There was silence in the war room of the North China Front Army Headquarters. The staff officers could tell from the way Shan Shanyuan answered the phone that something was not good. They all pretended to be better behaved than cats. They were both standing and sitting without saying a word.
He was afraid that he would disturb the commander and bring disaster to himself.
What shocked Shanshan Yuan was yet to come.
At 6:55, North China Aviation Group Commander Lieutenant General Kinoshita Toshiro reported again that the losses at Xuzhou Luotuoshan Airport and Guanyinshan Airport were initially investigated, and all 60 fighter planes were destroyed. At the same time, it was received that the Dexian Frontline Airport was attacked by Eighth Route Army fighter planes
Report of sneak attack, there were twenty fighter planes ordered to take off.
The war had just begun and 80 fighter planes were lost before they took off! Sugimoto could no longer control himself and yelled at Kinoshita on the phone, asking him to immediately perform a caesarean section to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor.
No wonder Shan Shanyuan was furious. At this time, Xuzhou Guanyinshan Airport and Luotuoshan Airport were filled with fireworks, and not a single complete fighter plane could be seen. The Dexian Frontline Airport was also being attacked by the Eighth Route Army fighter formations.
David has not flown a plane for a long time since the large-scale sneak attack by Japanese planes on the Eighth Route Army Airport in Shaanxi Province. Today, he went on a killing spree.
The straight-line distance from Dexian to Dadian is a little more than 300 kilometers, which is farther than the distance from Dadian to Xuzhou. Therefore, when Feng Dafei completed his mission in Xuzhou, David and the others arrived at the Japanese front-line airport in Dexian.
At this time, the sky is getting brighter, the darkness before dawn is gradually dissipating, the morning light is beginning to show, and the Japanese fighter planes have begun to take off.
When Feng Dafei formulated the combat plan, he had already considered that the Japanese army would be on guard. A time difference of ten to twenty minutes would be enough for the Japanese fighter jets to take off and enter the combat position. Therefore, the first batch of formations to carry out the bombing mission at Dexian Airport except for four heavy-duty fighter jets
bombers, six light bombers, arrangement
Four retired U.S. military flight instructors, David, Nick, Losier, and Sorens, served as fighter pilots, with David as the command. The purpose of this arrangement was that in case a Japanese fighter took off, with the help of David, Nick, and Losier,
With Sorens' skills and experience, there is no problem in fighting one against two.
When David led his formation to arrive at the Japanese frontline airport in De County, he encountered Japanese fighter jets taking off one after another.
David immediately ordered the bombers to attack, summoned Nick, Rothschild, and Sorens to rush towards the Japanese fighter jets.
The planes are the same plane, they are Type 97 fighter jets. The difference is that the logo on the Japanese fighter jets is the sun flag, while the logo on the Eighth Route Army fighter jets is "August 1st".
David jumped down from a high position, facing a Japanese plane that had just pulled up. The flames ejected from the aircraft's machine gun struck the Japanese pilot in the face like a whip of God. The guy even screamed.
There was no chance, so I just fell into it.
David did not stop, the plane passed over the Japanese airport, machine guns fired continuously, and a taxiing fighter was destroyed on the spot.
When performing missions, this Type 97 fighter has two machine guns each equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition, and can carry 220 kilograms of aerial bombs at the same time. The Eighth Route Army lacks aerial ammunition, so the fighter jets are not allowed to carry bombs. In this way, the weight of the fighter is reduced and the speed is faster.
, more responsive.
By the time David pulled up the plane, the Eighth Route Army's heavy bombers and light bombers had already swooped down and started dropping bombs and strafing.
David has rich combat experience and likes to attack Japanese oil depots the most. The Japanese military airport in De County is a newly built field airport, that is, a temporary airport. There are no underground oil depots or ammunition depots. The Japanese army's oil barrels and ammunition are all piled on the airport.
.It’s just that now the Japanese army has learned a lot, and it’s not as good as it was at the beginning.
It's silly. Ammunition and gasoline are stored in separate areas, and they are all covered with canvas. Usually they can't be seen. At this time, some Japanese aircraft have completed refueling and loading, and are taking off. Some aircraft are refueling and emboldening themselves. The lights are bright and busy.
The ground crew pointed out the attack direction to the Eighth Route Army fighter planes.
