So 20 Hayabusa continued to stay high in the air and monitor the surroundings.

In the clouds, US military planes loomed, this time no longer the P38, but a light fighter with a shark's mouth painted on the nose. High altitude is not the combat area that the Hayabusa excels at, but the pilots still don't feel any problems against the P40 fighter, which is slightly inferior in all aspects. As long as the opposing side entered the dogfight, no Allied aircraft (including the Spitfire) were opponents of the Japanese fighters. Although the Allies developed many tactics, such as the sneak attack tactics of using dive speed to flee with one hit, or essentially the Saatchi scissors of more hits, the advantage of circling and climbing was always on the side of the Japanese aircraft, which was the advantage gained by the Japanese aircraft after greatly sacrificing their defenses.

Seeing that the enemy did not have an altitude advantage, the Japanese planes definitely gave the enemy a little color.

After the two sides fired head-on, they rolled and entered the first stagger, and some pilots realized that the P40 plane in front of them seemed to have become fat, and there was a very obvious air intake under the belly.

In a flash, the two sides entered a free fight. At this time, the American pilots had a rough understanding of the performance of the Japanese Hayabusa and Zero fighters. They knew that the new Mustang fighter they were flying could compete with the enemy at a higher altitude and hover, rather than blindly avoiding it. In the conventional way of dealing with the P40, the Japanese aircraft entered the turn and found that the enemy aircraft quickly overtook the 3/9 position, and its instantaneous disc surpassed the Japanese aircraft with the help of its aileron efficiency. The Nippon tried to stabilize the market in the continuous turns, but it seemed difficult to do so. In the memory of Japanese pilots, there has never been an Allied aircraft that can make such a tight turn.

The P51A's stabilizing ability, in addition to better aerodynamics, comes more from the 1200 horsepower Allison night cooling engine and the new turbocharger, which allows the aircraft to maintain 95% of its maximum output in higher airspace, while the Japanese aircraft continue to turn above 4500 meters, and the speed is bound to become slower and slower, which eventually makes the angular speed unsustainable.

Seeing that the hovering was at a loss, the Japanese planes began to turn downwards in an attempt to divert the American planes into low, favorable airspace for their own side, while at the same time replenishing their speed.

The pilots of the 14 Air Force, who took part in the battle, were all old fritters from the time of the Flying Tigers, and they would be happy to see the Japanese forced to lose altitude in exchange for some speed. Japanese planes were too light, and diving was not their strong point, and being forced to dive only increased the disadvantage.

The P51A, in the dive, bit the Japanese machine fiercely and taught the enemy a lesson with 4 machine guns. The battle once again entered the dive-hunting phase to which the Americans were accustomed. The Japanese fighters who could not escape were shot down one after another. Some tried to bite their opponents back, only to find that the P51A's disengagement speed was better than that of the P40.

The veterans who flew this batch of new planes naturally knew the flight envelope of the Japanese planes, and they would never easily engage in a grappling with them in the lower areas. The plane quickly climbed after breaking away, and then threw itself into a second round of attacks. The Japanese machine finds itself in a huge passivity, pursuing the enemy, and is bound to climb to a height that is unfavorable to him; If the pursuit is abandoned, the enemy plane will soon occupy the altitude and dive down. Hayabusa is at an absolute disadvantage.

With the help of this new type of aircraft, the shortcomings in the performance of the US fighter have been gradually made up, and if it were not for the weak firepower of this aircraft, this air battle would have been more clean and neat.

Just when the Japanese fighters were unable to protect themselves, the P38 fighters that had escaped before returned to the battlefield and began to intercept the second group of Japanese bombers that arrived in the air. The P38 was ideal for attacking Japanese bombers with thin armor and firepower for self-defense. The Thunderbolt's nose fire is dense and accurate, and there are no fire breaks caused by the firing coordinator and scattered wing fire.

They directly used a head-on attack and rushed straight towards the bomber. The frontal front was precisely where the cover door of all Japanese bombers was located, and its frontal defensive fire relied on two 7.7 mm machine guns in the machine gun tower. The P38's 20mm cannon can attack the frontal cockpit, wings and engines with precise bursts.

Zhou Youfu's troops watched one plane after another with the sun flag falling, and the U.S. Army Air Force changed its guns, allowing them to offset the disadvantage in range and appear here for a long time.

Lao Zhou saw that the door was coming, and this airport would definitely be saved. He ordered his troops to rush to repair the runway at the risk of being hit by Japanese planes. Of course, it's not too difficult, just fill the crater with mud and ram it out. Once the landing gear of the transport plane is broken when landing, then it should quickly send people to push it to the side of the runway to deal with it, and the landing efficiency must not be delayed. At the same time, he laid out the barbed wire found in the warehouse outside the airport.

As soon as the Japanese planes were repulsed, the C47 transport planes that followed immediately arrived and began to land one after another. Sent Zhou Youfu's urgently needed soldiers and supplies. Even yesterday, Lao Zhou couldn't believe that this could be true.

