The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 398 I won't play with you anymore

Jinan Military Airport.

Yokota Makio invested 16 bombers at once. This scale will only be used when dealing with important cities and units above the national army level.

The reason why Yokota Makio did this was, on the one hand, to retaliate against the Taohuashan guerrillas and to save face for the loss of three bombers.On the other hand, he was stimulated. The Army repeatedly suffered losses in front of Gao Jiu. Yokota Makio wanted to show the strength of the Air Force by attacking Gao Jiu, to show the superiority of the Air Force in front of the Army.

Shortly after the bomber took off, two transport planes were also pulled out of the hangar and parked on the runway.Then, more than a dozen trucks drove over and began to move supplies to the transport plane, preparing to airdrop supplies to the 18th Wing.

Gao Jiu was most worried about the Japanese bombers. When there were no missiles, the ground troops basically had no good way to deal with the bombing of the bombers. Even with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, they could only deal with low-flying targets.

In theory, no matter how high the plane flies, it can drop bombs. For example, the Japanese Nakajima Type 5 bomber can fly at a height of 3 kilometers, and the anti-aircraft gun can only shoot at a height of [-] kilometers. The bomber can easily drop bombs , the ground troops could only stare blankly.

However, high-altitude bombing is only suitable for large-scale bombing, such as bombing a city, as long as the bomb is dropped.But it is difficult to carry out precise strikes. For example, if you want to blow up a bridge, dropping bombs from high altitude is a waste of expensive aerial bombs.Such a prodigal behavior is reluctant to the Japanese with scarce resources.

The distance between the surrounded Japanese army and the anti-Japanese army is not far, and the Japanese army's high-altitude bombing cannot guarantee that it will not bomb its own people.Therefore, they will still conduct dive bombing.

In this era, according to the bomber training tutorial regulations, under normal circumstances, bombers dive down from 1 kilometer and drop bombs at an altitude of 200 meters to 500 meters. This is the opportunity for ground troops to fight planes.

In order to prevent enemy planes from bombing, Gao Jiu arranged to set up machine gun positions on the top of the mountain to prevent enemy planes from bombing at low altitudes as much as possible. In addition, he ordered the troops besieging the enemy to go to the hillsides and valleys close to the enemy to get as close as possible to the surrounded enemy. The distance of the Japanese army made it impossible for the Japanese army to drop bombs at high altitude.

Of course, Gao Jiu also has a secret weapon, that is, two French Hotchkiss 1930-style 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns in his hands. The Japanese army did not know that Gao Jiu had such an anti-aircraft weapon in his hands. Unprepared, as long as they could destroy a few Japanese bombers, they would not dare to fly at low altitudes, basically eliminating the threat of bombers.

Gao Jiu deployed the two anti-aircraft machine guns on Hill No. 67 and Hill No. 39 on the opposite side respectively.He has one anti-aircraft machine gun himself, and Li Xiaoshan is in charge of the other anti-aircraft machine gun. The purpose of this arrangement is to confuse the Japanese army.

The bombers of the Japanese army stayed in the air for a short time. Once they were attacked in different locations, they would worry that there were anti-aircraft machine guns on all the nearby hills, so that they would not dare to take the risk of low-altitude bombing, and these bombers became decoration.

8:20.Gao Jiu heard the sound of bombers flying in the distance, and immediately ordered all the troops to prepare for air defense.He himself stood beside an anti-aircraft machine gun erected on the highest point of the mountain, preparing to launch a sneak attack when the Japanese bombers passed by.

Not long after, enemy bombers flew over. Like last time, they had to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance to see the situation on the ground clearly.The Japanese bombers learned the lesson last time, and this time they maintained an altitude of 1500 meters.

When the Japanese bomber passed over Gao Jiu's head, Gao Jiu did not hit the front Japanese bomber. He wanted Li Xiaoshan on the opposite side to attack the Japanese bomber, giving the Japanese the illusion that there were many anti-aircraft machine gun positions below.

When four Japanese bombers flew over, Gao Jiu opened fire.

Bombers fly through the sky at such a high speed that even a long-trained anti-aircraft gunner has difficulty hitting the target.Therefore, when conditions permit, an anti-aircraft machine gun position is usually composed of several anti-aircraft machine guns to attack an aircraft at the same time, relying on the spread of projectiles in a large area to increase the hit rate.

Gao Jiu is a man of gods, the bullets he fired were all carefully calculated, basically every shot was flawless.

"Da da da da da." Gao Jiu aimed at one of the Japanese bombers, and after firing a row of bullets, he did not observe the shooting effect at all, and directly aimed at the second Japanese bomber and fired again.

A Japanese bomber was hit with black smoke and fell crookedly.Another Japanese bomber was hit in the air and exploded.

