In the early morning of August 1, on Hongqiao Airport, five Airbus A100-3 transport planes had completed fuel filling, started their engines, and 150 people from the 673 special attack team were divided into five columns and were checking the equipment.

Japan, whether it is the army or the navy, does not have much understanding of the role of transport aircraft, so don't look at the little devil's own A6M fighter with various performances, bombers are also a variety of long-range advantages, but there is no one's own, practical transport aircraft. In the past, they bought the G38 of the German Junkers company, but on the basis of this four-engine transport plane, they developed the Type 92 heavy explosion, and Kenji Dohihara formed the 673 special attack team, and there was no extra transport plane in the Japanese army to carry out parachute training, so he took out a part of the funds of the secret service and went to the United States to purchase the transport plane together with the funds that Okamura Ninji had scavenged from the northeast region.

At that time, it was 1935, the best transport aircraft or passenger aircraft in the United States was the A100 transport aircraft produced by Airbus North American factory, the performance of this transport aircraft was very similar to the DC-3 transport aircraft being developed by Douglas, but the Airbus A100 had been mass-produced, DC-3 had not had time to test flight, Airbus, which started first, snatched most of the market share, no one was interested in Douglas's DC-3 anymore, and Douglas, who lost market and financial support, stopped the development of DC-3, Therefore, the DC-3, which had a huge production in history, was replaced by the Airbus A100, and Kenji Dohihara naturally took a fancy to this aircraft in the United States and placed an order for 10 aircraft in one go.

Although Zhang Haiyan knew that the order for these 10 planes was for the Japanese army, she could not help but sell them, because the output of the factory in North America was much higher than that of the factory in Chongqing, and she did not dare to let the Japanese complain about the differential treatment of Airbus because of the mere 10 transport planes.

Each A100-3 transport aircraft can carry 30 heavily armed soldiers, and the 150 men of the 673 Special Attack Team are divided into five aircraft. Before boarding, Hattori Yoshitomi made a final mobilization: "Everyone, we are all descendants of the ninja family, the samurai in the past looked down on ninjas, and now those so-called imperial elites and regular armies also look down on our 673 special attack team. It doesn't matter, ninjas don't need anyone's respect, the value of ninja's existence is to make enemies fear for their lives all the time. In the past, those samurai who admired righteousness and light, while spitting on our predecessors and the tenets of the ninjas, were also courting and currying favor with the ninjas, because if their enemies co-opted the ninjas, it meant that their heads could move at any time. Now, the regular army on the front line also disdain to be with us, but the current battlefield dilemma must rely on us to solve it, so, ninjas, use our strength to tell those regular army that we are the elite of the empire! ”

At 5 o'clock, 5 transport planes took off on time, the pilots maintained a low altitude of 800 meters with superb technology, the Chinese Air Force is not a decoration, and the radars of the Colonel Airport and Jinling Airport are not decorations, although it is dangerous to fly at low altitude, but the ninjas would rather take this risk than being detected by the enemy as soon as they take off. And only 20 minutes after them, more than 70 97 heavy bombs and 120 97 fighters of the Chinese military aviation group took off from five airfields at the same time, divided into four routes and attacked Nanjing at the same time.

At about half past five o'clock, the Japanese bomber and fighter planes were detected by the radar of the Chinese Air Force, and the two large airfields of Jinling and Daxiao immediately sounded the air defense alarm, and other airfields in the theater also took off fighter planes one after another to prepare to meet the enemy.

"What the hell are the Japanese doing? Knowing that we have radar, they still use such a large group of aircraft to attack Nanjing, is it possible that they think that we will not be able to see it if they divide into multiple routes and attack at the same time? Gao Zhihang was quite puzzled in the command center, looking at the multiple bright spots on the radar display, he had a bad premonition, the last time this feeling appeared, Liu Cuigang and Le Yiqin were shot down, and now no one has been found.

After thinking about it carefully, in order to prevent this from being another trap of devils, Gao Zhihang ordered: "All troops pay attention, be careful of the devil's Zero, do not entangle with them under any circumstances, report and avoid it immediately if you find Zero, if you are accidentally pursued, bring them into the range of ground anti-aircraft artillery fire." "Even if the Japanese bombers were allowed to attack Nanjing, Gao Zhihang would no longer let the fighter unit fight the devil's zero.

