Xu Dalong saw a large number of military aircraft parked at the Japanese airport. The airport was too big. If it was just bombarded with Type 92 infantry artillery across the barbed wire fence, it would not be able to hit a few enemy planes.
This airport was built early and has complete infrastructure. The ammunition depot and oil depot are built underground and cannot be detonated by artillery bombardment.
The only way to completely destroy the enemy's airport is to rush in with large groups of troops and destroy them individually.
There are a total of 12 fortifications built with sandbags around the Japanese airport, and all four gun towers are guarded. The Japanese infantry brigade barracks that helped defend the airport was only 500 meters away from the airport. As soon as the battle started, reinforcements would arrive immediately.
There is no way of knowing how many landmines are buried around the airport. If the guerrillas want to rush into the airport, they must pass through the minefield. It is difficult to estimate how many casualties they will cause.
It would also be difficult to enter from the airport gate like the attack on Yucheng Airport. In front of the airport gate, there are four bunkers built with sandbags, each equipped with two heavy machine guns and two light machine guns, and five soldiers guarding them. If we attack forcefully, it will inevitably cause heavy losses.
Attacking during the day was definitely not possible, so Xu Dalong and others came to the airport again at night to conduct reconnaissance to see what opportunities there were at night.
At night, Xu Dalong and others saw that in front of the airport gate, there were four turrets on the top of the tower, all equipped with searchlights. Most of the areas around the airport were within the scope of the searchlights.
There are two Japanese patrol teams inside the airport, and the Japanese sentries inside the fortifications are also very vigilant.
After Wang Yaohui read it, he couldn't help but shook his head slightly, feeling that there was no way to capture the airport. He suggested that shelling should be carried out from a long distance. Being able to knock out a few aircraft would be considered a gain.
Contact point for the Military Unification Working Group. Xu Dalong, Sun Desheng, Wei Monk, Wang Yaohui, Lin Xueying and others are discussing an action plan to attack the airport.
Wang Yaohui once again proposed using the Type 92 infantry artillery at night to bombard Japanese aircraft at the airport.
Sun Desheng, Wei Monk and others did not speak. They turned their attention to Xu Dalong.
Their long-term relationship gave them full trust in Xu Dalong and believed that he would definitely come up with a feasible action plan.
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Xu Dalong drew a simple diagram of his reconnaissance of the airport, which marked the Japanese firepower points, the location of the apron, the airport buildings, the Japanese sentries, minefields, and the barracks of the Japanese infantry brigade.
Xu Dalong said: "If we want to completely destroy the Japanese airport, we must use all the guerrilla forces that came to the airport this time to attack the Japanese airport. The main problems that need to be solved are as follows:
1. How to safely pass through minefields.
2. When entering the minefield, how to avoid the firepower of the two nearby watchtowers and two machine gun positions of the Japanese army.
3. After the battle begins, how to prevent reinforcements from the Japanese infantry brigade.
These problems seem very complicated, but we can find ways to solve them one by one. My opinion is this..."
Xu Dalong explained all the details of his action plan to attack the Japanese airport one by one, and the doubts in everyone's minds gradually dissipated.
Wang Yaohui said: "I think this method will work, and I agree with this action plan. Our military command will fully cooperate."
Sun Desheng, Monk Wei and others all agreed with Xu Dalong's opinion, and everyone started preparations separately.
In order to block the Japanese reinforcements after the battle started, Monk Wei and others quietly came to the road between the airport and the Japanese barracks at night and laid a large amount of high explosives. The ground was dry at this time and the explosives were laid. After that, sprinkle some dry soil on top and it will be easy to camouflage.
For the next three days, they did not take any action.
Until the evening of the third day, according to the weather forecast provided by the Japanese and puppet radio stations, there will be light rain tonight.
Sure enough, at 7:30 in the evening, the sky started to get gloomy. At 8:20, it started to rain lightly.
Xu Dalong and others started taking action separately.
It was raining lightly, the sky was overcast, there was no moonlight or starlight, and it was almost impossible to see around the airport.
The Japanese army's searchlights kept shining, the lights streaked across the night sky, and raindrops could be seen falling continuously.
Although the Japanese army's searchlight light is strong, the airport is too big. The distance between the two watchtowers is nearly 1km. In the middle, the searchlight pole shines over. Except for someone standing there and shaking, there is nothing to see in the distance. Not sure.
Xu Dalong led several commandos who were familiar with landmines and four military agents, lined up on the wet and muddy grass outside the airport, and crawled towards the barbed wire fence. What they have to do is to eliminate the landmines laid by the Japanese army in advance.
Everyone crawled forward little by little. When they saw the searchlight sweeping over, they lay down and stopped moving.
