Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

After shooting down one plane, the other three quickly moved apart and the heavy machine guns continued to fire, but they were unable to take down another plane and the other three planes flew away soon.

Li Qinwu opened the portal and shouted to everyone: "Brothers, let's go to the next ambush point!"

The group of people divided into groups of four, immediately raised their guns and rushed into the portal, entering the island space.

When transporting the heavy machine gun, Li Jianfeng found some time to find Li Qinwu and complained: "This machine gun is not very effective in shooting down planes. The bullets do not fly in a straight line after flying more than 1000 meters. The dispersion is very large, and the bullets are almost scattered. Air defense should still rely on regular anti-aircraft guns."

Li Qinwu nodded.

"Let's use the heavy machine guns as a replacement first. We can't get anti-aircraft guns at this time. The Republic of China only bought the Su Luotong machine gun three or five years ago. Now there is no way to get it."

As he spoke, all 32 heavy machine guns entered the island space. Li Qinwu quickly selected a new air defense position and opened a portal on the ground in front of the three bombers. Everyone rushed out with machine guns. In less than a few minutes, the air defense position was set up.

At Li Jianfeng's command, 32 heavy machine guns once again poured fire at the planes in the sky.

By this time, the Japanese planes had already risen to about 3km, out of reach of the heavy machine guns, but the Japanese grenadier was frightened by the barrage of bullets coming up from the ground and the dense explosions of heavy machine guns in the air.

Judging from the density of firepower below, he estimated that there were thirty or forty heavy machine guns, just like the anti-aircraft position he just encountered. He encountered another one here. How many anti-aircraft weapons did this group of enemies have?

The Japanese bombardier had a lot of doubts in his little head, but as the plane moved forward, his doubts turned into confusion.

Every time their planes advanced a little further, an anti-aircraft position would appear on the ground, pouring ammunition at them continuously. He kept counting, and when they reached the high ground of the Punishment Army, the bombing site, he was completely numb. They encountered 11 anti-aircraft positions! Each position probably had to heavy machine guns. On this way, they encountered hundreds of heavy machine guns!

The three bombers circled over the high ground for several times, but did not dare to lower their altitude to drop their bombs. The plane that had just been shot down had told them the consequences of lowering their altitude, but if they did not lower their altitude, they would not be sure to drop the bombs on the bunkers on the position. Wouldn't their trip be in vain?

The three bombers tried to lower their altitude to test the Punishment Army below, but every time they tried to lower their altitude, the heavy guns below would spray bullets at them like mad dogs, and several hilltops would fire at the same time, as if the Punishment Army's machine guns had grown out of the forest. There were so many of them that they dared not act rashly.

After hesitating for a while, the leading pilot felt that the stalemate was not a solution and ordered the bombs to be dropped at a safe distance. Finally, the three bombers dropped the bombs on the high ground at an altitude of 2500 meters and then ran away in shame.

On the way back, they chose another route to avoid the series of heavy machine gun positions on the way here, but they ended up being "sent off" by heavy machine guns all the way. The Japanese pilots on the plane were completely confused. There were heavy machine guns both going and coming, and the army below was equipped with nearly a thousand heavy machine guns. Who wouldn't be confused when seeing this?

As for the 24 25kg bombs they dropped, they caused a series of explosions on the high ground. Due to the high altitude of the bombs, several bombs fell outside the position.

The bombing collapsed two communication trenches on the high ground, and a bomb luckily hit the top of an artillery bunker, but the bunker was blocked by a 4-meter-thick layer of sandbags and did not cause damage to the concrete below.

There were no casualties among the punitive army soldiers. They had hidden in the island space long before the Japanese planes arrived, leaving only a few observation posts on the position. The Japanese attack this time could be said to be ineffective.

The Japanese plane flew back to Fengtian Airport, and the battle report was immediately sent to Honjo Shigeru. When he saw the pilot say that the Punishment Army had thousands of heavy machine guns that could perform air defense missions, his face was full of question marks?

He really wanted to pry open the pilot's brain to see what was inside. Thousands of heavy machine guns, do you know what that means? With the current level of the Chinese army, even if 10 divisions were pulled over, it would be difficult to gather so many heavy machine guns.

Honjo Shigeru's face was gloomy. He asked a staff officer beside him, "Did you let the pilots take assault pills? Do you want to see what that bastard wrote in the battle report I gave him?"

The staff officer swallowed his saliva and said, "Commander, the pilots' mental state is normal. As for why they saw so many heavy machine guns, it is probably a trick of the enemy.

I heard that the Chinese liked to throw firecrackers into oil drums during the war to simulate heavy machine gun firing. Perhaps the Chinese only arranged one or two heavy machine guns on the anti-aircraft positions, and then equipped them with dozens of oil drums with firecrackers. When our planes arrived, they lit the firecrackers and fired with the few heavy machine guns they had, which was both real and fake, creating the illusion of thousands of heavy machine guns.

Honjo Shigeen nodded, not quite believing this statement. The pilots of the Empire were all selected from the best, with excellent eyesight, so how could they have made a mistake? What's more, a plane was shot down, so this could not be fake.

However, he felt that the sleight of hand should be correct, but it should be a more sophisticated sleight of hand than firecrackers and gasoline barrels, which deceived the pilots' eyes.

"Commander, I just confirmed through a telegram that the four heavy artillery pieces were indeed captured by the Punishment Army. General Duomen Jiro's army was suppressed by the heavy artillery and dared not approach the Nenjiang Bridge. Look at this..."

There is no need to explain what happened next too clearly. He was reminding Honjo Shigeru how to deal with Tamon Jiro. Losing four heavy artillery pieces was a serious crime, and it was extremely shameful that they were captured by the enemy. If this matter were known to the country, he would definitely be held accountable.

Honjo Shigeru was very hesitant about how to deal with Tamon Jiro. Tamon Jiro was a lieutenant general, and Honjo Shigeru was also a lieutenant general. However, his position was higher than Tamon Jiro, but it was only limited.

The main reason is that his family has a background, and it would be bad for his future if we push him too hard.

Honjo Shigeru hesitated for a while and said, "Send a telegram to General Tamon Jiro and tell him to find lost things by himself. This is what an imperial soldier should do! But if General Tamon Jiro really can't defeat the Punishment Army, I can only send the Strategic Artillery Regiment to support them."

The translation of this sentence means: Brother, you lost the cannon. It is so big that I am afraid I can't cover it. You have to figure out a way, either get the cannon back or take down the Punishment Army Highland. If you can accomplish either of them, the matter will be covered. If you can't take it, this matter can only be reported to the top.

The strategic artillery regiment of the Japanese is the 240mm army heavy artillery. If Honjo Shigeru wants to mobilize this level of heavy artillery, he needs to report to the mainland. If you say you want to use strategic heavy artillery, the mainland will definitely ask what's going on? What enemy needs strategic heavy artillery to be defeated?

Then Honjo Shigeru would have to tell the whole story to the country, and the fact that Tamon Jiro lost the cannon would be made public, so Honjo Shigeru could not be blamed.