Chapter Seventy-Seven: Operation Fire Pond (2)
"Light the fire, quickly light the fire" Wang Moyu unscrewed the lid and poured the whole pot of kerosene on the pyre, seeing that the time discussed on the radio was about to come, but the wolf smoke here had not yet been put up, Wang Moyu's heart was a little anxious. "Okay, okay, throw all the wet firewood up" Seeing the firewood burning, Wang Moyu hurriedly ordered the helpers to throw the wet firewood that had been prepared long ago on the fire, and the smoke finally rose from the small ditch adjacent to the airport, Wang Moyu wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeves, and disappeared into the field with his subordinates along the ditch.
Like Wang Moyu, there were three other teams of people who were responsible for setting off smoke outside the airport, and the Japanese soldiers guarding the airport did not have any special idea of these white smokes, in fact, more than a month before receiving the order to act, Wang Moyu and they set fire to smoke here under the pretext of sowing seeds and burning wasteland. After the Japanese troops guarding the airport experienced the initial vigilance, they had long been accustomed to the smoke and fireworks that came out from time to time in this area, but today the smoke was a little different, and it happened to be the four directions that shrouded the airport in the middle.
"Coming, coming" Wang Moyu, who was lying on the small mound, suddenly looked up at the sky, there was already a buzzing sound in the air, and needless to say, he knew that there was a fighter plane flying here. When the big guys all looked up to the sky, there were already several black spots in the air, and the black spots were getting bigger and bigger, "See, this is the thunderous fighter of the people, obediently, 12 planes, and there are three big guys in it" Wang Moyu's words carried a strong sourness, their national army is orthodox, but now the plane flying in the sky is thunderous, and the national army with millions of soldiers is not as good as a small mercenary company.
"Look, it's down, the plane is down" One of Wang Moyu's subordinates pointed to the fighter plane that began to dive in mid-air and shouted, at most these people had seen the Japanese tank, and they had never seen anything more advanced than that, they thought that the fighter plane had broken down and fell down when it dived.
The first to dive down were the fighters escorting the bombers, and at the same time that Wang Moyu and the fighters found the fighters, the Japanese troops guarding the airfield also discovered them, so before the bombers began to bomb, the fighters needed to use their machine guns to clear the defensive fire on the ground. "Grandma's, this thing is really enjoyable" Wang Moyu, who was holding a telescope, had to admit the powerful lethality of the plane, and the large-caliber machine gun hit a series of bullets, and even the Japanese trucks were smashed, not to mention the fortifications and bunkers made of sandbags.
The menacing fighter jets strafed back and forth a few times, not to mention the defensive firepower of the airport, even the airport was shattered by them, if it weren't for Zhao Zhi's order to completely clear up, I'm afraid there would be no bombers to shoot. The fighter with the breath of death began to pull up and withdraw from the battlefield, and the bombers that were much larger than them began to dive and drop bombs, to Wang Moyu's great puzzlement, there was only one bomber that dived down from mid-air.
"Captain, why is there only one big guy here?" After Wang Moyu's explanation, his team members finally understood the difference between fighters and bombers, but they didn't understand what only one bomber could do. "Bombs are dropped, look, the bombers are starting to drop bombs" Wang Moyu clearly saw in the telescope that several black things were thrown from the belly of the bomber, which looked about the size of half an oil drum.
"Boom" "Boom" The things dropped by the bombers exploded as soon as they landed, and the flames rose into the air, and under the watchful eyes of Wang Moyu and others, the entire airfield that the Japanese had worked so hard to build was engulfed in flames. "Goodong" Wang Moyu swallowed a mouthful of spit and swallowed his stomach, and the action team members lying next to him were no better, and everyone's faces were shocked.
"What the fuck the bomber threw down?" Wang Moyu muttered to himself in his heart, he still clearly remembered that he watched in the telescope when the bomber threw down a few oil drums, how could this be done in a blink of an eye, the entire airport became a fire field, it was really terrible. "Let's go, let's withdraw, if you recognize the reinforcements in a while, it's time to come" Wang Moyu originally wanted to take advantage of the bombing of the airport and take his action team members to pick up some bargains, but now looking at this momentum, I am afraid that when the fire is extinguished, there will definitely be nothing left in the airport.
Wang Moyu They disappeared not long before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, but they did not carry any fire extinguishing tools, so they could only watch the airport covered by fire and could not do anything. There were unwilling Japanese soldiers who cut down branches to fight the burning flames, and even used the water in the kettle to put out the fire, but their efforts were to no avail, those raging flames could not be extinguished at all, even if they were watered, they would still continue to burn, and in that case, there was no other way for the fire to be extinguished by itself.
