On how to fight against the Yan people, there are also conflicting opinions among the current leadership of the Dingzhou base, Fan, Hou, Liu, and Tie. Among them, Fan and Hou advocated saluting first and then soldiering, while Tie Linfei did not show such humility as Fan and Hou, and also believed that since it was a war between compatriots, it was better to be tactful, mainly to threaten, and had to report it as an "old fist", and Liu Dakai was a firm "fist to speak" faction. Liu Dakai's reason is also very legitimate: That's right, the original intention of the formation of our student army is to fight devils and save the country, but if we don't show our toughness this time, then others will think that we are easy to bully in the future, and everyone will dare to take advantage of the chaos to touch the muddy fish - my purpose in doing this is to set an example for this kind of person, our student army is not easy to bully, if you want to beat our idea, first weigh your own weight!

When Liu Dakai said this, his eyes were cold, and the edges and corners of his face were jumping, which was really a bit of the ruthlessness that people in the rivers and lakes must repay.

Just as Ouyang Yun demanded, the officers and men of the regular army of the Cadet Army treated their comrades with the warmth of spring, and treated the enemy with the same determination as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. As a result, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of Huang Zhengzhi's department, the officers and soldiers of the cadet soldiers, who were still amiable a moment ago, suddenly became robbers who killed people without blinking.

Before the Yan troops fired at the Cadet Soldiers' fighters, because they remembered that they were both Chinese soldiers, the Cadet officers and soldiers on duty at the gate of the base did not show too much hostility to them. However, with Liu Dakai's order, the hostile relationship between the two sides was determined, and everything was different!

The first was a surprise shelling.

With the relocation of the research center of the Cadet Research and Development Institute into the base, the most important thing in the base is all kinds of advanced weapons. Among them, the more evil thing is that it has just been successfully developed, and only a dozen rocket launchers have been produced.

If artillery is the king of foot combat, then rocket artillery is the king of kings. What is the concept of a salvo of ten rocket launchers? This may be a little bit of information from Huang Zhengzhi's face that turned from ruddy to pale almost instantly after the war. The target of the first strike was the group of air defense troops who got carried away. Their previous launches revealed their own coordinates, and whether they were transferred in time afterwards naturally gave the base artillery a chance to strike a blow.

There was no clue before the shelling, and this is exactly the effect that Liu Dakai is pursuing. If you don't fight, you will only fight, and if you fight, you will destroy the enemy's confidence at once! Poor Yan's almost a battalion of air defense troops, because most of the weapons they control come from imported channels, they have always been proud and think highly of themselves in the same system troops, but this time they really fulfilled the old saying: happiness begets sorrow.

Since successfully sniping the fighter planes in the base and taking off, it can be regarded as a successful completion of a task assigned by the chairman and commander, and the officers and men of the Yan family of the air defense unit could not help but be a little slack, believing that the fighters in the base would no longer dare to take off. In this way, when the rumbling of artillery rang out in the base, most of the officers and men were smoking pipes and chatting near the base of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

After the rumbling sound of artillery, there is the sound of shells breaking through the air, this sound is too familiar to the officers and soldiers of the air defense force who were born in artillery, at that time, many people felt that something was wrong, and some of them asked the people around them: "Who is **?" Is it our artillery? ”

The people around him were thinking about the answer ignorantly, and on the horizon, some points of light suddenly appeared. The clever science judge that something is wrong, get up with a bone, and shout: "Oh no! Shelling! Shelling! Then, just run.

"Where?"

"What's going on?" Quite a few people stood up, and then, almost everyone, spotted the points of light. The entire anti-aircraft position was thrown into chaos.

At that time, Huang Zhengzhi was playing chess with the brigade commander Lin Tianfang in the temporary command headquarters, when suddenly, the adjutant ran in hurriedly and shouted: "Division, the big thing is not good, the student army is firing at us!" ”

"What?" Huang Zhengzhi immediately stood up and asked, "How many people?" ”

Outside, the commotion on the air defense position came in, Lin Tianfang's face changed, and said: "The student army is really a team brought out by the Southern Barbarians, and it is really unreasonable to start fighting without saying a word!" ”

At this time, the rocket had already completed its flight and arrived at the designated area, and when it landed, a rumbling explosion sounded continuously, shaking the entire command post, and the adjutant was unsteady on his feet, and fell to the ground with a "plop." Somewhat embarrassed, he got up, and handed Huang Zhengzhi a cigarette shell.

On the cigarette shell, the dragon and the phoenix danced and wrote: "The student army wants to be unfavorable to you, and it will be decided quickly!" ”

The shelling lasted only about three minutes, but the sound and movement caused by it made everyone feel discolored. Huang Zhengzhi said to the adjutant: "Go and see where the shelling is, Tianfang, you go and arrange the defense, don't let the student army run out!" ”

The adjutant got up, left a sentence: "This smoke shell was shot with an arrow from the base," and then ran out of the house with a white face.

