With the combat mission of the flight group was issued.

The blue-clothed master arranged by Boss Chen quickly inspected the fighters, attack planes and bombers, and after confirming that there were no malfunctions, he was ready to refuel the planes and mount napalm.

Each Sabre fighter can hang 2 napalm.

20 Sabre fighters can hang 40 napalm.

But the A20 attack aircraft and the B25 bomber, which are specialized bombers, can carry more napalm.

The B25 bomber, with an improved system, can carry both ground-penetrating bombs and conventional aerial bombs and napalm.

Napalm bombs were pulled out of the underground arsenal.

The ground crew soldiers of the new regiment skillfully hung the inky black metal projectile body under the planes.

It is worth mentioning that all aircraft are carrying napalm in the case.

Bombers and attack aircraft, of course, carrying more than fighters.

Therefore, in this flight combat mission, the Sabre fighters were reduced a little, and 8 B25 bombers with improved systems were added.

Each A20 attack aircraft carries about 4 tons of napalm, and each B25 bomber carries about 7 tons of napalm.

The Sabre fighter and A20 attack aircraft, which were originally damaged in flight battles, were directly replaced with new ones.

Soon, all napalm and fuel were refilled.

Nine Sabre fighters, 20 A20 attack aircraft, and eight B25 bombers quickly took off.

The planes that took off first circled in the air and waited, and after all the planes took off, they lined up in a flight formation and climbed into the clouds and flew in the direction of Niangzi Pass.

The engine emitted a huge roar, and under the wings, there were great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

……

Lady off.

A hill surrounded by devils, a location halfway up the mountain, the headquarters of the Japanese army.

Although the offensive of the Eighth Route Army had stopped, there were still occasional gunshots not far away, indicating that the battle was not over.

It's just a little rain before the storm.

"The locusts on each position have repelled two attacks by the Eighth Route Army and eliminated a lot of the Eighth Route Army."

An operational staff officer reported to Moritake Tanabe:

"However, since it was repulsed for the second time, the Eighth Route Army has not continued to attack."

Last night, Tanabe Moritake estimated that the Eighth Route Army would launch a general attack today, so he killed all the remaining hundreds of military horses scattered around the 4th Cavalry Brigade to satisfy the remaining soldiers and fight to the death.

Otherwise, how could a Japanese soldier who was dying of hunger suddenly burst out with such a strong combat effectiveness?

"Order the departments to hurry up and repair the fortifications."

Tanabe Moritake heard that the Japanese army had repelled two attacks by the Eighth Route Army, and that the Eighth Route Army had suffered a lot of losses, and his expression was still solemn:

"Hold out for another day and a half at most, and reinforcements from the Locust Army will arrive."

This time, although the artillery of the Eighth Route Army was large in number, the caliber was relatively small.

Although the Eighth Route Army shelled for several days, firing more than 100,000 shells a day, the Japanese soldiers were not idle, digging fortifications and hiding in anti-artillery holes to reduce many casualties.

Of course, the 200 sorties of aircraft bombing every day, as well as the shelling of more than 100,000 shells, still caused great casualties to the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, it did not reach the level of defeat.

"Hey."

The devil's combat staff officer bowed his head and turned away from the herald.

On the side, Nishihara Kanji, Kuwaki Takaaki, Sakuma and other devil generals surrounded them, and you and I began to study the retreat route.

Judging from the current situation, there should be no problem for the Japanese army to hold its position for two days.

The reason is very simple, the Eighth Route Army has a large number of artillery, but it is not very powerful, and the fortifications such as anti-artillery holes that the Japanese army has perfected for several days can greatly reduce casualties.

The only trouble was the air support of the Eighth Route Army's 200 sorties per day.

In a day and a half, the aerial bombs and incendiary bombs dropped by the planes of the Eighth Route Army could not kill all the Japanese soldiers scattered on more than 20 hills and their ambushes.

This made the devil officers feel that this wave of breakthroughs.

It seems to be stable.

"It's a pity!"

The commander of the 1st Division, Shigeda Tokumatsu, suddenly sighed.

"Lieutenant General Shigeta, what is the pity?"

Suzuki Sadaji, the commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade, asked with a moving expression.

Moritake Tanabe, Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara, and others, who were studying the retreat route around the map, also looked at Shigeta Tokumatsu.

"It's a pity that the surrounded locust army doesn't have much combat effectiveness, and the 40th and 56th divisions are followed by a large number of Eighth Route Army."

Shigeta Tokumatsu shook his head and said:

"Otherwise, this time the locust army will definitely be able to give the Eighth Route Army a counter-encirclement and eat the Eighth Route Army that surrounds us in one fell swoop."

"Center flowering?" Tanabe Moritake's eyes lit up, he was very familiar with this tactic.

In this battle, he and Okamura Ningji wanted to use this tactic to surround the Eighth Route Army in Taiyuan and encircle and annihilate it.

But it is a pity that the strength of the Eighth Route Army is stronger than expected, and the strength of the North China Front is insufficient.

Moreover, the First Army sent the Okazaki detachment to use this tactic to destroy the Eighth Route Army, but it also failed.

