The British gave the Chinese army a lesson in fortress attack and defense in advance, and before that, if you want to break through a well-defended fortress, you have to fill it with human lives, plus years of siege. In the Russo-Japanese War, the attack and defense of the fortress of Arthur was carried out in this way, and the Japanese also took out a large number of siege artillery, but they also returned in front of the fortifications, and the "god of war" Nogi Noshinori squandered the lives of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers there, and also did not take the fortress.

In the front-line command room, the combat staff officers were writing and drawing on the map with pencils, and they were thinking about what cards they could play in their hands and how to take down the British fortifications at the lowest cost.

"It was difficult for the curvature fire of the army artillery to accurately hit the British forts, and even if they did, shells with a caliber of less than 120 mm would not have much effect, at most they would only shock the British troops to pee their pants. We need more powerful and accurate firepower projection. A staff officer said in a deep voice.

Everyone doesn't know, but they can't think of which way to use for a while. "Can you borrow a batch of large-caliber coastal defense guns from the coastal defense forces?"

"The pressure on the coastal defense forces is also very great, the Allied expeditionary fleet is menacing, once the navy is defeated, the heavy responsibility of defending the country can only be handed over to the coastal defense forces, so it seems that the General Staff will not necessarily agree to our request, let me try."

"Do you want to call in Air Force support?" After a few minutes of silence, a staff officer finally asked weakly. In fact, this idea has been circling in everyone's minds for a long time, and it is limited to the previous tradition of the army to conquer everything, and no one has put forward it for the time being.

The army is the big brother of the Chinese army, and the navy and air force did not draw people from the army when they were established, and later with the attention paid to the navy, especially after the "Taishan" was launched, the enthusiasm of the Chinese people for the navy has the posture of catching up with and surpassing the army. More and more people are beginning to emphasize the theory of naval victory, how can this be endured!

Although there is no obvious contradiction with the navy, the competition between the two armies has been invisibly unfolding, and both sides want to win a greater victory in the battle to prove the strength of the navy or army.

The Air Force is more of a little brother than the Navy and Army. Whether it is in terms of capital investment, material distribution, or in terms of numbers, influence and weapons and equipment. According to common sense, only the eldest brother takes care of the younger brother, how can the eldest brother ask the younger brother for help?

It's just that now doesn't seem to be the time to argue about family ethics, and the demands of war make everyone have to let go of their baggage. Soon, a decision was made within the command of the First Army, and a bump was transmitted to the command of the Air Force.

Guangdong is currently the most densely populated area of airports in China, and before the large-scale popularization of civil aircraft, the airports built in various places had military purposes. The First Aircraft Factory in Huizhou is currently the largest aircraft manufacturer in China. Fifty percent of the fighters and thirty percent of the bombers were assembled here. In addition, the Huaxia Airship Manufacturing Company in Guangzhou was responsible for the assembly and construction of all airships, so it was most convenient to set up an air base near the two factories for flight training.

The Second Bomber Division of the Air Force is stationed at the Huizhou Military Airport west of Huizhou, which is the largest military airport in China, and the First Fighter Division and the Second Bomber Division of the Air Force are stationed here. It is only a hundred kilometers away from Hong Kong, and even fighter jets can escort it back and forth.

"Woo". The entire airfield echoed with the sound of hurriedness, and the alarm sounded for the first real combat battle. The pilots who rushed out of the briefing room wore thick uniforms, expensive eiderdown coats, wool scarves, and hats to keep the pilots warm in the air to the greatest extent, and they were slightly bloated and soon came to their planes.

Five minutes later. Two H-1 bombers exited the hangar and glided to the runway at the command of ground crew. The command from the command tower came out to allow takeoff, the pilot slowly pushed the control stick, the plane taxied faster and faster, and the plane loaded with bombs looked bulky. It wasn't until two-thirds of the runway that I lifted my head and slowly rose into the blue sky.

The bombers that took off first circled over the airfield, waiting for all the formations to rise into the air and then gathered together to fly to the southwest, and the 2nd Bombardment Division dispatched two waves of 100 bombers this time, and they will return to the airfield after completing the first bombing, and decide whether to carry out the second wave of bombing according to the effect of the bombing.

