Rise from eight hundred.

This time, the bombardment of the 39th Infantry Brigade set a new record for the amount of ammunition released in a single round on the North China battlefield!
The reason is that the little clever ghost of the 21st Division ran so fast and in a hurry that many materials that were planned to be blasted before were still intact in the storage points.

Not to mention other ammunition, more than 75 shells were seized by the Four Elements Group just for the shells used in the Type 3000 [-] Mountain Cannon!
Coupled with the storage of shells seized from the artillery positions earlier, the total number of shells for the mountain artillery has reached a jaw-dropping 7000!
For the artillery officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment who seized 14 75 mountain cannons, what scruples do they have?
It was really from early morning to sunset. The 14 captured mountain cannons output an average of 300 rounds per cannon. It is not because of the quality of the barrels that they may explode if they output too much. Maybe the 500 rounds of shells allocated to each cannon will be exhausted. was empty.

In the shelling that started at noon, the four-element regiment fired as many as 7000 rounds of various types of shells!Most of them fell on the heads of the Japanese infantry.

Just this afternoon, more than 1800 Japanese infantrymen were killed or injured by the heavy shelling, and that was not counted as the two artillery brigades that were beaten so hard.

The word hanging and beating is not suitable for this moment, it should be used to kill!

Even Yoshito Takagi, the brigade commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade, hid in a cave in disgrace all afternoon, staring blankly at the constantly flashing artillery fire outside the cave.

After a bloody battle with the 39th Infantry Brigade for a week, the 4000th Division, which suffered more than 17 casualties in the battle, fought back even more. Zhao Shoushan ordered the artillery battalion under his command to shell regardless of the cost, and even used the infantry to fight against the flying shells. The highlands that have been lost fight back!
He must keep his promise before the battle, this time he will never give up any of his brothers, even if he has died on the high ground.

The 39 mountain guns and 12 12 howitzers belonging to the 105th Infantry Brigade did not counterattack, but they discovered very sadly that the heavy firepower advantage they were once proud of was in this artillery battle initiated by the Chinese. , turned out to be nothing.

Not only in terms of the number of artillery, but even in terms of caliber, they all lost!
To make matters worse, because they were flanked back and forth, the entire infantry brigade was surrounded by mountains with a radius of no more than 2 square kilometers. As soon as the artillery positions fired back, the thick gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, which could be seen from a long distance away. .

The Chinese Bofors mountain artillery, 105-type mountain artillery, 150mm howitzer, 80mm large-caliber mortar, and the [-]mm howitzers belonging to the two infantry battalions all focused their fire on the artillery positions.

It would be fine if the ADs of the two sides shoot at each other. Before you kill me, how can I say that I can output a wave of residual blood for you, but the terrible thing is that the area of ​​​​the Four Elements Regiment staying on the outskirts of Feilu Ridge is obviously more difficult. It is much wider, and the artillery positions are placed on various hills!
Just say, have you been beaten by a fat man!
The artillery positions of the Japanese Army just fired at each other with the artillery positions of the Four Elements Regiment for less than an hour, and then they completely turned on the bad mode, and stopped fighting!

It is not to save shells, but to be completely defeated. Yoshito Takagi can no longer sacrifice the few guns needlessly, but to hold his position and wait for the arrival of support. These artillery will be needed when the whole army breaks out.

This consideration is actually nothing wrong with the battle situation at that time!
After all, the 6000th Infantry Brigade with 39 people left is not more than 5000 pigs. Don't look at the Chinese side's anti-customer attack and besieged them in a mountainous area with a radius of no more than 2 square kilometers. Don't even think about it.

In particular, the Japanese North China Front Army still completely occupies the air superiority. If the 24 aircraft fleet is not enough, then 48 aircraft will come, and if 48 aircraft are not enough, then 96 aircraft will come!This was assured by Lieutenant General Saburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front Army.

