Chapter 53: Teach a lesson to Japanese aircraft

After occupying Yangyuan County, Ma Zheng was not in such a hurry to transfer as before. He knew very well that with the current strength of the Japanese army, it would be impossible to mobilize a large army to counterattack Yangwon in a short period of time, so he could arrange it calmly.

Huang Bingyan had already left with an infantry brigade of his headquarters and four newly formed temporary 1,000-man teams, and when he left, he took with him more than half of the capture. And the remaining half of Ma Zheng let them stay, which was a gift he prepared for the Jinchaji Military Region.

The wait was boring, but fortunately, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region did not make them wait for a long time. At 4 o'clock in the morning on 7 March, Ma Zheng finally received a telegram from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, informing them that the headquarters of the Military Region was now resting near Erfentan on the north bank of the Sanggan River.

Originally, according to Ma Zheng's idea, he wanted the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region to send people to join them, but then he thought that they were now moving around, and there were a large number of agency personnel in addition to the troops, and it was not very convenient to take these people to the north.

After consultations, the two sides decided to meet tomorrow night at Longwang Mountain, 30 kilometers north of the Sanggan River.

After agreeing on the location of the division, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the troops to load all the captured supplies into trucks, and then be ready to leave the city at any time.

Because there was so much grain seized yesterday, not counting the meat, there were two whole warehouses for the ground white flour alone. In addition, there is a large amount of rice, which is more than 200,000 catties according to incomplete statistics. Don't think that the figure of 200,000 is too big, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just half a month's ration for a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army.

And that's just fine grains, potatoes, corn and black beans for feeding horses are piled up in dozens of warehouses. Although these things are not looked down upon by little devils, they are all good things for Ma Zheng and others.

Ma Zheng really wanted to transport this batch of grain back to the base area, but unfortunately the distance was too far, and there was no suitable means of transportation, so he could only let Huang Bingyan and others take a small half, and the rest of the horses were ready to be given to part of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and all the horses that could not be taken away were distributed to the people in the city.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Ma Zheng asked the troops who remained in the city to call people from house to house, and asked the people to take the containers to the gendarmerie headquarters to receive food. In order to avoid possible bombing by the Japanese army, Ma Zheng only reserved two hours for the common people, and stopped releasing grain after two hours.

Hearing that the Eighth Route Army was going to release grain, the common people didn't believe it at first, but there were still some poor people who couldn't open the pot and rushed to the gendarmerie headquarters with the idea of giving it a try. When these people carried food into their homes, the people of the city were in a stir, and soon the surviving people of the city poured into the streets. Everyone had a snakeskin bag or a barrel in their hands, and their faces were full of excited smiles.

In fact, there are not many people in the city, those who can walk are gone, and those who don't go have been killed by the little devils, and there are less than 10,000 people left in the huge Yangyuan county, and they are mainly the elderly, women and children.

After the devil came, he brutally suppressed the people in the city, and those bitches tried every means to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the people. Now many families in the city are almost unable to open the pot, and there are no wild vegetables or other things to dig outside in the cold weather, many families do not know how to survive this winter.

The Eighth Route Army's opening of the warehouse to release grain was equivalent to a lifesaver for them, and each family had a bag of rice, three bags of potatoes and a bag of corn, which was enough for a family of three to survive comfortably until the beginning of spring.

The operation continued until 10 a.m., when the sound of engines from Japanese planes ceased.

Fortunately, the Japanese planes only came to reconnoitre, and there were only two in total, but when they saw the red flag waving in the wind on the city, they still dropped two bombs.

The sound of the bomb finally brought the people of the city back to their senses from their excitement, and they realized that it was still a time of war, and they went back to their homes and hid.

Knowing that the little devil's revenge was about to begin, Ma Zheng ordered the troops to inform the people in the city, so that those who could get out of the city should go out of the city as much as possible, and those who could not go out of the city should hide on the spot, and it was best to hide in the cellars of their respective homes, so as not to be accidentally injured by the devil's bomb.

The large army had actually moved outside the city at night, because Ma Zheng knew that the Japanese army must have known that Yangyuan City had been captured by them, so they would definitely take advantage of the daylight to send planes to bomb it. Therefore, in order to avoid losses, Ma Zheng placed most of his troops in the dense forest outside the city, and only a small part of the troops remained in the city.

However, Ma Zheng still ordered the troops to send a group of machine gunners and built dozens of machine gun positions in the city. Although machine guns are far inferior to anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, if tactics are used properly, they can still pose a certain threat to the Japanese army's improvised aircraft, and at least they will not be as unscrupulous as before.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army's fleet finally appeared, a total of nine planes, all of which were the latest Type 96 land attack planes in service with the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army flew over the county seat of Yangwon, they first bombed the city wall and the military police headquarters. One bomb after another was dropped and exploded in the city, and buildings near the gendarmerie headquarters collapsed one by one, while a fire broke out.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng had long expected that the Japanese army would regard these places as key targets, so he let the troops and nearby residents evacuate. But seeing that the little devil was so arrogant, Ma Zheng was still angry.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The bombardment continued, and huge fires rose from time to time in the city. Instead of being counterattacked as expected, the little devils became even more unscrupulous, and in addition to military installations, residential areas in the city also became targets for their bombing.

Fortunately, the little devil also felt that it was a shameful waste and a very uneconomical act to throw bombs into residential areas, so he quickly targeted the warehouse area in the north of the city.

Obviously, this Japanese bomber group had obtained a detailed defense map of Yangyuan Castle, and knew that a large amount of munitions and other materials were stored in the north. In order to prevent these materials from falling into the hands of Ma Zheng's subordinates, they would rather destroy them.

What kind of person Ma Zheng is, he can naturally think of what the Japanese army can think of. The weapons and equipment that should have been transported have been transported, and those that are ready to be sent to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region have been loaded into trucks and placed outside the city. Most of the grain has been distributed to the people of the city, and the rest has been loaded and transported outside the city, and there are only a dozen machine gun positions left in the warehouse area, except for the rows of empty houses.

Since he knew that the little devils would definitely target here, Ma Zheng placed most of the machine gunners in the warehouse area. At that time, the Japanese army was worried that the warehouse area would be bombed by the Nationalist Government, so they built a lot of air defense facilities and installed several anti-aircraft machine guns. This saved Ma Zheng's department a lot of things.

Therefore, when the Japanese planes flew over the warehouse area and bombed the warehouse area, Ma Zheng immediately ordered all the machine gun positions in the warehouse area to open fire immediately.

"Da Da Da!"

"Da Da Da!"

The defense and control network composed of dozens of machine guns was still very powerful, although it failed to shoot down a single one, but it made one of them smoke and flew away.

Only eight of the nine enemy planes remained, but Ma Zheng's counterattack did not frighten these crazy guys, but only provoked their anger. I saw that these planes turned around and flew towards the warehouse area again!

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Bombs were dropped, and explosions were heard everywhere in the entire warehouse area, but the gunfire from the machine gun position did not stop, but became more and more rapid.

At the same time, the snipers lurking in the shadows also began to exert their strength, and after only a few muffled gunshots, the two Japanese planes fell straight down, and soon crashed outside the hungry city. One more exploded in the air and two escaped with wounds.

The remaining three enemy planes were shocked, hurriedly and quickly pulled up, and then fled into the distance.

Seeing that the Japanese planes had fled, the machine gunners in the warehouse area cheered unpassionately, and at the same time, more than a dozen figures with various oil paints on their bodies ran out of the shadows to join them and cheer together.