Chapter 525: Takao turtle hides, raise your hand! (2)
Chapter 525: High-tailed turtle, raise your hands! (2)
After Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin accepted the task of capturing Ogao Guizang alive from Liu Yimin, they decided that Chief of Staff Zhou Yi would lead the brigade guard battalion to organize and implement the task.
This week, Zhou Yi studied in the staff major. After being transferred to the Central Guard Division, he quickly stood out. When the Seventh Red Army was established, the new commander was transferred to the commander of the 39th Regiment. He eliminated Hu Zongnan's First Division in the Battle of Fujia in Hanyang Town.
, blocked the desperate breakout of Hu Zongnan's 1st Brigade, and was seriously injured himself. Later, he was transferred to the chief of staff of the 11th Red Division. In a series of subsequent battles, he assisted Plateau in commanding operations, and his performance was very outstanding.
Liu Yimin said that knowledge is combat effectiveness. This is clearly reflected in the main brigades of instructors. The Xiangjiao Brigade pays attention to learning from top to bottom, and the quality of its cadres and soldiers is first-rate in the entire Eighth Route Army.
For some things, Liu Yimin just gave a clue, and the cadres and soldiers began to explore during the learning process, such as how the infantry dealt with the bombing of Japanese aircraft groups.
After the large-scale Japanese aircraft fleet bombed Nangong, Zhou Yi has been thinking about how the infantry should deal with the large-scale aircraft fleet. He felt that ground anti-aircraft firepower was good, but it was a waste of ammunition, and once it encountered a large-scale attack by Japanese aircraft, the losses would be too great. Burning incense
Smoke can only serve as a camouflage cover. It is too passive and does not comply with the instructor's principle of active offensive combat, and the effect is not good. After thinking about it, Zhou Yi really came up with some ideas.
Zhou Yi's method is a local one, which is to use kites and balloons to help the Eighth Route Army fight against Japanese aircraft. The reason is that the Japanese aircraft are very fast. When their speed reaches a certain height, they may be crushed by just hitting the smallest thing.
The windproof glass endangers the life of the pilot. Kites and balloons can meet this requirement. This is the same as the reason why there should be no branches or straw in front of the muzzle when the cannon is ejected.
As soon as this idea was put forward, it received strong support from Liu Yimin. Zhou Yi made a special report to Liu Yimin. When the two people were discussing together, Liu Yimin proposed that the wind direction of the balloon was too strict and it would be better to match it with a bird.
Category supplement. Think about it, when our army was fighting a fierce battle with the Japanese army in broad daylight, the Japs sent out large-scale fighter planes to bomb. Just as the Japs' planes swooped down and strafed, wreaking havoc, a large number of black birds soared into the sky.
If the little devil's plane collides with the little devil's plane, the little devil's plane will be destroyed and everyone will die. If the wind direction is suitable, the balloons will be released after the flock of birds has passed. Haha, the little devil's plane can't even bother with bombing and strafing. They have
It's considered lucky if you escape the balloon.
When Zhou Yi heard this, he felt that Liu Yimin's idea was more comprehensive. It would be great if it could be tested on the battlefield. However, this bird is not easy to domesticate. Even training homing pigeons would take time and cannot be put into battle in the short term. If you catch wild ones,
Birds are difficult to tame. It is likely that you can only use it once and the birds will escape.
Liu Yimin told him not to consider long-term large-scale domestication, which would require a lot of food. As many planes as the Japanese army can have, it would be good to catch them by surprise. If we can catch 10,000 birds, keep them temporarily, and release them when the battle requires
, if it succeeds, it is very likely that these 10,000 birds will be able to crash several, a dozen, or even dozens of Japanese planes at once. This record is very remarkable. Maybe Japanese planes will see our army from now on.
Just stay away unless they attack you by surprise.
The result of the discussion between the two people was that Liu Yimin ordered the establishment of a special air defense team in the 1st Teaching Brigade, under the direct command of Zhou Yi, and went to the battlefield to test it. If it was really feasible, it would be promoted in all brigades.
During the time when the instructors were carrying out the cold gun campaign, Zhou Yi concentrated his efforts on this matter and organized the troops to select soldiers who liked raising birds. A total of about 30 people were found. Seeing that there were too few people, Zhou Yi sent this special air defense
The team is attached to the guard camp of the 1st Teaching Brigade, and mobilizes the troops to make kites, collect balloons and catch birds.
Kites and balloons are easy to handle.
