Chapter 188 Thirty Fighter Planes

Hearing Lin Fan say he would send him thirty fighter planes, Gu Zhutong couldn't believe it again and specifically sent a telegram back to confirm.

The reply he received was: Thirty fighter planes will be delivered tomorrow along with the bombers. However, since they were just seized from the Japanese, the markings are still Japanese. Does the Special Operations Brigade need to help cover them up?

Gu Zhutong quickly telegraphed back: "No need! No need! It's good to use these planes for education and let the people of the whole country see the miserable defeat of the Japanese, even their fighter planes were captured by us."

Only then did he remember that Lin Fan had another request.

He knew that Lin Fan wanted to ask the Third War Area to restore the airport in Quanzhou and set up two more temporary airports nearby for future use.

Hearing Lin Fan's request, Gu Zhutong was somewhat convinced that the Special Operations Brigade's battle results this afternoon were real.

For him, this was a small matter, and with the Special Operations Brigade doing this once, maybe the National Army could do the same.

He immediately agreed.

On the other side, when he was exchanging telegrams with Lin Fan just now, he had already reported Lin Fan's battle results to the Chongqing headquarters.

The battle results were too amazing, and the Special Operations Brigade had only just returned.

Even Dai Li couldn't confirm the truth of the news, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to verify it immediately.

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The Special Operations Brigade did not restrict Dai Li's subordinates' activities in Huiyang, and Dai Li quickly received a reply: "When the Special Operations Brigade's aviation brigade returned, there were indeed fifty-seven fighter planes with Japanese markings.

Huiyang Airport suddenly has a lot more supplies, it is said to have been snatched back from Taoyuan Airport, and there are many oil drums."

This news matched what Gu Zhutong reported.

Chiang Kai-shek couldn't believe it. He immediately summoned his senior staff officers: "How did the Special Operations Brigade do it? An aviation team can actually occupy a Japanese airport thousands of miles away.

This is a hundred or a thousand times more difficult than taking the head of a general from an army."

For the island of Wan, which had been occupied by the Japanese for more than forty years, this was a pain in the hearts of all Chinese people, but no warlord had ever dared to take any practical action against the island.

Because that island had been turned into a military camp by the Japanese, and the entire island was full of Japanese garrisons and military police.

"How did the Special Operations Brigade do it?" The senior staff officers who were summoned looked at each other. They couldn't imagine how to do this.

Looking at Gu Zhutong's report: Fifty-seven Japanese fighter planes were captured in battle!

Is it possible to capture enemy planes in battle? How is this done?

Chiang Kai-shek was now a little regretful, regretting that he hadn't been nicer to the Special Operations Brigade before: If he had been able to reward the Special Operations Brigade for its battle achievements, the situation would not be so embarrassing.

He could directly ask Lin Fan how he did it, and even fly to Huiyang in person to see the Special Operations Brigade's aviation brigade.

His curiosity had been piqued, but Dai Li's subordinates could only report some of the situations that all the people of Huiyang could see on the surface.

They still had to wait for the detailed battle situation today.

Because a group of National Army soldiers from the Third War Area's Quanzhou Airport personally participated in the battle, the Special Operations Brigade had already made it clear: Tomorrow, this group of more than 300 soldiers will be sent to the garrison of the Third War Area.

Lin Fan told Huang Hongda the news that Commander Gu Zhutong was going to meet him in person, so that he and his men could be prepared.

He also asked someone to prepare 100,000 silver dollars and sent them to Commander Huang Hongda, making it clear to him: The Special Operations Brigade will definitely keep its word.

In this operation, Commander Huang will be given thirty fighter planes, which will fly to the garrison of the Third War Area together tomorrow, and the other 100,000 silver dollars are the bonus for everyone.

Commander Huang Hongda and his soldiers only thought that they had survived when they were in the air.

After landing at Huiyang Airport, these more than 300 people gathered together and talked about how the Special Operations Brigade had promised to give them benefits, but because the airport was bombed, the benefits also came to Huiyang together.

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These people had wasted an afternoon. The soldiers no longer had the excitement they had when they first landed.

When they saw Lin Fan, the commander of the Special Operations Brigade, personally leading people to send 100,000 silver dollars, and also said that they would give these people 30 fighter planes.

Huang Hongda, Gu Xingxian, Qu Yanghui, Zhang Zhixin and the others were all so excited that their faces turned red, and even the ordinary soldiers knew exactly what this meant.

Of course, the 100,000 silver dollars were distributed to individuals. Commander Huang Hongda said at the beginning of the mission that the income would be distributed equally.

In front of Lin Fan, Huang Hongda distributed the silver dollars. These silver dollars were no longer important now.

The biggest benefit this time was in the 30 fighter planes. Although they could not sell these fighter planes and exchange them for silver dollars to be distributed equally.

But sending these fighter planes to Commander Gu was a real battle achievement that could be exchanged for promotion and salary increase.

