The preparatory battalion dug up the fortifications, and the companies of the battalion entered the positions in turn to prepare for defense.

The 78th Division stationed in Xinzhuang was also intensively building fortifications, and Zhang Wei's preparation battalion was behind, and now they were on the front line.

After constructing the fortifications, Zhang Wei left a small number of observation posts, and the rest of the soldiers let them rest in the hidden fortifications.

Zhang Wei and several company commanders stayed in the battalion command post to discuss the deployment situation.

"Battalion commander, all the positions on the front line have been dug up, I went down to check it out, and there is no problem." Qiu Wei said.

"The four heavy machine guns were evenly distributed on the positions of the first and second companies, and the firing boundaries were divided, focusing on the open areas on both sides." Mu Chao added.

"Okay, the strength of friendly forces near the open field is not very large, a battalion, to be divided into two parts of alert, the overall strength is weak, the alert must be tight." Zhang Wei said.

In the open areas on the left and right sides of Xinzhuang, only one battalion of troops defended with a first-line position, so they had to be more careful.

"Qiu Wei, have you contacted the friendly army?" asked Zhang Wei.

Since it was possible to fight together, Zhang Wei believed that the necessary communication links should be necessary.

"Contacted, the two battalions of the 78th Division guarding Xinzhuang sent a battalion to talk about mutual reinforcements, in fact, they are begging us to help at a critical time."

"That's good, you guys go back to the company first, and organize the soldiers to hide."

"Yes."

The three company commanders left the command post and returned to their respective company positions along the traffic ditch.

Zhang Wei continued to observe the defense line in the distance, there were constantly ** soldiers in and out of Xinzhuang, transporting ammunition and materials, and on the left side of the Xinzhuang position, was Longshan, the commanding height of the defense line.

Longshan is hilly, the terrain is much higher than Xinzhuang and other places in the flat area, not within visual distance of itself and the telescope, and is an important defense point of the First Army.

After all, whoever occupies the commanding heights will have a greater advantage.

The plan of the First Army was to support various points to resist the attack of the Japanese army, and the commanding heights were naturally crucial.

"Let's go, go out and have a look!" After watching it for a while, Zhang Wei still planned to go to the front-line position for a walk, dig up the finished work, and distribute the ammunition and tasks, he was also a little idle.

The three heralds behind him followed Zhang Wei out, everyone carried flower traps, Zhang Wei made five flower traps from the Japanese plainclothes hands, kept one for himself, and the remaining four were later given to his own heralds, submachine guns were indeed very suitable for them, and the three people carried five flower machine guns.

Zhang Wei walked to the traffic ditch, and sandbags of equal height were strengthened on both sides of the traffic ditch, and from time to time sporadic soldiers passed by and saluted Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei also returned the salute one by one.

The whole position and the main friendly positions on the front line were very quiet, and there was nothing going on.

"Buzz ......"

Before Zhang Wei walked out of the traffic ditch, there was a sudden buzzing sound in the sky.

Most of the soldiers in the preparation battalion were veterans, and when they heard the voice of heaven, most of them had already reacted to what was in heaven.

"Concealment, devil plane!"

Zhang Wei shouted, shouting and retreating into the dug anti-artillery hole, at this time the battalion command post could not carry the bomb, and only by hiding in the anti-artillery hole could it have a chance.

"Dodge the bomb!"

"Hidden!"

The soldiers of the preparation battalion had a lot of experience in warfare, and their reaction actions were very fast, and the squad and platoon leaders constantly gave orders to dodge bombs.

Many soldiers were already in the concealment and anti-artillery holes, and they did not have to move, and the soldiers who had work in their hands and carried things dropped their things and drilled into the nearest anti-artillery holes or concealment units.

Before the Japanese planes began to drop bombs, the entire battalion of the preparatory battalion had basically completed the concealment work.

Zhang Wei hid in the anti-artillery hole, quietly waiting for the bomb to fall.

