Chapter 593: Japanese Air Raid
"Why is this, the Zero fighter is the latest fighter of the Japanese, and its combat capability has been verified by actual combat, it is almost invincible, how can you have the confidence to deal with the Japanese Zero Battle, why are you not confident to deal with the Zero Battle, which is not a little worse than the Zero Fighter?" Han Yunhua asked suspiciously.
"Report to the commander, because the vast majority of our pilots are new recruits, they have very few times to go to the sky, and they have little combat experience, and the best 36 ace pilots have been transferred by me to participate in the parade, and the rest are all two knives. From the first time they went to the sky to the present, the only thing they learned was how to fight the Japanese Zero fighters, and it can be said that their understanding of the Zero fighters was much better than that of the Japanese pilots. In addition, according to your instructions, we have specially developed tactics to restrain the Zero fighters, which have been proven to be effective, so we are confident that we can deal with the Japanese Zero fighters. But we don't know much about the old fighters like the 96 ship battle, and we haven't fought with them a few times, so our confidence is a little lacking. Shangguan Qingyun explained.
"Hehehe, very good, I can tell you clearly, this time the Japanese will not appear in the sky above Guisui except for the Zero Fighter and the Ninety-Seven Heavy Bombardment, tell your flight team to be ready for battle, but I would like to know how your so-called ace pilots are divided?" Han Yunhua asked with a smile.
"Report to the commander, according to the standards of the US Air Force, every pilot will be called an ace pilot from the first day of his flight to the time he shoots down more than 5 enemy planes, that is to say, in units of 5, shoot down more than 5 planes and less than 10 ace pilots, and shoot down more than 10 enemy planes to be called king, that is, the king of flight." Shangguan Qingyun said loudly.
"Then how many ace pilots does our Northern Air Force have now, and how many flying kings do we have?" Han Yunhua asked with interest.
"Our Northern Air Force now has a total of 1,209 trainee pilots, 159 regular pilots, 38 ace pilots, and 2 flying kings." Shangguan Qingyun replied.
"Are the trainee pilots the ones you just recruited?"
"It's not all, we have recruited more than 800 pilots, and the rest were recruited half a year ago, because the aircraft is limited, so although the more than 400 people have been trained for more than half a year and almost a year, there are not many opportunities to actually rise into the air." Shangguan Qingyun said.
"Do we have so many ace pilots? I remember that there were only 5 or 6 ace pilots on the side of the Nationalist Government, and it was not easy to shoot down more than 5 enemy planes, so did our 38 ace pilots have no water? Han Yunhua asked puzzledly.
"It's not really true that there is no moisture, but it's not entirely correct to say that there is no water at all. These 38 pilots actually shot down 5 Japanese planes, and the same was true for the two flying kings, each of whom shot down at least 10 Japanese planes. These achievements are all real and confirmed, but each of them has a place to learn from their achievements, mainly because last time the little devils sent nearly 400 planes of various kinds to intercept and kill the commander, and on the way back, we ambushed the Japanese plane group in Zhangjiakou with the enemy's ammunition and fuel. At that time, the Japanese army basically did not have a single fighter plane with the strength to fight, there was not a single bomb in their engine room, and the fuel consumption was about to run out, so in that battle, we shot down 149 Japanese fighters and created nearly 30 ace pilots. We fought that battle too easily, and after being entangled with the Japanese machine for a while, they automatically fell, so this record has moisture. But according to international practice, regardless of whether you shot down or not, as long as the enemy plane fell down in the process of fighting you, then the results will be counted on your head, so after that battle, we have 32 more ace pilots. Shangguan Qingyun said with a wry smile. …,
"I see, tell your pilots, just say that Chennault's Flying Tigers paint sharks on the fuselage, then you let each of our pilots paint their own achievements on the fighter fuselage. The Air Force of the Nationalist Government used plum blossoms instead of itself to shoot down a few enemy planes, so let's use the flying eagle as a mark, shoot down a Japanese plane, then let our boys draw a flying eagle on their fighter plane, and draw 10 flying eagles when they shoot down ten enemy planes. Didn't the little devils compare their air force to flying eagles, we are hunters who kill eagles and catch eagles. Han Yunhua said proudly.
