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It was already noon. After half a day of fierce fighting, both sides were severely exhausted. The Japanese did not have the strength to launch another attack. They could only eat lunch and rest for a while before launching a more fierce attack.

Of course, the Japanese had no good intentions. They were waiting for their trump card to arrive. After all, they had attacked for such a long time this morning, and even though they had absolute artillery advantage, they did not gain any great advantage. Instead, they suffered hundreds of casualties. This was something the arrogant Japanese could never accept.

When the next planes arrive, they can use their absolute air superiority to destroy the defensive positions of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, and the next battle will be easier to fight. This is the experience the Japanese have summed up over the years.

We also took advantage of this time to repair the destroyed positions, transport the wounded and sacrificed soldiers off the positions, and replenish troops and various supplies to the front-line troops.

After this morning's battle, our troops truly experienced the strength of the Japanese field brigade. Although the independent regiment had previously wiped out an enemy regiment, that was only achieved by chance and because our artillery had an absolute advantage.

Once the enemy reaches the brigade or division level, with the support of their various large-caliber artillery, their strength will increase sharply, and it will be very difficult for our troops to resist.

The independent regiment was slightly better off, but Ding Wei's New 1st Regiment had a harder time resisting, and even had its first line of defense broken by the Japanese. If Ding Wei had not acted decisively and mobilized ten mortars to carry out blocking bombardment at all costs to block the enemy's follow-up troops, and also deployed reserve troops, he would not have been able to repel the Japanese's crazy attack.

In this morning alone, the Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment suffered more than 1.5 casualties, while the Japanese suffered almost 1. The casualty ratio was about 3:1, which was far worse than the previous ratio of 4: or :.

Of course, it is definitely much better than before, but now our pursuit is completely different from before. We lost a brave soldier to kill one and a half Japanese soldiers, which seems to be a bit of a loss.

At noon, we had canned meat and compressed biscuits as usual. This was also the standard configuration during fierce fighting, and the soldiers had long been accustomed to it. Only after eating and drinking enough would they have more strength to fight the Japanese.

As for the Sakai Brigade, the food was a bit worse, basically compressed biscuits and canned food, but the ingredients were a bit disappointing.

After lunch, the Japanese did not rush to launch an attack. They were waiting for their trump card to arrive.

Seeing this situation, Li Yunlong and his side immediately ordered their respective air defense forces to enter the positions. In addition to smoke-generating devices everywhere, various weapons capable of anti-aircraft shooting were also set up.

As the old saying goes: "Using anti-aircraft machine guns to defend against air attacks will result in nine out of ten failures."

In fact, when you really think about it, most anti-aircraft weapons only make the enemy's aircraft increase their altitude and reduce the hit rate of the enemy's bombs. As for the others, we can only leave it to human will and fate.

Before our air force has developed combat effectiveness, we are in a passive position in most cases and there is no other way.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the roar of airplane engines was heard from the sky. Yoshio Shinozuka had invested a lot this time. In order to quickly lift the siege of Wenxian County, he specially mobilized 20 bombers of various types to provide support.

A huge fleet of planes was circling in the air. The Japanese must have been cheering extremely, but we were much more solemn. After all, the enemy had deployed such a large force at once, which was something we had never encountered before.

To put it bluntly, in the past, the Japanese would only send three to five aircraft to support one of our regimental combat units. But now, the number is 20 at once. The real test for the Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment has just begun.

"Everyone, quickly enter the anti-artillery cave. Except for the forward observation post, no one is allowed to stay on the position."

Although we had anticipated that the Japanese would send out large-scale aircraft to carry out bombing before the war and had taken some relevant countermeasures, the specific effect would only be known after the enemy's aircraft bombing was over.

According to regulations, Li Yunlong also hid in the air-raid shelter next to the regiment headquarters and would not come out until the Japanese planes left. After all, the regiment headquarters was too big a target. Although its reinforced concrete structure could withstand a direct hit from a 105mm heavy howitzer, no one could guarantee that it could withstand the enemy's heavy aerial bombs. After all, these were two completely different weapons.

The leader of the team in the sky at this time was named Ozawa. When he saw the thick smoke rising below, a look of disdain immediately appeared on his face. This kind of thing could be used to deal with two or three bombers, but now they had twenty of them, and it would not be difficult to carry out carpet bombing at all.

However, before in Wen County, we used anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot down an enemy plane and damaged two in return. This also made the Japanese understand that we were not completely powerless to fight back.

Ozawa quickly ordered all planes to maintain an altitude of four thousand meters and carry out bombing according to the intelligence provided by the army, making sure to destroy all important targets.

When the Japanese bombers were preparing to bomb, our anti-aircraft machines hiding in the thick smoke were also firing into the air, trying to prevent the enemy bombers from lowering their altitude for precision bombing for their own safety.

You know, with the current level of bomber technology, the lower the altitude of the bombing, the higher the hit rate of the bombing. This is mainly because the aircraft is flying at high speed in the air, and a slight error can lead to a huge mistake. What our ancestors said is always correct.

This is a battle between spear and shield. Obviously, as the shield party, we are at an absolute disadvantage and can only passively take the bombing.

At the same time, the sound of anti-aircraft machine guns also attracted the Japanese bombers in the sky. The Japanese pilots determined that this was our focus, otherwise how could they be equipped with the extremely rare anti-aircraft weapons in the Chinese army.

So several Japanese bombers followed this idea and dropped a large number of bombs into the area where the anti-aircraft machine guns were firing until there was completely no movement.

In this way, the Japanese continued bombing for twenty minutes. After the twenty bombers dropped all their bombs, they left the area contentedly, leaving our area in a mess.

The enemy's bomber group flew away, and the artillery of the Sakai Regiment continued to fire. When the smoke on our position dissipated, they continued to bombard our defensive positions, not giving us any chance to breathe.