When Liu Yimin was regretting and reproaching himself for his careless move, which led to the passivity of the follow-up battle of Jiaoji Road, the gunfire of the air defense post rang out.

Deputy Chief of Staff [***] Feng and Wang Dongqiang, captain of the Second Squadron of the First Special Operations Squadron, rushed in.

[***] The wind "snapped" and saluted: "Report No. 1, the aircraft is an air raid, please hide!" ”

After speaking, [***] Feng and Wang Dongqiang left and right, came up and pulled Liu Yimin's hand and were about to pull out.

Liu Yimin is depressed, where will he go to hide! With a flick of his hand, he shouted loudly: "Play the piano indiscriminately!" Hide what? Is the little devil plane that scary? Immediately give the order and organize an anti-air shooting! ”

Liu Yimin entered Weicheng with a small staff team with the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Squad of the 3rd Special Operations Formation, and the division headquarters stayed in Jingzhi Town, and the guard regiment that followed the division headquarters also stayed in Jingzhi Town. At this time, it was broad daylight, and for the air raid, it was impossible for the division headquarters and the guard regiment to rush to join Liu Yimin. In this way, Liu Yimin's guard task fell on the supplementary regiment of the 1st Jiao Brigade and Wang Dongqiang in Weicheng. Therefore, as soon as they heard the gunfire of the air defense post, Feng and Wang Dongqiang rushed into Liu Yimin's office as soon as possible and asked him to carry out air defense concealment.

Seeing that Liu Yimin was not leaving, Feng hurriedly reported that the air defense command had notified all troops, Weicheng was the focus of retaliation, and now that the wind was blowing outside, the smoke might drift away, and Weicheng was about to be exposed in front of the little devil plane, and the gunfire of the air defense post had already indicated that the devil plane had begun to act. These ten wat gardens are all brick and wood buildings, which cannot withstand the bombing of military planes. Please number one hurry up and take cover.

Liu Yimin heard that the wind was blowing outside and the smoke over Weicheng was about to dissipate, so he snorted, got up and took off the sniper rifle hanging on the wall, pulled the bolt, checked the bullets, took off the Bayi automatic rifle, stuffed two Bayi automatic rifle magazines and several rows of sniper rifle bullets into his pocket, and walked out of the door with his feet.

These were war years, and people had a strong sense of self-preservation. No matter where Liu Yimin went, he always carried a few pistols, Bayi automatic rifles, sniper rifles, submachine guns, 38 big covers, and medium formal rifles with him on his war horse. When they set off from Jingzhi Town, they were in a car, not a war horse, and Huang Wenhu and Li Xiaoshuai put the guns and bullets on the war horses on the car Liu Yimin was riding. After capturing Xia Yuan Xiong Mi, Wang Dongqiang immediately took Liu Yimin's weapon and put it in his temporary office, the former Xia Yuan Xiong Mi's office in Shihu Garden's Yanxiang Building.

Liu Yimin came out of the office and saw that the southeast wind was indeed blowing, and the smoke in the sky was slowly drifting away with the wind.

After explaining to the [***] Feng Command Staff Office and the radio station to hide, Liu Yimin said to Wang Dongqiang: "Don't stay here, go and tell Wang Laohu, I want to compete with the snipers to see who can shoot the most opportunities!" ”

Wang Dongqiang remained motionless: "No. 1, you have long said that it is the brains that fight in the war, not the brave and ruthless!" I'm in charge of your safety now, and I can't put you in danger. ”

Since the Red Eighteenth Regiment was expanded into the Central Guard Division, with the expansion of the size of the troops, Liu Yimin had fewer and fewer opportunities to kill the enemy with his own hands, and basically all of them were in the command position. When educating cadres at all levels, he always stressed that they were not allowed to leave their command positions. In normal times, every time there is a big battle, Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong are always with him, even if they see him to death, they don't have a chance to shoot if they want to. Running to Weicheng at night as an iron is considered to be a knife and a try, and it is a small addiction. Now that he finally has the opportunity to play the machine, Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong are not around, how can he resist the itching of his hands!

Liu Yimin no longer paid attention to Wang Dongqiang, carried a spear in each hand, and went directly to the roof of the Yanxiang Building. Wang Dongqiang, who was in a hurry, shouted in the courtyard, and finally simply carried his Bayi automatic rifle to the roof of the building and leaned next to Liu Yimin.

