This sudden action startled the old devil Okabe, who received the news.

He also wanted to play a big game of chess in the plains and destroy the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop!

Who would have thought that there would be such a rampant guy, this posture, is it possible to come and take his life directly?

Judging from the map, the Eighth Route Army troops that went straight to Beiping were obviously alone in depth, and even broke away from the main force in the rear.

This is a taboo for soldiers.

But he was fierce and aggressive, and he was in a desperate posture.

Where has Okabe ever seen such a desperate opponent.

In addition, the Japanese troops blocking along the way were really overwhelmed, and the Japanese troops stationed in the rear of Beiping were not many troops due to reinforcements and transfers from various places for many days.

The devil officers of the North China General Headquarters of the Japanese Army stationed in Beiping were in a panic for a while.

Just as Kong Jie joked at the beginning, this hit Jinmen, it really seems to have taken out the heart of the devil!

In the face of Commander Wang's thunderous offensive, Okabe, who had no time to react, could only ask for help from the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

Hata Junroku, who was sitting in Jinling, scolded Okabe for being incompetent for this, but he couldn't sit back and watch the North China General Headquarters fail, wouldn't that be a great shame for the empire?

As a result, the Japanese navies in Qingdao and Dalian, under the intervention of Junroku Hata, immediately formed a combined fleet to organize troops, equipment, and material transport fleets.

Even the cruiser Izumo, which was preparing to be decommissioned and transferred back home, was used again.

to solve the crisis of Jinmen and Beiping.

As a result, the Japanese army did not expect that the news of the secret assembly of ships in Dalian and Qingdao was accidentally leaked.

In this way, when Kong Jie commanded the Eighth Route Army aviation unit and cooperated with the ground reconnaissance force to launch an air raid on the Japanese port of Dalian, he accidentally bumped into the Izumo that had just been mobilized.

As Kong Jie said: this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

When the news reached the aviation combat units on the front line, the commanders heard that the huge ship docked near the port was the cruiser Izumo, the devil that everyone had dreamed of sinking.

The soldiers were all excited, vowing to sink the Izumo tonight!

The excited Kong Jie and others even temporarily reconvened the pre-war military meeting, and made a detailed analysis of the assembly of ships and ships in the port of the devil, especially with the goal of how to sink the devil's Izumo, and set a series of plans for changing the operation.

After the battle officially began......

The first wave of high-speed Type 97 reconnaissance planes, Mosquito night radar reconnaissance planes, and P38 improved night radar reconnaissance planes formed a search team to conduct a comprehensive reconnaissance of the waters near Weihai.

After searching for a period of time, the devil fleet was successfully found on the route given by the interrogation information.

Subsequently, the second wave of Catalina's anti-air and anti-sea radar units flew to the target area under the escort of Mosquito night fighters to conduct long-term monitoring and tracking.

Night, 22 o'clock sharp.

The Eighth Route armament prepared the airfield, overhauled and maintained the participating aircraft, refueled, mounted torpedo bombs, and the pilots rested for several hours and had dinner.

All the British troops, the American army, and the pilots of the Eighth Route Army lined up next to the runway of the airport for the final mobilization.

Political Commissar Luo said: "This night air raid is the first time for our Eighth Route Army, but I believe it is a successful start.

Tonight, we are going to send the fleet from Devil Dalian to the sea to feed Wang Ba, and I wish you all a victory! ”

The U.S. military instructors, the British military instructors, and the pilots they led all wore red turbans with the word "revenge" written on them, along with the pilots of the Eighth Route Army.

Tonight is destined to be a night of revenge!

Everyone shouted the slogan of blowing up the Izumo, the flagship of the sunken devils, and entered the take-off area in groups one after another.

In addition to the flagship Izumo, the devil's fleet also escorted 3 light cruisers, 8 destroyers, and a huge transport fleet composed of more than 20 troop carriers, cargo ships, and oil tankers, and was heading for Weihai port at full speed.

The plan formulated by Staff Officer Liu, Staff Doolittle, Davis, Charles and others was to first take advantage of the shortcomings of the old warships of the Devil Navy that did not have radar, and attack the cruisers and destroyers of the Devils with all their strength in the first wave, so as to severely damage them or drive them out of the battlefield, and then deal a devastating blow to the fleet they escorted.

This time, the most elite pilots led by Doolittle and others formed a night fighter unit to intercept along the way to prevent the long-range night fighter unit sent by the devils from other airfields from interfering with the air raids against the Japanese ships.

