Chapter 523: Attack on Xuzhou Airport (continued)
Li Lingfeng led the 1st Special Operations Squadron to escort the pilots and accompanying guard soldiers of the 90th Squadron of the 1st Flying Regiment back to Matoushan Airport by car, and the journey was very smooth. By one o'clock in the evening, the convoy had already arrived at the gate of Matou Mountain.
It is said that it is a gate, but in fact, there is a watchtower on one side and a blockhouse on the other, and a long rejecting wood is horizontal in the middle. However, the watchtowers and pillboxes were connected with barbed wire and bells hanging from them. A military dog with a little black in its yellow fur squatted next to the watchtower, staring at the convoy that was approaching in the distance.
The sentries had been informed that the pilots and guards who had gone to receive comfort had returned, followed by members of the gendarmerie.
After looking at the pass, the sentry walked over to the first car and checked it by the searchlight. The car is from the airport, the driver is from the airport, but the people sitting inside are a little strange, why do the pilots seem to be tied up, and there are soldiers with loaded guns and armbands on duty in the carriages?
The sentry received a notice that the pilot and the accompanying guard soldiers had returned, accompanied by military police, but did they not say that the soldiers on duty escorted the pilots back?
As soon as the sentry was nervous, he picked up his gun, and with a clatter, he loaded it and aimed at the sentry on duty sitting in the car.
The voice of the leader of the team came from the car: "Stupid pig, put the gun down, don't you recognize us?" ”
As soon as the sentry heard that it was indeed the arrogant Squadron Leader Miyajima Nakasa, who was indeed a fighter squadron, he immediately asked, "Your Excellency, have you been held hostage?" ”
That Nakasa's name is Miyajima Asaichi, and he can be regarded as one of the ace pilots of the military aviation unit, and he usually has his eyes above the top, and he doesn't even look at the soldiers of these ground guard units. I was caught by the gendarmes in a fight today, and I was unlucky to go home. Just as he was thinking about how to respond when he saw the captain of the 90th Sentai Squadron, Mori Yu Tokumitsu Daisa, he saw the sentry pick up his gun and hurriedly said something to stop him. I didn't expect the sentry to be so responsible, and asked if he was being held hostage.
Miyajima blushed and said impatiently: "This is a military secret, you don't understand, let it go quickly!" ”
Only then did the sentries understand that the pilots were escorted back by the military police, and eighty percent of them were jealous and fighting during the comfort period, which alarmed the military police and were arrested.
Holding back a gloating laugh, the sentry moved away from the woods and let the convoy into the airport.
Li Lingfeng's truck was behind the vehicle of the pilot and the guards accompanying the pilot, and as soon as he saw the sentry let him go, Li Lingfeng felt a burst of excitement in his heart, knowing that he was about to create a miracle in the history of war, and immediately ordered to send a signal to prepare for battle.
The warriors of the 1st Special Operations Formation who received the order signal were busy driving in their cars, their pistols and sniper rifles were all screwed on silencers, all the 38 large covers were put in the cars, and they were replaced with 81 automatic rifles, and even the bazookas, infantry guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns equipped for supporting fire were assembled on the trucks.
Soon several gendarmes jumped out of the car and walked directly to the watchtower at the entrance of the devil's airport, apparently they wanted to check whether the sentries had violated the discipline of the airport guards.
Li Lingfeng did not have the luxury of expecting not to shoot at the airport, that was impossible. Because the Xuzhou Airport is far more tightly guarded than he imagined, the protection measures of Taiyuan Airport, Tianjin Airport, and Baoding Airport attacked by the special combat team are much stricter, which shows that the little devil has a long surname and knows that he has made great efforts to protect his airport. Under such circumstances, if we still think of gathering the devil guard troops to give lectures after entering the airport and taking the opportunity to completely annihilate them, it is very likely that the devils will immediately be alerted, and the battle alarm will be activated, causing reinforcements from the army outside the airport.
The most ideal way is to take advantage of the fact that the devils have not reacted, use pistols, sniper rifles, crossbows, and daggers with silencers to deal with the little devils in the airport, completely control the inside of the airport, block the news, so that the plane of the Eighth Route Army Air Force transporting pilots can land, use the planes of the little devils to carry ammunition and fuel, and so on to empty the airport, and the special combat team evacuate by plane.
