Chapter 10: Anqing (7)

China Merchants No. 1 was originally a mixed wheel, reserving the customer area for finishing and decoration, and cleaning up the cargo hold, which is a good large activity deck, and the tables and chairs on the deck are a good leisure area. As soon as everyone got on the boat, the boat immediately set off and went around to the Dadukou wharf on the other side of the river to anchor, away from the hustle and bustle of Jiangbei. The No. 1 ship was not small, the number of representatives of the European and American powers was not large, and there were only about 40 people with their families, plus the escorts and security personnel of the Japanese side, which was more than enough to be placed on the deck. Compared with the European beach chairs, the traditional Chinese mahogany Wang Gong chair is obviously more stylish and comfortable, and the small drum-shaped coffee table is placed with a few Zen tea dishes and a plate of cut moon cakes, plus some Tianzhu mountain melon baskets, which is a good way to eliminate the mouth. There is also a bright moon on the river, there is no dust, and it is as bright as washing, cleansing people's hearts and spleens. The river breeze is coming, the water waves are not rising, there is a moon in the sky, a moon in the water, the moonlight in the sky is in the water, and the moonlight in the water is in the sky. In war-torn China, in the Yangtze River where shrenching shrapnel flies, there can be such a bright moonlight, such a moonlit night full of mood, the guests are very satisfied.

Inuyohiro was also very satisfied with the arrangement of the ship, he walked between the representatives of several major powers of Britain, France and the United States, relying on his short stature to walk around, a cup of black tea was used as red wine, and the faint moonlight became a flickering neon.

"With such a moonlight, have you ever been satisfied?" This is what Inukai Hiroshi said to the American minister. Inuyohiro is very respectful to the Americans, the Americans expressed neutrality after the outbreak of the European war, which means that the two do not help each other, in fact, both sides can help, typical businessmen plan, as long as the Chinese have money, they will not not not make money, and thousands of years of civilization in China, rich in materials, just buried in the soil is enough to buy arms, which makes the Japanese very headache. Therefore, it is the responsibility and obligation of every Japanese to seize any opportunity to get close to the Americans.

The American minister nodded.

Inuyohiro said a little proudly: "Do you want to see it a second time?" ”

The US envoy paused for a moment and replied very seriously: "According to the principles of physics, if we can rush back to the United States within 12 hours, we should be able to see the moonlight on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar in the United States again." ”

Inuyohiro didn't understand what this meant, he didn't understand astronomy and geography, which were too scientific, but he understood the first half of the sentence, rushing back to the United States from China in twelve hours, this is a dream, it is more difficult than the occupation of China by the Japanese Empire, second only to ascending to the sky.

The British royal ambassador also thought that the Americans were a bit forceful, thinking that it was already a great thing to circle the earth in 80 days, but now that there are airplanes, and there are airplanes that can fly at a speed of nearly 500 kilometers, even if they theoretically maintain the maximum speed and continue to fly for 10 hours, it is only 5,000 kilometers, and the closest distance from China to the United States is more than 10,000 kilometers.

The French didn't know what they were talking about, and they were holding up the teacup in their hands to greet the British envoy's wife, although the British envoy's wife was middle-aged and had a slight freckle on her face, but the whole was not bad, a pair of flattering eyes, very soul-destroying. The attention of the French is already all on this Anglo-Saxon woman.

There are also some who come to make up the numbers, such as Spaniards, Brazilians, Australians, they can only carefully drink the tea in front of them, eat their own mooncakes, look at their own share of moonlight, dare not interject, let alone make loud noises. Disturbed the conversation of the big guys, that is going to be spanked.

After sending off the guests, Kiyono Naoyuki's anger really burst out, and he sent out all the troops who had served as guards before, and an order made everyone tremble: "Even if you push it by hand, you must push out the people who enter the city." ”

The situation was very clear, there were two battalions, more than 600 people, just over 600 people. How many people are there in Anqing, they can scare each other to death when they say it! There are 6,000 or 7,000 people in an appeasement division, and there is also an infantry wing, although the personnel are not satisfied, plus the brigade headquarters also has about 3,000 people, plus the airport guards that were drawn before, plus the dock guards, 15,000 people are only a lot more, and it is unbearable to let only 600 or so people lose their interest!

"Kill the chicken and cut it!" Naoyuki Kiyono pulled out the command knife from his entourage and shouted loudly, but the command knife didn't know where to go.

The Japanese quickly occupied high ground on the way to the attack of the two battalions of the 527th Regiment, set up machine guns, and blocked the road.

