I rise from the sword

Chapter 372 Decisive Battle!

After repelling the devil's first large-scale attack, Yang Lin immediately ordered the battalion commanders to pay attention to artillery and air defense. The devil suffered a great loss, so naturally it was impossible to let it go.

It is almost inevitable to use artillery and air firepower to retaliate!
The situation was as expected by Yang Lin. Just an hour later, the Japanese air strike and artillery retaliation came almost at the same time.

Dozens of Japanese fighter jets and bombers flew over Fenyang County, and began to continuously dive, straf and bomb the positions of the Zhongrui Regiment's battalions inside and outside the city.

The artillery units of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army and the 10th Independent Mixed Brigade also fired again.

Under the joint strike of the little devil's ground-air firepower, the entire Fenyang County was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Clouds of thick gunpowder smoke rose into the sky one after another, almost covering the entire county.

However, Yang Lin has never been the one who only takes beatings and does not fight back.

On the ground, the air defense force of the Zhongrui Regiment had already made preparations.

"An enemy plane is coming!"

"An enemy plane is coming!"

"Air defense units ready for battle!"

"Air defense units ready for battle..."

Just as the Devil's machine gun approached the county seat and started bombing and swooping, the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Zhongrui Regiment collectively opened fire on the enemy plane.

"Tug, chug, chug chug!!!"

"Tom, tom tom tom tom!—"

There was a burst of intense gunfire and shelling in the city, and countless bullets and grenades flew towards the devil plane in the air.

"idiot!"

The Guizi Aviation Corps originally thought that under the strong attack of the 27th Division, the Zhongrui Regiment had been beaten to the point where it could only parry but not fight back, so it seemed confident when launching an air strike.

However, what the ghost aviation soldiers never dreamed of was that the Zhongrui regiment not only had the power to fight back, but also dared to take the initiative to fight back, so they were caught off guard for a while.

At this moment, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Zhongrui Regiment is very dense, and they are intertwined to form a firepower net without gaps.

No matter how the Devils aviation unit maneuvers and evades with fighter planes, it is impossible to completely avoid the attack of anti-aircraft firepower.

"boom!"

"Boom, boom..."

There were several explosive sounds in the sky, and several enemy planes were bombarded by anti-aircraft shells.

The 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun can penetrate even the frontal armor of a heavy tank. It is simply a backgammon point reader to penetrate the defensive armor of a low-flying Jazi plane, so easy!

After the grenade hit the enemy plane, it exploded violently. The violent shock wave directly tore the enemy plane apart. The parts of the fuselage that were on fire first scattered and splashed for a while with the shock wave, and then accelerated towards the ground due to the effect of gravity. fall down.

There are also enemy planes that were hit by dense anti-aircraft machine guns and were scarred, and the fuselage was covered with transparent bullet holes.

Several heavily damaged enemy planes emitted black smoke, and the enemy planes chased all the way to the ground, leaving eye-catching black smoke trails in the air.

"Baga! Blow up the Chinese soldiers on the ground! Destroy their air defense positions quickly, hurry up and drop bombs!!!"

After realizing the horror of the Zhongrui Regiment's anti-aircraft firepower, the enemy plane group quickly raised the flight altitude to an altitude of more than 2000 meters, and then immediately launched bombing.

"Hurricane, Hurricane Hurricane..."

One after another, the aerial bombs, like meteorites from outside the sky, accelerated and fell towards the ground. The propeller at the tail rotated rapidly, rubbing against the air and making terrifying screams.

It is worth mentioning that, because the Devil Air Force dropped bombs in a hurry, and the height of the enemy plane from the ground exceeded 2000 meters, and there was still wind.

Therefore, the aerial bombs dropped by the Devil Aviation have almost no accuracy at all.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The bombs fell to the ground and exploded one after another.

The crumbling houses and buildings in the city were overwhelmed, and pieces of them collapsed, causing smoke and dust to fill the sky.

All kinds of sand, gravel and rubble were scattered and scattered everywhere with the impact of the explosion.

Fortunately, all the civilians in the city had been transferred out by Yang Lin long before the devils launched an attack.

Therefore, the devil's bombing seemed to make a lot of noise, but in fact it caused very limited damage to the Zhongrui regiment.

"Brothers, hit, continue to hit me hard!!!"

"Da da da, tom tom tom—"

The Zhongrui regiment on the ground had empty firepower in the room, and continued to chase the Devil plane in the sky and fired vigorously.

