Chapter 167: Supreme

A French-made Bazin-type aircraft flew swaying in the sky. The propeller of this propeller was behind the butt, and the pilot sat in the cockpit in the front. The plane was painted like a grass green in spring. Next to the logo of the five-color star of the Land Airlines, there were several large white characters "Tingzhi" written on it. This plane was naturally the war eagle driven by Captain Ding Yushang, a lawless army of the Land Airlines. He was wearing goggles, a white silk scarf tied around his neck, and a leather hunting suit. He was proudly operating his car in the air.

There were quite a few guys in the cockpit. Two Raiders pistols that had slammed the sight of the target, and five or six Renmin B-type heavy grenades. If this captain hadn't been able to get a Lewis-style machine gun———he always thought it was a good thing to install this machine gun with drums on the plane. He probably had already shot the machine gun down on the plane. The German army in Qingdao had two planes. Although he was accepting the task of reconnaissance and observing artillery shooting, he always wanted to meet the German plane. The Raiders pistol he brought specially could fire the Variety market!

The green hills on the ground were already darkened by fire from square meters, and there were large craters with black holes everywhere. The Tongbo River was still flowing, looking down from a height of four or five hundred meters, it was like a silver-white belt. On the east bank of the river, there were some simple bunkers, and some corpses in yellow uniforms that had not been packed. They lay among the many obstacles. In this battle, the infantry brothers fought miserably! Ding Yushang gritted his teeth in the cockpit. He was in the air, but he couldn't help them any great things! It would be great if Land Airlines had four or five heavy machine guns, or a large aircraft with hundreds of pounds of bombs! Strike the enemy from the air,

It is the most effective method! This time I went to the ground, no matter how I had to pester that guy in Jack Ma and install a Lewis machine gun on his plane! He calmed down and carefully observed the situation of the Ilchis North Turret. The hill was surrounded by a large infantry fortress, and there were several permanent turrets on the hills that could provide fire support. The bombardment effect of the artillery fire for half a night and half a day seemed very average. At least the six steel hat forts equipped with 120 mm cannons were still intact, and the black holes extended to the west, occasionally shaking, and spitting smoke and fire to the opposite Chinese position. The infantry was still far away from this core position!

Not far away is the McClureburg Sanatorium. At the foot of the sanatorium, you can see Qingdao's small and exquisite urban area. The sea spreads at the foot of the urban area. Some of the German coastal defenses were obviously empty. The German army transferred all the garrison forces to the garrison direction facing the land. Thinking of the wind inside the troops, the Japanese army would probably land from the sea in mid-August to participate in the combat operations to seize Qingdao. Isn't this opening the door to them without any defense? There are very few gunboats in the port on the dock, and there is also a cruiser that looks very old-looking. Ding Yushang gritted his teeth on the plane. How great would it be if our navy was strong enough? It would be attacked on both sides of the sea and land. It is estimated that the Germans would not dare to resist and surrender! There are no need for infantry brothers to pay such heavy casualties!

He was looking around and preparing to return, he saw a small dot suddenly soaring on a grass next to the dock in Qingdao. After a while, the dot gradually grew bigger and made a buzzing sound in the air. After a closer look, it turned out to be a Newport-type pull-in reconnaissance aircraft! This guy is more flexible than Bazin, but the speed of both sides climbs is half a pound. It is probably also the aircraft sent by the German Army aviation team to reconnaissance the Chinese front, and then hit Ding Yushang in the sky! Our Captain Ding was so happy that he screamed in the cockpit. He told him what Ma Yuncheng told him before he went to heaven: "Reconnaissance, just reconnaissance, go to heaven, come back honestly. Don't make any more demon moths out for me!"

Now they are all thrown out of the sky. When they push the nose, they pounced down. The engine of the plane roared and bursts of white smoke came out. In a blink of an eye, it flew to the top of the Newport aircraft painted with iron crosses. One turned around and slid, and simply flew side by side with the Newport. The pilot on the German plane looked at Ding Yushang blankly, and never thought about what his peers were going to do. In this era, the great powers had planes, all of which were used for reconnaissance and communication. When they met in the air, they even nodded and greeted each other, and then they did their own work. I didn't expect that today I saw a Chinese pilot flying side by side with him, then took out a German pistol to gesture at him, and even made a gesture to surrender! Capture the prisoners and come to the sky?

