Chapter 35: Ambush and Second and Third Rounds of Shelling

"Taiyuan airport was attacked and suffered heavy losses?"

After receiving the telegram from Shuiji Iwago, Yoshio Shinozuka's first reaction was...

That's impossible!

Is there something wrong?

Around Taiyuan, who has the ability to attack the airfield of the First Army?

As the supreme commander of the First Army, he knew best how strict the guard and defense measures were at the airport where the Baby Flying Brigade of the First Army was stationed.

During his stay in Taiyuan, he inspected the airport several times and directed the construction of fortifications.

Within a kilometer of the airport, there are layers of fortifications built for divisional and regimental level battles, and within two kilometers of the airport, there are also areas where patrols are intensively patrolled.

Plus the garrison of a brigade, as well as powerful airfield defensive firepower.

Who can attack inside the airport?

"Hey."

The staff officer who reported tried his best to maintain a fluent tone: "Iwago Xiu No. 2 Nakasa telegraphed that Taiyuan Airport was under intensive enemy shelling, and the attackers' artillery fire was very fierce, and its fire density reached nearly 100 rounds in one minute, and it is estimated that more than half of the planes at the airport will be lost. ”

"At the moment, the enemy has stopped attacking, and he is sending troops to pursue the attacker."

"Who did that?"

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly felt a pain in his heart.

The most precious thing in his First Army was the flying group, that is, the more than 50 planes, and now it suddenly lost more than half of it, which was simply a knife in his heart, a pain in his heart.

With the current situation of the empire, if you want to replenish, it will take at least half a year to make it up.

That is, within half a year, the First Army will be able to use more than half of the aircraft.

He couldn't hold back any longer, got up and drew his sword, and roared angrily:

"Who did it?"

The staff officer glanced at the sharp blade of the officer's knife facing him.

"Iwago Hideji Nakasa mentioned that the attacker appeared to be wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, but it is impossible to confirm who exactly is." The staff officer's voice trembled a little, if this knife is cut down...

He died in vain.

He won't even have the name of being a broken jade for the Empire.

"Eighth Route Army."

Hearing this word, Yoshio Shinozuka, who was originally angry and uncontrollable, suddenly calmed down.

He put the knife back into its scabbard, sat upright in his chair, his expression as calm as a lake, and after a long time he said to himself:

"The attacker is the Eighth Route Army."

Dare to attack Taiyuan, which is heading to the heavy army, and attack Taiyuan Airport, so bear-hearted leopard guts, and it is a unit of the Eighth Route Army, for some reason, a person naturally popped out of Shinozuka Yoshio's head...

Li Yunlong!

Only this guy has the courage to do this.

Only this guy has a large number of artillery pieces and a firepower projection of nearly 100 rounds per minute.

After thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka felt very strange.

The anger in his heart suddenly decreased a lot, but there was an extra feeling of helplessness...

"Li Yunlong..."

After a long time, Yoshio Shinozuka let out a deep sigh, full of murderous intent.

Hearing this sentence made the staff officer's scalp tingle.

Accustomed to the mad fury of the officers, even if not directed at him, the sudden calm tone made the staff officers feel like they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Order, the first brigade of the 115th Wing will return to Taiyuan."

"And the telegram told Iwago Shuji to be vigilant, and the attackers are likely to attack repeatedly."

Yoshio Shinozuka said, his tone calm, just full of helplessness.

Because his intuition told him that it was Li Yunlong who attacked the airport.

If it was Li Yunlong, it was the Li Yunlong who gave him a headache when he heard the name, I'm afraid the matter wouldn't end so simply...

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"What's going on?"

In Taiyuan City, Kazuo Ohno looked in the direction of the airport suspiciously.

Although separated by a ten-meter-high city wall, he could still see the billowing smoke and hear the dense explosion of cannonballs falling like rain, and vaguely, he thought that this was the Taiyuan City Airport being shelled.

"Who is shelling the airfield?"

"Who dares to shell the airfield?"

The two sentences are full of incredulity.

This is Taiyuan.

No one answered him, though.

"Shall we continue?"

But his brother asked, a little scared.

"Keep going."

Kazuo Ohno said without hesitation.

Unless someone can break through the Taiyuan city wall, it is extremely safe inside, they only need to transport the gold to the railway station in the city, no matter what happens outside, it will not affect the inside.

Moreover, the railway station is the strongest place in the defense of the entire Taiyuan.

"Hey!"

Seeing his brother so confident, thinking of his identity, Ohno Yama was suddenly relieved, and controlled the car to continue to drive forward.

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"More than 500 devils came out of the direction of the airport, there were two infantry guns, and more than 300 devils came out of the direction of Taiyuan City, including more than 100 cavalry, it is expected that the cavalry will arrive in front of us in five minutes, and the devil infantry will arrive in ten minutes."

