Chapter 326: Sleepless Night
When the fierce ground-air battle with the Japanese army was launched on the side of Dongku, the battle along the Mongolian Charlan line was still in full swing. After losing hundreds of tanks and countless cavalry and infantry at one time, the Russian attack returned to the previous offensive rhythm of harassing attacks, but it was always beautiful and gave up this way of consuming oneself and consuming the opponent at the same time. Let the soldiers of the advance army there hate the root of their teeth, and they can't wait to go in, kill all the old Maozi, so that they can turn back and defeat the Japanese army that is raging in the pass. Hatred has been buried deep in the hearts of nearly 300,000 troops here, and even those migrating people who have begun to reclaim wasteland know that Soviet Russia is a jackal, a tiger and a leopard at this time, and a demon who is ready to reproduce the glory of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
After a day of fierce fighting, the national army was not fully prepared, and on the way to the march, the Japanese army approached Shijiazhuang, approached Cangzhou, captured Zhangjiakou, and approached Yan Laoxi.
Lao Jiang had already realized at this time that the other party did not intend to settle it peacefully, and he needed the assistance of the world world, he needed weapons and materials, and the country was too poor. And these must be seen by the observers of those countries, seeing the Japanese army wreaking havoc on the land of China, and seeing the resistance of the people, so whether it is based on the unyielding mentality of the country that cannot be destroyed, or for political considerations, or for the sake of reaching out and getting things back, he must fight with all his might.
On the one hand, he ordered the troops to rush to North China to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in North China to block the momentum of the Japanese army's offensive, and on the other hand, he asked Yan Laoxi to block the pace of the Japanese army's westward advance and send troops to defend Niangzi Pass, while appealing to the international community.
At the same time, he met with representatives of the Central Red Army, who had been facing the enemy, to discuss cooperation. He needs someone to take care of him, the Japanese attack is too fast to block it in the North China Plain, that. Once the Yellow River was crossed, the fat belly of the Central Plains was exposed in front of the Japanese army. It was a result he could not have imagined.
The result of the consultations was not far from what was expected, that is, the Central Red Army was officially reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army, subordinate to the Nationalist Army battle sequence, and the old Chiang issued military salaries and gave guns and bullets.
This result is faster though. But Lao Chiang did not dare to delay, once Yan Laoxi could not defeat the Japanese army, and the troops along the Yellow River were still being mobilized, then North China was destined to be occupied by the Japanese army, so he ignored some small sections, and just asked the other side to support North China as soon as possible.
He still recognized the combat effectiveness of this team, which was regarded as a confidant, and under such difficult conditions, he was able to defeat his encirclement and suppression troops several times. In terms of fighting will, he is far stronger than most of his troops. Although there are some people here who do not act.
After a day of intense consultations, Dong Ku initially reached a cooperation intention, but when he encountered a Japanese air raid and was not sure how many Japanese planes there were, he chose to defend his home first, and he did not really want to attack anyway.
With the order, Junko quickly transported most of the field guns, machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns back. The front line is not far from the Twin Cities, in a tight delivery. It didn't take too long, especially those vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, and in less than half an hour, they rushed to the twin cities.
At this time, in an open area outside the Twin Cities, several houses were still burning and had not been extinguished.
Meantime. The figures shuttled in the firelight, and they loved the splitting board and kept throwing it into the fire.
Dong Ku believes that the bombing of the other side has returned. Having suffered losses, the Japanese army was destined to judge the weakness of the air defense of Harbin and Shuangcheng when the bombing was intercepted at a minimal. Another attack is definitely an opportunity. After all, according to common sense, the mobilization of anti-aircraft guns cannot be completed without a few hours of disassembly and installation. He bet that the other party had not yet known that his anti-aircraft gun was a vehicle.
Sure enough, when the plane returned to the Shinkyo airfield, although the losses reached one-third, Commander "Umezu Mijiro" and "Lieutenant General Ogasawara Shuo" both keenly grasped that the opponent's air defense was insufficient, and the previous judgment was correct, if it were not for the air blockade carried out by the enemy's antiaircraft artillery with steel balls, the first bombing would have caused huge losses to Shuangcheng and Harbin.
"Bring another big meal to the people of China!!"
"Umezu Mijiro" ordered without hesitation.
There is no chance to miss the opportunity, and another bombardment before the opponent's anti-aircraft artillery movement is in place will inflict heavy damage on the enemy.
