Major General Saki is analyzing the topography of Hainan Island in the headquarters of the improvised Japanese air base outside Zhanjiang City.

He always believed that it was incorrect to launch a full-scale invasion of Hainan when he knew very little about the situation in Hainan.

However, the commanders of various divisions have already regarded Hainan as a piece of fat on the chopping block, and he, a major general of the Air Force, can only obey the command of the army.

After all, their air force has always been subject to the army's operational command, and it is not at all like the navy, which can formulate the direction of the campaign on its own.

Maybe in a few years, when the Empire's air force is stronger, they will be able to get rid of the situation of being always constrained by the army. They can also become independent armies like the navy.

Looking at the densely forested terrain of Hainan in front of him, Major General Saki always felt unsure, why did he always feel that Hainan Island was like a big hedgehog with a body full of giant thorns, which made people unable to start.

Let's hope that the fighter group that has just departed will have some success! Major General Saki had just put down the magnifying glass in his hand.

The airport sounded a terrible air defense siren, and Major General Saki immediately ran to the window of the headquarters, only to see that above the airport, a black and oppressive unknown fighter plane was already roaring.

Qiao Zhengwei stared closely at the runway of the Japanese airfield in front of him, on which at least ten Japanese fighters were parked, and these fighters were driving quickly on the runway, and they wanted to take off to fight.

According to the drill in advance, to deal with the fighters that are taking off rapidly on the runway, there will naturally be escort fighters to deal with them, and their bombers will have to deal with the hangars, fuel depots, and airport control towers on both sides of the airfield.

As soon as the air defense sirens on the airfield sounded, the anti-aircraft machine guns around the airfield began to frantically dump ammunition into the air.

Eight fighters of the Hainan Air Force were the first to attack the anti-aircraft fire on the ground. At the same time, eight more fighters began to frantically strafe all moving objects on the airfield, including the Japanese fighters that were speeding on the runway, including the crowd of people who were scattering and fleeing in the airfield.

Qiao Zhengwei and 23 other bombers had already arrived over the airfield, and the 24 Newest American B17 Flying Fortress bombers dropped only the first wave of bombs at high altitudes to blow up the Japanese airfield.

Due to the small size of the airfield and the high density of bombs, the First Air Wing of the 21 st Army outside Zhanjiang City suffered heavy losses in the first wave of attacks.

The ten fighters that were taking off on the runway of the Japanese airfield were wiped out on the runway by the Hainan Air Force before they could take off.

All the buildings at the airport, including the oil depot and hangar in the airport, were also blown up, and the anti-aircraft positions of several hundred Japanese troops defending the airport, including more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns, were also blown into powder.

Seeing that the bombing effect was good, the major of the bombing brigade in charge of the foreman immediately issued the latest directive by radio.

From now on, 24 B17 bombers flew to the stations of the three Japanese wings in Zhanjiang to bomb and return without delay after the bombing.

Qiao Zhengwei's flight squadron immediately began to fly towards Zhanjiang City according to the captain's order, and behind them were also eight fighters responsible for escorting.

Although the Japanese airfield was destroyed and not a single enemy plane managed to escape, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire was equally rapid. Qiao Zhengwei and they still lost two fighters and two bombers.

One of the bombers was hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun, and when it spun out of control in the air, it crashed on the runway of the airfield, and none of the crew members parachuted out.

After being shot by an anti-aircraft machine gun, another bomber pulled thick black smoke and went straight to the Japanese oil depot, and it was this bomber that controlled the landing angle of the plane very well and suddenly drilled into the entrance of the semi-underground oil depot at the airport, which caused the explosion of the oil depot.

Otherwise, this hidden oil depot will not be destroyed, and their bombing mission will be imperfect.

You know, Japan's oil reserves are now very tight, and every oil depot is a treasure for the Japanese.

When the bomber plummeted towards the airfield, all the crew members of Bomber 18 were shouting loudly for parachuting.

It's a pity that the downed bombers can't hear their shouts, and even if they do, they will choose to die with the enemy.

"The ten crew members on the No. 07 bomber are all from Nanjing." The captain's faint words made the entire crew of the No. 18 bomber crew lose their voices. Half a day passed, and everyone was silent, because everyone thought that their homeland was also suffering from the poison of the Japanese army.

"But Commander Li Tie told us that all pilots are treasures, and he repeatedly told us that even if we are shot down, we must try to save our lives, and he can send someone to rescue us." Qiao Zhengwei said.

"Everyone understands the truth, but when you see the murderer of your whole family standing in front of you, can you guarantee that you will be indifferent?" After the captain said this, all the crew fell silent again.

Just when everyone was thinking about this question repeatedly, they heard the captain raise his voice again: "The target has been found, the direction is northeast, the altitude is 2,000, and the bomb is ready to be dropped." ”

Hearing the captain's order, Qiao Zhengwei and the other eight crew members immediately returned to their posts, the lookout calculated the distance and altitude, and the captain and Qiao Zhengwei piloted the plane to a mid-altitude altitude of 1,000 meters. Five machine gunners also came to their respective machine gun positions.

