After landing, Li Yunfeng stepped down from the cockpit, stood on the open ground and looked around. A smell of burning metal mixed with cooked pig skin flowed into his nose at the same time. Wherever he looked, there were flames in the sky and the ground was in chaos.
"Pass!"
After a while, another loud noise came to his ears, and a round human head rushed to his feet due to the inertia caused by the explosion.
Only then did Li Yunfeng realize that the open space where the plane landed was a football field, and there was a goal fifty meters away from him. Li Yunfeng took a few steps back, raised his head and glanced at the goal, and then Run forward, draw an arc of about 50 degrees with your right foot in the air, and then push upward fiercely!
Suddenly, the round head penetrated the white fiber net of the goal and flew straight out of bounds, leaving only a big hole in the air.
"Young man, isn't this one kick better than the national football team?"
Seeing this, Li Yunfeng smiled with satisfaction, took out the camera from the storage space and placed it on the ground temporarily. Then, the fuselage that had been burned until it was only an empty shell was stacked in twos and threes under the few remaining high-altitude searchlights.
I have to admit that the scene of dozens of broken copper and iron barriers put together is more spectacular than the Beijing view built with thousands of Japanese corpses!
After a while, he raised the camera again and set the twenty-second delay, then walked straight to the stacked buildings, turned around and faced the camera, raised the corners of his mouth slightly and raised his hands to make a gesture in the air!
"Crack!"
The scheduled time has arrived, the flash is turned on, and the shutter is automatically pressed. A unique photo is printed out from the camera interface.
Early next morning
Sugiyama Motoyama, then commander-in-chief of Japan's North China Front, was sleeping soundly on his bed when a rapid ringing of the phone suddenly woke him up. His dream was disturbed, so he frowned and looked displeased. He lifted the quilt with one hand and opened the quilt with the other hand. Pick up the phone on the table next to the bed.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief! I received a call from the Tianjin garrison five minutes ago. The Tianjin Combat Readiness Airport was attacked four hours ago. All the imperial troops within the jurisdiction collectively fell into pieces under the emperor's nose!"
Hearing this, Sugiyama Moto, who was originally sleepy-eyed, immediately had his pupils dilated, clutched the microphone and spoke anxiously:
"Where are our fifty new bombers?"
"Weapons of unknown origin were also destroyed after they were encountered. When the Tianjin garrison went to investigate! There was only one photo left on the open ground of the football field..."
【July 6th Night】
The spies of the Chinese armed forces lurking in Rehe, Chahar, Tianjin and other provinces and cities in North China all unanimously reported to the headquarters that they had recently learned that the North China Front had assembled the Second Division, the 22nd Division and a heavy artillery unit. A total of more than 70,000 people in the regiment have taken military trucks and vehicles and will arrive in Shanxi before noon on July 7th and launch an attack on the Chinese Defense Forces stationed in Taiyuan City!
Upon hearing this, the 18th Group Army, the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, etc. reported the situation to the Chinese Defense Forces, and at the same time made urgent strategic arrangements based on their own conditions.
The 129th Division of the 18th Group Army and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region distributed weapons and ammunition overnight and were ready to support the Taiyuan front line at any time.
The 74th Army of the Central Army was resting in Henan at that time, and its three divisions were ordered by the Supreme Military Council to immediately set off for Shanxi!
Only the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army retreated to Dagu Town on the order of Yan Xishan, the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, and immediately moved towards the Taihang Mountains.
Although Chu Yunfei, the leader of the 358th Regiment, was unwilling to give up, he even repeatedly requested orders from the World War II District Chief's Department. However, Chief of Staff Fang Ligong conspired with First Battalion Commander Qian Bojun and insisted on Chu Yunfei carrying out Chairman Yan's orders.
In desperation, he had no choice but to issue a retreat order. Before leaving, he stood on the top of the city of Dagu Town facing the direction of Taiyuan City with a melancholy look on his face. An unprecedented idea suddenly came to his mind.
