Rise From Eight Hundred

 Chapter 1445 is too bullying!

"Please inform Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama that our troops have been cut off from supplies. If the empire does not support us anymore, our troops will launch a final charge against the enemy before exhaustion in two days!" Major General Atsuya Itsuhara desperately reported to the 11th Army that night after the food supply was cut off. The military headquarters sent a farewell message.

Huntani Ishara has actually never given up hope of walking out of this mountain alive. He believes that Yokoyama Isamu will not give up the 231st Infantry Regiment and his needle valley detachment, whether it is for himself or the Imperial Army.

 But as time went by, the hopes that had once turned into despair, until the chief officer of the baggage force reported to him that the last rations carried by the baggage force were gone.

But support is still far away, and Yokoyama Isamu's reply to his telegram is always "Wait a little longer, support will arrive in a few days!".

Hazutani Itsuhara was not as furious as he imagined, but instead accepted it all very calmly.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the weather was a bit gloomy, and there were some rare snowflakes floating in the sky. Looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky, Zhitani Yiyuan seemed to have seen his own ending.

He will be skin and bones from hunger, crawling like a mummy in the mountains of China in winter. Perhaps, the snow will freeze his body and gradually rot in the spring breeze of March. Or maybe it won’t take that long, hunger in the mountains will The wild wolves would dig up his corpse, which had not much meat at all, and feast on it.

 couldn't help but tremble. For Itsutani Azuhara, he didn't want to choose either of these two endings.

 Hence, Itsuhara Atsuya sent a forced-forcible message to Isamu Yokoyama.

If supplies are no longer available, the last 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Needle Valley detachment will launch a final charge against the Chinese defense line in 2 days until all members are killed.

 Between starving to death and dying in battle, Itsuya Tsuya chose the latter!

 As for such a telegram, Tsuruya Yihara not only sent one copy, but also sent one to the 34th Division Regiment Headquarters.

This is actually the real purpose of Itsuhara Hayatani. He wants more people to know that the main reason why he chose to push 2,000 people to the final desperation was because the Lieutenant General Commander of the Empire's 11th Army did not rescue them.

And he believes it too, but many people are happy to see this, including Yokoyama Isamu himself.

To avoid being affected by this, Yokoyama Isamu had only one way to do his best to supply the Needle Valley detachment with supplies.

As for whether to offend Lieutenant General Yokoyama Isamu, how could this be considered by a dying man?

Although Isamu Yokoyama's reply still contained the same words: "Wait a little longer," only the headquarters of the China Expeditionary Forces in Japan knew that Isamu Yokoyama even put aside his dignity as a lieutenant general commander and personally called Itagaki, the chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Forces. Lieutenant General Shiro, in an almost pleading tone, requested that he come forward to negotiate with the Commander of the Imperial Navy's Third Fleet, Ao Hasegawa, and ask the Navy to dispatch a transport aircraft formation to airdrop the two trapped Japanese troops.

It’s not that Isamu Yokoyama is not generous enough, but after the Battle of Shipai, the Japanese Navy lost more than 30 fighter planes of various types stationed in Jiangxia, and its strength was only half of what it was before the war. They have lost the ability to fight the Chinese Air Force again.

Faced with the pleading of several senior army generals, Hasegawa Ao, the top Japanese naval admiral in China, finally decided to help these unlucky people.

30 Zero fighters and 12 Type 97 bombers departed from Songhu and flew to Jiangxia at noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year. All kinds of supplies with parachute bags that had been prepared were transported onto the plane, plus the previous Jiangxia Bombers, a total of 24 bombers carrying nearly 24 tons of supplies flew to Shipai under the **** of 46 Zero fighter jets.

This is probably the first time that the Japanese Navy has used so many Zero fighter jets to **** a purely 'transport' aircraft formation.

It also fully illustrates the importance that the Japanese Navy attaches to the Chinese Air Force, not to mention contempt and contempt, and even regards it as an extremely terrifying opponent.

 All attention is paid on the battlefield.

During the Battle of Shipai, the Chinese Air Force participated in a total of 13 battles and dispatched nearly 400 fighter sorties. At the cost of 26 battle losses, the Chinese Air Force shot down and damaged 47 Japanese aircraft, and still had the upper hand.

