Chapter 597: Mule River 2

The loss of the Japanese army in Wuhan directly led to the relative numerical superiority that had always been before, and it was not too obvious at this time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Perhaps after a round of attacks by the opponent and the defeat of a few Type 95 that were already seriously behind, this slight numerical advantage was almost leveled. Dongmuzhuang's eyes were gloomy. Just from the cold voices of other colleagues in the communicator, it can also be known that the other pilots are not optimistic.

"The Northwest Air Force of China is actually equipped with an excellent fighter that is not inferior to the Empire's Zero War, and the Army Aviation is still mainly biplanes, are those local designers all rice buckets?"

After a moment of silence, a pilot finally roared angrily. They don't have a bunch of ordinary people like the ground forces to act as meat shields. The consequence of losing to the other side is often the death of the enemy.

In fact, when the Minister of War brazenly asked the Navy for help, although it was under pressure, it also made some important members of the Army Department deeply ashamed. Not long after the Navy developed the Zero, the Army Aviation also developed the Falcon fighter. It's just that it was developed a little late, and when it was produced, it was the first time that the Army Aviation was equipped with a cutting-edge design of retractable landing gear. However, this design has also been criticized by many pilots. As a result, the Falcon fighter is also slowly growing in the midst of all this shouting. Although the endurance and maximum speed of the Falcon fighter were slightly better than those of the Navy's main fighter at that time, the 97 Ship Battle, it was inferior to the 97 Ship Battle, which the pilots attached great importance to, and was not even stronger than the 95 Type 95 fighter of the Army Aviation itself. Naturally, a considerable number of pilots were reluctant to abandon the Type 95 fighter that they were already very familiar with, and went to the Falcon Style, which did not seem to have much improvement in its flying performance.

At this time, the overall performance of the Hayabusa was quite acceptable, and the Army Airlines allowed a small amount of mass production, but at the same time, it also put forward some unreasonable requirements for the Hayabusa, which led to Nakajima having to make the aircraft lightweight, in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft, at the expense of the structural strength of the fuselage, excessive pursuit of speed and rotation performance. The strength of the fuselage was too poor, which led to the disintegration of the aircraft in the air and the pilot also made a free fall movement during the test of the Hayabusa prototype.

The air crash, as well as the unpopularity of the Hayabusa's early aircraft among Army Aviation pilots, made the Army Aviation high-level suspicious of Hayabusa, which made Hayabusa take a long detour. It was not until the follow-up improvement work of the Zero War was completed, coupled with the intention of Hainan Airlines to block the news of the Army Airlines, that the Army Airlines learned of the excellent performance of the Zero Battle, and then set up a large investment in the Falcon again.

Until now, the improved Falcon has also surpassed Jiuqi in all aspects, and the Army Airlines no longer has to count on a small number of zero battles from the HNA side, but at least for now, it is not easy to increase the production of the Falcon fighter in a short period of time. Just as after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Northwest tried its best to produce the Flying Dragon, but the halo of the Eagle series of fighters has not been completely withdrawn from Northwest Airlines until now. It is still active in some places where air combat is not relatively intense. Everything has to be a process, at least for the time being, and it will take some time before the Hayabusa fighter enters into large-scale service.

And this period of time was undoubtedly a difficult day for the Japanese army and aviation.

Even in Southeast Asia, fighting against the British and American air forces, the Japanese Air Force was dominated by naval aviation, and it was able to kill the air forces of the great powers to lose their armor. In Vietnam, the army aviation in Burma also had a lot of confrontations with the British and American air forces. In the case of not encountering the British and American air forces, it still firmly gained the upper hand, and even covered the bombers to bomb deep into the Yunnan-Burma road and railway area many times.

But in the Republic of China, or in the Republic of China north of the Yangtze River, this is not the case, at this time the Japanese air force at this time had a seemingly absurd thought in their hearts, those guys who can be transferred to Southeast Asia to fight against the British and American air forces are really happy, and they don't have to face these terrible opponents in the north!

These Japanese pilots at this time did not know that this thought continued until the end of the war!

Da Da ..........

The fighters in the air exchanged fierce fire, and the Japanese pilots fought quite heroically, even though they knew that their cars were inferior. Bullets from both sides entered each other's bodies at almost the same time.