The sound of guns and guns resounded, and the dense rain of bullets was like stones that cost nothing.

Soon several more enemy planes were hit, and one of the more heavily damaged enemy planes immediately burst into flames, and the black smoke almost enveloped the entire fighter plane.

"Baga! Damn it!"

Although the devil aviation soldiers exerted all their strength, the fighter plane still fell towards the ground uncontrollably.

Not long after, he smashed his head on the Zhongrui Regiment's position outside the city, and it exploded into a pool of spare parts with a 'boom'.

However, the Devil Aviation Soldier who flew this fighter plane was alert, and seeing the situation was not good, he decisively chose to parachute.

Unfortunately, the position where he parachuted was still above the defense zone of the Zhongrui Regiment.

Seeing a ghost aviation soldier parachuting, a machine gunner immediately turned his gun and aimed at the parachute above his head with a shuttle of bullets, directly smashing the parachute into a hornet's nest.

"Ya Butterfly!!!"

Losing the cushion of the parachute, the Devils' aviation soldiers immediately vacated their feet and accelerated towards the ground.

In the end, amidst the horrified shouts, it was smashed into a pool of rotten meat.

Falling freely from a height of several hundred meters, the muddy ground is no different from the concrete floor, and it is completely idiotic to want to survive.

"Baga! Lu! The anti-aircraft firepower of the Sharp Regiment of the Chinese Army is too powerful!"

"The damaged fighter plane returns quickly!!!"

The Devil Aviation immediately manipulated the damaged fighter plane and fled wastefully...

As for the flying brigade of the Zhongrui Regiment, Yang Lin has no plans to let it fly into the air for the time being.

Although the performance of the P51 Mustang fighter far exceeds that of the Devil fighter, the piloting skills and confidence of the Zhongrui Regiment are not as good as that of the Little Devil.

It is extremely dangerous to have no self-confidence in battle, and it is almost impossible to defeat the enemy.

What's more, the number of Devil fighters is still more than ten times that of the flying brigade.

Yang Lin was waiting, and after the Devil's aviation unit returned, he was sending the flying brigade into the air to fight against the Devil's ground troops.

Fight a time difference with the devil's aviation unit!

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The devil's fleet dropped bombs and bombed the high-rises of Fenyang County for a while, and the devil troops on the ground began to gather to prepare for the attack.

Devil commanders have the habit of going to the front line to command operations in person, and this old devil is no exception. In order to see more clearly, this old devil and his lieutenant staff boarded a sounding balloon.

When he saw that the Zhongrui Regiment had the power to fight back in the face of the air strikes of its own air force, the old devil's face darkened immediately, and he scolded: "Order the artillery, continue to bombard the Zhongrui Regiment of the China Army!"

"Don't save shells, just go all out and razed the positions of the sharp regiments of the Chinese Army to the ground!"

"Hi Yi!"

The lieutenant officer's staff paused abruptly, then picked up the phone, and passed on the order of the division head, Masami Honma.

Originally, the Devil's artillery still had some reservations, but at this moment, successive orders were sent to immediately mobilize all artillery to the front line.

The artillery wing of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, the own artillery of each infantry wing, plus the artillery of the independent mixed 10th Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade.

All the cannons added together amounted to more than 100.

"Tom tom tom!"

"Tom tom tom tom!..."

The devil put all the artillery into it, and all of a sudden, a hundred artillery shells fired at once, and the dense and hot shells poured down on the Zhongrui regiment's position like hail.

As we all know, Japan is a country with small resources, and almost all war resources, such as oil, rubber, and steel, need to be imported.

Therefore, little devils are extremely stingy in war.

It is precisely because of this that the top devils brainwashed the soldiers below, making them believe in the spirit of bushido, dare to fight the enemy, and use the least bullets to destroy the enemy.

It is precisely because of this that in previous battles, the Devil Artillery generally did not do well, not because they did not want to cover firepower, but because conditions did not allow it.

Right now, they finally got the order to fire with full firepower, so naturally they came here in a hurry.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Wave after wave of shells crossed the sky and exploded in and around Fenyang County.

The dense bombardment made the city wall sway, and a part of the city wall was so overwhelmed that it collapsed directly.

The officers and soldiers of the Zhongrui regiment defending the city had to deal with the enemy planes controlling the air and the enemy's ground artillery fire, and the pressure was very high for a while.

Taking advantage of the suppression of artillery fire, the devil's ground troops immediately launched an attack.

