This is a battle for time between the commanders of both sides, and the victory or defeat of the battle is tightly biting on which of the reinforcements on both sides will arrive first This condition, when the Ming army transferred troops, the Japanese reinforcements were already advancing along the anticline of their own heights, towards the commanding heights. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Quick! Fast! For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire! For His Majesty the Emperor! Advance! Standing halfway up the mountain, the commander of the infantry wing of the 2nd Division, reinforced by the Japanese army, waved his command knife forward and cheered for his subordinates loudly.

"For His Majesty the Emperor!" Dense steel helmets swayed along the mountain road, looking like a giant python winding forward. An infantry wing of the Japanese army had about 4,000 soldiers, which exceeded the regimental establishment of the Ming Empire and was almost equal to two regiments of the Ming Empire. Although the force lost some troops, it still maintained its size of more than 3,000 men when it reached the front.

These soldiers crowded the road, frantically charging towards the Japanese fortress pillbox at the commanding heights, hoping to gain a foothold in advance and start a battle with the Ming soldiers who were storming there.

Kazuhiro Ozawa is now finally relieved, the Japanese reinforcements he has been looking forward to countless times have finally arrived, which also allows the 17th Division to stabilize its position, and his battle can be regarded as a success. As long as the defensive position was held and the follow-up battle plan drawn up by Miyamoto was launched, the Japanese army could be considered to have won the battle.

In the case of heavy losses, it is self-evident whether the Ming army has the determination, or whether it has the strength to attack on such a scale again. Kazuhiro Ozawa looked at the Japanese soldiers who had crossed his headquarters, his face no longer the color of the gray earth of despair he had just had, and he felt that he had finally held his defensive position and won this vital battle.

Li Haoran piloted the newly repaired Lei Gong 1 dive bomber was hovering over the Japanese position, and soon the attack plane pilot found a long snake on the ground with a large target, and he pressed the throat intercom to remind the plane next to him, signaling the other party to follow him to attack: "Long Knife No. 1 is ready to dive and attack, Long Knife No. 2, you cover me!" ”

"Long Knife No. 2 understands! Long Knife No. 2 understands! The headset heard the answer of his friendly army, giving Li Haoran the signal to dive and attack, as if he heard the horn of the attack being blown, Li Haoran began to push his aircraft control stick, so that the nose of the plane was aimed at the endless land.

Then the Leigong-1 dive bomber, which was traveling at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, began to accelerate suddenly, skimming the faint clouds around it, revealing its hideous face. It dived at full throttle, and soon reached a speed of an astonishing 400 km/h thanks to gravity.

The surging engine brought amazing power and load to the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber, but also brought terrible noise, and when the two dive bombers of the Ming Empire rushed down the clouds, Japanese soldiers spotted these two uninvited guests. Then they screamed and pointed to the sky to remind everyone around them: "Da Ming's plane!" Daming's plane is coming! ”

Hearing the shouts and seeing the enemy's plane, these Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat, and the soldiers on both sides hurriedly fled the road, and even the unlucky ones fell to the ground because of a slip under their feet, and fled in embarrassment. However, the planes of the Ming Empire rushed down, leaving not much time for these Japanese.

Different from precision bombing, the two Lei Gong 1 dive bombers began to drop the bombs mounted under their belly from a high position while diving along the road, the first bomb was dropped from a high position on the ground, and the second bomb was separated from the fuselage after a few seconds.

When the four bombs left the plane, Li Haoran pressed the trigger of the cannon on the wing of the plane expressionlessly, and the two cannons began to roar at the same time, spitting out a long tongue of fire at the ground. The tracer bullet dragged the obvious light towards the Japanese crowd, and as the plane dived and adjusted, two distinct marks were drawn on the ground.

The machine gun shells were like peasants plowing the ground, plowing two deep pits in the ground, accompanied by the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who were shot, and the Japanese soldiers paid a terrible price in an instant. When the plane was close enough to the ground, Li Haoran could even see the movements of these Japanese soldiers clearly, and he could see those poor people twisting and falling in the dust splashed by tracer bullets.

He pulled up the plane, the speed was sharply reduced, and then the nose of the plane broke off the ground, and after twisting and aiming at the high sky, at this time Li Haoran, the navigator with his back to him changed his posture, and his machine gun was just aimed at the ground, just right at the Japanese soldiers who were evading.

