Chapter Seventy-Six: Operation Fire Pond (1)
As soon as the bounty order of the thunder came out, the Japanese puppet army was panicked all day long, but Zhao Zhi, who was far away in Zhangwu, Shanxi, had been standing still, June 1 was the deadline for the thunder to give those Japanese troops, but on the day of June 1, Shanxi Zhangwu, who issued the bounty order, still had no movement, which made people feel quite subtle. The Japanese army base camp that has been hanging on its heart can be regarded as having its heart down, it seems that Thunder is just following the crowd this time, as long as Zhao Zhi in Zhangwu County does not move, they can think that Thunder is just bluffing this time.
On June 2, the front page of all newspapers in the Kuomintang region was covered with a large photo of Yao Laoyu, in which Yao Laoyu was carrying a Japanese command knife in one hand and a large wooden identity tag in the other, and his left foot was raised and he was stepping on several Japanese corpses stacked up like arhats, with an unstoppable look on his face. Yao Laoyu's newspaper is simply a joint plan by Zhao Zhi and the military commanders, of course, there can't be only photos without text, and the title on the front page is also very interesting: Yao Shenbao, a soldier of Shanxi Anti-Japanese Resistance, successfully ambushed the Japanese army in Luoxia Valley in Shanxi on June 1, killed 34 Japanese soldiers in the battle, captured 4 Japanese soldiers alive, and captured 51 members of the Imperial Allied Army, and captured countless trophies.
Yao Laoyu, who occupies the mountain as the king, has turned into an anti-log soldier who has been rewarded by the Chongqing government, which has caused a lot of repercussions among bandits in Shanxi, but whenever there is a way out, who is willing to be a bandit, Yao Laoyu is the propaganda target that Zhao Zhi pushed to the forefront, in the current situation, Zhao Zhi hopes to see more people stand up against the Japanese army, as long as it is a team to resist the Japanese army, Zhao Zhicai does not care whether they are the Eighth Route Army, the national army or bandits.
The newspapers not only had the news that Yao Laoyu had been rewarded by the Nationalist Government, but also the news that Thunder Defense had cashed out the bounty order with Yao Laoyu, and the radio station of the Nationalist Government had also continuously broadcast the matter of Yao Laoyu cashing the bounty order. It is not difficult for people with a little brain to see that Yao Laoyu is a propaganda deliberately pushed by the Nationalist Government and Thunder Defense in the foreground, the purpose is to let these hunters in the enemy-occupied area know their hearts, so that they will not worry that after killing the Japanese soldier and getting the identity card, they will not have the place to cash the bounty.
"It looks like our bounty order has worked" Rowling looked at all kinds of information sent by the military command intelligence station, and with Zhao Zhi's permission, the military commander transferred a group of elite soldiers and strong generals from Chongqing, and officially hung up the sign of the military commander Zhangwu intelligence station in Zhangwu County. To a large extent, the war was fought with the foresight of intelligence, so after Zhang Lan, as the county magistrate, objected to nothing, he had no choice but to let it go, and the gang of military commanders were only stationed in the barracks in the west of the city, and they were no different from ordinary civilians when they walked out of the barracks, and they did not cause Zhang Lan any trouble.
The Chongqing Military Command Headquarters will send a copy of the information about the Japanese army fed back by all the intelligence officers released by the military commanders in various places to Zhangwu County, and Zhao Zhi also has a secret intelligence station set up by the CCP in Zhangwu County, so Zhao Zhi is not short-sighted in obtaining and controlling intelligence. Judging from the information fed back from the enemy-occupied areas, the issuance of the bounty order is indeed a clever move, except for the northeast region, there have been attacks on the Japanese army all over the country, and in some places there have even been incidents of the imperial alliance army defecting, and the flames in North China have also begun to have the momentum of being connected.
"It's not enough, we have to add another fire" Zhao Zhi is still not very satisfied with all this at present, he wants to see a better situation, instead of issuing a bounty order to inspire the people to resist the enemy, he wants to let this fire burn completely. "Convene a meeting of the commander of the fighter plane, and the time will be set for dinner" After Zhao Zhi's order was issued, Zhao Zhi stayed in the headquarters of the barracks and fought with those files all day, until 2 hours before dinner, Zhao Zhi drove to Qinglongping Airport with a team of mercenaries guarding him.
All the officers of the flight team were called by Zhao Zhi to have a meal together, Zhao Zhi was not a rich man who liked to hide, and his enjoyment of life sometimes made Rowling smack his tongue. Zhao Zhi not only had excellent Chinese chefs in Zhangwu County, but also Western chefs brought back from France, not only that, but Zhao Zhi also had a wine cellar in the barracks, which was filled with all kinds of liquor and all kinds of foreign liquor that he had scavenged from Europe, and the US military brought him German beer while sending weapons from the Philippines.