Yes, Saburo Okabe, who received the news that the 21st Division had evacuated and sold his teammate of the 39th Infantry Brigade, immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

It's not just a matter of nearly [-] people in the Class A division being surrounded and severely injured by the Chinese, but that the important town of Shimen is in danger.

Niangziguan is only 30 kilometers away from Jingxing County, which is still controlled by the Japanese North China Front Army. For an army, it takes only half a day to reach 30 kilometers.

The two infantry squadrons and a logistics squadron that just arrived in Jingxing County have a total of no more than 700 people. Thinking about it, I also know that the morale of the Chinese army that has just defeated the 21st Division is high. The 700 defenders without heavy fire support are just Their appetizers.

And 40 kilometers behind Jingxing County is the important town of Shimen. It is said to be an important town, naturally because of its geographical conditions. This city is the most important transportation hub leading to Jin and Henan provinces in North China.

In order to better support the operations in Jin Province, the Japanese North China Front Army also has a large amount of combat materials there.If the Chinese ate up the 39th Infantry Brigade, and then swung their troops to Shimen like the fighting posture they made before, Shimen would be defended by 3000 defenders composed of two infantry brigades and a heavy brigade?

People can withdraw, but what about supplies?Who would be willing to blow up the mountains of supplies at the station?That is the wealth saved from the gap between the teeth by the people of the empire who only eat one full meal a day!

If Shimen is captured by the Chinese, Saburo Okabe knows very well that he, the lieutenant general and chief of staff who is in command, will basically be cold.

The army headquarters had to find someone to take the blame for this major loss no matter what. General Sugimoto was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor to be the commander. For the sake of the Emperor, he was not suitable; Kameichiro Nagano, Yoshito Takagi and others The guy with poor command on the front line is too young, and his shoulders can't bear such a big pot; the entire North China Army has been counted, and it seems that he is the only one who is suitable!
idiot!Saburo Okabe really regretted that he would not have been this unlucky lieutenant general if he had known earlier. If he could, he would even rather continue to be his army commander in the Kwantung Army.

Therefore, while furiously wanting to hold Nagano Kameichiro accountable for shutting down the field radio station and keeping silent and running for his life, on the other hand, he quickly contacted the Major General Tokugawa Yoshimi of the Provisional Aviation Corps.

"Tokugawa-kun, this time the face of the front army depends entirely on the colleagues of the aviation regiment. If the 39th infantry brigade cannot be rescued or let them persist in the encirclement for 5 days, then the battle of Jindong this time will become an imperial army. One of the most humiliating battles ever recorded in history!" Saburo Okabe told the crisis frankly without unnecessary nonsense.

"Hi! Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, all Imperial officers and soldiers of the Provisional Aviation Corps will do their best!" Yoshimitsu Tokugawa, with a civilized beard on the other end of the phone, nodded expressionlessly to accept the order.

"So, I'll just wait for Tokugawa-kun's good news!" Saburo Okabe hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"Decree, all the airports of the Temporary Aviation Corps, except for the fighters that are being repaired, all the other fighters will join the battle!" After hanging up the phone, Tokugawa Yoshimitsu walked to the window in silence, looked at the row of fighters parked on the apron for a long time, and finally ordered.

The major staff officer who was standing behind him waiting to record the military order was taken aback: "Your Excellency, Corps Commander, are all the fighters?"

According to the Army Aviation Regulations, each airport must have fighter planes on duty. Otherwise, if an enemy plane appears, the pitiful anti-aircraft guns on the ground cannot stop the bombing of the enemy plane.

"Of course it's all fighter planes. Otherwise, what do you think Chief of Staff Okabe meant by calling me?" Major General of the Japanese Army Aviation looked back at his staff in the war room with a gloomy face.

Tokugawa's good life is in a bad mood, not because his fighters and pilots have suffered a lot of losses since the battle, but because he, a major general who did not have a strong presence in the front army, was suddenly put on fire.

Saburo Okabe didn't mention "Shanshan Yuan" in the phone call just now, but in fact, every sentence was "Shanshan Yuan", and he almost didn't say clearly that if the Battle of Jindong fails, his temporary aviation regiment will bear a great burden. Part of the responsibility.

