In the starlight that fills the sky and the "starlight" that stretches for thousands of miles like a long dragon on the ground.
This group of eagles who had no hesitation finally let go of their biggest concerns.
They don't have to worry about getting lost in this dark night. Whether they can fly back is secondary. What's important is that they can get to the battlefield on time.
Now Zhou Dapeng finally understood why Liu Lang asked him to lower the flying altitude to 1,000 meters, because he wanted to navigate them in the most primitive but extremely effective way.
The huge potential of the Huashang Group to fully operate the national business has finally been realized. In this half month, from Yan'an to Shanxi, the Shaanxi and Shanxi branches of the Huashang Group mobilized all their forces to follow the shortest straight flight route of the aircraft formation on the map.
Mainly villagers from local mountain villages, every five miles, light a stack of firewood at least three meters high on the highest mountain in the area. The flames reaching 10 meters high in the sky are enough to be seen by aircraft formations at an altitude of 1,000 meters in the dark night.
More than 100 fires burning in the dark formed a clear route map, directing the aircraft formation to fly directly to Shanxi and Shanxi until daybreak.
The price paid by Huashang Group for this most original navigation route map in the history of the Air Force is nearly 10,000 yuan, 150 natural villages, and 10 yuan for each village is considered labor fee. The important thing is that a large amount of manpower and material resources must be dispatched to go deep into the mountains.
On a nearly 400-kilometer line, Huashang Group mobilized more than 3,000 people for this purpose.
More importantly, the Huashang Group used a large number of small traders to go from village to village to sell small commodities and entered the mountain villages and hired mountain people to light bonfires. The distance of five miles was enough for the farmers to not know that others had done the same thing, but it was enough for them to
A formation of aircraft is seen in the sky.
They didn't know that the joy of earning ten yuan by lighting a bunch of bonfires was far less than the happiness of the pilots flying rumble high in the sky. It was precisely with the piles, two or hundreds of bonfires that ten yuan was earned.
Six eagles flying high in the night before dawn played the strongest note for the destruction of the 40th Infantry Brigade.
The spies of the Japanese army all over China ignored the small actions of a business giant that had already extended its business tentacles to various industries across China, but it brought unimaginable harm to the Japanese army.
In the cabin, Zhou Dapeng gave a thumbs up to his fellow wingman, whom he could not even see clearly, and smiled brightly.
He was very satisfied with his new wingman companion who was only 200 yards away from him.
This only non-staff member of the "Volunteer Army" originally belonged to the Chinese Air Force, but his flight group was completely lost in early September, and the remaining personnel were forced to evacuate to Nanjing and Wuhan and even further to Gansu and Xinjiang to wait to receive donations from red polar bears.
of new aircraft re-formed.
However, this young man named Chen Buping, who was only 22 years old, was unwilling to leave the Songhu battlefield where 30 people died. His only wish was to spread the best of China's army and the best in this battlefield.
The Air Force's flesh-and-blood battlefield guards, watching over his comrades and the country.
Even if he will die in the next moment.
Therefore, when the weak Chinese Air Force was forced to withdraw from the battlefield and withdraw from the blue sky battle over Songhu, he found the Air Force Headquarters and the "Aviation Volunteer Army", and stayed with the determination that he would rather disobey military orders and be executed on the spot.
Songhu battlefield.
Because he was not familiar with the new aircraft, he was not qualified to go into battle immediately, but he did not give up. He used the gaps in the battle to train and become familiar with the performance of the aircraft; he used the time to repair the fighter planes to learn various parameters of the aircraft; even in combat During the time, he also braved artillery fire on the ground to observe the combat methods and techniques that the "Aviation Volunteers" learned from American instructors that were different from theirs.
Finally, one day, the Japanese invaders gathered more than 40 fighter planes to raid the airport. Only 12 planes were left at the airport. At the most critical moment of the battle, he piloted a plane and was forced to land at the airport because the pilot was seriously injured. The fuselage was covered with bullet holes. The fighter planes flew to high altitudes again to participate in the battle, shooting down two Japanese planes in one fell swoop.
He won the trust of the Chinese pilots of the "Aviation Volunteer Army" with his unique tenacity and superb air combat skills of the Chinese Air Force. Before his fighter plane, which took over the pilot who was seriously injured and died in the battle, was completely scrapped, he was painted with the blue sky and white sun flag. Around it, four red stars have been painted.
And this time, although his new plane that transferred from Chengdu to Yan'an had not had time to paint on his past achievements, Zhou Dapeng believed that the new wingman he picked after the death of his wingman in the battle would definitely not Let him down and break through five or even six red stars today.
The planes of the "Aviation Volunteer Army" were soaring along the "artificial navigation" that Liu Lang spent a lot of effort to create. At 6:30 in the morning, more than 6,000 Japanese troops stationed in Chaiyu Town had already begun to make rice. According to military orders, they must They arrived at the rear flank position at Niangzi Pass before three o'clock in the afternoon. At that time, they would cooperate with the 78th Infantry Regiment and the 77th Infantry Regiment to launch an attack on the 30,000 Chinese troops at Niangzi Pass and Jiuguan, attacking from both front and rear.
With nearly 40 miles of mountain roads and perhaps harassment from small groups of Chinese troops, it would take them at least six hours.
In fact, the reason why Liu Lang was so sure that the battle would start around 8 o'clock was also based on this. In the past time and space, the main force of the 40th Infantry Brigade passed through Qigen Village in the early morning, but it was just that there was no time to implement the roundabout strategy. Niangziguan fell.
