Chapter 649: Earth Flying Eagle (continued)

After mixing thick in a pot and getting along for a long time, the pilots of the Eighth Route Army are also accustomed to the way David and Xue Junmin speak, and they know that starting work is to start attacking, and finishing work is to return home.

After Xue Junmin gave the order, as soon as he pressed the nose of the plane, he directly swooped towards the yellow and slimy little devil team on the battlefield.

The 1st Division of the Japanese Army was historically known as the "Kuo Shao" in the Japanese Army. This unit is also known as the Tokyo Division because its soldiers are all from Tokyo. Before and after the Lugou Bridge Incident, the First Division was stationed in the northeast for a long time, sitting on the name of the Japanese army's "First Division", enjoying the best equipment and supplies, but rarely going to war, and it was not until the later stage of the Pacific War that the First Division was transferred from North Manchuria to the Pacific Theater, and was beaten by the US army.

Historically, the reason why the First Division did not participate in major battles for a long time was all due to the vanity of the Japanese, who were afraid that after the First Division suffered defeat in battle, all countries in the world would look down on the Japanese army. Because the First Division has the title of "first" after all.

Now history has changed, and due to the achievements of the instructors, the 1st Division can no longer be pampered in the northeast, and has to be ordered to enter the customs to participate in the war.

The establishment of the 1st Division was the largest among all divisions and regiments of the Japanese army. Its cavalry and artillery were brigade formations, each with three wings. However, the cavalry brigade and artillery brigade both left two wings to serve as garrisons on the mainland, and the first division to the Chinese battlefield only had one cavalry wing and one artillery wing.

In this large-scale sweep by the Japanese army, the commander of the Japanese army on the northern front was Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, former chief of staff of the North China Front Army and current commander of the First Division. Naosaburo Gangbu sat in command of Dexian County, and the task of commanding the former enemy of the First Division was handed over to the commander of the First Brigade.

After accepting the task of outflanking in a roundabout way, the 1st Division moved quickly, moving along the north flank of the blocking force of the Eighth Route Army, and soon cut off the connection between the New Sixth Brigade and the base area along the Jilu border. At this moment, the forward of the 1st Division and the 1st Wing of the 1st Infantry Brigade were storming the defense line of the New 6th Brigade and the New 16th Regiment that had rushed to block it.

Behind the 1st Wing, all the units of the huge 1st Division were in action, and the new 1st Division was in the midst of a stormy all-out offensive.

Xue Junmin: The first thing they attacked was the First Wing.

As the first wing of the Japanese army, it was naturally full of arrogance, and as soon as the battle began, the first wing came up with the Japanese army's favorite attack tactics, that is, to concentrate the wing artillery and the brigade artillery to bombard wildly, and then the squadron-scale attack. I saw that the little devil infantry was attacking and advancing in small squads, under the cover of grenadiers and machine guns, and they fought with a clear eye. Unfortunately, they faced the Eighth Route Army, and the tentative attack of one squadron soon failed. However, the 1st Wing was the 1st Wing after all, and the infantry squadron that failed in the attack did not withdraw from the battle, but lay down on the spot, quickly established grenadier and machine gun positions, and fired at the Eighth Route Army, hoping to use the grenadier to blow the Eighth Route Army out of its bunker, and then use machine guns and rifles to destroy it.

Originally, the Japanese squadron-scale offensive could continue for a longer period of time, and all the firepower deployment of the Eighth Route Army was played. But the Japanese wing commander couldn't wait, what he wanted was the speed of the attack, and what he wanted was to rush to the Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge as soon as possible, occupy the iron bridge, and completely block the retreat of the Eighth Route Army that was blocking the attack in Xi'an. However, the first division is the first division, and he is used to it, and he even fights lavishly. Eight bombers that provided air cover for the Japanese attack, escorted by four fighters, flew over the position of the New 16th Regiment under the cover of smoke, raging wildly, turning the position of the New 16th Regiment into a sea of fire.

The new 16th Regiment is the new 6th Regiment of the Original Sixth Brigade. This regiment was formed in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the soldiers were basically hot-blooded young people who joined the army in Shanxi. Shanxi people are shrewd in business, and they are equally shrewd in war. After more than a year of battlefield training, these children of the Three Jin Dynasty have become old Eighth Roads who can fight well.

In the face of the tyranny of the Japanese planes, the new 16th Regiment fought back and organized anti-air shooting, the soldiers took the platoon as a unit, set up light and heavy machine guns, and all the rifle shooters also relied on the bunker to shoot at the air, forming one fire circle after another, and finally beat down a bomber.

