~《》~ Chapter 526: Facing the Enemy

(...It is difficult to suppress the panicked new recruits when they are facing the enemy, but there is something even more difficult than that, that is to suppress the veterans; when veterans encounter huge firepower strikes beyond imagination, they also want to be deserters. They are very thief and have to escape before the enemy's artillery fire has been covered; those who can control this scene are competent company platoon leaders. In many cases, in a war, the company platoon leader is more important than the commander... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

If the Japanese army landed in Daya Bay, there was only one way to go quickly, that is, to enter Huiyang northwest along the coast of Daya Bay, that is, to advance along the Ao-Tan Road. This road is the top priority of ** defense. There are dozens of ** fixed reinforced concrete bunkers along the way, and it is difficult to attack them with force. Due to the influence of Cao Xiaomin's time travel, the ** forces in this area now exceed one division, and various field fortifications have turned the entire area into a continuous position.

There are many backup fortifications, and most of the fortifications are usually maintained by local militia groups. Because the local people are in the slack period of fishing and farmers, they will turn to those backup fortifications when they have nothing to do. Almost every day, they will see groups of people chatting while roasting seafood.

"Look, what are those bosses doing?" A young man who didn't care much about the north wind was standing outside the trenches to avoid the smoke, but saw a team of ** soldiers running along the traffic trench... "Woooo~~" A horn suddenly sounded in the village not far away, and then he vaguely heard the sound of various copper plates and iron buckets knocking. Not long after, even the big iron bell in the temple in the distance rang!

"The Japanese cub is here! The Japanese cub is here!..." All warning signals from villages and towns in Daya Bay sounded, and all the lazy militiamen who were originally lazy also began to run towards their gathering places with nervous expressions...

The war is really coming! After this period of preparation, everyone has a clearer understanding of the concept of war. They know more about the Japanese who will kill, set fire, rob and rape when they get ashore! When the militia take over the rifles from their respective units, many people seem at a loss because of excitement and confusion.

The Japanese cubs are here, where are they? How to fight?... Soon, the instructor who went down from the regular army arrived and began to assign tasks to militias in each village, which is that they have practiced many garrison tasks. At this moment, the faces of those people who are not very serious in training and like to talk and laugh finally began to become nervous, and many people's foreheads are sweating...

"Airplane!..." A group of militiamen saw a plane coming from the sky, and quickly spread around and rushed into the bunker...

"Don't panic! Don't panic! That's our own plane. Didn't you see the sign on the plane?" The commanders were both angry and funny: If these guys were as devoted as they are now, they would probably not be so panic now...

There were regular troops from the rear, and these regular troops had just transformed from bandits into military forces; for fear that their discipline was not good and that they had to conduct a lot of training, these troops were usually locked in the barracks, and now they were finally all dispersed.

With some nervous and excited faces, agile figures began to disappear into the wilderness, hills, and bunkers by the river on both sides of the Australian and Thai Highway. These former bandits who were moved by righteousness did not know that their position in the minds of the commanders, including Cao Xiaomin, was just cannon fodder!

Anti-logging war is not easy to fight, and it is impossible to block the enemy on the entire logging line if the enemy is insufficient. Once the enemy lands, it will penetrate like mercury. To block them, they must rely on the thickness and number of people! These bandits who are used to moving in complex terrain are the best to block scattered soldiers. In order to thicken the defense of Daya Bay, Cao Xiaomin added seven supplementary groups recruited by bandits to complete the reorganization and basic military training as soon as possible (just learn to obey orders and queues) in the past two days!

The Air Force kicked off the war, and the cross I-16s rushed towards the enemy at sea like sharp arrows, and the Japanese Navigation Force, which was discovered from afar, came to meet the enemy immediately... Without a head-on confrontation, the ** fighter group turned around and flew away with a fake shot!

The appearance of the Air Force was only to threaten Japan's bomber groups, so that they dare not easily attack certain ground targets, but the Chinese Air Force would not easily get involved with their fighter planes, so almost all the planes dispatched this time were the fastest I-16.

"Boom! Boom!..." The Paiyashan Fort was first covered by Japanese artillery fire. Nagamon and Muroo battleships also opened fire on the entire ship's artillery fire, including the sixteen-inch cannon that the army could not imagine!

Oh my God! Is this a plane or a cannon? The defenders in the distance saw the Paiyashan Fortress being enveloped by mushroom clouds in an instant, and the entire position disappeared!

"Don't panic! Stay in the fortifications!..." The squad platoon leaders struggled to maintain order, but many officers and soldiers wanted to leave the fortifications: these officers and soldiers really wanted to be deserters, and some of them were veterans who had fought with the Japanese army in Lanfeng, but they had never been exposed to such a large caliber naval bombardment!

