After the combat meeting, the instructors' units immediately took action and set up positions at the predetermined positions for the battle, and the engineer regiment also dispatched all personnel to assist the combat troops in digging trenches and anti-artillery holes, and building a large number of improvised bunkers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, just when the instructor was preparing for war with all his might, the Japanese army was getting closer and closer to the target of the attack, Baotou, because the grassland area was all along the way, the devil's advance speed was very fast, reaching the speed of a hundred miles a day.

However, before the ground troops arrived in Baotou, the 4th Flying Team of the 12th Division had already set off from Huerhot and was about to fly over Baotou.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 15 February, before the Japanese planes approached the sky over Baotou, the radar installation at Baotou Airport had already discovered the traces of the Japanese planes, and the Japanese planes had a total of 36 planes, which was equivalent to the establishment of a flight group.

The radar device installed at Baotou Airport was not equipment aided by the Soviet Union, but British radar equipment that Zhang Cheng spent more than 10 times the price to obtain through Zhang Zhongwen's European and American channels. At present, the technology of light and anti-aircraft radar, Britain at this time is leading the world.

"Uh......h Woo......"

After discovering the traces of enemy planes, the sudden grim air defense sirens sounded at Baotou Airport, and Feng Dafei, commander of the aviation flight regiment, immediately issued an order to attack, and the pilots rushed to their planes at a speed of 100 meters.

At this time, 99 fighter planes were moored on the runway of Baotou Airport, including 84 Soviet Iraq-16 fighters and 15 Japanese Type 95 fighters.

Under the guidance of Soviet instructors, there are now as many as 500 pilots in the Eighth Route Army's aviation flight regiment, and because there are too many monks and too few porridge, only the pilots with the best flying performance are qualified to own landlines, and now the pilots who fly these 99 fighters are all the best in the flying regiment; under the guidance of Zhang Cheng's spirit of selecting the best among the best, the flying skills of these 99 pilots are not inferior to those of the Japanese pilots, and what they lack is only actual combat experience.

When all 99 fighters took to the air, the fighters in the air immediately formed three flying formations and flew away in the direction of the Japanese planes.

The first air battle between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army kicked off with the roar of aircraft motors.

At this time, in the clear blue sky of Baotou, 99 fighters cut through the sky from west to east, and at the forefront was a group of 32 I-16 fighters composed of the Second Flying Group, and the second group was Huang Yong, who had been fooled by Zhang Cheng from the Kuomintang Air Force.

It was followed by the 3rd Flying Group, which also led a group of 32 IL-16 fighters, and the team leader Li Sheng, like Huang Yong, was also fooled by Zhang Cheng from the KMT Air Force.

At the rear was a mixed No. 1 Flight Group composed of 20 I-16 fighters and 15 Type 95 fighters, and the leader of the group was Feng Dafei, who was also the head of the flight regiment.

As the commander of the Flying Aviation Corps, Feng Dafei's calm appearance hides an extremely fiery heart, when he was studying at the Moscow Aviation Higher Institute, he had long been looking forward to leading the motherland's air force to defeat the Japanese invaders, and now, finally his dream has come true!

Seeing that the plane was getting closer and closer to the Japanese plane, Feng Dafei took three deep breaths in a row to calm down the restless mood before the battle, and then issued an order to the flight groups through the radio: "The second flight group and the third flight group should pay attention, there is still a five-minute flight distance before the Japanese plane, please take the first flight group as the center, spread out in a triangular battle formation, over!" ”

"The 2nd Flying Group understands! over！ Huang Yong responded.

"The 3rd Flying Group understands! over！ Li Sheng responded.

The radio system used by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army was obtained by Zhang Cheng from the United States, and the fighting ability of the Soviet-style fighters is the best in the world, but the communication equipment is a pit, so Zhang Cheng had to import technology from the United States.

"This is the first air battle of our Eighth Route Army Flying Regiment, please keep a calm mind, give full play to all the skills you have learned in peacetime, this battle is only allowed to win, not defeat!" Feng Dafei admonished the pilots.

"Haha, Regiment Commander Feng doesn't have to be nervous, our flying regiment is three enemies and one in this air battle, if we can't win in this way, we should be spanked by the division commander when we go back." Huang Yong became a pilot under the guidance of the instructor of the United States, and like the pilots of the United States, he didn't know what the nervousness was, and he was still in the mood to joke before the battle.

However, this kind of joke was just right for the pilots' increasingly nervous atmosphere of battle, which just dispelled the tense heartstrings of many pilots who were facing actual combat for the first time, and made everyone relax a little.

"Commander Feng, can the military rank be upgraded by one level after winning this battle? Everything is good in our Eighth Route Army, but the marriage regulations of the 258th Regiment are too inhumane, and if you continue to wait, the girls I like will marry someone else. Li Sheng and Huang Yong were birdish, and then joked.

"Okay, you two don't talk poorly, the Japanese machine will appear soon, ready to fight!" Feng Dafei gradually faded his nervousness in the jokes of Huang Yong and Li Sheng, and he became more and more comfortable in manipulating the fighter.

"Roger!" All the pilots replied together.

"Li Sheng, let's compare this time to see who shoots down more enemy planes." The cynical Huang Yong challenged Li Sheng.

"It's better than that, who of us is afraid of whom, but what is the color head?" Not to be outdone, Li Sheng said.

"If you lose, you'll be responsible for washing each other's clothes for a month, including underwear, how about that?" Huang Yong proposed.

"Isn't it just to wash the pants within a month, I'm Li Sheng afraid of who will come, this competition, I took it!" Li Sheng agreed.

"Well, now everyone's radio is on, and they are all our witnesses, so you can't be laipi!"

"No problem!"

"Comrades, the Japanese plane is coming, and our flight group wants to be **!" Feng Dafei gave an order, and then drove his own plane towards the devil's plane.

At the same time, the 4th Flying Squadron of the Japanese Army Aviation was originally flying towards Baotou in a graceful manner, carrying out a bombing mission that they thought was not difficult, but unexpectedly, they found three groups of fighters attacking them in front.

"Nakasa Harada, I found a large number of planes of unknown origin flying towards me, please instruct!" A Japanese pilot who was the first to discover the Eighth Route Army Flying Regiment reported.

"Yaga, that's a Soviet plane! Hey, no, and our Type 95. Oops, I know, this is the China Air Force that attacked Taiyuan Airport! Harada Nakasa said in shock.

The Fourth Flying Squadron of the Japanese Army Aviation only sent 24 Type 95 fighters and 12 Type 97 heavy crit planes to Baotou to carry out the bombing mission.