"The infantry charged forward, the chariots advanced, and coordinated cover, captured the position of the elite regiment of the Chinese army, and wiped out these damned Chinese soldiers!"

"Kill the chicken, kill the chicken!!!"

Among them, the east and west of the city had already suffered heavy shelling before this, especially the west of the city. Although the previous attack by the 2nd Garrison Infantry Regiment failed to break out of the city, it collapsed several sections of the city wall.

At this moment, the 2nd Regiment of the Garrison Infantry, which has been replenished, is attacking the west of the city even more violently.

Get up wherever you fall!

This is Yoshida Maotou's inner monologue at the moment!
Facing the strong attack of the devils, the Zhongrui Regiment had to shrink its troops, abandon the field fortifications outside the city, and retreat to the city wall defense line.

However, before evacuating, they deployed a large minefield on the position.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Many devils stepped on landmines, and were immediately blown out together with their companions, bloody stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere.

However, the other little devils continued to rush forward as if they had never heard of it, as if they hadn't seen it.

As a result, although the minefield of the Zhongrui Regiment caused a lot of casualties to the devils' attacking troops, it did not slow down their advancing speed.

Soon, thousands of devil infantry, under the cover and guidance of tanks and chariots, and under the suppression of artillery and aviation, quickly approached to a position less than 1000 meters away from the city wall.

This position already belongs to the fire blockade area of ​​light and heavy machine guns.

However, under normal circumstances, the defenders will bring the enemy closer to a range of 500 meters before launching an attack.

After all, it is difficult to effectively kill the enemy at a distance of 1000 meters. Apart from wasting bullets, it does not play much strategic role at all.

However, this refers to the general army, because they have a limited number of machine guns.

However, the Zhongrui Regiment, whose machine guns are arranged at the first level of the squad, is obviously not included in this list.

Therefore, when the little devil who rushed ahead almost stepped into the 1000-meter line, the defenders of the Zhongrui Regiment cut off their fire.

"Brothers, the little devils are coming up, hit, fire, and beat me hard!"

"Da da da, chug chug..."

All of a sudden, there was intense machine gunfire on the city wall.

The dense bullets were intertwined with each other, forming a huge deadly firepower net, although most of the bullets were empty and penetrated into the ground.

But there were still quite a few bullets hitting the little devils who were rushing forward, beating them to the point of blood spattering, and they fell down piece by piece.

This is the benefit of firepower coverage, as long as the firepower reaches a sufficiently dense level, there is no need to aim!
The little devil was obviously very experienced. After being hit by firepower, he didn't panic too much, but quickly dispersed, or hid behind and on both sides of the chariot.

"Bang chi, ku chi, ku chi..."

Devil tanks and armored vehicles are like unrivaled steel monsters, advancing domineeringly, and the huge body of the tanks blocked a large number of bullets.

Of course, the Zhongrui Regiment's attack was not limited to machine guns. In addition, the artillery also opened fire one after another. In order to prevent being bombarded by the Devil's aviation, they had already raised a large cloud of smoke around the surrounding area and even the entire county before firing.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The grenades fell one after another on the center of the devils' attacking troops and exploded, immediately blowing up the little devils, causing casualties.

Two of the grenades accidentally landed on the roof of the devil's chariot and exploded. The violent explosion directly knocked off the turret of the chariot, killing and injuring a large number of devils.

"Baga! Fight back, fight back!"

"Machine gunner, tank gun, fire suppression!!!"

The devil soldiers are notoriously tenacious in combat. They were not intimidated by the offensive of the Zhongrui regiment, but rushed up against the hail of guns and guns.

It has to be said that although the little devils don't have any tactics to speak of, the coordinated operations between their various arms are quite mature.

The devil's attacking troops had tanks and chariots leading the way on the ground, and there were planes escorting them in the sky. The enemy reduced a lot of casualties when they charged.

The two sides exchanged fierce fire for a while, and the devil's attacking troops advanced to a position less than 500 meters away from the city wall.

Indistinctly, the firepower points of the Zhongrui regiment on the city wall have been exposed one after another.

"The chariot continued to fire, blowing up the firepower of the Chinese army on the city wall!!!"

The Devil Tank is a direct-aiming artillery, which poses a much greater threat to the defenders' firepower points than curved-aiming artillery.

The main gunner of the Devil Tank immediately turned the barrel and aimed at the machine gun position on the hidden city wall...

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(End of this chapter)