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Chapter 1,368: Retaliatory bombing

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    Following the order of Okamura Neiji, the Japanese troops on the front line withdrew their troops with deep reluctance!

    For the Japanese army, everyone from the front commander Neiji Okamura to the front-line squadron commanders felt extremely aggrieved.

    This is especially true for Anda Twenty-three, who is commanding the battle on the front line. Originally, in his opinion, this battle was just a matter of a lion fighting a rabbit, a sure thing.

    "But they never imagined that the short journey of more than a hundred miles from Datong to Fengzhen would turn into a natural chasm. They did not break through the blocking attack for a full week.

    After receiving the telegram from the front army headquarters, Anda 23 could not believe it at first, and then after learning the detailed situation, he had no choice but to issue an order to withdraw the troops.

    But not long after they retreated, an urgent message came from the secret service. Their people discovered a large number of troops, numbering tens of thousands, in the mountains and forests south of Tianzhen.

    It has been initially determined that this unit is the national army heading north from the southern Hebei region, and it is very likely that it is the real main force of Li Guoyao's army.

    When the news came, Twenty-three Lieutenant General Anda was immediately shocked!

    Tianzhen is only about 80 kilometers away from Datong. Even if you go on foot, it won't take long to get there.

    If they have not withdrawn their troops on the front line of Fengzhen, will this/that elite army suddenly come to Datong again?

    This is obvious. Thinking of the current situation in Datong City, Anda Twenty-Three suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

    In fact, Li Guoyao did think so. If the Japanese army really does not withdraw its troops, the mission of the 177th Division heading north and south of Hebei is to seize Datong City, and then accompany the main force outside Sumu Mountain to encircle and annihilate the 26th Division.

    ¡°Anyway, the 26th Division is just a paper tiger without claws in Li Guoyao¡¯s eyes. If we pay the price of losing 5,000 men, it will not be a big problem to completely annihilate this half-disabled field division.

    What¡¯s more, the troops left a bug when they evacuated from Datong City last time. As long as they want, they can break into Datong City at any time.

    But in the end, the Japs withdrew their troops, which also left the 177th Division that had just gone north with no place to use!

    In this case, Li Guoyao personally ordered Zhang Tengjiao, the commander of the 177th Division, to immediately take over Tianzhen, Yangyuan and Yanggao counties and completely cut off the Pingsui Railway.

    At the same time, Wu Yunqiqige and others on the Western Front also captured Jining City after the Japanese troops withdrew!

    On January 5, after the Japanese army completely withdrew, Li Guoyao's troops captured Jining, Xinghe, Chayouqianqi, Zhuozi, Liangcheng, Yanggao, Fengzhen, Tianzhen, Yangyuan, Huai'an, and  Wanquan, Shangdu and other twelve counties and districts.

    However, because Wanquan and Huai'an were too close to Zhangjiakou and were easy to attack and difficult to defend, after some thought, Li Guoyao finally ordered the Chow Tai Fook and Wu Tiancheng regiments to evacuate these two counties.

    In this battle, in ten days of fighting, the troops annihilated 12 towns larger than county towns, annihilated more than 14,000 Japanese and puppet troops, and killed one major general, three colonels, and more than 200 other officers.

    More than 8,000 long and short guns, more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, more than 100 grenadiers and other artillery of various sizes were seized. In addition, a complete tank regiment's equipment was seized, including Type 95, Type 97  There are nearly 90 combat vehicles, more than 150 cars of various types, and more than 30 motorcycles.

    As for the war horses, lances, sabers, food, ammunition and other supplies, there are countless of them. The Ninth Army was victorious in this battle!

    Of course, Okamura Neiji¡¯s advantage was not easy to take advantage of. After the old devil withdrew the infantry, he concentrated a large number of aviation forces and launched an all-round bombing of Li Guoyao¡¯s defense area.

    This major bombing was different from the bombing half a month ago. This time the Japs had more bombing targets. In addition to Sumushan, Jining, Xinghe and other newly occupied counties also became the targets of Japanese aviation bombing.

    On the morning of January 6, the Japanese army dispatched more than 30 bombers, departing from Nanyuan, Peking, to bomb Chow Taifu's transport team that was returning to Sumu Mountain, causing a large number of mules and horses to be destroyed.  Some food and other supplies were bombed.

    That afternoon, 12 Japanese fighter planes suddenly appeared in the hinterland of Sumu Mountain and carried out large-scale bombing of some of the remaining buildings on the mountain. However, they were counterattacked by the air defense force of the 9th Army, and the two sides launched a ground-to-air battle.

    After an hour of fierce fighting, three Japanese fighter planes were shot down, two positions of the air defense regiment were destroyed, and more than 30 people were lost.

