Chapter 200: The Elegy of the Chahar Dispatch Corps (2)
Liu Yimin saw that the telegram said that Song Meiling was coming to Taiyuan to offer condolences, and his head was big.
As a young man in the 21st century, Liu Yimin really wants to see Song Meiling's demeanor. It's a pity that this is the war years, and now it is the most rampant time for the army, the sky is full of military planes, Song Meiling's plane is easy to be in danger, and he has changed part of history, if this butterfly effect is a little bigger, let Song Meiling's plane get on the military plane, it will be troublesome. Liu Yimin hurriedly sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, resolutely refusing his wife to come to Taiyuan for condolences on only one reason: it was too dangerous.
After sending the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Yimin sent another telegram urging Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang, demanding that they quickly cooperate with the action to ensure that the Itagaki group would not be taken off the grid.
After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin asked Qian Zhuangfei to keep a close eye on the telegram exchange between Shouichi Terauchi and Seishiro Itagaki and Kiyoshi Kazuki, and report it as soon as there was a situation. At the same time, it is necessary to constantly send reports to Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang to urge them to act. Cai Zhong was ordered to lead an engineer battalion to quickly count the materials and ammunition reserves of the captured army, find the ammunition reserves of Yan Xishan captured by the army, and accept Yan Xishan's arsenal. He ordered Hu Di to lead Li Lingfeng and Wang Dahu to interrogate the prisoners of the Yue army and capture Han Annihilation.
At six o'clock in the morning, the Taiyuan airport was still gray and black, six Type 93 heavy bombers had finished loading, and David and six other retired US military instructors had boarded the plane and were waiting for the take-off order.
Feng Dafei has been in a state of agitation since he captured the airport. Thinking about it, this is a miracle, what you want, I thought that I could get two planes to do a lesson, but I didn't expect the division commander to get 36 planes, reconnaissance planes, light bombers, heavy bombers, fighters, and two Ki-6 competitor on-board operation training planes. The most precious thing is that the military flight files are complete, and there are all kinds of things such as pilot charts.
Originally, Feng Dafei wanted to take off the plane in person and go to lead the team to bomb the military airfield, but the rest of the airport were all students, although after nearly two years of study, the theoretical knowledge was already very rich, but he had never been on the plane once, how to talk about actual combat experience? Feng Dafei had no choice but to stay behind and lead the team to direct the operation of the airport.
Suppressing his excitement and looking at the heavy bomber preparing to take off with a little envy, Feng Dafei decisively gave the order to take off. Immediately, six heavy bombers took off one after another, and after completing the formation, they flew in the direction of Shijiazhuang.
Before boarding, Feng Dafei told them that the division commander had ordered that after completing the mission, the six US military instructors would each receive a reward of 1,000 US dollars and two beautiful women.
In the past two years, David and others have had a good time in Xi'an, and they get along well with the students of the Aviation Department of the Red University. Therefore, the seriousness of teaching, the attentiveness of learning, and the achievements of the students gave David and others a sense of achievement. It's a pity that there are no planes, so the students can't spread their wings in the blue sky with themselves. Now that the plane is available, as long as there is a period of steady training, David and the others believe that their group of disciples will definitely become eagles in the blue sky.
The only regret is that the nightlife in Xi'an is too boring. The two female spies that Liu Yimin gave them didn't say much, they had fine skin and tender meat, very beautiful and gentle. It's a pity that there are only two, and under the soothing of six American men, the souls returned to the East early. Well, after the bombing of the devil's airport, there are two low-eyebrowed, beautiful and delicate girls waiting when they come back, and several American heroes are so happy that they shout "OK"!
As for the task of bombing the airfields of the Yue Army, David and the others were very relieved, and they seized all the information of the air force of the Yue Army, and the distribution of the air fields in North China was clear at a glance, and even the identification terms were very clear, and the Yue Army never dreamed that there would be air forces in the Tuba Road, so it would be strange if this sneak attack was not successful!
At 7 o'clock in the morning, the Shijiazhuang military airport was already busy, and the ground crew were busy refueling and bombing the plane, preparing to carry out the order of General Terauchi Shouichi to bomb Taiyuan.
