Predator Reborn

Chapter 156: Accidental Air Raid (2)

"Commander, our unit was attacked by an air attack. We lost a total of two companies and almost half of our heavy weapons. Please ask for guidance on the next step. In addition, although our unit shot down a Japanese plane, the Japanese wanted to reinforce the 117th Regiment.

, we will still continue to send planes for reinforcements, Commander of the Third Regiment, Wang Nanhu."

"Hey, Chief of Staff, it's all my fault. After all, we didn't expect that the Japanese had planes that could reinforce us at any time. Two entire companies of troops were lost due to our mistakes." After reading the telegram in his hand,

, Commander Liu Hua lowered his head and said.

"Commander, this is not your fault. It's our staff's failure to complete the mission. The key now is to think about how to solve this problem. The Japanese dispatched three fighter planes this time. Next time, there may be six, or even more.

However, if the soldiers were exposed to Japanese planes, the casualties among the soldiers would not only be the two companies of the Third Regiment, but maybe the two battalions." After hearing the commander's regret, Chief of Staff Li Qing quickly comforted,

Also reminded.

"Yes, the chief of staff is right. The soldiers must not be exposed to the Japanese planes. Otherwise, the soldiers will die. Staff Wang, record the order immediately." Liu Hua said to the combat staff beside him.

"Order, the third regiment immediately gathered and rushed to Changle Village to participate in the task of encircling the main Japanese regiment. Among them, the two battalions interspersed on both sides of the Japanese second brigade immediately broke away from the Japanese army, withdrew from their positions, and continued to use force on the outside of the Japanese army.

The small force attacks the Japs and prevents them from escaping. Of course, the Japs cannot be taken advantage of during the retreat. They must leave all the grenades they carry with them to give the Japs a good meal.

The second is that the mountain artillery battalion immediately moved its position and hid on the spot, leaving only mortars for fire support. The special operations brigade gathered all snipers, machine gunners, guard battalions and cavalry battalions, gathered all machine gunners, and immediately went to the headquarters

Gather and hurry up." Liu Hua ordered when he saw Staff Officer Wang holding a record book.

Since the three battalions at this time all served as the general reserve team, they were all stationed near the headquarters, making it very convenient to assemble. Since the special operations brigade was equipped with the best weapons in the army, the entire special operations brigade had four squadrons.

A total of 36 machine guns were equipped, plus the cavalry battalion and the guard battalion. The three battalions totaled more than 50 light machine guns. Together with the deputy shooters and snipers, nearly 200 troops were soon in the bunker of the headquarters.

The collection is completed.

Of course, several staff officers soon came over to organize the troops according to Liu Hua's orders. Liu Hua divided all the machine gunners outside into four groups. The snipers flew on average in four groups. The four groups were arranged along the way.

On the top of four hills, snipers aimed accurately, while machine gunners formed a dense firepower network over the entire position, preventing Japanese aircraft from dropping bombs at low altitudes. In this way, their hit rate would be much lower.

Likewise, the casualties among soldiers will be much less.

If any enemy's plane is killed, those riflemen and machine guns will shoot him down mercilessly. Liu Hua believes that more than fifty light machine guns plus dozens of snipers are enough to kill him.

A prevention and control fire network is deployed on only a few kilometers of road.

Looking at the machine gunners going away, the second and third battalions of the second regiment, which were blocking the Japanese Second Brigade, also received orders to retreat. Although the soldiers did not know why they were fighting well with the Japanese, the commander asked to retreat, but the soldiers

Although they were dissatisfied, they still readily carried out the order.

However, the soldiers were very happy when the commander asked to keep all the grenades. They found the grenades on their bodies one after another and began to think of various ways to arrange booby traps. Some soldiers even collected a large number of bullet casings in order to increase the power of the booby traps.

, sprinkled on the booby traps...