An observer reported to Li Yunlong.

During the transfer of the artillery company to the second artillery position, the spy company led by Li Yunlong prepared to ambush the devil on the spot.

"More than a hundred cavalry?"

Grand Master Li's tone was extremely disdainful: "The devil is really stupid, the labor and management have shown such powerful artillery firepower, and such a little cavalry still dares to rush up alone." ”

"Since you are looking for your own death, then I will fulfill you."

His spy company had 120 men, each armed with a 20-round barge gun, plus 20 Bren machine guns, and the firepower was better than that of the previous three regiments, and more than 100 cavalrymen dared to come to the frontal attack, which was simply looking for death.

Not to mention the mines buried in the open space in front.

"Ready."

Grand Master Li gave an order, and the one hundred and twenty soldiers behind him pulled the bolt of their guns with brushes, and their eyes stared at the devil cavalry that was rapidly approaching in front of them.

Seeing that his own airport was shelled, the devil was also red-eyed, and he screamed and rushed forward regardless of it.

And this vicinity is all open area, there are not many mountains, and the devils also found that there are not many people in the Eighth Route Army attacking, so they are more relieved to rush forward boldly.

As soon as the cavalry entered the front two hundred meters of the position, there was an unlucky man who stepped on a big tumor made by virtue, and the huge explosion directly broke the front legs of the devil military horse, and the horse that lost its front legs went straight to the ground, throwing the devil on his back nearly ten meters away, this devil was also unlucky, just stopped and hit a mine, with a bang, after the explosion smoke, only a blood stain was left on the ground.

"Keep rushing..."

The captain of the leading devil cavalry didn't look at the few unlucky people who were killed, lowered his body, and rushed forward without hesitation.

He had seen the enemy in the distance.

And before coming, the commander had already given the order to die.

Don't stop, keep charging.

"Two hundred meters, machine gun fire."

Seeing that the devil cavalry had reached the minefield, Li Yunlong gave the order to open fire.

In an instant, twenty machine guns came out from behind the improvised trench and opened fire on the devils who rushed up from a distance.

Da Da Da ·

In the rain of bullets woven by 20 machine guns, from time to time, there were devils and horses on horseback who suddenly fell back and fell to the ground, and there were also devil cavalry who stepped on the mines and were blown to pieces.

The cavalry charge was so fast that twenty machine guns and mines were not enough to destroy it all, and about half of them still rushed to within 100 meters.

"Eighty meters, all fired."

Seeing that the devil was approaching the position and reached the range of the shell gun, Li Yunlong roared loudly, and at the same time moved the trigger of the shell gun in his hand.

Dadada····

One hundred twenty-round shell guns weaved a dense net of fire to envelop the devil cavalry, and in an instant, the remaining dozens of cavalry fell in pieces like wheat that had been cut.

After a volley, in front of the position, there was not a single devil cavalry still standing.

The frontal charge tactics of the cavalry, which were eliminated in the first battle, were able to survive in North China because of the lack of firepower of the Eighth Route Army, and at this time, in the face of the powerful firepower of the independent regiment, it was like an egg that would be shattered at the touch of an egg.

The sheer size of a horse is simply a burden on a frontal battlefield.

"Good dense firepower."

In the distance, the corner of the eye of Shuiji Iwago, who was observing, jumped.

He saw very clearly that there were not many people in the Eighth Route Army, only about a hundred people, but the firepower was extremely dense, and the closest distance of his cavalry was only close to a distance of fifty meters before all of them fell.

However, with such a small number of troops...

Iwago Shuji's eyes flashed.

He has just learned the specific data of the damage at the airport,

Twelve planes were blown to pieces by direct hits, twenty-three were hit by shnel and were seriously damaged and needed major repairs, eleven more were slightly bruised, no more than ten are currently intact, and five pilots were also sacrificed.

The 1st Army Flying Group was almost crippled.

The power of the enemy's artillery shells was much greater than that of ordinary 82-caliber mortars, and although there were not many planes that were directly hit, fragments, gasoline barrels and bombs all over the airfield made the enemy more afraid of shelling.

The huge loss made Iwago Hideji's eyes red, and it was almost impossible to suppress the killing intent of the Eighth Route Army in front of him.

"Nine hundred meters away, the Eighth Route Army is in position, shelling..."

At this time, the artillery squadron of the garrison airport brigade finally pushed out the cannons, and two 75 mountain guns projected shells at the position where Li Yunlong's special service company was located.

"Only now did you think of shelling?"

"It's late!"

When Grand Master Li saw the devil artillery, he pursed his lips and said in a disdainful tone.

He still thinks that devils never change their moves!

I didn't expect the devil to come blindly when he was in a hurry.

It's no different from those warlords in the past.

