Chapter 474: Storming the Airport (I)
"Comrades, since this battle is a protracted battle, then we need to eat the little devils in Beiping City bit by bit. To know what kind of people we are, we are the readers of the Eighth Route Army, the readers who make the little devils feel frightened for the rest of their lives. Therefore, we must have confidence and take down the entire city of Beiping..."
"In addition, I would like to share with you the good news. This time, our Reading Division attacked Beiping City, not only [***] in Yan'an and the Central Military Commission looked at us, but the whole world looked at us and watched the performance of our Reading Division... Therefore, we must have the confidence to win the entire city of Tianjin..."Finally, under Liu Hua's encouragement, the commanders who sat under Liu Hua immediately raised their heads, and their eyes showed a trace of excitement.
"Commander, you give orders, our reading force master will always be the nemesis of the little devils. No matter how strong the little devil's fortifications are, even if we use our own head to hit it, we will knock him into a gap, rush into the city, and destroy all the little devils..."Luo Zhihui, the commander of the Second Brigade, immediately stood up in a hurry and said with an excited face.
"Hehe, Brigade Commander Luo, don't worry, I'll give you the task in a moment... Comrades, according to the deployment of the enemy detected by our scouts, I have decided that our first attack target will be the airfield of the little devils, and that this will be the airfield that poses the greatest threat to us in the siege campaign. Only by depriving the little devils of air reinforcements can we launch an attack on Beiping without any worries. I don't know, do you have any opinions on this issue? Regarding Luo Zhihui's answer, Liu Hua smiled, pointed to the huge map in front of him, and said affirmatively.
"No comment... We have no opinion... Commander, we don't have an opinion, you just give the order..."Immediately, the entire command headquarters sounded everyone's excited voices... One by one, they rushed to answer, hoping that Liu Hua in front of him would be able to hand over the main attack task to his troops..."Very good, since everyone's morale is so high, then let's give a big gift to the little devils in the county first, and occupy the entire airport." Then, with the airport as a breakthrough, a general attack was launched on Taiyuan City. Now I order..."Liu Hua said as he stood in front of everyone with a serious face. Suddenly, it was still an unusually lively command just now. As soon as Liu Hua's words fell, he became slightly silent. All the commanders held their molds high, staring at Liu Hua, the commander who was standing in front of them without blinking, ready to give specific orders.
"The order, the troops that will attack the airfield this time are directly under the heavy artillery regiment, two battalions of the armored brigade, and the second brigade directly under the column. The specific tasks were distributed as follows, and the heavy artillery regiment prepared the airfield for 10 minutes according to the specific enemy situation of our stubble. Ten minutes later, the 2nd Brigade, under the cover of 18 combat vehicles of the armored brigade, launched a general attack on the airfield... My request is very simple, that is, to take down the entire airport before dawn, and at the same time, in order to guard against the little devils in the airport, escape back to Beiping City. Before the battle began, the 2nd Brigade transferred the strength of a main regiment and penetrated directly into the passage between Beiping and the airport to cut off the retreat of the little devils. In the eyes of everyone's expectation, Liu Hua ordered loudly.
"Yes, commander...", the regimental commanders and brigade commanders who received the order immediately shouted loudly and replied with an excited face... However, the commanders and fighters of the Guard Brigade and the Third Brigade and the Air Defense Regiment Brigade were not as excited as they were. One by one, their faces immediately showed a look of dejection... Immediately, Wang Benqing, the commander of the Third Brigade, who couldn't hold back, stood up from his seat in a daze and asked Liu Hua in front of him.
"Commander, they have taken away all the tasks, what about the tasks of our three brigades?" "Yes, Commander, what about the mission of our Air Defense Brigade..."Commander, and our Guard Brigade, speaking of which, our Guard Brigade is most familiar with the enemy situation in the entire Peiping area, can you not forget our Guard Brigade?" The remaining two brigade commanders stood up one after another and asked with an anxious expression.
Seeing the expressions of several people in front of him, Liu Hua smiled speechlessly, and then said: "Don't worry, everyone has a task... Guards brigade, because you have been fighting for almost a day in a row. So, tonight, I have wronged you and served as the reserve for the whole campaign... As for the three brigades, each main regiment was equipped with an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, which was responsible for launching an attack on the city of Beiping from the three gates of the city of my dear, at the same time. However, I would like to remind you here that your mission is not to capture the city of Beiping, but to attack the city gates while controlling the casualties of the troops. As for the anti-aircraft guns assigned to you, you used them as anti-aircraft guns during the attack. I think that at the speed of anti-aircraft artillery shells, there will be absolutely no problems in penetrating the bunkers and turrets of the little devils. ”
"Yes, Commander, I promise to complete the mission and control the casualties of the troops..."The remaining dozen or so commanders, except for the three commanders of the guard brigade, the rest of them all replied with excited faces.
