Chapter 237: A false alarm (asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

Although Lao Jiang's combat command is not very good, he can barely be regarded as a second knife, and he is completely a stinky chess basket. But Lao Jiang's vision was good, he felt that this sneak attack of the 40th Army was likely to be successful, as Kang Ze said in the telegram, Chen Feng was not a man of words. So he decided to accompany Chen Feng to gamble, and his chips would not be less if he lost the bet, even if there was a loss, it would be mainly based on Chen Feng's air force, and his two brigades were familiar with the southern routes, and the loss would not be too great. If you win the bet, it will be fame and fortune, so why not do it.

After the battle plan was determined, the Northern Air Force fell into a busy preparation, and Chen Feng originally wanted to personally lead the team to participate in the battle, but was stopped by Yang Yi and others. Thinking about it carefully, Chen Feng also felt that he was impulsive this time, air combat is not a joke, especially in air combat in this era, the mortality rate is too high, even if he is familiar with all kinds of fighters, but he can't stand the quality of the current aircraft is too inferior, the skin shell and wood skeleton, if you don't get it right, you may be beaten down.

At 4 o'clock in the morning on October 13, before dawn, Chen Feng rushed to Guisui Airport with a company to see off all the pilots.

"Take a break"

"Risaki"

Looking at the thousands of pilots lined up neatly, Chen Feng's heart was surging, and he said loudly: "Go to Lingyun to kill Yama, and the eagle will raise the nine heavens and roar in the sky!" You are all eagles fighting in the sky, and if you are an eagle, you must have the courage to fight against the wind and rain. I won't say anything else, whether Chinese or Soviet. You just have to fight with confidence, I will take you after the victory, I will give you all the treatment if you are injured, I will raise you for the rest of your life if you are disabled, and I will personally send you to the martyrs' cemetery if you die in battle, and I will take care of your family, okay, board the plane! ”

After Chen Feng finished speaking, Liu Nijia said decisively: "Board the plane!" ”

As the commander-in-chief of the Northern Air Force, Liu Nijia originally did not plan to participate in the war in person. But Ivanovich insisted on seeing the Japanese Air Force for himself. Therefore, Liu Nijia was ruthless, this time the Northern Air Force except for the training plane, all the other fighters participated in the war, and all the pilots were also pulled on the fighters. This is not to say that Liu Nijia is emotional. Rather, as Ivanovich said. It is necessary to have a detailed understanding of the Japanese Air Force. Otherwise, it is impossible to judge who is higher and who is inferior to each other.

As planes soared into the sky, Chen Feng's heart also flew south with these pilots.

This is the first time that the Northern Air Force has fought on such a large scale since its formation, and it would be false to say that it is not worried. Although the operational plan was drawn up in great detail. But after all, a plan is just a plan, and a plan can never catch up with changes. Besides, things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, who can grasp it accurately.

According to the battle plan, the main task today is to transfer the scene, and the real meat drama will be tomorrow. Because the Japanese fleet is not in the harbor at present, it will be possible to dock this afternoon, and it is safest to attack tomorrow morning.

But what Chen Feng didn't expect was that the first battle of the head-to-head duel between the Northern Air Force and the Japanese army was staged in advance this afternoon.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Feng was in the office to correct the documents, and hurriedly ran in and said: "Commander, the airport has just called, saying that the second fighter group and the Japanese Central China Front Army Luwu Air Wing have met, and the two sides have immediately started a fierce battle, and now the fierce battle is underway. ”

"What's going on? How did you get into hands with the Japanese before you arrived in Wuhan? Chen Feng hurriedly asked.

"It's not clear yet." Flower Footfoot.

"Let the guards assemble immediately, and we'll go to the airport now." Chen Feng ordered.

"Yes"

It only took 20 minutes for Chen Feng and others to arrive at the airport, and the underground combat command room of the airport was now full. Liu Nijia and Ivanovich, who hadn't had time to board the plane yet, were also there, and when they saw Chen Feng coming in, everyone hurriedly stood up.

