At 6 o'clock in the morning of 25 May, just as Xue Yue, the enemy's commander-in-chief before the Battle of Lanfeng, issued the order to launch an attack on the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, four reconnaissance planes of the Chinese army swept across the Yellow River and flew in the direction of Xi'an.

The air defense post of the Eighth Route Army on the side of the Yellow River thought that the devils were bombing Xi'an again, and while shooting to call the police, they reported to their superiors by phone.

What is unthinkable is that these four military planes did not go to Xi'an, but flew around Xi'an and headed southwest.

At half past six in the morning, the devil's plane that took off from Taiyuan, Jiexiu, Huozhou, and Linfen airports flew across the Yellow River and headed southwest of Xi'an.

The alarm was transmitted to Xi'an from various air defense posts along the Yellow River, and the total number of military planes that attacked on a large scale exceeded 300.

The gunfire of the air defense posts in Xi'an City rang out one after another.

Ever since Liu Yimin led his instructor to recover Taiyuan, military planes have often gone to Shaanxi to reconnoiter and bomb, bombing the prosperous Xi'an beyond recognition. It's been a long time, and people are used to it, if you bomb yours, what should I do, I can't just avoid living because of the bombing, right? Besides, our Eighth Route Army also has planes, and if we seize the opportunity to sneak attack the devils, we will blow up and paralyze the little devils' airports, and see if the dogs can still run rampant. Therefore, when the air defense whistle sounded, because the organs, schools, and factories in the city had already been evacuated, the people who remained in the city did not panic, and they had long been accustomed to the air raids of the Japanese army, and under the organization of the cadres, they adopted various methods to defend the air.

To the surprise of the people of Xi'an, the military plane did not come to Xi'an, and there was a false alarm. However, the leaders of the Shaanxi Military Region did not think so, and they immediately realized what the military plane was going to do. As soon as he grabbed the phone, he informed the arsenal in Mianxian County and the air force in the mountainous area of Zhouzhi that the devils had come with a large-scale air raid.

At this time, Feng Dafei, who was in the Qinling Mountains, had already given the order for the fighter to take off to meet the enemy.

After the army bombed southern Hebei, the Eighth Route Army air force was ordered by Liu Yimin to retaliate against the Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang airports of the Yue army, and the results were very great. After that, it was transferred to covert training, after all, this air force unit is still too young and needs training too much. It was not until the instructor attacked and occupied the Dawenkou airfield and got back some planes that the number of planes of the air force exceeded 100, and its strength increased greatly, and two airfields of the First Air Force and the Second Air Force of the Eighth Route Army were built in the Qinling Mountains, and several camouflaged fake airfields were also built, and some aircraft models were built. The army also came here many times to reconnoiter and bomb, but they all bombed camouflaged airfields and aircraft models, and never bombed the real airfield of the Eighth Route Army.

The two airfields themselves were very hidden, and the sappers built a cavern at the foot of the mountain to serve as a permanent hangar. In addition to training, bombers and fighters are usually hidden in hangars. The guard troops also set up a cordon within a radius of several dozen miles, and no one was allowed to enter without permission, which could be regarded as a heavy guard.

After the capture of Taiyuan and Tianjin, Liu Yimin brought back all the facilities of the Devil's Airport to Shaanxi, and of course the anti-aircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns of the Taiyuan Airport were also transported back to Shaanxi, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the Tianjin Airport, the anti-aircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns stored in the Tanggu Arsenal, and later the anti-aircraft fire of the Dawenkou Airport were equipped with air defense brigades.

After the arsenal was built, there were iron and steel, engineers and technicians, and ready-made antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns for samples; after a long period of research and development, Zeng Zhao finally succeeded in copying antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns, and immediately equipped the airport and arsenal guard units.

Of course, no matter whether it is Feng Dafei or other leaders, no one knows that there was a small bandit leader who often haunts here and is familiar with every shortcut in the mountains here, let alone that this little bandit leader accidentally discovered our army's airfield and escaped, and betrayed the top-secret information of our army's airport to Yue Kou for the sake of only 200,000 oceans.

On this morning, seeing that the weather was good, Feng Dafei was about to organize a mixed formation training of bombers and fighters, and just as he was about to give the order to push the planes out of the hangar, the gunfire of the air defense posts at one station after another came over. At the beginning, Feng Dafei didn't care very much, because the devil plane had been here several times, and each time it bombed the disguised fake airport indiscriminately. But soon, the reconnaissance plane of the Yue army swept over the airport, and Feng Dafei woke up in a flash, and the airport was discovered by devils.

