Chapter Forty-Three: The Operation Begins

At about three o'clock in the morning on June 4, at Anqing Airport, located three kilometers southeast of Chaling Town, Xiao Yi and his team started to act after lurking for more than seven hours. More than 140 wolf-tooth special forces were organized into two groups in squadrons, one group was responsible for clearing the outlying Japanese sentry posts and other secret posts, and another squadron would directly occupy the control tower under the personal leadership of Xiao Yi, and blow up the fighters parked in the hangar and on the airfield.

The leader of the group is Squadron Leader Ma Yimin. Ma Yimin's 30th birthday happened to be on this day, and the cadet army attached great importance to the birthdays of the officers and soldiers, and if they were in the barracks, if there were no important tasks, the troops would give the officers and soldiers a half-day holiday to their company, so that they could celebrate the birthdays of their comrades. There is an ancient Chinese saying called "Standing at 30", which shows the importance of the birthday of 30. If it weren't for going out to fight, Xiao Yi and the others would definitely help Ma Yimin prepare a lively birthday celebration, but now, they could only celebrate a special birthday on the battlefield for him. Just before entering the hidden area, Xiao Yi said to his brothers, "Today is Captain Ma's thirtieth birthday, and according to custom, we are going to give him a gift. Brothers, how about we use the destruction of Anqing Airport as a birthday present for Captain Ma? Yimin, more than 200 fighters turned into fireworks at the same time to celebrate your birthday, very stylish! What do you think? You'll love it! ”

Postmodern words like "pulling the wind" naturally came from Ouyang Yun's mouth, and the person concerned didn't remember when and where he said such a thing, but it didn't matter. Worshippers of the commander-in-chief abound in the cadet army, and a cadet remembered it, and often hung it on his lips, and gradually, the word was popularized. Putting more than 200 fighter planes off as fireworks, this kind of treatment, this kind of birthday congratulations, is really popular. Ma Yimin has almost forgotten when his birthday is, but now, he is very much looking forward to the glorious scene of more than 200 fighters setting off fireworks for his birthday at the same time.

The Wolf Tooth Special Forces are all capable of being snipers, so this lurk is really nothing to them. The treatment of the special forces is the best in the whole student army, and one of the manifestations of this is that each person has a watch. The Cadet Army has its own watch factory, but it produces electronic watches. Of course, because in this era, electronic things are still a luxury, so owning a "big knife" brand watch is really too stylish. The time of the operation was three o'clock in the morning, and the reason why this time was chosen was because, according to the agents of the Anqing Fox Pupil Group, the time period between three and five o'clock in the morning at Anqing Airport is the time when the defense is the most relaxed. During the Second Great Wall War of Resistance, the Japanese completely lost air supremacy because of the sneak attack on the airport, and the North China Front was almost defeated. Because of this lesson, the Japanese strengthened the defense of the airport, for example, Anqing Airport, there is one brigade of the gendarmerie alone, and there are two brigades of ordinary infantry in the joint defense. And if we add the security forces of a brigade deployed by the Second Air Command of the Central China Air Corps itself, the defense strength of Anqing Airport is actually close to that of a wing.

The Japanese army had too many defensive troops, so Xiao Yi wanted to successfully destroy all the fighters with more than 100 people in his hands, and it was particularly important to have surprise and combat efficiency. Of course, the existence of the wolf's tooth special forces is to carry out this seemingly impossible task. Therefore, although the enemy situation is severe, Xiao Yi and his team leaders did not fear, but became more excited-no one can't, doesn't this reflect the value of wolf teeth? If you can pull any army over, then what do you need wolf fangs for?

The detailed operational plan was discussed as early as this morning through collective wisdom and hard work. Everyone in the wolf's tooth can be used as a squad or even a platoon, so this plan pays attention to details, so detailed that almost everyone's tasks and action routes are marked. At the beginning of the operation, a group was quickly divided into three action groups under Ma Yimin's gesture. The task of the three groups was to block the exits of the three barracks for a certain period of time on the premise of clearing out the sentry posts and secret posts, so as to gain enough time for the second group to completely blow up all the fighters. Each of the three teams was equipped with five good demolitionists, and the first task they performed was to lay a large number of mines and mines. It is the first time in the history of the Cadet Army that more than 140 wolf-tooth special forces were dispatched at one time, and the subject matter was only an airport. Of course, considering the defense situation of Anqing Airport, even if such a scale of wolf teeth was dispatched, Ouyang Yun still had no confidence in his heart. Therefore, in order to cooperate with the operation of the wolf's tooth to the greatest extent and not give the Japanese army a chance to adjust its strength, once the operation at Anqing Airport begins, the main force of the Xuebing Army, all the ground troops of the Xuexing, Xue, and Xuexing, all the ground troops of the Xuexing, and all the chariot units of the Beishang Corps, will immediately launch the river-crossing operation. At that time, these troops will carry out the operation of crossing the river at the same time as Yupeng, Wubao, Chiang and Jia. Among the three river crossing sites, the main direction of attack was Yupeng, where the armored troops and the 16th Brigade were located. This is also the closest to Anqing Airport, with five regiments of amphibious tanks starting to cross the river at the same time, Ouyang Yun is absolutely confident that he will go down in one fell swoop and directly advance to the other side of the river. And once the chariot units came ashore, then it was too late for the Japanese to organize resistance. After the chariot troops successfully crossed the river, they would be divided into three parts, each of which would be equipped with a regiment of infantry, of which the main force (three chariot troops) would directly fight towards Chaling, and the other two would move towards Changfeng and Shiji to meet the river-crossing troops there.