The more than 300 National Army soldiers on the scene were all clear in their hearts that they would definitely be rewarded.

Huang Hongda was even clearer in his heart: When these 30 fighter planes landed in front of Commander Gu Zhutong, he would definitely receive the greatest attention.

He gratefully assured Lin Fan: "Commander Lin, if the Special Operations Brigade needs me to do anything in the future, I will do whatever it takes."

Now these people were a little ashamed: Just now they were still discussing whether the Special Operations Brigade wanted to go back on its word and was unwilling to take out the benefits for Quanzhou Airport.

They all thought that it would be good if the Special Operations Brigade could take out something worth 50,000 silver dollars for these people.

After all, the pension for a National Army soldier who died in battle was only 30 silver dollars. If they could have 50,000 silver dollars, each of them would have 150 yuan, which was also a huge sum of money.

As a result, people threw out 100,000 silver dollars and 30 fighter planes! Thirty fighter planes, according to the National Army's purchase price of fighter planes, 300,000 silver dollars per plane, that's 9 million silver dollars.

These soldiers at the entire Quanzhou Airport now had only one thought: The Special Operations Brigade was a friend worth making!

They really shared the benefits with everyone! The Special Operations Brigade kept its word!

Zhang Zhixin said in a low voice to Huang Hongda: "Commander, if we go back to Quanzhou, and Commander Lin wants to go to Wan Island to loot again next time, we can continue to go."

Huang Hongda's heart skipped a beat: If he could go again, he could make another contribution.

But then he thought: If he could take this opportunity to be promoted and find a good position with real power, it would be better!

For a moment, Huang Hongda didn't know what to do.

The Special Operations Brigade's post-war summary meeting was still going on. Mao Wenxing made a self-criticism of this operation: "When I was commanding the operation, I didn't consider that the Japanese would have a large formation of more than 200 fighter planes.

Our defense force at Taoyuan Airport was still too weak. If we had let a fighter squadron prepare on the runway of Taoyuan Airport in advance, we wouldn't have been so passive."

All the pilots present were clear: If the Japanese fighter planes had not run out of fuel, the Special Operations Brigade might have suffered heavy casualties in the final battle today.

But it was normal to have casualties when fighting 250 Japanese fighter planes with more than 100 fighter planes!

Lin Fan said: "I am also responsible for today's matter. The attack plan on Wan Island was too hasty, and we didn't have any preparation in advance.

And our plan changed again and again. If we had just followed the first plan, we would have bombed and returned.

The subsequent battles would not have happened. We were too greedy. We ran thousands of miles and wanted to occupy the airport and empty it out. The main reason was that we didn't prepare follow-up reinforcement forces.

Of course, we also didn't have a second echelon, which is the most important thing. Next time we have such an operation, we must prepare a second echelon as a reinforcement, so that we can avoid today's situation as much as possible."

Each fighter squadron spoke one after another, summarizing the experience and lessons learned during the battle today. Everyone affirmed the tactic of sending three planes to lure the Japanese fighter planes into the trap today.

Lin Fan smiled and called this tactic: "Peeling an onion!" Peeling off the Japanese layer by layer, and finally giving them a fatal blow.

Everyone thought this analogy was appropriate.

Lin Fan said: "Mao Wenxing just summarized the lessons, but this doesn't mean that he made a mistake today. On the contrary, today's battle was so smooth, and we were able to successfully capture 57 fighter planes, all of which were inseparable from his command."

Hearing him say this, Guan Guohao immediately said: "If Commander Mao hadn't ordered to stop the attack, those fighter planes would have been blown into pieces in the air by us."

Everyone laughed. If it were them at that time, they would have done the same, and they would definitely not have allowed the Japanese to glide into the airport.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Tell me why you made such a judgment at that time?"

This was a proud thing, and Mao Wenxing also smiled: "Captain Guan reported that the propellers of the Japanese fighter planes had all stopped rotating, which means that their fuel had run out, and then they could only be slaughtered by us.

According to the Japanese Bushido spirit, they only have a desperate fight at this time, but air combat is not infantry fighting with bayonets, even if they want to fight desperately, they can't reach it.

Then they only have the last way to go: suicide! If they had the courage, they should have crashed into the sea collectively at that time.

But they didn't do that, which shows that these Japanese still want to live. Therefore, I let the airport clear and set up camouflage.

To satisfy the Japanese pilots' fluke mentality, they always have the idea of ​​wanting to survive at this time.

As long as there is a 1% chance of survival, these Japanese will imagine it as 100%.

Finally, they did the same. As for when they arrived at the airport, their fate was already doomed. Resistance is death, no resistance is also..."

The pilots present all laughed.

This summary meeting lasted for nearly three hours. It was really the first time for the Special Operations Brigade to use this kind of combat method.

There were too many places that needed to be summarized. Not only the aviation brigade needed to be summarized, but also Shi Junxian's company.