There is a problem in the middle, that is, the night flight capability of the Eighth Route Army Air Force. You must know that the main reason why the planes at this time could not fight at night was that they could not identify the enemy, and it was dark, how could they distinguish where the enemy's position was? However, as long as there are bright lights to guide them, the planes can still fly and carry out bombing missions.
Li Lingfeng had seen in the war report that the [***] planes had bombed the Nanjing military airfield at night, and the [***] planes had also flown at night when the planes bombed Tokyo for the first time, so he wondered if the comrades-in-arms of the Eighth Route Army Air Force could take off and land at night.
Before the operation, Li Lingfeng considered that it was impossible for the special combat team to stop at the airport for too long, so he sent a telegram to Feng Dafei, asking if he could take off at night and whether he could rush to the Xuzhou airport to rush planes, ammunition, and fuel.
Feng Dafei is now looking forward to aviation ammunition is about to go crazy, and when he receives a telegram, he can call back immediately. Li Lingfeng was asked to accurately report the exact coordinates of Xuzhou Yuejun Airport, and after occupying the airport, turn on the airport's searchlights and lights to indicate the direction. If possible, it will be used as military navigation equipment to provide navigation for aircraft. And in the telegram he talked about the method of navigation equipment.
Feng Dafei was still not at ease about this, so he didn't even ask Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan for instructions, and sent a report directly to the headquarters, requesting the headquarters to immediately contact Zhou Zhirou and Mao Bangchu of the National Political Axe Aviation Committee to ask for the accurate coordinate parameters of Xuzhou Matoushan Airport and Camel Mountain Airport.
Actually, Feng Dafei was too worried, what did the special combat team do? That's all all-rounders on the battlefield. As early as when he captured the Taiyuan airport, Wang Laohu told him that his special combat team could use all kinds of weapons except for airplanes and warships, and asked him to rest assured. That Li Lingfeng graduated from Tsinghua University, and his skills don't need to be taught, as long as he enters the tower of the Yue Army, he will naturally understand everything after watching it. What's more, the planes of the Eighth Route Army Air Force were all captured by the special combat team!
The convoy did not stop after entering the airport and drove until it reached the only building at the airport before stopping.
It is said that it is a building, but it is actually a three-story brick building, which was built when the little devil expanded the airport, except for the office is the dormitory for pilots and ground staff. As for the quarters of the guard units and the ground fire units, they are in bungalows behind the building. At this time, due to the fear of being attacked by the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army, the devil guard unit and the ground fire unit generally took turns to rest, half on the battlefield and half on rest.
In the evening of autumn and winter, there is already a cold air in the wind, which goes straight into people's clothes.
Mori Yu Tokuko Dasa stood in front of the building, looking at the convoy that drove over, and he couldn't tell whether he was uncomfortable or angry.
Mori Yude Guangdazuo was a little puzzled, because in his mind, at best, there were three or five gendarmes, but who knew that it would be a huge convoy, and there would be fraud in the middle?
Mori Yu Deguang Dazuo suddenly felt that he was a little reckless when he left the dormitory, if there was fraud, he didn't know how to die. Thinking of this, Mori Yude Guangdazuo had no interest in greeting the military police, and turned around and ran towards the building.
He's fast, someone is faster than him.
Seeing an officer wearing the rank of Dazuo standing outside the building to greet him, Li Lingfeng sighed in his heart: Oh no, this devil officer will definitely be suspicious when he sees so many vehicles, the devil pilot was stunned by himself, and this devil officer is not faint. If he reacts, it will be troublesome to go back to the building and sound the alarm. In that case, the airport can only be blown up, and the planes, ammunition, fuel, and navigation equipment that the Eighth Route Army urgently needs can only be buried for the little devils.
Therefore, as soon as the car stopped, Li Lingfeng flew out of the car, and caught up with Moriyu Deguang Dazuo in three steps and two steps: "Your Excellency Dazuo, thank you for welcoming you late at night, for causing you trouble!" ”
Sen Yude is an old pilot and has good physical fitness, but compared with Li Lingfeng, the gap cannot be calculated. As soon as he saw a guy wearing a military police captain's badge holding the way, Mori Yu Deguang was a little confused in his mind, could it be that he was too careful?
