Chapter 944: Shoot down 100 Japanese planes!

Although the base camp promised to allocate a flying division to the North China Front.

But this flying division must have been pieced together.

Even if there are some veteran and ace pilots, it is estimated that there are not many, and most of them are new pilots.

That bunch of junk in the Navy suffered defeat in the Pacific and needed more troops and aviation units.

Is this newly formed flight division an opponent of the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army?

Okamura Ninji didn't know the bottom in his heart, or he already had an answer in his heart.

Although this time it was not the pilots and fighters of the North China Front that were lost.

However, in the future battle with the Eighth Route Army, Okamura Ninji also hoped to receive support from the Japanese air force in central China.

As a result of this battle, the Japanese air force in central China basically lost air supremacy.

Support is gone.

The North China Front had to fight alone.

"Your Excellency, Commander."

"The intelligence capability of the Eighth Route Army is terrifying, and the airfields and pilots of our flight division should not be placed in North China."

Chief of Staff Seizo Arisue suggested.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, a clear notice has been issued in the airspace of North China that Japanese planes are banned.

The reconnaissance planes of the Kwantung Army and the Central China Front Aviation Units that entered the airspace over North China were all shot down.

Although he was angry, the devil didn't have anything to do.

The planes of the Eighth Route Army were able to accurately locate the Japanese planes and shoot them down.

The only way to prevent the planes of the Eighth Route Army from attacking is not to put the pilots and the airfield in North China.

Although Okamura Ninji let Seizo Arisue Seizo build a secret airfield to prepare for the arrival of the new flight division, with sufficient aerial bombs, aviation fuel, mechanics and ground crew.

But the intelligence capabilities of the Eighth Route Army are not boasted.

There is a high probability that the location of the North China Front airfield will be found.

When the flight division arrived, the planes of the Eighth Route Army suddenly attacked, which would be very bad, and it would be difficult for him to explain to Okamura Ningji at that time.

So in order to prevent trouble before it happens, in order not to take the blame, Seizo Arisue plans to suggest that Okamura Ninji change the airport.

"If it's not in North China, where should it be?"

Okamura asked with a moving expression, turning to look at the map.

"The locust army aviation units in Central China have been completely lost, and we can't put planes and pilots here."

Seizo Arisue walked up to Okamura Ninji, pointed to the map with a long pole and said:

"However, the Kwantung Army still has a strong air force, and we can put pilots and planes in the Shenyang area."

"On the one hand, the Shenyang area is relatively far away from Taiyuan, with a straight-line distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, and the fighters of the Eighth Route Army can barely fly to Shenyang."

"On the other hand, even if the fighters of the Eighth Route Army can fly to Shenyang, the planes of the Kwantung Army can take off to help in the battle."

"Although the fighters of the Eighth Route Army have better performance, the Kwantung Army has hundreds of fighters and thousands of pilots of the Locust Army."

"At such a long distance, there will be air battles, and the fighters of the Eighth Route Army will inevitably run out of fuel."

Manchuria was the base for the Japanese army to train pilots, and by the end of the Pacific War, the training base for Japanese pilots in Manchuria was even larger.

At present, the Japanese army's pilot training bases are mainly in the mainland, but there are still many training grounds for Japanese pilots in Manchuria.

Although there is no end to the end of the Eighth Route Army's fighter range, it must be more than 2,000 kilometers at most.

"Our fighters also don't have that long range, and there will be range anxiety."

"It is difficult to attack the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi."

An operational staff officer said in a worried tone.

When you look at this combat staff officer, it's like looking at a mentally retarded officer.

The Eighth Route Army is also attacking Shanxi, you are going to attack one for me?

It would be good to be able to keep the base camp and allocate the flying division regiment to the North China Front, and also attack the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi?

Seizo Yusue ignored him, but continued to say to Okamura Ninji:

"Your Excellency, General."

"Don't think about attacking the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi."

"When the Eighth Route Army attacks Mongolia and Hebei, our flying division near Shenyang can take off to fight and reinforce our infantry units."

"Although our fighters, most likely, are no match for the aircraft of the Eighth Route Army."

"But as long as you don't fight with the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, it's not a big problem."

In the face of the defeat of the elite troops of the Navy and Army Aviation in Central China, Arisue Seizan directly gave up the attack.

But.

This is also in line with Okamura's strategy.

Okamura Ninji is definitely not one of those officers who has been brainwashed and hot-headed by bushido.

He knew very well that even if the base camp allocated him 8 divisions and 1 flying division, it would be difficult to defeat the Eighth Route Army.

So now the Japanese army is mainly a defensive strategy.

