In the headquarters of the Japanese Fifth Army, Commander Yanagawa Heisuke received a message from the 116th Division requesting tactical guidance, and knew that the Nanning battlefield was more tragic than he imagined.
If the situation had not deteriorated to the critical point of life and death, the always stubborn Okamura Jiro would not have sent this telegram, which was almost like a request for help.
At present, the Japanese army is throughout South China, with most of its forces concentrated in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and its forces in other areas are not very sufficient. Otherwise, the Japanese army would not be besieged by the Hainan Army, and the rescue force would still be hundreds of miles away.
Yanagawa Heisuke thought for a long time with an expressionless face, and then said to the major staff officer next to him: "Where is the 76th Division now?"
When the Japanese Army Major Staff Officer saw the commander's inquiry, he immediately replied: "The vanguard has arrived in Liuzhou. At this rate, Nanning will take at least three days."
After listening to the answer from the major staff officer, Yanagawa Heisuke found the location of Liuzhou on the map. He knew that the 76th Division would not be able to reach Nanning in a short time. Now the most he could do was send a group of air force support to the 116th Division. The remaining
You can only rely on Jiro Okamura himself.
"Notify Fuzhou Airport to send aircraft to reinforce the 116th Infantry Division!" Heisuke Yanagawa calculated the distance between the two places and found that Nanning was just within the flight radius of Fuzhou Airport, and then ordered.
At present, the Japanese army does not completely occupy China's air superiority. The Hainan Army has assisted the Central Army with a number of aircraft so that the Central Army will not be helpless in the air.
The Japanese military intelligence agency has still not been able to figure out how the Hainan Army's aircraft came from. They can only suspect that a Western country secretly provided it.
Therefore, just in case, Yanagawa Heisuke sent forty-eight aircraft this time. In his mind, even if they could not defeat the Hainan Army, they would still prevent the Hainan Air Force from bombing the 116th Division unscrupulously.
In Nanning, the first wave of Hainan Air Force bombarded the Japanese positions for more than ten minutes. They left the battlefield after consuming 70% of their ammunition. After circling reluctantly for half a circle, Gao Zhihang could only order a retreat.
After that, before the Japanese army could come out of the air-raid shelter again, the second wave of heavy bomber attacks came. A wide range of aerial bombs were dropped like a carpet, causing a sea of fire on the Japanese army's position, and each one was covered in flames.
The little devil screamed and ran until he turned into charcoal.
Compared with the Japanese soldiers who were burned alive, more Japanese soldiers were buried directly under the fortifications and were bombed after the shelling. Those fortifications have become as precarious as shoddy construction.
Half an hour later, when the Hainan Army's last bomber returned, Jiro Okamura climbed out of the underground headquarters in disgrace. What he saw was a scorched earth.
In less than half an hour, the Hainan Air Force dropped a total of more than ten tons of aerial bombs on the ground pointed by the Japanese army. All the defense fortifications built by the Japanese army were blown to the ground, and thick black smoke was everywhere.
blown to pieces
Corpse.
At the same time as the bombing was going on, the officers and soldiers on the front line of the Hainan Army's Second Division also enjoyed the Air Force's bombing performance after the arrival of the Air Force. The apocalyptic scene deeply shocked every Hainan Army soldier who saw it with their own eyes.
In the trenches of the Hainan Army, a Hainan Army recruit saw the miserable state of the Japanese army's position and exclaimed: "My uncle! Isn't this a layer of the ground?"
"Boy, you have never seen the world! I participated in the North Vietnam War, and the big planes at that time were powerful? They were all sent out in thousands!" Another slightly older veteran said with disdain, of course what he said
There are also some exaggerations.
"Really? Then Uncle Six, please tell us about it!" The young Hainan Army soldier took out half a cigarette from his pocket, lit it with a match and handed it to the veteran who was called Uncle Six. The other recruits also joined in curiously.
Came over.
Regarding the North Vietnam War, these young Hainan Army soldiers did not have many intuitive feelings. When they joined the army, they were already in the Hainan Army's second large-scale army. They had only heard of the North Vietnam War from veterans.
I saw that he first took a nice puff of the cigarette and then blew out a smoke ring. After seeing that the appetite of the recruits was almost gone, he started to talk: "Okay! Let me tell you about 'General Zhao's burning of Haiphong Port'.
Fragment! I think I was also a member of the early landing force, but I was unlucky and was injured during the attack on Beijiang City..."
"Uncle Six! Where are you acting? It's just like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. You don't want to scare us!" another round-faced recruit shouted.
"Shit~! I don't need to scare you new recruits!? Then do you know who General Zhao is?" The veteran Liu Shu retorted loudly. He almost jumped up excitedly when he was questioned.
The recruits shook their heads and said they didn't know. Those generals were a bit far away for them. If they didn't look at each other's military ranks, they couldn't even tell them apart from the senior officers.
"Navy Commander Zhao Yujian! That's a very big... very big officer!" said the veteran Sixth Uncle, gesturing with his hands.
"How big is it? Is it as big as our division?" the first recruit interrupted and asked.
"Don't interrupt! Anyway, you just need to know that it's a very, very big official! At that time, I saw thousands of planes with my own eyes. At that time, the fleet was so dark that even the clouds in the sky were blocked!" The veteran began to brag about that time.
