Chu Yunfei originally wanted to show off his talent.
Soldiers should have the backbone of a soldier.
Is it because the Japanese army is about to launch a full-scale air raid that they are so scared that they dare not even stay at the stable air defense headquarters?
After all, this is the best place to watch the battle when the Japanese army launches a full-scale air raid.
The Eighth Route Army signal soldier continued: "I have conveyed the order of the detachment leader, and asked several officers to move immediately. I have to inform our Eighth Route Army commanders, so I won't disturb you."
With that said, he turned around and left.
It means...the commanders of the Eighth Route Army are also preparing to evacuate from the headquarters in the city?
Yang Chongshan and Wu Changsheng turned around and left. These two colluding old boys wanted to put their arms around each other.
Fang Ligong looked at Chu Yunfei and said, "Commander, are we going to..."
"Evacuate immediately, a gentleman will not be in danger!"
Captain Chu, who has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a dignified appearance, and a heroic face said sternly.
"Yes!" Fang Ligong breathed a sigh of relief.
……
The aviation units and bombers of the Eighth Route Army naturally stayed at the airport, waiting for orders from the headquarters at any time under the command of Major Davis, preparing to take the opportunity to go to Shanghai to carry out the sneak attack plan.
The remaining modified fighter jets were all used in the air battle at Licheng.
Doolittle's preliminary combat plan formulated at the headquarters is:
"Use the Type 97 fighter squadron to dive at high altitude and raid the Japanese escort formation. In a wave of offensive, try to disperse the Japanese flying team as much as possible.
After this rapid raid, the 97th Fighter Squadron withdrew at high speed. If the Japanese fighter jets dared to pursue, Zhongxu Squadron and Falcon Squadron would use their speed to turn back. At the same time, the 97th Fighter Squadron returned to strangle, waiting for an opportunity to severely damage the Japanese flying troops.
If the plan goes well, once the Japanese escort fighter group is dispersed.
The remaining Japanese light and heavy bombers are no different from lambs to be slaughtered in front of our modified fighter jets.
Maybe we can defeat the Japanese bomber formation in one fell swoop and achieve fruitful results!"
Actually.
After the actual air combat between the two sides began.
If we were to fight in accordance with conventional operations, the Eighth Route Army fighter formations without the air search and radar intelligence support of the electronic reconnaissance command center might run into the Japanese's most elite One-Type Falcon Squadron head-on.
But it’s different with the electric detection team.
All the air search radars in Licheng airspace were turned on and searched, and they immediately discovered that Japanese navy bombers and army bombers were bombing at high altitudes around Licheng city.
However, only one squadron of fighter jets is on patrol in the southern part of Licheng, two fighter squadrons are escorting over the city, and two fighter squadrons are on alert in the airspace north of Licheng.
After Kong Jie got in touch with Doolittle, he immediately decided:
"The aviation force first bypassed the airspace north of Licheng and entered the battlefield from the north of Lucheng. It first raided and attacked the Japanese southern alert squadron, and then attacked the two Japanese escort fighter squadrons that came to support.
Finally, evacuate to the west, attracting the elite northern Japanese flying squadron to pursue westward pursuit."
The battle soon began:
A team of Type 97 fighter jets took off first, and with the support of electronic radar units around the airport, they quickly destroyed the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace.
Immediately, the Eighth Route Army fighter formations took off one after another - the repaired Type-1 Falcon Squadron, the 97th Fighter Squadron, and the 97th Reconnaissance Plane Squadron.
When the Eighth Route Army fighter formation attacked the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft, the Japanese pilots quickly passed the information to the Japanese Licheng fighter unit.
I learned that the secret aviation unit of the Eighth Route Army that the Commander-in-Chief has been thinking about has finally appeared.
The Japanese military command quickly made adjustments.
Order a fighter jet group to go north to be on alert.
The Japanese elite air force north of the city therefore stayed away from the airspace of Licheng for the time being.
Then, the Eighth Route Fighter Group flew to the west of Taihang Mountain and entered the battlefield via Lucheng.
Using the 12.7 heavy machine gun of the 97 fighter jet, the enemy opened fire first, and cooperated with the reconnaissance and intelligence troops on the ground to knock out the Japanese commander's mobile phone with a radio.
Subsequently, they used dispersal operations to completely disperse the Japanese fighter groups.
Before the battle begins, Kong Jie and Doolittle's considerations are:
"Japanese aircraft do not have reliable short-wave radio communications. Basically, the commander's plane has a radio. Communication between squadrons relies entirely on hand gestures and writing pads!
As long as the planes can be knocked out and the Japanese formations are disrupted, the Falcon formation and the Zhongxu formation can start to fight when the various Japanese flying teams are unable to obtain effective communications and cooperate in operations.