Calming down, Moriyu Tokumitsu had to deal with it: "Welcome to Your Excellency Captain to come and guide!" ”
Li Lingfeng smiled secretly in his heart, as long as you haven't run into the building, then everything is in Lao Tzu's control.
As soon as he put his face on the page, Li Lingfeng took out the style of a military police captain and began to reprimand Mori Yu Deguang: "Your Excellency, your pilots and soldiers fought with the pilots and soldiers of the Third Flying Regiment at the comfort station and caused serious consequences, and seriously violated the military discipline of the army. I'll escort them back to the airport and hand them over to you. Please deal with it in accordance with the military law of the army. ”
As soon as he heard that he had handed over the pilot and the accompanying guard soldiers to his disposal, Moritama Tokumitsu rekindled hope in his heart, thinking that maybe he was really suspicious, maybe there was no accident, and this gendarme was really the gendarme of the Imperial Army who enforced the law on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor!
As a result, Moritama Tokumitsu's face was a little bloody, his attitude was a little better, and he began to apologize and thank His Excellency the military police captain.
Li Lingfeng didn't answer, and waved his hand to let the guys who committed the crime get out of the car.
As soon as those pilots and soldiers got out of the car, Mori Yudeguang felt hot on his face. These idiots can't even win a fight, and the face of the 90th Flying Team is gone.
Moritama Tokumitsu, who was angry in his heart, didn't wait for Miyajima Asaichi Nakasa, who had just gotten out of the car, to report, so he walked up and slapped him twice, and then reached out to untie the rope that bound Miyajima's hands.
Li Lingfeng didn't speak, watching Moriyu Tokumitsu untie Miyajima Asaichi's rope, and then looked at Miyajima Asa, who moved his hands, to untie the ropes of other pilots at first, until the pilots' ropes were all untied, Li Lingfeng roared: "Baga, Your Excellency Dazuo, is this how you deal with soldiers who violate military discipline?" Shame, shame, shame, disgrace to His Majesty the Emperor and the Army! ”
Looking at Li Lingfeng's angry face and listening to his pure Tokyo accent, Mori Yu Tokumitsu Daisa began to feel relieved, feeling that this gendarmerie captain did not look like those dirt eight roads, and was likely to be a somewhat old-fashioned gendarmerie captain with strict discipline. If that's the case, you'll have to say a few nice things to him. People, who doesn't want to have a good breath?
Sen Yu Deguang Dazuo smiled and said to Li Lingfeng: "Your Excellency, this is the case, I have decided to lock them up. But in view of the fact that there is still a combat mission tomorrow, I would like to ask for your permission to allow them to be confined in their dormitories as an example. ”
Li Lingfeng pouted: "Confined in the dormitory, wouldn't that let them go back to the dormitory to sleep?" I said why is the discipline of your subordinates so lax, it turns out that His Excellency Osa carried out the discipline of His Majesty the Emperor in this way. Okay, do as you say. However, I will report to the Military Police Headquarters of the North China Front Army in Peiping to see if your disposition is in accordance with army discipline. ”
This said that he was going to the military police headquarters of the North China Front Army to complain about the crime, and Mori Yutokutsu Daisa completely gave up his guard and began to state the important surname of the Ming war, explaining that confinement in the dormitory was also a kind of confinement. Speaking of which, seeing that Li Lingfeng didn't buy it, Sen Yude Guang Dazuo invited His Excellency the Captain to his office to sit down, or visit the airport, it was not easy to come here, and the opportunity was rare.
Seeing that Sen Yude Guangdazuo was so humble, Li Lingfei was embarrassed to embarrass him anymore, and proposed that he must let his soldiers on duty escort these pilots and accompanying guard soldiers back to the dormitory to see that they were indeed locked up.
Mori Yudeguang Dazuo agreed without even thinking about it. Then, Li Lingfeng proposed that it was already late at night, and he also wanted to go back to bed early. But it's not easy to come here because it's too busy. Since Mori Yutoku Guangdasa was so gracious, he turned on all the lights at the airport, and he quickly toured the facilities of the airport, and then quickly returned to the city to rest.
In accordance with the orders of His Excellency the Captain and Tokuko Moriyu, the soldiers on duty escorted the pilots and accompanying guards to the dormitory, and the airport duty officers also turned on the lights. Mori Yude Guangdazuo accompanied Li Lingfeng to visit the airport facilities.