    On January 7, reconnaissance of the 1st Flying Wing located in YunchengAfter the plane conducted a low-altitude reconnaissance of Jining, more than 30 fighter planes were recruited to bomb the city.

    The Japanese fighter planes withdrew after an hour of wreaking havoc in Jining. After the bombing, many places in Jining City were on fire, and the whole city was in flames.

    In the next few days, places including Xinghe, Tianzhen, Fengzhen and other places were bombed by Japanese fighter planes. In addition to using high-explosive bombs, they also used a large number of incendiary bombs, which caused huge damage to the people in these places.  casualties.

    Due to the bombing by the Japanese army, the reputation of Li Guoyao's troops was greatly damaged. Originally, the people were very satisfied with the fact that Li Guoyao's troops successively severely damaged the Japanese troops and drove the Japanese troops out of the towns where they lived.

    But as the bombing progressed, the common people discovered that Li Guoyao's troops had brought them such a disaster, so some common people who were not very ideologically aware immediately became dissatisfied with the Jiujiu Army.

    When the situation reached Li Guoyao¡¯s ears, he fell into silence!

    Li Guoyao does not blame the ordinary people. They are the people, and their education level is not high, and their ideological consciousness is naturally not high. It is understandable to blame the troops when such things happen.

    "But the little devils are so unscrupulously carrying out brutal bombings on counties full of civilians. This is an open massacre of the people. This behavior must be stopped."

    At the moment, Li Guoyao ordered the intelligence department to fully investigate the movement trajectory of the Japanese aviation unit, especially to use means to decipher the communication system of the Japanese aviation unit as soon as possible.

    Since the intelligence department had already mastered the relevant passwords of the Japanese aviation forces in advance, which were obtained by the troops during the raid on Wangcun Airport, a breakthrough was quickly made.

    On January 12, according to the deciphered and intercepted Japanese aviation telegrams, Li Guoyao and others learned that the Japanese army was preparing to carry out a large-scale bombing of Liangcheng on the morning of the 12th. The dispatched fighters included 30 heavy bombers and 12 new Zero fighters.  .

    After receiving the report from the intelligence department, Li Guoyao deployed overnight and transferred all 75 anti-aircraft machine guns and 12 twin anti-aircraft guns to Liangcheng. In addition, he mobilized 4 heavy machine gun battalions from the entire army.  Together we rush to Liangcheng to fight.

    After the troops arrived in Liangcheng, they immediately made arrangements under the command of the air defense commander Xu Wenlong!

    After a night of careful preparation, a huge air defense position is ready!

    At 8 o'clock in the morning on the 13th, more than 40 Japanese fighter planes took off from the two major airports of Yuncheng and Baoding at the same time, and then flew towards Liangcheng, a small town in the north of Saibei.

    At ten o¡¯clock, Japanese fighter planes arrived in Liangcheng!

    When they arrived at the battlefield, they immediately carried out exploratory bombing, and found that the defenders below only used simple light machine guns to fight back. The Japanese aviation personnel were immediately overjoyed.

    Although light machine guns pose a certain threat to fighter aircraft, this threat is almost negligible, because the flying speed of aircraft is much faster than the speed of machine guns. In addition, the lethality of light machine guns is limited, unless a blind cat encounters a dead mouse.  It happens to hit the key part, otherwise even if it hits, it will not affect the combat of the fighter plane.

    At this moment, more than thirty heavy bombers swarmed down and dive-bombed Liangcheng!

    However, just as the Japanese fighter planes rushed down and were about to drop bombs, several harsh explosions suddenly sounded in the middle of the county, and then several signal bombs flew up.

    The moment the signal flare took off, many air defense positions in the city took off their camouflage nets. Anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, as well as an astonishing number of heavy machine gun troops that had been prepared, aimed their black muzzles at these Japanese fighter planes.

    "Bang bang bang"

    "Da da da"

    The dense bullets instantly blocked the airspace of this small town in the north. The Japanese troops swooping down in an instant suffered a devastating blow, and one after another was shot down.

    ¡° Then the escorting Japanese fighter jets realized something was wrong and lowered their altitude to rescue, but they also encountered a sharp counterattack by the ground air defense forces.

    The air battle lasted only half an hour, but the losses of the Japanese aviation were unprecedented. 12 of the 30 invading heavy bombers were shot down and 9 were damaged. Even the 12 escorting Zero fighters were shot down.  3 racks.

    "The losses were huge. This was the heaviest loss for Japanese aviation in recent years, and there were too many doubts about this battle. Without investigating the truth of the matter, Okamura Neiji could only order the troops to suspend the bombing.

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