"Okay! Another fight!"
"Hey, there aren't many planes in Japan..."
"Oops, no! Why did they collide? What a pity..."
Different from the artillerymen who were whispering to each other, there was only one person who was squatting in the corner, holding some kind of can in his hand and stuffing it into his mouth. There were a pile of empty cans at his feet.
At this time, Li Liansheng pushed aside everyone and came to the position. He looked around but didn't see the person he was looking for. He quickly asked: "Where are the Krupps? Where is your deputy commander!?"
"Um... over there..." A soldier pointed at the fat figure behind the crowd and whispered.
"You little thing!"
Li Liansheng took a closer look and saw that Krupp was hiding there holding a can of luncheon meat and feasting on it. Look at the empty cans there, one of them has definitely been eaten by this grandson.
Furious, he picked up a stone, threw it over without any explanation, and shouted angrily: "Damn fat man! Don't fucking eat it, come here and have sex!"
"Fuck? Where?"
Krupp was hit on the head by a stone, and turned his head to look over in confusion. The meat residue and grease were still hanging on his fat face.
Li Liansheng was speechless. He pointed to the Japanese position in front and said, "Have you seen those anti-aircraft guns that are firing endlessly? Just hit them!"
Krupp became more energetic when he talked about shooting. He wiped his big, greasy hands on his clothes and asked the soldiers for binoculars. The body weighing more than 200 kilograms was as flexible as a gorilla, and he climbed onto the gun mount in three clicks.
"This ghost shooting angle is not easy to fight..." Krupp muttered.
The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery was placed very far away from them in the position, and was deliberately arranged to be extremely concealed in order to avoid being targeted. It would be absolutely difficult to detect them without firing. It would be a test of the gunner's skill to accurately hit them with artillery.
Li Liansheng came up and smiled mysteriously: "Ahem... Jun Zuo said that you will be rewarded with half a box of lunch meat for killing each door. If you can kill the three 75mm anti-aircraft guns in front, I will roast a leg of lamb for you! "
This sentence seemed to give Krupp a shot in the arm. He clasped his hands together and rubbed them together nervously. He was initially unsure and suddenly became eager to try.
"Let's go to the 75th Mountain Artillery Position."
"75 Mountain Cannon? Can you shoot that far with that thing?" Li Liansheng asked.
"It can shoot. The accuracy of that gun is better than that of the 105!" After Krupp finished speaking, he didn't care about anything else and ran out first.
The excellent ballistic performance of the Bofors 75mm mountain gun gives it excellent accuracy. An excellent gunner can achieve an astonishing rate of fire of 25 rounds per minute with the cooperation of three people.
When firing with full charge, the maximum range reaches about 10 kilometers, which is far beyond all current mountain guns of the same caliber, and has caught up with the range of the Little Japanese field gun.
Although this gun is not as powerful as the 105 and 155 howitzers, its hit rate is higher than the former two. If you can find a gun with sufficient range and high accuracy in the Third Division, it is the Bofors.
Several people quickly came to the position of the 75th Mountain Artillery Battalion. Krupp personally selected an open highland as the gun position. A Bofors 75 Mountain Artillery was quickly moved up by the soldiers for assembly.
Taking advantage of this time, Krupp grabbed a pen and paper, and while observing the distance with the artillery scope, he calculated the data on the paper. He contacted the forward observation post through the walkie-talkie and obtained the target shooting information in the shortest time from several calculations. Yuan.
"Angle adjustment completed, No. 3 charge..."
"One test shot, let go!"
With a longing for canned luncheon meat, Krupp untied the drawstring without hesitation.
boom!
With a loud bang, a dazzling flame burst out from the muzzle, and the shells flew toward the target at high speeds like wild horses.
"Damn it...did you hit it?"
Due to the relatively long distance, they could not clearly see the specific situation of the impact point. Li Liansheng could only hold up his telescope and wait for a reply from the forward observation post.
"Captain, the observation post said it was about 30 meters to the right. The little devil was very frightened." The communications soldier said quickly while covering his earphones.
This place is at least about eight kilometers away from the anti-aircraft gun. Krupp was considered an artillery genius for being so close to the target in the first shot.
He didn't say anything more, and immediately started adjusting the data, checking the sighting device again and again before stepping aside.
"Load!"
boom!
