In the era of the Eighth Route Army, although it was poorly equipped and poorly trained, it even had insufficient food to eat.
But there is nothing to be said about the subjective initiative and dedication of the soldiers and civilians.
For example, now, Guo Lian and his guerrillas can completely evacuate with the villagers. No one will say that they are cowardly. After all, their mission is to protect the villagers, not to stop dozens of people with the strength of fifty people.
Enemies ten times your own.
There was no order, and they were not even sure whether the airport was ready.
However, Guo Lian and his team members still chose to stay and stop the enemy to buy time for the airport.
Endo Shino was startled by the sudden gunfire. He thought he was being blocked by the Eighth Route Army... The reconnaissance team clearly did not detect anything, so how could a team suddenly appear?
At this time, the Japanese engineers were building a pontoon bridge, and the road was not yet open. However, the engineers working on the pontoon bridge were shot to death by the guerrillas one by one, fell into the river, and were washed away by the current.
Endo Shima immediately ordered the troops to launch an assault on the other side... He ordered the troops to swim across the river and attack while using the pontoon bridge as an assault boat. In addition, he ordered the reconnaissance troops who had gone forward to return immediately to attack the enemy through the radio, and even tanks and fighter planes joined in.
The battle group.
The fierce battle lasted for more than half an hour. In the end, Guo Lian and all 51 of his team members died heroically, and no one retreated until their death.
Although this half hour has no time significance to Wangxing Airport, because Wangxing Airport has long been prepared for the Japanese attack, there is not much difference if it is earlier or later.
However, Guo Lian's blockade inadvertently disrupted the Japs' coordination and allowed Wangxing Airport to escape disaster.
The reason was that after a few minutes of fighting, Endo Shino discovered that there were only dozens of ill-equipped guerrillas on the other side of the river.
Out of underestimation of the enemy, Endo Shino believed that his troops could quickly resolve the battle, so there was no need to report to his superiors to change the original plan.
This caused a twenty-minute misalignment in the coordination between the Japanese aviation and ground forces, and it was precisely this twenty-minute misalignment that could be said to be crucial and even directly affect the outcome of the battle.
The reason was that in order to successfully capture Wangxing Airport, the Japanese dispatched paratroopers, a group of more than 700 paratroopers.
At that time, Wang Xuexin didn't know what was going on. He was still looking at the map and calculating how long it would take for the Japanese to arrive at Wangxing Airport. Chen Songyong hurried over and reported: "Batalion Commander, the Japanese paratroopers... dozens of bombers carrying them...
Paratroopers are parachuting over our troops!”
"What?" Wang Xuexin felt confused.
The Japanese ground troops will arrive at Wangxing Airport in about 20 minutes. Why do they want to airborne at this time?
Wouldn't it be better to airdrop after the ground troops have arrived or launched an attack?
Then won't it be possible to attack the airport from both sides or even cooperate with the inside and outside to attack the airport?
Because there will inevitably be some paratroopers who happen to jump into the airport, which is the Eighth Route Army's defense line, this will inevitably cause chaos to the Eighth Route Army.
Airborne at this time, and airborne directly on top of the Eighth Route Army... Isn't that looking for death?
Wang Xuexin couldn't figure out the reason for this, but he knew this was an opportunity, and immediately ordered: "Order the troops to assemble all cavalry, shoulder bags, and cars, and set out immediately to hunt down the enemy paratroopers!"
"yes!"
The airport immediately started to move.
Because it is an airport, there are quite a lot of bags, horses, and cars. Twenty-three bags, fifteen cars, and fifty-five horses are used to pull goods. At this time, they were untied immediately.
When the war horse organizes a cavalry.
The ensuing battle was interesting. The Eighth Route Army attacked in all directions. From a distance, they saw the Japs descending from the sky. They estimated their position and rushed over. Then they wiped out half of the Japs before they landed, and then wiped out the other half after they landed.
The only thing left is suicide attacks.
At first, Wang Xuexin thought it was caused by the defeat of the Japanese airborne troops.
Because Wang Xuexin had heard of the Japanese airborne troops in modern times...
The overall quality of the Japs is good, and all three armies of the Navy, Army and Air Force have their own advantages, but the airborne troops are the only one that is useless. The only title they won in World War II was "Shame on the Empire".
The main reason is that the overall tactical thinking of the Japanese is rigid. They think that airborne troops are infantry who can parachute. Except for parachuting, other training should be the same as that of infantry, including combat tactics.
Therefore, the equipment of the airborne troops is basically the same as that of the infantry. They still have long rifles like the 38 Dagai, and they also carry spurs and even samurai swords.
And these things themselves are often fatal to airborne troops...
What should I do if I get tangled in the parachute rope while skydiving with a rifle that is about 1.3 meters tall?
What should I do if the rifle hits the ground and hits me when I land?
What should I do if the katana hanging on my waist hits my body?
But of course, these issues are completely out of consideration for the Japanese. Anyone who considers them is a coward or a coward.
That's not what's more serious.
The Japanese also asked the airborne troops to conduct stabbing training, and also used infantry tactics to fight, that is, to launch a strong attack on the enemy. The most common ones were to intersperse and encircle, and emphasized fighting the enemy to the death...
Airborne troops are special forces with various skills. They should airborne to the enemy's key points to carry out special operations, such as airborne to an artillery position, a certain bridge, a certain headquarters, etc. behind the enemy, and then launch a sudden attack quickly.
Fight and retreat quickly.
If the Japanese use the airborne troops as infantry, they will be doomed to failure.
However, Wang Xuexin did not expect that the fifth air advance brigade sent by the Japanese this time was quite reliable.
Because this air assault brigade was selected and trained by Shinta Kono.
The predecessor of this unit was an engineering unit.
The reason why it is an engineering force is because its main task is to blast Wangxing Airport...
Shinta Kono did his homework before the war and knew that Wangxing Airport had many underground fortifications and underground warehouses.
These underground fortifications and underground warehouses are difficult for ordinary infantry to handle, so professional engineers are needed.
The Fifth Air Advance Group was born out of nowhere, and they even brought enough explosives.
There are two main types of these explosives. One is a high explosive similar to a blasting barrel, which is used to blow up warehouses. The other is an explosive with lead weights hanging on both ends of a rope... This kind of explosive is said to be thrown onto airplanes.
It can blow up planes.
Wang Xuexin didn't know if their equipment was really useful.
because……
These Japanese paratroopers and soldiers were almost completely wiped out before they had time to play their role.
Twenty minutes later, Endo Shino's ground troops arrived, but by then it was too late.