In Shandong, it is not just the people of Weixian who play kites. Flying kites in spring is a folk custom in all parts of Shandong. Especially after Li Wenli held three kite competitions in Weixian, the larger counties and market towns in southeastern Shandong and Taiyi Mountains all have special paste-making systems.
There is no need for a kite shop. In fact, there is no need for a shop. The thing is nothing more than tying a frame, papering it, and attaching a string. You can learn it once you learn it. The key is to train the skills of flying the kite high and controlling the direction. These are not difficult.
warriors.
Balloons are not too difficult. At this time, balloon manufacturing is no longer a problem. Some big cities have companies that specialize in manufacturing hot air balloons and balloons for children to play with. There are also ordinary balloons on the market.
Hot air balloons are rarely sold on the market, but they can be produced if needed. This thing can rise high and can carry people. The Japanese army often used this method to let the soldiers on the hot air balloon act as artillery observers, and the effect was very good.
Okay. But this is using balloons to deal with airplanes. No one can sit in them. As long as they fly high and have high density, it will be fine.
Businessmen are always very good at information. I heard that balloons sold quickly in the Eighth Route Army base areas, and hot air balloons were the best sellers in particular, so I tried every means to purchase goods from Peking, Tianjin, and Qingdao, and then took the sea route to Rizhao Port to disembark and join the Eighth Route Army.
Base area. Along the way, when encountering a Japanese patrol boat, the merchants would stuff a handful of silver dollars or counterfeit bills, light a cigarette and hand it over, indicating that it was a kid's holiday thing, and 80% of the time they would be allowed to go.
In just over two months, Zhou Yi trained the 1st Brigade Guard Battalion into a professional force capable of flying kites, flying balloons, and raising birds. They are just waiting to try their skills in the Battle of Jiaoji Road!
After receiving the order to capture the commander of the 12th Army, Ogao Kamezo, alive at Ershilipu Airport, Zhou Yi was so happy that he wanted to jump up. God, Ogao Kamezo is the top commander of the Japs in Jinan. He is a military officer.
Commander! If we capture him alive, we will become famous all over the country. Hehe, when the time comes, I will make Odaka Kamezo tremble with shock. No, let the entire Twelfth Army tremble.
Zhou Yi was still young and did not fully estimate the significance of capturing Oga Kamezo alive. He did not know that as long as he captured Oga Kamezo alive, he would become famous all over the world, and not just the Twelve Army, but also
All the Japanese invaders and the entire country of Japan will tremble.
Thinking of this section, Zhou Yi was full of energy. He shouted three times to thank the division commander for thinking highly of the 1st Brigade and Zhou Yi, and then he began to command the guard battalion to start deploying.
People with a background as a staff officer are meticulous in everything they do. Zhou Yi is the chief staff officer. He is not only meticulous but also creative. He designed three sets of plans at once. He even thought of the problem of the plane not landing at the airport after discovering something abnormal.
Be prepared thoroughly and nothing will go wrong.
Seeing Otaka Kamezo's plane parked at the airport, and seeing Otaka Kamezo walking towards him and the guard camp, Zhou Yi couldn't help but want to laugh.
When the captain and navigator of Otaka Kamezo's plane shouted to Otaka Kamezo to stop and return to the plane, Otaka Kamezo and his entourage were angry. They had just come from the mainland to Shandong to form the 12th Army Headquarters.
They were not familiar with the Shandong garrison personnel. They only knew the division commander Shimomoto Kumiya and the chief of staff Suzuki Toshiyuki of the 108th Division. But when they got off the plane, they saw that neither of these guys were here.
I don’t know any of the other people. They clearly look down on the commander of the 12th Army!
At this time, Odaka Kamezo heard the shouts of the captain and navigator.
Although Otaka Kamezo has a bad temper and is rather reckless in his actions, he is a mainland graduate after all, and he is battle-hardened. He was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant general in the flames of war. He is extremely alert, and when he hears shouts, he
He immediately threw himself to the ground, pulled out his pistol, and started shooting. He shouted and ordered his entourage to lie down, and organized resistance. The radio operator first retreated to the plane to send a message for help, and the others took turns to cover and retreated to the plane to retreat.
Otaka Kamezo's plane could only seat eight people. In addition to the captain and navigator, Otaka Kamezo brought a combat staff officer, a confidential staff officer, a radio operator, and two guards. When the combat staff officer saw the formation,
Knowing that it was extremely dangerous, he immediately shouted: "His Excellency, the commander and the radio operator will be covered and returned to the plane, and the others will shoot on the spot!" After shouting, he crawled on the ground and started shooting with his Nanbu pistol for self-defense.
