On the night of the 25th, the bomber group went out again and bombed the cities of Fukuoka and Kumamoto in succession, dropping thousands of tons of bombs. In the bombing that night, the group was still not intercepted by Japanese fighters, but encountered relatively heavy anti-aircraft fire, and lost eleven bombers.

On the night of the 26th, the bomber group made another sortie, bombing Kumamoto again, and during the second sortie, it crossed the Seto Inland Sea and attacked Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku. All the more than 1,000 tons of bombs dropped on Matsuyama landed in the port area, damaging not only a large number of port facilities, but also blowing up several ships moored in the harbor and detonating the fuel depot, and the fire continued until the evening of the 27th.

The bombing lasted for three days and then stopped, not because there were no bombers, but because there were no ammunition! In the past, the fleet was dispatched once a day, but twice for three days. The rate of replenishment of ammunition could no longer keep up with the rate of consumption, so the fleet had to temporarily stop its operations, and the pilots were given a chance to rest.

On the 28th, the Navy Command sent a telegram of commendation, giving the First Army of Strategic Strike a collective military merit, and at the same time, more than 20 pilots with outstanding performance were promoted, including Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Shikuan. Tan Renhao personally pinned new epaulettes to these pilots. Originally, this should have been done by Liao Hanxiang (Liao Hanxiang is the highest commander of these officers and soldiers), but Liao Hanxiang has been busy in the rear, and Tan Renhao was the highest general of the navy here at that time, the chief of staff of the theater, so he could only promote the officer.

That night, the pilots of the five bases and the officers of the service units gathered at Seogwipo Airport to attend the banquet held for them by Luo Yunchong.

"Have you heard about General Liao Hanxiang's return to the headquarters?"

After the banquet began, Luo Yunchong followed Tan Renhao to the lawn, and the banquet was held in a huge hangar. "I heard that last time General Liao Hanxiang went back to report on the battle, he was looked at by many people, and this time, General Liao Hanxiang drove the car directly outside the headquarters building. Then he found the marshal and handed over a report on the results of our bombing on the 24th. ”

"And then?"

Tan Renhao is also very curious, will Liao Hanxiang make any fame?

"And then? Then General Liao Hanxiang directly demanded that the number of bombers produced this year be increased by 20%, and that next year's orders be added, and as a result, the marshal approved it without even thinking about it. ”

"Where did the money come from?"

Tan Renhao leaned against a jeep.

"Well, I don't know. However, I have heard that the acting prime minister has always had a special war fund. ”

Luo Yun rushed to the jeep opposite. "This is an emergency fund, and it will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. If the marshal can apply for this military spending, then it may not be a problem to build more bombers. ”

"There aren't enough production lines!"

Tan Renhao shook his head, the factory has actually promised to supply first and collect money later, and the biggest problem now is that Hafei only has two production lines, and the second production line is still being debugged, and it will not be put into production until early March, and Shen Fei only has one production line. The production speed has reached its limit. It simply can't be any better.

"That's a real problem."

Luo Yunchong took out a cigarette, "I heard that General Liao Hanxiang has proposed the establishment of a new aircraft factory. I will probably choose Shijiazhuang or Changsha. Changsha is more likely. However, the new aircraft plant will not be able to put into production until at least the end of next year. Now, we can only hope that the second production line of Hafei and Shenfei can be established as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, is Shen Fei planning to build a second production line next month?"

Luo Yunchong nodded, and then sighed. "If all four production lines are running at full speed by mid-year, we might have 3,000 bombers by October, and by then, we'll be enough dogs!"

"And our base in the south."

Tan Renhao jumped into the jeep, "Yesterday General Wu Xianyu sent a telegram that the marines had landed on Brother Island. This is the last island. Now the airport on the upper part of Iwo Jima is ready for use. If the bombers departed from Iwo Jima, they could bomb Tokyo, Japan, but the bomb load could only reach a maximum of three tons. And it has to go straight in and straight out. Chief of Staff Gan Yongxing suggested that after the Marines captured Brother Island, they would deploy bombers there, after all, we don't have enough bombers now! ”

"Yes, if we have enough bombers, even if we can only hang three tons of bombs, we can blow up Tokyo!"

