Red Alert Invincible

In the skies over the Liuhe River, the Japanese naval aviation was completely defeated, and in the end, less than 40 carrier-based aircraft successfully withdrew from the battlefield, losing 60 percent of the carrier-based aircraft!

This is also because the air force of the Zhenbei Army took supporting the ground war on the Liuhe River and holding the Liuhe River as its main combat goal, so it did not pursue the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, otherwise I am afraid that only a few carrier-based planes would have returned to the two aircraft carriers alive.

On the ground, the commander of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army, Iwai Shunta, saw the arrival of the air force support of the Chinese army, and was only one step away from taking Liuhe Town and cutting off the back road of the Chinese army.

More than 800 people of the Fifth Regiment stationed in Liuhe Town relied on the town area and launched a fierce street battle with the Japanese army with the support of the Zhenbei Army Air Force.

But even with air superiority, the Fifth Regiment still suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army, and soldiers continued to fall, and the Liuhe defense line was in danger!

The Japanese army mobilized four wings to attack Liuhe Town from the east, north, and south, and the Third Fleet, the three cruisers that came to cover and support, while returning fire to the Zhenbei Army Air Force that tried to approach, used naval guns to launch artillery bombardment on Liuhe Town.

In particular, the cruiser Izumo, which had 4 203 mm guns and 14 150 mm guns, aimed all its guns at Liuhe Town and bombarded them continuously.

This small riverside town has been bombarded to such a state of tatters that it is almost impossible to find a single intact house.

Liang Zuoxun, the commander of the fifth regiment, led the remaining more than 800 people to rely on the small town area and launched a fierce street battle with the Japanese army.

Although the air force of the Zhenbei Army was supporting, constantly throwing aerial bombs and strafing at low altitudes at the Japanese troops, the Japanese troops, who were spurred on by the officers, rushed into the city as if they were crazy and braved the strafing and bombing of fighter planes.

In the face of the attack of four infantry wings, Liang Zuoxun's forces were exhausted, and he sent his guard company to the battlefield in less than thirty minutes of battle.

In the regimental headquarters, there were only some confidential civilian personnel and less than a platoon of guards left, and Liang Zuoxun couldn't help but untie the sleeves of his collar as he listened to the sound of artillery and gunfire falling like a torrential rain outside.

He lit a cigarette and took two puffs: "Is the fucking little devil crazy?"

"Fortunately, Liuhe Town is so big, and the devils can send up to two or three wings at a time. Looking at Liuhe Town, which is less than three kilometers away on the map, and the periphery is tens of thousands of Japanese troops trying to surround it, Liang Zuoxun's smoking hand couldn't help but tremble.

"Commander, the third battalion sent down a few soldiers. A herald trotted over and whispered.

Liang Zuoxun raised his eyebrows, it was the third battalion again, what did Zou Rong want to do?

He was about to puff out half of his cigarette and walked out of the headquarters with a black face.

Outside the headquarters, a few children were talking to the soldiers excitedly, one by one was not as high as the barrel of a gun, and the battle of several guard platoons finally pulled the few bear children who wanted to run.

Seeing these children, Liang Zuoxun was stunned.

"The regimental commander is here!" shouted for some reason.

The soldiers of the guard platoon immediately stood up, and the children also clung to the rifles that were taller than themselves, and their posture was no worse than that of the soldiers next to them.

"Regiment commander, let's go to the front! Battalion Commander Zou insisted on sending us down! Saying nothing, he wouldn't let us go to the front. "A child who took the lead had a bare head, as thin as a bamboo pole, but his eyes were bright.

"Yes, regimental commander! We are also veterans, why don't you let us go to the front!"

"After four or five years of military rations, it's just a big deal to die on the battlefield like my father. "

"I don't want to be scolded by my dad and my grandfather for being a coward. "

Liang Zuoxun's eyes were red, he couldn't hold back any longer, turned around, and a handful of old tears were on his face.

The staff officer of the regiment headquarters whispered: "Regiment commander, they are all seeds of the third battalion, and Lao Zou will not let them go to the battlefield at all." "

Liang Zuoxun scolded: "If Lao Tzu lets them go to the battlefield, will they still be human?!"

The fathers of these children, and even the fathers of the fathers, were all soldiers of the 19th Route Army, from the 1st Division of the Cantonese Army of the Xinhai Revolution 20 years ago, to the 10th Division later incorporated by the Jinling Government, and then to various reorganizations and rectifications, and was officially incorporated into the 19th Route Army in 1930.

Countless soldiers fell on the battlefield of the civil war, many soldiers left orphans, widows, the descendants of these wars, have families, in the 19th Route Army offices will find a way to settle them, in this era, it is good to be able to give a bite of food.

Some orphans who have no family stay in the army to eat military rations, and usually help with logistics and the like, although they are a little bitter and tired, but they can finally eat with the army.

Many soldiers grew up in the barracks, and they could shoot at the age of twelve or thirteen, and the old-fashioned Hanyang-made, and even sleeve guns became their 'toys'.

There are many melee battles in the country, and many warlords' armies are like this, and child soldiers are not uncommon in this era, and many people have killed people in their teens in order to eat a bite of food.

"Send them and the other two battalions, all the babies who don't have guns, to the back and hide them. Liang Zuoxun's shoulders trembled, and he said, "Hide in the cellar of the fellow villagers, if ...... We can't go back...... At least some seeds. "

"Got it, Commander!" the staff officer nodded heavily.

The child soldiers of the Fifth Regiment were quickly gathered, and with a Hanyang-made rifle and bayonet, that is, a height of about 1.2 meters, as the standard, all the babies who did not have the height of a rifle were sent to the cellars of the villagers in the rear to hide.

Many babies secretly stuffed stones in their insoles, stood on tiptoe when measuring their height, and were cleaned up by the soldiers before obediently taking off their shoes and standing up.

A total of twelve baby soldiers were sent to the rear, and the remaining seven were taller than rifles, but they were all skinny and as thin as bamboo poles.

Looking at their excited eyes, Liang Zuoxun snorted coldly, and in their disappointed eyes, he left them at the headquarters as guards, and then sent his only remaining guard platoon to the front line.

The fierce battle in the afternoon became even more fierce, and the bomber group of the Zhenbei Air Force that supported it dropped more than 70 250-kilogram bombs on the Japanese Third Fleet, sinking one Japanese destroyer and damaging another.

The replenished fighter group soon supported the Liuhe battlefield, constantly diving bombing, low-altitude strafing, harassers attacking the Japanese army, but these little devils like ants still broke through the three defense lines of the fifth regiment with bombing and strafing.

PS: Thank you [Xiuye] for the 588VIP points rewarded!