The multi-way fleet of the Japanese Army Aviation managed to attract the attention of the Chinese Air Force, and Gao Zhihang did not expect that this time the real protagonists would be a few inconspicuous transport aircraft. When the air force group was dispatched, at the entrance of the Jiangyin waterway, Tsuda Shizue personally led 2 ball mills and 6 destroyers to wait here, which was only 14 kilometers away from the Huangshan Fort of Jiangyin Fortress, and the Yangtze River had a big bend here, and the woods on the shore covered the figure of the fleet, whether it was the fleet or the fortress, no one could see the position of the other side clearly.

It wasn't until the radar station reported that the Japanese aircraft group had all withdrawn 30 minutes after our interceptors took off, and Gao Zhihang suddenly thought that the devil was using the feints of the aircraft group to cover a certain small echelon to carry out some special activities, but what kind of action was worth using a large group of more than 100 planes to cover?

"Wang Wei, record the flight path of the Japanese army to me!" Gao Zhihang said: Wang Wei was one of the first batch of officers in the radar unit of the Air Force, Dongfang Yunming's secretary when he was the principal of the Jianqiao Aviation School, graduated from Nanyang Public School (now Shanghai Jiaotong University) majoring in electrical engineering, and is now the head of the East China Theater Air Force Radar Detachment and chief of staff of the Theater Air Force, with the rank of major general of the Air Force.

"Yes!" Hearing Gao Zhihang's order, Wang Wei immediately handed over the sorted out flight trajectory of the Japanese army to him, "Sir Gao, this time the Japanese planes are divided into 4 routes, the largest one is this one, there are about 30-50 planes, according to our calculations, their route should be like this, but they turned to fly south in Wuxi, and then the second route is like this......"

As Wang Wei was talking, Gao Zhihang's eyes suddenly lit up: "Wait a while...... 4-way fleet, all turned south at the end? ”

Wang Wei was stunned for a moment, and then said, "That's right." ”

"The devils want to lure our plane to the south, then their real protagonist is in the north, and the northernmost side is the smallest ......," Gao Zhihang muttered in a low voice, while working on the track map with a pencil and ruler. After a while, Gao Zhihang's pen stayed at the location of the Jiangyin fortress on the map, "The north is the most valuable here......

"Jiangyin Fortress?!" Wang Wei was also taken aback, and then said, "It's unlikely, it's not that the devil hasn't bombed the Jiangyin Fortress, but the mountains around the fortress are steep, and the maneuver space left for the bombers is seriously insufficient. ”

Gao Zhihang said: "Bombs don't have eyes, people not only have eyes, but also have hands and feet. Have any transport planes entered Shanghai recently? ”

"Transport aircraft...... Do airliners count? Wang Wei thought about it carefully and said, "The day before yesterday, the reconnaissance plane of the 863 Air Force photographed two more Airbus A100 passenger planes at Hongqiao Airport that did not have any markings. ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier?!"

Wang Wei said: "The passenger plane they photographed was not painted with the logo of the Japanese army and navy, and our intelligence judged that it might be a passenger plane from a Western country, after all, Hongqiao Airport used to be a civilian airport." ”

"That was before, since the start of the war in Songhu, who have you ever seen a passenger plane land in Hongqiao without a long eye? Besides, airliners are also sprayed with airline logos. ”

"That's not right, it's difficult for dive bombers to complete the bombing of fortresses, and transport planes can still ......," Wang Wei said, suddenly waking up, "Paratroopers!! With a large group of more than 100 planes feint in four ways to attract the attention of our air force, and the goal is to lead us to the southern front in unison, and then the transport plane carries paratroopers to fly at a low altitude to avoid the detection of our army's radar, and the airborne infiltrates the rear of the Jiangyin fortress, how can it be so similar to the operation of special forces? ”

"Something is wrong...... Gao Zhihang immediately picked up the phone on the table, "Take over the theater command!" ”

The phone rang in the theater command, and a private in the communications office picked up the phone, and then said: "Commander Tan, the air force radar station phone!" ”

Tan Xiaolin took the phone: "I'm Tan Xiaolin......"

