GBP Chapter 615: Continue the Attack
Chapter 615: Continue the Attack
At the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, the commander's face was gloomy after receiving news from various fronts.
The sequence attacking the Lunan detachment was useless. The easiest place to break through was the place where the soldiers died the fastest. The sequence attacking Linyi also suffered more than half of its casualties. After repeated orders, they were still attacked by mortars. They were hopeless! The Abe surrender sequence, which was highly expected, also suffered heavy losses. Abe surrendered and died. Colonel Oguri was in charge of the situation, but it seemed that there was no hope.
The commander of the expeditionary force was still thinking of trapping the Yimeng guerrillas and launching the Second Changsha Campaign as soon as the Longhai Line was restored. Now it seems that the Changsha Campaign is also going to fail.
I have never figured out why the cold gun plane arrived at that time, and took off in the dark? Thinking of this, I was scared. If they really mastered taking off at night, it seemed that all strategic targets within the range would be unsafe! Fortunately, the General Staff made an emergency deduction, and it should be a target-guided takeoff, which was quite explosive!
"Send a telegram to Nakamura's unit to escort the wounded back to the Longhai Line. The rest of the sequence will continue the attack. The air force will arrive in forty minutes. We must use the air force's bombing to break into Linyi City and occupy the south of the city, waiting for the next arrival of the air force."
"Send a telegram to Oguri Hayashiyama to send the wounded to the beach to board the ship and continue to advance northward along the coast. Be sure to occupy Guancaowang Fishing Village and arrest all the villagers. We will exchange the families of the Yimeng Guerrilla Navy for all the compatriots in Qingdao."
"Sir, the overseas Chinese and prisoners of war in Qingdao City are in the hands of Shen Honglie of the New Fourth Division. Will he agree?"
"It's better if they don't agree. Then we will kill these navy families, so that the New Fourth Division and the Yimeng Guerrillas will have hatred for each other. This is the result we hope to see."
When the plane arrived at the battlefield between Yanwangbizi Mountain and Shanhouwan, there was no movement below. There were corpses everywhere, especially on the Shanhouwan line, which were densely packed on the lakeside. The headquarters of the Japanese air team's radio communication could not find the enemy and could only drop bombs aimlessly in the Nishan Mountain area and return.
All members of the Lunan Detachment have dispersed and returned to Nishan. The scattered corpses of the Japanese soldiers do not need a large force to deal with. Two thousand militiamen can mobilize the masses to handle everything. The Lunan Detachment took away light and heavy firepower plus machine gun bullets, and left the rifles and some supplies to the militia. The Japanese soldiers had no shortage of valuables, such as dollars, watches, and gold bars were even found on some officers. The Lunan Detachment did not require these to be handed over, and the militia guerrillas controlled and distributed them themselves.
After the plane left, groups of people came out of the ravines. Each village was responsible for a certain area, and everything was done in an orderly manner with a division of labor. Some searched people, stripped them of their clothes, carried them away, and buried them.
Even though the common people only got some food and Japanese military uniforms, this was a time of famine, and a few dozen kilograms of food could feed a family. The Japanese military uniforms were very valuable to the common people. The militia captain would send people to wash them and take them to the garment factory in Linyi City. After a little dyeing, they could be distributed to each household. They were very durable. Now it was spring, and although they didn't need to wear cotton clothes, the Japanese wore three layers inside and three layers outside. Two Japanese clothes could meet the needs of a whole family.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a small part of the Japanese troops in the south of Linyi City escorted the wounded back to the Jinpu Line, and the remaining 10,000 Japanese troops continued to attack the city to the north. The densely packed devils approached the southern urban area, and were still a long distance away from the city wall. The Japanese army did not have to worry about the enemy relying on the city wall for defense.
At the same time, Oguri Hayashiyama entrusted the wounded to the warships, and moved in from the seaside with more than 6,000 people, heading towards Arashiyama. Only eight artillery pieces were picked out from the ruins, and more than 20 indirect firepower were also picked out. There were very few artillery shells, and Oguri Hayashiyama felt that there was no great significance in carrying these mountain artillery and mortars.
At 9:20 in the morning, the planes that were covering the attack on Linyi city arrived. In front of them was the outer city area. The infantry of a Japanese regiment preparing to charge had bloodthirsty gleams in their eyes. Linyi city was about to face their crazy revenge.
The planes began to dive, three in a formation, swooping down towards the outer streets with a death roar.
Da da da da da da!
When they were still about six or seven hundred meters above the ground, the anti-aircraft firepower opened fire. The anti-aircraft machine guns and large-caliber heavy machine guns of the two regiments completely abandoned ground defense and built dozens of fire intersection points on the upper floors of buildings on more than ten streets to ensure that the planes diving down from each direction would be hit by at least ten firepower strikes.
The line of fire with tracer bullets rushed towards the diving planes. Before the first bomber that came down started dropping its bombs, the one in the middle exploded with a bang. A plane on the right wing emitted billowing black smoke and headed towards the open space outside the street.
boom!
Another mushroom cloud rose up, and the last plane on the left wing also raised white smoke. The pilot pressed the bomb-dropping button in panic and flew higher.
boom! Boom boom boom!
The bomb landed outside the street and exploded. The anti-aircraft fire did not spare the damaged plane, and more than a dozen fire lines followed the plane.
boom!
The last one exploded in mid-air.
Seeing the tragedy in front of them, the three bombers in the second echelon, which had already started diving, urgently changed direction and prepared to dive again from behind. The three fighters in the third echelon rushed down first. The anti-aircraft firepower points below were very clear, and their aircraft guns could solve everything.
The Japanese soldiers standing outside the city in the distance were watching everything in front of them. They lamented at the dense anti-aircraft firepower of the Yimeng guerrillas. Seeing their own plane exploded was as painful as if their father had died. They prayed that the fighter planes could smash the enemy's machine gun positions into debris.
Faced with the Japanese fighter planes rushing down with their machine guns fired, the machine gunners remained unafraid and raised their guns to face the downing planes.
boom! Boom boom boom!
The MG34 relies on its extremely high rate of fire, and the large-caliber heavy machine gun relies on its extremely long range and explosive bullets. As long as a 12.7 bullet hits an airplane, the airplane is basically destroyed.
The impact points of the Japanese fighter planes were puffing from south to north, creating three streams of nine dense smoke trails.
boom!
boom!
Two fighter planes were blown up in mid-air just after flying within 500 meters. The last one broke its right wing, lost its direction and rushed vertically towards the street.
boom!
Fighter planes exploded in the streets, sending up huge flames and mushroom clouds.
The fighter formation at the back was still diving, and a dive-throwing bomber formation was coming down from the north. However, the Japanese pilots thought too much. The entire block had been marked as a priority by Huang Shanhe and Lu Feihu, and their attempts to sneak around were still met with intensive anti-aircraft fire.
The desperate dives of the Japanese aircraft formations still caused damage to the defenders. Machine gun bullets and aircraft artillery shells came from far away. The machine gunners could hide in the circular fortifications, but the machine guns could not move quickly. As long as the fire swept through the circular fortifications, the people might be fine, but the machine guns would be shattered into pieces.