Chapter 147: Fighting the Kwantung Army (2)

The night was very dark, it was dark outside the porthole, and the mercenaries in the cabin learned from the pilot that the group was flying in the direction of Taiyuan at this time, and they would make a short stop in Taiyuan to replenish fuel and a few local guides from Harbin. Zhao Zhi has been closing his eyes since he got on the plane, Yan Wudao and Ye Kong, who were sitting next to him, also looked drowsy, in order to persuade Luo Ying to stay in Myanmar to take care of Luo Lin, Yan Wudao and Ye Kong didn't close their eyes all night and took turns grinding with Luo Ying.

Yan Wudao, who has always been open-minded, is the same as Ye Kong, who is simple-minded, he is a person with a pillow, and the noise in the cabin is so loud, these two people can actually sleep. Zhao Zhi didn't sleep, he was just closing his eyes and thinking about things, the group of planes from Chongqing could only fly directly to Harbin after docking in Taiyuan and Outer Mongolia, and in order to meet the safe evacuation of the commandos, Zhao Zhi also needed to find a suitable place for the temporary landing of the transport plane around the 731 troop station.

For the sake of safety, Zhao Zhi did not inform Dai Li of his entire plan, there were too many Japanese spies lurking in the Nationalist Government or traitors who were willing to work for the Japanese, and Zhao Zhi did not want his whereabouts to be leaked to the Japanese army. Before leaving, Zhao Zhimi ordered Luo Ying to use Thunder's radio to contact Yan'an, didn't Zhou Enlai intentionally want to befriend himself? Then Zhao Zhike will not waste the CCP's kindness in vain, maybe the CCP's sleepers in Harbin can help him.

The plane began to descend slowly, and Zhao Zhi, who had been closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly opened his eyes and woke up Yan Wudao and Ye Kong, who were dozing off beside him. "Ask our people to take care of the plane, all the refueling and replenishment of supplies are done by our people independently, the guides sent by the military commander must be carefully searched before they can board the plane, they are not allowed to carry any iron weapons on the plane, and they must be separated and cannot stay on the same plane, and someone must secretly monitor their every move." The plane stopped, Zhao Zhi just sent Yan Wudao down to negotiate with the defenders of Taiyuan Airport, and he didn't plan to get off the plane at all.

The heavily armed mercenaries scattered in all directions to watch all the planes on the airport runway, and all the fuel pushed by the ground staff of the airport defenders was also taken over by the mercenaries, in short, they were not allowed to get close to the fighters within 20 meters. Compared with Zhao Zhi, Ye Kong is much familiar with Taiyuan Airport, and in the three days after taking Taiyuan, Thunder has sent a large number of materials and all kinds of talents to Kunming and Myanmar through here, otherwise how can Myanmar develop so fast now.

"Sir, the fuel has been replenished, and the guide sent by the military commander has also been checked, but there are a lot of people they have sent, we want 6, and they have sent more than 20." Yan Wudao brought a copy of the details of those guides to Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi just glanced at it a few times, and then understood the intention of the military commander's move, the intelligence is different, the guide sent by Dai Li, who was afraid of leaking secrets, included people from all over the world, and the most of them were Hebei people who were familiar with the terrain around Beiping, even if the Japanese learned about it, they would never have thought that the Harbin people in the guide were the main ones.

The purpose of Zhao Zhi's trip is the 731 Defense Station, and how to deal with people and things that are unfavorable to this operation are all things that Zhao Zhi needs to guard against, since the military commander has thought of this, it saves Zhao Zhi trouble. "Take them all, and when we get to the next landing point, put the irrelevant people behind." Zhao Zhi was very sharp, stuffed the guide sent by the military commander into the plane, and before the airport guards could turn over and what was going on, the group of planes parked on the airport runway had already begun to taxi into the air.

"Gentlemen, we are now flying at an altitude of 1,200 meters and sailing southeast, but we are about to turn to fly, a little bump is normal, please don't panic." Half an hour after the group lifted off, Buckley's voice sounded again in the cabin. The initial half-hour flight was to deceive the defenders of Taiyuan, and now the group adjusted its direction to go to the temporary airport in Inner Mongolia, which had already been selected, and the 100 mercenaries who had left in advance had already been waiting there, as well as a large amount of fuel and supplies.

Compared with Ye Kong's constant holding of the pistol and staring at the 6 guides in the cabin, Zhao Zhi didn't seem to care, Zhao Zhi arranged the precautionary measures so that in order to keep secrets, these people were sent by the military commander, and the probability of hidden unfavorable factors should be very small, not to mention that Ye Kong was watching on the side, Zhao Zhi was not worried that these guys would be unfavorable to him on the plane. Flying at night is not only monotonous, but also full of dangers, which is a test of the performance of the aircraft and the quality of the pilot, but Barkley enjoys the journey.

