"Hello? Feed? Be clear! In the liaison headquarters of the Air Force, because of the Japanese artillery bombardment and frequent bombing requests, everyone was shouting as fast as they could, and the entire headquarters was as crazy as a vegetable market: "Is there a reconnaissance plane nearby?" Is there a reconnaissance plane nearby? The commander of the 2nd Infantry Corps called and asked if our reconnaissance planes could confirm the direction of the Japanese infantry build-up! ”

"The artillery side asked us to dispatch reconnaissance planes and provide them with the coordinates of the Japanese second-line artillery positions!" Next to another telephone, an Air Force officer held up a telephone receiver and asked the female soldiers who were marking the location of all the take-off aircraft formations on the map. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Next to the female soldier who had been trained to move some air force aircraft formations on the map in real time, an officer who counted and summarized put down the record book in his hand and replied loudly: "There is only an old-fashioned Sky Breaking 1 reconnaissance plane nearby!" It's a pity that they don't have a radio, so they can only take pictures and bring them back for analysis. ”

In the distance, the top commander of the Air Force Liaison Command, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, grabbed the phone in front of him, then stood up and stood upright, and asked respectfully: "Yes!" I will arrange for planes to reconnoiter and bomb the nearby Japanese artillery positions as soon as possible! Be! I will personally supervise the implementation! ”

He put down the phone, and then shouted loudly: "The mission of the highest level of the army group headquarters!" Commander Yang Zizhen ordered to take off the bombers immediately and destroy the artillery positions that the Japanese were shelling us! Tell me right away how long it will be before the fastest troops can start bombing! ”

"Hello? Feed? Airport No. 1? Yes, I need to take off 20 Lei Gong, what? Got a returning plane coming in? How long? Okay, I see! One of the several officers guarding the phone in front of the lieutenant colonel quickly grabbed the phone in his hand and began to inquire about the airport he was responsible for.

"Lei Cheng at Airfield No. 2 is bombing Japanese positions!" The other officer did not call, because he had just arranged for the plane to take off from the airfield for which he was responsible, to bomb the Japanese front-line defensive positions.

The third officer hung up the phone helplessly, shook his head and said: "The plane at the No. 3 field airfield is being hung up for maintenance, and if you want to take off, you must wait 40 minutes before you can do it." ”

"I can do it on my side! I can do it on my side! The last officer excitedly covered the telephone microphone in his hand and shouted to the lieutenant colonel: "The 22 Lei Gong planes at the No. 4 airfield have just taken off and are going to carry out the second mission of bombing the field airfield in the Japanese ancient fort, so that they can turn around and search for attacks!" ”

"How long will it take?" The lieutenant colonel asked, with a happy face.

"If you turn immediately, you can be in the war zone in 7 to 15 minutes!" The officer immediately replied with an approximate value.

"Let them turn! Perform a new search attack mission! Suppress the Japanese artillery positions as soon as possible! The lieutenant colonel waved his hand and gave the order.

The officer hurriedly began to give notice of the change of the battle order, and a female secretary beside him quickly turned around and conveyed the order to change the course of the aircraft formation to the officer in charge of the change of coordinates, who nodded, began to write down the corresponding changes on a piece of paper and asked the female officer to sign it.

Then he pointed at the two arrowed chess pieces on the huge map with the long whip he held beside him, and confirmed in a loud voice: "The 20th Air Force's long knife squads 17 and 19 have changed course!" Mission Changes! ”

The lady officer in charge of the change in the distance of the map hurriedly used a special long pole to push the chess pieces representing the two air teams to the changed course, so that the officers could observe and confirm the position of their troops, the return route, and the time of arrival at the airfield, whether there would be any conflict with other troops.

After the lieutenant colonel gave the order, he grabbed the phone directly to Yang Zizhen's headquarters, and immediately raised his head and reported to the commander Yang Zizhen: "Your Excellency General! After 10 minutes, 22 Lei Gong dive bombers will arrive in the suspicious area...... Right! If they find a target, they will destroy it! Yes! Yes! Long live the Ming Empire! ”

When he finished reporting and hung up the phone, an officer came over, he pointed to the dense clock hanging on the other side of the wall, and reminded the lieutenant colonel: "Sir, after the mission is changed, it may cause a shortage of fuel for the Long Knife 21 team and the Long Knife 22 team, and their return time should be appropriately advanced." ”

These timers are custom-made by the Air Force for their various flight units, and they symbolize the flight time, or fuel reserves, of each aviation unit. The Ming Empire had frequently experimented with the use of the air force in secret bases before, and these were the tips they had summed up according to the use of the air force.

By using such complex statistics and judgments, we can make the greatest use of front-line airfields, so that the take-off and return of aircraft are most in line with efficiency, the utilization rate of airports can be significantly improved, and the number of new aircraft that are not sufficient can be used to carry out important combat missions to the greatest extent.

