Hankou, Wangjiadun military airport.

This was once the territory of the Chinese Air Force. During the Battle of Wuhan in 1938, the Chinese Air Force set off from this airfield to engage the Japanese army. Also in the same year, Chinese pilot Thompson flew a single-winged Pu reconnaissance plane from here into the skies over Nanjing, which had already been occupied by the Japanese army. Also in the same year, two B-10 bombers led by Xu Huansheng and Tong Yanbo took off from the airport and headed for Kyushu, Japan, to distribute leaflets, becoming the first foreign military aircraft to fly into Japan's airspace after the start of World War II. The only pity is that because the distance is too far, Xu Huansheng and others carried not bombs, but a pile of papers. Although this "humanitarian expedition" shocked the whole world with "paper bombing," greatly aroused the enthusiasm and confidence of the Chinese people in the war of resistance, and frightened the Japanese, it always made people have some unfinished intentions.

I guess the Japanese think the same way.

Their air force hardly uses leaflets as a "weapon", he only uses bombs. Whether it is for soldiers or ordinary people.

……

"Sakai-kun, how many times have you flown this month?"

Airport restaurant. Shirane Feifu sat down in front of Saburo Sakai with his plate.

"Lieutenant!"

Saburo Sakai hurriedly got up and stood upright.

"Sit!" Shiraneffer sat there and beckoned casually, "We're not the fools of the Army who only know the form of the Dao, so we don't need to do this. ”

"Yes, Lieutenant."

Saburo Sakai answered, glanced at Shiranefio, and sat down again.

"Today's meal was good." Shirane took a bite of the rice ball and looked at him, "How is it?" It's been almost a year since I came to China, can I still adapt? ”

"Lieutenant. Isn't it too late for you to ask me this question? Saburo Sakai replied with a smile, "As you said, I've been in China for almost a year. ”

"yes. It's been a year, from the original Xinding, to such a quasi-ace fighter pilot. Shiraneff also laughed.

"It's still the support of the seniors." Saburo Sakai said again.

"It's your own effort." Bai Genfeifu poured a mouthful of food into his mouth and said, "According to the latest news, we will soon carry out a new round of large-scale bombardment of Chongqing. The people of China will definitely fight hard when the time comes. You have to be careful. ”

"Rest assured, my family won't let you down." Saburo Sakai nodded solemnly, and looked at the lieutenant superior, who was said to be the son of the former cabinet secretary, with some blankness: "But there is one thing I don't understand. Why have you been bombing Chongqing so frequently recently? Isn't our original routine bombing enough? It's like today, Gu Jun and they set off without lunch. In the evening, Yamashita Koshiro and the others seemed to be flying again. Plus the massive bombing of the other day...... Do you want to use the Air Force only to force the people to surrender? "I don't know very well, but I just heard that it was because the people of China angered the dispatch army headquarters in Shanghai!" Shirane replied casually: "Their agents killed a lot of people in Shanghai, and they even reached out to Commander Nishio Shouzo and General Kenji Dohihara, and even heard that they almost killed these two imperial generals. So. In retaliation, we bombed Chongqing. ”

"It's amazing." Saburo Sakata couldn't help but stick out his tongue. "How dare they assassinate an officer at the rank of general?"

"yes. Very bold. Shiraneff nodded as well. I heard that many native officers were killed. And if it weren't for the luck of the two generals, maybe they would have suffered a lot of trouble...... That's why the Dispatch Command is so angry. I even heard that even the Tokyo base camp was extremely shocked by this incident and reprimanded it. ”

"Didn't the Empire's intelligence agencies find out?" Saburo Sakata said dissatisfied.

"If I had found out, none of these things would have happened." Shirane Feifu said lightly: "And those guys only know how to let those traitors of the people of China do things, and they don't understand anything at all." The people of China sneaked through the sewers to the general's residence, and they didn't know what to do. It's so incompetent. ”

"Sewers?"

"You're in the Air Force, and of course you don't know how complex an underground drainage system a city like Shanghai can have." "If you don't have a complete drawing of the underground drainage system, even if you go down one division after another, you can't completely detect it," said Shiranfey. And the people of China took advantage of this system. The bomb was easily planted at the door of the two generals' residences...... Although I despise their rat-like despicable methods, it must be admitted that they work. If it weren't for the fact that they had launched multiple operations on the same day, and had only focused on assassinating the two generals, their chances of success would have been very ......."

"This should be classified, right?" Saburo Itada asked suddenly.

