Before dawn the next day, Naosaburo Okabe ordered five reconnaissance planes to take off from Chifeng Airport to conduct reconnaissance... He also held on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that the Eighth Route Army wanted to fight at night and did not plan to march during the day.
Naosaburo Okabe's idea can actually be established.
Aren’t the Eighth Route Army’s half-tracks afraid of airplanes?
And the aircraft did not have the ability to fight at night, so the Eighth Route Army only had to march at night and hide during the day.
Although this would delay the Eighth Route Army's arrival at Chifeng, as long as the time was calculated correctly, it would be possible to arrive at Chifeng and launch an attack the next night.
Naosaburo Okabe thought: If the Eighth Route Army has this plan, then the pressure on Chifeng will be much less. Chifeng will only have to hold on until dawn. The Eighth Route Army without air supremacy will definitely suffer casualties under the bombing and strafing of the air force.
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However, Naosaburo Okabe's wish soon came true.
Not long after the reconnaissance planes were dispatched, they were shot down one after another by Eighth Route Army fighter planes.
Naosaburo Okabe felt strange. He almost roared and asked Ojodo Sanji: "Asshole, our reconnaissance planes were shot down, and we don't even know where their airport is!"
No wonder Naosaburo Okabe lost such a temper.
From Zhangjiakou to the north, it has been under the control of the imperial army for many years. Even though the Eighth Route Army has now reached Duolun County, this area can still be said to be the home ground for the imperial army. Every township, town, and village is full of imperial troops.
The military's spies, there are countless intelligence officers who can provide intelligence to the empire.
However, the Eighth Route Army was able to build an airport near Chifeng, but Sanji Oshiroto, who was in charge of intelligence collection, knew nothing about it.
Ochito Sanzhi was so scolded that he did not dare to say a word. He also found it strange that the farthest combat radius of the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" was only 300 kilometers, and Chifeng was 500 kilometers away from the Jiulian town occupied by the Eighth Route Army and about 30 kilometers away from Duolun County.
400 kilometers away, how did the Eighth Route Army drive the "La 5" to the sky above Chifeng and still patrol and shoot down the imperial reconnaissance plane?
Sanji Ojoto stared at the map on the table in a daze, wondering what went wrong with his intelligence network and why such a large airport could be missed by intelligence personnel.
Ojoto Sanji seemed to understand when he saw Lu Nuer Hushan.
"Your Excellency, General!" Ojoto Sanji said, "Will the Eighth Route Army... build the airport in a mountainous area?"
"Mountainous area? How is it possible!" Naosaburo Okabe replied without thinking: "How do they transport food, fuel and ammunition..."
Naosaburo Okabe understood before he finished speaking. He slumped back on his chair and said, "The helicopter is a helicopter of the Eighth Route Army!"
This is actually not difficult to guess. As long as there are helicopters transporting supply ammunition to the mountainous areas, it will not be a problem. Therefore, the only problem left to build an airport is to find a relatively flat open land.
Naosaburo Okabe didn't think of it until this moment because he was not used to adding the role of helicopters to his combat thinking, or it could be said that he didn't know that helicopters had such a use.
Then Oshiro Sanji's expression changed drastically, and he reminded: "General, if the Eighth Route Army has an airport in the mountainous area, does that mean they have the ability to bomb Chifeng Airport?"
Naosaburo Okabe jumped up from his chair as if he had been stabbed by a needle, and ordered with a pale face: "Immediately order Chifeng Airport and all fighter planes to take off urgently..."
But it's still too late.
Before Naosaburo Okabe could finish speaking, a communications soldier came forward and reported: "Your Excellency, General, Chifeng Airport was bombed and a large number of fighter planes were blown up!"
Then Naosaburo Okabe knew that the Eighth Route Army once again had air supremacy and could maintain it for a long time.
The reason was that the Chifeng Airport was full of fighter planes, and they were the Empire's most advanced "Feiyan" fighter planes... The Duolun County Airport was bombed by the Eighth Route Army, so Naosaburo Okabe transferred the fighter planes to Chifeng.
Originally, he thought that fighter planes would be safe in Chifeng, which was four to five hundred kilometers away from the front line and already outside the combat radius of Eighth Route Army fighter planes.
But this distance is within the combat radius of "Feiyan" and "Zero War", so the Imperial Air Force can fight very comfortably.
Who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army would come and secretly build a temporary airport in the mountainous area near Chifeng, which turned things around.
The situation on the battlefield made Okabe Naosaburo break into a cold sweat. He couldn't believe that one second he thought the imperial army had the advantage, and the next second he found that the Eighth Route Army had made all arrangements in advance, and Okabe Naosaburo didn't even dare to
Asked how much specific losses Chifeng Airport suffered.
In fact, the losses at Chifeng Airport were not as great as Naosaburo Okabe imagined. The reason was that the Eighth Route Army was in a hurry to build the airport and its helicopter capacity was limited, so it only had time to transport more than a hundred rockets.
As soon as it got dark, the air force fired more than a hundred rockets towards the Japanese airport...
Although rockets have many advantages, such as being able to attack targets from a distance without having to face enemy anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, the disadvantage is that they are not very accurate.
The accuracy could have been compensated by quantity, but the number of more than a hundred rockets was not too much.
After a batch was fired, only a dozen or so hit the airport.
Originally, the Japanese losses would have been much smaller, but who knew that Naosaburo Okabe ordered a reconnaissance plane to conduct reconnaissance, and the Japanese ordered several "Feiyans" to be filled with fuel and on standby by the runway so that they could take off immediately for combat if necessary.
Before the two refueling vehicles had time to return, the Eighth Route Army's rockets immediately caused a fire at the airport. After the refueling truck was blown over, the ignited fuel flowed everywhere and caused a fire in the hangar. As a result, they were blown up one after another.
There were more than 20 "Feiyans", more than 10 "Zero Fighters", and more than 20 reconnaissance aircraft and bombers.
Fortunately for the Japanese, those bombers were not loaded with bombs, otherwise the entire airport might have been destroyed.
The Japanese aviation actually had the idea of counterattack.
They do have the power to counterattack, because the lost fighter planes are only half of the strength at Chifeng Airport.
If the Japanese use "Feiyan" and "Zero War" escorts and allow bombers to fly over the Eighth Route Army airport for bombing, air supremacy will probably return to the Japanese... After all, it is a temporary airport of the Eighth Route Army, and it is still in a mountainous area.
Fuel and ammunition facilities are very crude.
This is also true. The Eighth Route Army only dug a few tunnels around the airport to store barrels of fuel. A lot of ammunition was piled under trees because they failed to dig tunnels in time.
The problem with the Japanese is... they only know that the Eighth Route Army built an airport in the mountainous area, but they don't know where the Eighth Route Army built the airport.
Therefore, they don’t know where to fly if they want to fight back!