"General."

"Emergency!"

It's past 10 a.m.

Beijing Review,

Command of the Aviation Brigade of the North China Front.

A staff officer rushed in quickly, shouting as he went.

The tone was anxious and flustered.

Even because of the panic, at the entrance of the command department, he also fell.

"What's the matter?"

Although the scale is small and the damage is not serious, it has a huge impact on the transportation in North China and the security of the occupied areas.

In addition, the previous battle plan for the bombing of the Taiyue Mountains.

The commander of the North China Front Aviation Brigade, Gana Shunzheng always slept at the headquarters.

"Urgent?"

Garner Shunzheng's eyes froze, and his original dazed state instantly sobered up by three points.

It's two o'clock in the morning,

The emergency electricity at this time,

Dirt Eight Road Raids Transportation Lines Again?

Or is it an important shipping line?

"Baoding airport was shelled."

"Massive shelling!"

The staff officer's voice fell, and Garner Shunzheng's whole person instantly sobered up.

"Baoding Airport?"

"Massive shelling?"

He couldn't help but ask.

Baoding airport was attacked.

It is an important airport in North China that is second only to Bei Rating Airport in North China, and more important than Taiyuan Airport, although there are not many aircraft stationed, but there are a lot of fuel and ammunition in storage.

Because of the consumption of Bei Ping Airport, it is currently even more than the main airport warehouse in Bei Ping.

Moreover, it was only yesterday that he sent four of the latest Type 99 bombers to arrive.

even

Massive shelling?

Do you know what a massive shelling is?

"Hey."

The staff officer replied:

"According to the telegram of the garrisoned brigade."

"At two o'clock in the morning tonight, Baoding Airport was subjected to large-scale artillery shelling by enemy heavy artillery."

"The enemy fired more than a hundred heavy artillery shells in a short period of time, and from the analysis of power, it should be the 120 mortars of the Eighth Route Army."

"At the moment the shelling continues."

"More than a hundred shells."

"120 mortars!"

Garner Shunzheng only felt dizzy.

Although I don't know what happened, the Eighth Route Army was able to secretly transport a large number of artillery units, several heavy guns, and a large amount of baggage ammunition to the vicinity of Baoding Airport.

But 120 mortars, more than a hundred shells in a short time,

The shelling continues.

It is conceivable that the loss of Baoding Airport will be extremely heavy.

"Did you notify the staff?"

Garner Shunzheng hurriedly asked.

Theoretically, troops should be immediately sent to support the Baoding airfield to drive away or even annihilate the enemy's artillery units. But he was only a major general of the army aviation and did not have the right to command the ground forces.

"The General Staff has sent surrounding troops to support."

"The garrison brigade in nearby Gao County has also set off to support."

The staff officer's answer made Garner Shunzheng's mood not improve in the slightest.

Heavy artillery!

Intensive shelling!

Since the enemy dared to launch an artillery bombardment at night, by the time reinforcements arrived, they must have retreated.

The losses at the Baoding airfield will not be reduced by the rapid arrival of reinforcements.

"Notify me as soon as there is news."

Although I can't wait to fly to Baoding Airport immediately, the empire does not have transport planes for night planes, and night navigation is also a big problem, so Ghana Shunzheng can only wait quietly.

···

"Report."

Three o'clock in the morning.

A staff officer rushed into the headquarters and reported to Tada:

"Baoding airport telegram, enemy shelling has stopped."

Hearing the report, Tada Jun was not happy at all.

The shelling of the Eighth Route Army began at two o'clock in the morning, and in less than five minutes, more than a hundred shells were fired, destroying hangars and warehouses.

This was clearly a long-planned shelling.

Before the shelling, the enemy must have carried out a detailed reconnaissance of the Baoding airfield in advance, demarcated the artillery positions, marked the shelling of Zhuyuan, and stockpiled a large number of artillery shells.

otherwise

It is impossible to organize such a high density of shelling at night and still maintain such an accuracy of shelling.

"Have you caught the enemy artillery unit?"

Although he knew that the shelled Dohachi Road must have prepared a proper retreat route, Tada Jun still couldn't help but ask.

If you can catch the shelling of the Tuba Road, capture the 120 heavy mortars used for the shelling...

"Nope."

"The enemy's artillery position is a full five kilometers away from the Baoding airfield, and when the support troops arrived at the enemy's artillery position half an hour after the shelling, the enemy had already retreated."

"The pursuing cavalry squadron also found no trace of enemy artillery units."

The staff officer replied.

"What about the losses?"

Tada Jun asked expressionlessly.

He knows.

It took only half an hour to assemble urgently at night and reach the enemy's position, which was five kilometers away in a straight line, and the infantry brigade stationed at the Baoding airfield had done its best.

The Locust Army is not the Wehrmacht, nor is it the French Army.

The Reich was also not Germany, not America, there were a large number of trucks, cars.

The Imperial Locust Army relied mainly on two legs.

The number of trucks is scarce.

But··

He knew, but it was still hard to accept.

"Loss..."

The staff officer hesitated for a moment before continuing to answer:

"The damage is severe."

