Chapter 200 The Elegy of the Chahar Dispatch Corps (2)
Chapter 200: The Elegy of the Chahar Dispatch Corps (2)
When Liu Yimin read the telegram saying that Soong Meiling was coming to Taiyuan to express condolences, his head felt heavy.
As a young man from the 21st century who traveled through time, Liu Yimin wanted to see Soong Meiling in his heart. Unfortunately, this was the war years, and now is the time when the Japanese army was at its most rampant. The sky was full of Japanese planes, and Soong Meiling's planes could easily
If there is no danger, he has already changed part of history. If the butterfly effect is a little bigger and Soong Meiling's plane gets on the Japanese plane, it will be troublesome. Liu Yimin hurriedly sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, resolutely refusing his wife to come to Taiyuan for condolences. The reason
There's only one thing: too dangerous.
After sending the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Yimin sent another telegram to urge Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang, demanding prompt cooperation to ensure that the Itagaki Group would not be taken off the grid.
After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin asked Qian Zhuangfei to keep an eye on the telegram exchanges between Juichi and Itagaki Seishiro in the temple, Xiangyue Qingsi, and report the situation as soon as possible. At the same time, he should keep reporting to Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang.
Send a report and urge them to take action. Order Cai Zhong to lead an engineering battalion to quickly count and seize the Japanese army's materials and ammunition reserves, search for Yan Xishan's ammunition reserves captured by the Japanese army, and accept Yan Xishan's arsenal. Order Hu Di to lead Li Lingfeng, Wang Dahu and the others to hurry up
Interrogate Japanese prisoners and capture traitors.
At six o'clock in the morning, Taiyuan Airport was still gray and black. Six Type 93 heavy bombers had been loaded with bombs. David and six other retired US military instructors had boarded the plane, waiting for the order to take off.
Feng Dafei has been excited since he occupied the airport. Thinking about it, this is simply a miracle. You can get whatever you want. He originally thought that he could get two planes for teaching purposes, but he didn't expect that the division commander actually got 36 planes and reconnaissance planes.
, light bombers, heavy bombers, and fighter jets are all available, and there are also two ki-6 competitor on-board operational trainers. The most valuable thing is that the Japanese military flight files are complete, including pilot charts and other things.
Originally, Feng Dafei wanted to fly a plane himself and lead a team to bomb the Japanese airfield, but the remaining people at the airport were all students. Although after nearly two years of study, he already had a wealth of theoretical knowledge, but one plane
If you have never been there, how can you talk about actual combat experience? Feng Dafei had no choice but to stay and lead the team to direct the airport operations.
Suppressing his excitement and looking a little enviously at the heavy bombers preparing to take off, Feng Dafei decisively gave the order to take off. Immediately, six heavy bombers took off one after another. After completing the formation, they flew towards Shijiazhuang.
David, who was leading the team, was also very excited at this time. Before boarding the plane, Feng Dafei told them that the division commander had ordered that after completing the mission, each of the six US military instructors would receive a reward of 1,000 US dollars and two Japanese beauties.
David and others smiled happily.
In the past two years, David and others have had a great time in Xi'an and got along well with the students from the Red Army Aviation Department. This group of simple, brave and upright Red Army students made David and others seem to have returned to Xi'an.
When I was young, I had a happy time filled with ideals and justice. Therefore, the serious teaching, diligent learning, and the students' achievements gave David and others a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, there were no airplanes, so the students could not fly high in the blue sky with them.
Fly. Now that we have the plane, as long as there is a period of stable training, David and others believe that their disciples will definitely become eagles in the blue sky.
The only regret is that the nightlife in Xi'an is too boring. The two Japanese female spies Liu Yimin gave them were nothing special in appearance, with tender skin and tender flesh, very beautiful and gentle. It's a pity that there are only two of them, among the six Americans
Under the comfort of the big man, he returned to the East early. Now, after bombing the Japanese airport, there were two beautiful and delicate Japanese girls with low eyebrows waiting for them. Several American heroes were so happy.
Call "ok"!
As for the mission of bombing the Japanese airport, David and the others were quite relieved. They had captured all the information on the Japanese aviation. The distribution of the Japanese airports in North China was clear at a glance, even the identification terms were clear. In addition, the Japanese never dreamed that there would be aviation on Tubal Road.
