Chapter 48: Change of Mind
Absolutely unable to sit still, Zhuo Fei endured the pain, simply bandaged the wound on his leg, and continuously threw smoke bombs at his side. Relying on the strength of his elbows, Zhuo Fei crawled quickly, knowing that he was joined by Zhuo Yan, who was also shot and wounded. Zhuo Yan's injuries were not serious, but his left hand was injured by the fragments of the Japanese mortar, at least it would not affect the normal battle.
In the smoke that dispersed, there were constantly Japanese soldiers with rifles rushing out, but they were all shot to the ground by the assault rifles in Zhuo Fei's hand, and with the map system in hand, Zhuo Fei could completely ignore the smoke that blocked his vision. The steel plate that was temporarily taken out of the space was clanged by the bullets fired by the Japanese army, and Zhuo Fei was a little lucky at this moment, glad that his temporary intention had helped a lot now.
This three-meter-square steel plate came from the Ruili Ordnance Base, and Zhuo Fei thought that when he was ambushed with the Japanese army, this steel plate could be used as the top cover of the soil hole. It didn't come in handy to keep it with me, but I didn't expect that today, this almost forgotten steel plate saved my life and Zhuo Yan's life. "Stones, burn all these shells, and don't leave any of them." When changing the magazine, Zhuo Fei called up a light mortar and more than a dozen shells from the space he carried and handed them to Zhuo Yan.
The tail of the spindle-shaped shell body was marked with a circle of white, Zhuo Yan knew that it was a smoke bomb, and did not ask why he was using smoke bombs at this moment, Zhuo Fei just shot out all the dozen smoke bombs in the shortest time. Zhuo Fei originally thought that the space inside the valley was not very large, but after entering the valley, Zhuo Fei found that he was wrong, the cunning Japanese army covered most of the valley with a large camouflage net, if you want to cover this place with artillery fire, at least you have to have the density of artillery fire at the Japanese army level.
The already thin smoke became dense because of the dozen or so smoke bombs, but the smoke was only concentrated at the mouth of the valley, and the deeper part of the valley was not blocked by the smoke. "Go, go back." Zhuo Fei refused Zhuo Yan's support, and limped to retreat to the mouth of the valley first, and now they had to withdraw from the valley to find suitable cover, otherwise they could only let the Japanese army implement strong firepower suppression.
This was not the first time Zhuo Fei had been frustrated in the exchange of fire with the Japanese army, but this was the most embarrassing time for him, he retreated from the valley with a rolling crawl, and Zhuo Fei, who was lying on a ridge, gritted his teeth and exchanged a bunch of heavy shells with silver-white tails from the system. The 120mm heavy mortars have been erected, and these heavy shells that Zhuo Fei exchanged from the system are about to be fired, which is a gift from Zhuo Fei to the Japanese troops in the valley.
The cannonballs that burst out of the barrel did not burst into dazzling fire as Zhuo Yan imagined, and the cannonballs that fell in a parabolic line had exploded in mid-air before they landed, and countless white smoke trails slowly fell with the explosion of the cannonballs, like jellyfish in the sea. But what happened next made Zhuo Yan couldn't help but open his mouth wide, revealing his eyes full of confusion and puzzlement, only to see those slowly falling white smoke trails suddenly emit thick smoke and quickly burn out yellow flames.
"It's a white phosphorus bomb, and whatever it encounters, it will continue to burn until there is nothing to burn. Despite the small head of the fire, it is said that the maximum temperature of those yellow flames can reach 1000 degrees Celsius, and even burn steel plates. Zhuo Fei's deep voice sounded in Zhuo Yan's ears, and he didn't know what Zhuo Fei's concept of 1000 degrees Celsius was, but Zhuo Yan knew that the power of this thing was amazing, and it was no joke that the flame that could burn the steel plate was not a joke.
Zhuo Fei kept adjusting the heavy mortar, and Zhuo Yan also kept shooting white phosphorus bombs into the valley, one by one
exploded in the air, so that the air began to burn, and Zhuo Fei and the two of them, who were in the upper wind, had to wear gas masks, because there was an unpleasant smell in the air. The green trees in the valley withered in an instant, and then turned into huge torches, and the camouflage nets used by the Japanese army to camouflage important facilities were even more unbearable, they continued to bubble in the flames, then turn black, and finally burn. The fierce flames even drained the valley of oxygen, and the air currents rolled over the valley, and finally formed a huge tornado that swept the ashes of the grass and trees into the sky.
The Japanese soldiers under the cover of white phosphorus bombs were the worst, when the yellow flames fell, some of them actually tried to extinguish these flames, who would have thought that once they were bent over by these flames, they would be extinguished at all. The falling flames resembled ghostly fires from hell, and once they touched them, they could not be extinguished, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese soldiers in the valley who had been preparing to pursue them. Screams, moans, and wails rang out in the valley, and it took a great deal of courage to watch your companions charred by the yellow flames.
