The sun retracted its last rays in the western sky, and the day's battle seemed to be drawing to a close. An American-style military jeep stopped in front of the command department, and General Chennault jumped out of the jeep and entered the headquarters. "General Ouyang, why did you order the fighters of Fuzhou Airport and Fuqing Airport to be transferred to the alternate airport, please give me an explanation?" Ouyang Jian smiled and said, "General Chennault, this is called being prepared. The Japanese army suffered a great loss and was sure to carry out large-scale retaliation. Tonight, Japanese bomber groups are sure to attack Mawei, Fuqing, and Quanzhou airfields. ”

"This is a common combat method used by the Japanese army, gambling psychology is the Japanese army's passive situation, instinctive counterattack, retaliation is the nature of the Japanese army, this is called active defense. I have already ordered the air defense forces of the airfield to be ready, and the radar is put into special condition. In addition, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army Flying Regiment at Quanzhou Airport were also transferred to the alternate airfield. Even if we have air superiority, we can't do it brutely, and we have to fight wits and courage with the Japanese army, and there is no need to make a loss-making deal. "Are you sure that the Japanese will definitely retaliate?" Even if the Japanese army does not come to attack us, we must be prepared for a rainy day. ”

"If the Japanese bombers come to the air attack, will our fighters intercept it?" "Our airfield is empty, why intercept it. Let the pilot have a good night's rest and recuperate to fight again. However, the air raid plan of the B29 bombing squadron and the B17 bombing squadron remains unchanged, and you may have to stay up late tonight! ”“OK！ General Ouyang, you are too cunning, I have no objection. Bai Chongxi said: "General Chennault, the US military fights according to the scope of science and is meticulously carried out, and we Chinese fight with a strong sense of distress. Always consider possible changes as much as possible to make up for them, and consider problems from the perspective of your opponent. ”

"I'm not good at deception, fraud, prediction, we just think more about tactics. You Chinese say that soldiers are tricky, and it makes sense. As Napoleon said, China is a sleeping lion. Once you wake up, you will be shocked by the world. What I have heard and witnessed can be indisputably certain that this sleeping lion in China has not only woken up, but also stood up. In this war, China will rise rapidly and become a military power, I am sure of that. "General Chennault, the Western world does not want the Chinese sleeping lion to stand up, they hope that this sleeping lion will sleep forever, and the changes in the world in the future will verify what I said!"

Ouyang Jian was blunt, and Chennault was puzzled: "General Ouyang, we are allies and friends, why do you have such thoughts." "General Chennault, you and I are soldiers, but politics is cruel and ruthless. There is a proverb in your Western society that there is no eternal friendship between nations, only eternal interests. In the case of Japan, was the relationship between the United States and Japan bad before the war? Everyone fell silent, irrefutable about Ouyang Jian's knowledge. After being silent for a long time, Chennault said, "General Ouyang, you are too terrible. May we always be friends with each other! "I'm sure!"

After Chennault left, Bai Chongxi asked, "Brother Ouyang, are you worried that we will have conflicts with the United States in the future?" "The interests of the country are irreconcilable, unless you are strong enough and the two sides contain each other to reach a balance point, then they can be at peace, and even then for the sake of their own interests, there will be constant splendor and even military conflicts." The law of the jungle that this world follows will never stop, and peace can only be maintained by countering violence with violence. "Brother Ouyang, aside from your identity, I am sure that you are a staunch nationalist, and for the sake of the country, you will always go on firmly."