In this way, under the cover of the last artillery fire from the mountain artillery battalion, the soldiers of the two battalions successfully broke away from the Japs and withdrew from their positions. They gave up the position that had been turned into a hell. The captain of the Japs’ second brigade saw

The Eighth Route Army's position, which had been unable to be conquered for a long time, suddenly became quiet. Just when they were feeling confused, a group of retreating Eighth Route Army soldiers appeared on the hilltop opposite the highway.

"Baga, the Eighth Route Army is trying to escape." Seeing the retreating Eighth Route Army, the captain suddenly understood that although the empire's air force did not come to reinforce him just now, it must have caused heavy casualties to the Eighth Route Army who attacked him. Otherwise, there would be

How could the Eighth Route Army, who focused on fire support, withdraw from their position so easily? Thinking of this, the captain immediately issued an order to attack, hoping to open up the passage to the wing headquarters as soon as possible, join forces with the First Battalion, and hold on to wait for reinforcements.

Looking at the forward squadron that had slowly entered the Eighth Route Army position, the captain finally felt relieved. It seemed that his guess was not wrong. However, the next scene surprised him. As the Eighth Route Army position entered the

There was an explosion, and explosions occurred continuously on the position. At this time, the captain's heart, which had just been relieved, was lifted up again by the explosions one after another.

Finally, the explosions on the position stopped, and the squadron leader came to the squadron leader with a face full of gunpowder smoke. It turned out that when the Eighth Route Army retreated, they laid a large number of booby traps on the position, which caused the forward

The squadron suffered nearly one squadron casualties.

After learning about the situation, the captain felt like crying because he had lost a squad of troops for no reason. However, the captain was still very excited because he had opened the passage. In this way, the troops of several squadrons could be together.

There will be more troops to stand firm and wait for reinforcements, which will give the peripheral Eight Routers time to create a center to bloom...

Just as the three Japanese brigades were slowly converging, the deafening roar of aircraft sounded again in the sky. The Japanese fighter plane Liu Hua had been waiting for finally arrived.

Maybe it's because the Japanese lost a fighter plane in Baicaoyan last time, or maybe it's because Baicaoyan is peaceful at this time, and there is no battlefield where the two armies are fighting, so the three fighters that came to the battlefield here did not fly in Baicaoyan.

Sonobu stayed for a long time, not even flying low, but casually dropped two bombs over Sonobu...

The battlefield that was still lively just now, saw the Japanese fighter planes getting closer and closer, and the few defensive positions that were still holding on suddenly became quiet. Except for the soldiers who left the necessary troops to hold on, the rest hid in the trenches.

They are dug into air-raid shelters to avoid aircraft bombing.

The Japanese army also quickly broke away from the battle, because after all, the accuracy of dropping bombs from planes was not as accurate as that of artillery shells. If they dropped bombs among their own people without even mentioning an accident, they would lose more than they gained. Therefore, after the plane arrived,

The Japanese wisely chose to break away from the battle with the Eighth Route Army. After the fighter jets bombed the Eighth Route Army's position, they would attack with twice the result with half the effort.

"Buzz..." The three planes flew to the battlefield with a huge roar. Since these three planes had never experienced being hit by machine guns, they still followed the past practice and formed a high formation to attack.

Prepare for a low-altitude dive bomb drop in a trench below to increase your hit rate.

As the Japanese planes got closer and closer, the roar of the fighter planes became louder and louder. Looking at the approaching planes, the soldiers lying in the trenches began to commotion. However, under the pressure of commanders at all levels,

, no soldiers came out of the trenches. "Da da da..." The first group of machine gun positions ambushed behind the position opened fire.

More than a dozen tongues of fire immediately blocked the front of the three planes. At the same time, several snipers equipped also fired precise bullets into the cockpit of the plane. The plane hit by the bullets suddenly shot out sparks, especially the last one.

The main unit in front and the windshield were shattered by a sniper. If the pilot hadn't been able to hide quickly, he would have returned to Japan by now.

