At Taiyuan Wusu Airport, more than 20 H-1 bombers have all been filled with fuel and ammunition, and with Su Dingtian's order, the bombers began to start slowly, and one after another taxied out of the take-off pad and quickly rose into the air.

After the bombers took off, the 30 Jian-1 fighters responsible for escorting the escort also began to roar into the air, and then more than 50 fighters circled in the air, and soon formed a huge mixed aircraft group, which flew south under the guidance of the head plane.

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At the Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge, the station on the south bank of the Yellow River, the forward troops of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army have arrived at the railway station and are preparing to wait for the train, while the 17th Division and the 21st Division are also on their way.

The head of the Chaoxiang Palace Hatoyan Division took several staff officers and two brigade commanders to the station by car, and the entire Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge was built in 1906 at the beginning of the 20th century, and in the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. It is currently the only railway bridge in China.

The Pinghan Railway runs through the entire bridge, because this is an important hub of the north-south transportation of the army, so the Yellow River Railway Bridge of the army is arranged with heavy troops, in addition to an infantry wing, there is an artillery wing and an anti-aircraft machine gun wing, a total of more than 20 88-type anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.

At the South Railway Station, a 100-meter-long troop transport train has slowly driven from Zhengzhou, and when it stops, the chief of staff asks Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace: "General, can you board the train?" ”

"Yo Xi, order the troops to board the car immediately!" Hatohiko nodded to Kanomiya.

"Get on board now!" With the order of the chief of staff, more than 2,000 officers and men of the 13th Infantry Wing of the 11th Brigade of the 11th Brigade, the main brigade of the Sixth Division, began to board the bus one after another.

At this moment, there was a roar of aircraft engines in the distant sky, and Hatohiko Asamiya picked up his large magnification telescope and looked into the distant sky, only to see a large group of dense small black dots roaring towards the railway bridge.

The speed of the plane was very fast, and soon the small black dot in the telescope of Hatohiko Asakanomiya turned into a huge plane, and Hatohiko Asakanomiya had even seen the middle [***] flag on the huge fuselage.

He immediately changed color and shouted: "Baga Yalu, it's the fighter plane of the Zhina people, quickly sound the air defense siren, air defense!" ”

In fact, before the shouting of Hatohiko of the Asakanomiya, the lookout post of the air defense unit of the army had already discovered a group of bombers in the distant sky, and before the order of Hatohiko of the Asakamiya was conveyed, the lookout soldiers of the army sounded the air defense alarm, and in an instant, the piercing air defense siren sounded throughout the sky.

The anti-aircraft artillery of the army hurriedly entered the artillery position, raised the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, and began to meet them.

In the sky, before the mixed aircraft group had time to disperse, it was intercepted by the intensive fire of the antiaircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns of the Japanese army, and the "tom tom" was like a rain of bullets flying towards the bomber group that was lowering its altitude.

Suddenly, a H-1 bomber was unfortunately hit in the ammunition bay and exploded directly in the air, the huge fuselage disintegrated instantly, and pieces of the burning fuselage flew in all directions.

The roar of Li Genshen, the commander of the 3rd Bomber Regiment who was responsible for leading the team, suddenly came from the intercom: "No! Li Genshen's eyes were split, and he shouted loudly into the intercom: "Everyone listen to the order, rise immediately!" Rise now! ”

"Roger!"

"Roger!" Young and determined voices came from the intercom, and one after another fighter planes began to fly into the distance.

At this time, Li Genshen shouted angrily at the intercom again: "Fighter formation, immediately destroy the enemy's anti-aircraft fire!" Velocity! ”

"Roger!"

"Roger! One after another, the J-1 fighters turned their noses, shuttled between the dense anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese army, and began to return fire towards the ground.

"Da Da Da Da..." The powerful power of the machine gun hit the water, stirring up a wave more than a foot high. hit the rails, and the rails were beaten into twists.

However, although the fighter plane lowered its flight altitude and caused some damage to the devil air defense troops, its own casualties were also tragic, and in just five minutes, three J-1 fighters were hit, some fighters directly lost control and plunged into the rolling Yellow River, and some fighters crashed into the distant hillside.

Seeing the heroic sacrifices of their comrades-in-arms one by one, the remaining pilots did not fear, let alone retreat, but set up fighter planes to frantically strafe at the anti-aircraft positions of the Japanese army.

Private Wu Yaowu is a veteran pilot of the 42 nd Group Army, and he has participated in the Flying Eagle Division since the day it was founded, shooting down and destroying a total of five fighters of the Japanese Army. He piloted his J-1 fighter to lock on to an anti-aircraft gun, on the plane, he could already see several anti-aircraft gunners firing fiercely at the fighters of other comrades, and in the blink of an eye, a fighter plane was caught up and hit by them, only to see that the tail of the fighter dragged a long thick smoke, and hit the high mountain in the distance, such a high distance, it was impossible to parachute.

