Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 815

The place where the Japanese planes were to ambush was just north of the venue chosen by the Four Elements Group.

The reason for the judgment is very simple. Not to mention that the Chinese Air Force has hardly appeared on the northern battlefield. After the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Air Force suffered heavy losses. .

In order to deceive people, the Four Elements Regiment built an air defense position more than 1000 meters away from the venue, but no one knew that along the direction of 15000 meters, the first theater was already densely covered with an 88mm anti-aircraft artillery battalion and 6 machine guns. company and 8 anti-aircraft machine gun companies.

As the commander-in-chief of this anti-aircraft battle codenamed "Destroyer", Tang Dao broke up the various establishments, with 88mm anti-aircraft guns as the core, machine guns as auxiliary to build positions, and anti-aircraft machine guns as protection.

To put it simply, it is an 88mm anti-aircraft gun, equipped with 6 machine guns for the main position, and 16 anti-aircraft machine guns around the main position. The fighters will only shoot when they descend below 88 meters to attack the position.

There are four such main positions, three of which are 4 kilometers away from the due north of the venue, and each position is about two kilometers apart, showing a triangular distribution. If the Japanese aircraft formation arrives, the three air defense positions can guarantee to fire at the same time. The Japanese plane turns, no matter which direction it comes from, the stable structure of the triangle can also cover and support each other.

The other main position is two kilometers away from the venue, and the anti-aircraft position composed of 12 anti-aircraft machine guns and two machine guns placed on the surface by the Four Elements Regiment is the corner of each other, forming the last line against the soldiers and civilians of the Four Elements Regiment as bait. barrier.

Based on Tang Dao's understanding of the Japanese, he knows that most of them are dead-headed. Even if they are attacked at high altitude, they will not easily give up the goals they have set.

Although the Four Elements Regiment has made full preparations and dug trenches more than two meters deep in the surrounding woods to avoid the bomb blast, but after all, there is luck. If you are unlucky, the bomb dropped from the sky will just fall into the trench where?
The chance of this is very small, will it happen?Not to mention tens of hundreds of casualties, just a few casualties, the New Year's party has to be a funeral banquet, and the running water banquet is not wasted.

This is a combat mode that Tang Dao has never experienced. The last time in Baihe Port, the Chinese Air Force participated in the battle, but this time, if the Japanese aircraft really came, it would be a thorough ground-to-air.

Although it was their own initiative to lure them, as long as the Japanese fighter planes were not greedy enough and only dropped bombs at high altitudes to destroy the target, and had no intention of competing with the air defense positions below, the planes flying above the blue sky still occupied the absolute initiative.

It can attack and evacuate at a higher altitude. This is the biggest advantage of a fighter plane. However, the anti-aircraft guns and machine guns on the ground are limited by their shooting height and range, so they can only watch.

But Tang Dao had to do it, otherwise, even if his Four Elements Group and the people around the town were not in danger, the more than [-] residents of Zhengzhou City would mourn in the flames of war on New Year's Day.

Fighter bombing in this era does not have any military targets. It is completely indiscriminate bombing. Now the Japanese army is in China.

In short, during these two days, the veteran theater commander kept his promise, mobilized the anti-aircraft firearms he could mobilize, and ordered all the air defense battalions to obey Tang Dao unconditionally, and Tang Dao did the same. arranged to the best of his ability.

Tang Dao received the news that Gong Shaoxun brought it from the regiment headquarters before he sang the love song. He knew in advance that this party would eventually become an arrangement to lure Japanese fighters to come. Other than the chief officials, only Cheng Tieshou, the commander of the No. 2 artillery company, and Yang Xiaoshan, the commander of the spy company, knew about it.

The intelligence personnel in Taiyuan sent back a secret report: [-] Japanese fighter planes took off from Taiyuan Airport half an hour ago, and the destination is unknown!
Tang Dao was almost certain that these fighters were aimed at the Four Elements Group.

The reason is simple. If you want to bomb a big city like Kaifeng or Zhengzhou, the best time is in the morning. At this time, people are still celebrating the New Year and most of them stay at home. In the winter morning, the sightlines are not good. As long as the height is high enough, it is generally difficult for soldiers and civilians along the way alert.