"Shaozuo, what should we do?" Looking at the roaring airport, Takeda, who came in a hurry, was also at a loss, they appeared here because they received a distress signal that the airport was attacked by enemy fighters, but the appearance in front of them did not look like they had been bombed. Takeda has experienced the Battle of Songhu, and the battlefield after being bombed is not like this, although Takeda's heart is more questioning, but he still did not say it, and everything will be revealed after the fire in the airport is extinguished.
"Airplanes, airplanes" The sound of explosions from the airport from time to time attracted Takeda's attention, and by the time they found the warplanes overhead, it was already too late, and they had no time to build a concealed bunker in the wilderness of the Maping River. Four P40 fighters swooped down with a roar, squirting death-scented bullets out of the barrels of their guns, enveloping the fleeing Japanese soldiers. There were also unwilling Japanese officers who led their soldiers to shoot back with machine guns, but the speed of the fighters was too fast, and the light machine guns against machine guns were not equal at all, and standing still could only die faster.
It can only be said that Takeda's fate is not good, the sudden appearance of the aircraft group was not aimed at them, the task of this wave of aircraft is to blow up a Japanese army material hoarding point 120 miles away from the airport, they were returning from the mission by the way, just found these Japanese troops gathered outside the fire. The fighter planes also carried a large amount of ammunition, and these whimsical fighter pilots planned to deliver an appetizer to the Japanese troops below, so this scene happened in front of them.
"Spread out, spread out," Takeda shouted loudly with his command knife in one hand and a pistol in the other, most of his squadron were newly replenished recruits, and they had not experienced such brutal battles as the Battle of Songhu, so they could not compete with veterans in terms of response to the enemy. The power of the machine gun was so shocking that Takeda's shouting did not have any effect, and the visible bullet marks hit the ground as a long series of gray pillars rose up, and everything that was touched by the bullet marks had only one end - that is, they were torn to pieces.
The P40 fighter swooped up and then dived and then pulled down, constantly spitting out bullet rain, most of the soldiers of the Takeda squadron became a pile of minced meat on the ground, and the lucky Shaozo Takeda Masao survived, a whole squadron of more than 200 Japanese soldiers, only survived more than 20 intact guys, and the rest of the ** were all minced meat and seriously disabled and wounded, galloping around a radius of 100 miles The famous Takeda squadron is considered to be real combat effectiveness so far, if it weren't for their commander Takeda Masao still alive, I'm afraid that the number of their squadron will be canceled.
"Guys, let's go home" After re-elevating the plane, the accustomed Sith roared and beckoned the other three fighters to return with him, and all four fighters were left with a chain of machine guns, which was to be used to escort the bombers on the return. Although there is no Japanese airfield in the vicinity, and the possibility of encountering Japanese fighters is very small, they dare not be careless, there are currently less than 60 fighters in the entire Qinglongping Airport, and each fighter is responsible for a lot of action, and the loss of any fighter will make Zhao Zhi feel a lot of pain.
"Today is the first day of the Huotang operation, except for the two transport planes, all the fighters at Qinglongping Airport have taken turns to attack once, clearing one Japanese airfield, two ammunition depots, and one material assembly point, and the target has been completely cleared from the pilot's observation, but the actual kill and injury figures can only be determined after the intelligence officer reports the situation" The battle report on the first day of the fighter sortie was placed on Zhao Zhi's table, and the fuel and ammunition currently stored at Qinglongping Airport were enough for the consumption of more than 50 fighters for 10 days, Therefore, Zhao Zhi ordered that the Huotang operation continue, and it was better to wait for the fighters from Kunming Airport to arrive to support.
The new incendiary bombs developed by the weapons laboratory are indeed very useful, and the information fed back by the bombers is also very good, but Zhao Zhi still added an order to the telegram to the United States asking the weapons laboratory to speed up the research and development of heavy aerial bombs. Due to the limitations of the manufacturing process, the output of new incendiary bombs is very unstable, and with the further expansion of the war situation and the increase of fighters, Zhao Zhi still tends to use aerial bombs to destroy the target.
Thunder struck, and after the bounty order was issued, the Thunder troops entrenched in Zhangwu, Shanxi, sent fighter planes to begin a large-scale sweep of the Japanese army. On the first day of the Huotang operation, the forces of various factions in the country got relevant information, and Zhao Zhi's fire was indeed very powerful, not to mention the Nationalist Government and Chiang Kai-shek, even the troops of Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army were a little ready to move. None of them thought that Zhao Zhi would actually send fighter planes to clear out the Japanese troops in Shanxi at this time, could this be an omen before Zhao Zhi made a move? For a time, Zhangwu County has become a focus of attention of all forces.