The sudden increase in firepower made Peng Wu immediately react that the Japanese army had gone all out to counterattack, and ordered the trumpeters to blow the trumpet of the charge and retreat on all fronts.

Not far away, Cheng Wannian heard the trumpet, and also let the trumpeters around him blow, the two battalions fully retreated, retreated to the north gate, only to find that the Amnesty Bobu who had been guarding there before had disappeared, the gate was open, there were neither Japanese nor Chinese, the two battalions joined forces, and rushed away.

Not long after the departure of the 527 regiment, Hao Wenbo's department came to the north gate, one by one, carrying on their backs, all of them were looting trophies, they had stayed in Anqing before, where there was goods and where there was money, it was clear where they were at the door, and it was a waste of talent to let them guard the door. I opened the doors of a few companies and a few trading houses, and before I could clean up the things, I heard a loud trumpet outside. Everyone knows that there is an agreement tonight, and the commander-in-chief Wei Gaozhen said that blowing the trumpet of the charge is to retreat, and blowing the trumpet of retreat is to advance, since the trumpet of the charge sounds, it must be that the advance is blocked, and prepare to retreat. Hao Wenbo didn't have time to choose, so he ran away with a big bag on his shoulder, and as for what was in the bag, he went out and looked at it.

When Hao Wenbo's troops went out of the north gate, they basically followed the Japanese pursuit troops on the front foot and back foot, and the big bags on the backs of several brothers who ran behind were shot several times, but they did not penetrate and earned a small life. Urged by the guns, the men marched faster than the rabbits.

Fortunately, the Japanese army only chased to the north gate, and did not chase again, and the Japanese army also knew that the so-called poor Kou Mo was chasing, and chased out in an ambush, wouldn't it be looking for death, not to mention that at night, the black lights outside were blind, and I was too passive to see the enemy. Standing on the city gate, the Japanese soldiers who arrived first just let go of their guns, and it wasn't until Naoyuki Kiyono came to the north gate and was furious that he realized that he was wrong. I only heard Naoyuki Kiyono shouting loudly: "Why don't you pursue?" Why not pursue? Afraid of the other party's ambush, isn't it? Afraid of the other party's ambush, isn't it? Stupid! Stupid! I was trying to entangle the other party, but I didn't believe it, I had an army of more than 10,000 people, and I couldn't entangle him with 600 people. ”

Before he finished speaking, he saw a tall Japanese soldier pointing to the eastern sky, opening his mouth wide, but unable to say a word.

All the people were silent, looking at the bright moon in the east from a distance, and a layer of red fire actually appeared, which reflected the moonlight even less.

"It's the airport!" Someone shouted: "Airport fire!" ”

Kiyono Naoyuki's feet were soft, and he sat on the ground with his ass, and he made trouble all night, and the opponent's last pen was actually at the airport, and the sightseeing wheel was a disguise! Westerners are a disguise! Even attacking Anqing is a cover!

In order to strengthen the defense of Anqing, he did not hesitate to vacate the guards of the airport, he was wrong, he was too wrong! I was completely unaware of the Chinese mentality. Ordinary Chinese do not understand at all what the arrival of the tourist group of the Western powers means, in their eyes, the Eastern devils and the Western devils are all devils, and as for the fascist alliance and the anti-fascist alliance, they do not understand it at all. They only knew that the people who entered this eastern continent were all enemies, and they were all conditions that could be used, and the sightseeing ship had also become a factor in their design of warfare. I was too careless, thinking that all the Chinese troops would know the important role of this sightseeing group and would use force to attack the idea of this sightseeing ship, but who knew that they could only regard it as a gimmick and a false trick, and the real move would be hit their own airport. Although after the imperial army occupied Nanchang Airport, the advance of the army aviation had moved to Nanchang, and the Anqing Huolongwan Airport had been reduced from a strategic airport to a transit airport, and its important status had been reduced again and again, but for a local garrison officer, whether there was an airport or not was very different, and the status and reputation were completely different. As the commander of the Anqing garrison, it is because of the importance of this place that a major general brigade commander can concurrently serve as the commander of the garrison, and if there is no airport or dock transit, it is more than enough for this garrison commander to let a wing commander take over.

I only felt a commotion, and when I asked, I found out that it was Major General Guan Yuan Makoto of the Third Flying Regiment of the Air Force who rushed back with the airport personnel, Kiyono Naoyuki did not move, he knew that it was too late, and at this time he rushed back, everything that could be burned had already been burned, and most of the Japanese planes were made of wood and skin, and as long as a match could turn into ashes, not to mention such a raging fire, I was afraid that there would be no armor left.

