Chapter Forty-Eight: A Moonless Night

6.48 Moonless Night

"I am 1049, I am 1049, the squadron will appear over the predetermined area in ten minutes, each aircraft pay attention to maintain altitude and return after dropping bombs, do not dive and strafe, although the light and heavy machine guns of the Chinese pose no threat to us, but if they are hit in the fuel tank, it is not fun!" We are fighter pilots, there is no need to die in this bombing campaign! Our opponent should be the Air Force of the Chinese people! ”

Squadron Leader Onimaru is a very cautious person, he feels that his subordinates have a problem with their mentality, and before taking off, all the pilots think that this mission will be a pleasant journey, and it is not a good thing to underestimate the enemy like this. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the past few days, the Japanese Air Force has lost several bombers over Nanjing, and from this point of view, the sky over Nanjing is by no means undefended, so Squadron Leader Onimaru wanted to sound the alarm bell for his pilots before the bombing was about to start.

"Your Excellency! Why do you think the Chinese Air Force still dares to engage us? As far as I know, they don't have a few planes left, maybe we're all going to switch to flying bombers in the future! ”

"Hahaha......"

Obviously, Squadron Leader Onimaru's reminder did not have the effect he wanted, and the radio band of the 10th Squadron of the Japanese Independent Flight was filled with arrogant laughter, and Squadron Leader Onimaru shook his head helplessly.

The Japanese soldiers had been carried away by a series of victories, and since the occupation of the big cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, the atmosphere of pleasure had begun to spread among the Japanese army, and these Nanjing soldiers believed that as long as Matsui Ishone's army division took Nanjing, then the whole of China would become the bag of the empire, and they would become heroes like Heihachiro Togo, and the fiasco of the 114th and 11th Divisions did not raise their vigilance.

The Central China Dispatch Army once again put the cause of the defeat on the front-line commander, it seems that all the problems are due to the incompetence of Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, at first Captain Onimaru also believed the army's explanation, but when he saw the photo of the 114th Division in Lishui from a good army staff officer, his mind changed!

What is just being attacked? The 114th Division was completely destroyed, the division commander and the chief of staff were killed at the same time, and half of the four wing commanders were gone, how could it be that there were only a few hundred casualties as the newspapers said!?

Squadron Leader's question was not answered, and the army staff officer who had a good personal relationship with him didn't say a word, he should have received a very strict order!

First, the 11th Division in Songhu was transferred to Taiwan, and now it is the 114th Division. Can such a loss be hidden?

Perhaps, His Excellency Commander Matsui Ishine wants to wait for Nanjing to settle accounts together, then at least be able to explain the past, Captain Onimaru believes that the order they received to block the Yangtze River is also a very important part of the plan of His Excellency Commander Matsui Ishine, if you want to atone for your sins, you can't use an empty city to prevaricate, and now the Central China Dispatch Army needs to eliminate as many Chinese troops around Nanjing as possible, especially Huang Haoran, the "famous general", Only by killing him, the deputy commander of the Nanjing City Defense, could the loss of the 114th Division's commander, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, be killed.

Squadron Leader Onimaru guessed it all, his thoughts were almost identical to Matsui Ishone, except that Matsui Ishone was more detailed and vicious than he thought......

In a trance, the radio of Squadron Leader Onimaru heard a call from his subordinates, and the Japanese pilots of the 10th Independent Squadron checked the map and instruments and found that they had reached the predetermined airspace, but why did they not see anything?

It was pitch black everywhere, and the moon was the size of the moon above their heads, but the ground under the fuselage was not reflected in the slightest, and it was all very strange.

Did they deviate? Even if it were, it shouldn't be impossible to see anything, right? You must know that the 10th Independent Flight Squadron has been flying along the Yangtze River, and it is impossible for the entire Yangtze River to disappear, right? Unless they flew to the source of the Yangtze River!

Hell yes!

"What to do? Your Excellency Nakasa! This area below us is so weird! It's like hell! ”

"Drop the height! Unit 3 comes with me, let's go down and have a look, Yokoyama-kun! Follow me! ”

Squadron Leader Onimaru confirmed that there was no problem with the instrument several times and gave the first order to the squadron, he needed some information, and he could only see clearly if he flew down!

