Chu Yunfei originally wanted to get away with it.

A soldier should have the backbone of a soldier.

Could it be that because the Japanese army is going to launch a full-scale air attack, it will not dare to stay with a solid air defense command in fear?

After all, this is the best place to watch the battle when the Japanese army launches a full-scale air raid.

The signal soldier of the Eighth Route Army continued: "I have already conveyed the order of the detachment commander, please ask several commanders to transfer immediately, and I will also go and inform the commanders of our Eighth Route Army, so I will not bother." ”

With that, he turned and left.

Meaning...... The commanders of the Eighth Route are also preparing to evacuate from the city headquarters?

Yang Chongshan and Wu Changsheng turned their heads and left, these two old boys who were in cahoots couldn't wait to hook their shoulders and put their backs.

Fang Ligong looked at Chu Yunfei, "Commander, are we going to ......?"

"Evacuate immediately, the gentleman will not be in danger!"

Thick eyebrows and big eyes, dignified appearance, and a heroic face Captain Chu said with a straight face.

"Yes!" Fang Ligong breathed a sigh of relief.

……

Naturally, all the bombers of the aviation units of the Eighth Route Army stayed at the airfield, waiting for orders from the command headquarters at any time under the command of Major Davis, preparing to take the opportunity to go to Shanghai to carry out the sneak attack plan.

The rest of the modified fighters were all put into the air battle of Licheng.

Doolittle's preliminary battle plan at the command was:

"With the Type 97 fighter squadron diving at a high altitude, raiding the Japanese escort formation, a wave of offensive, and trying to disperse the Japanese air team.

After this wave of rapid raids, the 97 fighter squadron withdrew at high speed, and if the Japanese fighters dared to pursue, Zhong Xu's squad and the Falcon squad took advantage of the speed advantage to turn back, and the 97 fighter squadron returned again at the same time to strangle, waiting for the opportunity to severely damage the devil's flight unit.

If the plan goes well, once the devil's escort fighter group is dispersed.

The remaining light and heavy bombers of the Japanese army were no different from lambs to the slaughter in front of our modified fighters.

Maybe we can hit the Japanese bomber formation in one fell swoop and get a great result! ”

In fact.

After the actual air combat between the two sides began.

If it is said that according to conventional operations, the fighter formation of the Eighth Route Army does not have the air search and radar intelligence support of the teleprobe command center, and it may run head-on into the most elite Falcon squadron of the devils.

But with the Troop it's different.

All the anti-air search radars in the airspace of Licheng turned on to search, and immediately found that the Devil Navy bombers and army bombers were bombing at high altitudes around the urban area of Licheng.

However, only one squadron of fighters patrolled the southern part of the city, two fighter squadrons escorted the air over the city, and two fighter squadrons were on alert in the airspace north of the city.

After getting in touch with Doolittle, Kong Jie immediately decided:

"The aviation unit first bypassed the airspace north of Licheng, entered the battlefield from the north of Lucheng, first raided and attacked the southern alert squadron of the Japanese army, and then attacked the two Japanese escort fighter squadrons that rushed over to support.

Finally, evacuate to the west, attracting the elite flying team of the devil's north to pursue westward. ”

The battle soon unfolded:

A squadron of Type 97 fighters took off first, and with the support of the electric reconnaissance radar units around the airfield, they quickly knocked out the Japanese reconnaissance planes in the airspace.

Immediately, the fighter formations of the Eighth Route Army took off in turn - the repaired Type 1 Falcon Squad, the 97 Fighter Squad, and the 97 Reconnaissance Aircraft Squadron.

When the fighter formation of the Eighth Route Army attacked the devil reconnaissance plane, the devil pilot quickly passed on the information to the Japanese Licheng fighter unit.

I learned that the secret aviation unit of the Eighth Route Army, which His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had been thinking about for a long time, finally appeared.

The Japanese command quickly made adjustments.

Ordered a group of fighters to go north to stand on guard.

The elite air force of the Japanese army north of the city is therefore temporarily away from the airspace of Licheng.

Then, the Eighth Route fighter group flew to the west of Taihang Mountain and entered the battlefield through Lucheng.

With the 12.7 heavy machine gun of the 97 fighter, the enemy opened fire first, and cooperated with the reconnaissance troops and intelligence troops on the ground to knock out the Japanese commander's landline with a radio station.

Subsequently, the Japanese fighter formations were completely dispersed by means of dispersal operations.

Before the battle began, Kong Jie and Doolittle considered this:

"The Japanese planes did not have reliable short-wave radio communications, basically the commander's landline had a radio, and the communication between the squadrons was all based on gestures and clipboards!

As long as the landline can be knocked out and the devil formation can be disrupted, the Falcon Formation and Zhong Xu Formation can start strangulation when the Japanese air teams cannot obtain effective communication and cooperate with the operation.