It is impossible to attack.

"Yo Si."

"If there is a sue kun, then you will personally contact the Kwantung Army to ensure the safety of our pilots and planes."

Okamura Ninji also ignored the combat staff officer and directly gave an order to Seizo Arise.

The combat staff officer stood a little slumped, like a minion.

But he secretly swore in his heart that sooner or later he would become a general.

"Hey."

There are three end essences bowing their heads.

"Your Excellency General, Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the Eighth Route Army has long-range heavy bombers."

Kazuki Yamamoto reminded.

"Yamamoto-kun doesn't need to worry."

有末精三 says:

"I have already learned from the domestic aviation unit that the long-range heavy bombers of the Eighth Route Army only dare to carry out high-altitude bombing without fighter escort."

"And high-altitude bombing, the accuracy is very low."

"Once the heavy bombers of the Eighth Route Army reduce their altitude, they will be shot down by the fighters of the Kwantung Army."

"As long as we set up more lookout posts inside and outside the customs."

"As soon as the heavy bombers of the Eighth Route Army were detected, the fighters of the Kwantung Army immediately took off."

Okamura nodded.

At the beginning, it was the negligence of air vigilance, which led to the successful sneak attack of the air force unit of the North China Front Army by the air force unit of the Eighth Route Army.

Kazuki Yamamoto nodded, and immediately stopped talking.

"Yamamoto-kun, how is the investigation of Chen Feng going?"

Okamura Ninji put his heart in his stomach and looked at Kazuki Yamamoto and asked.

"Your Excellency, General." Yamamoto Kazuki was silent for a moment, and then replied with a solemn expression: "The situation is not optimistic. ”

"Got stuck?"

Okamura Ninji frowned and asked.

"The intelligence officers I planted in Taiyuan found that Chen Feng had been haunted near Taiyuan last month and was protected by the special forces of the Eighth Route Army."

"Other than that, there's no other information."

"Moreover, all of my intelligence officers have lost contact, and they should all be shattered."

Yamamoto Kazuki said with a solemn expression.

He arranged all first-class elite spies and agents, and they all had reasonable and legal identities, but he didn't expect them to be wiped out in such a short period of time.

Kazuki Yamamoto doesn't understand, how did this group of elite spies and agents get wiped out by the Eighth Route Army?

These spies and agents are not horizontally connected with each other, nor do they know each other's identities, and only have one-way contact with the secret team's Oga Goro.

Could it be that Goro is a spy of the Eighth Route Army?

Yamamoto guessed as much as water.

Okamura Ningji's face sank slightly, and then his brows stretched, and he looked at Yamamoto Kazuki and said: "Arrange more spies and agents to Taiyuan, we must investigate Chen Feng, and we must kill him." ”

Compared with the intelligence staff of the North China Front, Yamamoto Kazuki's intelligence work has been done very well.

The name Chen Feng was investigated by Yamamoto Kazuki, and it was also found that Chen Feng had recently haunted Taiyuan.

It's not that the locust army is incompetent, it's that the eight roads are too cunning.

What's more, at the moment, he does not have a better intelligence commander in his hands than Kazuki Yamamoto.

Then you can only use it.

As for the army reform proposed by Yamamoto Kazuki, Okamura Ninji was more interested.

As for capturing Chen Feng alive, Okamura Ninji no longer had much hope.

Judging from the current mess of the defeat of the intelligence war, if he can kill Chen Feng and cut off the assistance channels of the Eighth Route Army, it will be regarded as Okamura's burning of high incense in his last life.

"Hey."

Kazuki Yamamoto bowed his head.

……

More than half a month later.

America.

Fort Leavenworth.

Army Command and Staff College of the United States.

"Liu, here's your letter."

In the dormitory, a blonde and blue-eyed officer walked in and handed an envelope to a young officer with a British face.

This young officer is none other than Liu Zesheng, the number one ace of the Chinese Air Force, who studied at the Army Staff College of the United States.

"Thank you, Charles."

Liu Zesheng's expression moved, and he took the envelope and looked at it.

"You're welcome."

The Mi officer named Charles shrugged his shoulders and walked straight to his bed.

The Army Command and Staff College of the United States is to train staff officers of battalion and brigade commanders, and middle and high command organs at and above the division level through studying and researching the operational theories and principles of the combined army at all levels, and to cultivate army leaders in wartime. The Academy's motto is to prepare for wartime in peacetime.

At this time, the United States had already started an all-out war with Japan, and these American officers were eager to blow up the Japanese island.

Liu Zesheng looked at the envelope, the sender's name was his friend Zheng Shaoqiang, and it was written on it that his best friend Zesheng had opened it.

