Riding the motorcycle, Liu Ze passed through several defense lines of the teaching group and quickly entered Baoshan County.
Yao Ziqing and Qiu Qingquan were already waiting for him in the frontline command post.
The moment they met, Qiu Qing Quan immediately said,""The Japanese's artillery is very fierce, but we destroyed more than a dozen large caliber howitzers from the beginning. Now, both sides are evenly matched.”
"The quality of the Japanese's artillery is not bad, but our artillery is not bad either. Every one of them came from a professional artillery academy and had been trained by the German artillery instructors.”
"But the most important thing is that we listened to you and sent out the recording artillery scouts early to guide the artillery attack. Our shells are much more accurate than the Japanese.”
Liu Ze nodded in satisfaction. As long as their artillery was not at a disadvantage, the Japanese would not be able to use their artillery to gain an advantage.
However, the outcome of a war could not be determined so easily.
"It's dawn. The Japanese's air force will arrive in less than half an hour, or even sooner.”Liu Ze asked.
Qiu Qingquan stepped forward and said," The principal just called. Our air force will think of a way to intercept some of the Japanese air forces, but the rest will be up to us."”
Hearing this, Liu Ze said in surprise,""The principal has put in a lot of effort.”
"Sir, this is the principal's special care for you. Right now, our air force's mission is extremely heavy. We have to do our best to stop the Japanese from destroying the industries in Shanghai and ensure that more industrial equipment can be transferred away. The fact that you can transfer a portion of your forces to support us in such a situation is enough to show the principal's unconditional support for you.”
Seeing Qiu Qingquan's deep emotions, Liu Ze also knew how difficult it was for Old Jiang to transfer out the Air Force at this time.
The main mission of the Japanese Air Force was to completely destroy the industries around Shanghai.
One had to know that 80% of China's industries and electrical equipment were all in Shanghai.
A large number of industries had already been destroyed. Right now, a large number of engineers and experts from the national team were constantly rescuing the industrial equipment and moving them inland.
These industries were important to the future war. To put it bluntly, they were the last of China's wealth.
The most important task of the Battle of Songhu was to stop the Japanese and give them time to transfer these industrial equipment.
Liu Ze was confident that he would be able to defend Baoshan County against the Japanese's attacks from the river and the ground forces.
However, he basically had no effective means to deal with the Japanese's aerial attack.
There were only two skills that could be used to defend against air. One was the battery laser cannon, and the other was the anti-tank cannon.
However, the attack frequency of these two skills was extremely low. Coupled with the cooldown time, they were really not good anti-air methods.
Unless one had changed their profession to a Mechanic, be it aerial combat or the Viper Cannon, they were all equipped with efficient air defense methods.
The skill, Aerial Combat Mechanic Storm, had already been dropped, but Liu Ze had yet to change his class to a Mechanic, so he could not use this skill.
However, Liu Ze wasn't completely unprepared. Since yesterday, Liu Ze had been preparing to welcome the Japanese's air force.
If they couldn't actively intercept the Japanese's aerial units, they would turn the Japanese's aerial units blind and make them unable to find any targets to attack.
Even so, the Japanese's aerial forces would not be able to lock onto the ground targets and bombard them.
Accompanied by the roar of the fighter jets in the distance, more than a dozen biplane aircraft of the Japanese Navy appeared.
The dozens of black dots coming from the southern horizon made the soldiers of Baoshan County quickly hide in the bomb shelters or artillery shelters.
From yesterday until now, the defense of the entire Baoshan County had been further strengthened. A large number of anti-artillery shelters and individual bomb shelters had been dug.
When the Japanese aircrafts approached Baoshan County, a large number of smoke bombs exploded on all the defense lines in Baoshan County, and a large amount of smoke completely enveloped the position.
This scene stunned the Japanese pilots who were preparing to lower their altitude and attack.
The county town that could still be seen before was now completely shrouded in thick fog, and nothing could be seen.
This made the Japanese aircrafts hurriedly increase their altitude, preparing to wait for the smoke to disperse before attacking.
However, after circling the sky a few times, the smoke below did not dissipate. Instead, it continued to expand.
"Captain, we can't see anything in this smoke. We can't attack.”
"What the hell. It doesn't look like there's smoke from burning down there.”
"Our fuel can't support such a wait.”
"The 68th Regiment below, why aren't you taking advantage of the thick smoke to attack?”
……
In the airborne radio, the pilots were talking non-stop. The captain of the carrier aircraft group looked at the endless smoke below and looked at the fuel level on the fuel gauge. After flying a few rounds, he could only say helplessly,
" Drop the bomb. We're returning."
With the captain's order, more than a dozen aircraft in the air dropped their bombs. Although no one knew where these bombs would land, they had no better choice.
The fuel supply could not sustain them, and it was impossible for them to bring the bombs back to the aircraft carrier.
……
On the ground, Liu Ze sat in the bomb shelter at the highest point and watched the Japanese air force randomly drop bombs before returning.
The bombs that fell were basically in no man's land, so they posed no threat at all.
Liu Ze, who had become a Spitfire, had a variety of special grenades and mines to choose from. Smoke grenades were just one of them.
If the Japanese planes were blinded, the threat of dropping bombs would be minimized.
This was also the best method Liu Ze could use to deal with the Japanese.
As expected, when the Japanese's aerial units could not find their target, they could only randomly drop bombs and return after wandering around for a while.
Unless they were really unlucky, such a bomb would not pose any threat to the Chinese army at the defense line.
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