Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong discussed many plans, including setting up private early warning intelligence personnel and radio stations, but in the end they were all rejected one by one.
It is not impossible to set up intelligence personnel among the common people. After all, there are many common people. They can do whatever they need to do like ordinary people. They only need to pass the news to the Eighth Route Army as quickly as possible when enemy planes are discovered. The possibility of being exposed is small.
It is also feasible.
The problem is that this means that all the original intelligence personnel who have penetrated into the enemy's interior cannot be used, and another group of intelligence personnel needs to be set up, and the number must not be small... At this time, from Zhengzhou to the south of the Xi'an line, almost all of them are stubborn.
The area controlled by the army covers more than 500 kilometers along this line alone.
Five hundred kilometers may not sound like much, but to ensure that enemy bombers flying over can be seen, how about setting up a radio station every ten kilometers?
This requires fifty radio stations.
What's more, this is just a line at the junction of the two armies. If you see a Japanese plane on this line, you only have a few minutes of warning. If you want to get a 20-minute warning, you have to push it farther out. The farther you push out, the greater the distance. The required intelligence
The more people and stations there are.
There are so many intelligence personnel and radio stations... let’s not talk about whether the Eighth Route Army deserves them.
In fact, if you really want to match it, you can do it by gritting your teeth. After all, this concerns the Eighth Route Army Air Force and is a top priority.
The key point is that in the territory of the stubborn army, the signals transmitted by the radio can still be tracked. If the stubborn army discovers that the Eighth Route Army has set up early warning points within it to grasp this pattern, as long as it tracks the signal when the Japanese plane appears... then a large number of them will be captured.
In comparison, it was much easier for the Eighth Route Army to provide early warning to the Japanese.
The reason is that the Japanese have basically no control over the mountainous areas. The early warning points set up by the Eighth Route Army on the front line of Luliang Mountain are safe and reliable. Even the intelligence personnel who infiltrate the puppet army are more flexible and easier... The puppet army is not as professional as the stubborn army. The stubborn army is
Having been fighting against the Eighth Route Army for many years, we already have a very mature counterintelligence system in this regard. The puppet troops are either hooligans or bandits, and the more regular ones are just defeated soldiers who surrendered. They do not have much means and experience in counterintelligence.
In addition, there are even many people in the puppet army who help the intelligence personnel overtly or covertly or turn a blind eye to the abnormal actions of the intelligence personnel... After all, they are all Chinese, and everyone knows that helping the Japanese will not do them any good, so
It is better to do less than to do more. Pretending not to see it is the best choice. Only by avoiding offending both parties can you live longer.
This resulted in a result: during the period of cooperative resistance, it was more difficult to deal with one's own people than the enemy. This can only be said to be an irony.
Several people discussed for more than an hour with no result. The final consensus was that the headquarters could only recommend that the headquarters start from several aspects at the same time and make every effort to do early warning work on the basis of ensuring the safety of intelligence personnel.
But having said that, Wang Xuexin is not satisfied with this consensus.
Because he knew that the airport warning was no joke, and just "making every effort" was not enough. The plane was one thing, and it was just a matter of money. It could be solved. At the worst, he would have to give Yingjiang some technology and equipment.
What's more important is the pilots... The Eighth Route Army spent a lot of effort, both recruiting troops and "cheating", and finally managed to gather more than a hundred pilots. If the Japanese bombed them all at once,
Once that is done, it will not be that easy to find a group of pilots.
However, what else can be done?
Move the airport to another location?
In the end, don't do this. The waste of manpower and material resources is still a trivial matter. The point is that the purpose of the Eighth Route Army setting up this airport and even establishing an air force was to assist the defense of Yuncheng.
It’s not that the Eighth Route Army doesn’t have a safe airport, but if it is set up in the rear area too far away from Yuncheng, it will lose its meaning... Once Yuncheng is lost, the copper mines and iron mines are gone, and it won’t be long before the Eighth Route Army returns to ten bullets per capita.
At that time, there was no use for airplanes at that time.
Buy radar from Yingjiang?
Let’s not talk about whether it can be obtained. Even if it is transported over the hump route, the detection will be in the direction of the Recalcitrant Army, and the Recalcitrant Army also has aircraft... Will the radar detect the Japanese or the Recalcitrant Army’s aircraft?
So this doesn't seem like a good option either.
Just when Wang Xuexin was frowning at this issue, the guard came in and reported: "Batalion Commander, Major Lemon Lokov wants to see you!"
"Lemon Lokov?" Wang Xuexin almost forgot who it was, but as soon as he heard what So-and-so, Kokov immediately realized that it must be Maozi. When he recalled it, he remembered that it was the person from General Counsel Mao Xiong.
, it was him who sent Mao Xiong the first time he bought a rocket launcher.
At this time, Lemon Lokov was being stopped outside the airport... The airport is such an important place that not just anyone can enter if they want.
Wang Xuexin thought that Lemonlov's visit might be related to the Eighth Route Army's successful bombing of Linfen Airport.
Wang Xuexin was right, Lemon Lokov was doing this exactly.
In fact, it was the General Counsel who sent Lemon Lokoff to get advice on this matter.
Because the General Counsel was in Chongqing, he knew about the Eighth Route Army's victory at Linfen Airport relatively late, and he only knew a rough idea...
This matter is not a secret to the Eighth Route Army, but it is still a secret to others.
Things are often like this on the battlefield. Even if some things are used on the battlefield, they should be kept secret, because maybe they can be used again?
For example, the Eighth Route Army put rockets on planes for use in ground operations. Although the Japanese airport was blown up into a mess, did the Japanese know what the Eighth Route Army used to bomb it?
If they don't know, how can the Japanese make targeted countermeasures or preparations?
Just like the enemy's attack on the Mao Xiong in the Nomonhan War, the plane was hit by a Mao Xiong rocket and thought it was hit by an artillery shell. As a result, it was too frightened to let go and fight for air supremacy.
This time, after the Eighth Route Army fought the battle, although they publicized the results to boost morale, they never mentioned the entire battle or what was used to bomb it.
As for the Japanese, they were worried about the impact on their morale after losing the battle, so they never mentioned it, and even told internally that a fire broke out at the airport and caused a chain explosion.
The stubborn army only integrated the intelligence obtained from both sides, and then came to the conclusion that the Japanese airport suffered heavy losses due to being bombed by the Eighth Route Army.
Others may not think it's anything, because most of them are laymen who don't know the inside story. Most of them just think that the Eighth Route Army is exaggerating propaganda... The stubborn army often does this, so they are used to it.
But when the general counsel heard this information, he realized that this was unusual.
The Eighth Route Army only had ten aircraft, and they were fighter jets. How could they cause such heavy losses to the enemy?