Feng Dafei knew that the devil's air force was not one or two bases stronger than himself, and from the day the airport was built, he knew that sooner or later there would be this day, and it was better to fight to the death than to let the devil blow up the airport. If the devil planes come less, you can also fight a beautiful air battle. So, Feng Dafei gritted his teeth and immediately ordered the air defense forces at the airport to prepare for battle, and all the fighters took off to meet the enemy.

As soon as the order was issued, a telephone call from the Shaanxi Military Region arrived, informing them that the total number of planes had reached more than 300 and that they were flying in the southwest direction of Xi'an.

At this time, the airport was already in a hurry, the fighters were pushed out of the hangar, and the pilots were quickly boarding.

Feng Dafei looked at his young pilots, and shouted directly on the loudspeaker: "Young men, our airport and arsenal have been discovered by devils, and now 300 planes are rushing towards us." I order you, take off immediately, meet the enemy planes, defend the airfield, defend the arsenal! Takeoff! ”

One after another fighter planes took off into the air, and as soon as they completed their air formation, the military aircraft group arrived.

General Terauchi Shoichi not only gathered all the fighters and bombers of the North China Air Group, but also reported to the base camp for approval to transfer all the fighters and bombers of the Kwantung Army and secretly transferred them to various airfields of the Shanxi Army in advance. Originally, he wanted to use the carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet, but unfortunately the Combined Fleet stayed in the Bohai Bay for too long and had to go back to the original supply.

Before the military plane took off, each pilot received an oath signed by General Terauchi Shouichi, which read: "Emperor's air pride: You will carry out a glorious and arduous mission, that is, to wipe out the aviation of the Eighth Route Army in Shaanxi and destroy the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army. In my capacity as Earl of the Great Imperial Army and commander of the North China Front, I implore you to note that it was this inconspicuous air force that repeatedly attacked the airfields of our North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, which caused Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi to commit suicide by disembowelment, shattered the collective jade of the Provisional Air Corps of the North China Front, and covered the face of the Army Aviation Corps with a wet diaper of humiliation that could not be removed. This is a group of despicable, outrageous and rogue air squadrons, accustomed to carrying out sneak attacks under the guise of the Imperial Army, and even their fighters are stealing the fighters of the Imperial Army. The arsenal of the Eighth Route Army is the root of all evil, and it is the munitions production and supply base of the Eighth Route in North China. Now our chance for revenge has arrived, and the flight charts sent to you accurately indicate the exact location of their airfield. I command you, pounce on them, find them, tear them apart, and avenge all the soldiers of the Imperial Army! Long live His Majesty the Emperor, and long live the valiant Imperial Army Air Force! ”

Terauchi Shouichi's oath to go to the army can be regarded as a shot in the arm for those arrogant air soldiers, which stimulated the devils to scream and kill Shaanxi violently.

This time, Shouichi Terauchi thought it out very comprehensively and made a very careful deployment. He knew that the Eighth Route Army Air Force was well concealed and vigilant, and it was likely that a fierce air battle would occur. Thus, out of 300 aircraft, 200 were fighters, 36 were heavy bombers and 64 were light bombers. Shouichi Terauchi demanded that all heavy bombers and 24 light bombers be used to bomb the arsenal, escorted by two fighter squadrons. The remaining 168 fighters and 40 light bombers were used to attack airfields, with a focus on solving the aviation of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

After the Devil group crossed Xi'an, it split into two, and the formation that bombed the arsenal continued to move south, while the formation that attacked the airfield went straight to the target.

As soon as he saw that the devil's plane group was so huge, Chang Qiankun, who took to the air to command the operation, knew that today was a situation that would never stop dying, and directly ordered all four squadrons to meet the devil's fighters, because he knew that the terrain around the airport was complicated, and there was ground air defense fire cover, and it was impossible for the devils to dive or bomb at a low altitude, and the bombing effect was absolutely not great, and the bombers of our army were all hidden in the hangar, and they were generally very safe, even if the army blew up the hangar, the planes could be pulled out in the future. Besides, in today's situation, it is obvious that the airport cannot be saved, so you can only fight bayonets in the air with the devils, and you can earn money by fighting one plane, and you can earn money by fighting two.

After giving the order, Chang Qiankun took the squadron under his direct command to rush towards the devil fighters.

The devil bombers that pounced on the airfield were intercepted by the ground anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army, and the two enemy planes that were trying to dodge the antiaircraft shells slammed into the hill crookedly and turned into fireballs. At this moment, the devil woke up, pulled the plane up, and concentrated on bombing the air defense position.

