...The living Japanese and puppet troops brought out special intelligence information.
As he reported on the battle: “While our unit was advancing to sweep the Eighth Route Army base area in the Quyang area, we unexpectedly encountered an obstruction by the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army.
The enemy suddenly launched an air strike with its aviation force. More than 20 fighter planes roared over our headquarters, dropping bombs and strafing. The enemy's firepower was extremely fierce, and the battle was very tragic.
After the bombing, our troops had suffered more than 70% casualties. The Eighth Route Army troops took the opportunity to launch an attack and broke through our defense line in one fell swoop, causing our army to retreat..."
After the news came out, it quickly spread throughout the Japanese command system.
The degree of exaggeration and shock can best be described in one sentence - one stone stirs up a thousand waves!
What's the most terrible thing about this?
The Eighth Route Army actually had an aviation unit! ! !
"Absolutely impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" The commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Iwamatsu, the commander of the Japanese First Army, smashed the tea cup in his hand to the ground in anger.
In his opinion, this is simply a fantasy.
He would rather believe that the aviation units participating in this battle to reinforce the Eighth Route Army units were Chiang Kai-shek's flying units.
But the Eighth Route Army?
How can this be?
The former beggar team living in the cracks in the occupied areas, isolated and helpless, with backward equipment and a weak military production base?
The news that came out not long ago that the Eighth Route Army armored units fighting in the western Inner Mongolia area has shocked the Japanese commanding officers at all levels.
Now even the aviation force has come up with some tricks.
Is there anything else that these Eighth Route Army troops cannot do?
At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Kawashima of Yangquan risked his life to send back two relevant photos of the secret airport of a unit of the Eighth Route Army to the Japanese military headquarters.
Kawadao, who has been doing business privately with Kong Jie's detachment in the Yangquan area, has now been promoted to lieutenant colonel and is in charge of relevant intelligence and defense work in the Yangquan area.
Kawashima claimed that through a large number of business transactions, he had already penetrated the Eighth Route Army base area, especially the Eighth Route Army First Team base area, and was riddled with holes. It was completely possible to enter the Eighth Route Army base area through caravans to explore relevant intelligence.
These two photos were taken very clearly.
It was indeed an airport that could be seen at a glance, and there were many fighter jets parked on the airport, including two particularly eye-catching Dragon Dragon heavy bombers.
Such bombers are rare. Last time in the Inner Mongolia region, in order to coordinate the Japanese tank troops against the Eighth Route Army's armored troops, Okamura Neiji personally applied for two heavy-duty bombers that were transferred from the Army Aviation Force. bomber.
It was lost at Wuchagou Airport.
At that time, after Kong Jie and Li Yunlong took over the Japanese and puppet Wuchagou Airport, they quickly captured all the fighter planes, and then used a complete big explosion to blow up the entire airport to pieces.
So much so that the Japanese army suspected that the Eighth Route Army might have captured the aircraft.
At the same time, I had a sense of luck in my heart, thinking that the Eighth Route Army didn't even have a suitable airport, and it probably didn't have a pilot, so how could it possibly fly the plane away?
to the spread of these two photos.
From this, the Japanese command department was convinced that the Eighth Route Army had indeed stolen all the planes at Wuchagou Airport.
"This is a photo taken by my intelligence personnel who risked their lives to enter the base area of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army. There is absolutely no way it is false!"
Lieutenant Colonel Kawashima vowed to do so.
Then the Eighth Route Army Propaganda Department published a report on the first combat of the First Air Force. There were also a large number of photos published on it, which clearly recorded a county brigade of the Eighth Route Army in a head-on confrontation with more than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops. How, with the cooperation of the aviation force, the Japanese and puppet troops were almost completely wiped out.
The headline of the report is particularly eye-catching:
"The Eighth Route Army aviation unit created a war miracle in the first battle!"
Then to the various subtitles in the report:
"The county brigade completely wiped out the Japanese aggressors with a battle loss ratio of 0:1500", "an unprecedented miracle", "Japanese aggressors' aircraft will no longer be able to run rampant"...
People from all walks of life reading the newspapers went crazy.
This is great news, and the nation is very fortunate. This is the exciting news that all people with lofty ideals in the war of resistance are looking forward to!
War correspondents from various countries even flocked here to conduct interviews on relevant situations.
Newspapers were quickly distributed in large quantities and spread rapidly through various channels.
It can not only attack the Japanese army with public opinion, but also earn an extra point of military expenditure for the Eighth Route Army with the large number of newspapers sold.
