As expected, Okamura Neiji lived up to his reputation. He quickly found out the location of the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and even knew the separated pilots and the fighter planes they had taken away.
Okamura Neiji's method of finding out this information was ingenious...using officers lurking within the recalcitrant army.
At this time, the relationship between the stubborn army, the Eighth Route Army and Yingjiang was very subtle.
Both the stubborn army and the Eighth Route Army have cooperation with Yingjiang, and they can both be said to be Yingjiang's allies.
Then it becomes normal for allies to share some information and it does not count as leaking secrets.
However, the Yingjiang pilot's tone of voice is not strict... In fact, it cannot be said to be "lax", because if it is just a bunch of people waiting, the Yingjiang pilot can also keep secrets.
But the other party was an officer of the stubborn army. Firstly, leaking the information to the stubborn army was not considered a leak. Secondly, the officer of the stubborn army also gave him a reward that he could not refuse... so why not?
Who would have thought that this information was not transferred to the stubborn army, but directly to Okamura Neji's desk.
Okamura Neiji couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the information: "Wangxing Airport, the Eighth Route Army will actually set up the aviation team at Wangxing Airport?!"
Yoshio Shinozuka explained: "Perhaps the Eighth Route Army thought that we would not know that they had set up the airport in Wangxing! They set up a camouflage outside the airport, and all the equipment, including fighter planes, were in underground warehouses..."
The Japanese even found out about this.
Okamura Neiji laughed: "Shinozuka-kun, do you know why we have been unable to do anything after getting to the prefectural airport?"
Yoshio Shinozuka thought for a while and replied: "Is it because of the unity of the enemy?"
Okamura Neiji shook his head: "The Hawk-chan pilot is only responsible for the training of the Eighth Route Army Air Force. Under normal circumstances, he will not directly participate in the war. If so, what is the difference between unity and independence?"
Then Shinozuka Yoshio understood: "General, what you mean is that Wanxian Airport is surrounded by mountains on all sides?"
Okamura Neji nodded and said:
"Wangxing Airport is surrounded by a plain. This terrain is very suitable for the Imperial Air Force, which has the advantage in air superiority, to fight, especially the 'zero battle'."
"With such terrain, pilots and reconnaissance aircraft can see the runway of Wangxing Airport from a long distance, and there are no mountains nearby to hide the air defense troops."
"In this case..."
Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "We only need to use a small number of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft to completely block Wangxing Airport!"
Okamura Neiji nodded again: "That's it! Maybe in the first battle, we need to invest some fighter jets, but after that, we only need reconnaissance aircraft to monitor, and then send bombers to bomb at the right time, we can make Wang Xing
The runway at the airport can never be repaired. If the runway cannot be repaired, I would like to know, what is the use of those Eighth Route Army fighter planes hidden in underground warehouses?"
This is why most airports and even military airports do not have underground warehouses. Aircraft are placed on the ground and appear to be easily attacked and bombed.
Because of the airport, its protective circle should be built using the combat radius of fighter jets. If enemy fighter jets and bombers approach the airport, they will inevitably be intercepted by fighter jets.
Otherwise, if the bombers arrive and blow up the runway, the plane will not even be able to take off and there will be no combat effectiveness.
Wanxian Airport is special. It is an airport surrounded by mountains and can be defended... It is not even easy to bomb the runway at such an airport.
Because if a bomber approaches at low altitude, first of all, it will be blocked by those mountains and the view will not be known where the runway is. Secondly, it must be careful of the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns deployed on those mountains. Thirdly, and most importantly... even if the runway is bombed, the Eighth Route Army will repair it.
It is difficult for reconnaissance aircraft to see the whole process, so it is impossible to "monitor" it.
Wangxing Airport is another story.
"Therefore!" Neiji Okamura said confidently: "If we send out the aviation force, the Eighth Route Army will have only two options. One is to take off to fight, and the other is to let those fighter planes get bad luck in the warehouse and not be able to get out. Do you think the Eighth Route Army will
Which one to choose?”
Yoshio Shinozuka replied: "I think the Eighth Route Army will choose the latter, because they don't know yet that we will block Wangxing Airport!"
"You are wrong, Shinozuka-kun!" Okamura Neiji said: "The person commanding Wangxing Airport is Xiao Dongbei, he knows what I will do!"
As the saying goes, heroes think alike. At this time, Okamura Neiji already knew what level Wang Xuexin was, so he could roughly guess what Wang Xuexin would do when encountering this situation.
"He will choose to take off a group of fighter planes to cover!" Okamura Neiji said: "Then other fighters will escape from Wangxing Airport to preserve their strength. Otherwise, he will not even have a chance to preserve his strength!"
Yoshio Shinozuka said "Oh" and secretly thought that what Neji Okamura said made sense, and that this was more in line with the Eighth Route Army's combat style.
However, if we had known today, why bother then?
Why did the Eighth Route Army choose Wangxing Airport as its base?
Okamura Neiji seemed to have seen through Shinozuka Yoshio's thoughts, and explained: "Perhaps it is for transit. The Eighth Route Army has no other base suitable for an airport. After all, there are not many terrains like Wanxian Airport."
Yoshio Shinozuka had no reason to refute. He heard that the Eighth Route Army and Takajia were having an unpleasant quarrel over the independence of the Air Force, so the Eighth Route Army should have temporarily become independent.
"So!" Yoshio Shinozuka said: "We only need to send 20 Zero Fighters and some more bombers to achieve the strategic goal perfectly..."
"No, Shinozuka-kun!" Okamura Neji shook his head: "Instead of 20, we need at least 50 Zero Fighters! We must take this opportunity to kill them all!"
Then Okamura Neiji added: "I'm talking about Eighth Route Army pilots, not fighter planes!"
Okamura Neji’s words can be regarded as grasping the key point.
Eighth Route Army pilots are the most scarce.
Of course, other countries are also scarce, but none are like the Eighth Route Army. A group of more than a hundred people was almost gone after a group of more than 100 people. Another group of students who entered Wanxian Airport to study were student soldiers who knew nothing about flying or even military affairs.
Therefore, as long as more Eighth Route Army pilots are killed, the Eighth Route Army Air Force will become a thing in name only.
In order to "destroy" the Eighth Route Army pilots, it is necessary to kill the chicken with a knife, that is, use the empire's most advanced fighter planes to "zero combat" to hunt down those transferred rocket fighters.
When the time comes, there will be a massacre.
Neji Okamura even had the image of "Zero War" shooting down enemy planes in his mind.
But what Neiji Okamura didn't know was that what Wang Xuexin wanted was his idea... The Eighth Route Army Air Force only had fifty people and more than fifty aircraft. If the Japanese had more than a hundred "zero battles" coming up in one go, it would really be a disaster.