Chapter 44: The Devil Paratroopers
Ji Jinbiao mistakenly killed a sergeant of the 74th Army. Although Hu Fei settled the matter, Ji Jinbiao finally felt that he had caused trouble for Fei Ge. Under the effect of this guilt, in the subsequent battle, Battalion Commander Ji fought even more fiercely.
You can stop him from committing suicide, but you can't stop him from killing his enemies. Now on the battlefield where artillery is flying, Hu Fei not only has to command the troops, but also to protect his own safety, and when he is free, he still wants to kill a few devils with his own hands, and he has no leisure to take care of Ji Jinbiao.
Zhang Lingfu led the officers and men of the 74th Division to charge at the risk of death, and finally occupied several Japanese fortifications with strong artillery support. Relying on these fortifications, they gradually encroached forward, and after half a day, more than a dozen important fortifications of the Japanese army on the top of the mountain had been occupied by our army about one-third.
General Aoki Seiichi, the head of the Japanese army's northward advance detachment, finally couldn't hold his breath. If this trend continues, I am afraid that in three days at most, he will be forced to lead his troops down the mountain to break through! And under the mountain are a large number of Chinese troops!
Based on the combat situation in the past few days, Major General Aoki knew that all the elite units of the Chinese army appeared around him! Once he rashly went down the mountain to break through without getting a clear direction of advancement, it would be an extremely dangerous move for the entire detachment! Major General Aoki is waiting, he is waiting for the plane to show him the way! Without getting a clear direction, he didn't even dare to break through!
In order to wait for the arrival of the Japanese planes, General Aoki ordered Kendaisa Iino to be stubbornly defended and never give up his position to the Chinese army casually!
In fact, with Zhang Lingfu's current state, if he wants to occupy all the positions on Zhang Gu Mountain, he is not incapable of driving the devil down the mountain. He has the ability, but he doesn't have that many people!
The entire raiding force is only 400 people at full strength, but there are 3,000 devils! Four hundred people want to occupy the position of three thousand, so how is it possible? Therefore, Zhang Lingfu is now short of people, he doesn't have so many people, and he can't occupy such a big territory!
Kenten Iino, who was ordered by General Aoki, was also desperately resisting, and he didn't want people to be kicked out of the fortifications, there were snipers outside, and Iino Osa didn't want to be the target of the snipers of the national army at all!
The devils were resisting the defense, and the raiding detachment did not have enough offensive troops, and the two sides seemed to have reached a wonderful balance on the battlefield. However, Wang Yaowu under the mountain never stopped attacking. Under the almost endless attack of the main force of the 51st Division of the 74th Army, the devils were getting weaker and weaker to parry.
Seeing that he was already in a desperate situation, the commander of Aoki Cheng's 1st Brigade crossed the line and sent a direct report to the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, asking Commander Okamura to immediately airdrop personnel and materials to the Aoki detachment, especially the grassroots commanders!
Due to the efficient sniping of Hu Fei and others, too many officers below the brigade level of the Aoki detachment were killed in battle. So much so that in some individual brigades, in addition to the captain, there are only two or three lieutenant-level officers commanding a brigade of several hundred people! How can this battle be won?
General Aoki even threatened Commander Okamura: If you don't send me any more people, I will immediately take the 136th Brigade down the mountain to fight the Shina army! It's a big deal to die, but if I die, the 136th Brigade will be finished! Weigh it up for yourself.
Of course, Okamura Ninji didn't dare to let him die, if a brigade was completely annihilated by the Chinese army because it didn't get support, Commander Okamura wouldn't be able to explain to the commander of the dispatch army, General Shunroku Hatata! Commander Okamura still has a great future to look forward to, and he doesn't want to put himself in for the life and death of a small Aoki Brigade!
Isn't it just for reinforcements? Yes, I'll give it to you! Want junior officers? I'll give it to you too! Aviation bombing and directional, I'll give it back to you! Okamura Ninji prepared his manpower and reported to His Excellency General Shunroku Hata, commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army.
Shunroku Hata asked a few words casually and agreed, isn't it just to send planes, anyway, he has so many planes, and he is idle when he is idle. Instead of being shot down by the Chinese Air Force over Wuhan, it is better to fly to Wanjialing, which is not dangerous. It's all wars, of course, where it's safe to go.
General Shunroku Hata and Lieutenant General Ninji Okamura reached an agreement, and Japanese planes flew in droves over the mountains near Wanjialing. Originally, our army had achieved a complete advantage in the Wanjialing Mountains, and the 106th Division of the Devil Hunt was already in the bag, but I didn't expect the devil to send a plane to make trouble at this critical moment!
There's no way, who let us have fewer planes and fewer anti-aircraft guns. The soldiers could only watch as the devil planes wreaked havoc over the position. Our air defense forces rely exclusively on machine-gun anti-air fire! But how many planes can a machine gun shoot down?
When the devil pilots found the danger at low altitudes, they flew their planes high and dropped bombs from high altitudes. Although the accuracy of bombing was reduced, the possibility of our military machine guns hitting planes was completely cut off. The devil plane flies too high, and the machine gun can't hit!
If it's just a plane to bomb it, it's nothing, it's a big deal, let's sacrifice more people, use human lives to resist, and we can carry the devil's plane away for him! But now the devil plane not only drops bombs, but also releases people, which is more difficult to do!
Looking at the parachutes like flowers in the sky, Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the battle, ordered all the troops under his command to immediately shoot into the sky and hit those parachutes!
Wherever the parachute is found, the fighters will chase after it! The devil airdropped two hundred grassroots officers, half of them were killed in the sky, and after they landed, they were killed again, and there were not many people left who actually arrived at the Aoki detachment. But these few additional officers still relieved the Japanese northward detachment in a desperate situation.
In addition to the officers, the devils airdropped a thousand paratroopers. Devil paratroopers are basically equivalent to special forces, and the training received by these guys is significantly stronger than that of ordinary devils. Our soldiers can basically only kill the devil paratroopers in the sky, once these guys are allowed to land on the flat ground, the paratroopers can often gather in a pile, and then force a way to break through with their superb combat skills.
Hu Fei also met a skydiving devil at the top of the mountain. Don't look at the fact that he has fought so many battles with devils, it is really the first time he has seen a devil flying with an umbrella in the sky. At first, Hu Fei didn't know that there was a devil under the big white umbrella, he just watched the devil plane pull out a bunch of big white umbrellas, which looked very rare, and patronized it curiously.
The first batch of parachutes flew lower and lower, and slowly I could see what was under the umbrella, and it turned out that there was a person tied underneath! If you release it from a devil's plane, it must be a devil too! Hu Fei was just about to raise his gun to shoot, but someone next to him shot first.
With a "pop" sound, a black dot fell from the sky and fell into several petals on the ground. This thing can be recognized if it is broken, it is a rifle. Under the big white umbrella, there is really a devil, and the Wang Ba box is ironclad proof!
"Hit! Shoot at the big white umbrella in the sky! There's a devil with a gun in the umbrella, hit me! Hu Fei loudly gave the battle order to the troops.