Yan Junliu and Okamura Ninji talked while walking, and the center of the topic was still inseparable from the battle situation on the front line.

"The Shina have taken advantage of almost every mistake we make, and they have learned to war." Yan Junliu said with emotion.

"The guys who stayed in the house at the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters didn't know what was going on in China, and they thought that a mixed wing of infantry and artillery could run amok, and they really should come here to take a look." Okamura Ninji deeply felt the same way, he had been in the staff headquarters for a long time, and the staff officers there were extremely contemptuous of China, and the attack plan drawn up even used one brigade to China and one division, completely ignoring the opponent.

"Gangmura, Shiro Inaba is no longer suitable to continue commanding operations." Walking into an uninhabited corner, Yan Junliu said in a very casual tone.

Okamura Ningji only then knew that Yan Junliu had made a lot of mess, and the real purpose was here, and it seemed that he would inevitably have to do an errand that offended people.

Shiro Inaba sat on a stool, his face like ashes, motionless, and in front of him, there was a telegram.

The telegram was sent by Okamura Ninji, asking him to arrange logistics and transshipment work in return, and the work at hand was handed over to Junrokuro Matsuura, the commander of the 106th Division, who had just arrived.

"It's not fair, it's not fair!" Intelligence staff officer Aki Nakasa shouted angrily.

Junrokuro Matsuura sat in front of Inaba, Shiro Inaba and Junrokuro Matsuura both graduated from the 24th class of Luda University at the same time, and they were very familiar with each other. He tried his best to hide the sympathy in his tone, and said, "Since Commander Gangcun has given instructions, Inaba-kun should take a rest, I will do my best here." ”

"Can you get me involved in the last attack, Matsuura, please."

"Inaba-kun, there's no need, the front line is under the command of Major General Aoki."

Keiichi Aoki, the commander of the 136th Brigade, heard the division commander talking about him, and got up and bowed to Shiro Inaba, "Your Excellency, Commander of the Inaba Division, I will definitely live up to the expectations of the two division commanders and completely defeat the Shina Xu Ming Corps." ”

"Then let me, a veteran, under the command of the commander of the Aoki Brigade, go to the trailer river to participate in the battle." Shiro Inaba stood up and bowed to Junrokuro Matsuura and Keiichi Aoki, but his tone was extremely resolute.

Inaba and Aoki hurriedly got up and returned the salute, their hearts gripped with deep unease.

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July 11 was a rare sunny day, the sun shone on the earth, the earth was covered with greenery, the rivers were vast, and the fields were empty.

Normal people should be overjoyed when they switch from the rainy season to such weather, but Xu Ming is not happy, good weather, it is good weather for the enemy, and the Japanese planes can be dispatched.

At various airports in Nanjing, Wuhu, and Yangzhou, one Japanese fighter plane after another took off into the air, and then completed the formation in the air and flew in the northwest direction.

In a building next to the airport, on a hidden floor, an ordinary-looking Chinese nervously observed the sky with a telescope, remembering the number, type and direction of the heavenly and solar planes.

The news quickly spread back to Wuhan, and Chennault snapped his fingers in a dashing manner, "Two brigades of eagles and seagulls, strike first!" ”

The captain of the Eagle Brigade was Gao Zhihang, and the Seagull was Liu Zhesheng, who had the two most elite air force groups in China at that time.

"This time, all our belongings can be smashed in, in case the attack is unfavorable..."Zhou Zhirou said worriedly.

"Commander-in-Chief Zhou, the Air Force is a purely offensive branch, and a brave attack can solve all problems!" Chennault said confidently.

Chennault had thoroughly won the trust of Chiang Kai-shek and his wife with his own efforts and abilities, and now Chennault, although he was only a general adviser, had already gained a certain amount of command.

The plan of this initiative was what he fought for, and he gave it a resounding name, "Operation Bit." "Bit is the common name of the famous American dog pit bull, and Chennault hopes that this assault will be able to tear apart the opponent like Bit.

Trailer River Jixian Pass, countless Japanese fighters flew into the air, bombers dropped bombs one after another, transport planes dropped medicine compressed biscuits and bullets on the Japanese troops who were surrounded in front of Jixian Pass, and the Japanese fighters on the side carried out fierce strafing on the positions of the squadron.

The squadrons in the two places immediately encountered great difficulties, and the squadron attack on the front line of Hanjialing almost came to a standstill, and the Japanese troops, who had been cut off from supplies for many days, received a part of the airborne package, like a dying patient who ate an old mountain ginseng, and was hung up in one breath.

The front line of the trailer river was even more difficult, the Japanese army gathered 7 brigades, which was almost all the Japanese troops on the Tongcheng line, and under the guidance of artillery and aircraft, launched an unprecedented fierce attack on Xu Ming's river and marsh defense line.

Xu Mingdeng felt extremely struggling, many positions were lost, several counterattacks in some areas failed, reserves were sent out one by one, and the troops who sent ammunition could not go up, and the situation became grim at that time.

"Master, there is danger ahead." Hearing that Xu Ming was going to the front line, the people next to him persuaded hard.

"The soldiers on the front line are not afraid of danger, but I, the division commander, are afraid." Xu Ming is stubborn, and now that he has encountered a crisis, the only thing that can be used is morale.

