After Wu Mujun brought back a large amount of supplies from the sea, the cargo ships converted from the Wujiang guerrilla area through Taihu Lake were transported back to Xishan by fast gunboats covering the minesweepers.

Now Taihu Lake has been dominated by the invincible motorized speedboats and fast gunboats of the Wumu Army, and the devils can only set up a number of garrison positions and artillery positions on the east bank of Taihu Lake, and also lay mines at important river estuaries. However, there are many estuaries on Taihu Lake, and the devils can't guard against it, so most of them are still in the hands of the guerrillas of the Wu Mu Army, so it is not difficult for the Wu Mu Army to transport back a large number of supplies.

Zhong Limin returned to the Xishan base area, and naturally he couldn't be idle. So he applied for Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun and the Taihu Lake Defense Brigade to redistribute the division of labor and equipment: the sailor brigade is responsible for the special docks of the three sailor brigades, with jurisdiction over 24 fast gunboats and 88 motorized speedboats, which are responsible for sortie operations; The four minesweepers and other wharves controlled by the Wu Mu Army were assigned to the Taihu Lake Defense Brigade, which was responsible for guarding the safety of the west bank of Taihu Lake, as well as transporting troops and materials during wartime.

Zhong Limin divided the sailor brigade into four squadrons, one joint logistics command squadron, and three combat squadrons, each with six fast gunboats, 18 motorized speedboats, and a mobile squad of 16 motorized speedboats. Three combat squadrons take turns to take on different combat missions, one squadron is on duty at the Taihu Lake Defense Brigade, one squadron is on duty at the dock combat readiness, and one squadron is on attack.

As a result, the devils on the east shore of Taihu Lake must not stop. Often, the Wuhang guerrilla brigade in Hudong or the Suzhou-Shanghai guerrilla brigade saw that the devil's stronghold was not pleasing to the eye, so they would report to Zhong Limin, agree on the time and scale, and Zhong Limin would definitely arrive on time, and then a burst of rapid-fire guns, meteor flying thunder, and heavy machine guns attacked, and after the devils were in a hurry, they would raise their legs and leave, and leave the rest to the guerrillas.

Xiang Qingyun received Zhong Limin's meritorious service and reprimanded him severely: "Meritorious service? You have consumed a lot of fuel and ammunition, and you have been beaten blindly with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and it is almost the same to give you a punishment! ”

"Aren't we working in vain?" Zhong Limin was very aggrieved.

"You deserve it, who let you fight without a head and no brains! I'll make a plan for you, and I'll come back to you after it's done? Xiang Qingyun also has a plan, which is much more affordable than Zhong Limin's plan, "Also, hand over all the captures from the previous battle!" ”

"All the captures in the early stage of the battle were given to the guerrillas!"

"! The guerrillas have paid you a lot of good things, you don't know about me? "Xiang Qingyun is not so easy to fool.

Xiang Qingyun's task to Zhong Limin was to open up the waterway leading to the Yangtze River by the sailor brigade. Zhong Limin couldn't help admiring him, he was worthy of being the chief of staff, but he was farther than he thought.

Zhong Limin had a clear direction for the operation, and his thinking immediately became clear, and he further improved Xiang Qingyun's plan: First, the engineer detachment dredged, dug and widened the waterways connecting Taihu Lake, Zhuhu Lake, and Changdang Lake, so as to facilitate the mobilization and transportation of materials and troops in the base area; First, the garrison corps cleared the devil strongholds around the waterway leading to the Yangtze River, but the waterway was shallow, and only motorized speedboats and gunboats could pass, and minesweepers could not pass; The sailor brigade swept 3-6 major waterways from Taihu Lake to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yangtze River to ensure that minesweepers could pass through.

Next, Zhong Limin begged himself to turn around the water network in Changzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou, but fortunately, the motorized speedboat was fast, and it took a few months to find out the obstacles of each waterway clearly, and then the strongholds of the devils and puppet armies were either uprooted, or deterred, or controlled, to ensure that the ships of the Wumu army could only go directly to the Yangtze River.

The Xishan airfield was built in the Xishan base area in order to replace the Quzhou airfield to welcome the landing of US planes, but as a result, the United States never launched a new bombing campaign on the mainland, which made the dog very unwilling!

