Fifteen minutes after the shelling began, the devil's plane came again.

The observers of the Eighth Route Army, which was located 12 kilometers south of Taiyuan City, immediately used high-power walkie-talkies to transmit the news to the artillery groups.

After receiving the news, the gun positions immediately stopped firing and concealed the personnel and shell boxes.

"Gentlemen."

The 17 planes lined up in a flight formation, flying towards the target, faintly seeing the outline of Taiyuan City, in the communication channel, the captain of the flight team said in a solemn tone:

"In this operation, our mission remains the same, it is still to destroy the artillery units of the Eighth Road!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the communication channel, and not a single pilot spoke.

In contrast to the lively scene in the communications channel when the Central Army was bombed a few days before the start of the campaign, the Central Army had no aviation and few anti-aircraft weapons, so it could only be beaten on the ground.

Moreover, as soon as the ground forces attacked, the Central Army was quickly routed under the offensive, and when it fled, it was huddled on the main road with its family rolls and looted property.

A single aerial bomb can blow up a large area.

However, from yesterday's task of bombing the Eighth Route in batches, the nightmare of the Japanese pilots began.

4 planes were shot down yesterday, 3 planes were shot down this morning, and even 2 ace pilots were shot down, and there have never been such big losses since the establishment of the 32nd Flying Brigade of the Kwantung Army.

After flying back to Xinxiang Airport, the devil pilots finished breakfast, checked the plane, filled fuel and loaded bombs, and took off again and arrived in Taiyuan at noon.

Of the 17 aircraft, 2 Type 3 liaison aircraft, 2 reconnaissance aircraft, 6 fighters and 7 attack aircraft.

The weather at this time is sunny and the sights are excellent.

As if sensing the sluggish atmosphere of the pilots, Mukai Kinji's hoarse voice sounded again in the communication channel: "The Imperial Japanese Army is invincible, Amaterasu bless us!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I know that the enemy has a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, but it is the honor of being a pilot of the Imperial Army of Japan to dedicate oneself to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan!"

As soon as these words came out, all the devil pilots suddenly looked crazy.

"Drop bombs on their heads, blow up their artillery, blow up their artillery to the bones."

There are devil pilots who gritted their teeth in the radio channel and said.

"My plane is a last-minute bomb, and if necessary, I will die with the enemy!"

A ghost pilot snapped.

Other devil pilots echoed their statements, and even if they died, they would pull the back of the Eighth Route Artillery.

Yo Xi, hearing these echoing statements, a cold arc appeared at the corner of Mukai Jinji's mouth.

Seeing the camouflage net set up by the Eighth Route Artillery in front of him, Xiang Jing Jinji said: "The liaison plane and the reconnaissance plane are responsible for conveying the position of the Eighth Route Artillery to the First Army Artillery Wing and observing the impact point, and the fighter planes cover the attack aircraft to attract the anti-aircraft fire of China." ”

"Gentlemen, please, attack!"

The murderous pilots, pulling the control sticks, piloted the plane to roar through the clouds and flew towards the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army.

"Report the big left, the target is found in front, do you want to attack?"

There are devil pilots calling over the radio.

Xiang Jing Jinji raised the telescope and looked down, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he saw that the ground below was actually covered with camouflage nets, not to mention more than 200 of them.

These camouflage nets are spaced thirty or forty meters apart, and when you look down from above, it is impossible to see which camouflage nets hide the eight-way cannon under them.

Moreover, smoke is coming from under these camouflage nets, and it is impossible to find traces left by the firing of the cannons.

Mukai Jinji looked left and right at the surrounding terrain, except for flat ground and flat land.

According to the information conveyed by the headquarters of the First Army, there were artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army in the four directions of Taiyuan, east, west, north and south.

Now he ordered to Kinji Mukai:

"The artillery of the Eighth Route is hidden under these camouflage nets, and the liaison plane immediately guides the artillery to counterattack."

"Attack planes and fighters, blow up all the camouflage nets!"

"Attack!"

With a shout, Mukai Jinji took the lead in pulling the joystick, and the nose of the machine swooped down, swooping down towards the camouflage net on the ground.

However, the devil pilots did not dare to dive and attack at a low altitude, but dropped aerial bombs at an altitude of four or five hundred meters.

The hit rate at this altitude is very low, but it is not so easy for the eight-way machine gun to hit the plane.

The devil pilots quickly pulled up the control stick at the same time as dropping the aerial bomb.

……

"All anti-aircraft gun positions, listen to my orders and then fire!"