Shijiazhuang Airport is an airfield that has just been repaired by the Chinese army, and it houses the first flight group (reconnaissance planes), the second flight group (fighters), the fifth flight group (light bombers), and the sixth flight group (heavy bombers) belonging to the first flight group of the North China Front Provisional Aviation Corps of the Chinese army.
At 7:05 a.m., David and his six-heavy bomber formation finally arrived over the Shijiazhuang military airfield.
Looking at the full number of planes parked at the airport and the gasoline barrels piled up like a hill, David ignored the call of the commander of the tower at the military airport and shouted in English: "Guys, attack the gasoline barrels!" "As soon as you press the nose of the plane, you dive down.
After the first round of bombing was over, Davy found that the Shijiazhuang airport was already in flames, and there was no need for a second round of attacks. After checking the fuel and ammunition, David actually used the on-board radio to tell the guys that he wanted Division Commander Liu to reward him with four women, and go directly to bomb Baoding Zhuoxian Airport and Beiping Beiyuan Airport.
David's proposal was soon supported by his companions, and the six bombers flapped their wings and flew north in formation.
When David spoke in English, the commander of the tower at the military airfield already knew that the six heavy bombers were Chinese Air Force pilots, and it was the soul messenger who had come, and hurriedly sounded the battle alarm.
It's a pity that it's too late, there is an old saying in China, called "proud soldiers will be defeated", at this time the army is proud from top to bottom, the Northeast Army's non-resistance, the rapid fall of Pingjin and Hebei, so that the army is permeated with a kind of imperial army's combat power in the world's first proud atmosphere, although Liu Yimin in Shanxi has taught those army and army, but the air force has not yet realized the danger coming. In their minds, first, the Chinese are timid, and they run away when they hear the sound of the plane, where will anyone dare to sneak attack? Second, the Chinese Air Force had few planes, and the only 200 or 300 planes were almost defeated in the Battle of Songhu. Third, although Taiyuan fell and the airport fell into the hands of that guy named Liu Yimin, the battle for the airport must have been a very fierce battle, and although the plane could not take off at night, the pilot, the plane, and the ammunition depot must have been shattered together. Even if the plane falls into the hands of the Chinese, will they use it? Immediately went to Taiyuan to bomb it, and all problems were solved.
How could these devils think that Liu Yimin had crossed over in the 21st century, and in his ideology, there was only resentment and contempt for Yue himself, where would he be afraid of them. What we are fighting is to take the initiative to fight and strike first. Not to mention a small Shijiazhuang airport, what about Tokyo? If he has a plane that can fly to Tokyo, he will be able to bomb it!
Although the battle alarm at the military airfield was sounded, it was too late. As the aerial bombs exploded on the gasoline barrels one after another, a sea of fire was immediately formed, and the Shijiazhuang airport was burning!
The fire turned every gasoline drum into a flaming bomb, flying in all directions, slamming into the planes and ammunition depots on the airfield. Soon the ammunition depot exploded, and the explosion shook like an earthquake, and the houses in Zhengding City were shaken to dust. In the end, all the planes were reduced to wreckage, towers and other buildings were razed to the ground in the fire and bomb explosions, the airport was littered with charred corpses of the Japanese army, and the entire Shijiazhuang airport became a human purgatory.
Even more unfortunate, since there was not a single survivor on the airfield, the commander of the Provisional Aviation Corps, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, turned out to be completely ignorant of what was happening at the Shijiazhuang airport. By the time he received a report from Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, commander of the First Army, David and the others had already finished bombing the Zhuoxian airfield in Baoding and flew towards Beiyuan Airport in Beiping.
Although Davy is a bit, he does have a set. At this time, it was said that the airfields of the air force were all field airfields, and there were no underground oil depots or ammunition depots, and there were no hangars for the planes, so that the fuel and ammunition were placed separately near the runway and the apron to facilitate the refueling of the planes. If an air raid is met and the opponent attacks the oil, it is naturally impossible to be spared.
Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi, commander of the First Army, received a report from the garrison near the airport and felt incredible, so he personally drove to the airport to check it out. After seeing it, Rao was a battle-hardened general, and Xiangyue Qingsi couldn't help but squat on the ground with her stomach covered and vomited.
After vomiting, Kazuki Kiyoshi directly sent a report to General Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Provisional Air Corps, saying that at about 7 o'clock this morning, Shijiazhuang Airport was attacked by the Shina Air Force, and all planes and personnel were shattered, and the airport was completely destroyed.
After receiving the telegram, General Terauchi Shouichi didn't know what his reaction was, but Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi spurted out a mouthful of black blood with one mouth. After vomiting blood, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi immediately ordered all planes at the airports of Beiping, Tianjin, and Baoding to take off immediately and bomb Taiyuan, Linfen, and Yuncheng, vowing to raze these three cities to the ground.
The strange thing is that Baoding Airport could not be contacted, and Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi knew that the big thing was not good, and maybe Baoding Airport, like Shijiazhuang, was attacked by an air raid. As soon as he thought of this, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi beat a drum in his heart, and immediately ordered the Second Major General of the First Flying Regiment to ask the fighters of the Beiping Airport to take off immediately and implement air alert to strictly prevent a sneak attack by the China.
If Lieutenant General Tokugawa had given this order five minutes earlier, it would have been possible that none of David's six daring fellows would have survived. Heavy bombers will be called army fighters, and fools know what the outcome will be. It is a pity that General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi learned the news of the bombing of Shijiazhuang Airport too late, and even later knew the news of the bombing of Baoding Airport. So, just when Beiping Airport received the commander's order, sounded the battle alarm, and summoned fighter pilots to make combat preparations, David, who was bent on Liu Yimin rewarding the four girls and relaxing, led six Type 93 heavy bombers to end the trip to Baoding and arrived at the sky above Beiyuan Airport in Beiping.
At this time, although David was on a combat mission, the excitement in his heart was irrepressible. The Type 93 heavy bomber could carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs, and since Shijiazhuang Airport and Baoding Airport were both newly built field airfields of the Chinese army, they detonated fuel and ammunition with only one-third of their ammunition and destroyed the airfield. Now, looking at the neatly parked fighter planes on the Peking Airport, David cheered and yelled at the guys in his Texan-accented English: "Still light all the bombs, shoot all the machine shells and machine gun shells, let the devils cry, let's go back to Taiyuan to enjoy the beautiful and amorous girls!" After roaring, he took the lead in swooping towards Beiyuan Airport.
The fighter pilots who received the combat alert had just accepted the task and were running towards the tarmac, when they saw six Type 93 heavy bombers roaring and rushing towards the airfield in formation, and the pilots consciously stopped, thinking that they were new bomber squadrons, but how could these guys enter the airfield in a diving position? What an idiot!
Before the fighter pilots could finish their thoughts, the heavy bombers began to drop the first round of bombs. Davy repeated his old trick, threw bombs on the oil tank, and the machine guns began to hit hard, igniting the fire at Beiyuan Airport in one fell swoop.
After a round of bombing, there was already a miasma of smoke on the airfield. David: As soon as they pressed the nose of the plane, they began a second round of bombing.
Because the Beiping airport was built early and relatively standardized, the ammunition depot and oil depot were underground, which affected the bombing effect. Davy: They had to change their tactics and bomb directly at the planes on the tarmac. Because they knew that the oil depots and ammunition depots could not be detonated, but only those oil drums that were ready to be refueled at the airfields, and that the airfields could not be paralyzed. When the army reacts, after the fighter takes off, it will catch up with them and kill them. Therefore, David kept summoning his companions in English and opened fire on the planes, causing them to catch fire and explode.
By the time the anti-aircraft weapons of the Japanese army as airport guards opened fire, the six bombers had already finished dropping their bombs, exhausted their machine-gun shells and machine-gun bullets, and flew away with ease.
Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and Major General Toru Iga looked at the fire burning at the airport and the wreckage of the shattered planes, and they wanted to cry without tears, but they looked at each other and walked back to their respective offices in silence.
