Chapter 1 Reclaiming the Planes

Li Zhi Ze once again raised his binoculars, carefully examining the situation around the airport.

Since they wanted the planes, they couldn't use the rocket barrage method. His original Operation Plan Number One had to be canceled.

Using the backup plan, the entire Qianshan Airport was essentially rebuilt by the Japanese right before his eyes.

Li Zhi Ze would personally come to observe every few days. Usually, a dedicated squad of soldiers kept watch. The Tenth Regiment's staff was very clear about every plant and tree on the airport.

The realistic diorama of Shizhushan Airport was created bit by bit in this way.

All three regiments that received the order sprang into action. The Tenth Regiment had been specifically trained for this.

Although Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze was not in Qianshan, the entire regiment was not in the slightest bit flustered. Each company left the city according to the prearranged plan.

The people of Qianshan City were accustomed to this.

They knew that the team stationed in Qianshan trained rigorously every day.

There was training in the morning, and there was training in the morning and afternoon. Situations like leaving the city in the afternoon were also common.

Wu Yuan, the regiment commander of the Fourteenth Regiment stationed in Tongcheng, was thrilled when he received the telegram and saw that there were one hundred and eighty-eight planes.

He clearly knew what so many planes meant: as long as they could reach the airport, these planes couldn't escape.

The rocket artillery companies of the three regiments could guarantee that not even a bird could fly out of Shizhushan Airport. Not to mention those planes—they would blast all one hundred plus of them into smithereens.

Regiment Commander Wu didn't yet have the idea of directly seizing more than one hundred enemy planes. For the time being, he was still thinking of destroying all of them.

He figured that normally, there were only thirty or so enemy planes at the airport, but today there were so many more, meaning that the Japanese must have some major operation planned.

Regardless of what their plans were, just destroy them!

With the thought in mind, he acted quickly. The Fourteenth Regiment had been preparing for this for days.

Tongcheng and Shizhushan Airport were considered neighbors, and the terrain had always been familiar. In the past two days, they had specially sent a team to survey it again.

The villagers of Tongcheng watched the Fourteenth Regiment soldiers march through the streets in formation and greeted them warmly, "Going out for training again!"

For more than a month, these villagers had become accustomed to this team going out of the city for a stroll, whether they had something to do or not.

Sometimes they didn't even return at night. Later, they heard from people who came to town from the countryside that these soldiers were spending the night outside their villages.

Only then did these villagers in the city realize that the soldiers of the Fourteenth Regiment were training.

Today, they were starting training again.

Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen took the telegram and issued orders to the company commanders of the entire regiment: "Each company, take all your equipment and depart immediately. Don't inform the soldiers of the destination for now.

Only the company commanders need to know the specific destination. Announce the destination and mobilize the entire regiment after leaving the city for ten *li*."

Shangguan Zhiwen's Fifteenth Regiment, as the general reserve force of the entire Jiangbei base area, had always focused on long-distance marching training.

This was so that after receiving orders, the entire regiment could quickly reach the battlefield. The Jiangbei Detachment's way of marching was still mainly on foot.

The Fifteenth Regiment was now marching fully armed towards Shizhushan Airport.

A telegram from Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze caused the three regiments to take emergency action, but it didn't arouse anyone's suspicion.

No one felt that these teams leaving the city fully armed were any different from usual.

Night fell! The three regiments advanced from different directions towards the same target.

Lin Fan had already received the operation plan sent by Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze in Tashan Town. This time, the operation plan, in addition to advancing the time, also had an additional arrangement to seize the planes.

Seeing the report in the telegram that the Japanese had parked one hundred and eighty-eight planes at the airport, the sheer number was indeed tempting to Lin Fan.

Since he had already given the command to Li Zhi Ze, Lin Fan certainly wouldn't suddenly intervene and micromanage. At the same time, there was nothing wrong with Regiment Commander Li's operation plan.

Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze received Lin Fan's reply: "Fight well!"

