Chapter 745 Lurking Under the Eyelids (two chapters in one)
Nakazo could not think of other countermeasures.
He led his troops to defend Jinzhong County. Because the military headquarters had limited airdrop strength, the airdrop materials received by the garrison every day were almost mainly food, and only a small part of them were weapons and ammunition.
Therefore, the heavy weapons and ammunition that the county garrison can use is very limited.
Although I don’t know where the National Salvation Army came from, it’s like I can’t finish it. But the heavy weapons and ammunition they currently use are much more heavy weapons and ammunition than the Jinzhong garrison troops. This is an indisputable fact. So if I want to take the initiative and fight back the National Salvation Army through firepower, the possibility of success is almost zero.
In this case, the garrison in Jinzhong can only retreat and find ways to reduce the losses of the troops through passive defense and stabilize the increasingly declining morale of the troops.
Looking at the captain, he ordered helplessly: "Since the counterattack cannot be achieved, we can only manage the troops well and let everyone not show their heads from behind the battlements, and do not give the sharpshooters of the National Savior Army a chance to attack the target!"
"Weng buzz..."
A low roar slowly spread from far to near to Zhongzuo's ears.
In less than half a minute, two huge transport planes appeared over Jinzhong County.
After hovering around Jinzhong County, confirming that there were no suspicious targets on the ground, two transport planes flew towards the airdrop location one by one, and finally stayed at an altitude of more than 300 meters and threw down supplies...
In the blink of an eye, several parachutes emerged over Jinzhong County, and heavy materials slowly fell into Jinzhong County.
Twenty minutes later, the transport plane that completed the airdrop mission returned to a height of more than 1,000 meters and finally slowly disappeared from Zhongzuo's vision.
The whole operation was clean and neat, without any drag, just like an exercise.
After confirming that all the materials dropped by the transport plane fell into the city and were controlled by his own subordinates, Zhongzuo immediately decided to return to the command center.
For a few days, every time the transport plane dropped materials to the county town, Zhongzuo would guard the city in advance to ensure that the entire airdrop operation was foolproof.
Today's successful airdrop once again proves that the airdrop plan formulated by the military headquarters is successful.
Although the effective range of ordinary light and heavy machine guns exceeds 800 meters, the effective range of air shooting will be reduced sharply, and the power of the bullet will be greatly reduced!
The military headquarters set the airdrop height of the transport aircraft to 300 meters. Even if the attacking position outside the city hides the National Salvation Army, the transport aircraft will not suffer much damage while the transport aircraft is airdropping.
So he decided not to come tomorrow at this time, otherwise it would be too much of a waste of time if he stayed here for an hour or two every day.
The Japanese Zhongzuo had just left the city, and Zhou Cheng led Huang Hu, Chen Zhengyu, artillery battalion commander Tan Wei, and air defense company commander, and also emerged from the high ground hiding a kilometer away.
After placing the hand-painted Jinzhong City Defense Map of the Shouyang Guards on the ground and spread it out, Zhou Zhike looked at the air defense company commander: "Company Commander Wang, the airdrop height of the Japanese transport aircraft is 300 meters. Where do you think we can cause the maximum damage to them when we arrange the air defense positions!"
The air defense company commander already knew that he was the protagonist of the next battle, so he took the transport plane very seriously when it was airdropped just now.
I just thought about how to knock down the transport plane.
After hearing the group leader’s question, he almost had no hesitation and pointed to the map and began to introduce his thoughts!
"Captain, the air defense position must be arranged in the west of the county town. The Japanese transport planes were airdropped from west to east. After we opened fire there, the Japanese would definitely be caught off guard before they could airdrop. In addition, the supplies on the plane were not thrown away, and the entire transportation opportunity became very bulky, it was difficult to turn and climb flexibly, and the speed was slow, so we would have more time to clean them up!"
Zhou Cheng did not answer the conversation immediately, but instead analyzed the air defense company commander's analysis just now with a serious look on his face. He continued to ask half a minute later: "Then are you sure you will be able to get the Japanese transport plane down!"
The air defense company commander shook his head and replied: "Captain, I can't tell you this."
"The Japanese Japanese transport planes airdropped materials to the county town one in front and the other. If we shoot a transport plane in front and the transport plane behind them will climb up immediately. If you don't plan to airdrop again, I can't even shoot the anti-aircraft machine gun that you twice as fast as you can!"
