Qingdao Airport is located in Cangkou Dabaotou Village area, covering an area of more than 3,230 acres, meteorological and communication equipment mainly includes 1 wind vane, 1 cold and summer meter, 1 barometer, 1 500 watt short-wave radio station, etc. This is one of the main stops on the Shanghai-Beiping route built by Shen Honglie when he was mayor of Qingdao and signed an agreement with China Airlines. Construction began in June 1932 and was put into use in January 1933, with the route from Shanghai to Nanjing to Haizhou to Qingdao to Tianjin to Beiping.

When Shen Honglie retreated from Qingdao, even the ships sank in the port channel, and he also set fire to several major foreign-funded enterprises in Qingdao, and the airfield was naturally destroyed. Therefore, when the Eighth Route Army attacked and occupied Qingdao for the first time, it seized so many materials and found nothing at the Qingdao airfield alone.

After the army occupied Qingdao for the second time, in order to open up air traffic with Yueben and also to facilitate the support of the Eighth Route Army in the mountainous areas of Jiaodong, Ludong, and central and southern Shandong, it seized the time to expand the Cangkou airfield, drove out 280 villagers in Daweng Village with bayonets, and even the Mingzhenguan located on the west side of the airfield was forcibly moved, more than doubling the area of Cangkou Airport, and building a dual-use airfield.

In terms of civilian use, Qingdao has set up the "Qingdao Branch of the Great Aerospace Co., Ltd." and opened up regular routes from Beiping to Qingdao to Beijing, Fugang, and Tokyo. On the military front, the North China Front Aviation Group has stationed a reading force at Qingdao's Cangkou Airport, which has a squadron of light bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance planes. Of course, the Eighth Route Army Air Force learned the lesson of the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack on airfields, and like the permanent airfields in Jinan, Beiping, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang, in addition to strengthening anti-aircraft firepower and ground guard units, it also built hangars, machine nests, aircraft shelters, underground ammunition depots, and oil depots. Don't say that the Eighth Route Army Air Force did not go for a sneak attack, even if it did, it would not have been able to achieve as great a result as the previous sneak attack on the North China Airfield.

Not to mention Jinan Airport, which was an airfield that had been attacked by the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and when the army resumed its use, it naturally used all the methods they could think of.

Since the Eighth Route Army's Shaanxi airfield and Mianxian airbase were attacked by the Yue army, the air force of the Yue army at the airports of the North China Aviation Group finally breathed a sigh of relief, and they no longer had to watch out for ghosts from the sky. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and some time ago, the Eighth Route Army Air Force suddenly appeared again, not only attacking several advance airfields of the Shanxi Army and the Anyang, Kaifeng, and Shangqiu airfields, but also blowing up the Longxiang aircraft carrier formation, and the North China Front Air Group became nervous again, while sending a large number of reconnaissance planes to Shaanxi and Shanxi to conduct extensive search and reconnaissance in an attempt to find out the new airfield of the Eighth Route Army; On the other hand, the early warning level of the permanent airports has been raised, and fighter planes are on duty over the airports every day, and at the same time, the hardware construction of the airports has been strengthened, and hangars, aircraft bunkers, and aircraft nests have been built to improve the safety factor of the aircraft, and they are always ready to prevent a sudden sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

After all calculations, there were still loopholes, and the special combat team of the Eighth Route Army still successfully attacked Xuzhou Matoushan Airport and Camel Mountain Airport.

As soon as the morning dawned, the flying teams of the Yue Army in Qingdao and Jinan were busy, and they had already received an order last night, saying that the Eighth Route Army had captured Jiaoxian, Gaomi, Anqiu, Linqu, and Boshan, and asked them to set off to bomb the Eighth Route Army. It is a pity that they flew a large circle from Jinan to Anqiu, from Qingdao to Gaomi, except for the quiet county seats, market towns, and villages on the ground, they did not find any trace of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the little devil plane returned to the airport, it was ordered to take off again, and this time the task was to find out the situation at the Matoushan Airport and the Camel Mountain Airport in Xuzhou, and to bomb the possible sneak attack troops of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, before the plane had taken off, it received another order, saying that the commander of the 12th Army, Ogaka Kamizo, had been attacked at the Fangzi Twenty Lipu Airport, and that they should immediately go to reconnoiter and rescue him, and that Commander Otaka Kamezo should not be blown up by mistake.

