again, and the targets of the bombing must be villages and towns. Organizations at all levels immediately took action, mobilized the masses to take air defense measures, went down to the tunnels, and lit smoke. Tell the folks that it doesn't matter if the house is blown up, the first priority at the moment is to reduce casualties. The second is to order the air defense brigade to quickly move its position, strictly prevent the retaliation of the large group of planes of the Chinese army, and wait for an opportunity to ambush the planes. Third, he ordered Li Lingfeng, who was operating with the Western Front Group, to break away from the Western Front Group and command the 2nd and 3rd Special Operations Squadrons to go to the Daao Pinghan Line to carry out special operations against the Yue Army, targeting the army's airfields, railway bridges, and material supply points.

After issuing the order, Liu Yimin drafted an open letter to General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front Army. Liu Yimin wrote:

"Your Excellency General Uchishoichi of the North China Front Army:

After destroying the main force of the Fifth Division, dispatching the Chahar Corps, and recovering Taiyuan and Tianjin, our heroic instructor of the Eighth Route Army completely annihilated the main force of the 21st Division in the Wucheng and Linqing areas, and the Reading Force was mixed into the Fourth Brigade. Now it is said that 20,000 corpses of Kou are displayed in Wucheng and Linqing, and our army allows you to send people to collect the corpses out of humanitarian considerations. However, each soldier's corpse is charged 5 yuan, 50 yuan for each corpse of a lieutenant-level officer, 50 yuan for each corpse of a lieutenant-ranking officer, and 5,000 yuan for each corpse of a general-level officer. If you do not send someone to collect the corpse, our army will cremate it and sprinkle the ashes in the farmland as fertilizer.

Today, Your Excellency mobilized a large-scale fleet of aircraft to wantonly and indiscriminately bomb innocent civilians in various counties in southern Hebei, causing a horrific tragedy, committing war crimes of massacring civilians, and incurring a heavy blood debt. In the history of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, only uncivilized beasts can do such bestial acts that are indignant to the gods and gods. In my opinion, Your Excellency's move is really a vent for the beast surname after the donkey's skills are exhausted, and it will definitely be pointed out by Qianfu.

I solemnly declare that if Your Excellency does not stop bombing and massacring civilians, our army will take extreme measures to retaliate. 1. Destroy all the airfields in North China and kill all the air forces of the Kou. 2. The death sentence was to be pronounced on the merchants, bankers, and business owners who had been captured from Tianjin, and five people were shot each until all of them were shot. 3. Within a month, I will go to Peking in person to take your dog's head to thank the deceased compatriots. If you are afraid of escaping, I will chase you to the ends of the earth and take your dog's head. 4. From now on, our army will no longer accept the surrender of the North China army, and all soldiers of the Chinese army who are killed by our army will be beheaded.

I believe that war is a matter between soldiers, and fighting in battle, life and death, is nothing more than fighting for the interests of their own country. War has its own laws, and your bombing and massacre of civilians is not only a violation of the Neiva Convention, but also a tarnishing of the honor of soldiers. I look down on you! How could Count Masaki in the temple give birth to a son-in-law like you, was he so retaliated for getting drunk and insulting his ancestors that night? I can't figure it out!

In addition, I would like to remind Your Excellency that there is a principle in the operation of our army, that is, no enemy should enter within 200 miles of the rear guard of our army, otherwise our army will be annihilated. Please carefully study the history of our army's wars, and where are all the enemies who pursued our army and took revenge on our army! I formally inform you that central Hebei, southern Hebei, and Luxi are our army's base areas, and any enemy who dares to attack our army's base areas will have only one word: death!

Once again, I remind you that I have the peerless martial arts of China, and taking my surname is like taking a bag. I advise you to stop bombing and massacring civilians, otherwise, your death is not far off!

Instructor Liu Yimin. January 29, 1938

After writing it, he asked Luo Ronghuan to read it, and then sent it back to Nangong for broadcast in Chinese and Yue through the radio station.

Luo Ronghuan believes that the content of this letter needs to be reconsidered, and the matter of selling the corpse of the army does not match Liu Yimin's identity as a senior general of our army, which is a bit of a joke; It is also inappropriate to shoot a businessman, which is contrary to the policy of our army and damages the image of our army; The whole article is a lie and threat, which has nothing to do with the war, and can only provoke greater revenge; The words of insulting and insulting Shouichi in the temple are like street scoundrels, which are extremely incommensurate with Liu Yimin's political and cultural literacy. This matter will surely become a laughing stock in the future. Therefore, please ask the division commander to take back the letter.

Liu Yimin thought for a while and said: "What I want is to make Terauchi Shouichi crazy, so that he thinks that I am a person who does what he says and does everything, and if he provokes me, he will be haunted by evil ghosts." As a result, he did not dare to continue to dispatch large groups of planes to bomb indiscriminately. If he continues to blow up like this, southern Hebei will be finished. As for fame or something, I don't care if it's for the sake of killing devils. Also, I'm not threatening. If Shouichi Terauchi repeatedly bombs like this for three days in a row, we will go to Beiping and kill Shouichi Terauchi, and we will never break our promise! ”

Luo Ronghuan shook his head: "If you kill Shouichi in the temple, there will be other devils to be the commander of the North China Front." This is a war, not a legend. ”

Seeing that Luo Ronghuan resolutely disagreed with the post, Liu Yimin had no choice but to change it and sent this open letter in the name of Li Chengyi, the head of the guard regiment, which became a strange talk in the future.

Just as Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan were discussing whether or not to send this open letter, at one o'clock at noon, military planes again carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombing of the base areas in southern Hebei, targeting larger villages and towns in southern Hebei. The combined fleet of the Chinese army, which had suffered heavy losses, dispatched all its carrier-based bombers and fighters to Nangong to find the anti-aircraft position of the 1st Air Defense Regiment and retaliate.

At this time, Nangong was already surrounded by smoke, and the visibility was extremely low, not to mention that the military planes were looking for the anti-aircraft position of the first air defense group, and it was difficult to judge the exact location of Nangong City. Even in southern Hebei, the county seat and the larger villages and towns were all shrouded in smoke, and it was difficult to identify the bombing targets. In anger, the officer leading the army directly ordered to find a small village where the smoke was not too thick, drop bombs and strafe, and completely raze it to the ground!

(To be continued)