Onimaru Nakasa pushed the joystick, and his fighter Red Pepper began to dive, and the battle of Yokoyama followed, and the eyes of both of them were dead against the non-reflective earth, which was the first time they had encountered such a situation.

2000 meters... 1000 meters... 800 meters... The altitude of the two Japanese fighters is getting lower and lower, and the river and mountains should have been visible at such a distance a long time ago, but Onimaru Nakasa and Lieutenant Yokoyama still found nothing!

It's as if they're swooping into a bottomless abyss!

Onimaru Nakasa couldn't help but doubt the correctness of the meter again, and now that it has dropped to 500 meters, this altitude can hit the mountain peak at any time, and you shouldn't see anything even at night? Besides, the moon is big today!

Onimaru Nakasa subconsciously looked up to look at the moon when he was thinking, but he was taken aback at this moment!

The moon is gone! The stars are gone!

Obviously it was still hanging in the sky just now! How can it be!

Did the hallucination happen? It's possible, if something goes wrong with the meter, then maybe it's not flying down! Perhaps, the plane is twisting, then the moon should be in some other direction!

"Squadron Leader! No way! No way! Are we flying in hell? I don't see any references! Yes......!!! ”

Lieutenant Yokoyama's words were interrupted by his screams, and then a ball of fireball lit up from behind the side of the Onimaru Nakasa fighter, and Lieutenant Yokoyama's plane exploded!

What exactly was released? Is there really a hell!

The Japanese fighter pilots high in the sky heard Lieutenant Yokoyama's last call, and they were anxiously calling their squadron leader!

"Your Excellency! Captain Onimaru! Pull it up! Pull it up! ”

The pilot's words reminded Onimaru Nakasa that it is impossible to encounter hallucinations! The probability that he and Lieutenant Yokoyama hallucinating at the same time is almost negligible, and so far he has only done one dive, and as long as he pushes the joystick back, he can go back and go back to the moonlit sky!

"Ahh Oooh oh! ”

Onimaru Nakasa let out a howl like a beast, the fighter engines were shaking, and the plane began to look up!

At this time, the light suddenly returned to Onimaru Nakasa's eyes, and this light was getting brighter and brighter, and it would take some distance to make the plane stop diving and raise its head, and Onimaru Nakasa didn't notice that the number displayed on his altimeter had reached "0"!

Onimaru Nakasa saw the river below the smoke layer, and he saw the bright fire from the burning haystack, but he couldn't go back to the sky! Onimaru's fighter jet slammed into the water surface of the Yangtze River and became fragmented, and until he died, Onimaru Nakasa still didn't figure out what was going on!

Listening to the rustling sound on the radio and remembering the last howls of Onimaru Nakasa and Lieutenant Yokoyama, the Japanese pilots in the sky felt a sense of uncertainty, and they discussed for a while and finally chose to return.

This night became a nightmare for the Japanese Air Force!

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When Onimaru Nakasa fell to the surface of the river, Wang Huanzhi was standing by the river, at this moment the south bank was as brightly lit as the north bank, above his head was a black sky, smoke and impurities in the air formed a thick isolation layer, the people on the ground couldn't see the sky clearly, the planes in the sky couldn't see the earth clearly, just now Onimaru Nakasa was flying in these smoke and dust, the black fog blocked the black sight, giving him an illusion of flying in the moonless sky, as a result, Lieutenant Yokoyama crashed into the Lion Rock on the edge of the Yangtze River, Onimaru Nakasa's luck was better, his plane broke through the smoke layer and landed directly on the river, but the ending was the same......

At this moment, there is a busy scene on the river, the closer to the height of the river, the thinner the black fog, the hydrology of the river is also related to the air current, the ship can barely sail in the case of lighting, with this black pot lid on the head, it will not be bombed tonight, this black fog will not dissipate until at least tomorrow noon, Wang Huanzhi's fleet has more than ten hours of precious time.

In order to transport more things, Wang Huanzhi got Huang Haoran's permission to transfer the 99th Division stationed in the city, and he now needs a large number of people to take turns in battle!

By the dawn of the day, the ships sent to Banqiao and Zhenjiang had already been sent clean, Wang Huanzhi gathered the remaining ships to and from Pukou and Nanjing, a large number of citizens crossed the Yangtze River that night, the black sky became the gods in their hearts, this great credit but to others, Wang Huanzhi is really a little wronged!

