Only the smell of blood still permeated the sky outside the West City Gate, and there was also a smell of gunpowder smoke that had not dissipated in mid-air, reminiscent of the battle yesterday evening.

In the place where yesterday's battle was held, some officers of the Central Army, the Gui Army, some officials of the county government, and some militia members were engaged in the work of burying the bodies. They were forcibly escorted by the Red Army, and the Red Army gave them the task of burying the Central Army who had died in battle, and then waiting for the Central Army or the Gui Army to come and receive them.

In yesterday's battle outside the West City Gate, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Central Army were killed, most of them were killed by artillery fire, some of them were trampled to death by themselves, and not many were actually shot and killed by the Red Army.

At the time of burial, these people were divided into three groups: the captured officers of the Gui Army were a regiment, the officers of the Central Army were a regiment, and the officials and regiments in the county seat of Jianghua County were another regiment, they were wary of each other, suspicious of each other, and distrusted each other, the only thing they had in common was that they all buried the corpses with heart and force, using the craters from the shells to throw pieces of bloody limbs into them, and then attached to the mud mixed with blood.

When those generals of the Central Army, who were experienced in combat, saw these huge craters with an area of more than 30 square meters, they would feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts, and their bodies would tremble involuntarily, they did not know how the Red Army could have such heavy artillery, and they did not know where and where their heavy artillery came from. As can be seen from the craters, the caliber of this cannon is definitely more than 75 mm, and perhaps more than 100 mm, which is not even an artillery of the Central Army, and I have only heard that someone purchased it in Germany.

"If they have this kind of heavy artillery, if we can beat them in the future?" Thinking of this, the generals of the Central Army couldn't help but look at the officers of the Gui Army who were hanging their heads with hatred, "It must have been given to them by the Gui Army." I really can't imagine that they will send money and weapons to the Red Army, so they are not afraid that they will bite you back when the time comes? ”

The morning fog slowly lifted. The mountains show their beautiful faces.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound in the sky, and when the captives who had buried the bodies looked up, they saw ten black dots appear in the sky to the north.

"Airplane!" Everybody knows about it, they showed up the other day, scout around here and fly away.

If these planes had arrived last night, they might have been able to boost the morale of the troops. But now when these people saw the plane, their faces showed a wry smile and helplessness, and they did not cause the slightest excitement.

Because yesterday was not the planned time to attack the county seat, and Commander Xiao Zhiping thought that the Central Army had been captured in the field to fight the Red Army, which lacked weapons, so naturally he did not ask for the help of the precious planes, nor did he want to give the air force those credits casually. In their opinion, good steel should be used on the edge of the knife. Only by helping at the moment of siege, coupled with their own artillery, the simultaneous power of heaven and earth will surely make the soul of the Red Army scatter and the wolf bèi escape.

Xiao Zhiping never imagined that his two divisions would not be able to withstand half an hour's blow, and at the beginning of the battle, not only was his own headquarters blown into a crater, but he was also seriously injured, and even the radio station was blown to pieces. I couldn't even find a few complete parts, let alone send a telegram to my boss to call the Air Force.

As a matter of fact, Zhou Hunyuan, commander-in-chief of the Third Column of the Central Army, had been in a state of panic since last night, because since Xiao Zhiping had sent the telegram that they had arrived outside Jianghua County, he had lost contact, and not only did he not reply to the telegram he sent to congratulate, but he also did not report in the evening whether they had encountered any problems after arriving at the city.

In particular, this morning when the appointed time for contact arrived, and when it was time to discuss the dispatch of the Air Force, the telegraph receiver still could not contact the front command. The two divisions could not be contacted. This made him even more uneasy, but he couldn't guess what would go wrong with the troops of the two divisions, let alone that the two divisions had been wiped out.

At the same time, he specially instructed the pilots to search all the way along the road taken by Xiao Zhiping and his two divisions yesterday, get in touch with them as much as possible, and urge them to immediately send a telegram to the third column to report the situation.

The pilots were just as nervous, they were not hit by heavy machine guns on the ground. But it was too quiet and weird along the way, and the road that the Central Army walked on yesterday was empty. The common people may be scared away by the war and dare not take this road, but there must be a few people who send ammunition and food to the front and the wounded to the back, right? Why not one?

When they flew to Jianghua County. They were even more surprised, the imaginary gunfire did not appear, this time should be the time for the Central Army to attack, but the city wall is still that section of the city wall, and there are no attacking troops under the city wall at all, let alone the sound of artillery and fire.

When I flew closer, I saw some people outside the West City Gate, doing something in twos and threes, wearing military uniforms, but what they were doing was really not a soldier's business, as if they were digging the ground and filling in the soil.

