Chapter 796: The air strike begins

At 9:30, the airboat troops at the Weifang Military Base set out first. When fifteen airboats climbed to a height of 700 meters and left northward, twenty-seven fighters of the Black Tiger Squadron and ten fighters of the Third Squadron of the Black Hawk Squadron took off immediately. Thirty-seven fighters equipped with bomb drop devices will fly directly to the Laiyang defense line and launch an air strike on the logistics forces of the 18th Division.

Of course, the Black Tiger Squadron and the Third Squadron of the Black Hawk Squadron have carried out more than one air strike. After completing the first round of bombing and attacks, they will return to the Lacey Air Force Transfer Station to replenish ammunition and then put them into combat again.

At the same time, the two reconnaissance aircraft at the Laixi Air Force Transfer Station were also loaded into the air. This time they were no longer simply high-altitude reconnaissance. The two aircraft carried 600 kilograms of bombs and gasoline bombs and would go straight to the 18th Division Command of Longkou to bomb, and at least they would destroy the headquarters' communication facilities.

After the air forces set off one after another, the First Division of Laiyang County also officially launched the second phase of the operation. Sun Jizhi ordered He Yingqin to lead the division guard regiment to detour near Yanqing Highway, and cooperated with Xu Shuzheng and Sun Chuanfang's troops in Qishan Town to clear the enemy troops on both sides of the Guanli Town section of Yanqing Highway.

The follow-up troops of the Second Division had arrived at the two regiments by 8 o'clock in the morning. Sun Chuanfang transferred the empty locomotive regiment under his brigade headquarters to Laiyang County, and was responsible for transporting the two regiment forces to Qishan Town in batches.

Hao Shaoyi of the Third Division arrived in Laiyang in the early morning. The Great Wall transport airship placed the heavy artillery troops in Laixi. It took him all the time in the second half of the night to send the heavy artillery troops to the rear of Laiyang County and arranged four positions in the southwest of the artillery positions of the First Division. However, the positions were not too far apart, and they could not only concentrate firepower and spread firepower.

The "Aoxiang" and "Haidongqing" reconnaissance airships first flew over Laiyang. When the airship passed the Japanese position in front of the Laiyang defense line, many Japanese soldiers looked up and pointed, but no one took this matter seriously. In the past two days, airships were hovering over their heads every day. Since there was no air supremacy, they could only let the airship detect everywhere. However, Japanese soldiers would never have thought that these two airships were carrying ** on their way to attack the division headquarters.

In order to attract the attention of the Japanese army, the First Division headquarters discussed with the artillery positions in Qishan Town and the Third Division heavy artillery units and decided to immediately carry out a continuous round of artillery bombardment in the rear of the Japanese army. Although the main Japanese troops were advanced not far ahead of the main position, there were still logistics, transportation and communication troops in the rear, and artillery fire would more or less deterrent and have a certain destructive effect.

A few minutes later, the Laiyang County Division Headquarters and the Qishan Town Terminal opened fire at the same time, with more than 40 cannons roaring, blowing up the entire suburbs of Laiyang County to Guanli Town.

The Second Brigade of the main position also followed the order and dispatched all mortar troops to launch unlimited artillery attacks on the temporary Japanese positions 300 meters away. The positions that the Japanese army began to repair in the early morning lacked effective defense, and the positions collapsed quickly under the bombardment of mortar shells like raindrops. Many Japanese engineers who were still working failed to dodge and were blown up by the shells on the spot.

The Japanese soldiers who were still resting were awakened by various artillery attacks, thinking that the Chinese team was about to launch a counterattack, and hurriedly took out weapons to prepare for combat. The front-line command post quickly reported the news to the rear wing headquarters and requested artillery fire support from the wing headquarters. Not long after, the Japanese artillery began to counterattack and suppressed the main position of Laiyang County. However, the Japanese artillery did not have much ammunition stored in the Japanese artillery, and the logistics troops could only symbolically fire a few guns on the way.

At this moment, a "buzzing" roar came from the sky.

The soldiers of the First Division of Laiyang County first saw dozens of black dots from far to near. Everyone knew that this was a fighter jet of the Chinese Air Force and cheered loudly for a moment.