It was already dark, and the regiments were on their way. They saw the brightly lit Japanese airport, with teams of Japanese and puppet soldiers patrolling the airport.

Company Commander Lü Ye Wei of the First Company pointed to the patrolling Japanese and said, "Regiment Commander! Tonight, the Japanese have increased the frequency and number of patrols."

Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze said with a smile, "That's only natural. They suddenly parked so many planes here today, so the airport commander will definitely strengthen the patrol and defense forces.

Company Commander Lü, your company will be the vanguard in a moment. You must take down the Japanese fortress located on the north side of the airport."

"Guarantee to complete the mission!" Company Commander Lü replied.

All twelve company commanders of the Tenth Regiment were very clear about the layout of this airport. It had been decided which direction each company would attack and which fortresses they needed to take down.

In fact, each company had already decided which soldier would attack each fortress.

Company Commander Lü Ye Wei had even disguised himself as a local laborer and entered the airport to build those fortresses for the Japanese.

Now, it was very fitting for him to personally destroy those fortresses.

That night, in the Wuhan Air Force Command, a celebration banquet was being held. Being able to destroy twenty-three Japanese planes in a single air battle was a remarkable achievement.

Song Meiling, the Secretary-General of the National Aviation Commission, attended the banquet and toasted all the pilots in celebration.

At the same time, she also brought gifts for each pilot. She was extremely happy with today's results.

Chennault was also very happy. This time, his plan to lure the enemy out had been very successful.

Having suffered such a major setback, the Japanese so-called "Doomsday" plan should also be canceled, right?

Two pilots whose planes had been shot down by the Japanese in the air battle and had successfully parachuted had also returned to the ranks.

Secretary-General Song Meiling personally toasted the two pilots, praising their heroic combat, fearlessness in battle, and spirit of sacrifice.

She listened very patiently as the two pilots recounted the thrilling moments on the battlefield. When she heard that the two pilots had parachuted from a high altitude.

After jumping out, they were surrounded by warplanes, with enemy and friendly fighters fighting in the air.

Bullets were constantly whizzing past them. One of the pilots had two grooves shot into the sole of his shoe by bullets, but he wasn't injured. That could be considered a miracle.

Hearing the tense parts, Song Meiling became tense along with them. When she heard that the two pilots had landed successfully and were escorted back by the Chinese military and civilians.

She said with emotion, "Those who have virtue will find much support, while those who lack it will find little. With the military and civilians united as one, we will certainly be able to defeat the Japanese."

While they were celebrating the destruction of twenty-three Japanese planes, Li Zhi Ze was commanding three regiments, ten thousand men, to prepare to attack the Japanese one hundred and eighty-eight planes.

At the same time, the Wuhan headquarters once again received intelligence passed up through layers: the Japanese-organized Xuzhou Task Force had been completely annihilated in Tashan Town, and the puppet 37th Army stationed in Xuzhou had no fighting spirit and was frantically disposing of various equipment in Xuzhou City.

This intelligence was very valuable, and the staff at the Wuhan headquarters immediately had an idea.

They quickly formulated an operation plan and submitted it to Chiang Kai-shek. When he received this plan, he compared it with the intelligence sent back by Shopkeeper Bai.

Chiang Kai-shek was so excited that his hands were shaking slightly: Ordering the Lunan Detachment to recapture Xuzhou was not as good as having his own direct troops recapture Xuzhou.

According to the plan formulated by the General Staff Department: send the 69th Army, which remained in Lunan to fight guerrilla warfare, to attack Xuzhou immediately.

During this period, there had been constant major movements in the Lunan base area, and the intelligence personnel of the 69th Army stationed in the base area were constantly transmitting information.

The 69th Army had been closely monitoring the movements of the Lunan Detachment. They were not far from Xuzhou.

Performing the task of seizing Xuzhou first could be done in time. This made Chiang Kai-shek very excited.

Without even thinking about it, he immediately agreed to this operation plan!

