The father of the sword is Kong Jie

At this time, the commanders related to the Shandong Military Region and the New Fourth Army were full of enthusiasm and excitedly watched the No. [-] regional transport aircraft unit. With the assistance of nearby logistics troops, they began to load and unload supplies, and separately transferred fuel, torpedoes, and mines to different regions.

Ding Wei looked at the torpedoes being transported and said: "The Japanese took the transport ship to Weihai. The torpedo must be written with the name Zhiyuan. Send these Japanese who took the transport ship to the Weihai port to the bottom of the sea to pay tribute to the Beiyang Navy who died for their country that year." Apologize!"

Everyone applauded, saying that the Beiyang Navy back then had indeed shown national integrity!

At the airport, various transport planes are still busy.

After the first batch of transport planes quickly unloaded the supplies, they immediately loaded up the oceans, gold bars, and some copper ingots or non-ferrous metal ingots seized during this period and immediately transported them back to the headquarters in preparation for transporting the second batch of supplies.

The second batch includes 2 squadrons of TBF torpedo planes, 2 squadrons of SBD dive bombers, 2 squadrons of Type 99 dive bombers, 1 squadron of Type 97 fighter-turned-ground rocket attack aircraft, and 1 squadron of Mosquito night-time attack aircraft. Fighters, two Mosquito upgraded air radars, a Catalina sea radar squadron, a Catalina relay communications squadron, a Catalina water search and rescue squadron, and three Mosquito bomber-converted torpedo squadrons .

An additional B25, Type 96 land attack, Type 97 land attack, and Type [-] heavy explosive were also dispatched to form a minelayer brigade for air strikes.

First, throw a lot of mines into the area of ​​the Japanese fleet. If the Japanese hit the mines while avoiding air strikes, wouldn't it be a big profit?

Anyway, the Eighth Route Army didn't have a boat, so even if they threw it hard, the devil in the dark couldn't see clearly.

The third batch includes 5 squadrons of La2 fighter squadrons and 3 squadrons of Yak [-] improved aircraft.

After listening to the report in the Military Intelligence Room of Huangyadong Headquarters this time, the Commander-in-Chief and Deputy Commander-in-Chief immediately slapped the table and decided: "In the worst case, we won't be able to survive, so we'll take a heavy blow!"

This Japanese elite mobile unit is sitting in a boat. On the sea, it can't fire its guns or fire its cannons, and it can't even run away when it encounters an air attack.

There are also those transport ships and oil tankers that transport equipment. They will be completely lost if the Japanese bomb them.

This is really the best time to use aviation forces to deal with the enemy's concentrated ship forces.

A group of people shouted at the headquarters:

"Blow them up! Blow them all into the sea and feed them to the bastard."

In the end, if the political commissars hadn't stopped them, both commanders would have wanted to get on the plane and see with their own eyes how the air force blew up the Japanese fleet and fleet.

Political Commissar Luo, Commander Chen, and Staff Officer Ye who were visiting here had to sit at the headquarters, so they couldn't go. They just sighed with regret.

But Lao Pi, Lao Zhou, Lao Liang, Lao Chen, Lao Yang and others were not polite and stayed in the Catalina water search and rescue aircraft area. Then Lao Pi, as the representative, said to Kong Jie: "We are not leaving. , no more wine, we are going to take a plane, we are going to watch the air force bomb the Japanese cruisers.

Lao Kong, if you don't help me with this, I will never recognize you as an old comrade in the future. If you come to my territory again, let alone drink, I'm sorry, you don't even have to drink well water! "

As they spoke, these iron-blooded generals who had been on the battlefield for a long time and killed little Japanese without blinking an eye acted like children.

Kong Jie thought for a while. During this period, the Japanese flying team was frightened by our night fighters and basically did not come out. They only carried out night air strikes and laid mines. There should be no danger, so he agreed.

It was just a good time for these generals to broaden their horizons and see the situation of maritime operations.

Finally, under the guidance of a careful battle plan formulated in advance at a pre-war meeting.

The Eighth Route Army Aviation Force, after obtaining the consent of the General Headquarters, and in accordance with the deployment of Kong Jie, the acting commander of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Force, officially launched an air attack against the Japanese ship forces assembled in Dalian, and laid mines along the way to prevent the Japanese army from shipping reinforcements to Shandong. battle plan.

Soon after, the battle officially began.

Of course, before the air strike was officially launched, reconnaissance aircraft and ground-based reconnaissance forces conducted preliminary detection of the direction of Dalian Port in advance.

As a result, this investigation yielded unexpected results.

The investigators soon noticed a problem. The Japs seemed to have assembled much more troops at the port than expected, including a considerable number of warships and transport ships. It seemed that they had gathered together for some special reason to gain momentum. Ready to go.