Soon, this scene was also discovered on the Japanese position, and a series of strange screams were immediately made. Everyone was panicked and thought that these planes were coming for them. Everyone hurriedly searched for the woods and hills to hide. In the absence of air defense weapons, they could only be slaughtered.

But after a few minutes, the dozens of fighter jets did not dive at all. They kept the altitude of 300 meters and flew straight over the Japanese position, bringing a large black shadow on the ground. The Japanese position then breathed a sigh of relief, but then became worried again. These planes were not here to attack themselves, but who were they going to attack?

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Colonel Bacon flew at the front of the team in the lead plane. The ten aircraft of the Third Squadron of the Black Hawk Squadron were kept parallel to the flanks, and the remaining members of the Black Tiger Squadron were lined up in herringbone formations. Although it was not snowing today, the heavy fog in the morning did not completely dissipate, and the north wind was still fierce, which made all the pilots unable to help but shrink their necks.

On this kind of fighter jet without a closed cockpit, even with genuine leather warm flight suits, the body temperature cannot be completely guaranteed.

Colonel Bacon pushed his windshield to his forehead, wiped the dew on his face with a white silk scarf, turned his head and looked down. Through the thin mist, he found that the Flying Team had just passed over Guanli Town.

"It's time to show off! God bless us!" He murmured in German, and then gestured to the planes on both sides of the left and right to signal all members to prepare for the battle.

Twenty-seven fighter jets whose nose was painted as a black tiger head began to lower their heights first, and the Black Hawks' planes followed closely to join the formation of the Black Tiger Squadron.

The fighter plane passed over Guanli Town, and the leading plane began to adjust its direction to the east. In a blink of an eye, the plane arrived above the old official road, and not far from the old official road, a Japanese transport brigade was dragging a long formation. Colonel Bacon tightened his nerves and muttered in his heart: The Chinese intelligence is indeed correct!

He controlled the fighter plane to dive immediately, and at the same time opened the fuse valve of the machine gun and the bomb drop device. The other aircraft followed him tightly and began to dive.

When the Japanese transport brigade on the old official road saw this fighter fleet suddenly appear and rushed in diving posture, he was immediately panicked. Some officers drew out their sabers and ordered the team to scatter and hide, but some officers asked the soldiers to keep their logistics supplies, and there were many conflicts in command. Just when the soldiers were in chaos, the Chinese civilians who were forcibly recruited began to flee, and the entire transportation formation fell into disintegration in a blink of an eye.

At first, Colonel Bacon was hesitant whether to shoot at the civilians, so in the first round of diving, he only threw two bombs, knocked over the ox cart in the front of the transport brigade, and did not pull the trigger of the machine gun. However, when he pulled up the fighter plane, the other fighter planes behind him fired the machine gun without any worries, and the large-caliber bullets swept a long bullet mark along the old official road. Whether it was a soldier, a war horse, a cattle or a Chinese civilian, all the bullets were shot through if they could not avoid it.

"Oh my God, how can soldiers shoot at civilians!" Colonel Bacon sighed in surprise. When he was serving in Europe, he would not shoot at unarmed civilians, even if he encountered a pilot who was shot down and fell to the ground. However, the facts in front of him told him that this war could not be done by the Western rules.

Then, he gritted his teeth and started the second round of diving, shooting directly from the head of the team to the end of the team, and knocked all the logistics supplies parked in the center of the official road.

The ten aircraft of the Black Hawk Squadron did not rush to drop bombs. After completing the first round of dive shooting, they flew towards the tail of the transport brigade and then dropped bombs at the tail of the team. The entire transport brigade was immediately in a dilemma. The servants and civilians ran around in their arms, and the officers and soldiers were unable to take care of themselves.

Finally, a *** soldier collectively shot into the sky in the direction of a team, but because of the lack of continuity and range limitations of the rifle, the effect was very small. The team shooting piled up the soldiers and became the priority target for fighter jets to strike. Several aircraft continued to dive, and the group of soldiers immediately turned into a pile of corpses.
Chapter completed!