After a week's rest, the bomber group of the Don Army went into action again.

Compared with the previous situation in which the bomber groups of the Tang Army unscrupulously carried out large-scale bombing of the Japanese mainland, this time the Tang Army reined in and switched to bombing at night.

The Tang Army obtained information that although the Japanese army developed and put into service a 12-inch giant anti-aircraft gun for the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber, its production capacity was limited after all. The Japanese temporarily converted the navy-type 305-mm naval gun system from its naval gun factory to an air-fired version, which had a slow rate of fire and a small number.

The early warning mechanism of the Japanese army relied entirely on air defense posts scattered all over the country, and it was difficult for them to judge the location and number of the Tang bomber group at night, and it was even more difficult to judge where the target of the Tang bomber group was going to be attacked.

After a week-long pause in air raids, the bomber group of the Tang Army continued to carry out large-scale bombing of key industrial bases and military facilities of the Japanese army, once again inflicting heavy casualties and property damage on the Japanese army.

Soon, the Japanese army issued an order to turn off all lights at night, so that the Tang bomber group could not find the light and could not see clearly, the effect of the air attack was greatly reduced, and sometimes the aerial bomb dropped the wrong target.

However, this situation did not last long, and soon the Tang army escalated its air attack tactics. When the Tang bomber group could not judge whether the lower part was the target of the air attack, a Thunder medium-range heavy bomber accompanying the flight immediately released flares and illuminated the lower part as if it were daylight, so that the Tang pilots could quickly determine whether the lower part was the target they wanted to bomb.

At first, this tactic of the Tang Army worked very well, killing the Japanese army by surprise. Destroy a number of heavy factories of the Japanese army. But the Japanese quickly adapted to the new tactics of the Don Army, and they raised their vigilance when the Don Army released flares. The bomber group of the Don Army was similarly exposed, and the Japanese seized the opportunity to quickly open fire, inflicting heavy damage on the bomber group of the Don Army.

The Tang army was always cautious, fearing that the core secrets would be stolen by the Japanese army, so they quickly abandoned this tactic of using flares to carry out air strikes.

There is a way that the magic is one foot high and the road is one foot high, and it didn't take long for the Tang army to think of a new way, they sent agents to infiltrate the vicinity of the Japanese target that the Tang army was going to bomb in advance. A radio is placed there so that it transmits signals non-stop. At the same time, the Tang army converted a Thunder medium-range heavy bomber into an electronic warfare aircraft. Zhang Meng named it an airborne early warning aircraft.

In fact, the initial function of the AWACS aircraft of the Tang Army was not to provide early warning to the aircraft of the Tang Army, but to find and lock the radio transmission signal on the ground, so as to determine the target location to be bombed by the bomber group.

Because the Thunder bomber has a long thing like a balance beam or vaulting horse wood installed above the fuselage, it is very similar to the appearance of a future early warning aircraft in Zhang Meng's memory. So it was directly named AWACS. Meantime. Zhang Meng also informed the Air Force designers of the real functions of the AWACS aircraft, so that they could conduct research in this area in advance, laying the foundation for the Tang Army to take the lead in developing a real AWACS aircraft in the future.

The new tactics of the Tang army were very successful, because the Japanese army did not have radio detection equipment, and they did not know that the Tang army used the radiolocation system to lock on to bombing targets, as a result, the Japanese army suffered a great loss, hundreds of important heavy industry factories and military factories of the Japanese army were bombed by the bomber group of the Tang army, killing and wounding tens of thousands of workers. Hundreds of millions of dollars of machinery and plants were destroyed, and fires burned for days and nights. The spread was widespread, and tens of thousands of Japanese people were left homeless.

The economic losses and casualties brought by the bombing of the Tang Army to the Japanese army are secondary, and the most important thing is the great trauma to their souls, and they cannot sleep peacefully every day, for fear that they will not be able to wake up from the bombing of the Tang Army planes in the next moment. This fear directly affected the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, which made the Japanese army panic and the rest of the Japanese civilian population.

Minoru Saito's cabinet was lifeless, thinking that tightening his belt and sacrificing a generation of Japanese to develop the Japanese Navy and Air Force Liliang was ready to fight to the death with the Tang Army. As a result, the Tang Army struck first, destroying the four Yamato-class battleships that the Japanese army was proud of in the shipyard, and destroying most of the important industrial bases and military factories of the Japanese army with the leading strategic air force Liliang, so that the Japanese army not only suffered heavy losses, but also could not restore the production capacity of the military industry in a short time.

The large-scale bombing of the Japanese mainland caused the Japanese army to send weapons and equipment and ammunition to the island of Taiwan to begin to run short, and to add insult to injury, the Datang Air Force began to drop mines in the air near the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Taiwan archipelago, and the Datang Navy also sent submarines to enter and exit the main waterways of the Japanese army to lay underwater mines, and tens of thousands of mines once again blockaded Japan, making it impossible for Japanese warships and merchant ships to leave the port.

The Tang army had done this before, and as a result, it besieged Japan for several months and suffered heavy losses. The mine production price is very low, and the minelaying speed is extremely fast, but it costs several times the money to dismantle it for the Japanese army, and the demolition speed is extremely slow.

On the island of Taiwan, in the mountains near Taichung, the Tang Army and the Japanese Army fought on a large scale, and the daily ammunition and supplies were consumed enormously. The logistical supply of the Tang army was sufficient, but the Japanese army was miserable, the materials were becoming scarce and the ammunition replenishment was getting less and less, and the advantage gradually fell to the side of the Tang army.

Minoru Saito's cabinet was worried about the loss of Taiwan, so he had to order Itsunori Onodera to lead the main force of the Japanese Navy to escort a batch of supplies to Taiwan, so as to link the supply pressure of the Japanese army in Taiwan.

In the past six months, he has not dared to make direct contact with the Tang Navy, because he knows that the aircraft carrier battle group in his hands is inferior to the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group in terms of strength, and the gap between the two sides in the performance of the aircraft carrier itself is not very large, but there is still a big gap in the aircraft carrier aircraft.

The Type 96 carrier-based fighters equipped with the four Japanese aircraft carriers were still a little worse than the Raptor carrier-based fighters equipped with the Tang Army's aircraft carriers, and the two sides were comparable in speed, but there was still a big gap between the 96 ship battle and the Raptor ship battle in terms of firepower and armor, and once the two sides fought head-on, Onodera Itsunori was not sure of victory.

Previously, the base camp of the Japanese army also thought so, so they did not let Onodera Itsunori take the initiative to fight the Tang army, but kept preserving their strength and strategically deterring the Tang army, but they achieved certain results. But now the Japanese army must escort the navy to ensure the delivery of supplies to Taiwan, and the only thing that can prevent the Tang army from carrying out aerial bombardment is the naval aviation, and Onodera Itsunori has to carry out the order.

At the same time, the Tang army has been keeping an eye on the Onodera Gonori fleet, intending to look for an opportunity for a decisive battle. (To be continued......)