"Very well, it's nine o'clock in the evening, and in order to give everyone enough time to prepare for the war, I have set the time for the war to start at one o'clock in the morning tonight... When the time comes, I will personally command the task of attacking the military airfield. As for the siege campaign, it was commanded by Comrade Wang Benqing, commander of the 3rd Brigade. Do you have any comments? Liu Hua said decisively.
"No...."
With the end of the entire operational meeting, commanders at all levels, immediately at the first time, returned to their units ... As for this matter, the two main units of the battle, the armored brigade and the heavy artillery regiment, immediately began to move ... With the efforts of the soldiers carrying heavy howitzers, field artillery, and shells weighing dozens of pounds, the soldiers slowly arrived in an open area almost three kilometers away from the airport.
The 18 combat vehicles of the armored brigade, in order not to arouse the alarm of the little devils in advance, stopped in a bush almost two kilometers away from the warning position of the military at the airport... Under the command of brigade commander Yang Jinghua, all the stations were lined up in a frontal attack formation almost 200 meters wide, which was the best preparation to launch an attack at any time... Similarly, in this campaign, the three main regiments of the Second Brigade, which served as the general attack, except for the Fourth Regiment, under the command of the regiment commander Xu Ying, touched the vicinity of the road that the airport must pass through and Beiping City, and was ready to cut off the retreat of the army at any time. The remaining two main regiments, 4,000 soldiers, were quietly hiding behind 18 chariots, ready to charge.
In the anxious waiting of everyone, the time passed like this... Under the blowing of the increasingly cold wind, in the airport and on the city wall of Beiping, the little devil who is responsible for vigilance. I slowly began to relax. What's more, he has taken advantage of the fact that the commander is not paying attention, and quietly sneaks back to the barracks, or takes a sip to drive himself away. Constant chills of spirits....
However, at this moment, what they didn't expect was that more than 10,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army were hiding around them, waiting for a pair of murderous eyes to watch their every move. The barrels of the black holes are constantly swinging in a small range with their constantly shaking figures... As for the heavy artillery regiment and the air defense brigade, dozens of heavy artillery pieces are holding their muzzles high, like lions with their bloody mouths open, ready to devour the lives of one little devil after another.
Finally, after almost three hours of busy preparations, more than 10,000 commanders and fighters were lying on their offensive positions, quietly waiting for the arrival of the final offensive time. As for Commander Liu Hua, at this moment, he was standing on a newspaper on a small hill almost three kilometers away from Beiping City and only two kilometers away from the entire airport, quietly holding up the telescope in his hand, motionless to observe the brightly lit airport at the foot of the mountain, illuminated by dozens of searchlights..."What a good flying frame, just like this, it is a pity to be blown into a pile of scrap metal." When will our Eighth Route Army have its own air force... If we have pilots, I will directly order the special combat team to dispatch and take all the little devil's planes for my own use..."Looking at the airfield, rows of silver-white planes. Liu Hua sighed deeply and said to Bruce Lee, the commander of the guard brigade beside him.
"Commander, I believe that sooner or later, our Eighth Route Army will have its own air force. Last time, we activated several planes at Taiyuan Airport, and the central government has sent two pilots to start teaching. I'm sure it won't be long before we have a large number of pilots..."Bruce Lee replied with a smile.
"You're right. It's still a song that we missed when we were in the Red Army. There is no robbery, no artillery, the enemy gives us early. I believe that as long as we have pilots, the enemy will also build planes for us. All units were ordered to prepare for battle, especially the 2nd Brigade and 4th Regiment, and they must cut off the retreat of the Japanese army at the first opportunity, and then hold their positions until the whole airfield is annihilated. In addition, Brigade Commander Li, in order to strengthen the firepower of the Fourth Regiment, immediately transferred two anti-aircraft machine gun companies over. This anti-aircraft machine gun, whether it is responsible for cover or blocking, is a very powerful weapon..."Looked at the watch on his arm. Liu Hua immediately interrupted the topic just now, and said solemnly to Bruce Lee beside him... Dozens of minutes passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, there was less than a minute left until the final total time. At this moment, Liu Hua, who was standing on the top of the mountain, was staring at the watch on his arm with a pair of eyes, ready to give the order to attack. At the same time, by Liu Hua's side, three staff officers, one of whom was holding a flare gun in his hand, ready to shoot the bullets in the flare gun into the sky at any time... Finally, in the midst of everyone's anxious waiting, the time for the attack came. Immediately, at the corner of Liu Hua's mouth, a smile of excitement flashed, and then, facing the three staff officers beside him, he gave an urgent order: "Shoot... "Three gunshots rang out, and three flares, with a shrill whistling, quickly swept into the sky. Then, in the sky, three brilliant fireworks exploded....