There is even a ship with a particularly large hull.

It looks like a special armored ship of the Japanese.

The gunboats, cruisers, and destroyers belonging to the Japanese army surrounding this special armored ship were obviously centered on this ship.

The intelligence information observed by the observers was quickly passed to the command headquarters in the rear. Kong Jie, who received the information, made a preliminary guess after analyzing it:
"Before formulating this air strike plan, we did not receive any news about this large ship that secretly arrived at the port.

It is estimated that there was some special reason for the little devil to gather these troops.

Notify the frontline reconnaissance and infiltration troops to quickly find out why the Japanese gathered so many ships in the port direction?

Also, what happened to that particularly huge ship? "

"Yes!"

……

The ground reconnaissance troops who cooperated with the operation were very efficient and soon passed back the information Kong Jie wanted to know.

"Izumo?"

"The Japanese armored cruiser Izumo!!!"

Kong Jie was really surprised when he received the news. Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, in order to achieve the purpose of invading China, the Japanese army has used quite a few quasi-motherships in the navy. There are fully 20 self-built, produced and modified ones. Multiple ships.

Among them, the most famous one and the most hated by the Chinese is the Japanese armored cruiser Izumo.

It is said that the Izumo is a large armored cruiser with a displacement of nearly [-] tons. It is an Izumo-class armored cruiser. It was built by the British Armstrong Shipyard. After it was in the hands of the Japanese army, it participated in World War I and the Russo-Japanese War, and served as the emperor. 's ship.

Therefore, this Izumo also carries great honor for the Japanese army.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese navy's Izumo, as the executioner of the Japanese Navy, committed unspeakable crimes.

After World War I, the already obsolete Izumo was incorporated into the second-line force by the Japanese army. Due to its large tonnage and heavy firepower, it became the flagship of the second-line force, and seaplanes were added and its operational functions were modified.

After the Sino-Japanese War broke out, various ships, boats, and boats headed by the Izumo assembled on the Huangpu River, directly and completely blocking the Chinese waters and occupying absolute sea control.

During the Battle of Songhu Conference, the Japanese flagship headed by the "Izumo" violently bombarded the Chinese army's positions with artillery to cover the Japanese attack.

In addition, it also caused huge losses to Chinese people's lives and property in Shanghai's factories, schools, and private housing.

Later, the Chinese navy fought to the death and launched successive attacks, which only caused heavy damage to the Izumo, but did not completely sink it.

The Japanese army was clamoring for this, and even made false claims in various reports, saying that the Izumo of the Empire of Japan symbolized the power and glory of the imperial army and could never be sunk by the enemy.

It is invincible and invincible.

"We must blow up this stupid Izumo!"

The indignant anti-Japanese soldiers swore.For this reason, countless anti-Japanese warriors who were determined to die successively launched attacks on the Japanese Izumo in an attempt to completely defeat the so-called honor-laden Izumo that the Japanese were clamoring about, so as to inspire the Chinese people to resist Japan. determination and confidence.

However, the Japanese navy, which occupied absolute sea control, was really powerful.

If there are no special unexpected factors, according to the original historical trajectory, by the end of 43, the Japanese Izumo officially withdrew from the battlefield of the invasion of China and returned to Japan from China, full of so-called bullshit glory. From then on, it served as a naval academy Used by practice ships.

The Japanese even clamored that the Izumo was hit countless times and did not sink, but instead promoted the so-called prestige of this cruiser.

When they thought of this, the generals in the headquarters were all indignant.

"Lao Kong, since this stupid Izumo collided with me this time, even if he is unlucky, we will blow him up no matter what!"

Kong Jie nodded heavily, why didn't he think so.

This was an unexpected opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Moreover, Kong Jie had a hunch that if he didn't take advantage of the opportunity in front of him to completely blow up the Japanese Izumo, there would really be no chance for him in the future.

Wait until the Japanese Izumo is officially decommissioned and returned to China.

Failure to blow up the Izumo will probably be an eternal regret for the Chinese anti-Japanese military and civilians.

"Fight! Go all out. At worst, we will use all our wealth until we blow up the devil's Izumo and sink it!"

While decisively issuing the order, Kong Jie was actually a little curious. Why did the Japanese suddenly gather a large number of ships at the port, even sending old heavyweight motherships like the Izumo?
——This matter, it turns out, we have to talk about Captain Wang, nicknamed Madman Wang.

Since Kong Jie pointed out in the pre-war military meeting that this time the siege of Taiyuan was used as a gimmick, he then turned his guns and launched sneak attacks on the Japanese counties of Datong, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, and Jinan.

Kong Jie also said that beating Datong would blind the enemy's eyes, and beating Zhangjiakou would tie up the enemy's legs.

"What if we attack Jinmen?" Captain Wang asked abruptly at that time.

