Chapter Eighty-Eight: Air Raid (I)

The first is that it will not alarm the Japanese army, and the distance of 30 kilometers will not alarm the little devils in the outer positions of Nanjing. Rommel knew deeply that the biggest enemy of the armored forces was actually the enemy's air force, so Rommel had to do everything he could to bomb the Japanese airfield in Shanghai, and the two hundred fighters and dive bombers of the Flying Eagle Regiment plus more than 100 planes of the Soviet Volunteer Air Force, plus the more than 50 remaining planes of the Republic of China, the total number of planes had reached 434, including 320 combat planes, 64 horizontal bombers, and 40 dive bombers. With such a huge scale of air raids, it is necessary to carry out air strikes on three field airfields and two large airfields around Shanghai, and it is necessary to destroy all 380 Japanese planes of the Shanghai Dispatch Army in one fell swoop.

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The commanders of Germany, the Soviet Union, and China were eagerly discussing in the air force war room, and all the staff officers were standing straight at their posts, and only the supreme commanders of the three countries knew about the battle plan, and the others did not know, and there were too many leaks of the Republic of China government, so they had to guard against it. The commanders of the air forces of the three countries kept checking their watches while talking, and they could know from the sweat on their foreheads that they were actually very nervous, and the moonlight was not bad tonight, although it was only half a moon, but it was clear and cloudless these days, and it should be possible to find the Japanese airfield on the ground, in case the sky suddenly changed! If you can't find the target for the bombing, the Eagle Legion that has already set off will be in trouble.

The supreme commander of this air raid was General Zhou Zhirou, Germany's Hartmann and the Soviet Union's Rychagov were the deputy commanders, the Chinese team leader was Gao Zhihang, the German team leader was Schmidt, and the Soviet team leader was Retov.

Clock "ticking...... Tick-tock" echoed in the war room, everyone was waiting, and when the time was indicated to 5 o'clock, Zhou Zhirou asked:

"Meteorological group, what is the weather like around Shanghai?"

"Report sir, half moon, cloudless, good sight."

"Okay, God help me, now I announce the start of the Wolf Hunt Air Assault."

"Bang bang...... "The air force command ...... burst into warm applause in an instant, in the past, it was always pressed and beaten by the little devil's plane, but now it is finally about to counterattack on a large scale, and anyone will feel proud of it.

Waiting is actually the most impatient thing, now everyone has put their hearts down, more than 400 planes, is already all the planes on the Chinese battlefield, what will happen to this gambling action, no one knows what the result will be, you must know that in the past countless air battles, the Soviet Union and Chinese planes have no advantage over Japanese planes at all, and even worse than Japanese planes in terms of performance, especially China's Hawker III aircraft, the record is also more defeated and less victorious.

Zhou Zhirou waited for the applause to last for a moment, and as soon as he raised his hands, the entire war room was completely quiet in an instant:

"Chairman's warrant: General Zhou Zhirou is hereby appointed as the commander-in-chief of the "Wolf Hunting Operation", hoping that all the departments participating in the war will be sincerely united and inflict heavy losses on the Japanese invaders."

After the applause of "pop ......", Zhou Zhirou then announced the order for the whole army to attack, and in an instant, the combat hall became busy, and the sound of telegrams and calls came and went.

Gao Zhihang is the captain of the flight group of the Chinese Air Force, and the remaining more than 50 planes, in fact, know that more than 30 can fly, and the rest have become parts suppliers, and now it is a state of war, and all pilots are in a state of first-class combat readiness, and they will not even take off their flight suits when they sleep at night, and as long as the air defense alarm sounds, they must fly to the side of the plane, and then take off, and after they take off, the command tower will send instructions.

Since the German planes were stationed in Nanjing, the little Japanese planes have not come to harass them again, perhaps because the little Japan did not want to clash with Germany head-on during the war! Everyone thinks this way, because at this time there is already a Soviet air force in China to aid China, and in the German air force, the resources of the Japanese army are afraid that they will not be able to independently fight these two countries, anyway, everyone understands it this way.

But everyone did not let their guard down, and once there was an order to make a sortie, they had to board the plane as soon as possible.

At 5:05 a.m. on June 24, the sortie siren sounded, and there was a difference between this sortie alarm and the air defense siren, which was very loud, and this sortie siren was installed in each pilot's bedroom and lounge. Gao Zhihang, who was sleeping on the bed, was extremely sensitive to this sound, quickly opened his eyes, jumped off the bed like lightning, grabbed the flying cap with his left hand, grabbed the gun on the table with his right hand, and rushed out of his room.

It is about two hundred meters from the lounge to the tarmac. The siren of "Dudu Dudu......" was accompanied by the flashing of red lights, and as soon as Gao Zhihang ran out of the door, the other pilots also rushed out of the lounge and ran towards the tarmac.

Gao Zhihang turned back to his brother as he ran, and shouted loudly:

"Brothers, hurry, hurry...... Urgent Combat Mission......"

The planes on the tarmac are all Hawker III, where they are neatly arranged at this time, the planes are filled with fuel and ammunition at any time, and the distance of two hundred meters is only about ten seconds for the pilot. The pilots are running, and the ground crews are also running, helping the pilots to board the planes, removing the skid piers under the tires, and helping the planes to pull the propellers in front of them to start the plane, and of course there are at least four ground crews on a plane to help with these tasks.

As soon as Gao Zhihang boarded the plane, he quickly turned on the various instruments on the plane, and then shouted loudly to the ground crew who were about to pull the propeller in front of him:

As soon as the word "wrench" came out, the ground crew used all his strength with both hands to pull the propeller down, and Gao Zhihang immediately gradually increased the throttle, and the engine of the plane was successfully ignited at one time, making a "poof" sound.

"2201 ready, request to take off."

"Agree to take off, good luck."

Gao Zhihang said, "Thank you." After driving his plane out of the tarmac, the planes behind him that had been successfully ignited also followed one after another, and Gao Zhihang, who drove on the runway, continued to increase the throttle, and the plane became faster and faster, and it took off in an instant. Soon other planes also followed Gao Zhihang into the sky, and when Gao Zhihang was in formation, the command tower sent an order:

"Order your department to go to 120 degrees 39 seconds north latitude and 35 degrees 43 seconds east longitude as soon as possible, and join the SB2 light bomber group of the Soviet Air Force to aid China, and the bombing target is Suzhou Airport, the coordinates are ...... north latitude"

"Understood."

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[Ask the brothers to collect, in addition, special thanks to all the book friends for the Sanjiang ticket, until now to maintain the "Fuhrer's Anger" high Sanjiang champion, there is no suspense in this book, thank you brothers and sisters, thank you for your support. 】

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