The Beacon of Laiyang Metal

Chapter 68 Preparation before dawn

"Let the mountains fall~"

Following the sound of these chants, birch trees more than 20 meters high fell one after another.

They did not stop logging until a clearing the size of a football field was opened in this inaccessible forest.

Not long after, five "Katyusha" rocket launcher vehicles and two supply vehicles that had been parked hiddenly on the road at the edge of the forest were dragged by two crawler tractors and opened up along the edge of the forest to accommodate only one car. The barely passable passage headed towards the launch site.

The traces of the cars being run over were carefully smoothed out by the people in charge of the rear with shovels and brooms.

Finally, they brought a few dead wood piles and placed them at the entrance of the passage at the edge of the forest, creating a phenomenon where dead trees naturally fell and caused gaps in the edge of the forest.

This alone is not enough. Even vehicles driving into forest clearings must be covered with concealment camouflage nets and sprinkled with a layer of snow to prevent the sudden appearance of Japanese planes from the sky.

As the snow fell heavier and heavier, the entire forest farm was completely silent, except for the dead branches breaking under the weight of the snow, the crackling sound of branches breaking from time to time, and the occasional howling of animals in the distance.

The traces that had not been processed in time due to logging and running over by vehicles were also covered cleanly by the snowflakes that continued to fall from the sky until they were completely integrated with the surrounding environment.

This group of busy people is none other than a combat unit from the reconnaissance battalion of the 7th Division.

Their mission for this trip was to march covertly from Anton to 8 kilometers outside the Kwantung Army's military airport, and at the same time open up a launch site to use the five "Katyusha" rocket launcher trucks they brought to attack the little devils. The airport launches a fatal blow.

The day after he returned from Weiyuan with the equipment, he and the division staff began to study how to launch a fatal blow to the Jaap's airport.

In the end, it was decided to use the characteristics of rockets with high power, fast firing speed and high maneuverability to launch a surprise attack on the Japs' military airport before the battle started, completely destroying their aircraft on the airport runway.

The mission of this trip was handed over to the "Jian Dao" reconnaissance battalion of the 7th Division.

This mission was not only personally led by their reconnaissance battalion commander Lan Qilin, but also a group of team members suitable for this mission were selected from across the division.

For example, the famous gunners of the artillery regiment, the first, second, and third regiments of the 7th Infantry Division were the first to form infantry regiments. The machine gunners, riflemen, and combat masters with the best shooting skills were also recruited.

Lan Qilin knew very well which team in the division had good players.

Previously, Lan Qilin had thought of drawing these good people into his reconnaissance camp by building relationships with several regimental leaders.

Who would have thought that after he explained his purpose, he was still smiling and calling the captains "older brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother, younger brother". Jumping up and down everywhere looking for good things from others.

This made Lan Qilin feel like he was spitting on his face.

But this mission allowed Lan Qilin to seize the opportunity. The commander personally ordered all regiments to cooperate unconditionally, and the reconnaissance battalion would release anyone they liked.

Lan Qilin naturally regarded Wei Yuan's order as a sword from above. Taking the list he had already prepared, he went to the artillery regiments and infantry regiments one by one to find their commanders to ask for people.

He pretended not to see the gazes of these group leaders whose eyes were about to burst into flames. And before leaving, he said, "I'll come back if I have a chance." Do you think that's irritating or not?

"Do you really think that the few key people I have trained with great difficulty are for your reconnaissance camp? No! After this mission is over, I will ask the master to get these people back no matter what."

Several regiment leaders who had been poached had made up their minds to go to the reconnaissance camp to ask for people after the mission was over, but Lan Qilin's little idea probably meant that he was going to beat the dog with a meat bun - there would be no return.

The reason why Dou Xuegui was able to appear in the combat team of the reconnaissance camp was not because of his excellent military skills. It was all because of his strength that he was used as an extra and became a member of the team.

It is said that after Dou Xuegui entered the seventh division, he was like a mouse falling into a rice vat, and he could make a lot of rice every day.

In addition, the seventh division has enough oil and water, and the small steel basin the size of a human head is enough for others to eat. Dou Xuegui can cook five large basins in one meal, and he will not stop until the wooden bucket in which the cooking team holds the rice is bottomed out.

As a result, this guy groaned every time after eating, like a pregnant woman who was seven or eight months pregnant. It was difficult not to mention walking training.

At first, their company commander didn't take it seriously. Seeing that he had eaten too much, he was worried that he would burst, so he asked him to ask the health team to prescribe some hawthorn pills to make him pay attention next time, and also exempted him from training that day.