This truth is also understood by "Ogasawara Shuo". Therefore, immediately after that, the Third Flying Group of the Jinzhou Huaxia Dispatch Army, which had just arrived in Xinjing, had just refueled and the bombers were reloaded, and he ordered to follow the air raid troops that had just returned to launch another air raid on Harbin and Shuangcheng, striving to make the opponent's antiaircraft artillery return to defense, and then attack the artillery of the forward position, destroying all the artillery on the enemy's front in one fell swoop, and resolving the tight situation on the front line.
As a result, a large number of planes took off, and a formation of 150 bombers of Terauchi Shouichi's flight unit stationed in Jinzhou took off and attacked the target while Dong Ku was nervously dispatching the Harbin and Qiqihar antiaircraft guns.
However, the Japanese planes never expected that the anti-aircraft guns of the advance army were slower than their planes, but they did not need to disassemble them, and the anti-aircraft guns of Shuangcheng had already entered the position one after another when their planes took off, and the follow-up anti-aircraft machine guns would also be in place when they arrived within 20 minutes.
As for Harbin, the anti-aircraft artillery of the industrial park in the bungalow has not been mobilized at all, and because the area of the park is too large, it is impossible to set up so many fixed anti-aircraft guns, so more than 200 anti-aircraft guns here are vehicle-mounted. This is to leave most of the trucks captured by the Japanese soldiers and Lao Maozi in the industrial park. Therefore, the movement of anti-aircraft artillery to Harbin was faster than that of Shuangcheng, and one hundred and fifty trucks were already in position, waiting to crush these planes in one fell swoop near the trap set for the Japanese planes.
The Japanese army did not know that what was waiting for them in front of the road was an empty burial, the motor roared, divided into two groups, the first to take off and assemble and went straight to Harbin, the second batch completed the assembly after ten minutes, and rushed to the goal abandoned by the first batch, Shuangcheng.
When the first wave of planes passed through Shuangcheng and did not approach the area where it was still on fire, Dong Kuzhi said that the Japanese planes were in a hurry and went directly to bomb the big target Harbin, so they did not intercept them, otherwise, the planes that were less than 10,000 meters away would have been shot down on the way.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the Japanese bomber formation came again, and the fighters who had been waiting for a long time stood at their posts, waiting for the order to attack.
"The target has been found ahead, it is the fire of the previous wave of bombing!"
The Japanese plane's hand-held aircraft conveyed the order to the formation to prepare for an attack. They don't think about it, they don't use water at this time. The same can quickly extinguish the fire, and the advance army has a complete fire extinguishing system, how can a strong fire extinguishing team let the flames burn for more than an hour?
"When we see the target, let's drop the aerial bombs to our heart's content, and let the people howl in fear!"
"Lock on to the target. Prepare to drop the bomb! ”
One after another, the bombers were ready to attack from a distance of 1,000 meters, and one after another, under the leadership of the flamingos, flew down one step at a time to contain the limited air defense on the ground and let the bombers bomb to their heart's content.
But at this moment, pillars of light suddenly lit up in the sky, and bombers were locked on, followed by dense fires flashing on the ground. Bloom next to that blaze.
Before the Japanese troops of the attack aircraft noticed that something was wrong, they suddenly spewed out tongues of fire from the ground in their sight, and then, a dense thump sounded on the fuselage, which was denser than the hail hitting the helmet.
"Bad ......"
"Pull up the ......"
In the panicked shouting, the attack planes were like a swarm of swarms that had exploded in the sky, and the moment the fire flashed in the sky, the bombardment dispersed. Trying to get out of this place that is clearly a trap.
But it was too late, and several pillars of light had already hit the airspace around them. Even most of them shine on their fuselage, making them so vivid in the night sky, just like the big birds that glow in the night sky, exposed to the fire of the ground.
Thousands of light machine guns and police machine guns, machine guns roared, firmly covering the airspace. Even if the Japanese planes were in the air and climbed high and low, they could not drill through this big metal net.
One plane after another was hit by the fuel tank, the engine was hit, and even though Fei Yuan had been killed, the plane was still attacked again. Until a fire ignites and a dazzling ball of light blooms in the air.
The attack aircraft was hit suddenly, and the bombers had already realized that something was wrong, but they had no chance to leave behind, and when the beam of light shone on their fuselage, they were trying to leave the door and there was no more.
The projectiles with a set delay exploded around them, sparks flickered on the fuselage, and the pilot didn't even have the idea of parachuting, waiting for the plane to disintegrate and explode amid the dense thump.
