On the periphery of Gyeongdu, the guard battalion is stationed.

Wang Hanshan strode into the camp headquarters and reported to Li Gangyu: "The camp, the little devil and the puppet army have retreated. ”

"What? Withdrawn? Li Gang stood up vigorously when he heard this, and asked with some disbelief.

"That's right! Retreated, I saw with my own eyes that the devils and the puppet army retreated to Chaoqing in batches! Wang Hanshan said excitedly: "What should I do, should we chase the camp or not?" ”

Li Gang pondered for a while and said, "In this way, you take the third company and attack immediately to capture Wangdu Mountain!" Don't chase deeply, just take Wangdu Mountain and defend it. I'll report the situation to the military headquarters right away! ”

"Yes!" Wang Hanshan stood upright, then turned around and strode away.

…………… Xinle County.

"Throne! The guard battalion called, saying that the devils had abandoned Yaoshan and Wangdu Ershan and returned to Qingdu. Liu Cheng walked briskly into the command hall.

"Withdrawn?" Zhang Mingyu asked: "Chief of Staff, do you think the little devil is playing some conspiracy?" Unexpectedly, he suddenly retreated. ”

"Hmmm! In my opinion, it is absolutely impossible for the devil not to know the strategic value of these two dangers, and the sudden withdrawal of troops is not to lure us to the bait? Liu Cheng nodded in agreement.

"Humph! Then I want to see what conspiracy the little devil is going to play, and order the guard battalion to immediately occupy Wangdu Mountain and hold this strategic position. Zhang Mingyu snorted coldly.

"Oh! The guard battalion said in a telegram that Battalion Commander Li had already sent people to Wangdu Mountain, and that Wangdu Mountain should already be under our control at this time. Liu Cheng said.

"Chief of Staff, just in case, you immediately go and inform the regiments, immediately open up, and the armored division will set off first and rush to Gyeongdu and the guard battalion to turn." Zhang Mingyu walked on the trail.

"Yes!" Liu Cheng snapped upright, and immediately turned around and took the order.

……………

Peiping.

Okamura Ninji Office.

The head of the secret service, Nan Zao Yunzi, walked in with a telegram book in his hand, and reported: "General, the latest information has been monitored. ”

"Oh? Please! Okamura said with a stern expression.

"Hay! In addition, I also found out that the forward troops of the Zhina people are the elite troops of the Reading Army, Zhang Mingyu's guard battalion, a reinforced infantry battalion, this infantry battalion has about 2,000 guns, this infantry battalion has been stationed in Wangdu Mountain, and the plan of Minister Gang has been successfully completed by one-third. "Nanzao Yunzi Road.

"To the West! Miss Yunzi has worked hard. Okamura nodded slightly.

"Serving the empire and serving His Majesty the Emperor, Yunzi is not hard!" Nanzao Yunzi hurriedly bowed his head and said modestly.

…………………….

On Wangdu Mountain, the guard battalion has moved the battalion headquarters here, and the soldiers are busy building fortifications, while Li Gang took several company commanders to the top of the mountain, looking at Qingdu from the top of the mountain, you can see the entire Qingdu, and the vague outline of the city wall looms.

Wangdu Mountain is more than 300 meters above sea level, the total area is about two square kilometers, the mountain is composed of rock layers and loess, there are two stupas and a small temple dedicated to the gods and Buddhas on the top of the mountain. It is surrounded by plains and no mountains, so the strategic location at this time is more prominent because of the railways and roads.

Due to the arrival of the devil, the local people either fled to other places or hid at home and did not dare to come out, and no one came to the tower temple to worship, so the small temple on the mountain at this time was dilapidated and looked extremely desolate.

The guard battalion occupied Wangdu Mountain, as if a time bomb had been placed next to the county seat of Qingdu, which could threaten the gains and losses of Qingdu and even Baoding at any time, but at this time the guard battalion did not make any big moves, and Li Gang completely followed Zhang Mingyu's instructions to occupy and consolidate this hill.

Li Gang took a few company commanders to the two stupas located in the middle of the mountain, and saw that the two stupas were about seven or eight meters high, and there were four empty doors in the form of windows on the first floor.

The pagoda is made of green bricks for the wall and the mountain stone as the base, which has stood tall after decades of wind and rain, which shows the solidity of its foundation.

Li Gang walked around the pagoda twice and praised: "I don't know who built these two pagodas, it's not bad." ”

"According to local villagers, these two pagodas were built during the Qing Dynasty, and they don't know how long it will be!" A company commander next to him said.

At this moment, there was a roar of engines in the distance, Li Gang's face changed drastically, and he said loudly: "It's not good, it's an airplane!" Lie down! ”

It was too late to say that it was too late, and at least five military planes with plaster flags on their fuselages flew down from the clouds with a roar, "I ...... it."

Several aerial bombs were dropped from the plane, and landed exactly around the pagoda, "boom ......knock knock" There was an earthquake and the mountain shook, the dust and smoke were billowing, Li Gang and others saw the plane flying away, and they climbed up one by one, but the two stupas that were still standing here just now were blown into ruins in an instant.

Seeing the scene in front of them, everyone was secretly shocked, if it wasn't for Li Gang's timely reminder, I'm afraid that several of them would have to be buried alive here.

