Chapter 788: Life and Death Fight III

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February 29 at 6:55 a.m. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The snow-capped cold people of western Liaoning make ends meet. The wind gradually weakened as the snow disappeared, the hazy scenery slowly became clear due to the disappearance of the snowflakes, and the first rays of morning light in the eastern sky broke through the gloomy night, gradually emerging the outlines of the vast land in colorful layers.

Chaoyang City, which had been silent all night, woke up, and a few puffs of cooking smoke curled up, adding a little vitality. The sporadic barking of dogs, mixed with the unbearable neighing of Toyo horses, spread far and wide. On the streets, the sound of Japanese officers and soldiers stepping on the snow became more and more intense, and occasionally a few stern reprimands and passwords issued in Japanese were mixed in, causing more dull footsteps and the crisp grinding of metal

Suddenly, the West City Gate towered above the gatehouse. A few panicked shouts were issued, and a few seconds later, a roar like a muffled thunder faintly came, and between the gray sky and the black and white mixed earth, the silhouettes of eight silver-white large bombers appeared, and under the escort of twelve small fighters, they flew in a zigzag shape, and the officers and men of Kwantung, who had never been attacked by planes after invading the northeast, looked up in astonishment at the planes that were getting closer and closer, and many people were still speculating in their hearts about how their air forces could fly from the west so early?

By the time some of these Japanese officers and men, who had good eyes, saw clearly the two huge blue sky and white sun emblems under the wings of the wide bombers, it was too late to react, and more than a dozen large and small fighters had already roared in. They divided into two groups about three kilometers from the city outline, one group headed south, straight to the wide barracks along the Daling River, and the other group of only two bombers maintained its course, slowed down and descended, and dropped two strings of black aerial bombs without making any circling or adjustment amid the panicked shouts of the Japanese officers and men who had risen early in the city and in the city.

In the blink of an eye, huge explosions erupted inside and outside the city, and the destructive power of high-explosive aerial bombs weighing 50 to 200 kilograms was earth-shattering. The earth shook violently with the sound of the ensuing explosions. The vast and majestic county government in the city and the adjacent old military palace were mostly lost after the smoke and flames, and the bricks and stones of the material warehouse in the east gate were shot all over the sky, and the thick smoke rose up, and the buildings of the whole city were constantly shaking in this sudden bombardment, the tiles and window roots crackled, and the solid sandpaper pasted on the windows cracked in the hot air flow; The machine gunners at the back of the cabin, wearing special cold-proof suits and semi-enclosed cold-proof helmets with goggles on their heads, did not hesitate to open the engine room and fire the firing hatch and launched merciless fire at all the panicked Japanese troops on the ground at an altitude of 500 meters. More than 20 yellow-green military trucks neatly arranged in front of the camp side were torn apart and unrecognizable after several bombs fell, and one of them, which was full of ammunition and had not yet had time to unload, exploded after the fierce impact, and the heavy truck rose more than 10 meters into the sky in the flames. In the blink of an eye, it disintegrated in the air amid a series of martyrdoms, and the entire military camp was like a hell on earth.

A newly built airfield just 600 meters from the barracks. Reduced to a shamble by the precise care of the two bombers, the towering wooden tower was in ashes, still tumbling to the ground after being smashed into two heavily twisted radio antennas. The two bombers who had completed the raid and bombed the county government and the general military office in the city both arrived and joined the ranks of the saboteurs, and the unfinished airfield was repeatedly ravaged by four bombers, and became completely damaged and unrecognizable, and almost all the buildings were razed to the ground in just ten minutes.

Six bombers dropped all the bombs. After forming an unhurried formation over Chaoyang City, which was filled with smoke and flames, it flew to the southwest in a dashing manner, and the last reconnaissance plane remained in the sky over Chaoyang City beyond recognition, circling three times before flying away.

On the Dabei Mountain, four kilometers south-west of Chaoyang City, Gu Changfeng, who was wearing a white cloak, put down his binoculars and was so excited that he almost howled, Yang Jiuxiao, the commander of the Second Division, and Ni Xianrong, the chief of staff of the colonel, saw such a spectacular bombing scene for the first time, and it was the intensive bombing created by his own fighters, and they were all so excited that their fists were clenched, and their spirits were flying.

Gu Changfeng waved his arm vigorously to the rear and lower flag bearers, the flag bearers turned around on the spot, waved two order flags, one red and one yellow, facing the west, and another flag bearer a kilometer away played a clear flag, and then waved the signal flag in his hand to the rear, in less than five minutes, the three flag bearers completed the relay transmission of the signal, and saw that Yang Jiuxiao and his deputy Guan Manjiang's eyes were straight, and they were amazed by the level of the 44th Division in their hearts, and they all knew that it would not take more than twenty minutes at most. The report on the bombing effect of various targets inside and outside Chaoyang City will be transmitted to the boss An Yi.

At 7:20 a.m., the front command of the Kwantung Army in Jinzhou.

Muto Nobuyoshi, who was drinking soy milk, was shocked to hear that Chaoyang City had been violently bombed, that the commander of the Eighth Division, Lieutenant General Nishiyoshi, had been crushed by a roof beam, that 37 officers had been killed and crushed to death, that the 17th Wing of the 16th Division was stationed in the General Military Office had suffered more than 400 casualties, that the Eighth Artillery Wing had suffered more than 200 casualties, that 21 artillery pieces and 19 trucks had been blown up, that half of the Ninth Brigade of the Puppet Manchurian Frontier Army in the military camp in the south of the city had been lost, and that the Chaoyang Airport, which was about to be completed, had been completely unrecognizable. Muto Nobuyoshi couldn't believe the news of Pan Ku no matter what, and he couldn't believe that the squadron ** team had such a level of aviation.