When David saw that the Japanese fighter jets that had just taken off had been killed by Nick, Rothschild, and Sorens, there were only Eighth Route Army fighter planes over the airport. He immediately ordered to save ammunition and attack the Japanese airport oil depot and ammunition depot.
This job was familiar to the Eighth Route Army Air Force. Under David's guidance, the Eighth Route Army fighter planes that completed the first wave of attacks no longer dealt with the Japanese ground crews scurrying about the airport, nor did they pay attention to the air defense firepower of the airport security forces.
It split into two in the air and pounced hard on the Japanese army's fuel depot and ammunition depot.
The first thing to explode was the oil depot. The barrels were neatly arranged like a hill. The Eighth Route Army planes passed by, and the machine guns smashed the oil barrels into pieces. The gasoline flowed all over the floor, and there were no bombs.
If you use it again, the bullet will detonate after hitting it.
First a fire broke out, and then there were explosions one after another. The Japanese ground crew who were carrying oil drums and had not yet woken up from the panic of the Eighth Route Army fighter planes falling from the sky were completely happy now, and everyone was splashed with gasoline.
All, soon began to burn with fires and explosions.
The cries of ghosts and howls of wolves were mixed with the sound of the explosion, which was extremely sad. Soon, these little devils were wrapped in a ball of fire, rolling and struggling on the airport. But what could that do? The little devils could only turn into charred pieces.
Black carbon strips.
Almost at the same time that the oil depot caught fire and exploded, the ammunition depot was also blown up by Eighth Route Army fighter planes. The aerial bombs and airborne machine gun bullets piled on the airport turned into automatically fired bullets and artillery shells, flying around like the exploding oil barrels.
Shooting, chasing the figures of Japanese ground crews and guard soldiers, chasing, getting in, and tearing apart, this group of invaders became
They hit the target of the murderous weapon they brought, and the luckier ones were hit by bullets or shrapnel, leaving them all dead. The unlucky ones were hard to say, as everyone died in their own way. The most typical example was that a little devil was hit by a piece of shrapnel from the back.
***, was firmly nailed to the tire of a car at the airport, and along with it, he directed the fire from his body to the car, resulting in the death of both himself and the car.
David still had his old habit of never looking back to check the results of the battle. He knew that the Little Japanese Airport was over and there was no need to check. He led the formation directly towards the Japanese army's outer positions in De County. This guy, in the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army,
After staying for a long time, I also know that our army's ammunition basically relies on seizures, especially aviation ammunition, which all comes from seizures and cannot be wasted casually. It must be thrown on the heads of the little devils to count.
After the explosions at the fuel depot and ammunition depot at Dexian Airport subsided, nearby troops arrived at the scene.
The kid was petrified by the tragic scene in front of him. On such a huge field airport, it was difficult to find a complete body, not to mention a complete plane.
The Japanese commander who led the reinforcements did not give up. He took off his white gloves and cleaned up with the soldiers, hoping to find a living person, even a seriously injured person, so that he could tell about the bombing by Eighth Route Army planes so that he could write a report.
As a result, not a single living person was found, but many charred corpses were found. They were placed one by one on the tarmac, looking like a charcoal seller showing off the quality of his carbon by laying out the charcoal one by one.
It's like hawking on the ground.
After the frightened commander returned to his station, he wrote a letter directly to his wife. The letter read: "Dear Ye Zi: Today, a frontline airport in De County where I am located was attacked by Eighth Route Army aircraft. They used
The aircraft and bombs captured from the Imperial Army destroyed all twenty Imperial Army fighter planes at the airport, and also destroyed
The oil depot and ammunition depot at the airport were destroyed. All the aviation, ground staff and security forces at the airport were shattered. Most of them died in the explosion of the oil depot and the ammunition depot. They died miserably. Some of them were burned by gasoline.
It turned into black sticks, a bit like the black charcoal strips used for heating in China in winter. Yes, they are black charcoal strips.
Dear Ye Zi, when I parted from you, I was full of confidence and determined to fight for His Majesty the Emperor and the Greater East Asia Holy War. But now I am a little worried. I don’t know if I can wait until the day when the Eighth Route Army in North China is completely wiped out. Die.
, I'm not afraid. I'm afraid that after death, I will be like those soldiers with broken jade at the airport today, turning into black, cold black charcoal. In that case, even if you and your children come to worship me, you won't be able to recognize me.