After the Captain and the navigator called the police, they turned around and ran toward the nose of the plane. They wanted to climb into the plane and open the door that had just been closed so that the commander could successfully withdraw from the plane.
The Japanese captain and the navigator may not have imagined that they were the first targets of the Eighth Route Army. No, as soon as they turned around, they heard two gunshots, and the Japanese captain and the navigator threw themselves on the ground.
Seeing that the captain and navigator were shot dead, Otaka Kamezo's heart suddenly dropped into the ice cave. He knew that he would either die in battle or commit suicide today, so he couldn't even think about breaking out of the encirclement. As for being captured, he didn't even think about it, it would be too shameful.
But he didn't want to die. He had just arrived in China as the commander of the Twelfth Army, and before he had warmed up his seat, he fell into the trap of the Eighth Route Army. How could he be willing to do so?
Strangely enough, the Eighth Route Army did not seem to expect that the captain and navigator would see through their plot. After killing the captain and navigator, they also fell to the ground and began to shoot at Ogao Guizang and the others. Now,
This gave Otaka Kamezo the opportunity to retreat to the side of the plane with the confidential staff radio operator. As for the combat staff and the two guards, they were still crawling on the ground in front of the plane, shooting desperately to prevent the Eighth Route Army from approaching.
Odaka Kamezo still had a bit of luck in his heart. Ershilibao Airport was very close to Fangzi. Not to mention cars, motorcycles, armored vehicles, and even war horses couldn't run for long. Maybe the gunshots had already awakened the Fangzi garrison.
As long as they can come for reinforcements, there might be a glimmer of hope.
After Odaka Kamezo retreated to the side of the plane, he kept ordering the radio operator to turn on the radio and contact the 105th Regiment in Fangzi to request reinforcements.
The confidential staff officer reminded that if the Eighth Route Army can quietly control the Ershilipu Airport, it must have a way to block the reinforcements of the 105th Regiment. Besides, it is top secret for the Commander to come to Wei County. If the Eighth Route Army can pretend to be the imperial army and wait here, it must be
There is a mystery. Maybe the 105th Regiment in Fangzi is unreliable. It would be better to send a telegram directly to Chief of Staff Asaburo Kobayashi and ask him to urge the troops to come to the rescue and order the aircraft to cover and rescue. This would be more certain.
As soon as Odaka Kamezo heard this, he ordered the telegraph operator to send a report to Kobayashi Asaburo and ordered him to organize a rescue immediately.
The little telegraph operator was calm, and kept sending messages with both hands. When he finished sending the telegram, he heard a bang. When he looked up, the Eighth Route Army had already surrounded him. The sound just now was from the injured combat staff officer.
The grenade was fired and the jade shattered.
The combat staff officer and the two accompanying guards usually followed the commander around in the headquarters. How could they have thought that one day they would be needed to fight in battle? The two guards were better off, and the bullets in the bullet box were just
In the standard configuration, the combat staff did not carry a bullet box at all in his waist. He only had a few rounds of bullets in the pistol, and he was finished with a few shots. In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from approaching, the two guards kept firing rapidly, and the bullets were consumed very quickly. Moreover,
The Eighth Route Army's marksmanship was very accurate, and two guards were shot dead one after another. The combat staff took out a rifle and fired five bullets when he was hit by several bullets and wounded, so he had no choice but to fire a grenade and commit suicide.
Seeing this situation, the radio operator asked Otaka Kamezo, who was using the fuselage of the aircraft to cover his shooting, whether to blow up the radio station.
Wei Gaogui Zang has given up any hope at this time, whether it is the Fangzi defenders or the Weicheng defenders, when they arrive, I am afraid that he will have become a corpse. At this time, we must not let the radio fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army
That would cause a big problem. Therefore, as soon as the operator asked for instructions, Odaka Kamezo shouted in a hoarse voice: "Blow up the radio station quickly!"
Since the 21st Division was completely wiped out, Juichi Terauchi ordered all units of the North China Front to blow up the radio station at the critical moment to prevent the cunning Eighth Route Army from obtaining the Imperial Army's communication codes. Therefore, when the Japanese army moved, all units reported to the radio operators
Bring a grenade and blow up the radio station at the critical moment. When the radio station is destroyed, the entire unit will be wiped out.
With a "boom", the Japanese operator blew up the radio station, pulled out his self-defense pistol, crawled to the ground and started shooting. Of course, he couldn't do it if he didn't shoot. The pistols of the confidential staff officer and Otaka Kamezo were all out of bullets.