Before dark, the commander of the Japanese Army Headquarters in Taipei, Yamashita Fengwen, listened to the battle report of the day, and his face turned pale, which showed that his mood was extremely bad. The mood of the generals was even more depressed. "Your Excellency General, the enemy's launch of a sea-crossing and landing operation has greatly exceeded our expectations. The enemy fleet did not flinch. The enemy fleet on the Fuzhou side has approached Taichung. The enemy fleet in the direction of Quanzhou approached Penghu, and the defense of the anti-landing coast should be greatly strengthened in the future. "The chief of staff of the Japanese army broke the silence." We must turn passive defense into active defense, and the focus at the moment is that the enemy's air forces pose a mortal threat to us. ”

Yamashita Fengwen stopped moving and continued: "Order Hsinchu, Taichung, Dajia, and Jiaqing airports to dispatch all bombers and fighters to carry out large-scale night air raids on the frontline airfields in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, so as to paralyze the enemy's coastal airfields and weaken the enemy's air strikes." "The operational staff officer received the order and immediately issued the combat order. Yamashita replied: "There must be no mistake in ordering all attack submarines to attack enemy troop carriers and transport ships at night. The enemy's desire to launch a landing operation is wishful thinking. In addition, the coastal artillery was ordered to go into combat readiness! ”

At about 9 o'clock that night, in the Fuzhou headquarters, an operational staff officer put down the phone and said: "Report, the coastal radar shows that a large number of aircraft groups have appeared, and the Japanese army has indeed attacked the air. Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi said: "Order the airfield air defense unit to enter combat readiness!" "We have deployed two air defense regiments at Mawei and Fuqing airports, and now they are working. Where did the Japanese expect that the airfield was empty. If the runway is blown up, it can be repaired, but if the fighter plane is destroyed, it will be too late to build it. He Long said wittily. Ouyang Jian said with a smile: "According to what I know, with the huge consumption of the war, Japan's local manufacturing capacity has reached its limit. ”

"You may not believe it, but the Japanese army's aircraft factories and shipyards that produce warships are concentrated in the mainland. Many aircraft parts are produced in family workshops. As a result, the performance of Japanese weapons became worse and worse, and even this could not meet the huge consumption. Such is the war potential. The current war machine of the United States is terrifying, and almost every day a warship is launched, and hundreds of warplanes are produced every day for combat. As for light weapons and ammunition, the amount is even more astronomical. This is the industrial power. This is precisely the sorrow of Japan. ”

"The sadness of Japan is that it is an island country with very poor resources. If there is a land connection with the United States, with the combat strength of the Japanese Army, I am afraid that the United States will be captured. The vastness of the Pacific Ocean made the Japanese sigh with admiration, and they could only blame Amaterasu. Bai Chongxi's ridicule made everyone laugh. Suddenly, there was a roar from Mawei Airport, like thunder. Then came the movement of anti-aircraft guns, accompanied by piercing screams, and the sound of violent explosions shook the ground. Suddenly, the firelight reflected half of the sky. An air raid siren sounded in the city of Fuzhou, and the air seemed to tremble.

Before the start of the war, the people in Fuzhou were temporarily evacuated in order to prepare for the Japanese air raid. In fact, the Japanese army strictly abided by the battle order and had no intention of bombing Fuzhou City at all. The Japanese were targeting the airfield, so they had to concentrate all their efforts on achieving the results of the air raid. Mawei Airport is about 20 kilometers away from Fuzhou City. At a distance of 20 kilometers, the intensity of the explosion in the city was reduced by at least two-thirds. However, the flames of the explosion and the "fireworks" released by the anti-aircraft artillery fire were particularly dazzling. Ouyang Jian and the generals entered the fortress, looked in the direction of the airport at the lookout, and waited for the situation at the airport.

At this time, the Japanese bombers over the airfield were very frenzied, and seemed to pour out their anger of revenge. Ignoring the dense anti-aircraft fire, the Japanese bombers used the method of dive-low bombing to carry out precision bombing on the fighters running to the airfield and the tarmac. There were rows of warplanes on the airfield, but they were all fake planes, which were used to confuse the Japanese army. Ouyang Jian once strictly ordered that all military airports must have camouflage tactics, and false targets are the best camouflage. The accuracy of anti-aircraft artillery fire at night was extremely low, but the Japanese bombers bombed at low altitudes with desperate tactics, which made the anti-aircraft artillery fire show its might.