The black fog created by Wang Huanzhi only affected some places in the urban area of Nanjing and along the river, and in Jiangning and Tangshan, which are dozens of kilometers away from Nanjing, the Chinese and Japanese armies are still fighting......

Since receiving Huang Haoran's request to reduce the intensity of the battle, Wang Shankui has sent several big gifts to the 18th Division, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao's harvest tonight is more than double that of Gu Shoufu's 6th Division, and the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, greatly praised the bravery of the 18th Division in a telegram! Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, who was supposed to be happy, didn't have the heart to celebrate, he was worried that Commander Yanagawa Heisuke would hand over the task of cutting off the westward retreat of the Nanjing garrison to the 18th Division, if so, Ushijima Sadao's 18th Division would be far away from Nanjing City and completely reduced to an assisting force!

This is absolutely unacceptable!

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao decided to let the 35th Infantry Brigade of the Third Major General of Hiratsuka Province be launched in advance, and he was going to crush Gao Chun's Nanjing garrison and go around to the front of the 6th Division!

As soon as Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao gave this order, Gaochun County, which was relatively calm, suddenly became lively! Li Tiejun's 78th Division was suddenly pushed into the oil pot!

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Hu Zongnan, the regular commander of the 1st Army, was not there, Li Tiejun became the commander of the 1st Army, the 1st Army said that it was an army, but in fact there were only two divisions, Li Tiejun, the temporary commander of the army, was also the commander of the 78th Division, and two hours before the 35th Brigade of the 18th Division launched the attack, the 78th Division had just taken over the pre-10th Division here, Hushu Town was the forefront of Chunhua, and Li Tiejun placed a regiment here, and he also wanted to be able to resist for a while.

Li Tiejun didn't expect that the commander of the 35th Brigade, the third major general of Hirazuka Province, would all the armored artillery go into battle as soon as he came up, and the regiment of the 78th Division had already suffered more than half of the casualties in the second half of the night, and the front commander's bitter phone call directly hit Li Tiejun's division headquarters!

Li Tiejun is not a person who can't be saved when he dies, and the 1st Army is Hu Zongnan's family background, if he Li Tiejun really loses this force, Hu Zongnan will not let him go, so after the battle began, he has sent two battalions to the defenders of Hushu Town.

But Li Tiejun didn't expect that the Japanese attack would be so fierce, his two battalions just relieved the defenders of Hushu Town, and now, it is still a situation that is about to collapse!

There have been a large number of deserters on the front line, the 78th Division is the 99th Army, and it is not a "German Armament Division", in the case of not being able to block the Japanese army at all, a battalion commander took the lead in deserting, and the Battle of Nanjing has been fought for the first time This is the first time that such a thing has happened, and the 1st Army has won this "first place" with embarrassment!

What a fucking don't give Lao Tzu a face! Li Tiejun still couldn't swallow this breath, he chose to scold to vent his anger!

There is another person who is more anxious than Li Tiejun about the poor performance of the 1st Army, that person is Li Wen, the commander of the 32nd Division, Li Wen is Hu Zongnan's henchman, and he is not willing to jump into the cauldron of Nanjing, and now Huang Haoran has disassembled the two divisions of the 1st Army and used them, which makes Li Wen even more dissatisfied!

Isn't this taking the family background of the 1st Army to give him Huang Haoran's footsteps? No matter how beautiful the defense of Nanjing is, Huang Haoran will not help the career of the old army commander Hu Zongnan, so the top priority is to preserve the strength and not let the troops fight in Nanjing!

Chunhua, the peripheral suburban county, will be lost, the enemy is outnumbered, Huang Haoran can't say anything, on the contrary, if the 78th Division fights well, maybe Huang Haoran can make the 78th Division die in Chunhua! Anyway, if it's not his capital, Huang Haoran will definitely not feel distressed!

Li Wen felt that he should give Li Tiejun a wake-up call!

So Li Wen sent someone to send a secret letter to Li Tiejun, In his heart, he explained the pros and cons of the gains and losses thoroughly, as for how to look at it next, it depends on Li Tiejun's courage!