You might even worship the wrong person.
Dear Ye Zi, please go to your brother quickly and ask him to help find someone to transfer me back to the mainland. You don’t know that North China is extremely hot in summer and extremely cold in winter. You have to beware of sneak attacks by the Eighth Route Army that may be launched at any time.
.My days here are like years, and I will be frightened awake at night. Remember, you can’t let others see this letter, otherwise I will be miserable.”
Shan Shanyuan didn't know the details of what happened at the Dexian Airport. At this moment, he only knew from Kinoshita Toshi's phone call that the Dexian Frontline Airport was also attacked by Eighth Route Army fighter planes. He even scolded Kinoshita on the phone and asked him to commit suicide by caesarean section.
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During a war, it is an absolute taboo for military strategists to kill a general in front of the enemy.
Yamashita Fongfumi, nicknamed "Infantry Cannon", although he was young and good at attacking and sneak attacks, he was very thoughtful and knew that if Kinoshita committed suicide by caesarean section at this time, not only would it not help the situation, but he would also cause chaos.
Compared with veteran warlords such as Shan Shan Yuan and Terauchi Juichi, Japanese backbone generals like Yamashita Tomoe are more aggressive and hate those guys who eat nothing but corpses! In normal times, as long as Shan Shan Yuan dares to say a word, Kinoshita Toshi commits suicide by caesarean section
, Yamashita Tomofumi would immediately rush to the aviation group headquarters with the military police, and force Kinoshita Toshi to have a caesarean section immediately, without waiting for a while.
After Yamashita Fengwen saluted Shanshan Yuan, he said: "Your Excellency, Commander, Lieutenant General Kinoshita Toshi has long been dead. How many planes were lost in his hands? How many excellent pilots were destroyed? He is simply the Great *** Imperial Army."
A disgrace to the aviation force! The problem is that we cannot let him die now. Commander, please think again!"
Shanshan Yuan was also so angry that he asked Kinoshita to commit suicide by caesarean section. Yamashita Fengfumi reminded him that asking Kinoshita to commit suicide by caesarean section at this time was equivalent to temporarily giving up air cover. Shanshan Yuan
No matter how stupid he is, he can't be this stupid, let alone he is not stupid at all?
Shan Shan Yuan picked up the phone again, called Kinoshita Toshi, and ordered him to inform the combined fleet, various aviation groups, and the airport that the Eighth Route Army Air Force was still in Shandong and they must beware of their sneak attacks. At the same time, Shan Shan Yuan ordered
Kinoshita Toshi quickly dispatched a fleet of aircraft to cover the ground troops' attack and seek to wipe out the Eighth Route Army aviation.
Originally, Shan Shanyuan wanted to order Kinoshita Toshi to carry out crazy revenge on Shandong, not sparing any city or village. However, he cannot do so now. The reason is that aviation ammunition is too precious and cannot be wasted casually.
Shan Shanyuan had no choice. Liu Yimin was not only fighting ambushes and annihilation wars, he was also fighting economic wars. Not to mention anything else, just the two attacks on Tianjin and Qingdao were enough for the little ***
First, all the supplies stored by the North China Front Army were destroyed.
As the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army had to urgently replenish the North China Front Army from the country and the Northeast. As a result, Japan's domestic military industry enterprises became popular. The factories could not even complete the urgent orders of the military department. All industries in the national economy turned to the military industry.
Enterprise tilt leads to this
The already deformed Japanese economy became even more deformed, which also drove up prices. In addition, when Liu Yimin invaded Tianjin and Qingdao, he conducted a general cleanup of Japanese banks. The Eighth Route Army opened Bohai Bank with a total capital of 100 million yuan.
The bank, *** is in trouble!
Zhengjin Bank, the largest bank in Japan, would have gone bankrupt if it had not been for the government's emergency capital injection. The Japanese government had to issue more banknotes, leading to the depreciation of the yen, skyrocketing prices, and inflation. The current Japanese army is not the Japanese army at the beginning of the war.
, they have begun to become poor.
Of course, the Communist Party is a modern economic power after all. If they want them to be so poor that they can't even wear underpants as Liu Yimin said, the Eighth Route Army will have to work hard.
