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Chapter 1276 This plan is called Heavenly Punishment

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In the combat conference room of the Tianjin Garrison Army Headquarters, there was an endless buzz. Due to the constant attention to the battle that took place in Wanping, the general of the garrison headquarters did not sleep all night, and whispered around the map.

Kiyoji Kazuki looked at his watch: "Is there any latest news from the Riverside Brigade?" Why is it that it's been almost five or six hours, and there is still no movement? ”

Staff Officer Yasuda Tsering replied respectfully: "Chief of Staff Hashimoto is not at ease, and has been waiting in the telecommunications room, believing that if there is any progress, he will immediately report to the commander!" ”

Kazuki Kiyoji nodded, and said to himself, "What about Shi Yousan?" Before Shi Youxin left, didn't he swear that he would convince his brother? Whether it succeeds or not, he should explain to us with the agreed cipher code, is there something wrong on the road? ”

No one can answer the question of Xiangyue Qingji, as the surrounding areas of Beiping were recovered by the squadron one by one, the traitor spies who were originally arrogant and ubiquitous escaped completely, and now the entire intelligence department of the garrison army knows nothing about the situation in the surrounding areas of Wanping and Lugou Bridge, so they can only wait anxiously.

Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the aviation regiment, took the initiative to ask for battle: "Commander, regardless of whether the riverside brigade can be safely withdrawn in the end, the huge losses of our imperial army are already an unavoidable reality. In just two days, the four brigades and regiments of the garrison suffered heavy losses, and the loss of troops was more than 20,000 troops. In order to give an explanation to the country, I suggest that this morning we launch a large-scale air strike against the Chinese army, especially its air force station, and if we can take the Chinese army's air force by surprise and destroy the Chinese army's air force in one fell swoop, then there is still a turning point for the better, otherwise it will ......."

Seiji Kazuki smiled bitterly. When he set off for China, he was full of confidence and full of good expectations for making meritorious contributions, thinking that in 918, the Kwantung Army won the whole of Manchuria with more than 10,000 people, and now he has more than 100,000 troops, what reason is there not to achieve more brilliant achievements? But the reality gave him a few slaps in the face, and after many battles, he frequently suffered defeats, not to mention, and gave away his nephew's life. Now, instead of thinking about how to accept the emperor's reward in a glorious way, he worries about his future.

"Well, Tokugawa Shogun, I hope you can achieve great results and wash away the humiliation suffered by the Emperor's *** team!" Kazuki Kiyoji pondered for a while, and finally nodded in agreement.

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi happily bowed to Kiyoji Kazuki and left the conference room to make a battle plan.

Today, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's aviation regiment has seven flight groups and four flying squadrons with a total of more than 300 fighters, although more than 50 have been consumed since the start of the war, but it still has an absolute numerical advantage over the Chinese Air Force. In Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's view, a small fight cannot shake the foundation of the squadron at all, and only by concentrating all forces and destroying the command center and air combat force of the squadron in one fell swoop can we ensure the smooth progress of the Pingjin war.

In the conference room, as the sky brightened, almost everyone lost the interest in talking. At this time, there was no news coming, and it was estimated that the riverside brigade was already more than lucky.

At this moment, Hashimoto rushed into the conference room in a hurry: "Good news! At dawn, Hebianjun raided the junction of the two armies of the Shina Army stationed in Nankou and Changping, successfully broke out of the encirclement, and joined up with the Ishikawa Brigade that came to respond, and the Ishikawa Brigade took advantage of the night to attack the pursuing Shina army and annihilated more than 1,000 of its troops. At present, the riverside brigade has gone to Huairou and will be withdrawn to Qinhuangdao for replenishment in the near future. ”

Kazuki Kiyoji looked relieved. Since the war against China, the Japanese army has never had a precedent for the elimination of a brigade or regiment as a unit, and if this unfortunate scene appears in its own hands, then what awaits it will be the end of dismissal, investigation, or even order. Although the riverside brigade suffered heavy losses, as long as it withdrew to the rear to replenish its troops, it would be able to restore its combat strength at that time, and its responsibility would be much smaller.

Xiangyue Qingji stood up excitedly: "Gentlemen, although the Emperor *** team has suffered certain losses, the initiative of the current battle situation is still firmly in our hands. Just now, General Tokugawa has taken the initiative to launch a full-scale attack on the Shina army, and I believe that the air force of the Great *** Empire will definitely help us make unexpected progress. Okay, let's dismiss the meeting first, and when the Tokugawa shogun's battle report comes out, we'll discuss the next battle situation. ”

"Hay!"

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At half past nine in the morning, Baoding Qingyuan Airport in the early morning was still shrouded in a thin layer of morning fog.

The mournful sirens suddenly sounded, the barracks doors next to the airport runway opened one after another, and the pilots of the Central Air Force ran towards their planes while packing their bags and helmets.

In addition to the A25 and A26 fighters produced by the Syrian Aircraft Factory, the Fiat, the American-made Hawker and Martin series, the Soviet Union's Iraqi series, Britain's Gloucester "Fighter," and Germany's Heinkel series fighters are all varied, and biplane and monoplane fighters are readily available.

But the war has been going on so far, except for some huge purchases of fighters, most of the miscellaneous aircraft have fallen in the confrontation with the Japanese fighters, the remaining main fighters are A25 and A26, Hawker III and Hawker-75, Soviet Yi 15 and Yi 16 fighters, bombers have the United States Martin B10, the Soviet Union *** and TB and other models, it can be said that in terms of quality has been comparable to the first fighters of this period or even surpassed.

