Chapter 35: Poison gas bomb? No, it's lime "attack!" "Kill the chicken and give it to me!" When they arrived at the outskirts of the canyon, the Japanese captain drew his sword and ordered his soldiers to charge. The Locust Association Army was directly ordered by the Japanese to march in the front. Anyway, the fighting has already begun, and in a terrain like the canyon, the Locust Army cannot escape. If you don't want to be shot to death by the Japanese, then just charge forward honestly. The Eighth Route Army soldiers above the canyon saw that the Japanese and puppet troops had entered their shooting range. Captain Luo immediately ordered his troops to open fire. Ohno Heisuo looked at the muzzle flashes that continued to emerge from the canyon and directly ordered the artillery to fire.
The Japanese Type 41 mountain guns were originally aimed at the high ground on both sides of the canyon. After receiving the order, they immediately loaded the shells and opened fire above the canyon. Because of the obstruction of the canyon, few shells fell into the canyon, and most of them hit the positions of the Eighth Route Army. However, after hearing the sound of flying shells, Captain Luo had already ordered his soldiers to hide in the anti-artillery caves. The troops suffered few casualties. The Japanese soldiers below seized the opportunity to force the puppet army to advance quickly and step on the mines. Seeing that they would soon reach the end of the canyon, the Japanese squadron leader looked at the light ahead with delight. Then he suddenly saw that the exit on the opposite side of the canyon had been blocked by a slope of earth. There were sandbags piled everywhere on the slope, and thick gun muzzles could be vaguely seen between the sandbags. Because it was a fixed fortification and there was a canyon defense artillery overhead, the heavy machine guns placed inside the fortification were all Maxim heavy machine guns. The main reason is that Qin Yangming has several Maxim heavy machine guns in his hands. The New 1st Regiment was mainly equipped with Type 92 heavy machine guns, and he didn't want to waste them, so he took them out of the warehouse and placed them in the bunker. The bunker contained enough cooling water to destroy a machine gun. Even if there is not enough water, it can be immediately sent down from the mountain. As the deputy squad leader of the heavy machine gun squad of the machine gun platoon stationed below gave orders, four Maxim heavy machine guns spewed flames and directly blocked the exit area of the canyon. Some soldiers of the Eighth Route Army above the canyon climbed to places that were out of reach of artillery shells, took out pottery jars and quickly threw them down the canyon. There was a fuse inserted in the clay pot, and it exploded directly on the kid's head according to the calculated time. Suddenly the whole canyon was filled with smoke. The pottery jar was naturally filled with quicklime left over from building the bunker. A large amount of irritating quicklime was scattered in the air, and grenades kept falling.
The explosion of the grenade spread the fallen quicklime again, making it impossible for the Japanese and puppet soldiers to even open their eyes. The Japanese commander thought it was a poison gas bomb, and hurriedly led his troops out of the canyon, leaving behind hundreds of corpses. This was different from the situation where Qin Yangming easily blocked the Japanese attack. It was very difficult for troops in other parts of Linyuan County to stop the Japanese. Their places do not have the geographical advantages that Qin Yangming has, nor do they have as many strong fortifications as Qin Yangming. They could only rely on the hillside and the newly rebuilt stronghold to resist the Japanese attack with difficulty. The artillery tower that was very useful against the Eighth Route Army was not so effective against the Japanese. When the Japanese saw that the Eighth Route Army could not threaten their artillery, they directly pulled the mountain artillery to the front line and fired at the artillery tower. It is already the limit for the turret to be able to block the Japanese infantry artillery, after all, it is not built with reinforced concrete. Now the Japanese have pulled up the mountain artillery. With the strength of their artillery, they can kill them one by one. The Eighth Route Army's machine guns had only fired a few shots when the Japanese used grenade launchers to aim at the machine guns and fired. Less than two hours after the war began, the Eighth Route Army's outermost line of defense began to be unable to withstand the Japanese attack. Except for the two directions of Baihuling and Cangyunling, there was at least one Japanese infantry battalion attacking the Eighth Route Army's defense line. The Sakata Corps bypassed Baihu Ridge and launched an attack on Linyuan County from another direction. In order to use the powerful military force to conquer Linyuan County as quickly as possible, Eliminate all the Eighth Route Army in Linyuan County, and then quickly attack the Eighth Route Army division headquarters. Zhang Dabiao led the 1st Battalion to directly encounter the Sakata Regiment. In less than an hour, a platoon responsible for defending a turret was killed in the fierce attack of the Sakata Regiment. Zhang Dabiao saw that the fighting power of this group of Japanese devils was surprisingly strong. He quickly arranged for personnel to bury all the mines and used all means to delay the Japanese advance. In order to prevent the Japanese from obtaining supplies in Linyuan County. Li Yunlong ordered the county brigade and district squad to take away all edible food in the village and remove all the tiles and doors of the houses. If they couldn't be demolished, they would be destroyed. All the wells except those used by the Eighth Route Army were filled with stones. If the Japanese want to continue their attack, they can only have people send supplies from behind. Li Yunlong also arranged troops to specifically attack the Japanese supply vehicles. No requirement to capture, just destroy. In order to capture Linyuan County as quickly as possible, these Japanese soldiers went into battle lightly and never expected to be delayed in Linyuan County. But even so, the Japanese were still advancing slowly. However, at this rate, it would probably take ten days for the Japanese to reach Linyuan County. The Japanese soldier Nobutsu Sakata also thought of this situation.
