Chapter 3 Decisive Battle in Changping?
Diao Yide was doomed to be disappointed, because this was only a fighter on a reconnaissance mission, and it did not receive a combat mission, and there was no suitable ground attack weapon. Ouyang Yun dared to fight a decisive battle with the little devil, and the young Cadet Army Air Force was one of the secret weapons he relied on. After the exposure of the air battle in Dingzhou, this secret weapon was revealed in advance. After the victory in the first wave of the duel with the Japanese air force and the heavy damage to the artillery units of the first army, now, Kazuki Kiyoji has canceled the second and third waves of the air force's bombing plan. At present, in accordance with Ouyang Yun's instructions, Tie Linfei has frequently dispatched reconnaissance planes and a small batch of mixed bomb and combat aircraft in order to put a certain amount of pressure on the Japanese army's ground operations and make them dare not carry out large-scale operations with a high unit density.
At this time, there were a total of 23 fighters of the Cadet Corps flying near Changping, including 12 fighters, 1 reconnaissance plane, and 10 bombers. And their task is to support Wangjiawei in the front-line battle. The air power of the Scholar Army was still too weak, so Ouyang Yun didn't dare to use them everywhere. Good steel is to be made on the blade, and the Wangjiawei front line is undoubtedly the most in need of them.
The appearance of the fighter planes of the Cadet Army really put pressure on the Japanese army. Yoshizu Ryosuke first had the privilege of observing the battle formation of the Cadet Army Air Force up close, and when more than ten fighters roared from the southwest, the first reaction of the old devil who thought he was the target was his own was that his face turned pale, and he gave the order to disperse and hide and avoid freely. At the same time, the few anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were prepared for air defense.
This time, it was Huo Yihe, the captain of the three major teams, who led the flight. Huo Yihe was piloting an I-16 fighter, and at this moment, he was leading the group to speed up to the front line of Wangjiawei, who had already received the operational guidance from the Wangjiawei front.
The guiding signal was personally sent by Fang Youwei, the commander of the 11th Regiment, and after leading the team out of the river beach with heavy weapons, he saw the dense formation of the Japanese army on both sides of the river, and he did not hesitate to call for air power.
This kind of land-air coordinated operation has been introduced in detail in Renqiu Military Academy, and Fang Youwei is the first time to personally operate it, and he was a little skeptical at first. Because just as he pressed the button of the guide to send a signal, there were no planes in the air, not even a bird. His doubts were that although airplanes were the closest to the so-called "divine soldiers", could they really rush to the battlefield as quickly as the "divine soldiers appeared"? The situation on the battlefield changed in an instant, and perhaps by the time they arrived, the Japanese had already completed the crossing of the river and captured the small hillside.
A quarter of an hour later, just as he was fidgeting and began to urge his brothers to strengthen the fortifications, the roar of an airplane motor was heard in the air to the southwest.
"It's our plane, right?" The regiment director Dai Delong looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.
Fang Youwei became nervous, his eyes fixed on the sky in the southwest.
Equally nervous was a group of people, including the commander of the Japanese First Army, Kiyoji Kazuki. The roar of the airplane motor was all too familiar to the Japanese officers. In the First Great Wall War of Resistance, it was precisely by virtue of its absolute superiority in air strike power that the Japanese army was able to win a one-sided victory with 50,000 against 350,000. At that time, the roar of the airplane motor was so pleasant to the little devil, and now? But it seems to have become a life-threatening note.
The first to react correctly were the commanders of several divisions, who immediately ordered the air defense units to enter a state of imminent battle, so that the troops gathered on the riverside waiting to cross the river were dispersed.
The Japanese army's response was quite rapid, but their numbers were too many, nearly five divisions and nearly 100,000 people clustered in an area of less than 10 square kilometers, such a dense degree was really conducive to bomber bombing operations.
At this time, there were more than fifty points crossing the river, and most of them were simple wooden pontoon bridges.
When Huo Yihe led the team to the sky above the battlefield, the dense Japanese troops on both sides of the river made the captain's mouth smile crookedly. It is worth mentioning that Huo Yihe was one of the few pilots of the former Northeast Army in the First Air Division of the Cadet Army, and then he accidentally entered Li Tieshu's guard company. When Ouyang Yun recruited pilots in the whole army, the former pilot, who had become the regiment commander, resolutely gave up his rank of colonel and participated in the recruitment of pilots as an ordinary soldier. The officers and soldiers from the Northeast Army hated the little devils very much, and Huo Yihe scolded: "Dog, you also have today!?" Then the order was given to all of them into battle.
On the hill next to Wangjiawei, Gu Mingchang and Zhang Yantian each held a telescope and were staring at everything that happened by the river. When the fighter Keith swooped and strafed and dropped bombs, Gu Mingchang's expression was calm, but the corners of his mouth curved a little, and he thought in his heart: "This is the secret weapon of the military seat, hehe, it's really powerful." ”
Zhang Yantian opened his mouth slightly, completely shocked. The strength of the Xuebing Army, from the Weiqing-style and disease-free series of firearms, and the Jiguang-type various combat vehicles, he has already had a deep understanding, but for such a huge air strike force, although he has seen it, he is still not mentally prepared. He even thought: What kind of armed strength should an army have, that is, compared with the Central Army, in addition to the number of people is too small, other aspects are not far behind? !
The quality of the individual soldiers of the Japanese army was very high, and the commanders were not bad in facing the enemy, but these were not enough to compensate for the disadvantage they were in in terms of equipment. The few anti-aircraft fires had already begun, and from time to time in the sky flashed with the brilliance of tracer shells. After receiving the order, the vast majority of Japanese troops found a place to lie down, but without the cover of anti-aircraft shelters, this protective effect was extremely limited. Patches of devils fell into the smoke and flames of the explosion, and on the surface of the river, which was only about ten meters wide, wood and corpses began to form the main scene. Blood soon stained the river, and under the strafing and bombardment of more than 20 fighters, the Japanese positions were engulfed in a sea of fire, and they would pay the price of thousands of dead and thousands wounded.
"Why is this happening, our fighters?" Many little devils fell in pools of blood, still muttering to themselves. Accustomed to seeing the air force flaunting its might over the enemy's head, when did this kind of catastrophe befall him. Many little devils can't figure it out, and many of them will lose the chance to figure it out forever.