There are four reconnaissance companies at Toishipo Airport, responsible for four directions respectively.
Although these four reconnaissance companies are called "reconnaissance companies," their tasks are not like reconnaissance.
The reason is that they are the reconnaissance company of the airport and are responsible for ensuring the safety and secret work of the airport.
The commander of the Third Reconnaissance Company is Chen Lizhi. He often complains to the instructor: "People's Reconnaissance Company grabs tongues and penetrates them on the battlefield. It's better for us because the Reconnaissance Company has become a security department!"
The instructor will explain at this time: "Comrade Chen Lizhi, you can't have any thoughts or emotions. What's wrong with the security department? Ah? Do you know what we are protecting? It's an airport! An airport that can defeat Japanese planes, and other
The troops can’t even ask for it! If it weren’t for...the superiors considered that Japanese intelligence personnel would come to reconnoiter the airport, our reconnaissance company could use reconnaissance methods to counter-reconnaissance, and it wouldn’t be our reconnaissance company’s turn!"
Chen Lizhi didn't say anything on the surface, but he was mumbling in his heart: "It's better if it's not my turn. I'm talking about defending the airport. I either lie in the snow or hide in the bushes every day. The only commendable battle I have done now is to catch a few traitors...
If this continues, my box of cannons will become moldy!"
Chen Lizhi, like most commanders and fighters, prefers to fight with real swords and guns on the battlefield. They think this is the most satisfying way. Although defending the airport is honorable and important, they always feel that it is just scratching the surface and uninspiring.
On this day, Chen Lizhi and his reconnaissance company were stationed at Songluo Lake.
To be precise, they are not stationed, but lurking and observing in this area.
The view around Songluo Lake is very good and wide. As long as the scouts spread out along the shore of the lake, no one passing by can escape their eyes, even at night.
Just when Chen Lizhi took a nap and planned to get up and walk around the secret posts, the correspondent guarding the radio station nervously reported: "Company commander, new mission! The battalion commander asked us to use flashlights and pretend to be at the airport!
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Chen Lizhi was shocked. With many years of experience as a scout, he immediately realized that this was an unusual mission.
Using flashlights to pretend it is an airport is to make the enemy misunderstand that this is an airport.
Why should the enemy misunderstand that this is an airport?
Obviously, it is to attract enemy firepower to protect the real airport!
This means...the airport is dangerous!
So Chen Lizhi did not dare to hesitate, stood up in a hurry, and ordered: "Everyone is here, prepare for battle!"
Although Chen Lizhi does not know much about the operation of the airport, as the saying goes, "I have never eaten pork, I have seen pigs walking." As an airport scout, he has often seen fighter jets taking off at night from the airport... "Pull 5" although
It does not have night combat capabilities, but before the exposure of Toishipo Airport, for a long time, pilots' practical training was conducted at night.
Needless to say, the purpose of the night training is that as soon as the new fighter plane "La 5" takes off, the Japanese will immediately learn from intelligence personnel that the Eighth Route Army has obtained the new fighter plane from Mao Xiong, so the Japanese will have
Prepared.
The result of the Japanese's unpreparedness was that when the Eighth Route Army was fighting for the Daqingshan Steel Plant, the Japanese simply did not dare to dispatch fighter planes to compete with the "La 5" for air supremacy. That was why the Eighth Route Army was able to successfully capture the steel plant and hold it.
At first, Chen Lizhi was out of curiosity, knowing that the "La5" would take off at night and stay awake to watch the excitement. Later, after seeing it too much, he felt that it was just that, and gradually lost his enthusiasm.
No one thought that his enthusiasm for watching the excitement could be used now.
Chen Lizhi immediately organized his men to line up in two rows on the open space in the middle of the lake, with a distance of more than ten meters from each other, and then used a flashlight to shine a little light... This is an indicator light that simulates an airplane runway. The most troublesome thing about fighter planes taking off at night is that they cannot see it.
You don't know if the runway is skewed during takeoff or landing, so you need indicator lights to frame the runway.
Chen Lizhi himself, along with several soldiers, waved flashlights in the air, looking like they were using signal lights to guide fighter planes onto the runway.
While doing this, Chen Lizhi's scalp felt numb.
Because he knows the danger of this mission: isn't this just drawing the enemy's fire from the airport to himself?
From the beginning to the end, Chen Lizhi never considered whether this order was appropriate or whether it was fair to the Third Reconnaissance Company.
He knew in his heart that this order was appropriate and fair to the Third Reconnaissance Company!
Because this is what the Third Reconnaissance Company does: to protect the safety of the airport, even if it means sacrificing yourself at critical moments!
Wang Xuexin also thought about this: If we direct firepower to the third reconnaissance company, wouldn't we have to sacrifice more than a hundred soldiers?
But Wang Xuexin still didn't hesitate at all.
Because he knew very well that if these more than a hundred soldiers were not sacrificed, the result would probably be that the airport was bombed, and what would be sacrificed would not be as simple as a reconnaissance company, but a Bear Flying Brigade, the Eighth Route Army's Second Aviation
Group, student pilot group, ground crew, aircraft, ammunition, fuel, etc.
Although human life is equal, Wang Xuexin has no right to decide who lives and who dies.
But the battlefield is sometimes so cruel, and reality requires you to choose one between the two.
Then, Wang Xuexin can only put aside all emotions and use reason and data to decide what choice to make.
The answer is obvious, of course it is to sacrifice the 3rd Reconnaissance Company, both from a tactical and strategic perspective.
Chen Lizhi also understood this truth, so he did not hesitate or flinch when giving orders.
but……
While he was getting ready to wait for the enemy's firepower to arrive, he still couldn't help but feel terrified.
What will it be?
Artillery bombardment?
Unlikely!
This place is hundreds of kilometers away from the border line with the Japanese. No Japanese artillery can have such a long range.
On the other hand, to the east is the Eighth Route Army's Luliang Mountain defense line. Unless the Japanese have wings and fly over, it is impossible for their artillery to appear silently nearby.
That's the bomber.
But when I think about it, it seems unlikely!
This was at night, and Japanese bombers did not have the ability to bomb at night... Chen Lizhi was right in this respect. Bombing at night was very difficult, and a dive bomber with high accuracy was basically seeking death (it was often too late to pull up after diving because it could not see the ground.
), ordinary bombers with poor accuracy just bomb randomly without seeing the target, which is basically a waste of bombs.
If it's not artillery and it's not bombers, what else is there?
Just when Chen Lizhi was wondering, he heard the characteristic whistling sound of "high fire" coming from the sky.
Chen Lizhi's expression changed slightly and he cursed: "Damn it, the Japanese actually made a 'high fire', this trip is going to be troublesome!"