Chapter 670: Lushun Throat

There were thick clouds piled up in the sky, blocking the sun first, and many of them lowered the temperature of Yafan, and deleted the surface.

Six Wasp fighters swept across the sky under the low clouds, and the roar of their motives resounded in the sky.

Meng Fei sat in the cockpit of the Wasp fighter at the front, looking sideways at the ground, and although the visibility was not very good, he could still see some iconic landmarks clearly.

Just under the right wing of the plane is a rolling bay, which is Dalian Bay, and a railway runs next to the bay, stretching north from the narrow plains and hills. Further to the west, you can see a hazy black line at the end of the narrow plains and hills, which is also the dividing line between the six lands and the sea, and there is also a bay called Golden State Bay.

Together with the hills, this plain forms a special terrain in geography: the isthmus.

This is the Jinzhou Isthmus, the narrowest place in the southern tip of the entire Liaodong Peninsula 6, the east is Dalian Bay, the west is Jinzhou Bay, the narrowest place between the east and west 6 is only three kilometers wide, the whole terrain is like a bee's waist, caressing the back road of Lushun. If Lushun is the gateway to the Bohai Sea, then this Golden State is the throat of Lushun.

When the Qing court built a military port in Lushun, the engineering experts who presided over the construction work have seen the importance of Jinzhou, and reminded the Qing court that we must pay attention to the defense of Jinzhou, otherwise, once the back road on the 6th place is copied, then the fall of Lushun will be in the blink of the night, but the Qing court turned a deaf ear to this suggestion, and in peacetime only stationed more than 200 foreign guns in the area of the waist of the Jinzhou Isthmus, even after the outbreak of the war, the garrison army was only 3,000 people, and there was a lack of rifles and ammunition, With such a weak 6th Army, it was naturally difficult to resist the attack of the outnumbered and well-equipped Japanese army.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army also saw the importance of Jinzhou's location, and took Jinzhou as the main target of the 6th Army's Deng6 operation, and the generals of the Qing Army also saw this, but due to the lack of troops, they could not carry out an effective counterattack on the Japanese 6th Army's Deng6 operation, and invited troops to Beiyang, but they were blocked back by Li Hongzhang, the head of Beiyang, with a sentence of "each guarding the flood land", so when the Japanese army boarded the 6th from Huayuankou, 40 kilometers north of Jinzhou. Although the Qing army stationed in Jinzhou fought hard, Jinzhou was still lost in a short time. At this point, the fall of Lushun was inevitable.

In fact, the small stretch from Lushun to Golden State6 is called the "Golden State Peninsula" by geographers, which also shows the importance of Golden State to the southern tip of the entire peninsula.

In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese 6th Army once again repeated the same tactics, from the ship north of the Jinzhou Isthmus to the 6, copied the back road of Lushun, and after taking Jinzhou, once again turned Lushun into a bag, but this time the Lushun offensive was far more difficult than the Lushun Battle in the First Sino-Japanese War, which was mainly because the Russian ** team built a solid fortified position in the Lushun Zhouchai area, relying on the fortress and the battleship fire in the military port to carry out stubborn resistanceand inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army.

However, the experience of the Russo-Japanese War ultimately proved that any besieged fortress would eventually be occupied by the attacking side, and unless it could maintain contact with the rear and occupy a vast space for maneuver, it would be impossible for Lushun's lone army to seize the strategic initiative, and this is where the strategic significance of the Isthmus of Jinzhou lies.

Meng Fei flew from the Daqin Island logistics base on the Bohai Sea to the sky over the Jinzhou Isthmus, this operation, he followed a bomber formation, the main task of this bomber formation is to bomb the Japanese ground facilities in Lushun, Dalian and other places, as the commander of the fighter unit, Meng Fei's main responsibility is to cover the bomber formation, this is already the second large-scale air raid carried out by the air force bomber formation on the Luda area, although the number of bombers is not as much as the air raid on the day of the war. But in terms of strategy. The airstrike remains significant.

Although a few bombs were also thrown into the military port, it was only for the purpose of harassment, and the key targets were on the six grounds, and the main purpose was to confuse the Japanese command organs and create a false impression that the squadron was about to launch a large-scale attack on Lushun, and to urge the Japanese Government to decide on a strategy as soon as possible, either to immediately cease the war and negotiate peace and return all the occupied Chinese territory, or to immediately send reinforcements from within the country to reinforce Lushun.

Now the bomber formation has returned. Most of the fighters also returned to Dengzhou, and only Meng Fei led the other five combat planes to fly over Jinzhou, which was the northernmost flying detachment in the entire formation and was responsible for monitoring the northern airspace.

However, the Japanese planes never appeared, and Meng Fei and his team members never found a chance to fight, and Meng Fei was very unwilling, so when the bomber formation had returned, he still led the flight detachment to circle over the Jinzhou Isthmus, looking for a valuable target.