From the command equipment of the tower to the aircraft nest and aircraft bunker, to the ground anti-aircraft fire position, all the way to the pillbox, watchtower, and machine gun bunker near the barbed wire fence of the airport, the two people chatted while watching, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.
It wasn't until he heard the roar of the plane landing on the runway that Mori Yutoku remembered that he hadn't ordered the plane to take off so early, and he hadn't received a notice that a plane had landed, so he hurriedly ran to the window to see. This was a big surprise at this look, and the airfield actually began to land planes non-stop, and it seemed that they were all bombarded, needless to say, it was the Eighth Route Army Air Force that disappeared that touched here.
Looking at the ground of the airport again, there were figures with pupils, the planes in the nest and the planes in the bunker were all pushed out, and the ground crew were busy refueling and reloading. Moreover, the underground ammunition depot and underground oil depot were all opened, and the ammunition boxes and oil drums were transported to the plane by the ground crew.
At this moment, Mori Yude Guangdazuo completely understood, and he was fooled again, and he turned around and wanted to press the battle alarm device in the office.
Li Lingfeng stood in front of Sen Yu Deguang Dazuo and sneered: "Your Excellency Dazuo, don't you think it's a little late to call the police now?" After speaking, he slapped a palm on the head of Mori Yutokuko Daisa, who looked like he was still shopping.
Just when Li Lingfeng and the others successfully occupied Matoushan Airport, Wang Tongsheng led the Second Special Operations Formation to also occupy Camel Mountain Airport. The difference is that Li Lingfeng asked Sen Yude Guangdazuo to order the officers on duty to turn on the airport lights, while Wang Tongsheng used silent pistols, daggers, and crossbow arrows to solve the devils inside the airport, and then sent the soldiers of the special operations brigade to turn on the lights; Li Lingfeng asked Zhao Yonggang and them to send a report to Feng Dafei and Liu Yimin to report the news of the occupation of the airport, and Wang Tongsheng personally ordered to send a report to the division commander to report the victory, urging the aviation brigade to act quickly.
When Li Lingfeng walked out of Mori Yude's office in Guangdazuo, planes had already begun to take off, needless to say, it was the air brigade that used the planes of the Yue Army as the transport planes of the Eighth Route Army.
Since the devils in the airport were cleared, the lights at the airport were turned on by the little devils, and the airport often carried out emergency tasks to take off at night, Li Lingfeng was not worried about the little devils outside the airport finding out. And they will find that it will be after the dawn.
Thinking about it, Li Lingfeng still ordered Zhao Yonggang to send two teams to infiltrate the perimeter of the airport and expand the security area as much as possible.
Seeing Li Lingfeng come out, Feng Da, who was directing the soldiers to load ammunition on the plane, quickly stepped up to meet him. As soon as they met, he punched Li Lingfeng on the shoulder: "Good my little Lingfeng, well done!" You know what? Here are three full squadrons of various aircraft, as well as transport planes, trainer planes, and enough fuel and ammunition for three months. The most incredible thing is that there are still twenty fighter jet components, which are shipped back and assembled as a temporary new aircraft. Now, our Eighth Route Army has been launched. If you want to put aside the period of the Red Army, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission has to award you the Red Star Medal! ”
Seeing Li Lingfeng's indifferent face, Feng Dafei knew that this was cultivated by long-term special forces training, so he had the heart to tease him: "Why don't you smile, do you miss your willow girl?" Don't worry, when I complete the mission and return to Shaanxi this time, I will definitely bring your catkins girl and let her come to Shandong to reunite with you. ”
It is no secret that Li Lingfeng likes Li Chang's sister-in-law Liu Wu, because after the girl received Li Chang's letter, she wrote to Li Lingfeng, and the two of them are now considered to have confirmed their relationship, and they are waiting to get married after meeting.
However, the object that Li Lingfeng talked about was also the first time in his life, and he was very thin-skinned, so Feng Dafei really jumped a few times in his heart when he said this.
"Master Feng, you have to hurry up, I'm afraid that the little devils will find out after a long time." Li Lingfeng diverted the topic.
This Feng Dafei served as the deputy commander of the Central Guard Division and the commander of the only division, and the old Red Army who taught the instructor was generally used to calling him his old position.