Shan Shan Yuan doesn't know that Kinoshita Toshi has no intention of committing suicide by caesarean section. He has become an old fox now and knows that Shan Shan Yuan will not make such a low-level mistake as killing an enemy in battle. It will be easy to deal with it when Shan Shan Yuan's anger subsides.
He even thought about getting some blood and sending some gold bars to Shanshan Yuan and Yamashita Fengfumi, as well as a few female signal soldiers. As soon as these two things are delivered, I believe Commander Shan Shanyuan will become his commander immediately.
of backer.
In fact, Yamashita Tomofumi also misunderstood Kinoshita Toshi. He had tried his best. He not only made careful arrangements and strengthened airport security, but also set up traps and disguises in Peiping, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang, waiting for the Eighth Route Army fighter planes.
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Jumping the trap. Including Xuzhou Airport, Kinoshita Toshiba put in a lot of effort to build a hidden hangar. If the Eighth Route Army fighter planes were to bomb in peacetime, apart from bombing back some airport facilities, there would be no greater results. But now
Not usually, his battle
Aircraft must be dispatched to cover the actions of ground troops and bomb the Eighth Route Army positions. Therefore, he ordered that fighter jets from all airports must take off before dawn to serve as airport security missions. However, the tactics of the Eighth Route Army Air Force were more advanced than his, and they knew his pulse accurately.
beat
When he was at his weakest, he had no power to fight back. Fortunately, there were not many planes at Xuzhou's two airports and Dexian Frontline Airport, and Kinoshita's main force was hidden in major airports such as Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Taiyuan.
, he still has plenty of opportunities.
After receiving the order from Sugimoto Yuan, Kinoshita Toshi strictly ordered each fighter flight team to take off in accordance with the combat plan to provide cover for the ground troops and seek to destroy the Eighth Route Army air force; the bomber flight team was on standby at any time. Once the Eighth Route Army was discovered to be blocking the attack, it would immediately take off and destroy the Eighth Route Army.
Blocking position to cover ground troops' rapid attack.
Kinoshita Toshiro was cruel this time, and his orders were murderous: "Discover all Eighth Route Army troops who dare to resist, destroy all Eighth Route Army positions, and destroy all Eighth Route Army aircraft!"
Shanshan Yuan had just finished giving orders to Kinoshita Satoshi when he received a report from Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro, the commander of the Eastern Front Heavy Force Group and the commander of the Sixth Division, saying that the armored brigade search team was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in Xiawangbu and was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army destroyed three tanks, four armored vehicles, five cars, and five motorcycles
The vehicle and a cavalry squadron were almost completely destroyed. After the reinforcements arrived, the Eighth Route Army detonated the explosives that had been laid long ago, causing heavy losses. The specific figures have not yet been reported. Now, the armored brigade, under the cover of the Combined Fleet Aviation, is heading toward the Eighth Route Army.
Wangbu launched an attack on the second line blocking position.
Just after I put down the telegram from Shiro Inaba, I received another report from Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, the commander of the Twelfth Army on the Southern Front, saying that the starting position of the Southern Front troops had been bombed by Eighth Route Army aircraft, and they were cooperating with the 35th Division in the operation.
A brigade of the Manchurian National Defense Force suffered heavy losses and almost lost its organization.
The commander of the northern line and the commander of the 1st Division, Naozaburo Gangbe, also sent a telegram, angrily reporting that following the attack on the frontline airport in Dexian County, the Eighth Route Army fighter planes bombed the starting positions outside Dexian County in two batches, and the frontline troops
The loss was huge. Naosaburo Okabe asked Sugimoto whether the battle plan was leaked and Liu Yimin got wind of it, so he sent planes so frantically to risk their lives for bombing.
Shanshan Yuan sat down on the chair, giggling. It took Yamashita Fengwen a long time to understand that what the commander was talking about was that Liu Yimin was extremely powerful. He could predict the enemy's opportunity and strike first. He was extremely powerful!
By this time, Yamashita Fengwen had a clear idea that Liu Yimin must have understood the imperial army's combat intentions and that this battle would not be easy to win.
After Shan Shanyuan calmed down, he went to the map and examined it for a long time before saying to Yamashita Fengwen: "Liu Yimin made a sneak attack by plane and blocked it again. What does this mean? Mr. Yamashita, tell me your opinion."
Yamashita Fengwen said tentatively: "Your Excellency, Commander, could it be that Liu Yimin has mastered the imperial army's battle plan and carried out the attack in advance?"
