After Zhang Xinghan's order was delivered to Gao Zhihang, before the Northeast Army's air force took off, the Japanese 75 Field Artillery Group received the order from Itagaki Seishiro and took the lead in firing at a regiment's defensive position.

Under the Japanese artillery fire, some machine gun positions that had been locked by the Japanese artillery were destroyed. The machine gunners died heroically, and the scene was ablaze.

On the top of the city, Zhang Xinghan saw all this through a telescope. He did not show too much sadness. War has its iron laws, and it is impossible to kill the enemy without making sacrifices.

Zhang Xinghan had not thought of this beforehand when it came to transferring his own exposed firepower points, but it was easy to say, but how simple was it to actually implement it?

First of all, the machine gun positions and bunkers were selected and constructed in advance based on the entire defensive position. If they were moved due to Japanese artillery fire, it would obviously be too late to come back after the Japanese artillery fire stopped.

Because when the Japanese artillery fire began to extend, the Japanese infantry units had already begun to charge. At this time, the machine gunners returned with a heavy machine gun weighing nearly one hundred kilograms and uncounted ammunition boxes to repair the destroyed position and bunker.

It was obviously too late to set up a machine gun.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. How can it be that moving the heavy machine gun position is as easy as written in some online novels? It can be moved just by talking.

Moreover, Zhang Xinghan always believed that this kind of embarrassing evasion with little effect was simply treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, because the machine gunners who left the fortification bunker during the evasion process were more likely to be hit by raging shrapnel and cold bullets.

In order to remove the threat posed by the Japanese artillery to our own firepower points, we can only fundamentally eliminate their artillery positions, destroy all artillery, and kill all their artillery.

In fact, this is what Zhang Xinghan planned.

You must know that artillery is no better than other artillery. For Japan, an island country lacking in resources, almost all strategic materials such as steel are imported. For every artillery piece killed by the Japanese, the Japanese have to import a ton of steel from the West, spending a lot of manpower and material resources to re-produce it.

Replenish frontline battle losses.

And since there is an ocean of thousands of miles from Japan to China, transporting artillery to the battlefield in mainland China is not something that can happen overnight.

Therefore, as long as the Northeast Army's air force is deployed to kill most of the Japanese artillery outside the city, leaving the Japanese without artillery, then in the next battle, the Northeast Army will have the advantage and single-handedly defeat them.

Defeat is no longer a pipe dream.

When the September 18th Incident broke out, the air force was the inherent absolute advantage of the Northeast Army. However, Zhang Xiaoliu did not resist, making them a trophy of the Japanese army and unable to exert their due power and mission.

Correspondingly, the Japanese Kwantung Army at this time basically had no air force except for a few reconnaissance aircraft at the Lushun headquarters.

Therefore, in a short period of time, the Northeast Army's air force will have absolute air supremacy.

This was also the original intention why Zhang Xinghan ordered someone to contact Gao Zhihang as soon as he entered Shenyang City.

Gao Zhihang is an excellent pilot and air force commander, and it is even more important for Zhang Xiaoliu to set up air force fighters that will become one of the most important forces in defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Seishiro Itagaki stood in the bunker of the forward observation post, admiring the outstanding performance of his own artillery troops through the telescope with a little excitement. Looking at the bloody and bloody Northeast Army soldiers who were killed on the spot in the firelight, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

A proud sneer broke out.

This is the fate of the despicable Chinese people who dare to resist the powerful Imperial Japanese Army.

However, Itagaki Seishiro's pride did not last long when a familiar and harsh roar suddenly came from the sky.

Itagaki Seishiro's expression changed when he heard the sound. As a professional soldier, he clearly heard the harsh roar just now. It was nothing else but the sound of the aircraft engine.

Judging from the intensity of the sound waves, this is by no means one or two aircraft, but an unknown number of mixed aircraft groups.

"What's going on? Where are the fighter planes coming from?" Because the bombing group led by Gao Zhihang flew extremely fast and passed through the air almost instantly. In addition, Itagaki Seishiro was in a low and hidden bunker. Due to the perspective, he

I couldn't see which direction the fighter jets were coming from, so I turned around and shouted in fear.

Soon, a frightened reply came from the guards outside the bunker: "Sir, sir, it's bad, it's a group of Chinese fighter planes. It, they are flying towards the artillery position..."

Before the guard finished speaking, Gao Zhihang, who had already arrived at his destination and found the target, issued an attack order. He piloted his fighter plane first and swooped down toward the Japanese artillery position, and the aircraft's machine gun immediately opened fire.

"Thud, tug, tug, tug..." Powerful directional machine gun bullets suddenly poured down from under the fuselage like a shower. On the artillery position that had already fallen into panic, there was a scream of screams, and several Japanese artillerymen and ammunition soldiers took cover.

Failing to do so, he was hit miserably and immediately fell into a pool of blood.

The two wingmen of Gao Zhihang's plane followed closely behind. They formed a triangle and swooped down from high altitude at almost the same time as Gao Zhihang's fighter plane. They flew at low altitude over the Japanese positions. The aircraft's machine guns opened fire one after another, and bullets rained down on the Japanese troops.

And go.

Other fighter pilots also followed suit. For a time, bullets rained down from the sky, and the Japanese artillerymen fled in panic. People kept getting shot and fell down, and the blood quickly stained the ground red.

