in2ebook Chapter 704: Surprise Attack on the Airport
Chapter 704: Surprise Attack on the Airport
At eight o'clock in the morning, the Yimeng guerrillas set out. All the generals of the Fifth War Zone in Zhengzhou City came to see them off. In order to recover the Central Plains, the war situation was opened. Some of them would also participate in the Battle of Wuhan. It was the dream of every anti-Japanese general to be able to fight side by side with Leng Qiang.
"Commander Li, I've sent you thousands of miles away, but we must eventually say goodbye. Let's stop here"!
"Okay, Captain Lengqiang goes first. We will probably also have to participate in the Wuhan Liberation War. Maybe we can fight side by side in a few days."
Chen Feng mounted his warhorse, waved to the generals, shouted, and the horse galloped away, catching up with the team in a flash.
"Let's go! Go back. The commendation order will come down soon. Let's see what the reward is."
After participating in two battles, the team felt a little more relaxed, and more than half of the mules and horses were no longer loaded. Li Zongren gave instructions, and in every town they passed, there would be a person in charge to provide the Yimeng guerrillas with drinking water and food. The three vehicles carrying the wounded did not dare to go fast and gradually fell behind. Chen Feng asked a company of cavalry to be responsible for escorting them, and the rest of the sequence sped up and rested after arriving in Suizhou.
On April 4, the vanguard of the Yimeng guerrillas arrived in Suizhou. The special operations battalion of the New Second Regiment took over the defense of Suizhou, and a brigade of the Kuomintang army voluntarily withdrew from Suizhou.
On the afternoon of the 23rd, the main force arrived and the special forces had eliminated all dangers. Many people took to the streets to welcome the team. However, the members of the Yimeng guerrillas did not bother to interact with the people. They forced the people to go home and immediately began to arrange air defense. Wuhan has an airport, so it is not ruled out that the Japanese army will send planes to welcome them.
As the sun set, anti-aircraft fire had spread across the city walls and commanding heights of Suizhou, and Chen Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Rongwei, post a notice. The Japanese army is likely to come and bomb our Yimeng guerrillas. From tomorrow on, no organization is allowed to gather in Suizhou City. There will be a curfew at night and no one is allowed to go out on the streets."
"Captain, will the people have any objections? After all, this is not our base."
"Anyone who has opinions should pay attention. I don't think ordinary people will have any ideas. Anyone who causes trouble or misleads the public should be arrested immediately. Those who cause trouble in this situation are either Japanese devils or traitors."
There was thunder and lightning in Suizhou City, but the people had no objection. Captain Leng Qiang had made it clear that it was for the good of the people to prevent the Japanese from bombing and not allowing people to gather. As for the curfew, who would wander around the streets in the middle of the night? Aren't they all second-rate people?
The city is under control, but it's difficult to deal with those waiting to see Captain Leng Qiang outside the city. There are all kinds of heroes in the martial arts world, as well as the commanders of the troops and the administrative commander. It's very troublesome whether they meet or not.
Chen Feng didn't want to see anyone, so he ordered Chen Rongwei to post a notice, announcing wartime control. People were allowed to leave Suizhou City but not enter. He would not meet anyone from any force until Wuhan was liberated.
The area outside Suizhou City suddenly became clear. The special forces team left the city. Anlu City, more than 60 kilometers south of the city, was still in the hands of the Japanese. The special forces team had to eliminate all enemies attacking Anlu.
The Yimeng guerrillas arrived at Suizhou City, and the news spread quickly. The atmosphere in Wuhan City and the surrounding Japanese-occupied areas began to become heavy. The Japanese army was in great distress and was in big trouble. They did not think that the loss of Ruichang City was a big deal, as they could just fight it back. The Yangtze River waterway could not be lost, but the arrival of cold guns and the Yimeng guerrillas would be terrifying.
People are like their names, trees are like their shadows. After just a trip to Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, the two heavily defended cities fell, along with more than 100,000 imperial soldiers. Now that the Yangtze River route has been cut off and the Yimeng guerrillas have entered Suizhou, all the devils understand that they are targeting the three towns of Wuhan. The Chinese people became more eager, but the Japanese army was in a great headache. Some conservatives in the headquarters even felt that they needed to withdraw their troops from Wuhan. After all, there were still more than 100,000 troops outside Wuhan. If the river route was blocked, retreating by land was also possible.
On the morning of the 25th, the headquarters urgently convened an imperial meeting to discuss the advance and retreat of the defenders in the Wuhan area. The battle situation in the heart of the Central Plains showed that any battle in which the Yimeng guerrillas participated would fail. Now there were more than two main regiments of the Yimeng guerrillas. The guard regiment on the front line of Fuyang, the first regiment and Wu Tianxiang's regiment had also moved to the outskirts of Wuhan, passing through the Dabie Mountains. If these three regiments crossed the Dabie Mountains and connected to the Yangtze River to block the road, the th Army might not be able to withdraw from Wuhan.
The main reason why Chen Feng entered Suizhou was that there was a simple airport on the east side of Suizhou. The airport was built by the Japanese army in early 1940 with the purpose of conquering the Nanyang Basin. However, the attack on Zaoyang failed and the airport was basically abandoned.
Chen Feng's aircraft migration route is in Wuhan. Before taking Wuhan, he must first use Suizhou Airport. There is no need to harden it, as long as the ground is flat.
After the First Battalion of the New Third Regiment occupied the airport, they deployed intensive anti-aircraft firepower and hired civilians to level the airport every day. With a solid foundation, they were able to take off and land in three days.
On the morning of the 28th, the first batch of transfer aircraft arrived. There were eight ace pilots and seven pilots coming to aid China. All of them were fighter jets.
"Leng, the final battle is finally coming, my heart is filled with excitement."
Jennings, Howard and a group of people were very excited to see Chen Feng. They felt that the last battles of Kaifeng and Zhengzhou were not enough, and they wanted to fight against the Japanese main fighter planes and ace pilots.
On May 5, later known as Labor Day, 1 Nationalist troops arrived at the designated attack point. The Japanese army's first line of defense started from Xiantao in the south, went to Jingshan in the north, and then went east to Anlu and Xiaochang. These cities guarded Wuhan in a semicircle and were also the first-line attack points of the Nationalist army.
At 5 p.m. on May 1, Kuomintang planes launched an attack on Wuhan Airport. Japanese planes hastily took off to fight. Relying on their numerical advantage, the battle with the Kuomintang planes was very intense. After more than half an hour of exchange of fire, the Kuomintang planes retreated in panic. The Japanese planes did not pursue them because it was already dusk and they could not come back if they chased too far.
As soon as the Japanese planes landed, the flying squadron of the Yimeng guerrillas arrived. Twelve fighter planes attracted anti-aircraft fire, and the fifteen bombers that transferred in launched a bombing on the Japanese airport. They did not bomb the heavily guarded hangars and oil depots, but dropped all the bombs on the two runways, almost cutting them in half.
With the last ray of light before dusk, twenty-seven planes flew back to Suizhou Airport. One bomber and two fighter planes were smoking. In order to avoid damaging the airport, three pilots chose to parachute.
The Japanese army was going crazy. There were more than 200 planes at Wuhan Airport. Seeing that the enemy was about to attack, if they could not take off, it would be a huge trouble. The main reason was that the planes at Jiujiang Airport and Lushan Airport did not dare to provide support. The Ninth War Zone was watching covetously, and the Dabie Mountain area in the north was also restless and might launch a sneak attack on the riverside cities near Jiujiang at any time. As for the more distant Anqing Airport and Nanjing Airport, it took too much time to go back and forth, and it was difficult to provide support at any time.