Rise From Eight Hundred

The 63rd Infantry Regiment, whose ‘crystals’ were stolen, was still useless. After finding that the whole family of the regiment was in good order, the limp Kuroda Saburo issued a retreat order to the Panzhai front line with a look of death.

The nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers left on the front line did not know why, but they still retreated in disgrace.

Wei Donglai had less than 300 people, and although the 80th Army also had more than 1,000 people, they still lacked heavy weapons. It might be okay to fight a defensive battle, but if they wanted to eat up the 1,000 Japanese soldiers who were still in order, the two armies would still have to pay a considerable casualties.

Faced with this temptation, Wei Donglai finally restrained himself.

The purpose of Tang Tuanzuo’s coming to southern Hebei was not to annihilate a large number of Japanese and puppet troops, but to protect the base and the people. Only with enough people can they continue to grow and develop.

History has proved that if you want to win the entire Patriotic War, you can’t rely on the government’s high-ranking guys and a few soldiers without the support of the people.

The population of southern Hebei is not large now, but there are millions of people. As long as one tenth of them are mobilized, that would be 100,000.

If the right model is available, there are also enemy-occupied bases in northwest Shanxi, eastern Hebei, and northern Hebei, which have a population of more than 10 million. As long as they are protected, a million-strong army is not a dream.

This is indeed the case. In the past, the Eighth Army and the people in the base suffered heavy losses from the extremely cruel Three Lights sweep and the deep trench cutting of the artillery towers in Gangcun Xiaoci. Didn't they still develop hundreds of thousands of troops?

By the time of victory, with the addition of reserve-level militia, the force had actually exceeded one million. Even without the two fat bombs dropped by the United States, the Japanese North China Front no longer had an absolute advantage in North China, and in South China, the Japanese army was actually in a losing position!

Tang Dao believed that this time, with his advance warning, he and the Eighth Army would only do better.

In order to preserve strength to deal with the Japanese army's more crazy sweeps in the future, Wei Donglai let more than a thousand Japanese soldiers run away, but this did not mean that the Japanese army would give up.

"Baga! Send out the bomber fleet and wipe that Chinese village off that land!" After receiving the confirmation from the 10th Division that the 63rd Infantry Regiment's flag had been lost, Duo Tianjun in Pingbei City issued a frenzied military order.

This was not the first time that the Japanese army used heavy firepower such as bomber fleets to bomb China's demilitarized areas, but it was definitely the first time to bomb a small mountain village with a population of only a thousand.

And its purpose was no longer to deter or destroy, but simply to vent its anger.

In the two-day attack on Panzhai Village, the 63rd Infantry Regiment not only lost the 63rd Infantry Regiment and its escort squadron, but also nearly 500 people from Songbei Yuki's unit, which was used as bait, were eaten clean. More than 800 of the more than 2,000 people who were deployed in the battle of only one day and one night were lost, with a total loss of more than 1,700 people.

The 63rd Infantry Regiment, which has a full staff of only 3,800 people, has basically lost its combat effectiveness. It will not be able to be deployed to the battlefield in less than three months.

When he thought about the "great achievements" that his two predecessors had not completed, and became the first commander of the Imperial Army Infantry Regiment Flag to be captured by the Chinese, Duo Tianjun couldn't help but want to slap himself twice.

He still underestimated the group of "Tu Ba" active in the vast countryside.

12 Type 96 bombers took off from Baoding Airport, carrying 12 500-pound heavy bombs and 96 50-pound bombs, a full 5 tons of high explosives. Not to mention being able to raze the small mountain village of Panzhai to the ground, I'm afraid that even Guangping County can be blown into rubble.

Southern Hebei is not southeastern Shanxi, nor is it Zhongtiao Mountain. This is an occupied area. There may be a large number of "Tu Ba" that will give the infantry a headache, but there is no opponent as fierce as the Four-Line Regiment. This is the consensus of the Japanese Army Air Force.

Therefore, under the command of the wing commander, the Type 96 fighter was fully loaded with bombs, so that the fighter could only run to the hunting area at a cruising speed of 280 kilometers and an altitude of no more than 1,800 meters.

The high-ranking officers of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps slapped the horse's ass of the Imperial Prince's confidant, Commander Duo Tianjun.

That is, they may have forgotten one thing, that flattery usually has to be stopped in moderation, otherwise it will swell if you are not careful.

Sasaki, that man, appeared again.

Captain Sasaki survived with his unremitting efforts and had already reversed his reputation as a "lonely star" in the Army Aviation Corps. On the contrary, many Japanese Army Air Forces were more willing to serve under this squadron leader who had been on the Chinese battlefield for more than 18 months and survived dozens of battles.