When Shi Youshan, the commander of the 69th Army, received the operation plan issued by the Wuhan headquarters, he was initially startled:

He was asked to attack Xuzhou, which even hundreds of thousands of troops had failed to defend, with a guerrilla army, wasn't that sending him to his death?

When he saw the content at the end of the telegram, he was overjoyed again: this was a heaven-sent opportunity for a glorious victory!

The intelligence said that only the puppet 37th Army was defending Xuzhou City, and that this team had no fighting spirit, which was fine.

As long as they didn't have the idea of fighting, his army would be able to capture Xuzhou.

After all, the strength of the 69th Army he led was not very good. Its predecessor was reorganized from various local security regiments.

They had not undergone much training, so their combat effectiveness was certainly not strong. These were not important now. What was important was that the enemy was a puppet army, and they had been scared out of their wits by the Lunan Detachment.

They had completely lost their fighting spirit. Fighting such a battle was simply like catching a turtle in a jar – a sure thing.

After receiving the order, the 69th Army immediately began to take action. The 69th Army had two infantry divisions and one cavalry division under its command.

Of course, it was the infantry division that would take the lead in attacking the city. Shi Youshan also served as the commander of the 181st Division.

Of course, he would let his own direct line seize such a glorious task first. When assigning tasks to officers above the regimental level of the entire army, Shi Youshan said loudly: "There is now only the puppet 37th Army in Xuzhou City. This is our opportunity.

Everyone! The people of the whole country will see us capture Xuzhou. Everyone will be national heroes and will definitely be recorded in history."

Brigade Commander Lü Shan stood up: "Our brigade is willing to be the vanguard and open Xuzhou City for our brother troops."

"Good!" Shi Youshan shouted loudly. Brigade Commander Lü Shan was from the First Brigade of the 181st Division, and this was also supporting the division commander.

All the officers who attended the meeting understood: the puppet 37th Army was a pushover, and everyone could bully it.

Originally, this task was assigned to the Lunan Detachment, but news came from the city that the puppet army had no intention of defending the city, so the task was given to the 69th Army again.

Therefore, they had to speed up now and seize Xuzhou City before the Lunan Detachment. When the Lunan Detachment arrived under Xuzhou City, they could only sigh in vain.

After the tasks were assigned, the various units of the 69th Army immediately set off. The first to act was the 181st Infantry Division.

The newly formed 6th Division followed, and the 9th Cavalry Division was on guard on the left and right.

Brigade Commander Lü Shan got the task of being the vanguard as he wished, and he sent Fan Jiabao's regiment to walk in the front.

From their current location to Xuzhou City, there were still eighty *li* to go. According to the information they had learned, the Lunan Detachment was sixty *li* away from Xuzhou City in Tashan Town.

However, the Lunan Detachment was still resting after the war, which gave the 69th Army an opportunity, an opportunity to surpass them and become heroes.

Shi Youshan's team had already set off for Xuzhou, and he immediately reported the news of the entire army's departure to his superiors.

In the telegram, Shi Youshan expressed his determination to lead the team to seize Xuzhou first.

Receiving the telegram from the 69th Army, Chiang Kai-shek was still very happy: his own team was good.

They acted immediately after receiving the order, and at the same time, there were action reports and feedback.

Unlike teams like the Lunan Detachment, after receiving the order, they only replied with one word, and there was no news at all about what they were going to do next.

"They are really good at fighting!" Chiang Kai-shek said to himself.

Thinking about it, they were all left behind to fight guerrilla warfare. The Lunan Detachment was actually developed from the several companies that Lin Fan had brought over.

Just those few companies, a team of less than a thousand people, had now developed into the strength to annihilate tens of thousands of Japanese troops in one fell swoop.

Without comparison, there would be no harm. The same 69th Army that remained in the Lunan area to fight guerrilla warfare.

In the past few months, they had only been able to carefully strike at the Japanese who were alone, but this time they could seize Xuzhou, which was still good.

The soldiers of the Lunan Detachment did not know that Wuhan had changed its mind again, and the 69th Army's actions were not notified to them.