As a result, Dou Xuegui, who had finished digesting the food on the second day, still remained stubborn and continued to work hard while holding his rice bowl. As expected, he was as full as the day before. The angry company commander ordered him to only eat every time. They eat three bowls of rice and are supervised by their squad leader.

But it turned out that this guy didn't eat enough in the cafeteria, but he had an allowance, and he was still alone. Counting the settlement expenses, Da Yang spent dozens of dollars in vain to buy food while he was away on the weekend.

And as soon as I bought it, I bought a lot and hid it secretly in the dormitory cabinet. As a result, it deteriorated within a few days. I can't bear to throw this stuff away. I'm really scared of being hungry.

It's better now, but I got food poisoning from eating it.

In the health team, he even had a water tube and took medicine. After three days in the health team, his company commander was left speechless.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and kicked Dou Xuegui directly into the cooking class, asking him to completely correct his overeating problem in the cooking class, and then come to him to be transferred out of the cooking class.

There is a saying that goes: Talents in this world depend on whether they are placed in the right position.

Dou Xuegui, who joined the cooking class, became a full-time handyman. On weekdays: raising pigs, chopping vegetables, cleaning, carrying rice bags... I am very good at what I do.

Even the cooking squad leader said: "Since Dou Xuegui came, not only their workload has been eased by more than half, but even the pigs they raise have gained a lot of fat!"

It wasn't until one day that Lan Qilin saw Dou Xuegui busy unloading rice from a truck nearby that he came up with the idea of ​​recruiting Dou Xuegui.

On this day, after Lan Qilin received the order to raid the Little Japanese military airport, he passed by the door of the cooking class and considered who would participate in the operation as he walked.

I saw Dou Xuegui grabbing the rice sacks with one hand, and no matter how hard he exerted his force, the 100-pound sack fell steadily on his shoulders.

After three sacks were stacked on each shoulder, he walked steadily to the kitchen of the cooking class carrying six sacks without blushing or out of breath.

You must know that these are rice bags with a single weight of 100 kilograms, which means that this guy can carry a weight of 600 kilograms at a time as if he is fine.

Lan Qilin was shocked for a moment and sighed in his heart: "Isn't this a natural heavy firepower and ammunition loader?"

In order to provide concealment along the way, Lan Qilin led this small team from the reconnaissance battalion to disguise themselves as a caravan delivering goods to the brigade, and covered the vehicle with a layer of linoleum for camouflage. When traveling, try to avoid major roads and towns along the way.

In addition, the individual drones purchased by Weiyuan in "Dajiang" also brought great convenience to this mission: "Once they encounter roads and towns that cannot be avoided, they will be the first to release the drones. Conduct reconnaissance to ensure that no unrelated persons are encountered along the way." Moreover, another benefit of the heavy snowfall in the mountains this season is that in the temperature of dozens of degrees below zero at night, there will be no civilians wandering around idle.

Even some caravans would not choose to travel at night.

Although when driving in the town at night, the sound of the engine will inevitably attract others' attention, but most of them will take a look through the cracks in the door or window, and go back to sleep on the bed under the quilt with the idea of ​​​​doing more is worse than doing less.

Even with such caution, it was inevitable that he would attract the attention of several "interested people" on the road.

These people either drove horses to sledge or rode horses, following the convoy from a distance, with various purposes to get a closer look at the sudden arrival of the convoy.

But with the drones in the air, the team was able to spot these "tails" following them just a few kilometers away.

At this time, their method of dealing with these "tails" was also very simple and crude.

That is to find a suitable place for an ambush and leave a few melee masters behind.

When these "tails" caught up, the members of the reconnaissance team who had ambushed in advance swarmed up, and then they covered their mouths and drew their swords, very neatly.

The unidentified people following behind were dealt with on the spot.

Logically speaking, these "tails" are not necessarily all spies of the Japs. They may also be informants of nearby bandits, or personnel sent by the Northeast Army and Jinling.

But Lan Qilin didn't have time to interrogate the details of these people. Keeping them was definitely a hidden danger. Based on the principle that I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go, I immediately clicked them all.

The bodies of these people were buried in a snow nest. The continuous heavy snow in the past few days would cover everything.

As for these horse sledges and horses, they are kept for their own use. In addition to pulling vehicles stuck in snow pits at critical moments, they can also kill and eat meat to replace the people who only eat compressed biscuits and luncheon meat along the way. taste.