The exchange of fire with the opponent's Type 96 fighter was a Tamron fighter. At this time, the Japanese army aviation was still using a relatively popular 7.7mm caliber machine gun, and the relatively thick fuselage of the Tamron was only an extra row of bullet holes after withstanding such an attack, and it was not greatly affected. The 12.7mm bullet hit the body of the Japanese army, and the originally relatively fragile fuselage even cracked a small slit. Chi soon discovered that even if he pushed the lever to the end, the fuselage of the plane was shaking more violently than usual, and did not get the acceleration he imagined. With a long flight experience, Chi Guanghe quickly reacted that he had been shot in the firefight just now.

Injuries to the body are not fatal, but they can be fatal when the performance is impaired and the opponent is still fighting.

No! Chi Guanghe saw that the new Tenglong fighter plane didn't seem to be affected much, so it easily climbed above him and swooped down, and Chi Guanghe couldn't help but cry out in despair.

"Chi Guang-kun!" Chi Guanghe's desperate and hysterical voice sounded in the communicator, and the other Japanese pilots who were temporarily idle couldn't help but look in the direction of Chi Guanghe.

Rumble! In the eyes of several Japanese pilots, Chi Guanghe's seat frame had exploded into a dazzling fireball.

DiDi ........... A truck moved at breakneck speed through the division of the 2nd Armored Mixed Brigade, which was accelerating forward.

Syllable! A colonel-officer slammed the door and got on his horse, galloped quickly towards the artillery positions on the outskirts of Mule River.

"Why don't you open fire!" Yu Zhixiao jumped off the horse, twisted Song Dafei's collar and said with a blue face.

"The people in front are all ordinary people, I can't give this order!" Song Dafei yelled at Yu Zhixiao hoarsely, this was the first time he yelled at his superiors so loudly.

"In areas outside the control of the Northwest Army, a large area of land is occupied area, is it that the devils have driven the people to block the front, and this war will not be fought!" Yu Zhixiao roared back with red eyes.

"You can't give this order, I'll give it!"

Yu Zhixiao's hands were strong, Song Dafei sat down in the ice and snow slag, and when he looked up at Yu Zhiwei, Yu Zhiwei, who has always been known as the cold-blooded head in the army, was in two lines of hot tears at this time.

"Heavy artillery battalion, prepare!"

In Yu Zhixiao's crying order, the other artillerymen silently loaded the shells with red eyes. In normal times, even if the shells are heavy, they can work hard to load these shells into the barrel as quickly as possible, but at this time, these shells seem to weigh more than a thousand pounds for these artillerymen.

Gotta get it...........

There was another rush of horses' hooves.

"The brigade has an order, suspend the firing of artillery, and wait for the armored troops to arrive before coordinating the attack!" The messenger shouted on horseback, and the horse spun in circles.

Hearing the brigade commander's order, Yu Zhixiao seemed to be in prostration, and the cold sweat on his back broke out, if it wasn't for one hand on the shoulder of the soldier next to him, Yu Zhixiao would probably also sit in the snow slag.

"Your Excellency Ohara, the shelling of the Shina Army has stopped." Soon the Japanese soldiers reported the latest movements of the Northwest Army.

"Hmm!" Ohara nodded indifferently, he is not deaf, can't he hear the cannon when it stops? "Immediately send a telegram to the wing headquarters and ask when reinforcements will arrive?"

Compared with the short-term optimism of some soldiers, Ohara was not at all relieved. Not only the Northwest Army, but even the Japanese army, a unit that can dispatch more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces is not something that a brigade can hold. What's more, at this time in Luohezhuang, the troops at hand are not yet full. The only chips available at the moment are these ordinary people who usually look inferior.

"Hay!"

When the soldiers used to convey Ohara's order, soon, the Japanese troops on the front line were restless again.

"No, it's not good, there are dozens of tanks on the side of the Chinese army that are rushing towards our position."

"What?" Ohara picked up the binoculars and stood on a slightly higher terrain, and was surprised to see dozens of burly big guys already appearing in the enemy positions in the distance.

"What are you doing in a daze, immediately send a report to the wing headquarters and division headquarters, asking for urgent guidance, what are you doing in a daze, quickly!" Ohara Sao roared loudly, he didn't understand why after such important information was sent, the rear reaction was so slow. Now the main forces of the enemy army have appeared, and he is still fighting alone here.

