Age of Rebirth

The northern campaign planned by Tang Qiuli started with the Northern Aviation Group of the Independent Division Air Force as the main force, strengthened the fighter and bomber units of the Southern Aviation Group, and bombed all the airports on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula occupied by the Japanese army. This action immediately aroused Chen Bing The commanders of the three field regiments and their subordinate brigade commanders on the northeast border, with a strong desire for war, and the generals with high fighting spirit, could no longer sit still.

On the front line of Jinzhou in western Liaoning, the Niangziguan Garrison Corps confronted the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army. The officer's words convinced him, but before he approached Feng Jiwu, he had already promised a dozen brigade commanders who were waiting for news in the war room of the staff office. credit.

Therefore, Zhang Hansheng felt that if he went back like this, he could not explain himself in front of the brigade commanders who were eagerly looking forward to a big fight.

After listening to Zhang Hansheng's words, Feng Jiwu frowned, and said with displeasure in his tone: "Hansheng, you are the chief of staff, you should consider the issue from the perspective of the overall situation, and you should do more to deal with the brigade commanders' desire for war. How can you add fuel to the fire with some persuasion work? Are you embarrassing? Can’t you explain to them? ——Deserve it! Who asked you to pat your chest in front of them to guarantee it?”

Hearing the displeasure in the commander's tone, Zhang Hansheng grinned and said awkwardly: "Commander, you all know this! I just don't give them a reason, I'm afraid I can't justify it? Can these guys live in peace?

"Crack!" Feng Jiwu slapped the table, "What's the reason? Waiting for orders, soldiers take obedience as their bounden duty! - You just tell them. Be ready to attack at any time. The enemy does not move, I do not move, and the enemy moves , I must move, tomorrow is June [-]th, I can’t wait even one day? If the attack order of the Corps is issued, the brigade cannot immediately enter the offensive state, see if I can spare him?”

Zhang Hansheng saw that the situation was not good, and the commander was angry, so he quickly slipped away.When we arrived at the War Room of the Staff Office, more than a dozen brigade commanders of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps were waiting anxiously. When they saw Zhang Hansheng coming back, they hurriedly surrounded him.Inquiring in a hurry, "Chief of Staff, how are you talking with the commander? Is an attack going to be launched soon?" Veteran field corps, where do you put that face?"

Zhang Hansheng was dizzy from the quarrel, and said angrily: "What are you arguing about? Do you still look like a brigade commander? The commander said, wait for orders, and there is more. Commander, let me tell you , Once the order to attack is issued, the brigade will delay the matter, but there is no mercy. Go back to your respective troops and prepare for the attack!"

Zhang Hansheng’s words are nonsensical. You talk about moving the commander, but it doesn’t look like it. Waiting for an order, but it doesn’t look like it. If you are ready to attack, there is a way. You can see the posture of the chief of staff. However, the preparations for the attack by the Niangziguan Garrison Corps were solid, with more than [-] troops, On the front line of Jinzhou, it is like a bow drawn round, ready to shoot deadly sharp arrows.

Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang, commanding the aviation unit, first used a sudden action to destroy almost all the fighter jets at the Japanese military airports on the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula. Then, the large-scale bomber formation lost The Japanese airfield, which was capable of resistance, carried out indiscriminate large-scale bombing. From the morning of June [-] to the evening, the aviation bomber formation and fighter formation took off more than [-] sorties.

The overwhelming bomber fleet rumbled across the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. Tens of thousands of tons of heavy aerial bombs were thrown down, blowing up the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, and blowing up all the airports of the Japanese air forces in the two places. Desolate like the moon, full of ruins, June [-]th was the happiest day for the aviation bomber unit, the sky was blue, and not a single Japanese fighter jet was seen.

When the west was covered with brilliant sunset, the last batch of escorting fighter formations, in the midst of the rays, the fuselages were covered with colorful lights, and returned from the sky. Le Yiqin, which had taken off three times, landed at the Qingdao Navy and Air Force Jumping out of the cockpit at the base, Le Yiqin looked at the burning sky in the west, narrowed his eyes, and then shook his head thoughtfully, as if there was something dissatisfied?

In the sunset, Liu Cuigang leaned on the front of the military jeep, looked at Le Yiqin who was striding towards him, with a knowing smile on his lips, and greeted him, "Yiqin, I can't say enough, but it's also expected !" He stretched out his hand to wrap Le Yiqin's shoulder, and said comfortingly, the other empty sleeve fluttered in the evening wind.

Le Yiqin also grabbed Liu Cuigang's shoulders with his backhand. The two major generals, just like their childhood partners, embraced each other's shoulders and walked towards the jeep side by side. This scene made the pilots who had just jumped off the fighter jets stare wide-eyed. Round!

