Chapter 377 The courage that reappears
Dan Tai Mingyue is enough to understand Tang Dao.
Standing in the woods, looking at the truck driving faster on a simple road, Tang Dao's heart was cut like a knife.
The seventeen truck drivers were selected from the departments of the advance delegation according to his orders.
No one knows better than them how terrible the power of a 250 kilogram bomb is.
When a bomb comes down, all creatures within the range of nearly half of the football field with a diameter of 30 meters will be destroyed. Whether you are hiding in a trench or a car, the splashes of shrapnel and huge shock waves formed by the explosion are just the most surface damage, causing huge vibration energy to easily shake the internal organs of the human body within this range into pieces, and none of them are spared.
That means that as the most obvious target, they will definitely receive the focus of Japanese aircraft, and the probability of death is almost 100%.
But the seventeen people remained unswervingly and left their suicide note and boarded the truck.
Before the Japanese plane arrived, they drove at full speed, so naturally they hoped that the convoy would leave the advance team infantry and try to consume Japanese plane bombs, while also giving infantry hiding in the woods and scattering into the wilderness more chances of survival.
Yang Bicheng, who was lying under a hilly ditch, looked up at the running convoy and cried again.
Looking at those who had gone without hesitation, he remembered his cousin again.
Two days ago, his third brother drove the truck and lured the Japanese planes from high altitude, successfully interrupting the backbone of the Japanese plane formation, which made him and his comrades survive.
And now, almost the same scene is reproduced.
But this time, there are more people as brave as his cousin.
Not only were trucks driving on the main road, but also cavalrymen who were dragging branches to escape into the wilderness.
The cavalry and their war horses could have hid in the woods like them, but they could not, after they unloaded the heavy equipment they carried on the horses, they wanted to escape further away according to the military order of the Tang Dao Chief Tang.
First, there will be an illusion that there are many people on the ground, and second, it is because the target is obvious, so Japanese planes can be taken away from the infantry gathering area.
Relatively fewer deaths and more lives, this is the tactic of Tang Dao.
However, when he thought of these elite soldiers who could have killed more Japanese invaders, he could only become cannon fodder. Like Yang Bicheng, looking at the figures of his comrades who were trying hard to earn a glimmer of life for him, countless soldiers all had tears in their eyes and buried their heads in pain without wanting to see the heartbreaking scene.
On the battlefield, sacrifice is inevitable, but if you watch your comrades choose to use your body to block the bullets shot at you, this will be an unforgettable pain for any soldier.
Even if they survive by chance, they will live in the shadows in this life.
But now, they have to bear and work hard to survive.
Because, they are also the shield of another group of people, this is an order and a responsibility.
But as the commander, his body stood upright like a pine tree facing his back to all his soldiers, not only was he suffering for his choice, but he was even more anxious.
20 minutes ago, he received a secret telegram from General Wu: After the battleground headquarters, the Air Force will send fighter planes to protect the Baihegang Bridge. Intelligents in the Songhu area have sent secret telegrams to Jinling when the Japanese planes took off on the sea. If nothing unexpected happens, the Air Force's support should arrive at the battlefield soon.
The news of the upcoming aid of the Air Force made Tang Dao breathe a sigh of relief, but no one knew when they arrived at the battlefield. It was too late, and the Japanese bomber formations that were pressing down like dark clouds in the sky may have dived and bombed several times.
Not only is the advance group suffering terrible losses, but what is even more terrifying is that after the Japanese aircraft team that had left the load and was lifted up and entered the high altitude, the Chinese fighter jets that entered the battlefield later would completely lose the only opportunity to win.
The Chinese Air Force has suffered repeated heavy losses in two months of air combat. If they can send 10 fighter jets to the battle this time, it may be the limit that Jinling can bear.
Now, just the Japanese planes in their field of vision have already approached 20, and maybe there will be a second wave of planes in the future. Thinking about this, with the tenacity of Tang Dao, I couldn't help but sweat on my forehead at this time.
Even though he is a little butterfly who travels from the future, knows various special combat tactics, knows the various trends in this time and space, and has participated in defensive battles at the thousands or even tens of thousands of people, he is still a newcomer on this kind of battle-level battlefield, whether in the future or now.