The navigator also pulled the trigger and opened heavy fire from an 8 mm machine gun, pouring bullets into the densest crowd. Unlike the cannons on the wings of the plane, the machine gun he controls can adjust the firing angle and can aim and fire, so he aimed the muzzle of the gun at the fleeing crowd on the side of the road, and without hesitation, he shot a drum specially prepared for the plane.

The Long Knife No. 2, which followed behind the Long Knife No. 1 aircraft, was concocted in the same way, showing the strength of the ground attack. The fierce baptism of machine guns brought the Japanese advancing formation to a halt and paid a heavy price in casualties. When Changdao 2 was pulled up, a 300-kilogram aerial bomb fell near the road and immediately exploded, kicking up dust and black smoke dozens of meters high.

It only took two or three breaths to destroy thousands of Japanese troops under the destruction of two planes, paralyzed on the way to the high ground, although the casualties were not too many, but in a hurry, who could really realize that the results of the powerful attack just now were not brilliant?

It's a simple psychological problem: when several bombs suddenly fall on his side, a soldier who cannot immediately grasp his surroundings will immediately estimate the losses of his own troops in his mind - of course, this estimate is very inaccurate and quite subjective. The difference in composure between recruits and veterans is that this psychological estimation is less biased.

More than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, and for a team of 3,000 people, such losses were not unbearable. However, the confusion lasted for a short time, and it was not until the two Ming planes climbed and moved away from the battlefield that the Japanese commanders reluctantly put their troops together and let them move on.

"Reinforcements are coming!" At the point where the anticline of the position was close to the commanding heights, the reinforced soldiers finally saw the entrance to the pillbox group, as well as the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications that had already been destroyed by artillery and bombers. The soldiers immediately dispersed and advanced along the trenches towards the frontal defensive positions, which was the direction of the Ming attack.

After all, these troops are all elite infantry from the Japanese 2nd Division, and although they have lost the reinforcements of their chariot wing, they are still truly elite fighting units. After all the hardships along the way, the soldiers entered the trenches and immediately showed good fighting condition.

"How many people came?" The Japanese commander, who was already on the verge of collapse, walked out of the bunker with binoculars on his shoulder, and almost laughed out loud when he saw the Japanese soldiers who had come to reinforce - there were definitely more than 1,000 troops, at least a brigade. With the help of these soldiers, this position can definitely withstand the overwhelming attack of the Ming army!

Compared with the speed of the Ming army's attack, the Japanese reinforcements still arrived at their combat positions first, and every trench was strengthened, and the Ming attacking troops not far away obviously felt the pressure, and their attack had to be stopped, waiting for more soldiers to be put into the battlefield.

When the battle began again, it was already about three o'clock in the afternoon, and when the Ming troops appeared in the field of vision of the Japanese army, not only did they have more infantry as expected, but also a new tank that had never been seen before.

Under the cover of this tank, more No. 1 improved tanks, together with thousands of Ming soldiers, launched another fierce assault on the Japanese position. At the same time, the Ming army's air power also joined the battle, hovering in the air and swooping down to attack when they found a target.

"This is the last attack of the Ming army! If we can hold our ground, then victory will be on the side of the Empire of Japan! Kazuhiro Ozawa confidently said to his adjutant and the wing commander of the 2nd Division who led the reinforcements.

Judging by the scale, he knew that this time the Ming Empire had dispatched a real offensive force and launched the strongest attack. As long as this attack was thwarted, the morale of the Ming Empire would be damaged, and the subsequent battle would enter a rhythm in favor of the Japanese defenders.

Of course, even so, he knew that he had just not lost, and that there was still a long way to go to win the war - after all, he was only passively holding his defensive position, and the expected counterattack by General Miyamoto Yuhito did not actually start as scheduled.

Now after seeing the newer tanks of the Ming Empire, Ozawa Kazuhiro even found that even if General Miyamoto Yuhito invested his armored troops, he may not really be able to bargain in front of the tanks of the Ming Empire. However, he was still full of confidence in his defensive position, and full of confidence in the Type 91 anti-tank gun, which had already brought huge casualties to the armored forces of the Ming Empire! (To be continued.) )