Although both sides were anti-Japanese teams and belonged to the National Army system, they actually rarely interacted with each other.

Like the Lunan Detachment, which had been fighting so fiercely north of Xuzhou for half a month, neither Lin Fan nor Gu Xiuming ever thought of notifying the 69th Army.

Similarly, the 69th Army's military operations had never been notified to the Lunan Detachment, including this time they were going to attack Xuzhou.

Lin Fan in Tashan Town was still thinking about how the entire Lunan base should develop after occupying Xuzhou.

For the Lunan Detachment and the Jiangbei Detachment, it was not difficult to capture Xuzhou, but the difficulty was how to defend it next.

Although the Lunan base and the Jiangbei base were not small and had a lot of troops, the two bases were surrounded by Japanese-occupied areas.

This was different from the Jurong base. In the Jurong base, there was still one direction without Japanese, and this direction was full of mountains, which was very suitable for guerrilla warfare.

Lin Fan did not know yet that the National Army had sent the 69th Army to attack Xuzhou first in order to pick the fruits.

Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze was quietly watching Shizhushan Airport in the distance. His Tenth Regiment was the first to arrive at the destination.

The soldiers of the Tenth Regiment had trained on this road several times. As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, the anti-aircraft machine gun company and the rocket artillery company immediately entered the position.

Their positions had been chosen long ago. At this time, they only needed to arrange them simply, and twelve anti-aircraft machine guns and four rocket launchers were already in place.

Not only that, the soldiers of the Tenth Regiment had also helped the brothers of the Fourteenth Regiment and the Fifteenth Regiment set up the machine gun positions and rocket artillery positions.

Shangguan Zhiwen's regiment arrived at the position fifteen minutes later, and Wu Yuan's Fourteenth Regiment followed them.

All the combat troops had arrived at the battlefield, and Li Zhi Ze ordered: "Each unit rests in place, and the company commanders of each company go to the headquarters for a meeting."

When the officers of the Fourteenth Regiment and the Fifteenth Regiment walked into the headquarters, they were immediately attracted by the large sand table occupying half of the headquarters.

Li Zhi Ze pointed to the airport on the sand table and said: "This is the whole picture of Shizhushan Airport. The Tenth Regiment has been preparing for this day for more than a month.

We have people watching the Japanese construction every day from afar, and several of the company commanders present have sneaked in to do a few days of hard labor for the Japanese."

After saying that, he pointed to the airport on the sand table and said: "Usually, there are at most thirty planes parked at the airport here.

Today is different. I counted three times, and the Japanese parked as many as one hundred and eighty-eight planes at the airport.

Regardless of what they will do next, I want to seize all these planes."

Regiment Commander Wu Yuan, Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen, and the company commanders under them all understood: Regiment Commander Li was talking about seizing! Not bombing!

Regiment Commander Wu Yuan immediately stood up: "Regiment Commander Li! If we don't destroy them, are we going to seize them for our own use?"

Regiment Commander Li nodded: "That's right, I'm going to change the original plan, seize the planes first, and then destroy the airport!"

Regiment Commander Wu continued to ask: "The Japanese suddenly increased so many planes here, did they increase their manpower?"

"The total number of Japanese defense forces at the airport has not changed, but tonight they have increased the number and frequency of patrol teams.

There are less than two thousand Japanese and less than four thousand puppet soldiers at the airport. That is their entire number."

Regiment Commander Wu Yuan and Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen looked at each other and exchanged glances. The two regiment commanders smiled at the same time: "In this case, it is worthwhile to seize them."

"Of course it is worthwhile, the first time we came here, we had already seized them once.

This time we will seize them again, so that the Japanese will build planes for us and send them to us!"

Everyone present laughed. They also believed that their ten thousand troops were completely capable of fighting the Japanese and puppet soldiers, who totaled only six thousand.

Seeing that everyone had reached a consensus, Li Zhi Ze stood up and said: "Now I order: the First Company of the Tenth Regiment to attack from this location on the north side of the airport. Regiment Commander Wu, you send two companies to follow the First Company.