"Bang!" Gao Lingyun jumped out of the Snow Leopard armored car with a black face.

"Traveler!" The people present saluted Gao Lingyun one after another.

"Excuse me, after the artillery is pressed, use the armored troops as the arrow, enter the positions of the Japanese army, the Japanese army opens fire to listen to the artillery signal, the artillery starts, the armored troops can fire, try to avoid injuring innocents, there are dead and wounded, and I can't care so much. We did our best. Gao Lingyun gasped heavily.

"Yes, Brigade!" All the soldiers present received orders one after another, and it was not easy for anyone to give this order.

Boom, boom.......

"Pistol team, submachine gun team, prepare to talk, prepare later, prepare to rush up and meet the Japanese army later, try not to kill at once, leave a few alive to defuse Lao Tzu!" Gao Lingyun punched the solid deck of the snow leopard, although the snow leopard armored car was pitifully fragile for a tank, but for flesh and blood, human flesh and blood were still not comparable. It's just that the stinging pain in the finger bones made Gao Lingyun feel a little better, compared to the people who were still under the gun, the situation of these soldiers was much better.

"Your Excellency Ohara, the Zhi, the Chinese army has begun to attack."

"What a quarrel, I see it, drive those people to the front, I want to see if their guns will open fire on their people!" A hint of madness flashed across Ohara's face.

"Let's go, go to the front!" After brutally stabbing a few civilians to death with bayonets, the Japanese army drove the remaining six or seven hundred civilians against the dozens of daunting-looking tanks.

After all the people's eagerness, there was a period of numbness, and the hope that surged in their hearts also fell to the bottom, and the reinforcements came, which was also a dead end. Driven by the Japanese troops, the disobedient civilians were stabbed to death with bayonets on the spot, or directly killed with machine guns. The rest of the men looked terrified, and the woods staggered towards the tanks of the armored brigade.

The Japanese soldiers in the back followed closely with the machine guns set up, and while looking at these civilians with a cruel smile, they were also full of fear of the dozen or so tanks that rushed over. Xiang hoped that the opponent's tanks would retreat.

But soon, the momentum of the advance of the armored brigade completely shattered the hopes of the Japanese army, but until now, it is strange that the tanks of the Northwest Army, which have been invincible, have not fired. The accompanying infantrymen who followed behind also marched with rifles and machine guns.

"Shoot!" Seeing this scene, the Japanese army quickly reacted to the attempt of the armored brigade. The Japanese machine gunners quickly spilled bullets.

Da Da ......

Dingding............

Bullets hit tanks and assault guns, making a dense impact sound like raindrops.

It's just a tank, and the thick body of the armored car does not cover it all. Dense bullets pierced through the gaps between the armored vehicles, and from time to time soldiers who were not well dodged behind were swept to the ground.

The positions of the Japanese army were relatively long, and the angles of fire were not the same, and there was no way to completely defend against these tanks alone.

Screams rang out from time to time, and soldiers of the Northwest Army fell in pools of blood.

"Mother Caoni!" Gao Lingyun punched the deck again, the mixed armored second brigade is one of the sharp knife units of the Northwest Army, and those who can be selected into the troops are not inferior to the elite of the Japanese army, but now because of these despicable Japanese soldiers, they have to use this kind of nest fighting method, and use this nest method of death to leave this world.

At this time, Tie Dan, who was still lying on the ground to avoid bullets, saw that the Northwest Army was suppressing and not firing in front of him, and his throat was dry and hoarse, and he actually made a sound for a while.

And the people on the opposite side of the crowd were black and oppressive, and their faces were originally numb, but when they saw these Northwest Army rushing up in the rain of bullets, the numbness on their faces melted like ice and snow. These soldiers, these soldiers who have not left too much good impression on the people since the Republic of China, for many middle-aged people in the common people, most of these soldiers are just their sons and nephews, but their originally childish faces are covered by a piece of fortitude and determination. No matter what lies ahead, it can't stop them. The previous cannon almost had the power of a landslide, but at this time, the cannon stopped, and these soldiers actually planned to rush over like this! It is better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world. Even in their own eyes, it was not worth a penny's life. But the Northwest Army looked at it more than their lives. For them, for their humble people. These soldiers were advancing with bullets on their heads, and some people kept screaming, and people kept falling. But none of them retreated, some just followed one after another, and they moved forward! (To be continued.) )