At three o'clock in the afternoon on October 5, the light tanks and armored vehicles of the Sixth Division of the People's Guard rumbled through Baoying County, and the tracks of the Armored Reconnaissance Battalion directly pressed onto the runway of Baoying Airport.
"Da da da... da da da..."
"Ta da... da da da..."
Tanks and armored vehicles were speeding on the vast "Airport Plain", and machine guns captured the fleeing Qing army ground crews and pilots. Sidecar motorcycles were also speeding on the runway, driven by soldiers sitting in the sidecars.
The Woodpecker machine gun excitedly captured every fleeing person in sight. Every soldier who drove into the airport was excited and joined in the massacre.
In the empty airport, Qing army personnel continued to be shot and fell to the ground, and soon corpses were strewn everywhere.
But soon, the battalion commander’s roar sounded on the radios of each vehicle:
"Shoot in the sky...Shoot in the sky...are you all fucking crazy? All you are killing are pilots! Capture them alive...must capture them alive!...Don't shoot at intact planes! Don't shoot at intact planes
!...The pilots must be captured alive..."
Soon, the tanks, armored vehicles, and sidecars that were busy massacring all reacted and stopped killing people desperately. Instead, they fired their machine guns into the sky, and then each shouted through the car's loudspeaker, ordering the Qing army to surrender.
As soon as the Ming army ceased fire and started shouting, a large number of Qing army personnel who could not run immediately fell to the ground on the airport and raised their hands in surrender. Those who were still running could not run very far, and their legs could never outrun the engine.
And this is an airport, with endless views and nowhere to hide. Within a few minutes, the entire airport was controlled by the Ming Army's armored reconnaissance battalion, and basically all the Qing troops at the airport surrendered.
According to the policy of the Ming army, although the pilots of the Qing army are all Manchus, once the prisoners arrive, they must be treated well. They must be separated from other prisoners, treated with good food and drink, and given the best food and accommodation conditions.
, give full respect and send them back to the rear first.
These people are extremely valuable resources, and it does not matter even if they cannot be used by the Ming Dynasty for a while.
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The main force of the division behind also galloped up along the road. The armored reconnaissance battalion continued to use its power to clear the way forward. The entire division advanced towards Huai'an.
It wasn't until the headquarters of the Sixth Division drove past Baoying Airport that anyone noticed that the Peking flag on the airport office building had not yet been taken down. Immediately, two soldiers climbed to the top of the building, pulled off the Peking flag and raised it.
The flag of the Ming Dynasty was raised. Baoying Airport was officially captured.
What the division engineers are busy doing now is to repair Baoying Airport, fill up the bomb craters on the cement runway, and repair the collapsed hangars. Now this airport belongs to the Ming Dynasty Air Force. If nothing else, this afternoon
The first fighter group will land here. Soon, a fighter aviation group will be stationed here.
With the Baoying Airport, the flight radius of the Ming Army's fighter jets has been greatly expanded. In this way, the Ming Army can easily threaten Xuzhou with the escort of fighter jets, and can threaten the farthest south of Shandong, that is, Zaozhuang and Linyi
, Rizhao area. Of course, these places can also be threatened by Ming military aircraft carriers from the sea, but after all, the power and quantity of aircraft carrier bombing are extremely limited, and they are subject to various conditions, which are completely incomparable with land-based airports.
About 5 kilometers north of Baoying, the leading troops of the Sixth Division of the People's Guard encountered thousands of Qing troops who had broken away from the team and came to look for the Ming army to surrender. Thousands of people were crowded on the road, and the Ming army still had to fire in the air to stop them.
Road clearing.
Although there was no need to receive and handle the prisoners very carefully, and they simply ordered the prisoners to get off the road and go south, it still delayed the 6th Mechanized Division for nearly an hour and seriously slowed down their speed. According to the air
According to reconnaissance and capture, Baoying's Qing army division still had one-third of its strength, was retreating north, and had basically fallen apart.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the leading troops of the Sixth Mechanized Division caught up with the tail of the fleeing Baoying Qing Army on the east bank of Baima Lake, a dozen kilometers north of Baoying County. Of course, this so-called "tail" was also very reluctant.
Because we kept encountering stragglers along the way, the remnants of the army that took the initiative to run south and surrendered were only small in size and unorganized. Now they finally caught up with the Qing army that had barely become an organized army.
The vanguard drove a 6.5-ton thin-skinned Lightning 1 tank with only machine guns and rushed towards the Qing army. The Qing army, which had been bombed and tortured by artillery, was about to collapse.
: The mechanized troops of the Ming army rushed forward on the highway. Thousands of Qing soldiers on both sides of the highway threw down their guns and raised their hands.
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The 6th Division of the People's Guard enjoyed a hearty pursuit and rout all day today. It was a completely one-sided pursuit. Beside the road and in the fields, there were abandoned heavy artillery, tanks, and ammunition and equipment everywhere. On the contrary, there were many abandoned heavy artillery, tanks, and ammunition supplies.
