From to 1935 2020

Zhang Lingfu understood this truth, how could someone as smart as Sun Yuanliang not understand it.

Wife-killing Zhang understood this truth, even though he was in jail, he was grateful for jumping out of this pit.

He, Sun Yuanliang, saw it more clearly, so after he came in, he kept standing on the edge of the pit as much as possible, trying his best to jump out at any time, and at the same time, he worked hard to make money.

"Now entering Shanxi, the fastest mover will definitely be beaten by the Red Army. This is something that all fools know. The 57th Army, the 67th Army, these two Northeast armies suddenly jumped in so obediently. This is really weird! Especially that Wang Yizhe, he gave me a strange feeling, always reminding me of those people who later voted for the Communist Party in Huangpu..."

He, Sun Yuanliang, has no other abilities, but he has a natural sense of danger!

So from the very beginning, Sun Yuanliang was careful not to fall into this pit.There is always a car in top condition and full of gas parked at the gate of his division.In the past period of time, he and that guy named Lin Changhe had a great time smuggling military rations, reselling ordnance, and scraping all kinds of oil.

"My old grandson knows what kind of virtue I am. I really can't fight a war, but when it comes to getting rich and saving my life, hehe..."

Before going to bed, Sun Yuanliang took out a gold bar, put it near his mouth and took a bite, it was really delicious...

Early the next morning, Sun Yuanliang woke up. After breakfast, he was about to consider marching when the orderly beside him suddenly ran over with a telegram.

"Junzuo, something happened at Shimen, the airport was attacked!"

Sun Yuanliang took the telegram and glanced at it. A few seconds later, he threw the telegram away, put on his military cap and walked towards the car without saying a word.

"Military seat, are you going to Yudu?"

"Fuck Yudu! The communist army is waiting for us there! Withdraw, withdraw! Take all the cars, and the guard battalion will come with me!"

-------------------- Chapter 150 Blossom in the center, besieged from all sides? --------------------

Shanxi topographic map

The accident at Shimen Airport happened at 04:30 am on April [-]th.

The airport was put into use a week ago. After it was built, the main tasks it received were air reconnaissance, and the second was to provide air cover for the Central Army moving eastward.The third is to expel the Red Army Air Force in Shanxi.

In the past ten days or so, Li Runshi's Red Army and Yan Laoxi's Jinsui Army in the outskirts of Taiyuan have been conducting frequent "fortification operations" competitions and "fake fights".

The only real place to fight is that the Red Army Air Force frequently appeared over Taiyuan City, constantly bombing the forward positions of the Jinsui Army and the strong fortresses.

Due to quality problems, the Red Army's planes did not make many sorties, but the bombs dropped, the shocking explosion when it landed, and the soaring flames that could be seen throughout the city told the world that the Red Army was attacking Taiyuan fiercely.

In less than ten days, the Red Army dropped more than two hundred bombs on Taiyuan City.The targets of the bombing were mainly the two large fortresses that Yan Laoxi built in one winter.

In the first three days, the Jinsui army was unprepared. Lacking anti-aircraft weapons, they could only allow the El-5 bombers to fly over and drop bombs at ultra-low altitude. Useless, not in shape.

Regarding the threat from the air, Yan Laoxi complained to the sky, but he quickly ordered the military factories in the city to transform a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns.After receiving the warning from the intelligence personnel in the city, the Red Army Air Force no longer bombed at low altitudes in the following time, but turned into "random" bombing against the surrounding lack of anti-aircraft machine gun positions.

At this time, what they dropped was no longer a bomb filled with TNT explosives, but an ordinary bomb filled with black powder-the latter was loud and smoked, but less powerful.The purpose was just to facilitate Chang Kaishen's eyeliner in Taiyuan to report to the chairman that the Red Army was still violently attacking Taiyuan.

At the beginning of 1936, Chang Kaishen's air force was very weak, even worse than Chen Jitang's air force in Guangdong. During this period, most of the air force in his hands were the Northeast pilots who joined him after 918, and the aircraft they used were also very backward. The "best" aircraft is the American Hawker II fighter that was just imported at the end of last year.However, the range of the aircraft is insufficient, and it is impossible to fly over Taiyuan for air combat.

A few days before the beginning of April, the Kuomintang Air Force flew over Taiyuan several times. All of them were long-range reconnaissance planes. , and then flew away.

The situation did not change slightly until April [-], when the frontline airport in Shimen was completed.

