Chapter 5: The Flames of War Begin and the Cadets Become Soldiers (19)

The general division of the little devil, the artillery is a wing, under the jurisdiction of three brigades, each brigade is generally equipped with about 12 mountain artillery or field artillery, the caliber is between 75 mm and 105 mm, like the 108th division has a brigade level artillery unit, and is equipped with a wing of 150 mm caliber heavy artillery, it can be said that looking at the entire Japanese standing division, it is also quite rare.

Tsuchihara and Minamijiro cobbled together such a powerful artillery unit (it was indeed pieced together, in this battle, the Kwantung Army lent the heavy artillery wing directly under the headquarters to the 108th Division), originally hoping to form an absolute firepower advantage over the 38th Division, so as to quickly solve the Tianjin problem and win enough time for domestic politicians to deal with international public opinion.

At this time, the Chinese army generally had few artillery, and among them, like the 29th Army, the father did not hurt the stepmother and did not love it. Historically, in order to win over Song Zheyuan, the little devil sent a field artillery battalion (equivalent to a field artillery brigade of the Japanese army, with a total of 12 cannons, this is well documented)!

Seeing that the artillery fire of the 38th Division was so fierce, and their own artillery units were destroyed in a few moments, Gao Shu Jiayi and Hai Lao Mingrong at the scene were stunned at first, and then the former shook the phone violently and talked to Tu Feiyuan.

Tu Feiyuan was sitting on the chair at this time, and his heart was pulling out the cold, which was not too much to describe, and he really wanted to die now - he was born in intelligence work, so he naturally knew the importance of intelligence work to the war. And with the habit he has cultivated over the years of engaging in intelligence work, he has to collect and analyze relevant intelligence before doing anything. In such a big operation as this time, the intelligence work was naturally done in such a meticulous way that it could not have been more meticulous, but now it seems that the intelligence preparation work this time has been a complete failure. The combat readiness of the 38th Division was only six artillery pieces, and only two of them were 75 mm guns, and the other four were 50 mm small guns. But now, just from the rumbling explosions, it can be concluded that the 38th Division definitely has more than a few small guns, otherwise how could such a dense artillery rain form and wipe out an artillery brigade of the 108th Division at once.

At this moment, Gao Shu Jiayi's call arrived, and the staff officer handed him the microphone, and he casually took it and put it to his ear - "Your Excellency the division commander!" What about our planes, planes! Gao Shujia let out a hoarse voice.

Tufeiyuan Province, only then did I remember that I still had a trump card in my hand that was useless! He slapped his head violently and shouted into the phone: "Gao Shujia Yizuo, thank you for your reminder, now, let's destroy the artillery of the Zhina!" Putting down the phone, he shouted to a staff officer beside him: "Pass my order, let Tyumen Nakasa start to act!" Target, the artillery positions of the people of China! ”

"Hello!" Although the staff officers did not dare to stare at it, they had actually been paying attention to the expression of their boss, and at this time, seeing that he had regained his composure and self-confidence, they all showed full confidence, and his voice was much louder for a while.

That's right, the Chinese people are fighting a lot of artillery these days, but we still have planes! No matter how fierce those cannons roared, they couldn't hit the sky - at this time, many Japanese staff officers thought so.

It's just that the truth is destined to disappoint them. If they use their brains more and think more about why the 38th Division will have so many more artillery pieces at once, or they will reconsider the issue of air superiority on their side! Have they forgotten their old rivals? If Tu Feiyuan had searched his drawer, he would have found such a piece of information about the recent addition of a lot of heavy artillery to the Cadet Division. It's a pity that at this time, he doesn't seem to care about this much, and the old Japanese ace spy, who was once known for his calm and wise, has now lost his former demeanor and has become impatient and aggressive.

That's right, the reason why the 38th Division suddenly had so many more cannons was because Ouyang Yun lent Zhang Zizhong, the main artillery force of the Cadet Division, a brigade-level heavy artillery unit. At the same time, he also donated the small cannons with messy calibers eliminated by the headquarters to the 38th Division. As a result, our 38th Division suddenly turned into a duck, and was stunned from a small artillery unit to a large artillery force.

Tu Feiyuan suddenly realized, and when he finally dispatched bombers according to the battle plan, in a field of crops in front of the artillery position of the 38th Division, Lin Bing and his men were quietly lurking there.

Lin Bing was originally from the First Regiment, and later became a platoon commander of the First Brigade, and later, because of his good artillery fighting, he was seconded to the air defense regiment as an instructor, and then became the commander of the air defense regiment.

The officers and men of the air defense regiment were dressed in autumn camouflage and had camouflage steel helmets on their heads, and in such a costume, they could blend well with the terrain and vegetation in the fields in such a season. Next to Lin Bing was Wang Xiaoliu, an adjutant and correspondent who carried a walkie-talkie.

