The beacon of youth

Besides, the enemy defenders also felt that the cry was a bit different from usual. Everyone knows that the eight spiders are poor, not to mention shells, even taking a few bullets is like a treasure. Those who are willing to use artillery fire to attack, why are the eight roads under the city wall so generous this time?The cannonballs from the small cannons continued to greet the city wall, blowing up the brothers to hide.

As a result, the speed at which the troops dug ditches increased again. The enemy could not find a good way to deal with the ditches, and they did not dare to go out of the city to fight with our army, so they had to watch helplessly as the ditches dug by the soldiers got closer and closer to their blockade. closer.

It was almost noon when it was dug out to more than 200 meters. At this time, there were bursts of roaring sounds from the distant sky, and the sound gradually became louder. After a short time, several small red-headed planes flew from the sky. Jumping out, the enemies on the city wall immediately danced and shouted like chicken blood: "Tuba Road, our plane is coming, you dig it, let you taste the taste of the bomb."

Li Yong immediately ordered the troops to enter the air defense state. The large-scale battles of the Northwest Field Army will increase in the future, and the number of encounters with enemy planes will become more and more frequent. It is useless to be afraid. You must use your brains to figure out ways to deal with the enemy. , no matter what kind of weapon it is, as long as you put your heart into it, you will be able to find a way, and if there is a spear, there must be a shield.

Li Yong is very clear that this small red-headed aircraft is a Four Mustang fighter jet aided by the United States to the National Furnishing Party. It is a propeller aircraft during World War II. It has good air combat capabilities. It is known as the best aircraft during World War II, with a maximum distance of [-] kilometers , had a pretty good record in air combat against the Germans and the Japanese.

Several other famous aircraft in World War II roughly include the Japanese Zero, the British Spitfire, the German By1, the Soviet Jacques, etc. The best performance is the German Hero. This is a jet The fighter jet is the ancestor of the modern jet, but it was only developed in the late World War II, when Germany was about to be defeated, and the number was scarce, and it was already weak. greatly enhanced.

Although the performance is good.But they are only fighter jets for air combat, not full-time bombers. They have limited ground attack capabilities, and they carry less fuel and have a shorter range. They are also rare. The Kuomintang Air Force has no choice but to use them to support Yulin's troops. The symbolic meaning greater than the actual meaning.

But it has a shocking effect on our soldiers who don't know anything about airplanes. Most of our soldiers are peasants. It may be the first time in their life that they have seen an airplane, and this airplane is here to blow them up. It is normal to be panicked by the roaring plane.

There used to be a commander at the grassroots level of our army who ordered the soldiers not to speak when they saw an enemy plane, because they were afraid of being heard by the people on the plane. People nowadays find it funny when they know this, but people of that era I didn't find it funny, and the soldiers faithfully carried out the commander's orders.

When we figured out all these things, when our army was in the Korean battlefield, we saw a lot of planes, and the soldiers gradually realized that the people on the plane could not hear what they said on the ground.

At this time on the northwest battlefield, not only the cadres and soldiers at the grassroots level of our army did not understand the aircraft, but even some middle and senior commanders did not understand the aircraft.

This was clearly demonstrated during the first battle of Yulin. Our army attacked at night and withdrew for air defense during the day. The position that was taken at a great price at night was reoccupied by the enemy. In fact, several sorties Or a dozen sorties of combat flights have little effect on large corps operations, and these aircraft are just fighter jets that focus on air combat.

Although these planes have little effect, their impact on our army is immeasurable, especially on the psychological and morale of our soldiers. How can an army that is trembling with fear from the planes definitely have a decline in combat effectiveness? Yes, some soldiers are still whispering to each other when we have our own planes.

But this trick of the Kuomintang is useless to Li Yong. Who is Li Yong?What plane has he never seen?I'm tired of watching jet fighters with double pitch, so of course I don't pay much attention to this kind of old-fashioned propeller fighter jets.But it’s not enough just to ignore it. Although the planes of that era were not good, the anti-aircraft weapons were even worse, especially the eight roads that were famous for being poor.

Li Yong doesn't know if the entire Northwest Field Army has anti-aircraft weapons, but it is true that only the independent regiment of the second column has two anti-aircraft machine guns. How to use the existing weapons in hand to deal with the enemy's aircraft is what Li Yong is thinking about now.

Compared with infantry, the biggest advantage of aircraft and infantry is speed. Fighting slow with speed, the faster side will always have the upper hand. In the eyes of infantry, the speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour is the blink of an eye. The light weapons in their hands have not waited for the reaction The coming plane has already passed, so what to do when the plane comes?Do you want to fight?how to spell?It has become a problem that our army urgently needs to solve.