The sky, which belongs entirely to the Chinese army, allows the bomber formation to fly to the battlefield without the protection of escort fighters without the protection of escort fighters. In the British position on the south bank of the Shenzhen River, dozens of British medics with red cross flags are collecting the dead and wounded British soldiers on the first front, and they need to simply search for the stumps of British soldiers, because the heavy artillery fire is likely to leave the bones of the soldiers. Carefully clean the battlefield until the end of the war, by which time it is not known how many more intact corpses will be found.

Medic Allen kicked the jet-black tank beside him, and at first he was trembling at it, but Alan was still angry at the thought of his dead comrades.

"Alan, hurry up and clean up, we're going back!" Another medicdic shouted to Allen that although the Chinese army did not do anything to his own medics and showed a little civility, it could not change their image as an Eastern heretic and a Far Eastern demon.

The smell of gunsmoke and barbecue meat was very uncomfortable for Allen, who was an ordinary young man in a village in Scotland, and his father was a local doctor, so he also had a certain medical foundation, and became a medical soldier after joining the army. Later, he was assigned to the British army stationed in Hong Kong, when he was in the British mainland, he was once drunk for his luck, compared to the colonies, Hong Kong is still a relatively civilized and developed place, and he is considered to have taken the **** luck.

Unexpectedly, less than a year after he arrived, he encountered such a brutal war, and Alan couldn't help but wonder if he could return to Scotland with the three thousand pounds he had received in Hong Kong, and even more doubted that he would ever meet the lady he met at Minnie Mouse Cafe in Hong Kong.

There are still more than 500 meters away from the main position, and Allen slowly walked back with the medical box on his back and his comrades, hoping that the Chinese army would not launch an artillery bombardment during this time, and it would be safe when he returned to the pillbox!

"Look, what's that?" Alan suddenly felt that the sky had darkened a lot, and when he looked up, he found that a large cloud had appeared in the sky.

"Airplanes, it's the planes of the Chinese army, God, there are so many, what are they going to do, use this wooden toy to break through our defenses?" Although the Chinese army first used aircraft on the battlefield, countries did not attach as much importance to it as battleships and tanks, and "wooden toys" was the common name given to her by soldiers.

"Woooooo After Allen and the others saw that the dark cloud reached the sky above the position, they threw down countless small black dots, and those small black dots fell from the sky with a whistling sound, like the urine spilled by a big bird.

However, bombers are not big birds, and bombs are not urine, they are the spokesmen of death. The power of bombshells is not comparable to that of artillery shells, they do not need to be loaded with a large number of ******, and a 500-kilogram bomb carries more explosives than the shells of a battleship's main gun.

"Boom!" From the moment the first bomb fell, Eren knew that those planes weren't toys, they could make for devastating scenes! Lying more than 500 meters away, the dust brought up by the shock wave almost buried Allen completely, he was glad that he did not return to those bunkers, I wonder if the reinforced concrete can withstand the impact of those bombs?

The earth shook and Allen felt as if he was going to lie here for the rest of his life, and finally, when the bombing stopped, those hateful planes shook their wings and gradually disappeared into the sky. Alan and the others, who had escaped the catastrophe, returned to the main position, and saw the ruins of the bunkers and countless crying soldiers. Unfortunately, Allen was destined not to return to the pleasant scenery of Scotland, and the second group of bombers visited the main British position again ten minutes later and dropped a huge number of bombs, Corporal Allen could not continue his luck and was reduced to ashes in the bombing.

The British army headquarters is located at the foot of a small hill about 2,000 meters behind the main position, Moult visited through the telescope how the main position he painstakingly managed was destroyed, at this moment, he was so hopeful that he had weapons that could balance the Chinese aircraft, so hoped that the British army would have its own powerful air power, and he even had an idea, that is, the army that controls the sky can control the victory or defeat of the war!

The two bombardments of the Chinese army caused heavy losses to the main position, at least half of the pillboxes were destroyed in the bombing, more than 2,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, for Molt, who placed 7,000 soldiers in the main position, the loss of about a quarter seemed to be bearable, and half of the fortifications of the main position still existed, and the battle was still fought.

War is never a simple numbers game, and the veteran soldiers who have been in the colonies have completely forgotten what it means to fight in a desperate situation, what is the vocation of a soldier, and what is the best defensive tactic. (To be continued.) )