Not long after, General Terauchi received a report that Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Provisional Air Corps of the North China Front of the Empire, and Major General Yi Toru II, commander of the First Flying Regiment of the First Flying Division, apologized to the emperor for the bombing of Shijiazhuang Airport, Baoding Airport, and Beiping Airport.
After receiving the report, General Terauchi Shouichi locked himself in his office for an hour, and then called Okabe Naosaburo in, and the two of them conspired for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that their North China Front had provoked a particularly terrible opponent, that is, Liu Yimin, the chief of the political axe sect of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Zone. Before this guy appeared, the battlefield in North China was smooth sailing, occupying Pingjin, capturing Hebei, and Xiataiyuan, and wherever the imperial army went, the Chinese army was invincible. Since this Liu Yimin and his instructor went to the battlefield, first the 21st Brigade, then the 1st Brigade of Reading Force, and then the bombing of today's Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Beiping airports. Next, I don't know which unit will be unlucky, and then fall into Liu Yimin's trap. The top priority at the moment is to let Itagaki Seishiro bring out the 20th Division and the 109th Division safely and return to Hebei no matter what. If Liu Yimin is allowed to eat the Itagaki group, then the situation of the North China Front will be dangerous, and the emperor will blame it, I am afraid that it will be a small loss of official affairs and a big crime of disembowelment.
There is a famous saying in China, called to take a step back and open the sky. As long as the 20th Division, the 109th Division, the 15th Brigade and the 2nd Brigade can return to Hebei, they can form a group with the main force, and let him Liu Yimin have the ability to turn the sky upside down, with the strength of one of his divisions, no, even if he has the strength of three divisions or four divisions, what can he do with the imperial army?
Since there is a Liu Yimin in Shanxi, it is not easy to fight, then defend Shanxi, attack the south, the combat effectiveness of the army on the Pinghan line and the Jinpu line is not strong, and it is easy to collapse under the attack of the imperial army, so according to the original battle plan, speed up the plan to occupy Shandong and Henan!
Therefore, General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, sent a humbly worded telegram to the base camp, giving a detailed report on the current situation in North China and the countermeasures he had taken, requesting the base camp to order the air force of the Kwantung Army to dispatch to cover the withdrawal of the 20th Division and the 109th Division to Hebei, and requesting that the base camp quickly increase troops to North China, and at least three more first-class divisions and regiments.
Without waiting for the base camp to call back, and regardless of whether it would damage the dignity of individual soldiers, Terauchi Shouichi directly called the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi, and asked him to send at least one air wing to urgently dispatch to cover the retreat of Itagaki Seishiro's headquarters from Shanxi.
Then, Terauchi Shouichi sent a report to Xiangyue Qingsi, ordering him to organize troops and actively attack the front line of Niangzi Pass, attract the attention of the Chinese army, and cover the retreat of Itagaki to Hebei.
The telegram to Seishiro Itagaki was even more direct, Terauchi Shouichi first told him that Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Provisional Air Regiment, and Major General Toru Iea, commander of the First Flying Regiment, apologized for the destruction of Shijiazhuang Airport, Baoding Airport, and Beiping Airport, and the huge losses of the air force; Then he told him that he had negotiated with the Kwantung Army, and that the Kwantung Army would send planes to cover the Itagaki headquarters and return to Hebei. Then he ordered Banyuan that there was no need to go to Yangquan and Niangzi, choose his own path, and return to Hebei quickly. If necessary, the baggage can be abandoned, as long as the troops can be brought back to Hebei safely.
As for the combat mission of the Itagaki headquarters after returning to Hebei, Terauchi Shouichi said more clearly, making every effort to deploy defense against Shanxi and ensure that the operations on the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line would not be affected.
After receiving a telegram from Shouichi Terauchi, the arrogant Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki shed a few cloudy tears, and he didn't know whether it was for Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi or for his defeat in Shanxi.
After shedding tears, Seishiro Itagaki made a deployment that surprised everyone's actions.
(To be continued)