Bright Sword: From Border Region Manufacturing to Major National Heavy Industry

Chapter 297 Air Superiority
As Major General Gongjing had predicted, there were indeed obstacles ahead.

Two hours before nightfall, he led his team to the outskirts of the ambush position personally set up by Liu Weidong.

Major General Miyai did not rush to attack, but immediately sent men to scout ahead, while he also used binoculars to observe the terrain.

After quickly reviewing the terrain, Major General Miyai analyzed it on the map, and his expression turned very unpleasant at the end.

The terrain was very treacherous. Although the soldiers who went to scout had not yet returned, Major General Gongjing had already anticipated the outcome: this siege would not be easy.

There are two other roads leading to the Wolf Forest.

He didn't need to consider that taking the detour would take at least three or four hours.

It was already dark by then.

The Eighth Route Army's transport team had already slipped away from Wolf Forest.

Therefore, Major General Gongjing still has no choice; he must break through this place within an hour and a half.

Otherwise, everything will become meaningless.

"Let's send electricity to the Army Aviation."

Major General Miyai quickly told the communications officer, "One plane is enough to monitor Wolf Forest, and the other two planes will come to reinforce my side."

The three planes were not all in the sky; one was over Wolf Forest, and the other two were resting at the airport.

After all, fuel is precious, so we should save it wherever possible.

Once the plane over Wolf Forest has almost run out of fuel, another plane will take off to take over.

In other words, the other two planes are now at the airport.

"Yes, sir." The communications soldier quickly sent the message.

"Fire!" Major General Miyai ordered immediately.

The tank's cannons immediately began shelling the Eighth Route Army's positions ahead.

Liu Weidong, on the other hand, simply hid in his cover and did not retaliate.

Since the enemy doesn't have heavy artillery, the effectiveness of this tank gun is limited.

After several rounds of shelling, seeing that the Eighth Route Army on the other side had no reaction, Major General Gongjing launched an attack without waiting for the planes to arrive.

Cavalry were too conspicuous, so they dismounted and became infantry, coordinating with the tank regiment to attack Liu Weidong's position.

"beat!"

When the enemy approached, Liu Weidong showed no mercy and immediately ordered a counterattack.

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

The Hell Cannon and the Type 92 Infantry Gun immediately roared and blasted at the infantry behind the Japanese tanks.

The Japanese infantry were immediately thrown into chaos by the bombing, suffering heavy casualties.

The rocket, trailing a fiery exhaust, hurtled toward the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.

After a volley of rockets, seven or eight Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were instantly reduced to scrap metal, coming to a stop billowing with thick smoke.

"Baka! Retreat!" Upon seeing this, Major General Miyai had no choice but to immediately order his troops to retreat.

Just last month, the Eighth Route Army was still very weak.

They couldn't even hold out for a decent fight.

Now, the Eighth Route Army is capable of direct, head-on confrontations with the Emperor's army through combined arms operations of infantry and tanks.

You have to understand, even the elite troops or the Jin-Sui Army don't have this capability.

In short, the speed at which the Eighth Route Army has grown into a powerful force is truly terrifying.

The root of all this lies in their arsenal.

In other words, the strategic importance of capturing the Eighth Route Army's arsenal is becoming increasingly prominent.

Seeing that Major General Miyai's troops had withdrawn, Liu Weidong did not waste any ammunition and ordered, "I reckon the Japanese planes are coming. Next time, the Japanese will definitely attack under the cover of their planes. Comrades, we must hold on to the pressure at all costs and never let the Japanese get past us."

Even though Liu Weidong was very clever, he still set up many false targets on the position to confuse the Japanese planes.

But the Japanese planes had already been fooled once when they attacked the military trains, and this time they probably wouldn't be so easily fooled.

The lack of anti-aircraft weapons is a major weakness; hopefully... hopefully the number of Japanese planes coming won't be too high.

The soldiers gripped their weapons tightly, their expressions resolute.
"As long as we can hold this place and prevent the Kumamoto Division from getting ammunition, it will be worth it even if we all die in battle!"

"If the Japanese devils want to get through here, they'll have to step over our corpses first!"

……

Rumble!
Soon, the roar of airplane engines could be heard from the distant horizon.

Seeing that only two Japanese planes had arrived, one of the Eighth Route Army soldiers couldn't help but say to Liu Weidong, "Commander, aren't you being a little too cautious? There are only two Japanese planes. Even if they drop bombs, the effect will definitely be limited."

The Japanese planes have limited effectiveness; Major General Miyai's troops have no chance of breaking through here.

“We fooled these Japanese devils once, they must have learned their lesson.” Liu Weidong said with a serious expression. “Sometimes the number isn’t that important, what matters is the enemy’s precision strikes.”

"Commander, you..." The soldiers were about to say something.

Liu Weidong interrupted: "Never underestimate the enemy, be prepared for battle."

"Yes."

……

Seeing the two planes arrive, Major General Miyai wasted no time and immediately ordered, "Attack! All units, move up! Charge!"

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

The tanks fired again, and the tanks rapidly approached Liu Weidong's position.

