Chapter 289: Infantry vs. Aircraft in the Battle of Xifu

More than 20 fighters formed into several groups and rushed over, lowering from an altitude of four or five thousand meters to about two thousand meters, and searching back and forth over the positions of our troops in Majiashan. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels

After circling several times in succession and not seeing any communist artillery positions, the captain of the 1st Flying Group, who was responsible for lowering the altitude and using visual search, reported to the long plane waiting at high altitude:

"Report to the sir, the visual search has no target, and a large group has requested to lower the altitude."

The pilots, who had obtained the permission of the commander, pushed the control stick sharply, lowered the nose of the plane, and the altitude dropped rapidly from 2,000 meters to an altitude of 1,000 meters to continue the search.

However, when the altitude of several planes dropped to about 1,000 meters, the pilot still didn't have anything, the long plane leading the team was a little anxious, and the communist artillery was not a small object, so why couldn't it be found, could it still be lost?

It really made this officer right, the artillery battalion of the independent regiment is no different from the earth, and the cave has been drilled before the plane arrives.

It is very difficult to visually search for a concealed ground target on a high-flying fighter, especially a stationary target, as long as there is a little camouflage, it is difficult to be revealed, which is why the soldiers of those days made a camouflage circle with leaves on their heads for air defense.

The planes in the air did not have a ground target, the pilots were in a hurry, and the front-line commanders of the Kuomintang were also in a hurry, what was going on? The artillery of the communist army is gone? Why did the plane circle in the sky so many times and still nothing?

Like these Kuomintang personnel, the commanders and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were also very anxious because they didn't see anything, and the regiment commander Li Yong looked at the planes circling back and forth in the air and followed in the air-raid shelter.

Li Yong, who was about to tell the pilot in the sky, suddenly remembered a question: "Wei Gang, how is the camouflage of these fake cannons in charge of your battalion?" ”

Wei Gang replied: "Commander, it's done very well, is it all covered with grass." ”

Wei Gang's answer made Li brave enough: "Why are you so good at hiding fake targets?" Let them see it. ”

Wei Gang replied a little aggrieved: "Regiment commander, I think so, we can't make it too fake, it's not easy to believe if it's too fake, I let the soldiers show two fake guns, it's useless to cover anything, who would have thought that the plane hasn't been seen yet." ”

Li Yong: "Don't complain to me here, send a few more soldiers over to tear off the camouflage on the fake cannon, and let the pilots see it anyway." ”

Wei Gang was still muttering while sending someone: "It's all said that the plane is powerful, and it's been tossing for a long time, and now I can't even show a fake target, hmph, it's not very good." ”

The fighter planes hovering in the air dropped their altitude again, and what was on the ground could be seen more clearly, when a pilot suddenly made a surprise report: "Report to the commander, the No. 6 target is now, there are several communist artillery pieces blown away by the air currents raised by our planes, and the communist artillery position is under our feet." ”

The pilots of a large group of pilots on reconnaissance missions at low altitudes all watched carefully with their eyes, but there were many cannons covered with leaves and grass looming, and the size of the position should be an artillery regiment, and dozens of heavy guns were below.

The captain of this reconnaissance mission was ecstatic, good guy, we have only seen it until now, Tubalu is really cunning enough, this time look where you are going, if you blow up all these communist artillery, it will definitely be a great credit, maybe there will be one more star on Lao Tzu's shoulder, one more star Lao Tzu is also a colonel, and you don't have to look at people's black faces when you carry out the mission.

The guy immediately reported: "Report, after careful searching, a large group has found the artillery position of the communist army, and a large group has requested to enter the attack position. ”

The captain who is still hovering at high altitude can hear the other party's excitement from this guy's tone, this Kuomintang air force colonel is not in vain, and the subordinates' thoughts are guessed very clearly, **, this kid wants to take credit from me, hum, you are a fool when I am a colonel? I still want to grab credit, it's not so easy:

"The first brigade, I heard your report, the task was completed very well, you rose to an altitude and carried out a covering mission in the airspace of four thousand meters, and I led the second and third brigades to attack the artillery positions of the communist army."

After the order to lead the captain was given, the nose of the captain of a large group was almost crooked, what is this called, our brigade is obviously at a low altitude, and it is very convenient to attack the position of the communist army, at this time, let us re-rise the altitude to perform what cover task, what cover task can we have? The communist army, not to mention the plane, does not even have the tires of the plane, does it still need to perform any cover mission? Let us carry out the most dangerous reconnaissance mission, and when we find the target, we will come down to pick peaches without anti-aircraft fire, this is obviously retaliation, and I must complain to the upper peak.

