Chapter 70: Ground-Air Battle
Artillery brigades, artillery positions.
The fierce shelling has been going on for more than an hour, although the soldiers are very tired, but their enthusiasm is high, the 12 artillery fighters of each gun are skillful and silent, and the usual training is generally about two shells per minute, but today, many fighters have achieved a good result of an average of three shells per minute.
The artillery brigade commander, looking at the outstanding performance of his subordinates, also breathed a sigh of relief, the arduous task assigned by the division commander can be completed with the efforts of the comrades.
At the forward observation position, Zhang Yunfei has been there, holding a telescope to watch the position of the little devil who was bombarded opposite, for more than an hour, Zhang Yunfei felt that he was very enjoyable to watch.
The huge defensive position of the little devil on the opposite side has been plowed by the fierce artillery fire of the artillery brigade, and the little devil must have suffered heavy casualties, but the specific casualties can only be estimated.
According to Zhang Yunfei's own estimate, there should be more than 10,000 deaths of the little devils on the opposite side, and as for the injured little devils, Zhang Yunfei has been holding a telescope to observe the shelling, and this estimate should be relatively accurate.
It's better to have artillery, there were no casualties in his own troops, and only by the bombardment of artillery, tens of thousands of little devils were sent to the western sky, and more cannons will be built in the future, Zhang Yunfei thought.
Just when Zhang Yunfei was enjoying watching and was very happy, there was a faint roar of an airplane in the sky, Zhang Yunfei's face changed, and he looked at the sky in the distance with a telescope, only to see dozens of small black dots flying towards the sky in the distance.
It's not good, it's a large fleet of little devils.
"Quickly inform the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, pay attention to air defense, the plane of the little devil is coming."
As a matter of fact, there is no need for Zhang Yunfei's reminder that the two battalions of the antiaircraft artillery regiment have already made air defense preparations, and the fighters of the antiaircraft artillery regiment have been waiting for a long time.
After a while, the group of little devils flew over the position of the Eighth Route Army, and the little devils on the opposite side, seeing that their planes were coming, immediately cheered, and several little devils even stood up from the trenches, raising the guns in their hands and cheering, but these little devils who stood up were soon blown away by the shells from the artillery brigade.
Now, the artillery brigade has not completely finished shelling, there are still a few shells left, and the artillery brigade is still shelling the positions of the little devils.
The group of little devils maintained an altitude of two or three thousand meters, circled several times over the infantry positions of the Eighth Route Army, and did not drop bombs or dive and strafe, but flew towards the artillery brigade positions more than ten kilometers away.
Near the artillery brigade, the two antiaircraft artillery battalions in charge of air defense tasks saw the little devil's plane lower its altitude and fly this way, and the fighters of the antiaircraft artillery battalion saw the little devil's plane at an altitude of one or two thousand meters through the optical sights on the two 30-millimeter antiaircraft guns.
The group of planes is getting closer, it may be that the group has not yet discovered the anti-aircraft artillery battalion hidden on the ground, but only saw the howitzer position on the ground, and the little devil plane is preparing to dive and drop bombs at the howitzer position.
"Fire"
With the order of Chen Hu of the antiaircraft artillery regiment, dozens of antiaircraft guns opened fire at the same time, and several planes were immediately blown up by volleys.
The imp bombers who reacted hurriedly stretched and prepared to get out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns, while more than a dozen fighters of the imps swooped down and fired at several anti-aircraft guns that had been exposed.
The dense rain of bullets from the two large-caliber machine guns on the little devil fighter suddenly hit the anti-aircraft guns, but fortunately, for safety reasons, a ten-millimeter-thick protective steel plate was installed on each antiaircraft gun.
The ten-millimeter-thick protective steel plate withstood most of the bullets, and the shooters of the anti-aircraft guns were unharmed, except that several of the second-in-command and ammunition men next to them were hit and fell in a pool of blood at once.
Seeing the sacrifice of several of his comrades-in-arms, an anti-aircraft gun shooter slammed the anti-aircraft gun, aimed at the little devil plane that was diving over, and fired at the little devil plane.
The machine-gun bullets fired by the little devil plane hit the protective steel plate of the anti-aircraft gun, making a loud "knock, knock, knock" and sending out a large series of sparks, but it could not penetrate the protective steel plate that was ten millimeters thick.
The 30-millimeter armor-piercing shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns hit the little devil's thin-skinned fighter, making big holes with thick bowl mouths, and in only a dozen seconds, at least 20 shells hit the little devil fighter, and the little devil fighter suddenly smoked and fell from a high altitude.
The bomber group of the little devils, taking advantage of the fact that the anti-aircraft guns on the ground were mostly "taking care" of the fighters, finally flew out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns in a few minutes, after several planes were shot down.
After circling in the distance for a while, he flew towards the howitzer position, it seems that today, the main target of the little devil plane is the howitzer position, and Zhang Yunfei's howitzer position poses the greatest threat to the little devil position on the opposite side.
Seeing that the little devil's plane was gradually approaching again, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground opened fire one after another, and suddenly several bombers smoked and planted themselves on the ground.
However, more bombers swooped down on the howitzer positions on the ground, and one after another, several hundred kilograms of aerial bombs fell to the ground, and for a while there were bursts of earth-shattering loud noises.
Fortunately, the little devil's plane had to avoid the blows of the ground anti-aircraft guns, and the accuracy of the bombing was not very good, and only a few bombs fell on the open ground of the howitzer position of the Eighth Route Army.
Fortunately, the howitzer shells that had piled up on the ground had basically been shot up, and there was no explosion of the artillery shells on the ground, but even so, the artillery brigade commander Wang Daquan was shocked into a cold sweat.
Or the division commander is wise, before building the artillery position, he repeatedly explained to everyone that there must be enough spacing between each gun, otherwise, the explosion just now is likely to reimburse a few cannons, artillery brigade commander Wang Daquan thought.
Seeing that the first round of bombing did not receive good results, the remaining two dozen bombers of the little devil began to pull up again, ready to find a good angle and continue the second round of bombing.
The two anti-aircraft artillery battalions on the ground will not give the little devils a chance to bomb again, and dozens of anti-aircraft guns are aimed at the little devil bombers who are pulling up and turning around, and they hit hard, and suddenly, several bombers of the little devils were shot down.
The rest of the dozen or so bombers, seeing this scene, were so frightened that they hurriedly pulled up as fast as they could, trying to get out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns again.
This time, without the interference of the little devil fighters, all the anti-aircraft guns exerted their maximum firepower, with a rate of fire of more than a hundred rounds per minute per anti-aircraft gun, and shells fired by dozens of anti-aircraft guns, weaving a huge dense network of fire in the high air.
The planes in the sky were shot down one after another before they could fly out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns, and in the end, only a few planes managed to escape from this combat area.
The remaining planes were already frightened by the fierce anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and quickly flew in the direction of Taiyuan.
The two sides who watched the battle on the ground, the little devil saw the complete defeat of his air force, and he suddenly felt like a mourner, and his face was ugly; And the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, seeing that their anti-aircraft artillery regiment was so mighty, and the menacing little devil air force in the future fell into a ruin, and suddenly, on the position of the Eighth Route Army, there was a burst of cheers.
Zhang Yunfei, who had been watching the battle on the ground, saw that the little devil's planes were shot down one after another, and he also clenched his fists excitedly and waved his arms vigorously.
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