Chapter 312: Bombing Suzhou
As soon as Ye Feng entered the headquarters, everyone stood up, stood upright, and saluted.
In the command headquarters, Chief of Staff Guo Weiquan and several division commanders all reported some information to Ye Feng, and Ye Feng listened carefully to everyone's reports.
Chief of Staff Guo Weiquan arrived one day before Ye Feng, Guo Weiquan and several division commanders who participated in the war formed a pre-war temporary command center, and everyone was responsible for specific command, unless major matters needed to be reported to Ye Feng and asked for instructions, Ye Feng gave everyone a lot of power.
Deputy Army Commanders Chu Tianyuan, Qian Hu, Liu Yongyan and others sat in Hangzhou to provide logistical support for Guangfu Prefecture and prepare a large number of reserve troops.
After all the reports were completed, Chief of Staff Guo Weiquan sighed: "Commander, we have always wanted to attract the remaining planes from the Shanghai airport in small Japan, but these planes have not been able to shrink, and we have no chance to eliminate them for the time being. ”
Sending a large number of "Flying Fortress" bombers to carry out large-scale, high-density bombing in the vicinity of Shanghai, and not sending a single fighter to escort them, in addition to striking at the little devils and creating the illusion that they were going to attack Shanghai on a large scale, also had another purpose, that is, to lure the snakes out of their holes and attract the planes of the little devils and annihilate them.
After all, it was all bombers, and there were no fighter escorts, and in the eyes of ordinary people, this was a great opportunity, but I didn't expect that little Japan was scared, and it didn't have the courage to fight in the face of the bombers of the new 6th Army.
If it were not for the deployment of a large number of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns at the Shanghai airfield in small Japan. Ye Feng may have ordered a large number of "Flying Fortress" bombers to carry out forcible bombing.
Listening to Guo Weiquan's exclamation, Ye Feng smiled and said, "Don't worry, we have already obtained reliable information." The main force of the Chinese fleet of Little Japan is sailing toward the Shanghai area, and it is expected to arrive in the Shanghai area tomorrow morning. ”
Hearing this, Guo Weiquan had an idea and said: "Junzao, are you saying that the planes at the Shanghai Airport in Little Japan are waiting for the arrival of this aircraft carrier." And then together with these carrier-based aircraft to attack our 'Flying Fortress' bombers. ”
Ye Feng nodded and said, "Very likely." ”
"Junza, then whether we will attack Suzhou today according to the plan, or postpone it for a day. Wait for the arrival of the small Japanese Chinese fleet in the vicinity of Shanghai. Guo Weiquan asked.
Ye Feng thought for a while and said, "We will start to recover from today and act according to our battle plan. ”
The battle plan had been formulated, and Ye Feng didn't want to change it easily.
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The southern suburbs of Suzhou.
The little devils have been operating in the Suzhou area for many years, and a large number of fortifications have been built in the Suzhou area. The southern suburbs of Suzhou are no different. In particular, a large number of artillery towers were built near several roads leading to Suzhou City, and in peacetime, there were many Japanese puppet troops who set up cards on these roads to check the common people coming and going.
On one of the highways, less than ten kilometers from the city of Suzhou, several artillery towers stood, and many Japanese puppet troops were stationed here.
There was a large village not far away, and all the people in the village seemed to have been driven away, and the whole village became a military camp for the little devils.
At the entrance to the village. Machine guns were also erected, as well as several gun towers. There are even a few anti-aircraft machine guns, and there seem to be battle defense guns in the turret, and of course, machine guns are not a problem, and each turret has a minimum of one or two machine guns, and a maximum of three or four machine guns.
Near the highway and around the village, there were at least 1,000 Japanese puppet soldiers. There were more than 50,000 Japanese puppet troops in the entire Suzhou area, and there were several such places in the southern part of Suzhou. There were a large number of Japanese puppet troops in each place.
Since yesterday, a part of the Japanese puppet army has been dispatched to reinforce Shanghai, and there are about 40,000 Japanese puppet troops in the Suzhou area. After all, Suzhou was too close to Jiaxing, and Okamura did not dare to send troops to reinforce Shanghai on a large scale.
The little devils in this area, as usual, should do what or what to do, those little devils are better, a little alert, those puppet soldiers are very lazy, and some are even basking in the sun, smoking and chatting.
In the sky, there was a sudden roar of airplanes.
In the distance, a huge group of planes is flying towards this side, this is at least hundreds of "Flying Fortress" bombers, because each bomber is relatively large, more than 100 bombers are already very spectacular, it looks very shocking, very visually impactful.
On the highway, more than a dozen little devils, twenty or thirty puppet soldiers were checking on the passing people, and suddenly, seeing so many planes coming, these Japanese puppet soldiers couldn't believe their eyes.
A puppet army with a crooked back made in Hanyang, and a hat also worn crookedly, completely lazy and absent-minded, but as soon as he saw so many planes, his face immediately changed, and there was no longer a lazy look, and his face was full of nervousness.