It was not only Naoyuki Kiyono who watched the fire in Huolong Bay at the north gate of Anqing, but also the third battalion of the 526th Regiment of Zhong Dingnai, who watched with relish on the top of the west mountain.

Today's fire went so smoothly that I couldn't even imagine it.

First of all, the scouts saw that the guards at the airport were extremely sparse, and there was only one person on the tower, who was in charge of both rocking the searchlight and observing, Zhong Dingnai laughed when he heard it, this kind of searchlight is slightly better than nothing, because the observer's observation range is completely fixed by the searchlight, but it is not the place where the searchlight shines, so it must not be seen. Following the light and shadow of the searchlight, the reconnaissance squad arrived at the barbed wire fence. Shaking the barbed wire, no one paid attention, and calmly cut it boldly, straight to cut a big hole that could be passed through by bending over.

Not far into the apron, the people on the apron are also very scarce, even the patrol team is not more than one, the door of the canteen is very lively, there are Japanese soldiers dancing in the moonlight, singing ugly songs, and some people howl at the moonlight, like wild wolves. On the side of the tarmac, there is an old-fashioned biplane, and along the biplane to the opposite corner farthest from the canteen, is the airport oil depot. The oil depot should be kept away from the fire source in the canteen, and the Japanese air force did a good job and complied with the regulations, but now that all the people are in the canteen, the oil depot seems a little lonely. The oil depot was also not empty, there were people on duty, and there were sentries, but it was one person on duty, and the sentries were also single sentinels.

"It's abnormal!" Luo Shiping, commander of the seventh company of the third battalion, said.

"Do you think there are fewer people?" Zhong Dingnai smiled: "It's because it's not normal that we came, if everything is normal, one of our battalions will take an airport, I'm afraid it's a little difficult." ”

"I see! Everyone has drawn Anqing to protect the foreign devils! Luo Shiping said: "I said battalion commander, why is our regiment commander Boss Mo so thief!" How did he know that the old devil of Kiyono would definitely transfer the manpower of the airport to the airport? ”

"I don't know, I guess the boss may not know, he told me that if there is a advantage, take advantage, and if there is no cheapness, it will be a big deal." Zhong Dingnai said: "I think this is cheap!" ”

"It's so cheap!" Luo Shiping said: "Battalion commander, I think, we should not be greedy, just burn the oil depot to him, and don't mess with anything else." You take the eight and nine companies to guard here, I will take people to the oil depot, don't worry, I know how to get it, the thin monkey set, I will. ”

Although it is a bit bragging, it is not excessive, Luo Shiping let people easily clean up the single whistle at the door with a crossbow, and the staff on duty in the warehouse inside directly killed it with a dagger, the staff on duty was too weak, a pair of glasses, and a broken leg, was lying in front of the dim incandescent lamp to read, someone walked behind him and did not notice, until the sharp knife slashed through the neck did not feel a little cool.

Unscrewed a dozen large oil drums, laid them flat, let the gasoline flow out naturally, and then lifted another oil drum and spilled it all the way, until he walked out of the barbed wire, Luo Shiping cut a match in his hand and threw it on the grass covered with gas oil at his feet.

A fire dragon jumped up and went straight to the oil depot, Luo Shiping didn't even look back, ran away with people like a fly, ran almost a mile away, and only looked back after meeting Zhong Dingnai, the oil depot was already on fire.

The Japanese on the other side of the canteen were in a mess and ran to the oil depot to put out the fire, however, the sound of the explosion of the oil drum stopped them, and they saw a loud bang, and a round oil drum was blown into the sky, fifty or sixty meters high, changed direction in the air, fell, and landed on a biplane, smashing the wings to the ground on the spot, and was quickly surrounded by fierce fire.

Zhong Dingnai, who was a mile away, also felt that the fire was a bit roasting, and after looking at it for a while, except for the smoke and explosion, there was nothing new, but he felt that he was not interested at all, and left with the troops, leaving only the Japanese in the airport shouting and shouting.

The moonlight has not yet reached the middle of the sky, it is still so bright, from the side of the Shitang River, reflected in the Shitang River, although it is not as stylish as the moonlight in the Yangtze River, it is also like water and moonlight. Zhong Dingnai stood quietly at the water's edge, let everyone rest in place, and told the secretary that the mooncakes brought were distributed to everyone, and we also appreciated the moon, and the moonlight of the Chinese could not be appreciated by foreigners.