Chapter 639 Black Carbon Bar

There was silence in the war room of the North China Front Headquarters. The staff officers had already seen from Shanshan Yuan's demeanor when he answered the phone that it was not a good thing, and they all pretended to be more well-behaved than cats, and those who stood and sat did not say a word, for fear of disturbing the commander and bringing them unwarranted disasters.

What stunned Shanshan Yuan was still to come.

At 6:55 a.m., Lieutenant General Kinoshita, commander of the North China Aviation Group, again reported that the losses at Xuzhou's Luotuoshan Airport and Guanyinshan Airport had been preliminarily clarified, and that all 60 warplanes had been destroyed. At the same time, it received a report that the frontline airfield in Dexian County was attacked by fighters of the Eighth Route Army, where there were 20 fighters ordered to take off.

The war had just begun, and the fighter plane had lost 80 planes before it took off, and Shanshan Yuan could no longer control it, and scolded Kinoshita Toshi on the phone, asking him to immediately apologize to His Majesty the Emperor.

It is no wonder that Shanshanyuan was furious, at this time, Xuzhou Guanyinshan Airport and Camel Mountain Airport were full of smoke and fire, and there was not a complete fighter plane in sight. The front-line airfield in Dexian County was also groaning in the ravages of the Eighth Route Army's fighter formation.

David hasn't flown a plane for a long time since the Japanese planes attacked the Eighth Route Army airfield in Shaanxi on a large scale, and today is the killing ring.

Dexian County is a little more than 300 kilometers away from Dadian in a straight line, which is farther than the distance from Dadian to Xuzhou. Therefore, when Feng Dafei completed his mission in Xuzhou, David and the others arrived at the Japanese front-line airfield in Dexian County.

At this time, the sky was about to dawn, the pre-dawn darkness was gradually dissipating, the morning light was beginning to dew, and the Japanese fighters had begun to take off.

When Feng Dafei formulated the battle plan, he had already taken into account that the Japanese army would be on guard, and the time difference of more than ten or twenty minutes was enough for the devil fighter to take off and enter the combat position. Therefore, in addition to four heavy bombers and six light bombers, the first batch of formations to go to the Dexian airfield to carry out bombing missions arranged for four retired US military flight instructors, David, Nick, Rothsson, and Sorens, to serve as fighter pilots, with David as the commander. The purpose of this arrangement is that in case of a Japanese fighter taking off, with the skills and experience of Davy, Nick, Rothschild, and Sorens, there is no problem with one enemy and two enemies.

When David led the formation to arrive at the Japanese front-line airfield in Dexian County, he encountered Japanese fighters taking off one after another.

David immediately ordered the bombers to attack, beckoning Nick, Rothschild, and Sorens to pounce on the Japanese fighters.

The plane is the same plane, and the tease is a Type 97 fighter. The difference is that the symbol on the Japanese fighter is the sun flag, and the symbol on the fighter plane of the Eighth Route Army is the word "August 1".

David condescendingly pounced, facing a Japanese plane that had just been pulled up, and the tongue of fire from the on-board machine gun was like a whip of God slammed into the face of the Japanese pilot, and the guy didn't even have a chance to shout, so he fell headlong.

David didn't stop, and the plane swept over the Japanese airfield, and the machine guns kept strafing, destroying a taxiing fighter on the spot.

This Type 97 fighter has two machine guns each with 500 rounds of ammunition when performing missions, and can carry 220 kg of aerial bombs at the same time. The Eighth Route Army lacked aviation ammunition, so the fighters were not allowed to carry bombs, so the fighters were lighter, faster, and more responsive.

By the time David pulled the plane up, the heavy bombers and light bombers of the Eighth Route Army had already pounced and began to drop bombs and sweep ****.

David was experienced in combat and was most fond of attacking Japanese oil depots. The Japanese airfield in Dexian County was a newly built field airfield, that is, a temporary airfield, and there was no underground oil depot or ammunition depot, and the Japanese army's oil drums and ammunition were piled up on the airfield. It's just that now the Japanese army has learned well, and it is not as stupid as it was at the beginning, and the ammunition and gasoline are stored in separate areas, and they are covered with canvas, which is generally not visible in peacetime. At this time, some Japanese planes had completed refueling and reloading and were taking off, and some planes were refueling and emboldening, and the bright lights and busy ground crews pointed out the direction of attack for the fighters of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as David saw that the Japanese fighters that were taking off just now had been killed by Nick, Rothschild, and Sorens, and that there were only fighters of the Eighth Route Army over the airfield, he immediately ordered to save ammunition and attack the oil depot and ammunition depot of the Japanese airfield.

