Chapter 296 One Day in Southern Hebei Province (2)
The enemy planes rushed towards Nangong.
Li Yimo observed carefully through the telescope, and the air defense sentry report was very accurate. It was indeed 36 enemy aircraft. Judging from the flight speed, there were 24 light bombers and 12 heavy bombers. The markings on the wings clearly told Li Yimo,
This is a carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy.
Li Yimo looked back at the smoke-filled Nangong County town behind him and ordered to prepare for battle.
Concentrated fire and close combat means concentrated fire and close combat. The essence is to use anti-aircraft guns to fight enemy planes with bayonets. The prerequisite is that you must have a spirit of sacrifice and not be afraid of enemy planes bombing the anti-aircraft positions. The key point of the strategy is to concentrate several anti-aircraft gun batteries and target an aircraft to increase the hit rate.
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The air defense regiment set up an equilateral triangle position, consisting of four anti-aircraft artillery batteries and two anti-aircraft machine gun companies, divided into three large groups, which were further divided into six combat groups of two anti-aircraft artillery companies and one anti-aircraft machine gun company.
.In Liu Yimin's words, as long as any enemy plane hits it, it will be torn into pieces.
The only shortcoming is that this place is located on a plain with no terrain cover. Once enemy planes discover the anti-aircraft position, it will be a fierce life-or-death battle.
At 9:10, the enemy plane began to lower its flying altitude and flew towards Nangong.
The anti-aircraft regiment's anti-aircraft position was built next to the city wall at the north gate of Nangong, facing the north. The reason why it was built here was that in case enemy planes arrived and the troops suffered too many casualties, they could evacuate to the temporary air-raid shelter under the city wall.
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When the enemy plane could be clearly seen with the naked eye, Li Yimo issued the battle order.
Long Huwa was a machine gun shooter when Liu Yimin formed the leading platoon of the 34th Red Division in Xinwei. Since meeting Liu Yimin, Long Huwa and his younger brother Long Huzi participated in all the battles of Liu Yimin's troops, and twice won the Special Meritorious Medal. Air Defense No. 1
After the regiment arrived in Nangong for training, Li Yimo found Liu Yimin and forcibly recruited Long Huwa, a special meritor of our army, from the heavy machine gun regiment to serve as the battalion commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun reinforced battalion.
At this moment, Long Huwa led two anti-aircraft machine gun companies and four anti-aircraft artillery regiments of the first air defense regiment to form a triangular position, keeping a close eye on the roaring enemy planes. His other four anti-aircraft machine guns
The company, led by the instructor and deputy battalion commander respectively, together with other anti-aircraft artillery companies, formed the other two anti-aircraft fire groups in the triangular anti-aircraft position.
The enemy plane was approaching. It was approaching. Long Huwa waved the flag in his hand and gave the order to fire. The bullets fired by two anti-aircraft machine gun companies and four anti-aircraft artillery batteries immediately spurted out, blocking the enemy plane's path.
before.
At this time, the Japanese aircraft did not have radar, let alone other identification equipment, and relied entirely on the pilot's naked eyes to search for targets. In addition, since the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese combined fleet supported the North China battlefield, they had never encountered such fierce anti-aircraft firepower.
I suffered a big loss.
Longhuwa, who had calculated the quantity in advance, was like firing a gun into the sky, waiting for the Japanese plane to hit him. The unprepared Japanese plane was now unlucky. As the first Japanese plane exploded in the air, the Eighth Route Army's
The anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were firing more vigorously. Bullets and artillery shells seemed to be free of charge, and they were constantly sprayed into the sky, forming a continuous fire network. The five light bombers following the first Japanese plane,
Without enough time to make any evasive action, he hit the fire net one after another and was beaten into burning fireballs.
Seeing such powerful firepower on the ground, the enemy aircraft behind them hurriedly pulled up in an attempt to escape the fate of being hit. At this time, two other air defense firepower groups commanded by Li Yimo, Yan Yaohui, and Zhang Linfeng joined the battle group. They used
It is a close-combat tactic of concentrated fire. A fire group bites an enemy aircraft, allowing the Japanese aircraft to pull up, accelerate, turn, and take a series of evasive actions. The anti-aircraft fire seems to be ignored. It just bites and fires until the Japanese aircraft is hit.
as a principle.
After all, the Japanese aircraft had a speed advantage. Although they were ambushed by ground anti-aircraft fire and suffered heavy losses, the 16 light bombers behind and the 12 heavy bombers that had just arrived still pulled up, bypassed the anti-aircraft fire network, and reorganized in the air.
After that, he fiercely pounced towards the position of the anti-aircraft regiment.
At this time, there was already smoke all around Nangong City, and the visibility of the Japanese aircraft was very low. Although they were eager to retaliate, they were also afraid of being hit by anti-aircraft firepower, so they could only maintain a certain height and drop bombs.
