In the face of such a group of Japanese soldiers, the 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment were more than able to deal with it. After breaking through the Japanese position, the tank did not stop, and continued to roar and rush into the depth of the Japanese position. Wu Zhijun and Qi Xuan, the two regiment commanders, each left a battalion to deal with the remnants of the Japanese soldiers on the position, and the rest of the troops rushed forward with the chariot.

Seeing that the two regiments under his command easily broke through the Japanese position, Tang Yu and Wei Ye in the command post were excited. Tang Yu was now ready to put the 879th Regiment into battle, but Wei Ye said: "Brigade seat, now the 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment have enough troops to attack, and the Japanese army is not so easy to deal with, if the Japanese army still has any means that have not been used, the 879th Regiment can be targeted into battle, and now the 879th Regiment is put into battle, it is a bit too hasty." ”

Tang Yu still has a lot of respect for Wei Ye, the old boss, and hearing Wei Ye say this, Tang Yu is not in a hurry to put the 879th Regiment into battle. On the Japanese position, because the shelling has stopped, the Japanese army can now organize a similar blockade, but the chariots do not care about the bullets fired at all, and they keep attacking forward with the bullets flying randomly.

The infantry followed closely behind the chariot, and the huge body of the chariot blocked most of the bullets, and the Japanese fire did not pose much danger to them. Seeing that the Chinese troops were getting closer and closer to the second line of positions, the Japanese troops guarding the second line of positions were already a little panicked, and the second line of positions was garrisoned by the 212th Wing, although they did not experience the bombardment of rocket shells, but the tragic situation on the forward positions just now had made many soldiers frightened.

The face of the wing commander of the 212th Wing, Shiro Eto, was also extremely ugly, and the bombardment of the forward position just now also shocked him, but he also knew very well what the consequences of losing the position were, and he did not dare to show any uneasiness in his heart. One order after another was conveyed from him, and the officers and soldiers were a little calmer because of his presence.

Seeing that the tank was about to approach the second line of Japanese positions again, there was a roar in the air, and the Japanese planes that had come to help the battle finally arrived over the battlefield. The roar in the air did not sound for a while, and the figure of the Japanese plane appeared in the sky. Tang Yu also saw the flying planes from the telescope in the command headquarters, the exact number is not known, but a large area of planes under the pressure of black and suppressed covers half of the sky.

This was the air support that Commander Isamu Yokoyama promised Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo last night. This time, Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama mobilized all the flying units at his disposal, and the first batch of Japanese flying units to arrive included the 44th Flying Squadron and the 65th Flying Squadron, totaling 48 Type 93 light bombers, 24 Type 96 medium bombers, and an escort fighter squadron.

Before entering the skies over the battlefield, the commander of the 44th Flying Squadron, Yoshiosa Otsubo, who was in charge of the command, made contact with Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo by radio. Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo was helpless against the attack of the Chinese army because the field artillery in his hand was blown up, and the air support from Otsubo Yoshiosa came at the right time, and the air support that arrived was like a shot in the arm, which made Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo excited again.

With Lieutenant General Ide's hatred for the Chinese artillery, how could he let go of the Chinese artillery positions that had inflicted great losses on him after air support came? Therefore, under the guidance of Ide Tetsuzo, most of the Japanese planes pounced on the artillery positions behind the Chinese positions, and only one flying group pounced on the fighting vehicles and infantry that were making the assault.

This is also the situation that the Chinese side most wants to see, because the rear artillery positions have the strongest ability to imitate the air, the self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments themselves have a very strong mobility capability, and there are more than 20 antiaircraft guns and dozens of antiaircraft machine guns for air defense tasks, and they are not afraid of the attack of Japanese planes. The position of the 130 heavy cannon regiment is very hidden, and it also has more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns and dozens of anti-aircraft machine guns as anti-aircraft cover, and it is not afraid of the attack of Japanese aircraft.

Only the infantry air defense that is assaulting is the weakest, except for the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns on the combat vehicle, which can fire at the air, even the heavy machine guns without anti-aircraft gun mounts cannot fire at the air. As soon as Wu Zhijun and Qi Xuanjun discovered the Japanese planes, they immediately realized that the situation was not good, and the chariots rushing in front were not afraid of bullets and small artillery shells, but the aviation bombs and bombs were not something they could withstand, so the two regiment commanders decisively ordered the troops to make an all-out assault, and only by rushing into the Japanese positions and entangled with the Japanese army could the Japanese planes have some scruples.

When the Japanese troops on the position saw their flying units rushing to support, their morale immediately rose, and their firepower also intensified. But no matter how dense the firepower hit the chariot's body, except for the clanging noise, it did not slow the chariot by half a minute. Even the 92 infantry guns and mortars only added some casualties to the assault fighters, and they were helpless against the combat vehicles.

Soon the chariots rushed into the Japanese positions and tore several gaps in the positions, and the soldiers behind them rushed to the positions through the gaps and fought with the oncoming Japanese troops. At this time, a flying group of twelve light bombers had already flown over the position, but the soldiers strangled together on the ground made the pilot dumbfounded, and in this case, he could not drop bombs at all, unless he could ignore the life and death of his own soldiers on the position.