It was said that the military aircraft group swooped down from the southeast with the help of the wind. This group of crazy little devils could not have imagined that near the east gate of Weicheng, which loomed in the smoke, the three antiaircraft artillery battalions of the First Air Defense Regiment of the Eighth Route Army formed a large triangular formation, and each antiaircraft artillery battalion formed its own triangular formation.

Since the death of Li Yimo, the first commander of the Eighth Route Army's air defense brigade, in the Nangong air war, the air defense command has become a first-class reinforcement unit for instructors, and the three air defense regiments have selected a group of machine gun shooters and gunners in all units of the division, and have recruited a group of soldiers with a high level of education from among the students in Tianjin and Qingdao, and have carried out intensive training and assigned them to the main gunner posts, thus solving the problems of speed measurement, curve calculation, advance measurement and observation, and the combat effectiveness has risen several steps compared with those in Tianjin and Nangong. In addition, the instructor's special combat team successively attacked and occupied Baoding Airport, Dawenkou Airport, Qingdao, and Lianyungang, wiped out the Eighth and Tenth Divisions, and captured quite a number of antiaircraft guns, antiaircraft machine guns, and Gaoping dual-purpose guns.

The 1st Air Defense Regiment is the main regiment of the Air Defense Command, with three battalions, three companies in each battalion, three platoons in each company, and five squads in each platoon, a telephone squad responsible for contacting the command and artillery observers, a reconnaissance squad responsible for reconnoitring the enemy's situation, two antiaircraft artillery squads with one anti-aircraft gun per squad, and one artillery gun with one gunner, two gunners, three gunners, four gunners, five gunners, six gunners, and seven gunners, of which the first, second, third, and fourth gunners are the main gunners, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh gunners are the reserve gunners. There were also two fighters who were responsible for carrying the shells. Each platoon also has an anti-aircraft machine gun squad, equipped with two captured anti-aircraft machine guns or Type 24 Maxine heavy machine guns captured by the former Red Seventh Army. Originally, according to the normal establishment, an anti-aircraft machine gun squad could only be equipped with one machine gun, but the instructor was different, because when Liu Yimin led the 18th Red Regiment to ambush the Chen Guangzhong Division of the Hunan Army in Xikou, in order to strengthen the firepower, the heavy machine gun squad was originally equipped with one machine gun and renamed it two, and this tradition has been preserved, and the air defense brigade naturally has to be configured according to the tradition of the 18th Red Regiment.

In this way, the entire air defense regiment was equipped with 54 anti-aircraft guns and 54 anti-aircraft machine guns, and the firepower was very powerful.

The only regret is that the antiaircraft guns of the Japanese army have a short firing range, a small angle, a narrow range, a slow speed, and a small force, and they are not yet able to fire continuously. If it were replaced by the antiaircraft guns of the American, British, and Soviet armies, it is estimated that after World War I, the little devil planes would really no longer dare to engage in low-altitude search attacks and dive strafing.

Political commissar of the 1st Air Defense Regiment [***] Feng was originally the deputy chief of the divisional staff office, and was later transferred to the 1st Air Defense Regiment as a political commissar. When Zeng Zhongsheng established the Ludong Command of the Eighth Route Army, he took Zhu Zhexiao, the deputy director of the General Staff Office, away, and Liu Yimin had to transfer [***] Feng back to the General Staff Office as the deputy director. In this way, Yan Yaohui, commander of the First Air Defense Regiment, sang a one-man show again, serving as both the regiment commander and the political commissar.

Unlike the troops that needed covert air defense, Yan Yaohui, commander of the 1st Air Defense Regiment, was looking forward to an air raid. Because his air defense regiment has experienced the baptism of air combat in Binxian County since the first battle of Nangong, and its combat effectiveness has become stronger and stronger, and he is looking forward to fighting another big battle in order to avenge the old brigade commander Li Yimo.