The Japanese fortresses will be attacked by the First Company. They are already familiar with the locations and weaknesses of the Japanese fortresses, and they have done special training in this area in the past few days."

Regiment Commander Wu Yuan stood up: "Ninth Company and Tenth Company, follow Company Commander Lü Ye Wei. I will only talk about discipline. All actions are subject to Company Commander Lü's command.

Everyone has just seen that the Tenth Regiment has been preparing for a long time to attack this Japanese airport.

The brothers have set up the situation well, and we only need to contribute. You two companies must show the prestige of our regiment.

Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The two company commanders replied loudly and immediately walked behind Company Commander Lü.

Li Zhi Ze waited until Regiment Commander Wu Yuan had made arrangements before continuing to issue orders: "Second Company Commander Fu Mingcheng, you lead the attack from this location on the north side. Regiment Commander Wu Yuan, send two companies to follow Company Commander Fu."

His order reached here and waited for Regiment Commander Wu to make arrangements.

In this way, thirty infantry companies were divided into ten teams, all led by the company commanders of the Tenth Regiment.

The remaining three anti-aircraft machine gun companies and three rocket artillery companies were all concentrated together to form an anti-aircraft machine gun position and a rocket artillery position.

The main task of the anti-aircraft machine gun company tonight was to prevent Japanese planes from taking off from the airport, and the task of the rocket artillery company was to directly bomb the airport if the attacks of each company were not smooth. At that time, they would not be able to seize the planes, and they would implement the backup plan and directly destroy all the planes at the airport.

This was the benefit of having walkie-talkies. Each regular regiment of the Special Operations Brigade could directly command down to the company.

In any situation, each company could be immediately directed to adapt to the situation. After each company commander understood his task clearly.

Regiment Commander Li looked at his watch: "It is now five minutes past eleven o'clock, and each company immediately enters the position according to the plan, and launches an attack at twelve o'clock at the same time."

The three regiments, a total of thirty-six companies, and thirty-six company commanders were divided into twelve teams, three companies per team, and immediately went out to make arrangements.

Company Commander Lü Ye Wei of the First Company of the Tenth Regiment led the two company commanders of the Fourteenth Regiment out of the headquarters and said with a smile: "Tonight, I will be the vanguard, and the brothers will follow.

We have been to this place several times, so we can be considered the hosts. Of course, we have to take the initiative to welcome guests. Wait a moment, I will let the communications officer bring the company over.

Go directly to your station, and the three companies will gather together before taking action."

Miao Fugui, the Ninth Company Commander of the Tenth Regiment, and Hua Rong, the Tenth Company Commander, immediately agreed. On such a night, it was really not easy to find each other if each company wanted to gather together.

At the same time, so many teams were gathered tonight, and if each team was not well organized, some companies would not be able to find each other.

Company Commander Lü's doing this perfectly solved this problem. In less than ten minutes, the soldiers of the First Company had already run over.

After the three companies gathered, they followed the First Company and sneaked towards the airport.

The airport was there, and when the Japanese rebuilt the airport this time, they learned from the last time and set up several sentry towers around the runway.

The sentry towers were equipped with high-power searchlights, and at the same time, lighting was installed everywhere in the airport. In such a dark night, the entire airport was as eye-catching as fireflies in summer.

Tonight, there were too many planes parked at the airport, so the commander of Shizhushan Airport, Takitani Akita, specially ordered the troops of the Shitayuzen Brigade and the 2nd Division of the puppet 33rd Army, who were guarding the airport, to increase their manpower and strengthen the number of patrols.

In fact, he was very confident in the defense of his airport, but he just wanted to get the Japanese soldiers under his command moving.

Otherwise, it would always be stagnant, which was not conducive to leading the team. Running water does not go bad, and hinges do not get worm-eaten. The same was true of the team, which needed to be moved every day to have combat effectiveness.

It was because of this idea that the team that used to patrol the runway with only one squad today sent the Matsumoto Takuya squadron.

