Rise from eight hundred.

After splitting up with Lei Xiong again, Tang Dao led the main force to leave the road and marched along the narrow mountain road to Shentouling, 12 kilometers away.

Through the information that the 108th Division began to gather, Tang Dao instinctively raised his vigilance!
In this battle, the Japanese army who suffered heavy losses may not only dispatch infantry!
Most of the anti-aircraft heavy machine guns of the Cannon 2 Company were deployed around Licheng. At this time, the four-line regiment had no air defense capability at all, and would rather stay away from the road to avoid unnecessary losses.

In this regard, Tang Dao also sent a telegram to Brigadier Cheng, who was still far away.

Facts have proved that Tang Dao is not unfounded.

When it was close to 9:[-], a Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over Licheng.

Lei Xiong, who had already made preparations, set up sentries on the top of the mountain five kilometers away. As soon as he saw the Japanese aircraft, he immediately lit a bonfire filled with a lot of wet wood, which was enough to form a plume of smoke that could be seen several kilometers away.

The soldiers in charge of the observation immediately fired a signal flare, and the people who were being relocated immediately hid in the ravine to hide, while in Licheng, houses were set on fire everywhere in the city. Many soldiers in Japanese military uniforms shot at the sky inside the fortifications, creating the illusion that the city was still fighting fiercely. !

The Japanese reconnaissance plane wanted to lower the altitude to take a closer look, but several anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground began to fire, forcing the reconnaissance plane to only stay at an altitude of 1000 meters.

Although he has a telescope, the distance is thousands of meters. The house on the ground is only the size of a matchbox, let alone people. The roaring explosions and the burning city from time to time tell this man to hover over the city of Li for a few weeks. The pilot of the reconnaissance plane, Licheng has not yet fallen, and the Imperial Army is still fighting heroically.

This is what Lei Xiong wants him to know. As long as the battle is still going on, the Japanese bombers will not target Licheng!
Lei Xiong's tactical deception succeeded. After 30 minutes, a bomber formation consisting of six Type [-] fighters crossed the mountains five kilometers outside Licheng and headed straight for the Shentouling area.

Knowing that China does not have much anti-aircraft firepower, the flight altitude of the Japanese bomber formation is not high, and the distance from the ground is less than 800 meters. Even if there are anti-aircraft machine guns at such an altitude, it is not a big threat to them.

With the blessing of telescopes, Japanese pilots could barely see the ground.

After flying over one barren mountain after another, the Japanese pilot saw an incredible scene from the telescope.

Just under their wings, on the road that was exposed on the bare mountain ridge, there were several black huhu groups that were invisible and smoked, and there were people and horse corpses lying everywhere!
"Haga! Lieutenant Sasaki, lower the altitude and go see what's going on!" An angry and terrified order came over the radio.

That's right, as the super 'mascot' of the Japanese North China Front Army Air Corps, Lieutenant Sasaki once again led the expedition!
In the face of the vitality of their colleagues comparable to Xiaoqiang, the officers of the Army Air Brigade of the North China Front Army expressed their envy, but they were not used to it.

So, here he comes again.

Just as his colleagues, the other five Japanese pilots expressed a little panic!

Lieutenant Sasaki has set out several times, and the death rate of his fellow comrades is as high as 60.00%, which is too scary.

But there are advantages to having him with him, and he can do all these dangerous jobs.

"Damn it, a bunch of bastards!" Sasaki complained angrily in his heart.

He said no, but his body was very honest. Sasaki, who did not dare to disobey the military order, turned in front and lowered the height of the fighter to 600 meters, a height high enough for him to see the ground clearly.

As a result, rows of neatly placed 'shit-yellow' corpses came into his eyes. Those black and thick smoke and nothing but empty shells were not Type 94 light tanks, but what else could they be? ?
"It's over! It's over! It's over!" Sasaki, who was cold all over, muttered to himself in the cockpit.

"Lieutenant Sasaki, what did you see?" Captain Lu Hang's expression became extremely ugly.

"The ground is full of the remains of imperial infantry. What is burning is a Type 94 light tank. The imperial infantry who asked us for help are all over!" Sasaki's face was not sad, but more fear.

He remembered that before boarding the fighter plane, the message also told him that they were going to help the imperial infantry with 1500 troops. How long did it take for the battle to end?
1500 people!Not 1500 pigs?Did it end like this?If it weren't for the facts in front of him, Sasaki would really be unbelievable.

Silence on the radio!
Obviously, this also made the other five Japanese pilots unbelievable.