Full of wine and food, Zhao Zhi asked someone to open a cordon outside the conference room, and when it was time to get down to business, "This is some information we have obtained in the near future, the Japanese army has been aware of the construction of our airport, but they don't know the specific location yet, which shows that our camouflage is very good, but paper can't keep the fire, the Japanese army will one day know that our airport is located in Qinglongping, so we have to strike first, hit all the fighters in our hands to carry out a strong firepower attack on the Japanese army in the entire Shanxi territory"
Zhao Zhi put a map of Shanxi on the table, which had already been marked with a pencil by Zhao Zhi, "The military commander and the intelligence officers of the CCP have already done part of the reconnaissance work for us, some time ago, when a small team we sent out was attacking Taiyuan City, it happened to obtain a memorandum from the Japanese army, which is very helpful for our upcoming operation, and I called you here today to discuss our target."
Zhao Zhi has gathered three Jewish regiments with a total of 60,000 soldiers in Zhangwu County at this time, and the Fifth Jewish Regiment from Chongqing is about to arrive here, counting the elite regiments of the national army trained here, the actual strength under Zhao Zhi's control is not less than 100,000 people, not to mention that Zhao Zhi has tens of thousands of people and 5,000 mercenaries who volunteered to participate in training outside Zhangwu County. Zhao Zhi must find a way to fight out, and only by expanding the security zone can the food crisis faced by Zhao Zhi be solved.
Before the Pearl Harbor incident, the hundreds of fighter planes that Germany had aided from Europe had already arrived at the US military base in the Philippines one after another, and the pilots of those fighters recruited by Hunter in the United States were running in with their cars, and Zhao Zhi received the latest news that the first batch of 200 fighters had taken off from the Philippines to Kunming, and 30 of them were loaded with the latest incendiary bombs developed by the weapons laboratory, which were more powerful than the incendiary bombs tested at the Yuncheng Airport last time.
Qinglongping Airport currently has 7 bombers, 50 fighters, and 2 transport planes, and all kinds of ammunition and fuel are ready, so when the backup is coming, Zhao Zhi is ready to start the fire pond operation. In the early stage, Zhao Zhi had already issued an order to the firefighters lurking in the enemy-occupied area to start the fire pond operation, Zhao Zhi needed them to reconnoiter the location of the Japanese airfield, ammunition depot, material point and fuel depot in the area where the fighters were in place, and only by determining the target of the operation, Zhao Zhi could release the fighters in his hands, otherwise it would just be a blind explosion, except for Lang Fuel and ammunition, it would not play any substantive role.
Since the formation of the flight team, except for the time when they were defending Chongqing, they fought with the Japanese a few times in the sky, and then they went out to fly a few times when they attacked the Yuncheng airport, and these guys who love to fly like their lives have long wanted to go out and fight the Japanese fighters, even if it is good to go out and fly a few laps like the bombing of the Yuncheng airport. The boss finally spoke, and the commanders of the fighters who were not in shape on weekdays sat upright, but the bloodthirsty look in their eyes was unmistakable.
"The order of targets is the Japanese airfield, fuel depot, ammunition depot, and Japanese assembly point, our first step is to clear the Japanese airfield and fighter planes in Shanxi, at least not let them pose a threat to Qinglongping Airport" Zhao Zhi's hand pointed to a few places marked with red dots on the map, "The order and formation of fighter sorties are determined by yourself, but you have to ensure that while you are moving, there must be fighters left behind in the airport, and we can't just rely on those anti-aircraft artillery fire to protect the airport."
Zhao Zhi's statement made the fighter commanders present stunned, which means that Zhao Zhi completely delegated power to them, and only put forward the goal and general direction of the action, and how to implement the action was completely controlled by themselves. In fact, they didn't know that this was also something that Zhao Zhi had no way to do, Zhao Zhi was familiar with all kinds of firearms, tactics and tactics of various terrains, and could drive all kinds of vehicles and even armored vehicles and tanks, but he didn't know anything about airplanes, and he was a layman for air combat tactics or something, and for such a reason, Zhao Zhi had to give power to his fighter commanders.
The operation meeting began after dinner and lasted until midnight, and the commanders of the fighters under Zhao Zhi formulated a total of 32 targets, which were divided into 8 parts and completed. The 50 fighters are divided into four combat waves, and they will escort the seven bombers to bomb the intended targets with strong firepower, and the fighters from the Philippines will make a short stop in Kunming before flying here, which may require three to five days of rest and recuperation, so in the first three to five days, Qinglongping Airport will be responsible for clearing all the established targets within a radius of 300 miles around Zhangwu County.
Everyone at Qinglongping Airport will be tossing and turning tonight, because tomorrow will be the day of the first wave of strong firepower, and all the fighters docked at Qinglongping Airport will have the opportunity to attack in turns. And Zhao Zhi, who returned to the county barracks, also couldn't sleep at night, and the fire pond operation that would be implemented tomorrow was the key to the entire Spark plan, and his heart suddenly began to feel a little uneasy.