Wang Shuan is from Qingxu, Shanxi, and his father is the shopkeeper of a vinegar shop. The family of three used to live a prosperous and happy life. After the Japanese came, his father believed that no matter which marshal's team they came from, they would rule the common people.
Just pay the taxes according to the regulations. So the three members of the family did not run away. As a result, after the Japanese soldiers arrived in Qingxu, they went to his house to get vinegar. When they saw his mother, they were about to commit violence. His father stepped forward to stop him, and the Japanese soldiers directly used their bayonets.
His parents were selected.
After the instructors regained Qingxu, Wang Shuancai signed up for the Eighth Route Army, determined to avenge his parents. When the new regiment was transferred to the air defense headquarters, he also changed from a recruit to an air defense soldier. In the battle to defend Tianjin Airport,
He was the best performer among the new soldiers. Not only was he not afraid, but he also insisted on staying at the artillery position. Therefore, when the air defense brigade went to Nangong for training, he became a combat team leader.
On the morning of January 29, Wang Shuancai led two soldiers from his team to the air defense outpost by the Fuyang River in Xinhe County. Their task was to observe the air situation.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, Wang Shuan, who was holding a telescope, suddenly discovered two black spots in the sky. Soon, the black spots turned into enemy planes.
Wang Shuancai immediately picked up the phone and reported: "The No. 5 air defense observation point reported that two enemy planes entered Xinhe territory."
About twenty minutes later, the two enemy planes flew north through Xinhe again.
Wang Shuancai felt something was wrong. The posture of the two enemy planes today was similar to the performance of the enemy planes during the Tianjin Airport Defense War. They seemed to be specially for reconnaissance. So Wang Shuancai picked up the phone again and reported directly to the First Air Defense Regiment Headquarters.
, enemy planes are conducting targeted reconnaissance in southern Hebei, please be on alert.
During this period, as the Eighth Route Army's First and Second Aviation Groups withdrew to Shaanxi for training, the sky in North China was already a training ground for Japanese aircraft, and enemy planes were flying around normally. Wang Shuancai's report should be said to have a relatively large component of personal predictions, mainly from
Because of the experience and vigilance he gained after participating in the Tianjin Airport Defense War. Even so, Wang Shuancai's report still attracted the attention of the First Air Defense Regiment, which immediately reported it to the brigade headquarters and made preparations for air defense operations.
At 8:30 in the morning - Wang Shuancai remembered this time very accurately, and will remember it for the rest of his life, a dark cloud appeared on the horizon. Wang Shuancai's hand holding the telescope trembled. He could already see clearly that it was the Japanese aircraft group heading towards southern Hebei Province.
It came.
Wang Shuancai immediately put the telescope into the hands of his comrade Li Fuwa and asked him to count the number of enemy planes. He rushed to the phone, grabbed the phone and shouted loudly: "No. 5 air defense observation point reported that a large group of enemy planes have attacked southern Hebei. They have arrived."
Xinhe County border! Air defense observation point No. 5 reports that a large group of enemy planes are attacking southern Hebei and have arrived at Xinhe County border!"
Just when Wang Shuancai was on the phone, another of his comrades Zhang Baihe had already decisively raised his gun and fired three shots in the air with "bang bang bang". Soon, the entire Jinan base area was stationed one after another, and the sound was heard everywhere.
The sound of gunfire from an anti-aircraft sentry.
What arrived were aircraft from the Japanese North China Front Aviation Group and Combined Fleet.
After receiving the report from the North China Front Army Headquarters that instructor Liu Yimin was in southern Hebei, the newly formed North China Aviation Group, which had already been irritated by the two collective jade crushings of the North China Air Force and had bloodshot eyes, immediately took emergency action and quickly formulated an air attack plan.
All aircraft from Peiping, Tianjin, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, and Jinan airports and a total of 260 aircraft from the Navy's Combined Fleet were mobilized to carry out a large-scale, multi-batch bombing mission against southern Hebei in accordance with the order of Admiral Terauchi Juichi.
Lieutenant General Toshi Kinoshita, the new head of the North China Flying Group, said in the combat order: "According to the report from the front army headquarters, the cunning, despicable, shameless, and cowardly China instructor Liu Yimin is hidden south of the Deshi Line and the Pinghan Line.
To the east, to the west of Jinpu Road and to the north of Hanji Road is the plain area. This China force not only caused heavy losses to the elite troops of the Imperial Army, but also directly led to the collective destruction of the warriors of the North China Provisional Aviation Corps and the original North China Aviation Corps.
, What a heinous crime! Warriors of the Emperor, you are the darlings of the Empire of Japan, and the dignity of the Imperial Air Force of Japan cannot be tarnished! Now is the time for us to take revenge. I order you to set up your war eagles and go to Jinan.
Tear instructor Liu Yimin into pieces, and tear into pieces all the Chinese mob who support Liu Yimin!"