This is indeed the case.
The Japanese army probably never thought that one day it would launch an air combat on such a scale with the Eighth Route Army.
The arrogance of the Japanese flying force commanders in Central China, North China, and East China also made them think that even if the Eighth Route Army had an aviation force, it was just some shabby and backward fighter planes and the most primitive combat method.
As everyone knows, a secret aviation force is built by a team.
Except that the number of fighter planes is not too many, they mainly rely on seizures from the Japanese army.
The modified and improved fighters and bombers are already ahead of the Japanese flying forces in terms of flight speed, protection capabilities, firepower configuration and stable communication methods.
The Japanese did not expect this.
Old Japanese Okamura can probably make some guesses. After all, even the ace US military pilot Doolittle and his team are in the Eighth Route Army base area.
But as a general who keeps losing battles, how many people are willing to listen to his words now?
Not to mention those arrogant naval aviation units and the Japanese flying units in East China.
That's it.
Under the careful command of Kong Jie and Doolittle, a secret aviation force launched a battle against the Japanese flying forces, which was similar to the improved anti-aircraft tactics of segmentation, outflanking and annihilation on the ground.
After the soldiers successfully destroyed the Japanese guard formation in the south of the city.
At this time, the Japanese escort formation over Licheng received the distress telegram.
The Japanese army soon made another stupid mistake.
Because the Eighth Route Army moved too quickly, and the Japanese army's communication methods were very limited.
The news received by the Japanese command headquarters was that the Eighth Route Army dispatched a large number of 97 fighter jet formations.
As for the news about the attack by Falcon Squadron, Zhongkui Squadron, and other types of aircraft, the Japanese Army Command has not received any news yet.
In order to quickly eliminate the 97 fighter formation dispatched by the Eighth Route Army.
The Japanese command did not think much and quickly mobilized several fighter squadrons and hurriedly came to support.
"Well done!"
Inside the headquarters, Kong Jie spoke excitedly.
After the two sides quickly approached.
All the aviation rockets attached to the Eighth Route Army's special fighter formations were put to use.
Under full firepower.
The aviation rockets trailing smoke were heading in the opposite direction of the Japanese aircraft, and their relative speeds reached a terrifying level.
Immediately...
Boom——
A series of explosions.
Three Japanese fighter jets were destroyed on the spot, and several others were severely damaged.
The large formation formed by a large number of fighter planes that was originally blindly reinforced was also broken up in an instant.
The Eighth Route Army pilots took advantage of the absolute range advantage of the 12.7 aviation machine gun to fire first from a long distance, overpowering the Japanese 7.7 aviation machine gun with a relatively short range.
Soon the Japanese's large aircraft formation was completely dispersed.
The Falcon Team and Zhong Xu Team, who were at high altitude, appeared like ghosts at this time, using high altitude and high speed to start strangulation again.
After a brief confrontation, the Eighth Route Fighter Force repelled the Japanese escort formation.
However, they did not stop and quickly evacuated to the airspace west of Licheng, attracting the remaining Japanese aircraft and the elite flying team coming to support from the northern airspace to pursue them.
After the remaining escort formations of the Japanese army merged with the elite flying teams coming from the north to support them, they went to the west of Licheng and pursued them into the mountainous areas around Xiangyuan.
This is the moment the pilots and soldiers have been waiting for.
A few brave US military pilots who were skilled in art even controlled the distance and hung the Japanese fighter plane behind their butts at a not too far or near distance.
Soon after, the Japanese were successfully lured to the designated airspace.
In the mountains and forests corresponding to the airspace, there were lurking Eighth Route Army electrical reconnaissance troops and anti-aircraft artillery troops. Just as the Japanese formation entered the ambush area, various types of anti-aircraft artillery fired fiercely.
The pursuing Japanese pilots did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would use such methods.
Just like that, we plunged into the ambush airspace set up by the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
The commander leading the team was also full of excitement.
"Grandma, for so many years, our regular troops have often been able to ambush the Japanese infantry. But this time we have grown up and are going to ambush the Japanese planes!
Everyone arranged the muzzles for me in advance and set up the muzzles. According to the coordination mode of anti-air combat that we usually teach, after a while, the Japanese plane flew over and beat me hard.
Try to shoot down all the enemy planes for me!"
The raid broke out suddenly.
The Japanese pilots of the plane were indeed caught off guard.
They hurriedly raised the altitude, but the fighter planes could no longer maintain their original combat formation and were quickly dispersed.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army's Falcon Formation and Zhong Kui Formation, which had separated at high altitude and at high speed in the early stage, took advantage of this opportunity to quickly launch an attack.
After the two elite Falcon Squadrons and the 97th Fighter Squadron in the north of Guizicheng were ambushed by anti-aircraft artillery, and the Eighth Route Army's Zhong Xu Formation and Falcon Formation focused their attacks.
The 97 fighter jet formation of the Eighth Route Army, which was responsible for luring the enemy in the early stage, reorganized and continued to launch raids to hunt down the Jaap 97 fighter jets that broke away from the formation and fled in all directions.
Three-way fighter units coordinate and cooperate in operations.
Under the premise that the overall force cannot compete with the strength of the Japanese flying force, local advantages are used to continuously divide and annihilate the Japanese fighter force.
Coupled with the Eighth Route Army's air defense troops in the Licheng area, a considerable part of the Japanese flying troops were contained.
It also consumed a large amount of ammunition from the Japanese fighter planes and caused a lot of damage to the Japanese fighter planes.
After a team of secret aviation units and a three-way fighter squadron quickly attacked, it turned out to be twice the result with half the effort. The little Japanese were caught off guard and struggled to fight.
The entire anti-air combat.
The Eighth Route Army's Falcon fighter formations and Zhongkui fighter formations were like the tip of a knife, constantly stabbing back and forth on the Japanese army, splitting the formation of the Japanese flying team with one knife after another.
These modified fighter aircraft are powerful and fast.
During the confrontation with the Japanese fighter jets, they were basically at a disadvantage.
This made the Japanese pilots fighting against them complain endlessly. How could this look like the Eighth Route Army troops with backward equipment that they had once dismissed!
It's almost like a sophisticated U.S. military flying team.
Regarding this air combat.
Kong Jie called it: "Absolute advantage strike tactics!"
——First, the ground-to-air combat in Licheng depleted the energy of the Japanese flying troops. When the Japanese flying troops were already depleted of men and aircraft, a secret aviation unit took the opportunity to take action.
First, seize the enemy, show the enemy that you are weak, then wait for work, and surround them on all sides.
Make full use of the long range of weapons to fire before the enemy, as well as the advantages of better aircraft protection and faster speed, to attack the Japanese formation.
All formations have U.S. military pilots as lead aircraft and Eighth Route Army pilots as wingmen, working together to coordinate with each other.
Use your strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses.
Utilizing the coordination and cooperation of the three-way fighter groups, they continuously attacked in all directions, disrupting the formation of the Japanese air force, which had inconsistent command and backward communication methods, and plunged it into complete chaos.
As a result, the three-way fighter formation fought the Japanese flying team into chaos.
It was Major Davis who led the secretly formed bomber unit. Following the chaos caused by the Japanese army, the fleeing flying units took the opportunity to rush to Shanghai and attack the large Japanese military airport.
Let’s review it as a whole:
First, the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale attack on Licheng and announced in a high-profile manner that a military parade would be held in Licheng, and the time was scheduled to be Army Day, August 1, forcing the Japanese army to launch air strikes.
Second, the Licheng air defense force built in secret and the camouflage fortifications built by everyone in Licheng to paralyze the Japanese army dragged the Japanese flying troops from all sides, so that the Japanese soldiers were trapped and out of aircraft.
Third, a group of secret aviation forces took the opportunity to take action, causing the Japanese flying formation to fall into chaos and retreat in confusion.
Fourth, Davis, who had been waiting for success, led the bomber formation, took the opportunity to blend into the chaotic evacuation of the Japanese army, and rushed all the way to Shanghai. Then, with the cooperation of the intelligence and reconnaissance forces in the Shanghai area, he targeted three large Japanese military sites.
The airport launches air strike plan.
On the whole, it can be said that one link follows another, and the links are intertwined.
So that...
When Kong Jie first proposed the layout and combat plan of the entire battle at the former enemy's headquarters, the deputy commander-in-chief, chief of staff, and teachers were amazed but also a little worried.
Once this chain of battle arrangements succeeds, the blow to the Japanese army will undoubtedly be huge.
But by the same token, because the deployment is so delicate, there are too many steps that cannot be missed.
Once a certain link is missing, it will be bad.
In the end, the courageous deputy commander-in-chief made the final decision and decided on this battle:
"Hit!"
"We didn't know what the future was going to be like in the arduous Hundred Regiment War, but we still had to fight."
"Nowadays, our army has grown a lot, and our equipment has also developed a lot. If we can still let the little devils bully us, it will not be justified no matter what. Our Eighth Route Army cannot afford to lose this person!"
The soldiers were also highly motivated and quickly made detailed arrangements and discussions on the overall combat plan.
In the end, this milestone was achieved, the first great victory of the Eighth Route Army aviation unit in the air combat!