Tong Jingya introduced Lu Qingyang, Ouyang Cheng, Ke Hua and others to Chennault, the captain of the 14th Air Force of the US Army, who had just been promoted from brigadier general to major general, through the chairman's wife.

As everyone got to know each other better, Chennault was fascinated by the legendary stories of Niu Daojia and Guderian exchanging armored operations and Liu Maoer's special operations, and quickly became brothers and sisters with these "gangsters", getting closer to Ouyang Cheng, Ke Hua and others, and also talked about his plans to bomb the mainland.

Therefore, Ouyang Cheng, Niu Daojia, and others immediately attacked the snake and followed the stick, suggested that an advance airport be established in most parts of Chinese mainland as a transit point for attacking the Yueben mainland, and told him that Xishan, which was controlled by the Wumu Army, had already prepared an advance airfield for him, and that air defense measures were readily available, and that it was convenient to attack the Yue army's air bases in eastern Chinese mainland, such as Shanghai Hongqiao, Hangzhou Jianqiao, and Nanjing Daxiaochang, and that Wuhan, Nanchang, and other air bases in central China could be drawn.

Chennault, who was already interested in guerrilla tactics in air warfare, immediately became interested in this idea, and sent the ground crew of the Air Force to Xishan to investigate.

Just when Chennault sent personnel to inspect Xishan Airport, the Battle of Western Hubei broke out!

The devils launched a large-scale operation against the ** Sixth Theater of Operations south of Yichang. At this time, the commander of the 11th Army was Isamu Yokoyama, and the 39th Division, the 13th Division, the 17th Brigade, the 40th Division, the 34th Division, the 3rd Division, and the 58th Division were mixed into the 1st Brigade and the artillery, engineers, and the 44th Army and Air Force directly under the army to launch an attack on the defense area of the Sixth Theater.

**Although the 10th, 26th, 29th, and 33rd Group Armies of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River under the Sixth Theater resisted hard, due to backward communications, firepower and other equipment, they were swept across a large area south of the Yangtze River south of Yichang, and almost broke through the portal stone plaque in the rear.

Shipai Shou is the commander of the 11th Division of the 18th Army of the ** fierce general Hu Lian, is an expert in mountain warfare, he made full use of the mountains of western Hubei to build a position, with outnumbered enemies to deal with the devil aircraft, heavy artillery, infantry coordinated operations, in the Caojiajia battlefield launched a 3-hour World War II The largest hand-to-hand combat, he himself also wrote 5 suicide notes, enough to show the iron-blooded general's determination.

At the most critical moment of the 11th Division, Ouyang Cheng was ordered to launch an attack.

The Liang Ruxiang Air Defense Brigade arrived first with pack horses carrying Buddha light and flying mines, and the vanguard troops immediately put down the flying thunders and fired flat shots, blowing down a large number of devil infantry, and the follow-up troops seized the time to set up launch racks.

Niu Daojia drove the tank through the rugged mountain road, overtook the air defense brigade that was erecting equipment, and rushed straight towards the devil who was organizing another attack, and the devil also counterattacked frantically with flat-firing snipers and infantry with explosives bags.

Before the devil plane arrived, Niu Daojia shrank back to the defense line when he saw that it was good, how could the devil plane be willing to give up easily, and chased after the search, dive, and bombing, but Liang Ruxiang had already laid a trap and waited for it.

When the devil plane swooped down, a group of Buddha light thunder flew into the sky, splitting the body of the devil plane. The devil's plane was forced to fly into the air, but Chennault's fighter group waited at high altitude like eagles waiting for its prey, sniping all kinds of devil planes in the form of snipers, and hunted heartily like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

It is said that both sides have fought to the limit, Ouyang Cheng's attack broke the balance of the stalemate, forming a one-sided situation, but the frontal troops were also unable to pursue, but the other troops of the first came from all directions to beat the water dogs, and Liu Maoer also attacked from the Yangtze River waterway, wantonly intercepting and killing the devil's naval ships and infantry.

