vrcanaries Chapter 573 This dish is indeed good, but it consumes too much ammunition. However, we can afford it
Chapter 573 This dish is indeed good, but it consumes too much ammunition. However, we can afford it
Under the personal leadership of Liu Haishan, 18 bombers quickly located the enemy's position with the help of the flames from the explosion of heavy artillery shells. Dozens of barrel bombs were dropped from a height of 1600 meters. More than 20 seconds later, they landed with a violent explosion, which directly blew up the enemy's position as bright as day. The splashing gasoline fell on the enemy's clothes, burning violently, causing the enemy to roll on the ground in pain.
With the help of the raging fire on the ground, the bomber unit began the second round of bombing. After dropping all the bombs they carried, they returned directly to the base without even observing the damage on the ground.
In order to increase the amount of bombs dropped, the bomber did not shut down the engine after landing at Maoershan Airport. Instead, the ground crew loaded bombs into the bomber's cabin with the engine running.
Lin Zhenhua had considered this situation as early as when he began to design the bomber, and had even conducted some special exercises. He did not expect it to be used so soon. This also indirectly confirms that Lin Zhenhua's design was not redundant. Some people had raised doubts before, but now it has been proved that his design idea was correct, which made those who had questioned him before have to admire his foresight.
Junichi Aoki was completely flustered by the sudden bombing. He did not expect Lin Zhenhua to use a night bombing trick, and the bombing was so accurate. The entire battlefield was full of flames rising to the sky, mixed with the screams of the wounded Japanese soldiers, it was simply a purgatory on earth.
"Mr. Commander, during the bombing just now, our casualties exceeded 500, 300 of them were killed directly, and more than 200 received varying degrees of burns and explosion injuries. We have used up half of the medicines we have. If the number of wounded increases sharply again, we will be out of medicines by this time tomorrow night!"
"The most hateful thing is that the enemy's bombing will not end here. I'm afraid there will be a second and third round of bombing. Hiding in the air-raid shelter and enduring it alone will not solve the problem. We must ask the headquarters for help and ask the headquarters to send bombers for equal retaliation. Only in this way can we solve our current predicament!" Ichiro Tada persuaded earnestly.
But Jun'ichi Aoki simply wouldn't listen. Asking him to ask for help from the headquarters at this time would be a slap in his face. In addition, he felt that the bombing operation would only be carried out two or three times at most. He really didn't believe that Lin Zhenhua could flatten the mountain with bombs.
"Tada-kun, you are totally overthinking it. The enemy doesn't have that many bombs, otherwise they wouldn't have used oil drums to modify bombs. I doubt that our enemy has the ability to produce large-scale bombs. We just need to hold on until dawn, and we will be protected by the air force. As for sending out the air force at night to carry out retaliatory actions, this idea is too unrealistic."
"Most of our air force are flight trainees. It is too difficult for them to carry out night bombing. The final result may be that we only kill a few enemies but lose a few bombers. Don't think I'm talking about fantasy. I'm talking about the most likely scenario. I know much more about the current situation of the air force than you do!" Junichi Aoki said the truth with a bitter face.
This was the first time that Ichiro Tada knew about this. He didn't expect that the air force that was hyped up to be so great was actually a bunch of rookies, not even recruits. This made him curse the headquarters' plan of screening the weak with the strong. However, no matter how harshly he cursed in his heart, it would not solve the current problem. He could only play ostrich and let the soldiers hide more tightly. The rest was up to fate.
As for using anti-aircraft weapons to fight back, that was even more of a joke. During the bombing just now, six searchlights of the searchlight squadron were blown up, and half of the anti-aircraft weapons of the anti-aircraft gun squadron were destroyed. The casualties reached 80%, and they had basically lost the ability to fight back. All they could do now was to hold on.
In the next six hours, Liu Haishan led 18 bombers and carried out a total of eight rounds of bombing, dropping nearly 150 tons of bombs, bombing the Japanese positions over and over again.
Lin Zhenhua had been closely following the situation of the Japanese positions. When he found that the bombing effect was not as good as expected, he immediately gave the bomber unit another order to drop gasoline barrels.
In the next two hours, thousands of gasoline barrels were dropped from high altitude onto the Japanese positions. After landing, the gasoline in the barrels exploded and was ignited by the unextinguished flames. This caused thick smoke to billow in the Japanese positions, choking the Japanese hiding in the air-raid shelters, and they couldn't help coughing loudly.