The shells were fired again, and a reply came from the forward observation post quickly: "Hit! The little devil is dragging the corpses. The formation is a bit big. One pair... two pairs... report, there are at least twelve corpses!"
As expected, the artillery shell hit the target this time, and the Japanese artillery position turned into ruins. The Japanese never expected that they would be sniped by artillery at such a distance. No fewer than ten little Japanese were killed.
"Well done, you little kid! Come on, keep going, strike while the iron is hot and give me a shot! When Jun Zuo is happy, let alone the leg of lamb, I might even get you a sheep, haha!"
Li Liansheng was so excited that he almost jumped on the spot. Who said this guy wasn't a treasure?
In twenty minutes, Krupp, in cooperation with the forward observation post, successfully killed five anti-aircraft positions and destroyed seven anti-aircraft guns. The little Japanese were made to moan and groan as if they were being called out one by one with a sniper rifle.
The Japanese army did not dare to fight back under the suppression of US fighter planes. Once they exposed their artillery positions, they would be hit by a large number of concentrated fires. No one dared to take this risk, and they had to suffer this loss silently.
…
"god damn! This damn branch!"
An American soldier hanging upside down on a big tree roared in pain. His parachute was caught in a branch, and his body was tied down by the rope and could not move. He could only lie on his back and complain in despair.
Andy was extremely unlucky today. When he took off for combat, he had already bitten one of the Japanese fighter planes. However, due to negligence, the tail was hit by an anti-aircraft gun on the ground, causing the plane to lose control. He had no choice but to parachute to escape.
As a result, he encountered strong winds during his descent, which blew him away from the battlefield and drifted south for a long time. In the end, he was blocked by this towering tree. His luck was really on his back.
Andy also wanted to reach out and take out the paratrooper's knife tied to his feet, but he couldn't reach it because he was hanging upside down. He had no choice but to give up after trying several times.
At this time, there was movement in the surrounding woods. Andy was so frightened that he did not dare to breathe. He quickly pulled out the pistol on his waist and stared around nervously...
"I obviously saw it fall here, why is it missing?"
"Liuzi, did you see it wrong?"
"impossible…"
The soldier named Liuzi quickly opened the bushes, and the unique-looking pilot on the tree immediately came into view, and the other party pointed a pistol at him.
"Fuck!"
"What's wrong, Liuzi!?"
Hearing the exclamation, the companions behind him hurriedly ran forward. Seven or eight people surrounded him in a Z-shaped formation, picking up their rifles and about to shoot.
"Don't... don't shoot! It's a friendly force!" Liuzi greeted quickly, fearing that his comrades would inadvertently beat each other into pieces.
"Oh my God..." Andy finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the visitor's clothes clearly: "Please man, can you put me down before I break my neck?"
The monitor glanced at him suspiciously, touched Liu Zi's shoulder and said, "What is this big yellow-haired man talking about?"
"Uh... I didn't know. Let's put him down quickly and send him back to the regiment. After all, our class is the first one to find the skydiving pilot, and we won't give each of us a medal when we get back."
Several people worked hard to get the unfortunate Andy down from the tree. Scenes like this were repeated in the jungle.
This battle also cost the US military more than 30 combat sorties. The aircraft losses were nothing, but the pilots who parachuted to escape became a problem.
Fortunately, all the peripheral Allied forces have set up search and rescue teams. As long as they see American pilots parachuting, they will immediately go to the rescue. However, those pilots who fell into the Japanese positions are not so lucky. The little devil hates it. If you expose them, you can imagine what will happen.
At about 7:50 in the morning, almost an hour had passed since the two sides fought, which was much later than Stilwell's reservation plan.
However, as time went by, there were fewer and fewer Japanese fighter planes in the sky, and the Japanese ground air defense forces also suffered devastating blows from the air and artillery. This shocking air battle basically came to an end.
After the fighter planes cleared all the resistance above Myitkyina, the thirty-five B17 Sky Fortresses that had been hovering around for a long time could finally start to show off their fists.
"Ladies, it's show time!"
"Call the first flight formation, target No. 5, cluster bombing. The second flight formation, target No. 3..."
The bomber group was divided into five formations, flying over the Japanese positions one after another in a ladder shape. The magazine slowly opened, and aerial bombs that were as tall as two people slowly revealed their ferocious features.