In addition, all the puppet troops were deployed in various fortresses. Although the puppet troops were not very capable of fighting, they could not be allowed to be lazy.

As for the pilots at the airport, there was Commander Noguchi Takeo in charge, so he, the airport garrison commander, did not have to worry about it.

Commander Noguchi Takeo also landed at Shizhushan Airport today. After all, there were too many planes landing here when they first returned, so he had to land here to command these planes.

It was because Commander Noguchi Takeo was here that the airport refueled more than sixty planes and flew them back to their original airport to continue carrying out combat readiness tasks.

After that, the pilots who were originally stationed at Shizhushan Airport stayed at the airport to perform their duties if they had duty missions.

The rest of the pilots, plus the pilots who had temporarily arrived here today, all went to Anqing City, which was more than ten kilometers away, to have fun.

Pilots had always been a high-income group, even in the Japanese army. In addition, these pilots had been greatly frightened in the air battle in Wuhan today.

Commander Noguchi Takeo was good at leading troops. Not only did he not stop these Japanese from going out to have fun, but he also joined them.

When this group of Japanese entered Anqing City, they were of course particularly welcomed by certain industries in the city.

Even if these Japanese played until late at night, they were unwilling to leave the city. Commander Noguchi Takeo very considerately ordered these pilots: "Return to the airport before twelve noon tomorrow."

Regiment Commander Li Zhi Ze was watching the Japanese airport on the mountain tonight. Beside him was a walkie-talkie, and each company was constantly reporting that they had reached the attack position.

Time was slowly approaching midnight, and each squad divided into ten directions of attack was in place, waiting for the time to arrive.

Company Commander Lü Ye Wei of the First Company pointed to the searchlight on the sentry tower and ordered Wu Yuhang: "After the order is given later, you turn off the light!

An Liangcai, you hit the Japanese on the sentry tower! Luo Futian and Yu Yuanhua, you two hit the Japanese fortress."

The arrangements of Second Company Commander Fu Mingcheng at this time were the same. The company commanders and platoon commanders of the Tenth Regiment were all officers or outstanding soldiers in the former Training Corps.

The soldiers they led had been trained in their hands for ten months, and the company commanders knew the advantages and disadvantages of each soldier.

Tonight, the company commanders' arrangements for the attack method were the same.

The only difference was that the tasks of the four companies, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten, were the heaviest: they were directly facing the Japanese tower command post.

This position was where the Japanese had the most troops. There were Japanese barracks here. After all, the Japanese patrolling outside and guarding the fortresses were a minority. The Japanese in the barracks were the majority.

Twelve o'clock arrived!

No signal flare! No unified action order, but the troops of the Tenth Regiment divided into ten squads and rushed towards Shizhushan Airport.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, and the originally brightly lit airport instantly went dark.

The searchlights on the runway were all extinguished, and there was a "thump" sound of heavy objects falling from a high place, which was the sound of the Japanese on the sentry tower falling to the ground after being shot dead.

Then there were flashes of explosion and then the sound of "rumbling! rumbling!"

Squadron Commander Matsumoto Takuya was patrolling the runway with the Honda Jiro squad when he suddenly heard gunshots and explosions one after another.

He shouted loudly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Squad Leader Honda Jiro had already started blowing the whistle.

The "di di di" whistle sounded on the runway, and the remaining two squads of Japanese were also going to warn. When Brigade Commander Shitayuzen heard the gunshots, he just looked up and found that the searchlights on the periphery of the runway were all extinguished.

The alarm on the tower resounded throughout the airport, and those Japanese who had already fallen asleep woke up in a panic when they heard the alarm.

The lights in the runway were still on, which made the Japanese standing on the runway as conspicuous as fireflies in the summer night. They had completely become targets for the soldiers who had already rushed outside the runway.

Heavy machine guns and rifles all greeted them. The Japanese, who were under a fierce attack, could not see how many people were attacking at all.