However, the more violent attacks continued. Just after the swooping and low-altitude strafing of more than a dozen fighter jets, more than twenty light and heavy bombers arrived as scheduled. The bomb bays were opened one after another, and heavy high-explosive aerial bombs were like meteorites.

It fell out of the belly of the plane and began to fall vertically with a sharp and ear-piercing whistling sound.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Wherever the bombers passed, there was a huge explosion, and fire and smoke rose from the ground, covering the entire Japanese artillery position.

The violent explosion detonated the remaining artillery shells of the Japanese army, triggering an even more violent explosion. A huge red light rose into the sky accompanied by thick smoke, which could be clearly seen for dozens of miles away.

In this violent explosion, many Japanese artillerymen on the Japanese artillery positions were blown to pieces without even screaming, and the powerful artillery they were proud of was also blown into pieces.

Pile of scrap iron.

About two kilometers away, Seishiro Itagaki, who had just stepped out of the forward bunker, happened to witness this scene. When he saw the huge fire and thick smoke rising into the sky, Seishiro Itagaki's eyes were filled with shock and his face was full of disbelief.

He did not expect that with Zhang Xueliang's order of non-resistance, the Northeast Army's air force would dare to take off fighter planes and openly carry out such a violent and devastating air strike against the imperial army.

"It's over, the Second Field Artillery Regiment is over." The telescope in Itagaki Seishiro's hand fell to the ground quietly. His mood at this moment can be described as a mixture of regret and regret.

Because they knew in advance the compromising attitude of Zhang Xueliang and even the entire Nationalist government towards Japan, both Itagaki Seishiro and Ishihara Wanji somewhat underestimated the enemy when they initiated the September 18 Incident.

It wasn't until the plan to sneak attack the Peking Camp and seize Shenyang failed that they finally focused on the next combat operation against Shenyang.

But when it was learned that Wang Yizhe was ordered to lead the last main force in Shenyang City, the 7th Brigade, to evacuate, and that our own troops had captured most of the towns along the South Manchuria Railway, this level of attention dropped.

Even though they knew that there was still a resistance force left by Huang Xiansheng in the city, they thought this was not a cause for concern.

Under the premise that Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army would not resist, they ignored that as the only air force of the Northeast Army, the air force stationed at Shenyang Airport would brazenly disobey orders and rise up to attack the imperial army.

Itagaki Seishiro and Ishihara Kanji did not expect this, because they focused more on how to eliminate the only resistance force in front of them, thereby capturing the prosperous Shenyang City and occupying the largest Krupp Arsenal in the Far East. Went to Shenyang Arsenal.

The artillery unit was destroyed, and the attack could only be postponed. Extremely annoyed, Itagaki Seishiro issued an order to the accompanying adjutant to postpone the attack. He wanted to go to Ishihara Kanji to discuss countermeasures, because he had realized that the Battle of Shenyang might not be realized without them. It's as easy as imagined.

Itagaki Seishiro's order to postpone the attack does not mean that Zhang Xinghan will give up.

When he saw that Gao Zhihang led the air force to complete the mission, and also carried out bombing and dive strafing on the Japanese attack positions, Zhang Xinghan immediately picked up the phone and ordered the artillery unit that had been prepared: "Fire immediately, all artillery ten rounds Rapid fire, target the Japanese attack position."

After putting down the phone, Zhang Xinghan called the regiment headquarters again.

"Hey, Captain Liu, the Japanese artillery positions have been completely destroyed by our air force. It's time to let the little devils have a taste of our power. After the artillery fired ten rapid rounds, the regiment immediately launched an all-out attack on the Japanese positions. Attack, be sure to seize their attack position!" The call was connected, Zhang Xinghan pointed into the microphone and said straight to the point.

On the other end of the phone, Liu Jianguo was startled for a moment, and then said excitedly: "Please rest assured, everyone in the camp, Jianguo will take the lead and launch a desperate attack against the Japanese invaders."

Zhang Xinghan didn't say anything. At this time, the artillery deployed in the city started firing.

Fengtian City was already enveloped by the sound of cannons. Looking at the dazzling balls of fire dragging their long tail flames across the sky and flying towards the outside of the city, Zhang Xinghan hung up the phone.

Zhang Xinghan's 3rd Battalion brought back 6 75mm Krupp field guns from Peking University Camp. After arriving in Shenyang, Huang Xiansheng's military and police force also had several mountain guns and field guns. The original Zhang Xueliang Guards Battalion also had a machine gun battery equipped with In addition to six mortars, the Shenyang Arsenal has no less than a thousand artillery pieces of various kinds.

Among them, there are hundreds of mountain artillery and field artillery, and hundreds of mortars. However, the number of artillerymen who can fire cannons is limited.

Zhang Xinghan could only form an artillery battalion first, with a total of twenty 75mm field guns, sixteen Japanese Type 92 infantry guns, and more than thirty mortars. In fact, the scale had reached an artillery regiment.

Dozens of mountain artillery and field artillery fired one after another. Under the dazzling firelight, the artillery shells dragged two or three meters of tail flames, piercing the sky like meteors, and slammed down towards the Japanese attack position. go.
Chapter completed!