Therefore, Major General Moritaka Nakasa, commander of the First Flight Group of the Japanese North China Flying Group, Major General Michio Sugawara, commander of the Third Flying Group, and Colonel Ai Ishikawa of the 21st Independent Flying Group, all personally went into battle, bringing the largest aviation aircraft on the Japanese battlefield in North China with them.
The fleet of aircraft rushed towards Jinan with murderous intent.
It should be said that the air defense system in southern Hebei is still effective. After Liu Yimin arrived in Nangong from Tianjin, considering the hidden materials and large number of people in Nangong, this southern Hebei area is a great plain, and now it is the depth of winter. The land is empty, except for the tunnels.
There was nowhere to hide in the road trenches, so the air defense brigade was immediately organized to prepare an emergency air defense plan. The main purpose was to use tunnel air defense. The auxiliary means were to repair telephone lines, establish air defense posts, strengthen air defense firepower, and burn piles of firewood to create smoke. The key points were
The department fired smoke bombs.
Under the conditions at that time, Liu Yimin's methods were already very advanced, especially the use of smoke bombs, which were also based on the Japanese smoke bombs captured from Tianjin. Unfortunately, the Japanese army dispatched too many aircraft in this air raid, and many ordinary people were unaware
Even when the Japanese army concentrated on bombing civilian houses, the tragedy in southern Hebei still happened.
The gunshots from the air defense posts woke up the intoxicated Jinan. During this period, the main instructors of the Eighth Route Army arrived in Jinan, eliminated the bandits, reorganized commanders and directors, established anti-Japanese democratic regimes at all levels, and led Jinan
The people carried out land reform, dug tunnels, dug trenches, learned to lay landmines, learned to shoot guns, and launched a vigorous anti-Japanese and national salvation movement. For the first time in the history of southern Hebei, a new atmosphere of proud and proud people appeared. Although the Eighth Route Army and democratic government cadres were there every day
Promote anti-Japanese resistance and educate the masses to be mentally prepared to deal with the Japanese raids. However, looking at the strong and powerful Eighth Route Army, most people feel that they are going to live a good life. With such powerful soldiers by their side, what are they afraid of? Discipline him.
Come one and fight one, come two and fight one!
The gunshots from the air defense posts suddenly rang out, and many people didn't care. Cadres and militiamen ran back and forth, shouting, and organized the villagers to go down to the tunnel. Since many people were preparing for the New Year, and they underestimated the ferocity of the Japanese planes, they let it go
The cadres shouted loudly, but some villagers still did not take air defense measures.
Compared with the ordinary people, the units of the instructor division have been instilled with air defense knowledge by Liu Yimin since the establishment of the 18th Regiment, and they have a strong air defense awareness. Therefore, after the gunshots of the air defense posts sounded, various agencies in the Nangong area, the training commander
Departments and various training classes, the school immediately organized troops, students, and cadres to evacuate through tunnels or roads, trenches, and woods.
In accordance with the air defense plan compiled under the guidance of Liu Yimin, the air defense brigade urgently ordered air defense posts, troops and militiamen to light pre-prepared piles of firewood to create smoke. The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the first air defense regiment in Nangong were also ready for combat.
Prepare.
The first place to be bombed by the Japanese was Xinhe County.
When the Japanese plane arrived, the evacuation of Xinhe County was in progress. Cadres and soldiers from the county brigade were still knocking on doors and asking people to get out of the tunnels. Smoke-making firewood had begun to be lit around the county, and even on the streets of the county, people were evacuated.
Wet firewood and dried cow dung and horse dung were lit, and the smoke began to spread.
The person who led the bombing of Shinhe County was Major General Michio Sugawara, commander of the 3rd Flying Regiment.
According to the combat plan, the mission of Major General Michio Sugawara's Third Flight Regiment is to bomb military targets in southern Hebei, while the mission of bombing county towns belongs to the Combined Fleet carrier-based aircraft that have a longer distance. The purpose of this distinction is to take into account the long distance of the carrier-based aircraft.
, there was no time to search for bombing targets, and the North China Flying Group aircraft was relatively close and had sufficient fuel to search for and bomb difficult targets. However, when passing by Xinhe County, Major General Michio Sugawara saw that there was smoke all around Xinhe County.
After a while, it will be shrouded in smoke and unable to bomb. The old devil smiled grimly and ordered 12 heavy bombers of the 66th Squadron and 24 light bombers of the 75th Squadron to immediately bomb Xinhe County.
Xinhe County is crying.
12 heavy bombers and 24 light bombers were circling and swooping over the small town of Xinhe County, dropping 100-kilogram bombs continuously, and machine guns and machine guns were also firing continuously, bombing wherever there were people.
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There is a grocery store in Xinhe County, and the owner's surname is Lin. Just now, the cadres asked him to close the door immediately and go into the tunnel. Boss Lin agreed, but in his heart he thought that the Japanese were also human beings, and the bombs were expensive. If they were to be blown up, they would also be bombing the troops and the county government offices.