Under the guidance of David, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, which had completed the first wave of attacks, no longer picked up the Japanese ground crews running around the airport, nor did they pay attention to the anti-aircraft fire of the airport guard units, and split into two in the air and threw themselves at the Japanese oil depot and ammunition depot.

The first to explode was the oil depot. The buckets of things were neatly arranged, like a hill, the planes of the Eighth Route Army swept by, the machine guns smashed the oil drums to pieces, and the gasoline flowed all over the ground, and even the bombs didn't need to be used anymore, and the bullets detonated when they hit them.

First the fire erupted, followed by one explosion after another. The devil ground crews who were carrying oil drums and had not yet woken up from the horror of the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes falling from the sky were completely happy now, and they were all splashed with gasoline, and soon began to burn with the fire and explosion.

The howls of ghosts and wolves were mixed with the sound of explosions, which looked extremely poignant. Soon, these little devils were rolling and struggling on the airport wrapped in a fire. But what can that do? The little devil can only turn into charred black carbon strips.

Almost at the same time as the oil depot caught fire and exploded, the ammunition depot was also blown up by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, and the aerial bombs and airborne machine gun bullets stacked on the airport became automatically fired bullets and shells, flying in all directions like those exploding oil drums, chasing the figures of the Japanese ground staff and soldiers of the guard troops, chasing, getting in, and tearing apart. It's hard to say about the unlucky, each with its own death. The most typical little devil was inserted from the back by a piece of shrapnel, firmly nailed to the tire of a car at the airport, and led the fire on his body to the car, which came to the end of burning the car and the car.

David still has the old habit of not looking back at all to check the results, he knows that the little devil airport is over, there is no need to check, and he directly led the formation to the outlying positions of the Japanese army in Dexian County. This guy has been in the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and he also knows that our army's ammunition basically relies on capture, especially aviation ammunition, all of which comes from capture, and cannot be wasted casually, and must be thrown on the head of the little devil to count.

It was only when the explosions at the oil depot and ammunition depot at the Dexian airport subsided that nearby troops arrived at the scene.

The tragic situation in front of him frightened the little devil. On the huge field airfield, let alone a complete plane, it is very difficult to find a complete corpse.

The devil commander who led the reinforcements did not give up, took off his white gloves, and cleaned up with the soldiers, trying to find a living person, even if it was a seriously wounded person, so that he could tell him about the bombing of the Eighth Route Army planes so that he could write a report. As a result, not a single living person was found, but many charred bones were found. Placing a tool on the tarmac looks like a charcoal seller showing off the quality of his carbon and putting charcoal on the ground to sell.

When the frightened commander returned to the station, he wrote a letter directly to his wife. The letter reads: "Dear Yezi: Today, a front-line airfield in Dexian County, where I am located, was attacked by planes of the Eighth Route Army. They used planes and bombs captured from the Imperial Army, destroyed all 20 Imperial Army fighters at the airport, and also destroyed the airport's oil depot and ammunition depot. The aviation, ground crew, and guard units at the airport were all shattered, and most of them died in the explosion of the fuel depot and the explosion of the ammunition depot. Some of them were burned into black sticks by gasoline, a bit like the black charcoal bars used for heating in the winter. That's right, it's black charcoal.

Dear Hazi, when I parted from you, I was full of confidence and determined to fight for His Majesty the Emperor and for the Holy War in Greater East Asia. But now I'm a little worried, I don't know if I can wait until the day when the Eighth Route Army in North China will be completely wiped out. Death, I'm not afraid. I'm afraid that after death, I will be like those broken jade soldiers at the airport today, and I will turn into a black, cold black charcoal bar. In that case, even if you and your children come to worship, they won't recognize me. Maybe it's a mistake.

