Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.inforeadx; At 6:30 a.m. on August 17, Ma Cheng, who had not slept all night, finally waited for the news of the Ninth Division on the front line, saying that the Ninth Division had opened a gap and was rapidly advancing in depth, which made Ma Cheng, who had been sleeping all night, finally relax a little

"Zhuang Xianhe is worthy of being a member of our second battalion!" Ma Cheng's tired face was smiling, the second battalion in Ma Cheng's mouth refers to the second battalion of the 38th standard of the 10th town, the absolute descendant force that Chen Jingyun relied on during the Fuzhou uprising, at that time, Chen Jingyun relied on the second battalion to control Fuzhou, became the commander-in-chief of the national army, and developed step by step to the present, and the second battalion at that time, whether it was an officer or a soldier, as long as he did not die or was disabled and continued to serve in the army, most of them had been promoted, Ma Cheng became a lieutenant general. The original four team officers have also become the existence of major generals and division commanders, and Lin Chengkun, the overseer officer, has also become the commander of the Fourth Army, and most of the other sentry officers have been promoted to become regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and most of those ordinary soldiers have also become second lieutenants, lieutenants, and at the last time, they are also sergeants, but these are all survivors, in fact, since the Fuzhou Uprising, except for a few high-level officers, those low-level officers, For example, there are less than half of the lower-level officers such as the sentry officer Zhengmu, and as for the ordinary soldiers, they can't even find a quarter of them

After Ma Cheng received this news, he did not slack off, but sent it back to the Nanjing Command, so that the group of generals in the Command could calm down, and he needed to prove to Chen Jingyun that the Second Army could still fight, and he Ma Cheng's ability was still there

Ma Cheng's battle report did make Chen Jingyun in the rear feel a lot more settled!

When the high command received this small start from the Ninth Division, the Nanjing Air Base was busy, and the previous large-scale sorties, the ground staff in the Nanjing Air Base were ready overnight, and the previous bombs were loaded on the plane, this time they loaded the plane with the logistics supplies used by the army, and each plane carried additional fuel, because they were going to fly to Caijiagang and then land, and after unloading the goods, they had to take off again, but there was no fuel supply on Caijiagang's side, Therefore, in order to ensure sufficient fuel for return, the Air Force reduced cargo transportation, and carried more fuel for the return of the air base is not far from Chaohu, the air distance is only about 100 kilometers, and the standard range of the B3 bomber is more than 500 kilometers, according to the logic is enough, but in fact, the aircraft needs to consume a lot of fuel during take-off and landing, if the middle does not land, the fuel of the B3 is enough, but after one more take-off and landing, the fuel will be more than a part

After overnight preparations, the first batch of B3 bombers began to take off loaded with ammunition and other logistical supplies, because this time it was not a bombing operation but an air supply, so at the same time there was only one squad of four B3 bombers, and there were two D5A fighters to escort, Caijiagang over the fifth mixed brigade urgently sorted out a piece of open space can theoretically allow B3 bombers to take off and land smoothly, but due to the tense situation in Caijiagang, the control area has been seriously compressed, and the north-south direction is not even four kilometers, The flat runway, which was about 1,000 meters long, which was rushed out of the work, even crossed part of the main defense area of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and even some of the runways were less than 1,000 meters away from the front line

In addition, the Fifth Mixed Brigade is now short of troops, and it is impossible to find too many people to carry out loading and unloading tasks at the same time, only a small number of people, otherwise if too many planes fly at the same time, on the one hand, there will not be enough airport space to accommodate these planes to land, and on the other hand, it will not be able to find enough manpower to load and unload cargo

In order to save fuel and time, these four B3 bombers and two D5A fighters did not fly along the south bank of the Yangtze River and then turn to the north bank as they did in the last bombing of Chaohu, but flew together and went straight to Chaohu, and the route was almost straight without any deviation

It took more than an hour for these six planes to arrive over Chaohu Lake, and the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army were no strangers to the planes, and those Beiyang Army thought that the Nationalist Army was coming to bomb them again, and they were busy lying on the ground or hiding in the anti-artillery holes, but they found that these Nationalist planes did not pay attention to them

