Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 838 Meet Feng Yuxiang

"Okay, my mission here has also been completed. Tonight I will fly back to Beijing to report on the situation in the Middle East. The rest of you can discuss with the commander of the 239th Infantry Division."

"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!" Everyone present gave a standard military salute to Feng Yuxiang, and the major general said, "Commander-in-Chief, we will definitely occupy Sulaymaniyah within 2 days. What else does the Commander-in-Chief have?" I have to explain!" At this point, everyone puffed up their chests as if they were listening to the instructions.

"Nothing important, I just advise you to fight steadily, and the French may withdraw the defenders of Sulaymaniyah at night. If this army withdraws, they will probably be transferred to Baghdad to strengthen there. This will have a negative impact on our future offensive strategy, so you'd better cut off their retreat in advance, completely destroy them if necessary, and notify the naval aviation to block the periphery of Sulaymaniyah Region. Well, I have nothing more to say, I wish you success!" After speaking, he waved his hand and made a gesture of seeing off the guests, and the rest of the people understood, and then quickly left Feng Yuxiang's office.

Soon, the originally crowded office suddenly became empty, only Feng Yuxiang and Du Yuming were left, and they looked at each other in unison.

"This is Du Yuming, the iron-blooded soldier of the empire, Du Yuming." Song Zheyuan introduced.

Feng Yuxiang looked at the stubborn young man in front of him. On the other side, Du Yuming was also observing Feng Yuxiang. He was very excited now. It was unimaginable for ordinary soldiers to observe his boss from such a close distance.Feng Yuxiang was honored as the God of War within the Western Expeditionary Army, but he was called a devil among the French.As the rumors said, Feng Yuxiang in front of him looked very young, but his eyes were full of murderous intent, just a casual look made Du Yuming feel his scalp go numb.

"You are Du Yuming?" After looking at each other for a while, Feng Yuxiang finally spoke. Although the question was simple, it was very heavy for Du Yuming, so heavy that he couldn't breathe for a while.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!" Feng Yuxiang hurriedly stood at attention and gave a quick military salute.

"Okay," Feng Yuxiang waved his hands with a smile, and said very gently: "I have read your introduction, you have courage, courage, and what's rare is that you have brains. However, there is one thing I really want to know. According to your performance, you should have been promoted to the rank of second lieutenant long ago. Besides, didn’t you stay well in the reconnaissance unit of the Waffen-SS? Why did you suddenly run to the tank battalion?”

"It's like this." Du Yuming scratched his head and said, "Because I'm a stubborn person, I tend to be impulsive when doing things in the army, and I often offend commanders, so I haven't been promoted. I don't know what's going on in the tank unit, and I was transferred to the tank reconnaissance company in a daze, but fortunately, they didn't transfer me to the logistics department, otherwise my life would be difficult. You can’t sleep when you’re fighting, and you’ll die of depression after being idle for a long time.” Having said this, Du Yuming shrugged his shoulders slightly.

"Haha" After listening to the other party's explanation, Feng Yuxiang suddenly laughed, and laughed loudly, maybe he thought the other party's explanation was very funny.Then he stared at Du Yuming and said, "Du Yuming, let me ask you if you want to join the heavy tank unit?"

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief." Du Yuming immediately replied without hesitation, "I very much hope to go to the heavy tank unit, because I think that is the stage where I can give full play!"

"Very good." Hearing what the other party said, Feng Yuxiang nodded heavily, slowly picked up a piece of paper on the table and handed it to Du Yuming, and said solemnly: "I now appoint you as the battalion commander of the Bear Tank Battalion, and you will be promoted to You are a major, but before that, you must go to a special military academy for a series of training, enrich military theory, and hone your stubbornness, only in this way can you become a real commander."

He paused and continued: "Besides, due to your good performance in that battle, the headquarters decided to apply to the Ministry of War for awarding you a first-class Golden Dragon Medal. I hope you will continue to work hard."

"Thank you!" Du Yu was obviously very excited, stretched out his hand tremblingly, took the note, stood at attention again, and said, "I will definitely live up to your expectations, I will become a qualified officer!"

"Hehe! I know." Feng Yuxiang smiled.

At 1916 o'clock in the morning on January 1, 12, Feng Yuxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, took a Fengyun 9 transport plane and quietly left the Middle East, known as the heart of the world.However, due to strict secrecy, no one knew of his departure except for a very small number of senior officers of the Western Expeditionary Army.Whether it is the Chinese or the French who are fighting in Sulaymaniyah, they all believe that this super figure who opened up the territory is still on the soil of Iraq.