"Commander Tan, something happened!" Gao Zhihang on the other end of the phone said eagerly, "The Japanese special forces have attacked the Jiangyin fortress!" ”

"What's the situation?" Tan Xiaolin asked.

"The Japanese army's air raid just now was a feint, and nearly 200 planes were dispatched to make a feint, and the direction of containing us was exactly the opposite of the Jiangyin fortress, and in addition, the day before yesterday, our army's high-speed reconnaissance plane photographed the appearance of a transport plane at Hongqiao Airport."

"I see!" Tan Xiaolin hung up the phone and was about to ask the communications department to notify the fortress of all suspicious targets on high alert, and the communications corps reported: "Jiangyin Fortress is in a hurry, the fortress was attacked by Japanese paratroopers 25 minutes ago, and the Huangshan Fort was lost 5 minutes ago!" ”

Without waiting for Tan Xiaolin to take a breath, another telegram arrived: "General Xu Kang, commander of the fortress garrison: Although the Japanese army attacking the fortress is small, its combat effectiveness is quite strong, and the 4 K18 fortress guns have been destroyed, and our department is determined to live and die with the fortress!" ”

This telegram is basically equivalent to a dead letter, the devil's special forces came up and went straight to the Huangshan Fort, first destroyed 4 K18 fortress guns, then the lower reaches of the Yangtze River must be hiding the devil naval fleet, the fortress guns are destroyed, and the remaining army units will be beaten in front of the naval guns.

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Fifty minutes ago, the Japanese transport planes approached the Jiangyin fortress, and the anti-aircraft artillery observation posts deployed on the Dongxishan fort also discovered them, but at this time the transport planes were already very close to the predetermined space location, the hatch had been opened, and 800 meters was the best parachute jump height. The 6 Flak18 anti-aircraft guns used VT fuse shells transported from Chengdu to fire rapidly, and after a few shells were fired, they were attacked by the escort Zero fighters, including the fortress guns, all the gun positions were open, and the anti-aircraft guns could not exert firepower.

"Jump out!" Hattori Yoshitomi in the cabin was the first to jump out of the cabin after giving the order, and the special attack team members also jumped out one by one, and in the blink of an eye, there were more than 100 parachutes over the fortress, and then the transport plane turned around and began to drop heavy weapons.

"Oops, it's paratroopers! The division headquarters guard battalion immediately reinforces the fortress!! All, fast !! Liu Yuanxuan, commander of the 161st Division of the 78th Army, who was defending the flank of Jiangyin Fortress, shouted loudly.

Liu Yuanxuan's reaction was very fast, but it was too late, the division headquarters of the 161st Division was more than two kilometers away from the fortress in a straight line, and counting the time of assembly, drove along the mountain road and then entered the defensive operation of the fortress for at least 25 minutes. After the 673 special attack team landed, several members of the nearby team immediately approached, took out the American Thomson submachine gun or the German-made MP18 they carried with them to attack the Huangshan Fort, the MP18 is light and cheap, but the magazine capacity is only 20 rounds, and the firepower used as the main battle weapon is slightly insufficient, and the Thomson submachine gun nicknamed the "Chicago typewriter" is expensive and bulky, but the powerful firepower of the 50-round drum is no wonder it can become the favorite of the American mafia.

The defenders on the battery were all artillerymen, most of them did not even have pistols, and some were equipped with shell guns, such a melee ability, in the face of dozens of Thomson splashed bullets, could not hold the gun position at all, and all the people who could run retreated into bomb shelters and bunkers. After the special attack team members attacking the Huangshan Fort rushed to the gun position, on the Dongxishan Fort that came to their senses, 14 20mm anti-aircraft guns flattened the muzzle and opened fire on the devils on the Huangshan Fort. Hattori Yoshitomi was glad that he reacted quickly, turned over and got off the battery, otherwise he would definitely meet with Onihanzo now.

"Ishikawa, fire a flare and let the naval fleet help, quick!" Hattori shouted.

