The platoon commander put down his binoculars and said with a smile: "That's a minute!" I haven't seen it yet? ”

The soldier hurriedly took the telescope, thanked him twice, and then took the telescope with excitement on his face, and happily looked that with the telescope it was different, the shelling situation in the distance could be seen clearly, and the soldier applauded again and again when he saw the highlights.

Compared with the soldiers of the three infantry divisions of the 36th Group Army, the little devil commanders who stood on the city wall to observe the situation on the battlefield can only be described as mournful at this time.

The commander of the 30th Division of the Little Devil Division, Nanjiro, had a gloomy face and could wring out the water, and said sharply to several little devil commanders next to him: "Hurry up and send a report to His Excellency Commander Okamura Ningji in Beiping, Zhangjiakou has been bombarded by three heavy artillery groups of the 36th Group Army, and the situation is critical, so I request air support." ”

The telegram sent by the little devil from Zhangjiakou did not take long to reach the hands of the little devil's North China Front army Okamura Ningci, who saw the telegram, his face was very solemn, and he thought to himself, the 36th Group Army was really going to attack Zhangjiakou, not only dispatched tens of thousands of troops, but also dispatched three heavy artillery groups in one go.

Okamura Ninji was more cautious about the request for air support in the telegram, and in the past, his own air force and the 36th Army exchanged fire several times, but Benne did not take advantage of it, and on several occasions the planes sent were even completely destroyed.

But this time, the three heavy artillery groups of the [***] team were full of fatal temptation to Okamura Ningji, the three heavy artillery groups, they have been fighting in China for so many years, and they have never encountered the situation that the [***] team has three heavy artillery groups at one time.

The chief of staff of the little devil next to him saw Okamura Ningji's hesitation, so he suggested: "Your Excellency Commander, I think we should send planes to attack the heavy artillery group of the [***] team, as long as we defeat the three heavy artillery groups of the [***] team, we can hold Zhangjiakou steadily, hold on for a few days, and a large number of our reinforcements will arrive in Zhangjiakou one after another, and then we will have more than 100,000 troops, and it is possible to encircle the tens of thousands of [***] teams outside Zhangjiakou." ”

The words of the chief of staff of the little devil made Okamura Ningji a little moved, as long as the heavy artillery group of the squadron [***] team can be successfully defeated, and the squadron [***] team that loses the support of heavy weapons will definitely have no strength to attack, and it will be difficult to capture Zhangjiakou in a short time.

In addition, the planes of the Air Force will be able to reach Zhangjiakou in a short period of time after taking off from the Beiping Airport, and the planes that suddenly appear will certainly hit the [***] squadron and blow up the three heavy artillery groups of the [***] squadron in one go.

This risk is worth taking, and Okamura Ningji, who has already made a decision in his heart, said loudly: "Order, Beiping Airport will send a bomber squadron and a fighter squadron to fly to Zhangjiakou immediately to bomb the heavy artillery group of the [***] team." ”

"Hey! , I immediately went to deliver the order. ”

A bomber squadron of the little devil has 12 bombers, a fighter squadron has 24 fighters, and more than 30 planes are dispatched in one go......

At this time, 24 Mustang fighters and one early warning aircraft of the squadron have taken to the air, and the 24 Mustang fighters are almost all the Mustang fighters at Datong Airport, and these 24 Mustang fighters belong to the first fighter squadron of the flight group.

After taking off from Datong Airport, more than 20 planes maintained formation and flew in the direction of Zhangjiakou at an altitude of 8,000 meters. The radar on the AWACS aircraft is also scanning the area with a radius of 200 kilometers over and over again, and it will be known as soon as there is a disturbance in this area.

Less than half an hour after the formation of the plane took off, it was almost over Zhangjiakou, the radar showed that everything was normal, no little devil's plane was found, and more than a dozen fighters on the early warning plane, although no abnormality was found, everyone was engrossed, carefully staring at the radar and various instruments on the plane.

Suddenly, the radar sounded the alarm of "drip, drip, drip", and it was difficult to detect the enemy plane, and the fighters on the early warning plane immediately got busy, and the radar showed that more than 30 enemy planes flew from the direction of Beiping.

A captain of the flight group picked up the microphone on the early warning plane, adjusted the frequency, and loudly reported to all the Mustang fighters the location, number, flight altitude, and other information of the enemy planes.

After receiving the enemy's forecast, all the Mustang fighters, with a big turn, bypassed the sky over Zhangjiakou in front, preparing to launch a surprise attack behind the small devil group, and hit the little devil by surprise.

Now, the Mustang fighters of the flying group are in the dark, the little devil's plane is in the light, and the little devil plane has nowhere to hide under the radar scanning, which is just right to hit the little devil plane with a dull stick.