The sky was bright and colorful, and from time to time Japanese bombers were hit and even exploded in the air. The Japanese bombers bombed fiercely, and the ground anti-aircraft artillery units could hardly survive the losses. The bombardment lasted half an hour, and the airfield was enveloped in flames. In this large-scale air raid, the Japanese army dispatched 250 bombers to carry out saturation bombing on four front-line airfields in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. In this bombing, the Japanese lost a total of 72 bombers. The madness of the Japanese army brought even greater doom to the next air battle. After the bombing, the Japanese commander Yamashita received an erroneous report: the air raid was a great success, and all four airfields along the enemy coast were paralyzed.

The price paid was bound to be repaid by the Japanese army, and the purpose was to attract the Japanese army to devote all its air power. If the Japanese army chooses to conduct small-scale air raids, it will be troublesome, and piecemeal will consume time, and it will not achieve the goal of quickly destroying enemy planes. Before dusk, he ordered all combat planes to concentrate on the airfields along the western coast. At 11 o'clock that night, the U.S. military's air raid plan, which the U.S. military called "Scalpel", began. All 12 B29 bombers located at Ruijin Airport were dispatched to carry out key bombing at Dajia Airport and Jiaqing Airport.

The second wave of strikes was 32 bombers of the B17 bombing team located at the Xiaoshan base. At this time, at Ruijin Military Airport, 12 B29 bombers took off in turn, 6 flew to the southeast after forming in the air, and then 6 flew to the east. The B29 bombers all carried 500 pounds of bombs, and the bomb load was very impressive. The Achilles' heel of the Japanese army is that there is no early warning radar, and in addition, the Japanese army has just completed a large-scale air raid and the results are remarkable, so the vigilance is naturally relaxed. In addition, the Japanese did not know about the entry of B29 bombers into China.

At Jiaqing Airport, the Japanese fighters returning and landing were being inspected by ground crews, and the lights on the airport were brilliant. At this time, Shigeru Oshima stood in front of the window and looked at the busy ground crew at the airport. He was sent back to the airport by the ground rescue force just before dusk and did not take part in the air raid because the military doctor was going to examine him. Hearing that the enemy plane did not take off to intercept it, and that the air raid was a great success, Oshima Shigeru doubted in his heart, it was so difficult that the enemy army did not resist at all, how could this be that. He reflected his ideas to the commander of the Air Force, as a result of which he was reprimanded.

Shigeru Oshima is a captain of the Flying Wing and has experienced a lot of battles. Especially in China, the rising Eighth Route Army air force did not defeat the other side even when it was superior. Now that the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army is growing stronger and stronger by relying on the US military, while the Imperial Japanese Air Force has been exhausted by the Pacific Theater, the Chinese and American Air Forces have an absolute advantage in the Chinese battlefield. At the moment, it is not a comparison of the number of fighters on both sides, but the war potential and huge human resources. At present, half of his flying wing is recruits under the age of 20. In addition, the quality of combat aircraft is getting worse and worse, what does this mean?

Although the above is investigating who is the commander of the enemy army crossing the sea? In fact, there is no need to guess at all, it must be the legendary hero of the Eighth Route Army, the devil general Ouyang Jian, who is generally recognized among the generals of the Japanese army. The enemy did not take a single fighter into the air to intercept it, which means that there must be a conspiracy? Shigeru Oshima 6 sensed that he was aware of the danger, and suddenly a shrill alarm went off, and a roar was heard over the airport. Shigeru Oshima didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the fighter squadron to quickly rise into the air. He knew in his heart that in the dark night sky, fighter jets could not accurately find targets, but they could avoid passive bombing.

As Shigeru Oshima's plane was taxiing, a bomb exploded on the runway. The searchlights of the Japanese air defense units formed several columns of light in the air to search for targets, but to no avail. For their own safety, the B29 bomber used high-altitude horizontal bombing, not in precision strikes, but in saturation bombing. The scalpel tactic is to give you a knife. The power of the explosion of the 500-pound bomb, and the level of its destruction, can only be known by witnessing it. A B29 bomber can carry 20,000 pounds of bombs, which is equivalent to 40 500-pound bombs. Due to Shigeru Oshima's quick response, half of the 128th Wing fighter squadron took to the air.