It's not just Wanxian Airport that's boiling over this incident.
The first person to receive the information was the Eighth Route Army headquarters, because these intelligence personnel were arranged by the chief of staff, and the first place the information was sent to was the headquarters in Dahuai Village.
The chief of staff was stunned when he received the intelligence. He did not report it to the commander immediately. Instead, he called back and asked: "It is confirmed that the enemy airport was bombed? How many were bombed specifically? Is there any detailed data?"
The intelligence officer called back: "We only saw the airport exploded into a piece, with thick smoke and fire everywhere. Detailed data needs further investigation!"
The chief of staff looked at the call back and thought it was normal. The intelligence officers were outside the airport, and that was all they could see. As for how many planes were bombed and how many were burned...even the Japanese at the airport didn't know.
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But this was enough. The chief of staff took the telegram and shouted excitedly to the chief who was reviewing documents at his desk a few meters away: "Chief, we succeeded, we successfully bombed the Japanese airport!"
The busy people in the headquarters suddenly stopped what they were doing as if they had been frozen, and then they cheered in unison.
Zhang Wanhe happened to be at the headquarters. Hearing the news, he couldn't help but smile with relief, but soon a line of bitter tears fell from his eyes... That was an airplane. For so many years, the Eighth Route Army's supply lines have been blocked by the enemy all day long.
Damn, he, the head of logistics, has suffered so much loss.
Today, the Eighth Route Army finally has an aircraft.
Not only did we have a plane, we also won the first battle and won a big victory!
Bravo!
I knew that Comrade Xiao Dongbei was not an ordinary person!
The document signed by the chief was what Zhang Wanhe was waiting to use, but as soon as he heard this, he couldn't care less. He threw the document away and quickly stepped forward to take the telegram from the chief of staff, read it and then
He laughed: "That's great! Although I don't know the specific situation, it finally exploded and the trip was not in vain!"
The chief has low expectations for this operation, even now.
The reason was that he believed that the aiming point of the rockets was too low and the enemy's airport was very large. How much damage could these more than 100 rockets cause to the empty airport?
I'm afraid if the thunder is loud and the rain is light, the house in the airport may be burned!
But it didn't take long for the chief to realize that he had guessed wrong.
Just when the chief of staff was about to send the intelligence to Wanxian Airport, the intelligence officer sent another telegram: "Preliminarily confirmed that more than fifty Japanese bombers and most of the airport facilities were blown up. There were more than ten fighter jets and only two
A squadron of fighter jets and a small number of reconnaissance aircraft were spared because they took off to perform their mission. In addition, more than 20 anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine gun positions in the periphery were blown up, resulting in numerous Japanese casualties. The specific situation needs further investigation!"
Seeing this result, the commander was stunned: "Blow up more than fifty bombers and more than ten fighter jets? In other words, the bombers sent by the Japanese were basically wiped out! Is it true? This is a big deal.
Good news!"
This is certainly good news.
In fact, when the news reached Wanxian Airport, even Wang Xuexin didn't quite believe the results.
The reason is that according to previous reconnaissance, the facilities at Wanxian Airport are very complete, and the Japanese built a machine fort with reinforced concrete to store various types of fighter aircraft.
This once gave Wang Xuexin a headache.
Because the reinforced concrete machine fortress... is it better to use grenades or incendiary bombs?
Use grenades. Although it is possible to collapse or penetrate the aircraft castle, even if it hits only one aircraft, the debris of the collapsed aircraft castle can even play a role in extinguishing the fire.
Use incendiary bombs. Although they can ignite fires, they don't have strong penetrating power. Even if they hit the bunker, they will burn outside or on top of the bunker. As long as the Japanese drag the plane out of the bunker, there will be no problem.
In the end, Wang Xuexin decided to use incendiary bombs.
Because this is a napalm-based incendiary bomb, which was still new equipment in this era, the damage it can cause is likely to be unmatched by grenades.
but……
Wang Xuexin didn't expect that he could actually burn down all the Japanese bombers in one go. There were also a group of fighter jets, and they also blew up dozens of anti-aircraft guns?
Is this an exaggeration?
Later, Wang Xuexin found out that the Japanese wanted to send bombers to blow up the county airport at this time. As a result, each bomber was full of fuel and bombs and there was no time to unload them.
In fact, what is more important is that the Japanese underestimated the enemy.
They thought that the 10 Hawker 81s of the Eighth Route Army could not carry many bombs... In fact, they thought that the Hawker 81s did not have aerial bombs and could only be fired with machine guns, so the bombers were safe in the bunker.
And because they were in a hurry to arrange for the fighter jets to take off, the bombers didn't even unload their bombs.
Type 93 heavy bomber... This thing can carry 1.5 tons of aerial bombs. As long as one of these things is ignited and exploded from the inside, plus the aviation fuel in the fuel tank, it is not something that a castle can stop.
Lived.
Major Doug heard this information on the plane. He even felt a little regretful and said: "If I had known there would be such a big result, we should have celebrated by taking a circle there, or adding another machine gun to them."
fire!"
The pilots all laughed.
Soon, planes descended from the sky to the airport one after another.
Before the plane could stop, the pilots and soldiers who had been waiting for them on the ground cheered and rushed forward, shouting and picking up the pilot from the plane...
This is actually not in compliance with the regulations because I am worried that it will affect the landing of the aircraft or even cause unnecessary accidents.
But who cares about this at this time?
The soldiers stepped forward and hugged the pilots who had returned triumphantly, and some even threw the pilots into the sky to celebrate.
Wang Xuexin greeted Major Doug who jumped out of the plane. After saluting each other, he held his hand tightly: "Thank you, Major! You won a beautiful battle for the Eighth Route Army!"
"No, this is your credit, King!" Major Doug replied: "Everything is your arrangement, we just follow it...fly according to the route, and then launch the rockets, that's all!"
A Yingjiang pilot beside him added: "It's unbelievable, we really achieved such a great result? This victory is too easy!"
"Do you think it's easy?" Major Doug retorted: "Without this nearly perfect plan, this would probably have been the most tragic battle!"
Wang Xuexin smiled and said to Li Yueying who was translating: "Major is very good at complimenting people!"
"No!" Li Yueying looked at Wang Xuexin, her eyes full of admiration: "I don't think this is a compliment, Battalion Commander Wang! I think he is right. In addition... Major Doug hopes to bring this tactic back to China, and also
Even if it is used by Yingjiang’s troops, you won’t have any objections, right?”
"Of course!" Wang Xuexin replied.
After a pause, Wang Xuexin added: "But in exchange, I hope Yingjiang can deliver the remaining fighters as soon as possible!"