Of course, this does not mean that the Chinese Air Force has surpassed the Japanese Navy in terms of aircraft performance and pilot level, but it is caused by several factors.

　　First of all, the main target of the Japanese Navy is the Chinese Army. The aircraft formations basically use Zero fighters to **** the bomber formations. However, the Chinese Air Force does not focus on dealing with the Japanese troops on the ground. It dispatches Wildcat fighter jets that focus on air combat.

Secondly, the Wildcat fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force are thick-skinned and can often continue to fight vigorously after being hit by dozens of bullets. Even if they are severely damaged, they can make an emergency landing in an open field in the mountains, with a success rate higher than 100%. sixty.

But the Japanese can't do that. Needless to say, the big and thin-skinned Type 97 bomber is basically finished once it is bitten by the latest Wildcat fighter equipped with a 20mm cannon. The Zero fighter often bursts into flames, so it has to be He gritted his teeth and flew to the nearest airport, not daring to make an emergency landing on the spot.

Practice has proved that pilots who make forced landings in Japanese-occupied areas are in danger, let alone forced landings on territory controlled by the Chinese army. Those Chinese mountain people holding hoes and hatchets surrounded them, let alone only wearing the Southern Fourteenth Style. It's a small pistol, even holding a light machine gun is not easy to use.

 People are dragged away like wild boars after death, and airplanes can be torn apart by the Chinese!

It would be difficult for the aircraft to have a burning fighter plane run for dozens of kilometers in the air! This is also a main reason for the high damage rate of Japanese aircraft.

Therefore, with the threat of the lives of 2,000 Imperial Army troops by Itsuhara Tsutani and the coordination of senior generals of Japan's China Expeditionary Force, the Japanese Navy dispatched the largest fighter formation since the Battle of Shipai, just to protect the thousands of Japanese troops in the two encirclements. Dropped 24 tons of rations and the same urgently needed medicines.

 On average, each Japanese soldier would not be able to get much food, even if he got it all, it would last for another week.



The 46 Zero fighter jets are also murderous. On the one hand, they are escorting the 24 transport aircraft. On the other hand, they are seeking revenge for their colleagues who died in the battle and seeking a decisive battle with the Chinese Air Force.

The Japanese are not stupid. They know that the Chinese have imported a batch of new American fighters, but China lacks aircraft production capacity. It will be difficult to replenish this batch of new fighters if they are lost. Through the fight with the Chinese Air Force in the past six months, it can basically be inferred that the Chinese Air Force The approximate loss is around 50 frames.

With the combat effectiveness of 46 Zero fighters, the Chinese Air Force must dispatch at least the same number of fighters to compete with them. That may be the last strength of the Chinese Air Force.

In the hangars of Yiling Airport and Jingmen Airport, where the runways have just been repaired, there are still 24 Zero fighters hidden. They are waiting for news of the appearance of Chinese fighters. In 30 minutes, they can all arrive at the battlefield. After a fierce battle, the Chinese Air Force struck a fatal blow.

On the surface, it was an all-out escort, but secretly, it was actually an aerial ambush.

If the Chinese Air Force's new fighter fleet can be severely damaged so that it will have little combat capability within three months to half a year, it can be regarded as making up for the failure of the Battle of Shipai.

 It can only be said that the generals of Japan's navy and army are not completely stupid, and they still have something to say.

 It's a pity that the Chinese Air Force has not dispatched. It's not that it can't afford it, but it's not cost-effective.

The current Chinese Air Force is much stronger than the Japanese expected. The latest modified Wildcat fighter jets equipped with a 20mm cannon began to be installed as early as January. Although forty or fifty Wildcat fighter jets were lost in the past six months, after After the supplement, there are 8 squadrons of Wildcat fighter jets distributed at 6 airports in Sichuan Province, which is close to 100 aircraft again.

If it really comes to a decisive battle with the 70 Zero fighters dispatched by the Japanese Navy, it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose.

 But in the later stages of this kind of battle, it would be a bit of a loss to fight for the 20 tons of supplies and dozens of Zero fighter jets that the Japanese army was about to airdrop.

