After Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin accepted the task of capturing Gao Guizang alive from Liu Yimin, they decided to organize and implement the brigade guard battalion led by Chief of Staff Zhou Yi.

When the Red Seventh Army was established, he was transferred from the commander of the new corps to the commander of the 39th Regiment, and in the battle of eliminating Hu Zongnan's first division in Hanyang Town, the Fujia Campaign, he blocked the desperate breakthrough of Hu Zongnan's first brigade, and he was seriously injured, and later transferred to the chief of staff of the Red 11th Division.

Liu Yimin once said that knowledge is combat effectiveness. This is evident in the teaching of several main brigades, such as the first brigade, which pays attention to study from top to bottom, and the quality of cadres and fighters is first-class in the entire Eighth Route Army. There are some things, Liu Yimin just mentioned a clue, and the cadres and soldiers began to explore in the process of studying, such as how the infantry dealt with the bombing of devil planes.

After the large-scale aircraft group bombed Nangong, Zhou Yi has been pondering how the infantry should deal with the problem of large-scale aircraft group, and he feels that the ground air defense firepower is good, but it wastes ammunition, and once it encounters a large-scale attack by the aircraft, the loss is too great. Setting off smoke can only play a camouflage and cover role, which is too passive, and does not conform to the principle of the instructor's active attack and surname operation, and the effect is not good. After pondering and pondering, Zhou Yi really came up with some solutions.

Zhou Yi's method was a local method, that is, to use kites and balloons to help the Eighth Route Army fight against the planes of the Japanese army. The reason is that the military plane is very fast, and when its speed reaches a certain altitude, just the slightest collision may shatter its windshield and endanger the pilot's life. Kites and balloons can meet this requirement. This principle is the same as the principle that there should not be any branches or straw in front of the muzzle of the gun when the gun is discharged.

As soon as this idea was proposed, it was strongly supported by Liu Yimin, and Zhou Yi made a special report to Liu Yimin for this, and when the two discussed together, Liu Yimin proposed that the wind direction requirements for kites and balloons were too strict, and it was best to supplement them with birds. Think about it, when our army fought fiercely with the Japanese army in broad daylight, and the little devils sent a large-scale fighter plane to bomb it, just when the little devil's plane was diving and strafing and raging wildly, a large number of black and oppressive birds rose into the sky and collided with the little devil's plane, and the little devil was the end of the plane crash and death. If the wind direction is right, the birds will release the balloon after the flock, haha, where can the little devil's plane still care about bombing and strafing, they have a chance to dodge the balloon.

When Zhou Yi heard this, he felt that Liu Yimin's idea was more comprehensive, and it would be good if he could test it on the battlefield once. It's just that this bird is not easy to domesticate, and even if it is trained carrier pigeons, it will take time, and it cannot be put into battle in the short term. If you catch wild birds, it is difficult to domesticate, and it is likely that you can only use them once, and the birds will escape.

Liu Yimin told him not to consider long-term large-scale domestication, which would require a lot of food. It is said that the army can have as many planes as it wants, and it would be good to fight it coldly. If we can catch 10,000 birds, keep them temporarily, and release them when the battle is needed, if we succeed, it is very likely that these 10,000 birds will be able to destroy several, dozen, or even dozens of planes at once, which is a very remarkable feat. Maybe from now on, when they see our troops, they will hide and leave, unless they sneak attack.

As a result of the discussion between the two people, Liu Yimin ordered the establishment of a special air defense team in the Jiaoyi Brigade, which was directly commanded by Zhou Yi and tested on the battlefield.

During the period when the instructor carried out the cold gun and cold cannon movement, Zhou Yi concentrated on this matter, organized the troops to select soldiers who liked to raise birds, and found a total of about 30 people. Seeing that the number of people was too small, Zhou Yi attached this special air defense team to the guard battalion of the 1st Brigade of Jiao, and mobilized troops to paste kites, collect balloons, and catch birds.

Kites and balloons are easy to do.

This Shandong is not only Weixian people can play kites, spring kite flying is a folk custom in Shandong. In particular, after Li Wenli held three kite conferences in Weixian, the larger counties and market towns in the southeast of Shandong and Taiyi Mountain have shops specializing in kite-making. In fact, there is no need for a store, that thing is nothing more than tying a shelf and pasting paper and putting on a string, once you learn it, the key is to train the kite high and control the direction of the skill. These are not difficult for the soldiers.

