Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 217 High-Octane Gasoline

Li Xiu's words startled Wang Gensheng. Why only refuel from the eastern gas depot? Could it be because this was the only one of the four gas depots with any fuel left, and the others were all empty?

After all, under normal circumstances, if all four oil depots are full of oil, then for the safety of oil use, each oil depot should be used in turn, rather than only one oil depot being used for refueling.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng immediately decided:

"Since they only use one oil depot, let's blow it up tonight! Let them run out of oil!"

However, Duan Peng, standing to the side, said:

"Si Ling, are we only going to destroy the oil depot? Why not destroy the bombers and fighter jets parked at the airport as well!"

Wang Gensheng naturally understood Duan Peng's doubts. It was because Duan Peng didn't understand Wang Gensheng's desire to capture fighter jets and bombers, so he immediately replied:

"Why bomb the planes? Let's blow up the oil depots. Then those planes won't be able to take off. They'll be stuck at the airfields. When Xuzhou is liberated, our relief forces will be able to capture a lot of planes! Besides, isn't bombing a single oil depot more efficient than running all over the airfields to bomb planes?"

After Wang Gensheng's explanation, Duan Peng nodded in understanding. Of course, Wang Gensheng also understood that it was very likely that Lao Zi would blow up the planes parked at the airport before Xu Zhou's downfall.

But we can't let fear prevent us from even trying! After all, what if the old man forgets?

Wang Gensheng's choice of attack time was also quite deliberate; he launched the attack on the airport at 1 a.m.

Under the cover of darkness, Wang Gensheng led his marines to quietly approach the barbed wire fence surrounding the airport.

Then they started cutting the barbed wire. Actually, Wang Gensheng was quite confident in taking over Xuzhou Airport because the number of troops stationed at Xuzhou Airport was not large, only about two regiments, or about four or five thousand men.

With the combat strength of Wang Gensheng's Marine Corps, four or five thousand troops could still be dealt with.

But even if they take it, it will be meaningless. As soon as Wang Gensheng starts fighting, Xu Zhou will know immediately and send reinforcements. If Wang Gensheng defends the airport to the death, the only outcome will be that he and the airport perish together.

Tonight is a moonless night, so although there is still starlight, visibility is very poor.

Wang Gensheng managed to get within 100 meters of the airport sentry tower without being detected.

Seeing this, Wang Gensheng no longer hesitated and immediately used his throwing knife, which he hadn't used in a long time. He threw two knives in succession at a distance of 100 meters, killing the two sentries on the watchtower.

It seems that the soldiers defending the airport also believed that the airport was impossible to attack and was very safe, so they didn't even think about any careful planning.

So Wang Gensheng used throwing knives to quietly take out some of the soldiers on guard along the way and successfully entered the oil depot.

Of course, this is also related to Wang Gensheng's current strong physical fitness. After Wang Gensheng took down more than a thousand enemies by himself with an M2 heavy machine gun in the battle of Zhaozhuang, his physical fitness reached five times that of an ordinary person.

Therefore, with his physical abilities enhanced fivefold, the throwing knife Wang Gensheng threw already showed signs of breaking through the wind.

Wang Gensheng decided that the speed of the throwing knives he was throwing now was at least over 100, which was the same as the speed of an arrow, or even faster.

At this speed, Wang Gensheng's throwing knives not only become much more powerful, but their range also increases exponentially.

In terms of power, Wang Gensheng's throwing knife could travel a distance of 100 meters before completely embedding itself in the sentry's brain. Furthermore, with the enhancement of his mental perception, Wang Gensheng could maintain an 80-90% hit rate even after throwing the knife 500 meters.

With five times the physical strength, throwing knives and achieving the maximum range of a compound bow are still not a problem.

In other words, Wang Gensheng's knife-throwing ability is now equivalent to that of a sniper rifle with an effective range of 500 meters.

Thus, with the aid of his throwing knife technique and his mental perception over a range of 500 meters, and under the cover of night, Wang Gensheng managed to take over Xuzhou Airport without anyone noticing.

It's a real shame that Wang Gensheng didn't have anyone to pilot the planes, and he himself couldn't even fly them. Otherwise, he might have been able to take all those fighter jets and bombers away.

Before the soldiers in the barracks could react, Wang Gensheng immediately went to check the nearest oil depot, and as he had guessed, there was no oil left.

Even the oil depot that had oil in it had less than a third of its oil left.

Even if Wang Gensheng didn't attack the airport, with this little bit of fuel, it could only last for a dozen or so bombings before it was empty.

However, Wang Gensheng naturally wants to prevent him from making any moves at all.

With a deafening explosion, the only remaining oil depot at Xuzhou Airport was destroyed.

The explosion naturally caused a massive fire, with flames shooting into the sky that could be seen even from Xuzhou City.

Of course, such a huge explosion also woke up the airport garrison commander who was still fast asleep. After seeing the towering flames from the oil depot, the garrison commander knew he was doomed.

"Yes! Yes! It was a small group of relief troops who appeared at Xuzhou Airport and took advantage of the airport's lax defenses to blow up the airport's oil depot. As for the fighter jets and bombers inside the airport, none of them were damaged. So please send transport planes to bring more fuel over!"

Xu Zhou's chief secretary, Si Ling, also cautiously reported the situation at Xu Zhou Airport to Lao Zi.

However, Old Jin's side doesn't have much oil left, since the rice country's support for Old Jin has dropped significantly since he bet on the wrong horse.

This was especially true for aviation fuel, even though at that time airplanes still used gasoline as fuel because they were piston engines.

It was not the kerosene used in later jet engines.

However, this gasoline is not the same as ordinary gasoline. Although the gasoline engines of the B-24 bomber and the Mustang fighter are called gasoline engines, they use high-octane gasoline with an octane rating of 100.

This is different from the 87-octane gasoline used in ordinary cars in this era.

This is why, although both are made of gasoline, the gasoline used in cars cannot be used in airplanes.

Otherwise, there is still a lot of gasoline stored in the oil depots in Xuzhou City, but because it is gasoline of different grades, the two cannot be mixed.

So even the old man in Nanjing didn't have much of this aviation-grade gasoline, which angered him so much that he immediately lost his temper and said:

"Kill that airport garrison commander! He was ambushed by a small force and his most important oil depot was blown up. What use is he?!"

(End of this chapter)