After the Northeast Army dispatched troops, Chen Cheng's No. 18 Army transferred from the South quickly settled in Shimen, and the field airport here was established shortly thereafter.

The air distance between Shimen and Taiyuan is only [-] kilometers. Chang Kaishen's air force can provide direct air support to Taiyuan if it attacks from here.

Starting on the [-]th, the Pao Dang planes that took off from Shimen carried out a wave of bombing on the Red Army surrounding Taiyuan, and tried to shoot down the Red Army fighter planes in an air battle over Taiyuan City.

However, during this period, most of the entire Jinzhong region was within the control of the Red Army. The Red Army, guided by Soviet instructors, established an air defense early warning mechanism. As soon as the Kuomintang air force entered the sky around Taiyuan, someone immediately reported to the air defense command. .

Then the ground troops entered the dug trenches ahead of time-the pit digging competition with Yan Laoxi in the past half month played a role at this time.In the case of preparation, the bombing effect of the Kuomintang Air Force was extremely poor.

As for air combat, the Red Army knew that its planes could not compete with fighter jets, so they deliberately avoided the battle, while Chang Kaishen's planes were only able to stay in Taiyuan for a short time, and their desire to attack was not strong.So for three consecutive days, the planes on both sides had no chance to meet.

An airplane is not a car, and it is not something you can go to the sky if you want to.Maintenance is required after every flight and landing, and frequent attacks require excellent logistics.The temporary construction of the field airport was originally a shortage of spare parts and poor conditions, coupled with the intentional delay of the transport team, the pilots were not enthusiastic, and the ground staff was lazy and laborious. The more than 20 aircrafts that have just been transferred to the airport can only be added up in three days. More than 30 sorties were dispatched, with an average of less than two per plane...

Even so, on the [-]th, Pan Hannian's convoy, which was responsible for the logistical task of transporting planes for the Kuomintang, was praised by the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs: "It took ten days to complete the transition of the equipment, and replaced it with the old waste. , I can’t finish it in half a month.”

When he heard such praise, Chen Zhiyi, the captain of the underground party's transportation team, who had been deliberately grinding foreign labor, was numb at that time.

He was afraid that Pan Hannian would misunderstand him, so he continued to explain afterwards: "Old Pan, in fact, we have really worked hard to improve our foreign skills!"

"Understand! Understand! Our lower limit is higher than their upper limit!"

Pan Hannian patted him on the shoulder in understanding, then turned around and dragged the person in charge of the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs to drink. At the same time, the two began to discuss the business of reselling aviation gasoline.

As a result, on April [-]th, the gasoline from Shimen, which should have arrived in time, did not arrive on time.As a result, the number of sorties of the flying team was cut in half that day, and on April [-], it was cut in half again.

The person in charge said to his subordinates at the time:

"For Yan Laoxi, why do we support too much? Don't you need money for gasoline? Don't you need money for parts? Send a few planes to fly every day, just make a circle and make a gesture."

Turning around, he was happily touching the large package of ocean that he had just received, which was the dividends he earned from reselling gasoline.

Here is where Pan Hannian was very responsible: he invited all the more than 20 pilots of the Cannon Party to a restaurant in the city, where they drank flowers and wine, and everyone was rewarded with a red envelope.Then everyone worked together and falsified the flight and attack records to deal with the superior...

In order to save fuel money and drink flowers and wine, the necessary aviation reconnaissance and so on are naturally reduced to the maximum limit. The pilot flies a plane carelessly, pretends to make a circle in the sky, and comes back to make up an intelligence report for granted. After the gasoline that came down was resold, it became silver dollars that filled everyone's pockets.

In the report of the Air Force, they bombed the Red Army many times. As for the number of sorties, just add a "1" at the beginning of the original number of sorties. You can use this as a reason for "parts wear and tear" later and reimburse it again.

Some people stole oil, some made up information, and some even lied about military exploits. As a result, Chang Kaishen in Zhangjiakou received all the reports from the Air Force that there were a large number of communist troops active around Taiyuan, and the number was huge.

During this period, in order to cover the real military operation, the Red Army that surrounded Taiyuan indeed dispatched a force of nearly [-] people to carry out frequent activities in the Xinding Basin and Taiyuan Basin. Fields, and conscription.Wherever he went, the gentry in Shanxi complained incessantly, so no one doubted the information compiled by the Air Force.

Regarding the civil war, Chang Kaishen's performance in the air force has always been poor. Those who can fly are all educated and knowledgeable high-level talents.The overall decadent atmosphere of the Cannon Party also affects the pilots, and when there are benefits, they naturally deal with them as much as they can.

