At five o'clock in the morning, the air base of the Shandong Group Army. According to the scheduled plan, 80 bombers and 240 fighters were launched one after another. This time, the group did not go in a straight line like last night, but took a detour and a broken line through Changyi to Guangrao, and then the troops divided the road to kill the devil's defense area. And last night to walk in a straight line, mainly because there is no satellite positioning system now, you can only rely on the radio signal for navigation, if you take the broken line detour, the navigation is too difficult!

"Flying Regiment 5, Flying Regiment 6, follow me! The 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Target Devil! After flying to Guangrao County, Hu Gang yelled, and then rushed to the forefront excitedly. Kill! "The little devil of the dog day bullied our army brothers, and today let you be bombed all over the ground looking for teeth!"

Due to the limited number of bombers and the fact that there were too many targets to bomb today, Li Jinglin divided three fighter flight regiments to temporarily make cameo bombers. The Eagle 3 fighter underwing mount can carry up to 454 dry grams (1,000 pounds) of bombs or rocket shells, as well as two 500-pound bombs. At the same time, because the devils and the naval aviation regiment are eyeing each other, the Flying Tigers naturally have to keep a hand and reserve enough fighters for war.

Previously, the Flying Tigers of the Shandong Group Army and the Army Aviation Regiment of the Japanese Navy had engaged in the largest air battle, and both the enemy and us suffered heavy losses. The devils who were hurt changed their air combat tactics and did not dare to start a decisive battle in the hinterland of the Shandong Group Army's defense area, but instead only targeted the "remote areas" of the Shandong Group Army's defense area. Its intention is to turn the passive into the active, and introduce the Flying Tigers into unfavorable areas for air combat, so as to facilitate the deployment of troops to carry out encirclement and annihilation warfare.

Out of long-term considerations, Jiang Qiang could only admit his cowardice for the time being, and did not send the air force to fire support and seize air supremacy, and at the same time ordered the troops to hold their positions and use a complete defense system to consume the Japanese army's vital forces. The ground troops of the devil attacked hard for a few days, and when they saw that the Flying Tigers of the Shandong Group Army never appeared, they became more and more emboldened. The devil not only sent a large number of tanks and combat vehicles, but also advanced a heavy artillery brigade to the front line and began to fire at close range on the defense line of Qidong County!

For two consecutive days, the outer defense line of Qidong County has been subjected to an extremely severe test, and more than a dozen positions have been lost one after another, and they have retreated more than 10 kilometers backwards. If this development continues, it will take two days at most to fight in the streets. Taking advantage of the heavy blow to the Devil's Third Flight Group last night, Li Jinglin has decided to perform to his heart's content today.

Heavy artillery brigades are already strategic units for the Japanese, and so far, the Japanese Army has only formed a total of six field heavy artillery brigades. In order to overcome the strong fortifications of the Shandong Group Army, the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade was temporarily strengthened, with two heavy artillery batteries under it. Among them are 60 heavy cannons of the Taisho 7th type 150mm caliber, 30 heavy cannons of the 90th type 240mm caliber, 10 heavy howitzers of the 96th type 305mm caliber, and 6 98 320mm caliber mortars.

The lethality of such a heavy artillery brigade pushed to the front line can be imagined, basically as soon as a shell hits, the trenches of more than 100 meters will be bulldozed, and the strength of a platoon will be directly reimbursed. It is also thanks to the fact that the Shandong Group Army has built a large number of artillery batteries, and it has advanced bottom row ammunition, and its firing range is not ambiguous at all, which greatly limits the role of the devil's heavy artillery brigade. Otherwise, the devil's ground forces would have advanced to the front of Qidong County by now.

Yuta Moriyama got up very early today, and as the commander of the brigade's heavy artillery, he felt a great responsibility, especially the enemy he was facing was extremely strong, and since he came to the south bank of the Yellow River to participate in the war, he has always had a sense of crisis like walking on thin ice. There is no way, the Shandong Group Army not only has mechanical units with strong organic power, but also heavy artillery units with powerful firepower, and there are elusive bomber groups in the sky.