Walking to a mountain road, there was still a trace of mud on the road, the rice on both sides had been barren, the weeds had no limits, and they grew wildly, and in some places they were flooded, revealing yellowed grass tips.

"Master's seat, the devil's plane." A sharp-eyed guard shouted.

Everyone evacuated immediately, Xu Ming was pulled by the guards to a bush to hide, the Japanese fighters saw this force, swooped down, and shot fiercely in their hidden direction, Xu Ming was in the grass, as if he saw the arrogant face of the Japanese pilot.

"! As for our plane, we sold all my Yuming company, and now there is no shadow. Xu Ming was full of slander in his heart.

The personnel of the division headquarters had received strict air defense training, and everyone was evacuated in the grass and did not move, and the Japanese fighters finally left when they saw that they had no gain.

Although Xu Ming complained in his heart, there was a look of indifference on his face, and he dusted the dirt on his body, "I will ask someone to clean it up in a while, pick up these shrapnel, make it into an iron pot or something, and then send a letter of thanks to the Japanese army to thank them for their great gift." ”

Everyone seemed to be infected by Xu Ming's optimism, and after a while, everyone walked to the front line of the Shen family's old house, which is a typical Anhui village, with the flooding trailer river in front, and the left side of the village was also submerged, with a water depth of nearly one meter.

The Shen family's old house is now no longer old, and the entire village is now in ruins, with countless bomb craters and blood droplets, barbed wire and dense yellow corpses in front of the dark pile, silently telling the tragedy of the battle.

When the fourth company commander saw Xu Ming coming, he was extremely moved, and hurriedly came over to report, "Report to the division, the situation here is..."

Xu Ming waved his hand to interrupt him, "You don't need to report to me, hundreds of corpses of the Japanese army have already reported to me, I know that the brothers are fighting very hard, now I want to tell the brothers that victory is just around the corner, the devils in Jixian Pass have nothing to eat, and now they are eating the corpses of their own people, and even the corpses of wounded soldiers, every day we hold out here, hundreds of devils are starved to death, die of disease, and even eaten!" ”

The soldiers were very simple, and Xu Ming's prestige in the army was extremely high, so he believed Xu Ming's words, and a young soldier asked: "Master, how does that little devil eat people?" ”

Xu Ming has never paid attention to the majesty of rank, and said seriously: "I have sent someone to give a free copy of "Dongying Cannibal Guide" to the devils of Jixian Pass, well, it is roughly divided into two steps, the first step is to cook people first; The second step is to eat the person..."

Xu Ming's eloquence had always been good, and dozens of remaining soldiers gathered around their division commander to listen to him blow a lot.

When the squadrons of Anqing and Tongcheng fell into a bitter battle, where was the air force that had been lifted into the air?

In the skies above Anqing and Tongcheng, but not into battle, what is Chennault doing, and what exactly is the "Bit Project"?

This was an important part of the "Bit Plan", and when Chennault met with Chiang Lao, he expressed his view that China's air force potential could not be compared with the Japanese army, and that it could not engage in a war of attrition with the Japanese army, and that in order to achieve victory, it was necessary to surprise the Japanese army, and to deal a fatal blow to the Japanese army when it was taken by surprise.

Wuhu Wanli Airport, after several months of repairs, can even park the latest 97 heavy bombers of the Japanese Army Airlines. On the side of the runway, as soon as the Japanese fighter plane that had completed its mission landed, the logistics personnel immediately went to the ground for emergency maintenance, and at the same time refilled fuel and ammunition to prepare for another lift-off operation.

An observation post on the ground saw dozens of planes flying in the distance, and under the clouds, a group of three or four fighters formed a battle queue and viciously rushed down.

"It's not good, it's the Chi Na's plane!" Upon boarding, a shrill siren sounded over the airfield, and the surrounding antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns were also hurriedly aimed into the air in an attempt to stop the enemy planes.

It was already late, and before the Japanese anti-aircraft fire had fired, the Chinese Air Force broke through to the airfield. On the runway, one after another Japanese planes were hit and caught fire, some Japanese pilots tried to take off into the air to fight, and as soon as the planes slid out, they caught fire, and occasionally a few fish that slipped through the net ran into the sky, and were immediately shot down by the Hawk 75 waiting aside.

In less than half an hour, the Wuhu airport was completely destroyed, and none of the more than 30 planes parked at the airport survived, and even the oil depot of the airport was hit, igniting a skyrocketing fire.

Nanjing Airport...

Yangzhou Airport...

This was precisely the core content of the "Bit Plan," and Chennault found from the perspective of a bystander that the observation conditions of the ground personnel of the Chinese and Japanese air forces at that time were very primitive, and even the Japanese army, which had the upper hand, did not establish a deep ground-air alert system, and he did not bring the fighters to fight the Japanese army head-on at Anqing, but waited for the first batch of Japanese planes to return and then followed.

Sure enough, the Japanese ground forces did not find anything abnormal, and it was not until the Chinese Air Force began to dive and drop bombs that the Japanese army found out, but it was too late, and this was the scene just now.

On July 11, it was a disastrous day for the Japanese Army Aviation, the Japanese Third Air Regiment in Central China was almost half destroyed, looking at the countless burning fighters, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi spurted out a mouthful of blood