Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 356 Learn to be cruel
As a mature soldier, at this moment, military affairs will be given priority.

Fulfilling the military orders of superior officers is what soldiers should do.

But he is Lei Xiong.

A passionate, brave and resolute Chinese soldier.

Why did he defend the retreat of the entire army, for the lives of thirty thousand brothers?No, not only that, what he kept was actually the determination of the Chinese soldiers to defend their homeland.

Lei Xiong's home is still far away in Shaanxi, and there is still a long distance from the front of the Japanese army.

However, just watching his compatriots die mournfully under the bombing of Japanese planes or even machine gun fire, he would think, if one day, his son and his wife would do the same, what should he do.

fighting!

He is a soldier of China, and he should protect the people of China.

Even if the strength is not symmetrical.

Three air defense positions against the Japanese formation consisting of 12 bombers.

Don't think that having anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns can kill Japanese bombers flying high in the sky.

In terms of strength, the bomber formation with the advantages of high altitude and high speed naturally far exceeds the air defense force that is almost fixed on the ground.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that the 12 Japanese fighter planes hovering at high altitude at this time are bombers. More precisely, they should all be carrier-based fighter jets.

It's not that China and Japan can confuse bombers and fighter jets, but that fighter jets that can take off from aircraft carriers are destined to be smaller fighter jets.

The main role of these fighters is not to attack and bomb the ground, but to seize air supremacy, allowing larger land attack models with more ammunition to attack the ground.

It's just that at the moment when the air supremacy has been completely occupied, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft lost their air opponents, so they turned into bombs and used them as small bombers.

The main fighter equipped by the Japanese Navy at this time is the Type 7.5 carrier-based aircraft, Japan's first all-metal monoplane fighter, with a length of 11 meters, a wingspan of 430 meters, a maximum speed of 7.7 kilometers per hour, and two 250mm machine guns As the main combat weapon, there are hooks under the belly and wings, which can carry one 30kg aerial bomb and two [-]kg aerial bombs when necessary.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the fleet hovering at an altitude of 1500 meters and constantly dropping bombs on refugee gathering places in the wilderness is a fighter fleet that can be engaged in air-to-air combat at any time.

Once the bombs are dropped, the twelve Japanese fighter planes can turn into the most beautiful boys in the sky, soaring freely in the sky at a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour.

As for the air defense positions on the ground, the Oerlikon machine gun that shoots up to 2500 meters may still be a little threatening to it, but the bullets of the Maxim heavy machine gun used in infantry may not even reach its exhaust.

High altitude and high speed are their biggest advantage over the ground.

Once the air defense position is fired, perhaps the formation of Japanese fighter jets in the high altitude can level the air defense position with the bombs dropped, without the need for an air-to-ground battle with the Chinese anti-aircraft guns.

Lei Xiong knows this better than anyone else.

However, we still have to fight!

Of course, the battle is to be fought, but if you can't come up, you will show what the guy is, and you will fight hard with swords and guns.

Hard work is courting death.

There must be a position or a valuable target as a bait to lure the Japanese fighter planes down and lower the altitude, so as to ensure the hit rate of the air defense position.

The Japanese people, especially dogs, will not run away with their tails between their legs unless you beat them up.

However, this also means that there must be positions and terrible sacrifices.

Just like fishing, the fish is hooked, but the bait will be eaten.

The formation of twelve Japanese planes was divided into four groups, circling and observing in the air, and once they found any active crowd on the ground, they immediately drew an arc representing death in the air and dropped a 30kg aerial bomb.

The 1200kg aerial bomb dropped from an altitude of 30 meters is no less powerful than a 305-caliber heavy artillery shell. Within a radius of 50 meters of the impact point, both humans and animals will be destroyed.

The refugees are ordinary people, who know little military knowledge there, and either lie on the ground motionless in fright, or run around like headless chickens on the ground, and plunge into the bushes when they encounter them, thinking that they will be safe.

In the face of the air waves caused by the explosion and the violent ground vibrations, these are the most deadly.

An aerial bomb can often take dozens or even hundreds of lives.

Lei Xiong knew that the Japanese aircraft was not just doing this for revenge, but they were also using bait, using the lives of Chinese civilians as bait to stimulate the hidden Chinese soldiers.