"Grass, when did the soldier become a peasant? Why is it that even the people who farm the land are also soldiers, and besides, it is not a field. ......, hey, who the hell are they? Why don't you run and cheer when you see a plane? The pilots were full of wonder.

In order to see more clearly, to discern who those people were and what they were doing, the pilots lowered the plane and descended downward.

The planes of this era did not fly very high, usually at an altitude of less than two thousand meters, and when they pressed down the nose of the plane, the plane quickly dropped below one thousand meters and continued to decline.

When descending to more than 500 meters, suddenly, a pilot noticed that there seemed to be a fire on the top of the hill on the left, and just when he was surprised, he also noticed a line of light flying towards the location of the plane.

"Oops! Tracer bullets! The sharp-eyed man immediately knew that he had been hit, and hurriedly pulled up the nose of the plane, shouting in panic, "Ambush, we have been ambushed!" ”

In fact, when he shouted, several pilots also noticed it, and they also involuntarily pulled the nose of the plane up. Some pilots also noticed that a fire was also lit on their right side, and a string of bullets was fired at the wall in front of them.

A few pilots who were unresponsive or focused on the situation on the ground were unlucky and were hit by ground anti-aircraft machine guns before they could understand what was going on.

Even those who fled quickly could not escape the fate of being hit when they encountered an anti-aircraft machine gun.

You must know that it was the Type 58 twin anti-aircraft machine gun brought by Guo Zhuocheng from that time and space in 1991. The gun adopts the principle of gas-assisted retraction barrel short recoil automatic, uses a closed cartridge chain and cartridge box to feed ammunition, implements automatic fire, and can fire up to 300 rounds per minute of high-kinetic energy bullets with a caliber of 14.5 mm, with an effective range of up to 2,000 meters.

Now it is not easy for such a propeller aircraft to climb from a low altitude of 500 meters to an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, not to mention that there are such twin anti-aircraft machine guns in ambush in front, on the right and on the left side of the aircraft.

This anti-aircraft machine gun, which could be used against the advanced aircraft of the late Second World War, is now a piece of cake to fight the low-flying, slow-moving, almost unarmored aircraft of the present.

Jiang Jiashi's government purchased some fighters such as the Hawker 2 from the United States and other Western countries, although the performance of these planes is better than that purchased by Gui Jun, and many of the aircraft skins are made of metal, but their power is still small, and the flight speed is only about 250 kilometers, that is, the speed of sports cars, and it is not felt fast at all when flying in the air. If it were not for the lack of training of the Red Army, these planes would have been taken out at the first opportunity.

Ten planes were almost wiped out, nine planes were hit one after another, some tumbled down in smoke, some simply exploded in volleys, four planes were hit while flying low, and three planes were hit while climbing and fleeing......

Three of the pilots opened the hatch and parachuted after the plane was damaged. In this era, there was no automatic ejection device, and you had to open the hatch and jump with a parachute on your back.

Ten planes came in full swing, and in less than a minute nine were shot down.

Although the captives who were burying the bodies were already numb, they were still shocked by the scene, and some of them looked at the smoky sky and fell into deep thought......

Guo Zhuocheng did not advance with the large army, but this time he personally operated a Type 58 twin anti-aircraft machine gun to shoot at the planes, and successfully killed two of them.

When he found that most of the planes had been shot down and that three more pilots had parachuted, he immediately ordered the shooting to stop and let the plane escape.

Obviously, some people have complained a lot about Guo Zhuocheng for letting go of that plane, you must know that there are now six twin anti-aircraft machine guns and ten single-barreled antiaircraft machine guns, and it is not difficult to beat down the biplane that climbed in a hurry, so why not destroy them all?

Guo Zhuocheng did not explain why he let go of the plane, but immediately arranged for special combat personnel to arrest the pilots -- these pilots are treasures, and they must be caught in their own hands no matter what, and this is a precious seed, and it will depend on them to build the air force in the future.

At the same time, he also commanded the officers and men of the air defense detachment to disassemble the antiaircraft machine guns, and each of them left Jianghua County with a part of the parts on their backs, and chased after the large troops.

Guo Zhuocheng just hoped that the plane would report what happened to him to Zhou Hunyuan, let him know that his two divisions had been annihilated, and that there were still weapons in Jianghua County that could shoot down planes, so you must not send planes over, and the only fate of sending them over was death.

In this way, Zhou Hunyuan had to guess what the situation was here in Jianghua County, he had to think about what measures he should take, and he had to tremble to report to Jiang Jiashi the situation of the battle that he himself did not know.

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