On the Baoqiong Highway at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain (the dirt road from Baoting to Qiongzhong), on the defensive position of the 11th Regiment.

Under the cover of its air power, the Japanese Second Infantry Regiment has launched several torrential attacks on the hastily built defensive positions of the 11th Security Regiment. Two armed mining trucks left by Yi Zhenhua were due to Being bombed and restrained by Japanese aircraft, it was impossible to provide fire support to the infantry.

Under the Japanese's absolute superiority in troops and firepower, the soldiers of the 11th Security Regiment died heroically one after another. The most serious losses were the more than a thousand young and middle-aged men who were not even considered militiamen in the temporary organization.

They have no battlefield experience. The role they played just now was to follow the armed mining truck of the garrison and pick up guns. They were a supporting role with great momentum. They might be able to fight the smooth battle just now.

But it would be too difficult for them to fight a positional offensive and defensive battle that they had never seen before.

In the fierce firefight between the defenders on both sides, some young and middle-aged men were frightened out of their minds by the deafening sound of artillery and the dense rain of bullets, and ran around in a panic. Many people died from stray bullets, and some even were directly frightened. He ran out of the trench screaming and became a direct target of the Japanese.

After a brief panic and paying a heavy price with their lives, the remaining young adults gradually calmed down and began to lie down obediently in the trenches under the loud scoldings of the veterans. Some were a little bolder. It can also help transport some grenades, bullets, etc.

"Whoosh whoosh... bang bang..." Heavy rain of bullets whizzed past. Hu Baiyang was holding a Garand semi-automatic rifle that he had taken from a previously killed garrison soldier. He fired back tenaciously.

He pulled the trigger several times in succession, and several rounds of 7.62mm rifle bullets roared towards the two Japanese soldiers who were charging two hundred meters away. "Puff", several rounds of bullets hit the two Japanese soldiers, and their bodies suddenly became numb. He paused for a moment, then crossed over and fell down.

However, the Japanese's retaliatory fire soon arrived. Just when Hu Baiyang was about to continue shooting at the next target, a dense burst of bullets came as fast as a gust of wind. The bullets hit the bunker in front of Hu Baiyang, igniting There were bursts of dust and smoke.

"Second Battalion Commander, Commander B, why haven't they arrived yet? The Japanese attack is too fierce. If they don't come, we may not be able to hold on for long!" Hu Baiyang leaned against the bunker and turned his head and said loudly to Li Shufeng not far away.

"I don't know, but we should be there soon, right?! We have to hold on even if we can't hold on. If we retreat, the tens of thousands of people behind us will suffer!" Li Shufeng replied loudly while changing magazines.

"Barracks, look, Commander B and the others are coming!" A soldier between the two men suddenly pointed to the road behind and shouted in surprise.

"Hmm?" Hu Baiyang and Li Shufeng looked up at the rear at the same time, and sure enough they saw Yi Zhenhua driving towards with an armed mining truck on the highway. After the convoy passed, billowing smoke and dust rose up.

"Great, brothers, the reinforcements are here, give me a good beating!" Hu Baiyang shouted loudly with a renewed look on his face. After saying this, he turned around and opened fire violently with Li Shufeng and the others.

At this time, the other two armed mining trucks, which had been struggling to cope with air attacks by Japanese fighter planes, had hid in the woods on both sides of the road due to constraints on ammunition and fuel. The Japanese planes had just returned, and another batch of fighter planes had already roared in. .

The Japanese aircraft that had just arrived were about to launch bombings and air strikes on the ground defense positions of the 11th Regiment to cover the ground troops' attack, but the target changed due to the appearance of Yi Zhenhua and others.

Seeing the Japanese planes flying towards him, Yi Zhenhua calmly ordered: "Prepare all machine guns and go all out for air defense. Be sure to kill a few enemy planes for me, and let the little devils know that China's airspace is not their training ground."

, let alone their back garden.”

The soldiers responded to Yi Zhenhua with world action. Eight armed mining vehicles, sixteen anti-aircraft machine guns and the ten newly acquired MG34 German general-purpose machine guns were all added up. The anti-aircraft machine guns were still in the cab of the armed mining vehicle.

In the rear, the general-purpose machine gun was temporarily deployed in the carriage by Yi Zhenhua, with the muzzle facing the outside at a thirty-degree angle.

On the way down the mountain just now, Yi Zhenhua had already transferred half of the garrison troops to the vehicle, otherwise so many machine guns would not automatically aim and fire.

In order to ensure that the bombing of the ground was effective, more than a dozen Japanese bombers and fighter jets flew very low, almost swooping towards Yi Zhenhua and the others at ultra-low altitude.

Calculating silently that the Japanese drone had probably entered the effective range of the high-speed machine gun and general-purpose machine gun, Yi Zhenhua's right hand, which had been raised high, suddenly swung down hard. At the same time, he quickly raised a high-speed machine gun with both hands and started firing.

Other machine gunners also opened fire one after another, and dense and powerful anti-aircraft firepower suddenly appeared. The Japanese Type 95 fighter jet that led the dive was the first to be hit, and was instantly hit by several 12.7MM bullets.

The defensive armor on the front of the aircraft was easily penetrated. However, due to the high speed of the aircraft, the mining truck was also moving forward quickly. Almost in the blink of an eye, the two sides passed by each other. However, the Type 95 fighter plane had just dived from the mining convoy.

But then, when I was about to pull up quickly and turn around to counterattack.

Yi Zhenhua's general-purpose machine gun deployed in the carriage suddenly opened fire. The general-purpose machine gun's terrifying fire speed, which was higher than that of the anti-aircraft machine gun, caused it to instantly fire a large and dense rain of bullets.

The rear fuselage of the Type 95 fighter was instantly banged. At this time, the weak armor of the Japanese aircraft became their most fatal flaw. The dense bullets quickly penetrated the aircraft armor, and the bullets penetrated into the aircraft.

With the fuel tanks under the belly and wings, the Japanese aircraft instantly burst into flames.

Then there was a loud and deafening explosion. The plane disintegrated in the explosion before it had flown very far, leaving only billowing black smoke and debris flying in the sky.

The rest of the Japanese planes following behind were also uncomfortable, especially the bombers. Their speed was not as fast as the fighter planes, and their maneuverability was average. When they found danger, they were half a beat too slow to avoid it.

Before several bombers even had time to drop their bombs, two were hit. One dragged black smoke and hit a mountain in the distance, and another fell directly into the woods.

In a very short period of time, three Japanese planes were destroyed one after another. The remaining Japanese pilots were horrified. They were still concerned about the ground troops still attacking. They were so frightened that they hurriedly turned around and returned to their destinations, passing on Kondo Nobutake's orders before departure.

It was thrown directly out of the sky, leaving only the army that was betrayed by our own air force.
Chapter completed!