Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1503 The hot man is here again!

In the first hour of the artillery battle, both China and Japan were counting on a living pilot, so both the caliber and size of the artillery shells were strictly controlled.

中方这边共动用了9门60迫以及4门82迫，都以距离受损迫降飞机280米左右为红线，主要目的是阻止日军后续增加步兵投入。

The Japanese army used 10 70mm infantry guns and 90 mortars to block the Chinese reinforcements.

At least during this period of time, for the infantrymen on both sides who entered the battlefield to compete for Chinese pilots, all ways of survival were still in their own hands.

7 Chinese infantrymen against 36 Japanese infantrymen. In terms of total number of troops, the Japanese army had an absolute advantage.

But these seven Chinese infantrymen were all elite soldiers carefully selected from the battlefield in North China. The lowest rank of them was a corporal in the army, which meant that they either had more than three years of military service or had made military achievements on the battlefield.

More than 116% of the soldiers in the 10th Division were recruits from the country, and the training for the recruits was reduced from 3 months to 7 months. For many of them, it was their first time to participate in such a bloody battlefield. In the eyes of the seven Chinese soldiers, they were all rookies in terms of psychological quality and technical and tactical level.

Of course, at that time, the Chinese and Japanese infantry collectively ignored the plane parked in the middle of the field and the Chinese pilot who dared to rush into the artillery formation alone.

How could a passionate young man who had enough courage to brave the heavy fire to save his comrades, and a Chinese soldier who was smart enough to escape the pursuit of nearly 20 anti-aircraft guns, just sit there and wait to die and become the prey of his opponents?

While the infantry of both sides were fighting fiercely in the farmlands around them, no one noticed that the engine of the fighter plane that was almost falling apart started again and began to move forward.

"Fuck, is this guy crazy? Hurry up and notify him that we are here to save him. How can this broken thing still fly now?" The young army corporal who was lying on the edge of the field and shooting at a distance of more than 300 meters was stunned.

"The Chinese are going to escape?" This was the same thought of the Japanese army second lieutenant who led the other team.

However, none of the Chinese and Japanese soldiers believed that the fighter plane could still fly. Not only was it covered by artillery fire from both sides a few hundred meters away, but the rugged farmland made it impossible for the plane to accelerate. The reason was that the entire tail of the fighter plane was in such a miserable state that half of it had been shattered by a shell. During the forced landing, the huge destructive force caused by the plane's constant "bouncing" in the field completely broke the other half, and a section of the wing was broken after colliding with the ground.

If an intact fighter plane is a prince or princess, then this fighter plane is not even as good as a beggar or a homeless person. If a fighter plane in this state can still fly, it will completely overturn these infantrymen's awe of the sky.

Maybe if we make them a pair of wings, they can run faster and even take off!

They were right. This fighter plane indeed could not fly, but Lin Heng did not want to take off at all. His purpose was just to make his seat move.

However, it was not the kind of "jiggling" movement that Aaron Kwok did. The violent turbulence of the plane jumping more than 3 meters above the ground during the emergency landing almost cost him his life.

The joystick hit his chin hard, breaking it and knocking out two teeth. His mouth was now full of blood, and he no longer looked as handsome as before.

But the intense pain stimulated Lin Heng's mind to be extremely clear. He had already seen through the porthole that the soldiers of both sides were shooting fiercely at each other in the fields on both sides. He understood that his infantry wanted to rescue him, and the reason why the Japanese did not shoot at the plane was that they wanted to capture him.

The sober Lin Heng even observed the disparity in military strength between the Chinese and Japanese sides. Although the firepower on the Chinese side was not weak, there were only less than 10 people in total, while the Japanese side had a large number of at least dozens of people.

After a brief thought, Lin Heng decided to save himself.

The slogan "China has no captured air force" has become the motto of the entire Chinese Air Force since the Battle of Shanghai, when the pilot named Yan Changhai parachuted to the ground, faced the surrounding Japanese troops, killed several Japanese invaders with his rifle and saved the last bullet for himself!

There were 7 bullets in Lin Heng's service gun, but the mechanical card table of his phone still showed the number 487, which meant that there were still 487 bullets in the single compartment of his phone.

Death is not that scary! Lin Heng glanced at the photo stained with his own blood. His parents' smiles were still kind and gentle, and his eldest sister's smile was gorgeous and gentle. He resolutely started the fighter engine again.