In about ten minutes, the second shelling began, but this time, the target was changed to the main position of the Yan army facing the gate of the base, and Huang Zhengzhi's headquarters was only more than 30 meters away from the nearest shell landing point. Huang Zhengzhi didn't even use a telescope, so he had the privilege of witnessing the power of this new type of artillery - shells rained down and fireworks exploded, and soon completely engulfed the three trenches on the main position. In the fireworks, stumps flew up and down from time to time, and then, the whole position let out a howl like a ghost crying wolf.

Huang Zhengzhi's face turned dead gray in an instant. Such a dense artillery strike could not have been accomplished without a salvo of forty or fifty artillery pieces, which shows the adequacy and preparation of the cadet troops in the base. It seems that this time it is destined to steal chickens and rice.

For the power of this shelling, compared with Huang Zhengzhi who watched from afar, Lin Tianfang, who was looking closely, had a more profound experience. Because they didn't know that the new rocket artillery was being used on the opposite side of the road, in terms of the inference of the number of artillery, Lin and Huang guessed the same number. And because he was in a dangerous place, if it weren't for the cleverness and dutifulness of the guards, who pressed him under him in time, Lin Tianfang would have already made this sigh in the Netherworld at this moment. In view of the intensity of the shelling and the uniformity of coverage, Lin Tianfang attributed it to the high quality of the artillery of the Cadet Corps, believing that by virtue of this artillery unit alone, the Cadet Corps would have the qualifications to be proud of North China. As a result, for Chairman Yan, whom he had always admired and respected, he felt that at least in the handling of this matter, the Chairman had made a mistake. If you think about it, how can a force that can resist the little devils be able to deal with their motley army? As for the vulnerable troops in Dingzhou City, I think it should be a civilian military organization of the Cadet Army, right?

Let's not mention that Brigade Commander Lin is thinking a lot, just talk about the adjutant who went to observe the air defense position. The adjutant did not see the scene on the air defense position and returned, because on the way he met Qiu Sheng, the commander of the air defense regiment. Qiu Sheng was disgraced with more than a dozen people, one arm was hanging bloodily on his chest, and as soon as he saw the adjutant, he howled: "Adjutant Li, this battle can't be fought!" One of our battalion brothers was killed in a single round of shelling by the damned Cadet Army. Adjutant Li, those guys on the other side are not people! Their artillery density doesn't want us to survive at all......"

There was not only one round of artillery bombardment of the enemy's main position outside the base -- the artillery of the base resolutely carried out Liu Dakai's order, and if they wanted to fight, they would beat the enemy painfully, and they would never forget it for life. Only ten minutes later, as the shells were loaded in turn, the rumbling sound of artillery rang out again, and at this time, the surviving officers and soldiers of Lin Tianfang's brigade did not even have the courage to stay in the position, and all the soldiers and officers became rout.

Hundreds of routed soldiers passed by Lin Tianfang's side and fled behind him, and from time to time one or two conscientious regiment commanders and battalion commanders greeted their brigade commanders: Brigade seat, this battle can't be fought! If you don't run, the brothers will all be here. No wonder the cadets dare to argue with the little devils, these guys are really not raised, they are too ruthless! Run, Traveler!

The Yan officer who said this thought like this: Everyone is Chinese, they are all soldiers and eat food, we are just acting on orders from the peak, and you are actually bombarding the law with artillery, it is really too unkind to his mother!

Speaking in detail, there is no shortage of ruthless characters in the Yan army, otherwise, Lao Yan would not have been able to stay in the intricate Shanxi during the Anti-Japanese War until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. However, the asymmetry of strength is not simply not willing to die, not afraid of death can be made up, in the face of a desperate situation where there is only a dead end to wait, as long as there is still a rational person, he will not sit and wait for death.

At the beginning, Lin Tianfang still wanted to turn the tide, and wanted to coerce with military law to regain control of the troops. However, as the second round of shells "blossomed and bore fruit" on the position, more people joined the rout, and he and his surviving guards were dragged into the crowd.

The power of the rocket artillery salvo not only surprised the enemy, but also amazed the inventor Hou Debang and a group of controllers. Colonel Fang Xiaotan, the deputy commander who succeeded Liu Dakai in charge of military affairs in the base, even made an astonishing assumption that if the front line of Bagua Pass could have an artillery like a regiment, then the winner should have been decided by now.

In Liu Dakai's plan, the artillery bombardment was followed by an infantry attack. The shelling was supposed to go on three rounds, but after the second round, Fang Xiaotan's telescope saw no moving figure on the enemy's main position, so he decided to stop the shelling and directly dispatched a battalion of infantry to pursue it.

At the same time that Fang Xiaotan personally led the troops to chase them out of the base, more than a dozen fighters gradually took off at the airfield in the base, amid the roar of motors—the first paratrooper combat operation in Chinese history (Note 1) kicked off.

Note 1 – The first country in human history to conduct an airdrop operation was the Soviet Union in 1927. The same Soviet Union, in 1930 the first paratrooper unit was formed. (supernumerary, not accounting for the number of words)