"The air defense company has a total of four anti-aircraft machine guns. If it concentrates firepower to attack the first transport plane and catches the Japanese off guard, I will be 70% sure to shoot it down!"
"As for the second transport aircraft, we must see if God gives us a chance to hit them!"
This time it was Zhou Cheng's turn to shake his head, frowned and asked, "The 70% confidence is too low. Is there any way to increase the success rate to more than 90%!"
"It's very difficult!" The air defense company commander explained with a look of embarrassment: "We only have four anti-aircraft machine guns, and no matter how they are arranged, they can only form those cross-fire forces! But if a few heavy machine guns can be adjusted to cooperate with our air shooting, I can increase the success rate to more than 80%!"
Zhou Cheng's face flashed with confusion: "Do you want a heavy machine gun? The airdrop height of the transport aircraft is more than 300 meters. The effective range of the heavy machine gun to air shooting should be reduced by half than horizontal shooting. It would be good if it could be four or five hundred meters. Do you think that the heavy machine gun bullets can still hurt the transport aircraft when flying to an altitude of more than 300 meters?"
"I can't hurt!" The air defense company commander answered truthfully.
The conversation changed immediately: "But we can use heavy machine guns to scare the Japanese transport planes and create more shooting opportunities for anti-aircraft machine guns!"
Zhou Cheng no longer struggles with this issue.
He has specialized in his profession. Since the air defense company commander said that heavy machine guns are feasible, there is no problem. He then looked at Huang Hu on the side: "Captain Huang, you can solve the problem of heavy machine guns."
"I'll do it when I go back later. Cooperate with the air defense company to make more air shooting racks, use all the heavy machine guns equipped by the Shouyang Garrison, and hand them over to the air defense company together with the machine gunners!"
Huang Hu thought for a moment and made a decision: "I just calculated that the Shouyang Guard Team could draw six heavy machine guns to support the air defense company. When I got back, I arranged for people to make high-pods and install all the heavy machine guns!"
Zhou Cheng immediately replied: "Then this matter is decided."
"The air defense company, six heavy machine gun teams that cooperated with the air defense company to operate, lurked in place before 4 a.m. tonight."
"Shouyang garrison draws two infantry companies to protect them!"
"The artillery company of the Shouyang Garrison, the artillery directly under the heavy mortar company, is on standby around the battlefield, and provides artillery cover to infantry and air defense forces at any time."
"The last order is the most important. The troops participating in the operation tomorrow must carry gas masks, and no one can miss them. And they must be proficient in how to wear gas masks quickly."
"In addition, every ten warriors wear two more gas masks to prevent the gas masks from being unusable due to accidents!"
At around 2 a.m., there were signs of national rescue troops activities in the offensive positions outside the city.
The Japanese on duty did not dare to neglect and immediately found the captain who was sleeping: "Sir, there is another National Salvation Army active in the offensive position outside the city. Should we fire two flares and figure out their ultimate goal!"
"You are stupid!" The captain opposed without hesitation.
"After launching the flares, we can see them, and the National Salvation Army can see us! I guess there must be many sharpshooters staring at the city wall now. As soon as our people show up, these sharpshooters will snipe us everywhere!"
"We have suffered a lot of losses in this area in the past few days, and we must not make the same mistake again!"
The Japanese on duty felt a little frustrated after hearing this, but there was nothing we could do.
Two days ago, my fellow countrymen was shot by the National Savior Army because he accidentally exposed his head from behind the battlements.
At that time, I was hiding beside me, and my red and white brains splashed on my face, which was very tragic.
In order not to repeat the same mistake, he could only hide behind the battlements as a turtle.
The captain seemed to think of the tragic scene of his subordinate being shot by a sharpshooter of the National Savior Army, and then reminded him: "Notify all soldiers on duty that no one can raise torches on the top of the city, use them as targets for the National Savior Army, and they cannot fire flares."
"Unless the National Salvation Army really intends to attack us overnight, no one can expose his head from behind the battlements!"
"The artillery team fired a poisonous gas bomb to the attacking position of the National Salvation Army every ten minutes."
"Although this style of play is difficult to threaten the scattered national rescue army, it can prevent the national rescue army from gathering together."
"As long as they are not concentrated and are in a state of loose sand, they cannot threaten our safety!"
The Japanese were afraid of being attacked by the Shouyang garrison garrison. As long as the national rescue army did not attack the city and did not directly threaten the safety of the county garrison, the Japanese and puppet troops on the city would pretend that they did not exist, and they should do whatever they should do!