The Japanese infantry followed closely behind the tanks, running towards Liu Weidong's position.

They ran and fired as they went. The Japanese soldiers were quite skilled; some of Liu Weidong's soldiers were shot down as soon as they showed their heads.

"Fire!" Liu Weidong gave the order without hesitation.

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

The Hell Cannon and the Type 92 Infantry Gun opened fire quickly, using the same tactics as before, specifically targeting the Japanese infantry behind them.

The rocket launcher was used to attack the Japanese tanks.

This salvo destroyed another seven or eight tanks.

This scene made Major General Miyai tremble.

He yelled at the planes in the sky, "You damn idiots, what are you waiting for? Drop the bombs already!"

It turned out that after the two planes arrived, they did not immediately drop a wave of bombs, but instead circled in the sky.

Major General Miyai was furious as he watched his troops suffer heavy losses while the two planes continued to circle.

But soon, a scene that surprised Major General Miyai appeared.

It turns out that the pilots of these two Japanese planes had been fooled by Liu Weidong once, and this time they had really learned their lesson.

They flew in from the horizon and spotted Liu Weidong's decoys at first glance, but they did not attack.

Instead, they are waiting.

What are they waiting for?

They were waiting for Liu Weidong to fire back.

Faced with the attack of Major General Gongjing's troops, Liu Weidong had no choice but to open fire, otherwise the tanks would have run over him.

If Liu Weidong wanted to open fire to stop the mechanized forces, he had to use his most important firepower.

This is what Liu Weidong is most worried about, but there's nothing he can do about it.

Once that fire is opened, vital firepower is exposed to the pilots, allowing them to carry out precision strikes.

This is exactly what happened.

The two Japanese pilots saw the Type 92 infantry guns and the Hell Cannon positions on the ground firing shells, and immediately dove down.

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

Two rounds of bombs were dropped, and the Type 92 infantry gun positions and the Hell Cannon positions were severely destroyed.

"Da da da!"

"Da da da!"

"Da da da!"

……

As the machine gunners watched their artillery positions being bombed by Japanese planes, their eyes turned bloodshot, and they opened fire on the aircraft, shouting, "Damn planes, get down here!"

But it was completely useless; the plane was flying too fast, and they couldn't hit it at all.

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

The plane completely ignored the machine gunners' fire and instead flew over to the rocket launcher soldiers' position, dropping several more bombs.

Although the rocket launcher soldiers quickly moved to new positions after firing, this could not hide them from the aircraft positioned high above.

The pilots in the sky could see everything on the ground clearly.

After the rocket launcher soldiers were blown up, the Japanese pilot maneuvered his plane and began a frenzied strafing of the rocket launcher soldiers who hadn't been hit.

Da da da!
Da da da!
Da da da!
The rocket launcher soldiers were precisely picked off by the aircraft's machine guns, achieving remarkable results as the nemesis of Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.

However, in the face of an airplane, they were nothing more than lambs to the slaughter, utterly powerless to resist.

"Hahaha, yoshi, well done, hahaha." Major General Miyai looked at the results of the two planes' attack and immediately forgot that he had just been cursing them. He was invigorated and shouted while spitting, "Charge! Charge! Take advantage of the fact that the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire has been cut off, and charge immediately. Capture the artillery on the Eighth Route Army's shoulders, and their heavy artillery, capture them all."

Seeing that the two planes had destroyed the enemy's important artillery, the Japanese troops were greatly encouraged and immediately began to run.

"Commander, we've lost our Hellfire Cannon, but we still have one Type 92 infantry gun, two rocket launchers, and the Japanese planes are still there. Should we continue fighting?" Seeing the Japanese pressing forward relentlessly, someone shouted frantically at Liu Weidong.

At this point, no one talked about the fact that the Japanese planes were few in number and therefore posed little threat anymore.

Those damn planes, attacking with precision from high above, we have no air defense weapons, we're practically fish on their chopping board.

"We absolutely cannot let the Japanese mechanized forces get through! Fire!" Liu Weidong said without any hesitation. "Don't use our eight Hellballs for now. Don't use the Hellballs without my order."

The Hell Missile was Liu Weidong's trump card left for the enemy commander.

To this day, he still hasn't found the enemy commander.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Under Liu Weidong's orders, the remaining Type 92 infantry gun and two rocket launchers immediately opened fire.

The Type 92 infantry gun killed more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, and the two rocket launchers each destroyed a Japanese tank.

then!

There is no more.

Two Japanese planes spotted the target and swooped down from the sky again.

boom!
The Type 92 infantry gun was blown to bits.

Da da da!
Two grenadier soldiers were strafed by machine gun fire from an aircraft and fell forever on this land they loved.

"Hahaha, the Eighth Route Army has run out of incantations, hasn't it? Hahaha." Upon seeing this, Major General Gongjing let out a ferocious and triumphant laugh.

He realized that all of the Eighth Route Army's important artillery had been destroyed.

All that's left are grenade launchers and mortars; they can't stop the mechanized forces.

(End of this chapter)