Okamura Neiji received the air raid alert late at night, and he was already resting in bed.
This was his first good sleep after being bombed at Linfen Airport.
Because Okamura Neiji thought of a question, if the Eighth Route Army can use this tactic to bomb Linfen Airport, does that mean the Eighth Route Army can also use the same tactic to bomb other places in the empire?
For example, barracks, warehouses, etc., or even his headquarters.
This made Okamura Neji restless and felt chills on the top of his head.
Ever since the Empire faced the Eighth Route Army, or to be precise, ever since it faced the Chinese Army, it had never encountered this problem. No matter how hard the battle was, it never felt like the sky was uncontrollable and unsafe.
It wasn't until "Zero War" landed at Linfen Airport that Okamura Neji breathed a sigh of relief, and his worries were half relieved.
However, at one o'clock in the morning, Okamura Neji was suddenly awakened by a rapid knock on the door.
The signal soldier couldn't wait to report again when they met. He knocked on the door directly outside and shouted: "Your Excellency, General, a large number of Eighth Route Army fighter planes have taken off, and their flight direction is directly towards Linfen!"
Okamura Neiji was startled. He sat up from the bed with a sudden movement. After thinking for a moment, he ordered through the door: "Order Zero War immediately to take off and transfer!"
"Yes!" the communications soldier responded and went back to deliver the order.
Okamura Neji hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed to the headquarters.
When he arrived at the headquarters, Yoshio Shinozuka was already waiting there.
What reassured Neji Okamura was that Yoshio Shinozuka reported: "Your Excellency, General, all the Zero Battles have been launched!"
Okamura Neiji nodded and thought to himself: You can explode on the ground, but I don’t believe you can explode in the air? What’s more, it’s still night!
Then Okamura Neiji gave another order: "Order all air defense units to prepare for air defense and fire immediately as soon as a target is discovered! Don't worry about ammunition consumption!"
"yes!"
This is not a common thing. The Japanese also pay attention to saving ammunition on the battlefield. Therefore, rifles require accuracy rather than fire rate. Therefore, submachine guns are not favored. Especially in this multi-front war, logistics supply has become the most serious problem in the empire.
problem.
In fact, the Japs in China have been used as a production base. The Japs have built many arsenals in China and exploited the blood and sweat of Chinese workers to produce large amounts of ammunition to supply the Japs to launch wars.
By that time, the Japanese had already dismantled the Chinese people's iron pots, copper locks, door bolts and other metals to make bullets and cannonballs.
But now, Okamura Neiji can actually let the air defense troops "not worry about ammunition consumption"!
From this we can also see how fearful Okamura Neiji was towards the Eighth Route Army Air Force.
On the other hand, the Japanese air defense forces at this time could also hit the Eighth Route Army Air Force...
Since the last bombing of Linfen Airport, Okamura Neiji has realized the power of the Eighth Route Army's "long-range bombing". They can carry out bombing beyond the range of the air defense forces, so they can ignore the air defense forces and make them useless.
In view of this flaw, Okamura Neiji pushed the air defense troops a few kilometers away, that is, to a position ten kilometers away from Linfen Airport.
In fact, this cannot solve the problem.
The reason is that the further you push the circle, the larger it gets. If you want to defend it, you have to use much more air defense teams.
For example, in the past, four or five air defense brigades could defend a point. After pushing it 10 kilometers away, ten air defense brigades may not be able to defend it, so there are loopholes everywhere.
From another perspective, a Linfen Airport requires so many air defense troops to defend it. So what are the other important points?
How many air defense troops are needed?
What about other directions? Planes can make curves!
Therefore, the best method of air defense should be to obtain air superiority rather than passive air defense using ground anti-aircraft firepower.
While Okamura Neji was waiting for news from Linfen Airport, the caller after a while was from Linfen Railway Station!
After answering the call, a staff officer reported to Neji Okamura in surprise: "Your Excellency, General Nagai, Colonel Nagai reported that the train station was attacked by enemy air raids and many warehouses were on fire, but it was quickly brought under control!"
Okamura Neji is somewhat disgraced.
Because he immediately guessed that the Eighth Route Army was attacking the airport, but he did not expect that they did not follow the script and instead attacked the train station.
But it’s no wonder Okamura Neji thinks so.
What the Eighth Route Army feared most was the empire's "zero war," so the first thing Okamura Neji thought of was "zero war."
Wang Xuexin actually thought about bombing the "zero war", but he thought it was more of a useless effort.
Because the number of "zero battles" is very small, only 12.
Such a small number of fighter planes means they can take off as quickly as possible.
If the Japanese did not know that the Eighth Route Army could carry out long-range bombing before, then of course now that the Japanese knew about it, they would no longer be able to park their fighter planes at the airport for abuse.
Therefore, bombing Linfen Airport will only be a useless effort.
It's different at the train station. There are so many trains that can't leave immediately, and the warehouses can't just be moved.
So the train station is the best choice.
Okamura Neji thought for a while, and then he felt relaxed.
Yoshio Shinozuka was a little confused and asked: "Your Excellency, General, you don't seem to care about the bombing of the train station?"
Yoshio Shinozuka feels that the problem is still not optimistic.
Because he felt that the Eighth Route Army seemed to have found a way to deal with it: choosing to bomb the strategic points of the empire at night.
It is true that the Empire's "Zero War" has few opponents, but the "Zero War" does not have the ability to fight at night and cannot intercept enemy aircraft at night.
For example, now, knowing that a large number of Eighth Route Army fighter planes are taking off, all "Zero War" can do is take off and transition.
So, does this mean that the Eighth Route Army has turned the battle to night?
Just like the Eighth Route Army deliberately arranged its infantry and battlefields in mountainous areas to fight guerrillas with the imperial army, this is the most difficult thing to deal with.
Okamura Neiji saw through Shinozuka Yoshio's thoughts, and he said: "Shinozuka-kun, think about it, why did the Eighth Route Army choose dawn when they bombed Linfen Airport last time, but this time it was at one o'clock in the morning?"
Yoshio Shinozuka had not thought about this problem. As soon as Neji Okamura reminded him, Yoshio Shinozuka understood: "What do you mean, General, is the Eighth Route Army doing this as a last resort?"
Okamura Neiji nodded: "The reason why they chose dawn bombing means that they must at least be able to see the location of the target, but they can't see anything at night, even though the area of the train station is also quite large. So, they
In fact, it was launched blindly, or it was just launched in the general direction indicated by the flames on the ground. If so, how accurate would it be? Doesn't this prove that the Eighth Route Army was forced to choose chaos due to the threat of "zero war"?
Want to blow it up?"
Yoshio Shinozuka nodded in agreement.
In this way, we only need to bring in night fighters and all the problems will be solved.