Balloons are not too difficult, at this time balloon manufacturing is no longer a problem, some big cities have special balloons for hot air balloons and ordinary children to play with balloons, and there are ordinary balloons sold on the market.

Hot air balloons are rarely sold on the market, but they can be produced as long as they are needed. This thing can also carry people, and the army often uses this method to let the soldiers on the hot air balloon act as artillery observers, and the effect is very good. But this is a balloon to deal with the plane, and no one can sit in it, as long as it flies high and dense.

The merchants' information was always very smart, and they heard that the balloons in the base area of the Eighth Route Army were selling quickly, and that the hot air balloons were the best to sell, so they tried to buy goods from Beiping, Tianjin, and Qingdao, and went ashore at Yuezhao Port by sea, and entered the base area of the Eighth Route Army. Along the way, when they met a little devil patrol boat, the merchants stuffed a handful of silver dollars or counterfeit tickets, and then lit a cigarette and handed it over, indicating that it was a child's holiday play, and eighty percent of them could be released.

In just over two months, Zhou Yi trained the guard battalion of the 1st Brigade into a professional unit for flying kites, balloons, and raising birds, and he was waiting for the Jiaoji Road Battle to try his skills!

After receiving the order to capture the commander of the Twelfth Army alive at Twenty Lipu Airport, Zhou Yi wanted to jump up with joy, God, Ogaka Kamizo is the supreme commander of the little devil in Jinan, and he is a military commander! If you capture him alive, you will have to make a name for yourself throughout the country. Hehe, when the time comes, Lao Tzu will make Tail High Kamizo tremble in shock. No, let the whole of the Twelfth Army tremble.

Zhou Yi is still young, and his estimation of the significance of capturing the tail turtle alive is not sufficient. He didn't know that as long as he captured Odaka Kamizo alive, then he would become famous all over the world, and not only the 12th Army, but all the invading Chinese armies and the entire country would tremble.

Thinking of this section, Zhou Yi was full of energy, and shouted three times to thank the division commander for being able to afford to teach the first brigade and Zhou Yi, and began to command the guard battalion to start deploying.

People from staff officers are meticulous in everything, Zhou Yi is the staff officer of the leader, not only meticulous and creative, he designed three sets of plans at once, and even thought of the problem of the plane with the tail high turtle hiding not landing at the airport when it found an abnormality, and the preparation was solid and foolproof.

Seeing that Odaka Kamizo's plane was parked at the airport, and seeing Odaka Kamizo walking towards him and the guard camp, Zhou Yi couldn't help but want to laugh.

When the captain and navigator of Ozaka's landline shouted for Ogaka Kamizo to stop and return to the plane, Ozaka Kamizo and his entourage were angry. They all had just come to Shandong from the mainland to form the headquarters of the 12th Army, and they were not familiar with the personnel of the Shandong garrison, and they only knew the division commander Shimoto Kuami and the chief of staff Suzuki Toshiyuki. As a result, when I got off the plane, I saw that these two guys didn't come, and the others didn't know each other. Do you clearly look down on the commander of the 12th Army?

It was at this time that Otaka Kamezo heard the shouts of the captain and the navigator.

Don't look at this guy with a bad temper and reckless behavior, but after all, he is a graduate of Lu University, and he has been in battle for a long time, and he was from a second lieutenant to a lieutenant general in the war, and he was extremely alert, and when he heard the shout, he immediately threw himself on the ground, pulled out his pistol, and began to shoot, shouting while fighting, directing the entourage to lie down, organizing resistance, and letting the operator return to the plane first to send a report for help, and the others alternately covered and retreated to the plane.

In addition to the captain and navigator, Otaka Kamizo brought an operational staff officer, a confidential staff officer, a telegraph operator, and two guards. As soon as the operational staff officer saw this formation, he knew that it was extremely dangerous, and immediately shouted: "Cover Your Excellency the commander and the operator to return to the plane, and the others will shoot on the spot!" After shouting, he crawled on the ground and began to shoot with his southern pistol for self-defense.

After the captain and the navigator called the police, they turned around, turned their heads and ran in the direction of the nose, they wanted to climb into the plane, open the hatch that had just been closed, and let His Excellency the commander withdraw the plane smoothly.