Ding Yushang grinned in the cockpit, and wanted to operate the plane and hold a gun. He was too busy to do it, so he shouted loudly in English with a strong Nanyang accent: "You are obedient! Follow me obediently, or I will beat you down!" The breeze roared in the air, and the sound of the engine turning. How could the German pilot hear clearly what he said? But he always felt that he was not a good sign to gesture to him with a gun. He slipped sideways and wanted to dodge. Seeing that the German plane dropped its height and ignored him, Ding Yushang felt very embarrassed and followed him. Under his control, Bazan-like obedient kept parallel to the German plane. Now Ding Yushang was no longer polite, and all ten bullets of Dangdang were poured out. He planned to fail if he could not hit it again.

He was going to throw grenades at the opposite plane! But the situation did not finally develop to the point where he had to shoot down the opponent's plane with grenades. The German pilot suddenly stopped and fell into the cockpit. Ding Yushang was not a sharpshooter on the ground. When he was shaking in the air, he fired with one hand, and a bullet hit the opponent's pilot's vitals. He died in the air! Newport trembled in the air and completely lost control. He pierced the ground. Ding Yushang opened his mouth and watched the plane fall down like falling leaves. He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. It was not until the plane fell head-on near the Bismarck Mountain Fort and turned into a fireball. He raised the gun in front of him and kissed him fiercely: "Fuck it down for me! Is this the first air battle?"

The officers and soldiers of the Central Army on both sides of the Tongbo River on the ground were also stunned to watch all this happening in the air. They endured the firepower of the German army during the day, and desperately strengthened the fortifications like a groundhog. They were waiting for the attack at night, and then they saw their reconnaissance planes coming. Then another German plane went into the sky. A few circles, and their planes beat the German planes down! They exploded near the Bismarck Mountain Fort! A huge cheering sound suddenly erupted on the ground. All the officers and soldiers did not care about the firepower of the German defenders and were in the fortifications.

He stood up and threw the military cap into the sky, and laughter and scolding sounded in a loud voice. Then he saw such a proud grass-green plane hovering a few times on the Ilchis North Fortress and dropped a few grenades from the plane. Amid the banging sound, although the grenade was insignificant to the turret, the cheers were louder and louder. This dramatic air battle really made a good boost for the originally depressed morale! This unknown army pilot also suddenly became the hero in the minds of the frontline soldiers!

On August 4, 1913, the captain pilot of the Chinese Army Air Force conducted the first air battle in world history. German Army Lieutenant Stepad became the first opponent to be shot down by him. Ding Yushang was recorded in history. Although he was scolded by Ma Yuncheng after he landed, he still happily drew a red heart on his plane, with an arrow passing through it. It became his exclusive decoration afterwards. In the future, on the European battlefield, his plane, which was full of marks, became an air symbol as famous as the Red Baron, but his aircraft title changed from the current Tingzhi to Mariana or Michelle. Of course, these are already later stories.

The sound of artillery was still sounding intermittently, and neither side seemed to want to stop this method of consuming the other side's willpower. Both sides were equipped with mortars. The high ballistics fell one after another in the air and smashed each other into each other's fortifications. Such consumption was naturally caused by the simple fortifications that caused more casualties to the National Wehrmacht. However, the heavy artillery of both sides was basically silent. It seemed that the fierce attack last night consumed the energy of the artillery soldiers of both sides. The entire day, except for the unexpected scene in the air, was silent. The seven-day combat period of the reserve army seemed to have consumed more than ten hours in vain.

As soon as the sky became dark, the Second Combat Engineer Regiment moved forward with the first battalion. Under the cover of the mortar volley, he crossed the Tongbo River with almost no casualties. He arrived at the starting position constructed by the two companies of the Fifty-third Regiment, which had already been here for the whole day. As soon as the brothers of the First Battalion of the Second Combat Engineer Regiment went up, they found that the brothers here were already haggard and unsatisfactory during the day. They could not transport hot food, and the enemy's machine guns and shells were blocked. In the hot weather, they were lying on the ground desperately in the rain of bullets. They even organized two small attacks! The two layers of deer fortress were blown up! The first battalion commander Liu Yun was holding the position

The Supreme Commander, an acting deputy company commander, couldn't say a word. Finally, a sentence burst out: "Good brothers, go down and rest quickly. If we can't make a splash tonight, I'm sorry for the position you handed over to our position!" The deputy company commander shook his head tiredly and smiled bitterly: "There are so many brothers in our regiment, and our company commander was blown up so that we can't even find the bones. We can also use firepower to support you here. Besides, we are familiar with the terrain here, and we can also play a role when we follow you up. Don't say anything. Either we die here or move forward. We won't go down!"