Lin Fan said in his final summary speech: "In the future, we must establish an airborne force that can carry out surprise attacks behind the Japanese thousands of miles away.

We must have the ability to kill with one blow, the determination to occupy and hold, and the ability to go down and retreat.

Our soldiers are not consumables, and every time we attack, we must have a plan to bring them back."

In fact, the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade fought so desperately because they knew clearly: The brigade commander would never give up on them!

Yan Gaofei wrote in his diary: "Today was really a fulfilling day. In the morning, we attacked the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet in the west, and in the afternoon, we attacked the Japanese-occupied Wan Island in the east. We are fighting east and west like this, and life is really fulfilling."

He originally didn't know a single character, but he started learning to read after joining the Special Operations Brigade.

Keeping a diary was also a requirement of the instructors, saying that writing down what you saw, encountered, and thought every day, you could practice your writing skills over the years.

This night, many places in the world were talking about a common term: Special Operations Brigade.

The news of the Special Operations Brigade's attack on Wan Island in the afternoon had not yet spread outside, but the rumors of attacking the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet and bombing the headquarters of the Japanese 21st Army were seen and photographed by many reporters.

The Japanese Navy Headquarters knew everything that happened on Wan Island. Their silent acceptance of everything did not mean that it was over.

At least they still needed to hold a meeting to discuss what to do next.

Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto couldn't believe the intelligence he saw: All the fighter planes and bombers that took off from Hongqiao Airport, Racecourse Airport, and Jianqiao Airport were completely wiped out.

The 250 fighter planes that took off from the north and south naval ports of Okinawa were completely wiped out.

The naval ports on Wan Island were all devastated, and all the oil depots built in the ports were on fire and could not be extinguished.

As for the losses suffered by the Wan Island garrison, they were not within the scope of their navy's consideration.

But the Army Headquarters was also calculating their losses: The remaining troops of the Wan Island garrison and several heavy artillery regiments were completely devastated, and their garrisons were bombed into white ground.

Several infantry regiments and the local military police on Wan Island were completely devastated. This attack was no less than the casualties suffered in a battle.

According to incomplete statistics: In one afternoon, more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers and military police died. Seven camps were damaged.

All of this was due to the navy's incompetence. They dragged down the aviation power that Wan Island originally had, which allowed the Special Operations Brigade to take advantage of it.

The situation had already happened, and now the question was how to deal with the aftermath: The first step was to send planes over first.

But now all the airports on Wan Island had been damaged, and the planes couldn't land even if they went over.

Therefore, the first thing to do was to repair the airport, and the oil depots had been destroyed, so tankers had to be sent to deliver oil.

Restoring the airport, rebuilding the oil depot, and rebuilding the military camp all cost money. Who would pay for it?

Of course, the navy would pay for the wharves and oil depots by the wharves.

What about the Wan Island garrison's camp and those airports on land? The Army Headquarters was unwilling to pay, and its current money was not enough to guarantee the guns for the Japanese soldiers fighting on the front line.

Where would there be any money to rebuild the airport?

The navy had money, but it had to rebuild the Fifth Fleet, and an entire fleet had already stretched the navy's finances.

There was no way to take out extra money to invest in Wan Island. In the end, the eyes of the two departments turned to Wan Island itself.

Commander Shigeichi Hata silently accepted everything: All land reconstruction costs would be collected from the people on Wan Island.

On this day, the tax fees paid by the people of Wan Island had one more item: basic reconstruction fee.

The matter was perfectly resolved, and the Japanese Army Headquarters and Navy Headquarters finally no longer had to argue about the construction costs of the airports, oil depots, and camps on Wan Island.

But so many planes were lost this time, and wanting to replenish them was also a large number, so they still had to fight for it!

Isoroku Yamamoto was a gambler. He had always been a standard gambler, and his gambling skills were very good. He once said: If you give me two years to gamble, I can win back a heavy battleship for the empire.

They would argue about the money, but Isoroku Yamamoto summoned a group of Japanese staff officers to start studying how the Special Operations Brigade occupied Taoyuan Airport.

This was the first war in military history in which an air force initiated the occupation of land.

They felt it was very necessary to study this tactic and strategy.

Today, the Special Operations Brigade's large formation's attack on the naval fleet in the morning had already been placed in the headquarters of several major maritime powers in the world for research.

Everyone was sighing: "So planes can be used like this!"

Then they sighed: "Chiang Kai-shek actually has such an excellent military strategist under his command. It seems that there is no doubt that the Japanese will be defeated."

In the past, these politicians only thought that the Japanese would be defeated was a joke, or that it was a slogan Chiang Kai-shek came up with to boost morale.

But now, they saw this possibility.

The Americans even suggested: "Send someone to the Special Operations Brigade to contact Lin Fan, or invite him to give a lecture at West Point Military Academy, focusing on how to use the air force in war."