Detachment Command.

"Great, Lao Kong, there is news from the front, the artillery battalion has been reinforced in time, and under the artillery bombardment, the Japanese puppet army has suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese puppet army, which was originally the attacking party, is now retreating."

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan clenched his fists excitedly, such a big scene is rare for him.

Not to mention this battle, he, as the chief of staff of the detachment, also belonged to the participants.

Kong Jie nodded and said, "Next, it's up to you how to close the net." ”

"Right now, the two brigades reinforced by the devils from the direction of Taiyuan City are still far from the battlefield, and coupled with our harassment and blocking along the way, it is impossible for the devils of these two brigades to reach the battlefield within three hours."

"What I'm more worried about now is the problem of the devils sending a flying team to reinforce them."

Xu Guoan said helplessly: "Yes, the devil's plane has always been our biggest headache, this thing can come when you want to, leave when you want, and you can't stop it at all." ”

"Although our combat team is also equipped with a certain number of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, it is still too passive to fight with the devil's plane."

"Forget it, what should come will always come, instead of worrying here, it is better to start a direct battle, who will die is not yet known."

Kong Jie, who had made up his mind, immediately issued an order for all units to counterattack.

Meanwhile.

Yoshio Shinozuka of the Japanese First Army Headquarters in Shanxi also gave an order for reinforcements.

The Devil Flying Team, which was always on standby at the nearest Minburg airport, set off immediately after receiving the order.

During this period, according to the different types of aircraft owned by the Japanese air corps and the different combat missions it could undertake, combat deployment was generally carried out in this way.

According to the division of the types of Japanese aircraft:

There are fighters, light bombers (light explosive aircraft), heavy bombers (heavy explosive aircraft), reconnaissance aircraft and transport aircraft, etc.

Among them, the Japanese army's light explosives, heavy explosives, and reconnaissance planes were organized into a small team.

It can also be a fighter with two bombers, a total of three aircraft, forming a flying squad.

The three squadrons of nine planes were organized into one flying squadron.

Two or three squadrons are organized into a flying squadron

Yoshio Shinozuka sent two flying squadrons and six flying squadrons this time.

A total of eighteen aircraft.

The reason for such a deployment stems from the tactics of the Japanese army in air force operations.

As far as the Devil's air force is concerned, the operation of the flying team is not without tactics at all, especially when dealing with an opponent who also has aviation power, and the Devil's operation in the air force is quite tactical.

In the flying team, there is a difference between the combat functions of Japanese fighters and bombers.

The fighter was relatively small and weakly armored, but had the advantage of being more agile and advancing and retreating quickly.

It is often used in air force-to-air operations.

In addition, it can also undertake reconnaissance missions for reconnaissance aircraft.

The bomber, on the other hand, is relatively large in size and has relatively thicker armor, and is mainly responsible for bombing strikes against ground targets.

When carrying out air combat missions, the Japanese army's flying teams were often equipped with fighters and bombers to undertake different combat missions.

For example, when fighting against the national army, considering that the national army has a certain air defense force, the devil's flying team will often have fighter jets or reconnaissance planes to take the lead in conducting high-altitude reconnaissance.

In order to attract firepower, expose the important ground anti-aircraft firepower points of the national army, and then send light and heavy bombers to strike at ground targets.

When dealing with the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the application of the devil flying team in terms of tactics is sometimes not so strict.

It is not even necessary to take the lead in sending reconnaissance planes to reconnoitre, but to directly dispatch bombers, integrating reconnaissance and combat missions.

Find the target and bomb it directly.

The reason is simple, the equipment of the Eighth Route is backward, ammunition is scarce, and basically does not have any air defense capabilities.

It is purely a question of whether the target can be found or not, and whether the bombing is accurate enough.

It doesn't matter if he's a fighter or a bomber, whether he's a flying squad or a flying troop.

It has always been the Japanese army's unilateral bombing and attack on the Eighth Route Army.

When dealing with the troops of the Eighth Route Army, which had no aviation force at all, the devil pilots basically had no psychological pressure.

Until not long ago, the Japanese army was defeated in a sweep.

Yoshio Shinozuka was so angry that he ordered the flight team to directly break into the sky above the base area of the independent regiment and carry out retaliatory bombing.

As a result, it was counterattacked by the air defense forces of the separate regiment and even shot down a number of aircraft.

In that battle, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns exposed in the hands of the Independent Regiment made the Japanese army use aircraft against the Independent Regiment again, and they were not as unscrupulous as before.

This time was no exception.

The Devil Flying Team knew that the enemy army was an old opponent like the Independent Regiment.

The flight team, which had suffered losses, made tactical adjustments.

Yoshio Shinozuka's order is given.

It took about 20 minutes for the devil's flying team to arrive at the battlefield where China and Japan were fighting.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield has taken on a completely reversed situation.

In the sneak attack of Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng with the artillery battalion, the Japanese puppet army was directly killed more than 1,000 people, plus the seriously wounded, and the Japanese puppet army that was destroyed and captured after the counteroffensive launched by Huang Company Commander and his entourage.

The more than 5,000 puppet troops who were originally on the cliff south of Taihang and besieged Huang Company Commander and his party lost about 3,000 people.

There were more than 1,000 Japanese puppet soldiers who were slightly wounded in the ranks.