This devil captain and navigator may not have imagined that they are the first target of the Eighth Route Army. No, as soon as they turned around, they heard two gunshots, and the devil captain and the navigator threw themselves to the ground.

Seeing that the captain and navigator were killed, Otaka Kamizo's heart suddenly fell into the ice cave, knowing that today was either killed in battle or committed suicide, and there was no way to break out of the siege. As for being captured, he didn't even think about it, it would be too humiliating. But he didn't want to die, he had just come to China to serve as the commander of the Twelfth Army, and before he could warm his seat, he fell into the trap of the Eighth Route Army, how could this make him willing.

It is also strange that the Eighth Route Army did not seem to expect the captain and navigator to see through their conspiracy, and after killing the captain and navigator, they also lay down on the ground and began to shoot at them with the tail turtle. This provided an opportunity for Ogaka Kamezo to retreat to the side of the plane with the confidential staff operator. As for the operational staff and the two guardsmen, they were still crawling on the ground in front of the plane, firing desperately to prevent the Eighth Route Army from approaching.

There is still a trace of luck in the heart of the tail high turtle, the Twenty Lipu Airport is very close to Fangzi, not to mention cars, motorcycles, armored vehicles, even the war horses can't run for long, maybe the gunfire has already woken up the Fangzi garrison, as long as they can be reinforced, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

After Otaka Kamizo retreated to the plane, he quietly ordered the operator to turn on the radio and contact the 105th Wing of Fangzi to ask for reinforcements.

The confidential staff officer reminded that if the Eighth Route Army could quietly control the Twenty Lipu airfield, it would definitely have a way to block the reinforcements of the 10th and 5th Wing. Besides, His Excellency the Commander came to Weixian County is a top secret, and there must be a mystery for the Eighth Route Army to disguise the imperial army and wait here. Maybe Fangzi's 105th Wing is not reliable. Or directly send a telegram to Chief of Staff Kobayashi Asaburo, asking him to urge all troops to come to the rescue and order planes to cover and rescue, so that the surname is greater.

As soon as Otaka Kamizo heard this, he ordered the telegraph operator to send a report to Asaburo Kobayashi and ordered him to organize a rescue immediately.

The little newspaper operator was also calm, and his hands did not stop, ticking and ticking. After he finished sending the telegram, he heard a bang, and when he looked up, he saw that the Eighth Route Army had already surrounded him, and the sound just now was that the wounded combat staff officer pulled a grenade, and the jade was shattered.

The combat staff officer and the two accompanying guards usually follow the commander's ass in the headquarters, where would they have thought that there would be another day when they would need to go into battle to fight? The two guards were a little better, the bullets in the bullet box were the standard configuration, and the combat staff officer didn't have a bullet box in his waist at all, and there were only a few bullets in the pistol, and a few shots were over. In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from approaching, the two guards kept firing rapidly, and the bullets were consumed very quickly. Moreover, the marksmanship of the Eighth Route Army was very accurate, two guards were killed one after another, and the combat staff officer took a rifle and just finished firing five bullets, he was hit by several bullets and was wounded, so he had to pull the grenade and commit suicide.

Seeing this situation, the operator asked the operator whether Ozaka Kamizo, who was shooting under the cover of the fuselage of the plane, whether he had blown up the radio station.

Ogaka Kamezo no longer had any hope at this time, whether it was the defenders of Fangzi or the defenders of Weicheng, by the time they arrived, they would probably have become corpses. At this time, we must not let the radio station fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, because then there will be big problems. Therefore, as soon as the operator asked for instructions, Ogaka Kamizo shouted in a hoarse voice, "Quickly blow up the radio station!" ”

After the 21st Division was completely annihilated, Terauchi Shouichi ordered all units of the North China Front to blow up the radio at a critical juncture, so that the cunning Eighth Route Army could not obtain the communication code of the imperial army. Therefore, when all units of the army moved, they all reported to the operator to bring grenades and blow up the radio station at a critical time. When the radio station was destroyed, that is, when the unit was completely destroyed.

With a "boom", the devil operator blew up the radio station, pulled out his self-defense pistol, and crawled to the ground to shoot. Of course, he couldn't shoot anymore, the confidential staff officer and the pistol of Ozaka Kamizo were already out of ammunition, and both of them drew their command knives and stared at the Eighth Route Army surrounded by beast-like eyes.