The Japanese bombers whizzed past, and passed over Gao Jiu's head in an instant. Gao Jiu only had time to aim at the last bomber and pulled the trigger fiercely, and hit another volley explosion.

Gao Jiu killed three Japanese bombers in one go, and the bombers flying behind were frightened and hurried to the sky.But the four bombers flying in front couldn't see what was going on behind them, so they continued to fly forward.

Li Xiaoshan saw the Japanese bombers flying over, followed the shooting method Gao Jiu taught him, aimed at the front bomber, and started to shoot violently.

This was Li Xiaoshan's first time shooting a plane, and his lack of experience, coupled with his long-term shooting habits, did not calculate the amount of advance. After a row of bullets shot past, the bomber he aimed at had already flown by.But his luck was very good, the devil's first bomber flew over, but the bomber that followed hit the bullet fired by Li Xiaoshan, the pilot was killed directly, and the plane fell headlong .

Before the bombing mission of the Japanese army started, four bombers were directly lost. The captain of the Devils bomber group who led the team felt his scalp tingling, and the other pilots were all terrified.

The devil's bomber captain pulled the plane up, and the other planes followed him to reorganize the flight formation.

The pilots were very angry, because the information they received did not mention that the enemy had anti-aircraft machine guns. Their first feeling was that they wanted to go back to the person who provided the information to settle the score.

The captain of the Japanese bomber led the bomber group to hover at high altitude, not knowing what to do for a while.

After a few laps in the air, their fuel was almost exhausted and they had to return.The captain of the devil's bomber made up his mind. He took the lead in diving from an altitude of 4 kilometers to 2500 meters, and then dropped the bomb, and the other bombers of the devil followed suit. Returning to Jinan.

"Boom, boom, boom." A large number of aerial bombs exploded on the ground. The Japanese bombers dropped bombs blindly at high altitude, and a large part of them landed on the two hills occupied by the Japanese army, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army on the 43rd and 44th hills saw that their air force actually bombed their own people, and many officers and soldiers fired into the air angrily.

However, the anti-Japanese army did not escape the bombing of the Japanese army, and it also suffered heavy casualties.According to statistics afterwards, in this bombing, the anti-Japanese army suffered more than [-] casualties.

Gao Jiu was very angry. He immediately ordered Ning Wen and Ning Wu to lead a small team to Jinan with two mortars to attack the Japanese airport.

Gao Jiu wanted to let the Third Air Force of the Japanese Army know that since they dared to come to Taohuashan to make trouble, they would definitely pay a heavy price.

After counting the number of people, Nakajima found that more than 200 people were lost in this bombing.He angrily sent a telegram to the headquarters of the 12th Army, accusing these air forces of their crimes.

What Nakajima did not expect was that his accusation would have serious consequences.

The commander of the Japanese Third Air Force, Yokota Makio, received a telegram from the commander of the bomber squadron on the airborne radio station. When he heard that four more bombers had been lost, his eyes were filled with distress.

Immediately afterwards, he received a call from the headquarters of the 12th Army. General Haneda conveyed Nakajima's complaint and gave Yokota a severe reprimand, saying that their aviation was irresponsible.

As soon as Makio Yokota got angry, he immediately sent a telegram to the four transport planes that had already set off, telling them to return immediately. He didn't plan to play with these armies anymore.

Now that the Third Air Force has lost seven planes, and has received such accusations, he has made up his mind that he will no longer care about the Army's affairs. It has nothing to do with me if you love and die.

Nakajima had been counting on the Japanese transport planes to drop supplies, but until noon, there was no sign of the Japanese transport planes, so he had to send another telegram to the 12th Army Headquarters asking for help.

General Haneda called Makio Yokota of the Third Air Force again and asked them to send a transport plane to drop the 18th Wing.

Yokota Mufu tried every means to evade, saying that the enemy has a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, and he was unwilling to go there anyway.Until the end, General Haneda became anxious and said that if Yokota Makio did not carry out the order, he would be sent to a military court.Only then did Yokota Makio agree to send a transport plane to drop supplies.

At the airport, before the squadron leader of the transport aircraft squadron departed, Makio Yokota sent someone to give him a hint, telling him that after arriving at Peach Blossom Mountain, he would launch at a high altitude and then return immediately.

Peach Blossom Mountain.

Nakajima received a call back from the headquarters of the 12th Army, telling him that the Japanese transport plane had already taken off and asked them to prepare to receive supplies.

At this time, it was already past noon, and the smell of food from the enemy's position almost drove the officers and soldiers of the 18th Regiment crazy.

Nakajima Hongo sent someone to boost morale, saying that the superior had sent a transport plane and was about to drop it, so the officers and soldiers all looked at the sky eagerly.