It turned out that the Japanese soldiers in the valley were not all brave men, and after the unlucky ones who tried to ask for help from their comrades were also burned by the flames, the remaining Japanese soldiers had already been frightened by the tragic situation in front of them, and they gathered together in groups and hid in the caves in the valley. Zhuo Fei, who was guarding the mouth of the valley, had been observing the situation in the valley through the map system, just waiting for the Japanese soldiers who were still alive in the valley to be forced to hide in the cave.
Carefully avoiding the fire still burning on the ground, Zhuo Fei and the two used bazookas equipped with thermobaric warheads to clean up the caves in the valley one by one, and under the attack of Zhuo Fei and the two of them to replenish the ammunition, those caves in the valley were quickly cleaned by Zhuo Fei and the two with thermobaric bombs. It wasn't until Zhuo Fei used the map system to confirm that there were no more Japanese soldiers alive in the valley that he stopped the attack, and then used the radio to contact the joint command in Chongqing, asking them to immediately organize an airdrop operation against Wuyi County.
The white phosphorus bomb in the valley had not been completely extinguished, and Zhuo Fei and the others immediately withdrew to the valley, just waiting outside the valley, waiting for the airdrop from Chongqing. Three hours later, Zhuo Fei, who had withdrawn from the valley, received a call back from Chongqing, saying that the transport plane that carried out the airdrop had departed from Shanxi, and as for the pilots that Zhuo Fei needed, Chongqing did not mention the number in the call, but only said that the airdrop would arrive soon, and asked Zhuo Fei to do a good job of guiding the target for the transport plane.
When the sky was bright, two transport planes and six escort fighters that took off from Shanxi rushed to Wuyi County, patrolled the air according to the coordinates provided by Zhuo Fei, and finally found the red smoke bombs that Zhuo Fei and the others had set off on the hillside. The white umbrella flowers bloomed in the air one by one, and Zhuo Fei, who was covered in the smell of gunsmoke, did not rush to meet these guys who parachuted down, but just waited comfortably on the hillside, anyway, the other party could see their position.
20 pilots and 15 ground crews, this is the maximum that Shanxi Airport can draw, and along with them, there is also a batch of weapons and ammunition to support the local guerrilla forces, they did not expect that it was only Zhuo Fei and the others who took this place. "God, what happened here? It's so miserable. The two yellow-haired foreign pilots just glanced inside the valley mouth, and they were already holding their waists and vomiting wildly, and they were shocked by the tragic situation of the Japanese troops in the valley.
Zhuo Fei didn't bother to explain anything to them, he just used the walkie-talkie to contact the Wuyi County Brigade, and in the next whole day, the only thing Zhuo Fei could do was to clean up the corpses in the valley as comprehensively as possible. Cleaning up all kinds of miserable Japanese corpses, cleaning up the improvised runway in the valley, and finally it was the turn to clean up the caves in the valley. And the corpses in the cave that died of suffocation shocked these guys who were airdropped, and they all speculated about what kind of weapons Zhuo Fei and the two used.
The supplies hidden by the Japanese army in the cave were far more abundant than Zhuo Fei imagined, and there were more than 30 Japanese fighters that could be lifted into the air at any time after the overhaul alone, as well as a large amount of fuel and ammunition. "Sir, maybe we don't have to fly all these planes back, it's perfect for combat needs. If we widen and lengthen the runway, we can take off and land our transport planes, and maybe we can think of this as an airfield for us to move forward. Among these pilots temporarily transferred from Shanxi, there were many visionary people, and the foreign pilot who vomited the most gave Zhuo Fei a good suggestion.
After a short moment in the city, Zhuo Fei accepted the other party's suggestion with kindness, and then used the radio to contact Chongqing again, and after receiving a positive answer from Chongqing, Zhuo Fei immediately began to contact the guerrilla force that had been active in Wuyi County, and asked them to move closer to him. Before the new army troops took Hengshui, Zhuo Fei could only find a way to protect this hard-won valley airport, of course, Zhuo Fei also knew that this kind of difficult days would not be too long, because the new third army was ordered to respond to the new first army from the northeast of the mountain, and Hengshui would be the only way for them.
The secret airport was breached, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the Hengshui Japanese puppet army, after the initial communication chaos, the Hengshui Japanese puppet army soon learned the news of the loss of the valley airport, although it is not known which side of the sacred attack of the valley airport, but the Hengshui Japanese puppet army has gathered troops in the shortest possible time to try to recapture the airport. Just when Zhuo Fei and the others were cleaning up the airport and confirming the loot, the Hengshui Japanese puppet army had already set off, and the military intelligence network hidden in Hengshui City had just learned the news.
"If you come, you can fight, what else." Zhuo Fei, who learned the news, reacted very calmly, in fact, from the time he decided to stay here as an advance airfield, Zhuo Fei had already prepared for the possibility of a counterattack by the Japanese army. There are a large number of materials and more than 30 fighters hoarded by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is not willing to suffer this dumb loss without saying a word, the counterattack is certain, and the arrival of the Japanese puppet army in Hengshui is only a matter of time.