Chapter 354: I almost grabbed the soil and fertilizer plain
readx; According to the analysis of the Chinese command, Tufeiyuan is likely to concentrate the main force of the division to fight a decisive battle in Lanfeng, and the Luowangzhai Railway Station is only a containment position and will not invest too many troops. As a result www.biquge.info the [***] team successively threw two main divisions into the battle, trying to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop and regain the lost territory.
However, what is surprising is that the Yue army not only did not shrink the defensive circle, but expanded its position around the village of Luowangzhai, and often launched unexpected counterattacks, causing heavy casualties to the attacking troops. The command was deeply anxious and confused, they could not understand why the enemy resistance was so strong, and how many troops the enemy had committed in this small railway station in this small land of projectiles. How many infantry brigades (?) are there. How are the positions distributed? How many cannons are there? Where are the artillery positions located? Where is the Command located? The difficulties of the unknown enemy situation were like a mountain in front of the [***] team, so the special agent captain Lei Ting was once again ordered to infiltrate the enemy formation to reconnoitre.
If a soldier's profession is to deal with death, then a scout is a dance on a blade, and the tasks they take on often hide unpredictable risks, so in addition to being brave and tenacious and not afraid of sacrifice, they also need to be bold and meticulous. Thunder picks two experienced scouts to carry out the mission. As it gets late, and the air is filled with the smoke of fierce battles during the day, the scouts are led by a villager to a forest behind Luowangzhai. It was only a few hundred meters from the enemy position, and the villagers touched a swarthy earthen pit, and then carefully lifted a stone slab, and immediately a hidden hole was revealed under the stone slab.
It turned out to be an underground tunnel leading to the village.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there were bandits in the Central Plains, and the villagers dug this escape tunnel in order to avoid the bandits, but they didn't expect it to come in handy. Thunder led his scouts like a pack of astute groundhogs, crawling through the tunnels for more than an hour before finally getting their way into enemy lines, and then hiding in an abandoned barn.
When the morning fog cleared and the surroundings brightened, the scouts were surprised to see that the enemy had magically turned the train station and the surrounding village into a huge barracks. The enemy not only built many bunkers and firing fortifications, connected the positions with horseshoe-shaped ring trenches, but also cunningly used the terrain to hide his troops in order to launch a surprise counterattack on our troops. After intense observation, the scouts recorded many of the enemy's hard-to-find fortifications and firing positions.
Suddenly, two startled birds caught Thunder's attention, and he noticed something unusual in the bushes a few hundred meters away, and raised his binoculars to take a look, only to see that there was an extremely cleverly camouflaged artillery position that almost fooled the scout's eyes. When another scout inadvertently pointed his telescope at a low house, he saw an even more incredible sight, with a monster peeking out of the window of a black hole, which turned out to be a sinister tank turret. After continuous observation, Thunder came to an astonishing conclusion, that is, the enemy's strength was no less than 3,000 men!
At noon, the sound of gunfire was fierce, and it was a feint launched by our troops to cooperate with the reconnaissance operation. At this time, an important enemy situation suddenly appeared, and about a thousand enemies rumbled out of the village and entered the railway station through the trenches to support. Thunder was stunned by the scene in front of him, so many enemies were just gurgling out like an underground river, if this was the enemy's reserve, then with the enemy in the fortifications, the total number of troops was likely to be no less than four thousand!
Thunder couldn't help but be taken aback by his conclusion. This means that the enemy has reached the size of at least one main wing, which is much larger than the one brigade mentioned in the original intelligence. The cunning enemy finally shows his fox tail, and they are playing a game of deception with the [***] team in order to stall for help. The scouts were all in a state of great agitation, and they lay in the barn and did not dare to come out, hoping that it would soon get dark so that this important information could be delivered.
The time seemed to stand still, and when the sun finally sank in the west, the trees dragged a long tired figure, and an unexpected danger suddenly appeared.
Several enemies approached the barn where the scout was hiding.
