Since the beginning of the 20th century, since the discovery that airplanes could be used in military affairs, almost every major war began, and the first wave of attacks by the enemy and the enemy was first launched by the air force.

As far as the belligerents are concerned, the number of planes, pilots, and even airfields have all become an important condition for winning an air war, and the struggle for air supremacy in a war zone has become the most important thing for the armies of both sides.

Since Japan entered the Republic of China, it has never fought with the government forces of the Republic of China for air supremacy, and even when attacking Shanghai and Nanjing, the government of the Republic of China did not have many planes to participate in the battle.

Later, during the Battle of Wuhan, the Republic of China government received a large amount of aircraft donated by Li Tie and the U.S. government, which made the situation better.

However, even so, the Nationalist Government could only guarantee that its air force would be able to engage in a battle with the Japanese air force in some areas, and in fact the air supremacy of the whole of China was still in the hands of the Japanese army.

The fact that the government of the Republic of China does not have an air force like the one is also well known to all countries in the world, but this situation will be rewritten from now on, because the battle of Hainan will let the people of the world see that China's powerful air force has risen.

It's just that this power does not belong to the national government, he only belongs to Li Tie and belongs to Hainan.

On 4 February 1939, due to the failure of the 21 st Army's air force to attack Hainan the day before, Major General Saki of the 1st Air Wing of the 21 st Army, who was stationed in Zhanjiang, decided to launch an even more powerful attack on Hainan Island.

In the early morning of 4 February, a total of 48 fighters of the two air brigades of the Japanese Army bypassed both sides of the Qiongzhou Strait in two routes, preparing to penetrate the central part of Hainan from the east and west of Hainan, and then attack Haikou City from the south of Haikou.

The Japanese did not know that Hainan's anti-aircraft radar had already carried out all-round reconnaissance in the direction of Guangdong, and what they did not know was that as early as five years ago, when the radars of Britain and France were still in theoretical research, Li Tie's Huaxing Laboratory in Shanghai had already developed an anti-aircraft radar that could be used for military purposes.

However, limited to the production process at that time, these radars were generally large and unstable, not only with a short detection range, but also unable to be turned on for a long time.

Now it's different, two years ago, the military radar that was ten years ahead of the world had been developed by Huaxing Laboratory, and began to customize accessories from Britain and the United States and other countries, and then shipped back to Hainan Island for assembly.

Nowadays, the entire Hainan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the valleys have already been set up by Li Tie with hundreds of radar monitoring stations, not to mention the planes flying from the direction of Guangdong, even the planes taking off from the Japanese mainland, Li Tie can also know.

Therefore, at this moment, any plane flying anywhere around Hainan Island will be detected by Hainan's radar as long as it reaches within 500 kilometers of Hainan.

And the fastest fighter jet flying at the moment is only 500 kilometers per hour, which gives the entire Hainan air defense force at least an hour more time to prepare.

And this hour is enough for the Hainan escort to make various emergency measures according to the airspace where the enemy's aircraft are located. Whether it was the mobilization of highly mobile antiaircraft machine guns or the temporary take-off of fighters from various airfields in central Hainan to intercept them, there was ample time.

So when Li Tie discovered that these 48 planes did not pass through the Qiongzhou Strait, but flew to the east and west sides of Hainan Island, he guessed the mind of the Japanese Air Force. Therefore, Li Tie immediately ordered the air defense positions on the east and west sides of Hainan Island to be activated. At the same time, he ordered the largest airfield in central Hainan to immediately take off 100 fighters to meet the attack.

At this time, no one knew that there were 200 fighter planes that could be directly called by Li Tie in the entire Hainan, and hundreds of them were stored in hangars all over Hainan.

And Li Tie was not satisfied at all with eating the 48 Japanese fighters that came to attack Hainan, Li Tie knew that the entire 21st Army had a total of 300 fighters.

One hundred of them were used to control the entire territory of Guangdong, and this time there were 200 planes ordered to attack Hainan from both land and sea.

Li Tie even knew that at least 100 fighters were now on the two aircraft carriers of the Japanese Fifth Fleet, and now half of the 100 planes on land had been sent to attack Yugoslavia, so it was self-evident where the other half were.

With the help of the information captured by the long-range radar that the Japanese army had lifted off outside Zhanjiang City, Li Tie knew that there must be a large military airfield for the Japanese army in Zhanjiang. At this time, forty-eight fighter planes had just been lifted into the airfield, and it can be said that today's airfield is the time when the defense is most lax.

So a bold plan of action was formed in Li Tie's mind, and he immediately found Wang Yaqiao to communicate his plan with Wang Yaqiao.

And Wang Yaqiao immediately agreed with Li Tie's idea after listening to Li Tie's analysis. Wang Yaqiao believed that the Japanese army had confronted the Hainan Guards for the first time. The Japanese army did not know the true strength of the Hainan Guards, so they could take this opportunity to strike a blow at the arrogance of the Japanese army.

As a result, Li Tie's proposal was quickly adopted, and the huge war machine of the Hainan Air Force was running at high speed.

When the 48 Japanese fighters had just flown to the east and west sides of Hainan and were turning to prepare for a surprise attack in central Hainan.

Haikou City is outside the effect of a vast airport on both sides.