The long-awaited transport plane finally flew in the sky, and it really carried out an airdrop.

At this moment, the sky was blowing with a third-level wind. The bastards of the Air Force carried out airdrops at an altitude of 3 kilometers. The parachutes were blown by the wind, and they floated towards the northwest with the materials below. The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army watched helplessly. These materials floated over their heads and flew to the enemy's position.

"Eight fangs, eight fangs. These bastards!" Nakajima was so angry that he pulled out his pistol and fired a few shots into the sky. The Japanese officers and soldiers also cursed.

Fortunately, this time it was not a waste of work, and a small amount of supplies fell on the mountain.The extremely hungry Japanese officers and soldiers frantically surrounded it, trying to loot the food inside.

Unfortunately, to their disappointment, they opened the airdropped box and saw that there were weapons and ammunition inside.The Japanese officers and soldiers became more depressed, and their emotions became more and more difficult to control.

Hyogo Nakajima reluctantly sent another telegram to the headquarters of the 12th Army, accusing the Japanese Air Force of being irresponsible.

General Haneda called Yokota Makio again. Yokota Makio plausibly said that the anti-Japanese army had a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, and transport planes could not fly at low altitudes.His reasons were very legitimate, and General Haneda couldn't do anything to him, so he had to urge the reinforcements on the ground to march towards Taohuashan as soon as possible.

In the temporary command post on Hill No. 67, several special forces members brought a large box, opened it, and found that it was full of canned beef and a box of Japanese sake.

Wang Zhankui was very happy, and immediately asked the soldiers to open the can of beef. Gao Jiu and the others each held a bottle of sake, and began to eat and drink happily.

The anti-Japanese army ate and drank, not only that, after eating and drinking enough, those special forces members who could speak Japanese started shouting at the Japanese army with tin horns.

Du Shengxi thought it was very interesting, so he also picked up a tin horn and shouted in Japanese with a Shaanxi accent: "Little devils, canned beef is so delicious, you must be hungry too, that's right, who told you?" You came to Russia, China, you deserve it! Starve to death you bastards!"

At the beginning, the special forces members were regular and yelled in accordance with the slogan of disintegrating the enemy army in the textbook to persuade the Japanese army to surrender.Hearing Du Shengxi's scolding, everyone began to curse indiscriminately in various dialects.

The ghost soldiers were in an extremely bad mood, and they were all annoyed when they heard the unbearable scolding from the special forces, and they fired guns indiscriminately.The mortarers fired indiscriminately at the guerrillas, knowing that the shells would not reach them.

Du Shengxi himself was the artillery captain of the Taohuashan guerrillas, so he quit this time, and immediately commanded his team members to bombard the devils with the Type [-] infantry artillery.

The devils on the mountain are going crazy, and their behavior is becoming more and more uncontrollable.Nakajima Hōgo didn't bother to stop it, because he himself was going crazy, and he couldn't bear the hunger, so he hinted to his trusted guards to send the hidden canned beef to his own tent.

At this time, there were only four cans left in the hands of his trusted guards. He asked the orderly to open a can. After eating it, he felt even hungrier, so he opened another one and ate it. Much better.He was reluctant to eat the remaining two cans, because he didn't know when he would be able to truly fill his stomach, and he had to save some food to survive the most difficult days.

Shoucheng County Station.

The two Japanese captains of the Yamamoto garrison have received orders from Captain Yamamoto to reinforce the besieged Japanese 18th Regiment.But they didn't want to go to Peach Blossom Mountain to provoke Gao Jiu, so they procrastinated and refused to act.

Yoshito Hamada gritted his teeth and gave them a gold bar each of the large yellow croakers he had extorted from the captain of the Shoucheng County Gendarmerie and Liu Shengyu. Their tone softened a bit, but they still insisted Only when another brigade rushed over did the three brigades join together before they agreed to go to Peach Blossom Mountain.

Yoshito Hamada was very helpless, and had to wait patiently. At 4:[-] pm, the third brigade of the Yamamoto garrison team that participated in this operation rushed over, but they had to rest first and set off after dinner .

Hamada Yoshito had no choice but to give the team leader a gold bar, and he persuaded the three team leaders to agree to set off immediately to have dinner in Shoucheng County.

Sun Yong'an had already led people to guard near the station. Seeing the devil's brigade leave the station and head for Shoucheng County, he immediately sent a telegram to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu made up his mind to attack the reinforcements from the Japanese army first. He immediately led the two squadrons of Guo Hengming and Du Shengxi of the Special Forces, Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion, and Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion, and rode horses or cars to quickly head towards Shoucheng County. .

(End of this chapter)