Bombers and fighters had to be reloaded, and the reconnaissance planes took off first. This time it was not very lucky, except that there were no signs of the activities of the Eighth Route Army, and the reconnaissance plane was attacked by ground fire at the Twenty Lipu airfield, and two were shot down.

Without waiting for further orders from Major General Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of staff of the 12th Army, the formation of bombers and fighters that had already taken off from the airfield slaughtered towards the Twenty Lipu airfield.

After Zhou Yi led the guard battalion to capture Ogaka Kamizang, according to Liu Yimin's order, he sent soldiers to send Ogaka Kamizo to Weicheng and handed it over to Wang Laohu for interrogation, and then began to dig fortifications and camouflage at the airport, preparing to meet the little devil's plane.

Before the deployment was stopped, the little devil's reconnaissance plane flew in from the east and west. Seeing several corpses of the soldiers on the airfield, the little devil's reconnaissance plane actually landed at the airport. Originally, this was a good opportunity to capture the enemy plane, but Zhou Yi had to give up, because the devil only had two planes landing, and the other reconnaissance planes were still hovering in the sky.

In desperation, Zhou Yi had no choice but to order all the machine guns in the guard battalion to open fire. Not bad, not only drove away the devil reconnaissance plane in the sky, but also destroyed the two planes that tried to land.

As a matter of fact, this is also a fluke, mainly because the pilots of the North China Front Aviation Group were frightened by the ground firepower of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army in the past, and as soon as they heard that they were fighting with the main force of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, these guys often chose to drop bombs at high altitudes, and did not dare to engage in any more dive strafing, for fear that if one of them was not good, they would crash into the ground firepower network of the Eighth Route Army and destroy one plane and kill people. Therefore, as soon as it encountered ground fire, it hurriedly pulled up and escaped, and reported to the plane. Otherwise, with the firepower of a guard battalion of the teaching brigade, it is really not an opponent of the little devil plane, and it will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

As soon as the devil's reconnaissance plane left, Zhou Yi commanded the troops to hurry up the deployment, set up a fake air defense position in the airport, and made a lot of grain and straw bales, tied them into straw men, put on military uniforms, and disguised themselves as the troops of the Eighth Route Army were evacuating from the airport. Then, a dozen irregular pits were dug around the airport, covered with sorghum straw, and the soldiers of the guard battalion carried large bird cages, balloons and kites, and hid themselves in the big pits, ready to start the maiden battle of the special air defense team.

Liu Jinping, commander of the guard battalion, was a native of Ruijin, Jiangxi, who joined the Red Army in 1932 and joined the party the following year. When Liu Yimin led the guard division across the Wujiang River, the commander of the 1st Red Army [***] went to meet him, taking away a large number of weapons and prisoners, leaving a battalion to strengthen the Central Guard Division. Liu Jinping was a company instructor of this battalion.

Seeing Zhou Yi crawling in the bunker, his head stretched out outside the bunker, holding a telescope to the sky and observing carefully, Liu Jinping couldn't help but remind him: "Chief of Staff, will this method work?" There are more than 500 soldiers in my guard battalion, if you don't do this, we will become the target of the little devils, and we don't know how to die when the time comes! ”

Zhou Yi didn't reply to his head, and shook him stiffly: "Cowardly? ”

When Liu Jinping heard this, he opened his mouth and said: "! Lao Tzu is an old Red Army soldier who has been a soldier in 32 years, I don't know how many times he has died, will Lao Tzu be afraid of death? I don't want my comrades to die. ”

Zhou Yi put down the binoculars, retracted his head, looked at Liu Jinping, reached out to remove a sorghum leaf hanging on his face, and said confidently: "Don't worry, this plan has been carefully pondered by me and the division commander, and it is foolproof." The teacher said that fighting is art, and fighting hard is what [***] can do, when did we teach the instructor to do that? You know no, this is a thousand pounds of four or two, using worthless balloons, kites and flocks of birds to deal with devil planes, the little devils can't even think of it, do you say it can succeed? Besides, our whole brigade is around here, and I don't know how many machine guns are waiting for the devil planes. As long as they fly here, haha, it's dancing on the firenet. Taking a step back, even if the little devil plane can escape the firepower network of our First Brigade, it will not be able to escape the strangulation of the fighters of the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. Let me tell you, Li Lingfeng and Wang Tongsheng attacked and occupied the Xuzhou airfield in the early hours of this morning and seized 60 military planes, including 20 fighters alone. If my judgment is correct, the division commander has already ordered them to rush here. ”