It would be strange if this sneak attack failed!
At seven o'clock in the morning, the Japanese military airport in Shijiazhuang was already busy. Ground crews were busy refueling and bombing the planes, preparing to carry out the order of General Judai Terauchi to bomb Taiyuan.
Shijiazhuang Airport is an airport just repaired by the Japanese army. It houses the 1st Flying Group (reconnaissance aircraft), the 2nd Flying Group (fighters), and the 5th Flying Group (Fighter Group) of the 1st Flying Group of the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army.
Light bombers) and parts of the 6th Flying Group (heavy bombers), responsible for providing air cover and air-ground attack tasks for the First Army's Pinghan Line operations.
At 7:05, David and his six heavy bomber formations finally arrived over the Japanese airfield in Shijiazhuang.
Looking at the packed airplanes parked at the airport and the gasoline barrels piled up like a hill, David ignored the call from the Japanese airport tower commander and shouted in English: "Guys, attack the gasoline barrels!" He pressed the nose of the plane and dived.
Go down.
After one round of bombing was completed and the plane was raised, David discovered that the Shijiazhuang Airport was already in flames and there was no need for a second round of attacks. After checking the fuel and ammunition, David actually used the airborne radio to tell the guys that he wanted to
Commander Liu rewarded him with four Japanese women and went directly to bomb Baoding Zhuoxian Airport and Beiping Beiyuan Airport.
David's proposal was quickly supported by his companions, and the six bombers flapped their wings and flew north in formation.
When David spoke in English, the Japanese airport tower commander already knew that the six Japanese-made heavy bombers were pilots from the Chinese Air Force and that they were seducers, so they hurriedly sounded the battle alarm.
Unfortunately, it was too late. There is an old saying in China, "A arrogant soldier will be defeated." At this time, the Japanese army was full of arrogant soldiers from top to bottom. The Northeast Army's lack of resistance and the rapid fall of Pingjin and Hebei created a sense of uncertainty within the Japanese army.
There is an atmosphere of pride that the imperial army is the best in the world. Although Liu Yimin has taught the Japanese army a lesson in Shanxi, the air force has not yet realized the danger. In their opinion, firstly, the Chinese are timid and run away when they hear the sound of planes.
, where would anyone dare to launch a sneak attack? Secondly, the Chinese Air Force had few aircraft. The only two or three hundred aircraft were almost beaten in the Battle of Songhu. Thirdly, although Taiyuan fell, the airport also fell to that place called
Liu Yimin's guys, but the fight for the airport must have been a very fierce battle. Although the plane couldn't take off at night, the pilot, the plane, and the ammunition depot must have been smashed together. Even if the plane fell into the hands of the Chinese, would they use it? We'll be there soon
Once Taiyuan was bombed, all problems were solved.
How could these Japanese devils have thought that Liu Yimin had traveled through time in the 21st century. In his ideology, all he had was resentment and contempt for the Japanese, and he had no fear of them. What he wanted to fight was to proactively seek war and strike preemptively. Don't
It's a small Shijiazhuang airport, so what if it's Tokyo? If he has a plane that can fly to Tokyo, he can bomb it!
Although the battle alarm at the Japanese airport was sounded, it was too late. As aerial bombs exploded on the gasoline barrels one after another, a sea of fire immediately formed, and the Shijiazhuang Airport was burning!
The fire turned every gasoline barrel into a flaming bomb, flying around and slamming into the aircraft and ammunition depot at the airport. Soon the ammunition depot exploded, and the explosion shook the earth like an earthquake.
Similarly, the houses in Zhengding were shaken and dust fell. In the end, all the planes were turned into wreckage, towers and other buildings were razed to the ground by fires and bomb explosions, and the airport was burned by the Japanese army.
The charred corpses turned the entire Shijiazhuang Airport into a living hell.
What's even more unfortunate is that since there was no survivor at the airport, Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, the commander of the temporary aviation corps, had no idea what happened at Shijiazhuang Airport. When he received the message from the commander of the First Army, Xiangyue Qingsi,
When they were about to report, David and the others had already finished blowing up Baoding Zhuoxian Airport and were flying towards Beiping Beiyuan Airport.