Since Meng Fei's fighter unit took off from the Daqin Island logistics base in the Bohai Strait, the fuel on the plane was enough to fly back to Dengzhou from Lushun, and if he landed on Daqin Island for refueling, he would be able to prolong his stay in the air over the war zone. I finally threw the bomb on the fighter plane.

Meng Fei led the flight detachment to fly north, and soon swept over Dalian Bay and flew over Jinzhou City, with the appearance of Chinese planes, the Japanese garrison in the city was in a commotion, Meng Fei hesitated, but still did not throw the bomb at those barracks. After some thought, he decided to bomb the railroad to the south.

So, Meng Fei led the flying detachment to turn around and fly south again, once again passing the narrow waist of the Golden State Isthmus, and at this moment, he saw a train coming from the south, speeding high to the north.

It wasn't an ordinary train, it was a wagon with more than a dozen flatbed wagons, and judging by the cargo carried on the flatbed, it was clearly an arms train, because those flatbeds were loaded with dozens of field guns, and this was a worthy target.

"The hard work pays off, the Japanese military column! It must have been somewhere to hide from an air raid just now

Meng Fei immediately flew the plane and rushed down. He swung his wings from side to side and ordered the five fighters that followed behind to prepare for an attack.

A beautiful small angle dive, and then the plane's attack path coincided with the direction of the train, at an altitude of only fifty meters from the ground, Meng Fei decisively dropped the aerial bomb hanging under the belly of the plane.

The aerial bomb drew a parabola in the air, and then landed accurately on a flatbed truck, and exploded with a bang, shrapnel flew in all directions, and the air wave swept everything near the explosion point, although it was not enough to lift the field guns on the flatbed truck. However, the explosion was enough to cause damage to some of the structures of the field artillery.

Then, five other fighters also swooped down in turn, dropping five types of aerial bombs, four of which were deflected by crosswinds and landed on the railroad embankment, and only the last bomb hit a stuffy tank car, but it was this bomb that played a key role. After the bomb hit the car, it did not explode immediately. Instead, it smashed through the wooden roof of the carriage. It landed in the carriage before it exploded, followed by an even more violent explosion, and a huge wave of air immediately caught up with the bomb-dropping fighter and nearly destroyed it.

Glancing at the fighter plane that was struggling to fly high in the air, Meng Fei was also startled, and he didn't let go until the plane stabilized its posture. Then look at the train carrying the munitions.

The strong explosion blew up the entire stuffy tank car of the train, and although the whole train had not yet broken in two and had not derailed, the train had slowed down significantly, and it was clear that the car was filled with explosives, shells, and other munitions. It was detonated by that aerial bomb.

Of course, Meng Fei would not just fly away, he quickly gave an order to his subordinates to continue the attack, and then drove the plane down, strafing the train with an aviation machine gun, until half of the bullets were gone, and then he led the flight detachment to shake its wings and turn around and return to the south, heading towards the logistics base of Daqin Island.

For this sudden air attack, everyone on the Japanese military train was panicked, the destruction of ammunition was just a trivial matter, and everyone was more worried about the distinguished passenger on the train.

That distinguished guest was the commander of the Kwantung Army, Major General Tachibana Koichiro, who had just left the Dalian Railway Station on this train, and he planned to go to the Gaiping front line in the north of the Liaodong Peninsula to personally command the Kwantung Army to defend Gaiping, but as soon as the train arrived on the Jinzhou Isthmus, it was attacked by six Chinese fighters.

Tachibana Koichiro was lucky, his car hung behind the locomotive, next to the butterfly car, so he was far away from the exploding munitions car, and the explosion only startled him, but he was not injured, but his trip seemed to be delayed.

"Send someone back to Dalian and ask them to send someone over. Deal with those carriages at the back. As for us, throw off the arms, advance lightly, and be sure to rush to the Gaiping front line in the shortest possible time! We must defend Gaiping."

Tachibana Koichiro quickly made up his mind and decided to let the head of the pointed car pull his special car to Gaiping first, and as for the arms and materials, he would hand them over to others to deal with.

So, the staff officers quickly unloaded the carriages hanging behind the special carriages, and then, this short and surprisingly short train headed north, because the load was much lighter, this degree was also getting faster and faster, if the railway remained open, Tachibana Koichiro would be able to reach the Gaihei front line at noon today.

Sitting in the special car, watching the staff officers draw up a defensive battle plan, Koichiro Tachibana fell into deep thought.

"The Chinese Air Force is becoming more and more rampant, if the domestic reinforcements can't arrive as soon as possible, I'm afraid Gaiping won't be able to hold it for long, if the base camp is to blame for this incident, who can bear it? Therefore, it is still necessary to urge the country as soon as possible and send troops to the Liaodong Peninsula, but this requires the assistance of the combined fleet, but why is the navy reluctant to make a decision? ”

The attitude of the Navy is indeed intriguing, but for now, Koichiro Tachibana really has no intention of pondering the strategy of the Navy, he is more concerned about the Gaihei front, where is the battlefield of the 6th Army. If you want to know what will happen next, please go to 6 oranges, more chapters, support for it