At seven o'clock in the morning, Taiyuan Airport, which had been bustling for several hours, finally became quiet.
Twenty-one intact aircraft were all towed and hidden in the woods next to the airport.
The airplane looks huge, but it's actually not heavy.
Dragging them with an armored vehicle, they were easily pulled into the woods and camouflaged.
More than twenty bombed planes were scattered on the tarmac. Looking down from the air, the airport was full of wreckage. It was visually estimated that there were at least forty planes, which was completely consistent with the number of planes equipped at Taiyuan Airport.
The airport dormitory has been bombed into ruins, with unburned wood everywhere and thick smoke billowing...
The tower, the headquarters... can no longer be seen as they were before, with black smoke rising everywhere.
"Buzz buzz..."
The roar of planes suddenly sounded over the airport and reached Huang Yu's ears. When he looked up, he saw two planes approaching from far away, slowly flying towards the airport.
First, they circled the airport twice at high altitude to make sure that there was no Eighth Route Army at the airport. Then they slowly lowered their flying altitude and circled around the airport eight or nine times before leaving in frustration.
Not long after, an investigative telegram appeared in the hands of Yoshio Iwasatsu.
The chief of staff also introduced: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"Aviation reconnaissance showed that all the planes on the airport tarmac were destroyed, and visual inspection revealed that there were at least forty plane wreckage, which is similar to the number of planes equipped at Taiyuan Airport."
"The airport dormitory, tower, and headquarters...were all completely destroyed in the battle."
"Only the oil depot and the airport runway were not destroyed."
"Aviation request: Do you need to use bombs to destroy the airport runway and oil depot?"
Iwamatsu Yoshio became angry when he heard this and cursed unceremoniously: "Don't you know how to use your brain?"
"Except for our use, the artillery shells and oil depots at the airport have no value to the Eighth Route Army. Now that we are using aerial bombs to destroy the artillery shells and oil depots, do you think you are helping the Eighth Route Army or us..."
"Should we be helping them?" the chief of staff asked with a look of uncertainty.
"Of course I'm helping them!" Yoshio Iwamatsu replied angrily.
"The Eighth Route Army must have been reluctant to part with explosives, so they didn't blow up the artillery shells and oil depots. The airport can be used immediately after we recapture it, and there is no need to spend time repairing it."
"If planes are sent out to blow them up, it will take a lot of time to repair the airport in the future. Do you know how much this will delay the battle?"
"Ask the aviation force to stop looking after Taiyuan Airport and find ways to find the Eighth Route Army operating around Taiyuan. Attack them if you can. If you can't attack, keep an eye on them and determine their main attack direction tonight."
"We also need to dispatch aircraft to reinforce the Jinzhong garrison."
"Cover them back to Taiyuan, prevent the Eighth Route Army from ambush them halfway, and garrison troops in Taiyuan."
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Huang Yu and Li Yunlong were lurking in the other direction of the airport. They watched the Little Japanese plane leave from the airport, and they both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
The twenty or so captured planes wanted to fly back to the base and could not do without the airport runway. This was why he did not blow up the shells.
If the Japanese air force gets confused and blows up the runway, Huang Yu, no matter how capable he is, will not be able to move the plane to a base.
Fortunately, the Japanese Air Force realized that the runway was more useful to them and did not launch an attack on the runway.
"Captain..." The operator suddenly ran towards Huang Yu.
"Battle Commander Wei has an urgent message: The Japs defending Jinzhong suddenly abandoned the city and retreated."
"They gave up their baggage and ammunition and all heavy weapons, and only carried light infantry weapons. They suddenly evacuated Jinzhong and took a small road to Taiyuan."
"Battle Commander Wei, please give me instructions."
"Should we send cavalry and chariot troops to hunt them down?"
"No matter how lightly the Japanese are dressed or how fast they run, they can't compete with a four-legged war horse."
"Now let the cavalry pursue them, we will definitely capture them."
Li Yunlong instantly became excited.
During the raid on Taiyuan Airport last night, I and two battalions didn't even get a drink of soup.
It's not easy to come across an opportunity to fight the Japanese, and I can't miss it no matter what.
He immediately suggested to Huang Yu: "Xiao Huang..."
"There are planes watching from the sky. It's too dangerous for cavalry to fight."
"I will lead my troops to kill them in squad and platoon units."
"The Japanese and puppet troops did not carry heavy weapons. The troops advanced lightly, just in time to fight guerrillas with them and use mobile warfare to consume them outside Taiyuan City."
"This way we will have fewer opponents when we attack Taiyuan in the future."
"Don't look at the strength of these Japanese and puppet troops, they only have more than a thousand troops."
"But if they are allowed to enter Taiyuan City and rely on Taiyuan's solid city defenses to block the attack, the combat effectiveness of the 1,000-day puppet army will be no less than that of the 2,000-3,000-day puppet army."
"With such a powerful potential opponent, we can't let them enter Taiyuan no matter what."
Li Yunlong's analysis was reasonable and well-founded. After he finished speaking, everyone around him showed expressions of approval.
But Huang Yu didn't answer, and after thinking for a minute, he decisively refused.
"No……"
"We stand still and allow the Japanese and puppet troops who have withdrawn from Jinzhong to return to Taiyuan safely."
"Why..." Many people, including Li Yunlong, had puzzled expressions on their faces.
Huang Yu immediately explained: "We need time."
"Otherwise, how would those captured aircraft fly back to the base?"
"If Iwamatsu Yoshio feels a sense of crisis now, he will mobilize troops from the front line to return reinforcements."
“With the marching speed of the Japanese army, it would take at most three days to return to Baoding.
"The crisis facing the northern Shanxi base area has been lifted, but all the more than 20 aircraft we have captured with great effort have to stay here, and none of them can fly back."
"The counter-mopping up in the northern Shanxi base area is in the persistence stage. According to the latest intelligence I have received, they will have no problem persisting for another ten days."
"If we can allow Yoshio Iwamatsu to mobilize troops from the front line later, we can safely return the more than 20 aircraft captured last night to the base area, and explain that we can still relieve the base area in northern Shanxi."
Li Yunlong got it right, his frown relaxed at the same time, and he said with a look of enlightenment: "I understand..."
"Destroying the breakout troops in Jinzhong seems to be an advantage and reduces the combat pressure for our subsequent attack on Taiyuan, but it also breaks Yoshio Iwamatsu's determination to defend Taiyuan by his own strength."
"Since I am unable to defend Taiyuan, I can only mobilize troops from the front line."
"If more than twenty planes want to fly back to their base, they need not only pilots, but also an airport where they can land, and a large number of troops to pilot the planes..."
“This all takes time to plan.”
"As long as Yoshio Iwamatsu can be delayed in deploying troops from the front line to come back for reinforcements, and he mistakenly believes that we cannot threaten Taiyuan's security for the time being, then the Japanese puppet troops of No. 1,000 should not fight."
"Xiao Huang, you are good enough..."
"You have thought of such far-sighted things. No wonder the head of the headquarters asked you to lead a team to reinforce northwest Shanxi."
"I agree with you on this matter."
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