Ouyang Cheng got good results in a small test, but Niu Daojia and Liang Ruxiang did not participate in cleaning the battlefield, seeing the remains of so many ** soldiers, the blood stained the earth, and they did not want to stand under the victory halo stained red by the blood of the martyrs, so they quietly retreated to an inconspicuous corner.

After Liu Mao'er came back, he also sent the captured materials to the 11th Division but Hu Lian refused, Hu Lian is also a dignified general, and will never accept the credit of other troops.

Chennault didn't have time to be compassionate, ** to hunt down the devil, the devil's plane continued to meet the scattered small forces gathered, converged into a larger and stronger resistance, and Chennault of course will not let go of this hunt, the US Army's 14th Air Force teams, squadrons took turns to attack, and won a lot.

Chennault, however, was too underestimated. When he was enthusiastic about the harvest, he forgot that the devil is also a wolf that eats meat, and when a flying squadron attacked the Wuhan airport, the devil copied the back road, and the devil fighter planes that took off from Wuhan and Nanchang set up multiple interception lines from the west, which made the US military flight group panic.

Chennault was not in a hurry to receive the intelligence of the ** ground air defense station, because he still had a secret magic weapon - Xishan Airport. As a result, 16 P40 fighters and 6 **24 bombers flew to the east, allowing the devil's volley to fall short.

Before landing at the Xishan airfield, the flight team saw that there was still a surplus of fuel, and that some of the bombs they were carrying were not suitable for landing at the airport that they were using for the first time, so they turned a corner and dropped the bombs at the Nanjing Dajiaochang airfield, and by the way, they shot down seven devil planes that had taken off in a hurry.

The devil's reconnaissance plane found that the US Air Force had landed at the Xishan airfield and hurriedly reported it, so the devil's plane rushed to the west mountain in an overwhelming manner, eager to get rid of it as soon as possible!

The devil braved the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the Wu Mu Army and finally pounced on the Xishan airfield, but did not see a single plane. Although the top of the hangar is not very firm, there are trees and air defense positions on the top of the hangar, and the devil planes are afraid of the air defense positions, and sure enough, they did not find the hangar, and at this time, even the airport runway has Wu Mujun's Foguang Flying Mine position, and the devils destroyed 19 planes in vain, and only blew up more than 20 Foguang Flying Mines and some defensive positions of Wu Mujun.

The devils were unwilling to let go of these US planes easily, and arranged for the planes to take turns to monitor and harass the skies over Xishan. Because the devil's planes were hovering over Xishan, the Wu Mu army was also forced to mobilize all the available anti-aircraft firepower, such as Foguang flying mines, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and even light and heavy machine guns, and set off smoke screens everywhere to carry out air defense with all their might, so that all the Wu Mu troops carried out air defense actual combat training.

The American pilots are also old oilers, estimating that the fuel and ammunition consumption of the devil plane is about the same, 5 fighters actually forcibly took off, and the devil plane at the end of the crossbow started an aerial dogfight, easily shot down the devil 7 fighters, 3 bombers, when the devil plane reinforcements arrived, the American plane has been hiding again, only the sparse anti-aircraft guns, Buddha light flying thunder ** devil plane, as long as the devil plane dares to dive, the dense anti-aircraft guns, Buddha light flying thunder, anti-aircraft machine guns, Light and heavy machine guns will fight back like a storm, and the devils will break 7 bombers and 3 fighters.

When it got dark, the devil plane had no choice but to leave Xishan, while Wu Mujun cooperated with the air force ground crew sent by Chennault to overhaul the plane and replenish fuel and ammunition. After intense overhaul, the plane is fine, but the problem of ammunition, the plane machine gun with 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullets Wu Mujun still has some reserves, but due to the recent air defense combat consumption is also insufficient reserves, as for the aerial bombs, the US Air Force has all dropped in Nanjing before landing, so at this time there is not a single aerial bomb, bombers have become ornaments.

The flying group hurriedly contacted Chennault and delivered aerial bombs, anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, fuel, and aircraft parts through the Ninth and Third Theaters. The flight group will not be able to participate in the battle for a short time, and even returning to the base has become a problem.

At this time, the battlefield in Central China had stabilized, so the devils transferred the 3rd Army Air Force and the 44th Army Air Force to Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou to block the return of US planes to the national control area.

