"I agree with you, let's build the Reading Division into the most powerful unit in the entire Eighth Route Army. Let the little devil listen to our reading force, he will be afraid, and he will be afraid," the political commissar said with a proud face.

"Political commissar, you are satisfied, I am thinking that if it is possible, I also want to form an air force unit in our reading division and run to the top of the little devil's head area to be arrogant, blink these dogs." Liu Hua thought that he had learned to stand the fighters retired from the 21st century troops, and he should be able to do the current fighters! I couldn't help but sigh.

"Commander, don't you dream, the Air Force, there are not many air forces in the whole of China, and we want to form an air force unit in one division? You know, even the Party Central Committee in Yan'an only has two or three planes, you are simply a fool's dream. The political commissar smiled, obviously not Liu Hua's words, take it to heart.

However, in the anti-encirclement campaign a month later, Liu Hua really mixed up two military planes that were not particularly seriously injured, formed an air force unit of the Reading Division, and began to train pilots. By a year later, the Air Force of the Reading Force had reached the size of 16 aircraft. Of course, that's all for later.

The chairman's hunch was not wrong, and it had just been half a month since the unit's retraining had passed. Everyone suddenly discovered something different, that is, the number of military planes that patronize the base area every day began to increase. And according to the intelligence of the underground party in the whole of North China, a week after Liu Hua captured Baoding. The North China Headquarters of the Chinese Army once again removed an elite infantry brigade from the Pingjin area and stationed it in Baoding County, which had become a ruin.

What's more, after several days of emergency repairs, they were able to resume rail transport in the shortest possible time. Needless to say, these supplies must be prepared for the future encirclement and suppression of themselves.

"Commissar, it looks like a storm is coming to our base. Damn, the little devil's plane is so rampant, it all flew right under our noses. No, I'm going to have to clean them up. Correspondent, call me Wang Daoguang, the director of the logistics department, immediately," Liu Hua shouted to the correspondent at the door.

"Report to the commander, political commissar, logistics director Wang Daoguang came to report hehe, commander, political commissar, is there anything wrong!" Wang Daoguang, director of logistics, said with a smile.

"Director Wang, I want to ask. Last time, we captured Baoding City and captured half a year's supply of war materials for two divisions and regiments of the Chinese army. There are also a lot of good weapons among them, and I would like to ask if there are any anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-aircraft guns among the supplies we brought back. Liu Hua asked, "Commander, if you don't ask, I almost forgot." I did find dozens of different crates in the process of counting supplies, a total of 12 light machine guns with lengthened and thickened barrels. In addition, there are more than 20,000 rounds of bullets that look like artillery shells. At the time, I thought it was strange that I put it all away alone. As for the anti-aircraft machine guns you are talking about, they should be those machine guns. As for the anti-aircraft guns, I didn't find them. Wang Daoguang thought for a while and said.

"Great, political commissar, I have decided to draw a company of troops from our guard regiment to form our air defense company, I believe that as long as our air defense company is established, the little devil's plane will not be so arrogant." Liu Hua said excitedly.

"Commander, these are your business, I don't care. These days, I just feel that the plane above my head is flying around every day, and it is very uncomfortable. You can go whatever you want, and you don't need to discuss it with me. The commissar said with a smile.

"Okay, Director Wang, can you take me to see this batch of equipment now?" Liu Hua smiled and followed Wang Daoguang towards his logistics office. In the warehouse, Liu Hua immediately recognized 12 anti-aircraft machine guns glowing with blue light. With anti-aircraft machine guns and ammunition, the pace of forming an anti-aircraft company unconsciously accelerated a lot.

In just one day, all the soldiers arrived, and the air defense company of the Reading Division was officially established, and the company commander Wang Kai. The air defense company has four platoons, each platoon has three squads, each squad has an anti-aircraft machine gun, and the company has a total of 77 soldiers, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the headquarters. On the day the air defense company was established, Liu Hua dragged everyone to the back mountain to start training. And in combination with the current speed of the aircraft, set the aiming point of the machine gun. Although many soldiers did not know why they did this, the commander said that everyone was trained in strict accordance with the commander's tactics.

Under Liu Hua's personal guidance, in less than two days, all the soldiers of the air defense company basically mastered the antiaircraft machine guns in their hands and the tactics of the air defense company. So, regardless of everyone's obstruction, Liu Hua personally led the air defense company to ambush on the top of the surrounding hill where the headquarters was located, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy's plane. It is planned to give this newly-born air defense company a real live-fire drill to improve the combat effectiveness of the fighters.

At this time, standing with Liu Hua were three anti-aircraft machine guns in a platoon of the air defense company. Although, these people are veterans of war. But for this brand new weapon in my hand, it was both strange and exciting. The thought of using this weapon today to shoot down the plane of the little devil in the sky made everyone's psychology feel a little nervous.

"Don't be nervous, everybody. According to what I gave you in the past two days, the devil plane is coming, so you can target the two positions in front of the plane, and then just open fire. Also, these planes are devil's reconnaissance planes, and they won't do us much harm. So don't be nervous, take it easy. Looking at the dozen or so people around him who were nervous, Liu Hua smiled and comforted.