When Liu Jinping heard it, isn't this the serial killing that the division commander is used to? First they used balloons, kites, and flocks of birds to attack the planes, then they taught the firepower of the 1st Brigade, and then the fighters of the Air Brigade. Obediently, the division commander is going to leave all the little devil's planes behind!

With a smile, Liu Jinping said, "As long as the division commander says yes, then it will be allowed", then he raised his telescope and began to observe.

In fact, Zhou Yi himself has no plan in his heart, and it is theoretically feasible to use balloons, kites and birds to deal with the machine, but after all, it has not been tested in actual combat. This airfield is not as good as the mountainous area, there is no shelter, and if this method fails, then it will be really dangerous for yourself and the brigade guard battalion.

At this time, what Zhou Yi was most looking forward to was that Feng Dafei could lead the fighters of the aviation brigade to the battlefield as soon as possible.

There is only a 70-kilometer difference in a straight line from Jinan to Weicheng and from Qingdao to Weicheng, and it is not long before the devil bombers and fighter formations that took off from Qingdao Airport and the formation that took off from Jinan Airport arrived at Twenty Lipu Airport one after another.

Fearing that Lieutenant General Takaka Kamizo would be killed, the Qingdao military plane formation, which arrived first, did not dare to drop bombs, but first lowered its altitude to conduct circling and reconnaissance.

In this reconnaissance, the little devil found that there was an air defense position of the Eighth Route Army at the airport, and Tubalu seemed to be urgently organizing a retreat, and there were Tubalu scattered and fleeing around the airport.

The captain of the devil brigade who led the team knew in his heart that no matter whether he could rescue Odaka Kamizo or not, he had to solve the air defense position of the Eighth Route Army first, otherwise, once they opened fire, they would cause losses to their own formation. Therefore, without much thought, he directly gave the order to attack the air defense positions.

The devil's planes began to drop bombs at high altitudes, and bombs fell one after another on the camouflaged anti-aircraft positions around the airfield. Of course, the accuracy of high-altitude bombs was not high, and many bombs fell next to camouflaged air defense positions, blowing up a sky full of dust. There are also bombs that fall accurately, and those made of wooden shelves into fake anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns are torn apart.

At this time, the formation of devil fighters that took off from Jinan Airport also arrived, and when they saw that the fighter formation at Qingdao Airport had completed the first round of bomb dropping, they immediately joined the bombing ranks and began the second round of bomb dropping. It wasn't until all the fake air defense heavy firepower that Zhou Yi had worked so hard to bring from the workshop was blown up that the little devil stopped dropping the bomb and took pictures with his camera, preparing to evaluate the bombing effect after he returned.

After taking pictures and confirming that there was no anti-aircraft fire on the ground, the 40 planes of the two groups of devil fighters swooped down towards the airfield in the order of battle formation and began to strafe the scarecrows disguised as the fleeing Eighth Route Army.

Just now, Zhou Yi almost ordered the guard battalion to open fire and use firepower to attract devils. Because he saw that the little devil fighters were only dropping bombs from high altitudes and did not dive and strafe, for fear that they would flutter their wings and fly away after they were blown up. The result was not bad, the little devil did not forget about the grass men disguised as the fleeing Eighth Route Army, and the nose of the plane sprayed flames and rushed down.

Zhou Yi pushed away the sorghum straw above his head, raised the pistol and "bang".

For a time, all the sorghum straws on more than a dozen big pits were pushed away, the birds' cages of the fighters were all opened, and one by one the birds flapped their wings and flew out of the birdcages, chirping, rattling, rushing into the sky, fearlessly rushing towards the devil's plane.