"Okay, I'll let you know." Shangguan Qingyun said.
On July 3, the delegation of the Nationalist Government arrived in Yan'an with the US delegation, and the Central Military Commission instructed Han Yunhua to make preparations for the reception, and it is expected that the delegation of the Nationalist Government and the United States will go to Guisui together accompanied by the central delegation on July 6. At the same time, Han Yunhua also received a telegram from Stalin that a 12-member Soviet delegation led by Lieutenant General Kersands had also departed from Komsomolsk, Siberia, and the special plane was expected to arrive in Guisui on 5 July.
At this time, Han Yunhua was far more busy, the Kwantung Army Headquarters was also busy at this time, and the entire headquarters, from the commander General Yamada Otosan to the ordinary soldiers, was working nervously.
"Kasawara-kun, is the news from Shina reliable?" Yamada Otozo asked in a deep voice.
Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara replied solemnly: "Yes, Your Excellency Commander, the news is quite reliable, this is news from within the Shina government, and Han Yunhua's department in Shina is indeed going to hold a military parade on July 7, but the specific time and place of the parade have not yet been determined, only that it is in Guisui City." ”
"Yo Xi, the intelligence services have finally done a decent thing. In the past few years, the performance of the intelligence department has been extremely poor, and many important information have been greatly incorrect, causing heavy losses to the empire. ”
"Hai, mainly because the counter-espionage methods of the Chinese have been significantly improved, and they are cruel enough when dealing with our intelligence officers, all intelligence officers will be executed immediately once they leak out, even if they are hired by the empire, they call them traitors, and they also show enough cold-blooded treatment of traitors and Chinese people, parade through the streets to shoot violent corpses, and use all means. The cold-blooded methods of the Shina people have led to fewer and fewer Shina people willing to collect information for our intelligence agents, and the Shina spies that have been subdued before have rebelled from time to time. Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara explained.
"No, Kasawara-kun, this is not a reason, there is nothing that the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire cannot do, and our predecessors worked hard and endured humiliation for the strength of the Great Japanese Empire. In order to learn advanced civilization, we went to England to study shipbuilding, France to study law, and even abandoned thousands of years of tradition, but we did it. In the First Sino-Japanese War, we established the empire's position in Asia in one fell swoop, and the war indemnity of 230 million taels of silver was sufficient for the empire to develop its armaments. The Russo-Japanese War established the belief that the people were strong and the country was strong, and the behemoth of Tsarist Russia seemed so fragile in front of the imperial bushido. Our predecessors were able to conquer the Manchus and Tsarist Russia even though they were at a clear disadvantage, how could it be said that the mere intelligence department could not do it. Yamada Otozo said impassionedly.
"Hay! Your Excellency Commander has taught you that you know it! Yukio Kasahara said with his head down.
"No, no, no, Kasahara-kun, this is not a lesson, but some words of encouragement, our Kwantung Army is now full of doubts, both at home and abroad, as well as within our Kwantung Army, they can't see the current situation clearly, let alone the actual combat effectiveness of the Shina people, they will only reprimand and abuse where they are. Therefore, we in the Kwantung Army must make achievements to stop the mouths of these guys, and those words just now should be regarded as words of encouragement between you and me. General Yamada said loudly. …,
"Hai, what Your Excellency Commander said is that as the largest military group in the Empire, our Kwantung Army itself is on the cusp of the sword, and many people are very dissatisfied with the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor's preferential treatment of our Kwantung Army. Any explanation is useless, only the head and blood of the Shina people can shut up those guys. Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara said loudly.