Chen Feng was not in the mood to make these false courtesies, and as soon as he came in, he asked loudly: "Commander Liu, what's going on, how did the Third Destroyer Group match up with the Japanese Luya Air Wing?" ”

"According to the operational plan formulated by our army, the First Destroyer Group will first go to Zhengzhou Airport for transfer, and then the Second Destroyer Group will escort the First and Second Destroyer Groups to Wuhan, and then the Second Destroyer Group will land at Zhengzhou Airport on time, and the First Destroyer Group will continue to cover the bomber group and rush to Wuhan. The 3rd Destroyer Brigade departed from Datong Airport at 9 a.m. to escort the 3rd Destroyer Brigade to Wuhan, also in the form of a relay race, and after the planes arrived in Zhengzhou, the 2nd Destroyer Brigade, which was fully fueled, took over from the 3rd Battalion. Since we only had three bomber groups, the third group had no escort mission after filling up the tank, so we took off from Zhengzhou Airport at 1:40 p.m. and rushed to Wuhan. But I didn't expect that it happened to come with the Japanese Luwu Air Wing to bomb Zhengzhou, so the two sides immediately started fighting, and it can be said that this time it was just an encounter. Liu Jiani reported.

"How's the battle going?" Chen Feng asked again.

Liu Nijia frowned and said: "The two sides have won and lost each other, but on the whole, our army has more losses than the Japanese army. ”

Chen Feng thought for a moment and asked, "Are you sure it's the Luwu Air Wing?" ”

"Well, Xue Chenghu fought with this Kisarazu Air Wing, his own brother is also a pilot, and the fighter plane was shot down by the No. 1014 plane of the Luya Air Wing during the Battle of Songhu and died in Shanghai, he will definitely not admit his mistake."

Hearing Liu Nijia say this, Chen Feng suddenly felt a little depressed, the Kaoya Air Force is one of the two most famous air forces of the Japanese army, and it was formed at the same time as the Kisarazu Air Force. Ishii Yijiang (Navy 39th) served as the first commander of the Kaoya Air Force, and soon after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this Kakuya Air Force was incorporated into the 1st Combined Air Force. Subsequently, the 1st United Air Force Command and the Kaoya Air Force moved to Taipei.

What worries Chen Feng is that the Kaoya Aviation is now using the latest Type 97 fighter produced by the Japanese army, which is a single-engine, single-seat light fighter developed by Japan in the late 1930s, and is also the first type of fighter with a single-wing structure equipped by the Japanese army. The aircraft has excellent horizontal maneuverability, so it is also called the "ultimate light fighter".

The Third Destroyer Brigade of the Northern Air Force is the only destroyer group of the Northern Air Force that is dominated by Japanese fighters, and the number of fighters of the Third Brigade is very small, and it is mainly composed of Japanese-made Type 95 fighters; both in terms of the number of fighters and the performance of the fighters, the Third Brigade of the Northern Air Force is at a disadvantage. The main thing is that the pilots of the 3rd Brigade are mainly Chinese pilots, and most of the pilots do not have much real combat experience.

If it was the first or second destroyer group that encountered the Japanese army, Chen Feng was not worried at all, because the first and second groups had a large number of fighters, and they were mainly Iraq-15 and 16 fighters, and the pilots were mainly Soviet pilots. The Japanese Type 95 and Type 97 fighters had been proven to be far inferior to the Soviet Union's Yi-15 in the Battle of Nomenkan, so if the Japanese army encountered the first or second brigade, Chen Feng would only be happy, and he would not be as anxious as he is now.

"Can you contact Xue Chenghu?" Chen Feng asked in a deep voice.

"Yes"

"Connect him for me!"

"Hey, hey, hey! 3001！ 3001, I'm the base, I'm the base, please reply when you hear it! ”

"Base base, I'm 3001, I'm 3001," Xue Chenghu's slightly hoarse voice came from the loudspeaker hanging on the wall in the command room.

"Xue Chenghu, I'm Liu Nijia, I'm Liu Nijia, the head seat wants to talk to you, the head seat wants to talk to you"

"Okay, I'm Xue Chenghu!"

"Xue Chenghu, how is the battle situation now?"

"Report the general seat, not bad, just after the war we lost 4 fighters, but the Japanese army this time is mainly bombers, destroyers only a dozen, so we have an absolute advantage in the number of fighters, according to our boys, now a total of 2 Japanese fighters and 5 bombers have been shot down, and our army has lost 9 fighters. Now the Japanese are retreating south, and we are entangled with it! ”

"How many fighters do the Japanese army still have?" Chen Feng asked again.

"The Japanese army did not come with a complete air wing this time, there were only nearly 20 bombers and more than a dozen destroyers, and now 7 have been shot down by us, and there are more than 30!"

Now Chen Feng was relieved, this guy's luck was really good, he actually encountered the Japanese bomber group, and there were only a dozen fighters escorting the enemy.

"Xue Chenghu, I order your troops to immediately stop the pursuit and lead the team to continue to Wuhan." Chen Feng ordered loudly.

"Yes!" (To be continued......)