Rise from the sword

Chapter 369 Where is the devil's (empire) plane?

"Nani?"

"Taiyuan Airport was shelled?"

After receiving the telegram from Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka's leisurely expression that could further expand the offensive was instantly frozen because the battle situation in Shou County was going well and the new alliance was coming.

How could Taiyuan Airport be bombarded?
Could it be Li Yunlong again?
A series of doubts flashed in his heart, Yoshio Shinozuka was not overly worried, but accepted the telegram calmly.

learn from mistakes.

After the airport was bombarded by Li Yunlong before, he made large-scale defense adjustments to Taiyuan Airport. According to the range of the 82-caliber mortar used by Li Yunlong to bombard the airport, he deliberately expanded the airport security circle to three kilometers and dug a lot of blocking trenches , to remove obstacles.

Even if Li Yunlong attacked and shelled the airport again, he could only shell three kilometers away, but he would be quickly driven away by the garrison.

He also re-adjusted the security posts around Taiyuan and set up multiple security checkpoints. It was impossible for the heavily armed artillery to pass through, and even if the lightly armed troops penetrated in, they would not be able to pose a threat to the airport.

With the recent expansion of the airport, just in case, he would rather relax some of the internal construction of the airport, and re-enhance the surrounding vigilance.

It should be just a small-scale harassment...
It is estimated that a small group of troops sent by Li Yunlong carried one or two mortars and a small amount of shells to harass the airport.

Shinozuka Yoshio opened the telegram in his hand while speculating in his mind.

At present, he is attacking Shouxian with heavy troops. It is inevitable that Taiyuan's vigilance has dropped. It is possible for small-scale troops with light equipment to infiltrate near the airport, but it is absolutely impossible for artillery troops with a large amount of luggage to pass through, even if the independent troops with super maneuverability Group is also impossible.

The huge baggage burden brought by a large number of shells cannot be discovered.

"The range reaches five kilometers, and the number of artillery pieces is unknown..."

When he saw the telegram for the first time, Yoshio Shinozuka's expression changed drastically.

His arrangements were all set around the 82-caliber mortars of the Independent Regiment, a three-kilometer security circle, cleared shooting circles around the airport, and the Type [-] infantry artillery left by the garrison brigade.

But now suddenly a cannon with a range of five kilometers pops out, it is still a heavy artillery...
"The power is comparable to or even surpasses division-level artillery, intensive shelling."

The following news made his complexion even more gloomy.

The range is long, the power is great, the shelling is intensive and the firepower is fierce...

The previous bombardment of several 82 mortars almost wiped out the First Army’s flying brigade. The airport was restored after several weeks of repairs. Now the artillery with a larger caliber and the same firepower is even the expanded First Army airport. Too·····

He hurriedly continued to watch, and the shooting circle around the airport was cleared, and the obstacles were also dug out. It didn't take long for the garrison brigade to rush over at a distance of five kilometers, preventing the enemy's continuous shelling.

But the following is still not good news:

"There are not many enemies, but when the garrison attacked, they were blocked by several enemy medium-caliber mortars. The attack speed was slow. At present, the enemy's heavy artillery bombardment of the airport is still continuing..."

After reading the telegram, Shinozuka Yoshio became dizzy for a while, his body wobbled, and he almost couldn't stand still.

His Taiyuan Airport, and more than 80 planes of the First Army Flying Brigade I am afraid...

Large-caliber heavy artillery, comparable to or even higher than the division-level 105 howitzers bombarded the airport, and several medium-caliber 82 mortars blocked the garrison brigade. This news made him understand that the garrison brigade might not be able to stop the opponent's shelling.

The reason for the heavy casualties in the attack these days is largely due to the sudden covering fire of Li Yunlong's 82 mortar groups. The dense artillery firepower can easily block the imperial army's attack and interrupt the offensive formation.Without occupying the high ground on both wings, his artillery group could not destroy the highly mobile mortars.

Although there are quite a few planes performing missions and able to avoid shelling, but without the airport and logistics, those planes are nothing more than decorations.

The staff officer beside him quickly supported Shinozuka Yoshio, and after taking a few breaths, he roared in horror:

"Ba Ga, how is it possible?"

"Where are the guard posts around Taiyuan? Why didn't you find this group of people?"

"Are they all a bunch of blind people?"

He can still understand that the squadron-sized light troops were not found, but there are a lot of heavy artillery at the division level, plus several 82 mortars, and a large number of shells, the scale is comparable to a brigade.

This has not been discovered yet?

