Wang Xuan is a native of Qingxu, Shanxi, and his father is the shopkeeper of a vinegar factory. The original family of three lived a solid and happy life. After the devil came, his father thought that no matter which way the commander of the team, he would rule the common people, as long as he paid taxes according to the regulations. So the family of three didn't run. As a result, after the devil soldiers arrived in Qingxu, they went to his house to get vinegar, and when they saw his mother, they were about to commit violence, but his father stepped forward to stop him, and the devil soldiers directly picked his parents with bayonets.

After the instructor recovered Qing Xu, Wang Xuancai signed up for the Eighth Route Army, bent on avenging his parents. When the new regiment was transferred to the command of the air defense command, he also changed from a recruit to an air defense corps. In the battle to defend the Tianjin airfield, he was the best among the new fighters, not only was he not afraid, but he always stuck to the gun position. Therefore, when the air defense brigade went to Nangong for training, he became the leader of a combat group.

On the morning of 29 January, Wang Xuancai led two soldiers of his group to go to the air defense post on the bank of the Fuyang River in Xinhe County, and their task was to observe the air situation.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, Wang Xuan, who was holding a telescope, suddenly noticed that two black dots appeared in the air, and soon, the black dots turned into enemy planes.

Wang Xuancai immediately picked up the phone and reported: "The No. 5 air defense observation point reports that two enemy planes have entered the territory of Xinhe. ”

About 20 minutes later, the two enemy planes flew north through the Xinhe River.

Wang Xuancai felt that something was wrong, how could the posture of these two enemy planes today be similar to the performance of the enemy planes during the defense of Tianjin Airport during the war, and it seemed that they were specially for reconnaissance. Therefore, Wang Xuancai once again picked up the phone and reported directly to the headquarters of the First Air Defense Regiment that the enemy planes were carrying out targeted reconnaissance in southern Hebei, and that they should be on increased vigilance.

During this period, because the First and Second Air Brigades of the Eighth Route Army withdrew to Shaanxi for training, the sky over North China was already a training ground for military planes, and it was normal for enemy planes to come and go. It should be said that Wang Xuancai's report has a relatively large component of personal prediction, mainly due to his experience and vigilance formed after participating in the defense of Tianjin Airport. Even if this was the case, Wang Xuancai's report still aroused great attention from the First Air Defense Regiment, which immediately reported it to the brigade headquarters and made good preparations for air defense operations.

At half past eight o'clock in the morning, Wang Zhuan remembered this time very accurately, and it was remembered for life, and a dark cloud appeared in the sky. Wang Xuancai's hand with the telescope trembled, and he could already see clearly that it was the group of the army rushing towards southern Hebei.

Wang Xuancai immediately stuffed the telescope into the hands of his comrade-in-arms Li Fuwa, asked him to count the number of enemy planes, threw himself to the telephone, grabbed the phone and shouted loudly: "The No. 5 air defense observation point reports that a large group of enemy planes has attacked southern Hebei and has reached the border of Xinhe County!" The No. 5 air defense observation point reported that a large group of enemy aircraft attacked southern Hebei and had reached the border of Xinhe County! ”

Just when Wang Xuancai was calling, another of his comrades-in-arms, Zhang Baihe, had already decisively raised his gun and fired three shots in the air in a "bang, bang, bang" shot. Soon, the entire base area in southern Hebei was stopped one after another, and the gunfire of air defense posts sounded everywhere.

It was the planes of the North China Front Air Group and the Combined Fleet that came.

After receiving a briefing from the North China Front Army Headquarters that Instructor Liu Yimin was in southern Hebei, the newly formed North China Flying Group, which had long been stimulated by the North China Air Force's two collective jade crushes, immediately took urgent action, quickly drew up an air raid plan, and mobilized all planes from the airports of Beiping, Tianjin, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, and Jinan, as well as 260 carrier-based planes of the Navy's Combined Fleet, to carry out a large-scale and multi-batch bombing mission against southern Hebei in accordance with the orders of General Terauchi Shouichi.

Lieutenant General Kinoshita, the new commander of the North China Flying Group, said in his operational order: "According to the report of the Front Army Command, the cunning, despicable, shameless, and timid instructor Liu Yimin is hiding in the plains south of the Deshi Line, east of the Pinghan Line, west of Jinpu Road, and north of Handji Road. This branch of the army not only caused heavy losses to the elite units of the Imperial Army, but also directly led to the collective jade fragmentation of the warriors of the North China Provisional Aviation Regiment and the former North China Aviation Regiment, which is a heinous crime! Warriors of the Emperor, you are the air ladies of the Great Imperial Empire, and the dignity of the Imperial Air Force cannot be tarnished! Now is the time for us to take revenge, I order you, set up your war eagles, go to southern Hebei, and tear up Liu Yimin's tutor and tear all the Chinese mob who support Liu Yimin to pieces! ”

As a result, Major General Nakaya Moritaka, commander of the First Flying Regiment of the North China Flight Group, Major General Michidai Sugawara, commander of the Third Flight Regiment, and Ishikawa Aidasa, commander of the 21st Flying Regiment, all personally went into battle and swooped down on southern Hebei with the largest group of aviation planes on the North China battlefield.

