After receiving the order, Li Yunlong immediately took the troops on the road again, rushing from Gaodashan towards Sanjuli, and then transferred from Sanjuli to Zhenxingli.
On the other side, the First Division of the First Army had successfully crossed the river and built a position on the other side.
Then Li Qiufan gave the order to the Second Division to start crossing the river to follow up.
Not long after the order was issued, dozens of small black spots appeared in the sky in the distance. It was the carrier-based aircraft of the beautiful country that had arrived to support them.
"Order the anti-aircraft artillery regiment to fire in advance. Don't worry about the exposure of the position. Before the opponent bombs, be sure to repel the enemy's aircraft!"
Li Qiufan saw the enemy's aircraft through the telescope. He roughly counted about thirty aircraft.
Once these thirty planes bomb the First Army, the casualties will be too great.
Therefore, Li Qiufan made a ruthless decision to let the anti-aircraft artillery positions fire in advance to force them back, without giving the enemy planes any chance to drop bombs.
However, doing so will completely expose the anti-aircraft artillery position and make it difficult to cause too much damage to enemy aircraft. Moreover, the anti-aircraft artillery position will also become the first target of enemy aircraft.
Because no matter what you do, as long as you encounter a threat, you must first eliminate the threat.
Li Qiufan actually had the same idea and used the anti-aircraft artillery position to replace the Second Division's smooth crossing of the river.
Under such circumstances, he had no choice but to be ruthless, and he did not want the anti-aircraft artillery regiment to be a target, but now he had to make a choice, otherwise the troops would definitely suffer serious casualties.
At this time, Li Qiufan can be said to be very helpless. If there were enough and powerful enough anti-aircraft weapons, the result would definitely be different.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, the anti-aircraft artillery regiment also understood their next situation.
However, in order for the large force to cross the river smoothly, every soldier of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment was determined to fight off the approaching enemy planes.
The enemy pilots were originally tasked with finding and destroying the Volunteer Army's heavy artillery positions, but upon reaching the sky over Fushengri, they discovered something was wrong.
They found that the Volunteer Army was actually launching a counterattack and had suppressed the Southern Dynasty's 3rd Division and 3rd Infantry Division.
Upon seeing this, the enemy pilot immediately reported the situation to the higher-ups, and then applied for bombing of the volunteer infantry units.
After receiving the news, the Naval Command of the United States contacted the commander of the Tenth Army and agreed to the proposal after some discussions.
After receiving the order, the enemy pilots immediately changed their targets and flew towards the position of the First Division of the First Army and the Second Division that was crossing the river.
But before they could get close to the First Division's position, the anti-aircraft artillery regiment opened fire brazenly.
The enemy plane intercepted by the anti-aircraft artillery immediately turned to increase its altitude, and then observed the position of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment.
The interception anti-aircraft artillery regiment only destroyed three enemy aircraft this time, and this was because the opponent's aircraft formation was relatively concentrated.
Seeing everything that happened, Li Qiufan felt a little heavy. He knew that a fierce battle with the anti-aircraft artillery regiment was coming next.
After confirming the two positions of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, the enemy pilots communicated immediately and then divided into two teams to prepare to destroy the anti-aircraft artillery positions first.
The soldiers of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment were also waiting for the arrival of enemy aircraft.
As the enemy aircraft circled around for a week, the ground-to-air battle began.
The soldiers of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment operated anti-aircraft guns to continuously bombard enemy aircraft, while the enemy pilots controlled the aircraft to dodge, and then used machine guns to straf the anti-aircraft artillery positions.
More than 20 aircraft continued to dive and shoot at the anti-aircraft gun position, and it didn't take long to destroy two anti-aircraft guns.
The anti-aircraft artillery regiment destroyed an enemy aircraft at the cost of losing two anti-aircraft guns.
The ground-to-air battle was going on fiercely here, but the Second Division took advantage of this time to successfully cross the river to the other side.
"Order, the First Division of the First Army launches an attack on the Third Division of the Southern Dynasty from the front, and the Second Division will contain the enemy from the left and right wings!"
"Order the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade to change targets, cover the 3rd Southern Division with artillery fire, and cover the 1st Army to pull out this nail first!"
After seeing that the Second Division successfully crossed the river, Li Qiufan immediately issued the order to attack, and at the same time transferred the artillery fire of the 1st and 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade here.
What Li Qiufan wanted to do was to concentrate all his forces to defeat the Third Infantry Division of the Southern Dynasty, and then deal with the Third Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country.
After the heavy artillery fire was transferred, the bugler of the First Division blew the charge horn, and then countless soldiers of the First Division rushed towards the position of the Third Division in the south.
At the same time, the Second Division also moved around to the two wings, cooperating with the First Division to contain the Third Division of the Southern Dynasty.
While the infantry was fighting, the battle between the antiaircraft artillery regiment and enemy aircraft was coming to an end.
By this time, the anti-aircraft artillery regiment had lost thirteen anti-aircraft guns, and nine enemy aircraft were shot down again.
Although there were less than ten anti-aircraft guns left in the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, the enemy pilots were a little frightened.
They have never encountered such an opponent. Everyone is not afraid of death, operating anti-aircraft guns and aircraft to shoot at each other.
Although there were less than ten anti-aircraft guns left, they also lost nearly half and only had a dozen aircraft left.
Moreover, the ammunition carried by their aircraft cannons has also been exhausted. If they want to continue the fight, they can only fly to the sky above the anti-aircraft gun positions and drop bombs.
But this kind of behavior is basically a life-for-life style of play, and the pilots of the beautiful country are not ready for this.
Then they reported to the naval commander. After the commander learned that thirteen aircraft were lost, he immediately recalled all the remaining aircraft.
The value of an aircraft cannot be compared to that of guns and guns. They have lost a total of eighteen aircraft in Huangcaoling. Even the naval commander will feel heavy carrying this responsibility.
After seeing the enemy plane flying away, Li Qiufan finally breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time loosened his white hands.
"Ask Lao Ma to lead the men to withdraw the anti-aircraft artillery regiment immediately. Don't worry about the anti-aircraft guns. Send all the soldiers of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment to the main position in the rear first!"
Then Li Qiufan asked the correspondent to give the order to Lao Ma and withdraw the anti-aircraft artillery regiment.
After seeing the tragic scene on the anti-aircraft artillery position, Lao Ma's eyes instantly turned red, and tears kept rolling in his eyes.
With the sacrifice of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, the second division was able to successfully cross the river to the other side, and they also cooperated with the first division to defeat the entire third division of the Southern Dynasty.
"Order the troops to continue advancing and attack the 3rd Infantry Division of Beautiful Country. Be sure to leave these foreign devils behind for me!"
"In addition, let the engineering battalion find a place to build a bridge, and let me drive the tank battalion across!"
After receiving the news that the 3rd Division of the Southern Dynasty had been completely wiped out, Li Qiufan immediately issued a new order to launch an attack on the 3rd Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country.
