Chapter 739: Sneak Attack on the Airport (2)

Looking at the surprised Bai Qishan, Su Jin stared at him and reprimanded him unhappily: "Qishan, I originally thought that you would become smarter after following me for so many years, but I didn't expect you to be just a tendon like before." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoHaven't you ever thought about the real purpose of Ri himself suddenly appearing here? ā€

"Really?" Bai Qishan muttered a sentence and his head suddenly lit up, and he lost his voice: "Sir, is the real purpose of those Rii himself to be you?" ā€

"You're not stupid yet!"

Su Jin gave him a roll of the eyes angrily, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, took out a cigarette and lit it, and took a long puff of smoke before saying: "You don't listen, judging from the gunfire coming from the direction of the airport, the enemy's strength will never be less than a wing, what is the reason why the Japanese army will take such a big risk and attack our airfield regardless of the group?" Is it true that their purpose is just for those planes? Also, didn't you notice that gunshots were also heard in the direction of Xiaowangzhuang? ā€

"Xiao Wangzhuang...... Isn't this the same village we stayed in three days ago? ā€

Bai Qishan's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and a layer of cold sweat immediately flowed from his forehead. No matter how sluggish he is, he understands that the Japanese army can launch an attack on the airport and Xiaowangzhuang at the same time, and it is still at the time when this kind of person is most tired, there must be a clear purpose, and what this purpose is immediately self-evident, just ask what other goal in the Northeast today will be greater than Su Jin. Bai Qishan was sure that as long as Su Jin could be captured or even killed alive, the Japanese army would not hesitate to lose a few divisions.

After thinking of this, Bai Qishan said eagerly: "But sir, now that Ri himself is attacking the airport, aren't we going to the net now?" In my opinion, let's hurry up and move in the direction of Jinzhou, as long as we can meet with the 1st Armored Division or the 347th Division, your safety will be fine! ā€

"Ridiculous!" Su Jin scolded with a very ironclad face: "It's a shame that you are still the commander of the guard brigade, and you don't want to think about how far we are from Jinzhou?" If we were just a small force, it would be good to say, but now we have a full guard regiment, plus the temporary headquarters, the health brigade, the heavy artillery brigade and the air defense regiment, a force of tens of thousands of people, so many people have not thought of rushing to Jinzhou for two days, will I let us rush to Jinzhou so swaggeringly, I am afraid that we will not be able to walk more than ten or twenty kilometers will be blocked in the middle of the road! ā€

Bai Qishan, who was scolded, could only hang his head and not speak, in fact, he had been with Su Jin for so long, and he would naturally not be incompetent if he could be the head of Su Jin's bodyguard for so long. It's just that as the saying goes, care is chaos, for Bai Qishan, Su Jin's safety is the first place, as long as Su Jin's safety is guaranteed, other things are not in his consideration.

Seeing the dejected Bai Qishan, Su Jin sighed lightly. He also knows some of Bai Qishan's thoughts, and his loyalty to himself as the commander of the guard brigade is undoubted, but sometimes his thoughts are too one-sided, if he really can't leave behind and retreat to Jinzhou alone, what is the difference between him and some notorious generals who escaped.

Gently kicked Bai Qishan and scolded with a smile: "Okay, don't be stupid, go down and prepare immediately." Remember to be fast, although we have already moved here in time, maybe the little devil will touch it at some point! ā€

"Yes!"

Bai Qishan was excited and quickly ran away, the transfer of tens of thousands of people is not a joke, not to mention that there are heavy artillery brigades, air defense regiments, medical brigades, these slow-moving troops, in case of collision with the Japanese army in the middle of the road, it will be a lot of fun, once something goes wrong, then he, the commander of the guard brigade, may have to eat and walk around.

After Bai Qishan left, Su Jin looked at the direction of the flaming airport and muttered to himself: "I don't know which unit the attacking Japanese army is, why does it sound so fierce!" ā€

After the order was issued, the originally silent small mountain village boiled almost instantly, countless figures kept running around, vehicles were started, and the rumbling engine suddenly shook the entire small mountain village.