Six Japanese bombers circled the top of the hill several times until they could all see the color of the uniforms on the corpses lying on the ground. Except for the simple road with dirt and scum, there were such corpses everywhere on the hill. At least 1000 or more.

"Nagato-kun, let's go back!" Sasaki exhaled heavily, but there was a kind of ease that he couldn't even describe.

At least, he doesn't have to face the terrifying group of Chinese anymore, even on this extremely barren mountain.

"Baga! The Chinese must not go far, find them and kill them!" The leading Captain Lu Hang angrily rejected Sasaki's proposal.

Six fighter planes were circling high in the sky, unaware that there were nearly 1 Chinese soldiers in gray military uniforms hidden in the mountains less than 2000 km away from them.

After receiving the alarm from Licheng, the 863 Brigade Supplementary Regiment, which was still in Shentouling to clean the battlefield, hid in the mountains. The gray military uniforms and enough camouflage allowed them to completely avoid the search from high altitude.

After searching for a few laps, the six Japanese bombers that could not find Chinese soldiers flew along the road in the direction of Lucheng!
Of course, it's not how sensitive their sense of smell is on the battlefield, it's just a blind cat catching a mouse!

But this time, they hit the big luck and actually saw a moving Chinese army on the mountain road five kilometers away from the Shentouling battlefield.

Those were not the two main regiments under the 683 Brigade, but the 583 regiment under the 769 Brigade that was heading to the scheduled blocking battlefield.

Perhaps because the mountain blocked the radio signal, they did not receive the warning from the 683 Brigade, and it was a little late when they found that the Japanese plane was coming over.

The six Japanese planes that finally found their target for revenge swooped down and dropped bombs on the Chinese army like a dragon on the mountain road.

The terrifying blockbuster raised a terrifying cloud of gunpowder in the mountains, and even a blockbuster hit the mountain road on the mountain wall, destroying the mountain road more than ten meters straight, forming a terrifying cliff, unless it was a U-turn to find him. Road, otherwise no one can continue to pass from here.

According to post-war statistics, in this sudden Japanese bombing, the 769 regiment, which had not yet entered the battle, sacrificed 122 people, seriously injured 48 people, and completely lost an infantry company. The supplementary regiments participating in the battle suffered even greater losses!
It is said that after hearing the battle damage, the famous general who was still in the regimental headquarters five miles away, who personally led the death squad to surprise Yangmingbao Airport, threw his military hat angrily!

This should be the first time in this big melee that the Chinese army did not have any military exploits but only battle losses!

But there was no way. The 769nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment on the mountain road was actually not without resistance. The 6 Japanese planes that had dropped bombs seemed to be unsatisfied, and they swooped down and fired with machine guns. The light machine guns fired into the air, killing more than a dozen machine gun shooters, but they did not shoot down and injure a single Japanese plane.

In the face of absolute strength, courage can only make up for it, but it cannot necessarily compete!

And what's worse is not just the battle damage!
The 769th regiment was divided into two groups. The first battalion, the main force under its command, circled from the left flank to Beiganling, the battlefield selected by Brigade Commander Cheng, and the regiment led the second and third battalions to the frontal position.

What they have to do is to block the incoming Japanese army first, and wait for the 772 and 771 regiments that are still running on the other two mountain roads to arrive on the battlefield from the left and right flanks to surround the Japanese army!

Because of this tactic, both infantry regiments had to give up the road and bypass the narrow mountain road, and the arrival time is expected to be an hour and a half later!

But the problem now is that the mountain road that still takes more than half an hour to reach the battlefield was blown up by the Japanese planes. When they go around again, it will take two hours. The Japanese army may have arrived, and Beiganling Village. The advantageous terrain can only be abandoned, but the bigger crisis is more than that.

Because, based on time estimates, the main battalion of the 769th regiment should have arrived on the battlefield. I want to inform them that the entire 769th regiment has only one field radio.

That means that, in nearly an hour and a half, perhaps an infantry battalion faced two thousand Japanese troops!
"Order the entire regiment to leave a platoon and sanitation staff to take care of the wounded, and everyone else, throw away all the baggage, except for the bullets, guns and grenades, all the rest are lost to Lao Tzu, run for Lao Tzu, even if he is tired, he will climb to Lao Tzu. Battlefield!" The young 769 regiment commander quickly lost his grief and anger, and issued a military order to the entire regiment.

If he didn't arrive at the battlefield sooner, then his most elite battalion of 460 people would face 2000 Japanese troops armed to the teeth. Just thinking about the consequences would make one shudder.

The final battle situation also proved how correct the young colonel's choice was. He ordered the entire regiment to lightly pack and march in a hurry regardless of their physical strength, which shortened the time to reach the battlefield by half an hour!
But at that time, the first battalion, the main force under his command, had been fighting for an hour with the Japanese army, whose strength far surpassed them.

