At three o'clock in the morning, the lights on the runway of the valley airport were turned on, and two high-altitude reconnaissance planes took off one after another; about half an hour later, the lights were also turned on one after another in the pilot's dormitory converted from a cave, and the sleeping pilots were woken up one by one by the ground crew. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Merkel and more than a dozen logistics officers from the temporary airport waited in the dining room early, especially Merkel unexpectedly put on the chef's hat, and the officers also put on aprons and personally set the tables for the pilots.

"For victory, but also for glory." Some pilots raised their juice as a substitute for alcohol and shouted loudly, and other pilots who participated in the battle also raised their juice and drank loudly. Half an hour later, Merkel will take off with the pilots and personally lead the fighter formation to provide escort cover for the main attack group. A priest with a solemn expression slowly entered the briefing room, and all the pilots who participated in the war, led by Merkel, followed the priest to read the Bible.

Bai Xingwen, who was the commander of the ground crew, gave a long shout, and all the ground crews who had completed the work at hand lined up outside the airport runway, watching the trucks in which the pilots were riding slowly approach. There was not much verbal exchange, no too much eye contact or hug, and the pilots who got off the ground service truck walked towards their respective fighters. With the rapid whistle, the warplanes parked on the runway of the airport were launched one after another, and Merkel, as the commander-in-chief of the operation, was naturally the first to take to the air.

The fighters on the runway continued to rise into the air, and the ground crew did not waste time, and pushed the fighters parked in the cave and pushed them onto the runway. After checking the fuel, weapons, parachutes, and finally confirming that the plane is in order, the pilot gestures to the ground crew to prepare for liftoff and closes the cockpit canopy. The ground crew standing in the middle of the runway vigorously waved the citiant flag in their hands, and the pilots of the fighter planes took off into the air one after another and flew eastward according to the flags.

The opening of four runways at the valley airfield allowed more than 200 warplanes to take off in 40 minutes, and a few hours earlier, helicopters that were not as fast as fighters had lifted off to the east. The 100 scouts who had set off earlier were already quietly lurking outside the Japanese bases in Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan, and once Merkel and her planes reached the open sea, these 100 scouts would carry out powerful firepower strikes against the Japanese bases and radar stations in Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan with the cooperation of helicopters.

The Japanese South China Sea Fleet is still floating 120 nautical miles off Hangzhou Bay, and Merkel's battle plan is to first sail eastward from Nantong to the sea, and then reduce the flight altitude and turn south to intercept the South China Sea Fleet. Since the victory in the Battle of Yangon, the pilots of the Umbrella have been studying whether low-altitude flight can really go undetected by radar, and the pilots selected by Merkel for this mission are almost always masters of low-altitude flight.

At this time, the Japanese fleet was still temporarily moored, and Inada Fukuyama would not worry at all about mooring the fleet outside Hangzhou Bay, on the one hand, because he knew that most of the fighters equipped by the Chinese army had gone to the northeast to help in the war, and the second reason was that the Japanese army had firmly controlled this Hangzhou Bay and the surrounding area, and Inada Fukuyama did not believe that the Chinese aircraft could not be detected by ground radar when flying over Hangzhou Bay.

It turned out that Inada Fukuyama was wrong, and it was very wrong, just half an hour before Merkel and her plane took off, the scouts who had been lurking in Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan had already launched an operation. The Japanese army controlled the entire Hangzhou Bay and set up a radar station here in Zhoushan, especially after the South China Sea Fleet reached the periphery of Hangzhou Bay, the Japanese radar station in Zhoushan temporarily sent additional personnel to closely monitor Hangzhou Bay and its surrounding areas.

If you are not afraid of anything, you are afraid of 10,000, this is an old Chinese saying, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who were deployed at the radar station at this time have well confirmed the correctness of this old saying. In order to ensure the safety of the radar station, when the Japanese army built this radar station, they used a large number of people to shovel a large area around the radar station into an open field where no grass grows, and even filled in some ditches that could barely be used to hide people.

Such terrain is not suitable for a strong attack, and the scouts under the umbrella are naturally not so stupid and bold, and they sneak forward only to provide target guidance for the approaching helicopters. An hour before Merkel and her plane took off, the helicopter group heading eastward had already arrived at Deqing County, which was very close to Hangzhou, at night, where the military commander had a secret liaison point, and they had prepared not only sufficient fuel for the helicopter group, but also several guides.

