It didn't take long for the guards at Wan County Airport to get busy... Teams of soldiers lined up in neat formation and drove out of the gate, searching everywhere with flashlights and torches, and even brought a few military dogs with them.
Soon the search team got the news. Chen Songyong reported: "Battalion Commander, we have captured more than a dozen unidentified people and have detained them for interrogation. There are also several others who are at large..."
More than a dozen? Wang Xuexin thought to himself, "I'm afraid there are far more than that, and there are even more farther away. However, with the strength of Wanxian Airport, we can only search within two miles of the nearby area, and it is beyond our power to search further."
Chen Songyong asked: "Battalion Commander, do you want to mobilize more troops to search?"
"No!" Wang Xuexin shook his head.
In fact, this is not very necessary. There will never be enough spies to search for. Especially during this period, some people among the people have a deep-rooted fear of the Japanese. As a result, they have evolved into doing everything possible to please the Japanese in order to gain a sense of security.
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This phenomenon can be said to be another kind of "Stockholm syndrome" or a "hostage complex".
The most typical example is Mrs. Hao, who is known as the number one traitor in the July 7th Incident. Even when her husband was bombed to death by the Japanese, she did everything she could to help the Japanese. She was even received by the Japanese Prince Chongren.
The reason for this phenomenon is that their fear of the Japanese has exceeded the limit of what they can bear, so they go to extremes and choose to side with the Japanese in an effort to seek their approval.
Therefore, during this period, it was impossible to catch all the spies, including not only the Japanese's "Continental Advance Team", but also these traitors who were frightened to the point of betraying their country and soul.
The reason why Wang Xuexin wanted to catch the spies with great fanfare was actually not for the spies themselves.
After looking at the map and the twilight sky, Wang Xuexin asked Chen Songyong: "Can the airport get a dozen cars?"
"Almost!" Chen Songyong replied.
This is the configuration of the airport logistics force. There are a total of fifteen vehicles used to transport fuel, supplies, aircraft parts, etc.
For the Eighth Route Army, having fifteen cars in a unit is already a luxury, but it is still far from enough for the airport, so there are still many cases where horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts are used to transport parts and fuel.
Wang Xuexin pointed to a point on the map and ordered: "Gather these cars and drive secretly to Zhaojiaba!"
Chen Songyong was stunned and said: "Battal Commander, I'm afraid there are still many spies around who haven't had time to clean up, so we'll go secretly..."
But before he finished speaking, Chen Songyong said "Oh" and said, "Battalion Commander, are you trying to draw the Japs' attention to Zhaojiaba?"
Wang Xuexin smiled and said: "Counsel Chen, think about it, if the Japanese knew the performance of our 'high fire', what methods would they use to deal with it? Why would they send a large number of spies to monitor near the airport?"
Chen Songyong thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I can't guess, but the Japanese must have thought that Gao Huo was at Wanxian Airport!"
"That's right!" Wang Xuexin said: "The Japanese thought that 'Gao Huo' was at Wanxian Airport, so we made them think that 'Gao Huo' was at Wanxian Airport!"
After a pause, Wang Xuexin continued: "'Gao Huo' actually has a weakness. It is not fast, with a speed of only about 300 kilometers per hour. The Japanese's 'Zero' has a top speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, which is almost as high as 'Gao Huo'."
'Twice, do you know what that means?"
When Wang Xuexin said this, Chen Songyong's expression changed drastically: "What the battalion commander means is that the Japanese fighter jets can shoot down the 'Gao Huo'?"
Wang Xuexin nodded.
This is certain. The first-generation missiles cannot be like modern missiles that can move at subsonic or supersonic speeds or even dozens of times the speed of sound. In particular, the "high fire" developed by Wang Xuexin is still driven by rocket propellant, which is similar to what Hans used.
There is still a gap in engines using hydrogen oxide as fuel, so the top speed of Hans's V1 missile is close to 400 kilometers per hour, while the top speed of the Eighth Route Army's "High Fire" is just 300 kilometers per hour.
However, even Hans's v1 missile is still slightly insufficient in speed.
The Spitfire fighter jet, on which the sun never sets, has a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, and can easily intercept V1 missiles. There are even cases where the pilot uses its wings to overturn the V1 missile... This is because the automatic control of the gyroscope is relatively fragile, and it has not yet
Sensitive enough to cope with large changes disturbed by the wings.
At this time, Wang Xuexin also had a new understanding of Okamura Neji. This was indeed a guy who was not easy to deal with.
The reason why Wang Xuexin knew that fighter planes could intercept "high fire" was because he knew the performance data of "high fire" and also knew that there were such countermeasures during World War II when the sun never set.
But Okamura Neiji didn't know anything, or the information he knew was very limited, but he was able to find this kind of coping strategy, which is really not something that ordinary people can do.
But when I think about it, I don’t think it’s strange.
As the saying goes, "The devil is as high as the Dao", but when the opponent invented a new kind of equipment, the Japanese had to rack their brains to find countermeasures in order to survive.
Therefore, there is a saying that "the stronger the opponent, the stronger you become."
Okamura Neji's extraordinary performance was probably forced by Wang Xuexin.
Then Chen Songyong figured it out: "Batalion Commander, the Japanese are planning to use fighter planes to intercept our army's 'high fire', so they have deployed a large number of spies near the airport?"
Wang Xuexin nodded and said: "The Japanese radar cannot detect 'high fire'!"
To be precise, it was difficult for the radar of this period to detect an aircraft of the size of the "Gao Huo", so modern, more advanced radars were naturally out of the question.
Wang Xuexin continued: "If the radar cannot detect the 'high fire', then if the Japanese want to use fighter planes to intercept the 'high fire', what should they do?"
Chen Songyong said "Oh" and finally understood: "They used spies instead of radars?"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin said: "Just like our army does not have radar and can only rely on scouts and intelligence personnel to provide early warning to enemy fighters, the Japanese can only rely on ground intelligence personnel to provide early warning when radar cannot detect them. They
We must know in advance where our army's 'high fire' is launched,
Then either send planes to bomb or send fighter planes to prepare in the nearby airspace. Otherwise, our military's "high fire" only takes ten minutes from launch to end, and the Japanese planes will not have time to take off and reach their destination, let alone
Intercepted the 'High Fire' before it hit its target!"
Only then did Chen Songyong understand Wang Xuexin's real purpose of catching spies. He actually meant "there is no three hundred taels of silver here". He would first catch a group of spies, and then send a group of convoys out.
So the Japanese took it for granted that this was "high fire"!
So what are you waiting for? Send fighters and bombers to destroy them!