The violent burning of gasoline took away a large amount of air, forcing the Japanese to run out of their positions. Lin Zhenhua's big show of roasting the Japanese was only halfway done. Nine Fat Baby ground attack planes, which had been waiting for a long time, swooped down from the sky and frantically strafed the Japanese and puppet troops who ran out of the air-raid shelter.
"Order the artillery regiment to open fire immediately. The rocket launchers should immediately fire in salvos. Bombard the enemy's positions hard."
"Zhang Dabiao, what the hell are you still standing there for? Immediately direct all the tank guns to aim at the enemy positions and fire."
"Sanwazi, I'm handing over the anti-aircraft regiment to you for command, not just to watch the show. Immediately mobilize all the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, aim at the enemy's positions, and hit them hard!"
Under Lin Zhenhua's command, countless shells flew towards the enemy's position, and the sound of explosions rang out one after another. The enemy and puppet troops in the position were running around like headless flies, trying to fight for a chance to survive.
The Japanese showed their cruelty at this time. They used bayonets to force the puppet army to give up the good air-raid shelters. The puppet army was afraid of death, and the reason they became puppet soldiers was to survive.
However, the battlefield was full of artillery fire, and there was no place for them to live. In order to survive, they decided to flee. A large number of puppet troops broke through the blockade of the devils and prepared to take this opportunity to escape from the battlefield, but they were beaten back by the fierce devils.
The puppet army, eager to escape, was in a life-and-death crisis, and they directly exploded with their small universe. They fought with the devils, which made the devils' positions a mess. After seeing this situation, Lin Zhenhua did not stop the artillery bombardment, but increased the intensity of the artillery fire, but changed the focus of the artillery bombardment to the devils, which made the puppet army and the devils in a weird balance.
"Your Excellency the division commander, the situation outside is very wrong. Now it's not just one or two puppet army battalions that are about to escape, but all the puppet troops are about to escape. Please give the order immediately to kill all these hateful guys. Only iron-blooded means can intimidate them!" Tada Ichiro bowed and requested with a serious face.
Jun'ichi Aoki originally planned to use the puppet troops as cannon fodder. He never dreamed that these puppet troops would actually turn against him. In order to quell the chaos on the battlefield, he angrily ordered: "Baga Yalu! Order all troops to suppress the rebellion immediately. Any puppet troops who dare to resist will be killed!"
The Japanese troops under the command of Junichi Aoki acted quickly, and with their excellent coordination ability, they quelled the rebellion of the puppet army in just half an hour. During the battle between the two sides, more than 2000 puppet soldiers were killed or wounded, while the casualties of the Japanese were only a little more than one squadron, or more than 300 people at most. It can be seen how big the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides was.
After learning from the pilot of the reconnaissance plane that the puppet army's rebellion had been eliminated, Lin Zhenhua ordered the troops to stop the bombardment. After such a long period of bombing and shelling, the enemy's position was in ruins. After consuming so many shells and bombs, they had indeed achieved considerable results. Even the hard rocks were cut off by 80 centimeters, which made Li Yunlong and others feel numb.
"Damn it, if I encounter an attack of this magnitude, I really can't guarantee that I can hold my position. This has not even reached what the college students call a saturation attack. If thousands of tons of bombs are really dropped on the Baibaisongling position, the entire mountain will definitely be flattened!" Li Yunlong sighed with some regret.
Ding Wei felt that he had opened his eyes. He put himself in Jun'ichi Aoki's position and thought about it, but he really couldn't think of any way to fight back. He could only bear it at all costs. There was no other way.
"College student, your tactics this time were not opportunistic. The Japanese were really made into barbecue. I estimate that only half of the more than 10,000 Japanese are left. With two more such attacks, we can easily occupy the Xiaosongling position!" Ding Wei exclaimed excitedly.
Kong Jie slapped his thigh heavily, and after confirming that he was not dreaming, he said in disbelief: "Before, the college students said that the reason for my lack of confidence was insufficient firepower. At that time, I didn't quite agree with it, but now I have a different opinion. Facing such an attack, even if a person is made of iron, it is difficult to hold the position!"
"College student, there is no need for us to rush to attack the Japanese today. Let's wait until night and launch another round of bombing on the Japanese positions. I want to see how long Jun'ichi Aoki can hold out!"
Zhao Gang couldn't help but interrupt, "The attacks last night and this morning consumed a lot of ammunition. With our current ammunition reserves, we can only fight three or four times at most. I understand what the college student meant when he said that we would pay a huge price. I didn't agree with this way of fighting, but we seized a large amount of money this time. We can definitely afford such a battle. We can just show our muscles to the devils and let them know that we are not easy to mess with. The devils are thinking about us every day!"