"Yes, Commander, don't worry, I will definitely shoot down the little devil's reconnaissance plane today. Let him be arrogant above us every day," a squad leader listened to Liu Hua's words and said with confidence on his face.

"Well, yes, courageous,." Liu Hua glanced at him appreciatively.

Just as Liu Hua was about to continue to encourage everyone, the roar of an airplane was heard in the sky, which everyone was very familiar with. Hearing the voice, Liu Hua hurriedly raised the telescope. With the gradual increase of the roar, two black dots slowly appeared in the sky, getting closer and closer, and the two reconnaissance planes slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Maybe it's because the process of reconnaissance in the past few days has been too smooth, or maybe it's because I've never encountered the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft firepower. Therefore, the two military planes that entered everyone's field of vision did not carry out the so-called high-altitude reconnaissance, but slowly lowered their flight altitude. When it was less than 1,000 meters above the ground, it stopped and began to circle back and forth in the air where the headquarters was located.

Liu Hua kept holding the binoculars and staring at the two reconnaissance planes in the air. According to the pre-war arrangement, the first, second, and second platoons attacked the first plane of the army, and the third and fourth platoons attacked the second plane. Finally, as the military plane got closer and closer, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Hua's mouth.

Just when the military plane flew in front of everyone and was about to turn. That is, the moment the belly of the army faced everyone, Liu Hua gave the order to fire.

"Fire" As Liu Hua's order came to mind, the three anti-aircraft machine guns arranged in front of Liu Hua in a triangular formation spit out long tongues of fire almost at the same time. Immediately after that, the other three anti-aircraft machine gun positions also spewed out strips of fire one after another.

Suddenly, there was an air defense fire network composed of 12 dense tongues of fire, which at once enveloped the two reconnaissance planes of the Chinese army. However, since it was the first time for the fighters to conduct a live-fire drill and it was the first time to fight an airplane, their hands were shaking. So, in the first round of shooting, most of them missed, and did not cause much damage to both aircraft. There were only three anti-aircraft machine guns that followed Liu Hua. Because of Liu Hua's constant guidance. In less than five seconds after the firing was fired, the first plane of the Chinese army exploded in the air.

With the explosion of the first plane of the Japanese army, the six anti-aircraft machine guns originally prepared for the first plane were all aimed at the second plane of the Japanese army. However, it was already too late at this time, because the speed of the climb of the reconnaissance plane was very fast, and just when the 12 tongues of fire were facing the second plane, the second plane had already raised its fuselage and flew high into the air, and quickly broke away from the fire network of the air defense company.

"Damn, let the dog run away from a plane" Seeing that the enemy's plane escaped under their own dense fire net, everyone regretted it for a while. However, at this moment, the unexpected happened. The enemy reconnaissance plane, which had just flown into the air, did not immediately bother with the sky above where the headquarters was located, but was slowly descending and rushing diagonally towards the wheat field not far away.

"Haha, I guess the little devil pilot was shot, hehe saw that the plane without any failure was about to land on the wheat field, Liu Hua was excited.

"Quick, give me access to the political commissar of the headquarters, be quick. I am Liu Hua" Seeing the enemy plane slowly approaching the flat wheat field, Liu Hua suddenly had the idea of capturing the enemy plane.

"Commander, what's the matter, just now the air defense company fought so well that a plane was hit by you and exploded in the air, haha" The political commissar took the phone, and he was excited.

"Political commissar, now immediately order the guard regiment to rush to the wheat field outside the village, another plane of the little devil is preparing to make a forced landing on the wheat field, I want to capture this plane, or it will be too late" Liu Hua ignored the excited political commissar and ordered loudly.

"What, you want to capture the enemy's plane, you mean that the little devil's other plane landed on the wheat field, great, correspondent, immediately the comrade guard regiment will be dispatched, go to the wheat field at the entrance of the village to capture the little devil's reconnaissance plane, quickly" The political commissar on the other end of the phone finally reacted, and there was a burst of orders at the door of the headquarters.

When Liu Hua and the soldiers of the air defense company came to the place where the reconnaissance plane of the Chinese army made a forced landing, he saw from a distance that about a battalion of troops of the guard regiment surrounded an area within a radius of one kilometer. There were a lot of ordinary people around, pointing at the plane in the middle of the encirclement.

"Report to the commander, the devil's plane is intact, but the pilot inside the plane is dead, and the front window of the plane has a big hole in the anti-aircraft bullet." Seeing Liu Hua, Bruce Lee, the head of the guard regiment, hurriedly ran over and reported.

"Okay, great, now we have a plane for our readers, it's great. I ordered the soldiers to push the plane to the woods behind the headquarters and hide it, and the little devil will not give up if he loses two reconnaissance planes at once. In addition, the air defense company immediately replenished ammunition, summed up the experience of prevention and control just now, and continued to ambush on the four hills. Liu Hua ordered to the two people in front of him.