The 21st Division and the 39th Infantry Brigade were beaten like dogs by the Chinese. What does Baga care about my temporary aviation regiment?If he hadn't restrained enough, Tokugawa Haoming really wanted to spit a mouthful of old phlegm at that person through the air.

But this Major General of Lu Hang also knows that the reason why Saburo Okabe dared to say this is that if he failed, he would have already been blamed, and he simply dragged everyone into the water. General, as long as the Temporary Aviation Corps dares to fool around and does not use all its strength, he will not be able to deal with the Temporary Aviation Corps, and the same dishonored Shirtless Yuan will not give anyone face.

This person, once he has nothing left, he will let go of all scruples. As long as you don't save me, then I will take you to taste what it's like to have a poop.

This is what Saburo Okabe actually wanted to express!
As for the 39th Infantry Brigade, they have actually been abandoned. Persevering for 5 days is the greatest expectation of the North China Front Army Command for them.

As long as there is a five-day buffer, the already stretched North China Front Army will draw enough troops from the garrisons in the major cities in North China to reach Shimen!
Therefore, this time, the number of fighters that can be gathered by the North China Front Army's temporary aviation regiment will be as high as 78!
That will also be the largest bomber fleet ever deployed on the North China battlefield since the start of the war. Even under Tokugawa's strict order, each fighter plane will reduce the amount of ammunition and fuel carried by the airborne machine gun and mount as many bombs as possible!

Just like what he said to his combat staff officer: "What kind of combat duty do you want? How many days have you not seen a Chinese plane in the sky in North China? Last year in the Southeast War, the Chinese aviation power has been completely defeated. Even if they have the support of Su in the north and a batch of fighter planes arrive, do they have enough pilots?"

The self-confidence of the major general of the Japanese Army Aviation is not without reason. War history records that China started the Songhu Battle on August 1937, 8, and invested 13 fighters of various types. As of the end of December 314, only 1937 were able to take off. fight.

The loss of equipment can be repurchased, but the loss of Chinese Air Force pilots is even more painful. Several ace pilots, known as the Four Heavenly Kings of the Chinese Air Force, have fallen one after another within less than half a year since the start of the war.

The 1937 pilots trained by the Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation Academy, known as the Whampoa Military Academy of the Chinese Air Force before 500, were almost lost!

And at this time, the battle in Central China is in full swing, and air battles are staged over Jiangcheng from time to time. Where are the fighter planes from the Chinese coming to North China?
Even if there is, it can only be in the south of Shanxi, where nearly 40 troops from both sides are fighting, and the battle in Jindong, where there are less than 20 people on both sides, is just a small battle compared to those battlefields that cost hundreds of thousands or even millions. scene.

Since Saburo Okabe put him, Major General of the Army Aviation, on the fire, he could only throw the damn Chinese into the fire.

But Tokugawa's good life never dreamed that it was his anxiety and arrogance that caused the Japanese North China Front Army to be shot open in the air after being hit by Chinese soldiers on the ground with a "look back"!

Yes, this door-opening kill came from above the blue sky, not the earth!It has little to do with the anti-aircraft artillery group that the Four Elements Group is waiting for.

In the largest air battle over the North China battlefield since the start of the war, which broke out at 9 pm on September 15, the air defense company of the Four Elements Regiment completely became soy sauce.

Because, China actually dispatched 5 Iraqi-60 fighter jets from as many as 15 air teams!

These 60 I-15 destroyers were not conjured up by Tang Tuanzuo. He traveled through time, but he didn’t bring an arsenal with him. With that system, 10 J-20s would be enough to dominate the whole of China. In the sky, isn't the 96 battle with Army Aviation's main equipment at this time the same as fighting turkey?
But the fact that the 60 Iraqi-15 destroyers arrived here is also inseparable from Tang Tuanzuo.

