Chapter 723: Ending the Nishimura Air Force

At the end of the last battle of Nanjing's air defense war, the Nishimura Uemon Air Force came with great momentum, and more than 100 planes folded their wings over Nanjing, and only 60 or so planes fled from the sky over Nanjing in a panic.

It was also Nishimura who found himself unlucky, the route he took when he came, and when he returned, he still took that route, but he didn't know that the situation was very different, when he came, he was strong and strong, and when he returned, he suffered a new defeat, and his strength was greatly reduced, like a defeated rooster, how could he still have a little courage to fight, lest the plane drive slowly and not be able to return to Taiwan for lunch.

Gao Zhihang led the destroyer unit, which had been circling in the airspace of Fuzhou for six or seven minutes, when a dark cloud happened to drift over, and he led the group of planes to hide in the clouds, and only sent a squadron of four fighters to reconnoiter on the route of the Japanese army's return.

Gao Zhihang is not very satisfied, the meat left for himself is too thin, Commander-in-Chief Tang is ruthless enough, just a while, almost two-thirds of the little devil planes have been killed, if this continues, will the Air Force still have a job? Anyway, let me, the brothers, each get a little devil's fighter jet, no matter what Gao Zhihang mutters in his stomach, Nishimura Uemon is bent on returning to Taiwan.

After calming down, he began to think about how to report this fiasco to the War Department, how to cover up the fact that he had made a mistake in command, not to lose his black hat, not to be ordered to apologize for his crimes, and to put the blame on the naval air force, saying that they did not report the anti-aircraft fire situation of the defenders of Nanjing China in a timely manner, and only then did they lead the Nishimura Air Force, which suffered such heavy losses under the condition that the enemy situation was unknown, which was an act of dereliction of duty and disregard for the overall interests of the empire, although there were some strong words, But this is the only reason that can be found, barely plausible.

Nishimura was full of how to shirk responsibility, and he didn't care about searching the situation in the air, Gao Zhihang, who was flying in the clouds high and appeared from time to time, stared at the landline of Nishimura Uemon who was crooked and crooked like a cramp at a glance, this little devil is the commander of the group, the logo painted on the plane is different from other little devil planes, and the flying position is also prominent, when the remnants of the Nishimura Air Force arrived at the ambush airspace, Gao Zhihang only shouted: "Brothers, send these little devils' planes back to grandma's house"

A press on the nose of the plane, from the high altitude eagle swooped down on the Nishimura's landline, the sudden cheerful airspace, so that his mind was clear, behind him, was a sharp arrow suddenly out of the Chinese fighter plane, Mount Tai rushed to the unsuspecting Japanese aircraft group, full of thoughts Nishimura Uemon, instinctively felt a dangerous breath approaching, left and right to look up and search, nothing, look up, at that time the soul was scattered throat and eyes dry, a Chinese fighter jet, almost vertical fall, from the sky above his head, That posture is a way of playing that ends up together, with a vicious momentum.

Nishimura had time to shout: "Enemy planes, disperse in combat formation," and then, pulling the control stick, ready to dodge this first blow, but forgot about it, his own plane, inconvenient to control, his heart arrived, and his hands arrived, but the plane was not in place, Gao Zhihang gritted his teeth, his eyes only had the expanding outline of the Japanese plane, his fingers pressed tightly on the machine gun launch button, and the fuselage trembled slightly.

Two visible chains of fire came out of the nose, accompanied by the brisk "click" sound of the machine gun, and it was whipped fiercely on the plane of the West Village, less than 60 meters away, more than 100 rounds of machine gun bullets, all of which got into the plane of the West Village, and in front of Gao Zhihang's eyes, a huge fireball appeared, with billowing black smoke, and exploded into fragments with light smoke.

As soon as the battle began, the commander of the Japanese Army Air Force stationed in Taiwan, the commander of the Japanese Army Air Force stationed in Taiwan, was beheaded by Gao Zhihang, commander of the Chinese destroyer unit, and was beheaded by Gao Zhihang, commander of the Chinese destroyer unit; before Nishimura died, he did not even see clearly the basic outline of the Chinese fighter plane attacking him, and the battle broke out suddenly.

Moreover, according to Gao Zhihang's order, all the fighters, first attack the Japanese fighters, the rest of the bombers, even if they push the throttle to the end, they can't go far, basically three against one, flying up and down for a while, although the Japanese pilots desperately counterattacked like mad dogs, and even adopted the same way of fighting, seeing that they couldn't escape, they tilted the nose of the plane, ready to hit, and shouted in their mouths; "Long live the Great Japanese Empire, His Majesty the Emperor Xià Long live"

The Chinese pilots who had the advantage would not play this kind of bushido spirit with the little devils, and they waved their wings to dodge, and the fighters who followed behind accurately sent a string of machine gun bullets with their tails into the Japanese planes, and in the sky, they continued to bloom one after another black salute with orange flames, and all the Japanese fighters were shot down, and none of them were dragged to the ground with black smoke, and all of them were blown into a volley, and the Japanese pilots did not even have the opportunity to parachute.