Walking in front was an officer, dressed in a yellow tweed uniform, bareheaded, and carrying a saber at his waist. They were followed by guards, rifles on their shoulders and eyes wide and wary. The air in the barn suddenly froze, the scouts loaded their bullets and daggers in their hands, and Thunder made a resolute gesture to his comrades, which meant that once the target was exposed, he would fire first to destroy the enemy, covering his comrades and sending the information back.
Fortunately, the enemy came to a stop when he was not far from the scout, perhaps it was the mosquitoes and flies flying in the barn and the stench that came out of it that stopped him from walking. The enemy officer opened his collar and looked relaxed, unaware of the presence of several pairs of vigilant eyes and black muzzles in the stinking abandoned barn in front of him.
This was the rear of his position, and the officer was in a very relaxed mood, he just walked around, smoked a cigarette, and breathed air, and then he unbuttoned his crotch and stood under the tree to pee. At this moment a beam of slanting sun pierced through the trees, and shone like a spotlight on the officer, and the thunder almost cried out, and the great surprise almost made his eyes fall out, for the scout could see clearly without a telescope, and the enemy's officer's badge was adorned with a shiny thing, which was a gold star.
He was a major general.
In this army, the distinction between ranks is extremely strict, and the commander of the wing is Dazuo, the brigade commander is a major general, and the division commander is a lieutenant general. The unexpected appearance of the enemy's major general illustrates at least the fact that the enemy commander of the unit is a brigade commander, and it is inferred that the force should be at least two main wings. According to the regulations of the army's combat sequence, the main force wing can be equipped with artillery, engineers, cavalry, baggage transport brigades, and so on, so this enemy force may even reach a record number of tens of thousands.
To the great regret of the scouts, if they had not been burdened with heavy responsibilities and did not dare to expose their targets easily, they would never have missed this God-given opportunity to kill or capture General Yumoto alive with their own hands. That night, the scouts returned to their positions by the same route, and important information was quickly delivered to the higher headquarters. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the Soviet heavy bombers who had just arrived at the Wuhan airport to secretly dispatch them, and they were bound to give this cunning enemy a head-on blow!
The Zhongzheng squadron of the "God of War in the Air" secretly transferred to a field airfield in the Central Plains and ambushed under the nose of the enemy to carry out a combat mission to escort bombers.
The new pilot, Yu Shicheng, sat in the cabin and stayed up all night.
As far as fighters are concerned, field airfields are equivalent to temporary sortie positions, because there were no air tankers at that time, and fighters had limited fuel and a short flight range, so they had to be stationed at field airfields in advance to lay ambushes. However, stationed at a field airfield often involves taking great risks, because once the enemy discovers it, the consequences are unimaginable, and such tragedies often occurred in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
It was getting dark, and a code signal came from the radio indicating that our bomber group had taken off from the rear airfield. The battle alarm sounded, the motor was activated, and the fighter slid to the runway to stand by. Second Lieutenant Yu Shicheng was designated as the captain's wingman, and he saw that the sea was receding in the dark night, and the eastern sky was beginning to be dyed red by a ray of morning light, and the bright sky indicated that there would be a sunny and good weather in the eastern Henan theater. The new pilot could not help but be secretly worried, because the tactical instructor had said that fighters lacking cloud cover had less room for maneuver, and that the planes were often superior in numbers, and a sunny day was not good for the Chinese fighters serving as escorts.
At about 7 o'clock, the radio again heard a coded signal, indicating that the bomber group had approached the airspace of the war zone. With an order, the entire Zhongzheng fleet attacked, one followed by the other and lifted into the air, and after the large group of planes completed the formation in the air, it flew towards the eastern sky in the morning sun.
With a thunderstorm and a shock in the sky, the new pilot Yu Shicheng drove a fighter plane to the battlefield full of deep hatred for the enemy. Soon the lead plane began to shake its wings, which was a signal to spot my bomber group. Yu Shicheng saw that at nine o'clock, there was indeed a large group of silver shining bright spots moving rapidly, and the battle pride stirred in the pilot's chest was suddenly ignited. Look, this is a group of powerful Soviet bombers that came to China to help in the war; Flying above it are light bombers commonly known as "Katyusha", which swim deftly in the blue air like a group of slender sword sharks. The slower flying force of the operation, the Ilyushin-3 heavy bombers, bomb-carrying behemoths nicknamed "fin whales in the air" were the latest new weapons of the Soviets to enter the battlefield, and they looked a lot like black whales riding the waves and scaring any enemy on the ground. The two major aircraft groups converged in the air and regrouped, the Chinese fighters occupied a high altitude to serve as escorts, and the bombers followed closely in a "human" formation with geese in formation, and the Chinese and Soviet planes went straight to the bombing target.