Only by living long enough on the battlefield can you have enough experience to pass on.

Compared with the Army Air Forces in Central and South China, the Japanese North China Air Corps has been a high-risk occupation for the past year, with a combat loss rate as high as 15%. This is a paradox in the North China battlefield where the Chinese have no fighter planes at all.

But this paradox has always existed, all because there is an outlier in the Chinese army on the North China battlefield, and they are equipped with extremely fierce ground-to-air firepower.

Therefore, Captain Sasaki's life-saving teaching to the dozen pilots who have just joined his squadron has always been one sentence: "Stay away from the battlefield fighting with the Four-Line Regiment. Even if you have to participate, the flight altitude must be maintained above 2,000 meters!"

Sasaki had fought with the Four-Line Regiment for no less than five times, and he knew that the 20mm cannon and anti-aircraft machine guns equipped by the Four-Line Regiment would be much less powerful if the firing height exceeded 2,000 meters, and the most dangerous airspace was below 1,000 meters.

But this time, because the fighter plane had to be fully loaded with bombs, it was not enough to hang a 500-pound heavy bomb under the belly, and 4 50-pound bombs were hung on each wing, which was considered to have reached the limit of the Type 96 bomber. The reason for this was that the commander of the wing and the commander of the corps wanted to flatter the newly appointed commander.

‘These stupid guys, should the wealth of the empire be squandered like this! ’ Captain Sasaki cursed silently in his heart, but he sat in the cockpit with his right eyelid twitching!

Sasaki always believed in his intuition, but the target on the map was just an ordinary small village in the southern Hebei mountainous area.

The 63rd Infantry Regiment has used the blood of nearly a thousand imperial officers and soldiers to prove that there are only thousands of Chinese light infantry and underground resistance organizations there. What can they do? Shoot at the imperial fighter planes in the sky with rifles?

"Gentlemen, before reaching the target area, please be sure to maintain an altitude of 1,800 meters and a cruising speed. Without my order, you are not allowed to descend at will!" Sasaki picked up the communicator, calmed his mind and issued a military order before departure.

"Hi!" The Japanese air force pilots expressed their respect for the captain squadron leader in the radio intercom.

Baoding is only 300 kilometers away from Handan. At the speed of the Japanese fleet, it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to reach the airspace about 20 kilometers away from Panzhai.

As a result, seeing that the 300 kilometers along the way were very stable, some Japanese pilots suggested that they should show the might of the imperial bomber fleet to the Chinese, so that they would know that anyone who dared to resist the empire would be reduced to ashes under the anger of the imperial army!

This can be regarded as a disguised way to make up for the failure of the 63rd Infantry Regiment in this armed sweep!

This is true. Not only did most of the Japanese pilots shout slogans such as "The Empire's Military Fortune Prospers" and "Long Live His Majesty the Emperor", but even Captain Sasaki, whose eyelids had returned to normal, put down his vigilance and agreed after thinking for a while.

So, most of the Chinese people in Guangping County looked up in horror at the fleet of aircraft flying at high speed from the blue sky above their heads.

I don't know how many donkeys and horses were scared to death by the harsh roar of the aircraft engines. Even the most ferocious watchdogs could only shiver in the dog holes at this time.

The shadows of the fleet projected on the ground in the sun were clearly visible!

Because the Japanese fleet flew too low, the altitude would never exceed 700 meters. Even Major Kuroda Saburo, who accidentally became the current highest commander of the 63rd Infantry Regiment in Guangping County, looked up at the sky with a bit of spirit in his eyes.

If this happened in ancient times, it would be a team of elite cavalrymen wearing armor and hanging horse spurs, marching proudly in front of a group of ragged farmers. That was a completely different combat power.

It can be said that most of Guangping County was trembling under the power of 12 Japanese bomber groups.

The spirit lost by the 63rd Infantry Regiment in the defeat was almost recovered by the 6th Squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of the Japanese North China Front Army Aviation Corps.

If it weren't for the fact that they had a few fighter planes that could return!

Flying at a low altitude of nearly 700 meters was a display of power in front of ordinary Chinese people, but everything has its two sides. Flying so low, anyone who is not blind or deaf knows that they are coming.

Just as the fleet passed over Guangping County, a secret radio wave was quickly sent out.

"Send a message to Mo Songzi, hit them hard. Since they dare to fly so low, chase them until they are 4,000 meters high!" The telex of Tang Dao has reached the 1st Air Defense Company in the mountainous area near Panzhai.