Of course Le Yiqin understood the meaning of the old man's words, smiled and shook his head, and said: "Cuigang, although the objectives of today's campaign have been fully achieved, it is a pity that the fighter units from other regions of the Kwantung Army did not appear in Liaodong." The airspace of the peninsula, the backhand I prepared, was completely useless, as for the Japanese air force on the Korean peninsula, it was completely abolished, and I didn’t draw a perfect ending, I was unwilling to do so!”

Liu Cuigang looked at the old man sideways with a smile, and said, "Yiqin, you are not greedy enough. The second battle plan we prepared was originally a plan. Good guy, you, Le Yiqin, commanded more than [-] planes." Fighters are overwhelming, can the entire Kwantung Army Air Force have so many fighters?"

"Besides, we killed about half of them in the Liaodong Peninsula. The Kwantung Army aviation commander is not a fool. He dared to come and die? - Don't take it to heart, as long as the little devil's plane doesn't leave the Northeast, that's all. What the hell, the remaining combat aircraft of the Kwantung Army are not the meat of your Le Yiqin's mouth!"

Le Yiqin thought about it, too, and he was amused, and said: "Cuigang, you are good at doing ideological work, alas! The first shot was fired by the aviation army, and the next step is the supporting role, which belongs to the landing battle of the field corps. Hands are not enough yet!"

Liu Cuigang jokingly said: "They say that you, Le Yiqin, are a militant. This is true. Let's go, I'm in the dormitory, and I specially prepared some small dishes from my hometown. Just us two old guys, let's have a good drink." , can be regarded as condolences to you, a great hero who returned in triumph!"

Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang are both from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so they naturally have an indescribable intimacy with the food of their hometown, "Cuigang, I didn't expect you to have such a skill? I remember that you are not willing to go into the kitchen." Guy, why did you suddenly change your temper? Don’t even mention it, thinking of the food in my hometown, I’m so greedy, well, thanks to Commander Liu, I’m going to feast on it today!” Le Yiqin said drooling.

Liu Cuigang smiled lightly, "I can't go to heaven anymore, so I have to find something to have fun with. I fell in love with making some meals by myself, which can be regarded as a hobby!" There was a touch of loss and sadness in his tone.

Le Yiqin's heart became hot, and he didn't speak any more. He understood the old man's feelings too well. A fighter who flew a fighter plane and soared above the blue sky suddenly left the blue sky. The loss was beyond words. Then he hugged Liu Cuigang tightly, the heat from his arms warmed Liu Cuigang's heart, a little bit of loss and sadness melted into the temperature, and the orange-red sunset glow spread over the two of them, like dancing balls Under the watchful eyes of the pilot and the ground crew, the two independent division aviation bosses with the rank of major general got into the jeep shoulder to shoulder and left in a hurry.

As night fell, in Kailu County, Eastern Mongolia, in the courtyard of the North China Field Corps headquarters, in an office specially prepared for the division commander Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli stood in front of the window, his gaze was always looking at the eastern Mongolia dusk Under the sky, the chief of staff Zhao Yuhe was very strange. The division commander had stood in front of the window for more than an hour in such a posture. What was he thinking about?

It seems that the great victories achieved by the air force in the bombing of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula have cleared the biggest obstacle for the cross-sea operations that will start tomorrow, and this does not make the division commander much happy. There is still some worry. More than two hours ago, all the troops participating in the independent division sent a telegram to the division commander, "The troops are all ready and waiting for the division commander's order!"

According to the intelligence of the Special Operations Detachment and the Intelligence Department, there has been no major change in the deployment of the Japanese army in the direction of attack. In another dozen hours, the troops of the six corps of the Independent Division will launch an attack like a tide. It should be said that , so far, everything is according to the plan, what is the reason for the teacher to have such an expression?

Zhao Yuhe couldn't figure out what Tang Qiuli was thinking. He really wanted to ask, but he was afraid of disturbing the teacher's train of thought, so he sat quietly on the chair, looked at the teacher's back without saying a word, and looked at the teacher. The glow of the western sky turned into a faint twilight, looking at the teacher's back, in the twilight, it turned into a black and white silhouette.

Tang Qiuli turned around suddenly and said, "Yuhe, immediately convey my order to all the troops. The Niangziguan Garrison Corps, the North China Field Corps, the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, and the Directly Subordinate Corps were originally scheduled to be dispatched at four o'clock in the morning on June [-]. Time, the attack launched, temporarily stopped, when to start, wait for the command of the division! But all corps must be ready to attack at any time!

(to be continued) (to be continued..)