After a while, a fuel truck was also affected, and the fire at the airport became more and more intense, with explosions happening one after another.
At that time, Colonel Ishii was standing in front of the radio station commanding the anti-aircraft artillery troops. In his mind, he was still imagining the scene of anti-aircraft artillery firing and shooting down enemy planes one after another.
Just then...
Suddenly there was a roar and fire at the airport.
"What's going on?" Colonel Ishii cursed, then turned to the adjutant and shouted: "Whoever made the mistake, shoot him immediately!"
At that moment, Colonel Ishii thought that the airport staff had made some mistake that caused the accidental explosion.
Colonel Ishii was still cursing in his mind: "These bastards, this is an airport, there are fuel and bombs everywhere, any mistake may cause irreparable losses! Can't they be more careful?"
But soon, he discovered that he was wrong.
In his astonished sight, "cannonballs" with trails fell from the sky one after another, hitting the interior of the airport like meteorites and bursting into flames.
Several of them missed, and they exploded in the open space of the airport by coincidence.
But the others were different. One of the rockets even directly hit the car transporting fighter bullets, so explosions sounded one after another. Soon the fire spread rapidly in the explosion, and the spreading fire caused new explosions, and the cycle started again...
Colonel Ishii stood there stunned for a few seconds. At that moment, he didn't know what to do, or in other words, any efforts would be of no help to the situation.
But Colonel Ishii was still unwilling to admit defeat. When he came to his senses, he pulled the staff officer who was also in shock, grabbed his collar and roared hysterically: "Don't stand there like a fool, go put out the fire quickly!"
"Save..." The staff officer was stunned. Can such a fire be saved?
But he was just stunned for a moment before Ishii pushed him down, then kicked him in the butt and cursed: "Go quickly!"
When saying this, Ishii even took out the pistol in his waist.
The staff officer hurriedly responded, then ran out of the headquarters as if running away to organize the so-called firefighting.
The staff officer was lucky. At the moment he left, a bomber that was about to take off in an emergency amid the fire deviated from its route due to interference from the explosion, and then plunged into the headquarters where Colonel Ishii was...
In fact, it was not just the Japanese airport that was bombed.
Most of the rockets were fired near the airport.
If it was just around the airport, that would be fine. In order to prevent the airport from being attacked by sneak attacks, the Japs had cleared out the surrounding area for several miles, and burned down all the buildings and trees...
This is the Japanese strategy to deal with the guerrillas. If there is no cover on the flat ground, the guerrillas will not be able to enter the airport and cause damage.
The problem is, there are several anti-aircraft artillery units around the airport.
Some of these off-course rockets fell in the anti-aircraft artillery wing, and three of them fell in the 35th anti-aircraft artillery wing position due to the west, which was ready for battle... The fire instantly ignited the position.
The car then set off a series of explosions.
At this time, Ariga Chiri, who was in the air, realized what he was doing. He yelled, "Asshole, we've fallen into a trap!"
In fact, this cannot be regarded as a trick, because the Eighth Route Army did not use any tricks at all. The problem was that the Japanese did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would have such long-range bombing shells mounted on aircraft.
"What should we do now, Major?" the subordinate asked.
"Do you still need to ask?" Ariga Chili replied without thinking: "Sail towards the enemy airport and shoot them down when they land!"
Ariga Chiri's idea is correct.
The Hawker 81 will definitely return to the airport after completing its bombing mission. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army only has 10 aircraft. The dispatch of their entire army means that no other aircraft can provide cover for them to protect the safety of the airport. Then it is time for the Imperial fighter planes to take revenge.
but……
"Your Excellency, Major!" His subordinate asked a question: "Linfen Airport has been blown up and our troops cannot land. We must rush to Kaicun Airport to land. If we fly to the enemy's airport to fight again..."
Needless to say, their fuel will not be enough to fly back to Kaicun Airport by then, and they will most likely have to make an emergency landing in the wild.
In the land of China, there are guerrillas everywhere. There seems to be only one result of an emergency landing in the wild, and that is for the people and the aircraft to fall into the hands of the guerrillas.
Ariga Chiri was silent for a while, and could only look at the figure of Hawker 81 disappearing in the sky, and gave the helpless order: "Return to Kaicun Airport!"
In fact, even if He Zhili catches up, I'm afraid he won't be able to gain much benefit.
Wang Xuexin had already made some preparations. He deployed several anti-aircraft guns and whatever anti-aircraft machine guns he could find around the airport.
In addition, the Hawker 81 is faster than the 96 in ship combat, and is more advantageous in air combat.
At this time, the Wanxian Airport Command did not know what was going on.
The reason is that Major Doug and others turned around and left after firing the rockets... This is the authentic "fire and forget".
However, Wang Xuexin agrees with this, because no matter whether you watch or not, the result of the bombing will not change, so there is no need to let the precious fighter planes stay in place to observe at the risk of being surrounded and annihilated.
This is what Major Doug said to Wang Xuexin: "We have done what we can do, now it depends on how God arranges it!"
"This is China, Major!" Wang Xuexin corrected: "There is no God here!"
"Oh?" Major Doug asked, "So, what does the Chinese God say?"
"The God of the Chinese people..." Wang Xuexin was stumped by this question. He thought for a moment and then said: "It should be called the Jade Emperor!"
Everyone in the headquarters laughed in unison.
Li Yueying asked worriedly: "Battle Commander Wang, if the result of this mission is not ideal, what will be the result?"
Wang Xuexin laid down his hands indifferently and replied: "There is no result, it is just...the Japanese knew that we still had ten fighter planes, and then bombed them desperately! There was no way, who told Yingjiang to only give ten planes?"
Li Yueying was frightened by this result.
Wang Xuexin's understatement almost determined the fate of the airport and the air force, and even whether Yingjiang would reinforce the Eighth Route Army in the future.
Just when everyone was deep in thought, Principal Tang suddenly held a telegram and cheered: "We hit it, we hit it! Commander of the Fifth Battalion, we blew up the Japanese airport into a mess!"
The headquarters immediately burst into cheers, and Li Yueying's solemn expression relaxed, and then she smiled.
This is a message sent by intelligence personnel.
Originally, no intelligence personnel were arranged to send a telegram at this time, because the power generation at this time would be easily exposed.
However, the intelligence personnel simply could not suppress their ecstasy and wanted to tell the Eighth Route Army the news as early as possible, so they took the risk and disclosed the bombing situation.