The murderous aura in his words was not concealed at all.

There was no need for Tang Dao to hide. Since they had already fought hard with the Japanese army in Panzhai, the news that the Four-Line Regiment had arrived in southern Hebei could basically be concealed. If the Japanese army could not infer the correct result from the small-caliber mortars and high-rate machine guns such as MG34 deployed on the battlefield, then they would be really stupid.

In this case, why not draw the sword and cut off their balls with one knife!

"You have all heard the order from the commander of the regiment. Be alert and don't let the damn Japanese get arrogant again, even if you have to use up all the shells.

All gun positions, don't wait until they fly over our heads before firing. As long as they are within the range of my artillery, shoot them." Captain Mo Songzi, a native of Yunnan Province, conveyed the military order on the phone in his hometown dialect that sounded a bit like Sichuan dialect.

At Tang Dao's request, the air defense battalion and artillery battalion now have almost every artillery squad with a telephone. For this reason, the two high-tech arms battalions have formed their own communication platoons, and setting up telephone lines and telephones before the war has become an important subject.

But this has undoubtedly greatly improved the artillery coordination and combat capabilities of the entire company, almost reaching the level of American cowboys during World War II!

Mo Songzi's Anti-Aircraft Company 1 has a total of 12 Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns. This 40mm anti-aircraft gun, which had good luck in 1935 and received a large number of orders, and performed brilliantly during World War II, is about to give the arrogant Japanese Army Aviation a loud slap in the face in an inconspicuous mountainous area in China.

Ground to air, 12VS12, there is no advantage in numbers. From the perspective of combat position, China still has a disadvantage.

But if you know that in 1942 in time and space, due to the weak anti-aircraft firepower of the American cowboys, the USS Arena was sunk by a Japanese dive bomber in Ceylon. The American cowboys learned from the painful experience and frantically introduced the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun and Put it on aircraft carriers and cruisers and destroyers.

And in the 1944 Mariana naval battle, it was with the cooperation of Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns that Japan lost 282 carrier-based aircraft, completely losing the Japanese navy's last maneuvering power. You may not think so. .

In the exact words of an American Navy sergeant at the time: "Oh God! This is simply like God's Easter gift to us!"

It is said that more than 70% of the Japanese fighter planes were damaged by hundreds of 40mm anti-aircraft guns equipped by the US fleet.

Because the rate of fire of this anti-aircraft killer can reach 120 rounds per minute, and the initial speed of the shell reaches 854 meters per second. It can hit the 9-kilogram shell to a height of 7,200 meters, and after the previous shell is fired, the lower speed A shell will be loaded automatically and will not stop working until the ammunition is used up. It is a completely automatic firing arsenal.

In order to support the Panzhai battlefield, the four-line regiment's baggage company reduced food supplies to a minimum, but carried 300 rounds of artillery shells for each anti-aircraft gun, enough to allow each anti-aircraft gun to blast into the air at a speed close to its maximum rate of fire for three minutes.

That almost means that each Japanese aircraft has to survive the bombardment of 300 rounds of anti-aircraft shells. This difficulty is really a bit high. As long as the smoke from the ancestral graves on the island thousands of kilometers away is not used to protect the body, it is basically perfect. The calf’s life.

Therefore, the cautious but somewhat proud Sasakis originally planned to start pulling up four kilometers in front of the target area and then dive.

As a result, groups of bullet flowers bloomed in the air.

Sasaki and the others were stunned on the spot.

The clouds of gunpowder smoke can be called the grim smile of the god of death. The air waves formed by the explosion shook the Japanese aircraft. What's even more terrifying is the scattered shrapnel. You don't know when a shrapnel will hit the aircraft or even cause it to explode. Tearing the body apart.

"Drop bombs! Drop bombs! Everyone drop bombs, pull up, stay away from here! This is a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun!" Sasaki was almost scared to pee, and his voice, which had changed his tone, sounded heartbreakingly in the Japanese wireless communication channel.

The Japanese fleet was like a group of sparrows stared at by goshawks, scattering in an instant!

Despite Sasaki's reminder, every pilot made what they thought was the right decision at the moment of crisis.

Some, like their commanders, quickly abandoned the heavy bombs and pulled up like crazy; some chose to turn the rudder immediately in an attempt to avoid the airspace where Chinese anti-aircraft guns were pre-firing; He gritted his teeth and pressed the operating lever hard, quickly lowering the height of the fighter plane from 700 meters to 400 meters.