Flying to the combat zone, red and blue signal flares are fired from the ground to indicate the enemy's position for the aircraft group. The Chinese and Soviet planes changed their formation again, and Yu Shicheng followed closely with the escort plane to raise the altitude, and was ready to intercept the enemy planes that came to sneak attack at any time. The group of bombers continued to lower their altitude, and they were like schools of fish swimming back to spawn, calmly pulling away one after another, with light bombers in front and heavy bombers in formation, and then began to perform the classic "Korov style" dive bomb drop of the Soviet army.
This was the most perfect cooperation between the Chinese and Soviet air forces since the Anti-Japanese War.
The first light bomber swooped down against the ground, almost grazing the rooftops and treetops, and then dropped the bomb on the enemy's head exactly the moment it raised its nose.
"Korov type" means ultra-low-altitude strike. Then came the real battlefield protagonist. The Soviet heavy bombers with a wide wingspan were like bomb warehouses flying in the sky, flying unhurriedly over enemy lines, taking a graceful and unhurried posture like ovulating whales, and expelling the powerful bombshells and incendiary bombs from their bodies in a steady stream. For a moment, the calm air seemed to be stirred by a giant hand, and the enemy position first glowed with a dazzling golden wave, followed by a mushroom cloud. The planes repeatedly circled and dropped bombs until the bomb bays were emptied, and the heavy bombardment turned the enemy position into a magma eruption volcano, and the enemy was burned alive by the magma even if he was not killed.
The Chinese pilots were deeply encouraged by the fact that they witnessed the Soviet planes carrying out air strikes against the enemy, and their morale was greatly boosted, and Yu Shicheng and his comrades-in-arms always occupied a high altitude and were 100 times more vigilant, never giving the enemy a chance. This is because the closer we get to the end of the battle, the more dangerous it is, and at this time we do not have much fuel left, and the air battle is unfavorable to us, and the bombers have large targets and slow speeds, and the consequences of encountering enemy planes are even more unpredictable. However, the pilots were greatly relieved that the fighter did not appear on this day, and the Chinese and Soviet planes completed their mission without interference, and then returned home in victory.
Unexpectedly, at the end of the battle, an accident occurred, and a foreign plane of unknown origin suddenly intruded into the airspace of the theater, which surprised the Chinese fighters. When they rushed forward as if they were on the verge of a great enemy, they recognized that it was an American biplane trainer plane, and the pilot was waving to them proudly. It turned out that this bold American was none other than Chennault, the legendary hero of the American "Flying Tigers," who was destined to become famous all over the world. As Chiang Kai-shek's personal observer, Lieutenant Colonel Chennault, who was an adventurous observer, flew a training plane to the battlefield many times, and later he mentioned to others that he was deeply impressed by the perfect cooperation between the Chinese and Soviet planes.
On this day, when Yu Shicheng flew the fighter plane back to the rear airfield, the young pilot could not help but feel a trace of regret in his heart, and he saved his desire to shoot down the enemy plane with his own hands for the next battle.
Scouts lurked at the front of the enemy line, and their task was to indicate targets for the bombing of our aircraft.
Soon after dawn, there was a thunderous roar of motors in the sky, and Thunder quickly raised his head, and he saw a black and oppressive group of planes in the southern sky, which soon covered the sky like dark clouds. The old scout was almost stunned, and if he hadn't learned in advance that this was a massive air raid by our army, he wouldn't have dared to believe his eyes.
