Chapter 104 going to fight

The plane took off.Wu Yuan heard a voice in the headset: "Look, there are three C47 (transport planes) on the upper right, which are going to deliver supplies to Jiangxi. On the upper left are six B24 (long-range bombers), which will go to Fujian to perform missions." Following the prompts of the earphones, the plane, which usually looks huge on the ground, is now like a bird flying in the vast sky, and it quickly disappears. After a while, the headset rang again: "Look at the ground." The plane has reached the sky above the forward positions.Looking down, the Zijiang and Xiangjiang rivers are like belts, the mountains and villages are like toys, and the troops moving on the ground are like ants and broad beans.There are also red and white cloth boards on the ground, one with the word "Chuan" on it, and the other with the word "Ten", both of which are the garrison symbols of the ground troops.

After crossing the forward position, the plane went straight into the sky over Hengyang.Although several Japanese anti-aircraft guns were firing at the air, they were all out of reach. The three "Mustangs" ignored them and continued to gallop north. "Changsha is here!" As soon as the voice in the headset fell, Yuelu Mountain and Changsha city appeared under the wing. "Attention, we are about to fight!" This prompt made everyone feel tense, not knowing what kind of dangerous situation they encountered.It was too late, but soon, the plane suddenly dived towards the ground like an arrow from the string. After that, the fuselage shook, accompanied by a loud noise, and thick smoke rose from the ground.

It turned out that the plane was dropping bombs.Immediately afterwards, it began to rise straight up like a carp, and then flew sideways. Going up and down, turning sideways, are the basic movements in the bombing, which are commonplace for the pilots, but they made the spectators in the plane suffer. Everyone only felt that their internal organs were churning. I vomited everything I ate on the towel. When the plane returned to parallel flight, an explanation was given in the headset: "It was bombing a train just now. After I took turns bombing, the target has been hit. Now we will return victorious."

Wu Yuan regained her composure and found that the ground was covered in thick smoke.The plane circled the bombed site calmly, then turned back and flew west. Like Hengyang, the Japanese army in Changsha was also equipped with anti-aircraft guns, but it was also helpless, and the few shots fired were more like seeing off the plane.As for enemy planes, they have never encountered them along the way. In fact, none of the Japanese fighter jets at this time was an opponent of the "Mustang". "Wild Horse" flew to Zhijiang Airport.When approaching the sky above the airport, the commander issued an instruction: "The runway is empty now, please slow down and listen to the order to land on the north runway."

After hovering in the sky for three weeks, the plane was able to land slowly, indicating that the entire airport was fully operating at full capacity. The three spectators rested in Zhijiang for a day, and listened to Tang Wentian, the captain of the Fourth Air Force Battalion, introduce the combat situation in the past year.The Fourth Battalion alone has dispatched 782 bombers and fighter jets this year, shot down 61 Japanese planes in the air, possibly 21, and destroyed 110 Japanese planes parked on the ground. Fifty-six were destroyed. As soon as the three of them returned to Anjiang, they exaggerated the experience of this expedition. The narrator was full of emotions and elated, and the listeners nodded in admiration.Like other news reporting activities, it made people in the whole rear area excited and excited. In addition, He Yingqin had reported victory. Large slogans "Celebrating the Great Victory in Western Hunan" appeared in the streets and alleys of Chongqing, and the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers resounded through the sky. .

In fact, the Japanese army had not been completely defeated at this time, and the front line was still raging with artillery fire. The Japanese army broke through the hole blocked by the 11th Division several times, trying to fight a bloody road, but they all failed. Qiu Weida issued instructions to the corps, requesting that the fortifications of the encirclement be strengthened to prevent the Japanese army from breaking out at night.From now on, the main task of each corps is to divide the encircled enemies separately and gather them in small pieces to annihilate them. On May 18, most of the Japanese positions besieged at the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain were blown up by the air force, and the forest area where the Japanese soldiers were hiding or hiding was no exception. difficulty.

On the second day, the pursuit of the 74th Army achieved a lot, and some Japanese troops in Jiangkou and Dongkou surrendered.According to the confessions of the Japanese prisoners, after they were surrounded, they did not receive food and ammunition supplies, and the officers and soldiers had not eaten or drank for three days, which resulted in the lack of fighting spirit.In addition, the air force's continuous bombing also caused them heavy casualties. The 100th Army and the 73rd Army, which pursued together with the 74th Army, also surrounded the Japanese positions successively. After sending people to persuade them to surrender, more and more people disarmed.

The battle on the front line went smoothly, and commanders at all levels were very happy, thinking that victory was within their reach. On June 20, representatives from all walks of life in Chongqing also brought gifts to Zhijiang, and waited for the end of the battle before going to the front line to reward the troops. At this time, He Yingqin was more impatient than the Chongqing representative.Because the Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang, which was being held in Chongqing, would end on June 21, Chiang Kai-shek urged him to return to Chongqing to give a military report on the Battle of Xiangxi to the congress. Wang Yaowu would also attend the congress as a new member of the Central Committee.

After He Yingqin and Wang Yaowu discussed it, the result of the Xiangxi battle seemed to be a certainty, but the problem was that the battle ahead was not over yet, and how could they win? In the middle of the night of June 20, Wang Yaowu called the Xupu command post and asked Qiu Weida to consider whether he could "end this war as soon as possible." When Qiu Weida heard it, he said that you let me think for a few minutes before answering.