After killing the Japanese fighters, it was the turn of the Japanese bombers to be unlucky, and the Chinese pilots who were able to fight immediately caught up with the Japanese bomber group that was desperately fleeing, and rampage like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and they had an advantage in numbers, and after 20 minutes, in the sky, not a single Japanese plane could be seen, the Nishimura Air Force was completely annihilated, ninety bombers, fifty-two fighters, together with the Japanese pilots, none of them survived, and they came all the way from Taiwan, but they ended their lives here, and the battle was fought smoothly to the extreme, Chinese fighters, Not even a single one was damaged.

Gao Zhihang was still unsatisfied, hovered around the plane, and picked up the microphone: "Report to Commander-in-Chief Tang, my destroyer unit, in the sky over Fuzhou, completely annihilated the remnants of the Japanese planes that returned, a total of 64 Japanese planes of all kinds were shot down, none of them died, and now I am ready to return," Tang Qiuli could already hear the excitement from Gao Zhihang's tone with a northeast accent, and he knew that the air battle was extremely smooth.

"Commander Gao, congratulations on the greatest victory of the Air Force, and now order your unit to immediately land and replenish ammunition and fuel, rush to the sea off the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai, attack the transport fleet transporting Japanese infantry, and strive to send all the Japanese troops into the East China Sea," Gao Zhihang was so excited that he was as happy as an old man who had drunk two catties of old white gan, shouted, and hurried back to the airport.

Tang Qiuli could rest assured that Gao Zhihang's destroyer unit would attack the Japanese transport fleet on the sea, the Japanese Navy's First and Third Fleets had already withdrawn to the mainland, and the Japanese Army Air Force in Taiwan had been completely wiped out, and there was no Japanese air force in the Songhu area that could threaten them.

This is a rare opportunity to bully China that there are no large warships and torpedo bombers, and Japan's transport fleet has only a dozen or so small and medium-sized ships to escort ships transporting infantry; moreover, Gao Zhihang's destroyer unit has really fought well; counting today's results, with 64 fighters, it has achieved the record of shooting down 148 Japanese planes, and only six of its own planes have been shot down and more than 10 have been wounded.

Tang Qiuli could finally smile at ease, the 11-day defense battle of Nanjing, at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties and hundreds of pieces of damaged equipment, shot down nearly 600 Japanese planes of all kinds, which was one-fifth of Japan's total air force, which was enough to make Emperor Hirohito tearful in his eyes, rolling all over the ground, no matter how big his family business was, he could not afford such a toss, let alone Japan, an island country that lacked everything.

Japan's attempt to use the bombing of Nanjing to achieve the goal of destroying the Chinese's will to resist was completely unsuccessful, although the city of Nanjing was almost in ruins, to Tang Qiuli's relief, not a single citizen of Nanjing was harmed, the Japanese air power was severely attacked, one and the other, he could take the opportunity to increase the air power, not to mention, the situation of Nanjing City just provided him with a reason to persuade Chairman Chiang to move the capital, and Chairman Chiang could not help but believe it, please look at the tragic situation in Nanjing City, Chairman Chiang's personal safety, how to be safeguarded,

The First World War had three benefits, and it was still the use of Chairman Jiang's strategic resources, not counting the glorious image he left in the minds of the soldiers and officers of the Central Army, this is an intangible asset, the purpose was achieved, and Tang Qiuli, who was in a relaxed mood, showed an old fox-like smile again, and saw that the mountain tiger around him was cold, and Mei Xue pulled his sleeve.

Tang Qiuli was smiling very happily in the almost ruins of the city of Nanjing, in the June sunshine, but Chairman Jiang in Wuhan, but he was restless every day, the war in Nanjing, with Tang Qiuli's war reports a day, continued to be sent to his hands, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, the Japanese did not hesitate to spend blood, bombing Nanjing indiscriminately, the purpose was to force themselves to submit, but also to kill themselves, the door to Sino-Japanese peace talks has been completely closed, there is no room for negotiation, the two sides are a life-and-death situation.

Chairman Chiang was not only angry about this, how could the Japanese regard themselves as a thorn in their side, and they must get rid of it as soon as possible? Tang Qiuli, who dealt with them the hardest, didn't have to exert such great strength, and used more than 600 planes to bomb Nanjing for 11 days.

In this way, Nanjing is by no means a safe place, the Japanese will launch another large-scale attack on Nanjing sooner or later, the Japanese warships can drive to the city of Nanjing, planes can fly to the sky over Nanjing to drop bombs, as soon as the Jiangnan battle starts, Nanjing is the front line, too dangerous, must stay away, but where to settle down next?

(To be continued)