Twenty-four bombers were pushed out of the camouflaged hangar. Forty-eight bomber crews and hundreds of bomber navigators, bombardiers, machine gunners began to run quickly towards the airfield.

On the runway of the airport, ground staff do the final checks before the plane takes off.

The highest military commander at the airport held in his hand an order just sent by Li Tie, commander of the Hainan Air Force, and the commander announced this order to all the pilots present.

As soon as the dozens of bomber pilots heard that they finally had the opportunity to show their talents, they all cheered and thundered, and as soon as the commander's order was read out, everyone immediately boarded their own planes and quickly lifted the bombers into the air.

At the same time, 24 fighters took off as an escort formation, and 48 planes flew together towards the city of Zhanjiang in the north.

The sky was clear, and the bomber group was arranged in a star-shaped line, escorted by twelve of the latest American planes on each side. At an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, Qiao Zhengwei, who had just joined the Hainan Air Force for more than a year, sat in the position of the co-pilot of the No. 18 bomber.

Looking at the roaring mountain peaks in front of him, looking at the rapidly retreating earth under his feet, and looking at the city that was getting closer and closer in front of him, Qiao Zhengwei was very glad that he came to Hainan to join the army when he was relegated, and he was even more glad that he did not choose to be a fighter pilot, but became a bomber pilot.

A year and a half ago, outside Beiping City, when Qiao Zhengwei and his Peking University classmates were defeated at Nanyuan Airport and fled from Beiping with the army, he and his classmates went straight to Shanghai Huaxing Aviation School.

They want to learn the most advanced aircraft piloting techniques, and they want to fly fighter jets to avenge the soldiers and classmates who died at Nanyuan Airport.

However, when they finally arrived at Shanghai Huaxing Airlines, the enrollment time of Shanghai Huaxing Aviation School had passed, and they could only wait until the second year to learn to fly airplanes.

But Qiao Zhengwei and his classmates did not agree, and they tearfully begged Shanghai Huaxing Aviation School to accept them, students who were ready to serve the country.

However, Shanghai Huaxing Aviation School is only a school that teaches the flight of passenger aircraft, and does not teach military aircraft. Qiao Zhengwei and his classmates will not be satisfied because of Huaxing Airlines' explanation, they have to pester the person in charge of Shanghai Huaxing Airlines to enter the aviation school to study, there is a momentum of blood splashing five steps if you don't accept me.

In the end, the people of Shanghai Huaxing Aviation School, who were forced to be helpless, pointed out a clear way for them, and it turned out that their Huaxing Company also had a larger and more professional aviation school in Hainan.

The school not only recruits cadets anytime and anywhere, but also learns at a fast pace and learns the most advanced fighter and bomber piloting techniques.

It's just that it's not easy to join Hainan Huaxing Aviation School, because Hainan Huaxing Aviation only recruits employees within Huaxing Company or innocent people who have gone through layers of screening.

Fortunately, Qiao Zhengwei and these classmates are all innocent children, and they are not short of brains, these Peking University students actually went to Shanghai Huaxing Foreign Bank to find Li Tie to petition.

And after Li Tie knew the request of Qiao Zhengwei's group of students, it only took three days to make the net worth of these dozen students clear.

As the pride of this era, Li Tie's troops also lack this kind of educated, idealistic, and hot-blooded young people who have been on the battlefield. So Li Tie opened an admission notice to each student with a stroke of his pen.

and promised to personally send Qiao Zhengwei and their classmates to Hainan together. That night, Qiao Zhengwei and they saw a huge transport plane falling from the sky at the airport of Shanghai Huaxing Airlines. More than a dozen students were taken directly from Shanghai to Hainan by a transport plane sent by Hainan Airlines that night.

When Qiao Zhengwei and his group arrived in Hainan, they were shocked by the rows of fighters and bombers in the airport of Hainan Aviation School.

When Qiao Zhengwei heard that this latest bomber could carry hundreds of bombs at a time and kill thousands of enemies at one time, Qiao Zhengwei immediately changed his mind about learning fighter jets, and he suddenly became interested in bombers.

Even though all his classmates persuaded him that he should learn to fly fighter planes so that he could defend his airspace in the future, Qiao Zhengwei insisted that the power of ten fighters was not as good as that of a bomber that broke through to the enemy's position, so he insisted on learning bomber piloting skills.

So Qiao Zhengwei was finally assigned to the bomber cadet class, and since then he has become a bomber pilot, but fortunately he learned to fly a bomber, otherwise he would not have been able to study for only one year to carry out bombing missions under the leadership of the captain.

And those of his classmates in the same period all studied fighter jets, and as a fighter pilot, it is impossible to participate in real air combat without two years of independent flight learning time.

At this time, Qiao Zhengwei found out that he was really wise again. Today he will go with the captain to bomb the airfield of the Japanese army.

Suddenly, the voice of Bomber No. 18 came over the radio of Bomber No. 18: "The bombing target has been found ahead, and the bomb is ready to be dropped." ”

Qiao Zhengwei immediately grabbed the flying rudder in his hand, his eyes were firmly fixed on the target below, and he shouted fiercely in his heart: "Little Japan, our Hainan Air Force is here." ”