No one could answer Yoshio Shinozuka, even Yamamoto lowered his head, still puzzled.

"Let the 97th..."

Just when Yoshio Shinozuka was about to ask the 97th United to come back, he stopped suddenly. After a moment of silence, his eyes were full of sternness:
"Order the No.90 Seventh Regiment to send a brigade to support Taiyuan Airport, and the rest of the troops rushed to Shou County."

At this time, it was too late to go to the rescue airport, and it was still a ruin. Hundreds of shells that exceeded the power of the division-level artillery were enough to turn Taiyuan Airport into ruins. A large number of aircraft were destroyed, and it was meaningless for a wing to rescue.

It's better to attack Shou County with all your strength and eliminate Li Yunlong.

"Hi."

The staff rushed to send the report.

Afterwards, in the field headquarters, everyone had a doubt in their hearts.

How did the enemy approach Taiyuan with so much heavy equipment?Among other things, just a few hundred heavy artillery shells and medium-caliber mortar shells require a squadron of supplies. As long as the Taiyuan security forces are not blind, they will definitely be able to find them.

Unless, there are inner ghosts, and there are a lot of them...
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At this time, the independent group was not aware of the suspicions inside the devils, and was still struggling to deal with the devils' attack.

In the northern area of ​​Shouxian County, fierce battles erupted on the commanding heights of both wings. The devils launched attacks one after another, while the independent regiment held firm. Both sides gritted their teeth, relying on a brutal war of attrition.

The highlands on the left flank of Shou County.

In the afternoon, the devils gave up the strategy of attacking the highlands on both wings at the same time, and focused on attacking the left wing. More than a brigade of troops rushed to the left wing. For this reason, the second battalion commander Shen Quan personally led the reinforcements.

The two sides fought for several hours, and the casualties were not small.

"Right, the right is coming up."

Shen Quan stood in the trench on the front line, looking down at the overall situation, and suddenly found that a small group of devils coming up from the right was almost approaching the position, and was about to personally lead reinforcements. When he looked at the empty sky, his eyes lit up immediately, and he shouted loudly:

"Heavy machine gun squad, push back the devils on the right."

There are many routes up the mountain on this high ground, and the devils rely on their troops to launch multi-line attacks. He is under a lot of pressure, and the reserve team has to keep precautions against accidents, lest the line of defense is broken through and there are not enough troops to take it back, so they decided to let the heavy machine gun go up. .

"Yes."

In the anti-blasting hole, the heavy machine gun squad leader quickly directed the squad to take out a heavy machine gun that had been set up, and quickly set it up on the bunker, facing the devil squad on the right with a shuttle.

Boom boom boom...

A muffled gunshot sounded, and the thumb-thick bullets swept across the attacking devil's skirmish line, smashing a few unlucky devils into pieces.The devils around suddenly bowed down, not daring to move on.

"Damn it, it's still exciting."

Seeing that the devil was intimidated, the shooter immediately yelled proudly.

"Hey, where's the ghost plane?"

The heavy machine gun shooter who was about to transfer looked at the top of his head and was taken aback.

Here is a hillside, the mountain road is steep, the [-]-type infantry artillery can't come up at all, it is not a big threat to the heavy machine gun, and the range of the grenadier is not enough. The biggest threat to the heavy machine gun is the Devil plane.

A heavy machine gun squad was knocked out by the devil plane before.

The battle was very fierce at that time, and the devils almost broke into the position. In order to hold down the position, the machine gun team fought hard and was shot by the devil's plane. A bomb was shot by the devil's plane, and a round of strafing caused heavy losses. The heavy machine gun was blown up, and the team killed two and injured five. Even the squad leader was seriously injured.

"Speaking of which, it seems like I haven't seen a devil plane for a long time."

On the battlefield, the soldiers who took a breath felt strange for a while.

In the battle at noon yesterday and this morning, the Devil's plane was flying in the sky all the time, and would come down from time to time to shoot or drop a bomb, but it was only after five o'clock, and it seemed that I hadn't seen the Devil's plane for a long time.

The same doubts spread among the devils:
"Ba Ga, where's the fighter plane?"

Seeing that he was about to break through the enemy's line of defense, but was shot back by that terrible heavy machine gun, the squadron leader commanding the front line became hysterical.

Artillery is out of reach, and mountain artillery can't hit high slopes on low slopes. We can only rely on aircraft to suppress such heavy machine guns, but what about aircraft now?What about Imperial planes?

"Could it be..."

Shen Quan narrowed his eyes and thought of a possibility.

