in2ebook Chapter 209 Retreat from the enemy
Chapter 209 Retreat from the enemy
Half an hour later, Kenjiro Kei Miura saw the sky full of dark enemy planes and raised the corners of his mouth with pride.
"Onboard!"
More than 6,000 Japanese soldiers and puppet troops marched towards Gaomiao Mountain in a mighty manner.
At this time, the artillery observation post had discovered the traces of the Japanese large force and immediately reported it to the artillery command.
"Report to the headquarters, we have discovered a large Japanese force of about 5,000 to 6,000 men, with tanks providing cover!"
Wang Huaibao held the phone, looked at the Japanese planes gradually approaching in the sky, and fell into an ideological struggle!
"Fight! Order the anti-aircraft artillery battalion to deploy, and make sure the enemy's planes never come back! We also have brothers from the aviation division beating up the enemy in the sky, brothers, fight with confidence!"
"Yes!"
Sixty 105mm howitzers quickly adjusted their firing parameters and prepared for firing.
"Load high-explosive bombs! Specially designed to blow up the enemy's infantry! Unlimited fire!"
The artillerymen swung their arms and fired fiercely at the Japanese infantry.
Kenjiro Kei Miura looked at the Japanese soldiers flying all over the sky without any hesitation.
"Wait for the revenge of the Imperial Air Force!"
Yoshio Ogawa looked out the porthole and saw the independent column's artillery positions firing fiercely. He searched around but did not find any of the Chinese Air Force.
"It seems that China's air force is not as terrible as imagined! Order the bombers to immediately destroy the artillery positions and then quickly withdraw from the battlefield!"
The Japanese bomber formation immediately broke away and flew toward the back of Gaomiao Mountain.
At the artillery position where the battle was in full swing, the anti-aircraft observation post reported to the headquarters.
"Command post, the Japanese planes are coming, dozens of them! Should we retreat?"
"Get away! Beat him up! Don't worry about what's going on in the sky!"
After Wang Huaibao finished speaking, he personally ran to the artillery position and picked up the shells.
Lu Tianlong, who was flying above the clouds, saw the movements of the Japanese bombers and immediately understood their intentions.
"The first flight squadron will intercept the enemy bomber formation, and the second flight squadron will follow me to attack the enemy fighter formation!"
Dozens of F6F Hellcat fighters dived towards the Japanese Second Air Regiment.
The heavy Hellcat dived with a sharp roar, which scared Yoshio Ogawa who was searching everywhere.
"Baga! There's an enemy plane at 2 o'clock!"
Yoshio Ogawa subconsciously pulled the joystick, and the plane immediately turned to the side, avoiding the first wave of attacks.
The other Zero fighters were not so lucky. Five of them were shot down before they could even get a clear look at the Hellcat.
Before Yoshio Ogawa had time to experience the joy of surviving the disaster, he saw the bomber formation on the lower left, which seemed to be in trouble.
Dozens of fighter jets began to dive towards the bomber formation!
"Baga! Support the bomber formation immediately!"
Yoshio Ogawa took the lead and rushed forward, but it was a pity that the F6F Hellcats in two formations used advanced communication systems, either two aircraft or two formations, and began to hunt down Zero fighters continuously.
The Zero fighter's proud speed advantage was completely wiped out in the face of the high-speed dive and ethanol-accelerated Hellcat.
In less than five minutes, the Zero fighter formation was only two kilometers away from the sniper bomber formation, but there were only a few planes left in both formations.
There were only five Zero fighters left in the formation.
There were only seven bombers left in the formation.
Seeing that his entire formation was about to be destroyed, Yoshio Ogawa had no choice but to ruthlessly cut off his own arm.
"Leave the battlefield immediately! Retreat!"
Without fighter escort, retreating would be a joke for the bombers.
The remaining seven bombers poured down all their bombs. No matter where they landed, as long as the weight could be reduced, there would be a glimmer of hope.
These bombs weighing tons fell in the wilderness, making Kenjiro Miura grit his teeth.
"Baga, you stupid airmen, the Gaomiao Mountain ahead is where you should drop your bombs!"
Kenjiro Kei Miura had not yet figured out that the purpose of the Japanese bombers dropping bombs was not to bomb the Eighth Route Army, but to escape.
However, even the bomber that had dropped all its bombs was still like a slow-moving fat man and was beaten down by a large squadron of fighters.
And under the desperate cover of the other four Zero fighters, Yoshio Ogawa hid in the clouds and escaped.
After searching for a while, Lu Tianlong still hadn't found the last Zero fighter, so he decided to return.
"Everyone return home, load up your aerial bombs, and beat up the Japanese infantry!"
Having lost the cover of aircraft, Kenjiro Kei Miura hoped to watch his infantry advance to within 500 meters with their flesh and blood.
Fortunately, all the Japanese tank squadrons advanced to the Gaomiaoshan position and began firing at the machine gun and mortar positions of the first battalion.
"Where are the anti-tank guns of the artillery battalion? Hurry up and have them drag them up!"
In less than ten minutes, the 37mm anti-tank gun hidden in the anti-tank cave was dragged out.
"Armor-piercing shells loaded! Fire!"
After a round of firing from more than a dozen anti-tank guns, half of the Japanese's tiny tanks began to emit black smoke.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the remaining tanks immediately fired at the anti-tank guns, then backed up and crushed several Japanese soldiers to death.
"No one is allowed to leave! Beat them for me!"
Three more rounds of shooting completely turned the entire Japanese tank squadron into piles of scrap metal.
The puppet soldiers in the team had already been frightened, and without the courage of the tanks, they collapsed at the first blow.
Before the heavy machine guns of the first battalion could respond, the mortars hit and the enemy collapsed.
Led by the puppet army, the remaining more than 3,000 Japanese devils and puppet troops retreated again towards Lushan.
"Brothers from the First Battalion, follow me out and launch a counterattack!"
A battalion commander immediately called the artillery regiment and launched a barrage of bullets.
Wang Huaibao grinned. He didn’t expect that the first time he used the “Xu Jin Barrage” would be in the small Gaomiaoshan position.
"Okay, don't rush too fast!"
After saying that, Wang Huaibao immediately commanded the artillery battalion to fire two shots each, and then the artillery fire extended two hundred meters.
The first battalion, under the sky full of Japanese flesh and air waves, followed the barrage of bullets and carried out a "shooting style" strangling to death those Japanese soldiers who had managed to survive.
Only when they reached the foot of Gaomiao Mountain did they reluctantly turn back and go up the mountain to prepare to repair the fortifications.
Kenjiro Kei Miura looked at the remaining troops and a chill came over his heart.
According to his understanding of Li Yunlong and the Independent Column, they had only one option in the end: beat the man who was down on his back!
"Retreat! Deploy secret weapons along the way!"
After Kenjiro Kei Miura finished the arrangements, he became so angry that he fainted.
The chief of staff took over the command, prepared to take the civilians with him, and then quickly retreat towards Jincheng.
So, the remaining two or three thousand puppet troops and Japanese troops began to retreat southward in panic!
Li Yunlong, who observed the movements of the Japanese, immediately ordered the heavy tank battalion and armored regiment of the armored division to pursue the enemy and try to capture Jincheng!