This air battle was extremely tragic, and the tragic mountain people were reluctant to record it in detail. Because the army came prepared, the Eighth Route Army went into battle in a hurry; The 168 fighters of the Chinese Army faced 48 fighters of the Eighth Route Army, and the 40 light bombers of the Chinese Army faced the anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army's airfield. It should be said that as soon as the battle began, the outcome was predestined.

Although all 48 fighters of the Eighth Route Army were shot down and destroyed, only 21 pilots parachuted and rescued, two airfields were all destroyed, ground air defense positions were also destroyed, and the air defense units were basically wiped out, but the army did not get a good deal, the complex Qinling Mountains helped the Eighth Route Army, plus the fighters of the Eighth Route Army did not die, stubbornly resisted, and fought desperately, and there were six highly skilled retired flight instructors of the US Army such as David to help, and the martyrs who sacrificed their lives basically chose to die with the enemy, and the plane was far away. As long as the grappling time is long, the fuel is insufficient.

According to post-war statistics, the army lost as many as 57 planes in this battle, of which 32 were shot down by our fighters, 4 were shot down by ground fire, 12 crashed into a hill to avoid ground fire, and 9 planes crashed into the loess due to running out of fuel.

The results of the sneak attack on the Mianxian military industrial base were great, not only blowing up the power plant, the iron and steel plant, and the arsenal outside the cave, but also destroying the air defense positions of the Eighth Route Army guard unit, and carrying them to bomb the county seat of Mianxian County, causing a large number of casualties.

After receiving Feng Dafei's report, [***] was so sad that he couldn't help himself, and stood alone in front of the window while smoking and crying. After a long time, he drafted a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and forwarded to Lin Nie, Liu Luo, Liu Deng, He Guan, and Xu Yang: "General Headquarters and comrades: Today, the Chinese army dispatched more than 300 planes to attack the military industrial base and the airfield of our air force in Mian CountyThe destruction of several years of hard work was actually the biggest defeat of our army since the launch. In the short term, there are still military factories stocking ammunition to supply the front line, but in the long run, the supply of ammunition will not be sustainable, and our army may enter a difficult period in its operations, and the ammunition supply will have to be mainly taken from the enemy. The Central Committee will do its best to negotiate with the Soviet side and strive to obtain support for the resumption of production of steel plants and power plants. If not, we will strive to make it possible for military factories to reload ammunition and make up for our army's operational needs as much as possible. In the future, all base areas should be self-sufficient in ammunition and food, and actively develop the military industry. ”

After writing it, [***] sent a secret telegram to Liu Yimin alone, urging him to launch the Luzhong Campaign as soon as possible, receiving the equipment brought back by Ni Hua, choosing an absolutely secret and safe place to prepare for the construction of a military base, and deciding to send Zeng Zhao, the director of the arsenal, to lead some personnel of the arsenal to Shandong to strengthen the strength of Shandong's ordnance industry.

After receiving the chairman's telegram, Liu Yimin was so shocked that his mouth opened into a type 0. He couldn't figure out how the army had found such a secret place. After thinking about it, I feel that there is only one possibility, that is, there is annihilation. But when I think about it again, it has not been a day or two since the army tried to bomb the arsenal, but today's bombing is probably because the army has just learned the exact location of the arsenal and the airfield. However, according to Zeng Zhao and Feng Dafei's report some time ago, the military factory has long ceased to recruit people, and the airport has long been under martial law, not to mention the annihilation, even the cadres and soldiers of our army cannot enter, except for a few senior leaders, no one knows about these two top-secret places that are far apart at the same time. If the spies of the army itself had been infiltrated, I am afraid that the military factories and airports would have been bombed long ago. It seems that this annihilation is afraid that the local bandits who are wandering have slipped through the net.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin sent a report to the chairman, Feng Dafei, and Zeng Zhao to mourn the martyrs and compatriots who died!

In the telegram, Liu Yimin pointed out that it is not terrible for the plane to be destroyed, and it is even less terrible for the military factory to be destroyed, and the important thing is that after this vicious battle, we have learned a lesson and have a clearer understanding of the ferocity of the Kou. There are many planes in the army, and the instructors have the ability and confidence to capture more enemy planes. As for military production, Liu Yimin pointed out that our army's equipment basically comes from the enemy, and now that the military factories have been bombed, they cannot produce weapons, but we should think of resuming ammunition production as soon as possible. The production of more bullets, shells, explosive packs, and mines can basically meet the needs of the front line.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin thought to himself, will the army's frenzied bombing this time cause a strategic debate within the party? You must know that the Hundred Regiments War in history triggered a debate over whether the strength of the Eighth Route Army was prematurely exposed, and it once made the generation of Yuan Rong who had great achievements in war wronged, and if it caused controversy this time, I am afraid that he would be the center of the storm.

(To be continued)