Kong Jie smiled and said that Jinmen's military position was too important. If he really attacked Jinmen, it would be equivalent to directly digging out the Japanese's heart.

Who would have thought that the speaker was unintentional but the listener was intentional. Captain Wang really kept this in mind.

Commander Wang led his troops on the eve of a direct attack on Jinmen.

While various units of the Eighth Route Army used the siege of Taiyuan to attract the attention of the Japanese army, various field troops quickly attacked in all directions, even changing from the usual guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare and mountain warfare, and launched large-scale confrontations with the Japanese in the plains.

When the old Japanese soldier Okabe saw that the Eighth Route Army actually dared to engage in a large-scale confrontation with the Imperial Army on the plains, he was very excited and felt that he had a chance to make a comeback.

In the past, you were familiar with the terrain and had a complete fortification group in the mountainous areas, so there was nothing you could do about it. Now you have come to the plains where there is no danger to defend. This is a place that the imperial army is familiar with.

Okabe, who seemed to have seen victory beckoning to him, immediately applied for emergency assistance from the Kwantung Army in the direction of Chahar and Jehol.

The troops directly under the front army were also deployed in the direction of Baoding, and even the mobile troops of the Jidong garrison were sent there to prepare for a decisive battle on the plains.

In this way, the empire's artillery superiority can be fully utilized to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

Yes, the idea is good, but the reality is cruel.

This is completely different from being fully prepared and reacting passively. The Eighth Route Army made full preparations before the war. Each unit brought a large amount of materials to the front line, including barbed wire, shovels, mines, triangular nails, cans, medicines, improved mine cannons, tents, raincoats, and anti-virus Masks, blast barrel launchers, trench periscopes, etc. are all issued to frontline troops.

Not to mention sufficient blasting barrels, explosive packs, light and heavy weapons and organic artillery units.

After discussion between the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander-in-chief, the 129th Division unified the command of the main force of the 386th Brigade, the troops drawn from the new brigade, and the field troops assigned to the headquarters to form the main southward attack group in Baoding.

The main field force of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei-Nie Army and some troops of the 35th Army formed the main northward attack group in Baoding.

The main force of Commander Lu from Jizhong formed the Baoding eastbound reinforcement group.

Field troops led by Commander Wang of the 385th Regiment of the 769th Brigade and the Iron Triangle Mobile Force formed a raiding corps, and the driver fought.

...After the battle around Baoding started, when the troops from all sides were fighting fiercely, Commander Wang, who was commanding the field group, couldn't sit still.

In every battle this time, he always charged at the front, how could he be left waiting?
As a result, Commander Wang immediately led the mobile assault force to start the operation.

At first, they ambush the Japanese reinforcements outside Baoding.

After a few battles, Captain Wang felt that fighting against Japanese reinforcements was not satisfying at all. How could it be as satisfying as attacking fortresses such as Baoding, Taiyuan, and Zhangjiakou?
So he started to think about it.

I was wondering where to stab him so hard to give the Japanese a hard blow.

After pondering and pondering, for some reason, Kong Jie's words at the military meeting suddenly rang in his ears.

——Pull out the devil’s heart!

"Old Kong, Old Kong, what you said is so seductive to his grandma! I can't care less, I'm so greedy!"

"beat!"

Having made up his mind, Captain Wang immediately turned his troops around. He was an invincible warrior, and he was even more destructive along the way. He led his troops to break through multiple Japanese blockades one after another, and even beat the little Japanese along the way to cower. The county seat, relying on the danger and holding on to the danger, acted like a tortoise.

Soon after.

Taking advantage of the fact that Baoding, Shijiazhuang and other important cities were under attack, the Japanese army ignored the situation.

Commander Wang decided to take a gamble and not be crazy about his nickname, so he led the troops to change direction and went straight to Tianjin, almost beyond the expectations of everyone including the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army.

"I just want to dig out the devil's heart!"

This sentence can be said to have ignited the determination of Commander Wang at that time.

The Japanese army did not expect that this mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army, which was originally stationed near Baoding for reinforcements, would dare to be so arrogant and even go deep into Jinmen alone.

In fact, let alone the Japanese army, the general headquarters, which was directing various troops to besiege Baoding, was also confused.

According to the command, the original intention was for Captain Wang to lead a field force as a mobile force to wait for opportunities to fight near Baoding, either for reinforcements, to assist in the siege, or to make detours.

But the commanders may have forgotten that a strong general like Commander Wang, who is suitable for attacking, are you asking him to defend?That’s not very enjoyable!

Just like that, under the leadership of Commander Wang, the field group troops, mainly composed of the [-]th Regiment and the Iron Triangle Mobile Force, quickly assembled and broke through the Japanese blockades in Tianjin with a devastating offensive. It even went straight to Peiping...