bookrebus Chapter 756: Shot Down, Breeze
Chapter 756: Shot Down, Breeze
February 1941, 2, Guangzhou.
The Third Column of the Advance Team under the National Government's Twelfth Army, located in the Eighth District of Zhongshan County, suddenly received an important order from the headquarters.
Originally, all aircraft observation posts had only two people on duty, taking turns to observe the movements of enemy aircraft and issue warnings to ground troops.
But today, starting at six in the morning, all guard posts must be fully staffed.
Observers at all levels of sentry posts are not allowed to ask for leave and must all enter alert mode to check whether there are any enemy aircraft passing over Zhongshan County.
This decision was made even though Yuan Dai, commander of the Advance Team Column, was still confused after receiving the order from the headquarters of the 12th Army Group.
He could understand letting the observation post watch the planes in the sky, but there was no need for such a big fuss.
However, the headquarters did not explain the reason. The commissioner who conveyed the order said that this was an order from the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Mr. Dai, or an emergency military order issued by the Military Intelligence Bureau through the Shancheng Military Committee.
They seemed to have obtained some extremely important information.
As a soldier, the most important thing is to obey orders. Even if they are unreasonable, that is the business of the superiors.
The task of the following people is to do things as well as possible.
As a result, several aircraft observation posts in Zhongshan County were fully staffed, and everyone was keeping an eye on their own areas to see if any aircraft entered the defense zone.
But until noon, there was still no sign of movement in the front-line observation room.
Aircraft observation post in Zhongshan County.
Several observers were speechless as they looked at the foggy sky.
The climate in Guangzhou in February is extremely changeable. The sky is filled with thick white fog. Not to mention planes, even birds can't be seen clearly.
"A Guang, did you find anything?" Team leader Hua Zairong asked nonchalantly while looking through the observation records.
"There's not even a hair on it." Dazhi Guang muttered, "I was called back so early in the morning just to see this."
"A Guang, talk less and observe carefully. If you let the Japanese plane escape, be careful that the commander will break your legs." Another observer, A Qiang, carefully reminded.
Dazhi Guang's face froze, and he whispered, "I'm telling the truth. Look, there's not even a hair left."
"Hey, wait, Captain, we found a Japanese transport plane..."
As soon as Dazhi Guang's voice came out, several observers immediately became interested and quickly locked onto the Japanese transport plane in the sky.
"That's exactly what I expected," Hua Zairong, the captain of the air defense observation post, immediately reported the situation to the headquarters by phone.
The headquarters didn't waste any time and directly gave the order to shoot the plane down.
At this time, the Breeze in the sky was still slowly adjusting its flight route, and had no idea that they had been locked on by ground forces.
Captain Hikoo Kurose of the Breeze had never been so depressed.
The passengers on the plane were the Imperial Navy's distinguished admiral, Osumi Tsuyoshi, and the military commander, Major General Kasuhikojiro.
Their original destination was Hainan, but unfortunately, things didn't go well from the start today.
The Breeze took off from Guangzhou Airport and encountered a sea tornado halfway through the flight. The aircraft's engine failed instantly. Captain Kurose, relying on his rich flying experience, piloted the plane to a safe emergency landing at a temporary airport on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary for repairs.
It took more than an hour to replace the plane engine and then we set off again, but this time we were even more unlucky.
Due to the storm weather, heavy fog appeared over Guangzhou.
After flying for more than half an hour, we not only did not leave Guangzhou, but instead circled over Zhongshan County.
Even more unfortunate was that they didn't know that the Military Control Commission's Guangzhou Station had notified the 12th Army stationed around Guangzhou last night.
They were asked to closely monitor enemy planes over Guangzhou today and shoot them down immediately if they were spotted.
Due to heavy fog in the sky, the Breeze aircraft flew at a low altitude, only more than a thousand meters above the ground.
Originally, Japanese reconnaissance planes often used this altitude to monitor ground dynamics, so Captain Hikoo Kurose did not think there was anything wrong with it.
But today is different.
The plane flew over the defense zone of the Third Column of the Advance Team, and suddenly, intensive heavy machine gun fire rang out.
The transport plane was caught off guard and its right engine and fuel tank were immediately blown up by heavy machine guns on the ground.
The next second, the captain Kurose Hikoo and Ohsumi Tsumio were hit by stray bullets at the same time, and the plane fell to the ground at an extremely fast speed.
Seeing the bad situation, the two crew members immediately parachuted to escape. Unfortunately, Hesu Hikojiro on the plane didn't have time to react before he followed the plane into the valley of Huangyang Mountain.
Shanghai Stock Exchange, Meihua Building, Joint Transport Department.
Chen Yang looked at the Guangzhou Daily and the internal notice brought to him by his subordinates. Seeing that there was no one around, a smug smile appeared on his face.
The Guangzhou Daily published the news that the Third Column of the Advance Team under the 12th Army Group shot down a Japanese transport plane yesterday.
The internal notice of the Japanese army gave a more detailed account of all the details of how the plane that Osumi Tsumi was riding was shot down by the Kuomintang army.
Of course, for now, no one has thought that this was an accident caused by an intelligence leak.
After all, what happened to the Breeze can only be described as a coincidence.
The first was that the plane encountered a tornado when it took off for Hainan, causing the engine to fail and it was forced to land at the west end of the Pearl River Estuary for repairs.
The second was that when taking off again, there was heavy fog and the captain, Hikoo Kurose, made an operational error, causing the plane to go in the wrong direction and fly over Zhongshan County.
Third, it was still an operational error. Captain Kurose Hikoo flew at a low altitude to avoid heavy fog, which caused the plane to be discovered by a ground observation post and then shot down by the National Army.
Everyone who has seen the internal notice believes that Captain Hikoo Kurose needs to bear most of the responsibility for this accident.
However, he had already died for the empire, so even if he had a responsibility, he had paid for it with his life.
Now that the person is dead, all responsibilities are written off.
Jingle bell, jingle bell.
Suddenly, the phone on the desk rang.
Chen Yang picked up the phone, and Li Xianshu's voice came from the other end: "Chen Yang, come to the consulate immediately."
"Aunt, you're back?" Chen Yang said as he looked at the internal notice in his hand, "Aunt, you're not here for General Dajiao's matter, are you?"
"The internal notice clearly stated that it was shot down by the national army due to an accident."
Li Xianshu was silent for a while and said, "This matter is not that simple. Come over and have a meeting first."
After saying that, the other party hung up the phone. Chen Yang was a little surprised and confused.
According to the description in the internal notice, this incident was 100% an accident, but what Li Xianshu said is not that simple?
Putting down the report in his hand, Chen Yang stood up, picked up his clothes, walked out of the office, and asked He Yuehua to tell the driver Takada Junxiao to wait downstairs...