"Baga, the Eighth Route Army has anti-aircraft firepower, raise it immediately, hurry up..." The team leader who had escaped the bullet shouted urgently to the two wingmen beside him, with a hint of panic.

However, the Japanese pilots had rich combat experience after all. Although they were enveloped by more than a dozen tongues of flames and seemed a little panicked, they still calmly raised the nose of the plane and pulled the plane out of the range of the machine gun. However, there was still a problem

The aircraft sustained minor damage.

After the aftermath, the three planes that were constantly circling in the sky no longer had the courage to dive and drop bombs. They could only fly high at an altitude of 1,000 meters, trying to rely on the density of the bombs to destroy the suspicious places they discovered. What follows?

It was these three planes that kept circling over the heads of the soldiers, dropping bombs, and stayed there for dozens of minutes before reluctantly shaking their wings and leaving amidst the cheers of the Japanese.

However, although the three planes dropped dozens of bombs, according to statistics, only six bombs happened to be thrown into the trenches, causing casualties to the soldiers. The remaining bombs only increased the number of bombs on this land.

It only caused some shrapnel. However, the casualties among the soldiers during this bombing were still very high. In less than half an hour, the Japanese army only used dozens of bombs, which caused enough damage to the second regiment and one company.

casualties.

"Commander, the second regiment reports that one company has been injured or killed." The chief of staff ran into the headquarters and said.

"The casualties are so huge! There are still nearly three hours until dark. If the Japanese planes attack at a rate of half an hour, they will bomb six times. That is at least six companies of casualties. Chief of Staff:

Orders were given to all regiments and positions to deepen trenches and dig more air-raid shelters, and to prohibit any troops from attacking the Japanese army before dark. All commanders were required to explain prevention and control knowledge to the soldiers. The next time an enemy plane comes, there must be no more

Confused."

Liu Hua frowned and continued, "Order each regiment to organize machine gunners to cooperate with the guard battalions and special operations brigade machine gunners to organize strict anti-aircraft firepower so that the next time the Japanese plane comes, we can give him a big blow."

, to make them afraid."

Just like that, patches of dust immediately rose from each position. Except for a certain number of soldiers left to guard the enemy, the remaining soldiers all picked up engineering shovels, reinforced trenches, and dug air-raid shelters...

The Japanese North China Headquarters, which wanted to annihilate the Independence Brigade in one fell swoop, had put a lot of thought into it this time. Taiyuan Airport specially dispatched a squadron of bombers to take turns to reinforce the imperial army on the Changle Village battlefield. Although one bomber had been lost

fighter jets, and three were injured, but the headquarters did not stop bombing, and continued to provide reinforcements in groups of three aircraft...

As a result, in the next few hours, the warring parties on the entire battlefield have shifted from infantry versus infantry to infantry versus air force. On the entire battlefield, except for the besieged Japanese troops, there is almost no active Eighth Route Army. However, as long as

As soon as the Japanese plane approaches the ground, countless flames will burst out from the ground. In short, the independent brigade cannot just take a beating without fighting back.

However, the results of the battle were also very huge. Although the Japanese dispatched nearly 25 aircraft sorties throughout the afternoon, causing a total of more than one battalion casualties to the soldiers, the soldiers also achieved the victory of shooting down three aircraft and damaging six.

The aircraft's results were very effective in attacking the Japanese aircraft...

With the arrival of six o'clock in the afternoon, the last group of Japanese planes left the battlefield with long black smoke. At the same time, the soldiers slowly walked out of the air raid shelters where they had been staying all day, preparing to launch the attack at night.

The last attack on the Japanese army. Tonight, the Japanese 117th Regiment will be completely wiped out.

Of course, the soldiers on the battlefield in Changle Village began to take action. The soldiers who were responsible for blocking other reinforcements did not stop all afternoon, and continued to block the Japanese reinforcements regardless of casualties.