With the emergence of the Air Force, airdrop supply has also become a subject for air forces in various countries to train. ◎, it is just that if you want to accurately deliver materials or equipment to the ground, you also need good sight and rich experience of pilots.

For He Zhengdao, he participated in countless airborne missions in later generations and had many experiences of receiving airdrop supplies. He knew very well that airdrop materials were easily damaged when airdrops were not in good sight.

At present, the Third Division troops, which ignited a continuous smoke belt in the outer area of ​​the town. According to He Zhengdao's instructions, except for the troops responsible for creating smoke, most of the remaining troops hid in air defense trenches.

Now the smoke that the troops set off on the periphery and their own positions also swept their blocking positions into it. The entire town area is also filled with smoke. In this case, it is naturally difficult for the air transport aircraft to implement airdrops.

After hovering in the sky for a while, he still couldn't find a suitable airdrop point, which seemed a little anxious. On the other hand, the fighter jets provided them with cover were originally wanted to fly into the smoke and look for the division troops defending in the town.

Just as these fighter jets began to lower their heights and endured the smoke pouring into the machine warehouse, several anti-aircraft machine guns set up on the Eighth Route Army's positions suddenly fired frantically at them.

‘Raise high! Raise high quickly, with air defense weapons below!’

Looking at the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets passing by, and the planes making jingling sounds. These Japanese fighter pilots, no matter how stupid they are, they know that the Eighth Route Army below has anti-aircraft machine guns. In this case, lowering the altitude is easy to be hit.

But even so, two fighter jets that could not dodge were still shaking down from the ground with thick smoke. Looking at the fighter jets that exploded outside the smoke area and the Japanese fighter jets fleeing the anti-aircraft machine gun firepower network, they undoubtedly seemed very angry.

But they knew that it was also difficult for them to achieve accurate strikes for the anti-aircraft machine guns below. After all, the smoke rose more to a higher place, and the vision below seemed clearer.

Just when these Japanese transport planes were anxious, Kiyotaro Yamamura, who was waiting for airdropping ammunition in the town, suddenly said: "Let our signal soldiers shoot a few signal flares into the sky to indicate the airdrop location for the transport planes in the air."

When he heard this, he immediately saw Xiu San's eyes lit up and said, "General is wise!"

Using signal flares to provide locations for air transport aircraft is undoubtedly a good way. At least in this way, the air transport aircraft can know the approximate locations they are at this moment, so that the air transport aircraft will not airdrop the materials to the Eighth Route Army.

Looking at the signal flares that were rising into the air, Jiang Shan, who was also commanding the blocking position on the peripheral positions, immediately realized the role of the signal flares. He quickly said: "Appoint the troops in the front-line blocking position to send me a few signal flares!"

Even if this is not effective, it can confuse the public, and at least cause doubts from the Japanese transport aircraft in the air. If the Japanese cannot lure the Japanese airdrop materials, it will only cost a few signal flares.

If the Japanese could invest airdrop materials at their frontier positions, the reward would be very great for the Third Division. As a result, several signal flares were launched again, and the Japanese in the town became a little angry.

‘Baga! These Eighth Route Army are misleading our air force!’

As they expected, when they saw the first batch of signal flares, the pilots in the air thought that the 12th Division should have indicated the airdrop target. But now they saw that several more signal flares had taken off, and they felt a little confused.

However, as their air-stall time extends, there is not much oil in their fuel tank. If they do not drop the materials, they will be in vain this time. In this case, it will undoubtedly be very unfavorable for the 12th Division.

When the pilot plane looked at the smoke-covered area below, it finally said: "Please airdrop to the center of the smoke. That location should be the control area of ​​our troops. The outer side should be the blocking area of ​​the Eighth Route Army."

Such a decision may be based on a judgment on the battlefield. After all, the town in front of me is not big or small. The central location is indeed the most likely area that the 12th Division is defended.

But the basis for their judgment is to rely on the smoke shrouded in the air. This means that the wind direction that blows the smoke will still make such judgments wrong. But no matter what, the materials will still have to be airdropped!

As the pilot aircraft began to implement airdrops of materials, the observers of the two armies who were staying below quickly saw the umbrella bags falling from the air. These shaking and falling umbrella bags instantly attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers on both sides.

When the Japanese army was expecting the umbrella bags to land on their defensive positions, the Eighth Route Army also expected the umbrella bags to land on their blocking positions. After all, whose position the umbrella bags are closest to, the airdropped materials must belong to whom.

Compared to the Japanese army, these materials originally belonged to them. However, they felt that the Eighth Route Army on the blocking position could get a bag of these materials. After all, this was a waste of money!

Just when the officers and soldiers on both positions were looking forward to the time when the umbrella bags landed on their own side, the umbrella bags placed by the pilot plane began to fall in packs. The first pack of supplies fell fortunately onto the Japanese defensive positions.

Seeing these supplies landed, the Japanese army on the defensive position suddenly burst into excited cheers. Looking at the excited appearance of the Japanese, the Eighth Route Army on the blocking position could only curse: "Damn, the Japanese are so lucky!"

But what surprised the Japanese army was that as the pilot aircraft airdropped the materials, the transport aircraft that arrived later also carried out airdrops in airspace not far away. As a result, a large number of umbrellas of supplies floated to the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers who had previously been jealous of the Japanese harvest immediately laughed and said, "You little Japanese, you are stunned! Haha, thank you for your air force, for dropping so much supplies to us. Don't worry, we will definitely use these supplies well!"

When we learned that nearly half of the supplies had floated to the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions. Some supplies even fell to the confrontation area of ​​the two armies' positions. In order to seize this batch of supplies, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army also started a fight.

But compared to the Japanese, the Japanese hoped to get these supplies. The Eighth Route Army that came to snatch the supplies would be fine as long as the Japanese did not let them take them away. If they could not be taken away, they would blow them up directly, so that the Japanese would not get them.

After such statistics, the chief of staff of the Japanese division who summarized the airdrop materials said angrily: "Baga! At least half of this batch of materials have been lost. Many of them were stolen by the Eighth Route Army."

Although Yamamura Kiyotaro was very angry when he heard this, he knew that it was already very good to get half of the ammunition supply. After all, under such conditions, it is not easy for the transport aircraft to accurately implement airdrops!

Suppressing his inner dissatisfaction, Kiyotaro Yamamura said very much: "Forget it! Under such conditions, it is not easy for the air force to drop airdrops. By the way, how many shells are there in this batch of airdropped materials?"

‘Not many! Among them, there are only a few dozen heavy shells! There are many shells used by mountain cannons and field cannons, and the others are rifle shells and grenades. In addition to these ammunition, there is also a batch of dry food and canned food. They are all urgently needed by us at present!’

‘Are there only a few dozen heavy shells?’

‘Yes, General! I’m afraid that many shells have fallen on the Eighth Route Army’s positions.’

As the chief of staff of the Japanese division guessed, the officers and soldiers of the Third Division who were also counting the spoils from the sky were also very happy to see the ammunition box opened by the sled. They naturally knew what the huge shell was.

Looking at these shells, Jiang Shan immediately smiled and said, "Generate power to the commander, just say that we have snatched a lot of shells for the Japanese heavy artillery. Can you consider choosing a few heavy artillery from the rear to cooperate with us in the battle?"

Before blocking the 12th Division in the town, all the tanks and heavy artillery abandoned by the 12th Division fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. For the Japanese army, they had thought about blowing it up. But Kiyotaro Yamamura was still unwilling to bear it.

In Yamamura Kiyotaro's opinion, their failure this time was more caused by carelessness. If he had the opportunity to make a comeback, he would make steady progress. He would rather spend more time than ensure stability in the rear.

Therefore, these abandoned tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and even heavy artillery. In the view of Kiyotaro Yamamura, even if they are left to the Eighth Route Army, they are afraid that they will not be able to play the role of these equipment.

The artillery shells used by the Japanese army were not common to those used by the Chinese anti-Japanese troops. Except for the capture of the battlefield, at least in his opinion, the Eighth Route Army had not produced such heavy artillery shells.

That means that throwing heavy artillery to the Eighth Route Army is more of a decoration. As for tanks and armored vehicles, and those cars, with the current industrial level of the Eighth Route Army, how much fuel can they provide for replenishment?

You should know that before launching the battle of invasion of China, they also sent many geological experts to find a place with oil in China. Unfortunately, they believed that the Northeast, which is most likely to produce oil, does not seem to have oil.

In contrast, the Far East region controlled by the Soviet Far East Army has explored many rich oil fields. It is precisely because of the rich resources of the Far East that the Kwantung Army has been coveting the Far East, hoping to seize this place.

After all, for island countries, oil and other mineral resources are urgently needed. It is difficult to find any progress in the Northeast, except for discovering a lot of rich minerals, the oil fields they most hope to see still do not make any progress.

Therefore, many Ribo geological exploration experts who have been to China have made the inference that there is no oil field in China. Even they need to import oil from abroad. Where did the Eighth Route Army, which had no industrial foundation, import oil from?
Chapter completed!