Zhang Yunfei is well aware of the importance of air supremacy, and this time, since his 36 th Group Army has absolute air superiority, it must give full play to this advantage.

After reading this battle plan, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Yunfei's mouth.

On the morning of the next day, the pre-war mobilization meeting of the 36th Army.

The headquarters of the 36th Group Army was very lively, and the huge conference room was full of people, and even the commanders of the 10 major columns came to attend the meeting.

Knowing that it was a major battle to be discussed, everyone seemed to be elated and in high spirits, and they had already reached the conference room, and they were talking happily and in low voices.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yunfei came to the conference room under the support of Zuo Qingquan, Deng Wenping, Liu Dazhu, Fang Zheng and others.

When everyone saw the commander-in-chief enter, they stopped talking, and the huge conference room immediately fell silent, and immediately burst into thunderous applause.

Zhang Yunfei waited for the rostrum to sit in front of him, and Zhang Yunfei personally presided over the meeting.

Looking around, Zhang Yunfei raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, Zhang Yunfei said angrily: "Comrades, hello everyone! On June 5, it was said that the little devils attacked the Americans' Pearl Harbor, and I believe that many of you know about this incident. ……”

Zhang Yunfei gave a detailed account of the little devil's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and combined with his own viewpoint, he briefly analyzed the impact of the Pearl Harbor incident and the opportunities it brought to the 36th Group Army.

Finally, Zhang Yunfei also emphasized the discipline of the meeting, asking everyone to keep the content of the meeting strictly confidential, and finally, Zhang Yunfei announced his decision to prepare a large-scale counterattack in North China.

After listening to Zhang Yunfei's decision, everyone was confident and encouraged, especially the commanders of the 10 columns, their eyes were shining, everyone had been holding back for too long, and they had long wanted to fight.

Next, Comrade Zuo Qingquan, chief of the General Staff, briefed everyone on the operational plan, which had been revised to increase the intensity of air strikes and submitted to Yan'an for approval.

The meeting lasted all morning, and after the meeting was adjourned, the commanders of the units participating in the battle returned to their units with joyful faces and began to make preparations for battle.

Specific battle plans and tasks will be sent to the participating units via radio.

June 12, 1940.

On the seventh day after Pearl Harbor, the 36th Army's strategic counteroffensive against the North China Front began.

Originally, Zhang Yunfei was ready to develop for another year and a half, and then launch a major counteroffensive against the little devils, but as soon as the little devils attacked Pearl Harbor, they greatly advanced this strategic counteroffensive, and now they can only fight while working hard to develop.

Fortunately, if you are fighting, you have Zuo Qingquan, Deng Wenping, Liu Dazhu and other right-hand men, and if you are developing the base area, you have the master of Fangzheng, even if you are busy, Zhang Yunfei will not be busy, and everyone can share a lot of workload for Zhang Yunfei.

Now, the United States has carried out a large-scale war mobilization, with the promulgation of the wartime law, the entire state apparatus is running at high speed, the disabled Pacific Fleet is also rapidly reorganizing, and a new aircraft carrier and several battleships allocated to the Pacific Fleet have also been put in place.

Several shipyards in the United States are now working at full speed, working day and night to build all kinds of ships, and I am afraid that in just one year, a large number of new ships will be launched one after another.

The time is fully ripe for a counterattack on the North China Front of the little devils.

This time, according to Yan'an's deployment, the Eighth Route Army will also cooperate with the 36th Group Army to fight together and carry out a major counteroffensive on the whole line against the little devils.

At dawn on 12 June, Datong and Taiyuan airports were busy, with a large number of ground crews filling up Mustang fighters with fuel and hanging aerial bombs.

There are a total of 10 Mustang fighter squadrons at the two airports, and 240 Mustang fighters are lined up in a neat row on the tarmac, and one pilot is ready to go.

The Datong and Taiyuan airfields, after several expansions, are already the two largest airfields of the 36th Group Army, and there is no problem in accommodating two or three hundred planes at each airport.

At seven o'clock in the morning, facing the rising sun, a team of pilots, lined up in a neat line, trotted all the way, ran to their respective planes, and boarded their own fighters with agility.

Boarding the plane, one after another Mustang fighters, the transparent overall cabin cover slowly closed, one after another filled with fuel, hung with aerial bombs, one after another Mustang fighters, slid to the runway, and flew into the blue sky.

Each airfield was filled with hundreds of warplanes, and after completing the formation in the air, it was simply a large area that covered the sky and was densely packed, rushing straight towards the two main airports of the North China Front, Beiping Airport and Shijiazhuang Airport.