As long as they don't act, they can only watch them wantonly hunt and kill the lives of Chinese civilians.

"Vice battalion, position 1 requests fire!" Cheng Tieshou's voice came from the phone.

There is not only an infantry company, but also a communication platoon and medical team staying in the 43rd Army camp.Although Lieutenant General Guo decided to take most of the soldiers who could fight to Songjiang for a desperate battle, he still couldn't bear to let the 43rd Army be wiped out. down.

Although the communication platoon's combat effectiveness is not good, it can set up a telephone, which saves Lei Xiong a lot of trouble. At least the communication between the various positions around the bridge can be done by telephone instead of signal flares.

Inadvertently, this time Lei Xiong experienced the treatment that a lieutenant general and a division commander can only get.

The three main air defense positions and the two infantry positions deployed hundreds of meters away on the south bank of the bridge have telephone communications.

The fire support platoon leader Cheng Tieshou is in charge of the No. 1 air defense position located on the south bank of the bridge.

His position was on a hill on the west side of the bridge. Two Oerlikon machine guns and three Maxim heavy machine guns were deployed around the hill that was not too big. He was also equipped with a Suroton Twin mounted cannons and a MG34 machine gun.

Around the No. 1 air defense position, there are field trenches built by two infantry platoons. Once a large number of Japanese infantry attacks, the air defense position can instantly become a fire support position. A heavy machine gun and an MG43 with a high rate of fire can definitely become a nightmare for any light infantry.

It can be said that this No. 1 position facing the direction of Songjiang is the sharpest spear among all the positions under Lei Xiong's current command.

Whether in the air or on the ground.

Once the No. 1 position is lost, both the air defense and ground firepower of Lei Xiong's men will be weakened by half.

Lei Xiong replied without hesitation: "No!"

His extremely anxious eyes slid over several cars parked in the woods 500 meters away, and an idea came to his mind.

"Call me the number of Company Commander Zeng of the 67th Army who is in charge of this position!" Lei Xiong puffed up his cheeks and finally made a decision.

Erya, who had become Lei Xiong's correspondent, quickly dialed the phone.

"Company Commander Zeng, the Japanese planes are hovering at high altitudes now. I need to lure them to a thousand meters below, so I decided to use a convoy of three cars as bait, but each car must be empty. The car only needs one driver, and the car is driving towards the bridge, and if the Japanese plane does not chase, then go to the bridge."

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

In Erya’s original words later written in his memoirs: Maybe after following Chief Tang Dao for a long time, our brothers in the Four Elements Battalion learned from him to snipe long-range, lay booby traps, and be ruthless against the enemy. cruelty.

Just like Chief Lei Xiong in the Battle of Baihe Port, he knew that he must die, but he still wanted to send someone to die.

His order was to let three brothers from the 67th Army and three trucks step into hell on their own initiative.

"I know, this is a difficult decision, but we have no other choice, either we die or watch the common people die, Company Commander Zeng, this is not an order, this is just a request from me, Lei Xiong, you can refuse!" Lei Xiong continued to speak firmly.

No one could hear the strangeness in his voice, only Erya, who was closest to him, could see his hands clenched extremely tightly, his veins exposed.

Erya knew that when he cruelly used his comrades as bait to die, Chief Lei still couldn't be as calm as he appeared on the surface.

. . . . . .

"Commander Lei said that this is not an order, but just his request, but I think it is an order." After hanging up the phone, the captain and company commander who was 700 meters away from the main position of the bridge, just fell silent for ten seconds. He summoned all the people under his command that he could muster.

"It's just that it's not Chief Lei who issued this military order, but our compatriots. If we don't follow this military order, then they will look at us soft-hearted with a sneer in the sky, just like we did in the Northeast six years ago. The general handed over the Northeast to make people feel the same.

Brethren, say what shall we do? "

A moment of silence.

"Boom!" A loud noise.

There was a burst of gunpowder smoke in the distance, and the ground trembled slightly.

The Japanese plane dropped another bomb.

You don't need to look to know that dozens of lives have disappeared.

"Company commander, I count as one!" A sergeant strode out.

"And I!"

"I!"

Under the leadership of the sergeant, six or seven people walked out of the crowd in one breath.

(End of this chapter)