"Hold your breath!"

Ding Wei grabbed the walkie-talkie and said with a cold expression.

The southern city wall was the direction in which the 1st Attack Group was responsible for the attack, and the commander was none other than Ding Wei.

He had 100 machine guns in his hands, including 70 machine guns allocated by Li Yunlong and more than 20 machine guns brought by the artillery group, as well as the 10 machine guns that Li Yunlong had given to the New Second Regiment.

Now these machine guns are naturally under the command of Ding Wei.

The devil's planes reinforce Taiyuan from Xinxiang Airport in Henan Province and flew from south to north, bearing the brunt of attacking the artillery positions of the 1st Attack Group.

And the surrounding area is flat, except for the camouflage net, the cannon has no other means of concealment.

However, Ding Wei is good at pondering, how to kill the devil plane as much as possible.

According to the previous air defense experience, Ding Wei found that when the devil plane dived and dropped its bombs and climbed upward, it was the time when the devil plane's maneuverability was the worst.

At this time, the devil plane is not easy to turn around.

Therefore, Ding Wei temporarily transferred dozens of low-power walkie-talkies from each company to each machine gun group, and tuned all walkie-talkies to the same channel.

It facilitates unity of command.

"Ready!"

Ding Wei held the binoculars in one hand and stared at the devil plane with his eyes dead, and the other hand held a low-power walkie-talkie.

The devil plane dropped the bomb, and Ding Wei's shouting also sounded simultaneously: "Fire!" ”

In an instant, dark red ballistics filled the sky, and more than 100 tracer bullets formed a whip like a grim reaper, and reluctantly whipped towards the devil plane.

Although the devil pilots were very cautious and did not dare to dive at low altitudes to attack, they could not stand too many machine guns, and there were plenty of shells.

The accuracy is not enough, the number is to make up.

In addition, with the popularity of "How to Fight", the fighters know how to jerk off in advance.

When the plane climbed up with full horsepower, especially the bulky attack aircraft, lost speed and maneuver, and was immediately whipped by the whip.

With the explosion of the aerial bombs dropped by the devils, the devil's planes fell down one after another.

Of course, no matter how strong the anti-aircraft firepower is, it is almost impossible to shoot down all the aircraft.

In the end, 7 of the 13 aircraft of the dive attack were shot down, of which 2 fighters and 5 attack aircraft were shot down, leaving 4 fighters and 2 attack aircraft.

As for the other 2 reconnaissance aircraft and 2 liaison aircraft, which were very far away and flew high, there was no chance of shooting them down.

However, watching a wave of attacks shoot down 7 planes, the fighters thundered with joy.

The remaining 4 fighters and 2 attack aircraft, 2 of which were also wounded, flew away in a hurry after dropping aerial bombs at high altitudes.

The devil pilot is indeed not afraid of death, but if he wants to fly a plane to hit the artillery, he must first find the cannon of the Eighth Route Army.

The infantry of the Eighth Route can be seen, but if you launch a suicide attack on the infantry of the Eighth Route with an airplane, isn't that a water in your head?

Ding Wei held the telescope and looked at the sky, although 6 devil planes flew away, there were still 4 planes hovering at high altitude, and the machine guns at this altitude could not reach.

Suddenly, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky, and a cannonball shot out of Taiyuan City, and the cannonball galloped down around the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, and a deafening explosion was heard.

A ball of fire and smoke rose up.

Ding Wei looked at the devil plane in the sky and seemed to understand something.

At this time, the communication personnel in charge of the high-power walkie-talkie turned to Ding Wei and said, "Report to the regiment commander, the commander-in-chief wants to talk to you." ”

Ding Wei walked quickly to the high-power walkie-talkie, picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and put it to his ear: "Hey, commander-in-chief, I'm Ding Wei!" ”

"Lao Ding, what's the situation over there?"

Ding Wei's ears sounded Li Yunlong's inquiry.

"What's the situation?"

"The situation is good, a wave of machine guns fired rapidly, shot down 7 devil planes, this devil's fighters and bombers flew away, and 4 reconnaissance planes did not leave."

Ding Wei's tone was happy.

Li Yunlong's tone was extremely surprised: "What are you talking about, you shot down 7 devil planes there, you kid won't lie to me, right?" ”

Ding Wei replied: "That's right, it's seven, I can see it very clearly, if you don't believe it, you can come and see it yourself, the wreckage of the devil's plane is still burning." ”

Li Yunlong's tone was excited: "With the 3 planes we shot down in the morning, wouldn't we shoot down a total of 10 planes?" ”

Shooting down devil planes is a long-term business.