Luo Yunchong smiled bitterly.

"Look. Hopefully the Marines will move fast enough. By April, we would have three regiments, so that we could form the first division. By May, we would form a second division on Iwo Jima, and then we would start bombing Tokyo! ”

Tan Renhao jumped out of the car, "Now, let's first concentrate on bombing the western part of the Japanese mainland, attract Japan's air defense forces, and when we bomb Tokyo, we will do it ruthlessly, if we can kill Tojo Kiei, or the Japanese emperor, then we will send it!" ”

Both of them laughed, the last time the HNA sneak attack on the Japanese Imperial Palace failed to kill the Japanese emperor, if there is still a chance, then it is a good choice to kill the Japanese emperor.

"Let's go, let's all relax today, if we all run away, how will other people play?"

Luo Yunchong first walked in the direction of the hangar.

The banquet lasted until half past twelve, and then the group dispersed. Tan Renhao also drank a lot, and the officers who wore new epaulettes by him all asked him to drink several glasses, and as a result, after returning to the dormitory, Tan Renhao fell asleep.

Suddenly, a sharp siren sounded, Tan Renhao was startled, jumped up from the bed, and then immediately heard that it was an air raid siren.

"Duchenne, what's going on?"

Duchenne ran in. "General, it seems to be an air raid alarm!"

"I know, why are the air defense sirens sounded?"

Tan Renhao has already dressed and is putting on his shoes.

"I don't know, I'll ask right away."

"No, go get the car ready now!"

Tan Renhao didn't blame Du Xing, after all, he was just an adjutant.

Five minutes later, Tan Renhao ran into the staff headquarters, and Luo Yunchong, Hao Dongjue and others had just arrived.

"Japanese bombers, the radar station in Pyozen-ri is the first to alarm, our fighters are taking off!"

Tan Renhao also saw those fighter jets taking off, and he was a little surprised. When will the Japanese have the ability to come and bomb Jeju Island?

There were more than 200 Japanese bombers that came to bomb Jeju Island, all of which were bombers from both sides such as the "One-Type Land Attack," and there were also a large number of "Zero Battle" escorts. This was the first time in more than three months since Japan landed on the Korean Peninsula that Japanese bombers "visited" Jeju Island.

"It should be a bomber of the Japanese Army Aviation."

Luo Yunchong has been learning about the situation from the staff officer, "There are quite a few of them, it seems that we have blown up the dog day in a hurry." Now they're going to fight back, too. ”

Tan Renhao nodded, since the fourth, he has been worried about Japan's counterattack, but after so many days, the Japanese side has not said anything, and he has relaxed his vigilance. Obviously, it is not that the Japanese side does not want to fight back, but has been preparing for it. And that's exactly what happened.

Since the surprise attack of the Japanese Imperial Palace by the naval aviation of the Tang Empire, the Japanese side has been organizing bombing operations against the Tang Empire. Some people even proposed to use a "one-type land attack" to do a one-way flight. Bombing the capital of the Don Empire. However, this proposal was quickly rejected. Because the capital of the Tang Empire had several layers of air defense networks, it was almost impossible for bombers without fighter escort to break through these air defense networks, and if they went, they would be sent to death. Subsequently. When a battle broke out between the First Task Force and the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese side temporarily put on hold its retaliatory bombing campaign against the Tang Empire and instead focused on naval warfare. After the triumphant return of the 1st Task Force, the situation on the Korean Peninsula also changed, and Japan had to once again concentrate the main forces of its aviation forces on the Korean Peninsula battlefield to support the army in operations, and the plan to bomb the Tang Empire was once again postponed.

On the fourth, the strategic bomber forces of the Tang Empire bombed Kumamoto for the first time. The Japanese side also quickly found the wreckage of the downed bombers, and immediately found that these bombers were not the twin-engine medium bombers of the past. Rather, it was a four-shot heavy bomber. Then, the Japanese side began to think about how to deal with these bombers.