The air defense regiment, which had won the first battle, had great morale. Under the command of its cadres, it divided into six fire groups, chased the Japanese planes, strangled them with all their might, and shot down eight slower heavy bombers.
The Japanese carrier-based aircraft commander who led the team saw that this was not a show, and immediately ordered the remaining aircraft to move to their combat targets, ignoring the air defense positions and the smoke-shrouded Nangong City, and pounced directly on the next bombing target.
This morning, all the counties in the base areas of our army in southern Hebei and western Shandong were bombarded by Japanese planes. Except for Xinhe County, which was the worst, others such as Hebei County, Ningjin, Longping, Yaoshan, Renxian, and Pingxian
Xiang, Guangzong, Qiuxian, Quzhou, Weixian, Julu, Zaoqiang, Gucheng, Qinghe, Wucheng, Linqing, Xiajin, Gaotang, etc. all suffered heavy losses.
After the Japanese bombing, Li Yimo returned to the brigade headquarters and asked various places to report losses. At this time, there were cries everywhere in the base area. Troops, militiamen and cadres were busy rescuing people and putting out fires. How could they report losses so quickly?
A county magistrate yelled directly at Li Yimo on the phone: "Commander Li, please stop for a moment! When the Japanese plane came, you didn't see your air defense brigade. If the Japanese plane left, you have to report the damage. Tell you, I
No time! I'm going to sue you in front of Commander Liu and Political Commissar Luo to get an explanation for the dead villagers!" After saying that, he hung up the phone, causing Li Yimo's little joy of victory in the air battle to disappear immediately.
On the way to Dexian, the commander of the teaching division Liu Yimin received reports that Japanese planes bombed southern Hebei on a large scale and that the air defense brigade shot down 16 enemy planes. After careful consideration, Liu Yimin believed that this was just the first step in the Japanese revenge. I am afraid that the Japanese planes
There will be bombing soon. In the future, the Japanese army will use its air superiority to continuously carry out bombing retaliation against southern Hebei and western Shandong, and the bombing targets will shift from county towns to villages and towns, with the purpose of completely destroying the southern Hebei base area.
Thinking of this, Liu Yimin felt a little frustrated. The harder he hit, the heavier the Japanese army's retaliation. They went on and on, turning the Eighth Route Army base area into the focus of the Japanese army's attack. He had to find an idea to prevent Terauchi Shouichi from bombing the base area unscrupulously.
Japan's national power is so strong that it destroyed its aviation regiment in North China twice and took away the weapons, ammunition and material reserves of the North China Front from Tianjin. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for the Japanese army to use planes and bombs again.
There is plenty of gasoline. It seems that the Japanese will only become poor if they wait for Japan to start a fight with the United States and cut off its own economic lifeline.
Liu Yimin couldn't help but think of Ni Hua. I don't know where this girl is now. I don't know the result of lobbying President Roosevelt. Why does the United States continue to maintain trade with Japan as it did in history? If they interrupt Japan
Transaction, Liu Yimin believed that the North China Front Army would not dare to use a large fleet of aircraft for bombing so lavishly. It seems that the suffering process of China's Anti-Japanese War will be relatively long.
After thinking about it, Liu Yimin immediately took measures. First, he strictly ordered Li Yimo to immediately inform organizations at all levels that the Japanese army would definitely carry out heavy bombings today, and the bombing targets must be villages and towns. Organizations at all levels immediately took action, mobilizing the masses to take air defense measures and go into the tunnels.
Ignite the smoke. I want to tell the fellow villagers that it doesn't matter if the house is blown up. The first priority now is to reduce casualties. The second is to order the air defense brigade to quickly move positions to prevent the Japanese army from retaliating and wait for opportunities to ambush the Japanese aircraft. The third is to order to follow the west
Li Lingfeng, who was operating from the Western Front Group, broke away from the Western Front Group and commanded the 2nd and 3rd Special Operations Squadrons to go to the Great Opinghan Line to carry out special operations against the Japanese army. The targets were Japanese airports, railway bridges, material supply points, etc.
After issuing the order, Liu Yimin drafted an open letter to General Juichi Terauchi, commander of the Japanese North China Front. Liu Yimin wrote this:
"His Excellency General Shoudai of the North China Front Army Temple:
After wiping out the main force of the Fifth Division and Chahar dispatching troops to recapture Taiyuan and Tianjin, our heroic Eighth Route Army instructors also wiped out the main force of the 21st Division in Wucheng and Linqing areas, and independently formed the Fourth Brigade. Now.
Twenty thousand corpses of the Japanese invaders are displayed in Wucheng and Linqing. For humanitarian reasons, our army allows you to send people to collect the corpses. However, each corpse of a soldier will be charged NT$5, and the corpse of a lieutenant-level officer will be charged an additional NT$50.