In this way, hurriedly and slowly, finally three days before the seventh division launched an attack on the Japanese, the little Japanese was lurking in a mountain col ten kilometers away from the Luda Military Airport.

When he arrived here, Lan Qilin did not act in a hurry. Instead, after keeping the radio silent, he launched the drone and began to carefully investigate the situation of the airport of the little Japanese, as well as the route and time of the Japanese patrol team.

After three days of investigation, Lan Qilin and the others discovered that the total number of military aircraft owned by the Japs was about 80-100.

Except for the two "Nakajima Type 91 Fighters" that are on combat readiness duty on weekdays, most of the other fighter planes are kept in the hangar and cannot easily come out, except for the occasional one or two that are flown out as if to perform some reconnaissance mission.

Because the hangar of the Little Devil is semi-open, this is why the number of Little Devil's military aircraft can be determined.

The patrol team responsible for guarding the airport basically conducts patrols around fixed routes within 5 kilometers of the airport, with one departure each morning, noon and evening.

But occasionally there would be little Japanese military vehicles coming and going along the road, and this road was no more than 2 kilometers away from the mountain col where they were hiding.

November 5, a.m.

It was less than 4 hours before the Army Aviation Regiment of the th Division took the lead in launching an air strike against the marching troops of the th Division. At this time, it was still dark for the Northeast region, which was still in winter time.

Except for a faint light reflected from the piled white snow on the ground, there is no other light source that can emit bright light.

According to the combat plan, the Army Aviation Regiment of the 7th Temporary Division will take off the first wave of attack aircraft at 9:00 on the 8th to launch an air strike against the 6th Division.

At this time, the military aircraft left behind at Luda Airport will inevitably be pulled out of the hangar and scrambled to provide support.

At the same time, the reconnaissance battalion team lurking outside the Xiaojiazi Airport will also take advantage of this time to launch an attack to destroy the Xiaojiazi military aircraft in Luda Airport to the maximum extent.

For this reason, the team hidden in the mountain col took advantage of the cover of night to advance the attack distance by another 2 kilometers along the road.

For the "Katyusha" with a maximum range of 8.5 kilometers, the Little Japanese military airport eight kilometers away is completely within its strike range.

Ten minutes ago, after just moving 5 "Katyusha", 2 supply vehicles and tractors to the opened launching position, Lan Qilin immediately ordered the construction of the launching position, adjusted the shooting elements, and prepared Preparations for firing ammunition for the second round.

At this time, Dou Xuegui, who had just completed the logging work, was waving his hand and trying to dig pits on the ground that were only the size of a wheel.

In order to stabilize the car body and ensure the progress of the shooting, after these pits are dug, all the wheels of the rocket launch vehicle will be stuck in the pits. After the launch is completed, these vehicles will not take them away, but will use the explosives they carry with them directly on the spot. destroy.

Not to mention, the 42.5 kilograms of "Katyusha" rockets are carefully unloaded from the supply truck one by one every time. This guy hugs one by his side, like he is hugging two chicks. Zai, and as he walked, he muttered in a low voice: "If this thing wasn't so round and hard to handle, he would have rounded up a truckload of warheads by himself."

Dou Xuegui's physical work was done so efficiently that Lan Qilin, who was in charge of the command at the side, nodded repeatedly and sighed inwardly: "This is obviously a donkey that eats rice. The appetite is a bit big, but the work is a bit slow." It’s not ambiguous!”

At this time, there was no such thing as "nuclear-powered donkey". If he had known this term, Lan Qilin would probably call Dou Xuegui "nuclear-powered donkey".

Just as Lan Qilin was sighing, the drone operator on the side suddenly issued an early warning: "There is a black car 3 kilometers away in the direction of the enemy airport, driving towards us at high speed along the highway!"

"What is the kid driving a car doing at this point in time?" Lan Qilin was a little confused after hearing the drone operator's report.

But he was sure that this car was not coming towards them, because even if the little devils found something wrong, they would not just send out a car.

If it were before, Lan Qilin would definitely ambush the little devil's car, because someone who can ride in such a car must have an unusual status with the little devil.

But considering that the main mission this time was to attack the Jaap's airport, Lan Qilin didn't want to cause trouble midway. He issued a hidden warning order to the busy people on the side.

The originally bustling launch site became silent again.

However, whatever you fear will come true.

Lan Qilin noticed that the car was driving slower and slower, and finally stopped slowly less than ten meters away from the passage they opened at the edge of the forest.

(End of this chapter)