Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 396
It is night, the moon and stars are scarce, and it is a good time for a long-distance march.

Taking advantage of the night, a long dragon ran obliquely from Ludongnan to the mountain trail in Changzhi.

The infantry regiment and cavalry regiment can adapt to various terrains, but Chen Feng's artillery battalion is a problem.

The Han-Chang Highway is definitely not going to go, but Zhou Weihan ordered to keep the two 105 howitzers and military trucks, and dismantle the rest of the artillery and transport them by horses.

Fortunately, the cavalry regiment has seized a lot of war horses, which came in handy at this time.

The distance between Ludongnan and Changzhiben is more than [-] miles. Due to road restrictions and ample time, it took the troops about five hours to reach the suburbs of Changzhi.

Zhou Weihan glanced at the time, starting at seven o'clock in the evening, it was only after twelve o'clock, so he ordered the troops to disperse and rest.

Then they called several military chiefs back. Zhou Weihan was the commander-in-chief of the Changzhi battle, and the deputy chief of staff, as the representative of the Eighth Route Army, rushed to the first theater early this morning.

This time in Changzhi, the strength of the independent detachment is stronger, but the corresponding situation around Changzhi is also more complicated than that in Handan.

When Handan was first attacked, the surrounding strongholds were pulled out ahead of time, and the railway was destroyed. Handan was an isolated city, and there were no large Japanese troops nearby.

At this time, Changzhi was the hinterland of the Japanese-occupied area. If Tainan was not next to Changzhi, it would be difficult for the Eighth Route Army to break through the blockade and reach Changzhi.

Seeing that several people had arrived, Zhou Weihan said directly: "Let me repeat the instructions of each regiment. The fourth regiment is mainly attacking Changzhi."

Before Zhou Weihan could finish his sentence, He Wensheng, the chief of the enemy engineering department, came over with two soldiers from the reconnaissance company: "Detachment leader, these are soldiers from the reconnaissance company, and this is Dong Jianghua's Changzhi Airport deployment map!"

Zhou Weihan took the defense map, glanced at it, and said involuntarily: "Dong Jiang's drawing skills are pretty good!"

Then spread out the defense map, put it on the marching bag, and called Wang Yigong to come closer to have a look.

"Detachment Captain, the little devil's airport has changed a lot. There weren't so many ways to do it before!" Wang Yigong said with a frown.

I saw that the defense map drawn by Dong Jiang clearly marked the building structure in the airport, the direction of the airport, and various firepower points.

"The only thing that poses the biggest threat to us is the eight anti-aircraft machine guns in the four corners. However, I see that the commander of the little devil is not very good. The air-to-air power is enough, but the deterrence of the anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground is greatly insufficient. !"

"Look, the dense aircraft fort in the center of the airport, isn't this the best shelter? No matter how powerful the anti-aircraft machine gun is, it can still penetrate the reinforced concrete?" Zhou Weihan pointed to the center of the defense map and said with a smile.

Hearing what Zhou Weihan said, everyone present was happy.

"There is something wrong with the designation of this little devil commander's head. The position of the machine gun position is very hidden, but the design angle is affected by the buildings on both sides!" Jing Dagang said.

"Not to mention, that's really the case, as long as the nearest anti-aircraft machine gun in our regiment is destroyed immediately, the rest is just decoration!" Wang Yigong's frowning brows also relaxed.

Then Zhou Weihan carried out a detailed offensive deployment again based on the airport defense map.

Seeing the crowd disperse, Xing Zhiguo said worriedly: "Old Zhou, is your plan going to work? Don't let anything happen, pilots are precious talents!"

"It doesn't matter if it's okay, everyone has entered the Japanese military airport, our country's industrial base is poor, not to mention our Eighth Route Army, even the national army relies on the assistance of Big Brother to get the plane!"

Zhou Weihan paused for a moment, then continued: "We can only get the planes from the little devils. I don't want to fight the Japanese army in the future. It's good to use the planes we got as training planes. We'll be reserve talents!"

Zhou Weihan's plan had to start with He Wensheng.

Under the leadership of He Wensheng, the intelligence network of the Enemy Engineering Division spread over most of the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan.

After the Hundred Regiments War, when the army was resting, the enemy engineering department found two former pilots of the Northeast Army in northern Henan. Zhou Weihan was very surprised when he heard about it.

After the Northeast Army changed its banner, it stands to reason that its internal pilots were all registered by the National Government. Now that the Air Force of the National Government is so short of pilots, there are still some missing.

Later, after inviting the two pilots to Yanwang Mountain, Zhou Weihan found out that after the September [-]th Incident, when the airport in the northeast was attacked by Japanese dramas, most of the pilots died on the spot, and these two survived by luck. .

The Nationalist government thought that all the pilots had died, so the two didn't say why they didn't go to the army, and Zhou Weihan didn't ask.

Counting these two, plus Yamada Takema, there are already three pilots in the Tainan Military Region, and Zhou Weihan began to think about it.

So he reported to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and asked the headquarters to transfer several pilots from Yan'an.

Yan'an has an airstrip. The Northeast Army once built a 1000-meter-long gravel runway on the platform along the Yanhe River in the eastern suburbs of Yan'an City. This is the first airport runway in Yan'an history.

At the same time, in the winter of 1935, the Northeast Army also built an airstrip for small aircraft to take off and land on the plateau of Anmin Village outside the east gate of Luochuan County where it was stationed.

The Red Army entered Yan'an City on December 1936, 12, and took over Yan'an Airport.

Since then, Yan'an Airport has become the first airport under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and it is also one of the channels of communication with the outside world. The National Army, the US Army, and Big Brother have visited and interviewed through Yan'an Airport many times.

After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang was imprisoned, and part of the Northeast Army joined the Eighth Route Army, including pilots who were originally stationed at Yan'an Airport.

However, it was not until August 1945, 8 that Wang's special plane "Jianguo", led by Major Flight Instructor Zhou Zhihe, led the crew and 20 air crew mechanics, and revolted from the Yangzhou Air Force Base of the Wang Puppet regime. A plane "6".

After learning of Zhou Weihan's plan, the headquarters immediately sent a telegram to Yan'an.

Around the beginning of October, a group of seven pilots arrived at Yanwang Mountain, including three former Northeast Army pilots and four F pilots trained by Big Brother.

Zhou Weihan formed a flying team belonging to the Tainan Military Region the next day.

At four o'clock in the morning, all the independent detachment departments arrived at the designated positions one after another.

After the Fourth Regiment arrived at Changzhi Airport, the first battalion attacked from the south, and the second battalion attacked from the west of the Japanese barracks. Two heavy machine gun companies and mountain artillery companies were assigned to the two main battalions, and the third battalion served as a reserve team.

In order to reduce the casualties of the four regiments and speed up the progress, Zhou Weihan deliberately dropped two mountain artillery companies from the artillery battalion, with a total of twelve mountain artillery for artillery support.

Guancun, where Changzhi Airport is located, is on the northeast side of Changzhi, and next to it is Guancun Town, where the Japanese army was stationed, where the Japanese and puppet troops were intercepted by the Zhu Dashan Cavalry Regiment.

The first and second regiments and the artillery battalion were distributed on the main road leading to Changzhi Airport from the Japanese army in Changzhi City.

The guard companies of the three regiments were separately dispatched and Zhou Weiguo personally commanded them to intercept reinforcements from Pingshun.

(End of this chapter)