Above the night sky, the roar of the engine was almost suppressed, and the soldiers below suddenly became chaotic after seeing the signal flare.

The two Mosquito bombers flew towards the woods where they were, and then dropped several flares to direct the Hammer 4 bombers behind them.

The roaring Hammer 4 bombers pounced from the sky, throwing incendiary bombs in rows.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... The incendiary bombs containing aluminium quickly turned the woods into a sea of fire, and the flames and flares illuminated the woods below, and the trees were quickly burned, and the soldiers hiding below had nowhere to hide.

A large number of soldiers below did not have time to escape, and were burned to death on the spot by the whistling incendiary bombs, and the smell of meat wafted everywhere with the thick smoke.

When the smoke subsided, the trees below were almost burned, and cars and heavy artillery were exposed under the trees, followed by aerial bombs from tactical bomber formations.

With a bomb load of 4,600 kilograms, the Hammer 4 became the most powerful heavy tactical bomber of its time, and no bomber could compare with it.

One hundred and fifty Hammer 4s set the woods below into flames, and as the first Hammer 4 bombers returned, another Mosquito bomber flew into the area marked B46 on the map with Mosquito bombers equipped with night vision helmets.

"Call Gale, call Gale, please report yourself." The commander of the bombing formation on the walkie-talkie was calling Liang Yuanhai, codenamed Gale.

"Gale has arrived, I am out of the woods, I am in safe condition, and I can expand the bombardment range." Liang Yuanhai had already run away at this time, and ran directly out of the woods.

Liang Yuanhai is still running, especially on flat ground, he has to find a place to hide as soon as possible, otherwise the Yue army who ran out of the woods will find him in a bad way, and the bombing can only destroy the heavy equipment of the Yue army, not the total annihilation of the group of Yue army.

"Roger."

…… In the General Headquarters of the National War Army, Zheng Chengtao ran outside Xia Junmen overnight to report on the combat situation.

"The first batch of bombers has been dispatched, and according to the information returned, most of the heavy artillery of the Japanese army on the banks of the Huangshui River has been destroyed." Zheng Chengtao reported to Xia Jun.

Xia Jun was a little sleepy-eyed, yawned and said to Zheng Chengtao: "It's not safe to do it again, you go and send the strategic bomber to bomb it again, if there is no accident, you won't have to report to me for a while." ”

"Yes." Zheng Chengtao answered and retreated, while Xia Jun continued to sleep.

…… At Wendeng Airport, the propellers of mosquito bombers have been turned, and an airport commander is waving flags.

"The first brigade took off ......"

"Yes."

"The second brigade took off ......"

"Yes."

"The 3rd Brigade Take-off ......"

One by one, Mosquito bombers took to the runway, then accelerated, took off, and flew to the B46 area under the guidance of Mosquito bombers equipped with low-light night vision helmets.

The establishment of the Air Force is formations, brigades, squadrons, squads.

A formation refers to a purpose aircraft, which may include several different types of aircraft, such as tactical bomber formations, including Type 14 dreadnought bombers, Hammer 3, and Hammer 4 bombers.

A battalion is one hundred and fifty aircraft, a squadron is fifty aircraft, and a squad is ten.

Wendeng Airport is a 'strategic bombing' airfield, the planes in the airport are all mosquito bombers and mosquito fish planes, Wendeng is located at the end of the Shandong Peninsula, the strategic bombing airfield is located here, with the range of mosquito bombers, can attack the entire Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea surface of the enemy ships.

The speed of the Mosquito bomber, which arrived in the B46 area in less than twenty minutes, immediately saw the fire everywhere.

The arrival of these 450 mosquito bombers caused the bombing that had just stopped to start again, and the 450 mosquito bombers bombed the forest repeatedly.

Many of the heavy artillery of the Yue army below were blown up and deformed, and under the bombardment, these heavy artillery had no time to transfer, and the first batch of incendiary bombs dropped before burned many of the army artillery to death, let alone rushed out of the sea of fire.

Many of the artillery men ran out of the woods in the confusion, but the heavy artillery was left in place, and the whistling mosquito bombers dropped a large number of incendiary bombs and aerial bombs into the woods.

The entire forest was burning, and the aerial bombs distorted and deformed the heavy artillery that was exposed to the sky, and the gun carriage was blown apart...... The East China Air Force came and went quickly.

In less than ten minutes, the second wave of air strikes ended.

Then there were no more planes roaring in the sky, and many of the unkilled artillerymen returned to the woods, only to see that the woods were burning with raging flames, and their heavy artillery had long since been destroyed.

It's all gone!

Some of the artillerymen even rushed into the ashes to rescue their heavy artillery with a cry on the spot...... Longkou said that the general headquarters of the army, a rush of telephone sounds woke up Uchiyama Kojiro again, Uchiyama Kojiro hurriedly picked up the phone, and it must be an emergency to call in the middle of the night.

"What's the matter?" Kojiro Yamauchi asked with a frown.