After the twelve bombers dived, they did not drop bombs and then pulled up again, so that Tang Yu and Wei Ye, who were hanging in their hearts, put their hearts down, and Tang Yu was still very satisfied with the performance of Wu Zhijun and Qi Xuan, and even Wei Ye praised it: "Zhijun and Qi Xuan, these two boys, are not badly commanded!

Except for a light bomber group to deal with the assault infantry, the main force of the Japanese planes flew over the Chinese positions, and the pilots deliberately flew at low altitudes in order to find the heavy artillery positions of the Chinese troops. However, the position of the 130 heavy cannon regiment was still several kilometers away from the main position, and it was well concealed, so it was difficult for the Japanese to detect them.

The self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments were very mobile, and there were no fixed positions at all, and the Japanese planes circled at low altitude for a while without finding any heavy artillery positions, but were attacked by anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground. The Japanese pilots were furious and took the anti-aircraft machine guns that attacked them as targets. But when he dived and bombed several anti-aircraft machine guns, he was attacked by more anti-aircraft machine guns.

Caught off guard, the Japanese pilot had just bombed and dropped the bomb when he was hit and fell into black smoke. The loss of this plane attracted the attention of other pilots, and suddenly a dozen planes rushed over like flies that smelled fish. On the ground was a specially arranged anti-aircraft machine gun position, and the initiative to attack the Japanese planes was also a task arranged in advance, the purpose of which was to attract the Japanese planes to attack and protect the really important targets.

Seeing that so much anti-aircraft firepower was deployed in this place, the Japanese pilots felt that they had found an important target, and after forming an attack formation of four planes, they launched attacks one after another, so a ground-air battle began. The antiaircraft machine gun positions on the ground were arranged in three rows with a distance of 20 meters apart according to the number of 10 to 12 guns per row, and such an arrangement could form the densest fire interception network in the air.

After the heavy machine gun is equipped with an anti-aircraft tripod, the effective anti-aircraft firing altitude is 500 meters, and there is no problem at all in dealing with Japanese low-flying or dive-bombing aircraft. The pilots of the Japanese army were indeed highly skilled and courageous, and they simply shuttled through the dense anti-aircraft fire network and dropped aerial bombs and bombs. However, in the process of dive bombing, there will always be people who are injured or fallen.

The ground-air battle was extremely fierce, but it did not last long, but in about 10 minutes, more than 20 Japanese light bombers were damaged four and three were destroyed, and the bombs and bombs dropped also damaged two-thirds of the more than 30 antiaircraft machine guns on the position. After this wave of light bombers finished dropping bombs and returned to hovering at high altitudes, another wave of medium bombers came.

This is a medium-sized bomber group of 10 planes, and this medium-sized bomber does not do dive bombing, but does covering bombing in the air of more than 1,000 meters, and its bomb carrying capacity is much more than that of light bombers, and there are enough bombs and bombs to do local covering bombing. For aircraft flying in the air for more than a thousand meters, the anti-aircraft machine gun completely lost its effectiveness.

Seeing that the antiaircraft machine guns and fighters on the position were about to be wiped out, Dong Shan, commander of the heavy firepower battalion of the 879th Regiment, who was in charge of the command, hurriedly ordered the soldiers to abandon the antiaircraft machine guns on the position and withdraw from the position. As soon as the bombs and bombs of the medium bombers fell, twelve armored trucks with twin anti-aircraft guns rushed to the position.

These anti-aircraft guns were originally intended to provide anti-aircraft cover for the self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments, but after the 50 guns of the self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments were dispersed and concealed, these 20 antiaircraft guns rushed to support the anti-aircraft machine-gun positions, which happened to meet the bombardment of the medium bomber group. Attacking an aircraft in the air at a height of 1,000 meters is not a problem at all for a German-made 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun with an effective anti-aircraft fire altitude of 3,000 meters.

The 12 twin anti-aircraft guns could already form a small-scale anti-aircraft gun position, and the Japanese medium bombers were still observing the bombing effect after dropping the bombs and bombs, but these 12 anti-aircraft guns seized the opportunity. Twelve anti-aircraft guns fired a salvo, hitting three planes at that time, two were shot down on the spot, and one was shot and flew out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns with black smoke.

Medium bombers were shot down by two, and the damage to one immediately caused more planes to rush to retaliate, and the armored trucks equipped with anti-aircraft guns, after the anti-aircraft guns completed this round of attacks, did not wait in place, but quickly drove to the rear of the position, where they were going to concentrate most of the air defense forces, once the Japanese planes pursued the retreating armored trucks, then they would be greeted by more anti-aircraft fire.

The Japanese planes soon spotted the retreating armored truck, and almost all the planes that had not yet dropped bombs rushed over at the radio call. By the time the twelve armored trucks rushed back to their positions, forty or fifty planes had gathered in the air. There were twelve medium bombers and ten escort fighters, the rest were light bombers.