"Yes, Commander, guarantee to complete the mission"

At this time, the Taiyuan Airport of the Yuejun Army, which had dispatched two reconnaissance planes, was indeed in a mess. The two latest reconnaissance planes disappeared without a trace without receiving any call for help.

"Baga, there must be something wrong with the plane, it crashed halfway Order, immediately send two fighters on the way to the headquarters of the Reading Force Division to search, be sure to find out the whereabouts of the two planes, quickly" The supreme commander of the airfield, after getting the news, ordered loudly to his chief of staff.

"Hi Your Excellency, Commander"

Soon, two fighters took off from the airfield one after another and reconnoitred in the direction of Zhangjiazhuang. More than half an hour later, the two planes entered the base area. And at this time, the fighters of the air defense company, after the battle just now. At this time, it has appeared very calm. Under the orders of their respective platoon commanders, they calmly held the machine guns in their hands, stared at the sky, and waited for the arrival of the military planes.

"Buzz" Finally, the fighters waited for the plane of the little devils. Perhaps because of the attraction of the wreckage of the military plane that had not completely burned out in the mountain behind the headquarters, the two planes forgot that they had now gone deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army's base area, and were still flying at low altitude, wanting to see what was going on.

However, just as they lowered their altitude and skimmed the ambush circle of the fighters of the anti-aircraft company, 12 anti-aircraft machine guns rang out. A dense hail of bullets blocked both planes in it at once.

However, the pilots of both fighters were battle-hardened and had a wealth of combat experience. Although the sudden anti-aircraft fire caught two people off guard and almost hit them. However, the two of them quickly reacted from the shock just now, and began to flip in the sky, dodging the flying bullets. At the same time, the fuselage was constantly pulled up in an attempt to get out of the range of anti-aircraft fire.

In the end, with the skillful work of the two pilots, a plane flew safely into the air and escaped the anti-aircraft fire of the fighters. However, the other plane was not so lucky, and after intercepting the front and rear of the six anti-aircraft machine guns in front and the six anti-aircraft machine guns added in the back, after a while, billowing smoke billowed from the fuselage. In the face of the already wounded fighters, the fighters certainly did not miss such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, and the 12 anti-aircraft machine guns stared more closely at the wounded plane. Eventually, the plane exploded in the air, and the fighters stopped.

At this time, another enemy plane, which had just escaped from the fire net, saw that the Eighth Route Army, which had always been poorly equipped, had so many anti-aircraft machine guns. And his companions were unexpectedly volleyed and exploded by these anti-aircraft machine guns of the Eighth Route Army. There is no longer the courage to continue fighting. He waved his wings and flew back to the airport in Taiyuan.

It can be said that the first battle of the air defense company not only achieved the major results of destroying two enemy planes and capturing one. And the more important significance is that it has dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the military and air force. Because since the army lost two reconnaissance planes and one fighter plane in the base area, the planes of the little devils will no longer be so rampant. In addition, there are many fewer planes flying over the head of the headquarters, reducing the danger of the military strength of the base areas being exposed.

Although the army lost three planes, the army's determination to retaliate against the reading division did not decrease in any way. A plan carefully formulated by the North China Headquarters to encircle and suppress the reading force is slowly being implemented. Under the orders of General Bin Sanyuan of the North China General Headquarters, field units were drawn from the field divisions on the front line.

At the same time, in order to deal a fatal blow to this combat-ready Eighth Route Army unit, General Bin Sanyuan, as the commander-in-chief of North China, specially borrowed a tank wing from the northeast. More than 100 tanks are slowly assembling in Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang and other places under the transportation of the railway.

Of course, every move of the Yue army did not escape the pervasive [***] underground party intelligence organization. With the mobilization of the main forces of the army, information was also transmitted to Liu Hua through the headquarters and even the Party Central Committee.

"Political commissar, judging from the current situation, the army has gathered more than two divisions and regiments to encircle and suppress us, and it is also equipped with a wing of tank troops, and the next anti-encirclement and suppression operation is related to the life and death of our reading division!" Looking at the telegram in his hand, Liu Hua muttered to himself.

"That's right, isn't Bin Sanyuan crazy, so many troops are transferred from all over the country, is it just to avenge Baoding's one arrow, then it's too necessary for us to have only one division?" The commissar said with a frown.

"Political commissar, you also underestimate our readers, you count from the beginning of our readers. We have fought dozens of battles, large and small, and these dozens of battles do not include some small battles fought by the three military subdivisions. You calculate how many invading Chinese armies we have annihilated in these battles. Hehe, two divisions, I think both divisions are missing, I estimate that the army will increase the number of troops, they want to annihilate us in one fell swoop. Liu Hua said self-deprecatingly.

"Annihilation of our reader, I'm afraid he doesn't have this appetite. Division commander, do you already have any good attention to deal with the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and reveal it to me in advance, so that I don't have to be frightened every day," the political commissar asked rhetorically.

(To be continued)