"That's right." Shigeta Tokumatsu nodded, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, it is the center flowering tactic. ”

"It's nice to be able to escape, and you still want the center to bloom? Beware of the head flowering. Lieutenant General Nishihara Kanji said coldly, pouring a basin of cold water on the devil officers, he just wants to escape from the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible and leave this place where birds don't.

"Hmm." Moritake Tanabe nodded.

Once the reinforcements of the four divisions approached Niangzi Pass, the Eighth Route Army would definitely retreat at that time, and the siege could be lifted at that time.

Otherwise, it will be a chaotic battle, and the entire Niangziguan battlefield will be a pot of porridge.

If the Eighth Route Army loses its air superiority and firepower superiority, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and then the locust army will be able to turn defeat into victory.

But at this moment.

The sky was buzzing with the roar of airplanes.

The faces of all the devil generals changed slightly, and a combat staff officer quickly ran in and bowed his head to Tanabe Moritake and reported:

"Report to the general, the plane of the Eighth Route Army is coming!"

"What's the panic?" Tanabe Moritake frowned, "It's just a routine bombing by the planes of the Eighth Route Army, order all the locust army, and after the bombing of the planes of the Eighth Route Army, they will immediately enter the position, and the infantry of the Eighth Route Army will attack again." ”

"Hey."

The combat staff officer turned and walked towards the telephone.

As the roar grew louder, it indicated that the planes of the Eighth Route Army were getting closer and closer.

……

The devil's high-ranking officers are hiding in caves.

But the devils on the hilltop position are not so lucky.

The artillery of the Eighth Route Army had already fired red smoke bombs at the various hills of the devils to distinguish the enemy from our positions.

The Eighth Route Army has already captured some devil hills, and if the pilots of the Eighth Route Army still bomb according to the previous coordinates, they will definitely injure the brother troops by mistake.

Like the previous times, the devils have gone into the anti-artillery holes to hide.

Although the gun shelter is not an air raid shelter, it can still reduce some casualties.

However, the kind of extremely terrifying incendiary bombs, which are half a mountain when they explode, are difficult to dodge even in the anti-artillery holes.

This kind of incendiary bomb is currently the most lethal weapon of the Eighth Route Army and the most feared weapon of the Japanese army, which is a thousand times more terrible than the Japanese army's white phosphorus incendiary bomb.

Once the Japanese army is contaminated, suicide is the best relief.

The devils were trembling and praying to Amarasu that the incendiary bombs of the Eighth Route Army should not be dropped on the mountain where they were.

But often the more you are afraid of something, the more you are afraid of something.

On a hill, the Japanese observer in charge of observation saw that the plane of the Eighth Route Army had entered the dive route.

As the planes of the Eighth Route Army swooped down, several huge cylindrical bombs also suddenly rolled and fell in the air!

"Molotov cocktails!"

The devil observer's eyes suddenly shrank into a line.

The devil screamed hysterically, pulled out his legs and ran, only hating his parents for missing two legs.

As an observer, this devil has long distinguished the difference between incendiary bombs and aerial bombs from the bombing of the Japanese army by the planes of the Eighth Route Army in the past few days.

Aerial bombs are cylindrical bombs, which fall almost straight down, and when they fall, they are accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.

The incendiary bombs of the Eighth Route Army, although most of them are also cylindrical bombs, are pointed at both ends, and when the bombs are dropped, they tumble and fall.

This time, the Eighth Route Army dropped 4 incendiary bombs directly on their small hill!

It almost scared the devil's urine out.

The devil wanted to run, but it was too late.

Four huge egg-like napalm bombs, like the most devastating weapons of war in the world, were thrown towards the top of the devil's mountain and the mountainside.

After the napalm body fell on the ground, it bounced on the ground a few times due to inertia, but what followed was an overwhelming explosion!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The whole world seemed to tremble!

Run, run, run!

This devil had only one word in his heart at this time, he didn't look back, but he had already felt the blazing temperature behind him.

A moment later, a huge circle of fiery red flames swept the devil like a wave.

In the huge heat, the devil's entire body shattered like a hammer on glass.

Even the 38 big covers in his hand turned into molten iron and ashes in a few seconds.

Pull your gaze up.

In the airspace above the entire Niangzi, when the smoke of gunpowder rose, the planes of the Eighth Route Army continued to dive and drop bombs with the roar of huge engines.

This time, all the planes were carrying napalm.

The devil's hill marked with red smoke bombs was dropped with several napalms.

But this was not the end, not long after the planes of the new regiment of the flying group finished dropping incendiary bombs and left, the planes of the headquarters flying regiment arrived again and dropped a large number of incendiary bombs on all the devil hills.

At this time, most of the devil's positions were 360 degrees without dead ends, and a large number of incendiary bombs were dropped.

The entire area was almost on fire!

The flame impact brought by the explosion, the endless fiery red flames with fierce heat, swept into the anti-artillery holes of the devil's trenches, foxholes, and communication trenches, burning the devils huddled inside into piles of ashes.

The flames are monstrous, like purgatory on earth!

……

[The last few hours of the double monthly pass, and finally ask for another wave of monthly passes, thank you for the support of the commanders and comrades, thank you! ] 】

(End of chapter)