Dear Yezi, please hurry up and find your brother, and ask him to help find someone to transfer me back to my homeland. You don't know, this place in North China is hot to death in summer and cold to death in winter, and you have to beware of a sneak attack that the Eighth Route Army may launch at any time. I spend my days here like a year, and I wake up scared when I sleep at night. Remember, I can't let anyone see this letter, I'll be miserable. ”

Shanshan Yuan didn't know the details of the matter at the Dexian Airport, and at this moment he only knew from Kinoshita Min's phone call that the Dexian frontline airport had also been attacked by the Eighth Route Army fighters. also scolded Kinoshita Min on the phone, and asked him to commit suicide by caesarean section

On the occasion of the war, it is an absolute taboo for soldiers to kill the enemy.

Nicknamed the "Infantry Cannon", Yamashita Fengfumi, although he is young and good at attacking and sneak attacks, he is meticulous and knows that if he lets Kinoshita Toshita commit suicide by disembowelment at this time, it will not only be useless, but also will mess up his own position.

Compared with veteran warlords such as Sugi Sugimoto and Terauchi Shouichi, the backbone generals of the Japanese army like Yamashita Fumi are more enterprising, and they are more disgusted with those guys who are on a vegetarian meal if they are left in peacetime, as long as Sugi Sugimoto dares to say that Kinoshita will commit suicide by disembowelment, Yamashita Fumi will immediately rush to the aviation group headquarters with the military police, forcing Kinoshita Toshimi to disembowelment immediately, and he will not wait for a while.

After Yamashita Fufumi saluted Sugi Moto, he said, "Your Excellency Commander, Lieutenant General Kinoshita Toshita should have died a long time ago, how many planes did he lose in his hands?" How many good pilots have jade broken? He is simply a disgrace to the army aviation of the Great Japanese Imperial Japan, and the problem is that he cannot be allowed to die now. Your Excellency, Commander, please think twice."

Shanshan Yuan was also angry, so he said that he wanted Kinoshita to commit suicide by disembowelment. Yamashita Fengwen reminded him that letting Kinoshita Toshimi commit suicide by disembowelment at this time is tantamount to giving up air cover for a while, no matter how stupid Shanshan Yuan is, he can't be stupid at this point, not to mention that he is not stupid at all?

Shanshan Yuan picked up the phone again, wanted to get through Kinoshita's phone, and ordered him to inform the Combined Fleet, the flight regiments, and the airfield again that the Eighth Route Army Air Force was still in Shandong, and it was necessary to guard against their sneak attack. At the same time, Shanshan Yuan ordered Kinoshita Toshitoshi to quickly dispatch a group to cover the attack of the ground forces and find and annihilate the aviation of the Eighth Route Army.

Originally, Shanshan Yuan also wanted to order Kinoshita Toshitoshi to take crazy revenge on Shandong and not let go of any city and village. However, he can't do this now, because aviation ammunition is too precious to be wasted.

Shanshanyuan also has no choice, Liu Yimin is not only fighting ambush warfare and annihilation warfare, he is still fighting economic warfare. Not to mention anything else, the two attacks on Tianjin and Qingdao alone made little Japan suffer. One is that all the supplies reserved by the North China Front have become those of the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army has to urgently replenish the North China Front from home and northeast. As a result, Japan's domestic military industrial enterprises are on fire, factories are unable to fulfill the military department's urgent orders, and all industries of the national economy are tilting toward military industrial enterprises, resulting in an even more deformed Japanese economy, which has led to a rise in prices. In addition, when Liu Yimin attacked and occupied Tianjin and Qingdao, he carried out a sweep of Japanese-funded banks, and the Eighth Route Army opened the Bohai Bank with a total share capital of 100 million yuan, which was unlucky in Japan, because Japan's largest bank, the Shojin Bank, would have gone bankrupt if it had not been for the government's emergency capital injection, and the Japanese government had to issue more banknotes, resulting in the depreciation of the yen, soaring prices, and inflation. The current Japanese army is not the Japanese army at the beginning of the war, they have begun to be poor.

Of course, Japan is, after all, a modern economic power, and if they want to reach the point that Liu Yimin said they are so poor that they can't even wear pants, the Eighth Route Army has to work hard.