Yan Yaohui is confident that the equipment and training of the troops are placed there, how can he be afraid of the little devils? Although it is very difficult for an antiaircraft gun or an antiaircraft machine gun to hit an airplane, and the probability of a single gun or machine gun hitting is basically zero, the Red Army's training program drawn up by the division commander clearly states that when dealing with horizontally flying aircraft, six antiaircraft guns can fire a salvo, and after the shells explode at high altitude, a dense shrapnel firepower network can be formed, and as long as the advance amount is calculated, there is no problem in dealing with a single machine, and the probability of hitting should be about 90 percent. If the aircraft is said to dive and strafe or pull up after diving, it will be simpler, just shoot directly at the nose and tail of the devil, and even save the amount of calculation in advance. The calculation of the advance is also very simple: the speed of the aircraft is multiplied by the time it takes for the shells and bullets to reach the aircraft, divided by the length of the fuselage. The resulting figure is the amount of lead that should be taken into account when retargeting. The practice of the Battle of Nangong and the Battle of Binxian proved that the air defense tactics taught in the Red Army training program compiled by the division commander were very effective and very effective. There are a total of 54 anti-aircraft guns and 54 anti-aircraft machine guns in nine anti-aircraft artillery batteries of their three anti-aircraft artillery battalions.

Seeing that the machine swooped down from the gradually drifting smoke, and wanted to sweep over Weicheng in a low-altitude attitude and carry out low-altitude bomb dropping and strafing, Yan Yaohui smiled, waved the small red flag in his hand, and ordered the cannon to be fired.

The awl of the 1st Air Defense Regiment of the Great Triangle Town is the 1st Air Defense Battalion, and the 1st Air Defense Battalion The Awl of the Triangle Town is the 1st Air Defense Company. At this moment, six anti-aircraft guns and six anti-aircraft machine guns of the first anti-aircraft company opened fire on the nose of the first heavy bomber that dived down!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Six anti-aircraft shells were fired at the nose of the enemy aircraft.

Dada!

Two strings of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets rushed towards the nose of the devil's plane.

The little devil group did not find the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, they only saw the outline of Weicheng from the smoke that gradually dissipated, and then they swooped down from the air, wanting to use bombs, machine guns, and airborne machine guns to take good revenge on the Eighth Route Army that attacked Weicheng. When the Eighth Route Army opened fire, the little devil was dumbfounded, and the heavy bomber that hit the head was directly hit, and there was a volley explosion. The fragments of the plane's explosion, together with the fragments of the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft shells, hit the wingman on the side of the long plane at once, and the guy, as if drunk, staggered and fell to the ground.

The fighters swooped down in formation, and the speed was very amazing, and the planes behind did not have time to react at all, and they rushed forward and successively crashed into the fire network of the first air defense group.

The anti-aircraft guns are roaring! Anti-aircraft machine guns are singing!

The plane that crashed into the anti-aircraft fire network of the Eighth Route Army was like a moth flying towards the lights, struggling in vain with its wings, and kept burning and falling in the lights.

It wasn't until ten fighters were lost in one breath that the planes behind reacted, fluttering their wings like a frightened bird, and hurriedly pulled up to avoid ground artillery fire.

It's late, it's late, and if you want to run for your life at this time, you have to leave the money to buy the road. The Eighth Route Army's air defense regiment had such a powerful anti-aircraft firepower that it was not easy to seize the opportunity to exert its might, how could it allow them to get out easily?

Following the commanders' commands, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the first anti-aircraft regiment kept adjusting their firing angles, chasing the figure of the little devil fighters, and spraying the flames of revenge.

After paying the price of five more planes being destroyed, the panicked group of military planes finally escaped from the fire network of the first air defense regiment and plundered towards Weicheng.

When the dizzy machine arrived in the sky above Weicheng, he didn't care about anything and began to take revenge frantically.

Aerial bombs are like donkey dung eggs, which keep being pulled apart.

When the ancient city of Weixian County came up, the walls collapsed, the dust was flying, and the crying was loud.

At this time, the heavy machine gun regiment, the supplementary regiment of the 1st Jiao Brigade, the infantry regiment of the artillery brigade, and the 2nd squad of Wang Laohu's 3rd Special Operations Formation opened fire on the Weicheng regiment. However, their operational purpose was different from that of the First Air Defense Regiment, and shooting down the aircraft was secondary, and the important thing was to disperse the aircraft and reduce the losses in Weicheng.

At this time, the machine was already a frightened bird, and as soon as it encountered ground fire, it stepped up to drop bombs and escape, and there was no intention of fighting at all.