Suddenly, in the direction of the artillery position, a loud roar was immediately heard. As far as the eye can see, the huge artillery position is immediately shrouded in orange-red flames, and then, there are thick white eyes, which envelop the entire artillery position tightly... 36 heavy guns, 36 shells fired, with a sharp whistling sound, as if they had eyes, quickly flew towards the brightly lit military airfield at this moment... In just a few seconds, these shells, with huge kinetic energy, smashed into the middle of the huge airport.
Suddenly, a dense explosion sounded several kilometers away, in Liu Hua's ears. Immediately after, huge fireballs rose from the airport... It was just a brightly lit airport. In just a split second, except for the orange-red flames, it immediately turned pitch black... Under the reflection of the firelight, one by one panicked little devils quickly ran out of the barracks, and the position of xiangziji9 ran over. At the same time, the artillery on the artillery position, under the command of the little devil, quickly turned the muzzle of the gun, ready to return fire... However, at this very moment, the second round of shells has already come one after another... Immediately, the entire airfield was paid by the rumbling of artillery ... And less than three rounds of artillery shells were fired from the lying heat, and one shell fell right into the ammunition depot of the airfield. Suddenly, the sound of an explosion that shook the mountains was remembered in the middle of the airport. A depot of several thousand rounds of heavy aerial bombs was stored, like a powder magazine, and in an instant there was an explosion ... As for the aerial bombs that had not yet exploded, they fell quickly around the ammunition depot as if it were raining under the impetus of the huge air wave generated by the explosion. Thousands of airtight aerial bombs completely covered the airfield that was not hit in an instant. In an instant, the entire airport, with the simultaneous explosion of thousands of aerial bombs, immediately fell into a sea of fire... At the same time, the oil depot, which was buried several meters deep underground, was quickly ignited because of the higher and higher temperature on the ground, and immediately afterward, there was a louder explosion..."The anti-aircraft machine gun company immediately opened fire and suppressed the turret of the little devils." All the four regiments have it, charge with me..."At the moment when the three signal flares were lifted into the air and the explosion occurred, the command of the regiment commander Xu Ying was heard on the position of the four regiments, which had already been concealed less than 300 meters away from the road.
In an instant, the 18 anti-aircraft machine guns of the two anti-aircraft machine gun companies that had just been reinforced, and the 18 shots of the fiery tongue immediately gathered in the six shooting holes on the two pillboxes blocking the road... In an instant, the shooting hole, which had just been silent, was immediately hit by large bullets under the impact of bullets the thickness of an arm. The layers of cement wrapped around the outside of the bunker were also peeled off layer by layer under the constant fire of bullets...
As for the ghost soldiers who stuck to the quilt in the spouse building, they were awakened by the dense strong derivatives. Just about to stick your head out of the shooting hole to see what was going on outside. The bullets with the thickness of the arms immediately smashed their heads mercilessly, and in an instant, the entire running building was filled with the bloody smell of soldiers' red and white brains
For a moment, the little devil in the bunker was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him. The resolute little devil only stretched out the barrels of the machine guns with black holes, and fired blindly at the open area outside the pillbox, relying on his own experience. And those armed expatriates who did not have a good will were immediately frightened and weakened in the face of such a bloody scene. One by one, as if they had received some kind of fright, the armed expatriates squatted in the corner with their legs weak and began to tremble..."Comrades, rush with me, occupy the positions of the army, and kill..." Although the 2,000 soldiers behind the design were also frightened by the power of a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns. However, they have not forgotten their mission. Two thousand soldiers, under the personal leadership of the regiment commander Xu Ying, took advantage of the fact that the army in the pillbox was completely suppressed, and immediately jumped up from the ground and launched a charge... Suddenly, 2,000 soldiers in an attacking formation, carrying weapons, dodged the machine-gun bullets fired aimlessly by the Japanese army, while speeding up their own charge... After a 300-meter charge, less than a platoon of soldiers fell on the way to the charge, and the rest of the soldiers all rushed to the front of the bunker. In an instant, the little devil who was hiding in the bunker with the turtle shell just now, the horse was immediately blown to pieces....
"The anti-aircraft machine gun company, which entered the pillbox and was responsible for cover, the artillery company, immediately formed an artillery position to provide fire cover for the troops. The 1st battalion defended the direction of Beipingcheng, the 2nd battalion defended the direction of the airfield, and the 3rd battalion served as a reserve. Start building fortifications immediately..."As the last devil soldier fell under the bayonets of the soldiers, Xu Ying, the commander of the fourth regiment, after quickly observing the enemy situation in front of him, ordered loudly.
With two defensive positions, the construction was quickly completed. A soldier quickly set up his weapons on the position, waiting for the arrival of the little devil. From the beginning to the present, in less than ten minutes, the highway from the airport to Beiping City has been cut off alive by all the commanders and fighters of the Fourth Regiment... As for the few thousand devil soldiers left in the airport, they have completely become the stomach of the soldiers, waiting for the result of being completely wiped out...
(To be continued)