Half an hour after Feng Yuxiang left, Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the North Road Group Army of the Western Expeditionary Army, came to the temporary headquarters and temporarily took over the command of the Iraq War.Then, the 239th Infantry Regiment of the 1334th Infantry Division of the Dragon Army and the assault guns have also arrived at the Iraqi border.Now the number of Dragon Army in Iraq has increased to 25. In addition, it also has 862 tanks (including 230 Tiger tanks) and a large number of advanced mechanized equipment such as self-propelled artillery and Viper rocket launchers.In addition, they also received strong support from the Chinese Naval Aviation and Air Force.As Feng Yuxiang said, if they still can't win the final victory despite having an absolute advantage, then all of them will have to jump to the Mediterranean Sea.

On January 1, Sulaymaniyah, a city in northern Iraq that was originally peaceful, suddenly fell into an extremely tense atmosphere. A harsh Chinese voice suddenly came from the local radio station that was still playing music. The voice of Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang.He announced to the Iraqi public by radio that His Majesty the Great Chinese Emperor had ordered to punish the "reactionary groups in Iraq" and decided to use force to restore "peace and security" in Iraq

Wu Tingfang declared: "The Dragon Army has fully occupied Sulaymaniyah, and the imperial bombs have been dropped on Kirkuk like a torrential rain." Doom for Erkuk was coming.

The air strike carried out by the Dragon Army was code-named "Sword of Heaven", and its purpose was to completely paralyze the military defense forces in the central and northern regions of Iraq through a devastating blow to Kirkuk.To this end, the Imperial Air Force dispatched a total of about 1470 military aircraft, including two bomber wings, three fighter wings, and two heavy bomber wings transferred from Afghanistan.This is just the tip of the iceberg. Feng Yuxiang still has two fighter wings and four tactical bomber wings in his hands, a total of 640 combat aircraft.

Facing such a powerful Chinese Fourth Air Force, the French Air Force has only 340 military aircraft at full capacity, of which less than 260 can be launched into the air, and they are scattered throughout northern Iraq.

At 10 o'clock the first air raid sirens sounded in Kirkuk.However, the Chinese Air Force has pre-emptively bombed the main air bases in Kirkuk. High-speed fighter jets took the lead in passing over the unguarded airport, and then dropped cluster bombs weighing 2000 kilograms at an altitude of 250 meters.In an instant, the sub-bomb the size of a fist exploded on the airport like a goddess scattering flowers. The huge burst of energy instantly caused dense craters with a diameter of about 2 meters to appear in the originally flat airport.According to the actual combat statistics of the Long Army, small bomb craters are more effective than heavy bombs in destroying airports, because these small craters are more difficult to fill.

Such bombing resulted in the destruction of a large number of aircraft on the airfield, and many more aircraft were unable to take off because the runway was damaged.

Only 10 minutes later, the second wave of bombers from the Dragon Army arrived.The aircraft of this wave consisted entirely of high-speed Lanxiang dive bombers.They quickly flew over the various airports in Kirkuk, and then dropped 100 kg bombs on the French and Iraqi fighters who were still immobile on the airport.

And those Iraqi pilots who were lucky enough to fly away from the airport were not having a good time. Although they escaped the bombing and tried to face the Chinese air force, they could not be compared with their Chinese counterparts in terms of experience or technology.You must know that most of the Chinese pilots are veterans who have been baptized in World War II.Both the adaptability and personal quality are far higher than those Iraqi rookies who have just learned to take off into the air.The irony is that many Iraqi pilots and their opponents are flying almost the same Chinese imported aircraft, and the Iraqi air defense artillery unit, which lacks radar detection systems, when they see the Chinese Air Force fighters, they think it is their own aircraft. Therefore, no fire was fired.This caused the Iraqi fighter planes to be annihilated by Chinese war hawks shortly after leaving the airport, and they were inevitably shot down one after another.

In order to ensure the effect and density of the bombing, the Chinese Air Force ordered that the interval between each bombing of the bombing missions should not exceed one hour, which means that more than 1 bombers must fly to Kirku every 30-50 minutes on average. gram.A Dragon Army fighter pilot who carried out this bombing mission recalled: "As an old pilot, I have never seen such a scene of covering the sky and the sun, not even in photos and movies. Hundreds of planes The planes lined up densely in a neat square, like a huge sardine can."

(End of this chapter)