"Commander-in-chief, it's not good, our heavy artillery division was attacked by the Chinese people and suffered heavy losses, and the heavy artillery division is rescuing the heavy artillery."

"What!" Yamauchi Kojiro was so shocked that he quickly got up from the bed, frowned and thought for a long time, and asked, "Didn't you let them hide?" ”

"According to the report, the heavy artillery division was indeed hidden, but there was a Chinese scout who was also hidden in the woods, and that Chinese scout gave their air force a direct target, and the Chinese air force sent a large group of bombers to intensively bomb the hidden places of the heavy artillery division......"

"Hmmm! Let them try to rescue heavy artillery. Uchiyama Kojiro didn't lose his temper, but encouraged: "We say that this empire will win, because we are the descendants of Amaterasu and the descendants of God." ”

"Hello~!"

…… When the dawn of the morning appeared in the sky, the woods that had been attacked last night were still smoking, and the entire woods had been burned by this time, leaving only a lot of charcoal fire on the ground.

The heavy artillery division of the army has been fighting here for more than nine hours, dragging a lot of heavy artillery aside, but unfortunately, not a single intact one has been found.

Although the barrels of many heavy guns were not damaged much, the structure was blown into disarray, and there were less than ten barely usable guns left.

You must know that the entire heavy artillery division is equipped with 120 heavy artillery~!

…… Early the next morning, when Xia Jun got up, Zhou Shunze handed him last night's battle experience, Xia Jun read the battle report, nodded, and said: "Not bad." ”

Although it did not destroy all the heavy artillery in the book, it was clear that there were enough heavy artillery destroyed.

When I came to the command room, all the staff officers had already gotten up early, and when they saw Xia Jun walking into the staff headquarters, they all stopped what they were doing, today is an important moment.

The naval blockade of the Japanese army will begin in earnest today.

"How's the preparation?" Xia Jun sat down and asked everyone, Liu Wenhong said: "Principal, our combat mission may have to be modified, because the direction of the army's attack is the eastern defense line, not the southern defense line. ”

"East? Are you sure? Xia Jun asked very incomprehensibly, from the sand table, the east is the most mountainous place in Shandong, and the traffic is still not very convenient.

If the East China Army can organize a second line of defense in the Yantai area, the premise is that the Yue Army is really fierce, but even if it is fierce, it will be blocked by the East China Army layer by layer in the eastern part of Shandong.

Chen Xuanyu explained: "Chairman of the Committee, judging from the movement of the heavy artillery to the east bank of the Huangshui River, they did choose to attack from the east. ”

Zhang Bolan said: "I think this is a wise choice for the army, as long as they rush out from the east, they can jump into a new battle circle." In contrast, there are no trenches in these two places, and even if we organize troops to defend, it will be impossible to dig out trenches of the same strength as the two exits in the west and south for a while. ”

"Obviously, the commander of the army saw that we had dug extremely complete and strong trenches in the western and southern defensive lines, and that it would be very costly to choose either of these two places, and that it would be better to break through from the east. Moreover, our main reserve forces are in the south, and the east is far inferior to the southwest in terms of the strength of the trenches and the strength of the reserves. ”

"Although it seems stupid, it is actually the only place where the current army has a little hope to achieve results." Zhang Bolan concluded.

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement after hearing Zhang Bolan's point of view, obviously the commander-in-chief of the army, Uchiyama Kojiro, was not a fool.

"In this way, it is okay for us to break through directly from the upper reaches of the Huangshui River, and then insert ourselves into the back of the Yue army, and directly eliminate the main force of the Yue army attacking the eastern front, then the overall situation can be decided." Xia Jun looked at the map, and this bold plan flashed in his mind.

"This ......" everyone groaned, and Liu Wenhong tactfully persuaded: "Principal, if the battle line is too long, we may not be able to ensure the safety of the transportation line, after all, our two group armies are only 280,000 people. ”

Originally, according to the plan, it was to take its time and eat the army bite by bite, that is, interspersed in a small area, and then interspersed many times.

If you follow Xia Jun's current plan, then the first bite is to have a hard fight with the main force of the army, although there is a chariot, you are not afraid of fighting in the field.

But the problem is that this depth is interspersed too deeply.

"Plus the 100,000 troops of the other provinces, that's 380,000! We will first solve the southern front, let Army Group B withdraw, and then intersperse the Eastern Front, and Army Group D can also withdraw. Xia Jun said indifferently: "Anyway, let's see how the army moves for the time being!" Let's block the sea first. ”

…… After 10 days of repairing in Jiaozhou Bay, the East China Navy received an operational order in the early morning of 18 November and sailed out of Jiaozhou Bay.

The Navy's combat mission is mainly tracking, and the mission of sinking is entrusted to the Air Force.

With the current strength of the East China Navy, it can't be defeated, but it can outrun. Due to the use of new power technology, the speed of warships in the East China Navy is much higher than that of the warships.

If you want to blockade the sea, you must first defeat the combined fleet.

(To be continued)