"Yo Xi, Kasahara-kun, you immediately formulate a battle plan for the air raid on Guisui, gather all the fighters we can gather, as long as the fighters with enough range are sent to me, I will blow up Han Yunhua's military parade." General Yamada's hideous face shone with blood, and he seemed to have seen the hordes of infantry columns being bombed by the Kwantung Army Air Force.
"Your Excellency, on the day of the military parade held by Han Yunhua's headquarters in China, not only the government of China sent high-ranking officials to attend, but even the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries will send representatives to participate, and this is the best opportunity to publicize the imperial force." Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara continued.
"Shaoga, it seems that this military parade held by Han Yunhua is for the Americans and the Russians, Kasawara-kun, how is the air force strength of the Chinese people?" General Yamada asked again.
"Report to the commander, the combat effectiveness of the air force of the people of China is very weak, their air force history is less than a year, and the number of fighters is only more than 60, of which only about 20 fighters, which is the number half a month ago. However, the more than 20 fighters of the Zhina people are the latest Zero fighters of the Empire, and they have set a record of shooting down 149 fighters of the Empire in a row over Zhangjiakou. However, they won that battle very lucky, because General Okamura Ningji wanted to intercept Han Yunhua halfway, so he knew that the range of many fighters was barely enough, or some were simply not enough to return, so they could only make an emergency landing in the area controlled by the imperial army, even so, His Excellency Gangmura still sent all the fighters, a full 400 fighters. When they ran out of ammunition and fuel was insufficient, more than 40 Chinese fighters intercepted 400 Imperial fighters, and the sky over Zhangjiakou was dyed red, and 149 fighters crashed due to running out of fuel at almost no combat power. However, according to the explanations of the pilots who returned home safely, the quality of the pilots of the Chinese people is very poor, and they hardly know how to cooperate, and they can only be regarded as third-rate pilots in terms of reflection and action, so the main concern of our army when we go to bomb Guisui City this time is the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese army, which is the most threatening existence in comparison. Yukio Kasahara said confidently.
In fact, it is no wonder that Yukio Kasahara is so confident, it is entirely because Han Yunhua is too cunning, since the fighters of the United States and the Soviet Union arrived in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he did not let these fighters rise into the air, all of them advanced into the air defense bunkers, and the training in peacetime was also replaced by Japanese Zero fighters. Moreover, it was a substitution of fanfare, and the number of warplanes taking off and landing at Guisui Airport and Zhangjiakou Airport every day was extremely frequent, completely ignoring the Japanese spies. Soon a report on the air force units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was sent to the base camp of the Japanese army, and under the deliberate release of water by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the strength of the previous air force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was almost unobstructed by the Japanese, and it was no longer a secret that every soldier of the air force shot down several Japanese fighters. But there is only so much, the Inner Mongolia Military Region got more than 500 fighters from the United States and the Soviet Union, but the Japanese did not know about it, and Han Yunhua played a hand of brocade and hidden needles for the Japanese. It seems that the information collected by Tegaoke is very detailed and real, but it is just some of the surface of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
"Yo Xi, the air raid can hit the people of China if it is too late, and it can also deter the Japanese and the Russians, this battle can be won but not lost, Kasahara-kun, please!" General Yamada Otozo said in a deep voice.
"Hai, the lowly position understands, and the lowly duty guarantees to raze the scene of Han Yunhua's military parade to the ground." Yukio Kasawara said loudly. …,
In the past few days, Han Yunhua has been busy and crazy, and batch after batch of representatives need him to receive him. The Soviet delegation was the first to arrive, and the group headed by Lieutenant General Kershakin transferred to Ulaanbaatar and arrived at Guisui under the protection of two Lag-5 fighters, and Han Yunhua led the top level of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to pick up the plane.
