afterglow

Chapter 44
The well-organized flexible defense of the Ming army made the British and Indian troops at a loss, and the brutal street fighting forced them to temporarily suspend their attack.

At 250:500 in the afternoon, the British and Indian Air Forces entered the battle in the rain. The Vincent bomber did not choose to mount two [-]-pound aerial bombs, but changed to a single [-]-pound aerial bomb with a time-delay fuze.

Two Vincent bombers successively lowered their altitudes and launched attacks. The first aerial bomb fell a few tens of meters to the east of the building, and the second bomb hit the roof firmly.

A 250-pound aerial bomb made a big hole on the roof of the hospital two days ago. Fortunately, this time the 500-pound aerial bomb happened to land on another place on the roof instead of directly hitting the fourth-floor floor. .

"Boom-boom!!!"

The aerial bomb with a time-delayed fuze smashed through the roof and the fourth floor, and finally exploded suddenly on the third floor.

A 500-pound aerial bomb is a TNT charge that weighs 100 kg.

From a distance, the entire hospital building looked like a volcanic eruption, a huge amount of smoke and debris burst out, and flames and thick smoke were gushing out from every window!
After more than ten seconds, people could barely see the general situation—the third and fourth floors disappeared?The four-story hospital building now has only two floors... or two and a half floors, because the third floor is only ruined walls and various concrete fragments.

The officers and soldiers of the second team stationed in it retreated to the first floor and the basement with foresight, but the powerful 500-pound aerial bombs caused everyone to be seriously injured, dizzy, and some people actually coughed up blood and had nosebleeds.

Zhou Changfeng felt that both ears were a little warm. After touching them and looking closely, he found that it was blood!

The three field phones on the table all rang, and his hand holding the microphone was trembling involuntarily, "Hello, this is the headquarters, report something urgent!"

Xie Wancheng on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved, "Battalion Commander? How's the situation?"

"There is no loss, but they are all seriously injured."

"It's really frightening, two floors have been blown away!"

The other two calls were also made by two teams from other defense areas. It can be said that they were all frightened by the situation just now.

"Return to the battle position immediately!" Zhou Changfeng took a deep breath, but he pulled his painful ear and gasped in pain, "Then, divide several people to check the structure of the building. If a large degree of deformation or cracks are found, immediately report."

Xiao Li nodded, and immediately turned around and ran out of the basement to deliver the order.

As a result, it didn't take long for someone to report back, saying that there were obvious deformations in the main beam, and there were a large number of broken seams and cracks.

So Zhou Changfeng went to check it himself, and when he came to the second floor, just as he was staring at the main beam that was so cracked that the steel bars could be seen, someone beside him suddenly exclaimed.

"Ten o'clock direction, enemy plane!"

Another Vincent bomber and two Fury fighters appeared from the distant sky, appearing to be heading straight for the building.

Obviously, the hospital building in this state cannot withstand another 500-pound aerial bomb. If you don't want to be buried alive, you have to run away.

"Evacuate, all evacuate! Plan No. [-]!" Zhou Changfeng ordered without hesitation.

The soldiers who had just re-entered the battle position stood up again, and the heavy machine gun team quickly lifted the machine gun up.

According to the order of reservation, dozens of officers, soldiers and battalion personnel of the second team can evacuate in a few minutes, but the problem is that there are hundreds of wounded on the east side of the first floor!

For a moment, many eyes fell on Zhou Changfeng, and the second lieutenant, a military doctor who heard the news, also opened his mouth to speak.

"Immediately set up red fume canisters in the southwest direction." Zhou Changfeng said coldly with a blank face, "People from the battalion headquarter will go first, and the second team will stay behind to help evacuate the wounded."

If the battalion headquarters is gone, the remaining troops will not be able to resist effectively, so they must be preserved.

In fact, the most indifferent decision now is to abandon all the wounded, but the price is a drastic drop in morale.

Leaving the second team to help transfer the wounded, although it is very likely that these dozens of combatants will also be compensated, but regardless of success or failure, it can guarantee morale.

Zhou Changfeng thought he had made the most rational decision, and everyone around him agreed with it, and they dispersed in an instant to perform their duties.

"Buzz, buzz—" Someone rang the small air defense siren in his hand, and the shrill siren sounded immediately.

Radio stations, field telephones, switches, generators, the officers and soldiers of the battalion hurriedly picked them up and rushed out; while the soldiers of the second team were doing their best to organize the evacuation of the wounded, and those who could carry them directly resisted. Those who are not suitable for carrying should be put on a stretcher.

At this time, a sergeant discovered that the only remaining anti-aircraft machine gun team in the air defense platoon did not evacuate, but moved the machine gun to the ruined third floor on his own initiative?

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"Air defense!" The corporal leading the team answered two words concisely.

Only this one of the four anti-aircraft machine guns of the air defense platoon is left, and there is not much ammunition left. They combined all the 200mm bullets they found scattered and only had more than [-] rounds, which is less than three ammunition belts.

The anti-aircraft platoon has two machine gun squads and one logistics squad. There are only five of them left in the twenties of the former.So they don't want to leave now, it's too troublesome to take this bulky big guy away, and such a small amount of bullets won't be of much use, so they might as well stay and make a break.

"It's called 'air defense'. Up to now, no plane has ever fired at it. A base of [-] rounds has been used to hit tanks and people."

"Only two hundred and five rounds, can you hit it?"

"How to shoot balloons and target drones usually, how to shoot today."

When the five people were talking calmly as if they were out of the way, the smoke pots on the southwest side of the hospital building were arranged, and a thick red smoke column shot straight into the sky.

The bomber pilot who was slowly approaching Dmagee was a little puzzled, because according to the order, this bombing mission did not require the ground to launch a smoke bomb instruction, just aim at the building and drop the bomb.

So why is the red flag smoke rising again?
Just when the pilot was confused, a series of bullets came straight!

In order to buy time for the transfer of the wounded below, the anti-aircraft machine gun team chose to fire in advance, forcing the three incoming planes to change their course, but this also exposed their own position.

"It's just a machine gun?" Although Pereira, the pilot of the No.40 Fifth Squadron, felt that it was abnormal, he still swooped down after circling a circle.

Compared with fighter jets, the Vincent bomber changed its course and circled around before re-entering the attack route. Naturally, it was much slower, which bought at least a few minutes.

The anti-aircraft machine gun on the ruined wall was also aimed at the fighter jet that swooped in. Even in this state, the furious fighter jet with two wings seemed very slow, and there was almost no need to reserve much advance.

A bright muzzle flame burst from the muzzle, and a series of 12.8mm bullets whizzed out amidst the sound of "dong dong dong". Because the ammunition chain is made of patchwork bullets, it is not a standard anti-aircraft formation, so tracer bullets , piercing incendiary bombs, instant explosive bombs, armor-piercing bombs and so on are all mixed in.

At the same time, the diving fighter also fired. Two .303 Vickers aviation machine guns spit out two strings of bullets, and the two deputy shooters were hit in an instant and rolled down the building.

"It's smoking!"

The furious fighter flew over the building with a puff of white smoke, and the remaining three immediately turned their guns to aim at the second fighter, but just after firing a shuttle, their figures were blown away by two 40-pound aerial bombs. The flames and smoke were swallowed up.

(End of this chapter)