On the same day, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Bengbu Airport. Eight?? 1 Chinese Net = ≤≤.≤

There are countless transport planes hovering in the sky, there are wolf warriors of the 331 base, there are also air fortresses of the Mi army, and there are planes constantly taking off and landing on the airport.

The transport plane was loaded not with goods, but with soldiers, and it was Jiang Haoran's most powerful fist unit, the Airborne Division.

At this point in the campaign, it was also the most important part of Jiang Haoran's plan, which was to seize the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge and cut off the retreat of the island army on the south bank of the Yellow River.

In order to successfully arrange this operation, Jiang Haoran transferred almost all the transport planes, even the Chennault headquarters at the Baoshan Airport, and finally gathered more than 500 transport planes, which are expected to be sent to the north bank of the Yellow River at one time, so as to ensure that Luokou will be taken in one fell swoop.

It is not a trivial matter for more than 500 planes to take off at the same time, and no airport can have such a large capacity, so since yesterday, the airborne division has been transported to nearby airports such as Xuzhou, Hefei, and Chuzhou.

From the afternoon preparations to 6 o'clock, all the more than 500 transport planes finally took to the air and flew in a northeasterly direction under the escort of a large number of fighter planes.

After the expansion of the airborne division, there was no brigade under it, and it was composed of four regiments, Zhou Benye, commander of the first regiment, Li Chunqiao, commander of the second regiment, Tang Hao, commander of the third regiment, and Han Mufeng, commander of the fourth regiment, with a strength of 4,100 troops in each regiment, totaling 16,400.

The first batch of inputs were the first, second, and third regiments, and Han Mufeng's fourth regiment was the second batch.

The airborne was divided into three airborne points by regiments, and Zhou Benye's first regiment landed in the vicinity of Zhouping Village, five miles away from the right side of Luokou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and was the attacking force on the right side of Luokou.

Li Chunqiao's 2nd Regiment landed in the vicinity of Litun Village, five miles to the left of Luokou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and was the attacking force on the left side of Luokou.

Liu Xianwei led Tang Hao's third regiment to land in the vicinity of Antong Village, five miles away from Luokou, and the three regiments marched in unison to seize Luokou as quickly as possible, so as to control the entire Yellow River railway bridge, not only to ensure the safety of the railway bridge, but also to block the enemy's retreat in the direction of Jinan.

The second group of Han Mufeng's Fourth Regiment that was airborne will board the plane as soon as the transport plane returns home, and will go straight to Texas to cut off the north-south communication arteries of the island army and block all possible reinforcements that the enemy may have.

It was known that the 14th Division of the Island Army was on its way to Shijiazhuang, and once Dezhou and the north bank of the Yellow River were attacked by the airborne division, they would inevitably come back to help, so the task of the 4th Airborne Regiment was absolutely arduous, even more difficult than the previous three regiments.

However, there is no way, on the premise that the safety of the Yellow River Bridge and the smooth capture of Luokou cannot be guaranteed, all tactical actions are meaningless, so the airborne division must concentrate its forces to complete this task.

Jinan, the former enemy headquarters of the island army.

Okamura Ninji and Ishihara have already returned to Beiping, and now Deputy Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita is in charge of the overall situation, and the commander of the Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, and the commander of the First Army, Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, are also impressively visible.

The current battle situation can be said to be a terrible mess for the island army, and everyone in the command is anxious, and it is not too much to say that everyone is in danger.

Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace said: "Kinoshita-kun, Jinan has become a dangerous place at the moment, and it is no longer suitable for the former enemy headquarters, I suggest that we should immediately retreat to Dezhou." ”

Kinoshita Yong was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Excellency, this is not good, the locust warriors of the two armies are not out of danger at the moment, do we senior commanders have to retreat all the way?" Will this shake the morale of the military? ”

Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace snorted coldly and said: "Aren't Okamura-kun and Ishihara-kun already gone, if we don't retreat, once the Yellow River Bridge is blown up by the air force, no one will want to leave." ”

Kinoshita Yong's face instantly became very ugly, but he was a prince, even if he said such words of greed for life and fear of death, he couldn't help him, so he could only sulk.

Yanagawa Heisuke on the side smiled awkwardly: "Your Excellency, Okamura-kun and Ishihara-kun retreated only after receiving strict orders from the base camp, if they are still there, they will definitely not withdraw from Jinan City, the current Jinan City is a bridgehead, even if the first and tenth armies of the locust army all enter the city, before the construction of the Yellow River defense line is completed, Jinan must be defended, so we really can't retreat." ”

Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, you stick to Jinan, and I will go to Dezhou and personally command the 14th Division to attack the Eighth Route Army." After saying that, he ignored Kinoshita Isamu and Yanagawa Heisuke, and walked out of the headquarters with a limp in tow, leaving the two of them staring dryly, who made the family a royal family.

Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace suffered a car accident when he was studying in France, and since then he has been lame and disabled, but it is a pity that the car accident did not kill him directly, leaving this scourge, so that hundreds of thousands of Chinese ** people died tragically under his butcher's knife.

He studied at the Japanese 6th Army Military Academy and the Japanese 6th Military University before going to France to study in 1922. After returning to the island country, he successively served as the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, the commander of the Guards Division, and the military senator.

After the imperialists of the island country launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, he succeeded Matsui Ishine as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and during the Battle of Nanjing, it was this dog haggard who personally issued the order to "kill all the captured personnel", which directly led to the tragic Nanjing Massacre.

The most infuriating thing is that in history, this executioner escaped trial because of the protection of the royal family, and lived to die in his nineties.

The sky has eyes, history has come here, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, who should have been in a high position in the base camp of the island country, actually entered China as the commander of the first army by mistake, and this time, he was not so lucky.

King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya left the headquarters, got into the car directly, waved his hand magnificently, and ordered the guards to immediately drive to Texas.

A few motorcycles in front of the road, followed by several armored vehicles, and behind them were about a large group of guards surrounding the car of King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya.

In a short time, the rapid marching team went to the Yellow River Railway Bridge without any pause, and the road car shouted all the way to "get out of the way", and drove forward majestically and domineeringly.

At this time, the Yellow River railway bridge has been paved with steel plates, the railway is completely paralyzed, the steel rails have lost their meaning, a large number of strategic materials to be transported, and then a large number of troops have to cross the Yellow River, so it is more convenient for soldiers and convoys to pass through quickly.