The fighter plane does not need to move at high speed, it is enough to turn the nose of the plane and aim the heavy machine gun under the wing towards the Japanese army.

So, in the astonished eyes of the Chinese and Japanese infantry, they saw the tattered but still tenacious Chinese fighter plane numbered 4305 slowly turning its nose, and then a brilliant flame suddenly burst out from under the wing.

"Bang, bang, bang!" Six crazy streams of bullets started the sweeping mode.

  That's a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. Its huge kinetic energy and thick bullet can penetrate a tree as thick as an adult's waist, and can even blow up two layers of sandbag fortifications. How can a natural ridge block it?

It would be fine if you weren't knocked down, but if someone was unlucky enough to be caught in the trajectory formed by these six metal torrents, he would basically be in a bloody state.

The Japanese Army second lieutenant who was still clamoring for his men to move forward quickly and not let the Chinese pilots escape was unfortunately hit by one of the ballistic missiles.

Even though he was lying under a ridge, the crazy stream of bullets penetrated the soil and hit him, shattering half of his body.

"This air force brother is really great. Shanzi will be in charge of the defense, Huzi will provide cover, and the rest of you, follow me!" Tan Tai Mingjing waved his hand and led four soldiers to bend over and move towards the fighter plane at high speed.

In fact, the moment the fighter plane slowly turned around, Tan Tai Mingjing had already realized what the Chinese Air Force pilot was trying to do, so when the onboard machine guns opened fire crazily, he immediately led four elite soldiers to approach the plane at high speed.

He could not waste the gap in Japanese fire that the air force pilot had created for him.

As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for almost 4 years, Tan Tai Ming Jing knows very well that once the outcome of the battle is decided in the interval between the artillery fire of both sides, no matter which side it is, they will cover the area that seems to be not covered by artillery fire.

There was no way the Chinese side would see their pilots being captured by the enemy, and there was no way the Japanese would watch the Chinese side rescuing people right under their noses. It was related to the morale of both warring parties.

In the face of morale, which can determine victory or defeat, everyone is just a string of numbers, even the battalion commander, regiment commander, or even the brigade commander or division commander.

Tan Tai Ming Jing undoubtedly understood the war. Tang Dao on Yan Hui Peak received the report from Tu Yunsheng. He knew that it was his brother-in-law Tan Tai Ming Jing who went deep into the battlefield to rescue people. His eyes twitched slightly, but he still gave a cold order: "Order the mountain artillery battalion of the Sihang Regiment and the artillery battalion of the 10th Army to adjust the artillery coordinates to 221 meters ahead of the 400 highland of Zhangjiashan. If the infantry fails to rescue the pilot, notify our infantry in front to evacuate the battlefield immediately. Two minutes after the notification is issued, immediately implement artillery coverage of the coordinate area and extend it by 2 meters. Without the order of the combat department, the artillery is not allowed to stop. Since you want to fight, then beat the Japanese hard for me."

"Tell Tan Tai Ming Jing to rescue the person for me as soon as possible, at any cost!" For the first time, Tu Yunsheng's voice changed in anxiety.

He had been dealing with the Japanese army for so many years, and he knew very well how the Japanese army would react after being bombarded. There would definitely be a massive artillery fire in retaliation. That was a distance of 400 meters, and even if they ran at full speed for 2 minutes, they might not be able to run back to the position. How could his seven soldiers avoid the overwhelming artillery shells?

Fortunately, Tan Tai Mingjing's decisiveness saved Lin Heng and himself.

The sniper who stayed behind accurately killed several Japanese soldiers who were ready to move. The MG42 also completely suppressed the two light machine guns of the Japanese army. The four Chinese soldiers approached the fighter plane in less than one and a half minutes.

Erniu, who had been following Lin Heng, jumped high onto the wing and shouted desperately to wake up Lin Heng, who had fallen into a brief coma after pressing the machine gun button.

After knowing that Lin Heng's cockpit cover was damaged and could not be opened, Tan Tai Ming Jing almost roughly made Lin Heng curl up in the cockpit, and directly fired at the upper edge of the cockpit cover with an assault rifle, breaking the cockpit cover directly and rescuing Lin Heng, whose face was covered in blood, from the plane.

  The whole process takes no more than 30 seconds!

The remaining Japanese infantry could only watch as several Chinese soldiers covered the Chinese pilot and ran backwards. The walkie-talkies equipped by the infantry squad of the Fourth Regiment finally showed their great effectiveness at this moment.