This is actually a very typical trick to survive in death. The larger the caliber anti-aircraft gun, the weaker its ability to shoot at ultra-low altitudes, because the delay of its shell fuze has determined its power in high-altitude areas.

If done correctly, it can even be destroyed with aerial bombs mounted under the belly of the aircraft.

Even though these Japanese Army Air Force pilots showed enough respect for Captain Sasaki on weekdays, at the moment of crisis, most of them still chose to believe in themselves.

If the anti-aircraft company only had these 12 40mm anti-aircraft guns, then this group of Japanese pilots who believed in themselves more might have succeeded.

Most of the positions that were opened in advance were not more than 3,000 meters away from the Japanese aircraft in a straight line. For the Japanese aircraft that quickly stepped on the accelerator pedal into the fuel tank and reached a speed of 320 kilometers per hour, 3,000 meters was only 30 seconds. time.

If a Japanese plane is allowed to drop a heavy bomb at a distance of close to 500 meters, it will be a nightmare for the 25 Chinese soldiers on the gun position.

All living things within a radius of several thousand meters will be torn into pieces by the air waves of such heavy aerial bombs!

Unfortunately, each anti-aircraft artillery squad of the 1st Air Defense Company is also equipped with a quadruple 7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, which is specially used to attack ultra-low-altitude targets.

The Japanese pilots who were staring fiercely at the area where gunpowder smoke was rising in the distance were still constantly judging the bombing distance, and their eyes were stung by the sudden flash of four bullet whips.

The four-mounted 7mm anti-aircraft machine gun would not give any chance to the Japanese aircraft, which was only 400 meters away in a straight line and at a height of 1,000 meters. The crazy stream of metal bullets sprayed out formed a barrage of death between 800 meters and 1,000 meters.

Almost instantly, the brave Japanese pilots who believed in themselves were beaten to death by the 7mm warhead that penetrated the fuselage.

Even if he wanted to pull the bomb handle, he tragically found that his once strong hand was so weak that it was extremely difficult to move it.

The light in the pupils is gradually swallowed up by darkness!

A Japanese plane roared towards the ground, and even the Japanese pilots high in the sky could feel the heat coming from the huge fireball caused by the explosion of fuel and heavy bombs.

This was the first fighter plane lost in the Japanese fleet, but it was by no means the only fighter plane lost in the Japanese fleet.

The Japanese aircraft fleet that had not lost a single aircraft in the previous sudden attack was lucky, but more importantly, only three 40mm anti-aircraft guns opened fire.

Under the command of Mo Songzi, every three anti-aircraft guns formed a group to bombard a preset airspace. The Japanese planes that tried to bypass the battlefield by turning the rudders lost their altitude and encountered not only the attack of 40mm anti-aircraft guns, but also the firepower coverage of 4-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns. Their misery was not much better than the three Japanese planes that dived into the low altitude in a desperate battle.

But this does not mean that the Japanese planes that threw away all the loads and pulled up will have a better life. After dealing with several Japanese planes in the low altitude, the Chinese anti-aircraft guns concentrated all their firepower on the Japanese planes that had been pulled up to more than 2,000 meters.

That altitude is an airspace where 20mm anti-aircraft guns cannot exert their power, but for 40mm anti-aircraft guns, it seems to be just right.

Captain Sasaki's face was pale!

If nothing unexpected happened, he might have a hard time escaping this level today.

But the accident still happened after all. After shooting down two Japanese planes in the high altitude in succession, four anti-aircraft guns that were firing happily suddenly jammed.

Because this was the first time that the 40mm anti-aircraft gun was put into actual combat, the gunners who were familiar with the mechanical structure of the anti-aircraft gun could not find the problem for a while, and could only watch the three Japanese planes fly farther and farther, and finally disappear from sight.

The record of shooting down nine Japanese fighter planes in World War I was enough for anyone to boast, but Mo Songzi still raged and severely reprimanded several artillery squad leaders whose anti-aircraft guns jammed.

In the end, the cause of the jam was not found, and they had to return to the regiment headquarters to find military experts to investigate the cause.

Captain Sasaki was a son of luck. In this case, he was able to escape with two Japanese planes. The two Japanese pilots who escaped by chance almost regarded their squadron leader as a god.

Although 4 of the 7 fighter planes that listened to Captain Sasaki's military order were still destroyed in the end, compared with the 5 guys who believed in themselves more but had a 100% combat death rate, the chance of survival should not be too high!

A squadron, at the cost of 75% of its combat loss rate, destroyed hundreds of acres of Chinese forests. The news was sent back to the Japanese North China Front Command, causing an uproar.

Duo Tianjun: Is this commander's position poisonous?

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