Myitkyina is mountainous and tree-filled, and there are large tracts of virgin jungle around the city. In response to this situation, the US bomber group used a large number of "milk pounds", that is, napalm bombs that can weigh a meal each.
Without considering the range, the B17's maximum bomb load can only carry 8 "milk pounds". The huge size also illustrates its power. Once this thing hits the ground and explodes, the range of two to three hundred meters will instantly become hell.
"The bomb is in place!"
"500 meters away from the target...300 meters, about to contact...200 meters...prepare...to drop the bomb!"
With a bang, the safety on the bomb release position in the cabin was opened, and huge aerial bombs hit the ground like a meteor shower.
call out……
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The sky seemed to be filled with hail, countless explosive bombs covered the ground, and tracts of woods were ignited by flames. The Japanese positions without air defense were like naked soldiers, and they could only be manipulated as they wanted. Play.
Needless to say, the terrifying power of the "milk pound" goes without saying. Those little Oriental dwarfs underground could only keep struggling in the fire, waiting painfully for death.
If hit by a cannonball, it will shatter on the spot without any pain. Being splashed by the burning oil of napalm bombs, they could only watch it slowly burn and roast. Many Japanese soldiers became insane and some even committed suicide in fear... They couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, why should we? To suffer like this?
Thirty-five B17 bombers quickly dropped more than two hundred tons of napalm bombs. Several kilometers of land had turned into a sea of fire, and it was difficult to see a living person on the ground.
The mission of the "Flying Fortress" has been completed, and then a group of B25 medium-sized bombers entered the scene to start the second round of performances. High-explosive aerial bombs were smashed down like they were free. There were fires on the ground and smoke filled the air. battlefield.
The little Japs in the position were already littered with corpses. They had nowhere to hide. As long as they stayed outside, no place was safe. Even those seemingly solid fortifications could not completely withstand the attack of aerial bombs. The easily established fortifications were brutally beaten into pieces by the Americans.
However, their commanders were hiding in the bunker and did not dare to come out. No one had the courage to say that they could face such a terrifying strategic air strike calmly.
In a forward observation post of the Third Division, Chen Jize licked his dry lips and asked uncertainly: "Jin Zuo... I'm afraid no one can withstand such an intensity of bombing, right?"
The iron-clad man was actually a little frightened at the moment. How could anyone resist such an attack? If the role of the little devil were replaced by them...
Thinking of this, Chen Jize couldn't help but break out a layer of cold sweat on his forehead. That scene was like hell on earth.
"That's how it is to fight a positional war with the Americans. Alas... the gap in national power, future wars... will undergo earth-shaking changes."
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Liao Mingyu sighed deeply and said slowly: "However, you may have thought wrong this time. The little devil is not so easy to defeat."
Chen Jize suddenly realized that indeed... He had fought against the Japanese for a long time and knew very well how strong the willpower of these emotionless beasts was.
The explosion at the original place was still raging. Liao Mingyu raised his head, his deep eyes gradually looked into the distance, but his brows slowly furrowed together:
"Don't underestimate the Japanese. They are like cockroaches that cannot be killed. No matter how you bomb or attack, when people come up to clear the area, these grandsons will always come out of various dog holes to give you a fatal blow." We know that when a lion fights a rabbit, we should use our full strength. Don't think that you can underestimate your opponent because you have a chance of winning. We can't do anything like capsizing in the gutter."
"I understand my humble position. Thank you Jun for your advice!" Chen Jize lowered his head slightly, stood up straight and replied seriously.
He knew that Jun Zuo was teaching him to go all out at all times and not to take it lightly.
During this period of time, the war was going very smoothly. From a mental point of view, he could not help but look down upon the Japanese. Fortunately, Chen Jize was not a mediocre person, and he quickly realized his mistake.
Liao Mingyu nodded and smiled, saying from the bottom of his heart that he valued Chen Jize very much. To this day, this overseas student who graduated from the military academy has performed very well.
If Long Wenwen was a military genius who took advantage of the sword and fought hand-to-hand, then he was a genius who strategized and commanded large armies, and he continued to grow. He was also one of the few people Liao Mingyu could trust with large armies.
"Okay, let's inform Hong Mu and Yuan Li to get the armored troops ready and wait for the artillery regiment to clear the ground before launching an attack immediately. Let me see how the infantry-tank coordination you have been practicing for so long is going!"
"yes!"