Muto Nobuyoshi gently put down half a bowl of soy milk, stood up and wiped his mouth slowly, the attendant hurriedly stepped forward to change his clothes and dress, and finally tied his saber, just when the room full of generals thought that the stoic Muto Nobuyoshi would not lose his temper for this, their most trusted commander suddenly flew up, kicked over the low table in front of him, and the crackling tableware and liquid splashing everywhere on his face without even looking at it, and roared at the gate: "Bastard! Eight Tooth Road"

At 9:05 a.m., the nationally watched Southwest Radio Station suddenly interrupted the Quyi program that was being broadcast, and the famous female announcer Zhu Huaining solemnly announced to the whole people with great excitement:

At 6:55 a.m. today, the 11 th and 12 th Air Brigades of the Central Army's Aviation Unit overcame numerous difficulties and flew to the airspace over Chaoyang in western Liaoning Province to launch a resolute and fierce bombardment of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army and the Ninth Brigade of the puppet Manchurian army, and achieved outstanding results in blowing up the Chaoyang Front Headquarters of the Japanese puppet army, two important military camps, a military airfield that was about to be completed, and a large amount of military equipment. At least 500 Japanese troops and 1,500 puppet troops were killed and wounded in the bombing and broadcast again: the aviation unit of our Central Army

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar at home and abroad. Representatives from all walks of life in Nanjing, Chinese and foreign journalists, and envoys stationed in Beijing flocked to the Nanjing Central Government and the Central Military Commission Headquarters to seek confirmation. At 9:30 a.m., the General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission held an extraordinary news conference, at which Ge Jingen, deputy chief of staff, affirmed this brilliant achievement, extended warm congratulations to General An Yi, commander of the former enemy command headquarters who commanded this successful operation, and all the officers and men of the North China Front, and said that at 3 p.m., the Foreign Affairs Department of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central Government would jointly hold a news conference, and further information would be provided at that time.

Two hours later, grand and large-scale celebrations took place in major cities across the country, and a large portrait of An Yi, the famous hero of the Anti-Japanese War, deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, and commander of the former enemy command in North China, was once again held high by the ecstatic Chinese people.

At 10:20 a.m., the Japanese troops at Shanhaiguan and the Japanese warships in the waters off the Huludao line launched a retaliatory artillery bombardment of the Shanhaiguan line where the squadron was stationed for more than half an hour.

Ten minutes later, more than 140 planes of the Japanese air force launched a frenzied bombing and strafing attack on the positions of the first-line squadron on the Great Wall and nearby counties and towns, and the Sino-Japanese war entered a suffocating stage.

Only an hour and a half passed. The forward unit of the Fourth Brigade Regiment, the main force on the left flank of the Eighth Division, which had stopped moving south and was waiting for orders, was fiercely attacked by thousands of officers and men of the New Sixth Brigade of the Second Independent Division of the Eighth Division, 23 kilometers southeast of Chaoyang City, in less than 10 minutes. The Takeshita Brigade of the Fifth Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army suffered more than 200 casualties, and was forced to drop four artillery pieces and radial weights, and retreated eight kilometers sharply, only then did it gain a firm foothold with the rapid support of the reinforcements of the two brigades.

The anxious commander of the 8th Division, Xi Yiyi, endured the pain, moved the headquarters to the Guandi Temple outside Chaoyang City, and urgently ordered the 4th Brigade to suspend the attack and take a defensive position and defend tightly, and at the same time mobilized the 6th Division of the puppet army Jia Qin to rush to the front line of the Batu battalion for reinforcements, and ordered the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade on the right flank, Shi "Hao Yizuo, to lead the troops to set off, slowly move closer to the middle road, and ordered the 11th Brigade of the puppet army stationed in Beipiao to quickly move south to Chaoyang.

After General Yoshiichi Nishiichi urgently reported the latest military situation to the commander of the Kwantung Army, Senior General Muto Nobuyoshi, he immediately convened an emergency meeting and began to arrange-for-tat combat missions.

At 12:30 p.m., Kongjia Town, southwest of Chaoyang City.

Koichi Ishikawa, commander of the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade Osa, received an order from Nishiichi and immediately instructed the whole army to stop advancing and rest in place. He dismounted alone and climbed the East Hill Ridge on the side of the road, and took up his telescope to observe carefully from west to south, when suddenly, a puff of smoke rose from the southwestern edge of the forest two kilometers away in the telescope, followed by the sound of mortar fire and the scream of shells piercing the air.

Ishikawa Koichi shouted the order "All conceal and prepare for battle", flew down the high slope, and slid down the slope full of snow to the foot of the mountain, a violent series of explosions followed, churning gunpowder smoke and flying snow and mud flew into the sky, covering it again, and four adjutants and several lieutenants flew to the stone buried by the thick snow" Jiang Yi, while shouting loudly, while struggling to dig with his hands, the head was full of mud and snow slag "When Koichi pulled out of the snowdrift, another dense mortar shell whistled,