Chapter 242: The Attack on the Airport (2)
In order to find out more accurately the situation at the Qiqihar airfield, Meng Qingshan sent Shi Huapeng, deputy captain of the special combat team, to the airport to listen to intelligence as early as after the Japanese bombed the fortress.
Shi Huapeng, under the support of the Qiqihar underground party, spent 100 yuan to buy a "certificate of good citizenship" through the Japanese puppet stronghold in the Nianzi Mountain area, and reasonably blended into the labor ranks. He worked hard, worked hard, was not afraid of dirty, tired, and did not pick or choose, which was favored by the airport authorities and appointed as the team leader. He used this identity to quickly find out the basic information such as the deployment of troops at the airport, the type and number of aircraft parked, the supporting settings, the characteristics of the airport's activities, and the labor situation.
Coincidentally, the main project of the airport expansion is to repair the runway and apron, which requires a lot of stonework. It is dangerous to blast rocks. He also took the initiative to "ask Ying" to learn blasting, and led people to fire guns and quarry. Undertaking the task of blasting, not afraid of danger and hardship, always exceeding the task, and showing conscientiousness, he was praised by the Japanese many times and became the "strength" relied on by the authorities. He took the opportunity of quarrying to work independently, openly led 12 laborers to study blasting, developed into a member of the National Salvation Association and a member of the peripheral organization, and mastered an anti-Japanese force under the nose of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
This special combat member, with the feelings of a communist, expelled the Japanese invaders, and returned the righteousness of our rivers and mountains, was not afraid of difficulties, was not afraid of strong enemies, and had extraordinary courage; in the training, except for the captain Wang Xiaoming, he was the most powerful, and he was called the "iron child" by everyone in the special combat team. This time, he was sent to infiltrate the largest airfield in Asia, which was heavily defended by the Kwantung Army, and all reconnaissance and preparation activities were orderly, clean, and unusually calm and sufficient. It laid the foundation for the victory of the Anti-Japanese Union's successful attack on Qiqihar airfield.
The Japanese ground service unit guarding the airfield had a garrison brigade, 3 squadrons and a regiment of puppet troops. Mid-January. Two squadrons escorted laborers to the station to unload cement and other building materials. There was only one squadron guarding the airfield, and the forces were relatively weak. This is a great opportunity to hit the airport. Shi Huapeng observed the situation every day. Upon learning of this information, he quickly passed this information on to headquarters. In order to cooperate with them in this operation, Meng Qingshan specially sent a telegram to Zhou Yuewu of the Fourth Division, ordering them to launch an attack on the Japanese army, attracting the attention of the Japanese army, relieving some pressure on the special combat team, and at the same time sending a regiment of troops to rush to the Fufu area to meet the special combat team.
The entire special combat unit has been reorganized into a puppet Manchurian cavalry company, and it set out from the No. 5 District of Nehe County (now Longhe Township), which is more than 200 kilometers away, through the Chabalaqi Mountain, and advanced to the Nianzi Mountain Area. The mass base there was good, and the troops took a short rest. The pre-war deployment and troop allocation were made, and then they went straight to the Qiqihar airfield.
The southwest of the airfield is less than 10 kilometers away from the highway of the 136th Brigade Headquarters of the Kwantung Army, and in the southeast it is less than 6 or 7 kilometers away from the headquarters of the 15th Brigade of the Puppet Army. Japanese puppet armies may also appear in the north and east at any time. The movement of troops could be discovered by the Japanese troops at the airfield at any time. The anti-union is in a dangerous position. Fighting under such conditions seems to be a taboo for soldiers.
However, in order to be able to support the fraternal troops of the frontline departments, Wang Xiaoming was righteous and awe-inspiring, and he had his own bamboo in his chest. It was a righteous battle with great courage. He has accumulated experience in fighting against the Japanese puppet army for many years, and he has always stabbed at the enemy's weak points. Dare to see red with a bayonet. At the end of 1938, he led his troops to "sweep through Nenjiangyuan" in the land of Nenjiang, haunted guerrillas around the headquarters of the 136th Brigade of the Kwantung Army, and galloped in the defense area of two mixed brigades of the puppet army. Out of nowhere, rampage, like entering a no-man's land. It has disturbed the Japanese devils and has no peace, so they can't help it. This time the surprise attack on the airfield. They have sufficient preparations and are very aware of the enemy's situation. I am very sure of victory, and this is also the first combat mission of the special combat team, the special combat team has always been the commander-in-chief's baby Gada, what is delicious and delicious is given priority to the special combat team, the ammunition is enough, and the weapons are KL-40 (AK47) just produced by the arsenal, which makes other troops, especially the guard battalion, very red-eyed, and the commander of the guard battalion, Xu Hu, every time he meets Wang Xiaoming, he mocks and says that they rely on their previous records to get the commander-in-chief's favor, in fact, they are definitely inferior to other troops, Wang Xiaoming asked Meng Qingshan for combat missions many times for this reason, but each time he was sent away by Meng Qingshan because he had not finished training, and today was finally the time for their special combat team to come out of the sheath, Wang Xiaoming looked at the map with a cigarette in his mouth and carefully analyzed and studied.
