Chapter 308: Blow Up The Airport
The Japanese garrison officer showed a smile and also sent someone to pass the good news to the commander, having blocked the Eighth Route Army.
The garrison officer also called Hashimoto again: “Hashimoto, sorry about that, I startled you earlier.”
“No problem, as long as you can block the Eighth Route Army.” Hashimoto also breathed a sigh of relief and continued, “But without reinforcements, just blocking the Eighth Route Army on your side probably isn’t enough, right?”
If it were daytime, the airplanes at the airport could quickly come over for reinforcement.
But now it’s nighttime, the airplanes can’t take off.
“I’ve already reported to the commander, they will send poison gas shells.” The garrison officer said confidently, “Once these poison gas shells arrive, we can inflict heavy casualties on the Eighth Route Army.”
“Yoshi, looks like it was just a false alarm today…” Hashimoto’s words didn’t finish before suddenly freezing.
The Japanese garrison officer’s expression also froze instantly.
Because to the west of the garrison, intense artillery fire sounds rang out again.
And!
This time the artillery bombardment was even more powerful than the group of Eighth Route Army that was blocked!
Feint east, strike west!
The Japanese garrison officer immediately understood, he had fallen into a trap.
The group of Eighth Route Army that was blocked was just a feint attack.
It was just because he fought too fiercely that the garrison officer thought he really wanted to kill his way to the airport, so he mobilized most of the troops from the defensive positions for resistance.
And at this moment!
The Eighth Route Army’s real knife was finally revealed.
Due to the troop movements in the defensive positions, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong led their troops to quickly charge over, facing much weaker resistance.
The two regiments’ troops pushed straight through like entering a place with no one.
“Hahaha, Gao Liujin that kid did a damn good job.” Li Yunlong laughed heartily, turned to Ding Wei and said, “From now on, whenever he wants to be the vanguard, we’ll let him be the vanguard, this vanguard is too damn useful.”
“That’s for sure.” Ding Wei nodded.
Gao Liujin came along to get rich, since he’s hitching a ride, the most grueling task has to go to him.
Anyway, Gao Liujin likes to charge at the very front in battle, this is making the best use of him.
Seeing Li Yunlong and Ding Wei’s troops quickly advance half the distance, still 2.5 kilometers from the airport.
At this distance, the Type 92 Infantry Gun’s range could already reach it.
The garrison officer said to Hashimoto on the phone: “Hashimoto, hurry up and withdraw.”
After speaking, the garrison officer hung up the phone, took his commanding sword, and immediately went personally to block the enemies from the west.
Hearing the hang-up sound on the phone, and listening to the increasingly close gunfire sounds, even Type 92 Infantry Gun cannonballs whistling over to the airport, Hashimoto’s dazed gaze quickly recovered, and he roared like a pig being slaughtered: “Baka, withdraw, quickly take the pilots away, faster.”
The airport side was in chaos.
Japanese logistics personnel ran around everywhere, some trying to take away some fuel, some picking up weapons to prepare to resist.
Of course, the most agitated were still those Japanese pilots.
Airplanes to pilots are equivalent to guns to soldiers, this is a partner.
Enemies are attacking, to abandon the partner and flee, the Japanese pilots couldn’t accept it in their hearts.
Even some Japanese pilots ran to their airplanes, wanting to climb up.
Even though it was night, they wanted to make an emergency takeoff for combat.
But ultimately it was in vain.
Because the airplanes hadn’t been refueled, and the ammunition hadn’t been loaded.
Even if they forcibly took off, it would have no meaning.
“Baka, damn it, damn it!”
The Japanese pilots cursed in frustration, feeling as awful as if they had eaten shit and piss.
Not long ago.
We drove our combat aircraft freely in the skies over China, the Chinese troops below had no anti-aircraft weapons, under our airplanes’ fierce bombardment, they were just a flock of pitiful lambs, a pile of insignificant weeds.
Every time we sortied, it was actually as simple as a vacation.
When we arrived, we dropped bombs on their heads, then the airplanes strafed the Chinese troops’ ground positions.
Return after ammo was expended, no need to worry about enemy attacks, missions were frequent but each very easy.
And now!
Our airplanes can’t fly, air superiority is completely gone, Chinese ground troops are quickly approaching.
When they kill their way here, the airplanes will definitely all be completely destroyed.
This is something the Japanese pilots absolutely couldn’t accept.
If the airplane crashed during combat, even if shot down by Chinese light machine guns, it’s better than staying at the airport and being ignobly blown up.
An eagle should die in battle in the sky it loves.
Not like a hen, ignobly dying in the chicken coop.
“Baka, what are you all standing around for, withdraw quickly.” Hashimoto had people forcibly take the pilots away.
Not long after these pilots left, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong’s troops killed their way here.
The garrison officer had already perished, his commanding sword was now in Li Yunlong’s hand.
Seeing that none of the airplanes at this airport had forcibly taken off, all still on the ground, Li Yunlong sighed: “Old Ding, you were right, I really can’t bear to destroy these airplanes.”
Dozens of airplanes, if we could tow them all back, we’d have the foundation for our air force.
“Old Li, stop dawdling, you go block the Japanese reinforcements, I’ll quickly grab some things and destroy this place.” Ding Wei urged.