Especially when I heard that Zhangzhuang Airport and Baitawa Airport were attacked by air last night, Yuta Moriyama became more and more worried. "Shw! What a peaceful summer morning! After walking around the camp and then looking at the sky with a telescope, Yuta Moriyama was relieved that he didn't notice anything unusual.

Just as there was some urgency to urinate, Yuta Moriyama walked to a corner to relieve his hands. The yellow urine was rolling out, and Yuta Moriyama suddenly heard a buzzing sound in his ears. "Nani?" Yuta Moriyama was full of excitement, and an ominous premonition instantly swept through his body. If it had been before, Yuta Moriyama would only subconsciously think that the Japanese Air Force had been dispatched again, and a new day of battle was about to begin.

But obviously the airfield was bombed last night, even if the bombers did not suffer much damage, there will be a period of time to repair the airfield and overhaul the planes! After soaking in the pee, Yuta Moriyama hurriedly raised his head and followed the voice. At this time, it was already half past five in the morning, and the sky was already bright, and the sky could be seen in the distance.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you are startled when you see it, Yuta Moriyama was directly stunned, and saw a large area of black pressure planes flying rapidly from the northeast, and its sharp edge was directed at the artillery position of the heavy artillery brigade. "Baga Ya Road! Dead, dead, dead! Yuta Moriyama's eyes widened, and he didn't know what the situation was, so he hurriedly shouted at the camp with all his strength: "Alarm, pull the alarm!" Huaxia aircraft is coming! "Woo~Woo~Woo~"

As soon as Yuta Moriyama's words fell, a piercing and sharp siren burst into the sky, and suddenly the tranquility of the early morning was broken, and the sleeping devil heavy artillery brigade was instantly awakened by the siren. "Yaga!" "Air strike!" "Hurry up!" "Spread out!" A group of devil artillerymen, shirtless and worried, rushed out of the tent, and soon found groups of black shadows rushing from the distant sky.

Seeing this, the devil artillery was frightened, screams and curses came one after another, and the entire devil artillery position became chaotic, and the panicked devil artillery ran around, not knowing where to hide. "Baga Ya Road! Get into the gun position and fire now! ”

And those devil artillerymen who were in charge of the vigil and air defense got up one after another, entered the gun position as fast as possible, and controlled the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns also got up one after another when they heard the siren. However, in a hurry, such a rebellion was in vain, and it was simply too late.

When the devil artillery set up the anti-aircraft machine gun and turned the anti-aircraft gun, Hu Gang took the lead and drove the Flying Eagle 3 fighter to dive down. "Holy shit, don't let me die yet!" Hu Gang controlled the machine guns to fire wildly on the ground, and when they dived to about 100 meters, two 500-pound bombs broke away from the belly of the plane one after another.

Four seconds later, a bomb landed with great precision, hitting a 150mm cannon gun. With a loud bang, the cannon was torn apart, and the furious force of the explosion turned countless fragments into a deadly metal storm, whizzing wildly.

Although it is said that today is a cameo bomber, the fighter pilots of the Flying Tigers really do not do less bombing exercises, and the accuracy of low-altitude dive bombing is far higher than that of horizontal bombers several times! Boom, followed by another loud bang, although another bomb did not hit the devil heavy artillery, but after it landed and blossomed, it took away more than a dozen devil artillery in a wave.

"Haha, cool! Brothers, it's up to you next! After the two 500-pound bombs were thrown, Hu Gang didn't stop much, and quickly pulled up the nose of the plane and flew in the direction of Baoding Mansion, because according to the original plan, they still had to carry out escort missions.

"Fuck it!" "All to death!" "Kill!"

Behind Hu Gang, 59 Flying Eagle 3 fighters arrived one after another, and all of them chose low-altitude dive bombing for the best accuracy. In the process of diving, the cannon in the nose of the aircraft frantically strafed the ground, breaking the stubborn anti-aircraft machine gunners and anti-aircraft gunners into sieves and tearing them to pieces. Only a few devil anti-aircraft firepower were all knocked out, and the entire devil's heavy artillery position became a big fat sheep without resistance.

