Chapter 284: A Different Ambush Battle (Part II)
In the evening, when Liu Hua told his partner political commissar Guan Xiangying about his idea of preparing to ambush the group of little devil bombers. The commissar was startled at first, but in the end did not raise any objections. just said one word, that is, pay attention to safety, and then retreated with the headquarters to the temporary headquarters in the back mountain.
The next day came quickly, and Liu Hua, who had only been squinting at the headquarters for less than three hours, was woken up early in the morning by a noise at the door of the headquarters.
"Report to the commander, the machine gunners of the guard regiment and all the units around the headquarters have all assembled and report to the commander, and the air defense company has been ordered to come and report" After a while, two figures appeared at the door of the headquarters, they were Bruce Lee, the commander of the guard regiment, and Wang Kai, the commander of the air defense company.
"Come in and report on your situation." Liu Hua rubbed his eyes, stood up straight, and ordered.
"Yes, Commander." The two walked into the empty headquarters together.
"Wang Kai, can you report on the situation of the air defense company first?" Liu Hua said by name.
"Yes, the commander, the anti-aircraft company 12 anti-aircraft machine guns and all the fighters are ready and carry enough ammunition for the consumption of this battle. Rest assured, commander. Wang Kai stepped forward and reported.
"Report to the commander that the guard regiment has assembled all the light and heavy machine guns around the headquarters. A total of 56 light machine guns and 21 heavy machine guns were fully equipped with ammunition, and each machine gun had at least two shooters. And all are battle-ready, rest assured, commander. Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment, was also not far behind, and stepped forward and said.
"Okay, good, all come here, here's a topographical map of the area around our headquarters. Around our headquarters, there are a total of four hills, each about 200 meters above sea level, which gives us a natural ab position early enough, and now I order. Liu Hua ordered to the two generals in front of him.
"The four platoons of the air defense company should lie in ambush on these hills and build anti-aircraft positions. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns of the guard regiment, Commander Li, you divide the combat group, eight light machine guns and three heavy machine guns as a combat group, and elect a team leader and deputy team leader. After the anti-aircraft company opened fire, all the machine guns of a group had to follow the group's instructions and strafe a devil plane. Do you understand? Liu Hua ordered.
"Commander, I know this, in order to concentrate the density of fire. It's just that, Commander, the light and heavy machine guns in our hands have a limited range, if you shoot at the air, the light machine guns have a range of only 800 meters, and the heavy machine guns have a range of up to 1200 meters, and the devil's plane" Bruce Lee proposed.
"yes, that's what I'm going to talk about next. All light and heavy machine guns are only responsible for Devil aircraft below 1000 meters, while 12 anti-aircraft machine guns are designed to deal with high-altitude aircraft. In this way, we can concentrate our firepower as much as possible and destroy more devil planes. As for the ambush of light and heavy machine guns, it is to carry out the ambush in four echelons on the four heads of the group as a unit," Liu Hua explained.
"I see, Commander. You can rest assured, we are so well prepared this time, we must let the little devil's plane come and go, and let them know that our readers are not so easy to bully. Bruce Lee, the head of the regiment, replied excitedly.
"Good. Commander Li, yesterday we captured more than 100 spies of the devils. According to the confessions of the captives, we know that these spies have an important mission, that is, after the arrival of the Japanese bombers, they will use fireworks as a signal to guide their bombers to accurate bombing targets. Although these spies have been completely wiped out by us now, I still want you to transfer a company or so of troops to replace these spies who have been completely wiped out by us, and guide the targets of the little devil's bombers, so as not to let them bomb the wrong place. Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered.
"Commander, don't let them blow up in the wrong place? Does the commander really want to blow up the bombers of our headquarters to the little devils into ruins? Listening to Liu Hua's words, Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment, frowned and asked in disbelief.
"You're stupid, I asked you to guide the little devil's plane, and I didn't let you tell him the location of our headquarters. I gave you the task of taking a company of soldiers. Those dressed as military spies after the arrival of the military plane. Find a place that is not particularly important, light a campfire, and let the little devil's bomber bomb it well. You know, there is a lot of steel on the little devil's aerial bomb, and if you are lucky, after the war, we can still use a lot of scrap iron. With this scrap iron, how many shells can our arsenal produce! Thinking of the recent fact that the arsenal has almost stopped production due to a lack of steel, Liu Hua is troubled.
"Haha, Commander, I see. This company of ours played the role of luring the enemy. Commander, great, if this were the case, our headquarters might not have been bombed by the Japanese army. I'm going to draw a company of troops, and cooperate with the air defense company and all the planes with light and heavy machine guns to destroy the little devils. Bruce Lee said excitedly, turning around and leaving the headquarters.
After receiving Liu Hua's order, the air defense company and all the light and heavy machine gunners almost immediately began to act. Some were looking for positions, some were digging bomb shelters behind the positions, some were installing anti-aircraft mounts with heavy machine guns, in short, the four hills around the headquarters were all busy fighters.