Then the soldiers of the Beiyang Army who were besieging Caijiagang were surprised to find that these planes flew over their heads with a huge roar, but they did not drop bombs like last time, but flew towards Caijiagang on their own, and flew lower and lower, from hundreds of meters to 100 meters, and then it was only tens of meters away, looking at this situation, if it were not for the fact that those planes were already far away from the Beiyang Army's position, I am afraid that those Beiyang Army would have excitedly picked up machine guns to strafe these planes

Immediately afterwards, an even more surprising scene appeared, several officers of the Beiyang Army standing on the small high ground clearly saw through binoculars that the planes of the Nationalist Army were actually staggering and landing on the flat ground of Caijiagang

"What are these planes going to do?" After Wu Peifu received the news of the attack of the Nationalist Army's planes, he ordered to prepare air defense preparations while also coming out to observe, and when he saw that the Nationalist planes had actually landed in the rear of the Nationalist Army on the opposite side, he was extremely surprised

Before he was surprised, the second B3 bomber of the National Army Air Force had landed, and at this time, the escort D5A fighter also did not know where to pounce, and then found an artillery position of Wu Peifu, and dived down to strafe with machine guns, at this time Wu Peifu didn't care about those strange landing National Army bombers, Instead, the anti-aircraft machine guns were ordered to strike at the two planes that were strafing the ground in the sky, but the two D5A fighters climbed and circled after a burst of machine guns, and had no intention of landing, nor did they plan to return, but after a while, they pounced on a certain position and strafed until they ran out of machine gun bullets

When the two D5A fighters were hovering in the sky, the four B3 bombers also landed one after another, and then the soldiers of the Fifth Mixed Brigade who had been ready to unload the bombers also got off the plane, and three of the pilots commanded the army turtles to open the cabin door and then unload, while a pilot with the rank of major stepped forward and then walked in front of a colonel of the Fifth Mixed Brigade:" Major Lin Yuntong, the leader of the 2nd Squadron of the 4th Bombardment Squadron of the 1st Air Force, was ordered to lead the team to arrive, this is the list of supplies, please sign for it! ”

Standing in front of Lin Yuntong was the deputy brigade commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, his face was a little tired, but when he saw the people of the Air Force, he still reluctantly smiled: "Brother, it's been hard along the way, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat first!" ”

When he spoke, he had already taken over the list of supplies, and then the joy on his face became even more obvious: "You brought the ammunition we urgently need this time, Ai Ke has helped me a lot!" ”

However, Major Lin Yuntong didn't seem interested in these words, and still said expressionlessly: "This is just the first batch of previous supplies for our Air Force, and there are more materials arriving today, and the Consumer Department is ready to accept them!" In addition, I need to borrow your department's wireless telegraph to report the situation to the Nanjing base! ”

The deputy brigade commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade saw Lin Yuntong's businesslike face, and he didn't take the initiative to make a smile, he was a colonel who could give you this little face, but he didn't even give face, and immediately put on a straight face and said: "That's good, I'll take you to the brigade communication company!" ”

On the way, Lin Yuntong said again: "In addition, during the landing of the team, I found that there are many positions of the Beiyang Army in the north, and there may be anti-aircraft machine guns deployed to threaten our aircraft group during the landing, and the Ministry of Elimination can strike at this area!" ”

After the deputy brigade commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade took the map, he asked Lin Yuntong to point out the location, and immediately patted his chest to ensure that an intensive mortar shelling would be carried out on this area within half an hour to eliminate the potential threat to the aircraft group

In fact, the Air Force of the Nationalist Army wants to carry out air supply in this small area, and the aircraft will encounter a serious threat in the process of taking off and landing, if the Beiyang Army has a large number of air defense heavy machine guns for air blockade, then the Air Transport Fleet of the National Army will be in great danger, and if the Beiyang Army temporarily runs to the airport in Caijiagang to carry out artillery bombardment, it will also cause great losses to the Air Force's aircraft, not to mention that a bomb crater on the runway is not such a difficult thing to solve. Although the requirements for the airport of the aircraft in this year are simple, they also require that the terrain be leveled, and potholes are not enough