As the battalion commander, he knew about the Taiyuan plan.

"Let the heavy machine gun squad stick to their positions, and the devil planes should not come in a short time."

Shen Quan ordered immediately.

With the support of the firepower of the heavy machine guns, the Devils' attack became more and more difficult. Finally, seeing the evening approaching, they had to choose to retreat.

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New group.

"Have all the folks moved out?"

Ding Wei, who ran with the troops again for a day, took a rest in a mountain forest. After taking a few gulps from the water bottle handed over by the guard, he asked Cheng He who was beside him.

"It's all moved out."

Cheng He also answered out of breath.

Ding Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the folks are all transferred out, then Xinyituan can let go of their hands and feet.In the past few days, the reason why he has been chased by devils is largely because of covering the transfer of ordinary people.

At this point, Ding Wei suddenly realized something, and suddenly raised his head.

At this time, the sky was quiet, not even a bird chirping.

"Hey, where's the ghost plane?"

Only then did Captain Ding realize that there were no Devil planes in the sky at this time, and his Xinyi regiment hadn't been bombed and strafed by Devils for a long time.

Otherwise, the retreat and transfer would never be so smooth.

"Yeah, where's the ghost plane?"

Cheng He, the commander of the first battalion, was also taken aback.

In the past few days of breaking out, the Devil's plane was like brown sugar, following a new group at any time, and they couldn't shake it off. The soldiers were not very afraid.

But ordinary people can't do it. Aircraft bombing and strafing can cause great panic, and the large-scale ordinary people can't escape the eyes of the sky at all. This is also the reason why the transfer failed for several days in a row.

"It's only about five o'clock."

Looking at his watch, Ding Wei was even more puzzled when he realized that the time was still early.

Counting the time, the Devil's plane disappeared almost four o'clock.

"Could it be that something happened?"

Ding Wei speculated in his heart.

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Headquarters.

Zhang Wanhe began to transfer with the heavy arsenal's luggage.

Although most of the mechanical equipment had been buried, some things could only be carried with him, which slowed down the transfer speed of his logistics department. Fortunately, there were many big mules, which made him much faster than before.

"Hurry up, before the devil's plane arrives, speed up..."

After commanding anxiously, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the luggage had finally entered the forest in the mountain area and was safe for the time being.

In the past few days, because of the devil's bombing, his losses were not small.

At this point, Zhang Wanhe suddenly looked up at the sky.

He had been so busy before that he finally realized that he hadn't seen the devil plane for a long time...

"what···"

Minister Zhang was puzzled for a while.

In the morning and noon, the Devil's plane bombed wildly, swooping down and shooting at any time and place, forcing him to move extremely slowly. Why did it suddenly turn off?
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A series of doubts did not affect Yansheng's bombardment of Taiyuan Airport. Even though many planes flew back from the sky and started strafing his position, he continued to bombard the airport.

Of course, none of the ghost planes that flew back had any bombs and very few bullets. This was also the main reason.

There were 82 mortars blocking the attacking devils, and the bombardment positions prepared in advance allowed Yansheng to shell Taiyuan Airport for more than an hour, and a thousand rounds of 120 mortar shells all fell into the airport.

"withdraw···"

With the last shot fired, he gave the order to retreat.

The artillery crew quickly disassembled the cannon, then loaded it on the back of the big mule, and then led the big mule to walk quickly towards the planned retreat route in the mountainous area.

Of course, the old tradition of the Independence Regiment must not be forgotten. When they evacuated, they left a lot of landmines for the devils.

At the same time, the shells of the 82 artillery group were almost consumed, and they also fled after receiving the order.

"Company commander, the second and third groups were killed by devils..."

After the two sides converged, Yansheng also counted the casualties this time.

On his side, the strafing by the returning Devil planes caused three soldiers on his side to die, two were injured, and the loss was very small.

However, the loss of the 82 artillery group responsible for blocking the devils was more serious. Two artillery groups were hit by the opponent's Type [-] infantry artillery, and some soldiers who were broken died.

In order to ensure that they could continue to bombard the airport, the ammunition handlers of the 82nd Artillery Group who were covering, and the reinforced platoon specially formed by Li Yunlong for the Artillery Company, carried submachine guns and launched a close-range gun battle with the devil soldiers who rushed up.

In the end, Pao Yilian bombarded Taiyuan this time, killing 32 people, injuring 27 people, and losing two 82 mortars.For the artillery company with a total of 190 people, the casualties were not small.

　Two updates will continue tomorrow...

　　
　
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