A grand scene.
At the same time, at the headquarters of the Second Division of the Hainan Army, Division Commander Wang Shanhu and Chief of Staff Xu Shixun were looking at the misery on the Japanese positions with joy on their faces, secretly sighing that these guys in the Air Force are really ruthless, and they are so cruel to these little devils.
Just drink a pot.
At this time, Wang Shoucheng, the leader of the first regiment, happily said to the division commander: "Sir, division! Is it our regiment's turn to charge? I promise to kill the little devils on the opposite side with one charge!"
Seeing Wang Shoucheng's invitation to fight, Chief of Staff Xu Shixun said with a cautious face: "Don't underestimate Jiro Okamura on the opposite side! We have been fighting the 116th Division for such a long time, and the little Japs on the opposite side are not so easy to defeat.
collapse!"
Although judging from the battle situation, the Japanese army on the opposite side suffered heavy casualties. He had fought against them many times with the 116th Division, but he did not think that the Japanese army had completely lost its combat effectiveness. It was still a bit risky to send a regiment.
Afterwards, the division commander Wang Shanhu listened to Xu Shixun's situation analysis and nodded and said: "That's right! The lion has to use all his strength to fight the rabbit. We must not be careless! Order the first regiment and the third regiment to move to the two wings of the Jaap battlefield at any time.
You can launch an attack. Also, let the artillerymen pay attention to the Japanese formations, and if anything goes wrong, I will blast them!"
"Commander! Then I'll go down and get ready!" Wang Shoucheng saluted the commander with a military salute and then left immediately.
But before the men and horses organized by Wang Shoucheng could launch an infantry charge, there was a faint roar of airplanes from the distant horizon, followed by dozens of small black dots flying over here.
Of course, Wang Shanhu would not think that his own air force, which had just run out of ammunition, was returning, and the direction it appeared was wrong. The Hainan Army's airport was in Guangzhou, and even if it took off from North Vietnam, it would not fly from the northeast.
The only remaining possibility was that these planes belonged to the Japs. Immediately, Wang Shanhu ordered the attack plan to be suspended.
Soon, when the black spot gradually approached, Wang Shanhu finally saw the appearance of dozens of aircraft. He secretly thought that if the Hainan Army launched an attack later, the Japanese Air Force would miss it!
There is a big difference between the aircraft of the Japanese army and the Hainan Army. The advantages of the Hainan Army's Thunder Fighters are their fast speed, strong defense, and firepower configuration that can overwhelm the Japanese fighters.
But relatively speaking, the drawbacks and shortcomings of the Thunder Fighter are also very obvious. Japanese fighter jets have a range of 3,000 kilometers, but the Thunder Fighter only has a short range of 700 kilometers, less than one-third of the Japanese aircraft.
This makes the Hainan Air Force's requirements for airports very high during operations. Otherwise, when the North Vietnam War broke out last year, Li Weidong would not have parachuted troops and would have built a secret air base instead.
Although he knew it was a Japanese aircraft, Wang Shanhu was not worried. The Hainan Army's Second Division was not comparable to the 116th Division, which was out of ammunition and food. The artillery regiment was not only equipped with heavy artillery, but also had anti-aircraft guns designed specifically for the opponent's aircraft.
Seeing such a good opportunity, Wang Shanhu quickly called and ordered the anti-aircraft artillery units hidden on the hills to be on alert. He must give the Japanese planes an unexpected lesson.
At the artillery high ground, anti-aircraft gun battalion commander Jiang Fang stared closely at the Japanese aircraft that was about to enter the shooting range. The circular crosshair was already aimed at a Japanese aircraft.
"Fire!" When the Japanese aircraft entered the range, Jiang Fang roared angrily and opened fire, aiming at the Japs' aircraft. The 30mm-caliber shell hit the first Japanese aircraft, causing the aircraft to explode and disintegrate in an instant.
Seeing that the battalion commander destroyed a Japanese fighter plane in one fell swoop, his subordinates cheered. After that, other artillery shooters were not to be outdone and opened fire on the Japanese planes.
"Boom!" "Boom!" There were two more explosions in succession,
The little Japanese dispatched this time were all large and heavy bombers. This old-fashioned propeller bombing flight was very slow and had poor maneuverability. Moreover, the little Japanese did not know that Zhang Yunfei's troops were equipped with advanced anti-aircraft guns.
Moreover, at this time, the height of the Japanese aircraft was not high in order to adjust the bombing scale. Faced with the sudden attack by the Hainan Army's anti-aircraft artillery force, they were immediately stunned.
Therefore, several Japanese aircraft were suddenly hit by anti-aircraft guns. If they were to be directly volleyed into a big fireball, they would drag a trail of black smoke down to the ground and turn into wreckage.
Among the Japanese pilots, there were also a few bold pilots who flexibly avoided anti-aircraft artillery shells and dived to drop bombs in an attempt to blow up the Hainan Army's air defense positions.
But unfortunately, because not only the Hainan Army had anti-aircraft guns, but also some infantry units were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, the last swooping plane exploded not far from the position.
After that, in just a few minutes, the Hainan Army's air defense force repeatedly performed extraordinary feats, and the Japanese planes were shot down one after another.