The destination to be reached is the Horqin Zhongqi near Baicheng, the place selected by the mercenaries who set off in advance is called Dakan, which is a small place under the control of Tuquan County, and it takes at least two days to ride a horse from Dakan to Tuquan, and it is the most convenient condition for people to be uninhabited. Dakan originally belonged to a group of horse thieves, and the mercenaries sent out by Zhao Zhi in advance only took one day to clear out this group of horse thieves, and more than 100 horse thieves who were temporarily saved for a small life are now building a temporary airport for Zhao Zhi, and the horse thieves don't know that those iron birds are planes, and they don't even know that these demon-like guys fly to Dakan in iron birds, and their sabers and rifles are not opponents of submachine guns and Garand at all. The riding skills they had relied on so far didn't seem to work, and the motorcycles the demons seemed to be faster on this semi-hard surface. The kind of rifle with a small mirror that can even hit targets from a distance of a few hundred meters makes the surviving horse thieves glad that they are still alive, and if these demons are ruthless, it is estimated that none of them will survive.

Picking up rocks, clearing weeds, and covering the planes with camouflage nets, the more than 100 horse thieves who were deliberately left alive by the mercenaries were busy. The temporary airport covering an area of more than dozens of acres was cleaned up, there was no tower, no light runway, no hangar, no fuel depot, everything was covered by camouflage nets, and only when Zhao Zhi and them arrived would the mercenaries send a signal, otherwise it would be seen from the sky, and this was just a wild place with a small number of horse thieves.

A huge roar came down from the sky, and the flashing signal lights under the belly of the plane appeared in the sight of the horse thieves one by one, and the unknown horse thieves began to panic, and some even ran to the horse ring to escape on horseback. "Ignition, guidance for the landing of the group." After the radio had been used to contact the group, the mercenary commander who commanded the vanguard gave the order, and the pyre that had already been sprinkled with kerosene was ignited, and the dozen or so spreading fire lines were no different from the light runway of Mandalay Airport, and I believe that the group of planes hovering in the air must be visible.

"Gentlemen, I have good news for you, the brothers on the ground have given us a guiding signal, and now it's time for us to land, please do it in your place, and fasten your seat belts and secure your things." Barkley's slightly tired voice sounded in the cabin again, the continuous hours of flying consumed a lot of his physical strength, if it weren't for the co-pilot to share some of the burden, Buckley still had the mind to joke with Zhao Zhi and them in the cabin.

The seemingly bulky transport plane deftly adjusted its direction and balance in mid-air, and the eight transport planes landed on the rudimentary runway one by one, and the fighters and bombers with combat missions who followed the escort also landed one after another. It wasn't until one mercenary after another came out of the cabin that the wandering horse thieves knew what the iron birds that fell from the sky were doing, and the Mongolian horse thieves who knelt down to worship the immortal heaven stopped praying, no longer thinking that these iron birds were so-called miracles.

"Sir, there are more than 100 of these horse thieves, and if you keep them, you may change, so it is better to kill them all." Most of these horse thieves were Mongols, they could hardly speak Chinese, and the combat effectiveness of riding horses and swords was too low. Yan Wudao, who had just jumped off the plane, was smoked by the smell of mutton on the horse thieves, although these horse thieves looked quite sturdy, but Yan Wudao didn't think that they could beat these mercenaries under him.

Zhao Zhi, who jumped off the plane, did not pay attention to the horse thieves who gathered to watch the excitement like Yan Wudao, but took the two sappers who came with him to the edge of the runway first. At this time tomorrow, there will be several transport planes from Chongqing coming here, their cabins are full of bombs and incendiary bombs needed by bombers, if the soil here is not good, it will be difficult for transport planes full of houses to land here safely, so Zhao Zhi must first check the soil quality here.

"You can do it yourself, but it's better to keep them farther away, we'll have to stay here for some time, don't get the smell everywhere." Zhao Zhi didn't raise his head to dig out the soil hole with a sapper shovel, Yan Wudao and the others are old men of Thunder, it's time to deal with some things alone, you can't always come to Zhao Zhi to get ideas.

"Boss, there should be no problem with the soil here, but there are more stones in the gravel, and the follow-up transport planes only need to adjust the materials transported a little, and there should be no problem with safe take-off and landing here." Zhao Zhi's two sappers have good news, they have participated in the construction of the temporary airport in Thunder many times, they are soil experts in this area, as long as they say no problem, then it is really no problem, Zhao Zhi, who put his heart back in his stomach, finally relaxed.

"The guard post was set up for 20 miles, and the rest of the people hurried to move out all the materials brought by the transport plane, and after dawn, everyone restricted their activities and started to move after dark." Dakan is only more than 700 kilometers away from Harbin, and the transport plane can reach Harbin in only two hours.