Nowadays, in the areas occupied by various forces, whether it is the enemy war zone, the Kuomintang-controlled area or the Eighth Route Army base area, any newspaper published by the Eighth Route Army that reports on frontline operations is almost always sold out as soon as it is sold. .
Even the Japanese-occupied areas were no exception.
The people in the Japanese-occupied areas who have been waiting for the emergence of hope, waiting for the Chinese army to regain the territory and drive out the Japanese invaders, have greater demand for the spiritual food from the front line.
When they heard that the Eighth Route Army had won the battle, the people cheered all over the city.
When they heard that the Eighth Route Army troops were defeated in battle, many people even shut themselves up at home and cried bitterly.
The soul of the Chinese nation, sharing the same hatred and the same enemy, has long been engraved in our bones.
In Peiping, inside the Japanese North China Headquarters, on the desk of Japanese Commander-in-Chief Okamura Neiji, there was also a newspaper published by the Eighth Route Army today.
Looking at the report that the Eighth Route Army aviation unit performed a miracle in its first battle, assisting the county brigade of more than 100 people to achieve an astonishing battle loss ratio of 0 to 1500.
Okamura's face gradually turned from expressionless to serious, and finally turned livid.
This is simply a huge shame for the Japanese Empire.
His North China Front was completely humiliated!
What's more, they are worried. The Eighth Route Army was able to bomb a little-known mopping up force today. After the flying team is well adjusted, will it be able to bomb Taiyuan, Jinan, Peiping, and Shanghai?
Okamura was not the only one who had such worries. Just when Okamura strengthened the air defense force of the Peiping headquarters, the Japanese officers in the other frontline Japanese command headquarters moved the headquarters to the air raid shelter in a tacit understanding.
Um...well, be prepared!
"asshole!"
No matter how good his qualities were, he could not withstand such an impact. Okamura suddenly realized in his helpless decadence that the rapidly growing Eighth Route Army troops were almost out of control.
If this battle cannot be won in the end, his role as commander-in-chief may be over.
What followed was information about the secret aviation base of a unit of the Eighth Route Army, and there were even two clearer photos.
Judging from the photos, the airport cannot be fake.
However, out of caution, after contacting the headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Field Division, which was closest to the first team, Okamura still told Kazuo Sekimura, the leader of the Japanese Division of the Sixth Division, in the communication:
"Be sure to investigate the authenticity of the intelligence. If the situation is true, the Sixth Division will completely destroy the Eighth Route Army aviation base at all costs and destroy the Eighth Route Army's so-called first aviation unit!"
The headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Field Division.
Kazuo Sekimura, who had already read the newspaper, was full of depression. He didn't know how this battle was fought. The more the battle was fought, the more outrageous it became. Why did the Eighth Route Army even create an aviation unit?
Regarding the Japanese field brigade that was severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army's aviation unit in cooperation with the county brigade, Guancun also specially called the officers at the time to understand the situation.
This made the old devil feel inexplicably shocked.
The Eighth Route Army really put its aviation units into combat.
The most troublesome thing for this old devil is that his opponent makes him puzzled. Logically speaking, a force like the aviation force should be crucial to the Eighth Route Army.
But these damn Eighth Route Army did not follow common sense at all. They actually used flying troops to bomb an ordinary mopping up force, or cooperated with the local armed county brigade to fight.
What worries Guancun is.
What is the strength of the Eighth Route Army's aviation forces? How many artillery shells and aviation machine guns do they have? Will they use the same method again, selecting their own mopping up troops to attack at any time?
These days, the appearance of the Eighth Route Army aviation unit and the blow that may come to the imperial troops at any time have made the Japanese and puppet troops panic.
Who knows when they were fighting the Eighth Route Army or conducting a raid, enemy bombers suddenly appeared?
Laojiazi Guancun also issued a special order for each mopping up force to strengthen some air defense equipment.
This did not eliminate the worries of the Japanese and puppet soldiers, but instead aggravated their fears.
Rumors about the situation of the Eighth Route Army aviation unit are also outrageous.
Some say that the Eighth Route Army's aviation force is weak, with only ten or twenty fighter planes.
But later someone said that the Eighth Route Army even had forty or fifty fighters, as well as a dozen heavy bombers!
Some puppet troops and Japanese soldiers who survived the first air raid by the Eighth Route Army aviation force even described that the Eighth Route Army aviation planes suddenly appeared at that time, densely packed, almost covering the entire sky, and the artillery shells fell like raindrops. The entire hilltop was covered, not to mention people, not even the rats and insects in the grass could survive.
The most important thing is that it is impossible to prevent it!