They could only see the cross-shaped muzzle flames dancing everywhere outside the runway.

At the same time, shells had already fallen in the area where Brigade Commander Shitayuzen was located.

The teams attacking the airport tower, barracks, and command post were four companies from the Tenth Regiment, plus the eight infantry companies from the Fifteenth Regiment assigned to them.

A full twelve infantry companies, sixty mortars, and twenty-four infantry guns simultaneously opened fire on the Japanese barracks and command post.

The three rocket artillery companies watching the airport from afar could only feel anxious: the coverage of the rocket artillery was too large, and if they launched a bombing, they might accidentally injure their teammates, and at the same time, they might blow up the planes at the airport.

The troops attacking the airport runway had not stopped their charge since the battle began. They first shot down the searchlights on the periphery to facilitate the approach of the troops to the airport.

Leaving the lights inside the airport, let the Japanese be exposed to the rain of bullets in the open.

Thousands of people strafed the Matsumoto Takuya squadron, which was completely exposed on the runway. Before this squadron of Japanese could start to fight back, they had all fallen down.

Yan Song, the commander of the 2nd Division of the puppet army, was so frightened when he heard the gunshots that he rolled off the bed. His trembling hands could not even put on his clothes.

It was with the help of the orderly that he managed to put on his clothes and quickly rushed out of the room, watching the muzzle flames flickering everywhere outside the airport.

He was clear about the predecessor of this airport: none of the Japanese who guarded the airport at that time survived.

Tonight, Yan Song had a strong premonition: if he did not run away quickly, he would definitely die here.

Yan Song ordered: "The guard company immediately drives the car over! We are going to Anqing!"

Soon someone reported: "The garage was bombed, and the car could not be driven out."

"Set off on foot! Walk towards Anqing!" Division Commander Yan Song ordered.

Just now, he had been carefully observing the attacking troops, judging from the flashing muzzle flames in the dark night: at least five thousand people were attacking the airport.

The team resisting on the periphery of the airport was his subordinate, but Yan Song did not care about these, he only cared about when he could rush out of the airport.

He had a bad feeling: this feeling was soon fulfilled.

Commander Takitani Akita had sent Japanese military police to block the airport exit, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

"At this time, Commander Takitani Akita is not organizing troops to guard the airport, but is distracted to intercept himself. He really does not trust or believe in himself." Yan Song muttered, and had to lead the guard company back to the airport headquarters.

At this time, the outer defense line of the airport had collapsed, and those puppet troops were shouting into the dark night: "Brothers of the National Army! Don't fight, we surrender."

After they shouted twice, there was a reply from the dark night: "Lay down your weapons, get out of the trenches and squat down!"

With a team of puppet troops setting an example, the second team of puppet troops immediately followed.

The First Company and Second Company, which had rushed to the airport runway, were running along the runway, and they wanted to rush to the front.

The lights on Shizhushan Airport were finally all extinguished, and the generator should have been blown up by the shells.

A raging fire was burning in the direction of the Japanese headquarters, and the soldiers of the three regiments of the Jiangbei Detachment had rushed to the end of the runway, firmly pressing the Shitayuzen Brigade, which was still resisting, in the camp.

In fact, when the battle had just begun, the Japanese pilots on duty at the airport had once wanted to rush to the runway.

However, the speed of the attacking troops tonight was too fast, and these Japanese had been blown back by the fierce bombing before they could rush to the runway.

Just now, only twelve companies were bombing the tower, barracks, and command post, and the Japanese could not stand it.

Now that all thirty companies had arrived, the artillery fire was even more dense, and the Japanese had no power to fight back this time.

Dust was constantly falling from the roof of the command post, and Yan Song said nervously: "Commander! Let's retreat to Anqing! It will be too late if we don't leave."

Commander Takitani Akita completely ignored him, and only issued orders: "Brigade Commander Shitayuzen, order all troops to attack!

Rush to the runway and destroy all the planes!"

Commander Takitani Akita had seen that Shizhushan Airport could not be defended, and he had to order all the planes to be blown up.

