Chapter 1058: Weixian Siege (4)

"Nani? Aviation units? What the hell is going on? Major General Devil was very surprised.

"It was sent by General Ishihara Waner, and the purpose of this aviation unit is to help us repel the attacks of the Shina people and stabilize the defensive line." Second Lieutenant Chuanjing said.

"General Ishihara? Has he arrived? As the garrison commander of Weixian, the devil still knew the news that the base camp had sent the naval combined fleet and 50,000 army recruits to come for reinforcements, and immediately asked: "When will the army reinforcements arrive?" ”

"This, the humble position is not clear, the aviation received the order only to provide us with air fire support, and nothing else is known." Second Lieutenant Chuanjing said.

"That's ......," Major General Devil muttered, "Then let's repel the attack of the Chinese army first, and immediately contact the reinforcement aviation and ask them to immediately launch an air attack on the tank and artillery positions of the Chinese army outside the city to cover the counteroffensive of the imperial army." ”

"Hay!" The communications staff officer hurriedly bowed his head and answered, and led the order to leave. However, as soon as he walked on his front foot, the previous devil combat staff officer named Ono walked in, and he had already heard the conversation between the two outside the door, so he bowed his head when he entered the door and said, "Your Excellency General, is there anything you need to do in a humble position?" ”

"You immediately go and personally inform the reserves, tell them that success or failure is here, and you must do your best to defeat the Chinese army, and the reinforcements will arrive soon!" Major General Devil thought for a moment and commanded.

"Hay!" Ono hurriedly bowed his head in response, and then turned around and left.

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There were 20 or 30 sea-based fighters sent by Ishihara to support the Japanese army in Weixian, including 10 medium-sized bombers, and these devil planes formed a huge flight formation, and they took the initiative to contact the ground troops in Weixian through radio in the airspace less than 100 miles away from the Weixian battlefield.

After receiving a response soon, the Japanese planes flew to the battlefield like a shield from the sky, and the distance of 100 miles was almost an instant for an aircraft traveling at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, and it did not take long to fly to the Weixian battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke and flames.

At this time, the attack troops of the three regiments of Longya have broken through the two defense lines of the Japanese army one after another, and the Japanese defense line outside the city is only the last one.

After more than 30 Japanese fighters and bombers arrived over Weixian, they immediately divided into two routes, one to the tank regiment of the Third Division, and the other to the artillery position.

Fortunately, at this time, the air defense regiment of the third division was already in place, and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were deployed near the artillery position, and the main responsibility of the air defense regiment was air defense.

At the same time, dozens of 88mm anti-aircraft guns opened fire one after another, and anti-aircraft artillery fire bloomed in the air, like a ball of brilliant fireworks.

The anti-aircraft machine gun group also opened fire one after another, and in an instant, a large area of dense bullet rain poured down on the Japanese plane, forming a high and low match with the antiaircraft gun, forming a dense anti-aircraft fire network.

A Japanese fighter plane was caught off guard and was hit one after another by the shrapnel from the explosion of a high-explosive armor-piercing bomb, which caught fire on the spot, lost control with billowing smoke, and soon fell and crashed into a valley more than ten miles away.

A brilliant scarlet fire rose from the valley, followed by a cloud of smoke.

The devil planes that pounced on the tank regiment and infantry were caught off guard by surprise because they appeared very suddenly, and more than a dozen Japanese fighters suddenly and violently dived and strafed at the ground targets, and some of the dragon's tooth infantry who were in the charge had no time to dodge and fell in a pool of blood.

Tanks and combat vehicles were also sparked, and some machine gunners hurriedly adjusted the angle of fire and began to shoot into the air, but in a hurry, most of them lost their accuracy, and the Japanese planes roared past, and their bullets missed.

As soon as the first wave of fighter planes dived and strafed, the bombers that followed immediately after dropped one heavy bomb after another, and the violent explosions rang out one after another, and the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment were enveloped in a sea of fire in an instant, and suffered heavy casualties.

Two tanks of No. 4 were directly overturned by the violent blast wave because they were too close to the landing point of the bomb, and most of the tank crews inside also died heroically.

The power of heavy aerial bombs weighing hundreds of kilograms or more is completely incomparable to some army artillery shells, even the projectiles fired by 150mm caliber heavy howitzers are only a few tens of kilograms, and such shells can already pose a deadly threat to the No. 4 tank.

Not to mention that the Japanese army's aerial bombs were often hundreds of kilograms of big guys, and one down was enough to blow up a large area of fortifications, and the attacking soldiers had to be forced to stop the charge and jump into the two trench fortifications of the Japanese defense line that they had broken through.

Although the trench fortifications of the Japanese army had been blown to pieces by them before, it was much better than being left on the ground and torn to pieces by raging shrapnel.

The violent explosion of the aerial bomb can be said to have enveloped the entire Weixian battlefield and reached the temporary headquarters of the Third Division.

Wu Ming, Li Wen, and Zhao Youde all stood up from the command headquarters in unison, and after looking at each other, Li Wen couldn't help but say: "Such a big movement, it can't be something, right?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Ming took the lead out of the command center, and the three of them, accompanied by some guards, quickly climbed to a hill near the headquarters.

Zhou Wu, the commander of the guard company, hurriedly took the lead in protecting the three of them, and exclaimed: "Chief, there is an enemy plane, hurry up and hide!" ”

Wu Ming pushed him away and said calmly: "The little devil didn't discover us, but he just completed the first wave of dive air raids, and he will immediately turn around and carry out a dive air raid on our forward troops again." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Wu Ming's words fell, the group of Japanese planes began to turn around in the air, and then flew quickly towards the Weixian battlefield, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving only a piercing engine roar.

"It seems that the explosion was caused by the little devil's bomber." Wu Ming said: "I don't know if the losses of the forward troops are big, chief of staff, you immediately go and call the front commander of the third regiment to ask about the battle situation, and order the air defense regiment to open fire with all its strength to cover the withdrawal of the attacking troops!" Especially the tank regiment, which is the baby bump of our third division, must not be buried in vain under the air raid and bombardment of the little devils! ”

"Yes!" Li Wen also knew that the stakes were high, so he saluted, turned around and galloped down the hill, returning to the headquarters located in the mountain col to contact the forward troops.

After Li Wen learned that the attacking troops had been hit by a fierce Japanese air raid and suffered heavy losses, he immediately issued Wu Ming's order to retreat, and at the same time ordered the air defense regiment, which was fighting fiercely with other Japanese planes, to draw out part of its strength and respond to the retreat of the attacking troops.

On the Japanese side, when their air support arrived, thousands of reserves of the devils in the city were immediately put into the battlefield, united with the remnants of the Japanese puppet army, which had been defeated by the third division, and brazenly launched a counterattack.