Two o'clock in the morning, an accurately calculated time.
Taiyuan Airport, which had been quiet for several days, suddenly became lively.
Lights and bonfires illuminate the airport runway.
The roar of armored vehicles sounded at the airport at the same time, pulling the plane filled with fuel to the end of the runway to prepare for takeoff.
After a while, twelve planes, including transport planes, all pulled to the end of the runway and lined up to take off.
"It's time to start..." Huang Yu ordered after looking at his watch.
"Buzz buzz..."
The first plane soon made a huge roar, and slowly slid out from the end of the runway under the powerful thrust, getting faster and faster.
When it was about to reach the other end of the runway, it suddenly raised its nose and roared into the sky.
The pilots did not leave immediately after taking off. Instead, they climbed to a certain altitude and circled back and forth around the Taiyuan Airport. After all the remaining eleven aircraft took off, they flew back to the center of the wing together.
When the third plane overran the runway, a high ground about five kilometers away from the airport burst into flames.
The huge flames were five or six meters high, lighting up the surrounding area.
Even if the pilot is hovering at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, he can still see clearly.
In a field ten kilometers away, a mountain of straw was set alight by several guerrillas at the same time.
There was a pile of straw not far away, and several guerrillas were collecting corn stalks from the surroundings and continuing to pile them on top.
This is in preparation for the transport plane to return to Taiyuan Airport.
"Captain... Staff Officer Zhou is piloting the plane..." Duan Peng saw Huang Yu's frown and couldn't help but comfort him.
"I heard that he has the most flying experience among all pilots. He has experience flying at night, and there is a bonfire on the ground to pilot, so there must be no problem."
"Nothing will happen!" Huang Yu answered with clenched fists.
"This is the seed for our Eighth Route Army to form its own air force. No matter what, we must return to the wing safely."
"Immediately contact Commander Kong and the enemy headquarters. The first batch of twelve planes have all taken off. Please pilot the troops along the way to light bonfires in time to prevent the planes from deviating."
"The lighting conditions at the temporary landing airport must be good. If the searchlight is not enough, use a bonfire instead, so that the pilot can see the direction of running and landing at a glance. Don't let the plane land the wrong way..."
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In a village about a hundred kilometers away from Taiyuan, two underground party members were standing in the yard with their heads raised and looking at the sky.
The village is right on the edge of the county town. Because it is located on a traffic artery, a large number of Japanese and puppet troops are stationed around it. If you light a bonfire in the open, the Japanese and puppet troops will definitely notice it.
The local troops and the underground party combined and decided to find another way.
The woodshed at the edge of the yard has been piled with grain-wrapped straw collected over the past few days. There are a lot of ignition materials hidden in it. I plan to wait for the plane to arrive and light the woodshed to cause a fire accident.
It will not arouse the suspicion of the surrounding Japanese and puppet troops, and can also serve as a pilot for the aircraft.
"Buzz buzz..."
Suddenly there was a roar in the sky in the direction of Taiyuan.
Although it was not loud, in the quiet night, the two underground gangs still clearly identified it as the roar of an airplane.
Don't hesitate to throw the prepared fire dumplings into the demolition house.
The spark spread quickly around, and soon the entire demolished house was covered in fire. The flames reached a height of seven or eight meters and could be seen clearly from a distance.
Exclamations rang out in the yard at the same time: "The water has leaked..."
"There's a fire in the old Zhang's woodshed. Everyone, hurry up and put out the fire..."
The quiet village suddenly became lively. Some people carried water in basins, and some carried water in buckets. They rushed to the woodshed to put out the fire, for fear that the fire would spread to their homes.
Two minutes later, the roar from above disappeared, and the fire, which had been poured with hundreds of buckets of water, was finally extinguished, leaving only some charred wood still smoking.
The unknowing daughter-in-law of the Zhang family knelt at the door of the woodshed and cried bitterly. Although Lao Zhang knew that the fire in the woodshed was intentional, the underground party gave him two oceans as revenge.
But in order to make others believe that the fire in the woodshed was accidental, he did not tell his wife about it.
The Japanese and puppet troops in the surrounding strongholds had no suspicion.
The firewood sheds in the village are basically civil structures and are very easy to catch fire.
The cries of the Zhang family's daughter-in-law reached the stronghold, and they definitely couldn't be faked.
As for the roar of airplanes that I just remembered in the sky, the troops stationed at the stronghold just regarded it as aviation troops conducting night flight training and didn't take it seriously.
Although most aircraft of the aviation force do not have night combat capabilities.
But superiors have been trying to fight at night.
Many large-scale battles take place at night. If the aviation force is capable of conducting night operations, it will certainly relieve a lot of pressure on the infantry, and the aviation force can also gain a lot of benefits in the battle.
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Chenjiazhuang Airport, the base area of Yizhong.
Kong Jie was pacing back and forth at the end of the airport with a frown on his face.
In order to provide the airport with sufficient lighting for planes to land, Kong Jie spent a lot of money.
Not only did they find all the searchlights captured by the Japanese and puppet troops in the base area, they also asked the troops to temporarily raid several Japanese checkpoints and seized many searchlights. A total of forty searchlights were collected and placed on both sides of the airport runway.
A big arrow was placed with firewood at the landing point to indicate that the plane should land in this direction and not to go in the opposite direction.
As soon as the plane arrives, the arrow will burst into flames.
"Captain..." The engineer company commander walked towards him confidently.
"I have inspected all the temporary hangars. They are very strong. The aircraft can be pulled into the hangar and hidden as soon as it arrives."
"Even if the little Japanese plane flies close to the ground, it can't find them."
"In order to prevent the Japanese from finding out that there is an airport here, we made a lot of mobile fake trees."
"When the airport is not in use, we move the fake trees to the runway. The little Japanese pilots will only think of it as a forest and wasteland, and they will never realize that there is an airstrip hidden here."
"When you need to use the runway, remove the artificial trees and grass immediately. It will take at most 20 minutes for the runway to be back in use."
A rare smile flashed across Kong Jie's serious face: "This is a good idea."
"As long as the Japanese army didn't know the existence of the airport runway, they wouldn't know the planes were hidden here."
"Our base area in the wing is so large that the little Japanese intelligence officers and scouts do not dare to operate openly. They just keep searching aimlessly and cannot locate the airport for a year or two."
"By then our air force was already in force, so it didn't matter if it was exposed."
Having said this, Kong Jie's face returned to a serious expression again, he stared at the engineer company commander and continued to ask: "Have the searchlights been checked?"
"The first batch of twelve planes will arrive soon. Before all the planes land safely, not a single searchlight can fail."
The engineer company commander is in this business and immediately promised: "Captain, don't worry..."
"I guarantee with my head that there will be no problem with those searchlights."
"I've checked the wiring several times, unless the searchlight is broken."
"But it's okay."
"I have people prepare firewood next to each searchlight. In case of an accident, I will light the firewood immediately and use bonfires instead of searchlights. The effect from the sky is not much different."