But it happened to take off at noon, so it is natural to have received certain information that the Four Elements Group is really holding a party, and they want to annihilate or severely damage the Four Elements Group in one fell swoop. There is no better time than this.

As for who sent the news secretly, needless to say, those who left the venue early were the most suspect.

Under Gong Shaoxun's arrangement, the guards had already paid attention to those who voluntarily left the venue early. When Tang Dao announced the air defense drill and the air defense alarm sounded, they arrested more than a dozen people in succession.

There may be some wrongdoing among them. Their news was not passed on to the Japanese, but it was a crime to pass it on to those caring people who followed the Four Elements Group. It is certain that they would not be executed on the spot.

According to Tang Dao, if the confession is a spy of a certain department, it is easy to handle. Colonel Fan asks their superiors to redeem people, 500 oceans per person, and those who do not pay will be treated as Japanese spies.

In normal times, Tang Dao, an outsider, would certainly not be able to kill people at will, not even Japanese spies, but what is Tang Dao now?He is the commander-in-chief of the "Xiaoxiao" operation appointed by the commander-in-chief of the first theater general. In other words, this is his battlefield, and on his battlefield, he has the power of life and death against both the enemy and us.

In wartime military law, there is no question of whether it will go to a military court, and with a wave of the hand, the head will fall on the spot.

Moreover, Tang Dao's trick is very poisonous. If he doesn't say anything and kills people directly, the secret service agencies that have penetrated all over the country can only suffer from being dumb no matter how powerful they are. The function originally assigned to them is to spy. Japanese military intelligence, instead of monitoring 'Hundred Officials' like Jin Yiwei.

But Tang Dao still wants to let them know through the first war zone that if they don't go to redeem people, it won't work. Otherwise, this person can survive with five hundred oceans. If they don't save the leaders, who will dare in the future To work for them?
Threatened with snitching?There are still fewer people reporting to Tang Tuanzuo?There was even a lieutenant general who sent the report to the Military and Political Department!Tang Tuanzuo is still afraid of this?
Besides, Tang Dao is the recipient of the third-class Baoding Medal, which is second only to the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal. As long as he does not commit such evil things as treason, who would dare to easily use those trumped-up charges to convict him?Even the one in the highest position has to be wary of the influence.

The Sichuan Army and the Northeast Army behind Tang Dao are also very important anti-Japanese forces today.

Go to Tang Dao to snatch people?I didn't even dare to think about this kind of thing, not to mention that the highest-ranking spy in Henan Province is only a lieutenant colonel, even if he is on the same level as Tang Dao, the spies who have studied Tang Dao's information dare not carry a few small pistols Go to Tang Dao's important person.

That was a ruthless man who had fought against the Ministry of Military Affairs and led an infantry regiment and an army regiment. That's all. What's even more awesome was that his subordinates had slaughtered thousands of Japanese.There are bigwigs in China who hate him so much that the Japanese want to drink their blood and eat their flesh, and then kick the head of Tang Dao as a ball, but they are still alive and kicking and running south with thousands of people. to the north.

You said, how dare a group of spies who only hide in dark corners come here!
Since his brother was saved, but he didn't dare to steal it openly, he could only follow Tang Tuanzuo's wishes!
After the war, Tang Dao sold 5000 oceans just for 'selling' unidentified people. It can only be said that the spies worked very hard, and I was afraid that one or two observations would not be detailed enough, so he had to line up seven, eight, or ten people to come. , but unexpectedly made the Four Elements Group a windfall.

Tang Dao saw this business plan and decided to follow it in the future. However, this also reminded Tang Dao that the Four Elements Group must establish a security department.

The guard company is mainly used for the security protection of the regiment headquarters and the various departments under the regiment headquarters. It is a combat force. These coveting eyes from the dark are best dealt with by professionals.

Of course, it is still on the way to the army, and the various ministries have just run in, and even if a large number of personnel are transferred, the heads of the various ministries may have opinions. Tang Dao decided to wait until he arrived at the station before establishing the Security Department, and the candidate for the Minister of Security is extremely important. Trust, and more importantly, sufficient ability, cannot be done with a company commander.