The purpose of this air strike is obvious, that is, to quickly destroy a large number of planes of the little devils with lightning speed, so that the little devils will completely lose their air supremacy......

Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front Army of the little devil.

The Pearl Harbor incident a few days ago has made many little devils still immersed in joy, and even a large number of high-ranking personnel of the North China Front Army have greatly increased their confidence in the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and many high-ranking generals of the little devils have begun to boast there that 'the Imperial Army is invincible.'"

In the command headquarters of the little devil, there is also a song and dance, and even the commander of the little devil, Okamura Ningji, feels that this period of time has been too pleasant recently.

The Eighth Route Army, which had made a lot of trouble in the land of North China, also died down a few months ago, and its big opponent, Zhang Yunfei's 36th Group Army, had also been very 'peaceful' in the past six months, and there was not much sign of attacking itself.

The peace for several months in a row not only made Okamura Ninji feel the atmosphere of war, but even many of the little devil troops below were lazy all day long and very lax.

At present, the former permanent divisions and regiments of the North China Front have fallen to the Southeast Asian battlefield, and they have been supplemented by some second-class or third-class divisions, and some are even some local garrison brigades.

Although the total number of the entire North China Front Army has not decreased, and the total number of all combatants and auxiliary personnel has reached as many as 500,000 people, the combat effectiveness has declined to a certain extent.

Compared with the old divisions and regiments of the past, there is still a certain gap in the combat effectiveness of these newly supplemented divisions and regiments, because the combat effectiveness has declined, so they were caught off guard by a 100-regiment battle of the Eighth Route Army only a few months ago, and suffered heavy losses.

The Beiping Airport on the outskirts of Beiping is one of the three major airports of the North China Front Army, and the planes parked in it are also the most among the three airports, and there are more than one squadron of fighters stationed all year round, in addition to a lot of bombers and transport planes, with a total of nearly 50 aircraft.

On the Beiping Airport of the little devils, not only are there a large number of planes parked, but there are also a lot of pilots, ground crews and a large number of security troops on the airport, with a total number of thousands.

The defense force alone has a field wing, which can be described as a heavy and conservative force, which also shows how much Okamura Ninji attaches importance to this airfield.

Shijiazhuang Airport, the second largest airfield of the North China Front, also has more than 30 planes, and the defense force is also a reinforced field brigade, plus a large number of pilots and ground crews, the total number of personnel also exceeds 2,000.

On the morning of June 12, the little devil's Beiping Airport.

Due to the fact that there has been no war for a long time, the little devil's planes have rarely been dispatched, and they are all neatly docked on the tarmac in rows, and the little devil's fighters are basically Nakajima-style fighters.

The little devil's zero fighter is basically equipped with the navy now, and the little devil's army units in China are still equipped with the relatively backward old-fashioned Nakajima-style fighters.

Since there has been no war for a long time, the little devil pilots in the whole airport seem to be relatively lazy, and many little devils are still thinking about whether to go to the city to gamble or find the flower girl.

The little devil was in charge of the wing of the airport guard, and many soldiers looked at those pilots, in groups of three or five, as if they were about to leave the airport again and go to Beiping City to be happy and chic.

These little devils of the field wing were full of envy in their hearts, and they thought in their hearts that the treatment of these pilots was really good, not only did the food standard be much higher than their own, but they could also go to Beiping City every once in a while to have a good time.

As a soldier of the field wing, he does not have this treatment, even if there is no war, he can only stay at the station honestly, he still has to stand guard when he should stand guard, he has to train what he should train, and if he wants to go out, he must at least have his own squadron leader personally approved.

When many little devil pilots were about to go out of the airport to be happy and chic, suddenly, a sharp siren broke the silence of the airport, and many little devils heard such an alarm, and their faces remained unchanged.

Although there has been no such alarm for a long time, this place is located near the headquarters of its own front army, and heavy troops are stationed everywhere, and I don't know which Chinese troops have come to attack this airfield again.

A few months ago, there was a [***] unit, about a battalion of a few hundred people, somehow touched the edge of the airfield, and such an alarm was sounded at that time.

At that time, all the little devils were nervous, thinking that there were a large number of [***] teams to attack their own airport, but later found out that it was a force of several hundred people, and finally the little devils successfully repelled this force, and the little devil airport was intact.

This time, when the alarm was heard again, many little devils were disapproving, and they were ready to take up arms and teach this Chinese army a good lesson.

The little devil pilots who were walking outside the airport only stopped, and were not ready to enter the combat state immediately.

Obviously, these little devil pilots didn't pay attention to it either, and the little devil pilots thought that it was the ground force of the [***] squadron, and there was a wing of guard troops at the airport, and they didn't need to shoot it themselves.

(To be continued)