Chapter Ninety-Three: Chengde is alone
The sound of a buzzing motor sounded in the sky, and Zhang Xuewu, whose face changed, immediately rushed out of the command post regardless of the danger, March 5 was a rare sunny day after snow, under the action of low-pressure alternating airflow, the clouds were relatively high, which was an excellent day to launch an air attack! What is more important is that the troops attacking in front of the formation are returning one after another at this moment, and if they are attacked by air raids at this time, there is no doubt that the casualties will be extremely heavy.
Naoaki Matsuki, Shousuke Hirose, Kazuichiro Enbe and others all looked at the small black dots in the sky with their heads held high, because radio had not yet been popularized in aircraft in various countries during this period, so pilots often needed to communicate with gestures, and when attacking the ground, they also needed air contact flags or fireworks signals, etc., and Kazuichiro Enbe also ordered the troops to set up air contact flags to indicate the target and direction of the attack.
Because the radio station of the newly formed 1st Division could not effectively get in touch with the direction of Beiping, Zhang Xuewu did not know that the Northeast Army was pouring out of the nest this time, and Zhang Xueliang was actually very unqualified as the military commander of the defending side, and many of his strategic intentions and tactical deployments carried a large degree of immediate surname, and this kind of uncertain surname or sudden change was extremely fatal in the rapidly changing battlefield.
The newly formed 1st Division had never coordinated with the Air Force at all, and there was no air liaison flag at all, while the Air Force pilots carried out the mission of attacking the enemy according to their common sense and understanding. Oh well! We specially attacked outside the city to cover the attack of the air-burst planes on the artillery positions of the Japanese army.
When the destroyer began to lower its altitude and hover to determine the target, the officers and men who were attacking on the side ridge of Majiagou seemed to have forgotten their fatigue and cheered and greeted their plane!
Standing behind Enbe and Ichiro, a military staff officer Takeshita Ruo was born with a severe stutter for three days, and after years of correction, he was barely able to speak, but he was still speechless in a hurry, and was teased by his colleagues as a bunch of three, three, three, and a lot of Takeshita, looking at the dazzling blue sky and white emblem under the wings of the gradually larger aircraft in the sky, Takeshita's hand holding the telescope began to tremble constantly, and even frightened that he couldn't even speak coherently, and finally the staff officer forcibly stuffed the telescope into the hands of Enbe and Ichiro, and pointed to the sky anxiously!
Kazuichiro Enbe, who was smiling, lifted the binoculars and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and let the staff officers, who found that the situation was wrong, pull and hide in a depression near the headquarters, and covered themselves with the turn of a military canvas.
Not long after the cheers, the Yue troops attacking the side ridge of Majiagou heard an explosion in the direction of the artillery position behind them? Columns of smoke tens of meters high rose into the air, and the detonating shells were like fireworks, and the roaring explosions? What the hell is going on in the smoke of gunpowder?
It turned out that the retreat of the 14th Division had inadvertently escaped this fate, and the units of the 10th Division, which was ready to go in an orderly manner, became an excellent target for the destroyer strafing fire.
The airburst aircraft team returned immediately after completing the bombing of the artillery positions of the Yue army, it can be said that the mountain of artillery shells of the Yue army helped a lot, in addition to the patrol alert of the third squadron of the Flying Eagle Team, the leader of the aircraft Gao Zhihang took the lead in joining the strafing of the ground, and Gao Zhihang, who controlled the throttle valve and stepped on the lifting pedal to push down the control lever, pulled up and turned around and dived at a high altitude, and aimed the nose at the back of the Yue army who was densely packed with attacks on the side ridge of Majiagou. Gao Zhihang pulled up the plane and hovered here to enter the climb stage, and then used Goselot to dive and strafe the army again.
Every time they flew over the Chinese defenders' positions, their wings had to swing in both directions, and the officers and men of the newly formed 1st Division on the position broke out into a sea of cheers, and the officers and men of the newly formed 1st Division had been taught how to deal with the air raids and air defense of the Chinese army, and the fear of aircraft naturally arose! But today, my plane did not appear, but our own air force appeared, and all the fatigue and the fear of death brought about by the fierce battle were all aroused in an instant, and the Chinese soldiers hugged each other and jumped up, shouting hysterically!
The attack that the army had maintained all night finally retreated, and hundreds of sorties of planes reversed the entire tide of the war, and the appearance of these planes lifted the spirits of the officers and men of the defenders.
Gao Zhihang did not encounter the flight team of the Kwantung Army, which is simply a pity for him, because almost all the fighters that the Northeast Air Force can mobilize and take off now participate in this support operation, Gao Zhihang knows very well that such a large-scale attack that ignores the air defense of Beiping is probably only this once, if the Kwantung Army flight team also happens to come to support, there is no doubt that they will have the opportunity to severely damage the Kwantung Army flight team, the opponent of the air force is the air force, only the defeated Kwantung Army flight team, The sky of Chengde will truly belong to China.
Suddenly, a French-made Gaudron GIII single-seat destroyer was hit by the ground machine gun fire of the Japanese army, emitting black smoke, although the plane was once pulled up, but finally the engine caught fire and fell to the ground, the Chinese soldiers looked worriedly at the plane that was falling and emitting billowing smoke, boom! The plane that fell and exploded seemed to have dealt a heavy blow to all the Chinese officers and soldiers present, and it seemed that the princes of the sky were very hungry and not only chic and invincible, but their wonderfulness was like that of people walking on a tightrope, with applause and glory on them, and there was an abyss in front and back, left and right!
Suddenly, someone pointed to the direction of the plane falling and exploded in the air and said: "Look! What is that? ”
Parachute? Qi Dazhi, the commander of the second battalion who replaced Fang Hui, the commander of the first battalion who died in battle, looked at the parachute floating towards the position of the army, and suddenly chuckled in his heart. ”
"Kill!" More than 150 Chinese officers and men rushed out from the flanks of the position, and the incomparable resistance of several observation posts left by the Chinese army was instantly broken.
Qi Dazhi waved his hand violently and said, "Brothers, we must not let our pilot fall into the hands of himself!" If it's a gentleman, rush with me! ”
Li Fei, the youngest son of Li Yuanba, a big landlord in Lijiatai, Yingkou, this Li Yuanba is not the famous Li Yuanba in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, because his son Li Kairen built an arc dam to bless all the four miles and eight towns, and was named in honor of this small dam.
Li Fei's volunteer since childhood was to be a navy, but he returned from studying in France just in time for the Northeast Air Force to recruit flyers, and he was successfully selected because of his fluent French physical examination, and his hometown fell under the ravages of the iron hooves of the Kou, every time he thought of his family who fled to Beiping, Li Fei couldn't sleep and eat, and today he finally felt like a soldier, when he watched those soldiers roll and fall under his strafing, Li Fei was excited.
After the plane was hit, Li Fei tried his best to control the plane, but in the end it fell short! Li Fei, who landed in a hollow, struggled to untie his parachute, pulled out his pistol and limped down the dirt slope of the depression, looking at the Yue army slowly surrounding him in the distance, Li Fei fired a shot, but did not hit the other party, and was so frightened that all the surrounding Yue soldiers fell to the ground!
An officer armed with a command knife drove the soldiers forward, shouting that the Chinese pilot should be captured alive!