The airport was so big that the Japanese patrol only came here every 45 minutes. When they patrolled, they were still thirty or forty meters away from the barbed wire fence, and they couldn't see clearly what was happening outside the barbed wire fence.
The deminers waited until an enemy patrol passed by and then continued demining.
It took Xu Dalong and others a full four and a half hours to eliminate a total of 22 landmines within a 100-meter-long and 20-meter-wide range between the two enemy gun towers.
On both sides of the predetermined entrance and exit channels, there are also special forces members conducting demining. They only left a passage for two people to enter and exit. In order to avoid the enemy's discovery, they did not get very close to the enemy's position, but stopped 70 meters away from the enemy's position.
Removal of landmines will inevitably leave some traces, but the place is covered with weeds and cannot be seen from a distance. Unless you come closer and check carefully, you can find traces of someone's activities here.
The Japanese patrols were all operating inside the barbed wire fence, and they would not be discovered unless they came closer.
In this way, Xu Dalong and others solved the problem of large groups of people entering and exiting the minefield.
The other problems are ordinary tactical problems on the battlefield.
For the guerrillas, it was a familiar process. There was no need for Xu Dalong to arrange it himself. Other commanders and guerrillas knew what to do.
The next night was still cloudy, and Xu Dalong and others began to take action.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Squadrons, led by Sun Desheng, arrived near the barracks of the Japanese infantry brigade, set up 12 mortars, and built blocking positions in preparation for blocking the Japanese army.
Monk Wei led the special forces team to the place where they had cleared the landmines. They crawled forward and came to the Japanese barbed wire fence. They used the large iron pliers that had been prepared to cut the barbed wire fence into a seven-eight-meter-wide passage, and then entered to the Japanese airport.
Xu Dalong led a large group of people and then entered the barbed wire fence.
According to the division of labor carried out in advance, they launched attacks towards their respective targets.
Soon after, their actions were discovered by a Japanese patrol, who immediately fired shots to call the police.
The sound of gunfire was the order to attack, and the battle officially started. The sound of gunfire and sirens rang out on the airport.
When the guerrillas entered near the airport passage, the Japanese defensive positions and watchtowers on both sides were first attacked by the guerrillas.
The guerrillas took advantage of the darkness and moved to a place less than a hundred meters away from the Japanese position. When the battle started, the snipers first knocked down the enemy's searchlight.
At this time, the attention of the Japanese officers and soldiers had been attracted by the guerrillas entering the airport. They hurriedly turned their guns and prepared to attack the guerrillas entering the airport.
The guerrillas quickly pushed the Type 92 infantry cannon that had been prepared for a long time to a place 70 meters away from the enemy's position, and fired directly, quickly knocking down the Japanese defense positions and watchtowers, and avoiding entering the airport. The guerrilla brigade encountered enemy fire from both sides.
After the gunfire rang out at the airport, the lights came on in the barracks of the Japanese infantry brigade. The Japanese officers and soldiers got up, got dressed, and assembled as a team. Under the light, the figures of the Japanese officers and soldiers were clearly visible.
The mortars that had been set up long ago fired mortar shells continuously towards the place where the figures were shaking in the Japanese barracks. Twelve mortars dropped dozens of mortar shells into the enemy group in a short period of time, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was in a panic and was unable to organize its troops for a while.
The guerrillas had already arranged their arrangements in advance. Around the Japanese barracks, a small number of personnel set up machine guns to shoot at the Japanese barracks.
The Japanese army was confused about the situation and thought they were surrounded by enemy troops. Their first reaction was to strengthen their defenses to prevent the enemy from attacking.
Therefore, at the call of the Japanese commander, Japanese officers and soldiers entered defensive positions one after another. This bought some time for the guerrillas operating at the airport.
Soon after, the sound of gunfire from the direction of the airport alerted the Japanese captain. He finally understood that the enemy's target was not them, but the airport.
So he left part of his troops to continue defense, and then led the main force of the infantry brigade out of the barracks and headed toward the airport for reinforcements.
Shortly after the Japanese marching group ran out of the barracks, a violent explosion occurred on the road, causing the Japanese soldiers to flip over.
Immediately afterwards, the guerrillas, who had been well prepared, fired violently at the Japanese troops with more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns. The Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to their barracks. This bought Xu Dalong and others more time.
After the main force of the guerrillas entered the enemy's airport, some of the guerrillas went to attack the Japanese patrols that came over, and some of them rushed to the tarmac to blow up the military aircraft on the airport.
Monk Wei led the special operations squadron towards the Japanese building complex. They were divided into several groups. Some went to blockade the barracks of the Japanese garrison squadron, some attacked the Japanese oil depots and ammunition depots, and some went to attack the Japanese airport. tower.
