Chicken Street, the front line.
Chicken Street is located in the north of Fumin County and is the only way to enter Fumin County.
Because the surrounding terrain is complex, if you don't go here, you will have to take a long detour or climb mountains.
Cui Xiangkui also knew that Ji Street was a strategic location.
After learning that the revolutionary army had entered Yunnan, he immediately occupied it.
The most elite machine gun battalion was dispatched.
The 19th Town Machine Gun Battalion was usually stationed in Ganhaizi, east of Kunming City.
It was equipped with the world-class Maxim machine guns at the time.
Due to its high price and limited quantity, the battalion was directly under the jurisdiction of the town.
It can be said that Lao Cui The cost of pressing the bottom of the box.
Li Fenglou, the machine gun battalion commander, was experienced.
He looked around and selected a cliff to set up a machine gun position.
The location of this cliff is very good.
When viewed from the side, the upper part floats outwards and the lower part is concave, forming the shape of a ship's bow, like an awning.
When viewed from above, it is roughly in the shape of a "".
There is a passage at the bottom of the arc-shaped concave part, dividing the cliff into two halves, the east and west.
In front of the cliff is a flat land with only some bushes, and 500 meters away there is a very steep hill about 40 meters high.
The road leading to Chicken Street must pass through a narrow path in the middle of the cliff after bypassing the hill.
This location is really great.
The revolutionary army must pass through here, otherwise they will have to go into the old forest, or go around for hundreds of miles.
Because the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau belongs to the Custer terrain, this cliff is no exception.
There are many natural caves on it.
This makes Li Fenglou happy the most.
It only needs a little tidying up to make a good bunker.
Cui Xiangkui also gritted his teeth and took out 40 of the more than 50 Maxim machine guns and placed them here.
In addition, he took out 32 guns from the artillery battalion to build this main defensive position on this cliff more than one kilometer wide and 200 meters high. .
Cui Xiangkui and Li Fenglou were happy, but the revolutionary army was depressed.
Not long after the defensive positions in Town 19 were set up, the revolutionary army rushed over in a hurry.
As a result, they suffered a big loss right away.
A sharp knife company that opened the way was careless and did not notice the famous hall on the cliff. one third.
Fortunately, the revolutionary army was well-trained.
When the company commander saw that the momentum was not right, he quickly ordered a retreat behind the screen-like hill to stabilize the position.
After the large troops arrived, the main leaders who received the report immediately climbed up the hill to observe, and were dumbfounded when they saw it.
Because the terrain of this position is so weird, the firepower of Town 19 completely blocked the intersection.
Dozens of heavy machine guns and dozens of artillery pieces were not just for nothing.
Although the hill they were on blocked the firepower of Town 19, it also blocked the firepower of the revolutionary army.
And this hill is as steep as a screen, with the top less than 15 meters wide, not even a tree, and it slopes toward the cliff.
Artillery and heavy machine guns cannot be dragged up at all.
Even if they are disassembled and moved up, it will be difficult to use them in such a narrow place, and they will be completely exposed to enemy firepower.
Let alone heavy firepower, they dare not go up.
Even light infantry is the same.
The weird terrain is a complete pit.
Anyone who goes up will definitely die.
Direct-fire artillery and machine guns didn't work, so they tried mortars.
As a result, most of the shells were blocked by the floating "canopy", and those that were not blocked could not hit the opponent's fire points.
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Rifle grenades can hide on the reverse slope of hills and launch attacks, but their range is not enough to reach targets 500 meters away.
After repeated attempts more than a dozen times and dozens of casualties, the revolutionary officers and soldiers were now at their wits' end.
Several main leaders scolded Yunnan's terrain, but could not think of any good solution.
Of course it is also possible to take human lives like Japan did, but this kind of stupid behavior is absolutely not allowed in the revolutionary army.
In the end, they had to ask for air support, because whether it was a detour or over the mountain, it would take too much time.
As for blowing up the hill or digging into the tunnel, it would take even more time.
This was unacceptable to them.
At 15:50 on June 6, the air force fleet reached the sky above Jijie.
The Army had already made eye-catching marks on the ground with white and red cloth.
After seeing the aircraft group, several soldiers fired a few more shots at the cliff to indicate the target.
The lead plane shook its wings to indicate understanding.
After the fleet rushed down, they were immediately dumbfounded.
"Damn, why did this damn place explode?"
Many pilots couldn't help but curse.
Most of the firepower points of the Qing army were on the vertical surface of the cliff, and there was an "awning" on it.
Such a strange terrain was not easy to bomb.
No wonder the army didn't withdraw.
But you still have to try it if you can't afford it.
Several squadron leaders communicated in sign language and quickly made a decision.
Sixteen aircraft of the Fifth Squadron dived.
The squadron leader aimed at a firepower point and dived at a small angle.
When approaching the "canopy", he dropped two bombs and then pulled up the nose of the aircraft.