It's very clean, you can only see a few bombed-out cars from time to time.
The heavy cannons were left intact in the fields, reflecting the sun's rays brightly. The carriages piled with luggage and supplies were also left on the roadside. Many cannons and carriage wheels were stuck in the ditches, and no one had taken care of them for a long time.
The horse kept moaning and trying to break free from the reins. In addition to these intact equipment, there were also things everywhere in the field.
I saw cannons, carriages, cars that had been blown up by planes, and occasionally a Qing army tank that had been blown up. These big things were beyond recognition, and some were still smoking, rising high in the fields.
Surrounded by vast stretches of farmland, and with the sun gradually setting in the west, it feels like a "desert with solitary smoke".
At first, the Ming troops on those tanks didn’t understand why the Qing army’s heavy equipment was in the fields but the roads were empty. Logically speaking, even if these heavy equipment were blown up, they should also be blown up on the roads.
.How could it appear in the field? Even if the Qing soldiers worked together to push it off the road for fear of blocking the road, it should be right next to the road. Why is it so far away from the road?
But as they continued to move forward, they understood more and more. A series of bombed "convoys" began to appear on the road from time to time. These "convoys" were not large in size, usually only a few vehicles. The one at the front was always
One or two cars, followed by several trucks.
Without exception, these cars were all international famous cars. Even if they were blown up, they could still be seen as quite luxurious. Several large trucks behind them were also burning, but what was burning along with them were boxes of all sizes.
Leather box, rattan box, wooden box, iron box
, safe... In addition to the box, there are expensive furniture that are almost burnt to coke: Taishi chairs, desks, screens, high chairs, couches... Some of the Ming army officers came from wealthy families, and they can barely identify the expensive wood: nanmu,
Huanghuali, rosewood...
Around the ruins of the truck were scattered pieces of porcelain, and flying incomplete and burned banknotes, stocks, bonds, promissory notes... Almost all of the dozens or hundreds of boxes had been pried open, and there was nothing worth taking inside.
Everything had been looted by the passing Qing soldiers.
The vanguard of the Ming Army saw no less than 10 such "small convoys" on the 50-kilometer road from Gaoyou to Punisher. Tanks were needed to push these broken cars off the road every time. Whenever this happened
, the commanders of the vanguard were very lucky. Fortunately, the heavy artillery and tanks of the Qing army never went on the road. Otherwise, if they were blown up on the road like this, it would be much more troublesome to push them off the road.
Now everyone understands that these are the "privileged cars" of senior officials of the Qing army and local officials. There are too many of these officials, and each of them has countless valuables that need to be transported to the rear first by highway. In their hearts
, each vehicle of your property must be worth the value of several tanks and dozens of heavy artillery.
Indeed, each of these officials' "cars" is worth at least three tanks in terms of value. However, it is precisely because these officials' personal belongings occupy the limited roads that almost the entire Jiangsu Qing army's heavy equipment
Weapons and baggage could only be dragged along the fields. In fact, they were almost abandoned.
The actions of these officers made the Qing soldiers below feel no guilt at all when they abandoned their heavy equipment. The officers no longer want these things, so why are we still guarding them? Throw them away and run away!
On every Ming army tank that drove past those "privileged convoys", the tank commander would look coldly at these still smoking privileged vehicles, with mixed feelings in his heart. Next to each official's convoy, there was a tank that had been blown apart.
safes. No official had less than five safes. Starting from the smallest
Bedside safes, to large safes half as tall as a man, were all scattered next to the car. They had already been blown open by grenades and looted by the defeated Qing troops. Now they are like steel coffins, announcing the death of their owners.
, and the upcoming fate of the entire Northern Qing regime.
Now, there should be 10 Qing army divisions in southern Anhui, all concentrated in a triangular area west of Gaoyou Lake, south of Hongze Lake, and east of the Langya Mountains in Chuzhou and Mingguang. There are thousands of people in this area.
square kilometers. Now the other three of the East Road Army Group
Two group armies have broken through the north side of Chaohu and are advancing westward towards Hefei; one has captured Chuzhou, an important town in Anhui, and is now advancing northwest to Mingguang. The next step is to turn northeast and capture Xuyi. This is how we advance.
Arrive at the south bank of Hongze Lake.
What the Eighth Light Army in Jiangsu has to do is to capture Huai'an as soon as possible, completely occupy the east bank of Hongze Lake, and then cross the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the west to join the main force of the Ming army in Anhui.
In this way, the encirclement of ten Qing divisions in the triangular area south of Hongze Lake was completed.
After eating these ten divisions, the Qing army will not have much strength in the east south of the Huaihe River. Then, the entire right army group will turn and advance westward, making a large detour from the north of the Dabie Mountains, and join the left army group
Join forces to complete a larger encirclement. What will be encircled this time will be the Qing army's millions of permanent troops stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River defense line and the north side of the Dabie Mountain mountain defense line.