Tang Dao did not expect that the Japanese naval commander was so determined. In the first wave of attacks, he invested two flight squadrons. Perhaps more fighter jets arrived later, just to bomb the 20,000 troops chased by 100,000 people. This is completely unethical!
You should know that the largest air battle since the Sino-Japanese war in time and space was not at this time. In the Wuhan defense battle a year later, the Japanese army dispatched 18 fighter jets, 36 bombers, and China dispatched 48 fighter jets.
But then, both sides have also invested nearly 1.5 million troops in a battle, unlike now, it is just a mere battlefield!
As for the day before yesterday, Lei Xiong's troops relied on the ground anti-aircraft gun position to beat out six Japanese aircraft in one fell swoop, it was better to say that the Japanese were too arrogant and arrogant to kill themselves. In addition, Lei Xiong and others were extremely lucky, even Niu Er could kill a Japanese aircraft with one shot.
Otherwise, one-third of the defenders of Baihegang would survive would be cheating.
The nearly 20 Japanese planes that are rushing to the scene now will never be fooled. Tang Dao even dared to conclude that they would bomb the infantry with some Japanese planes, while the other one was waiting for anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns to open fire, then dropped bombs to destroy them, and then used bombs and machine guns to kill the pure infantry.
Tang Dao's idea is nothing wrong.
Even though he had made enough preparations, he had a secret power last night, and transferred seven anti-aircraft guns and nine modified anti-aircraft machine guns under his command, two MG34s equipped with long gun barrels. In addition, he also asked the command headquarters for an air defense battalion, which had 12 Erickon machine guns and 12 anti-aircraft machine guns.
The strength is at least twice as strong as the day before yesterday, but Tang Dao is still not sure that these ground weapons can block the bombing of Japanese planes.
He won a victory by luck and the neglect of his opponents, but as a commander, Tang Dao could not place the entire life of the soldier on this.
What's more, because it was impossible to determine when the Japanese plane arrived, Tang Dao almost burned his boats, and a total of 19 anti-aircraft guns and 23 anti-aircraft machine guns were carried by carriages and six cavalry companies and exposed to the wilderness.
If the Japanese plane cannot be detected three minutes in advance and the Japanese plane launches attack as soon as it arrives, then the only sharp arrow that Tang Dao can launch a counterattack against the Japanese plane will be completely done.
Fortunately, Private Hammer lived up to his responsibilities. The guard dogs that China has been tamed for thousands of years may have average combat effectiveness, but their hearing is definitely excellent.
In these three minutes, the chariots and cavalrymen who fled in all directions placed various heavy air defense firepower and personnel in various woods and shrubs along the way, giving them the opportunity to point the muzzle at high altitude.
However, this time they did not have complete fortifications and had zero defense. Not to mention the terrible bombs hanging under Japanese aircraft's wings, they could easily shoot them in the wild even with machine guns installed on the nose.
Once fire is opened, the anti-aircraft gun shooters are similar to the hand-to-hand combat of infantry rushing out of the trench with bayonets, while the opponent has high-speed and maneuverable Japanese firepower points.
What can determine the outcome of the battlefield this time will ultimately depend on the Chinese Air Force, which will not know when it will arrive.
Tang Dao did what he could, and the rest could only be handed over to fate.
And fate is so wonderful.
In order to cover up his shame, General Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, fought in a battle, and knew that the fleet had only returned six of its personnel's ban orders the day before yesterday. Major Junji Watanabe, who was on another aircraft carrier, did not arouse particularly high vigilance against the ground firepower possessed by the Chinese army.
The six Japanese HNA pilots who could remind him were stopped because their military ranks were too low and they were sarcastic when they spoke as soon as they spoke.
The 18 Japanese fighter jets that rushed towards us remained highly vigilant except for the six 96 ships battles, while the other 4 96 ships battles and eight ships exploded, were still arrogant and arrogant.
Therefore, the goddess of luck hit the Chinese soldiers again in a scattered manner.
Even Tang Dao could only be dumbfounded to think that this might be the benefits given to him by the big guys who sent him to this time and space!
Chapter completed!