The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 643
Detachment Command.

"Great, Lao Kong, there is news from the front that the artillery battalion has been reinforced in time. Under the bombardment of the artillery, the Japanese and puppet troops suffered heavy casualties. The Japanese and puppet troops who were originally the attacking side are now retreating."

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan clenched his fist excitedly, such a big scene is rare for him.

Not to mention this battle, as the chief of staff of the detachment, he is also a participant.

Kong Jie nodded and said, "The next thing is to see how to collect the net."

"Right now, the two brigades reinforced by the devils from the direction of Taiyuan City are still far away from the battlefield. Coupled with our harassment and obstruction along the way, it is impossible for the devils of these two brigades to reach the battlefield within three hours."

"What I'm more worried about now is the problem of the devils sending a flying team to reinforce them."

Xu Guoan said helplessly: "Yes, the devil's plane has always been our biggest headache. This thing comes and leaves whenever it wants, and it can't be stopped at all."

"Although our combat team is also equipped with certain anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, it is still too passive if we really want to fight the devil's plane."

"Forget it, what should come will always come. Instead of worrying here, it is better to start a contest directly. It is not yet known who will win."

Kong Jie, who made up his mind, immediately issued orders for the various ministries to counterattack.

at the same time.

Yoshio Shinozuka of the Japanese First Army Headquarters in Shanxi also issued an order for reinforcements.

The Devil Flying Squad, which was always on standby at the nearest Mingbao Airport, set off immediately after receiving the order.

During this period, according to the different types of aircraft owned by the Japanese air force and the different combat missions they could undertake, the combat deployment was generally carried out in this way.

According to the division of Japanese aircraft types:
There are fighter jets, light bombers (light bombers), heavy bombers (heavy bombers), reconnaissance planes, and transport planes.

Among them, the Japanese light explosives, heavy explosives, and reconnaissance aircraft were organized into a team.

It can also be a fighter with two bombers, a total of three aircraft, forming a flight squad.

Three squadrons of nine planes are organized into a flying squadron.

Two to three squadrons form a flying team

Yoshio Shinozuka sent two flying squadrons and six flying squadrons this time.

A total of eighteen aircraft.

The reason for such a deployment stems from the tactics of the Japanese army in air combat.

As far as the devil's air force is concerned, the combat of the flying team is not without tactics at all, especially when dealing with opponents who also have aviation power, the devil's combat in the air force is quite particular about tactics.

In the flying team, the combat functions of Japanese fighter jets and bombers are different.

Fighter models are relatively small, and the armor is relatively weak, but the advantage is that they are more dexterous and can advance and retreat quickly.

Often used in air-to-air combat.

In addition, it can also undertake the reconnaissance mission of reconnaissance aircraft.

The bomber is relatively larger in size and relatively thicker in armor, and is mainly responsible for bombing ground targets.

When conducting air combat missions, the Japanese air force was often equipped with fighter jets and bombers to undertake different combat missions.

For example, when fighting the national army, considering that the national army has a certain air defense force, the devil's flying team often has fighter jets or reconnaissance planes to take the lead in high-altitude reconnaissance.

To attract firepower, expose the important ground air defense firepower points of the national army, and then send light explosive and heavy explosive bombers to attack ground targets.

When dealing with the Eighth Route Army, the tactical application of the Devil Flying Team was sometimes not so strict.

It is not even necessary to take the lead in sending out reconnaissance planes for reconnaissance, and directly send bombers to integrate reconnaissance and combat missions.

Find the intended target and bomb directly.

The reason is simple, the eight-way equipment is backward, ammunition is scarce, and basically does not have any air defense capabilities.

That is purely a question of whether the target can be found and whether the bombing is accurate enough.

Regardless of whether he is a fighter or a bomber, whether he is a flight squad or a flight team.

It has always been the Japanese army's unilateral bombing and attack on the Eighth Route Army.

When dealing with the Eighth Route Army troops that had no aviation power at all, the devil pilots basically had no psychological pressure.

Until not long ago, the Japanese army's sweep was defeated.

Yoshio Shinozuka was furious, and ordered the flying team to directly break into the sky above the base of the Independence Regiment to carry out retaliatory bombing.

As a result, it was counterattacked by the air defense force of the Independent Regiment, and even shot down many planes.

In that battle, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns exposed in the hands of the independent regiment made the Japanese army no longer use their planes to deal with the independent regiment.

This time was no exception.

The Devils Flying Team knew that the enemy was an old opponent like the Independence Regiment.

The flying team that has suffered a lot has made tactical adjustments.

Yoshio Shinozuka's order came.

It took about 10 minutes for the devil's flying team to arrive at the battlefield where China and Japan were fighting.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield has completely reversed.

In Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng's sneak attack with the artillery battalion, the Japanese and puppet troops were directly killed more than a thousand people, plus the seriously injured, and the Japanese and puppet troops who were wiped out and captured after the counterattack by Company Commander Huang and his party.

The more than 3000 Japanese puppet troops who had besieged Huang Lianchang and his party on the cliff in the south of Taihang City lost about [-] people.

There were more than a thousand Japanese and puppet soldiers who were slightly injured in the team.