For the next 20 days, the heavy bombers of the Tang Empire bombed important targets on Kyushu Island almost non-stop. From the 24th to the 26th, they also bombed the cities of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu for three consecutive nights. The Japanese Army Aviation can no longer sit still, and the air defense of the homeland is their basic task, and now that the mainland has been bombed continuously, the Army Aviation naturally has an unshirkable responsibility.

Twenty-seventh. The Japanese Army Aviation came up with a retaliatory plan, that is, to bomb the Tang Empire's heavy bomber base on Jeju Island, and strive to destroy the Tang Empire's heavy bombers on the ground, so as to naturally remove the threat to the mainland. Of course, the idea of the Japanese Army Aviation was too wishful thinking, and at this time, the Japanese Army Aviation was able to mobilize more than 200 bombers that could fly to Jeju Island, and the Tang Empire deployed more than 300 fighters of the navy and army on Jeju Island!

The first group of Japanese bombers to be spotted was not the radar of the HNA but the fighters of the Army Air Corps patrolling the eastern part of Jeju Island. The fighters of the Army Airlines were responsible for the air defense of Jeju Island, and the fighters deployed by the HNA on Jeju Island were all on escort missions, and as a result, the fighters of the Army Airlines took off 10 minutes earlier. Because the connection between the army and the navy was not smooth at that time, the discovery of the army aviation was not sent to the navy in time!

The take-off speed of the fighters of the Hainan Airlines is not slow, one runway can be used for two fighters to take off at the same time, and this is a ground airfield, so there is no need to wait for the catapult to return to its position, and the fighters can take off continuously. When the Japanese bomber group entered the sky over Jeju Island, all three fighter squadrons on three airfields were lifted into the air. The bombers on the airfield were also rapidly evacuating, and the bombers next to the runway took off urgently, while those who could not take off went into the hangar or evacuated to other places. The busiest are still the air defense forces around the airfield. The anti-aircraft artillery are all officers and men of the Marine Corps, and they are the last line of defense to protect the airfield.

"General, go to the air defense station!"

"I'm not going anywhere!"

Tan Renhao suddenly remembered Liao Hanxiang's words on the "Yancheng", "I'll stay here, if Dog Day has the ability to throw the bomb on top of my head, then I will admit it, but I believe that Dog Day has no chance to drop the bomb at all!" ”

"General......

The two Marine officers were in a hurry.

Luo Yun glanced at the two officers, and then sighed: "Let's be here, trust our fighter pilots." ”

Time passed one by one, and soon, news came from the Pyozen-ri airfield that more than a dozen Japanese bombers had bombed the Pyozen-ri airfield, and the damage was not very large, and the specific losses had not yet been counted. Five minutes later, the King's Beach airfield, west of Pyoshan-ri airfield, was bombed, and the damage was not very large.

Over the island, the battle is raging. The fighters of the Army and the Navy are desperate. The Japanese bomber group did not concentrate on the action, but killed several airfields separately, according to the order, ready to destroy all the Tang Empire fighters on the surface, but they were the first to be destroyed, because the Tang Empire's fighters would never let those bulky bombers drop bombs easily!

At 11:12 a.m., more than 10 "one-type land attackers" came to the east of Seogwipo Airport, and at least two squadrons of naval aviation fighters chased after them, desperately intercepting these Japanese bombers. On the ground, the anti-aircraft artillery roared, and the shells shot into the sky like arrows from the string. Eight bombers were killed as soon as they reached the airfield, and the remaining six bombers did not bomb Tan Renhao's tower (the staff headquarters was on the second level of the tower) but went to bomb the hangar, as well as the bombers parked on the lawn. In the end, none of the six bombers escaped, and all of them were killed by the oncoming fighters when they broke away.

When the air defense siren was lifted, Tan Renhao breathed a sigh of relief. He quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, he really didn't think about what he would do if a bomb really landed near the tower?

Order was quickly restored to the airfield, and only three bombers on the ground were blown up, and the officers and men of the Marine Corps, who had been hidden before, miraculously appeared, and many of them rushed to the two Japanese bombers that had crashed near the airfield. The Marine Corps was quickly organizing personnel to hunt down the Japanese pilots who had parachuted.