C47 even sent a lot of Willis jeeps, which made the Hongxiang troops who had just landed have a high mobility ability, far stronger than the Japanese army on bicycles. These vehicles can carry up to 60 mortars, as well as quite a few ammunition. The Hongxiang troops, temporarily grouped, formed several teams that could serve as advance reconnaissance teams for tank troops.

Stilwell, who was in the rear, was also amazed by Chu Tingchang's strange thinking, and even thought of giving the airborne troops considerable mobility and firepower. Although the U.S. military has both transport aircraft and jeeps, generally speaking, the vehicles transported by transport planes are only for the use of command officers. It was not thought of forming mobile units behind enemy lines entirely from such vehicles.

These units were quickly thrown into the enemy's weak rear areas as companies and began to show their skills, and although they were limited by fuel supplies and could not maneuver too far, they were far more agile than ordinary infantry.

419 learned through the interception of French radio that the French army's military camps in various parts of Cambodia were under the surveillance of local puppet forces, and looting took place in some places.

Lon Nol's appearance complicates the situation. Historically, this person would have ended up defecting to the Americans, and of course he should not have gotten in touch with the Americans yet. Chief Chu tended to take out this threat early. Lin Xiuxuan's group was coming, but Chu Tingchang was not ready to wait for Team Leader Lin's plan, he asked the landing force to be divided into several parts, and first accept the surrender of the French troops in various places, so as to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of any local armed forces and make them bigger.

Every ambitious warlord is a potential threat, and it is likely that at such a delicate moment, it will have a far-reaching and negative impact on the future, and Chu Tingchang must prepare for a rainy day.

In Phnom Penh, Major General Akashi collected the body of Marshal Terauchi and hurriedly transported it to the airport in Vietnam, and then sent it to China. Japan has not yet killed a marshal, so the matter is still kept under domestic secrecy, and it is only reported to the upper echelons of the military department. However, in the local army, the news of the marshal being besieged and committing suicide has spread. The death in the temple was an unprecedented blow to morale. For the first time, many military personnel, including Akashi, began to suspect that the war might be lost. Why did the once invincible army fight like this? As brigade commander, he received a direct order from the General Staff Headquarters to take advantage of the night battle and recapture the airfield at any cost.

Akashi was defeated all the way from northern Burma to this point, knowing that the night battle would not work against Chu Tingchang's troops, but the military order was like a mountain, and he had to carry it out. He gathered all 5 brigades, about 4,000 men, and prepared to launch a white-knuckle charge at night.

He knew that it was a mission that bordered on suicide, and that the airport was surrounded by open fields. And the enemy, it seems, strengthened a barbed wire fence in the evening. But if you don't attack, the enemy will land the next plane every 6 minutes, and after tonight, I don't know how powerful it will become. There is no need to report from the front, he is in the command headquarters, and he can hear enemy planes flying overhead. His brigade lacked heavy firepower, and all the heavy artillery in Phnom Penh was taken away by Yamashita Fengwen, and he could not block the enemy's landing here with artillery fire, so he could only fill it with human lives.

He ordered a round of firing at the airfield with the only 4 75-mm mountain guns and more than two hundred shells, after which the troops attacked the enemy from several directions.

A few hours ago, Zhou Youfu did not expect the enemy to launch a full-scale attack, the Japanese army had no artillery, no tanks, why launched an attack? His only fear was that enemy harassing forces would slip in and blow up airfield facilities, or transport planes that would not have had time to take off. So he simply strengthened some of the defenses using barbed wire in the airfield warehouses, and additionally deployed machine guns in several directions.

However, the drones detected the unusual build-up of the enemy, and they took advantage of the darkness to march towards the airfield, and then the three brigades dispersed and outflanked the airfield from a great distance, apparently to attack.

Chu Tingchang's telegram was immediately sent to Zhou Youfu's headquarters, telling Lao Zhou that tonight he had made a Tianze hexagram, and the hexagram was: Fengluo Qishan broke into all directions; It can be seen that the night is in danger, and then calculated by the six yao, tonight is the official ghost, there is bound to be a sneak attack by the enemy, and the enemy will respond to the hexagram and come from all directions. Lao Zhou didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly made a deployment.

Stilwell's command, which was far away in Mandalay, immediately forwarded the telegram from Chief Chu Ting, which he had heard, to Washington.

A month ago, a new secret unit of the "War Prediction Office" was set up under the Department of Defense, which has gathered the nation's top astrologers and people who claim to be able to foresee the future, and is being statistically compared by mathematicians at Princeton University in an attempt to find out the validity. Chu Tingchang's every prediction is also in the statistical sample. Since there are no scholars in the United States who have found Zhou Yi, it is temporarily impossible to compare Chu Tingchang's set of predictions horizontally. Therefore, under the Zhou Yi category, he is the only one, of course, Chu Tingchang will occasionally use ancient Chinese stargazing to interpret it. Naturally, it is also in the statistics.

The US side found that several of his observations of the stars did not match the astrological phenomena observed by the observatory, but the results always came true.

And among the remaining one hundred and nine, among the forecasters representing various schools, none of them can reach one-third of Chu Tingchang's accuracy. In fact, since Qin Xiaosu has not presided over the deciphering work on 419 for a long time, 419 does not know that the United States is carrying out such a boring eavesdropping operation.