The Japanese aircraft group mainly bombarded the vicinity of the commanding heights of Longshan, and simply bombed the positions of the preparatory battalion and the Xinzhuang position, and then left.

The front-line trenches on the Xinzhuang position and the flanks suffered more bombs than the preparatory battalions, and thick smoke rose from the Zhuangzi, many of the houses in the Zhuangzi were thatched houses, and although the bombs dropped by the Japanese army were not many, the arson bombs dropped ignited a large amount of straw and thatch.

The casualties of the defenders in Zhuangzi were not large, but the damage to the houses was not light, and the defenders were desperately trying to extinguish the fire, and there was chaos in Zhuangzi.

The preparation battalion could hear the noise of the defenders in Shonai from the position.

On the position of the preparatory battalion, the flame of that idea had already been extinguished, Zhang Wei looked at the two corpses in front of him with a gloomy face, and the corpses had been beaten into a sieve by aviation machine gun bullets.

There were blood holes all over the body, and there was no good place on the body, and the 7.7 mm aviation machine gun hit a person, and the lethal effect was much stronger than that of the Japanese infantry.

"Bury it." Zhang Wei shook his head helplessly, the preparatory battalion was bombed, to be honest, it was really not serious, there were only a dozen rounds of bombs before and after, and the fighters used aviation machine guns to strafe for a while, and before the bombing, the whole battalion reacted in advance, entered the concealment department and anti-artillery hole, and killed a total of five soldiers and injured four people.

Two people died from Japanese aerial shrapnel, and one died from machine gun fire from fighter jets.

The two soldiers saw that the Japanese plane was flying low, so they went up to fight, what effect can two rifle bullets hit the wing of the fighter, the front foot hit the wing of one plane, and the other plane flew over with the back foot, and there was a burst of dive strafing, the two soldiers did not even have a chance to dodge the reaction, and fell into the blood mist on the spot.

"Whoever does this kind of thing in the future that thinks his life is long, I didn't mention it much before, but from now on, I will remember it!" Zhang Wei shouted loudly.

Many soldiers, as well as three company commanders, surrounded Zhang Wei, quietly looking at the corpse on the ground, the person was dead, the matter was irreparable, and he could only warn others not to do this kind of senseless resistance, rifle hitting the plane, it was originally a small probability event.

When there is no decent anti-aircraft fire, the best way to do it is to use the fortifications around them to dodge as much as possible, but unfortunately the two soldiers were unable to do so.

"Battalion commander, understand, the brothers didn't expect the devil's plane to come, these two brothers were added later, and there is no way for us to pull the rout and do this kind of thing.

Qiu Wei said on the side. I also have a problem, the air defense education is not in place, this time there are few casualties, and it is also because we have to avoid the shelling method that we quickly entered the fortifications. Zhang Wei sighed.

One reason for the small casualties this time was that the intensity of the Japanese bombardment was not large, and the main bombs were dropped on the side of Longshan, and the other reason was that the fortifications were dug well, and the training of evasion and anti-artillery was done well, and under the organization of officers and squad and platoon leaders, the troops were able to quickly enter the fortifications.

To a certain extent, it was a plane that was dodged according to the method of dodging artillery, and the soldiers actually realized that it was an airplane, but although the two soldiers who died in the battle were the original routs, since entering the battle in eastern Henan, the preparation battalion was indeed almost not attacked by the Japanese army.

Zhang Wei himself neglected this point, and during the temporary training, he only thought of infantry combat, and did not have air defense awareness and air defense education for the troops in place.

Everyone knows that air raids and artillery bombardments are the harbingers of an offensive.

Zhang Wei and the three company commanders returned to the battalion command post, and the battalion command post was hit by an aerial bomb, but fortunately, it was an arson bomb and set on fire, but it did not cause any damage.

"Battalion commander, I'm afraid the devil is going to attack." Mu Chao said.

"It's been a long time since we've been hit by an air raid." Qiu Wei quipped on the side.