This is also the reason why the two D5A fighters above continue to circle, their task is to find and strike at the enemy's artillery positions, not to kill or damage, but to deter, not to let the Beiyang Army launch a large-scale artillery bombardment In order to complete this task, the Air Force will send two D5A fighters every hour to rotate, to ensure that there are always planes in the sky above the Beiyang Army to monitor and strike, covering the arrival and departure of the bombers until the evening, as for the artillery bombardment of the Beiyang Army at night is inevitable, but the shelling of the Beiyang Army, The Fifth Mixed Brigade will continue to build the runway, and the next day, a flat earthen runway will welcome the arrival of Nationalist bombers

In order to carry out the airlift supply task personally ordered by Chen Jingyun, the Nationalist Air Force invested almost all its strength, and the Air Force even gave up the combat readiness patrol in the Jiangbei area, and sent all the D5A fighters to Caijiagang in turn, maintaining the presence of at least two D5A fighters in Caijiagang throughout the day, but brought bombs to carry out several small-scale bombardments of the positions of the Beiyang Army on the outskirts of Caijiagang

In fact, many B3 bombers that were originally ready to carry out airlift missions also gave up airlift missions because the throughput of Caijiagang temporary airport was too small, and could only bring bombs for bombing

On the 17th, from the early morning to the nightfall, the Nationalist Air Force dispatched a total of 42 sorties of D5A fighters to carry out escort missions, and dispatched more than 30 sorties of bombers to bomb, and as the core of this mission, B3 bombers made a total of 30 sorties, if it were not for the fact that Caijiagang could not accommodate more B3 bombers at the same time to unload and take off and land, then the number would be higher

The 50 sorties by air carried more than 10 tons of various combat materials to the 5th Mixed Brigade, the vast majority of which were bullets and artillery shells, and a few were medicines

In addition, they also brought back fifty or sixty wounded people, and these wounded were also the first batch of plane passengers in this era, but they suffered too much when they took the plane, and the low pressure and the cold at high altitude almost made these wounded die in the air

The Air Force of the Nationalist Army organized such a large-scale air operation, at first Wu Peifu and other Beiyang Army although strange, but soon saw that things were not second, Wu Peifu organized a lot of anti-aircraft fire to hit these planes overhead, but the airlift of the Nationalist Army was carried out together with escort and bombing, and there were bombers and fighters of the Nationalist Army on standby all day long above the head of the Beiyang Army, although the Beiyang Army also achieved certain results and successfully shot down a D4B bomber that carried out low-altitude bombing, They were only blown up a mountain cannon, and dozens of soldiers were killed and wounded, and the Beiyang Army had been prepared for air raids, so they did not have much loss of their own, but their real loss was that they failed to stop the air supply operation of the National Army, and were delayed by the air raid for a whole day, and the Beiyang Army almost failed to launch the offensive on this day

At night, Wu Peifu learned that the defense line had been broken through on the Chaohu side, and when the enemy army was advancing to the north along the junction of Bantang and Chaohu, some of them didn't know if those people in Chaohu in the south could block the northward attack of the national army

In the night, Wu Peifu looked at the fire burning because of the explosion in the night, and had a very bad premonition in his heart, and soon after, Wu Peifu ordered the troops to launch a large-scale night attack, and asked Wang Chengbin's troops to cooperate!

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It's a little unlucky today.,It's been written more than 3,000 and then I don't know when I'm crazy and I deleted it.,Well,It's tr+a and then bakspae can't find tr+ dead in the end, you can't get it back, you can only rewrite it.,What's interesting is that the newly written chapter is not the same as the original one.,Originally written about the three armed forces faction, now it's become an air supply.,Accidentally wrote a thousand more words.,Four thousand words to ......