Feng Dafei looked at the soldiers who were busy at the airport, and said to Li Lingfeng: "Ling Feng, you immediately arrange a vigilance, this work can't be finished for a while, I have to fly at least three times, and I can transport more than I can." In the end, if it really didn't work, the oil depot was blown up. Ammunition is not left behind, we urgently need aviation ammunition. ”
After speaking, Feng Dafei no longer paid attention to Li Lingfeng and ran to direct the soldiers to rush to transport supplies.
The First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army originally had 24 bombers, but now the Matoushan airfield alone has captured 30 planes of various types from the three squadrons of the little devils, and with the capture of the Camel Mountain airfield, the planes are sufficient. Using all the 30 overseas Chinese pilots of Xue Junmin and them, there are still fewer people and more machines.
When Feng Dafei received Li Lingfei's telegram, he had already considered that a batch of planes would be captured, so he directly divided the planes into two formations, leaving bombardiers and shooters, and letting Xue Junmin's 30 pilots all sit on them, the purpose was to fly back the little devil's plane and transport the ammunition back.
When I got to the airport, I saw that so many planes had been seized. Feng Dafei immediately contacted the formation of the Camel Mountain Airfield and ordered the first batch of fighters and reconnaissance planes, in addition to the original bombers to transport ammunition, to fly only the little devils and transport the fighters back with bombs. Then let the pilot take the bomber back to the airfield, fly the captured bomber, transport plane, load the ammunition, and try to get most of the ammunition back. As for oil, the Eighth Route Army captured a lot in Qingdao, which was enough. If you can transport it, you will be lucky, and if you can't transport it, it will be blown up.
Anyway, the last batch must be transported back to the special operations team.
At this time, the army's aircraft transportation capacity was limited, not to mention fighter planes and reconnaissance planes, which could only transport more than 100 kilograms of machine gun ammunition, and basically could not undertake the transportation task. It is the captured devil transport plane, which is also a Nakajima Army transport plane manufactured in 1936, which can seat 2 to 8 people, and the cargo is about 2 tons. This time, a total of four transport planes were seized, each carrying about 8 tons of ammunition. On the contrary, bombers have become the main force of transportation, and each bomb load can reach one and a half tons, plus the cabin has fewer people, and it can also transport about two tons. As for the light bomber, it can only carry 800 kg of ammunition, and the reduced crew can be loaded up to 1 ton. In this case, all the transport planes, heavy bombers, and light bombers will be used, and the original eight heavy bombers of the Eighth Route Army, the eight newly captured Matoushan airfield and the 10 Camel Mountain airfield, a total of 26 planes, plus four transport planes, plus the original 16 light bombers of the Eighth Route Army and the 10 light bombers of the Camel Mountain airfield captured this time, even if they fly three times, they will not be able to transport all the aviation ammunition stored by the army. And after going back, the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army will not be used for long.
Seeing this situation, Feng Dafei discussed with Li Lingfeng again to see if there was any way to transport more ammunition.
Li Lingfeng thought about it, one was not to let the plane transport the special combat team. The second is to directly let the bombers bomb the army after dawn and consume ammunition. The third is to use the vehicles at the military airfield to transport ammunition. But after thinking about it, using a car to transport ammunition is purely looking for death, and not only will it be impossible for the ammunition vehicle to pass through the blockade line of the army, but I am afraid that it will also trap the special combat team in the encirclement of the little devils.
In the end, Li Lingfeng and Feng Dafei discussed, the plane delivered ammunition four times, and the special combat team evacuated on its own.
Liu Yimin, who was in the office of Xiong Mi, commander of the 10th and 8th Division in Weixian County, was overjoyed after receiving Li Lingfeng's telegram of victory, and felt that the strength of the Eighth Route Army Air Force had increased greatly and that it could basically be restored to its original level. In the short term, the military aviation units in North China will suffer for a while. If one loses the other's strengths, the balance will gradually tilt in the direction of the Eighth Route Army.
As for Li Lingfeng's plan to let the planes transport ammunition four times and the special combat team to evacuate on its own, Liu Yimin immediately sent a telegram to stop it, warning Feng Dafei, Li Lingfeng, and Wang Tongsheng that the safety of the special combat team came first, and ammunition came second. The plane can only fly three times at most, two times to transport ammunition, and the third time must be to bring back the special combat team, and no one person must be missing. If they find out, they will immediately stop the delivery of ammunition and quickly withdraw to the special combat team.
(To be continued)