"All companies must be strictly guarded, the Japanese air raid shows that the infantry unit is not far away, and then, if you don't know it, there will be artillery bombardment, from now on, my eyes are wide for me."

"Although we are not a front-line position, we must also be more careful, as long as we enter the war zone, there is no safety to say."

After Zhang Wei finished speaking, the three company commanders all agreed.

Zheng Yiqun pointed outward at this time: "Xinzhuang was not lightly bombed!"

Looking up, the sky above the Xinzhuang position was full of gray and black smoke, and many thatched houses were ignited and continued to burn, emitting a sky-high fire.

The defenders in Xinzhuang ran around to put out the fire, but the fire was too big to extinguish for a while.

"Let's go and help, the third company will go with me, and the first and second companies will be on guard in the position." Zhang Wei said.

Zheng Yiqun's third company belonged to the battalion reserve and hid in the concealment department behind the battalion position, and the current task was not heavy, and the defense of the main position was the responsibility of the first and second companies, and the temporary withdrawal of the third company would have no impact on the battalion's defense.

Zhang Wei personally led the third company out of the position, and the soldiers of the third company went to help fight the fire and save people, and the rifles and light machine guns were left on the position, and they were all replaced with shovels and sapper shovels to facilitate the removal of soil and extinguishing the fire.

As soon as Zhang Wei and Zheng Yiqun walked outside the entrance of Xinzhuang's village, a strong heat rushed to their faces, with an unpleasant smell, constantly stimulating their noses.

"Battalion commander, what is this" Zheng Yiqun asked with a painful face covering his nose.

Zhang Wei looked at the burning grass house in front of him, with a faint yellow and light white ash in the smoke, and the fire was unabated.

At first glance, it is an incendiary bomb.

"This looks like a yellow phosphorus arson bomb!" Among the special bombs that Zhang Wei has seen, yellow phosphorus bombs are the most, which can be used as signal flares and artillery shells, and he estimates that the yellow phosphorus arson bombs dropped by the plane are also yellow phosphorus arson bombs.

The burning temperature of yellow phosphorus is 40 degrees Celsius, and this thing is used on aerial bombs, so you can't see the air, otherwise it is very flammable, and there are toxic smoke.

"Tell the brethren to be careful, take towels, cover their mouths and noses with hair, and put out the fire with earth!" Zhang Wei tore off his hat and gagged his mouth and nose, and the soldiers of the preparatory battalion did not have gas masks in their hands, so they could only use this primitive method to protect themselves.

After taking protective measures, Zhang Wei rushed into the village with the officers and soldiers of the third company.

The village was full of officers and men of the 78th Division with tools, all struggling to put out the fire, and there were many charred corpses piled up near the entrance of the village, and most of the casualties of the troops guarding Xinzhuang in the bombing were caused by arson bombs.

Seeing that someone was coming to support, a battalion commander of the defenders hurriedly found Zhang Wei, first politely said a few words, and then discussed how to extinguish the fire.

The 78th Division had been pounced for a while before Zhang Wei and his people arrived, but the effect was not great.

Some of them used water to fight, and some of them used earth pressure, but they couldn't suppress the fire.

Zhang Wei found that the stronger the wind and the higher the temperature, the bigger the fire, relying on a single soldier to put out the fire with a shovel and shovel little by little, the effect is not great at all, if you want to effectively extinguish the fire, you must block the air on a large scale.

The only way Zhang Wei could think of was to knock down the thatched house that was on fire and smash it in one go, which was the fastest and most effective way.

"We've got to push these burning houses, or they're burning harder!" Zhang Wei said to the battalion commander of the friendly army.

The commander of the friendly battalion pounced for a long time, but the effect was very unsatisfactory, so he could only try Zhang Wei's method.

It was not possible to tear down these houses by people, so four two- and four-heavy machine guns were finally brought in, and soldiers were called to throw grenades, and in the sound of machine guns and explosions, one by one the burning thatched houses were knocked down by explosions and heavy machine gun shells......