Blood-Red Front

To avoid alerting the enemy, Ding Xiucheng and his men dismounted and walked when they were 1.5 kilometers away from the village.

The soldiers of the three platoons formed a triangular formation, creating an ambush in the back village, just waiting for the newly formed reconnaissance team to slip inside.

Not long after Ding Xiucheng and his group finished preparing, a small team of 15 junior high school students walked along the road.

The newly promoted squad advanced, while the Xia army reconnaissance scouts retreated. The newly promoted soldiers looked down on the Xia army, so all 15 of them walked together without being divided into front, middle, and rear.

"Everyone hide, let them into the village, then launch a surprise attack from the nearest location," Ding Xiucheng whispered the order.

Each squad of the 404th Detachment's guard battalion consisted of 12 men. In addition to a four-man light machine gun team, the remaining core members were also heavily equipped with submachine guns, with each squad having 3-4 of them, making their close-range firepower terrifying.

The newly formed squad was unaware that they were being watched and continued their reconnaissance with brazen confidence.

With over a dozen submachine guns, three light machine guns, and dozens of rifles, the firepower that erupted instantly was extremely powerful, and the newly formed reconnaissance team fell to the ground almost without any resistance.

A moment later, the gunfire stopped, and the village fell silent once more.

"Watch out! Don't act rashly!" Ding Xiucheng shouted, "The newly promoted soldiers will self-destruct!"

Because they wanted to leave survivors, the submachine guns were all aimed at the lower bodies of the newly promoted soldiers.

Ding Xiucheng was certain that there were still survivors among the newly promoted soldiers, and quite a few at that.

Rushing in at this point would only result in needless casualties.

The soldiers just watched as the newly promoted scout bled there.

When he felt it was about time, and that any more bleeding might kill them, Ding Xiucheng shouted again, "Don't worry about them living or dead! Group them up in threes, approach carefully, and hold them down!"

Rising Army grenades require a tap to detonate, so as long as the rank and file soldiers' movements are controlled, they cannot self-destruct.

The newly promoted soldiers, whose legs and buttocks were riddled with holes, were already too weak from blood loss. Let alone three people, even one person could easily subdue them.

When Lin Zhiyuan arrived at the back village, he saw five newly promoted soldiers, haphazardly bandaged, lying on the ground, bound hand and foot.

Looking at the newly promoted soldier who was the only one with a different rank, Lin Zhiyuan asked, "Are you a sergeant?"

Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words, Sergeant Chu Sheng looked up in surprise.

Upon seeing Lin Zhiyuan's rank, the newly promoted sergeant's pupils widened in shock. He never expected that a major general would appear in the reconnaissance team.

"I'm asking you a question!" Ding Xiucheng kicked the sergeant in the buttocks.

The sergeant let out a scream, but showed no intention of speaking.

"What's the unit designation?"

The newly promoted sergeant remained silent.

Lin Zhiyuan then asked a few other newly promoted soldiers nearby, but they remained silent as well.

"Besides a few prisoners, what else did you capture?"

"There was also a leather bag containing a map and several documents."

Lin Zhiyuan took the file package from Ding Xiucheng and opened the map inside.

Looking at the incredibly detailed map, Lin Zhiyuan sneered, "It really is detailed. The Rising Nation has certainly prepared a lot for this invasion."

Lin Zhiyuan put away the map, opened the document, and his expression turned serious.

"Damn it, it's true that enemies always meet."

The contents of the document were not confidential, but Lin Zhiyuan noticed a familiar code.

14th Brigade.

"Lujia Town is isolated and helpless. This time at Niutou Mountain, I'll show you what I'm capable of!"

"You want the land of Xia, don't you? I will grant your wish."

Looking at the several newly promoted soldiers bound hand and foot on the ground, Lin Zhiyuan ordered, "Plant this entire newly promoted reconnaissance team in the ground."

"Let's go back to Niutou Mountain."

……

Just as Lin Zhiyuan was making every effort to prepare for another confrontation with the newly formed 14th Brigade, action was also taken in Lujiang, 160 kilometers away.

