Chapter Twenty-Six: The Battle of the Forest River (Supplemental Edition)
One after another, American planes painted in the blue sky and white sun roared from afar, and these planes were all three-plane formations, that is, every three planes formed a triangular battle formation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ The plane flew through the clouds, and when it flew over a county town, the two doors in the belly of the plane opened, and rows of bombs immediately rolled out of the cabin, falling from the sky like dumplings, and when the bombs fell to the ground, they immediately exploded. With a series of rumbling explosions, puffs of black smoke rushed into the sky. Against the backdrop of the blazing firelight, the strong and powerful Wei stele font "Lin River" carved above the city gate hole is particularly eye-catching.
Although the Linhe River is a key target of the PLA, the PLA's troops are mainly deployed around the county seat, and there are no combat units in the city, and there are only a few observation and observation and communication personnel. The Air Force reconnaissance plane's previous aerial reconnaissance did not find a **** military target in Linhe. However, the Air Force did not care about the fact that there were no enemy combat troops in Linhe, and large residential areas also became the target of air raids at this time. For the *** Air Force, bombing residential areas in communist areas has long been commonplace.
During the period of the Red Army, in addition to bombing the military targets of the Red Army, the Air Force also wantonly bombed the undefended urban and rural areas of the Red Army base areas on many occasions. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the bombing of peaceful towns in the communist areas by the air force became more rampant and frequent, and lasted until the Kinmen artillery battle in 1958. When planes painted with blue sky and white sun symbols dropped strings of bombs to slaughter unarmed civilians, how could all those who planned and participated in the bombing have thought that the people who died in the air raids were Chinese with their own blood thicker than water, the same roots, and the same family? On the contrary, when these murderers were counterattacked by the Communist Party, some people shouted and insulted the Chinese and beat the Chinese shamefully!
Many houses in Linhe are wooden structures, with wooden doors, wooden windows, wooden columns, wooden beams, wooden purlins, and wooden rafters covered with thick wheat straw, which ignite when they see fire. As a result, as soon as the bombing began, the county town was already in flames.
Before the bombardment by enemy planes stopped, some PLA officers and men hurriedly ran into the city to put out the fire and save people. A 27-8-year-old man with a slender body, thin eyebrows, and a high nose rushed into a burning house, and after a while, he ran out with a crying girl in his arms. The streets were littered with the bodies of lying civilians, their relatives lying beside them and weeping bitterly. Many of the houses were still blazing, spitting black smoke and making the sound of peeling off. From time to time, some houses collapsed, and there was a loud noise, kicking up a cloud of dust.
The People's Liberation Army stood on the street with the girl in his arms, staring at the tragic situation of the broken family in front of him, his tightly knit eyebrows joined into a thick black line, and his round eyes erupted with two blazing fires. He is Feng Tao.
Feng Tao's chest fell sharply together at this time. Back then, when he first met his sweetheart in ZQ, he was just in time for the devil plane to bomb ZQ, and he and she hurriedly ran out of the hotel where they met and hid in a dry bridge hole under a stone bridge. Watching some residential areas that had no military significance at all being blown up and set on fire, he couldn't help but curse the devil for his bestial nature, and that beautiful woman expressed the same righteous indignation. Now, in the ancient city of Linhe, the unarmed and peaceful residents have once again been subjected to the furious slaughter of the air bandits. However, this time, the bestial air bandit is not the RB devil who has been defeated and surrendered, but the so-called *** air force whose blood is thicker than water with the victims, has the same roots, and is close to the family.
During the period of the Red Army, in addition to bombing the military targets of the Red Army, the Air Force also wantonly bombed the undefended urban and rural areas of the Red Army base areas on many occasions. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the bombing of peaceful towns in the communist areas by the air force became more rampant and frequent, and lasted until the Kinmen artillery battle in 1958. When planes painted with blue sky and white sun symbols dropped strings of bombs to slaughter unarmed civilians, how could all those who planned and participated in the bombing have thought that the people who died in the air raids were Chinese with their own blood thicker than water, the same roots, and the same family? On the contrary, when these murderers were counterattacked by the Communist Party, some people shouted humanely and sanctimoniously that it was shameful for the Chinese to beat the Chinese!
Seeing the enemy plane flying away proudly, Feng Tao couldn't help but take a sip, "Wolf-hearted, you have the ability to throw bombs to Tokyo, what kind of thing is it to blow up your own compatriots!" β
A thick-lipped young soldier with a long broom who was extinguishing the flames turned around and asked, "Battalion commander, what do you mean by this?" β
Feng Tao handed the girl to a female cadre who came over, and then also picked up a long broom and said while putting out the fire: "During the Anti-Japanese War, RB devils killed people and set fires everywhere in our country, and even ****** Song Meiling's residence was bombed by devil planes several times. However, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the *** Air Force never dropped a bomb on the RB mainland. Only once in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. According to Song Meiling, the mother of the *** Air Force, throwing bombs will harm RB civilians. β
Speaking of this, Feng Tao snorted again, "****** Song Meiling is worried that throwing a bomb at RB will hurt the people of RB, so she can't do it." But they have repeatedly dropped bombs in the JF area, so why are they not afraid of harming the innocent people of their country? How can this be done? β
Everyone bowed their heads together and put out the fire with brooms, and no one could answer Feng Tao's questions. Yes, why could the eternal couple order their subordinate air force planes to frequently bomb unarmed "bandits", but never ordered planes to bomb RB people?
