"Who is responsible for this matter?"

On the way back to Beiping, Li Shaoyi said with a stern face, "Originally, we had planned to conduct a series of resistance around Beiping Airport. Now that the airport oil depot has been bombed, what's the point of resisting? There's no need to resist anymore."

"The cause of the incident has been investigated. Some of the airport staff were infiltrated by the Japanese. This was an oversight on our part. Please punish us, Marshal."

Chief Gu of the intelligence department stood obediently beside Li Shaoyi. Their intelligence department had made countless contributions during the war, but they had indeed made a mistake in this matter. If they hadn't neglected to investigate, how could such a thing have happened? How serious was this matter?

In addition to the destruction of the airport oil depot, the Japanese also raided our troops around the airport, causing us considerable losses. Li Shaoyi said during his last inspection of the Peking Airport that fortresses were breached from the inside and that there was absolutely no problem with our external defense. I didn't expect that what I said would be of no use, and I really encountered such a situation.

"Then start with you. Anyone who fails to fulfill their duties in this matter will receive the appropriate punishment. Also, notify all troops leaving Tianjin to speed up their retreat."

Li Shaoyi said speechlessly that Miss Gu had always been very prudent under his command and had never made any major mistakes, but she had to be punished this time. In the next half month, the Peking Airport would probably only be able to play half of its original role, so if the troops wanted to call for air support, it would be much more difficult than before. If they did not retreat quickly, they would easily be surrounded.

"We've been keeping an eye on the Tianjin front for a while now. The Japanese spies are showing off their skills. Now the entire city of Peking has been thrown into chaos by these guys. Fortunately, we didn't plan to defend Peking to the death. If we really fought around Peking, who knows how much trouble they would have caused us."

Zhao Tiezhu also learned about the situation in Peiping. It was not that our people did not work hard, but that the Japanese were developing too fast in the Peiping area. When we focused our attention on Tianjin, they had enough strength to make arrangements in Peiping. This was the gap in the comprehensive strength of the two sides.

Li Shaoyi can rely on the system to lead our army into a world-class army, but your other departments may not be able to develop as fast. The current situation at the airport has already become apparent.

It was also for this reason that Li Shaoyi simply dealt with the people below. It is obviously illogical for us, a newly formed makeshift team, to want to compete with the Japanese in all aspects. It is already quite difficult for these people below to achieve the current results. We can't force them to do things that they can't do.

"For the general retreat, you'll see me leading a group of people to the Beiping Airport. Currently, there are no other usable airports in North China. It doesn't matter if the fuel depot explodes. I can find other ways to replenish the fuel."

Li Shaoyi hesitated again and again and finally made the decision. Although Zhao Tiezhu felt puzzled and didn't know how Li Shaoyi would replenish the fuel in the oil depot, it was not a small amount of fuel.

When the Peking Airport was expanded, the underground oil depot was the largest in the entire north. According to some people's estimates at the time, the fuel stored in the Peking Airport was enough for at least hundreds of aircraft to use for one month. Now after it was bombed, according to what some ordinary people said, the windows of their homes were shattered. They are more than 20 kilometers away from the Peking Airport. You can imagine how much fuel is stored?

Even if Li Shaoyi goes there earlier, can you make oil appear out of thin air?

Li Shaoyi really has this ability. In addition to himself, there are more than 300 instructors exchanged from the system. Every night, Li Shaoyi asks these people to drive to a place in the wild to gather. When they come back in the truck, the truck is filled with barrels of fuel.

In order to prevent the Japanese from bombing, these cars must be stored in multiple places, or even stored separately. When the plane needs refueling, we can only add small buckets of refueling. But even so, as long as our manpower is diligent enough, we can exert at least 80% of the original combat effectiveness, which is much better than doing nothing.

When withdrawing troops from Tianjin, aerial reconnaissance is absolutely necessary. We have a series of combat plans in various places. If there is no aerial reconnaissance, if we retreat a little slower, we will probably fall into the Japanese encirclement. Don't underestimate these elite Japanese divisions. Their ability to penetrate and encircle is also very strong.

Previously, with the support of our Air Force reconnaissance planes and Army vehicles, none of the Japanese major divisions were successful in their infiltration and encirclement. Instead, they were defeated by us in the process of infiltration and encirclement.

But this does not mean that they are incompetent. If you are not careful and let them use their true abilities, then we will be the ones who suffer the loss.

When Li Shaoyi rushed to the Peking Airport, it had actually stopped operating. The huge shock caused by the oil depot explosion almost destroyed half of the buildings at the airport. Fortunately, most of the planes were fighting in the sky at the time, so there was not much damage.

"Have the ground crew investigated everything?"

On Li Shaoyi's left stood Lin Cai, the head of the Beijing intelligence department and the chief of the Beijing branch of the 72nd Army Intelligence Department.

"Reporting to the commander, there has never been any incident with the ground crew, including when the oil depot exploded. These were all personnel we transferred from the north. We trained over 300 ground crew members locally. After the explosion, I sent all 300 of them back to the Chahar base. We didn't have time to investigate them, so we had to send them back and let our brothers in the rear slowly identify them. Of the current ground crew, over 100 were transferred from Qingdao, and over 100 came from Southeast Asia."

Lin Cai's way of handling the matter can be said to ensure our safety to the greatest extent possible. Although there is more work involved, it is absolutely safe.

People were transferred from the rear and Southeast Asia. It cannot be said that those people were 100% problem-free, but compared with the people originally recruited from Peking, the chance of problems was really too small.

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