Although the villagers had been told not to go out three days earlier, and they were not allowed to step out of their homes at night, there were still brave villagers who secretly looked out of Tokyo through their windows. They didn't get to see it long, though, and about twenty minutes later, a large procession headed in the direction of the airport......

"Incompetent, a wing has been fighting for almost an hour, and you haven't even taken down the outer positions of that rebel army, are you still the warriors of the Great Nippinichi Empire? Shame, it's just a shame! "In a temporary headquarters two kilometers away from the airport, Major General Yoshiyoshi Akiyama, commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade, was yelling at the commander of the 7th Wing (Kanazawa), Kazuo Osa, who was standing in front of him.

The troops attacking the airfield this time were none other than the Ninth Division, which was known as one of the two walls of the Japanese Army. The Ninth Division is one of the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, with more than 26,000 troops and extremely strong combat effectiveness.

For this operation, Umezu Mijiro not only secretly transferred the Ninth Division from the Hulunbuir grassland, but also did very meticulous concealment work along the way.

After seeing the strength of the Third Army's air force, the Kwantung Army Headquarters ordered the train transporting the Ninth Division to go out day and night, and it was kept secret along the way, so it took a few days to quietly transport tens of thousands of troops to Panjin, and then tens of thousands of troops of the Ninth Division moved along the coastline to the vicinity of Huludao, and after some detailed planning, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, the commander of the Ninth Division, commanded the 16th Brigade and the 35th Wing to outflank Huludao. Major General Yoshiyoshi Akiyama, commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade, commanded the 7th Wing towards the airport, and his mission was to destroy or capture the advanced fighters on the airport and cut off the air passage of Su Jin.

This plan can't be said to be wrong, according to the information obtained a few days ago, the garrison of this airport is not very many, only less than five hundred garrison troops, and the fortifications of the airport are not very good, as long as the seventh wing can take down the airport with a charge, Akiyama Yoshiyoshi is very confident in this, but when Akiyama Yoshiyoshi commanded the captain of the seventh wing to launch an attack, the battle situation was greatly beyond his expectations.

As soon as the battle began, Wing Commander Izuo Kazuo, who personally commanded the battle, hurriedly reported that the unit that was responsible for guarding the airport turned out to be the well-known Japanese Protector Army, which quickly gave the first brigade responsible for the attack a blow.

As soon as the unknown 1st Brigade launched an attack on the airfield, it was taken aback by the fire coming from the direction of the airfield. The same gunshots, the same style of fighting, the same tactics and even similar military uniforms frightened the Japanese troops on the attacking side, and the two squadron leaders who served as the attacking team even ordered to stop the attack at one point, and asked their superiors if there was a misunderstanding.

But then the information they got shattered their illusions, and the one who served as the guard in front turned out to be the traitor of the Great Nippinichi Imperial Army, the "notorious" Japanese Protector Army formed by Su Butcher, and after learning the truth, the first brigade to attack was re-launched, but the two sides fought for nearly an hour, and the seventh wing was still standing still after paying hundreds of casualties, which made Major General Yoshiyoshi Akiyama angry, and he called the wing captain Iza Kazuo Osa, and scolded him.

"I don't care what you do, I'm going to see you storm the airport in an hour, you understand?" Yoshiyoshi Akiyama's roaring voice came through the tent that was leaking on all sides.

The captain of the seventh wing, Iza and a man, could only hang his head and remain silent, this battle was really a wretch, I thought it was a soft persimmon, but I didn't think about it but kicked the iron plate, and the troops fighting with myself turned out to be their own rebels, which is really too frustrating.

After being trained, he could only turn around and honestly continue to organize the troops to attack.

"Boom ......"

A bomb landed on a runway, kicking up dirt that would fly into the sky, and even more bombing two Japanese expatriates who had taken refuge here to the ground, one of the expatriates who had not stolen fell to the ground and wailed loudly holding a leg that had just been blown off, and the woman next to him who had half of her head cut off was already dead.

The dozens of expatriates lying on the ground not far away trembled with fear when they looked at the expatriate who was rolling on the ground in pain, and no one dared to rush out to help the fellow who fell to the ground.