Although there was smoke cover, although there was a position to rely on, and although anti-aircraft shooting was organized, the bombing of Japanese planes still brought heavy casualties to the new 16th regiment. The hygienists were busy bandaging the wounded, and the stretcher team carried the seriously wounded and quickly retreated.

After the bombing by the Japanese planes, the commander of the 1st Wing immediately adjusted his deployment, used tanks and armored vehicles to cover, divided the three infantry groups into three attack waves, and launched a fierce attack on the new 16th Regiment.

At this time, Xue Junmin and his comrades-in-arms fell from the sky.

Seeing the fighters coming and going, the soldiers of the 1st Wing thought that their planes had come to help in the war again, and they became arrogant. The little devils who were on the task of the second and third waves of attacks actually stopped advancing, straightened up, raised their hands and shouted long live the emperor, fantasizing about relying on aviation to destroy the blocking Eighth Route Army.

Sudden mutations. The swooping fighters swept past the positions of the Eighth Route Army and fired head-on at the First Wing.

The coolest was the Japanese infantry brigade that served as the first wave of attack missions. Since there was no order to stop the attack, the 1,100 little devils of this brigade had to follow the tanks to continue the attack, but they did not want to miss the opportunity to shout long live the emperor, and followed behind the tanks, shouting long live the emperor while maintaining the offensive formation. That's a bit like playing monkeys, the Eighth Route Army is playing monkeys, the more the monkeys jump, the happier the monkey people are. The on-board machine guns were playing more and more cheerfully, and the machine gun bullets blew through the attack formation of this brigade like a wind, and the attack formation of the little devils was like the clothes in the hands of the village women when they were washing clothes by the river, being rubbed back and forth, and staggering, very beautiful.

The Japanese soldiers who were on the second and third wave of attack missions and stood in the back cheering could never have dreamed that the shouts of Long Live the Emperor would come to harvest their lives before the shouts of the Emperor would land. Many of them fell to the ground with incredible eyes, as if they wanted to seek justice from God, asking why they had already shouted Long live the Emperor, and His Majesty's fighter planes were still slaughtering them.

Taking advantage of your illness and killing you, the new 16th Regiment immediately sounded the trumpet of the charge as soon as it saw that its fighters were coming to reinforce it, and the soldiers rushed out of the position with light machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles, shooting and throwing bombs at the same time, hoping to completely wipe out the first wing of the first brigade of the first division and regiment with the help of the offensive of our fighters.

Unlike Feng Dafei, who was eager to blow up the artillery positions of the Second Division and eliminate the tanks and armored vehicles of the Second Division, Xue Junmin was a young overseas Chinese pilot after all, and he did not have Feng Dafei's command ability and tactical vision cultivated over many years of military career. Wherever there are devils who resist, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army will fly wherever they go. Where the little devils gathered, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army dropped bombs and strafed them.

At this time, the strong First Wing couldn't hold on, they didn't even have a chance to hide and evacuate urgently, let alone withstand the charge of the Eighth Route Army, from officers to soldiers, they forgot their oath to fill the ravines and seas with corpses, and became routs eager to flee for their lives. Even the few surviving devil tanks turned their lines and began to retreat in a hurry.

The 1st Wing of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, the oldest unit of the Japanese Army, under the double blow of the planes of the Eighth Route Army and the ground troops, turned out to be a unit that was not even as good as bandits, like a group of rabbits, and began to race backwards on the field in winter.

It was not until the main force of the 1st Division caught up and began to fire into the air with anti-aircraft fire that the new 16th Regiment stopped the pursuit, picked up the weapons and ammunition next to the corpse of the little devil, and quickly returned to the position to hold on.

After defeating the First Wing, Xue Junmin led the formation to meet the main force of the First Division. But by this time, the main force of the 1st Division had been prepared, the sneak attack had turned into a strong attack, and the Japanese fighter group that had received the report had also rushed to the battlefield, and David kept urging the bombers to return through the airborne radio. When Xue Junmin saw that the fighter plane had been lost, he realized that he had made a mistake and violated the battle plan, so he had to order the formation to be quickly raised, return to the second set of battle plans, and go to the Feicheng area to bomb the 14th Division of the Japanese army.

After giving the order, Xue Junmin's brass drum airborne radio reported the situation to Feng Dafei and David.

After David led the fighter formation to the battlefield, he first aimed at the Japanese planes that were attacking the position of the Eighth Route Army.