With such a dense blow, even if they parachute, they will be torn apart by the explosion of the plane, and before the parachute bag is opened, they will disappear with the exploding plane.
The roaring loud sound continued to sound in the air, and the fireworks in the sky bloomed brilliantly, and the Japanese planes didn't even have a chance to drop bombs, only a few hundred meters away from the target they locked, and in the violent explosion, they completed their mission and became a part of this empty burial.
The battle in Harbin was barely a minute apart, and as soon as the attack on the Twin Cities began, the Japanese planes were heavily bombarded.
This group is the largest, and all of them have a total of 160 aircraft, most of which are concentrated here, with the intention of razing Harbin to the ground.
However, they only saw a few faint fires in the distance, and before they could be sure whether it was the embers left by the previous wave of bombing, the sky suddenly shook violently, and the roaring explosion made the air flow chaotic, and the plane was turbulent, and a dense thump sound was heard from the fuselage.
"Pull it up!!"
"Disperse!!"
All kinds of shouts rang out.
They sparkled that since the other side did not have air power, they maintained a large group formation, and under the escort of attack aircraft, the group flew there.
But because of this, when they reacted and wanted to separate, there were planes on the left and right in the air, so they couldn't turn quickly at all, and the only thing they could do was to climb high and dive.
But whether they climb high or dive, when the ground light column is lit up, what they do has lost its meaning.
In the dense attack, the dazzling light burst into the air, and the violent explosion spread several kilometers away, making all the people of Harbin who were hiding from the air raid panic, wondering whether the air raid would blow up their houses and whether it would blow up the place where they were now hiding from the air raid.
The light in the sky makes the target clearer, and all the firepower can find the target more accurately, followed by more accurate strikes, and the dense shells directly hit those planes that dive and climb high, making the fireworks in the sky more brilliant and gorgeous.
In the clouds of fire, the plane was directly blown up before it had time to crash, and in the smoke clouds, there were white clouds floating in the sky, and there were also corpses that fell like meteors and were killed by steel balls before they could open their parachutes.
It was a festive fireworks, and it was also a lavish funeral prepared by the advance army for the Japanese army, so that those planes became their burial objects.
The battle lasted less than five minutes from the time the attack was launched to the time the sound of the motors in the sky was gone, and all the bombers were shot down. The Nakajima attack aircraft were also not spared, and in the confusion, the six flamingos managed to escape from the cemetery in two minutes and successfully escape from the battlefield with their speed.
But they didn't know it, and the position they turned to had no less anti-aircraft artillery than here, and it had already locked on the figure they were about to pass by.
These lucky ones secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to lift the right direction and fly back to Xinjing directly, when suddenly, a cluster of fire broke out near them, and in the violent shock, there was a dense knocking sound from the fuselage, and with the curse of flying dizziness, a cluster of fireworks bloomed in the air.
They were lucky, but they were lucky to get into the air defense circle of the industrial park, and were directly blown up in the air by the intensive fire of dozens of anti-aircraft guns, and none of them were spared.
At the end of the air battle here in Harbin, the battle in Dongku was over in a few minutes. The depression of being bombed by Japanese planes and causing huge losses was exhausted at this moment, and the ability of the Japanese army to launch air strikes was minimized.
The Japanese high-ranking people who were waiting for the plane to triumph were like ants on a hot pot at this time, and they had already realized that the plane was probably going to be lost again.
But they can't deal with the opponent's anti-aircraft artillery, which means that their air superiority is lost.
After an hour of restless waiting, 'Umezu Mijiro' confirmed that none of the planes were able to return.
Anger and frustration, everyone in the command headquarters felt powerless, but even more crazy thoughts also rose at the same time, the advance army must not be allowed to rise, to occupy the Central Plains of China as soon as possible, to occupy all the land outside the Guan, let the advance army be trapped due to lack of materials, let them be completely dragged down in attrition.
At this time, Dong Ku was not excited by the destruction of another wave of expensive aircraft, he knew that the madness of the Japanese army was far more calm than it is now, and the Central Plains with the little strength of Lao Chiang and the Central Red Army was not enough to stop the advance of the Japanese army, and he had to do something.
As a result, Lao Zhao, who had withdrawn to Qiqihar in its entirety, was disturbed by Dong Ku's call, and then rushed to Harbin with a guard company.
Dong Ku can't be a trapped beast, watching the war raging in Guannei, but he is only the mainstay, blocking the Japanese army and Soviet Russia from attacking Heilongjiang and Mongolia...... (To be continued......)