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Chapter 116 The sorrow of not having air supremacy

Of course, Liu Xiu felt a little pity when he saw two planes being blown up in the air and one plane crashing into the county government office!

The achievement of capturing a fighter plane has not been achieved. After all, so far, Liu Xiu has seized the Japs' trucks, motorcycles, tanks, and even the Type 92 infantry gun, but he has never captured a fighter plane!

Even if that one wasn't blown up in the air, the Type 1 fighter that hit the county government office was still on fire.

Of course, Liu Xiu was also glad that the Type 1 fighter that took off from Taiyuan Airport this time was not a Zero fighter. If the Zero fighter's 20mm cannon was used, then the Type 97 tank's 25mm armor might It's dangerous.

However, from a practical point of view, it is impossible for the Zero Fighter to take off from the Taiyuan Airport. After all, the Zero Fighter is exclusive to the Navy of the Little Devil, so how can it be used by the Army of the Little Devil!

After this little Japanese fighter plane raid, everyone no longer dared to delay. Liu Xiu even ordered to go down and hide the Type 92 infantry gun on the spot, push it into the woods and cover it with branches.

Fortunately, it's not winter now, and the woods are lush and leafy, making it a good place to hide. Of course, it's not just the Type 92 infantry gun, but also the three Type 97 tanks!

After such an attack by planes, Liu Xiu also understood why the little devils there were beaten so badly. The main reason was the lack of air superiority.

Although there are fighters and even bombers over there, the number of fighters and bombers there is simply not comparable to the number of fighter planes of the Little Devils. Although there are more than 600 planes over there, only two can actually fight. More than a hundred. After all, how could there be so many fighter planes that rely heavily on imports?

Therefore, it is incomparable with the Japs Army, which has thousands of fighter planes. Therefore, in the early days of the War of Resistance, the Japs completely seized the air supremacy. Therefore, on the frontal battlefield, the Japs’ ground troops not only had fierce firepower but also had air superiority. Support!

The large-scale gathering of troops on the ground was the best target for bombing and strafing by Little Japanese fighter planes. It was precisely because of this that in the subsequent war against North Korea, the aid force to North Korea chose night operations or dispersed operations.

Just when Liu Xiu had just hidden the Type 92 infantry gun and tank, Liu Xiu heard the roar of the fighter engine again.

Yes, after calling the three Type 1 fighters that were sent out at Taiyuan Airport, they immediately realized something was wrong. Yes, the aircraft in World War II were already equipped with radios that could communicate with each other, so the second wave of nine Type 1 fighters arrived in the middle. An hour later, they roared to the sky above Ping'an County.

After seeing the wreckage of the Type 1 aircraft still burning in the county government office, the second wave of fighters immediately raised the altitude of the aircraft to more than two thousand meters.

Obviously, at such a height, the small-caliber machine guns and rifles on the Eighth Road can no longer damage it, not even the tank's 40mm cannon.

But fortunately, under the cover of lush leaves, the Little Japanese fighter plane circled the sky over Ping'an County for several times without finding any trace of the independent regiment.

Of course, since you have come, you can't leave in vain, so these nine fighter planes dropped the aerial bombs they carried towards Ping'an County.

Three of them hit the county government office directly, blowing the Type 1 fighter plane, which was still burning but had a roughly intact skeleton, into a pile of fragments that could not be put back together.

This also made Liu Xiu and others' idea of ​​moving the wreckage of the Type 1 plane back from the county government office tonight in vain.

After seeing all the fighter planes flying away, Liu Xiu asked the Second Battalion to begin evacuating in batches.

Here, Li Yunlong saw Liu Xiu evacuating and asked the soldiers from other battalions to slowly evacuate. However, after Li Yunlong's attack on Ping'an County was over, it was only after much questioning that the superiors found out why the Japanese in other county strongholds suddenly moved out and then withdrew.

It turned out that Li Yunlong's independent regiment gathered tens of thousands of people and captured Ping'an County in less than half an hour. Of course, especially when I heard that Li Yunlong's independent regiment took out 20 Type 92 infantry cannons at once and captured Ping An. The fact that the county town was destroyed and then followed by three tanks charging was even more eye-opening.

That's right, due to decentralized development, the superiors' grasp of the situation of each regiment is much weaker. When Liu Xiu and Li Yunlong reported it, they only talked to Li Yunlong verbally, and Li Yunlong, who had experience, naturally pretended not to hear it. Liu Xiu’s report.

As for giving feedback to a higher level, don't even think about it. If you give feedback, it will be directly reduced to a cavalry battalion like his cavalry regiment. Of the twenty Type 92 infantry cannons, it is estimated that only five or six of them will be left. As for the tanks, they are probably gone!

However, the attack on Ping'an County this time was completely unstoppable, so when Li Yunlong returned to the regiment in Zhaojiayu, Chief Aluminum also called.

"Li Yunlong, I congratulate you! You are now like a lion!"

When Li Yunlong heard the words of his immediate superior, he immediately smiled and said:

"Where! If I become a lion leader, then you have to be a military commander!"

"Okay! Stop talking to me and tell me! What's going on? Why did you suddenly attack the county? If you can't tell me, I think the director of the quilt factory is still very suitable for you. !”

When Li Yunlong heard this, he immediately poured wine without hesitation like pouring beans through a bamboo tube. He told how he was targeted by the Japs' special forces, how Zhu Ziming was instigated by the Japs, and how he was betrayed by Liu Xiu. I found out how I used my wedding as a bait to attract the Japs, and how the Japs special forces responded in time and took the remaining special forces members to escape to Ping'an County.

After listening quietly on the other end of the phone, Mr. Aluminum finally spoke:

"So in order to avoid future troubles, you Li Yunlong gathered an independent group and captured Ping'an County in less than half an hour!"

Li Yunlong could only smile when he heard this:

"Chief Aluminum, you don't know! This little Japanese special force has a lot of background! Ever since the 1940s when Kong Jie was the leader of the Independent Regiment, this little Japanese special force has been targeting our Eighth Route Army. The commander was defeated, and I also wanted to attack the commander of the Eighth Route Army that time in Chenjiayu! Isn’t this just to avoid future troubles with my incompetence..."

But before Li Yunlong could finish his words, he was interrupted by Chief Aluminum, who said on the other end of the phone:

"Okay! I will report this matter truthfully. As for the subsequent treatment of you, it depends on the commander's decision!"

Li Yunlong didn't pay attention when he heard the phone was hung up. After all, Li Yunlong didn't disobey any orders this time. He had already said it when he issued the order for decentralized development. Under normal circumstances, he could make decisions freely, and he was attacking Ping'an County this time. But no major casualties were caused.

That's right, the casualties in this attack on Ping'an County were much lower than the death toll of the Japs. The number of people killed was only one company, and even the total number of injured was less than one battalion.

As for the Little Japs, more than 800 people were directly killed. This was the first time that the Eighth Route Army overtook the Little Japs with so many losses in a large-scale battle!

(End of this chapter)