The destruction of one aircraft had three mountain guns, and the killing of one pilot had one howitzer, five radio stations and 10 tons of food.

Now that Ding Wei is also under the command of Li Yunlong, the plane shot down by Ding Wei will naturally be counted in the long-term business.

Shooting down these 10 planes allowed Li Yunlong to earn 30 75 mountain guns, 10 105 howitzers, 50 radio stations and 100 tons of grain.

There is still a surplus to equip an artillery regiment.

"That's right!"

Li Yunlong was overjoyed and smiled: "Haha, Lao Ding, well done, when this battle is over, I have decided to reward you with 7 75mm mountain guns." ”

Ding Weimeng's eyes widened and he was short of breath: "Really?!" Lao Li, no, commander-in-chief, do you really want to reward me with 7 mountain cannons? ”

Li Yunlong said: ", isn't it true, is it still fake?" ”

"Haha, that's interesting!"

Ding Wei was grateful, thinking that labor and capital were the rhythm of making a fortune, and he made a fortune of 70 machine guns before the war, and he made a fortune of 7 mountain guns in less than half an hour after the war began.

When Taiyuan is defeated, how much the new second regiment can earn in this battle, Ding Wei can't imagine but is full of expectations.

In addition to the new regiment to be transferred to the northwest of Shanxi, Ding Wei and the new second regiment and Kong Jie's independent regiment also had to go to the northwest of Shanxi.

Although the northwest of Shanxi is very poor and cannot support too many troops, the 8,000 people of the new regiment do not need to be supported by ordinary people at all, and they are completely self-sufficient. There was even a surplus of food to support the common people and fraternal troops.

Moreover, the area in the northwest of Shanxi is not smaller than that in the southeast of Shanxi, not to mention the installation of 3 regiments, even the installation of 30 regiments.

Of course, the premise is that so many troops can be fed.

"Lao Ding, congratulations!"

"Lao Ding, 7 mountain cannons are in the account, you kid has to invite us to drink!"

The high-power walkie-talkie coldly heard the sour voices of Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa.

Feelings: The two have been diving and eavesdropping on the high-power walkie-talkie channel.

Ding Dawei was overjoyed and snorted: "It's easy to say." ”

Li Yunlong said: "There are also Lao Kong and Lao Cheng, you two are the same as Lao Ding, as long as you can shoot down 1 plane, I will reward 1 mountain artillery." ”

Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie hurriedly looked at the plane in the sky, the devil's plane was too high and too far, and they sighed that they had no chance to make a fortune.

While everyone was talking, two more shells came out of Taiyuan City and exploded around the artillery position of the 1st Assault Group.

After looking at the impact point with a telescope, Ding Wei found that the impact point of the shells fired by the devil artillery was getting closer and closer to the false artillery position.

Ding Wei raised his eyebrows slightly, if the devil's artillery was adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan, it was likely that he would have to concentrate artillery fire to plow all the camouflage nets.

"In which direction are the devils firing?"

Li Yunlong heard the sound of cannons in the high-power walkie-talkie and asked.

Ding Wei said: "It's shooting at me, and the devil reconnaissance plane in the sky is observing the impact point, and the impact point is getting closer and closer to our artillery position. ”

Li Yunlong asked, "Lao Ding, can you take down the devil's reconnaissance plane over there?" ”

Ding Wei shook his head: "I can't beat it, it's too high and too far, if I could beat it down, I would have done it earlier, the devil's artillery position should be set up in the city, can the sword squadron guide our artillery to counteract?" ”

"There's no way!" Lu Yingjun was also in the channel, and after hearing Ding Wei's words, he immediately said:

"Judging from the trajectory of the shells, the devil's artillery position is located in the city, very close to the city wall, and the devil's artillery uses the city wall as an anti-slope position, and our artillery can't hit it."

Ding Wei said: "If you don't suppress and kill the devil's artillery, under the guidance of the devil's reconnaissance plane, the devil's artillery will definitely carry out counter-suppression of our artillery, and even kill our artillery position." ”

"Fuck! Can a living person suffocate urine? ”

Li Yunlong scolded: "Taking advantage of the fact that the devil's fighters and bombers flew away, they continued to fire artillery on labor and capital, and after the city wall was destroyed, the infantry immediately rushed up to occupy the city wall, and the devil's artillery could not play a role." ”

"Yes!"

Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie agreed in unison on the walkie-talkie.

As Li Yunlong's order was issued, the artillerymen began to get busy again, stuffing shells into the barrels one by one, and then hitting the outer city wall of Taiyuan.

The explosion like a landslide and a crack spread rapidly from the direction of the Taiyuan city wall to all directions.

……

Outside the north of Taiyuan City.

The artillery positions a few kilometers behind the headquarters continued to operate non-stop, and under the guidance of the sword team, they bombarded the northern city wall.

Under the concentrated bombardment of artillery fire, the northeastern section of the city wall was the first to be breached, and the collapsed broken bricks and earth blocks were spread out into a slope under the city.

Coincidentally, when the Japanese army attacked Taiyuan, the Japanese artillery, under the guidance of the aircraft, also took the lead in collapsing the city wall in the northeast.

Li Yunlong picked up the telescope and looked at the gap in the city wall that had been punched out, the gap was less than 10 meters, a very narrow section.

It's not enough.

The circumference of the Taiyuan city wall is 12 kilometers, and the length of each wall is 3 kilometers.

It's not enough to punch a gap.

Li Yunlong ordered to the Sword Squadron: "Give me a point to concentrate artillery fire on the city wall, and strive to make a few more gaps, so that the pressure on our infantry attacking the city will be much less." ”

As Li Yunlong's order was issued, the members of the Sword Squadron quickly used walkie-talkies to report a series of shooting to the howitzer and the mountain artillery respectively.

The previous shelling was because it was to hit the devil's fort, so it was all free fire.

Now concentrate artillery fire on a certain point of the city wall, and the city wall will soon be unable to withstand it, and it will collapse into a gap.

When Li Yunlong's artillery team saw this scene in the mirror, he was immediately happy: "Okay, just fight like this, and make a few more gaps, and the infantry can attack." ”

"Chief of Staff Wang, immediately convey this method of shelling to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Attack Groups."

"Yes!"

Wang Dehou turned around and called with a high-power walkie-talkie.

"Look, what's that?"

Guard Huang Erhu pointed to the sky in the direction of Taiyuan and said, he did not have a telescope, he could only see a small dot the size of an ant.

Li Yunlong glanced at Huang Erhu, and looked over Taiyuan with the telescope on his chest.

"What's that?"

I saw a balloon hanging a basket slowly rising into the air, and Grand Master Li was also a little confused, he had never seen this thing before.

Zhao Gang, Wang Dehou and Xing Zhiguo also raised their binoculars to look.

Wang Dehou put down the telescope and said to Li Yunlong: "Commander-in-chief, this is the observation balloon of the Japanese army, when Japan and Russia fought for Lushun in our northeast, the Japanese army used observation balloons to open the eyes of the artillery, and the use of observation balloons brought great advantages to the Japanese army, and finally the Japanese army also defeated the Russian army. ”

"Chief of Staff Wang is worthy of coming from the headquarters, and he is really well-informed."

Li Yunlong nodded, first complimented, and then asked, "How high can this thing fly?" ”

"I can fly very high." Wang Dehou said, "But the devil will definitely not fly so high, the highest estimate is only 2 kilometers, otherwise it will be difficult for the devil's observers to see the artillery position and the impact point." ”

Li Yunlong pondered for a moment, 2 kilometers is 2,000 meters, which is within the range of machine guns.

If the vertical height of the devil's balloon and the ground is 2,000 meters, then the devil's observer must be 3,000 meters away from the impact point or the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army.

But at this time, the devil's balloon had just risen, and it was still a little far away, and the machine gun was not enough.

Li Yunlong immediately ordered: "Order all machine gun positions to shoot down the balloon for Lao Tzu, if you can't shoot down the reconnaissance plane, can't Lao Tzu shoot down your balloon?" ”

"Yes!" Chief of Staff Wang picked up the walkie-talkie and gave orders to the various machine gun positions.

"Lao Li, there is a situation."

Zhao Gang said suddenly.

"What's the situation?"

Zhao Gang pointed to the gap that was first blown open by the cannonball and said, "Look, the devils and the puppet army are blocking and repairing the gap." ”

Li Yunlong turned the artillery mirror, and then his eyes came to the periscope, and through the vision of the artillery mirror, he saw that there were devils and puppet soldiers carrying sandbags to the gap, trying to block and repair the gap.

Li Yunlong sneered: "Let the Sword Squadron guide the two howitzers and kill this group of bitches for me." ”