When the fighter plane swooped to the lowest point, one heavy bomb after another fell like a torrential rain, boom, Deep craters exploded on the ground, black clouds of gunpowder rose into the air, and dust flew all over the sky, and in a short time the entire heavy artillery brigade position was shrouded in a thick smoke screen.

Especially when the devil's ammunition depot was detonated, the series of violent explosions were like electric light cannons being ignited, crackling and exploding wildly, this movement was simply earth-shattering and crying ghosts, and it reached a climax in an instant. After waves of intensive bombing, in addition to a few heavy artillery pieces that survived, more than 40 heavy artillery pieces of the devil were destroyed and blown into a pile of parts and scrap copper and iron. Although the heavy artillery unit here is only a wing, not an entire brigade, this devastating wave of bombardment still caused heavy damage to the devils that will not heal.

"Brothers, withdraw!" "Let's go!" "Haha, cool!"

After the bombing, looking at the devil artillery positions with smoke billowing and all over the ground, the pilots were in an extremely happy mood, and they pulled up the nose of the plane one after another and continued to rush forward.

"It's over, it's over!" Yuta Moriyama was really hard enough to survive such a high-intensity bombardment, but when he saw everything in front of him, he was about to go crazy. I saw that the smoke of gunfire was billowing everywhere, and everywhere there were shocking stumps and broken arms and steel fragments, and the entire artillery position was almost completely destroyed, and the artillery and artillery were completely damaged. "Poof!"

Yuta Moriyama only felt a salty throat, and a stream of old blood couldn't help but spurt out, and then his eyes fell to the ground as soon as his eyes turned black. Although he was not directly hit by the bomb before, the continuous impact of the explosion had already injured his internal organs. "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander! Wake up! "At this time, a dark devil artillery staff officer came out of nowhere and ran to Yuta Moriyama for first aid." Yaga! Immediately send a telegram to the command and ask what the radar station is doing? After a long time, Yuta Moriyama woke up and turned around, and roared with infinite resentment:

"The Imperial Navy fleet is so close to Zhangjiazhuang Airport, why don't they save it when they see death? The 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Imperial Japanese Empire is over! After saying that, Yuta Moriyama spurted out a mouthful of old blood again, and then his head tilted and passed out again, it seemed that he couldn't be saved! Brothers, they are all aiming to throw, and today we must blow up the devil's radar station! ”

As soon as the Fifth Flying Regiment eliminated the Devil Heavy Artillery Brigade, Huang Deyong took the Seventh Flying Regiment to the radar station located in Xiaohu Mountain, Penang County! "Yaga! Hurry up! "Huaxia plane, dead, dead!"

The anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns erected on the position at the top of the hill of the 0 devils constantly spewed out tongues of fire, shooting wildly at the Huaxia fighters diving at high speed.

However, in the face of high-speed dive fighters, the devil's meager anti-aircraft fire could only play a deterrent role, and there was no way to block the dive bombing of the 7th Flying Regiment. Boom, boom, 500-pound bomb fell to the ground and blossomed, and the powerful explosion shattered everything around it, setting off a storm of death metal. In just two or three minutes, several dive bombardments back and forth, the entire mountain was covered with gunsmoke and blazing fire, and the towering devil radar station disappeared and turned into countless metal fragments!

At the same time, the bomber group was divided into two routes and aimed directly at the two airfields of the devils, and the air raids at night could only be blindly bombed, and the goal of this wave was very clear, so that the devil's airfields would be completely destroyed, so that they could not be put into use again in the short term.

"Report, a large number of aircraft groups have been found in the northeast of Penang County!" "Report, the enemy aircraft group is advancing at full speed towards Zhangjiazhuang Airport!" "Report, the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade suffered massive bombardment and heavy losses!" "Report, Penang county radar station destroyed!" "Report, the Wild Boar Ridge radar station in Changfeng County has been destroyed!" "Report ,......" As bad news keeps coming, Tada Jun and other old devils have the heart to die.

Last night's air raid had just passed, and the pain had not yet been erased, and this time it ushered in a larger-scale bombardment, and heavy artillery brigades, radar stations, and front-line positions were hit one after another. Rubbing his forehead, Tada Jun turned his head to look at Kinoshita, and asked anxiously again: "Kinoshita-kun, how is the air force now?" ”

Kinoshita Min replied in a deep voice: "43 fighters and 48 bombers have been evacuated to Tianjin first, and the fighter group of Tianjin East Bureau Airport has taken off and is expected to arrive in Baoding in 21 minutes." In addition, the Air Corps of the Combined Fleet has already taken off to rush to the rescue, and it is expected to arrive on the battlefield in 17 minutes. ”

Knowing that most of the Flying Tigers would come to bomb after dawn, Kinoshita Toshitoshi knew even more that with the current strength of the Third Aircraft Group, he would not be able to resist the air raids of the Flying Tigers. Therefore, after controlling the fire at the airport, in order to prevent accidents, Kinoshita Toshi ordered all the remaining combat planes to be transferred to Tianjin Dongjuzi Airport, which is 260 kilometers away.

"15 minutes?" Tada's heart twitched suddenly, 15 minutes may not seem like a long time, but it was undoubtedly enough for the group to drop all the bombs, and then calmly evacuate and return home. Okabe Naosaburo said with an extremely ugly face: "This time the loss is too great, and all 3 radar stations have been destroyed, we will become even more passive!" I'm afraid ......"

Okabe Naosaburo didn't finish his words, but the old devils present knew what the remaining half of the sentence meant, that is, under the loss of radar warning, the seriously damaged Third Aircraft Group completely lost air supremacy. This means that not only will the ground forces not be able to continue advancing, but they will all have to retreat, otherwise they will face an extremely dangerous situation. "Is that really the only way to go?"

Tada Jun looked at the military map silently, all kinds of thoughts kept swirling in his mind, racking his brains to think of a way to deal with it. After more than half a month of bloody battles, the North China Front paid a heavy price and finally occupied part of the initiative, recovered two county towns, and captured several tiger army defense lines piecemeal.

Although all this is not ideal, we have finally found a breakthrough, we can press forward step by step, and we can find more combat opportunities in the battle. However, in just a few hours, the situation has been reversed, all the previous efforts and sacrifices have been in vain, and Tada Jun's heart is pierced with thousands of needles, and the pain is unbearable.

"Tada-kun, our enemy is completely a poisonous snake lurking in the shadows, once he seizes the opportunity, he will pounce on it desperately! We must respond as soon as possible, otherwise the damage will increase even further! Okabe Naosaburo can naturally understand Tada's mood, but at this time, it is obvious that there can be no more hesitation and luck.

"Order the front-line troops to immediately stop the offensive and withdraw the defensive fortresses to guard against the counteroffensive of the Chinese army. In addition, the outer defense units were ordered to increase the number of observation posts and pay close attention to the movements of the Huaxia Air Force 24 hours a day. "Tada is not stupid, he knows what to do with a little thought. In just ten minutes or so, the Devil Army Aviation Fighter Group and the Naval Aviation Fighter Group flew over Baoding one after another, but at this time, where could the shadow of the Huaxia aircraft group be seen. Unable to surround and dare not chase and kill, the devil fighter group circled over Jinan, Laiwu, and Tai'an, and finally could only return very helplessly.

Emperor's Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan. After receiving a telegram from Tada, Hirohito immediately summoned Tashi Yamaguchi, commander of Japan's 1st Combined Air Force. After receiving the summoning call, Yamaguchi Tashi immediately went straight to the Emperor's palace. "Yamaguchi-kun!"

After the salute, Hirohito waved his hand and invited Yamaguchi Tawen to sit down, and then asked, "I want to ask, is there really no way to deal with the air force of the Shandong Group Army now?" Yamaguchi pondered for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, although the total strength of the Imperial Combat Aircraft far exceeds that of the Shandong Group Army Air Force, the Air Corps is facing more than just the Shandong Group Army Air Force.

More importantly, the combat aircraft of the Shandong Group Army are extremely outstanding in performance, with amazing defensive power, fierce firepower, and maneuverability that surpass that of the Imperial Air Force, plus they have a very complete radar network and ground air defense network. Hirohito frowned lightly and said, "You mean, even if the current empire tries its best, it will be difficult to gain air supremacy on the Shandong Peninsula?" "Hello!"