The two soldiers looked at each other and didn't need to express anything extra. They just shook hands hard and said the most popular mobilization slogan of the Reserve Army: "Everything is for the great cause of national rejuvenation!" and began to prepare for busy preparations. The combat engineers of this battalion were all brought with them with enough blasting equipment. Today, they were about to blow him up in Xiaozhan Mountain!

At this time, Lin Shuqing, the commander of the Ninth Division, also arrived at the frontier position on the west bank of Tongbo River to approach the command. As the president's treasure, the performance of the Ninth Division last night could no longer be repeated! Cai E also fully assigned the heavy artillery cluster to him to command, and was preparing to launch another offensive mainly based on combat engineer infiltration and blasting! The first battalion specially transferred up, there was also a company inside the Ninth Division's original Hero Guzhen Company, which had to fight back this time. The most important thing was that time passed ruthlessly, and the seven days limited to the commander was getting closer and closer. It was already impossible to delay a day. Lin Shuqing lay in front of the observation port of the cover department, and more than a dozen telephones and telegraphs connected him to the front line and the rear. Zhang Tao also followed him, all of whom were nervous looking at the movements of the German fortress opposite, and then looking at the time. The time when the attack was initiated was getting closer and closer.

Lin Shuqing cursed in Fujian dialect and turned to look at Zhang Tao: "Zhang Madman, whether you can open the Xiaozhanshan Infantry Fortress this time depends on how your subordinates do! At ten o'clock, smash five thousand shells first. Then there is the movement of your troops. Are you confident?"

When Zhang Tao was about to fight, he looked grim and gritted his teeth. He held a large telescope from Zeiss in Germany and looked at the opposite side without blinking. The noisy voices and phone ringing in the cover department could not affect him at all. Looking at his whole body twisting, he wished he was at the forefront. He listened to Lin Shuqing asking him, and he reluctantly put down the telescope. He said lightly: "Teacher Commander, don't worry about my troops. Any kind of fortress will be taken down for you, and any kind of enemy will be defeated. With our bravery, there will be no tenacity of the enemy. Commander Zeiss and I made military orders. Let's see our performance tonight! The Second Fighting Engineer Regiment is the one who earns this bowl of rice!"

Time gradually reached ten o'clock in the evening. The German soldiers passed by a nightmare night yesterday. At night, they all opened their eyes wide and guarded the fortifications and trenches, waiting for the most likely night attacks of the Chinese army opposite. Yesterday's night was really incredible. The barrage of forwarding like thunder broke the trenches and struck the trenches intermittently. The infantry stationed in the field fortifications also suffered heavy casualties. Even the permanent fire firing points of steel and cement were blown to pieces by excessive artillery, and many of them were killed by the fortifications. What shocked them the most was the attack of the Chinese infantry. They always thought that only the European army had such a strong attack spirit. They had such discipline and dedication to charge to death. But in the firelight of the shell explosion last night, looking at the rolling waves of people surging forward, they died.

Another area rushed up, in Tongbo River, before the deer fort, the Chinese military officers and soldiers who fell layer by layer, and the military flag that had been floating in the front and were always held high by officers. The nation, which had always been in their impression, had a braid, was a group of opium ghosts and small-footed women, had completely changed its appearance. The morale of the military represents the national spirit, which is clearly a precursor to the rise of this old nation! So although they repelled such a fierce and lifeless attack by the Chinese army, they were commended today by the German garrison commander Wadek. Some military officers and soldiers have verbally issued medals, but everyone understands their destiny, either to die here or to enter the Chinese prisoner-of-war camp. It is just a matter of time. But for the empire's reputation in the Far East, for the honor of German soldiers, and for the duty of obeying orders by soldiers, they had to choose to resist to the end.