It is said that after this time, all the spies in the city of Zhengzhou lived frugally for nearly two years, and even a branch opened a restaurant, which was severely blackmailed by Tang Datuan. Starve to death.

From then on, the secret agents of Yu Province changed their expressions when they heard about Tang Dao. Tang Tuanzuo did not kill people indiscriminately, but his way of asking for money with a big mouth was more ruthless than killing people!

Later, I heard that Tang Dao would not go anywhere when he arrived in Jin Province. The secret agents of Yu Province also felt sad for their colleagues in Jin Province. With no additional office expenses, it is estimated that those brothers could not even eat gnocchi soup. I can't drink it!
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Sasaki concentrated on driving the fighter plane and flying through the clouds. As a second lieutenant-level army aviation pilot, he was actually very resistant to carrying out this bombing mission.

Logically speaking, bombing a target whose coordinates have been determined and even has a bonfire on the ground as a guide is extremely simple, but since yesterday, Sasaki has felt restless, as if a god is reminding him not to carry out this mission.

Therefore, Second Lieutenant Sasaki has asked for leave since yesterday on the grounds of diarrhea, hoping to escape this seemingly easy mission.

That's right, as early as two days ago, the information that the infantry regiment led by the Chinese named Tang Dao would hold a New Year's party in the wild outside a big city in China had already been put on the desk of the North China Dispatch Army Command.

After hearing the news, the commander of the Fifth Division in Taiyuan, Seishiro Itagaki, immediately telegraphed General Hisashi Terauchi, then commander of the North China Dispatch Army, hoping to change the New Year’s offensive plan formulated by the headquarters half a month ago (bombing China with an army aviation fleet) Two heavy cities in Yu Province), but the Four Elements Regiment, which the Chinese side had vigorously promoted, was the target of the bombing. His reason was simple. Destroying this heroic infantry regiment, which was hyped up by the Chinese side, is far more effective than destroying some ordinary civilians. Chinese morale.

There are good reasons, but in fact, everyone knows how much this lieutenant general hates the army formed by the young Chinese infantry commander and a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers.

In order to demonstrate the bravery of his Fifth Division, when forming the Tenth Army, he ordered his general, Kunizaki, to be the main infantry of the Fifth Division. As a result, he stumbled and lost nearly a thousand in Songjiang The battle of Guangde was good, and we simply lost an infantry regiment and a reinforced artillery brigade. Without the No.30 Sixth Brigade, the Guoqi detachment, which lost all long-range artillery, would not have dared to move at all.

Seishiro Itagaki, who wanted to sing the majesty of the "Steel Army" from the north and the south, had half of his face swollen from the beating, so that not many people dared to mention the Southeast War in front of him, for fear of being mistaken by him for deliberately poking the wound.

And the instigator of all this was that young man named Tang Dao, a small colonel of the Chinese army, but he was remembered by the high-level officials of the North China Dispatch Army, which can be considered a different kind of glory!
General Shouda of the temple naturally had to give face to his top general. After another day, several spies confirmed that the information was correct, and they had the latitude and longitude of the target place.

Because China did not have any aircraft in the sky over North China after October 1937, the Army Aviation planned to send 10 Type 12 light bombers. Although the speed of this model is relatively slow and the failure rate is high, it is superior in its body structure and fighter jets. Very similar, it can be used as a fighter when necessary, and on a battlefield like China, it can completely save fuel for the escort fighter group.

And its bomb load of 500 kilograms is enough to ensure that twelve fighter planes can drop 6 tons of bombs. Not to mention destroying a small infantry regiment, it can completely wipe that town and its people from the earth.

The Japanese are really a frugal nation. Even during such a big war, they are still saving fuel for the empire. With this pissy pattern, if they can achieve final success, it is really God's short-sightedness.

But for Second Lieutenant Sasaki, what made him uneasy was not that there were no fighter planes to escort him, but that he believed that he was a person favored by the gods, and the gods were reminding him not to go.

It's a pity that his immediate superior, Lieutenant Shenmu Squadron Leader, rejected him verbally.