.How could they be willing to use bombs to blow up their own small grocery store that was not worth much? So, as soon as the cadres left, Boss Lin continued business as usual. He still held his son in his arms and took his wife and stood at the door, pointing at the airplane to entertain the children.
It was lively. A bomb fell, and a family of three and the small grocery store disappeared.
When He Sheng, captain of the third squadron of the second squadron of the Xinhe County Brigade, was leading the soldiers to mobilize the village tunnels, enemy planes came. Seeing that a house opposite that was making tofu was blown up by a bomb and the house collapsed, I hurriedly
He led the soldiers to rescue people. He shouted several times on the ruins but no one answered. He hurriedly picked up the bricks and tiles with his hands, but unexpectedly an arm was pulled out. He Sheng's eyes were red with anger, and he led the soldiers
Lying on his back on the ruins, he raised his rifle and fired at a roaring Japanese plane. This angered the enemy plane, which drew a circle in the air and swooped over. Two bombs were dropped, and a small group of soldiers
All were buried in the rubble.
It was not until the bombs were dropped, Xinhe County was shrouded in fireworks, and the cries were loud that the enemy planes turned around and returned.
When bombing Nangong, the Japanese planes encountered a desperate counterattack by the First Air Defense Regiment of the Instructor's Air Defense Brigade.
After receiving the first warning report from the air defense post, the air defense brigade commander Li Yimo realized that today was not a good day, and he was afraid that the Japanese army was really going to bomb southern Hebei.
In fact, Li Yimo knew in his heart that there is no airtight wall in the world. Such a huge force of instructors is hidden in southern Hebei. No matter how good the confidentiality measures are, the news will leak out. Sooner or later, the Japanese army will come to bombard southern Hebei. In addition to the division commander and political commissar,
Director Cai, Chief of Staff Zeng, led the army separately to go on an expedition, and had already wiped out a division and a brigade of the Japanese army. This undoubtedly told the Japanese army that the base of the instructor division was in southern Hebei. The Japanese army's reconnaissance methods were so advanced that they would surely be killed immediately.
It was determined that the instructor would carry out crazy revenge based on the local location. Besides, the instructor conducted two air raids on the Japanese airfield and killed so many Japanese aviation units and aircraft. Even the commander of the provisional aviation regiment had a caesarean section to apologize. The Japanese aviation unit will definitely avenge this.
Therefore, Li Yimo immediately issued an order for air defense operations, strictly ordering all localities, governments at all levels, troops, militia, and work teams to mobilize the masses to move and light firewood to create smoke in accordance with the air defense plan. He ordered the first air defense regiment to quickly take up positions and prepare
Fight enemy aircraft.
Fortunately, Li Yimo had seen the formation of more than 100 Japanese aircraft bombing Tianjin Airport, and he did not take any chances. He raised the air defense measures to the highest level of the air defense plan from the beginning, thus greatly reducing the number of casualties.
By the time Wang Shuancai reported the large-scale incoming Japanese planes and the sound of air defense sentry gunfire, the entire air defense measures in southern Hebei had already begun to take effect. Li Yimo told political commissar Han Qianjin to take command, and he took the guards to the first air defense regiment.
position, he will personally command the first battle of the reborn air defense brigade.
Yan Yaohui, head of the First Air Defense Regiment, and political commissar Zhang Linfeng received Wang Shuancai's first report of the Japanese reconnaissance in southern Hebei Province, and ordered the troops to mobilize urgently and take up the position. By the time Li Yimo issued the combat order, the First Air Defense Regiment was already on standby.
After arriving from Tianjin to Nangong, the First Air Defense Regiment stepped up its efforts to reorganize its troops. Through in-depth grievance activities, the mental outlook of the soldiers changed significantly. Especially those recruits who survived the Tianjin Airport Defense Battle were particularly deeply touched and worked hard to train their combat skills.
, looking forward to a turnaround.
In view of the fact that Nangong is the center of the Jinnan base area and must be the focus of Japanese bombing, therefore, when designing the position, the First Air Defense Regiment designed three cluster positions to defend the county town from three directions. After Liu Yimin saw the plan, he considered
After all, the first air defense regiment was formed not long ago, and it was better to disperse the firepower than to concentrate it, so Li Yimo asked Li Yimo to change the three positions into one position, facing directly to the north, forming a large and deep firepower network. Then, Liu Yimin specially taught later generations about our army's aid to Vietnam.
He summarized the concentrated fire and close combat tactics during the battle and organized the first air defense regiment to conduct several drills. Feeling that the results were good, Liu Yimin ordered Yan Yaohui to organize the soldiers to go to the battlefield for a drill every day and camouflage the positions.
The direction and number of the enemy planes were transmitted station by station through the air defense sentry's phone. The 12 anti-aircraft artillery batteries and 6 anti-aircraft machine gun batteries on the air defense regiment's position had all removed their camouflage, and the black muzzles were pointed at