In Taiyuan City, Iwamatsu Yoshio sighed in extreme disappointment. He watched as the observation balloon, which he had given high hopes for, fell from high in the sky.

At this time, the old devil remembered one thing, the Eighth Route Army not only had an excellent air force, but also had an anti-aircraft artillery regiment comparable to the anti-aircraft fire power of the inner circle of the United Fleet.

When he handed over to Yoshio Shinozuka, the other party also specially reminded him. The tragedy just now even reminded him of the Battle of Nomenkan.

But at this point, regret is useless.

Iwamatsu clenched his fists angrily, and then gave the order for a new phase to the messenger on standby.

"All the artillerymen abandoned their mission and immediately moved to reserve position No. 3, and no one was allowed to fire without my orders."

"Let the Sanada United divide the troops into two routes, and be ready to reinforce Yingzemen, Yinghuimen, and Yichunmen at any time. The Eighth Route Army will definitely launch the main attack from the east and south, and the enemy must not be allowed to touch the city wall! ”

"Contact the reinforcements, tell them about the current situation, and ask them to speed up the rush."

After a few moments, Iwamatsu regained his composure.

The current battlefield situation seems to be very unfavorable to the First Army, but the old devil still has a glimmer of hope for defending the city. This courage comes from the strong city walls.

According to the battle report just sent back from the front, he did not find that the Eighth Route Army had large-caliber heavy artillery of more than 105 mm.

This means that the enemy does not have the ability to collapse the walls.

If you want to attack a city, you must use the most primitive tactics. In other words, the opponent must use a sufficient amount of explosives to blast at a fixed point, and then need to carry a ladder to climb the city wall.

The above series of processes are more beneficial to the defender.

The Eighth Route Army did have an advantage in firepower, but it could not ignore the casualties of its own soldiers and carry out indiscriminate shelling of the city wall.

After a sudden realization, Iwamatsu Yoshio raised the telescope in his hand and continued to observe the situation of Lu Hang. In the old devil's heart, he had already begun to look forward to the sight of the moat dyed red.

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It is only 23 kilometers from Wusu Airport to the airspace of the Southern Group.

The Spitfire MK9 and Hurricane MK2B can definitely be ranked in the first echelon of fighters in the current era. At their speed, even with the time it takes to taxi the runway, they can reach the battlefield in five minutes.

As soon as everyone entered the combat airspace, they saw the brilliant fireball over Taiyuan City.

"Captain, the devils actually have a hand, it seems that they haven't completely given up counterattacking."

"It's a pity, I haven't shot such a thing as an observation balloon yet, so I don't know if I'll have a chance to encounter it in the future."

While everyone was talking, the sudden attack of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment attracted the attention of the pilots.

It was a salvo of 150 Hatch Kaiss 25mm anti-aircraft guns, such a powerful firepower that no one could ignore, and even one soldier subconsciously wanted to do a maneuver to dodge.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Captain Wang Hai began to look for enemy planes.

Following the trajectory of the tracer bullet, he quickly locked onto the dive bombers trying to break through the anti-aircraft fire net.

"The mission has changed, priority is given to supporting artillery."

"The target is two 97 planes, and we can't let the enemy drop the bombs."

"Now that the enemy is weak and I am strong, everyone will dive with me. Fight to take out all the enemies in the first wave of the attack! “

As the first formation, the strength of the remaining five pilots is not bad.

They have experienced the baptism of the air battle of Nakajo Mountain, and even everyone has a record of shooting down. Knowing that there is a surprise attack with mental calculation or unintentional can play a decisive role.

Having received the order, five Hurricanes followed closely with the Spitfire.

All the fighters flipped on their sides to change course, and with the help of their energy superiority, they attacked the unsuspecting Jiuqi Single.

It seemed that the sixth sense gave a warning, and Eiichi Ishida, who was still diving towards the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, involuntarily glanced behind under the guidance of intuition.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

In the sky above their own side, there were actually several fighter jets in pursuit. Headed by the famous 079 Spitfire in the entire North China Front, the army and aviation.

"Mitani-kun! After"

Before he finished speaking, Captain Wang Hai had already locked on and pulled the trigger. The 20mm Western cannon is like a hot knife cutting butter, and it can easily hit the target.

"Boom!"

A few seconds later, the first 97 single light exploded in the air, and the body was torn apart. The exploding aviation gasoline ignited a fire and slowly fell from the sky.

Captain Wang Hai pressed the rod and pedaled the rudder, maneuvering the fighter plane to roll over on the back to avoid the wreckage of the enemy plane. He didn't bother with the other one, but flew straight towards the reinforced concrete fortress.

The teammates did not live up to the trust, and the other dive bomber ended even worse, being tortured to death.

There were two Hurricanes staring at Mitani, 24 7.62 mm Browning machine guns were fired up, and bullets from small water pipes burrowed into the enemy's cockpit like eyes.

It was like pinching a fat bug to death, red blood and white brains splattering everywhere.

Ninety-seven, who lost control, was light, emitting black smoke and planting it away from the battlefield.

The support of the 1st Air Division greatly demoralized the artillerymen on the ground, and everyone was eager to follow the infantry to charge.

The movement in the sky was also clearly seen by the staff officers of the field command. The battles of the Air Force, no matter how many times you watch them, are so pleasing to the eye.