The helicopter group, which had been refueled, did not stay for much, but split into two under the guidance of the guide, one part flew to Haiyan County to meet the scouts lurking there, and the other part went straight to Zhoushan, preparing to destroy the Japanese radar station in Zhoushan. Two hours later, Merkel and her team flew over the coastline, while the 20 helicopters heading straight for Zhoushan had just flown over Zhaobaoshan in Ningbo.

For a fighter plane flying at high speed, it is at most an hour, which is enough time for a helicopter to fly to Zhoushan. The high-altitude reconnaissance plane, which had departed ahead of schedule, kept going back and forth in circles around the open sea of Hangzhou Bay, and until Merkel had already flown over the coastline, the high-altitude reconnaissance plane still failed to find any trace of the Japanese South China Sea Fleet. Time passed little by little, and it was not until Merkel, who had flown over the coastline to the east, that the high-altitude reconnaissance plane finally found the position of the Japanese South China Sea Fleet when they had lowered their flight altitude and turned around towards Hangzhou Bay according to the original plan.

When the ecstatic voice of the pilot of the high-altitude reconnaissance plane appeared in the communication channel, Merkel, who had been hanging her heart, finally breathed a sigh of relief, if the position of the Japanese fleet could not be discovered before dawn, then their carefully prepared attack was likely to turn into a strong attack. When the Japanese fleet was finally located, the scouts who had been lurking for more than 36 hours were also relieved, because only after determining the location of the Japanese fleet could they move on the Japanese radar station.

Several explosions of "boom" and "boom" pierced the night sky, and the movement of the explosion was not very large, but the fire that rose with the explosion instantly reflected the Japanese radar station. The scouts were using incendiary bombs fired from bazookas, and the scouts attacking the Japanese radar station didn't expect this thing to cause any casualties to the other side, they simply used incendiary bombs to provide target guidance for the helicopters that followed.

The Japanese soldiers at the "Da Da" defense radar station were not slow to react, and while organizing manpower to extinguish the fire, they used machine guns and grenadiers to cover the perimeter of the radar station. Suddenly, a Japanese soldier pointed above his head and shouted, and at some point more than a dozen black shadows with a roaring sound appeared in the air diagonally towards the radar station, and under the gaze of a large number of Japanese officers and soldiers, these suddenly appeared black shadows actually hovered in mid-air.

"Guys, it's time for us to play, fire, fire." Several of the helicopters hovering in mid-air suddenly turned in unison, pointing the door of the warehouse on one side at the Japanese radar station diagonally below, while the other helicopters had already fired air-to-ground rockets at the radar station. The "boom" and "boom" air was filled with the tail flames of the rockets and the smoke trails brought out by the rockets when they flew off, and the Japanese radar stations on the ground were immediately overwhelmed by the explosions and flames in the sky.

The previous helicopters of the Japanese troops facing the ground sideways had also opened the door of the warehouse, and the "buzz buzz" was accompanied by a strange sound to the extreme, and the dazzling chain of fire like an iron whip shot down. The shooter in charge of the rapid-fire machine gun in the helicopter cabin couldn't help but shout, the rapid fire machine gun's ultra-high rate of fire made it possible for the rapid-fire machine gun they controlled to shoot thousands of rounds in a short time.

Seeing this, the scouts lurking on the periphery of the radar station hurriedly continued to retreat, for fear that the madmen controlling the rapid-fire machine guns would hurt themselves. After being bombarded by more than 20 air-to-ground rockets, the Japanese radar station was completely abandoned, and the more than 100 Japanese officers and soldiers stationed here were torn to pieces by the powerful barrage fired by no less than six rapid-fire machine guns.

"Lower the height, lower the height." Having successfully destroyed two Japanese radar stations, Merkel, who received the news, immediately ordered the fighter formation to continue to reduce altitude. Only by flying close to the surface of the sea can it be possible to avoid the radar equipped by the Japanese South China Sea Fleet, and in Merkel's battle plan, it is the most important thing not to be detected by the Japanese fleet early. The fighter formation composed of more than 200 fighters of all kinds has been faintly divided into three echelons at this time, and the fighter group led by Merkel herself has been flying at the front, followed by the bombers carrying upgraded air-explosive bombs, and Merkel is also the attack aircraft group equipped with new air-to-ground rockets at the end and the main offensive force.

In Merkel's attack plan, the swarm attack mode used by the parachute team off the coast of Yangon was not used, especially since Merkel has always believed that the current strong parachute team is no longer suitable for the chaotic swarm tactics. In Merkel's battle plan, the first bombers to be launched will be the second echelon, and a large number of upgraded air-explosive bombs can cause temporary confusion to the Japanese fleet, so that the opponent's anti-aircraft fire will be halted to a certain extent.