Taking into account the respective performances of aircraft and infantry weapons, Li Yong believes that fighting is necessary. No matter what the reason is, it is not a good idea to wait to be bombed.

After thinking about it, Li Yong felt that the best time for infantry to attack an aircraft is when the aircraft is diving towards the ground, and attack the aircraft head-on.

In this way, there is no need to calculate the advance amount, which saves a little calculation time. In addition, when the plane dives down and the bullet fires head-on, there is also a problem of acceleration. The relative speed increases, the time decreases, and the kinetic energy of the bullet will increase exponentially. Aircraft are also the greatest threat.

But when the plane dives down, the large-caliber airborne machine gun will also fire at the ground target at the same time. This is a trick called rooster rice among the veterans.Not everyone has the guts to shoot at a plane that is diving head-on with a light infantry weapon in your hand. It requires more courage and guts than ordinary people, as well as a fearless spirit of sacrifice. Weapons are also vulnerable to being hit by aircraft when firing at them.

What Li Yong didn't expect was that the most difficult point for ordinary people is not a problem for the cadres and soldiers of the independent regiment. Everyone thinks this is very common, so there is a reason why you are only allowed to beat people, and they don't beat you ?Casualties and dangers are normal, but sacrifices are unavoidable in war, and everyone rushes to ask to do this most dangerous job.

When the Independence Regiment started, there were only about 20 people. Near the hometowns of Li Yuming and Sanniu Xiaocheng, that is, the Ansai area north of Yan’an, nearly 200 local farmers and militiamen were recruited, and then they fought in Xielong Town More than [-] people were captured, and when they were on the Longdong Plateau, the field army headquarters added another [-] veterans.

These five people are the backbone of the current independent regiment. They are basically members of the Communist Party, including those soldiers who were captured in the battle of Marriage Dragon Town. In less than a year of fighting life, they have already become independent soldiers. The core of the regiment, many soldiers have also served as cadres at the squad and platoon level, and most of them have joined the party.

They didn't take Li Yong's danger very seriously. Could there be no casualties in the war?Since you are afraid of death, don't be an Eighth Route Army, and don't be a member of the Communist Party.

Especially the cadres and soldiers of their machine gun battalion in the Weijian think that using machine guns to shoot *aircraft* is their battalion's business and has nothing to do with other battalions, especially the use of the two anti-aircraft machine guns, other battalions can do whatever they want This is their business, and there is no need for other troops to follow suit.

This moved Li Yong very much. He has been in this war-torn era for almost a year, but he still underestimated the broad-mindedness and self-sacrifice spirit of Communist Party members in this era.

It is precisely because of these warriors who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of our party that our army can be fearless, invincible, and win one victory after another.

At the discussion meeting before the war, Li Yong and political commissar Wang Chengde decided to hand over the task of air-to-air shooting to the machine gun battalion of Weiwang in the name of the regiment party committee. Li Yong told Weiwang at the meeting that things were done, not that Come out, whether it works or not depends on the performance on the battlefield.

At this time, the cadres and soldiers of the machine gun battalion had long been hiding in their shooting positions. The only two anti-aircraft machine guns were covered with branches, which looked like two small trees from a distance.

The KMT's plane swaggered over Yulin. It seemed that this was not the first time these pilots had done such a job. They kept hovering at low altitudes outside the city.

From their point of view, weapons such as airplanes are invincible on the battlefield in China. How can the poor who lack food and clothing use them to deal with airplanes?Wouldn't it be with poker sticks and their half-blown frontier grenades?

With this mentality, the plane got lower and lower, from the altitude of several thousand meters to the low altitude of hundreds of meters, the targets on the ground became more and more obvious, and the false positions set up by the fighters of the independent regiment became more and more clear.

Seeing this situation, several pilots happily pushed the nose of the plane, and the plane swooped down with strange screams, and the altitude became lower and lower. Immediately, the machine guns on the plane fired, and the ground was beaten up with dust and sparks.

Just as the pilot on the plane was about to pull up the nose to climb, and then dropped the bomb hanging on the plane, the anti-aircraft firepower on our army's position opened fire.

Dozens of heavy machine guns and two anti-aircraft machine guns fired suddenly, and the bullets covered a large area of ​​the sky like dense swarms of bees. The four planes that were diving suddenly trembled as if they were electrified, and then climbed desperately. , two of them only flew up for less than a few hundred meters, and saw a puff of black smoke coming out from behind the rear of the plane. , pulled the black smoke and fell face down, and the remaining two flew away with their arms crooked.