Back in the day, the devil was notoriously dogmatic and rigid, and every time he fought in the past, he would first be bombarded by artillery, then charged by infantry, and occasionally the cavalry flanks would make a detour to attack the weak area.

For more than three years, the devil's trick has not changed.

It's just that because the firepower of the troops is weak, even if the other party doesn't change his moves, a few years ago, he still suffered enough from this trick.

"Withdraw."

After the taunt, Li Yunlong waved his hand and led the spy company to withdraw from the position.

Leave an empty position for the devils to bombard.

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"Ready."

Eight hundred meters to the left of the first artillery position, and three hundred meters to the rear, Iwamori commanded the soldiers of the artillery company to set up the artillery.

Although the accuracy of the mortar is poor, the advantages of good mobility are vividly played at this time, because there is a preset position here, and the bottom pit has been dug, so in just three minutes, the six guns are pointed at the airfield again.

In the rear, the following ammunition group followed with shells on their backs

"Launch at full speed, four minutes."

With Iwamori's order, six 82 mortars again opened fire on the Devil's Airfield, which was 2.5 kilometers away.

The firing elements that had already been calibrated allowed the shells to land precisely in the airfield.

Boom Boom Boom ·

Caught off guard, the devils who were cleaning up the wreckage all over the airport suffered heavy casualties.

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"Yaga··"

Looking at the shells that suddenly fell in the airfield, and the planes that were blown to pieces again, Iwago Shuji's eyes were cracked.

He did not expect that in the face of the attack of the imperial army, the enemy would not shell the pursuing troops, but would shell the airfield again.

Although more than 20 fighters were seriously injured by shrapnel and could not take off, these injuries were nothing more than broken skins, damaged engine shells, spare parts in warehouses, or dismantling parts of other aircraft, and within half a month, the flight group would be able to restore a certain combat effectiveness.

But if there is a direct hit by a shell, then you will have to wait for a new plane.

"Artillery attacks the opposing side's artillery positions."

Iwago Shuji hurriedly ordered the mountain artillery squadron to deal with the artillery battery of the independent regiment.

The other side must be prevented from continuing the shelling, otherwise...

However, by the time his artillery squadron had finally finished measuring the distance and aimed its guns at the position being shelled, the three minutes had already arrived. Iwamori had already slipped with the artillery company to the next shelling position.

Leave only an empty position to waste devil shells.

In the four minutes of shelling, nearly 400 shells fell inside the airfield.

This time, the damage was counted exceptionally quickly.

"Your Excellency Nakasa, five warplanes have been blown up..."

Glancing at the airport, the planes that were not blown up, but were covered with shell fragments, and even the glass cover was shattered, made Iwago Shuji's eyes go black and he almost fainted.

Compared with the huge losses of fighters caused by the first shelling, the biggest loss this time was the personnel, at that time the entire airport was the service personnel who rescued the planes, and the three-minute shelling, hundreds of shells, and nearly 100 casualties.

There were even several devil pilots who were distressed about the fighter planes and were killed.

By this time, Iwamori had also arrived at the third shelling position.

It is still 2.5 kilometers from the airport, but it is 800 meters away from before. Stimulated by the smoke of gunfire from the devil's airfield in the distance, it took only ten minutes for the artillery company to move to a distance of 800 meters and set up six mortars.

Although the main reason was the high mobility of the mortars, the well-trained artillery company was also an important reason, and the team of more than 100 people went smoothly like a machine as a whole, without any mistakes.

After such intensive actual combat and rigorous training, the artillery company of the independent regiment has begun to transform into an elite artillery unit.

"Three minutes, rush shot, target, devil airfield."

Iwamori's right hand was raised, and then he fell heavily.

Dense shells again fell on the airfield, and several more planes were blown to pieces.

"Yaga..."

Seeing the third wave of shells falling, he was so angry that Iwago Hideji finally collapsed, and after ordering the artillery to suppress it, he rushed to the telephone room, picked up the phone, and shouted hoarsely at the Japanese soldiers who stayed in Taiyuan City:

"All of them are dispatched to pursue the enemy's artillery, otherwise all the fighters of the First Army's flying group will be blown up, and you and I will have to commit suicide."

The troops he sent out were mired in minefields and were moving slowly, and without further reinforcements, they would not be able to drive the enemy out for an hour.

In an hour, with this kind of shelling density, Taiyuan Airport was afraid that it would be flattened by the other side.

The captain of the devil brigade who stayed in Taiyuan also understood the severity of the situation, and hurriedly sent the few remaining troops to support the airport.

For a time, a team of more than 2,000 devil puppet troops rushed towards the spy company and artillery company led by Li Yunlong.

At the same time, Zhang Dabiao and Wang Gensheng, who were ambushed in a house in the city, also saw the convoy slowly approaching·····

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