 Do you think that the Japanese army in the encirclement can comfortably get the supply packages dropped from the sky?

Take the Needle Valley detachment, which is surrounded by a mountain area with a radius of less than 0.3 square kilometers, as an example. If bombs were dropped, the hit rate that could be dropped into this small Japanese position was estimated to be higher than 70%.

 But the supply package is not a bomb, isn't it? In order to prevent damage, a parachute must be hung on the supply bag. If it is a parachute, it must float. It depends on the wind direction.

 In Wushan, which is located on the side of the river, the wind is not very strong.

Moreover! This kind of operation of accepting "pie in the sky" is the first time for the Zhengu detachment, but for the officers and soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Four Lines Regiment, they are already familiar with it.

 Last year, the Japanese used this trick when they surrounded more than 1,000 Japs of the 1st Division in Zishan. They had plenty of experience in robbing the Japanese.

 So, when the Needle Valley detachment received an order from Yokoyama Isamu: Air support will arrive at around 4 p.m.! Immediately light bonfires on the sides of various highlands or on the tops of mountains, and use flames and smoke to instruct the aircraft formation. Leng Feng, who had received unusual behavior from the Japanese in the encirclement, thought for a moment and concluded that the Japanese army might receive airdropped supplies, and immediately ordered all highlands to follow the same tactics as the Japanese army.

Looking down from a high altitude, there are dots of flames or plumes of smoke rising up everywhere. It is impossible to tell which is the high ground of the Chinese and which is the high ground of the Imperial Army.

Want to lower your height and try to throw more accurately? I'm sorry, but there are 40mm anti-aircraft guns from the four-line air defense battalion on the ground and 12.7mm heavy machine guns that are enough to form a fire net at medium and low altitudes.

All 40mm anti-aircraft gun emplacements have received military orders. Japanese fighter planes can drop them at an altitude of 4,000 meters. If the altitude drops, let them do it.

 “Damn the Chinese! Squadrons are ready to receive supplies!”

Looking at the transport plane formation circling in the air for several times without daring to lower its altitude, and finally dropping strings of white 'mushrooms' at an altitude of 4,000 meters, Itsuhara Yatani, who was eager for supplies, almost broke his back molars.

When the Chinese imitated the detachment and lit bonfires, the real Li Kui who met the fake Li Kui naturally knew what the Chinese were planning, but he really had no way to fight against the fake, even if he could have a live connection with the fighter formation. There is no way to provide manual navigation for pilots at an altitude of 4,000 meters.

If the transport aircraft formation could lower its altitude, for example to about 1,000 meters, he could use military flags to guide them, but the constant appearance of small white mushrooms in the sky destroyed his ambitions.

The Chinese use anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns to constantly remind the fleet at high altitude: Don’t lower your altitude. If you dare, I’ll beat you!

 If you can drop a parachute bag at an altitude of 4,000 meters, how accurate is it? It can only depend on luck.

Looking at the hundreds of parachute bags floating in the sky, Tsuya Itsuhara's eyes were filled with hope. As long as one-third of them could land on his own position, that would be enough!

  No, Amaterasu, one-fifth is acceptable.

Seeing most of the parachute bags swaying and drifting into the distance under the influence of the mountain wind above, the painful Major General Hayatani Itsuhara quickly revised his wish.

It’s a pity that Amaterasu may bless you, but shipping will never be free.

Hundreds of parachute bags, when they descended to a height of 800 meters, seven or eight tenths of them had already floated over the heads of the Japanese and towards the Chinese position.

 Just one tenth will do! That can feed at least 2,000 people.

Only those who have experienced hunger know how terrible it is.

 It doesn’t matter that he has been without food for less than two days. There is a small amount of wild vegetable soup in between, but the human body responds quickly to the lack of energy.

For example, after the blood sugar supply is reduced, the brain will often feel dizzy; for another example, the human body increases the metabolic rate in order to maintain normal physiological activities. At this time, the sympathetic nervous system will help dissipate heat by regulating the secretion of sweat glands. Sweating can lower the body temperature, which is the body's response to hunger. a self-protective response.