There is a reason for this. There are only two assembly points for the main force of the Japanese army in Anqing City, one is Dawangmiao facing the east, and the other is Chaling, so it is not of much significance to capture Anqing County at the first time. On the contrary, if the main force attacks Chaling, the main force of the Anqing Japanese army can be completely annihilated there. As long as this part of the Japanese army is annihilated, the Japanese army in Dawangmiao will become a lone army, if the Japanese army does not take the opportunity to escape, then what awaits them will be the fate of being surrounded and annihilated. Since the scale of the Japanese army in Anqing is so small, the Cadet Army can actually completely control the trend of the battle as long as the combat vehicles are not dispatched correctly, and there is also a division of ground troops. However, Hefei is now the location of the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army, where there is also a division and troops directly under the headquarters, and in Wangjiang, Susong and Luotian, the Japanese army has a total of four divisions, and it is precisely in consideration of the existence of these Japanese troops, in order to make a long-term occupation of Anqing, in order to destroy the layout of the Japanese army's Hankou campaign, so the Cadet Army must come up with enough troops to confuse the Japanese army.

At about three o'clock in the morning, the defense situation of Anqing Airport was indeed the most sparse, and the most obvious difference was that the patrol teams in the airport changed from five to three, and those lurking posts actually began to change their guards. These lurking posts were the existence that the wolf fangs were most worried about - today's night was not good, although this was conducive to the actions of the wolf fangs, but at the same time, it also increased the safety factor for those lurking posts. Well, now that the Japanese are changing their guard under the nose of the wolf's teeth, those lurking posts are no different from sentry posts.

It was better to go up and cover your mouth and cut your throat, or to use a blow arrow with poison to directly numb and then assassinate you, and half an hour later, night birds sounded from time to time near the airport. Xiao Yi carefully counted the numbers, and when he silently counted to twenty-three in his heart, he got up from the ground and waved his hand behind him. Xiao Yat didn't know the exact number of secret posts in the road, but they had observed the more hidden locations in the vicinity before, which were seventeen. These were seven places, the best places for ambushes and lurking posts, and now, twenty-three bird calls were heard, and it seemed that the Japanese were still more cautious than they had guessed. At half-past three, the rooster had already begun to crow, and in an hour or so it would be dawn in the east, and at this time, even if the lurking post had not been completely removed, they would have no time to wait. Since you can't afford to wait, let's do it!

Inside the Anqing Command Tower, Captain Ito Houyu, a staff officer on duty, was rubbing his eyes at this time. After looking at the airport all night, his eyes were dry and his eyelids were crumbling as if they had fallen off lead. At half past three o'clock in the morning, it is the time when people are most sleepy. He looked at his watch, it was half past three, and there was still an hour and a half before he could change the guard. And at this time, there could be no accidents - this was not Ito's idea alone, but the consensus of the Japanese army. Although Anqing was on the front line at this time, facing Dongzhi County from afar, the army of Dongzhi was not strong. Moreover, if the people of China want to sneak attack during this time period, it will be too late in time. Just kidding, the strength of the imperial army in this area is more than four brigades, how many troops do the people have to send to attack it? And how could they hide from the garrison troops on the front line with their large-scale movements? To know the road, the Dawang Temple just choked the most dangerous place in this section of the Yangtze River. And if the people of China wanted to cross the river from other places, how could they not alarm the sentry posts and patrols on the other side of the river, with their level of equipment?

There are two gendarmes standing guard at the entrance to the control tower. The two gendarmes were dedicated, standing straight and looking ahead, and there was no tendency to doze off at all. And just across from them, a patrol of devils was turning and walking west.

These two gendarmes were watched by Tang Feng and Zhang Gulou for more than two minutes. They didn't do it, they were waiting for the patrol to turn around. And as soon as the team of devils turned around, they catted up from both sides, and then, when the devils on the left just realized and turned their heads to look, they quickly pounced, Tang Feng's left hand accurately covered the devil's mouth, pressed down, and the dagger in his right hand slashed at his Adam's apple, and the devil's throat made a gurgling sound, and then his whole body was paralyzed. Zhang Gulou's movements were sharper than Tang Feng's. Zhang Gulou is a famous wrestler in the wolf's teeth, he also covered the mouth of the gendarme on the right with his left hand, but there was no dagger in his right hand, but directly pinched his neck and forced, and then only heard a creaking sound, and the other party's cervical vertebrae and Adam's apple were directly crushed.