Zhou Yi watched flocks of tens of thousands of birds rushing into the sky in flocks and pounced on enemy planes, he was also stunned, he never thought that the original flock of birds also had such great might, and couldn't help muttering: "The division commander is right, what Lao Tzu released is not birds, but cannonballs!" ”

The devil planes are basically an attack formation of two in groups, and the speed of the dive and strafing is so fast that there is no time to react. No, the first group of planes was hit first, the guy was holding a fighter jet, and he was smiling and shooting, when suddenly a black shadow appeared in front of him, and the word "birds" just appeared in his mind, the windshield was shattered, and a fishy smell penetrated into his nostrils, and his face ached, and his head was tilted, and he fainted. The plane plunged straight into the ground of the airfield and fell apart with a bang.

Then it was his wingman who won the bid, and the guy was luckier than him, and the bird hit his right shoulder socket after breaking through the windshield, and with a shudder of his hand, he let go of the longitudinal bar. Seeing that the plane was about to kiss the flat ground of the airport, although this guy couldn't see anything clearly, he still held back the pain and stubbornly pulled the longitudinal rod, trying to pull the plane up. At this time, the guy's good luck also came to an end, and another bird bumped into him. This time it hit him directly in the eye, and as a result, the guy lost consciousness as soon as his eyes went black, and the landline went to kiss the earth like his long plane.

The pilot in the back didn't know what had happened to his companion in front, and the plane was still diving and strafing in formation, so naturally it kept colliding with the birds, smashing or exploding.

The birds were flying, the birds were singing, and the unfortunate pilots of the army were flying to the ground of the airport one by one in their minds full of incredulity.

After all, the machine guns on the military planes were firing, the tongues of fire formed by the bullets devoured the lives of many birds, and the black pressure on the airport crushed the corpses of many birds, and there was a strong smell of blood. Fortunately, there were enough birds, and they flew and flew without hesitation, until they collided with the plane and brought their souls back to the East.

After the fighters became the trophies of the birds, several bombers were also attacked by the birds and crashed, and began to pull up urgently, trying to escape from the attack of the birds.

Zhou Yi was really a little stunned at this time, he couldn't imagine that the drama of 10,000 birds fighting the plane directed by himself would be so wonderful, it was twenty advanced fighters of the army, and they were injured by the birds one after another, until they fell to the ground and became a pile of waste.

Liu Jinping next to him was also surprised, but unlike Zhou Yi, he didn't have so many ideas, and when he saw that the army bomber was about to pull up, he quickly pulled Zhou Yi, who was in a daze, and then ordered the balloon to be released.

If it was a balloon, the twenty bombers of the little devil might really be able to escape, but the soldiers of the guard battalion each carried a dozen or so balloons full of air in their hands, and more than 500 people, that is, more than 5,000 balloons.

Sure enough, the balloon floated up, and then the east wind flew higher and higher, fluttering, and drifting towards the little devil's bomber.

At this time, the courage of the pilots was almost frightened, and the ears of the radio receivers in the towers of Jinan Airport and Qingdao Airport came from the ears of exclaiming, "Ah! Flock of birds! I've met a flock of birds! "Oh my God, what's that, I met a balloon!" The radio receiver at the airport couldn't understand what the pilots were talking about, they were obviously going to bomb the Eighth Route Army and rescue His Excellency Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, how did they open up with the flock of birds and balloons?

The balloon was originally punctured and burst, but when it encountered a high-speed flying plane, the fragile balloon became a soul messenger, and an explosion meant that a plane was injured, and a series of explosions came, which must be an injury to a plane. As they went along, the bombers began to fall to the ground. At the beginning, the pilots still remember to report to the airport that the fighters were injured, and by the time the plane fell, these pilots were basically seriously injured and unable to ride the plane, and even the report was omitted.

There are also some pilots, navigators, bombardiers, shooters who parachute out, and what awaits them is revenge bullets. Because the soldiers who taught the instructor knew that the division commander was not interested in the captives of the Lord, unless they surrendered voluntarily, they would generally be treated as stubborn resistance. Because the captives are troublesome, and you have to waste food, right? Of course, the Eighth Route Army had the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, and the prisoners who really surrendered their guns must not be shot, and whoever shoots them will be unlucky, and at least they must be locked up for three days.

By the time Feng Dafei rushed to the battlefield with a squadron of fighter jets, there was no shadow of a plane in the sky.

(To be continued)