At this time, a small soldier ran over, "Feng, Battalion Commander Feng, the enemy has begun to attack again." β
"Huh?" Feng Tao put down the broom, turned around and walked with the little soldier.
A thick-lipped soldier gently poked a young soldier next to him who was also putting out the fire at this time, "Xiao Jiang, correspondent Ye Jin must have a task to call the battalion commander at this time, right?" β
Xiao Jiang only lowered his head to put out the fire and did not say anything.
The Lynn River is now a world of fire and smoke. The Jianghuai People's Liberation Army wearing gray military uniforms and the Jiang army wearing yellow military uniforms launched a tug-of-war here that lasted for many days, and the fighting was extremely fierce. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought a civil war, but the weapons used by the armies of the two parties were highly international. From the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy to the War of Resistance Against Japan, some countries have successively exported a large number of weapons and equipment to the Japanese army for the purpose of using, co-opting, and controlling the country, or simply for the purpose of making money by selling goods, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, they received all the arms of one million Japanese invaders who invaded China. Because weapons come from dozens of countries, some people have always jokingly called the *** army a universal arms expo.
Some weapons ran out of ammunition, but foreign countries no longer exported ammunition, and it was difficult to imitate, so they had to be eliminated. However, by the time the civil war broke out in 1946, the weapons used by the army were still as many as more than a dozen countries such as the United States, Britain, Japan, the Soviet Union, Germany, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Among them, the first-class troops of the Central Army are basically American-style equipment mixed with a small amount of British and Canadian equipment, second-rate troops and a small number of local armies are a small amount of American-style equipment mixed with a large number of weapons from other countries, and third-rate troops and most local armies are mixed and matched without American goods. Since the founding of the Communist Party, the source of weapons has always relied on battlefield capture, so the PLA also uses Wanguo brand weapons.
Now, attacking Linhe is the 74th Army, a first-class unit of the Central Army, which is basically American-style equipment. The weapons of the People's Liberation Army are mainly Japanese-style equipment captured during the Anti-Japanese War, and although there is a small amount of American-British equipment in the mixed Wanguo brand weapons, they are all light weapons, and the overall equipment strength is far behind that of the opposing Jiang army. Relying on the superiority of weapons, Chiang's army poured bombs, shells, and bullets as dense as raindrops onto the PLA positions, and the piercing and sharp explosions continued. Many villages behind the positions were also shrouded in black smoke, and white lime slogans on the walls of some houses were still clearly visible:
- "Resolutely fight the second battle to defend the Linhe!" β
- "Resolutely defend the fruits of land reform, swear to defend the JAC JF area to the death, and welcome the New Year with a battle victory!" β
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Feng Tao led the 1st Battalion to seize a village that had just been occupied by Chiang's army, and the soldiers quietly crawled forward using trees, artemisia grass, and ditches as cover. Despite the soldiers' great attention to concealment, the enemy forces at the entrance of the village spotted the opponent who was operating during the day, so all kinds of firearms hurriedly opened fire, and the PLA immediately opened fire. Dense fires shuttled back and forth, and splashed dust flew in all directions. The piercing sound of gunfire startled the sparrows perched nearby to flap their wings and fly into the air. Although people on both sides were shot and fell from time to time, neither of them would back down, and the fierce fire continued.
As soon as Feng Tao rushed behind a large willow tree very close to the enemy, several bullets flew towards him, hitting the trunk of the tree, making a "dangdang" sound. Feng Tao waved the German-style shell gun, and with a bang, a row of bullets swept over, and several enemy soldiers fell. Xiao Mao and Xiao Jiang behind him immediately threw out the grenade, boom, and the smoke from the explosion spread rapidly. At this time, Feng Tao took advantage of the smoke cover, rushed to the soldiers who killed Jiang Jun, inserted his pistol, picked up Jiang Jun's American Tom submachine gun, and swept at the Jiang army who was still resisting, and an officer, the machine gunner and several soldiers around him immediately fell to the ground. When the other Jiang soldiers saw that the official was dead, and their opponents were approaching, they panicked, turned around and fled from the village.
Feng Tao turned around and shouted, "Comrades, rush in!" β
In a house with an open door, a major Jiang Jun held a telephone in his hand and proudly reported to his superiors: "Yes, I am talking to you in Zhangmiao Village, we have occupied Zhangmiao Village. If we continue to fight like this, we will be able to capture the county seat of Linhe in one day at mostβah! β
A volley of bullets swept over, and the major and several officers and soldiers around him fell, and the other soldiers ran in a hurry.
Feng Tao led his soldiers to run quickly past the fallen Jiang Jun and rushed forward. The telephone that was still reporting just now was hanging on the pillar at this moment, and an anxious voice came from the microphone of the telephone that was swaying back and forth, "Hey! Battalion Commander Ma, how are you there? Speak, hey! Why don't you speak? β