Two hours passed, and more than a dozen air defense positions came one after another with the news of their readiness, and Liu Hua immediately ordered all the soldiers to seize the time to rest and recuperate, and to prepare for the battle of the coming devil plane.
Maybe God also knows, at noon the little devil's bomber will come to bomb the headquarters of the Reading Division. Just when the fighters had just sat down to rest and replenish their strength. The sky, which had just been shining with the sun shining brightly, immediately began to blow a strong wind. Less than half an hour had passed, and the sky above the headquarters had been shrouded in dark clouds.
"Haha, God help me. With such good weather, it's good that the little devil's plane doesn't come. If they come, they must have gone and never returned. Seeing that God was actually on his side, Liu Hua held the telescope and said excitedly, because the sky at this time was covered by dark clouds, and the visibility was less than a thousand meters away. If the little devil's plane wants to successfully bomb its own headquarters, it must drop bombs at an altitude of less than a thousand meters. And if this happens, these aircraft will eventually become a living target for the air defense forces.
However, the stubborn temper of the soldiers was still very obvious at this time. Although Taiyuan City at this time was also shrouded in dark clouds. However, in order to achieve his own strategic goals, General Bin Sanyuan, as the commander, still ignored the admonitions of the staff officers around him. Without hesitation, he ordered thirty bombers to take off, aiming directly at the headquarters of the Reading Division of the Eighth Route Army.
"Buzzing" just when the soldiers were anxiously looking at the sky, hoping for the devil plane to arrive soon. The roar of the engine reached everyone's ears.
"The little devil's plane is finally here, order all the machine gunners to be ready, as soon as the little devil's plane enters our ambush circle, fire on me immediately." Liu Hua, who heard the huge roar of the plane, raised his binoculars and ordered to Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment beside him.
"It's the commander" Just as Bruce Lee walked out of the temporary headquarters, the figure of the devil bomber group had already appeared in Liu Hua's telescope. 30 bombers, in a neat formation, quickly drove towards the huge ambush circle they had prepared for them.
"Commander Li, order the ambush soldiers under the mountain to immediately light a fire and guide the little devil's bombers to the target, they don't blow up the wrong place." Looking at the dozens of bombers that were getting closer and closer, Liu Hua did not have any nervousness, and calmly ordered.
"Yes, Commander" Less than ten seconds after Bruce Lee's words were finished, puffs of smoke began to emerge one after another in the middle of the ambush circle. And just as the smoke was rising, dozens of planes of the army had already flown above the heads of the soldiers.
Due to the influence of the weather, almost all of the thirty little devil bombers flew close to the clouds, less than 1,000 meters above the ground. Facing the undulating mountains, as well as anti-aircraft fire such as machine guns that may appear at any time. These pilots were scared along the way, and finally, they reached the bombing target safely. More importantly, the intelligence organization of the Great Empire, which had already been ambushed around the enemy's headquarters, pointed out the bombing target to itself in time.
Looking at the billowing smoke, almost all the pilots breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Order, the first squadron and my first group will bombard, and the second squadron will follow. Attention to the squadrons, keep in formation, and let the dirt eight roads below taste the majesty of our Imperial Army Aviation. I hope that you will work together with me to raze the enemy's headquarters to the ground, and all crews will pay attention and prepare to drop bombs. As the commander of the bomber group, Kazuki Shaosa, looked at the smoke billowing from under the planes and ordered excitedly.
"Hey, please rest assured, Your Excellency, we will definitely raze the enemy's headquarters to the ground." Soon, echoes from the leaders of each squad came from the microphone.
"Yo Xi, the first squadron, attack with me, drop the bomb" Ichiki Shaoza ordered excitedly, and pressed the bomb drop button on a target in front of him that was billowing with smoke. After dropping several aerial bombs in the cabin, Kazuki Shaosa did not immediately pull up the fuselage. Instead, he continued to fly at low altitudes, wanting to see his results. However, at this moment, the unexpected happened.
"Order all anti-aircraft fire, open fire" saw several aerial bombs fall from the cabin of the first plane of the Japanese army. The corners of Liu Hua's mouth showed a strange smile, and he commanded loudly to Bruce Lee behind him.
With the explosion of the aerial bombs dropped by the enemy, the various machine-gun positions that received the order opened fire one after another. Suddenly, nearly 100 machine guns of various kinds formed a dense network of fire in the sky within a kilometer, and the 12 bombers located in the first squadron were all surrounded by these bullets almost the moment the fighters opened fire.
At this time, the captain of the military brigade, Ichiki Daisa, who was flying at the front of all the planes, was stunned by the scene in front of him. Originally, I wanted to see what fruitful results my two bombs were going to achieve for me. However, I didn't expect that the earth, which was still silent just now, would burst out with nearly a hundred tongues of fire in an instant.
