Half an hour later.

Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley.

Headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese Army.

Okamura Ninji, Tanabe Moritake, and Arisue Seizo sit tea around a table.

Okamura Ninji looked at the clock on the wall, thinking that at this time, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi should have arrived in the inner city of Taiyuan, right?

About half an hour ago, the landline of Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto should have landed at Takejuku Airport.

Half an hour was enough time for Yoshimoto Sadachi to take the convoy of the First Army and arrive in the inner city of Taiyuan under the cover of Yamamoto's special forces.

In half an hour at most, the telegram from the First Army should have arrived.

This time, Sadachi Yoshimoto's landline and the escort of 4 fighters were arranged by Moritake Tanabe.

In order to prevent being hit by the air defense artillery of the Eighth Route Army on the ground, the flight formation deliberately made a big circle from southern Hebei.

The whole flight was at an altitude of more than 2,500 meters above the ground, and when it reached the sky above Wushu Airport, the plane circled down and landed on the runway after it was completely safe.

With the current means of attack of the Eighth Route Army, it is impossible to threaten the plane of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi.

Unless Li Yunlong adopts the method of decapitation by special forces, wait for Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi to arrive at Wusu Airport and start on the road from the airport to the inner city of Taiyuan.

However, the Fifth Division and Yamamoto's special forces were not vegetarians, and they had long been heavily deployed along the way.

Kazuki Yamamoto has already engaged in 3 teams, only one of which is real, and the other 2 teams are fake.

Okamura Ningji stood in Li Yunlong's point of view, thought about it for a long time, and didn't think of how to kill Yoshimoto Sadachi,

Come to think of this.

Okamura Ningji completely relieved his heart, Yoshimoto Sadachi went to Taiyuan this time to take up the post of commander of the First Army, and there should be no accident.

The old devil's eyes were gloomy, and Iwamatsu Yoshio was a waste, and he did not build an inch during his tenure as commander of the First Army, and the First Army lost more than half.

It is long overdue to get down from the position of commander of the First Army!

I hope that after Yoshimoto Sadachi takes office as commander of the First Army, he will not disappoint the old man.

"Tanabe-kun, how is the transfer of supplies and troops?"

Okamura Ninji looked at Moritake Tanabe and asked in a calm tone.

"Your Excellency, General."

Just now, Tanabe Moritake was also thinking about Yoshimoto Sadachi, and when he heard the commander's inquiry, he came back to his senses:

"At present, 20,000 tons of war materials have arrived at Tianjin Port, and another 40,000 tons of war materials are yet to arrive."

"The troops involved in the sweep are already being frequently mobilized."

"In addition, Your Excellency General, there is intelligence that the Eighth Route Army in the central Hebei region is actively preparing for war, preparing for a counter-sweeping operation, and it seems that it has gained insight in advance that the locust army is about to sweep the central Hebei region!"

Okamura narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

The leak of information was expected by him, even if only the three of them knew the details of the battle plan.

According to this push, among the three of them, there must be a senior agent of the Eighth Route Army.

But the question is, the three of them are all generals of the Imperial Army, how can they be high-ranking agents of the Eighth Route Army?

"It's okay!" Okamura Ningji's tone was confident: "What if you let Tubalu know that the Locust Army is going to sweep the Jizhong region?" ”

"Jizhong is not the northwest of Shanxi, can't we still beat the Tuba Road in the central Hebei region?"

The North China Front has suffered successive defeats, and if it continues to suffer defeats, his position as commander of the North China Front will definitely not be guaranteed.

It is said that the locust was already very dissatisfied with him, and if it weren't for Tojo Hideji endorsing him, the locust would have replaced him a long time ago.

Now the pressure on Tojo Hideji is also very high.

Sometimes, Tojo Hideji sent several telegrams a day, urging Okamura Ninji to sweep the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin as soon as possible and eliminate Li Yunlong.

However, Okamura Ningji is very forced, and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi will definitely not be able to defeat it.

Now the main elite of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi has long exceeded 300,000, with more than 5,000 artillery pieces, and even large-caliber heavy artillery, as well as mysterious new weapons that can fire hundreds of heavy artillery shells at a time.

That kind of mysterious weapon, even Okamura Ninji is extremely jealous.

As soon as it came up, it was covered by heavy artillery fire of 150 mm caliber, who can withstand this?

Therefore, for the sake of the future of the North China Front, Okamura Ninji was ready to give full play to the traditions of the Japanese army and take the following points.

First, part of the 60,000 tons of combat materials was used to sweep up other Eighth Route Army military regions.

After killing the other Eighth Route Army military regions, he gathered the main force of the North China Front Army of 200,000, and even requested the Kwantung Army and Central China to send troops to support.

Gather more than 300,000 locust army main force and fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Eighth Route Army in North China.

The First World War is decided!

Although Okamura did not have the stud mentality of other high-ranking Japanese officers, this time he had to do so.

"Your Excellency the Admiral is very true."

Moritake Tanabe echoed:

"That is, the focus of our attack last year was in Shanxi, otherwise the Tuba Road in the central Hebei region would have been wiped out by the locust army a long time ago, and it could still be allowed to develop until now?"

And the Sue Seizo on the side had an absent-minded expression.

Okamura Ninji frowned slightly: "There is Sue-kun, why do you look absent-minded, what are you doing?" ”

"Your Excellency, I..."

Yusue Seizo was indeed out of his mind just now, and he was wondering just now if Sadaichi Yoshimoto could really arrive in Taiyuan smoothly?

Before he finished speaking, Haruo Kitani, a communications staff officer, held a telegram in his hand and hurriedly walked in, his face ugly.