However, the fact that they don't want to fight doesn't mean that the Eighth Route Army doesn't want to destroy them. The heavy machine gun regiment had so many heavy machine guns, plus the light and heavy machine guns of the supplementary regiment of the 1st Brigade and the infantry regiment of the artillery brigade, and the 1 August automatic rifles, submachine guns, and rifles of the soldiers, weaving a tight net of fire over the entire Weicheng. Unless they give up bombing, strafing, and quickly pull up and flee.

How could the devil plane think that this small Weicheng actually had an impenetrable firepower network, where would he dare to continue to do evil, hurriedly dodge the rain of bullets, and quickly escaped. At this point, five planes were beaten down by a firepower network composed of machine guns and rifles by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

After Liu Yimin went up to the roof, the machine had already begun to dive. Listening to the sound of artillery and gunfire on the position of the first air defense regiment, Liu Yimin knew that the little devil had suffered a big loss, because he did not hear the sound of aerial bomb explosions.

Seeing that the military aircraft group had finally rushed through the position of the first air defense regiment and swept towards the city, Liu Yimin immediately fired his gun, concentrated his energy, and locked on a light bomber.

The pilot of this plane was very skilled, shaking his wings from side to side, dodging machine guns and rifle bullets on the ground, and with his wingman, he quickly swept towards the Shihu Garden where Liu Yimin was.

In this era, although Weicheng was economically developed and prosperous before the Anti-Japanese War, it was also compared with other places in this era. From the perspective of future generations, it is still very backward. There are very few reinforced and hydrocondensed buildings in the city, and their height is limited. Anyone who looks at a garden building like Shihu Garden knows that it is inhabited by wealthy and wealthy people. In addition, there is an antenna on the roof of the building, and anyone who looks at it will know that it is the headquarters of the military chief's office, and the target is very obvious.

The pilot of the plane seemed to have discovered the radio antenna on the roof of the Yanxiang Building in Shihu Garden, and determined that this was the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Liu Yimin had shot down several planes with a 79 rifle on the Wujiang River as early as the Wujiang River, and he had a wealth of experience. Later, when I was browsing on the Internet, I saw an interview with the commander of an anti-aircraft artillery company of the Volunteer Army, and I knew the operational characteristics of propeller aircraft at this time. As soon as the little devil raised his nose, he found the target, and he was about to dive and strafe Yanxianglou.

Liu Yimin's consciousness had already locked on the plane, which was a KI32 Type 98 light bomber produced by Kawasaki Company, using a liquid-cooled engine, a crew of two, armed with two machine guns, with a bomb load of 450 kilograms and a speed of 423 kilometers per hour.

Liu Yimin's mind had already emerged with the somewhat immature face of the military pilot that was distorted by his hideousness. At the moment when the plane began to dive, Liu Yimin fired, and he could clearly feel that the bullet was spinning and drilling through the windshield in front of the pilot's face and into the head of the pilot.

Without even looking at the plane that was hit, Liu Yimin quickly pushed the bomb and loaded it, and only one shot hit the wingman of the light bomber of the Japanese army's wingman. There were fuel tanks for the plane.

A moment later, the machine that had just been dancing its teeth and claws turned into a ball of fire. Needless to say, it's going to explode in the air!

Wang Dongqiang crawled beside Liu Yimin, smacked his lips in surprise, and said something in his mouth: "One bullet and one plane, the forehead is a god, you have to kill the two demons of Emperor Hirohito and Konoe Bunma!" ”

Anything is afraid of rumors, Liu Yimin accidentally said to Qian Zhuangfei, "Forehead drop god", and as a result, the instructor will all say forehead drop god. This is the same as the effect of Liu Yimin saying a sentence about scolding "stupid" back then.

After two shots, Liu Yimin had no chance to shoot. The reason was that the ground fire in Weicheng forced the military aircraft group to hurriedly pull up and flee to the airspace northwest of Weicheng.

Is the airspace northwest of Weicheng safe?