It was a chat with Brigadier Cheng Da before the war. Speaking of the small oil field in the northwest, Tang Dao wondered if he could get some gasoline and diesel from the oil field that provided a large amount of military expenditure for the [-]th Army. The more power they need, the more power they will need, and it will take at least half a year for the small hydropower station to be put into use. The oil looted from the Japanese army alone is not enough to supply power.

Hearing that Tang Knife can be purchased at the market price, Brigadier Cheng Da naturally agreed with his chest. By the way, the oil field was also missed by the big guy. No, the 60 fighters purchased on loan from Mao Xiong were all sold out. Transferring at the airstrip in Anyan, I brought some fuel to exchange for aviation kerosene with the gringos, and the price was less than half of the market price.

A fighter plane may only carry half a ton, but 60 planes can carry 30 tons, and the small oil field in the depths of the Gobi Desert produces less than 400 tons a year, and these hundreds of tons of crude oil need to support 10 tons. Who would not be annoyed by the living expenses of nearly [-] people in the group army?
60 fighters?Tang Dao kept this in mind at the time.

The hour hand was turned back to 12 hours ago, and the surroundings of the quiet alley in Linfen City were suddenly heavily guarded, and dark blue and gray military uniforms were almost densely covered around the entire alley.

A middle-aged soldier with simple clothes and a simple and honest face suddenly visited, but the stingy old man who had always been aloof came out of the alley.

That was the deputy commander of the second war zone. He was supposed to be in the southeast of Shanxi to command the battle of Jindong, but he suddenly left the command post and arrived in Linfen quietly. This made the stingy old man a little confused.

No one knows what the two of them talked about in that heavily guarded study room. They only know that the lights in the whole study room were kept on until dawn, and several confidential officers and staff officers from the Communication Department and the Staff Department of the Second War Zone had been in another Waiting in a small meeting room, and, until the evening of September 9th, was not allowed to return to his dormitory.

In other words, no one left in the small courtyard, surrounded by soldiers with live ammunition as high as an infantry battalion, hundreds of people surrounded the whole alley to death, mosquitoes and flies could fly in, but living people couldn't even think about it.

It was not until many years after the war, when the battle report was declassified, that people who followed the battle in eastern Jin knew how important the decision was made by the stingy old man on this night.

He personally called the person who had already evacuated to the mountain city, requesting 60 fighter planes arriving at Anyan Airport to support Jindong in the first battle, and informed that person of the battle situation in Jindong at the same time, and promised that the second theater would do its best Delay the Japanese North China Front Army so that it will not have a single soldier to reinforce the Central China Battle.

Perhaps it was this reason that finally moved him, and he finally agreed to take part in the battle with 60 newly received Iraqi-15 destroyers, but on the condition that the Anyan area will provide 200 tons of crude oil at half price this year and the second war zone must not retreat anyway. The Yellow River, and if the fighter formation is damaged in battle, the second theater and the [-]th Army will use military expenses to offset it.

Not to mention that day, these conditions will make people feel a little bit cold even after more than ten years. At first glance, they would think that they are not the army of a country!
With the stingy old man's stubborn temperament, this tactic of using fighters to fight the Japanese is basically a fantasy rhythm.

"Our troops will offset all the losses in the war zone with the capture of Shimen!" The boss of the [-]th Army gave reassurance to the stingy old man.

Once Shimen was captured, the Japanese piled up materials to make up for the damage to the fighter planes, but the premise was that it could be conquered, and that was just a big cake drawn by a certain regiment for the officers.

After all, that night, the 21st Division was still attacking the Four Elements on the front line!
But the stingy old man believed it like crazy, he just gritted his teeth and accepted the harsh conditions proposed by the big guy.

So, on the afternoon of September 9, when the Japanese fighter planes began to refuel and hang bombs at various airports in North China, radio waves rippled in the airspace.

The 60 ready-to-go I-15 destroyers at Anyan Airport roared onto the airstrip, and then flew into the sky with their heads high!

At that moment, 60 Chinese fighter planes also covered the sky, not inferior to the 78 Japanese plane formations that were about to converge in the air!