David, who was retired in the United States and caught up with the Great Depression of the economic crisis, is equivalent to being unemployed. After being recruited to China by Ni Hua, he found a place to use, not only solved the work problem, but also cultivated an aviation team that has repeatedly created miracles, and he felt a sense of accomplishment. In addition, Liu Yimin also found him a Japanese beauty, which made David dizzy. Especially when he returned to Shandong, working and fighting under Liu Yimin, David's mood was better. Before I got on the plane, I was still whistling

Compared with Feng Dafei, Davy is a little more flexible in their tactics. Compared with Xue Junmin, David is much more sophisticated and ruthless.

Davy's first aim was the formation of Japanese bombers pursuing the retreating Eighth Route Army from Yucheng. This group of Japanese planes consisted of eight fighters and 10 bombers. The bombers chased the retreating Eighth Route Army team along the trenches, dropping bombs and diving strafing, and the eight fighters were on alert at an altitude of 3,200 meters.

The fighter formation led by David had a total of three squadrons and thirty fighters, and at this moment had an absolute advantage.

This is how it is to fight a war, the enemy may have an absolute advantage as a whole, but in a local area our army may have an advantage. As a good commander, what you seek is to create this local advantage, destroy the enemy one by one, and grow yourself up until you finally develop a comprehensive advantage. Then it is necessary to win a complete victory in the war.

David's order was simple: "The first squadron, the second squadron beat the yellow monkey fighters, and the third squadron beat the yellow monkey bombers." Lads, the opportunity to get rich has come, start attacking"

How would the little devil pilot know that in David's eyes, they are equivalent to the colorful dollar and the white and tender Yamato beauty, kissing them

As far as air combat is concerned, the so-called seizing a favorable position mainly refers to the height. Height determines the initiative and determines whether you live or die.

David: They drilled out of the clouds from an altitude of 5,500 meters, and after discovering the Japanese plane, they continued to descend until they were at a position where they could launch an attack, and David blew a cheerful whistle in the throat transmitter, pushed the nose of the plane, and fired at the back of a Japanese fighter from top to bottom.

In fact, when David and the others attacked, the Japanese planes had already discovered that the fighters of the Eighth Route Army were coming. The Japanese commander who led the team immediately ordered to seize the advantageous position, cover the retreat of the bombers, and report his azimuth coordinates to the airfield, requesting urgent reinforcements.

The little devil commander found out too late, it was a plane, how fast it was, before the devil commander could finish reporting, David and they had already opened fire.

Da-da-da, da-da-da, David's on-board machine gun screamed for joy, and a string of bullets hit the back of the little devil fighter, and the devil fighter was actually broken in two. David shook his head, the yellow monkey's plane was too sturdy

After taking out a Japanese fighter plane, David saw that the little devil fighter was pulling up. At this time, David remembered that Liu Yimin had talked to him about the tactics of the Chinese Air Force warriors, and without the slightest hesitation, he also pulled the control stick, raised the nose of the plane, and chased after a Japanese plane that was being pulled up. When he was about to pass through the belly of the Japanese plane, David fired, and the bullet entered the belly of the Japanese plane, hitting the fuel tank, and a fireball immediately exploded in the air, and the devil fighter exploded in volley.

By this time, David was no longer chasing the Japanese fighters, as the Japanese bombers were desperately fleeing.

At this point, there was no suspense in this air battle, and the 30 fighters of the Eighth Route Army faced the little devils, 8 fighters, and 10 bombers, and everyone knew what the result would be. However, the Japanese planes were still very cunning, and two of the bombers escaped under the siege of the fighters of the Eighth Route Army.

David was chasing the Japanese bombers with his formation, and the vigilant pilots reported that a large number of Japanese fighters were approaching the battlefield.

David knew that it was the pilots of the Eighth Route Army who understood Japanese, and they intercepted the contact information of the Japanese planes from the recorded radio station. David immediately called Feng Dafei and Xue Junmin to inform the bomber formation to return quickly. He led the fighter formation to stop the pursuit of the fleeing Japanese bombers, quickly pulled up, seized a favorable position, and prepared to meet the approaching Japanese fighter group.

The Japanese army aviation fighters in North China have now exceeded two flying regiments, and the carrier-based aircraft strength of the Navy's combined fleet is also very strong. Although the Japanese planes practiced the tactics of continuously covering the offensive operations of the ground forces, and the fighters were taken into the air in batches, and a large number of fighters remained on airfields and aircraft carriers, the Japanese army attacked on three fronts, and each division and regiment demanded that the fighters provide air cover. As a result, the number of Japanese fighters stranded in the sky was still very large. As soon as they received reports from the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the attacked formations, the Japanese fighters on the eastern, northern, and southern fronts all rushed to the Yucheng battlefield, with the natural aim of intercepting the fighters of the Eighth Route Army and destroying them.