What Zhang Wei was waiting for first was not the drop of the bomb, but the muffled sound from a distance, which was the sound of the explosion of the bomb.

Before the main forces of the Japanese army on the ground had completely attacked, the covering action of the air force began before the ground troops, and dozens of anti-criti planes and fighters flew to southern Henan and began bombing and strafing.

Zhang Wei's Xinzhuang position was a bargain at this time, the main and primary target of the Japanese army was not here, and the group attack must be the most valuable target, Xinzhuang, fortunately, became a secondary target.

The commanding heights of Yongsan and the defensive positions near it were subjected to intensive bombing and strafing, and all kinds of aerial bombs and bullets fired by fighters hit the ** positions in Yongsan and its vicinity.

The entire Longshan was devastated by the bombs, and the muffled sound that Zhang Wei heard while hiding in the anti-artillery hole was the sound of bombs falling and exploding at the Longshan position in the distance.

The defenders of Longshan were suddenly bombed, and the dense drop of bombs made the defenders have nowhere to hide, especially the bombs dropped by the Japanese scrimp planes also included yellow phosphorus arson bombs and shotguns, and the arson bombs set fire to the mountain everywhere, and after the shotgun exploded, a large number of prefabricated steel balls were scattered everywhere.

Many of the defenders of Yongsan were killed and wounded by shotgun steel balls, and the bombers were matched with Japanese fighters, and the army air force still used Type 95 fighters with open cockpits on wings.

The main armament of the fighter with a maximum speed of only 400 km / h is only two 7.7 mm caliber ** aviation machine guns, and the performance has long been backward, and the first Hawker III fighter is a horizontal thing, which is much inferior to the Soviet fighter.

But now the air force in the southern Henan region is almost zero, and the pitiful anti-aircraft firepower of the infantry units can be almost ignored, and there are not even a few anti-aircraft guns of 20 mm caliber.

The Japanese fighter pilots did not have to consider the air threat at all, and they rampantly strafed the ** positions, strafing the ** first-line positions on both flanks of Yongsan, and pursued the exposed ** infantry for a while, Yongshan was covered by bombs and bullets from aviation machine guns, and the damaged fortifications and weapons, and the stumps were mixed together......

The Japanese army would only patronize the secondary target after attacking the main target, and when Zhang Wei was still wondering if the bomb had not landed, several Japanese planes flew overhead.

There was a loud roar in the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom" There were several loud noises from the position ......of the preparatory camp, and several huge smoke screens were raised, Zhang Wei endured the tremor from the ground of the anti-artillery hole, and sat and lay inside.

The explosion of the bomb flew into the air with several bags of sandbags and a large amount of dirt, and then fell to the ground with a heavy blow, and the soldiers in the concealed fortifications felt a wave of air.

Two Japanese fighters swooped down and strafed at close range, and a string of aerial machine gun shells hit the position, and the floating soil carried by the bullets followed the trajectory of the fighters flying at low altitude.

The planes flew so low that the soldiers of the preparatory battalion who were hiding could even see the livery of the Japanese fighters, and the Japanese bombers dropped two bombs on the position of the preparatory battalion and left.

The rest were two fighters, and two of them were recruited into the rout, but they also watched the Japanese planes fly low, and felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Relying on their good marksmanship, the two former routed soldiers suddenly ran out of the anti-artillery hole and opened fire on the nearest Japanese fighter with two neutral guns.

With a "dang" sound, the wing of the Type 95 fighter was accurately hit by two 79-caliber bullets, and the plane swayed a few times, and the Japanese pilot reacted quickly and immediately pulled up with a rod and pulled the plane into the air.

As soon as the bullets of the two soldiers were discharged, another Japanese fighter plane, which saw that the friendly plane was hit, quickly rushed over and dived in the opposite direction.

The two machine guns in the nose of the aircraft spewed tongues of fire violently at the two soldiers of the preparatory battalion......