The positions in the night were surprisingly quiet, and the sound of occasional explosions of mortars added to this quiet atmosphere. Although the Chinese military positions could not see their movements in the dark, the flares fired from time to time could only see the Chinese military positions on both sides of the Tongbo River were dead silent. But they knew that the attack was coming soon.

Sure enough, when the time reached ten o'clock, the sky in the distance flashed again, followed by the trembling of the earth and the thunderous roar. The German officers and soldiers in the trench line rushed into the cover of steel and cement like rabbits, and were immediately crowded. The wooden hats of the colonial garrison troops were pale faces under the unique wooden hats, waiting for the shells to fall. Some Chinese were soldiers, but how long could their little force resist them? The German fortress artillery and field artillery groups also began to fire immediately, suppressing the opponent's firepower. On both sides of the river, it suddenly became a world full of shrapnel and explosions.

The small bridgehead of the National Defense Forces in front of the Xiao Zhanshan position was filled with soldiers waiting for attack. They curled themselves in the trenches as much as possible, waiting for their artillery fire to extend. But the explosion seemed endless. Everyone was determined to put life and death aside. At this time, no one could have thought so much. The mission of the soldier was to rush forward and kill the enemy in front of him! Your life was just a tool to complete the task! A young school official gritted his teeth and leaned against the wall of the trenches. The first battalion commander Liu Yun looked at him in the flash of artillery fire. The talented student who graduated from the Second Civil Engineering Department frowned, as if he was trying his best to endure the heart-wrenching oscillation. The barrage composed of artillery shells seemed endless. When the God of War exerted his power with all his might, every soldier felt that he was really insignificant.

This time the artillery fire was not as long as last night. After about twenty minutes of full force, the heavy artillery group began to extend deeper. The German artillery fire hit them on the left and right. Three green signal flares rose high into the sky again. Liu Yun finally waited for the signal of the attack, and he shouted: "Go!" Suddenly, the whistle sounded in the trenches. The machine guns on both sides of the Tongbo River were also fully fired, weaving a fire river that crossed the Tongbo River. Liu Yun pushed the young school official, but found that he fell. The young man was actually shocked by the continuous explosion of heavy artillery! At this time, my mother didn't care about death. Liu Yun jumped into the trenches and looked at the soldiers under his command, with the machine guns and

The mortars jumped out of the trench under the cover of firepower, and each person was filled with blasting tubes and grenades. The battalion was divided into more than ten small tactical groups and rushed towards his targets quickly. The shells fell and hit any soldier, the explosion caused was amazing. However, this time the commando formation was evacuated under the enemy's nose. Before their infantry firepower was not enough, they had already rushed to the front of the deep and wide group of Lu Forts! Like the blasting engineers, Liu Yunzai also carried a light blasting tube containing twenty pounds of explosives, which could be divided into four sections, and a heavy blasting tube containing forty pounds of medicine. This night assault no longer requires his command. Every combat engineer is looking for targets, then blasts, and advances until he dies in battle!

The sound of huge yellow explosives explosions were heard everywhere by the deer fortresses that had been destroyed by artillery fire. The German infantry firepower was also concentrated, but the blasting sound continued to move forward. In just ten minutes, the thirty-meter-wide deer fortresses was lifted down about twenty meters, and more than a dozen passages were opened! The German infantry firepower became increasingly dense, and the German army, who were avoiding artillery in the fortifications, rushed into the trenches, and the machine gun mortars turned their front into a pot. The German command post on the top of Ilchs Mountain also observed the progress of the Chinese army here. Countless artillery batteries and artillery positions were concentrated here. This density of artillery fire makes people suspect that

There is no living creature inside! This area is illuminated by the flash of artillery fire and explosions. The flares are constantly being fired as infantry to guide the shooting targets. It is in this case that the agile figures of the combat engineers are still crawling forward, hanging explosives on the deer fort, and then rolling back. If hit by shrapnel, these fearless warriors will turn into light and heat with the explosives they carry. Some engineers' eyes turned red, pulled the blasting tube and rushed straight into the deer fort, completely integrating themselves into the land of the motherland. This kind of fierce attack by combat engineers has never happened in the history of world war!
Chapter completed!