"Confidential? It's just rumors. Bonefuff rolled his eyelids," an old friend of mine in Shanghai told me in a letter. Now these things are spread all over Shanghai, because not long after the assassination of the people of China, the Shanghai municipal government began to clean up the underground drainage system, and those who are interested naturally guessed something. ”

"It's a shame that our bombs can't get into the sewer......" Saburo Sakai laughs.

"We are the ...... of the Air Force"

"Buzz—"

Before Shiranefifu could finish speaking, there was a "buzzing" roar outside the restaurant. And with the ears of these pilots, they naturally heard the sound of an aircraft engine at once.

"Gu-kun, they're back." Saburo Sakai glanced outside and said.

"Let's go, let's go meet them, and by the way, ask where they bombed again this time."

Shirane took two more mouthfuls and got up and walked towards the outside of the restaurant. Saburo Sakai glanced at the food in front of him, picked up a rice ball and followed.

……

Walking out of the restaurant, the two of them quickly reached the vicinity of the runway. Behind them, many pilots who were eating, as well as airport staff, also rushed over...... Every time Chongqing was bombed, the Chinese Air Force would stubbornly resist, and at this time, there was not much difference in performance between the fighters of the two sides, so there was damage to each other. Even the Japanese Air Force, because of its large support at the beginning, did not expect the level of the pilots of the Chinese Air Force, and the total losses were even greater. Therefore, although they have an advantage, these Japanese air force personnel are also unsupportive of their flights, and they are afraid that they will not be able to fly back if they fly out. And every time the plane returns, as long as there is nothing to do, the people on the ground will take the initiative to welcome around the runway. If nothing else, for these pilots to come back alive.

Shiraneff put his hand to his forehead, looking at the clouds in the sky, and the dark shadows in the middle of the clouds, a little impatient.

"These clouds are a nuisance."

"Hehe, don't worry, Gu-kun and they will come down soon." Saburo Sakata smiled and pointed to the sky: "Ah, lieutenant, you see, you have begun to reduce the altitude." That one should be ......."

"That's not our plane—"

Saburo Sakata's voice had just stopped, the smile was still frozen on his face, and the screams had already sounded. And immediately after, a sharp air defense siren sounded over the airfield......

……

"It's too late, little devils!"

In the sky, on a Soviet-made I-16 fighter, Liu Zhesheng, the leader of the 24th Squadron of the Fifth Air Force Group, looked at the crowd below that suddenly rushed to the wolves, and a sinister smile flashed across the corners of his mouth:

"Kill!"

The joystick was pushed forward, and the I-16 took the lead and swooped down towards the airfield.

……

"This madman. What a 'wild vulture'! ”

Next to the I-16, Kurishenko looked at the abandonment of the protection task and swooped down on Liu Zhesheng, and shook his head:

"Prepare to drop the bomb!"

……

"Run—"

Saburo Sakai is running.

It's not just him, the entire Wangjiadun Airport is in chaos. He was relatively calm, he wanted to find his plane, he wanted to go to the sky...... However, under the high speed of the swoop, the speed of his two legs was so pitiful. Just as he was about to touch his plane, a bomb was dropped into the group of planes accurately.

After the "boom", in an instant, one plane after another exploded in a row.

Saburo Sakai was directly swept away by the air wave of the explosion.

One by one, the bombers and fighters parked on that long runway, most of them were burning. Patches of flame floated out of the exploded gas tank, billowing up smoke. Some of the planes are leaking oil after being hit by shrapnel and are not burning yet. The fire burned from one plane to another, the gasoline flowed and burned there, and the entire long row of planes turned into a dark red mushroom cloud. Bombers crackled like firecrackers exploding; The fighter jets burned like boxes of lit matches......

Wangjiadun Airport is on fire!

Two bomber groups of the Chinese Air Force and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force for China wreaked havoc over the airfield, plowing the airfield, which originally belonged to China, over and over again.

……

And just one day later, Zhou Zhirou found Chiang Kai-shek and made a report:

"Yes, our Air Force and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force for China's aid to China attacked Hankou Wangjiadun Airport. In this battle, more than 160 Japanese planes were destroyed and damaged, and many officers such as Ogawa Hirodasa, deputy commander of the Japanese Navy's Kakaya Air Force, and Ishikawa Tamosa, deputy commander of the Kisarazu Air Force, were killed......

"In addition, more than 30 planes of the Saburo Shinto Formation, which had originally gone out to carry out a bombing mission against our Chongqing, were intercepted by Li Xiangyang's unit of the Fourth Brigade of our Air Force on their way home.

"That's right. During the service, our air force destroyed and damaged more than 200 Japanese planes. The enemy planes at Hankou Airport have been basically cleared! (To be continued......)