Chapter Ninety-Nine: Gains and Losses

The Japanese army in North China has always held a contemptuous attitude towards the Tubalu troops that can be fought and withdrawn if they can't, and they believe that such troops are purely bandits and rogues, and that if they say that they are the army, it is simply a humiliation to the duty of soldiers, but the Tubalu has always slipped and rarely fought with them head-on. The previous group bombardment of the other side still made the Japanese army panic, but as soon as the earthen tanks and unconscionable guns used by the Tuba Road were pulled out, the Japanese army did not panic.

"Open the cannon and give the earth eight roads some awesome taste." The Japanese army in Xingtai not only had standing mortar grenadiers, but they also had 75 mountain artillery and 92 infantry guns, and the 75 mountain artillery was of little use to the Tuba Road, but the Japanese army didn't care at all now, they just wanted to give the Tuba Road in the attack a dismount. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The shells from the Japanese army blew up patches of smoke, and the unconscionable artillery position, which had long been empty, was engulfed in an instant, but the Japanese army did not know that they were bombing the open space. The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army unleashed their unconscionable artillery, and the attacking troops on the forward line obediently lay down as ordered.

"Sir, we've been contacted on our plane." The voice of the mercenary ground guide came from the walkie-talkie, Zhao Zhi came to command the Spark troops this time and did not carry large-caliber artillery, that thing was too big and heavy to be airborne, but Zhao Zhi brought a high-power radio and walkie-talkie. These equipment can make Zhao Zhi easily contact Handan, the Thunder fighter unit that has secretly transferred to Handan is the key to Zhao Zhi's entire volcano plan, Handan Airport is not large, can only accommodate 12 fighters and 6 bombers, but these are enough.

"Tell them the location of the Japanese artillery positions, and ask them to destroy the Japanese artillery positions, but it's better not to use incendiary bombs, I will keep those cannons useful." The armament of the Japanese army in Xingtai had long been passed on by the intelligence officers of the military command, and Zhao Zhi, who lacked heavy weapons, had already regarded those 75 mountain guns and 92 infantry guns as his own things.

The fighter unit has not yet appeared, and the attack commanded by Zhao Zhi looks a little weak, most of the time the two sides are testing their marksmanship from afar, using mountain artillery to deal with individual infantry, and the Japanese army has not been generous to this extent. The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army who came to help the war were confused, these national troops were really not up to the task, the little devils only fired one round of artillery, and they were lying all over the place, it seems that what the superiors said was right, the Kuomintang was greedy for life and afraid of death. Ignoring the persuasion of the people around him, the angry guerrilla captain had to lead his guerrilla team to charge, but the result could only be that the soldiers were defeated and defeated, and in the end he still lay on the ground and counted the ants like everyone else.

"You said you were in a hurry, didn't the commander-in-chief say it, let's make a feint. Do you understand the feint? It's just a fake fight, you want to hook out the firepower of the little devil, you rush up so stupidly, isn't it what is sending to death, why don't you feel that the lives of your Eighth Route Army are worthless? "The guerrillas of the national army naturally will not let go of such a good opportunity to retaliate, and it has been almost an hour since the feint attack, except for some casualties caused by Japanese shells and machine guns, their people are lying on the ground. The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army are all stupid, they rushed to the ground once in the past, and they still commanded the troops at such a level, so they died as soon as possible.

The person who was ridiculed had the heart to refute it, but he was really beaten back by the Japanese army, and he didn't want others to say things by himself, so he blamed himself for being too light on the enemy. "Use walkie-talkies to inform you that before receiving an order, the front-line troops are absolutely not allowed to attack without authorization, otherwise military law will be involved." The situation that appeared in the forward troops just now was also noticed by Zhao Zhi, but now is not the time to deal with the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, so Zhao Zhi can only speak with the military order, and whoever disobeys can withdraw from the battle at any time, but when the spoils are distributed after the war, the troops who withdraw are each copy.

"It's coming, it's coming." The ground guides rushed over, and the fighter troops that had taken off from Handan had already rushed over, and Zhao Zhi and the people in the rear could even hear the roar coming from the air. "Nani? Is it our plane? The Japanese puppet army in Xingtai on the opposite side also heard the sound of fighter planes diving, but the Japanese army didn't think that there would be planes on the Tuba Road, so they thought that it was their Japanese planes that appeared over the battlefield and had begun to dive.

Whether it was the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army or the guerrillas of the Nationalist Army, most of them had only heard of airplanes but had never seen them, and many of them raised their heads to look up, and the Japanese side was also a large area of faces raised at 45 degrees. "Baga, quickly conceal, conceal, this is not our plane." The plane that swooped down from the clouds obviously did not carry the mark of the Japanese army, and the place where it should have had the red pill logo on the wing was painted with the lightning logo, and the whole body of the fighter was like a ghostly black, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that it was a blitzkrieg unit from Thunder.

