In the winter of 1943, the command of the Central Hubei County Party Committee decided to attack the Wuhan Qingshan Military Airport, an important Japanese stronghold.
This is an airport that the Japanese army is building, and the purpose is to cooperate with its upcoming battle to open up Pinghan Road and Guangdong Han Road. The location of
Airport is selected near Baihu Bay on the river embankment along the Qingshan East in Wuchang, and Yangtze River flows through the northeast direction. This place is along the Yangtze River embankment. There are large areas of cultivated land in the embankment. The northwest is the Qingshan stronghold and the southeast is the Gedian stronghold in Echeng. The two strongholds stand side by side with the Huanggang and Luocheng stronghold on the north bank of the Yangtze River downstream. To the southwest of the dike, there is a Beihu Lake that separates it from the Wuchang land.
To enter the airport, you need to take Qingshan to Gedian road, and there is only a road along the river embankment between these two points. As for the waterway, there is a Japanese gunboat patrol back and forth across the Yangtze River and surrounding lakes.
More than that, the entire eastern suburb of Wuchang belonging to Baihu Bay is the focus of security for the Japanese army in Wuhan, and the security measures are very strict, because the Japanese North China Army Command Center is located on Luojia Mountain .
In addition to having grid-style strongholds, the eastern suburbs also have a dense inspection and intelligence network established by various spy departments such as the Japanese military police, intelligence squad, and propaganda team. The members are all traitors who work hard for their masters, like countless hunting dogs , capturing abnormal information day and night. Among these teams, the most stubborn and reactionary one is Xiao Chunting’s security team. It was the department who was responsible for the alert tasks around the airport, and the Japanese army was responsible for construction and internal alert.
Therefore, it can be said that Qingshan Military Airport is a place where you can't fly in even if you have wings.
Airport construction is being accelerated. Despite the great difficulty, the command of the Central Hubei County Party Committee of Southern Hubei was determined to destroy and prevent the airport from being built.
Before the incident, the Wuchang Detachment under the command had sent two scouts to infiltrate and conduct detailed reconnaissance of the airport and Xiao's headquarters. Based on the information obtained, the command of the Hubei-South Central County Party Committee analyzed that the large force could not get close to the battle and could only send a small and powerful force to launch a surprise attack.
According to the order of Lu Mingjian, secretary of the county party committee and director of the command center of southern Hubei, the combat squad consists of a platoon of the main force and two squads of the Wuchang Detachment, jointly commanded by Tang Chuying and Jiang Mingzhai, with a total of 58 commanders and fighters. The various departments participating in the battle gathered separately to the small bay near Longkou on the upper riverside of the Liujiaji River in Huanggang, Huanggang, the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Command requires that this battle must be fast and concealed, and the troops must be inserted into one night and then taken back.
This poses a very high challenge to combat. To this end, the combat squad chose the waterway without hesitation. The land movement is flexible, but you have to bypass the five strongholds such as the Camel Shop and cross a swamp area. Every time you pass, you have to find a boat, which will take time and be easily exposed.
waterway can go directly to Qingshan Airport River from the assembly site Xiaowanzi, shortening the distance and winning time. But the risks are also obvious. There are many strongholds on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including Huarong, Duandian, Gedian, Yangluo, Tuanzidian, Tuanfeng and other strongholds. The enemy boats shuttle back and forth, and they are upstream, and once they are discovered by the enemy, there will be no room for maneuver, which is very dangerous.
But danger often contains opportunities. If you attack the enemy unexpectedly, as long as you act quickly and conceal it, your safety will be greater than that of land.
action time is coming soon. It was a cloudy day, with the northwest wind whirling. At dusk, the troops were about to set off, and the wind direction changed drastically, turning into southeastern wind, which was very beneficial for countercurrents to head northward.
At night, fifty-eight officers and soldiers boarded five sailboats. Except for each soldier carrying guns, ammunition and grenades, each squad was equipped with a light machine gun. This is probably the better firepower equipment they can provide.
The sky is gray, and it looks like it is raining heavily in the future. The sails were blown up by the southeast wind, and the boat broke through the night and waves and rushed forward. The Yangtze River was extremely quiet at night, only the little rustling sound brought by their boats touching the river. Everyone in the combat squad was both nervous and excited, and their mood was as refreshing and ups and downs as the light sailboat.
The ship goes up the river in the shape of "一" to avoid enemy strongholds on the shore. The front strongholds were all around, and the next one was the Yangluo stronghold. The river surface in this area is very narrow, and it is difficult for ships to change their routes significantly, so they can only drive according to the normal route.
Suddenly, two strong lights shot from above, and then drove down the two enemy boats, and the dark muzzles on the ship could be vaguely seen.