Although David is a bit lecherous, he does have his own tricks. At this time, the Japanese Air Force's airports were all field airports. There were no underground oil depots or ammunition depot facilities, and the aircraft did not have hangars. The fuel and ammunition were kept separately on the airport runway.
and near the apron, which is convenient for refueling the aircraft. If there is an air attack and the opponent attacks the fuel, it will naturally be impossible to survive.
Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, the commander of the First Army, received a report from the garrison near the airport. He felt incredible and drove to the airport to check it out. After looking at it, Xiangyue Qingsi couldn't help but cover up despite being a battle-hardened general.
I squatted on the ground with my belly vomiting loudly.
After vomiting, Xiangyue Qingsi sent a report directly to General Juichi Terauchi and the commander of the temporary aviation corps, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, saying that around 7 o'clock this morning, Shijiazhuang Airport was attacked by the Chinese Air Force, and all aircraft and personnel were destroyed.
Completely destroyed.
After receiving the telegram, it is not known what the reaction of General Judai Terauchi was, but Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of black blood. After vomiting the blood, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi immediately ordered Peking, Tianjin
, all planes from Baoding Airport took off immediately, bombed Taiyuan, Linfen, and Yuncheng, vowing to raze these three cities to the ground.
The strange thing is that Baoding Airport couldn't be contacted. Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi knew that something bad was going on. Maybe Baoding Airport, like Shijiazhuang, had been attacked by air raids. When he thought of this, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi felt a drum in his heart and immediately ordered
Major General Yi Eche of the First Flying Group ordered the fighter jets from Peiping Airport to take off immediately and implement air security to guard against sneak attacks by the Chinese.
If Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa had issued this order five minutes earlier, David and the other six bold guys would probably not have survived. The heavy bombers would encounter Japanese fighter jets, and any fool would know what the outcome would be. Unfortunately,
General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi knew the news that Shijiazhuang Airport had been bombed too late, and he knew the news that Baoding Airport had been bombed even later. So, when he received the commander's order at Peiping Airport, he sounded the battle alarm and summoned the fighter pilots to prepare for battle.
, David, who wanted Liu Yimin to reward the four Japanese girls and relax, led six Type 93 heavy bombers to end their trip to Baoding and arrived at the sky above Beiping Beiyuan Airport.
At this time, although David was performing a combat mission, his excitement could not be suppressed. The Type 93 heavy bomber could carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs. Since Shijiazhuang Airport and Baoding Airport were both newly built field airports by the Japanese army, only
It took only one-third of the ammunition to detonate the fuel and ammunition, destroying the airport. Now, looking at the neatly parked fighter planes at the Peiping Airport, David cheered and spoke to the guy in his Texas-accented English.
They roared: "Stop all the bombs, shoot all the machine gun shells, machine gun shells, let the Japanese devils cry, let's go back to Taiyuan to enjoy the beautiful and passionate Japanese women!" After roaring, they took the lead in diving towards Beiyuan Airport.
And go.
The fighter pilots who had received the combat alert had just accepted the mission and were running towards the tarmac when they saw six Type 93 heavy bombers roaring in formation towards the airport. The pilots stopped consciously, thinking they were newly arrived.
Bomber Squadron, but how could these guys enter the airport in a dive? What idiots!
Before the Japanese fighter pilots could finish thinking, the heavy bombers began to drop bombs for the first time. David repeated his old trick and dropped bombs on the oil tanks, and the machine guns also began to fire fiercely, igniting the fire at Beiyuan Airport.
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After one round of bombing, the airport was already filled with smoke. David and the others pressed the nose of the plane and started the second round of bombing.
Because the Peiping Airport was built early and was relatively standardized, the ammunition depot and oil depot were underground, which affected the bombing effect. David and the others had to change their tactics and directly bomb and shoot at the aircraft on the tarmac. Because they knew that the oil depot could not be detonated.
The airport and ammunition depot were just oil barrels prepared for refueling at the airport. They could not paralyze the airport. When the Japanese army reacted, the fighter jets would catch up with them and kill them after they took off. Therefore, David kept calling in English.
Friends, fire fiercely at the planes, setting them on fire and exploding.
By the time the Japanese anti-aircraft weapons serving as airport guards opened fire, the six bombers had already dropped their bombs, fired all their machine gun shells and machine gun bullets, and easily lifted up and flew away into the distance.
Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa and Major General Toru Giga looked at the fire burning at the airport and the wreckage of the shattered planes. They wanted to cry without tears. They looked at each other and walked back to their respective offices in silence.
Not long after, General Juichi Terauchi received a report that Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the provisional aviation regiment of the North China Front of the Empire of Japan, and Major General Gi'e Tetsuji, commander of the first flying regiment of the first flying division, were at Shijiazhuang Airport.
, Baoding Airport and Peiping Airport were bombed, they both committed seppuku and apologized to the Emperor.
After receiving the report, General Juichi Terauchi locked himself in the office for an hour, and then called Naosaburo Okabe in. The two conspired for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that his North China Front Army had encountered a particularly terrible person.
The opponent was Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Zone Government. Before this guy appeared, everything was going smoothly in the North China battlefield. They occupied Pingjin, Hebei, and went down to Taiyuan. Wherever the imperial army went, the China army was invincible. Since Liu Yimin and
After his instructor went to the battlefield, first the 21st Brigade, then the independent mixed First Brigade, and then today's Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Peking Airports were bombed. I don't know which unit will be unlucky next.
into Liu Yimin's trap. The top priority is to let Itagaki Seishiro bring out the 20th Division and the 109th Division safely and return to Hebei. If Liu Yimin eats up the Itagaki Group, then what will happen to the North China Front?
It was dangerous. The emperor blamed him, because he was afraid that it would be a small matter to lose his official position, but it would be a big sin to perform a disembowelment.
There is a famous saying in China that the sea and the sky will be brighter once you take a step back. As long as the 20th Division, the 109th Division, and the 15th Brigade and the 2nd Brigade can return to Hebei, they can form a group with the main force and let them go.
A man has extraordinary abilities. With the strength of one division, no, even if he has the strength of three divisions or four divisions, how can he defeat the imperial army?
Since there is Liu Yimin in Shanxi, it is difficult to fight, so we should defend Shanxi and attack in the south. The China Army on the Ping-Han Line and Jin-Pu Line is not strong in combat effectiveness and will easily fall apart under the attack of the imperial army. According to the original battle plan, speed up
Plan to occupy Shandong and Henan!
So the commander of the North China Front, General Juichi Terauchi, sent a polite telegram to the base camp, reporting in detail the current situation in North China and the countermeasures he had taken, and requesting the base camp to order the Kwantung Army Air Force to dispatch to cover the 20th Division. 109
The division retreated to Hebei and requested the base camp to quickly increase troops to North China, at least three first-class divisions.
Without waiting for a call back from the base camp, and regardless of whether it was detrimental to his personal military dignity, Terauchi called the Kwantung Army commander General Ueda Kenkichi directly and asked him to send at least one air wing in an emergency to cover the retreat of Itagaki Seishiro's troops from Shanxi.
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Then, Juichi Terauchi sent a report to Xiangyue Qingsi, asking him to organize troops and actively attack the Niangziguan front line to attract the attention of the China Army and cover Itagaki's retreat to Hebei.
The telegram to Seishiro Itagaki was even more direct. Juichi Terauchi first told him that the commander of the temporary aviation corps, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, and the commander of the first aviation regiment, Major General Yi'e Tetsuji, were due to Shijiazhuang Airport, Baoding Airport, and Peiping.
The airport was destroyed, the aviation force suffered huge losses, and they had to commit suicide. Then they told him that they had negotiated with the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army would dispatch aircraft to cover the retreat of Itagaki's headquarters to Hebei. Then he ordered Itagaki that there was no need to go to Yangquan and Niangziguan.
Choose your own route and return to Hebei quickly. You can abandon the baggage if necessary, as long as you can bring the troops back to Hebei safely.
As for the combat missions of Itagaki's headquarters after returning to Hebei, Terauchi Juichi said more clearly that he would make every effort to deploy defenses in Shanxi to ensure that the Ping-Han Line and Jinpu Line operations would not be affected.
After receiving the telegram from Juichi Terauchi, the arrogant Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro shed a few turbid tears. He did not know whether they were for Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi or for his own defeat in Shanxi.
After shedding tears, Itagaki Seishiro made a plan that was beyond everyone's imagination.