Although the battle had been going on for less than ten minutes, he had understood one thing from the attacking team's attack method: they wanted the planes!

If the other side were to seize these one hundred or so planes, Commander Takitani Akita could not imagine what the consequences would be.

Brigade Commander Shitayuzen immediately issued orders to the squadrons under his command. At this time, Commander Takitani Yuzen continued to order: "All personnel at the airport are equipped with guns and prepare to fight!"

"Commander! There is still time to leave now!" Yan Song was just short of kneeling down and begging Commander Takitani Akita to order a retreat quickly.

It did not matter whether he left or not, what mattered was that he let himself leave!

Commander Takitani Akita gave him a cold look: "You said the words 'Live and die with the airport' on the first day you came to the airport.

You said it when you raised your glass to toast me. The words are still in my ears, and I remember them clearly.

Have you forgotten?"

Yan Song was stunned for a moment: "Did I say these words? It seems I did. Can the words said when raising a glass be considered words?

Those are ghost words used to deceive ghosts. I didn't expect this Japanese to take them seriously."

Yan Song was tearless, and he wished he could sew up his mouth. That time, he had just come to the airport with his team, and Commander Takitani held a welcome banquet.

Of course, he had to express his loyalty at the banquet, but that was definitely not an expression of his true thoughts!

But! Commander Takitani Akita obviously took these words seriously.

He continued to say: "Just a few hours ago, when I ordered your troops to fully protect the periphery of the airport, you also said the words 'Live and die with the airport'.

Have you forgotten so soon?"

After saying these words, he stopped paying attention to him and ordered his guards: "Watch him. If he takes a step out of the command post, kill him without mercy!"

This order embarrassed Yan Song: Originally, he thought that he had drunk with Commander Takitani Akita and carried a gun together, so their friendship should be good.

He did not expect that today he really wanted him to die here! But facing such a Commander Takitani Akita, Yan Song did not dare to say a word.

The guards under his command did not even dare to make eye contact with the Japanese military police.

Looking out from the small window of the airport command post: you could see Brigade Commander Shitayuzen personally leading the troops to rush towards the planes on the runway.

Brigade Commander Shitayuzen really believed that he was going to die today, so he had to follow the troops to charge, at least to die like a warrior.

The squadron leaders personally led the charge, and the remaining Japanese soldiers of the Suzuki Yuta Squadron, Yamamoto Haruto Squadron, Hotaka Haruto Squadron, and Shirahata Kinunosuke Squadron all followed closely.

This was already the last force of the entire Shitayuzen Brigade, and the four squadrons, which had suffered more than half of their casualties, added up to less than four hundred Japanese soldiers.

They rushed out from various hidden positions in the tower, and did not even have a chance to touch the runway when they were greeted by a wave of fierce attacks.

On the opposite side, tens of thousands of Jiangbei Detachment soldiers were waiting in full battle array. Originally, they had been constantly bombing the Japanese.

They wanted to blast them out of their hidden positions, but they actually took the initiative to run out.

Greeting these Japanese was countless bullets. These Japanese did not even rush out fifty meters before they all fell down.

Seeing that the four hundred Japanese soldiers were all killed in less than five minutes, and they did not achieve the goal of rushing to the runway to destroy the planes.

Commander Takitani Akita's face changed obviously, Yan Song's face was pale and he did not say a word, and his eyes looked at the Japanese in the room with hatred.

Now he had the last hundred or so Japanese soldiers guarding the headquarters in his hands, and there were about two hundred Japanese ground crew members at the airport.

There was also a guard company of puppet troops with more than one hundred people. There were only so many troops in the entire airport command post.

There were as many as ten thousand troops attacking! What could they do?

The call for help had already been made to Anqing, and whether the rescue team came or not, it was too late.

The team attacking the airport today was too fierce and the offensive was too strong. Only half an hour had passed since the attack began!

Commander Takitani Akita drew out his command knife and said fiercely: "Everyone! The enemy is too fierce!

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