 Even the vagus nerve is stimulated, causing the diaphragm to spasm and causing hiccups.

In short, the whole person showed an extremely abnormal state, including the Japanese army major general who secretly had a rotten rice ball to satisfy his hunger. He didn't sleep much last night, and the gurgling sound from his empty belly could be clearly heard in the dark night. Creepy.

Having a full meal is the biggest wish of the 2,000 people from the Needle Valley detachment currently under siege.

 But even this wish was shattered by the Chinese.

 “Dong Dong Dong!” The Chinese anti-aircraft guns actually fired at this time.

What they were targeting was not a fleet of aircraft that had returned from airdrops, but parachute packs that were only a few hundred meters above the ground.

 After judging the wind direction and impact point, China launched an air strike on the parachute package that was stubbornly falling towards the Japanese position area.

The main thing is that you can't get it yourself, so don't try to get it to the detriment of others and not yourself!

yes! What the Chinese lost were precious artillery shells, whose value far exceeded the rice and canned meat tied under the parachutes.

 But for Leng Feng and Cheng Tieshou, if the artillery shells are gone, they can be remade and bought again. The Japanese can kill people when they have a full belly.

 Then let them continue to be hungry!

 The wooden box containing the supplies was only 1 cubic meter, and the target was small and difficult to hit, but the parachute bag was large enough, and its descent speed was like a turtle's flow compared to the speeding fighter plane.

Not only are the 40mm anti-aircraft guns constantly bombarding, but at an altitude of about 500 meters, the 20mm anti-aircraft guns with a range of 2,500 meters and the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns deployed on the front line are also involved.

"Baga! Order the infantry artillery and mountain artillery to fight back at the Chinese anti-aircraft artillery firing area!" Itsuya Tsuruya just watched helplessly as a wooden box was exploded by a shell in the air, and the materials inside were scattered in front of his eyes. He was completely mad. .

 “Your Excellency, detachment leader,” the Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff swallowed, but did not dare to remind the Imperial Army Major General who was already going crazy.

With the depth of their current position, once the mountain artillery fires, the rising smoke will be immediately observed by the Chinese. The mortars that the Chinese have been waiting for will definitely wash the area of ​​the artillery position with a hail of bullets.

 Unfortunately, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel guessed correctly.

The remaining artillery pieces of the Japanese army have always been a thorn in China's throat. Without killing the remaining artillery pieces of the Japanese army, Leng Feng, who is unwilling to further reduce his own strength, will never attack.

 The purpose of bombarding the Japanese army's air-dropped supplies was not only to prevent the Japanese army from easily obtaining supplies, but also to hope that the Japanese army's artillery could not resist counterattack.

A total of 8 150-weight guns and 6 80-mm howitzers with their gun jackets removed were waiting for them. In addition, the 82-pound guns equipped in each company were also required to carry out a basic projection.

 No one expected that an airdrop of supplies that was supposed to quench the thirst of the people far away would eventually become the trigger for the complete destruction of the last eight 75mm mountain guns of the Needle Valley detachment.

The Japanese artillery position had no depth at all and it was enough to hide. When the artillery was fired, the smoke rising above it could be seen for miles.

Nearly 500 artillery shells were fired in half an hour, plowing the three Japanese artillery positions back and forth five or six times. No living thing can survive this level of artillery fire intensity, not even steel.

 Looking at the harvest of less than 600 kilograms of supplies in total, and hearing the report that 8 mountain guns of the artillery brigade were destroyed and 148 artillerymen died, Major General Atsuya Itsuhara cried.

The dignified Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army squatted in front of the pile of supplies, which was pitifully small for the entire detachment, crying like a child who had had enough of grievances.

Really, I have seen bullies, but I have never seen anyone bully like this!

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ps: Yesterday, my daughter finished her last exam at 6:15. She originally wanted to go home and code, but her classmates said to celebrate her daughter finally being out of the sea of ​​suffering. I don’t have to worry about it every day. They asked me to buy a drink and they were responsible for the food. Because of this, yesterday no update.

I drank 2 taels of 2 bottles of Wuliangye vintage wine, but the others drank happily. As the person responsible for buying the wine, I always felt that something was wrong.