Chapter 499: Surprise Attack
What Yamashita far and far away, including Naosaburo Okabe, didn't know was...... This offensive of the Chinese army was not as simple as they thought. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
One of them is that the Chinese troops are well aware of any movement of the Japanese army.
This is, of course, one of the tasks of the special poverty student unit...... Before the Chinese army landed, major cities and key areas in Northeast China, such as railway stations and airports, were even planted by extremely poor students. As soon as there was a movement of troops in the Japanese army, someone would immediately report to the Chinese troops through the radio, and even the number of people could be counted to eight or nine.
As a result, Zhang Chi soon got the information: there was a wing of devils in Shenyang who rushed to Anshan by railway. At the same time, the 123rd Division, which was originally distributed in the Siping area, also quickly assembled and rushed to Shenyang in batches.
"The devil knows we exist!" Zhang Chi said to Staff Officer Liang who was sitting beside him.
"Oh!" A hint of excitement flashed on Staff Officer Liang's face: "That means ...... We can let it go! ”
"Hmm!" Zhang Chi nodded.
Prior to this, in order not to let the devils know the strength of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Expeditionary Force had not made any major moves. But now, now that the devil has made a big move, there is no need for the expeditionary force to hide anything.
With Zhang Chi's order, the carrier-based fighters that had been prepared in Port Arthur for a long time took off and flew in the direction of Shenyang......
The land distance between Shenyang and Lushun is 443 kilometers, and the straight-line distance of the route is about 400 kilometers (note: the terrain in the northeast is flat, and the curvature of roads and railways is not large, so the land distance is not much different from the straight-line distance).
The combat radius of the Wildcat fighters and dreadnought bombers was 500 kilometers, which happened to cover Shenyang and the Tieling area about 100 kilometers north of it, so the Japanese army was in trouble......
These fighters of the Chinese army are divided into three groups:
The first batch totaled twelve sorties, four Hellcat fighters and eight dreadnought dive bombers.
The target of this batch was the 123rd Division of the Japanese army that went to reinforce Shenyang.
The second batch totaled forty-eight sorties, twenty-four fighters and twenty-four bombers.
Their target is Shenyang, to be exact...... Its primary target was the Japanese army's East Tower airfield, and if there was spare strength, it would attack the Japanese Beiling airfield.
The third batch also had a total of twelve sorties, with the same units and the same operational purpose as the first batch, except that the target was the Japanese reinforcements from Shenyang to Anshan.
As the saying goes, "born in good and died in peace".
Perhaps it was because the Japanese army had undoubtedly had air supremacy in Manchukuo for a long time...... On the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army almost does not have an air force, and even if there is an air force, it is only the Flying Tigers in the Guangxi area, and no matter how they fight, they will not reach Manchuria.
Of course, there are some exceptions, and this exception is that the B29 bombers taking off from the airports of Guizhou and Liuzhou will fly over Manchukuo from time to time...... But their target was also to bomb the Japanese mainland, and the Japanese troops often couldn't even see it at an altitude of 10,000 meters, so it can be said that it had almost nothing to do with them.
As a result, for a long time, the Japanese army fought wars with complete air supremacy, and at this time it was customary to command according to the air supremacy of the previous side.
For example, it is undoubtedly extremely dangerous to use trains to deploy troops without thinking about it, which is undoubtedly extremely dangerous in the absence of air supremacy.
More than an hour later, Yamashita found out about it.
Because the subordinates reported that a group of fighters flew over Shenyang, and these fighters were obviously not Japanese fighters.
Shan Wenyuan couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this...... He took it for granted that the enemy did not have much air power, otherwise he would have bombed the Shenyang airfield a long time ago, and as for the two reconnaissance planes he sent out, he thought that they might have been shot down by the enemy's anti-aircraft fire.
But now it seems clear that this is not the case.
"Bastard!" Shan Xia Yuan scolded loudly and hurriedly warned the 123rd Division.
But at this time, the 123rd Division was already on the train, and its radio was not turned on, so it could not receive any information at all.
Actually, even if you receive a message, it's useless...... At this time, the train of the 123rd Division was less than 100 kilometers away from Shenyang, which was only a matter of ten minutes for a dreadnought fighter with a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour...... Ten minutes, there is simply no time to complete the series of actions of receiving the report, giving orders, stopping a train and preparing for air defense.
So the 123rd Division soon became tragic......
While the train was still moving at the fastest speed on the railway, more than a dozen warplanes suddenly swooped down from the sky...... Due to the noise of the train and the tracks, the Japanese did not notice until the fighters began to dive, screaming to stop the train, but it was too late.
In front of them were two dive bombers, which were diving down the railway line...... The railway line in the northeast is very straight, and swooping along the railway line means that you are sure to blow up the train.
In fact, the target of these two dive bombers was not just a train...... Their target is the locomotive.
Therefore, the pilots who flew these two bombers were also the best among the Chinese pilots, and they had to hit them with one hit, otherwise the train driver could impose some contingency measures on the train.
The pilots did not disappoint everyone, and with a sharp whistling sound, the bomber dived to the bottom in a near-perfect arc and then quickly raised the nose of the plane, and at the moment of raising the nose, several bombs smashed from the fuselage with inertia to the locomotive that was still moving forward......
It is very difficult to drop a bomb on a high-speed bomber to hit a moving locomotive, like throwing a rock to hit a rolling ping pong ball.
But they did.
Hearing only a few "boom" sounds, the locomotive was immediately blown off the tracks...... Then, the whole train was rushed to the side of the road by the locomotive at high speed, until the locomotive hit the hill with a "boom" and stopped instantly, and the subsequent carriages hit one after another due to inertia......
Looking down from the air, the train wriggled and rolled like a wounded python, and after a while it finally stopped moving, and the front and back of the train were covered with blood and screaming Japanese soldiers.
It should be said that the Japanese army was relatively lucky, the speed of the train was not fast, otherwise the casualties would have been greater.
But this was not the end, those fighters in the air immediately followed by a burst of strafing and bombing of those Japanese troops, and occasionally a few bombs hit the carriage carrying ammunition, so there was a loud "boom" and a pillar of fire exploded.
The 123rd Division of the Japanese Army, which did not even know what the enemy was like, had already been defeated.
(To be continued.) )