After the construction of the Shimen Frontier Airport, the number of aircraft sorties has been decreasing day by day for a few days.It wasn't until the [-]th, when a large number of subsequent fuel parts arrived, that they realized that they had to calm down.

Because there was going to be a large-scale attack early the next day, the ground staff at the airport took good care of the planes that day. The fuel tanks were filled with fuel in advance, and all the planes were parked on the open air apron.

At that time, there were a total of 24 aircraft parked at the airport, ten of which were Hawker II fighter jets imported last year, and the rest were old aircraft bought from Italy or other countries.

Because this is a safe "rear area" and a temporary front-line field airport, the defense around the entire airport is extremely lax. It is simply a barbed wire barrier, and two companies of guards are stationed to guard.

Hebei in March is still freezing cold.Pilots have warm dormitories to sleep in, but most of the guards at the airport are all "sleeping posts".There were only a few soldiers on duty in cotton-padded clothes standing guard in the field of the crude temporary airport, without even a guard box sheltered from the wind.As for the high platform sentry boxes that should have been there, they have not yet been built.At most, a few sandbag fortifications were symbolically stacked on the edge of the airport runway.

The guards of the entire airport, as reported by Pan Hannian, are almost nonexistent. A random wave of people can easily blow up all the planes on the airport.

When the time came at 04:30 on March [-]th, Huang Ke and Elena quietly lurked near the airport with a team of people.

This time they still came with 21 people.The nineteen people are all guards assigned by the central government to the two. Some of them have entered this field airport as porters a few days ago for the convenience of tonight's mission. They are very familiar with this place.

At the airport at night, only a few lights were lit near the ground command center, and most of the places were pitch-black.

The temporary barbed wire fence around the outside can only prevent wild boars.Dive to the people nearby, pick up the wire cutters, cut it easily, and then sneak in.

Everything went very well.

There were only four guards near the airport, and almost all of them were dozing and standing guard half asleep. Without much effort, Huang Ke and Elena killed them.The Red Army soldiers who came in with the two were responsible for "succession guards". They changed into the uniforms of the Central Army in advance, dragged the corpses to a corner and hid them, and then continued to perform duties for them.

On the tarmac, a group of left and right, a total of 24 planes lined up in two rows, Huang Ke was not polite, and directly took the best eight Hawker II fighters into his bag.This aircraft is not heavy, but it is huge in size and takes up a lot of space.After putting in eight planes, there is only enough room left for two more planes.

When Huang Ke took action, the rest of the Red Army followed Huang Ke's instructions and used bayonets to destroy the tires of the rest of the planes. According to their instructions, Huang Ke only "slightly" damaged the aircraft, making them unable to take off for combat for a short time.

In the end, the remaining two Hawker IIs were not damaged. After a little inspection of the fuel tank status of the aircraft, it was confirmed that it could take off.The two did not take the plane away, but went straight to a nearby tent where supplies were piled up.There were also guards on duty there, but they were killed long ago. After clearing out all the spare parts piled there, Huang Ke put a small timing gasoline detonator here.The explosive device had a very small yield, only enough to set the tent on fire.

The crowd began to retreat, and when everyone was almost gone, Huang Ke and Elena came to the last two Hawker fighter jets, climbed onto the plane, opened the canopy, entered the cabin, and started the plane's engine at the same time.

Soon, the sound of empty propellers turning broke the tranquility of the airport.

Ten seconds later, the two Hawker II planes started and slowly drove onto the runway.Elena took the lead, Huang Ke followed, the plane began to accelerate and taxi.

The loud sound of the propeller alarmed the sleeping guards in the nearby barracks.They were just awakened before they figured out what was going on, when two Hawker II fighter jets left the runway one after the other and started to take off.In order to be able to fly this "new" aircraft well, the two went back to Hangzhou Miqiao Aviation School to learn for a few days.

Elena drove the plane in front, and Huang Ke drove the plane behind.

The two of them carried an emergency light on their backs specially for the anti-collision machine, which shone in the dark night sky and acted as indicators for mutual identification.

Both Huang Ke and Elena are daring people. They don't have much experience in night flying, so they fly all the way west by relying on their "eyes" and instrument data.

Fortunately, when the stolen plane took off, it was almost five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was bright after flying.

While flying, the two calculated the flight time and speed based on their feelings, and judged the approximate location of the plane, while looking hard at the ground.