As for the Chinese Defense Force, the other protagonist in this battle, they are currently using military cards under the cover of night to bypass the Taihang Mountains and head towards Datong via Hebei.
On the way, Xu Hu, commander of the first battalion of the Second Regiment of the National Defense Forces in charge of the vanguard, was sitting in the co-pilot of the truck and could not hide his joy.
Long before the various armies notified the Defense Forces of Japan's intention to mobilize heavy troops to attack Shanxi, his commander-in-chief learned about this from the Gestapo leader in China, Von Derbeck, in early July!
For this reason, regiment and battalion-level officers such as Zhang Dabiao, Zhou Weiguo, Bai Ruiyang, and Li Kuan were specially called to the war room to study response plans.
Bai Ruiyang, then captain of the First Garrison Corps, was the first to speak:
"Although the Japs' 60,000-strong army is approaching fiercely, our Taiyuan City is not made of clay! The city's defense force and garrison total 30,000 people. We will not touch them in a land battle against a land battle!"
As soon as Bai Ruiyang's point of view came out, he was instantly supported by many garrison officers attending the meeting, including Li Kuan.
As a garrison, in terms of field strength alone, they are indeed no match for the defense force, but when it comes to urban defense and street fighting, they are their specialty!
"No! Every inch of land in Taiyuan is precious nowadays! It's very precious. Most of the factories, military industry, and people are gathered in and around the suburbs. Once our army starts fighting under the city, the wealth accumulated in two months will be instantly wiped out!"
At the right time, Zhou Weiguo, commander of the Second Regiment under Li Yunfeng, who had received the highest military education at home and abroad, and had participated in many large-scale battles such as the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, spoke up.
But as a senior officer serving in both the National Defense Force and the Garrison Armed Forces, he came up with a compromise after weighing the pros and cons:
"I plan that the National Defense Force and the Garrison Corps should join forces in this battle and take the initiative to go out of the city and set up ambushes in Yangquan or Jinzhong on the border between our army and the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese get into our pockets, they will beat up the fallen dogs!"
"Then what if the Japs don't get into our pockets? Look, we still have to cut off the Japs' supply lines. How can we be so stupid as to beat us if we don't have food or water?"
Not long after, the deputy director of a military factory spoke.
"Plane! Plane! I'm telling you, Old Cui, don't forget that the little Japs are not only coming with infantry this time, but there are also bombers flying overhead!"
Immediately, Zhou Weiguo started arguing with him, and officers such as Zhang Dabiao, Li Kuan, Sun Desheng, and Bai Ruiyang also joined in the argument.
On the other hand, Li Yunfeng was standing beside everyone, watching everyone bickering with relish like a melon-eater.
Until the dozen or so people in front of him were exhausted from the quarrel and the melon seeds in their hands were knocked to pieces, they suddenly stood up from their seats and spoke slowly:
"Have you ever heard that old saying, brothers?"
Upon hearing this, it instantly attracted the attention of all the officers present.
As the core leader of the National Defense Force and the Garrison Corps, Li Yunfeng's ideas are always so sharp, practical, surprising and practical!
"The best defense is to take the initiative to attack!"
"What does the Commander-in-Chief mean?"
"Taiyuan is now my cornucopia, and there is no room for any mistakes! But more than 70,000 Japanese soldiers are right in front of me, and I really have the intention to eat them all! In this case, let's fight directly before he comes! Guanqiu, he still has 70,000. Seven hundred thousand! Eat them all!"
"But Commander-in-Chief, the Japanese still have air force support! Once we mobilize troops on a large scale, the other side will definitely notice it!"
Zhang Dabiao reminded his commander-in-chief at the right time!
"It doesn't matter, it's just a small plane! The commander-in-chief has his own way to solve it!"
Sure enough, Li Yunfeng was true to his word, and within a few days he brought back a color photo taken in front of a six-story-tall aircraft wreckage.