At the watchman's order, the bombardier moved the wrench that controlled the bomb bomb magazine, and a group of bombs weighing tens of kilograms each roared down towards the huge barracks under his feet.

The captain and Qiao Zhengwei have been controlling the direction and altitude of the plane, the lookout has given orders to drop the bomb again and again, and the bombardier has moved the switch of the bomb magazine again and again.

Soon hundreds of bombs were dropped on the Japanese barracks on the ground, and the lookouts repeatedly informed all the crew members of the No. 18 bomber of their results.

When everyone heard that the eight bombers had finished dropping their bombs, the Japanese targets underground had suffered huge losses. Taking advantage of the bomber's return, Qiao Zhengwei looked at the Japanese barracks with thick smoke billowing everywhere under his feet.

Looking at the small Japanese soldiers on the ground who were running around like ants, Qiao Zhengwei suddenly asked the captain to lower the altitude and shoot in a dive.

It turned out that the B17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber of the United States could not only drop nearly 10 tons of bombs at a time, but at the same time, in order to have a certain self-protection capability, this kind of bomber installed two machine guns on the front and back, up and down, left and right sides of each plane.

In the original history, the B17 had as many as thirteen machine guns. In this life, Li Tie did not change the number of these machine guns, but he changed the original heavy machine guns to more coarse anti-aircraft machine guns.

Although the American engineer persuaded Li Tie that the bomber's installation of machine guns was originally a chicken rib, in fact, the safety of the bombers mainly depended on the defense capability of the fighters escorting the escort, and it was far from enough for the fighters to rely on their own machine guns, because the range of the fighters' guns was much farther than that of the machine guns.

But Li Tie said that our Huaxing company is not short of money, so we need to install this kind of anti-aircraft machine gun. Only then did hundreds of such heavy bombers be ordered from the United States.

At that time, Li Tie fully considered that in the future Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese army did not have many fighters, and at the same time, China's battlefield was too big, and it was impossible for him to equip the bombers with escort formations every time, so the importance of thirteen large-caliber machine guns for each bomber was needless to say.

Therefore, in all the air forces of Huaxing, there is a special training subject, that is, the crew of bombers must learn to shoot machine guns.

Because once they met the Japanese planes in the air, in addition to the captain, the other nine crew members would each be responsible for machine gun fire in one direction.

Although most of the crew members did not think that this machine gun shooting training was of much use. However, out of hatred for the Japanese, all crew members carefully studied machine gun firing training.

And here, especially Qiao Zhengwei, who studied the most seriously, he was the best student in shooting among the thousands of crew members in this session.

When Qiao Zhengwei and his eight bombers completed the bombing mission, they immediately returned to the ship according to the prior order.

On the way back, they encountered sixteen bombers from two other squadrons. It's good, everyone has nothing to lose.

On the contrary, two more fighters were lost in order to protect the bomber formation, but fortunately, the pilots had already parachuted, and whether they could rescue these two pilots in the future depended on their creation.

Soon the 42 planes returning to the sea converged again outside Zhanjiang City, and everyone returned to Hainan together.

Just when everyone thought that the operation was over, the voice of the Haikou base suddenly came over the radio, and thirty Japanese fighters were quickly chasing after them.

The fighters may have arrived from Guangzhou to reinforce them, and they used low-altitude flying methods to avoid detection by Hainan radars.

So they are dangerous now, and it is estimated that they will meet in two minutes. Hearing this radio announcement, the 20 fighters immediately turned around and went to meet the Japanese planes.

Qiao Zhengwei and his 22 clumsy bombers desperately fled in the direction of Hainan, although dozens of fighters had already risen from the Haikou base to meet them.

But it takes at least fifteen minutes for Haikou's fighters to reach the airspace of engagement, and can these bombers last fifteen minutes in front of a horde of fighters? The hearts of all the bomber pilots couldn't help but chuckle.

It's not a good thing, if the fighters dive down from a high altitude to attack, they can be smashed in a single shot.

Qiao Zhengwei saw that the crew in the cabin were all solemn, and naturally knew everyone's worries, so he picked up the radio in front of him and shouted: "What are you afraid of, we have machine guns, and our bullets are not vegetarian, his grandma." ”

Qiao Zhengwei's loud and incomparably angry scolding immediately brought morale to the entire bomber formation, and for a while, the sound of everyone fighting to the death from the other twenty-one bombers came from the radio.

At this time, Qiao Zhengwei suddenly remembered that Li Tie had said at a mobilization meeting that their kind of bombers had rough skin and thick flesh, so they should not panic when they encountered Japanese fighters, and when the enemy planes attacked them, it was also the best time for them to fight back.

Qiao Zhengwei thought that even if their bomber was hit by a hundred bullets, it would not necessarily be shot down, but the thin-skinned Japanese fighters would be reduced to pieces as long as they were hit by one of their machine gun bullets.

A plan to take out the Japanese fighters was formed in his mind.