It's not that he doesn't want to believe the reason why the second lieutenant pilot under his command has diarrhea, but that Sasaki has a criminal record, and more than once.

In the famous Mid-Autumn Festival battle on September 1937, 9, Sasaki asked for leave because of a stomachache and did not fight. As a result, although 19 Chinese fighter planes were shot down in that battle, his own side lost several fighter planes and died on the spot. Commander of the Beiping Army Air Corps and commander of the Destroyer Brigade, Miwa Kan, who was bestowed the title of "King of Destroyer" by the Emperor.

Forget it, it's just a coincidence, but in October, the ground troops and logistical supplies of the Imperial Army's attack on Xinkou were constantly blocked, so they had to rely on Army Aviation to fly frequently from Yangmingbao Airport located in the southwest of Dai County. Dispatch planes to strengthen aerial bombing and transportation forces.

Sasaki had another moth, he fell directly, his nose was broken and he lost a few teeth, so he could only rest in the headquarters, and the squadron sent 6 fighters to participate in the battle.

As a result, the Chinese army used the night to attack the airport. All 24 fighter planes staying at the airport were blown up, and all 6 pilots were killed on the spot.

The miraculous Sasaki escaped with a bang again. Unexpectedly, this guy came again today. His stomach hurt last time, his face hurt last time, and this time he had diarrhea. How could Captain Shenmu let him succeed again?
Of course, the more important thing is that every time something goes wrong with this product, there will be an accident in the flight squadron. In order to relieve his pressure, Captain Shenmu has to take this unlucky boy with him no matter what.

In the captain's subconscious mind, Second Lieutenant Sasaki was the original sin of all that happened. If he were to die, the squadron would be safe.

Of course, Sasaki didn't know what his immediate superior was thinking, and the military order was hard to disobey, so he could only board the fighter plane with a heart full of anxiety, and flew cautiously at the end of the entire queue.

If something really happened, it would have to be the leading planes. Second Lieutenant Sasaki, who was so focused, didn't observe the ground at all. As long as he found something wrong, he would immediately drop the heavy bomb under the belly of the plane and pull it up into the sky.

The material matter of the empire is small, but the life-saving is a big matter. Second Lieutenant Sasaki is a special case in the Japanese army.

"Gentlemen, we are about to reach the target area. The distance is 50 kilometers. You can descend the altitude appropriately! The tactics have been arranged before take-off, so I won't repeat them. The empire is prosperous!" Captain Shenmu's voice came from the radio. sound.

"Empire, martial luck is prosperous!"

The heroic slogans of the pilots came from the radio.

The fleet also began to descend from an altitude of 2500 meters!
"These idiots!" Sasaki couldn't help scolding in his heart when he saw his colleagues foolishly lowering his safety height.

However, his body was very honest, and he replied weakly, while pushing down the rudder to lower the plane.

However, it is obvious that Sasaki's landline is at least 50 meters higher than the entire fleet.

Don't underestimate the 50 meters, you can escape for your life at a critical moment.

"Second Lieutenant Sasaki! Please speed up and lead the No. 3 aircraft as the vanguard of the whole army. You will be honored to be the first Imperial Air Force to drop a bomb on that four-row regiment. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force will be proud of you !" Captain Shenmu's voice came with a bit of coldness.

"Honor to your Shenmu family!" Sasaki almost sent these words to his squadron leader.

Fortunately, the nearly two years of his military career stopped Second Lieutenant Sasaki's impulse.

He knew that the ranks in the army were strict, and if he challenged a superior officer who was two ranks higher than him, he would die in an ugly way, and Lieutenant Shenmu's family background was much better than that of a commoner like him. How difficult it is for only mosquitoes.

"If something happens, I hope you will be the first man to report to Amaterasu today. The Imperial Japanese Army Aviation Corps will be proud of you." Sasaki made a great wish in his heart.

Afterwards, Lieutenant Sasaki gritted his teeth and stepped up the accelerator after venting. The Kawasaki BMW IX water-cooled V-type 93-cylinder 12-horsepower engine equipped with the Type 700 single-engine bomber let out a heart-piercing roar. Meter.

At this time, it was only 30 kilometers away from the Four Elements Regiment's station!

(End of this chapter)