After the reorganization of the Air Defense Command and Air Defense Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, there were three antiaircraft artillery regiments, and the three regiments were urgently transferred to the Third Brigade to reinforce Zeng Zhongsheng and Li Qing, and the remaining air defense regiment was arranged at the east gate of Weicheng, and its position was mainly aimed at the aircraft coming from the direction of Qingdao. The Second Regiment was deployed at the west gate of Weicheng and was a position set up in the direction of Jinan. However, Han Qianjian, commander of the Air Defense Command, and Zhou Huan, political commissar, never expected that due to the smoke, Jinan and Qingdao would meet in the airspace between Weicheng and Pingdu and form a group. What's even more unfortunate is that at this time, the southeast wind blew, and the smoke was gradually blown away, exposing the Weicheng that was originally covered. It was impossible for the military aircraft group to dive into the wind, so it turned to the east gate and took advantage of the wind to launch an attack on Weicheng from southeast to northwest, directly hitting the air defense fire network of the first air defense regiment.

The Second Air Defense Regiment, which was located at the west gate of Weicheng, was established after the fierce battle against the air in Nangong, and it was originally an anti-aircraft machine gun regiment, and the regiment commander was Liu Yimin, the machine gun shooter of the fire support squad when he established the sharp knife platoon of the 34th Red Division, and Long Huwa, a special meritorious hero of our army. He was promoted after being transferred from the heavy machine gun regiment to the commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion of the 1st anti-aircraft regiment.

The Second Air Defense Regiment was later reorganized into an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, which was exactly the same in structure and armament as the First Air Defense Regiment, with three battalions and 54 antiaircraft guns and 54 antiaircraft machine guns.

Unlike Li Yimo, Han Qianjian, Zhou Huan, and Yan Yaohui, Long Huwa grew up step by step from a machine gunner. As far as the level of machine gun shooting is concerned, the whole instructor is probably only his younger brother Long Huzi, who is still the commander of the first battalion of the heavy machine gun regiment, can compare with him. Since the breakthrough of Xinwei, the two brothers followed Liu Yimin step by step, and they have repeatedly performed miraculous feats, both of which are special heroes of our army.

When the 1st Air Defense Regiment opened fire, the commander of the 2nd Air Defense Regiment, Long Huwa, had already ordered the artillery group and machine gun group to turn around and prepare for battle. The commanders of the battalions, companies, and platoons were busy measuring distances, curves, and speeds, and the sound of shouting orders came and went.

When the planes swept over from Weicheng, the artillery group and machine-gun group of the Second Air Defense Regiment opened fire, and a string of machine-gun bullets and groups of antiaircraft shells rose into the air and slammed into the group of planes of the Yuejun army that had fled for their lives.

This is tantamount to an anti-aircraft ambush war, and when the anti-aircraft artillery group and the anti-aircraft machine gun group of the Eighth Route Army roared angrily, a wide firepower net was opened in front of the plane, and basically there was no need to even aim, as long as it kept firing rapidly, and the fragments of the shell explosion and the machine gun bullets were intertwined, not to mention such a large plane, it was just a bird, and it could not fly over safely.

They flew from the southeast to the northwest and crashed headlong into the fire net, and they could not reverse, so they had to go forward one after another, crashing upwards without hesitation, and then pounce and fall straight down. It was a spectacular scene.

It was only then that the pilots realized that they should not have come on this mission. The Eighth Route Army not only dug traps for the 108th Division and the 33rd Division and buried them, but also dug traps for the army aviation of the pride of the sky, waiting for them to jump!

It wasn't until the army threw down the wreckage of the 12 planes in front of the fire net of the 2nd Air Defense Regiment that they were able to free themselves and finally pulled up.

To the surprise of the pilots, their nightmare is not over, the disaster continues, and their bad luck is far from over!

When the southeast wind blew, it not only blew away the smoke, but also blew the kites and balloons in the smoke over Weicheng to the northwest. The plane fled to the northwest airspace, and collided head-on with kites and balloons fluttering in the air. These were originally just toys for Weicheng people's entertainment and leisure, at the moment by the wind, are looking in the air, leisurely, as soon as the machine comes up, they will rush to the machine to float, graceful, gentle and gentle, like a fairy in love, open arms, wrapped around the very high speed, loud sound, flying posture is quite beautiful of the machine. It wasn't until the propellers of the machine sucked the kites and balloons, entangled the engines to extinguish the fire, and one by one they fell straight down.

Major General Nakamoto Shengxiao, commander of the army's aircraft group and commander of the First Flying Regiment of the North China Front Air Group, checked the results of the battle damage through a throat transmitter. During this inspection, Major General Zhongyuan Shengxiao almost wanted to fly the plane to install the city wall of Weicheng. What a shame!

(To be continued)