roccoschili Chapter 512: Food Cutoff Plan
Chapter 512: Food Cutoff Plan
The Japanese pilots never imagined that there were anti-aircraft guns here, and even three of them.
Not only that, the anti-aircraft Maxim heavy machine guns and Czech machine guns on the ground were also firing crazily.
Anti-aircraft positions were set up on the three or four hills extending on the flanks of the artillery positions.
Although the anti-aircraft guns are all placed here with Yuan Shuai, there are no anti-aircraft guns on these anti-aircraft positions.
But there were many light and heavy machine guns deployed on each position.
Because Marshal Yuan did not place his infantry in the front to intercept the Japanese infantry, all the Maxim heavy machine guns and Czech machine guns were deployed on these positions.
Not only the light and heavy machine guns brought by Yuan Shuai and Zhao Zilong, but also the light and heavy machine guns captured from the Yokohama Battalion that had just been encircled and annihilated were placed here.
There are thirty Maxim machine guns in total, and more than two hundred Czech machine guns.
Dense bullets intertwined into a network in the air.
The Japanese planes were flying low, only about 300 meters above the ground.
The sudden attack of anti-aircraft artillery and light and heavy machine gun bullets caught the Japanese off guard.
Planes one after another were hit by anti-aircraft guns or light and heavy machine gun bullets.
The Hongfei Regiment and the Black Tiger Army, who had been sweating profusely before, were extremely excited when they saw that they had hit the plane.
"I hit it! I hit the Japanese plane!"
"Hahaha, it turns out that light and heavy machine guns can also hit planes!"
"Fight, keep fighting, shoot down all those damn planes!"
Before, these people were still worried about being killed by bombs from Japanese planes.
But now, light and heavy machine guns cooperated with anti-aircraft guns to hit four planes in a blink of an eye.
Everyone was extremely happy.
They gritted their teeth and continued shooting.
When these four planes fell and exploded with black smoke, the Japanese soldiers on the remaining four planes were so scared that their faces turned pale and cold sweat broke out.
"Turn around, turn around quickly!"
"Damn it! The Chinese anti-aircraft firepower is too strong. Retreat quickly! Retreat quickly!"
The Japanese soldiers in the four planes dared not stay any longer and quickly turned around.
Unfortunately, the anti-aircraft guns had quickly followed up, and three anti-aircraft guns fired in succession, shooting down three more planes!
The remaining one was hit by bullets from light and heavy machine guns, and it crashed into a nearby hillside and exploded, leaving a trail of black smoke.
Looking at this scene, all the brothers from the Hongfei Regiment, the Black Tiger Army and the Black Wolf Army cheered.
"We shot it down! We shot the plane down!"
"Great! We actually shot down the Japanese plane!"
"Eight planes, eight planes!"
Many brothers shed tears of excitement.
Because many of their brothers were killed by Japanese planes.
And now, they have shot down the Japanese plane, which can be regarded as revenge for their dead brothers.
The Japanese were dumbfounded.
The two Japanese battalions that were originally retreating were still thinking of turning around and continuing the attack after the air bombing.
But who would have thought that not only did the plane fail to blow up Yuan Shuai's artillery position, but the entire army was wiped out by the enemy.
"Bakayalu! This, this, this, how is this possible!?"
"Bakayalu, what kind of army is this Black Tiger Army!"
"Retreat quickly, retreat quickly!"
After being surprised, the two battalions quickly retreated again.
When the Japanese regiment commander Nishikawa Saki, who was far behind, heard that eight planes were shot down, he gritted his teeth in disbelief and cursed.
"Bakayaloo, eight planes! These are eight planes! Even the Nationalist Army couldn't shoot down eight of our planes in one day, so how could the Black Tiger Army possibly shoot down eight of our planes!"
"Colonel, the news is indeed true. All eight planes were destroyed!"
"Baga! How could the Black Tiger Army shoot down eight of our planes!"
Nishikawa Saki gritted his teeth in disbelief.
"It seems that there must be other troops in their Black Tiger Army."
"Your Excellency the Colonel is wise. Among their Black Tiger Army, there are troops from the 74th Brigade of the 174th Army!"
"174th Brigade?! No no no! No matter how powerful the 174th Brigade is, it is impossible for them to destroy so many of our planes so quickly. There must be other troops!"
"Could it be the New Sixth Army?"
"That's even more impossible! The New Sixth Army is just some Xiangxi bandits. How could they possibly shoot down our planes with light or heavy machine guns, let alone anti-aircraft guns!"
Hearing this, the officers around him looked at each other, shook their heads and sighed.
Originally they wanted to use their air superiority to turn defeat into victory.
But who would have thought that all eight planes were shot down.
Nishikawa Saki could only order the two infantry battalions that had crossed the river to quickly turn around and be within the range of the 105mm artillery.
At the same time, pass the message to the division commander behind.
When the Japanese division commander heard the news, he was so angry that he slammed the table and complained for a long time.
The division commander quickly notified the Special High Section and quickly investigated the situation, wanting to find out which troops were so powerful in the Black Tiger Village.
On the other side, here in Zhenlongkou.
The Japanese brigade commander Tian Gu Chuanxiong was also very angry and cursed.
Because he is in urgent need of food.
If there is no food in two days, he will run out of food.
Helpless, he could only call the rear to inform them to quickly transport food supplies to me.
Of course the Japanese division commander would not stand by and watch someone die.
But now, the arch bridge has been blown up, and almost all the engineers who were previously at the arch bridge have been killed.
Moreover, a long section of the road on one side of the arch bridge was blown off.
Not to mention building an arch bridge, even building this steep road that is more than 50 meters long would take many days.
In addition, the Black Tiger Army was so powerful that they blew up their arch bridge and roads, wiped out the Yokohama Battalion, repelled two battalions, and even shot down eight planes.
For a while, the Japanese were unable to transport food to him from here.
After all, to feed more than 2,000 people, even if they had to travel through the woods, they would need a lot of mules and horses, which would easily expose them.
Once exposed, they will be robbed by the Black Tiger Army.
At that time, not only will they be unable to provide food to Zhenlongkou, but they will also take the initiative to send food to the Black Tiger Army.
Therefore, they could only ask the Japanese troops from another direction to provide food to Zhenlongkou.
However, the Japanese in another direction were fighting fiercely with the 74th Army.
When the 74th Army learned of the situation here, they contacted the Hongfei Regiment and fought desperately to resist the repeated attacks of the Japanese, ensuring that the Japanese could not provide manpower and material support to this side.
Tian Gu Chuanxiong was so angry that he had to ask his subordinates to save food and let the team use one day's rations as two days' rations to ensure that they could last a few more days.
Here, Yuan Shuai had already ordered people to build trenches and bunkers, and at the same time asked Monkey to keep a close eye on the condition of the arch bridge.
In a blink of an eye, two days passed and Yuan Shuai had built many trenches, bunkers and air-raid shelters.
The 75 field gun was also pulled into the cave and hidden to avoid further bombing by Japanese planes.
However, on the third day, it suddenly rained heavily.
At this time, the Japanese had already sent people to repair the bombed road.
They had just repaired the road for more than thirty meters and were about to reach the end when a sudden rainstorm broke out, forcing the Japanese soldiers to leave quickly.