Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2750 Fatal air raid!

At noon, the sun scorched the earth like a raging flame, enveloping all living things in a sea of ​​boiling molten gold.

The Anti-Japanese Battalion's base seemed a bit lazy at this time. Many soldiers were lazily basking in the sun, without any sense of urgency before the war.

The reason is that, according to current intelligence, the Japanese army will not arrive at the Anti-Japanese Brigade’s base until night.

According to Duanwu's plan, we should wait for the enemy to tire themselves out and let them run for a while, while our scouts would take action after finding out the enemy's number, weapons and equipment, and their mission objectives.

Therefore, at this time, the anti-Japanese fighters in the garrison were very comfortable. Even if they couldn't sleep, they would find a place to lie down and wait for the battle when night fell.

However, at this moment, an ominous dark cloud suddenly surged in the far southwest, accompanied by bursts of huge buzzing sounds.

It was the Japanese bomber formation that arrived. They were coming in full force under the orders of Kujo Miyakita.

Their figures gradually became clearer in the sky, accompanied by roars that came from far away.

The sound was deafening and came from far away, like thunder.

The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fighters stationed at the Anti-Japanese Battalion immediately became alert.

The Anti-Japanese Battalion’s base had been visited many times by Japanese bombers, so they were very familiar with this sound.

The sentry standing on a high place at the base immediately sounded the alarm.

The alarm bell pierced through the afternoon heat and pierced into the ears of every Anti-Japanese Allied Forces soldier like a sharp arrow, telling them that the enemy was coming!

The soldiers in the garrison rushed to their respective posts in an instant.

They were not at all panicked.

They already have experience in dealing with the Japanese air force.

The anti-aircraft units of the Anti-Japanese Battalion reacted almost instinctively. The anti-aircraft gunners rushed to their respective gun positions.

Once they arrived at the gun position, they skillfully adjusted the angle of the muzzle, and the loaders began to load the shells, waiting for the Japanese planes to arrive.

The anti-aircraft machine gunners were no less capable and they quickly returned to their anti-aircraft machine gun positions.

The ammunition operator also quickly loaded the bullet chain into the machine gun.

When Long Qianyan and Ma Shanpao saw this scene, they nodded frequently, and then ordered other soldiers to hide as needed and set fire as needed.

In previous battles, they found that in a head-on confrontation with the Japanese, the artillery and anti-aircraft machine gunners were at a disadvantage.

The Japanese planes were mobile, while the artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions were fixed targets.

In this case, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces would naturally suffer losses.

So Long Qianyan and Ma Shanpao recalled the story the captain told them. In order to deal with the bombing of the Japanese, they had once spread smoke signals thousands of miles away, causing the Japanese bomber formation to return empty-handed.

At that time, there were many Japanese bombers, at least over a hundred.

But now, there are only more than 30 planes at most.

So Long Qianyan and Ma Shanpao asked people to find straw early. As soon as the Japanese came, they would set it on fire and then throw wet wormwood on them to create a smoke signal.

But the Japanese planes came much faster than expected.

Before the smoke signal had even grown in size, the Japanese bomber formation had already arrived.

The Japanese bombers quickly entered an attack posture. They swooped down as fast and fiercely as birds of prey swooping down on their prey.

With an even more deafening roar, the "Breath of Dusk" separated from the aircraft and was mercilessly thrown towards the Anti-Japanese Brigade. The anti-aircraft forces of the Anti-Japanese Brigade did not know that the Japanese were dropping poison gas bombs at this time. They stared at the dive-down bombers with their fingers tightly on the trigger.

And with the order from the artillery captain, the anti-aircraft guns immediately opened fire.

One shell after another flew out, with a sharp whistle, cutting through the sky and heading straight for the Japanese flying formation.

At the same time, the machine gunners at the anti-aircraft machine gun position also joined the battle. They pulled the triggers hard and bullets rained into the sky.

Bullets and artillery shells intertwined in the air to form a dense firepower network, trying to cover the Japanese planes.

The Japanese planes urgently pulled up to avoid the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces' firepower network.

However, the Breath of Dusk poison gas bombs that had already been dropped could no longer change direction.

Some of them crashed into the fire network, causing explosions. Thick poisonous gas instantly filled the air.

The soldiers were not aware of this because there was smoke rising and the explosion would also produce smoke.

So they didn't think that this was another poison gas bomb from the Japanese.

However, just as the poisonous gas of Dusk Breath spread rapidly to the ground, they noticed it.

The strong feeling of suffocation startled every soldier, and they quickly put the gas masks around their waists on their heads.

But it was too late. Some soldiers had already shown symptoms of poisoning when they discovered it late.

They collapsed one after another due to difficulty breathing.

"Poison gas, poison gas! Put on your gas masks. Come on, come on, drag those who are poisoned away. Everyone else, don't stop, fire, fire!"

Captain Gao Dazhuang gave loud commands, which instantly brought the brief chaos back on track.

The anti-aircraft gunners continued to fire, shells blasting into the sky one after another. The machine gunners were equally unyielding, they pulled the trigger frantically despite the Japanese bombing and poison gas.

Bullets and artillery shells once again intertwined in the air to form a fire network, like the bloody mouth of a giant beast, trying to swallow all the Japanese bombers.

But the Japanese were not fools. They would not wait to be engulfed by the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces' firepower network.

They changed their formation and broke through in small groups in an attempt to disrupt the rhythm of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fighters.

However, in order to deal with the Japanese bombing, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fighters created multiple formations under the research of Gao Dazhuang, Duanwu, Long Qianyan, Ma Shanpao and other main leaders of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.

They have both a fire blockade that can form a large net and a complex single-point, multi-faceted formation. As long as the Japanese planes break into this area, they will be injured if not destroyed.

The Japanese soldiers didn't know that the Anti-Japanese Brigade had such a back-up plan. They all thought that their plan was successful. Several Japanese pilots were still smug and laughed at the Anti-Japanese United Army. They passed through the enemy's firepower network so easily.

But unexpectedly, in the next second, the Japanese plane flying in the front directly hit the anti-aircraft shells flying under it. The whole plane exploded with a loud bang, and a huge fireball emitted a dazzling light.

The flames shot up into the sky, as hot as the sun, illuminating the entire sky red.

The thick black smoke twisted and tumbled, interweaving with the flames to form a doomsday picture.

The fragments of the plane flew everywhere in the shock wave of the explosion, some of them cut through the sky like sharp blades, while others fell to the ground like burning meteorites, carrying raging flames.

The air wave generated by the explosion swept outwards like a strong wind, and the air wave was hot, as if it was going to swallow up everything around it.

The Japanese pilot on the plane seemed so powerless in the face of this destructive force that he didn't even have time to scream before he turned to nothing in the flames and explosion!

(End of this chapter)