On the morning of 6 July, the convoy of the central delegation arrived in Guisui, along with the delegation of the Nationalist Government, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The central delegation was headed by the chairman, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Comrade Ren Bishi, and Vice Chairman Zhou, who had originally planned to go to Guisui, was unable to participate in the parade this time due to some delays, which made Han Yunhua very depressed. The delegation of the Nationalist Government was headed by He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, and the US delegation was headed by General Stilwell, Chief of the General Staff of the Allied Asian Theater, and Colonel Chennault, who is currently commander of the 14th Air Force of the United States, also came with him. The British delegation was much more humble in comparison, the highest-ranking officer was only a lieutenant colonel, and the entire delegation consisted of only 3 officers, obviously looking down on the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
In addition, many units within the party also sent personnel to attend the parade, including the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army. In the past few days, Gui Suicheng will be star-studded, and there will be a sea of people.
At 7 a.m. on July 7, the troops under review were assembled. Accompanied by Han Yunhua, the chairman, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, He Yingqin, Lieutenant General Kirshakin, Lieutenant General Stilwell, and Colonel Chennault came to the place of the military parade.
The location of the parade, Han Yunhua, was placed in the Guisui Nancheng Tower, which was originally Guisui and had been blown up in the previous battle to liberate Guisui, and Han Yunhua had not had time to send someone to rebuild it. However, the foundation of the entire city tower is still there, and it is very convenient to rebuild, after receiving the task from the central government, Han Yunhua sent an engineer regiment to come over and ask them to build the city gate building at the south gate within 3 days.
Han Yunhua almost copied the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in 1949, except that there was no public participation, the others were the same as the founding ceremony a few years later. All the leaders did not have seats, and all stood on the city gate tower and waited for the passing of the parade troops.
As soon as you enter, you will be greeted by a majestic military parade march, a huge military band standing vertically under the city gate building, and the temporary new military uniforms make everyone refreshed.
At 8 o'clock, the parade officially began.
An officer wearing a dark green military uniform of the Inner Mongolia Military Region quickly ran over and said loudly: "Comrade Chairman, the troops under review have been assembled, please instruct!" ”
"It's time to go!" Han Yunhua knew that the chairman had no experience in this area, so he specially explained the process of the military parade to the chairman in detail last night.
Following the chairman's order, an infantry column of 4 came from a distance. The team marched in a neat and majestic manner, with high morale and high spirits, and the sonorous footsteps were uniform. The sound of "stomping" hit the hearts of everyone present like a drumbeat.
"Coming in front of the Inner Mongolia Military Region Guard Regiment, this unit is the largest guard regiment in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, with a total of 6,454 people in the whole regiment" The narrator was a soldier of the Inner Mongolia Military Region Art Troupe, and Han Yunhua took into account the feelings of the Americans and the Soviets, and specially equipped each of their delegations with an interpreter. Russian translators are easy to find, and there is no shortage of people in the north who speak Russian well, and there are a lot of them in the northeast alone. But it's hard to find someone who speaks English well, so in desperation, Han Yunhua had no choice but to transfer He Yajing, who had studied abroad. Originally, He Yajing said that she was unwilling to participate in this military parade, but she couldn't withstand Han Yunhua's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and finally agreed to act as an interpreter for the Americans and the British.
A total of 17 regiments with more than 50,000 troops participated in the parade, including 10 infantry regiments, 2 cavalry regiments, 1 engineer regiment, 1 artillery regiment, 1 chariot regiment, 1 motorized infantry regiment, and 1 automobile regiment. In addition, two special units also participated in the parade, that is, the long-awaited special combat team and the electronic countermeasures team of the United States and the Soviet Union.
However, when the column was just halfway through, Qian Zhuangfei quietly came to Han Yunhua's side and said a few words, and then hurriedly went down again.
At this time, the chairman and others also discovered the situation on Han Yunhua's side, so they asked, "Comrade Yunhua, what happened?" ”
"Chairman of the report, I have just received information that a large number of Japanese fighters are coming in the direction of Guisui, and their goal is to disrupt our military parade." Han Yunhua said loudly.
Before the chairman could speak, Chennault, a Chinese expert, spoke first: "Your Excellency, do you mean that those Japanese monkeys are coming, and they are still their air force?" ”
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