With one shot, you can see the entire mountain being cut off from a distance. If you pass by, you will never see that position again... Under such artillery fire, what fortifications can withstand? Only by escaping before the enemy bombards one of your own positions can you survive; this time, you are not new recruits, but this time you want to escape with veterans!

"Fuck me, who forgot the military orders of the superiors in the morning will think about it yourself!... Every line of defense behind us is ordered to see the troops that have not been ordered to retreat and open fire. If you want to escape, you are looking for death. There is no pension. After death, you will be poked at the back and scolded a traitor!" The experienced company commanders and battalions knew that the only way to suppress the chaos at this time was this move, telling them to escape faster and die more miserably. Of course, they also have to condom friendship: "Brothers, brothers, there will be no future in this life; whoever can't let go will tell you first. If anyone is alive, we have to do the work; if anyone forgets this matter, I will sue him when I go to the Hall of Hell. Come, brothers, let's swear together..."

The Japanese army's two-hour artillery bombardment and bombing, because the artillery fire was beyond imagination, almost even powerful troops like Li Han's soul division were dispersed! The positions were stabilized by the company's platoon leaders, but some positions were bombed, and there were scenes where deserters were shot and killed by the officers and soldiers in the positions behind them...

"Call for the air force to support, no matter how you need support, restrain the enemy's artillery fire..." Li Hanhun almost went crazy in the command center. The phone calls to the command center to report the situation were almost crying and asking for retreat. They were describing the enemy's artillery fire intensity to Li Hanhun... "A mountain was gone with one shot. Brothers were afraid of seeing it..." "Sir, it's not that I'm afraid of death, but the enemy's firepower is too strong, I've never seen it before..." "The Japanese army used heavy bombs and super-caliber naval guns to attack ships, and the coastal fortifications could not resist..." If it was defeated like this, what kind of face would I have to see Cao Xiaomin!? Li Hanhun suddenly stood up: "General Staff, the guard company followed me, and each four people went to the line of fire to calm the morale of the army; brothers, today I'm here!"

Li Hanhun regarded himself as the company commander. Before him, the regiment commanders who were in front had already regarded himself as the company commander!

The harassment of the Chinese Air Force came, and the cross B24 went without loading any bombs, because they were just going to scare enemy planes instead of bombing, and they had to ensure that they could escape as quickly as possible! This fighter plane that had already caused a huge shadow on the Japanese psychology immediately aroused the Japanese's vigilance...

"It's the Chinese suicide attack aircraft!" The Japanese aircraft escort formation in the air became nervous, and the two Japanese battleships at the sea chose to leave as soon as they got the news. The entire fleet's anti-aircraft artillery fire was ready.

"Look, the Japanese will not be bombarded... Brothers, look over there, they are all deserters who were killed..." A company commander leaned on the fortifications in dismay and said, "Look at it yourself, how many mountains did the Japanese have blown up in total? That is, the Paiyashan Fortress. Their large-caliber cannons can not be hit for a long time, and they can't be hit by a few places. If you were killed at that time, that would be unfair..."

The company commanders may feel guilty, but they still have to appease the other soldiers, because no one knows whether the Japanese will come to the second round and whether their soldiers will be dispersed!

Indeed, the Japanese's large-caliber naval guns basically attacked the Paiyashan Fortress, and there were several fake positions that looked like the secondary fortress of Paiyashan. After Cao Xiaomin learned that the Paiyashan Fortress was destroyed, he originally planned to rebuild it, but he found that there were no large-caliber shore cannons to be adjusted. So he did not do it until he did it. Cao Xiaomin and Li Hanhun simply built the fortress into a fake fortification!

The Japanese already knew the location of this fortress. If they wanted to fight, they would definitely regard it as an important target of attack. Since they could no longer be used to attack the enemy, then turn it into a straw boat that borrowed arrows! This place was equipped with more than a dozen fake cannons made of wood, which actually sucked hundreds of shells from the Japanese fleet in this battle, and there were as many as thirty shells of the sixteen-inch cannon alone!

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated and people calmed down, especially when the north wind cleaned the blown hills of Paiya Mountain, everyone seemed to think that the cannons and bombs were not that scary anymore. Especially on the second line and in the anti-cannon tunnel, the officers and soldiers who had never seen bombing were hidden, and they were still so strong in fighting!

"Hurry, artillery prepared..." The mortars hidden earlier on the back slope of the battle formations all appeared, because the Japanese vanguard had already landed, and it was time to kill the enemy and serve the country!

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