The Japanese puppet army, which originally advanced from the southwest, numbered more than 5,000 people.

The 47th Division, which advanced from the north, had two brigades and more than 2,000 men.

The total strength of the Japanese puppet army at that time was nearly 8,000 people.

was attacked by the artillery battalion, coupled with the counterattack of the commander of the Huang Company and his party, and the first detachment attacked from the back of the troops.

By the time the two flying squadrons of the devils arrived.

Nearly half of the 8,000-day puppet army on the battlefield suffered casualties.

After the two flying squadrons of the devils arrived, four of the flying squadrons began to block the troops of the Eighth Route Army who were pursuing the retreating Japanese puppet army.

The other two flying teams circled back and forth on the south side of Taihang.

When the flying team set off, the order of the commander Yoshio Shinozuka was clear, to find the artillery unit of the independent regiment that had attacked the imperial forces and destroy it in one fell swoop!

Of course, another task of the Devil Flying Team is to cover the Imperial troops and the Imperial Allied Army from the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army.

In order to achieve this purpose, the bombers of the two devil flight squadrons this time brought enough bombs.

And it was decided to hover over the entire battlefield for a long time in order to be ready for battle.

In the hidden mountain road on the south side of Taihang.

As soon as the artillery attack ended, Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng immediately issued an order to transfer.

The artillery was quickly disassembled and loaded, and the trucks quickly drove into the evacuation routes that had been prepared early in the morning.

It was too late to return to the base of the independent regiment, the distance was too far, and it would definitely not be able to outrun the devil's plane.

Once the truck convoy was discovered by Japanese reconnaissance aircraft.

There will be no escape from destruction.

What Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng had to do was to direct the truck team into the predetermined ravine, and then disguise the truck on the spot and hide it.

For the retreat and camouflage work, Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng made all preparations.

The choice of the ravine has long been surveyed in advance, and both the area and the location of the hide are quite appropriate.

After the fighters quickly drove ten trucks into the ravine, the branches with green leaves that had been cut down long ago, as well as camouflage nets, were immediately used on the camouflage of the trucks.

After that, the careful Wang Chengzhu also ordered to use tree branches to clean the marks of the truck all the way.

Everything was arranged, and Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Old Sun, the following is to set up a fake artillery position." Wang Chengzhu said.

Sun Desheng nodded, and the two of them commanded the soldiers to act quickly.

It turned out that when they came to fight this time, the soldiers also brought a lot of fake cannons used for camouflage.

These cannons are models made of wood by the soldiers of the artillery battalion, and they are larger than their real guns.

In the words of the soldiers of the artillery battalion, these fake cannons are for the devil's pilots, if they don't get bigger, how can they see clearly when they fly so high in a plane?

The wooden dummy cannon itself does not need to be too elaborate, it is generally similar to the artillery.

In addition, the soldiers painted paint similar to the metallic color of the cannon itself.

If this is a whizzing plane, at first glance, it is indeed difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.

The fighters placed the cannons at the foot of the hill 500 meters away from the ravine where the truck was hidden.

Some branches were also placed on it as a disguise.

Of course, this "camouflage" is not at all refined, a dozen "artillery" are arranged haphazardly, and they also occupy a large area, and the conspicuous metal-like color reflects the faint sunlight through the gaps that are not covered by branches and leaves.

It's just to make a show, I wish I could let the devil pilot find out!

After everything was ready, Wang Chengzhu then arranged:

"In order to convince the little devils, what they blew up was our artillery unit, and we have to fight back."

"As soon as the devil's plane arrives, the bombing target will be placed on our fake artillery position."

"Let's scatter anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns in the woods around the false artillery positions."

Speaking of this, the cautious Wang Chengzhu reminded again:

"Comrades, the little devil is very cunning, we discussed it in the course of analyzing the combat tactics of the devil flying team at the regiment headquarters."

"The combat tactics of the Japanese army's flying team are not blind, and it is very likely that the little devil will first use a few planes to test the density of our anti-aircraft firepower before committing bomber combat."

"When we were fighting for a while, everyone took the sound of my gunfire as a signal, and when a gunshot rang out, we only put in thirty percent of the firepower."

"Two gunshots, no matter how full fire, do you understand?"

"Yes!" The warriors responded in unison.

As an artillery battalion for the ace unit of the first detachment.

Kong Jie put in a lot of effort.

Especially for the artillery battalion commander Wang Chengzhu and the deputy battalion commander howitzer.

Kong Jie even instilled various advanced theories into the two, in short, how much inspiration can be inspired.

Kong Jie once said to Wang Chengzhu and howitzers:

"On the battlefield, the artillery unit is the trump card of our first detachment, but it is also the target of the devil's artillery and aircraft."

"This means that once on the battlefield, your artillery battalion must not only undertake the task of providing artillery support, but also have the strength of air defense and be proficient in the tactics of dealing with the bombing of the Japanese flying troops."

Wang Chengzhu remembered these deeply.

As in the case of this time, the artillery battalion was reinforced with a fleet of trucks.

While the artillery battalion carried more than a dozen main artillery pieces, it also carried some anti-aircraft weapons such as machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

In order to protect the baby artillery of their own artillery battalion.

Wang Chengzhu, the commander of the artillery battalion, is ready to fight to the death with the upcoming devil flying team......

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