Shan Shanyuan shook his head: "It is impossible for Liu Yimin to know our battle plan. But the two armies have been facing each other for so long, and the situation between the enemy and ourselves is clear. Liu Yimin must be on guard against a large-scale attack by the imperial army. We just didn't expect that he would take the risk of sending out a plane for a sneak attack. Yamashita
Sir, could it be that Liu Yimin is far away in western Shandong and southern Hebei and will not be able to return to Jiji for a while?
Why did Liu Yimin take the risk of dispatching planes? In addition, in the Battle of Xiawangbu, Liu Yimin's blocking force actually had the capabilities of chariots and armored vehicles. What does this mean? Is Liu Yimin's main force really like Kita Seiichi said?
Setting up an ambush between Jinan and Qingdao, waiting to ambush the Eastern Front Group? It is worth studying, worth studying."
Yamashita Fengwen thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, will this happen? That is, Liu Yimin judged from clues that the imperial army was about to launch a large-scale attack, but he did not know that we had added three elite divisions on the eastern front.
and an armored brigade, planning to set up an ambush in central Shandong to attack the Fifth Division starting from Qingdao. You must know that the first battle Liu Yimin participated in after the war was against the 21st Brigade, the main force of the Fifth Division. Liu Yimin's troops were powerful
The artillery fire also laid the foundation after annihilating the artillery regiment of the Fifth Division. According to the original deployment of troops, I judge that Liu Yimin must have this intention. In this way, Liu Yimin's announcement of news and electricity and sending aircraft for bombing can be clearly explained. He is
We need to draw our attention to the defense of Jizhong, and then quietly concentrate the main force to attack the Imperial Army's Fifth Division. As long as there is a problem with the Fifth Division, it will not make much sense for us to attack Jinan."
"This idea is in line with Liu Yimin's combat characteristics." Kita Seiichi came in at some point. Hearing Yamashita Fengfumi's words, he couldn't help but interject. "Why don't you, Commander, ask Lieutenant General Naosaburo of the Post for his opinion?
, he has been in North China for a long time and knows Liu Yimin’s combat characteristics very well.”
Shan Shan Yuan said "Huh" and climbed to the map again to look at it carefully.
After watching for a long time, Shanshan Yuan turned around and said to Kita Seiichi and Yamashita Fengfumi: "The Weixian area in central Shandong is a good battlefield. The 8th Division and the *** were mixed into the 3rd Brigade and the 108th Division.
The 33rd Division was all defeated in this area. Liu Yimin's troops knew the terrain here well and probably had
The battlefield has been preset. I guess the main reason why the battlefield is set up here is to quickly return reinforcements to Jinan. Another point is that Liu Yimin does not know about the Guards Division, the Sixth Division, and the Sixteenth Division.
Besides the news about the armored brigade being shipped to Qingdao, he didn’t know that we could get it at any time.
The Kwantung Army's continuous reinforcements. Therefore, he wanted to take a risk, thinking that the Fifth Division would attack westward alone under the cover of the Combined Fleet's carrier-based aircraft, so he set up a strange formation and used false news to intimidate us in an attempt to get us to use the main force on the northern front.
In order to defend, they dispatched planes to bomb Xuzhou Airport and Dexian Airport with only one purpose.
, that is to weaken the imperial army's southern front troops and northern front troops' attack power, slow down the imperial army's attack speed, and buy time for him to ambush the fifth division. What a good calculation, amazing! You two, tell me, Liu Yimin now knows the direction of Qingdao
What would he do if he deployed not one division but four elite divisions?"
Yamashita Fengwen said: "Liu Yimin will quickly withdraw from the ambush and return to Jinan to defend Jinan. You must know that Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province and has great influence. Without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, I am afraid Liu Yimin will not dare to evacuate casually."
Kita Seiichi and Yamashita Tomofumi happened to have different opinions: "I don't think Liu Yimin will change his determination. He will adjust his deployment and try to let the Eastern Front Group divide its forces, build fighter planes, and continue to search for and annihilate a division. If the Eastern Front Group loses a division,
, then the offensive will stop, which can alleviate the crisis of the army pressing down on the situation."
A smile appeared on Shan Shanyuan's calm face: "So, everyone thinks Liu Yi's power is no longer in Jinan?"