Chennault's intestines are all repentant, he should not have listened to the demagogy of Niu Daojia and others, and plunged the flying brigade into the encirclement of the army, so that the chairman of the committee had a nose and a face for him all day long!

Tuesday Dog also regretted it at this time, he planned to borrow the American plane to engage the devil, but he unexpectedly wanted to invite the devil's endless plane bombing, as well as endless aerial reconnaissance and surveillance, alas, it is easy to please God and difficult to send God!

Chennault also came to Xishan in person, so on Tuesday the dog convened a staff meeting to discuss the return of the flying group to the base in the national control area.

Chennault's amount of information was far greater than that of Wu Mujun's others, and he believed that the Pacific War contained a large number of Chinese planes, and that the Chinese army's planes in China were only a few flying groups in North China, Central China, East China, and South China, and that the limited number of flying troops could only be transferred between several air bases.

As a result, Wang Yilang and Chennault formulated the "shark bait plan": using US fighter planes as bait to lure devil planes into an air defense ambush circle and inflict heavy damage.

Wang Yilang set up a gossip array for the devil plane, set up dense air defense positions around the lake, and set up the signs of ground air defense positions with smoke and firewood piles to provide ground air defense position guidance for US aircraft, and as a dividing line with devil planes, to prevent air defense fire from accidentally injuring US planes, so the air defense unit and the flight group conducted a sand table rehearsal, running-in and cooperation process......

In the early morning, five P40 fighters of the US military suddenly took off and flew straight to the Dajiaochang airfield of the Nanjing devils. In a short flight of 100 km, the US military plane arrived at the airfield above Dajiaochang airfield in less than 20 minutes, and carried out air strikes on the outer positions of the devils along the way.

The devil plane in the big school field was preparing to take off, so it immediately took off and responded in a hurry.

The US military planes were waiting for an opportunity to strike at the planes at the Devil's Airfield, and the Devil's Airfield burst into thick smoke for a while.

After destroying the seven planes of the devils, as more than 20 fighters of the devils took off one after another to participate in the battle, the US planes were unable to support their strength and quickly flew in the direction of the lake in the east, forming a flight formation along the way and flying towards the fireworks pile.

The US planes began to dive towards the first line of fireworks, and the devil planes also followed the dive, just in time to meet the fire net of the Wu Mu army's anti-aircraft guns, and were killed by six planes and four damaged. It turned out that the planes on both sides were flying against the light, and their field of vision was greatly affected, but the air defense units of the Wu Mu Army were in the light, with a good field of vision, and the density of devil planes was large, so the hit rate was very ideal.

The US planes turned north over the lake, and the rest of the devil planes were still in hot pursuit, and they were shot down by anti-aircraft fire on the north shore of the lake and damaged four planes, leaving only six planes to maintain operations, and they met the US planes surnamed Suo and launched an evenly matched air fight with the devil planes, and shot down two more devil planes.

At this time, Wang Yilang received a report from the radar station at the air defense command center that the planes in the direction of Shanghai and Hangzhou had taken off. So Wang Yilang ordered the US fighter jets to return home.

The US planes once again dived on the shore of the lake, and the devil planes were no longer fooled, and they rushed high into the air to evade the anti-aircraft fire of the Wu Mu army, and the US planes took the opportunity to return to the Xishan airfield.

The devil did not dare to chase anymore, and the US plane landed safely and was quickly transferred to the hangar by the ground crew.

In this battle, the US military planes did not lose a single one, and in cooperation with anti-aircraft firepower, they shot down 18 devil planes and damaged 8 planes, which can definitely be regarded as a brilliant victory.

The planes from the direction of Shanghai and Hangzhou got up early in the morning to catch up with the evening gathering, but they did not see the shadow of the US planes, so they launched a strafing and bombing attack on the Xishan airfield.

Most of the anti-aircraft firepower of the Wu Mu Army has been transferred to the Zhuhu area, so the anti-aircraft firepower around the airport is slightly thin, but the density of a large number of light and heavy machine guns of the infantry unit is not small, and the fire counterattack together is also amazing, and four devil planes are shot down. The devil plane had no choice but to fly up and hover in the air and carry out inaccurate high-altitude shooting. (To be continued.) )