It turned out that Korean Air's application for aircraft assistance was not to carry out bombing or auxiliary attacks, but to request that the aircraft could drop some leaflets in the city of Nanjing at the moment before it attacked Nanjing to warn people of the direction to escape to avoid being involved in the war.
Of course, Han Baihang is not that noble, and he cannot allow all the innocent people in Nanjing City to evacuate before fighting, but he hopes to do his part to save more people from the war.
This news can only be spread to the people in the city when he launches an attack. If it is too early, his attack will be meaningless, and he may lose his wife and troops by then. Therefore, this timing is crucial.
When Duan Qirui received the request from the Feng Department, he was also stunned. If he was asked to help fly out the plane to help fight, he would understand it, but this was the first time he had seen such a request from Han Baihang. But after a while,
He finally understood Han Baihang's good intentions.
These days, there are too few warfighters who can care about the common people. So he simply agreed. Not only that, he also specifically ordered his subordinates to work overtime overnight to print the leaflets needed by Han Baihang. However, due to the incident,
Suddenly, I couldn't find so many manpower and space at the same time, so I wasted time. I didn't complete the task until dawn, so the agreed time was delayed.
Anyway, the plane finally arrived.
As if it was an agreement, just when the plane pulled out a long smoke and quickly scattered all the leaflets into Nanjing, Han Baihang began to understand.
At first, the defenders and people in Nanjing didn't know what was going on when they heard the sound of the plane. The defenders in Nanjing thought it was an enemy bomber, but when they got closer, they discovered that the opponent had not made any attack.
, so the alertness is reduced a lot.
But when the plane flew above the Drum Tower of Nanjing City, the leaflets floated down like snowflakes, and looked like petals all over the sky blown by the strong wind. It was very beautiful for a while. But when the defenders in the city received the leaflets, they saw
After taking a look at it, I immediately became panicked, because each leaflet had the same message written on it: the army is attacking the city, and the innocent people should evacuate immediately!
The city of Nanjing, which had just become lively, was panicked by this "rain of leaflets". Fengjun? Want to attack Nanjing? Is this news true or false? No military master came out to give a notice. How could these ordinary people get it?
Accurate idea.
Suddenly, the sound of three cannons in the distance finally gave the hesitant people in Nanjing a definite answer. There was really a war in Nanjing!
For a time, the people ran and fled, taking their families with them and fleeing in the direction opposite to the sound of the cannons. The defenders in the city also panicked. Where did the enemy troops come from?
It’s no wonder that the defenders in Nanjing have such seemingly stupid questions. In the past two days, they have been closely monitoring the railways near Nanjing, especially to and from Zhenjiang and Danyang, fearing that the local authorities will attack from these two directions.
During the raid, they also conducted an ambush near the train station at night, and the same was true today, but so far, they have found no trace of enemy actions.
This is not their fault. It is not that the defenders are too stupid, but that Han Baihang is too cunning. He had already got off the train far away, sneaked to Nanjing City, and ambushed the enemy in front of the enemy. The enemy did not notice it.
This is called darkness under the lamp!
The defenders of Nanjing City have been focusing their attention on the two directions of Zhenjiang and Danyang. They have closely monitored the distance, but beside them, they have allowed Han Baihang to take advantage of the loophole. No wonder they,
First of all, their number is too small, and they have to defend a city as big as Nanjing. After all, they are not strong enough, and their movements are not restricted in the place where they come, so it is difficult to estimate. Therefore, Han Baihang also expected such a situation.
Han Baihang's artillery regiment has already started taking action. Under the cover of the infantry, they are quickly approaching the Drum Tower of Nanjing. Although Han Baihang's artillery regiment has a lot of heavy artillery, in order to achieve the purpose of rapid maneuver when going south this time, there is no
Carrying too heavy weapons, what he is currently equipped with is just some 100-millimeter cannons.
This kind of artillery is sufficient for fighting, but it is insignificant when it comes to breaking through a solidly defended city like Nanjing City. That's why he got off the car halfway, bypassed Zhongshan, and attacked the Drum Tower directly.
Ten minutes have passed since the leaflets were dropped, and ten minutes have passed since Han Baihang fired the warning cannon. Han Baihang is still waiting, he is waiting for the people in the city to evacuate, and he is giving them enough time.
Gao Hongyi stood aside, already looking a little anxious. He knew that in this situation, giving the other party one more second would put himself in greater danger. He had wanted to step forward several times to speak, but he failed
He was defeated by Han Baihang's calm expression. Ten minutes had passed and he finally couldn't wait any longer. He stepped forward and said, "Commander, we can't wait like this any longer. I'm afraid the enemy has almost gathered. If we wait any longer... I'm afraid we will be very passive."
Ah, sir!"
Han Baihang knew that what Gao Hongyi said was right. He finally made up his mind, turned around and said: "Send the order, fire!"
After receiving the order, Gao Hongyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and shouted: "Artillery, fire!"
Rumble! Rumble, rumble!
A full artillery regiment of Han Baihang aimed at the vicinity of the Drum Tower for bombardment, and for a while the place became a sea of flames.
Fortunately, a large part of the people in the city had already evacuated, and most of Han Baihang's artillery targets were not where the population was, so he knew in his heart that this round of shelling would not cause any major casualties, only two.
When the army was fighting, Han Baihang was not willing to shoot at the place where the people were, but in such an offensive battle, there was really no other way, and he could only try to avoid hurting innocent people.
Furthermore, Han Baihang's round of shelling was not to eliminate the enemy forces in the city. He knew that under the cover of such a complex environment, unless bombers were used to carry out indiscriminate bombing, shelling like his could not strike at all.
He could reach the opponent's main force, but this was enough for him.
His round of bombardment was actually a drunkard's intention.
In addition to the artillery, which was still under Han Baihang's command, Han Baihang's two brigades had already spread out, and he was waiting to close the net.