"Mom...... I'm afraid! An eight- or nine-year-old boy huddled in his mother's arms and asked worriedly, "Mom, are we going to die?" ā€

The dark-faced woman barely showed a smile and comforted: "No, Taro, you just need to remember, don't run around casually and you'll be fine, the uncle and aunt just now were hit by cannonballs because of running around, understand?" ā€

"Well, I see, I'm not going to run away!" The boy nodded vigorously.

As an authentic field division, the firepower of the Ninth Division is still very sufficient, and before this attack, Akiyama Yoshiyoshi equipped the Seventh Wing with twenty-four Type 97 curved infantry guns, although the target could not be seen clearly in the dark night, but under the disadvantage of the long battle, Izuo Kazuo still ordered to start shelling the airfield.

The Type 97 curved infantry gun is actually a mortar to put it bluntly, but the Japanese army is used to classifying mortars with a caliber of less than 90 mm as curved infantry guns, which belong to infantry weapons, and only those above 90mm are called mortars and belong to artillery weapons.

Dozens of curved infantry guns bombarded the airfield indiscriminately, and although the accuracy was not high, it still made a mess of the airfield, especially a few shells fell on the place where the Japanese expatriates who could not evade it, causing considerable casualties.

"Resist, resist, you must guard the airport for me!" Taro Kanhara stood in a civil blockhouse, holding the phone into the microphone and shouting loudly, "Akita-kun, your No. 1 position is the support point to the north, once we lose the gateway to our airport, the door will be wide open, and all of us will die, understand, so please be sure to hold it!" ā€

"Smack!"

Taro Kanhara, who put down the phone, turned to look at Taro Iwasaki who was standing next to him, and said with a serious expression: "Iwasaki-kun, you have also seen the current situation. The puppet government's army has already launched an attack on us, and they have even used curved artillery, although the intensity of their attack is not very strong now, but my fear is that when daybreak they will have more troops, and then our troops will be difficult to resist. So I want you to personally urge the 3rd Brigade to hold the east side of the airport, please! ā€

Taro Iwasaki said in a deep voice: "Guan Yuan-kun, don't worry, I will defend the east side of the airport, you don't have to worry, but the north and west sides that you are responsible for will definitely be the enemy's key targets tomorrow, so you must be careful!" ā€

The current airfield is divided into four defensive areas, the south is where the engineer battalions and pilots sent by the Third Army are located, and the remaining three directions are the areas defended by the Japanese Protector Army.

It's funny to say that two people who have been fighting openly and secretly for several years actually work together at this moment. However, they can't help but be like this, they were born in the Japanese army, they know very well that once people like them who have taken refuge in China fall into the hands of the Japanese army, those former colleagues will not have the slightest sympathy if they do not open orders, I am afraid that even death will be a very luxurious thing at that time, and the attitude of the Orientals towards traitors is surprisingly consistent, that is, to deal with them with the most severe means.

Time passed slowly, the sky finally showed a trace of white belly, the Japanese attack not only did not weaken, but also strengthened, and because the sky was bright, the artillery of the seventh wing finally saw the target clearly, and the artillery fire began to become accurate, although it did not cause heavy casualties to the defenders, but it has already made Taro Kanhara and Taro Iwasaki begin to worry, for some special reason, the Japanese army is only a pure infantry branch, and there is no artillery establishment.

After the sky was bright, Izuo Kazuo, who was commanding the attack, finally saw clearly that the position on the north side of the entire airfield was on higher ground, and the terrain on the east side was relatively gentle, and there was a salient there, which protruded about four or five hundred meters away from the entire defensive line. The Japanese had tried to carry out a surprise attack from the flank to cut off the place from the rest of the airfield, but the Protector Army, who was in charge of the defense, condescendingly attacked the Japanese flank attack formation with rifles, light and heavy machine guns and other weapons from the high ground. Every attempt of the Japanese army was disrupted by the defenders, so they hated this position to the core, so they also took special care of this place, but poured fire on it with all the weapons they could use, and tried with all their might to turn it into a no-man's land. (To be continued.) )