He anticipated that the combat capability of the New 1st Regiment might be even stronger than expected, and that it would be impossible to defeat the New 1st Regiment in a short period of time. Therefore, we directly requested the brigade to provide tank support. Prepare to use tanks to break through the Eighth Route Army's positions. At the same time, because of the large-scale mopping-up operation, the Japanese planes also took off and rushed to various areas to attack the Eighth Route Army. At the request of Nobutsu Sakata, the Air Force came directly to Linyuan County and launched air strikes on the county seat, Baihuling, and various Eighth Route Army positions. Heavy aerial bombs were dropped from planes. The stronghold bunkers built by the Eighth Route Army, which could only block infantry artillery, were directly blown away by aerial bombs. Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army was well prepared and built air-raid shelters, so the casualties of the troops were not so heavy. But while the planes were launching air raids, the Eighth Route Army took shelter. Nobutsu Sakata commanded his troops to launch an attack. The Eighth Route Army had to leave the air-raid shelters and launch attacks on the attacking Japanese army under the bombing of aircraft. …… On Baihu Ridge, when Qin Yangming saw a plane flying over, he immediately ordered the anti-aircraft machine guns to be ready to shoot the plane down. The Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army had no anti-aircraft weapons and were always fearless. At the same time, in order to improve accuracy, the planes did not fly very high. They even dared to fly to a low altitude of several hundred meters and fired at the Eighth Route Army. But he never expected that the Eighth Route Army on Baihuling would have anti-aircraft machine guns. After the DShK machine gun was set up, the shooter directly replaced the armor-piercing incendiary bullet, aimed at the plane and pulled the trigger. The densely packed magazines lashed at the Japanese planes like a waving whip. Accompanied by a loud bang in the air, the fuel tank of the Japanese plane was hit by a bullet, and the fuel of the plane was ignited by the incendiary bomb, causing it to explode directly in mid-air. "Kill a special forces Japanese lieutenant pilot and earn 20,000 points." …… Ohno Heisao was holding a telescope to watch how the Locust Army planes were bombing Baihu Ridge when he saw the plane suddenly explode in mid-air. "what happened? Why did the plane explode suddenly? " Seeing the plane suddenly explode, Ohno Heissomatsu thought that there was something wrong with the plane, and quickly arranged for someone to report the information to the brigade. Ohno Heissuo didn't even think that the plane was shot down by the Eighth Route Army on Baihu Ridge. The Eighth Route Army may have anti-aircraft weapons, but the Eighth Route Army on Baihu Ridge is not the Eighth Route Army headquarters. It’s already great to have a few heavy machine guns, how could there be anti-aircraft weapons? They don't have many locust troops.
As for using heavy machine guns to shoot down planes? The plane was several hundred meters in the air, and when you looked up, it was not much bigger than a bird. It is extremely difficult to hit a target with a heavy machine gun. Even the heavy machine gunners of the Locust Army are not at this level, let alone the Eighth Route Army who are short of ammunition? Moreover, a heavy machine gun hitting a plane will not cause it to explode, even if it hits the fuel tank. However, Ohno Heissuo never imagined that the Eighth Route Army on Baihu Ridge actually had anti-aircraft machine guns and special ammunition such as armor-piercing incendiary bombs. (End of this chapter)