The people on the ship are very nervous. If they are discovered by the enemy, all five ships may sink to the bottom of the river. Jiang Mingzhai held the wrench gun and stared at the enemy boat coming towards him, reminding the boatman to keep calm. In the cabin, Tang Chuying ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle, but "no orders are allowed to leave the cabin and no shooting is allowed." The soldiers pushed the bullets into the chamber and the grenades also uncovered.
The ship continued to drive up as if nothing had happened, and the distance to the enemy boat was getting closer and closer. The soldiers were all hidden in the cabin, and the boatmen were busy at the bow and stern.
The enemy roared: "Who?"
The boatman replied: "Boss, fishing."
The enemy asked again: "How to fish at night?"
The boatman replied: "Boss, fishing at night and closing the net during the day."
answered naturally and reasonably, and nothing was wrong. The enemy boat searchlight swept around several ships, and there was no problem. After a while, the enemy boat went down the water.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and they didn't expect to be able to pass the enemy's inspection so easily. Although there are some reasons why the boatmen are calm and the soldiers are well concealed, the main reason is that the enemy never dreamed that the New Fourth Army would dare to sail against the current and cross the dense strongholds to break into the den of the dragon's and tigers.
Around 1:00 a.m., the boat arrived at the river beach outside the White Tiger Bend. The troops quietly came ashore, like an arrow from the string thrust straight into Baihu Bay.
Searchlights in the airport are scattering randomly. There is a row of buildings on the north side of the airport. The building with the brightest lights in the middle is Xiao Chunting Security Brigade. After observing the terrain, Tang Chuying and Jiang Mingzhai immediately decided on a surprise attack plan. First, Jiang Mingzhai led two squads to kill the sentry and approach the building. Then, Tang Chuying commanded three machine guns and to knock out the airport searchlights, and then took advantage of the darkness to launch a charge.
action is rapidly unfolding. The building where the Jiangdi Security Brigade lives is only 150 meters, and Jiang Mingzhai and the soldiers move quickly towards the building. As soon as I killed the sentinel, I heard a machine gun sound, and the searchlight went out. The enemy was caught off guard, and the airport fell into chaos, shouts and sirens. The combat squad immediately launched a fierce attack, and the rifles, machine guns, and grenades fired at the same time, and the sound of strafing and explosions resounded throughout the sky.
At the same time as the airport started, Jiang Mingzhai and the soldiers rushed to the security brigade building with bayonets. The sleeping security brigade was caught off guard. Some of them got out of here and I fled in panic, some knelt on the head of the bed and raised their hands to surrender. A few of them resisted with guns were shot dead on the spot.
In the darkness, a guy ran towards the back door downstairs. Captain Chen shouted, "Stop!" The guy waved his hand and shot him. Captain Chen had already flashed aside and gave this guy a shuttle, which made him fall head-on and die. Only after Panzhang realized that the guy who was beaten to death turned out to be the deputy captain of the security brigade. Today, he was full of evil deeds and ended up being in full force.
At this time, Jiang Mingzhai rushed into the duty room of the security brigade and killed the puppet officer on duty. The puppet security brigade lost command and did not organize effective resistance. The soldiers scattered one after another.
In less than twenty minutes, the battle ended.
combat squad searched inside and outside, but no security brigade Zhang Chang and Xiao Chunting were found. According to his wife who was caught, Xiao Chunting was called to Wuchang City by the Japanese at dusk. This is the biggest regret of this battle.
This battle has harvested a large number of guns, ammunition and military supplies. In addition to defeating a pseudo security brigade, it also killed many Japanese. The
mission was completed, and the combat team quickly evacuated Qingshan Airport, returned to the riverside, sailed down the river, and Fo Xiao returned to the vicinity of Liujiaji, Huanggang.
overnight, they walked more than 100 miles of water, entered the enemy's heart area and fought a fierce battle, and returned to the base without any injuries. It is impossible not to say that they did it really beautifully!
The battle at Qingshan Airport shocked the Japanese in Wuchang City. They did not expect that the New Fourth Army not only fought to the edge of Wuchang City, but also attacked their airport. A large number of Japanese soldiers were sent to reinforcements and rushed to Qingshan Airport on cars, motorcycles and ships, but except for the mess and a bunch of defeated soldiers, they didn't even see the New Fourth Army.
The Japanese army was very scared. The next day, the whole city of Wuhan was under martial law, which lasted for a week.
Xiao Chunting's remnants were so scared that they lost their souls and hid in the Qingshan stronghold.
As for the airport, construction was stopped after this surprise attack, and it was deserted there.