And that's exactly what happened.

The Japanese probably never imagined that one day they would engage in such a large-scale air battle with the Eighth Route Army.

The arrogance of the commanders of the flying units of the devils in Central, North China, and East China also made them think that even if the Eighth Route Army had aviation units, it was nothing more than some tattered and backward fighters and the most primitive combat methods.

As everyone knows, a secret aviation unit built by a detachment.

In addition to the fact that the number of fighters is not too much, mainly by seizing them from the Japanese army.

The modified fighters and bombers were already ahead of the Japanese flying units in terms of flight speed, protection capabilities, as well as firepower configuration and solid means of communication.

The devil didn't expect this.

The old devil Okamura can probably guess something, after all, even the ace US military pilot Doolittle and his party are in the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

But how many people are willing to listen to his current words, a general who keeps defeating battles?

Not to mention the arrogant naval aviation units and the Japanese air units in East China.

That's it.

Under the careful command of Kong Jie and Doolittle and his entourage, a detachment of secret aviation units launched an improved anti-air version of the tactics of division, outflanking, and annihilation on the ground against the Japanese flying units.

After the soldiers successfully defeated the Japanese army's southern guard formation.

At this time, the Japanese escort formation over Licheng received a distress telegram.

And the Japanese army soon made another stupid mistake.

Due to the rapid movement of the Eighth Route Army, coupled with the fact that the means of communication on the Japanese side were greatly limited.

The Japanese command received information that the Eighth Route Army had dispatched a large number of 97 fighter formations.

As for the news of the attack of the Falcon Squad and Zhong Kui Squadron, as well as other types of aircraft, the Japanese command has not yet received any information.

In order to quickly eliminate the 97 fighter formation dispatched by the Eighth Road.

The Japanese command did not think much about it, quickly mobilized several squadrons of fighters, and hurried to support.

"It's good to come!"

Inside the headquarters, Kong Jie opened his mouth excitedly.

After the two sides quickly approached.

The aviation rockets attached to the special fighter formation of the Eighth Route Army all came in handy.

Under full fire.

The aerial rockets trailing the smoke of the tail flew in the opposite direction of the Japanese planes, and the relative speed reached a rather terrifying level.

Forthwith......

Boom –

A series of popping sounds.

Three Japanese fighters were destroyed on the spot, and several more were heavily damaged.

Under the original blind reinforcement, the large group formed by a large number of fighters was also broken up in an instant.

The pilots of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the absolute range advantage of the 12.7 aviation machine gun to take the lead in firing from a long distance, pressing the Japanese 7.7 aviation machine gun, which had a relatively short range.

Soon, the large group of aircraft of the devils was completely dispersed.

The falcon team at high altitude, Zhong Xu's team, appeared like ghosts at this time, and used the high-altitude high speed to start strangling again.

After a short confrontation, the Eighth Route fighter unit repelled the devil's escort formation.

However, they did not stop and quickly evacuated to the airspace west of Licheng, attracting the remaining Japanese planes and the elite flying team from the airspace to the north to support the pursuit.

After the remaining Japanese escort formation and the elite flying team that had arrived from the north to support, they went to the west of Licheng and pursued them in the mountains around Xiangyuan.

The pilots and soldiers were waiting for this moment.

A few U.S. military pilots who were bold and daring even held the distance, and hung the devil's fighter plane behind their butts not far away.

Soon after, the devil was successfully lured to the designated airspace.

In the mountains and forests corresponding to the airspace, there were lurking Eighth Route Army telepathy units and antiaircraft artillery units, waiting for the devil formation to enter the ambush area, and all kinds of antiaircraft artillery opened fire fiercely.

The Japanese pilots who pursued them did not expect such a method at all.

just plunged headlong into the ambush airspace set up by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

The commander who led the team was also full of excitement.

"Grandma's, for so many years, our regular troops can often only ambush the devil's infantry, but this time we have grown up, and we want to ambush the devil's plane!

Everyone set up the muzzle of the gun for me in advance, set up the muzzle, and according to the coordinated mode of air combat that we usually teach, after a while the devil's plane flew over, they hit me hard.

Try to shoot down all the enemy planes for me! ”

The raid erupted.

The devil pilots of the plane were really caught off guard.

They hurriedly operated to increase the altitude, and the fighters could no longer maintain their original battle formation, and were quickly dispersed.

At this time, the Falcon Formation and Zhong Kui Formation, which had separated from the Eighth Route Army at high altitude and high speed in the early stage, took advantage of this opportunity to quickly attack.

After the two elite Falcon squadrons and the 97 Fighter Squadron in the north of the Devil City were ambushed by anti-aircraft artillery, and the Zhong Xu formation of the Eighth Route Army and the Falcon Formation focused on the attack.