The bullets of the Eighth Route Army seemed to have eyes, and the devil operator crawled to the ground and was just about to shoot, when a bullet flew in, and with a soft "poof" sound, a bloody hole was opened in his head, and the blood burst out at once.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody hole appeared in the head of the confidential staff officer holding the saber and blocking the hiding of the tail turtle, and he fell to the ground on his back.

When the devil's radio operator blew up the radio station, Zhou Yi knew that the little devil had finished sending a telegram asking for help, and the task assigned by the division commander to leave a chance for help for Odaka Kamizo had been completed, and he had no worries, so he jumped up from the ground, shouted "Catch the tail and hide the turtle", and led the soldiers to rush up.

At this time, Odaka Kamizo only had one thought left, that is, to commit suicide immediately, and he must not fall into the hands of Tsuchihachi. However, he is a well-known lieutenant general commander, even if he commits suicide, he has to wash his body, wipe his saber, write a suicide note, and leave a sentence of death, but unfortunately all this cannot be done.

Ozaka Kamizo leaned his back against the plane, facing east, muttering to himself, calling the names of his two daughters, holding the command knife upside down, and stabbing it to the heart. I heard a clang, and a bullet hit, knocking the command knife of the tail turtle to the ground.

Tail Taka Kamizo was startled, leaned down to pick up the command knife, and killed himself again. At this moment, there was a thunderclap in his ears: "Tail high turtle hide, raise your hand!" ”

Ozaka Kamizo shuddered, and involuntarily raised his head, only to see a heroic soldier standing in front of him, with a trace of green smoke coming from the muzzle of the pistol in his hand.

Ogaka Kamizo didn't know that this heroic soldier was Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the First Brigade of the Eighth Route Army's first-class main force.

At this time, Otaka Kamizo didn't care about anything, the excellent quality of the graduates of Lu University, the brave and tenacious style of the commander of the 19th Division, the majesty of the lieutenant general commander of the 12th Army, and the cultivation of the senior generals of the Imperial Army. He suddenly seemed to be a different person, just like a gangster fighting on the street, Tail Taka Kamizo suddenly straightened up, pounced like a hungry wolf, hugged Zhou Yi at once, kicked and bitten, and wanted to snatch the pistol.

Zhou Yi snorted and laughed, and said in a slang language: "I didn't expect that His Excellency Commander Odaka Kamezo, the commander of the dignified 12th Army, turned out to be a thug who fought on the streets!" ”

With this sentence, Ogaka Kamizo let go of him, sat on the ground, covered his face, and roared like a wolf: "Kill me!" Kill me! ”

Zhou Yi ignored him and ordered the soldiers to set him up, push the plane off the airport runway, and hide it, estimating that the little devil's plane would arrive in a short time, so he had to hurry up.

The telephone from the airport to Fangzi and Weicheng is still connected, and Zhou Yi will soon call Liu Yimin: "Report to the division commander, Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the First Brigade, report to you: I was ordered to capture the commander of the 12th Army, Odaka Kamizo, alive, and the task has been completed." Please instruct! ”

At this time, Liu Yimin had been staying in the office of Yuan Xiong Mi in Shihu Garden, and when he heard the phone ringing, he picked up the phone and heard Zhou Yi's excited voice. Liu Yimin was also very excited, stood up all of a sudden, said yes to the microphone, and ordered Zhou Yi to send soldiers to escort the tail turtle to Weicheng and hand it over to Wang Laohu for interrogation. Then he told Zhou Yi that after a while, the planes of the little devils would fly in groups over Twenty Miles Fort, and he wanted to lure them to lower their altitude, dive and strafe, and release birds, kites, and balloons when the planes were most and most chaotic, and test them to see the effect of the new weapons of the Eighth Route Army.

Putting down the phone, Liu Yimin ordered to send a report to the chairman and the boss that our unit had successfully attacked and occupied Weicheng, captured alive the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Otaka Kamizo, and the commander of the 10th and 8th Division, Lieutenant General Xia Yuan Xiongmi, and planned to escort the two chieftains to Shaanxi by plane, and asked the central authorities to study whether to send the two chiefs to the Supreme Court of Chiang Kai-shek's National Axe for trial.

(To be continued)