In this time and space, the Japanese army, which also uses this strategy, will not give Niangzi Pass too long to breathe. It will definitely launch an attack on the main defense line of Niangzi Pass before the main force of the 26th Army deployed on the southeastern Shanxi front is transferred to Niangzi Pass. Attack. The Japanese troops who arrived at Chaiyu Town at 8 o'clock last night will definitely choose to attack Niangziguan through Qigen Village in the early morning.
You know, in order to slow down the march of the Japanese army, the 386th Brigade and the 772nd Regiment sent three infantry companies to launch harassing attacks against the Japanese army along the way. Although they did not achieve much results under the threat of infantry artillery and mountain artillery, they successfully achieved In order to slow down the march of the Japanese army and make them believe that in the vast mountains between Fululing and Niangziguan, only the "Tuba Road" they despised was stationed.
It was the first time for the 20th Division to come into contact with the 18th Group Army, but it was not the first time for the North China Japanese Army. The Itagaki Division and the 18th Group Army assisting the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army to defend northern Shanxi fought for more than a month. The battle of Pingxingguan made Seishiro Itagaki's face turn red, but Seishiro Itagaki's evaluation of "Tuba Road" was not very high.
"Although the soldiers are brave and fearless of death, their equipment is inferior" is the most common comment made by senior officials of the North China Expeditionary Army when referring to the 18th Army.
Of course they didn't know that in their eyes, this army with poor equipment and old-fashioned Hanyang-made rifles would become stronger and stronger in future wars, with more people fighting, and become the biggest worry for Japan's North China Front Army.
Until they surrendered, the troops fighting in the area they ruled turned out to be more numerous than them. It was really a miracle in the history of war.
The Japanese army, obsessed with equipment theory, would not understand until a few years later that it would never be the weapons but the people themselves that determine the direction of the war.
Just like Tanaka, a senior soldier at the former Japanese stronghold in Nishipu Tuan in North China, who was exposed seventy years later, described the 18th Army and local armed forces in a letter home:
"With thick clouds overhead and vines of wild grass beneath our feet, everything in North China is so desolate and gloomy! However, even in this desolate and gloomy environment, we are not allowed to browse casually.
None of us dared to act casually. Officer Mu, a team leader who had just arrived the day before yesterday, was not convinced by the brutality of the Chinese people and dared to patrol alone. As a result, he was horribly killed by the Chinese outside the village. His body was hung in the
On a big tree outside the stronghold. A few days ago, a Chinese friend from the Maintenance Association went to the street to buy things, but was also tied up alive by the Chinese. When we found him, only a headless body was left.
corpse.
Their fierce Chinese people surrounded us all the time. They were either regular troops of the 18th Army or ordinary armed militiamen. The most shameful thing was that they dared to lie down in the ditch and curse at us. But we did not dare to go out...
.... It has been four years since we conquered China, but what we conquered was only a bunker about one foot in size. Every inch of the land was unstable. I can’t write any more. The Chinese guerrilla groups outside are causing trouble with us again!
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Yes, not only the Japanese army did not understand, but also the American cowboys, the most powerful "armed police" in the world in the future, did not understand. That's why they were beaten by the poorly equipped red soldiers of the Republic on the cold land north of the border of the Republic.
He suffered a bruised nose and swollen face, and then lost a big tooth in the southwest jungle.
Like his immediate boss Bunzaburo Kawagishi, last month Yoshio was annoyed by the harassment of the "Tuba Road" who kept appearing on the mountain ridge the day before, but he did not really take it seriously. Intelligence showed that the Chinese 18th Group Army
There is only one division of 10,000 people sent to eastern Shanxi, one brigade is active in an area more than 100 miles away, and another brigade of more than 4,000 people is here.
More than four thousand people. This pitiful number made the Japanese major general brigade commander want to laugh. The baggage brigade of the Fifth Division of Pingxingguan was ambushed and almost wiped out. That was because they were second-line baggage brigade and did not have enough firepower.
There were not enough cannons, and it was still besieged by several times the enemy.
With his current strength of the 40th Infantry Brigade, if the "Tuba Road" is expanded five times to 20,000 people, it will only give him a little attention. He has up to 20 mountain cannons under his command.
and 10 infantry guns can bury 20,000 "Tubalu" equipped with rifles and machine guns in this mountain, even if they may occupy favorable terrain.
The Japanese Army Major General has this confidence. Before he remained silent on the field radio, he had already received the assurance from the division commander that he could obtain the assistance of 24 or more Army and Air Force bombers at any time to clear all obstacles on his way.
So, after a full four infantry teams conducted nearly half an hour of reconnaissance on the ten-mile-long canyon in front of them, which revealed a slightly eerie canyon in the dawn light, and received the signal that everything was safe, Liangfu waved his hand without thinking, signaling to the front.
The two infantry brigades of the army quickly entered the canyon and established positions after passing quickly. He will lead the 80th Infantry Regiment Headquarters, the brigade and regiment headquarters and two infantry squadrons to enter subsequently. The Mountain Artillery Battalion and an infantry brigade will pass at the end.
The confident Japanese Army Major General would never have seen that after he ordered the troops to take action, a Chinese colonel 1.5 kilometers away breathed a long sigh of relief and waved his hand to give the order: All units should enter ambush positions according to the combat plan.
The Qigen Village ambush battle, codenamed "Dawn" by the military god of the Republic himself, officially kicked off.
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