, each corpse of a junior officer will be charged an additional NT$500, and each corpse of a general-level officer will be charged an additional NT$5,000. If the cabinet does not send someone to collect the corpse within three days, our army will cremate it and scatter the ashes in the farmland as fertilizer.
Today, Your Excellency mobilized a large fleet of aircraft to carry out indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians in various counties in southern Hebei, causing horrific tragedies, committing war crimes of massacre of civilians, and incurring heavy blood debts. In the history of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, only uncivilized
Only wild beasts can commit such beastly behaviors that are outraged by both humans and gods. In my opinion, your actions are really the expression of your bestiality after your skills are exhausted, and will surely be criticized by thousands of people.
I solemnly declare that if you do not stop your brutal bombing and massacre of civilians, our army will take extreme measures to retaliate. First, destroy all the Japanese airports in North China and kill all Japanese airmen. Second, select a day to kill those captured from Tianjin.
Japanese businessmen, bankers, and business owners are sentenced to death, and five people will be shot every day until they are all shot. Three, within a month, I will go to Peking in person to take your dog's head as a token of gratitude for the dead compatriots. If you are afraid of escaping, I will
We will chase you to the ends of the earth and take your dog's head. Fourth, from today on, our army will no longer accept the surrender of the Japanese army in North China. All Japanese soldiers killed by our army will be beheaded.
I believe that war is a matter between soldiers. Fighting in battle, life or death, is nothing more than fighting for the interests of their own country. War has its own laws. Your bombing and massacre of civilians not only violates the Geneva Convention, but also tarnishes the dignity of soldiers.
Honor. I look down on you! How could Count Masaki Temple give birth to a legitimate son like you? Did he get such revenge because he was drunk that night and insulted his ancestors? I can’t figure it out!
In addition, I would like to remind you that our army has a principle of warfare, that is, no enemy is allowed to enter within 200 miles of our rear guard, otherwise our army will be annihilated. Please study our army's war history carefully and take revenge whenever you pursue our army.
Where are the enemies of our army now! I formally inform you that Jizhong, South Hebei, and Western Shandong are the base areas of our army. If any enemy dares to attack our base areas, the result will be one word: death!
I would like to remind you once again that I possess the peerless Chinese martial arts, and taking your life is like taking something out of a bag. I advise you to stop the brutal act of bombing and killing civilians, otherwise, your death will not be far away!
Instructor Liu Yimin. January 29, 1938."
After writing it, I asked Luo Ronghuan to read it over and then sent it back to Nangong, where it would be broadcast through the radio station in both Chinese and Japanese.
Luo Ronghuan believed that the content of this letter needed to be reconsidered. The matter of selling Japanese corpses was inconsistent with Liu Yimin's status as a senior general of our army and was a bit ridiculous. It was also inappropriate to shoot Japanese businessmen, which violated our military policy and damaged the image of our army. The entire article was
It is a false threat that does nothing to help the war and can only arouse the Japanese invaders to retaliate. The words that insult and abuse Jiuchi Juichi are like street gangsters and are extremely inconsistent with Liu Yimin's political and cultural qualities. This matter will definitely become a laughing stock in the future. Therefore, please
The teacher took the letter back.
Liu Yimin thought for a while and said: "What I want is to drive Shouichi Terauchi crazy and make him think that I am a person who does what I say and will do whatever I say. If he offends me, he will be haunted by evil spirits. This will force him to
He dare not continue to dispatch large fleets of planes to bomb indiscriminately. If he continues to bomb like this, Jinan will be doomed. As for reputation and other things, for the sake of killing the Japanese, I don't care. In addition, I am not making false threats. If Touichi Terauchi continues like this again
After three days of bombing, we will attack Beiping and kill Juichi Templeuchi. We will never break our promise!"
Luo Ronghuan shook his head: "Kill Shouichi Templeuchi, and another Japanese will come to be the commander of the North China Front. This is a war, not a legend."
Seeing that Luo Ronghuan firmly refused to publish it, Liu Yimin had no choice but to change it and publish the open letter in the name of the guard leader Li Chengyi, which later became a legend.
Just when Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan were discussing whether to publish this open letter, at one o'clock at noon, Japanese aircraft once again carried out indiscriminate bombings on the base areas in southern Hebei, targeting the larger villages and towns in southern Hebei. The Japanese combined fleet, which suffered heavy losses, even
All carrier-based bombers and fighter jets were dispatched to fly to Nangong to find the anti-aircraft positions of the air defense group and retaliate.
At this time, Nangong was completely surrounded by smoke, and the visibility was extremely low. Not to mention finding the anti-aircraft positions of the anti-aircraft group, it was difficult for the Japanese aircraft to determine the exact location of Nangong City. It was the entire southern Hebei Province, the county seat, and larger cities.
The villages and towns were all shrouded in smoke, making it difficult to identify the bombing target. Out of anger, the Japanese army officer directly ordered to find small villages where the smoke was not too thick, drop bombs, strafe them, and completely level them!