In front of everyone's attention, the two bombs continued to fly towards the target by relying on inertia at a slightly lower angle than the aircraft.
"Boom boom" It's a near miss.
One bomb hit a few meters away from the target, and the other one was about 5 meters away.
It's a pity that those firepower points are constructed using natural caves.
Such near-missing bullets will do little harm to them.
At most, they will be shocked.
However, this also shows that this method of bombing is still useful.
So the 15 planes behind followed suit and swooped down to drop bombs in turn.
"Boom boom boom boom"
The Sparrow training aircraft has 6 hardpoints on each side, 4 hardpoints under the belly, and 1 under the wings on both sides.
The bombs are 42 kilograms, and each wing mounting point is hung with two 120 bombs weighing 16.5 kilograms.
That is, each plane carried 8 bombs.
Dropping 2 bombs at a time, a squadron can drop 32 bombs at a time.
The results of the fifth squadron were not very good.
Only 2 bombs hit the target, and the others missed.
There is nothing that can be done about it.
The Sparrow training aircraft does not have a bombing sight, and it is also a very difficult inertial bombing.
This requires a lot of experience to do well, and the Air Force is still very immature.
Even those cyborg squadron leaders are just Rich theoretical experience.
Although the effect is not good, it is always possible.
The other four squadrons also assigned targets and lined up to rush down and drop bombs one by one.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The cliff fortress suddenly burst into flames, and was soon shrouded in the smoke of the explosion.
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In the first wave of attacks by 5 squadrons, only 11 of the 160 bombs dropped hit the target.
Three bombs hit one cave, and the cannon inside was blown into parts.
Another cave's heavy machine gun was blown to the bottom of the cliff, flying forty to fifty meters.
"Come again" After the smoke cleared, the leader of the first squadron rushed down again.
At this time, the defenders of Town 19 also reacted.
Although most of them had never seen an airplane, since they were attacking themselves, they must be the enemy.
They are not stupid, they have weapons at hand, so they naturally know what to do.
They immediately raised their guns and muzzles and fired wildly at the aircraft in the sky.
Dozens of fire chains intertwined in the air, and a diving aircraft was unable to avoid it.
It was hit by more than a dozen bullets, and a section of its left wing was knocked off.
The plane immediately fell crookedly.
"Hurry up and parachute" the comrades around are shouting.
But the plane continued to rush towards a fire point as if it didn't hear it.
Under the horrified gaze of the Qing army, the plane plunged into the cave.
With a loud "boom", the cave bunker was completely destroyed.
"Idiot, why don't you parachute?"
the squadron leader was angry.
He quickly ordered to raise the altitude and not to go too low.
The shooting angle of the cliff fortress is not very good.
After all, they have not thought about air defense at all.
Once the aircraft does not rush to low altitude, they will not be able to hit it.
However, in this way, the bombing hit rate dropped drastically.
After four waves of attacks, only 25 firepower points were destroyed, less than half.
The bombs were all used up, and now the plane could do nothing.
They circled in the air several times and had to go back in dismay.
The remaining firepower can only rely on the airship troops behind.
"Damn it, if only there were machine guns, this situation would be better.
Bombs cannot be used as well as machine guns.
If we had machine guns on the plane, these bunkers would have been destroyed long ago."
On the way back, Jin Hai was indignant.
The co-pilot said: "The Army's rocket launcher is also good, but the range is too short.
If the range can be increased and installed on an aircraft, it will definitely be better than bombs."
Although there is no radio on the current Sparrow aircraft, the crew communication system is installed, and calls can still be made on the same aircraft.
In fact, this is a copy of the communication system used by later tank crews.
It consists of a throat microphone and headphones, which is much simpler than a radio.
"Hey, look, Zhang Daniu's tail wing has been knocked off," the co-pilot suddenly said.
"Ah, this guy is unlucky.
Can he fly back?"
Jin Hai saw that half of the tail of the aircraft on the left front had fallen off.
He quickly leaned over and asked the other party with gestures if he could hold on.
The pilot named Zhang Daniu smiled at him and made a "no problem" gesture.
Not long after, they encountered the airship troops rushing to the front line.
The leader of the first squadron flew over and gestured to the leading airship, "Destroyed some targets, we need to continue attacking."
In the cab of the leader's No. 1 armed airship, Lin Shenhe took a sip of coffee and chuckled: "Haha, look at the sparrows, the result is not very good."
The correspondent next to him said: "Deputy Commander Lin, the latest news from the Army just now is that the aircraft have killed 25 enemy fire points, and there are still 44 left.
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We need to continue attacking.
The Army reminds us that because the enemy's fire points have special terrain, the bombing effect is not good. " "Haha, I understand.
Our airship force does not only have bombs."
Lin Shenhe drank the coffee in the cup in one gulp and ordered: "Okay, order the boats to speed up.
The army is waiting for our support."
"That's right, let the Qing army see the power of our airship force, hahahahaha," Xie Zuantai, who followed, said excitedly
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