The air defense company, six heavy machine gun squads, two infantry companies, and a total of more than 500 soldiers, lurked to the offensive position outside the city with great fanfare.
The two artillery companies also put the artillery one kilometer away. Each artillery was covered with protective nets and branches and trunks, which seemed to be integrated with the surrounding environment. No one could guess that more than ten artillery big and small were hidden here.
At 4:30 in the morning, the offensive position that had been lively for more than an hour finally calmed down. The Japanese also used this time to fire ten poison gas bombs into the offensive position.
If a Japanese dared to observe the attacking position up close, they would find that the entire position had been covered by a thin layer of red smoke.
It was past six in the morning and it was finally dawn.
The Japanese Captain hid behind the battlements and carefully observed the situation outside the city through the battlements.
Nearly two hours have passed, and the red smoke shrouded in the offensive position has dissipated. The offensive position is empty, and there is not a single national rescue army active. It is very quiet, as if nothing happened last night.
The captain didn't believe in the illusion he saw.
For several days, the bloody lessons have been vivid in my mind. Although the offensive position seems to be silent, there must be many sharpshooters from the National Salvation Army.
At this time, no matter who reveals his head from the city, he may be hit by these sharpshooters.
Thinking of this, the captain quickly retracted his head from the battlement, with a serious order on his face: "The National Salvation Army artillery units and sharpshooters must be hidden outside the city. Without my order, no one can expose his head from behind the battlement!"
The captain of the Japanese Nakata brigade fulfilled his promise yesterday. He would wait on the city at 10 o'clock every morning, waiting for the transport plane to airdrop supplies to the county town, and return to the command center after the end.
The previous smooth airdrop made him feel that the National Salvation Army had no strength to attack the transport plane, so he decided not to go to the city today and wait for news at the command center.
"Weng buzz..."
At half past ten, the dull roar of the transport plane slowly reached Nakazo's ears. He looked up for a while before finding the two planes that were still black.
The roar became louder and louder, and the black spots began to grow bigger and bigger. Finally, they became two huge transport planes, slowly flying towards the county town.
Just like usual, we circled around the county town twice before starting to airdrop supplies.
The flight altitude also dropped to more than 300 meters in just one minute. The huge roar from the plane was like thunder, which made everyone's ears buzzing.
The first transport plane slowly flew from the west of the county town toward the county town. When it was about to approach the city, a large number of firepower nets suddenly appeared around the transport plane.
All kinds of bullets flew towards the transport plane just like it was raining, and in the blink of an eye the huge fuselage of the transport plane was covered in it.
At this time, the most panicked were the pilots in the cockpit of the plane.
Because the fuselage is large and the flight speed is slow, many machine gun bullets hit the fuselage, making a crisp metal impact sound...
Some bullets hit the wings, making a row of holes the size of a thumb.
Although these injuries cannot affect the safety of the aircraft, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of it. If there is a bullet just hitting the fuel tank, no matter how rough the transport plane is, it will be blown into pieces...
"Sir, there is anti-aircraft machine gun on the ground and then shoot at us!" the deputy shooter suddenly shouted.
The driver followed the co-pilot's gaze and looked out the window. There were actually a row of holes larger than fists on the right wing.
The heavy machine gun bullets will definitely not have such great power, and these holes cannot be shot by anti-aircraft guns, so only the anti-aircraft machine guns are left.
Its power is much greater than that of machine guns, except for fuel tanks, hit engines, cockpits... many positions can cause devastating blows to the transport aircraft.
The pilot panicked and subconsciously pulled the plane's joystick to fly the plane to climb.
As for the airdrop mission that has not been completed, it is not worth mentioning in the face of saving lives.
But nervously, he forgot one thing: the cabin of the transport aircraft was filled with supplies that were about to be airdropped, and the bulky fuselage was like a bloated fat man. No matter what he did, he was very awkward and slow in his movements.
The driver tried hard to pull the joystick, but the transport plane did not soar into the sky as he imagined, and quickly rushed to a height of seven or eight hundred meters...
"Sir, we carry too many supplies, it is difficult to get up!" The co-pilot saw the key to the problem at a glance, and was very anxious to remind him.
"Drop all the supplies in the cabin right away, hurry!" The driver ordered without hesitation.
At this moment, he had only one idea in his mind, hurry up and fly the plane to the sky, but the air defense company and machine gunner who were shooting on the ground did not intend to give him this opportunity...
Chapter completed!