"Requesting artillery support, the established coordinates are 250 meters forward, and we are covering the pilot's escape." Tan Tai Mingjing shouted frantically into the walkie-talkie.

Tan Tai Ming Jing knew that machine guns and sniper suppression alone could not block all the bullets from the Japanese infantry behind him, and he had to evacuate the battlefield with everyone as quickly as possible, even if it meant returning to the 'killing trench' built specifically for the Japanese army as quickly as possible.

The coming overwhelming artillery fire would not give him any more time.

"As Tan Tai Ming Jing requested, fire immediately!" Tu Yunsheng also made a prompt decision.

Although the artillery target that Tan Tai Ming Jing requested was less than a hundred meters away from them, making it very easy for accidental bombings to occur, it was really nothing compared to the possible covering bombardment by the Japanese at any time.

Facts have proved that the judgments of the two Chinese grassroots commanders were extremely correct. When Tan Tai Mingjing and his team retreated to the deep trench, the Japanese, who had already learned that the Chinese side had rescued the pilot, went crazy. They bombarded the area with overwhelming artillery fire, and even Hill 221 became the target of artillery retaliation.

According to post-war statistics, the Japanese army deployed at least 80 artillery pieces in the bombardment.

But the Chinese side did not show weakness and also deployed more than 60 artillery pieces of various types to carry out saturation bombardment on the Japanese positions.

A battle for pilots turned into a large-scale artillery battle, which lasted until about 3 pm!

But the protagonist changed at 3 pm, when a group of 24 fighter jets and 12 bombers flew into the sky.

That was a retaliatory bombing by the Chinese Air Force against the Japanese air defense forces. This is how the news of Lin Heng's rescue reached Liuzhou Airport. Otherwise, the aircraft fleet dispatched this time might not be 36 aircraft but a Chinese fleet of more than fighter jets deployed at several major airports in Liuzhou and Guilin.

Today's Chinese Air Force has the ability to fight against the Japanese Army Aviation alone, and naturally also has the ability to retaliate against the Japanese air defense forces.

36架战机先是在3000米高空对日军所在的区域进行高空投弹，超过50吨的炸弹对超过5平方公里的区域进行了地毯式轰炸，能对3000米空域反击的4门75毫米高射炮在空中绽放的那可怜的几十枚白色雾团在庞大机群面前显得是那么的弱小和无助。

They could only watch as tons of heavy bombs fell from the sky, turning the hillsides and valleys into a sea of ​​fire. The huge explosions could be heard clearly even by the infantry of the 3rd Division on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River.

Looking at the dozens of small black dots in the distant sky, the once arrogant Japanese regular division infantrymen all had stern faces and looks of disbelief in their eyes.

  The shadow of the failure of the forced crossing of the Xiangjiang River a few days ago is still lingering. This time, we saw the Chinese side organize such a large fleet of aircraft to bomb the ground, causing such a big commotion. In just a few years, the Chinese have already possessed such a powerful air force. If it continues to drag on, will the empire still have a chance to achieve the final victory as advertised?

Don't ask these Japanese infantrymen how they knew that such a large fleet of aircraft belonged to the Chinese and not the Empire. That's because the ground fighting had been going on for a week, and the Empire had never had such a large fleet of aircraft appear on the battlefield. Twenty or so aircraft were already the maximum.

A dozen fighter planes with bright red suns painted on their bodies rushing from the east and engaging in air combat with the huge fleet indirectly pointed out their guess.

More than forty fighter planes were entangled and chasing in the air, fighting from the south to the west of the city, and even to the airspace dozens of kilometers away from Hengyang City.

But the Chinese side was perhaps not satisfied with the ground bombing by 36 aircraft, or perhaps they knew that the Japanese would have fighter planes come to harass them, so half an hour later, another 12 fighter planes flew over.

The 'Thunder' fighter squadron actually came to help. After a half-hour battle, the 16 Japanese planes were already exhausted. Faced with the latest American fighter planes whose performance completely crushed the Zero fighter planes, the Japanese planes turned around and ran away without hesitation.

But for the 'Thunder' that had already entered the battlefield at high speed and had a speed of 680 kilometers per hour, the Japanese planes that had been destroyed by its own comrades were just dishes on the table. How could they be allowed to escape easily?

