But on second thought, Wang Xuexin felt that it might not be a good thing for the Japanese to find out in advance.
Because Wang Xuexin thought of something... What would be the reaction of the Japanese when they discovered that the Eighth Route Army fighter planes were taking off?
With Okamura Neiji's treacherous nature, he would definitely guess that the target of the Eighth Route Army fighter planes was Linfen Airport.
The problem is... Okamura Neiji didn't know that the Eighth Route Army fighter planes were equipped with rockets and could sneak attack from several kilometers away.
He would take it for granted that the Eighth Route Army fighter planes took off to drop bombs by dive bombing... No, they should be using machine gun fire to sneak attack Linfen Airport.
The reason is that aerial bombs cannot be transported to China, and the Hawk 81 is a fighter jet, so they don't need to worry about bombs but machine guns.
Therefore, Okamura Neiji will send fighter planes to take off to intercept, and then deploy anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns around the airport to wait for the arrival of Hawker 81.
But these preparations are obviously useless.
Not only are they useless, those fighter jets parked at the airport preparing to take off... will also become perfect targets for rockets and burning points for the fire to expand.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin secretly thought to himself that this might be the fate of the Japanese. Unexpectedly, he got it right.
Wang Xuexin's guess was correct, Okamura Neji did have such a reaction.
One thing Wang Xuexin didn't expect was that the Japanese were actually "collaborating" with Wang Xuexin's plan.
Wang Xuexin wanted to use the darkness to launch a sneak attack on the Japanese Airport, and Okamura Neiji also wanted to use the darkness before dawn to launch a sneak attack on the Eighth Route Army's Wanxian Airport.
This is what Okamura Neiji told Shinozuka Yoshio: "Last time we bombed from the direction of the stubborn army, if we use the same method again this time... the Eighth Route Army will probably be prepared! Especially the distance between Zhengzhou and Wanxian, the Eighth Route Army
Intelligence officers might be enough to issue an early warning!"
This was a kind of uncertainty. Even Okamura Neiji could not believe that the stubborn army would not even notify the Eighth Route Army airport when they had common interests.
Because he didn't believe it, Okamura Neji believed that if such a bombing were to be carried out again, the effect would probably not be as good as the last time.
Yoshio Shinozuka replied: "But General! If we attack from the front, we will have to face the early warning mechanism established by the Eighth Route Army, and our possibility of success will be even lower!"
Neji Okamura said: "What if we take off at night?"
"At night..." Then Yoshio Shinozuka understood that even if the Eighth Route Army had intelligence personnel stationed around the airport, when bombers took off at night, the intelligence personnel could only hear the roar of the aircraft motors but did not know how many and what type of aircraft were taking off.
, so there is no early warning.
Okamura Neiji added: "To be precise, we take off before dawn, fly over the enemy's airport just as the sky gets brighter, and our army can attack the Eighth Route Army..."
As he spoke, he hit Wanxian County on the map with his fist. This meant taking advantage of the Eighth Route Army's unpreparedness and blowing up the few remaining planes they had.
As the saying goes, there is no coincidence, Okamura Neiji and Wang Xuexin actually chose the same day, and there was not even much difference in time... When the fighter planes from Wanxian Airport took off, six bombers also took off from Linfen Airport.
However, Okamura Neiji took off two 98 light bombs in advance to conduct reconnaissance at Wanxian Airport for this bombing.
98 Lingbang saw the flashlight of Wanxian Airport from a distance in the air, and then vaguely saw the silhouette of fighter planes taking off one after another from the airport. He couldn't help being frightened, and hurriedly reported to Okamura Neji: "
Your Excellency, General, the Eighth Route Army fighter planes have taken off, the number is unknown, there are probably ten of them!"
Okamura Neji couldn't help being shocked when he heard this: "A cross? How can there be a cross!"
In Neji Okamura's mind, since the last bombing had destroyed 7 Eighth Route Army fighter planes, there should only be 3 left. How could there be 10 more? Gu
In the next second, Okamura Neiji understood that he had been fooled by the Eighth Route Army. The last bombing did not destroy 7 aircraft at all.
After thinking about this, Okamura Neji regretted it endlessly.
It could have allowed the bombers to continue bombing the county airport... Even if it could not blow up the aircraft hidden in the aircraft castle, as long as the Eighth Route Army airport could not be repaired, the Eighth Route Army fighter planes would not be able to take off, but now...
Okamura Neiji immediately thought that there were dozens of bombers parked at Linfen Airport ready to take off for bombing missions.
Shocked, he quickly ordered: "Cancel the bombing plan, take off fighter planes immediately to intercept, and prepare the air defense forces!"
Okamura Neji's order was wrong.
The correct order should be to order all bombers to take off, so that the bombers will not suffer too many losses...after all, those are bombers equipped with bombs, and the chain explosion caused by blowing up at the airport is not a trivial matter.
But on the one hand, Okamura Neji has no experience in air combat and lacks command experience in this area.
On the other hand... Okamura Neiji underestimated the enemy. He thought that the enemy only had 10 Hawker 81s, while Linfen Airport had a Type 96 battleship fleet, and these pilots also had rich combat experience.
There is a straight-line distance of more than 200 kilometers from Wanxian Airport to Linfen Airport. At the speed of Hawker 81, it takes at least 20 minutes to fly.
In these twenty minutes, Linfen Airport had enough time to evacuate the bombers and at the same time, more than twenty fighter jets took off to intercept them.
What's more, even if a few enemy aircraft break through the interception and air defense network...it's just a machine gun with low lethality instead of a bomb. How effective can it be?
Considering this aspect, Okamura Neji is actually right.
If the Eighth Route Army used traditional combat methods, it would indeed be difficult to pose a threat to the Japanese Linfen Airport... There were too few fighter planes, only 10. One batch was intercepted and another batch was shot down by anti-aircraft guns. When they arrived at the airport, they had to dive and strafe.
Anti-aircraft machine gun against the enemy.
This is exactly like a moth flying into a flame situation.
But who would have thought that these Eighth Route Army aircraft would not play this trick with you at all...
First of all, the enemy's interception was not smooth.
A total of 24 Japanese fighter planes from two squadrons took off in an emergency, and then headed straight to Wan County, one on the left and the other on the right.
The Japanese always think that planes can fly in a straight line. If the enemy plane comes in a straight line, we will intercept it in a straight line, and we will definitely be able to stop it.
Who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army did not go in a straight line, but first reached Luliang Mountain and then went north along Luliang Mountain.
Major Doug also had objections to this: "Wang, since the enemy has discovered us, I think there is no need for us to make the detour as originally planned. We should take the shortest route as quickly as possible!"
Wang Xuexin thought for a while and then rejected Major Doug's idea: "No, Major! Follow the original route, repeat, follow the original route!"
"Okay!" Major Doug replied. He also thought of the reason...the route along this route has been surveyed. If we don't proceed according to the original plan, we may not be able to aim at Linfen Airport in the final step.