Chapter 188: Air Raid on the Airport
After receiving the reply from the military commander, a group of special forces troops immediately showed joy, and immediately accelerated the speed of cleaning up the airfield, so as to make preparations for the airborne landing of the pilots as much as possible. As for the threat of the enemy army outside, they don't care much about it anymore, after all, there were originally less than 1,500 devil army troops in the city, and they had wiped out more than 400 people not long ago, and at this moment, the comrades of the 115th Division had successfully entered the city, and the remaining devils were too late to deal with them, and where could they draw Liliang to recapture the airport?
Due to the full preparation of the airfield, 16 bombers flying from the three field airfields of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Province successfully landed more than 70 pilots and bombardiers at the Baoding airfield; except for one unlucky guy who accidentally broke his foot, the rest of the people did not suffer any casualties; after they landed, they did not even have time to drink a sip of tea before they immediately threw themselves into intense work, and the pilots excitedly got into the various new Japanese planes parked in the airfield to familiarize themselves with the operation before taking off. At this time, the prince had already used the Japanese communication code in his possession to pretend to be the devil aviation unit that had been eliminated by them before to send a telegram to the headquarters of the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the Japanese North China Front, explaining that Baoding was already in danger under the siege of the enemy, and in order to prevent the plane from falling into the hands of the enemy, they decided to fly away from Baoding Airport immediately, and for this reason, they asked in the telegram about the current situation of several nearby airports, especially how many planes they could accommodate
Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Provisional Air Corps of the Japanese North China Front, was shocked when he received the telegram, considering that there were many planes in Baoding. An airport may not be able to accommodate it, so he hurriedly called Zhangjiakou Airport, Beiping Airport, Tianjin Dongjuzi Airport and Tanggu Airport to inquire, and then immediately sent a telegram to Baoding Airport to explain the situation, so that he could decide for himself.
This is really "someone sent a pillow as soon as I dozed off", the prince couldn't help but smile after translating the message. However, the pilots pointed out that except for the 18 bombers, the other planes at Baoding airport had a very low bomb load (the main weapon was machine guns, but some lighter bomblets could also be carried on bombing missions if necessary). A 30-kilogram bomb on each wing is a more common option. The lethality of fighters and reconnaissance planes is actually not so powerful, if you are too greedy. I'm afraid that I won't be able to achieve much success because of the dispersion of Liliang. "It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers." , with the number of aircraft at the Baoding airport, at most it is only possible to ensure the destruction of two large airfields, uh, more precisely, just to blow up all the aircraft parked on the airfield
"Then two, although there are a lot of planes in Zhangjiakou, once our operation is successful, we can directly use the army to fight over, and if we can capture a few more, there is no need to bomb them. Then our goal is to have the most planes in Tanggu and Beiping. The prince quickly decided that because of his previous wonderful performance and the temporary authorization of the 15th Army, those pilots did not dare to underestimate him because of his young age, and after hastily discussing and determining some details. Immediately took off the plane, and the troops rushed to Beiping and Tanggu in two ways, considering that Tanggu was a little far away, in order to eliminate the time difference, they also specially pinched the time to divide into two groups to take off
Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, who was uneasy, came to the Beiping airport to wait, and was relieved to see a group of small black dots appear in the sky and get bigger and bigger. But he still couldn't help but curse in his mouth, "Finally withdrew safely, the waste of the 6th Division can't even hold Baoding!" ”…,
At this time, the telephone soldier at the airport suddenly ran over, saying that it was a call from Tanggu, and there was an urgent military situation to report to Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, and Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi had to go in to answer the phone, but when he heard it, his face changed greatly, "What? Tanggu airport was hit by an air strike? Was it our own plane that did it? Don't? Not good! ”
But how fast the plane is! Tokugawa Yoshitoshi had just rushed out of the house, and before he could give the order, he saw that twenty or thirty Japanese planes had already flown over the airport, and one after another aerial bombs fell with the shaking of the fuselage, and the sixty or seventy planes that were crowded together at the Beiping Airport in order to vacate the runway were suddenly destroyed, and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi couldn't help but be completely stunned, and screamed heartbreakingly, "No! ”
Due to the needs of the battlefield, the devils did not load the planes in Baoding with heavy bombs mainly used to destroy ships, large facilities, and permanent fortifications, but a larger number of small and medium-sized aerial bombs, but this made the air raid more efficient, and in less than a short time, more than 50 Japanese planes on the Beiping airfield were all destroyed, and the pilots of the 15 th Army Flying Regiment still held down the firing button of the aviation machine gun without getting enough of it. The planes that were not completely destroyed and the devils who were visible were shot indiscriminately before they flew back
Tanggu Airport, which was attacked earlier, was the air base of the Devils, and in addition to the planes, a large amount of aviation gasoline and ammunition were destroyed, and the losses were greater than those of the Beiping Airport. The two airfields lost a total of 127 planes of various types, more than 500 Japanese officers and men, and ground crews, and a large number of important materials necessary for the air force were blown up or burned.
After that, the Japanese army finally attached great importance to the security of the airport, and the Japanese army headquarters even stipulated at the end of 37 that the defenders of the airport should not be less than one brigade under any circumstances, and if the airport was located outside the city, an infantry wing should be sent to garrison it. In addition, the Japanese army did not dare to believe it easily when they met each other, no matter how good they were in Japanese, they had to give all the passwords and so on, and even if there was an accident that caused the Japanese army to be accidentally injured and even the plane was shot down by their own people, the Japanese base camp did not waver. In this way, it will be much more difficult for special tactics to succeed, but the former has forced the Japanese army to convert a large number of elite army units into garrisons, making their mobile forces more and more insufficient, and the latter has made the coordinated operations between the various Japanese units not as smooth and fast as before, which has somewhat affected the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. )……,