The 8th Route Army's 97 fighter formation, which was responsible for luring the enemy in the early stage, reorganized itself and continued to carry out surprise attacks, hunting down the Devil Type 97 fighters who broke away from the formation and fled in all directions.

The three-way fighter unit coordinated and cooperated in the operation.

On the premise that the whole could not compete with the strength of the Japanese army's flying units, it continuously divided and annihilated the Japanese army's fighter units with local superiority.

In addition, the air defense units of the Eighth Route Army in the Licheng area pinned down a considerable part of the Japanese army's flight units.

It also consumed a large amount of ammunition for the Japanese fighters and caused a lot of damage to the Japanese fighters.

After waiting for a team of secret aviation units and a three-way fighter squad to quickly attack, they really got twice the result with half the effort, and the little devils who hit were caught off guard and parried in embarrassment.

The whole anti-air battle.

The Falcon fighter formation and Zhong Kui fighter formation of the Eighth Route Army are like the tip of a knife, constantly stabbing back and forth on the Japanese army, cutting the formation of the Japanese flying team one by one.

These modifications are powerful and fast.

In the course of the confrontation with the Japanese fighters, they basically lost the upper hand.

This made the Japanese pilots who fought against them cry bitterly, where is this like the Eighth Route Army troops with backward equipment and once disdained by them!

It's like a well-honed U.S. military flying team.

For this anti-aircraft operation.

Kong Jie called it: "Absolute superiority strike tactics!" ”

-- First use the ground and air combat in Licheng to consume the vigor of the Japanese army's flying troops, and when the devil's flight unit is already sleepy and short of aircraft, a detachment of secret aviation units takes the opportunity to attack.

Take the lead in seizing people, show the enemy weakness, and then wait for work with ease, and surround on all sides.

Make full use of the advantage of the long range of the weapon, fire the enemy first, and have the advantage of better protection and faster speed of the aircraft to impact the formation of the devil.

All formations have US pilots as the chief planes and the pilots of the Eighth Route Army as wingmen, and they coordinate with each other.

Use your strengths to attack the devil's shortcomings.

Using the coordination and cooperation of the three-way fighter groups, they constantly attacked in all directions, disrupting the formation of the Japanese army's flying squadrons, which were already inconsistent in command and backward in their means of communication, and completely plunged them into chaos.

As a result, the Japanese flight team fought by the three-way fighter formation was in a mess.

It was the perfect opportunity for Major Davis to lead the secretly formed bomber unit, follow the chaos of the Japanese army's beating, and the fleeing flight unit, and take the opportunity to rush to Shanghai and sneak attack the large Japanese military airfield.

From the whole combing:

First, the Eighth Route attacked Licheng on a large scale, and announced in a high-profile manner that it would hold a military parade in Licheng, and the time was set for August 1, the day of the Army Day, forcing the Japanese army to launch an air raid.

Second, the air defense units of Licheng were secretly built and the camouflage fortifications made by the people up and down of Licheng to paralyze the Japanese army, and the flying units of the Japanese army from all sides were dragged to make the Japanese soldiers sleepy and lacking aircraft.

Third, a detachment of secret aviation units took the opportunity to attack, and the Japanese flight formation that was beaten was in chaos and withdrew in disarray.

Fourth, Davis, who had been waiting for a long time, led a group of bombers to take the opportunity to blend in with the chaotic evacuation of the Japanese army's flight troops, rushed all the way to Shanghai, and then, with the cooperation of the intelligence and reconnaissance units in the Shanghai area, launched an air raid plan against the three large military airfields of the Japanese army.

On the whole, it can be said that one link after another, interlocking.

That......

When Kong Jie first proposed the layout and battle plan for the entire field at the former enemy's general headquarters, the deputy commander-in-chief, chief of staff, and the chief of staff and his party could not help but be a little worried while being amazed.

Once successful, the deployment of the battle situation one after another will undoubtedly be a huge blow to the Japanese army.

But by the same token, because the deployment is too subtle, there are too many steps that cannot be missed.

Once a link falls off the chain, it's not good.

In the end, the bold deputy commander-in-chief made the decision and decided the battle:

"Hit!"

"In the 100-regiment battle that was so difficult back then, we didn't know what the road ahead was, but we should fight or fight."

"Now, our troops have grown a lot, and the equipment has also developed a lot, if we can still let the little devils be bullied, we can't say anything, and our Eighth Route Army can't afford to lose this person!"

The officers and men were also in high spirits, and they quickly arranged and discussed the details of the overall battle plan.

In the end, this milestone was promoted, and the first great victory of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Unit in air combat was promoted!

(End of chapter)