There were more than [-] Japanese and puppet troops advancing from the southwest.

The 47th Division advancing from the north has two brigades with more than [-] people.

The total strength of the Japanese and puppet troops at that time was nearly 8000.

He was raided by the artillery battalion, coupled with the counterattack by Company Commander Huang and his party, and attacked from the back and side of the detoured troops of the first detachment.

By the time the devil's two flying squadrons arrived.

Nearly half of the [-] Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield were killed or injured.

After the devil's two flying squadrons arrived, four of the flying squadrons began to block the Eighth Route Army troops that were chasing and retreating the Japanese and puppet troops.

The other two flying teams circled back and forth on the south side of Taihang.

When the flying team set off, Commander Shinozuka Yoshio's order was very clear, to find the artillery unit of the independent regiment that had attacked the imperial army and destroy it in one fell swoop!
Of course, another task of the Devils Flying Squadron is to cover the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army from the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army.

In order to achieve this goal, the bombers of the two devil flying squadrons this time carried enough bombs.

And decided to hover over the entire battlefield for a long time, so as to enter the battle at any time.

In the hidden mountain road on the south side of Taihang.

As soon as the artillery attack was over, Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng immediately issued a transfer order.

The artillery was quickly disassembled and loaded into the truck, and the truck quickly drove into the evacuation route prepared early in the morning.

It was too late to return to the base of the Independence Regiment, the distance was too far, and the devil's plane would definitely not be able to escape.

Once the truck team was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane.

Definitely doomed.

What Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng had to do was to direct the truck team into the predetermined ravine, and then camouflage and hide the truck on the spot.

Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng were fully prepared for the retreat and camouflage.

The choice of the ravine has been surveyed in advance, and both the size and the hidden location are quite appropriate.

After the soldiers quickly drove ten trucks into the ravine, the branches with green leaves and camouflage nets that had been cut down a long time ago were immediately used to camouflage the trucks.

After that, the careful Wang Chengzhu also ordered to use branches to clean up the traces of the truck driving all the way.

After everything was arranged properly, Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Old Sun, the next place is to set up a fake artillery position." Wang Chengzhu said.

Sun Desheng nodded, and the two ordered the soldiers to act quickly.

It turned out that when they came to fight this time, the soldiers also brought a lot of fake guns for camouflage.

These fake guns are models made of wood by the soldiers of the artillery battalion, and they are larger than the corresponding real artillery.

In the words of the artillery battalion soldiers, these fake guns are for the pilots of the devils to see. If they don't make them bigger, how can they see them clearly when they fly so high in their planes?
The wooden fake gun itself does not need to be made too delicately, it is generally similar to the artillery.

In addition, the soldiers painted paint similar to the metal color of the artillery itself.

If this is sitting on a whizzing plane, at first glance, it is really difficult to tell the truth from the fake.

The soldiers placed these fake guns at the foot of the mountain 500 meters away from the valley where the trucks were hidden.

Also put some branches on it as camouflage.

Of course, the "camouflage" this time is not exquisite at all. More than a dozen "cannons" are arranged randomly and occupy a large area. The gaps reflect the faint sunlight.

That is to say, just pretending, wishing that the devil pilot would find out!

After everything was ready, Wang Chengzhu continued to arrange:
"In order for the little devils to believe that what they blow up is our artillery unit, we have to fight back."

"As soon as the devil's plane arrives, the bombing target will be placed on our fake artillery position."

"Let's scatter anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns in the woods around the fake artillery positions."

Having said that, the cautious Wang Chengzhu reminded again:
"Comrades, little devils are very cunning. We discussed it in the course of analyzing the combat tactics of the devil flying team at the regiment headquarters."

"The combat tactics of the Japanese army's flying teams are not blind. It is very likely that the little devil will use a few planes to test the density of our anti-aircraft firepower before throwing bombers into the battle."

"When we were fighting for a while, everyone used my gunshots as a sign. Once a gunshot was fired, we only invested [-]% of the firepower."

"Two gunshots, and then full fire, do you understand?"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded in unison.

As the artillery battalion of the ace unit of the first detachment.

Kong Jie put a lot of effort into it.

Especially for the artillery battalion commander Wang Chengzhu and the deputy battalion commander Howitzer.

Kong Jie even instilled various advanced theories into the two of them, in short, it can inspire as much as they can.

Kong Jie once said to Wang Chengzhu and the howitzer:
"On the battlefield, the artillery unit is the trump card of our first detachment, but it is also the key target of the devil's artillery and aircraft."

"This means that once you are on the battlefield, your artillery battalion must not only undertake the task of providing artillery support, but also have the strength of air defense and be proficient in dealing with the tactics of Japanese air force bombing."

Wang Chengzhu kept all these in his heart deeply.

Just like this time, the artillery battalion came to reinforce with the truck team.

While the artillery battalion carried more than a dozen main artillery pieces, it also carried some anti-aircraft weapons such as machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

In order to protect the precious artillery of his artillery battalion.

Wang Chengzhu, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, is ready to fight to the death with the coming Devil Flying Squadron...

(End of this chapter)