"Nineteen of the twenty-three warehouses were directly hit by heavy artillery shells, a large amount of ammunition and fuel was completely destroyed, and a violent fire was triggered, which is still burning."

Staff officers placed special emphasis on heavy artillery shells.

"The fire could not be extinguished because of fuel and explosives."

"The infantry brigade stationed at Baoding Airport is making every effort to rescue the materials in other warehouses."

The corner of Tadajun's eyes jumped, and at the same time, he flashed sharply.

At the beginning of the design and construction of the warehouse at Baoding Airport, it was expected that it might be attacked, so the warehouse construction was relatively scattered.

Of course, due to the limited progress of the project and the lack of construction materials, it is not particularly scattered.

But there is no possibility of damaging two warehouses with one shot.

Not to mention the 120 mortars of the Eighth Route Army, even the 150 heavy artillery of the Empire, there is no such damage range.

Even so, nineteen of the twenty-three warehouses were hit.

More than 80 percent!

Such a precise shelling must have been premeditated for a long time.

What are the special high-tech departments, intelligence departments, and garrisons around Baoding doing?

"Where's the hangar?"

Tada continued.

Baoding Airport not only has a warehouse for storing a large number of supplies, but also a wooden hangar for 24 aircraft, as well as a tarmac.

"Hangar..."

The staff officer paused again for a long moment before replying:

"Fifteen hangars, all destroyed."

"The damage cannot be counted at this time."

Tada Jun suddenly felt dizzy.

Although the loss statistics have not yet come out, it can be seen from the losses of warehouses and hangars that with one shelling, Baoding Airport was almost completely destroyed?

"Send someone to investigate immediately."

Tada gritted his teeth.

···

Early the next morning.

A transport plane carrying the North China Front Army's Army Airlines, the commander of the aviation brigade, Major General Shunzheng of Ghana, arrived at Baoding Airport.

As soon as he got off the plane, he counted the losses in detail and launched an investigation to find out why the enemy had not found the reason for the heavy artillery forces that the enemy had gathered nearby, so as to provide early warning to other airfields.

It is impossible for any airfield of the North China Front to survive intensive heavy artillery shelling from a distance of five kilometers.

Arrived with Kazuki Yamamoto.

On the grounds that Taiyuan Airport was on alert, Yoshio Shinozuka sent Kazuki Yamamoto over to join in the fun.

···

Midday.

Ghana Shunzheng is at the Baoding Airport Headquarters, admonishing a group of devils at Baoding Airport.

Last night, although there were heavy losses in supplies and aircraft, the losses of the devils at the airport were very slight, and only a few ground crew devils and some devils who tried to rescue supplies died.

The rest were unscathed.

This made Ghana Shunzheng very dissatisfied.

What about the spirit of bushido?

This is how you protect the empire and the locust property?

Where has the glory of the samurai been lost?

and

After investigating for a long time, he didn't find out how the enemy's artillery secretly approached the vicinity of Baoding, so that Gana Shunzheng vented his unhappiness on the devils at the airport.

And, of course, the most important point.

The losses are too great.

It's really too big!

More than 80 percent of the material was lost, and more than a dozen of the 27 planes were completely destroyed, including four Type 99 bombers.

The weapons, equipment, and heavy supplies of the locust army at Baoding Airport were almost completely destroyed.

"General."

At this time, a staff officer ran in and reported:

"The damage of the four Type 99 bombers is very serious, and there is no possibility of repair."

"None of the parts have a recycling value."

Although there is no falling out with the Americans at present, the little devil is still very short of fuel, especially precious aviation fuel.

Insufficient production capacity,

Not to mention the high price of American imports, the quantity is not enough.

Luo lame strangled the Japanese to death.

As a result, even though the rules and regulations of the Army Airlines stipulate that it is forbidden to store fuel inside the fuel tanks of the planes parked on the tarmac, the four Type 99 bombers that have been transferred over still have a lot of fuel inside.

As a result, the four Type 99 bombers that were hit were detonated, and only the wreckage was burned down.

But thinking of the four bombers at Beiping Airport that needed to be repaired, Ghana Shunzheng asked the technical officer to check whether he could free up some parts for maintenance.

how

Devil planes are notoriously thin and stuffy, not to mention the parts that can be used, and even scrap products can't be recycled a few catties.

"Got it."

Garner waved his hand and motioned for the staff officer to leave.

"How did Dirthachi Road approach the airport?"

Then he asked the second question, which was the question he needed to figure out the most.

Around Baoding, the locust army was tightly controlled.

How did the Eighth Route Army sneak hundreds of heavy artillery shells, several heavy artillery pieces, and operational artillery to the vicinity of Baoding Airport?

"It's not clear."

The devil in charge of the investigation, the army aviation staff officer, looked helpless.

In just half a day, how to find out where the enemy came from, how to transport shells and artillery to the Baoding airport, and how to disappear.

····

"General."

At this time, Yamamoto walked in and said to Garner Shunmasa:

"I already know how the Eighth Route Army approached Baoding and launched an artillery bombardment!"

At this time, Yamamoto was holding a black and white photo in his hand. (End of chapter)