"Hey!" Captain Ishikawa Akimune, the leader of the third squad, replied that the Ishikawa family is also a major family of Iga ninjas. Ishikawa pulled out his flare gun and fired two green flares into the sky.

As soon as the signal flare was fired, the machine guns on both sides did not fire at the Huangshan Fort anymore, and Hattori went out to take a look, and it turned out that the fourth and fifth squads had touched the East and West Hill Fort respectively, but the melee firepower of the 20 machine guns was also quite strong, and they could only contain it, and could not get close to destroy it.

Two minutes later, a group of special attackers found the airdropped heavy weapons barrels from which flamethrowers, grenadiers, explosives and sniper rifles, as well as the corresponding ammunition, were removed. The sniper rifle used by the 673 special attack team is not the standard 97 sniper rifle of the Japanese army, Hattori Yoshitomi thinks that the Japanese 97 type caliber is too small, the scope magnification is only 2.5 times, and the accurate shooting distance is no more than 500 meters, so Kenji Dohihara specially purchased 30 Lee Enfield rifles from the United Kingdom, and found a Japanese arsenal to install Carl Zeiss 6x scope.

After getting the sniper rifle, Hattori Yoshitomi felt much more comfortable, he gathered 4 snipers to cover 12 special attack team members and stuffed 10kg of explosives into the breeches of the 4 K18 fortress guns of the Huangshan Fort, and then ignited the fuse, and the 4 fortress guns became a pile of scrap metal with a violent explosion.

After destroying the fortress artillery, members of the Hattori special attack team burned flamethrowers and fired Red No. 1 special shells with grenadiers, killing almost all the artillery in the bunker and bomb shelter. The Japanese special attack team moved too quickly, and when Vice Admiral Xu Kang, the commander of the fortress garrison, was still organizing the guard platoon to counterattack, the fortress artillery had been destroyed, Xu Kang understood that the Japanese naval fleet waiting in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River would appear soon, and he refused the request of the guard platoon commander to let him retreat, and asked the communications department to send the last desperate telegram to the theater command.

By the time the guard battalion of the 161st Division arrived at the fortress and the two sniper groups of the sniper reconnaissance squad at the battalion headquarters shot and killed three Japanese special attack members, Shizue Tsuda's naval fleet had already appeared in the field of vision, and the three 140 main guns of the lead ship, the Kuma, opened fire to block the way for the reinforcement of the guard battalion, and a 140mm shell exploded less than 20 meters in front of Liu Yuanxuan.

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In the theater headquarters, Tan Xiaolin got the news of the loss of Jiangyin Fortress, like a thunderbolt from the sky, but this is not the time to be in a daze, after the shock, Tan Xiaolin said: "The old bird was actually played by a rookie, and the only thing that was not counted was that the Japanese also had special forces...... The order was that the 78th Army covered and must hold out for 12 hours, and the 71st Army and the garrison of the fortress all withdrew from their existing positions and moved closer to Nanjing.

At the same time, they sent a telegram to Chen Jiliang, commander of the Navy's inland river fleet, asking the frigates and torpedo boats of the river fleet to attack the Japanese naval fleet before nightfall. In addition, the troops of the Southern Front, carried out the retreat plan in advance. ”

"Commander, the largest frigate in the river fleet is only 780 tons, and the ball mill class is a light cruiser of 5,800 tons!" Sun Liren said.

"I know, but this is in the Yangtze River, not at sea, and there is no space for a large fleet to maneuver. With the cover of night, there are still many opportunities for torpedo boats, if only they could sink those two ball mills, the destroyer's 127mm shells are still weaker against some strong fortifications in Nanjing, and we can hold out a little longer. ”

Sun Liren thought about it carefully and said: "It's basically no problem for the 78th Army to hold on for 12 hours, but when retreating, it is easy to be pursued by Okamura Ningji, do you want to send a force to Yang Hanyu to cut off?" ”

"Where do we have troops around us that can be used?"

"Commander, have you forgotten? The reinforced battalion that was just replenished five days ago ......," Sun Liren said.

Tan Xiaolin was stunned for a moment, and then a strange smile appeared on her face.

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