Wang Xiaoliu was a rookie, but he read a lot, so he was sent to the radio factory for a period of training, and then he was assigned to Lin Bing as a correspondent and adjutant.

The walkie-talkie on Wang Xiaoliu's back is definitely a trendy product compared to this era, and this set of individual contact system (so-so can be counted) was first sent to the air defense battalion, attracting countless eyeballs, but most people disagreed. Until an exercise, a squad of Wolf Tooth faced the air defense battalion and wanted to play decapitation, but as a result, seven or eight people sneaked smoothly for a long time, and when they touched the outside of Lin Bing's tent, they were thinking that they had a plan, but they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the anti-aircraft machine gun fire mobilized by Lin Bing through the walkie-talkie. Since then, the guys who have seen the power of this stupid thing have begun to run to the division headquarters one by one, hoping to equip a set as soon as possible.

"Tuanza, will the little devil's plane come?" Wang Xiaoliu was on the battlefield for the first time, and he inevitably felt nervous in his heart, and after lurking for about half an hour, he couldn't help but ask such a question.

This boundary is between the front-line troops and the artillery units of the 38th Division, and there is no need to worry about revealing their identities because of their words. Lin Bing also knew that his college student adjutant was nervous, so he took out the unknown grass stalk in his mouth with his right hand, and said softly: "Cheer up, at most half an hour, this little devil's plane will come." Then, he took the microphone from the walkie-talkie, pressed and held the send button and whispered: "I'm a leopard, please reply when you hear it at each point, over!" Then he released the send button.

"Leopard, received on the 1st, over!" “…… Received on the 2nd, done! ”…… Soon the voice came out of the microphone.

After making sure that all the points were replied, and holding down the send button again, Lin Bing said: "I am a leopard, everyone has paid attention, and now I am starting to enter the state of preparation!" Complete! ”

"Number 1 understands, done." ……

Only a quarter of an hour or so later, when the cannon fire had just begun to cease, a dull roar of a motor suddenly sounded in the air to the northeast. Lin Bing, who was still lying on his back on the ground with a relaxed face, suddenly stood up like a leopard, and behind him, Wang Xiaoliu, who was a little nervous by his actions, asked: "Tuanzao, is it the plane of the little devil?" ”

"Well, damn it, it's finally here!" In the telescope, twenty-four planes lined up in a relatively dense formation and swaggered towards this side, Lin Bing couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, he waved his hand to Wang Xiaoliu to climb over, and then took off the microphone and began to talk to various shooting points.

The plane quickly flew into the range of the air defense regiment, and before that, Lin Bing had already made arrangements. Since the whole regiment had 27 anti-aircraft guns and more than 300 twin anti-aircraft machine guns, it was impossible to beat all 24 planes at once according to the 24-to-1 parameter of ground-to-air.

"Nos. 1, 2, 3 gun emplacements, 1 to 10 gun emplacements, 1 enemy aircraft on the left; Nos. 4, 5, 6 gun emplacements, 11-20 gun emplacements, 1 enemy aircraft ......"

Such a tactical arrangement was determined after many exercises, so when entering the position, the gun emplacements and gun emplacements were arranged with reference to the combat positions during the exercise. Each emplacement is a twin anti-aircraft gun, and each emplacement is three twin anti-aircraft machine guns, which not only ensures the density of firepower, but also makes it easier for the commander to centralize the dispatch. This kind of tactical drill is the best air defense plan summed up by the division staff officers after a period of calculation and deduction, and now, this kind of advance battle position arrangement and tactical arrangement has come in handy, and through the walkie-talkie, the forest soldiers can easily keep all the combat positions of the whole regiment in tacit understanding, so that they can deal a fatal blow to the invading enemy planes at the first time.

According to the Japanese artillery operation manual, in order to correct the accuracy of shooting at any time, artillery units above the wing level will be equipped with one or two reconnaissance planes to detect the effect of artillery strikes. However, in this artillery bombardment against the 38th Division, because the confrontation between the two sides was too long, and both sides knew the position of the other side, the Japanese army did not send reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance. And it was precisely because of their negligence that their bombers became daredevils and indiscriminately broke into the ambush circle of the air defense regiment of the cadet division.

It seems that Tu Feiyuan's decision-making mistakes are no wonder, because in the information he obtained, the air defense of the 38th Division was pitifully weak and almost negligible. And the air defense of the cadet division has been exhausted in the last battle of Wen'an. It's just that he forgot the recovery ability of the cadet division, although it was only a short month, but after all the employees of the cadet division arsenal worked overtime day and night, now, the cadet division not only has a regiment-level air defense force, but also created an even more terrifying air defense weapon - "Jiguang air defense modification" tank. Now, if Tu Feiyuan still wants to run rampant over North China with twenty or thirty planes, then he will fall ugly!