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Thunder could see clearly through the binoculars, and the soldiers in the trenches were running around in a panic like ants doused with boiling water. An enemy commander wields a long knife and tries to organize fire-to-air fire, but short-range fire from the ground is hardly a threat to the aircraft and is largely useless. Now it's the turn of the Chinese to raise their eyebrows. The scouts repeatedly fired signal flares into the air, and those happy elves that took off into the air were simply festive fireworks for the Chinese people
As the planes dive-bombed, the weak resistance of the bombers was immediately drowned in the raging waves set off by the bombs, and the carpet bombing of the heavy bombers completely shattered any illusion that he had escaped the blow. The earth shook violently, flames rose into the air, the goddess of vengeance sang happily, the death elves danced wildly, enemy fortifications were reduced to ruins, and severed limbs were thrown high into the air. The Chinese officers and soldiers stood up and cheered loudly despite the danger, and the position turned into a sea of joy.
At the end of the bombing, the enemy, who was lucky not to be killed, came out of the ground to repair the fortifications, and suddenly several fighters drilled out, and the bullets of revenge poured on the enemy's head like a torrential rain, causing the enemy's flesh and blood to fly and cry for his father. This kind of ultra-low-altitude sneak attack is the result of what the Chinese pilots have learned from the enemy, and it is said that this kind of rifle tactic is often used to kill and injure Chinese people, which is exactly in line with the theory of "treating people in the way they govern them, and treating them in their own way."
The bombing of the planes destroyed the enemy's painstakingly constructed defensive line and razed to the ground the strongholds and artillery positions that were blocking our attack. Next, our army attacked like a tide, officers and soldiers rushed into the enemy's fortifications from all directions, except for some of the remnants of the enemy who had already broken through and fled in the direction of Lanfeng, most of the devils had either been killed by planes or eliminated by the unstoppable Chinese officers and soldiers. The lost territory was finally recovered, and the national flag symbolizing victory was raised at the Luowangzhai Railway Station
Thunder led the scouts straight to the enemy's headquarters, and the documents they captured proved that the enemy was indeed a brigade!
Later, while cleaning up the battlefield, Thunder accidentally captured an extraordinary trophy, which was a saber that looked extremely elegant and extraordinary. The saber was hung on the wall of one bedroom, the brass scabbard was intricately carved with a golden chrysanthemum flower that symbolized noble status.
Lei Ting was puzzled, because he knew that the golden chrysanthemum was the imperial emblem of the royal family, could it be that this knife was actually a saber given by the emperor? The Imperial Saber is often given only to a very small number of high-ranking generals, and is regarded as the "soul of a soldier" and the supreme honor, so who is the owner of this Imperial Saber? Why didn't he even take away the imperial saber that was more important than his surname, was he killed?
The Scout held his breath and carefully drew his chilling saber. When he saw the row of Chinese characters engraved on the blade, he couldn't help but scream.
It turns out that this row of Chinese characters is "Tohihara Kenji".
Later, it was found out that Kenji Hihara, the enemy chieftain, was not killed, and he escaped in a hurry under the desperate cover of the remnants, and he didn't even have time to take away the imperial saber, and the embarrassment of his state can be imagined. The news that the commander of the enemy's division was almost captured alive was immediately reported to the base camp through the radio waves, and the Yuci saber was also quickly sent to the Kaifeng headquarters, and then transferred to Wuhan, becoming one of the most important trophies of the Chinese [***] team since the Anti-Japanese War.
When the news came, the whole country was shocked.
It was rumored that Gao Fei's 26th Division was originally able to capture Kenji Dohihara alive, but the commander of the 26th Division, Gao Fei, pinched his fingers and calculated, Kenji Tohihara's life should not be extinguished, so he deliberately let him have a way to live, leaving it to be captured alive later
When this reached Goofy's ears, Goofy could only smile bitterly. If he really had a chance to capture and kill Kenji Dohihara alive, would he let him live?
It's just that ordinary people tend to turn an originally ordinary little thing on the battlefield into a far-fetched supernatural event, and then give it a layer of mystery, that's all.
But the protagonist in the story, such as Goofy, has a special layer of mystery in the hearts of ordinary people.
And such stories abound in China's thousands of years of long history!
(To be continued)