Both men drew their command knives and stared at the surrounding Eighth Route Army with wild beast-like eyes.
The Eighth Route Army's bullets seemed to have eyes. The Japanese radio operator crawled to the ground and was about to shoot when a bullet flew towards him. With a soft "pop" sound, a bloody hole opened in his forehead, and blood burst out.
Immediately afterwards, a blood hole appeared on the top of the head of the confidential staff officer who was blocking the hiding place of Ogao Turtle while holding a saber, and he fell to the ground on his back.
When the Japs operator blew up the radio station, Zhou Yi knew that the Japs had finished sending out the telegram for help. The division commander's mission of leaving a chance for Otaka Kamezo to ask for help was completed. He no longer had any worries and jumped up from the ground.
He jumped up, shouted "Catch the tail and hide the turtle", and led the soldiers to charge forward.
At this time, Otaka Kamezo had only one thought left, which was to commit suicide immediately, and never fall into the hands of Tubalu. However, he was a famous lieutenant general commander, and he had to wash himself clean even if he committed suicide.
Saber, it’s only right to finish writing the suicide note and leave some words of death, but it’s a pity that this can’t be done.
Ogao Kamezo leaned against the plane, facing the east, muttering to himself, calling the names of his two daughters, holding the command knife upside down, and stabbed it hard towards the heart. There was only a clang sound, and a bullet came, killing Ogao Kamezo.
The hidden command knife fell to the ground.
Otaka Kamezo was startled, and he bent down to pick up the command knife and kill himself again. At this moment, there was a thunder in his ears: "Otaka Kamezo, raise your hands!"
Wei Gaogui shuddered and raised his head involuntarily. He saw a heroic soldier standing in front of him, with a trace of smoke coming out of the muzzle of the pistol in his hand.
Ogao Guizang didn't know that this heroic soldier was Zhou Yi, the chief of staff of the 1st Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.
At this time, Otaka Kamezo no longer cared about anything, not the excellent qualities of mainland graduates, the brave and tenacious style of the commander of the 19th Division, the majesty of the lieutenant general commander of the 12th Army,
All the accomplishments of a senior general of the Imperial Japanese Army were thrown into the Sea of Japan by him. He suddenly seemed to be a different person, like a gangster fighting in the street. Odaka Kamezo suddenly straightened up and pounced on him like a hungry wolf.
He immediately hugged Zhou Yi, kicked and bit him, and tried to snatch the pistol.
Zhou Yi burst into laughter and said in Japanese, "I didn't expect that the dignified Lieutenant General Commander of the Twelfth Army, His Excellency Odaka Kamezo, turned out to be a street-fighting gangster!"
With just this sentence, Odaka Kamezo let go of him, sat down on the ground, covered his face, and roared like a wolf: "Kill me! Kill me!"
Zhou Yi ignored him and ordered the soldiers to set him up, push the plane away from the airport runway, and hide it. It was estimated that the little devil's plane would arrive in a short time, so he had to hurry up.
The airport's phone lines to Fangzi and Weicheng were still open, and Zhou Yi would soon call Liu Yimin: "Reporting to the division commander, Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the 1st Teaching Brigade, is reporting to you: I have been ordered to capture alive the commander of the 12th Army.
Ogao Kamezo, the mission has been completed. Please give instructions!"
At this time, Liu Yimin was still staying in Moto Xiongmi's office at Shikotsuen. When he heard the phone ringing, he picked up the phone and heard Zhou Yi's excited voice. Liu Yimin was also very excited, and he stood up and spoke into the phone.
He repeatedly said yes and ordered Zhou Yi to send soldiers to escort Wei Gao Guizang to Weicheng and hand him over to Wang Laohu for interrogation. Then he told Zhou Yi that soon the Japs' planes would fly in groups over Shilibao and ask for them.
The idea was to lure them to lower their altitude, swoop and strafe, and release birds, kites and balloons when there were the most planes and the most chaos, to experiment and see the effect of the Eighth Route Army's new weapons.
After putting down the phone, Liu Yimin ordered to send a report to the chairman and the boss. Our unit successfully attacked Weicheng and captured alive the 12th Army Lieutenant General Commander Odaka Kamezo and the 108th Division Lieutenant General Shimomoto Xiongya.
, planned to escort the two chiefs to Shaanxi by plane, and asked the central government to study whether to send the two chiefs to the Supreme Court of Chiang Kai-shek's National Government for trial.