8.108 Engine roar

After landing from Dongliu, the main force of the Botian detachment divided into two routes, one along the Yangtze River to the west and straight to the fortress, and the other way to carry out a large detour to outflank the fortress from the south. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Originally, according to Lieutenant General Hata's plan, this line of men and horses along the Yangtze River was just a cover to attract the Chinese defenders, and it was purely a "feint operation" to shield the Taiwanese infantry wing from the south. Unfortunately, the plan could not catch up with the changes, and the roundabout attack tactics of the Botian detachment did not work as well as they did in Anqing, and the main forces of the two infantry wings of the Botian detachment were killed by the Chinese troops outside the core defense line of the Mada fortress, but the feint troops on the riverside made great progress, and the forward not only advanced to the foot of Xiangshan, but also established an advanced artillery position.

Located less than ten kilometers north of Lake Taebai, the village of Huxi was located less than ten kilometers from the core position of the fortress, where the artillery position of the Hatada detachment was located, and the commander was Nakajima Koyoshi Nakasa. The Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing commanded by Wing Commander Nakajima has been strengthened, and it is equipped with a total of 36 75-mm mountain guns and 12 75-mm field guns, all of which are of the latest type.

The Type 94 75-mm mountain gun allocated to the Potian detachment by the Central China Dispatch Army is the latest model that has just been equipped with the troops for less than two years, and the total weight of the whole gun is only a little more than half a ton. Moreover, this mountain artillery is also very rich in ammunition, according to different needs can fire a variety of shells such as blasting shells, anti-personnel grenades, thermite arson bombs and chemical shells, the maximum range is 8300 meters, which is 2000 meters farther than the Meiji 41-style 75mm mountain gun commonly equipped by the Japanese Army! This allowed Nakajima to fire from the artillery position in the village of Huxi, which was far away from the position of the Chinese troops, and was basically not hit by the artillery of the fortress.

The only thing to worry about is that the Chinese Air Force, which has always appeared above the head of the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing in the past few days, is not equipped with anti-aircraft guns, so Nakajima Yoshinakasa can only ask his subordinates to take refuge when the Chinese planes appear, and then wait until the Chinese planes have finished dumping the bombs before returning to the position.

Nakajima asked Yoshinaka to try to call the fighters of the Army Aviation to expel the Chinese planes, but since the nearest airport to them was located in Hefei, the Imperial planes were always late, and at best they could only give the artillery the courage of the surviving artillerymen, and did not play a practical role!

After experiencing several such "dodge games", Nakajima Yoshinakasa suddenly found that his artillery wing had lost a total of more than 300 officers and soldiers and 9 artillery pieces, and its strength had been seriously damaged! Nakajima Yoshinakasa, who had never been bullied so much by the Chinese Air Force, could only send an urgent telegram to his detachment leader, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hada. Later, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata forwarded this telegram to Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the aviation regiment that cooperated with the Central China Dispatch Army, and finally exchanged a promise from Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and a small squad of ground observation posts, and Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi assured Lieutenant General Harata Shigeichi that his aviation regiment would deal a heavy blow to the Chinese Air Force in the near future and completely control air supremacy!

"Boom!" "Boom ......"

The remaining Type 94 75mm mountain artillery of the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing kept firing shells at the outer fortifications of the Madao Fortress, and the white smoke produced after the burning of the propellant completely enveloped the Japanese artillerymen squatting behind the mountain artillery.

Nakajima asked Yoshinaka to observe the impact point of the shelling through the telescope for a while, then removed the telescope and craned his neck to look at the sky.

Damn it! Today is another cloudless sunny day, and Nakajima has been disliking this kind of weather lately, because the blue sky is very suitable for Chinese pilots to carry out bombing operations, and good visibility will make the bombs falling from the sky more lethal and accurate!

"When the ......"

The shell shell of a 75 mm caliber mountain gun was thrown out of the smoke and rolled along the chest wall in front of the mountain gun before stopping.

"Bastard! This guy must have drunk on his lunch break! That's why they did such a stupid thing! Your Excellency, I'm going to teach him a lesson! ”

Seeing that his subordinates were so rude to guns, the artillery squadron leader in charge of these gun emplacements immediately jumped out and said that he must speak out for Nakajima Yoshinakasa, but his "performance" was stopped by Nakajima Yoshinakasa. Nakajima Yoshinakasa knew very well that his subordinates had been living a life of fear under the bombs of the Chinese Air Force recently, and it was normal for them to have some anger, and in the final analysis, these psychological problems of the officers and men of the artillery wing had to be solved by the Imperial Air Force.