Twelve U2 trainer aircraft converted into light bombers were transferred here from Hanyang; they were the first batch of experimental aircraft.

However, the so-called improvement was actually just the removal of unnecessary equipment and the addition of steel racks under the wings for loading bombs; bombing was done entirely by pulling a lever by hand.

As for the aircraft itself, it's still that plywood plane with an open cockpit, no parachutes, and no cannons.

As night fell, 24 female pilots climbed up the ladder into the aircraft cockpit.

Normally, there are both male and female pilots, but this was the first mission, and in order to minimize the load on the aircraft, all the pilots were female.

With the roar of their engines, all 12 bombers glided into the air and headed towards Kyoto.

At Niutou Mountain, Lin Zhiyuan was having Shang Kebing move his bed to the command post when he suddenly heard a sound like a tractor coming from the air.

Lin Zhiyuan immediately opened the mini-map.

A bomber icon was seen passing over Niutou Mountain.

[U-2 Bomber Group, Number of Bombers: 12.]

【U2轰炸机：乘员2人，载弹量250-300公斤，最高时速140公里/小时，最大航程400公里……】

"Sir, air raid! You need to move to the air raid shelter immediately!" Ding Xiucheng rushed over and pulled Lin Zhiyuan away.

"Don't be nervous!" Lin Zhiyuan said, "The planes are coming from the northwest; they are our military aircraft."

The initially panicked crowd perked up their ears, and after understanding the direction of the plane, they breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sir, why are our planes being deployed so late at night?" Guan Jianchu asked from the side.

Nighttime is not a good time for planes to take off; the ground is not visible during bombing raids.

"After the military exchange meeting, I had a conversation with Minister Ren," Lin Zhiyuan explained. "At that time, I proposed the idea of ​​converting the U2 trainer aircraft into a night bomber, and I didn't expect things to move so quickly."

"Converting a trainer aircraft into a night bomber? Is that even possible?"

"There shouldn't be any problem," Lin Zhiyuan nodded. "The U2 trainer jet has a slow speed and low altitude, so it can drop bombs by hand."

"Although the number of bombs dropped each time is small, it's enough to make things difficult for the newly promoted army."

"Is that so?" Guan Jianchu seemed to understand but not quite.

After the bomber squadron flew over Niutou Mountain, the navigator on the lead plane took out his flashlight and began to flash it rhythmically.

"Approaching Moling Pass, engine shut off, entering gliding mode."

The noise, which had been like a tractor blasting through the street, vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Twelve bombers glided silently toward Moling Pass.

It wasn't until more than ten minutes later, when some lights appeared on the ground, that the navigator began flashing his flashlight rhythmically again.

"Prepare to drop bombs!"

"Shoot the light in the direction of the light; there are no more people left in Moling Pass."

The bombardier in the back seat pulled the lever, and the four 50-kilogram small bombs mounted on the wings detached under the force of gravity and fell to the ground.

The bombardier then pulled the pins off several 60mm mortar shells he was carrying in the cockpit and threw them down.

"Boom!" "Boom!"...

Countless fireballs of all sizes erupted from the ground.

"Bombing complete!" The bombardier patted the pilot on the shoulder.

The tractor-like engine restarted, the pilot floored the throttle, and the plane began to accelerate away.

The newly promoted army was completely stunned by the sudden bombing, and in the end, they still didn't understand what had happened.

Inside the 14th Brigade headquarters, Okazaki frowned as he looked at the 11th Regiment's report.

"The 11th Wing was bombed, suffering over 50 casualties, but they still couldn't figure out where the planes came from?"

"Brigade Commander, the bombing happened suddenly. After the bombing, the roar of engines could be heard. The planes should have flown west."

"Baka... What the hell is Xia Guo doing?"

Okazaki couldn't think of any country that had such bombers, but he didn't care too much. After all, Xia's air force had been almost completely destroyed, and the sky was still the sky of a rising sun.

"Report this to headquarters and have the intelligence department expedite the investigation."

"Hi!"

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