After Li Yunlong and Ding Wei fought into the airport, the Japanese troops that had blocked Gao Liujin quickly came over.
“Good.”
Li Yunlong didn’t dawdle either, immediately commanding his troops to block this group of reinforcing Japanese, while Gao Liujin in their rear wasn’t idle.
Cooperating with Li Yunlong for a fierce pincer attack on the Japanese, the Japanese reinforcement troops ultimately suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw.
When Gao Liujin led his troops to rush to the airport, Ding Wei had already almost finished the task.
Barrel fuel that could be carried was carried away, logistics maintenance tools and equipment were taken, of course, machine guns on the Japanese aircraft that could be dismantled were dismantled, ammunition carried away.
Bombs that could be carried were carried, those that couldn’t, left behind.
Leave fuses, detonate them all when leaving.
“Li Yunlong, where are the Japanese pilots, how come not a single one is seen?” Gao Liujin wandered around the airport, not seeing any Japanese pilots’ corpses, and asked.
“They definitely broke through amid the chaos.” Li Yunlong was very calm.
“Damn it, Li Yunlong, Japanese pilots are more valuable than airplanes, how could you let them escape!” Gao Liujin said angrily.
“No problem, they won’t get away.” Li Yunlong was calm again, pointed to the Jin Sui Army side, and said, “Chu Yunfei will clean up these Japanese pilots for us.”
“Damn it, so many airplanes, all blown up, too wasteful.” Hearing this, Gao Liujin didn’t say more, he knew Li Yunlong’s intuition was very accurate, since he said Chu Yunfei would handle it, then not a single Japanese pilot would escape.
Right now, the profits from this airport couldn’t all be carried away, these airplanes were the most valuable things left.
Can’t carry them, have to destroy them, but reluctant.
“Let’s go, Gao Liujin, broaden your horizons, as long as Younger Brother Li can get the military industry going for us, we’ll have chances later to fight into Japanese airports again.” Li Yunlong pulled Gao Liujin and slipped away.
The troops had captured so many things, need to quickly hand them over to the local underground comrades to hide.
Transport back through underground transportation lines.
Our three regiments’ hands must be freed up, the machinery and equipment at the Taiyuan Arsenal, that’s our real target!
So now, need to hurry and withdraw, hurry and hide the captured goods.
“Damn it, from now on, I must capture two of these little Japanese aircraft carriers!” Gao Liujin still couldn’t let go and shouted at the end.
“Gao Liujin, I told you, it’s mothership, not father ship!” Li Yunlong said.
“I just like saying father, got a problem!” Gao Liujin glared.
Li Yunlong didn’t dawdle with Gao Liujin anymore, the soldiers below quickly set up the fuses.
These fuses weren’t set on each airplane separately, there were quite a few Japanese aircraft, that would be too much work.
Li Yunlong piled up all the unmovable ammunition and fuel at the airport, and set one fuse.
When the time comes, this massive detonation can completely destroy the entire airport.
Even if the Japanese want to rebuild later, it won’t be done in a short time.
Li Yunlong personally lit the fuse, the three men’s troops quickly withdrew.
Boom!
Li Yunlong and the others had withdrawn to a safe distance, first the ground under their feet trembled violently, like a major earthquake instantly occurring.
Li Yunlong and the others looked back, only to see a massive fireball rising into the sky above the airport.
The explosion’s light brightened the sky for dozens of miles around.
“Haha, now the little Japanese are short on airplanes, let’s see how he plays next.” Li Yunlong laughed heartily, and with Ding Wei and Gao Liujin led the troops to slip away quickly under cover of darkness.
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Hashimoto led the pilots and others to successfully escape, halfway seeing the massive fireball over the airport, each one had bloodshot eyes.
“Baka, damn it, our airport is bombed, all our airplanes are gone.”
“Damn Eighth Route Army, we must make them pay for today’s actions!”
“Once we can fly new combat aircraft again, I’ll apply for overtime every day, and bomb this damn Eighth Route Army Base Area to smithereens!”
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However, Hashimoto and the others’ hopes ultimately became soap bubbles.
Li Yunlong guessed right, or rather, Li Yunlong had long known Chu Yunfei had people watching.
After all, whether they could successfully take out the Japanese airport had enormous significance for the Jin Sui Army.
As soon as Hashimoto and the others withdrew, they were quickly spotted by Chu Yunfei’s eyes and ears.
Chu Yunfei personally led people to handle it, the final result had no suspense.
Hashimoto and all the pilots were eliminated.
Chu Yunfei held Hashimoto’s general’s sword, smiling to Fang Ligong: “Ligong brother, what did I say, watching the Eighth Route Army means profits to gain, right?”
Fang Ligong pointed to the corpses all over the ground, also laughing: “Regimental Commander, our greatest merit isn’t capturing the general’s sword, but eliminating so many Japanese pilots.”
Japanese pilots are even more valuable and precious than ordinary Japanese officers.
We took out seventy or eighty at once, first-class merit for sure.
“Merit and all, set it aside for now, take the corpses back to the superior.” Chu Yunfei said briskly, “The Japanese airport is taken out, while the Eighth Route Army is tied up, we need to hurry and take the Taiyuan Arsenal.”
Why the Eighth Route Army is tied up, because they captured the airport’s profits, they definitely need to hurry and deal with them.
“Yes, Regimental Commander.”
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