It should be said that the air defense system in southern Hebei is still effective. After Liu Yimin arrived at Nangong from Tianjin, considering the hidden materials and a large number of personnel in Nangong, the southern Hebei region is a large plain, and now it is the middle of winter, the land is empty, except for tunnels and trenches, there is nowhere to hide, and immediately organized the air defense brigade to prepare an emergency air defense plan, the main body is to use tunnel air defense, and the auxiliary means are to repair telephone lines, establish air defense posts, strengthen air defense firepower, burn firewood and grass piles to create smoke, and key departments to use smoke bombs.

Under the conditions at that time, Liu Yimin's methods were already very advanced, especially the use of smoke bombs, which were also based on the smoke bombs captured from Tianjin. It is a pity that the Japanese army dispatched too many planes in this air raid, and many ordinary people did not realize that the Japanese army would concentrate on bombing civilian houses, and the great tragedy in southern Hebei still occurred.

The gunfire of the air defense post woke up the drunken southern Hebei. During this period, because the main instructors of the Eighth Route Army drove to southern Hebei, eliminated the bandits, reorganized the commanders and directors of various routes, established the anti-Ming boiling regime at all levels, led the people of southern Hebei to carry out land reform, dig tunnels, dig trenches, learn to lay mines, learn to shoot guns, and launched a vigorous anti-Japanese salvation movement, and for the first time in the history of southern Hebei, a new atmosphere of the common people raising their eyebrows and puffing themselves up. Although the cadres of the Eighth Route Army and the Ming Boiled Political Axe are preaching and resisting every day and educating the masses to be mentally prepared to deal with the devil's sweep, but looking at the strong Eighth Route Army, most of the people feel that they are going to have a good life, and with such a powerful soldier by their side, are they afraid of any little devils! Discipline him to hit one by one, and two to play a pair!

The gunfire of the air defense post suddenly rang out, and many ordinary people did not care, and the cadres and militia ran back and forth, shouting, and organizing the villagers to go down the tunnel. Because many families were preparing for the New Year, and because they underestimated the ferocity of the plane, even though the cadres shouted at their throats, some villagers still did not take air defense measures.

Compared with the general public, the instructors have been instilled with air defense knowledge by Liu Yimin since the formation of the 18th Regiment, and they have a strong sense of air defense. Therefore, after the gunfire of the air defense post rang out, all kinds of organs, training headquarters, training classes, and schools in the Nangong area immediately organized troops, cadets, and cadres to evacuate to the tunnels or to the trenches and woods.

In accordance with the air defense plan compiled under the guidance of Liu Yimin, the air defense brigade urgently ordered air defense posts, units, and militia in various localities to light the piles of firewood and grass prepared in advance to create smoke. The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the 1st Air Defense Regiment in Nangong were also all ready for battle.

The first to be bombarded by devils was Xinhe County.

When the plane came, the evacuation of personnel in Xinhe County was underway, and the cadres and soldiers of the county brigade were still knocking on the door from door to door and shouting to the masses to go down to the tunnel, and the firewood and grass that made smoke had already begun to be lit around the county seat, and even the streets of the county town were lit with wet firewood, dry cow dung, and horse manure, and the smoke had begun to spread.

Leading the bombing of Xinhe County was Major General Sugawara Michidai, commander of the 3rd Flying Regiment.

According to the battle plan, the mission of the 3rd Flying Regiment of Major General Sugawara Michigan was to bomb military targets in southern Hebei, and the task of bombing the county town belonged to the carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet, which had a long distance. The purpose of this distinction is to take into account the fact that carrier-based aircraft have a long distance and no time to search for bombing targets, while the planes of the North China Flying Group are relatively close and have sufficient fuel to search for difficult targets for bombing. But when passing by the county seat of Shinhe, Major General Sugawara saw that there was already smoke around the town of Shinhe, and after a while it would be covered in smoke and unable to bomb. The old devil smirked and ordered the 12 heavy bombers flying the 66th Sentai and the 24 light bombers flying the 75th Sentai to bomb Xinhe County immediately.

The county town of Xinhe is crying.

Twelve heavy bombers and 24 light bombers circled and dived back and forth over the small county town of Xinhe, dropping 100-kilogram bombs and machine guns and machine guns incessantly strafing them.