At this moment,; A soldier ran up from the foot of the mountain, strode in front of Li Gang, and said uprightly: "The camp, the forward position was bombed by devil planes, four brothers were killed, and twelve were injured. ”

"What? Sixteen casualties at once? Li Gang asked in surprise, "Why don't you hide?" ”

The soldier said with a bitter face: "The brothers are all repairing the fortifications, and they didn't pay attention at all, the little devil's plane is much quieter this time than before, and when the brothers find out, the devil's plane has already flown over." ”

"Damn, the little devil plane is now coming out to die again, and immediately send a telegram to the military seat, saying that we were bombed by the devil plane, and ask for air force support!" Li Gang scolded angrily.

"Yes!" The warrior said in response.

………

Xinle County.

Zhang Mingyu read the telegram sent by the guard battalion, and angrily slapped the telegram in his hand on the table and said: "Order, the Flying Eagle Division will be dispatched immediately, and the patrol flights over Qingdu and other places will be carried out without stopping, and once the devil's plane is discovered, it will immediately shoot down all the dogs that I said!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Cheng, who was standing next to him, suddenly stood up and said: "Junzao, why don't we bomb the airfields of Beiping and Baoding, so as to completely destroy the air power of the devil!" ”

"Chief of staff, don't you know, at present, we only have a total of less than 300 aircraft, at least one-third of which are deployed in Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia and other places, and the rest of the planes have to bear the heavy responsibility of covering the infantry, but also have to deal with the devil's planes, plus the devil's major airports must be very dense air defense fire, and we don't know the specific location of the devil's airport, so it is difficult for our air attack to succeed." Zhang Mingyu explained.

"Well, I see." Liu Cheng nodded knowingly.

In fact, Zhang Mingyu did not say that it is not impossible to blow up the devil's airfield, and the main thing is to reconnoiter the specific location of the airport, and then set up an action plan.

Of course, in order to get this important information, it is necessary to send a small team to go deep behind the devils to conduct reconnaissance.

It was getting dark, and night had just fallen, and Chief of Staff Liu Cheng ran into Zhang Mingyu's headquarters out of breath.

"Junza, it's not good!"

"What's wrong?" Zhang Mingyu frowned.

"Just now, Su Dingtian's division commander sent an urgent telegram, and in the afternoon, the Air Force sent four Jian-1 fighters to patrol and fly over Wangdu Mountain, and they encountered two devil planes." Liu Cheng said.

"The result?" Zhang Mingyu could tell from Liu Cheng's face that things might not be good.

"Two of the four planes of our army crashed, and the life and death of the pilot are unknown." Liu Cheng said with a hint of grief flashing in his eyes.

"What?" Zhang Mingyu was shocked: "How can this be? Who is leading the flight this time? ”

"Sun Xiang, the commander of the First Flying Regiment!" Liu Cheng replied.

"How can this be the case? Did Sun Xiang come back? Zhang Mingyu frowned and asked.

"Sun Xiang has returned safely, the specific situation is like this, this is according to Sun Xiang's dictation, a telegram sent by Master Su Dingtian, you can take a look." As he spoke, Liu Cheng handed the telegram in his hand to Zhang Mingyu.

Zhang Mingyu looked at it and said puzzledly: "New fighters? ”

"Hmmm! Colonel Sun Xiang said so, according to his oral account, the devil plane encountered this time is different from the usual, the previous military plane has a large turning radius, poor climbing ability, and weak firepower, this time the devil fighter has a very small turning radius, and the climbing speed is faster than our Jian-1 fighter! Therefore, our fighters suffered a big loss in low-altitude dogfight! Liu Cheng nodded.

"Small turning radius? Fast climb? Zhang Mingyu muttered: "Could it be that the Zero came out, I remember that in the original history, the Zero fighter was born from the Pacific Theater, which caused a great shock to the Allied Air Force, when the army only had more than 300 Zero fighters, of which about 250 were deployed in the Pacific Theater, while the Chinese battlefield had less than 100 aircraft.

Only 250 Zero fighters inflicted catastrophic losses on the Allied forces, and in just a few months from the beginning of the war, the Japanese army wiped out two-thirds of the Allied air force deployed in the Pacific region with only more than 250 Zeros.

It wasn't until later that the United States captured a damaged Zero and began to research and create a new fighter for the weakness of the Zero, which was the Vixen F6F.

Zero fighters also have a brilliant record in China, in the original history, in 1940 for the first time in the Chinese battlefield, August 19, 12 Zero fighters took off from Hankou Airport, covering 50 G3M2 to carry out air raids on the then capital Yucheng, but this air raid failed to connect with the Chinese Air Force. In mid-September, 13 Zero fighters encountered a mixed fleet of 27 L-15 and 1-16 aircraft of the Chinese Air Force in the airspace east of Chongqing.

As a result, the Zero relied on its speed and super fast climbing rate to destroy and damage all 27 Chinese fighters. In the months that followed, a total of 90 Chinese fighters were shot down and destroyed, and the Zero suffered no losses except for two that were burned in an accident.

Of course, the Zero is not without its weaknesses, weak armor and slow dive speed, these are the fatal shortcomings of the Zero.

However, because the Pacific War had not yet broken out at this time, Zhang Mingyu did not know how many new fighters of the Zero type were deployed on the Chinese battlefield.

But Zhang Mingyu is sure that there are definitely more than just 50 Zeros in China.

(To be continued)