Major Sasaki's reputation as the "unlucky star" once again spread throughout the Fifth Air Corps.

Starting from 1943, as the Japanese Navy gradually lost the initiative in the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese Navy withdrew the main force of the 3rd Fleet in China to the Pacific battlefield. The Japanese Army Aviation had to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining air superiority in the Chinese battlefield alone. The China Expeditionary Army Command made an integration at the end of the year, and transferred more than half of the aviation corps in North China to the battlefields in Central China and South China. Major Sasaki also led his troops to the Fifth Air Corps.

Only the subordinates under Major Sasaki knew the nickname of "The Unlucky Star". When it was heard by the Fifth Air Corps, most people just laughed it off. The Imperial Army Aviation was so powerful, how could it be resisted by those Chinese?

But this time, Major Sasaki used facts to verify to them the power of "The Lone Star". Among the 16 fighter planes of the Fifth Air Corps, only Major Sasaki was able to return to Jiangxia Airport.

And if anyone said that Major Sasaki was able to escape by fleeing without a hard fight, he would be slapped in the face by the Zero fighter that was covered with scars, had at least fifty bullet holes and even had its landing gear broken.

If it were anyone else, it would be impossible to fly this fighter plane that was shot into pieces by the 12.7mm machine gun back to the sky over Jiangxia, let alone successfully make an emergency landing in a paddy field without a landing gear.

But Major Sasaki, with a bitter face, accomplished this almost impossible miracle, which was a little comfort to the Fifth Air Corps whose morale had suffered a severe blow.

"You are a hero of the empire!" The commander of the Fifth Air Force, who held the rank of major general of the Army, hugged Major Sasaki, who had emerged from the fighter plane unharmed, in a way that was extremely uncharacteristic of the Japanese nation.

  Is this what it feels like to be understood? Major Sasaki completely burst into tears at that moment!

Long before the battle, he had seriously warned his subordinates that they only needed to drive the Chinese fighter planes out of the sky over Hengyang and not let them bomb the imperial infantry recklessly. Their mission would be accomplished and they had to return in half an hour at most, otherwise follow-up aircraft groups from the Chinese and Americans would arrive.

But as soon as his subordinates entered the battlefield, they went crazy and chased the Chinese fighter planes desperately, even moving the battlefield dozens of kilometers away. At that time, he felt something was wrong.

How could the Chinese Air Force, which has more fighter planes than the Empire, be so weak? This is not their style.

  In the end, it was as expected! Twelve of the latest Thunder fighters arrived at the battlefield within half an hour of his estimate. The Empire fleet had already consumed most of its fuel and ammunition, so how could it possibly fight back?

The Chinese fighter planes even chased to the sky above the Miluo River, shot down two Zero fighters that had withdrawn from the battlefield early and fled frantically, and then returned in a swagger. If it were not for the 12 Imperial fighter planes coming to the rescue, Major Sasaki's body would probably have been cold in the Miluo River by now.

  The poor Japanese Army Aviation Major tried very hard, but in the face of absolute strength, he could only return alone.

In this battle, 15 Japanese Army Aviation fighter planes were shot down, the ground air defense battalion was bombed to the ground, 20 14mm anti-aircraft guns were damaged, and more than 300 anti-aircraft artillery soldiers were blown to pieces. In addition, more than 600 infantrymen were implicated and became cannon fodder in China's crazy artillery fire!

The Chinese side lost a total of 8 fighter planes, including one killed and three injured in an ambush. Three were shot down, one was destroyed by artillery fire after an emergency landing, two pilots successfully parachuted over Hengyang City, one was rescued by the independent company of the 3th Regiment on Zhangjiashan Heights, and the infantry lost nearly people.

Judging from the losses on both sides, the Japanese army suffered so much that they were left with nothing to wear.

  "Death Star Battalion" is the respectful name given to the newly transferred anti-aircraft battalion by the infantrymen of the 116th Division, which suffered the most damage after being bombarded by artillery and carpet-bombed by the Chinese Air Force!

The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, who was severely burned and almost roasted, was lying naked in the field hospital. He was still breathing. After hearing this honorific, his breath was stuck in his chest and he died on the spot.

From a certain perspective, this person could have been a close friend of Major Sasaki, but unfortunately Major Sasaki's "unlucky star" attribute was too strong, which did not allow him to have any friends at all.

Friends must die! It's so tough!

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