Back to the Japanese bomber formation, they vented their anger with bombs and machine guns. The anger they had seen before seeing the corpses of their own infantry was finally vented, and they returned with shaking their wings.

Perhaps it was because just watching the futile resistance of the Chinese machine gun shooters only left innocuous bullet holes in the wings of the fighter plane, which made the Japanese plane pilots' confidence exploded unprecedentedly. , seeing the houses of Chinese mountain people, they swooped and passed by at high speed.

The terrifying airflow lifted the roofs of the humble houses of the mountain people, and even rolled up the Chinese mountain people who ran out in panic and blew them into the grass more than ten meters away.
If it wasn't for their fighter planes being emptied of bullets from their machine guns, obviously, they would continue to vent their anger on those innocent people.

"Haha! The lowly Chinese, when the imperial army occupies this country, all who dare to resist will die!" The leading Japanese army captain laughed.

"If you don't resist, you will die!"

"They're only fit to kneel and lick our boots!"

The radio was filled with the unbridled laughter of the Japanese pilots.

Perhaps Sasaki was the only one who did not participate in the game of his colleagues to vent their anger, leaving the fighter plane at an altitude of 700 meters, watching the gray mountains vigilantly, even if his colleagues laughed at him from time to time for his timidity!

This is a battlefield, not an amusement park!He avoided the call of the god of death again and again, luck was a big factor, but caution was also necessary. Sasaki, who had been watching the ground cautiously, did not remind these idiots!

He is not their father, so he has no obligation!

Lieutenant Sasaki's caution was correct.

On the return route of the six Japanese fighter planes, there were a full 8 anti-aircraft heavy machine guns and 2 cannons standing by. Although the Japanese planes let go of Licheng County, there were still trucks, carriages and people on the simple road.

No one dared to be careless, even if there were sentries watching on the surrounding hills, once there was danger, the wolf smoke would be lit immediately, giving the soldiers and civilians on the road enough time to escape.

Mo Songzi, the platoon leader of the cannon, was sitting on the cannon position of the Su Luotong cannon. The entire cannon was wrapped in shrubs, and the surrounding wood and stone fortifications were also covered by withered grass and shrubs. Going is no different from a mass of bushes.

Just 200 meters away from his gun emplacement, there is an area similar to his artillery emplacement. That is another cannon of Mo Songzi's cannon platoon. In addition, there are two other camouflaged cannons. Anti-aircraft machine gun!
This is an air defense position centered on the cannon platoon. Not far from them, there is a road that is constantly passing by trucks and carriages.

In the distance, a straight wolf smoke rises!

"Order everyone to be on alert, the Japanese plane is coming!" Mo Songzi held the machine gun handle in both hands.

Cheng Tieshou's military order was very simple. If the Japanese planes bombed, they would beat him to hell. If they didn't find any personnel or vehicles, they would focus on concealment.

The dull roar of the aircraft engine first came to the ears, and everyone on the road had already taken cover. After 1 minutes, six black dots appeared in Mo Songzi's field of vision more and more clearly.

Mo Songzi was stunned for a moment!
The Japanese aircraft coming from the direction of Shentouling had no intention of diving, or they did not need to dive at all.

Because the height is really too low!

Although there is no altimeter in the telescope, Mo Songzi, who has 'flyed' planes countless times, can completely perceive the flight altitude of the Japanese plane through visual inspection.

The highest, less than 700 meters, the lowest, even only 300 meters.
This is the Japanese, want to see the scenery of Taihang Mountain?

Fight or not?This is a difficult problem suddenly placed in front of Mo Songzi, the second lieutenant and platoon leader.

The Japanese plane did not intend to dive bomb. According to the military order, he should hide it well and just watch them leave.

But as far as the Japanese have already laid out their PP appearance, if he doesn't take a shot at them, he will be punished by God.

1500 meters, 1200 meters, 1000 meters, 800 meters, the Japanese aircraft is getting closer!

To paraphrase an old saying of the future commentator explaining the Chinese football team: the time left for the Chinese football team is running out.

"Call me!" Mo Songzi finally made a decision.

"Dong, dong, dong!" With the Su Luotong cannon firing at full force.

Another machine gun also swept out at least five shells, and two anti-aircraft machine guns that had been prepared for a long time also splashed a barrage!
The straight-line distance of 800 meters and the height of about 300 meters, for the anti-aircraft guns that have already prepared everything, it is like a call from the newspaper to the vast number of correspondents - welcome to do it!