Most of the 24 fighters of the little devil are old Nakajima 91 aircraft, and a few are Nakajima 97 aircraft, and the number of Nakajima 97 aircraft produced by the little devil is not much, and the number of Nakajima 97 aircraft equipped with the North China Front is even less.

As for the Zero fighter that appeared in history, the little devil has not yet begun to develop, let alone equip, so several front armies of the little devil are all Nakajima aircraft, and most of them are Nakajima 91 aircraft.

Ten minutes later, the 24 Mustang fighters of the flight group had successfully circled the back of the little devil group, and the little devil group still knew nothing, still maintained the formation, and continued to fly in the direction of Zhangjiakou.

Many pilots of the little devils showed a smile on their faces when they saw that they would soon reach the sky above Zhangjiakou, and several little devil pilots even began to fantasize about waiting for the scene of the heavy artillery group of the [***] team being blown away.

"Yo Xi, everyone lower the altitude and prepare to drop bombs on the heavy artillery group of the [***] team." There are still twenty or thirty kilometers away from Zhangjiakou, and the squadron leader of the little devil bomber squadron immediately excitedly gave an order to all the little devil bombers.

The little devil bomber began to reduce its altitude, slowly decreasing from the flight altitude of five thousand meters, four thousand five hundred meters, four thousand thousand meters, four thousand five hundred meters, and three thousand meters, and the altitude ......of the little devil's fighter was getting lower and lower, and it was getting closer and closer to Zhangjiakou, and the heavy artillery position of the [***] team was already in sight.

The fighter squadron of the little devils, seeing that the bomber squadron was lowering its flight altitude and preparing to drop bombs, all the Nakajima fighters also began to lower their altitude and prepare to cover the bomber squadron.

In the middle [***] team on the ground, many people saw the group of little devils in the sky in the distance, and the officers and soldiers of the 36th Group Army who saw the group of little devils secretly screamed in their hearts, especially the officers and soldiers of the three artillery regiments, and when they saw the group of little devils appearing in the sky, there were anxious and worried looks on their faces.

At this time, not only did the officers and men of the squadron see the little devil plane in the sky, but even many little devils saw their own plane in the sky, and many little devils showed joy on their faces, and some of the little devils even cheered despite the fierce artillery fire of the squadron.

On the city wall, holding a telescope to watch the battle, Nanjiro, the commander of the 30th Division of the little devil who had an extremely ugly face, suddenly saw a large number of planes in the distant sky, Nanjiro hurriedly held the telescope and looked at the sky.

Immediately, Nanjiro's ugly face immediately stretched out, and Nanjiro thought, the planes of the empire are coming, and the heavy artillery group of the [***] team is waiting to be bombed.

Nanjiro, who was in a good mood, happily said to the few little devil commanders next to him: "Yo Xi, the planes of the empire are here so soon, let's stand here and enjoy how the three heavy artillery groups of the [***] team were blown up." ”

All the little devil commanders around Nanjiro also immediately showed happy looks, and they all echoed, looking at the sky with hope, looking forward to the performance of the little devil air force.

Just when the little devil pilots fantasized about waiting for the heavy artillery group of the [***] squadron to blow up, the Mustang fighters that suddenly appeared in the sky shattered the beautiful dreams of the little devil pilots.

I saw that behind the group of little devils, more than 20 Chinese Mustang fighters suddenly appeared, and the Mustang fighters that suddenly appeared, those who were holding binoculars and looking at the sky, both sides saw it.

The commanders of the [***] team were happy on their faces, and their high hearts immediately relaxed. The commanders of the little devils, who were originally happy when they saw so many Chinese fighters suddenly appear, immediately tightened up.

More than 20 Mustang fighters swooped down from a high altitude against the group of little devil planes, and the group of little devils had not yet discovered the Chinese group behind them, and when the distance between the Chinese fighters and the little devil planes was getting closer and closer, many of the little devil's planes had already entered the range of the Mustang fighters, and the little devil pilots reacted.

Lieutenant Nakamura Tsering, the little devil pilot, was piloting a Nakajima Type 97 fighter at this time, lowering the height to cover the bomber that was preparing to drop bombs, and suddenly, out of the corner of Nakamura Tsering's eyes, saw how several planes appeared in his right rear, and the shape of these planes had never been seen before, not good, this is a Chinese fighter.

Nakamura Tsering immediately shouted anxiously into his wireless telephone handset: "A Chinese fighter plane was found behind me, and everyone urgently maneuvered to get rid of it." ”

Obviously, Nakamura Tsering's reaction was half a beat slower, and before Nakamura Tsering had time to maneuver, a Mustang fighter plane that was quietly hiding behind him saw that the little devil plane had entered its own range, and immediately opened fire without hesitation.

The six large-caliber machine guns on the Mustang fighter opened fire at the same time, and the bullets fired were like scoops, and the Nakajima Type 97 fighter piloted by Nakamura Tsering was hit by more than a dozen machine gun bullets in a matter of seconds.

(To be continued)