So it's certain that there is no chance that the pilot will survive. Wu Yaowu saw all this in his eyes, and in just a few seconds, his comrades-in-arms, brothers, and robes who had fought side by side with him died like this.

couldn't help but feel a burst of grief, Wu Yaowu's eyes instantly turned red, and he roared: "Dog's miscellaneous!" I'm fighting with you! ”

The captain may have heard Wu Yaowu's roar, and immediately shouted in the intercom: "A5, don't do stupid things, pull up immediately, pull up immediately!" …”

However, Wu Yaowu didn't seem to hear it, he pulled off the headphones on his head, pulled the lever with both hands, and gave his fighter plane a sudden acceleration, roaring towards the anti-aircraft position of the army, when the proud faces of the artillery of the army appeared in the sight, Wu Yaowu shouted: "Die!" With his right hand, he pressed the firing lever fiercely, and the two machine guns suddenly spit out two scarlet tongues of fire, and several artillery soldiers were immediately beaten into minced meat.

The chamber of the anti-aircraft gun was also severely deformed by the dense rain of machine shells, and the last machine gun shell happened to hit the ammunition box not far behind the anti-aircraft gun, and immediately hit the shells inside, and the violent explosion ignited several boxes of shells around it.

As soon as Wu Yaowu's fighter plane flew by, a big explosion occurred at the anti-aircraft gun position just now, and a scarlet fireball rose into the air.

The loud explosion alarmed the other devil anti-aircraft shooters, who spotted Wu Yaowu's fighter plane, turned their guns and opened fire fiercely at Wu Yaowu's fighter.

Wu Yaowu had just turned the nose of the plane and was about to dive and strafe again, only to see that a dense rain of bullets had already rushed towards him, and it was too late to dodge, Wu Yaowu's eyes flashed a trace of determination, he roared, increased the speed of his fighter to the limit, and rushed towards the anti-aircraft machine gun position of the army.

At this time, the dense rain of bullets had already hit Wu Yaowu's landline one after another, and the entire plane had already begun to ignite a fire, emitting thick black smoke.

Seeing that it was about to explode, the anti-aircraft shooters of the Yue army just wanted to clap their hands in celebration, when suddenly a fighter plane covered in flames broke through the layers of smoke and crashed headlong into the anti-aircraft machine gun position of the Yue army, "Boom! Under the violent impact, the plane exploded instantly, producing an earth-shattering explosion, and the antiaircraft position composed of five antiaircraft machine guns was instantly razed to the ground, and more than 20 antiaircraft soldiers and antiaircraft machine guns were all blown to ashes.

Li Genshen witnessed all this in the distance, and the tragic battle below deeply angered the bomber pilots, and when he saw that the anti-aircraft positions of the Japanese army had been destroyed, Li Genshen shouted at the intercom: "Bomber formation, go on!" up! Destroy them all! With that, he personally drove the landline towards the Yellow River Bridge.

"Blow up these dogs!"

"you little devil! Blow up you turtle bastards! ”

The pilots were furious and drove their respective fighters to dive down the Yellow River Bridge.

Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who was at the station in the distance, saw that his air defense position had been destroyed and there was not much left, and he suddenly became angry. But what annoyed him even more was still behind, more than 20 bombers took turns to bomb the Yellow River railway bridge, and one after another heavy bombs fell on the railway bridge, blowing up all the rails and sleepers into the sky.

Under the repeated bombing of the bomber group, the sturdy Yellow River railway bridge was finally overwhelmed, and the middle about 100 meters long collapsed violently, and the heavy piers and bridge bodies all fell into the rolling Yellow River.

Immediately after that, the middle broken bridge was blown up, and the Yellow River Railway Bridge, which was more than 3,000 meters long, was suddenly unrecognizable, and the middle 1,000 meters was completely destroyed.

Hatohiko Asakamiya, who was at the station, witnessed all this with his own eyes, and when he saw that this strategic bridge was destroyed, Hatohiko Asakanomiya jumped like thunder, pulled out his royal sword, and slashed at the wall next to him angrily, and said angrily: "Yagaya Road!" Bagaya Road! Give me the order to the Air Force, dispatch it immediately, and all of them will die, die, die! ”

"Hay!" Several staff officers next to him hurriedly bowed their heads suddenly, and immediately turned to leave.

However, without waiting for the military planes to arrive, Li Genshen shook his wings with the mixed group and began to return one after another.

Although the Air Force lost more than 10 fighters and bombers and more than 10 pilots in this operation, their sacrifice was valuable, and even if the Yellow River Railway Bridge destroyed by them was repaired by the army day and night, with the technology at that time, it would not be possible to open to traffic again in a month or two.

Moreover, this bombing was the first time that the Flying Eagle Division carried out a bombing of strategic targets, accumulating valuable experience for the future.

At the same time as the air force bombed the Yellow River Bridge, Zhang Mingyu also took the guard regiment from Jincheng to the north bank of the Yellow River by truck.

Due to the destruction of the Yellow River railway bridge, the infantry could not cross the river, and they could not raise enough boats and boats in a short time, so this left valuable time for the guard regiment.

(To be continued)