There is a grocery store in Xinhe County, and the owner's surname is Lin. Just now, the cadres asked him to close the door immediately and go down the tunnel, Boss Lin agreed, but he thought in his heart that this devil is also a human, and the bomb is expensive, and if he wants to bomb it, he will also bomb the army and the county yamen. How could they be willing to bomb their own worthless little grocery store? Therefore, as soon as the cadres left, Boss Lin was open as usual, still holding his son and pulling his wife to stand at the door and point to the plane to tease the children and watch the excitement. A bomb fell, and the family of three and the small grocery store were gone.

When He Sheng, the leader of the third squadron of the second squadron of the Xinhe County Brigade, was leading the soldiers to mobilize the old countryside to go to the tunnel, enemy planes came. Seeing that a house that was making tofu on the opposite side was blown up by a bomb and collapsed, he hurriedly led the soldiers to save people. After shouting a few times on the ruins, no one answered, and hurriedly used his hands to pick up bricks and tiles, but he picked out an arm. He Shengqi's eyes were red, and he led the soldiers to lie on their backs on the ruins, raised their rifles, and fired at a whizzing machine. This angered the enemy plane, drew a circle in the air, and swooped over, two bombs were dropped, and a squad of fighters was buried in the rubble.

It was not until the bomb was dropped that the county town of Xinhe was shrouded in smoke and fire, and the cries shook the sky, that the enemy plane turned around and returned home.

During the bombing of Nangong, the plane was desperately counterattacked by the First Air Defense Regiment of the Air Defense Brigade of the instructor.

After receiving the first early warning report from the air defense post, Li Yimo, commander of the air defense brigade, realized that today was not a good day, and I was afraid that the army was really going to bomb southern Hebei.

In fact, Li Yimo knew in his heart that there was no impermeable wall in the world, and such a huge army of the instructor was hidden in southern Hebei, and no matter how good the secrecy measures were, the news would leak out, and the army would come to bomb southern Hebei sooner or later. In addition, the division commander, political commissar, Director Cai, and Chief of Staff Zeng led the army separately to lead the army, and they have eliminated a division and a brigade of the Yue Army. The army's reconnaissance methods are so advanced that it will inevitably determine the instructor to carry out crazy retaliation according to the location of the instructor at the first time. Besides, the instructor attacked the military airfield twice and killed so many military aviation units and planes, and even the commander of the provisional aviation regiment apologized for his crimes. Therefore, Li Yimo immediately issued an air defense combat order, strictly ordering political axes, troops, militias, and work teams in all localities and at all levels to mobilize the masses to move and light firewood and grass to create smoke in accordance with the air defense plan. The 1st Air Defense Regiment was ordered to quickly take up positions and prepare to meet enemy aircraft.

Fortunately, Li Yimo had seen the formation of more than 100 planes bombing the Tianjin airport, and he did not have the slightest luck in his heart, and from the very beginning he raised the air defense measures to the highest level of the air defense plan, thus greatly reducing the number of casualties.

By the time Wang reported a large-scale attack and the sound of air defense whistles, the air defense measures in southern Hebei had already begun to take effect. Li Yimo told political commissar Han Qianqian to take command, and he took the guards to the position of the first air defense regiment, and he wanted to personally command the first battle of the reborn air defense brigade.

Yan Yaohui, commander of the First Air Defense Regiment, and political commissar Feng received the first report from Wang Xuancai that the army was reconnoitring southern Hebei, so they ordered the troops to urgently mobilize and go to position. By the time Li Yimo gave the combat order, the First Air Defense Regiment was already in full array.

After arriving in Nangong from Tianjin, the First Air Defense Regiment stepped up its efforts to reorganize and train its troops, and through carrying out in-depth activities to complain about grievances, the soldiers' mental outlook changed markedly. In particular, those recruits who survived the defense of Tianjin Airport were particularly touched, trained their combat skills hard, and were bent on fighting a turnaround.

In view of the fact that Nangong is the center of the base area in southern Hebei and is bound to be the focus of the bombing by the planes, the First Air Defense Regiment designed three cluster positions to defend the county town from three directions when designing its positions. After Liu Yimin saw the plan, considering that the first air defense regiment had not been formed long after all, and the dispersion of firepower was not as good as the concentration of firepower, he asked Li Yimo to change the three positions into one position, directly facing the north, and forming a large-depth firepower network. After that, Liu Yimin specially taught the tactics of concentrated fire and melee combat summed up by our army when it was fighting in Vietnam in later generations, and organized the First Air Defense Regiment to conduct several drills. Feeling that the effect was good, Liu Yimin ordered Yan Yaohui to organize the soldiers to go to the position to practice once a day, and do a good job of camouflaging the position.

The direction and number of enemy planes were transmitted from station to station through the telephones of the air defense posts, and the 12 antiaircraft gun batteries and six antiaircraft machine gun batteries on the positions of the first air defense regiment had been disguished with camouflage, and the muzzles and muzzles of the black holes pointed in the direction from which the planes were coming.

(To be continued)