Shanshanyuan didn't know that Kinoshita Min didn't think about committing suicide by caesarean section at all, he had now become an old fox, and he knew that Shanshanyuan would not make such a low-level mistake as slashing in battle, and it would be easy to do it when Shanshanyuan was angry. He even wondered if he would get some blood, send some gold bars to Shanshan Yuan and Yamashita Fengwen, and send a few more female signal soldiers by the way. As soon as these two things are delivered, I believe that Commander Shanshanyuan will immediately become his backer.

In fact, Yamashita Fengfumi also misunderstood Kinoshita Toshi. He has done his best, not only made careful arrangements and strengthened the security and defense of the airport, but also set up traps in Beiping, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang, engaged in camouflage, and waited for the fighters of the Eighth Route Army to jump into the traps. Including Xuzhou Airport, Kinoshita Toshi has put a lot of effort into building a hidden hangar. If the fighters of the Eighth Route Army were to bomb in peacetime, in addition to being able to bomb back some airfield facilities, it would be impossible to achieve more great results. But now is not peacetime, his fighters must be dispatched to cover the movement of ground troops and bomb the positions of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, he ordered that the fighters at all airfields must take off before dawn and take up the task of guarding the airfield. It's just that the tactics of the Eighth Route Army Air Force are more advanced than him, and they feel his pulse, and when he is at his weakest, he has no power to fight back. Fortunately, there are not many planes at the two airports in Xuzhou and the front-line airport in Dexian, and Kinoshita's main forces are hidden in the big airports of Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Taiyuan, and he still has a chance.

After receiving Shanshanyuan's order, Kinoshita Toshiya ordered all fighter flight teams to take off in accordance with the battle plan, provide cover for the ground troops, and search for and destroy the Eighth Route Army Air Force; The bomber flight team is on standby at any time, and once it discovers that the Eighth Route Army is blocking, it will immediately take off, blow up the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army, and cover the rapid attack of the ground troops.

Kinoshita Toshi was ruthless this time, and his orders were murderous: "Discover all the troops of the Eighth Route Army who dare to resist, destroy all the positions of the Eighth Route Army, and destroy all the planes of the Eighth Route Army."

As soon as Shanshan Yuan gave the order to Kinoshita Toshi, he received a report from Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, commander of the heavy army group on the Eastern Front and commander of the Sixth Division, that the search team of the armored brigade was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army at Xiawangbu, and that three tanks, four armored vehicles, five cars, and five motorcycles were destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, and almost all of the pieces of a cavalry squadron were shattered. After the reinforcements arrived, the Eighth Route Army detonated the explosives that had been planted long ago, and the losses were very heavy, and the specific figures have not yet been reported. Now, the armored brigade, under the cover of the combined fleet aviation, is launching an attack on Shangwangbu, the second-line blocking position of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as Inaba Shiro put down his telegram, he received a report from Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army on the Southern Front, saying that the starting position of the troops on the Southern Front had been bombed by planes of the Eighth Route Army, and that a brigade of the Manchurian Defense Army, which was fighting with the 35th Division, had suffered heavy losses and had almost lost its structure.

The commander of the northern front and the commander of the 1st Division, Naosaburo Gangbe, also sent a telegram, angrily reporting that after the attack on the frontline airfield in Dexian County, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army bombed the departure positions on the outskirts of Dexian in two batches, and the front-line troops suffered heavy losses. Okabe Naosaburo asked Shanshan Yuan if it was the leakage of the battle plan that made Liu Yimin smell the news, so he sent planes to bomb at the risk of death so frantically.

Sugi Motokazu sat down on the chair with a mouth in his mouth. It took Yamashita Fengwen to listen for a long time before he understood that what His Excellency the Commander said was that Liu Yimin was very powerful, anticipating the enemy's opportunity, and striking first, which was very powerful

At this time, Yamashita Fengwen's heart was bright, Liu Yimin must have understood the combat intentions of the imperial army, and this battle was not easy to fight.