The SBD dive bomber unit led by Davis directly carried out a full-scale dive air attack, assisted by the Type 99 dive bomber unit of the pilots of the Eighth Route Army.

After all the attention of the devil pilots was attracted, the TBF torpedo planes and the torpedo planes converted from mosquito bombers immediately took the opportunity to launch a torpedo offensive at low altitude.

When the Devil warship was almost blown up, the Type 97 ground attack plane was sent to launch incendiary rockets, and all the locations of the Devil's fleet were lit up, so as to provide convenient conditions for the follow-up air attack troops.

If all goes well, the follow-up B25, Type 1 land attack, 96 land attack, and Pei 2 bombers will form a minelaying group and throw mines in the waters around the port of Dalian.

For the fleet from Shanghai, after searching for their location, they can also throw mines over to their route area and the ports near Shanghai.

In addition, because the fleet from the DPRK is cross-regional, it is the most difficult to mobilize them, and it is estimated that they are still gathering when this side is bombed.

According to Kong Jie's plan, it is enough to throw some mines to hinder along the way, and buy a certain amount of time.

As for when the second large-scale torpedo offensive will be launched, it will be interesting to see when such an opportunity will appear again on the subsequent battlefield.

In this way, as the attack order was issued, the squadrons took off one after another, and Director Xiao, Lao Chen, and Lao Zhou boarded Kong Jie's plane.

Lao Pi, Lao Yang, and Lao Liang boarded Ding Wei's plane.

This Commander Xu took Lao Chi and Lao Zhang, and naturally got on Li Yunlong's plane at the invitation of Li Yunlong.

In addition to the pilot, this seaplane can seat ten people in a crowd, but there is also a search and rescue mission, so there is still a little vacancy, and it is not full.

Division Commander Chen, Army Commander Chen, as well as Staff Officer Ye, Political Commissar Luo and others did not get on the plane, but also saw them off next to the runway, waiting for their good news to come back.

At the time of departure, since the commanders of the New Fourth Army and the 115th Division had never been on a plane, they were very excited as soon as they got on the plane.

Before this started bombing the devil warship, it was already very excited.

I know that it is a ship that goes to attack the devil, and if I don't know, I think it is a tour!

In particular, when Commander Xu listened to Li Yunlong's previous air raid on Shanghai, he boasted that he had a nose and an eye, so he was even more looking forward to it.

"I've had enough of this bombing, it's our turn to blow up his little devil today!"

As Commander Xu spoke, he casually took the snacks handed over by Li Yunlong, and was surprised to find that there were so many benefits in this air raid mission!

The two, who were already in a similar temper, soon began to brag.

……

Kong Jie is much more serious here, and as soon as Director Xiao gets on the plane, he asks about the characteristics of this aircraft, as well as the performance of various aircraft in the flight team.

When he heard that this seaplane could be driven for one night, he sighed that this industrialized technology product was different.

Ding Wei's side, Lao Yang, Lao Pi, and Lao Liang have followed all the way, and they are already old acquaintances, as soon as they got on the plane, they took out roast chicken, sauced beef, and all kinds of food, and chatted with the pilots who couldn't drive the plane.

After flying for a while, a fleet of devils in the moonlight was quickly spotted ahead.

The devil navy is basically resting at night, except for the lookouts.

The commander of the devil's fleet said: "The Eighth Route Army did not know that our navy was escorting the landing force, let alone attacked the navy, and even warships had never seen it.

When we send our troops to Weihai, they will know what strength is. ”

When these words came out, even the commander of the mobile brigade of the Kwantung Army was convinced when he heard it, and he went to rest with confidence.

There is not even light control, and the lights are on at night.

It can be said that the arrogance of the little devils has added to their impending destruction.

At 23 o'clock in the evening, when the aircraft group led by Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei was in the air, under the order of the formation commander, they began to turn on the lanterns in the corridor and prepare to divide the area for bombing according to the plan.

Unfortunately, the timing was a little late.

In accordance with the original combat order, on the side of the Eighth Route Army's aviation unit, the piloted night reconnaissance planes dropped flares, and the dive bombers immediately began air strikes on four Japanese cruisers and eight destroyers.

When the dive bomber roared overhead, the devil warship sounded the alarm.

The hit rate of this first wave of air strikes was frighteningly high.