And their own fighters were at an altitude of less than eight hundred meters at this time, completely within the range of fire of these machine guns. At the moment when he fell into shock, more than a dozen tongues of fire from a machine gun group staring at his fighter plane had formed a dense barrage in front of him, just waiting for his fighter plane to throw itself into the net.
"Bang bang bang" Suddenly, the sound of a bullet hitting the metal pulled Ichiki Shaoza, who was in shock, back to reality. However, it was too late at this time, because the fast fighter plane did not leave her any respite, and J crashed headlong into a barrage of more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns. Countless bullets hit his plane accurately.
Of these bullets, only a small number of them hit the metal casing on the outside of the plane, making only a thumping sound, leaving a small trace. But most of the remaining bullets, without exception, concentrated the aircraft's engine, fuel tanks, and even the pilot's cockpit. A burst of machine-gun bullets swept over the plane's engine. Immediately, the engine, which had just been spinning at high speed, began to emit black smoke and slowly began to stop running. And the bomber, which was flying at high speed, also lost power because of the engine and slowly fell.
"Baga., how is it possible, how is it possible to hit the plane of this empire, how can it be hit by the machine gun of the Chinese people," said the captain of the army, Ichiki Daisa, constantly swinging the longitudinal pole in his hand. However, it did not play any role, and the entire bomber, like a fallen leaf, constantly swung in the air and slowly smashed down to the ground.
"The Baga Conspiracy, this is a conspiracy set up by the enemy, we have been deceived, my flight brigade and my plane" Seeing the ground getting closer and closer, the captain of the bombing brigade of the Yue Army, Ichiki Shaoza, who saw the ground getting closer and closer to him, finally reacted. However, it was too late.
A loud "boom" sounded on the hill about a kilometer from the ambush position. The captain's plane finally fell to the ground after being hit hard. Together with the pilot Captain Ichiki Shaosa, he returned to Amaterasu to meet their Amaterasu.
"Okay, good fight" Seeing that the head plane of the Yue army was shot down in less than half a minute after the air defense unit opened fire, Liu Hua couldn't help but shout excitedly. At this time, the dozen or so planes that followed closely behind the captain were also uncomfortable. Some of them have stolen aerial bombs, and the flexible surnames of the planes are relatively much better. In the dense rain of bullets, they constantly shuttled and flipped over, trying not to let these dense bullets hit the important positions of the planes, and finally broke away from the fire network of the fighters.
However, the dozen or so planes that did not drop bombs were not so lucky. The bulky fuselage limits their flexibility. When the barrage of bullets hit their planes, each pilot instinctively pulled up his plane, or flew sideways, hoping that he would be able to dodge the dense rain of bullets.
However, they forgot that they still had heavy aerial bombs in their cabin. Although they tried their best to control the longitudinal rod in their hands. However, the bulky fuselage could not be as he wished, and the dense rain of bullets hit his fuselage mercilessly. In particular, the 12 anti-aircraft machine guns of the anti-aircraft company, almost as long as the aircraft hit by these machine gun bullets, were undoubtedly unharmed.
"Boom, boom, boom" followed by the fall of the little devil's head plane, and three more planes were directly hit by the dense rain of bullets and exploded in the air. A brilliant firework exploded in the sky. More importantly, when one of the bombers that did not drop bombs exploded in the air, the aerial bomb in the cabin also exploded. Suddenly, the debris of the plane, the shrapnel of the aerial bomb that was shot in all directions because of the explosion, once again formed a dense rain of bullets in the sky. An airplane of the second formation, which was closely following him, did not react, and crashed into the fireworks in a daze
"Haha, it's so good, I really didn't expect it, light and heavy machine guns can also be used to fight planes like this, it's really enjoyable" Looking at the little devil's plane, it was constantly hit in the air in the dense rain of bullets, exploding or falling. Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment standing behind Liu Hua, couldn't help but exclaim excitedly.
However, the fighters fought very well. Until this time, within a few minutes of the start of the battle, the first formation of the Japanese army was beaten by the fighters to less than half of the bombers, and two of them were damaged. As for the remaining planes, four planes were hit by a volley explosion, and three were injured and fell.
And as the remaining planes of the first formation of the Japanese army flew into the sky, they flew into the dark clouds regardless of safety. The second formation of the devils also reacted from the shock just now. Under the orders of the formation leader, more than a dozen planes did not blindly continue to drop bombs, but closely followed the remaining planes of the first formation and burrowed into the clouds.
"Damn, the little devil also had a day when he was beaten away by us, and it was also the little devil's plane. Commander, I see, there is nothing to be afraid of the planes of the little devils. As long as he dares to come, I will definitely take the soldiers down a few more planes to come down. Seeing that the remaining two-thirds of the planes of the little devil were all hiding in the thick clouds, Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment standing behind Liu Hua, couldn't help but say arrogantly.
(To be continued)