After the two planes flew at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour for more than 40 minutes, the two finally saw a large area of ​​bright flames on the ground, and at the same time, there were continuously colored flares shooting into the air ahead.

It was the pre-arranged ground response of the Red Army unit, and after hearing the sound of the propeller, they were navigating for the two.

Countless fires were burning on both sides of a temporarily repaired runway, forming two burning "bar lines". Looking from the sky, a large number of people were waving on the ground.

At this time, it was already [-]:[-] in the morning, and the sky would be bright.

Guided by the fire on the ground, the two successfully landed the plane on the ground.At about the same time, Shimen Airport was in chaos, ten fighter jets "disappeared", many guards were killed, and the entire Shimen area was alarmed.At this time, the commandos who acted together with Huang Ke and others had already left Shimen under the cover of Pan Hannian's motorcade outside.

The zero-yuan purchase operation at Shimen Airport has come to a successful conclusion.

The two piloted the plane, and the final landing place was near the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi.The Red Army built a new field airfield here.Not long after landing, at 5:[-] in the morning, eight Aier [-] bombers with new engines parked at the airport, with bombs hanging under their belly, took off from here, and their destination was the military base a hundred kilometers away. Township.

And Huang Ke and Elena, after a short rest, each drove a Hawker II, with bombs attached to the belly, and took off with the bomber.

At 35:5, eight Al-[-] bombers and two Hawker II fighter jets flew over Wuxiang County.

At this time, the vanguard of Wei Lihuang's No.14 Army, the Leng Xin Department of the Fourth Division, was stationed in Wucheng.According to the plan, he will go to Yushe, 35 kilometers away, today to join forces with the new First Army there.

When the plane flew over Wuxiang, Leng Xin, the commander of the [-]th Division, had just finished his breakfast and had just left Wuxiang when he called up the troops, when the buzzing sound of the plane came from the sky.

"Is it our plane? No, it's flying from the west..."

It took Leng Xin a few seconds to realize that something was wrong. -

"Air strike, air strike, that is the plane of the Red Bandits!"

Shocked, Leng Xin searched for cover in a panic, and because of his actions, the guards around him were also in chaos, and the chaos spread quickly.

However, no matter how fast the chaos on the ground spreads, it is not as fast as the approaching plane in the sky.

The Fourth Division was scattered throughout the Wuxiang area at that time, and the whole army was in a "formation" marching state. Most of the people were defenseless against the sudden air attack.

Ten planes unscrupulously dropped dozens of bombs on the dense and unsuspecting crowd, some were TNT bombs, some were explosive incendiary bombs, causing tragic casualties in an instant. The troops fired wildly.

Fifteen minutes later, the air raid ended, and Leng Xin's troops hadn't recovered from the chaos. The entire Wuxiang area was filled with the sound of charging horns and shelling from all directions.

The main force of the Red Army, which had been lurking nearby for a long time, took advantage of the chaos of the Fourth Division after the air strike and launched a fierce attack.

At about the same time, another main force of the Fourteenth Army, Wei Lihuang's 36th Division, also encountered a large number of Red Army raids when marching in the Taiyue Mountains.

When Wei Lihuang's troops entered southern Shanxi, they brought with them a main force of 3 people, including one army and two divisions, plus two new supplementary brigades.

Because according to Chang Kaishen's instructions in the early stage, most of the two supplementary brigades were scattered to various places in southern Shanxi, and the main force that entered the Taiyue Mountains with them was only more than 6000 people.

It was the same as when Hu Zong was destroyed in the south during the Battle of Baozuo. Marching in the mountains was no different than marching in the plains. Wei Lihuang's troops were in the Taiyue Mountains, and the entire army was stretched by the mountainous terrain. There is a difference of ten miles between them and Wei Lihuang's troops in the rear army.

The one-word long snake formation is almost the state when Wei Lihuang's troops were attacked.

However, it is not as arrogant as Hu Zongnan's first division, and he will directly fall into death when he engages in a battle.

After Wei Lihuang's troops entered the Taiyue Mountains, they marched cautiously, especially the 36th Division where they belonged. After being attacked, they automatically moved closer to each other, huddled together, and seized the commanding heights in the nearby mountains.Although a small number of troops were lost in the initial attack, the division with most of its main force still managed to gather its troops in the surrounding mountainous areas centered on Songcun Town for defense.In the process, they also managed to gather a small part of Leng Xin's rear guard.Then after a day of fierce fighting, a relatively stable defensive position was established in the area.