Li Tiejun was sweating profusely after reading Li Wen's secret letter, wasn't this telling him to escape? Fools know that the highest authorities gave Huang Haoran a Shang Fang sword, and the life and death of officers below the rank of lieutenant general depends on Huang Haoran's words, if he Li Tiejun dares to lose Chunhua casually, maybe Huang Haoran's first knife will cut off his head!

It's also very troublesome not to listen to Li Wen's words, after all, Hu Zongnan is his own legitimate master, and now Li Wen has fished himself out by relying on this letter, and now all the pressure is on Li Tiejun, thinking about the fate of these two divisions if they are lost in Nanjing, Li Tiejun is also shuddering!

Nearly is also dead! To retreat is to die! It seems that this level can't be passed!

Li Tiejun was a little decadent and made a mistake in the chair, at this time his chief of staff came over, He Daru was Li Tiejun's confidant, as soon as Li Wen's letter was delivered, He Daru guessed the content inside, and now seeing Li Tiejun's expression after reading the letter, He Daru was even more sure of his judgment! Li Tiejun is also down, and he has to be finished! You have to think of a way to protect yourself!

He Daru's eyes rolled a few times, and he had an idea!

Li Tiejun saw that He Daru walked to his side, thinking that He Daru was going to ask about the content of the letter, Li Tiejun handed the letter to He Daru weakly, He Daru glanced at it and confirmed it again, and then laughed.

"Chief of Staff Ho! You're still laughing! We.. We're in for a catastrophe! ”

Li Tiejun felt that He Daru's smile was a little inexplicable, and now he didn't have any good emotions!

"Throne! I'm laughing at you for being a fan of the authorities! In my opinion, we are far from a desperate situation! ”

He Daru's words made Li Tiejun jump up from the ground all of a sudden, and he shook He Daru's shoulders desperately, trying to get an answer!

"Junzao, you now regard Huang Haoran as having a Commander Hu, thinking that the two of them are ruthless, so there is no countermeasure! You have forgotten that Commander Huang and Commander Hu are very different! Commander Hu will naturally not be polite to his own person, but Huang Haoran is indeed reasonable! That's our ...... opportunity! ”

"Oh! Tell me more about ......! Li Tiejun urged impatiently.

He Daru put on a posture of a great immortal, beckoned Li Tiejun to come over, and then he whispered something to Li Tiejun, the more He Daru said that the more sad clouds on Li Tiejun's face became, and in the end, Li Tiejun had completely recovered his spirits!

"That's it!" Li Tiejun slapped the table and made up his mind!

Five minutes later, Huang Haoran in the Nanjing City Defense Headquarters received a telegram from Li Tiejun asking for help, Li Tiejun said in the telegram that the 87th Division was about to collapse, and added three "100,000 urgent" at the end of the telegram!

The performance of the 78th Division did surprise Huang Haoran, he didn't expect that the 1st Army, which had taken so much effort to pull Jianglai, was actually an embroidered pillow! Is Hu Zongnan's troops so unbeaten?

Fan Jie was also a little puzzled after reading Li Tiejun's telegram, the combat effectiveness of 78 is at least stronger than that of the 10th Division, right? Even Lan Yundong has been holding out in Lishui for so long, how did the 1st Army have only been fighting for a few hours to get to this point?

Doubts are doubts, this reinforcement still has to be sent, if Chunhua loses it too quickly, the troops of Taoyuan Fangshan will not have time to complete the adjustment, if they are bitten by the 18th Division at this time, it is not a joke!

At present, the only way to do this is to let the Pre-10th Division and the 1st Teaching Brigade that had just left Taoyuan drive back to resist for some time, and then transfer the 51st Army in the Tiexinqiao area or the 66th Army in the east of the city to change the defense, but I don't know if it can be replaced......

Just when Huang Haoran and Fan Jie were about to form an order, a major officer in the telecommunications room ran over and handed a telegram to Fan Jie, Fan Jie's face changed drastically after reading the content, Huang Haoran immediately realized that there was trouble again, and sure enough, Fan Jie quickly told Huang Haoran an even worse news!

This time it was a telegram from the 32nd Division in Fangshan, and like Li Tiejun, Li Wen's troops also suffered heavy casualties, and one regiment had collapsed, and now there are more and more deserters, and the 32nd Division is in urgent need of reinforcements!

Again the troops of the 1st Army! What the hell is going on??

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