"Liu, the pilots of your country are heroes, who bombed Tokyo from a long distance last month and blew up the Japanese aircraft carrier Shozuru."

Charles said as he lay on the bed.

The joint bombing of Tokyo by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the destruction of the Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe were also published by some media in the United States.

Although the two countries have a common enemy, China's strength is far from that of the United States.

After the news of the successful bombing of Tokyo, Japan, and the destruction of the aircraft carrier Shozuru of the Japanese Navy was published.

Chinese officers like Liu Zesheng, and even Chinese ordinary people in the United States, have been visibly improved in status.

China is not a backward and poor country, but a great power with long-range strategic bombing capabilities.

This is the impression that many military officers and ordinary people of the United States have on China after reading the newspapers.

"Yes, they are all heroes."

"The pilots of the United States who took off from the Hornet, they are also heroes."

Yanagisawa nodded approvingly and tore open the envelope.

At that time, he was also excited when he saw the newspaper, but the newspaper did not report the details of the bombing, only that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to dispatch long-range strategic bombers.

Liu Zesheng was puzzled, when did the national army have long-range strategic bombers?

But.

He was far away on the other side of the ocean, ill-informed, and did not know about the many changes in the war situation at home.

"For the sake of the heroes, we should have a drink in the evening."

Charles said.

However, Yanagisawa did not answer him, but took the letter and read it.

I saw that the letter read: "Brother Zesheng, see the words as you face, it has been more than a year since my brother went to the United States Army Staff School, and my current identity is the commander of the 2nd Flight Regiment of the Eighth Route Army......"

The letter is long, but there are many things that cannot be explained in detail.

But.

Zheng Shaoqiang recounted the strength of the air force of the Eighth Route Army, which not only bombed the Japanese mainland and sank the Xianghe, but also completely annihilated the North China Front Army and the Japanese air force units in Central China.

Zheng Shaoqiang and the head of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters invited Liu Zesheng to return to China to join the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army and fight for the survival of the country and the nation.

After reading the letter, Yanagisawa was greatly moved.

As the number one ace of the Chinese Air Force, Yanagi Zesheng led his team to fight dozens of battles against the Japanese air force and shot down more than 10 Japanese planes.

In 1940, after the Chinese side suffered a crushing defeat in the Bishan air battle, Liu Zesheng withdrew from the mountain city with his troops.

On May 20, 1941, 27 Japanese planes bombed Lanzhou Xigucheng Airport.

Yanagisawa led 4 E-15 fighters of the 21st Squadron and Wu Guorui, a member of the 29th Squadron of the 5th Squadron, to take off to meet the enemy.

Subsequently, the Nationalist Government decided to send Yanagi Zesheng and others to the United States to study at the Army Command and Staff School.

At this time when the nation is in danger, Liu Zesheng certainly does not want to study here, but wants to return to the motherland and realize his desire to protect his family and defend the country.

Yanagisawa remembers the days when he fought side by side with his comrades.

From 1937 to the present, the Chinese Air Force has sacrificed thousands of sergeants, mechanics, and soldiers.

Many of them did not shoot down Japanese planes, and perhaps they did not know whether China could defeat Japan before they were martyred, but they still did not hesitate to choose China's independence and die with shame.

Their average age is less than 23 years old, and they are all talented, and many of them are top students from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nankai University, and the Central Military Academy.

But for the sake of China's dignity and the independence of the motherland, they chose to sacrifice their lives to go to the country, and they looked at death as if they were going home!

In the dead of night, Yanagisawa always thinks of these young heroes one after another.

Gao Zhihang: "As the Chinese Air Force, how can you let the enemy's plane fly overhead?" ”

Le Yiqin: "I will spill a Great Wall with blood and put it in Tianye in the south of the motherland!" ”

……

Thinking of his best friend who sacrificed for his homeland, Yanagisawa gave birth to some kind of decision.

Yanagisawa: "Charles, I really have to have a drink in the evening. ”

Charles: "Willow, this is your wisest decision, I heard that there is a prom at school tonight..."

"I'm not interested in any bullshit balls." Yanagisawa said in English, "My comrades-in-arms invited me to return to China to fight for the country and the nation, and I couldn't refuse this invitation, and my comrades-in-arms and I were going to return home." ”

Liu Zesheng is not the only pilot who came to the United States to participate in further study, but the other pilots are all headed by Liu Zesheng.

No matter what the other pilots thought, he just wanted to return to China to participate in the war of resistance.

"I'm going to shoot down 100 Japanese planes!"

Yanagi Zesheng's tone was fierce.

(End of chapter)