"Woo... Woo......"

Suddenly, there was a whistle from the artillery position, an unpleasant sound made by those who had come out of the ground observation post of the aviation regiment, meaning that they had observed the Chinese planes and that there would be an air raid soon. Nakajima Yoshinaka snorted coldly and then said to his officers: "Gentlemen, let your troops prepare for air raids as soon as possible, and the bombers of the 1 Chinese will not be too far away from us......"

The captains and squadron leaders of the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing responded in unison: "Hai! Then they scattered and ran towards the location of their respective troops. Gradually, the artillery on the position stopped roaring, the huge shelling sound was replaced by sharp bamboo whistles, and groups of Japanese artillery covered in gunpowder smoke hurriedly lined up in columns to withdraw from their positions and burrow into the air-raid shelters.

Nakajima Yoshinakasa glanced back at his artillery position before drilling into the air-raid shelter, and according to the requirements of the air force, this time the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing did not disassemble and hide all the mountain artillery, but left some as "bait". The thought that these cannons were likely to be sent into the sky by the bombs dropped by the Chinese Air Force made Nakajima's heart cramp.

One can only hope that Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's aviation regiment will not fail to live up to the hopes of the army and can put on a good show today.

"Leave the rest to those proud Imperial Air Forces......" Nakajima asked Yoshinaka to pray silently.

At the same time, the ground observation posts sent by Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi to Matao were frantically handing out telegrams: "The Shina Air Force will arrive in 10 minutes!" "The China Air Force will arrive in 8 minutes!" "The China Air Force will arrive in 5 minutes ......"

On the runway of Anqing Airport, which has just completed less than 80 percent of the work, the fighter group of the 45th Squadron of the Central China Dispatch Army Aviation Regiment turned on its engines one after another and began to line up for taxi and takeoff......

"Send a signal to the pilots on the runway who are ready to take off, 9 Chinese fighters will arrive over the fortress in three minutes! We're going to intercept them on their way back and shoot them all down! Shoot them all! ”

In the command post on the side of the runway, the captain of the 45th Flying Team, Yoshida Dingnan Daisa, roared loudly into the microphone, and the loudspeaker resting on the side of the runway clearly transmitted his voice to the ground staff. In 1938, the Japanese air force was not equipped with radios, so the ground crew could only use this "big-character poster" to convey the commander's last-minute orders to the Japanese pilots sitting in the cockpit of the roaring plane.

The Japanese ground crews moved quickly, and they managed to put up the "big-character poster" before the first plane entered the high-speed taxi. The Japanese pilots in the cockpit all received the latest developments from their opponents, the Chinese Air Force, and the thumbs up were their answers.

Today's pilot in charge of the pilot is Okubo Shaosa, who will lead the 22 "96 Land Battles" of the 45th Sentai to carry out the plan to ambush the bombers of the Chinese Air Force. According to the ratio of the Chinese army in the past missions, the nine Chinese fighters attacking the ground artillery position of the Potian detachment this time should be a group of three bombers and six escort fighters. For the Japanese Air Forces, the I-16 fighters and SB bombers that the Soviets provided to the Chinese were two very advanced models, so they had to maintain absolute numerical superiority in order to have a chance to completely annihilate their opponents. The 9-plane formation that ambushed the Chinese army with 22 planes of the "96 Land Battle" was to ensure a big victory!

The powerful power transmitted by the Nakajima 41 9-cylinder engine drove the propeller to rotate rapidly, so that Okubo Shaosa's group could not even fly from Anqing to the scheduled ambush airspace in less than twenty minutes. At that time, the Chinese Air Force should have just completed its bombing mission and was preparing to return home, and the Japanese planes that suddenly killed from the clouds would definitely give them a big surprise!

Skillfully controlling the soaring fighter, the elite Okubo Shaosa of the Japanese Army Aviation is now in a very happy mood, in his eyes, today's mission is his commander Yoshida Dingnan Daisa's tailor-made stage for him! He even has time to daydream now.

Clear air, good visibility, an overwhelming 22-on-9 advantage! Okubo Shaosa couldn't find any possibility of failure at all! Except for the nasty clouds in the upper right airspace, everything made Okubo feel very satisfied!

Wait a minute? There seems to be something in those clouds? What's that, exactly?

Plane! Lots of planes! Short and light body, fast and powerful dive! It's the I-16! Chinese I-16!

Not good! Ambush!

In just a few seconds, Okubo and his subordinates turned from hunters to prey! Everything seems so incredible! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )