Early the next morning.

Takejuku airfield, 50 heavy long-range bombers, ready to take off.

Each bomber is fully loaded with 10 tons of aerial bombs, and 50 bombers, that is, 500 tons of aerial bombs.

About a third of them are napalm, that is, about 300 tons of conventional aerial bombs and nearly 200 tons of napalm.

In addition to 50 bombers, 10 Sabre fighters and 20 Hellcat fighters, are also ready.

At the Heyuan airfield in the northwest of Shanxi, 20 A20 attack aircraft and 10 fighters are also ready.

This time, Zheng Shaoqiang commanded 110 planes!

The largest bombing operation since the establishment of the Eighth Route Army Air Force!

In the last bombing of the Japanese mainland, the Eighth Route Army had only 100 pilots and could only dispatch 50 aircraft.

But now the pilots of the Eighth Route Army have doubled to more than 100 aircraft.

Pilots are eating a hearty breakfast, ground crews are busy, and engineers and technicians are inspecting the aircraft one last time.

The airport has long been under martial law, and it is strictly forbidden for any unrelated people to approach within 3 kilometers, and the entire airport is full of a solemn atmosphere.

"Shaoqiang, are you going to bomb devils?"

"Are you going to blow up the devil again?"

In the airport command room, Liu Zesheng looked at Zheng Shaoqiang, who was neatly dressed, and asked with burning eyes.

50 heavy long-range bombers, loaded with aerial bombs, were sorted, and another 30 fighters were escorted.

Either to bomb the national army or to bomb the devils, at this time the devils have not been driven out, and the probability of a full-scale war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is extremely low.

Therefore, Yanagi Zesheng guessed that the air force units of the Eighth Route Army must have gone to bomb the Japanese devils.

He rushed back to China to join the Eighth Route Army, just because he wanted to fly a plane to fight devils, so naturally he didn't want to miss this battle.

But.

Yanagisawa and the new pilots were still reviewing the time and could not participate in this battle according to discipline.

"That's right, we're going to bomb the devils, I'm the commander of this bombing operation, as for the bombing of the devils, I'm sorry, I can't reveal it to you according to discipline."

Zheng Shaoqiang said to Liu Zesheng.

The two are comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side, brothers in life and death.

However, the Eighth Route Army had the discipline of the Eighth Route Army.

"May I go with you?"

"I don't fly planes, I can be a bombardier, a navigator or even a machine gunner."

Liu Zesheng looked at Zheng Shaoqiang expectantly and said.

He glanced at the bombers that looked like flying fortresses outside the command room of the airport, and his eyes were very hot.

Each bomber has a bomb load of 10 tons!

How exciting should it be to have 500 tons of aerial bombs fall on the heads of devils?

"This..."

Looking at Liu Zesheng's expectant eyes, Zheng Shaoqiang was not easy to refuse:

"I can help you ask your superiors, and if the superior chief agrees, I can take you with me."

"Then you call quickly."

Yanagisawa stepped aside and sat down.

Zheng Shaoqiang walked quickly to the telephone and dialed the phone at the headquarters.

Soon, Zheng Shaoqiang put down the phone and smiled at Liu Zesheng: "The head of the headquarters agrees that you will go on a bombing mission together, but you can't be a pilot yet, you can be a bombardier and navigator." ”

"Great."

Yanagisawa clenched his fists and spoke in an agitated tone.

At that moment, a military armoured vehicle and three Jiefang trucks drove into the airport and drove towards the tower and command room.

The convoy stopped steadily next to the command room and the tower, the door was opened, and Li Yunlong, who was wearing a leather coat, jumped out of the armored car, and Zhang Dabiao followed closely behind Li Yunlong.

Seeing this, Zheng Shaoqiang hurriedly ran out and saluted: "Commander Li, why are you here?" ”

Li Yunlong looked at Zheng Shaoqiang, and his tone was unquestionable: "Commander Zheng, there are no extra pilots, arrange a transport plane for me, and I will go to Zhangjiakou to watch the battle." ”

"Commander Li, you're going to watch the battle, it's too dangerous, isn't it?"

Zheng Shaoqiang was slightly startled.

Although this was a medium-altitude bombing, the devil's firepower was not weak, and the bombers and fighters who went to bomb were still dangerous.

However, Zheng Shaoqiang doesn't know Li Yunlong, this is a master who has never been afraid of danger.

In the original play, Li Yunlong became the division commander and dared to lead the spy company to behead Chu Yunfei's headquarters.

If it weren't for Zhao Gang and the head of the headquarters in charge, there were dozens of people under his command, and Li Yunlong would dare to carry a gun to the battlefield.

"Dangerous?" Li Yunlong's eyes widened and he asked, "As long as the transport plane flies a little higher and is a little farther away from the battlefield, what danger can it have?" ”

"I don't believe that the devil's anti-aircraft guns can knock down labor and capital!"

"Hurry up and carry out the order!"

The last time he bombed Tokyo, Japan and sank the aircraft carrier Xianghe, Li Yunlong just looked at the photos and watched it on the projector, and he was addicted.

This time, the short-range bombing of the 9th Division of the devils, Li Yunlong naturally wanted to join in the fun.

"Yes!"

In the face of Li Yunlong's order, Zheng Shaoqiang could only stand up.

Li Yunlong was the commander-in-chief of the air raid operation, and if he did not obey the order, Li Yunlong could simply change the command.

Then.

Zheng Shaoqiang immediately arranged for Li Yunlong to have a transport plane, and instructed the pilots not to stay far away from the battlefield, because if Li Yunlong's plane was shot down, it would be a lot of fun.

In this battle, not all pilots participated in the battle, and some pilots and fighters remained at the airfield to deal with unexpected situations.

After the pilot and crew members had breakfast, they boarded the plane.

Zheng Shaoqiang arranged for Liu Zesheng and the 22 pilots under review to enter the various crews and serve as bombardiers, navigators and machine gunners.

Li Yunlong took Zhang Dabiao, Huang Erhu and other guards to board the transport plane.

With the roar of huge propellers and engines, 20 Hellcat fighters took off first, followed by 50 bombers and 10 Sabre fighters in turn.

The planes that take off first hover in the air and wait until all the planes have taken off.

The pilot piloted the plane, divided into two flight formations according to the original battle plan, and flew in the direction of Zhangjiakou.

……

Zhangjiakou, the capital city of Chahar Province, has a complete city wall.

The geographical location here is very important, it is the throat of the above three places, it is the junction of the Pingsui Railway, the north passes through the outer Mongolia Kulun, the northwest passes through the Soviet Union Uriya Sutai, and the northeast passes the Rehe River, which has extremely important military, economic and political value.

It was also a battleground between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese North China Front.

And Okamura Ninji obviously knew the importance of this place, so he arranged the strength of 3 divisions here, including a division of the first division.

Once the Eighth Route Army regained Zhangjiakou, it could attack Chengde to the east and threaten the Kwantung Army.

It is also possible to attack Pingjin in the southeast direction and threaten the North China Front Command.

The Japanese joint headquarters was set up on the city wall, from which you can see the scene of the downing of the plane of the Eighth Route Army with the artillery mirror.

At this time, the commander of the 9th Division, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, was holding the lieutenant general's sword, sitting on the city wall with his eyes closed.

In front of him, there was a small table, on which was a pot of tea, and the tea was fragrant.

On either side of Kiichiro Higuchi sat Mitsuo Nakazawa, commander of the 1st Division, and Shigetoku Kuroda, commander of the 26th Division.

As well as the chiefs of staff of the 1st and 26th divisions, they were also on the side.

In addition, the officers of the 1st Division and the 26th Division were all invited by Kiichiro Higuchi to watch the fireworks of the Eight Road Signs.

At this time.

The location of this section of the city wall was crowded with devil officers and soldiers.

Except for the division commander and chief of staff, the rest of the adjutants and soldiers did not know the battle plan of Kiguchi Kiichiro's ambush of the aircraft of the Eighth Route Army.

Some adjutants and soldiers naively thought that they were really going to set off fireworks produced by the Eighth Route Army.

At one point, Kiichiro Higuchi opened his eyes and took a sip from his teacup.

"Higuchi-kun, why hasn't the plane from the Eighth Road come yet?"

"Could it be that the information of our ambush has been leaked?"

Kuroda Shigetoku was already a little unable to sit still, but in Higashiyama there were all the machine gunners and light and heavy machine guns of their 26th Division.

"Kuroda-kun, please be patient."

"It is impossible for an impatient hunter to catch prey."

Higuchi Jiichiro frowned slightly.

Lieutenant General Nakazawa said: "We did not consult the North China Front Headquarters for our ambush plan, so the information should not be leaked. ”

Although Higuchi Jiichiro was far away in Manchuria, he had also heard of the North China Front Command rumoring about the high-ranking spies and agents of the Eighth Route Army.

So.

In this ambush operation, Kiichiro Higuchi did not consult Okamura Ninji.

"The planes of the Eighth Route Army should arrive at noon at the latest."

Higuchi Jiichiro looked at his watch, according to the bombing law of the planes of the Eighth Route Army a few days ago, one wave of bombing would come before noon at the latest, and two waves would usually come in the afternoon.

Mitsuo Nakazawa and Shigetoku Kuroda nodded and waited patiently.

But just then, there was some buzzing in the sky.

"Yo Xi!" Higuchi Jiichiro looked overjoyed: "The plane of the Eighth Route Army arrived, two hours earlier than expected!" ”

Mitsuo Nakazawa and Shigetoku Kuroda also looked overjoyed, raising their binoculars to look at the sky.

Higuchi Kiichiro took the telescope from the adjutant's hand and looked at the sky with the telescope, as the roar of the plane became louder and louder, through the field of vision of the telescope, the plane of the Eighth Route Army gradually became clear.

The faces of Kiichiro Higuchi, Mitsuo Nakazawa, and Shigetoku Kuroda, as well as the devil adjutants who were watching with binoculars, suddenly became wrong.

The planes of the Eighth Route Army came.

But the planes of the Eighth Route Army came a little too much!

The telescope's field of view is densely packed.

"Enemy aircraft were spotted in the southwest, about 40 of them!"

A ghost lookout shouted loudly.

"Yaga!" Higuchi Jiichiro scolded angrily, his tone puzzled, "What's the situation?" Why did the Eighth Route Army plane come so much? ”

Kuroda Shigetoku looked at Kiichiro Higuchi and said in a hurried tone:

"Higuchi-kun, the information on our ambush of the Eighth Route Army plane is likely to have been leaked, and we immediately ordered the ambush troops to evacuate Dongshan!"

"Yaga!"

At this time, no matter how arrogant Higuchi Jiichiro was, he also sensed that something was wrong, and after scolding angrily, he ordered loudly:

"Immediately give an order to the Dongshan ambush troops, and all troops immediately withdraw as quickly as possible!"

"Hey."

The adjutant beside him suddenly bowed his head, turned around and walked towards the telephone, conveying orders to the devil ambush troops in Dongshan.

However, it was too late, and the planes of the Eighth Route Army had already increased their horsepower and headed straight for the direction of Dongshan.

(End of chapter)