A ghost soldier Cao also looked up at the sky, he didn't take his eyes back for a long time, it seemed that he was completely stunned, this scene was too shocking, a large area of black pressure was full of bombers.
In a turret, a devil captain was anxiously shaking the phone, reporting the situation to the city of Suzhou, and the bomber group of the new 6th Army was attacking!
More than 100 planes, most of them ignored these Japanese puppet troops, only about a squadron, a total of more than 20 bombers, broke away from the large force, lowered the altitude and flew over. The rest of the planes continued to fly at the same altitude.
Everyone's bombing target is not just this, and the Japanese puppet army in the entire Suzhou area is everyone's bombing target.
As soon as more than 20 "Flying Fortress" bombers flew over, they immediately dropped bombs in a large area in the area, and one bomb after another roared down and exploded violently.
"Boom, boom, boom"
The explosion was still extremely violent, and the people on the highway had already run out, leaving the stunned Japanese puppet soldiers, and a bomb exploded on the highway in the middle of these dozens of Japanese puppet soldiers.
There was a loud bang, obviously this was a heavy aerial bomb, the power was huge, a large crater of more than 20 meters was blown out of the highway, after the explosion, there was no one left of these dozens of Japanese puppet soldiers, all of them were blown away, or directly shattered.
A turret next to the highway was directly hit by a bomb, and the little devils inside didn't have time to run out at all, almost all of them were killed, even if they were not killed, they were buried alive and buried under the ruins of the turret.
There were only three or five bombers bombing the road, and most of the rest of the planes directly bombed the village not far away.
In the face of the frequent bombing of the bombers of the new 6th Army, in addition to a large number of casualties, the little devils also learned to be "smart", and basically no longer built military camps in the field, but occupied the magpie's nest and dove, driving away the common people in some villages close to the road, and a large area of villages became the military camps and garrisons of the little devils.
The little devils believe that the planes of the new 6th Army will never dare to carry out a large-scale bombing of such a village, and who knows if there are any Chinese civilians in the village, and if there are a large number of ordinary people, what if they accidentally injure the Chinese people?
The little devil's wishful thinking was loud, and the little devil would never think that all this situation had already been mastered by the new 6th Army, and the super spy of Asakamiya Hatohiko was not a decoration.
Nearly 20 "Flying Fortress" bombers braved the anti-aircraft fire of Little Japan to intensively drop bombs on this village, and the antiaircraft guns of Little Japan had not fired a few shots, and only one or two "Flying Fortresses" were slightly damaged, and the intensive explosion destroyed these machine guns.
In just a few minutes, the village was in flames and ruins, and the entire village was almost completely destroyed, leaving behind a large amount of ruins, leaving behind a large number of smoky, still burning ruins.
Most of the little devils in the village were killed, and there were corpses everywhere on the ground, and even some corpses were mixed in the ruins, revealing a little bit. The whole village was in shambles, miserable, and thousands of little devils were almost dead.
This kind of bombing has been carried out continuously in the Suzhou area since this morning, and the death toll of the Japanese puppet army in the Suzhou area has continued to rise sharply.
In the city of Suzhou, the headquarters of the Japanese army in Suzhou.
When Nobu Mizuno, the commander of the 29th Division, a lieutenant general, received the report, he was shocked that the newly formed 6th Army had actually carried out a large-scale bombardment of the area around Suzhou, and his own troops suffered heavy casualties.
Mizuno Shin was extremely puzzled, wasn't the new 6th Army attacking Shanghai on a large scale? Could it be that they were ready to go to war on both fronts, attacking both Shanghai and Suzhou.
Thinking that the new 6th Army might attack Suzhou, Mizuno Shin felt slightly uneasy, and in the area of Suzhou, more than 10,000 people had just been withdrawn, and a whole independent mixed brigade of thousands of people and thousands of puppet troops had been withdrawn.
At present, only the 29th Division is left in Suzhou, in addition to a garrison of thousands of people, and more than 10,000 puppet troops, and the 29th Division is still a new division.
With the progress and expansion of the war, in addition to the permanent divisions and special divisions, new divisions, public security divisions, supplementary divisions, and so on have appeared on the Japanese side.
Beginning in 1938, the Japanese army mainly adopted the method of drawing an elite wing from the standing division as the backbone and then recruiting supplementary troops, and successively formed a new division with a serial number starting with 20, a "public security division" with a serial number of 30 to 40, and a "supplementary division" with a serial number after 50.
This kind of division adopts the internationally accepted "triple system" (there are no brigades and regiments in the division and regiment directly under the jurisdiction of three wings), and the number of troops is only 14,000. Divisions numbered from 21 to 57 were considered fourth-class troops, but because their officers were from the standing army and their personnel were younger, their combat effectiveness was often higher than that of third-class divisions.
Mizuno Nobu's 29th Division is such a unit, and its combat effectiveness is not strong, and Mizuno Nobu was also a brigade commander of a permanent division before, and he served as the commander of the 29th Division for just over a year.
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