"Commander-in-chief, the comrades of the 1st Air Division have already begun to act."

"Do you think we should attack now and cooperate with Captain Wang Hai to carry out siege operations?"

This seemingly reasonable proposal was rejected by the brigade commander.

The current Eighth Route Army has always been known for its field battles and has never attempted an urban storm.

If the troops want to take Taiyuan with the least damage and the fastest speed, they cannot do without the help of the air force.

After all, close air support is an effective tactical means that can inflict heavy damage on the enemy's high-value targets or destroy enemy fortifications.

Just like in the early stage of the Tour de France, the Stuka dive bomber of the German III greatly increased the advance speed of the ground armored forces.

The Il-2 and Cannon Bird on the Eastern Front also beat the opposing logistics troops to cry dad and mother.

However, this tactic extremely tested the coordination ability of infantry and aircraft, and the vast majority of soldiers of the 1st Air Force Division had only one month of actual combat experience, and the infantry was not completely accustomed to the existence of air support on the battlefield.

If either side makes a mistake, the bomb will deviate from the target, and the efficiency of the operation will be greatly reduced. In the worst case, the artillery shells flew directly to the infantry, and they were infamous for hitting friendly forces.

After all, reality is not Anton Star, and the enemy's head will not be automatically marked in red and their name will appear.

Even if a certain country has popularized precision-guided weapons in later generations, and there are special guides on the ground to ensure the accuracy of weapons and the safety of friendly forces.

But on the battlefield, there were still cases of warthogs accidentally injuring friendly soldiers.

For the Eighth Route Army at the present stage, before the Bureau of Weapons Experiment and Research developed advanced radio technology, the best way to coordinate was to use fighters as flying artillery.

After the air force clears the ground of the enemy, the infantry will clean up the battlefield and end the battle.

This is the synergistic solution that maximizes damage and is least likely to cause accidental damage to allies.

Look at the expectant gazes of the staff officers. The brigade commander could only pour a basin of cold water for the time being.

"Wait, let the 1st Air Division clean up the reinforced concrete fortress first, and blow up the city wall before setting off."

"I applied to the Deputy General Staff for thirty hours of combat time, and now I haven't even used up one-thirtieth of it, so we still have plenty of time."

"Get the sappers ready for battle, those remaining obstacles and moats need to be dealt with by them."

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The perspective switches to outside the city of Taiyuan, where a fighter jet is diving at high speed.

In the years when there were no precision guidance systems, horizontal-drop bombs were only effective if they were carpet bombed. If you want to bomb a target accurately, you can only choose dive bombing.

If in the European theater, when the fighter plane dives towards the ground, it is definitely a challenge to death. After all, the intensity of field air defense of those old military powers is very high, and it can even be said that they fly in anti-aircraft artillery.

But now the situation is different, the devil in the reinforced concrete fortress is simply a lamb to the slaughter.

In the process of diving, Captain Wang Hai was under a lot of overload while aiming at the fortifications below.

Once in a safe position, he pressed the bomb drop button. A 250-kilogram bomb left the pylon.

At the same time, in order to avoid the contact of the bomb with the propeller, the nose of the Spitfire was sharply pulled up.

As the pilot with the strongest comprehensive strength of the 1st Air Division, Captain Wang Hai directly hit the target with the bomb this time. The moment the bomb came into contact with the fortress, it emitted a loud roar.

The power of this level of aerial bomb is very amazing, and if you simply calculate the charge, the HE charge of the American 406 and Yamato 460 is not as much as it.

A Tiger King will be completely destroyed if it misses fifteen meters away.

If it is in the city, a kilometer or so of glass will be shattered.

With just one dive attack, he took out the fortress that the armor-piercing shells of the M1897 75mm cannon could not penetrate.

Half an hour later, all the reinforced concrete fortifications were uprooted.

Captain Wang Hai is also about to return to the battlefield, and the next target is the city wall ahead.

Because the city walls of Taiyuan are extremely strong, high and heavy, the defense is very strong. Even the Japanese army at that time could only use heavy artillery of 105 and 150 calibers to blast out the gap.

With the strength of the artillery of the Eighth Route Army at this stage, there is no chance to break the situation at all.

Just when the brigade commander was about to design a set of tactics around fixed-point blasting, Captain Wang Hai took the initiative to put forward his own idea.

Under normal circumstances, there is a high chance that a bomb will bounce off the city wall after it is thrown on the wall.

Even if it is the 250-kilogram aerial bomb with the highest power of the 1st Air Division, if it explodes more than ten meters away, it is basically no lethal, let alone blow up the city wall.

If the bomb is surrounded by steel bars, and the steel bars are inserted into the city wall by virtue of the principle of gravitational potential energy rotation energy after the bomb is dropped, it will definitely cause great damage to the city wall.

As soon as these words came out, they shocked everyone.

In order to test the possibility of the plan, Captain Wang Hai went out in person.

After dozens of experiments, it was discovered that the metal thorns had to be dropped at a 45-degree angle in order to have a certain probability of piercing the city wall and fixing the bomb.

For a bomb to be dropped at a 45-degree angle, it means that the plane has to fly at an ultra-low altitude. And the number of people with this strength in the First Air Division is no more than a hand.

There are real cases in this program.

When it was fighting, it was like this to blow up the city wall.

(End of chapter)