"Let the Long Knife 21 Squad and the Long Knife 22 Squad return early! Otherwise, they may well have arrived over the airfield at the same time as the 17 and 19 squads that changed their combat mission. Avoid running out of fuel and let them be back in 5 minutes! Glancing at the officer in charge of reminding, the lieutenant colonel had to change the battle order of another unit.

This time, the female secretary next to the lieutenant colonel personally went out and conveyed the order to change the route of the aircraft formation to the officer in charge of the coordinate change, and the other party continued the process, recorded the corresponding changes on paper and asked the lady officer to sign it.

Then the officer once again pointed at the other two arrowed pieces on the huge map with the long whip he had set up beside him, and confirmed in a loud voice: "The 19th Air Force's Long Knife Squad 21 and 22 Squad have changed their return time!" There is no change to the return airport! ”

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"Damn it! And there is no one to take care of these rampant Japanese artillery? "On the front line, Mo Dongshan has been rounded one after another, and the number of shells falling is not much, but the Japanese artillery bombardment with a continuous meaning is tormented crazy. He huddled in the trenches, squinting and holding his head in boredom, waiting for it all to end.

Yes, waiting for the end, or the end of the Japanese shelling, or the end of his life. The pontoon bridge was not bad, at least not a few shells fell nearby, and some tanks and soldiers ventured to continue crossing the river, and then immediately dispersed under artillery fire to avoid further losses.

Over there, the infantry company hit by the first round of surprise artillery fire had dispersed, and the medical guards dragged the hapless dozen soldiers away from the dangerous area, and heard that more than twenty people had been killed, which made the Ming army, who had already established themselves on the other side of the river, feel inexplicably sentimental.

As it turned out, their enemies also put a lot of thought into their defenses, and even played good tricks. And the Ming army did not easily seize the defensive line that should have been captured, and now the battle here is still in a stalemate, at least the Japanese army did not admit defeat.

"Stopped?" In the long waiting process, Mo Dongshan suddenly found that the Japanese army's long-term artillery bombardment suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and before he could be happy, some Japanese soldiers rushed up on the defensive position of the Japanese army not far from the opposite side and began to launch a crazy counterattack against the Ming army.

The artillery bombardment that had achieved good results just now also emboldened the Japanese defenders, who found that the Ming army had been ravaged by their own artillery for a long time, and they did not even have room to fight back, so they pounced on the Ming army even more fiercely, trying to recapture their lost defensive positions.

"Phew!" "Suddenly! Dodo! Of course, the Ming army will not sit idly by, on the contrary, it has just been suppressed by Japanese artillery fire, and has accumulated a lot of fire, and now it is vented to the Japanese defenders who rushed up. Several tanks covered the infantry and directly counterattacked the Japanese positions, and the battle for the trenches, which had just stopped due to the shelling, immediately opened the bloody curtain again.

The fighting never stopped, it just gave both sides a few dozen minutes of rest. The Japanese army was once again driven back to their defensive positions by the intensive fire of the Ming army, and Mo Dongshan followed behind a tank, and his soldiers captured two trenches in one go, changed to a more comfortable position, and then stopped the attack.

Because there is a bunker abandoned by the Japanese, and there is a reinforced concrete bunker with thick wood. Mo Dongshan and his soldiers built a simple circular defensive line in the vicinity, relying on this pillbox to establish their own defensive positions. He had to be careful and chose such a feng shui treasure with cover to hide from the shelling.

Sure enough, about 40 minutes later, more than a dozen 150 mm howitzer shells fell on the position of the Ming army again, and the huge explosion made the Ming army who were in a hurry to cross the river pay a lot of price, a truck that had just crossed the Yalu River was destroyed on the bank, and more than a dozen soldiers were injured, and two soldiers were unfortunately killed.

Comparatively speaking, this time the Ming army was more experienced in dealing with artillery bombardment, there were no dense crowds, and most of them were in bunkers or trenches, so the losses dropped a lot. However, everyone knew that if the Japanese army was allowed to interfere with it like this, it would affect morale and delay the crossing of the river by the main force of the Ming army.

"News from the Air Force just came! The Lei Gong 1 dive bomber they had just sent did not find the target, and the other side had fairly intact bunkers and camouflage, so the aerial bombardment might not have much effect. In the group army headquarters, the chief of staff put down the phone and reported to Yang Zizhen, who was standing in front of the map and frowning.

Yang Zizhen was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth and ordered hatefully: "Damn! Let the troops expand the bridgehead and minimize the losses of the shelling as much as possible...... Give the Air Force an order for them to send more reconnaissance aircraft to confirm the exact location of the Japanese concealed artillery positions! (To be continued.) )