Facts have proved that Zhang Dabiao's decision was correct.
The battlefield is very realistic. It is never the more advanced equipment that is better, but the most suitable equipment that is the best.
For example, in this attack on Longxi Airport, the Japanese only had four gun turrets in four corners, and the rest were walls. Such fortifications could be easily dealt with by rocket launchers, so why do they need tanks?
Another example is the small number of troops at the Japanese airport. There are more than 50 Japanese soldiers, more than 100 puppet troops, and a transport team with incomplete equipment that only knows how to drive a car... Repeating rifles can easily solve this problem, so why do we need half-track cars?
What's more, when attacking an airport in the early morning, equipment such as tanks and half-track vehicles are not very maneuverable, and their ferocious firepower can easily detonate fuel, ammunition and other dangerous materials in the airport.
In comparison, repeating rifles are much safer.
The battle went smoothly. When the first battalion launched the attack, the Japanese were all lying in the barracks sleeping, and even the searchlights on the turrets did not turn... There has been no enemy activity at this airport for more than a year, and they are stationed here.
The Japanese have already relaxed their vigilance and have been trained into Buddhist soldiers by the comfortable environment here.
Zhang Dabiao gave an order, and the rocket launcher sprayed warheads toward the turrets and walls, followed by explosions that resounded around the airport.
In this battle, Zhang Dabiao planned to annihilate all the enemies, so he surrounded them from the beginning.
He did this not because he hated the enemies at the airport, but because he was worried that the Japanese would blow up the airport's supplies before he died.
If the Eighth Route Army attacks from all sides at the same time and rushes into the airport immediately to control all the enemies inside, the risk of the supplies being blown up will be much smaller.
The battle situation turned out just as Zhang Dabiao imagined. As soon as the Eighth Route Army's charge signal came, the soldiers rushed in through the gap in the wall with repeating rifles.
It was already early in the morning, and the east was already looking slightly white. Most of the Japanese who emerged from the military camp had not had time to put on their military uniforms, so they were easy to identify under the dim sky.
After the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed into the airport, they rushed and fought randomly. When they saw disheveled people, they raised their repeating rifles and fired a few rounds. When they saw military camps or buildings, they threw grenades inside and then rushed in...
The most important thing is the warehouse. Zhang Dabiao assigned it to the first company... This is the strongest main company of the battalion. It is said that everyone has some unique skills. Although it is not as good as the monk's reconnaissance company, it is not far behind.
Before the war, the First Company reconnoitred and locked the location of the warehouse and even the Japanese outpost. In less than five minutes after the war started, the First Company surrounded the warehouse and blocked all passages between it and the outside world with firepower... Any enemy who wanted to get close to the warehouse was not
To be knocked down by a sniper hiding in the dark is to be suppressed by the soldiers' repeating rifles and unable to move forward even half a step.
The battle ended seventeen minutes later, and all the Japs were killed on the spot... This was not to implement the "take no prisoners" order, but Zhang Dabiao was worried that the Japs would cause trouble with explosive packets and grenades. You know, this was
At the airport, if a devil comes to do this, the entire airport will be reimbursed.
The prisoners of the puppet army don't have the guts, and certainly don't have the heart... What can you get by working for the Japanese? Just make a show, there is no need to risk your life!
However, Zhang Dabiao was still worried and immediately escorted all the prisoners out of the airport and put them under guard. All the corpses in the airport were counted one by one with guns and knives.
After struggling for a full hour, I finally confirmed that the airport was safe.
Check the supplies, my dear, the warehouse is filled with aviation fuel and machine gun bullets for 98 light explosives. In addition, twenty-one complete 98 light explosives were seized, and the other fifteen were hit by stray bullets. It is not certain whether they are still alive.
Can you fly into the sky safely?
Although the 98 light explosion is not very powerful in terms of combat effectiveness, the Eighth Route Army is still blank in the field of reconnaissance aircraft... The "La 5" is a fighter jet, and its engine's motor time is very precious. It only has 50 hours at most.
Since the Eighth Route Army did not have reconnaissance aircraft, it sometimes had to let the "La 5" perform reconnaissance missions in order to obtain reconnaissance information. This was undoubtedly a huge waste.
In addition, it is a waste to use fighter pilots to perform ordinary reconnaissance missions... Fighter pilots learn air combat skills instead of observing ground movements. Sometimes they have to fly at low altitudes to obtain ground intelligence. If they are shot down by enemy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, they will lose
Not just the fighter planes, but also the pilots.
Now a batch of intact 98 light explosives have been seized, and they also have radios on them, which can be used for reconnaissance missions.
After Okamura Neiji heard that Longsei Airport had been lost, his expression changed again and again.
He immediately realized why the Eighth Route Army Air Force was so confident... It turned out that they had always had another temporary airport: Longxi Airport.
Okamura Neiji looked around, but he never expected that the Eighth Route Army had always relied on the airports in its own control area, and had prepared fuel and ammunition for them.
Okamura Neji was right.
Wang Xuexin knew from the beginning that the temporary airport at the steel plant would inevitably be bombed by the enemy.
Maybe the Eighth Route Army could open another airport, but one more airport would just give the Japanese one more target.
If you want to have an airport that won't be bombed by the Japs... it's very simple, just capture one from the Japs.
So Wang Xuexin set his sights on Longxi Airport.
The benefit of seizing Longxi Airport is not only to give the "La 5", which has insufficient range, a temporary landing place to take off and land to extend its range, but also a support point for the Eighth Route Army to provide logistics for the mechanized troops...
When the mechanized troops were attacking forward, the ammunition of their repeating rifles was being consumed but could not be replenished: the ammunition was different from the Japs' ammunition and could not be seized from the Japs.
It is not practical to supply supplies from the rear transportation team, because at this time the Japanese 59th Division is still surrounded and has not been wiped out, which means that it is stuck on the main transportation line.
Then there are only two ways to replenish ammunition for the independent regiment, one is to parachute and the other is to land by air.
The amount of parachute drops is small and may not be delivered to the hands of independent groups, while the amount of airborne drops is large and certain, which is obviously more efficient.
The difference is that landing requires an airport.
After Okamura Neji figured this out, big beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.
Shinozuka Yoshio still held on to a glimmer of hope and said: "Your Majesty General, the Eighth Route Army uses Mao Xiong's fighter planes. Their machine gun models are different from our army's aviation machine guns, which means they cannot use our army's ammunition..."
Shinta Kono shook his head and interrupted Yoshio Shinozuka: "According to the information we received, the Eighth Route Army purchased a batch of aviation machine guns from Sunset through Eagle Sauce, which are Vickers E aviation machine guns!"
After hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka was stunned. He knew that the Empire's aviation machine gun was a copy of the Sun Never Sets machine gun, and the ammunition of the two machine guns was exactly the same.