"Your Excellency Commander, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, Commander of the First Army, and Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, the new commander of the First Army, ......"

"What happened to Lieutenant General Sadamichi Yoshimoto?"

Looking at Osamu Kitani's expression and the urgent telegram sent by Yoshio Iwamatsu, Okamura Ninji had already sensed that something was wrong.

Tanabe Moritake and Seizo Arisue on the side also changed their faces.

Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto has a high probability of having an accident!

As expected by the three old devils, Osamu Muya paused for a moment before continuing to bow his head and report:

"Lieutenant General Yoshimoto's plane and 4 Zero fighters were raided by 8 enemy planes over Takejuku Airport, and the entire flight formation... The jade is broken! ”

After speaking, Osamu Kitani bowed his head in mourning.

This is the standard action of the Japanese army for the officer's jade crush, according to the regulations, when receiving the news of the unit or the officer's jade crush, all the staff should bow their heads and salute to show their respect.

"Nani?" Okamura Ninji stood up suddenly, his face full of disbelief, "Yoshimoto-kunyu is broken?" ”

"It can't be!" Tanabe Moritake's eyes widened even more: "How is this possible?" ”

Only Seizo Yusue was quite calm, as if he had expected it a long time ago, and a series of questions came out of his mouth: "Where is the location where Lieutenant General Yoshimoto's landline was shot down?" Did the 1st Army and the 5th Division rush over, and did they see the body of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto? ”

Okamura Ninji looked at Osamu Kitani, if only Yoshimoto Sadachi's landline was shot down, maybe Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi still had a 1 in 10,000 chance of surviving.

Osamu Kitani had no choice but to end his mourning and bow his head and report: "After the enemy plane shot down Lieutenant General Yoshimoto's plane, it added an aviation incendiary bomb to the location where the transport plane crashed, and the body of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi..."

When Okamura Ninji heard this, his body shook, and his face turned pale in an instant.

Although Osamu Kitani didn't finish his words, Okamura Ninji knew what the words were behind.

The corpse of Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto is gone, and there is no corpse in the dead.

That kind of aviation incendiary bomb is not the first time it has appeared, and Okamura Ninji has already seen the report about it.

This bomb is not a conventional aerial bomb, and the flames of its explosion can emit terrifying heat, directly burning everything affected by the explosion to ashes.

Even the rifles and mortars that were burned were melted into molten iron almost instantly, not to mention flesh and blood.

Seeing this scene, Moritake Tanabe and Seizo Arise silently took a few steps back.

As expected, the next moment.

"Yaga!"

Okamura Ninji scolded angrily, angrily drew the general's sword, and slashed the table where the three of them were sitting around before into pieces.

At this moment, there was a landslide and a rumbling explosion like thunder from the west of Beiping City.

"Yaga, what's going on?"

Tanabe Moritake's face changed, it couldn't be that there were troops attacking Beiping, right?

Seizo looked at the communications staff officer: "Go and ask what happened immediately!" ”

"Hey!"

Osamu Kitani didn't even dare to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, turned around and walked away quickly, and almost fell when he reached the door.

Okamura Ninji's angry eyes just now, as if he were going to cut someone, were too scary.

"It's a call from the western suburbs airport."

It didn't take long for a staff officer to run in in a panic:

"The airport in the western suburbs was attacked by about 30 enemy planes, the enemy dropped a large number of aerial bombs and incendiary bombs, and also sent out fighter jets loaded with machine guns to strafe them, and the airport suffered heavy losses, and most of the planes have been destroyed at present..."

Hearing this news, it suddenly made Okamura Ningji dizzy for a while.

Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who went to Taiyuan to take up the post of commander of the First Army, was also attacked at the airport in the western suburbs......

The airfield in the western suburbs was home to almost all the fighters and bombers of the North China Front, as well as a number of reconnaissance planes and transport planes, with more than 60 planes parked.

Enemy planes are trying to wipe out the planes of the North China Front!?

In the past, although the Eighth Route Army also called in some planes to assist in the operation, these planes never took the initiative to attack the airfield of the North China Front.

For example, the last time, when the Eighth Route Army shot down Gu Shoufu's plane, it was all on the ground with anti-aircraft artillery attacks.

It shows that the Eighth Route Army was not equipped with aircraft.

This time, the enemy planes not only shot down the plane of Lieutenant General Sadamichi Yoshimoto, but also attacked the airfield of the North China Front in Beiping.

Other words.

"The Eighth Route Army is armed with fighters and bombers!"

Okamura Ninji realized instantly.

Only when the Eighth Route Army was equipped with fighters and bombers could it carry out aerial interceptions on the planes of the Locust Army and bomb airfields in the western suburbs of Beiping.

Thinking of this, Okamura Ninji felt that it was pitch black in front of him, and then the whole person fell straight down.

"Your Excellency..."

"Your Excellency..."

"Commander!"

"Get to the hospital!"

Okamura's last consciousness was the hurried shouts of Tanabe Moritake, Arisue Seizo and the operational staff officer.

……

The tasks of the first stage of the flight group of the new regiment went well.

Successfully shot down Yoshimoto Sadachi's plane, blew up Taiyuan Wusu Airport, Beiping Xijiao Airport, and more than 60 Japanese planes parked at Xijiao Airport.

Followed by.

All the planes of the flight group returned to the airport in Daguzhen, northwest of Shanxi Province, after replenishing the aerial bombs and fuel.

It took off again and launched air strikes on Jinan Zhangzhuang Airport, Baoding Airport, Xinxiang Airport and Zhangjiakou Airport.

As a result of the air raids, all the airfields of the North China Front were blown up, and all the planes were blown up.

So far.

The North China Front Air Force aircraft were completely annihilated.

(End of chapter)