Yamaguchi nodded, and then said: "Since the enemy has a very complete radar network, they can completely take the advantage of the first opportunity and prepare for battle in advance, and in air battles, the first opportunity can often determine the outcome of the battle. Even if the enemy's air force is far less numerous than that of the Empire, it can take advantage of its home combat superiority and adopt targeted tactics to form a force advantage in a local area to carry out encirclement and annihilation warfare.

Therefore, the minister believes that according to the current strength of the Imperial Air Corps, it will be difficult to completely annihilate the air force of the Shandong Group Army and completely control the air supremacy in Shandong. On the contrary, if you continue to consume like this, it is very likely that the situation will be reversed! "I see!"

Hirohito exhaled lightly, and then said with a look in his eyes: "Yamaguchi-kun, do you think that the Great Japanese Empire needs to form an air force alone?" "During World War II, Japan only had an army and navy, and there was no independent air force at all, and the Japanese air force could only be called an "air combat force" and was always dependent on the army and navy. Stimulated many times by the Flying Tigers of the Shandong Group Army, Hirohito had already realized the powerful strength and key role of the Air Force, so he germinated a strong idea of making the Air Force independent.

"Nani?" Yamaguchi Duowen was suddenly shocked, his heartbeat soared sharply, and he suppressed his excitement and replied in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is very necessary.

There is no doubt about the powerful role of the Air Force, but at present, the Imperial Air Force has no independent formation and has been reduced to an auxiliary weapon of the army and navy, which is very detrimental to the development and role of the Air Force! "The Japanese army and navy control Japan's military and political power, but the two sides are like fire and water, and the contradictions are quite deep, in order to get more aircraft, the Japanese navy and army not only compete for the aircraft in service, but also start their own aircraft manufacturing projects.

Because the two sides looked down on each other and refused to share technology, there was a strange phenomenon of repeated introductions by the army and navy of the same production line, resulting in a huge waste of resources. The idea of forming an air force had long been moved by the Japanese base camp, but it was quickly rejected.

Because they believe that if the Air Force becomes independent, it will infringe on the established interests of the Navy and Army. Unless the commanders of the base camp don't want to mess around, they can't afford to mess with either the army or the navy. However, due to the butterfly effect, the Flying Tigers of the Shandong Group Army really scared the Japanese Air Force, and Hirohito could no longer hold back his anger, and these days he has been planning to establish an absolutely superior air force to crush the Flying Tigers.

The inquiry just now was actually just to listen to the opinions, Hirohito had already made up his mind in his heart, and immediately said: "Yamaguchi-kun, I have decided to appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, responsible for the formation of the Air Empire, are you willing?" "Hello!"

Yamaguchi Duowen was suddenly so excited that he couldn't do it, and he paused and said: "The minister must live up to his mission!" "Shuffle!" Hirohito nodded, and then asked, "According to the current Imperial Army Aviation Corps, how many air units can be formed?" ”

Because the carrier-based aircraft of the Naval Aviation Corps could not be separated to form an air force, Hirohito did not include the HNA aircraft in the plan. After thinking for a while, Yamaguchi replied respectfully: "Avoidance, there are currently about 1,000 combat aircraft of various types in the empire, and if some more are produced, they can be organized into a front army, under the jurisdiction of three aviation divisions......

"Only three aviation divisions?" Hirohito frowned slightly, and then said domineeringly: "Three aviation divisions are far from enough, the empire must form at least ten aviation divisions!" "If you don't go crazy, you can't live, Hirohito was really stimulated and made up his mind to enter the state of crazy rioters." Nani? At least ten aviation divisions? Yamaguchi's pupils constricted, and he was directly frightened, but he was afraid that Hirohito had not figured out the situation, so he hurriedly reminded him kindly:

"Your Majesty, an aviation division has four air wings, each air wing has three air wings, and each air group has four air squadrons, each of which is equipped with twelve to fifteen fighters of various types. That is to say, one aviation division will have 576 to 720 fighters, and ten aviation divisions will have 5,760 to 7,200 fighters of various types, which is ......"