Boom –

The sound of a violent explosion completely broke the dead silence of this sea area in the dark night, and spread far away.

Although the devils were well-trained, and the anti-aircraft artillery positions opened fire as soon as the alarm sounded, the alarm came too late, and there was no time for accurate shooting and unified command, and the dive bombers of the Eighth Route Army had already entered the dive sprint stage.

Under the watchful eye of the officer on duty with the devils, the SBD dive bombers dropped the first round of heavy armor-piercing bombs with a piercing whistling.

These armor-piercing bombs have been modified by military factories, and they are also specially mixed with a little incendiary agent, and even if they miss the explosion, they will be attached to the warship and burn to indicate the target.

The first to bear the brunt of this is the armored cruiser Izumo, which is particularly conspicuous as a behemoth and a devil ship.

Under the astonishing power of the heavy armor-piercing bomb, the bomb pierced the deck of the flagship Izumo, making a huge explosion inside the warship, and then ignited a fire, and the other three cruisers were also hit by the first round of air raids, becoming four bright torches in the night sky.

Of the remaining eight old Japanese destroyers, four were hit, two were damaged by near-misses, and only two barely avoided by maneuvering.

This first-echelon air raid almost achieved a perfect result, and it was even smoother than the rehearsal of Kong Jie and others at the pre-war military conference.

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for the devil to come back to his senses, the second echelon came again, and the devil navy in a panic desperately opened fire, but the warship was fighting the fire while evading air defense, and the organization was even worse, and the Izumo even had problems with ammunition delivery because of the fire and became a live target.

In the second wave of air raids, the Izumo, which was the first target of the soldiers tonight, was hit by heavy armor-piercing bombs one after another, and the power compartment was directly damaged.

One of the other three cruisers was detonated and completely lost power in the explosion, and the other two burst into flames.

Kong Jie and the others, who were watching the battle from the air, were also extremely excited when they saw the hit.

Commander Xu even shouted: "Hit, damn it, hit!" ”

When the fierce confrontation at high altitude completely attracted the attention of the Japanese ships.

On the other side, the torpedo group of the Eighth Route Army quietly approached and launched a torpedo attack on four Japanese cruisers.

The first squadron was the first formation, and the first to bear the brunt were the light cruisers that had lost power, and the first group of three torpedo planes released three torpedoes, which directly hit two shots.

These torpedoes were originally developed for naval warfare such as ships, and their power was amazing, and even if there was an obstacle from the sea, they still set off a terrifying power in the explosion.

One of the light cruisers of the devil was directly hit by a torpedo, and failed to turn on the engine to float, and in a violent explosion, the side began to enter the water, and soon capsized directly, completely losing its combat effectiveness.

The 2nd Strike Group released five more torpedoes, and several Devil ships around the Izumo were sunk one after another.

The 3rd Strike Group carried out a lightning strike on the light cruiser that was on fire, and the cruiser was unlucky enough to be hit three times and sank directly in the explosion; The fourth ship was hit with one shot, blowing up the bow.

Then the second wave of torpedo planes continued to attack, and four cruisers were sunk one after another.

In the end, all the dive bombers, torpedo planes, attacked the enemy destroyers, and soon sent them all to the bottom of the sea.

Almost all the battles took place between lightning and flint, and the various ships of the Japanese army did not have time to react.

If this was a conventional battle, the powerful Japanese warships would never be so vulnerable, but they were really fierce and caught off guard by a surprise attack, and the bombing and torpedo attacks on the side of the Eighth Route Army were extremely fierce.

Before the Japanese warship had time to exert its might, it had been completely blown up in the cabin, and soon sank completely, with a full ship of equipment and combat imps.

After successfully clearing away some of the small ships around the Izumo, the torpedo group did not spare any more, and as many as a dozen torpedoes were like behemoths of whales, cutting through the waves under the water, and quickly crashed towards the ultimate target, the Izumo.

Boom –

A somewhat dull explosion came from the bottom of the sea.

The Izumo, which was hit in different parts one after another, soon became scarred by one wound after another.

Soon after, it lost momentum.

In the end, the Type 97 ground attack plane, the Mosquito modified torpedo plane, sent the devil tanker, transport ship, and troop carrier all to the bottom of the sea.

In a series of big explosions, it was like the devil army fighting on land accidentally broke into the minefield of the Eighth Route Army, and the little devil who exploded was dizzy and at a loss.