The Eighth Route Army's aviation unit all uses Japanese fighter planes, which are basically the same as the Japanese flying units.
Amidst the roar, a large number of fighter planes flew over quickly.
How do you ask the Japanese and puppet soldiers to tell whether this is the imperial flying force or the Eighth Route Army's aviation force?
This problem is not only a headache for the Japanese and puppet soldiers, but also for some Japanese fighter pilots who recently carried out bombing missions.
They discovered a problem. When they were performing air fire reinforcement missions in the past few days, they rushed to the place but failed to establish communication with the ground troops in time.
The Imperial soldiers on the ground would even raise their guns and fire at them without hesitation! ! !
This is really a big deal, one of our own people beating our own people?
This also made Guancun realize that it was urgent to destroy the Eighth Route Army's airport and destroy the Eighth Route Army's aviation force.
Without daring to hesitate, Guancun quickly called Chusaku Kawashima and asked for specific information.
Kawashima was also sincere. Guan Cun asked him how he sent people into the core area of the Iron Triangle base. Kawashima said: "In order to collect intelligence on the base of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army, we have been using business as a cover."
Guan Cun sneered and said, "Are you doing business by reselling supplies and gathering intelligence by the way?"
Kawashima was startled and quickly replied: "General, what do you say? I am very loyal to my motherland. The reason why I have taken risks to contact and do business with the Eighth Route Army these years is purely to obtain intelligence for the empire.
Of course, we will also earn some funds from it, because our imperial warriors also need to eat and spend money. In this regard, what I do is worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. If the general doesn't believe it, you can go investigate! "
Guan Cun waved his hand, he was too lazy to pay attention to these details.
"Regarding the information about the Eighth Route Army Airport, is the information you have detected true?"
Kawashima replied: "General, this airport was discovered accidentally. We tried our best to distract the Eighth Route Army escorts and took a few photos secretly."
"How can you be sure that this airport is not fake?" Guancun asked.
Kawashima said: "We have no way to get up close for reconnaissance, but we can see the Eighth Route Army fighter jets taking off from a distance, and the roar of the engines can also be heard.
We have many intelligence personnel who can confirm this! "
At this time, the Japanese air force staff officer came to report with the information: "Sir, this is a route map drawn based on the position of the Eighth Route Army flying team seen from the stronghold near Quyang. Combined with the time in the air and our high-altitude reconnaissance during this period, this It is indeed possible that this area is where the Eighth Route Army’s airport is located!”
"吆西!"
Guancun nodded and waved Kawashima to leave. At this point, he also initially believed that the area shown by the intelligence was indeed the location of the Eighth Route Army's airport.
After confirming the news, he immediately contacted Okamura Neji.
The plan was finally determined, with the Sixth Division concentrating its forces to advance towards the exposed location of the Eighth Route Army's airport. In addition, the empire's air force would coordinate operations to destroy the Eighth Route Army's aviation base.
And what is it actually like?
To say that this is an airport, it is indeed a real airport.
Just as Shi Dahu, the instigator, said to Kong Jie: "Detachment leader, we have deceived the little Japs a lot over the years. This Japs has been fooled a lot, and he has become more and more savvy, and is not so easily fooled.
Therefore, our fake airport, although it is a means to lure the enemy, must be real in all aspects.
In addition, in order to make the little devil completely believe it, I suggest that all our fighter planes take off from the fake airport once, take off from the fake temporary airport, pass the false news to the Japanese army, but when they return, they all park at our secret aviation base.
I don't believe that the little devil won't be fooled! "
In the end, someone has to deliver the message, and the best candidate is naturally Chusaku Kawashima.
Then there was a wave of operations like "Jiang Qian stealing books".
When doing business with Kawashima, he lured his team in, and then let them accidentally discover the situation at the airport.
Everything fell into place.
At the same time, there was an unexpected surprise, which even Kong Jie did not expect.
With the debut of the Eighth Route Army aviation unit and the exposure of the Eighth Route Army airport, the Sixth Division advanced rapidly.
This series of actions actually stimulated the Ushijima Manchu regiment, which had been lingering outside Huangya Cave.
The old Japanese soldier Ushijima Manchu finally made up his mind to knock down the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal before the Sixth Division destroyed the Eighth Route Army's aviation base.
The Eighth Mixed Brigade was still fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army in the Huangyadong mountains, and Ushidao Man didn't dare to delay. If this mountain road was really a flaw accidentally exposed by the Eighth Route Army, when the main force of the Eighth Route Army returned to help and plugged the loophole, then The opportunity was missed...
(End of chapter)