No matter what the captain of the group thinks, and no matter how unwilling he is, the first flying group that has completed the reconnaissance mission still rises to the altitude to carry out the so-called cover mission, and the pilots who are angry in their hearts pull the rod and kick the rudder, raise the nose of the plane and rise again to a high altitude to wait for the order.

At this time, it was also very cool to see that the airspace of the attack had been cleared, right, I made you arrogant, no matter how arrogant you are, your kid is just a lieutenant colonel, and you dare not obey orders. What if Lao Tzu just asked you to carry out the cover mission? Isn't it all mine now?

"Second and third brigades, descend in altitude and follow me into the attack route."

The 16 fighters of the 2nd and 3rd Brigades in the high altitude had crooked their wings and rapidly descended one after another, and their altitudes became lower and lower.

The wireless conversations on the plane could be heard by each other, and the pilots of the second and third teams were secretly amused, the captain of this first brigade, he really wanted to be promoted and wanted to be confused, and he still wanted to take credit from the commander, and the official was crushed to death at the first level, did you forget this simple truth?

Looking at the planes tossing and turning in the sky, the soldiers on the position never received the order to open fire, even if the planes that began to reconnoiter entered the range of machine gun fire, Li Yong did not give any orders, but only told the soldiers to calm down, and to fight harder, so that the Kuomintang air force could learn a long lesson.

After tossing and turning in the sky for four or five minutes, the commander who led the team also made up his mind that he could not hesitate any longer, and the aviation fuel brought on the plane would not be enough if he hesitated, and took the lead in diving down after entering the attack route (the old fighter had no refueling capability in the air, and there was no external auxiliary fuel tank, and the combat radius could only be determined by the fuel in the fuel tank).

The 16 fighters of the two brigades swooped down from more than 2,000 meters in small groups, screaming and screaming, and the altitude became lower and lower, so that the fighters who were so low on the ground that they could clearly see the pilot in the cabin of the plane, and the roar of the huge motive was deafening.

Originally, he wanted to load all these 20 or so planes into the range of firepower, but seeing a few fighters still wandering at high altitude, Li Yong also knew that his wish could not be fulfilled, and it was okay to have two groups of 16 planes into the pockets on the ground, it was time to start, and after preparing for such a long time, it was time to close the mouth.

There were more than 20 shooting bunkers around the preset false positions, and the soldiers hidden in the firing bunkers looked at the planes that were skewering back and forth in the sky, and their hearts were about to jump out.

The troops of the People's Liberation Army suffered a big loss from the planes, and when the Eighth Route was bombed by the planes of the little devils, and later by the planes of the Kuomintang, many comrades-in-arms died under the machine guns and bombs of the planes, so the soldiers who had the opportunity to fire at the planes rushed to sign up, although they all knew that this task was very dangerous.

The regiment commander and the battalion commander had spoken many times beforehand that there was no order to strictly prohibit firing, and the soldiers were now waiting with their eyes open, waiting to avenge their comrades.

The plane that swooped down from a high altitude quickly approached the false position, and the altitude was only 100 to a few hundred meters, and the air flow carried by the propeller seemed to be blowing a strong wind on the ground, and the airborne machine guns on the plane were "cooing" and the earth and rocks hit by the machine guns on the ground flew wildly.

Just when the palms of the soldiers were about to be soaked with sweat, the order of the regiment commander Li Yong finally came, and Li Yong's shout came from the walkie-talkie next to him: "Fire, hit hard." ”

More than 50 anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as more than 50 Maxim heavy machine guns, a total of more than 100 machine guns, roared together.

The Northwest Field Army, a notoriously poor unit, did not expect that there would be such a fierce time, not to mention the Kuomintang pilots, and even few of the PLA's own people could not have imagined that there would be such a strong force.

Within a decade of the order to open fire, the middle and low altitudes of the nearby sky were suddenly covered with bullets, and the strings of bullets were like bees, mosquitoes, and sandstorms, turning the sky that had just been safe into hell.

The soldiers in the shooting bunker stared at the balls and used the machine guns in their hands to meet the plane, and when the plane dived, the large-caliber machine guns also opened fire at the same time, and it was not easy to dare to shoot at the plane at this time, and there was a great chance of casualties.

** It is necessary to calculate the amount of advance, only to shoot head-on at the diving plane is not to calculate anything, at this time the fire caused a large loss to the aircraft, but their own casualties are not small, and other people's weapons can also kill people.

However, none of the soldiers were afraid of any casualties, and they didn't even have the courage to fight hard, so they were called the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, and they were called the Brave Department and the Great Wall Department (the code name of the Northwest Field Army).

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