The actual number of troops invested by the special combat team in this operation was only about 100, and the troops were divided into four routes, of which three were for reinforcement. One route was to lead an adjutant Wang Naijun to set up an ambush with a company, blocking the road from the airport to Qiqihar, and the task was to block the Japanese reinforcements of the 136th Brigade to buy time for the troops; another team was sent to the main force of the puppet army to attack and intercept; The No. 3 reinforcement unit is the elite of the elite of the special combat team, and it is deployed in the north of the airport to prevent the enemy from coming to the aid from the west, south, and north of the airport.
Wang Xiaoming took the lead, and he led a team to join Shi Huapeng and attack the airport. Before 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Shi Huapeng took two members of the National Salvation Association to kill the sentries, cut off all the telephone lines, and rushed to meet Wang Xiaoming outside the east trench of the airport to study the situation before the war again. Wang Xiaoming confirmed that there was no major change in the enemy's situation, and immediately issued a battle order, led his troops into a combat position, and started the battle of the night attack on the airfield.
The force of the airfield is divided into 4 routes. Wang Xiaoming led the machine gun squad into the runway and the barracks, commanded according to the center, and divided the enemy as the first road. Shi Huapeng took a class for the second road. They quickly surrounded the barracks of the Japanese garrison squadron and threw into it a bag of grenades prepared in advance, supplemented by rifle fire. That's how they were, as if playing a game, they wiped out more than 30 Japanese soldiers. Shi Huapeng ended the battle without waiting for the Japanese army to fire a single shot.
Japanese pilots lived in the pilot's quarters. At the same time that Shi Huapeng bombed the barracks, these pilots shouted Japanese and rushed to the airport, ready to seize the plane and force it to take off. Wang Xiaoming commanded Qin Changsheng, a machine gunner of the special combat team, to repel him, killing five people on the spot.
The third route is Adjutant Gong with a squad dedicated to sabotaging aircraft. They are in trouble and not going well. The fighters struck with guns, bayonets stabbed, leaving only holes in the fuselage. Someone threw a melon-shaped grenade, which was bounced off and exploded, almost injuring his own people. At this moment, two Japanese pilots rushed to the outermost Mitsubishi 96 plane, one boarded the cockpit, and the other carried the propeller and started the engine. Zheng Qiu, who was in a corner, found that he raised the sniver rifle in his hand and aimed it at the pilot of the plane, and fired the trigger, killing the pilot in the plane. Another plane forcibly took off and left the ground. The fighters fired into the air and hit the fuel tank at once. The plane burned and exploded in the air. A raging fire ignited when it hit the ground. The firelight inspires people. The fighters found gasoline, poured it on each machine, dropped grenades and explosives on each machine, and shot at the fuel tank, causing a fire. So, more than a dozen planes on the runway exploded and caught fire, like a few bonfires, lighting up the night sky, and then under the leadership of Shi Huapeng, they captured the Japanese warehouse, and according to Shi Huapeng's instructions, put all the bombs in the warehouse next to the Japanese planes in the warehouse, used the bombs of the devil's planes to make a simple detonation device, and poured the entire airport with the oil in the devil's oil depot.
The 4th road is to lead a squad of Qi platoon leaders to destroy the airport facilities together with the members of the Salvation Association developed by Shi Huapeng. They blew up the power plant, burned the supplies to be transported, and destroyed everything they could. When cleaning up the battlefield, Shi Huapeng led people to clear the Japanese soldiers who had been killed, and found the body of the airport commander. The only Japanese living at the entire airport were several military prostitutes.
The battle was over, and there were no casualties among our troops. The soldiers returned with enough guns, ammunition, food, and medicine from the Japanese army. Before leaving, the special combat team accepted 366 laborers to participate in the anti-union team, and the troops issued two white signal flares according to the requirements of the battle plan, informing the reinforcements to evacuate, and the battle was over, Wang Xiaoming and Shi Huapeng stayed at the end to watch the troops go away, the two of them shed a bright smile, and threw the torch in their hands into the airport together, only to see a large flame burning, like a fire dragon flying, "Boom, boom!" ”
As the Japanese planes exploded one after another, even if the special combat team withdrew into the mountains and forests, they could see the raging fire in the distance, and the residents of Qiqihar and the headquarters of the First Division heard a loud rumbling noise, and quickly opened the door to see a mushroom-shaped smoke burning in the distance, and from time to time there was a loud noise in the afterlife.
"Nani!" Lieutenant General Kimura was stunned to look at the mushroom cloud in the distance, he didn't need to investigate to know that the airport was attacked, Lieutenant General Kimura knew that he would not be able to escape his responsibility at this meeting, first the troops lost more than half, the encirclement and suppression troops were blocked, and then the airfield was destroyed, after the exploration of the 136 brigade, hundreds of bombers were all destroyed, Air Force Major General Blue Bird was killed, Kimura returned to the headquarters and knelt on the ground to pick up a saber and stabbed himself in the abdomen, when the next day the people in the command reported last night's losses, Kimura's frozen body was found.
Before leaving, Wang Xiaoming was full of pride and wrote 12 big characters on the white wall next to the corpse of the Japanese airport commander: Fold your wings today, and fight again on the plains in Japan! (To be continued......)