At this time, the main fighter of the Air Force, the Type 96 land medium attack aircraft, has just been equipped with the local flight group, and its ace zero fighter is still under development, and the fighters equipped by the army aviation force are mainly Kawasaki 91, 92, 95 series and Nakajima 91, 95, 97 series fighters, among them, the Kawasaki series is a biplane fighter; In terms of bombers, the Mitsubishi series of light and heavy bombers are the protagonists, but there are also some old-fashioned Kawasaki 87, 88, and 93 series biplane bombers.

After two or three weeks of constant familiarization, the pilots became familiar with the performance of almost every aircraft during frequent operations. The favorite of all pilots is the A25 and A26 fighters produced by the Syrian plant, especially the A26 fighters, in the battle with the Japanese aircraft, this twin-engine fighter with its maximum speed of 500 km / h, 11,000 meters of ceiling, excellent maneuverability, powerful firepower, up to 1,000 kilometers of combat radius, created a pilot pilots to shoot down 18 Japanese planes, but did not lose a single loss. However, due to the poor performance of other old fighters, until now, the Japanese fighters have not realized that their fighters have begun to lag behind.

At present, the officers and men of the Fourth Brigade of the Central Air Force and the First, Fourth, and Sixth Squadrons of the Central Air Force stationed at Qingyuan Airport in Baoding have two high-altitude reconnaissance planes, 32 fighters, and eight bombers, of which the 21st Squadron of the Fourth Brigade is all equipped with A26 twin-engine fighters, the 21st and 22nd squadrons are equipped with A25 single-engine fighters, and the fighters of the three first-class flight squadrons are mainly Hawker III and Yi series.

In the control building of Qingyuan Airport, Zhou Zhirou, who hurriedly put on the uniform of a lieutenant general, rushed to the command hall, and the hall was already busy at this time. The plotter plotted the location of the enemy plane on a huge Pingjin combat map, and the walkie-talkie kept coming from the radar columnists scattered all over Baoding, and the numbers were read as unit, two, three, four, five, land, turn, eight, hook, and hole in accordance with the call rules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 respectively, so as to avoid being misheard by the other party.

The cartographer was supported by the Southwest Air Force, and I saw that he was busy but not chaotic, quickly marking the coordinate points one by one on the military map, and connecting the two points with line segments. The dispatchers of the headquarters used radio to transmit the latest information to the airports in Shijiazhuang, Kaifeng, Taiyuan, and Datong according to the number, location, and trajectory of the enemy planes marked on the map by the cartographers.

Zhang Yougu, chief of staff of the Air Force, looked at the map, his expression became more and more serious, and finally blurted out: "Not good, the enemy has dispatched at least more than 200 fighters, and the target should be our Qingyuan Airport, and the first wave of planes will fly over us in a quarter of an hour." ”

Zhou Zhirou approached the map and took a look, his face also became extremely ugly, and he hurriedly gave an order: "The Third Brigade stationed at Shijiazhuang Airport, the Fifth Brigade stationed at Kaifeng Airport, and the Ninth Brigade stationed at Taiyuan Airport should take off immediately and move closer to Qingyuan Airport as soon as possible." This time, the enemy plane wants to destroy our Central Air Force in one fell swoop, and we must go all out and never let it do so. ”

When the dispatcher heard Zhou Zhirou's order, he immediately issued a telegram order, and soon all the airports entered a state of imminent battle, and all kinds of fighters took off one after another and flew towards the airspace of Baoding. It is estimated that no one expected that the first large-scale air decisive battle between China and Japan would break out in the sky over Baoding.

At the same time, the information fed back by the radar has been sent to the desk of the command center of the North China Air Defense Command located in the northeast corner of Qingyuan Airport.

After the Fifth Air Defense Brigade went north, at the suggestion of Hu Jialin and Lu Yixuan, the three antiaircraft artillery regiments were not separated, but were all deployed in the surrounding areas of Baoding, with Ye Ziquan, chief of staff of the Air Defense Command and commander of the Fifth Brigade, serving as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, specifically responsible for radar early warning and antiaircraft artillery air defense in the Baoding area.

Prior to this, the Japanese planes had never come to Baoding to show off their might, and the officers and men of the whole brigade had long been impatient to wait, and this time they heard that the Japanese planes were attacking in a big way, and the soldiers were full of morale and went all out, ready to destroy as many enemies as possible.

Except for some of the air defense brigades equipped with German 88-mm FLAK18 towed anti-aircraft guns, the rest are all anti-aircraft weapons copied from Germany and the United States by the South Sichuan Arsenal, such as anti-aircraft machine guns modified from MG34 machine guns, 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft machine guns, 20-mm 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, 20-mm 38-mm anti-aircraft guns, 12.7-mm water-cooled anti-aircraft machine guns, and 12.7-mm air-cooled machine guns. The three regiments of the brigade have 108 anti-aircraft guns of various kinds and more than 150 anti-aircraft machine guns, which can completely turn the sky over Baoding City into a death trap for the air force.

In response to the possible attack of the Japanese army on Baoding City, Ye Ziquan, Zhou Zhirou and other air force generals had formulated a top-secret battle plan, and now the time is ripe for formal implementation.

This plan is called Heavenly Punishment!