"Stop!"
As a red signal flare slowly rose into the sky.
The large transport plane flew directly towards the Eighth Route Army's position.
The huge engine roared and the transport plane passed through the clouds. This situation naturally attracted the attention of the Japanese.
"Nani, what's going on?"
The commander of the 23rd Division, Nishihara Kanji, and the chief of staff, Matsuda Daizuo, hurriedly raised their telescopes to look.
Hearing the scream of the signal bomb, the two of them looked in the direction of the Eighth Route Army position simultaneously.
After putting down the telescope, the two looked at each other and seemed to understand something.鄡
Matsuda Daizuo said with an ugly face: "Division Commander, the Eighth Route Army has called for airdrops of supplies. Order the machine guns to shoot down these aircraft!"
Although it is a field force of the second-line division, the 23rd Division is also equipped with some Type 98 20mm machine guns, but not many.
Taking a deep breath, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kanji ordered: "Matsuda-kun, immediately order the air defense troops to open fire!"
Kanji Nishihara knew very well that once the Eighth Route Army received this batch of airdrop supplies, the Locust Army would suffer heavy losses.
Although the transport plane flies relatively high, what if it is shot down? If you can shoot down one transport plane, it will save the Eighth Route Army a batch of equipment.
Moreover, Kanji Nishihara saw that there were only three fighter jets escorting the transport plane, and he felt that there was a good chance.
"Hi!"
Matsuda Daizuo paused, turned around and gave orders to the air defense troops.
"Everything..." As the order from the division headquarters was issued, six Type 98 20mm machine guns fired at high altitude on the Japanese air defense position.
Even though three of the Type 98 machine guns were twin-mounted, judging from the trajectories of tracer bullets streaking through the air, the Japanese's anti-aircraft firepower was very sparse, and the firepower of rifles and light and heavy machine guns was out of reach.
As soon as the Japanese air defense fire opened fire on the transport aircraft, three Saber fighter jets turned around and flew towards the Japanese air defense array.
The Japanese machine guns immediately gave up shooting at the transport aircraft and instead opened fire at the swooping fighter jets.
The Japanese air defense troops knew very well that if the fighter jets were not shot down, the air defense position would have no chance of surviving.
However, the Saber fighter just rolled in the dive and escaped the Japanese anti-aircraft fire.鄡
1 The lead aircraft entered the attack position, 2 the two wingmen served as cover, and 3 fighter jets entered the dive position in combat formation, which looked very professional.
"Everything, everything..."
The 20mm cannon on the belly of the fighter jet opened fire. In the series of firings, the cannon shells splashed several streaks of dirt and gravel more than half a meter high on the ground.
At this time, the Japanese infantry around the air defense position fired at the air fighters, and the machine guns roared wildly.
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but.
The power of the Japanese's 6.5mm bullets and 7.7mm machine gun bullets is seriously insufficient for air defense. After all, the Saber fighter is not the thin-skinned aircraft of the Japanese.
The Japanese's seven or eight light and heavy machine guns weaved a firepower net and continued to output firepower at the swooping fighter jets.鄡
However, it was already too late. The bullet marks in the soil, sand and stones extended to the Japanese machine gun position in the blink of an eye.
There was a sputtering sound of being shot, and the Japanese main shooter and deputy shooter at the two anti-aircraft gun positions were beaten into pieces by 20mm aircraft shells.
As the fighter jet passed by, the cylindrical aviation incendiary bomb on the belly of the lead aircraft became loose.
The huge black egg-like metal object rolled violently and was thrown straight towards the Japanese anti-aircraft gun position.
After the sharp whistling sound, there was a brief sound of the shell falling to the ground, but less than half a second after this sound, there was an explosion like a landslide.
boom!
A huge circle of flames spread out along with the explosion. The entire air defense position was instantly engulfed in flames, the Japanese were instantly burned to ashes, and the machine guns melted instantly.鄡
The flames and air waves of the explosion spread crazily around, sweeping around like a tide.
The surrounding Japanese infantrymen ran wildly, but the Japanese infantrymen who were close to the air defense position were quickly overtaken and devoured by the flames that swept over them, and then their bodies disintegrated in an instant.
The three fighter jets turned left and came back. The turning radius of the Saber fighter was not large. They pulled up the fuselage and returned to the attack position quickly.
The Japanese infantry attacked the fighter jets, and the fighter jets naturally had to defend themselves.
This time, the two wingmen carrying napalm aerial bombs did not cover the dive attack of the main engine. Instead, they each looked for targets, dived for shooting and dropped bombs, and the enemy flew to where.
The Japanese machine guns were screaming wildly, and bullets were flying in the air, but this did not affect the dive shooting and bombing of the fighter jets at all.
"Baga, another bomb was dropped!"
A Japanese squadron leader was directing his squadron to shoot at fighter jets.
But the next second the Japanese squadron leader heard the whistling sound of falling aerial bombs, and suddenly his scalp was numb and he shouted loudly.
The Japs in this squadron quickly dispersed and ran wildly into the distance. The Japs squadron leader also turned around and ran away.
But the Japanese squadron leader stumbled and fell to the ground. Two Japanese soldiers quickly came over to help him.
The huge aviation incendiary bomb had landed dozens of meters away from the devils, and a huge explosion sounded.
"Baga, run!"
The Japanese squadron leader looked horrified and hurriedly said to the two Japanese soldiers.鄡
However, it was already too late. The flame shock wave caused by the explosion swept towards the Japanese squadron leader like a wave, swallowing up the Japanese squadron leader and the two Japanese soldiers.
The bodies of the two soldiers and the Japanese squadron leader shattered into pieces like dry mud.
After the flame shock wave passed over the Japanese squadron leader and two Japanese soldiers, it continued to rush towards the running Japanese soldiers.
A few hundred meters away, another napalm bomb swallowed up most of the squadron of Japs.
After the three fighter jets dropped napalm bombs, they flew towards the transport plane. At this time, the transport plane was already flying over the Eighth Route Army position.
In the 23rd Division headquarters.
Nishihara Kanji and Matsuda Daizuo looked disbelieving and furious.鄡
Since the Japs gathered in squadrons, they launched against the Eighth Route Army's positions and used fuel tactics to attack the Eighth Route Army's base areas.
Three fighter jets and two dive attacks actually wiped out nearly two squadrons and air defense positions of the 23rd Division?
Where did this enemy plane come from? Why are the aerial bombs carried by fighter jets so powerful?
"Division commander, look, transport planes are starting to airdrop combat supplies to the Eighth Route Army!" Matsuda Daizuo said suddenly.
Nishihara Kanji hurriedly withdrew his eyes from the burning area and looked in the direction of the Eighth Route Army position. He saw dense airdrops falling with parachutes in the sky a few kilometers above the Eighth Route Army position.
"hateful!"
Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara punched the dirt in front of him hard, his eyes widening with anger.鄡
Even if the Eighth Route Army called for airdrop, they actually airdropped it in front of the locust army, which is simply heartbreaking.