After Shanshan Yuan relieved himself, he went to the map and examined it for a long time before he said to Yamashita Fengwen: "Liu Yimin is another plane sneak attack and another blockade, what does it mean to be difficult?" Yamashita-kun, tell me what you think. ”

Yamashita Fengwen said tentatively: "Your Excellency Commander, could it be that Liu Yimin has mastered the battle plan of the imperial army and carried out the attack in advance?" ”

Shanshan Yuan shook his head: "It is impossible for Liu Yimin to know our battle plan. However, the two armies have been facing each other for so long, and the situation of the enemy and us is clear, Liu Yimin must have prevented the imperial army from attacking in a big way. We just didn't expect him to risk a sneak attack. Yamashita Jun, could it be that Liu Yimin was far away in Luxi and southern Hebei, and he couldn't return to Jinan for a while, so he took the risk to send out the plane? In addition, in the Battle of Xiawangbu, Liu Yimin's blocking troops actually had the ability to combat vehicles and armored vehicles. What does this mean? Could it be that Liu Yimin's main force really set up an ambush between Jinan and Qingdao as Kita Chengichi said, waiting to ambush the Eastern Front Group? It's worth studying, it's worth studying. ”

Yamashita Fengwen thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency Commander, will this happen?" That is, Liu Yimin judged from the clues that the imperial army was about to attack in a big way, but he didn't know that we had added three elite divisions and an armored brigade on the Eastern Front, planning to set up an ambush in Luzhong to attack the Fifth Division from Qingdao. You must know that Liu Yimin's first battle after participating in the war was the 21st Brigade, the main force of the Fifth Division, and the powerful artillery fire of Liu Yimin's troops also laid the foundation after the elimination of the artillery wing of the Fifth Division. According to the original deployment of troops, I judge that Liu Yimin must have this plan. In this way, Liu Yimin's announcement of the news and telegram and the dispatch of planes to bomb can be clearly explained, and he wants to draw our attention to the defense of Jizhong, and then quietly concentrate the main force to fight the Fifth Division of the Imperial Army. As long as there is a problem with the Fifth Division, it will not make much sense for us to attack Jinan again. ”

"This idea is in line with Liu Yimin's operational characteristics." Kita Seiichi didn't know when he came in, and when he heard Yamashita Fumi's words, he couldn't help but interject. "Otherwise, Your Excellency the Commander will ask for the opinion of Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbu, who has been in North China for a long time and knows Liu Yimin's combat characteristics very well."

Shanshanyuan let out a "hmm", and climbed to the map to take a closer look.

After watching for a long time, Shanshan Yuancai turned around and said to Kita Seiichi and Yamashita Fengwen: "The area around Weixian in Luzhong is a good battlefield, and the Eighth Division, the Independent Mixed Third Brigade, and the 1st and 33rd Divisions are all broken in this area. Liu Yimin's troops knew the terrain here well, and it was likely that they had already preset the battlefield. The main reason why the battlefield was set up here is that I guess it is to be able to quickly return to the direction of Jinan. In addition, in addition to Liu Yimin's lack of knowledge of the Guards Division, the Sixth Division, the Sixteenth Division, and the Armored Brigade shipping to Qingdao, he did not know that we could receive continuous reinforcements from the Kwantung Army at any time. Therefore, he wanted to take the risk, thinking that the Fifth Division would attack westward alone under the cover of the carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet, so he set up a surprise formation, intimidated us with false news, and tried to make us use the main force of the northern front for defense, and dispatched planes to bomb Xuzhou Airport and Dexian Airport, with only one purpose, that is, to weaken the attack force of the southern and northern front troops of the Imperial Army, delay the attack speed of the Imperial Army, and gain time for him to ambush the Fifth Division. It's really a good calculation, two of you, you say, Liu Yimin now knows that there is a division in the direction of Qingdao, but four elite divisions, what will he do? ”

Yamashita Fengwen said: "Liu Yimin will quickly retreat and fight the main force of the ambush and return to Jinan. You must know that Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province and has a great influence, without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, I am afraid that Liu Yimin will not dare to evacuate casually. ”

Kita Seiichi and Yamashita Fengfumi happened to have different opinions: "I don't think Liu Yimin will change his determination, he will adjust his deployment, and he will let the Eastern Front Group divide its troops, create fighters, and continue to search for and destroy a division." If the Eastern Front Group loses a division, then the offensive will be halted and the crisis of the large army being pressed will be relieved. ”

Shanshan Yuan's angry face squeezed out a smile: "So, everyone thinks that Liu Yimin's power is no longer in Jinan?" ”

Both nodded at the same time.