"Guys, let's go." The fighter pilots of the escort swooped down against the Japanese position and pressed the switch of the machine gun, and the fighters all participated in the operation as escort fighters, but this time there were obviously no Japanese fighters participating in the battle, and the fighters who had no place to use them could not come in vain, that is, they only used machine guns to dive and shoot, and they were just as excited. Eight fighters swooped down like sharks, using machine guns to strafe all the living creatures on the Japanese puppet army's position, powerful and dense bullets flooded everything like a downpour, and the columns of smoke hit by the bullets quickly formed a smoke screen, and the guerrillas who watched were stunned.

"Obediently, this dog's plane is so powerful, the little devil can't stand it at all." The guerrilla captain who had been ridiculed by everyone was very impressed by the strength of the fighters, and said that if his guerrillas could come with a few such things, they might have beaten Shijiazhuang a long time ago. The guerrilla leader of the national army, who was the strongest away from him, quietly moved his body to the side, and his eyes were full of contempt when he looked at him, saying that the people of the Eighth Route Army were all dirt buns, and this was just a fighter plane, and when the bombers came up, they would not be scared back to grandma's house.

The faster fighter had already circled back and forth twice, and the four bombers of the Thunder had just appeared, and the pot-bellied bomber was as arrogant as the noblewoman's bomber was not as arrogant as the fighter, but the pressure of the bomber when it dived made the guerrillas lying on the forward line cover their ears. The Japanese puppet army in Xingtai did not have effective anti-aircraft firepower, and the thunderous bomber pilots hated to open the bombing hatch directly above the heads of the Japanese troops, and according to the bombing coordinates sent by the ground guides, four bombers carried out a carpet bombing of the Japanese artillery positions.

"Attack, press in all directions." The appearance of fighter troops caused a riot in the defense line of the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai, especially the Imperial Association troops who were forced by the Japanese army to die in the forward position have collapsed, and the position of more than several hundred meters long is full of crying fathers and shouting mothers and fleeing in all directions. "Chong, the Chinese don't fight the Chinese, lay down their arms and it's a family." The troops who rolled over from the ground like a tide began to charge, and some of the stubborn guys wanted to shoot to stop them, but seeing that the opposing side was outnumbered and menacing, most of the Imperial Allied troops finally chose to surrender before the battle.

"Block on the spot, stop on the spot." The Japanese commander hissed and shouted and tried to gather the Japanese soldiers around him, but the fighter who was still calculating in the air did not want to give him this opportunity, as long as the pilot found that there was an earthy yellow figure below and wanted to wrap up the group, he would swoop down and sweep a few barrages for them to taste. If you want to intercept the enemy with firepower, you must have the firepower that can stop the enemy's army, and the Japanese commander can't even gather his soldiers, so what can he do to block the opponent.

The charge of a few hundred people may not be nothing, but Zhao Zhi will press the whole line, and the charge with more than a thousand people participating is different, when the forces of the two sides are almost equal, Zhao Zhi took out the fighter unit as a bargaining chip for victory. If the senior commander of the Eighth Route Army was here, they would definitely scold Zhao Zhi for being a loser, and would they still need a bright fighter unit to deal with the Xingtai Japanese puppet army with similar strength to their own? Even the ants gnawed the elephants little by little, and the Xingtai Japanese puppet army was consumed here.

Zhao Zhi didn't think so, the Japanese army's 75 artillery group against the Eighth Route Army's unconscionable artillery was already a knife of injustice, and he used a formation of more than 10 fighters to deal with the Japanese puppet army equal to his own strength It was even more cannon to fight mosquitoes, and compared with the consumption of the fighter formation, winning this battle was nothing at all. But what Zhao Zhi wants is such an effect, he used fighter troops to participate in the offensive and defensive battles in Xingtai to boost the morale of the participating troops, whether it is the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army or the guerrillas developed by the Tinder troops, they have not experienced a serious 800 positional warfare, Zhao Zhi can't let them lose their sharpness at the first stop, even if they use more fighter troops, Zhao Zhi thinks it's worth it.

After consuming a lot of resources and materials, Zhao Zhi obtained more than 1,000 soldiers who had experienced regular combat, and between gains and losses, Zhao Zhi thought that he had taken advantage, at least after these guerrillas experienced this battle, when facing the heavy siege of the Japanese army, they would not be uncomfortable or timid in regular combat. Another purpose of Zhao Zhi's implementation of the volcano plan in Hebei this time was to train troops, and he wanted to screen out the elite men from the guerrillas under the control of the Wanguo Army through uninterrupted combat against the Japanese puppet army back to Hebei, so as to lay a good foundation for Chiang Kai-shek to form a new U.S. armed forces.