Morimoto Ehide reported to the headquarters only after ordering the return flight.
"Your Majesty Osaka!" Ehide Morimoto said helplessly on the radio: "We have to return. Endo's troops have been completely wiped out. We have no chance of capturing Wangxing Airport!"
Colonel Kojima, who was in command at the airport, was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "If you approve the return, you don't have much fuel, right? Although there is no need to continue fighting, you should land at the temporary airport!"
"Yes!" Ehide Morimoto looked at the fuel gauge and agreed with Colonel Kojima's statement.
The "zero battle" formation he led had been fighting continuously for more than three hours. At this time, the fuel was nearly exhausted. Parking at a temporary airport a hundred kilometers away was obviously a wise choice.
The distance of more than 100 kilometers only takes ten minutes for a "zero battle" with a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour.
When Ehide Morimoto was about to arrive at the temporary airport and began to slow down and lower his altitude, he suddenly spotted several bright spots in the dim night sky.
Taking a closer look, Morimoto Eide discovered that there were not just a few, but dozens.
But because they were flying at the same level as me and their view was blocked by the fuselage, we mistakenly thought they were just a few.
"What is that?" Ehide Morimoto shouted on the radio: "Is it an enemy plane? The reconnaissance team..."
The reconnaissance team immediately understood and immediately separated from the main force to approach the target.
But after a while, the reconnaissance team no longer dared to approach.
"It's a special bomb!" Captain Miyagi of the reconnaissance team exclaimed: "We don't dare to get close, please ask for instructions..."
Ehide Morimoto knew the reason why the reconnaissance team did not dare to approach.
"Special bombs" are things that explode in the air. If a fighter plane approaches, they will be blown to pieces by them.
However, after hesitating for a moment, Morimoto Ehide felt that something was wrong and quickly asked: "Where is their goal?"
"I'm not sure!" Captain Miyagi replied: "However, their flight direction is surprisingly consistent with ours. Could it be..."
Then Captain Miyagi and Ehide Morimoto exclaimed almost simultaneously: "Temporary airport?"
Their guess was correct, the target of these "special bombs" was indeed a temporary airport.
They were actually launched from Yuanchang Airport at the moment Wang Xuexin ordered: "Launch!"
It set off a few minutes earlier than the Japanese "Zero" fighter planes.
But because the "High Fire" was slower than the "Zero War", they magically and coincidentally arrived at their destination at the same time as the "Zero War"...the Japs' No. 1 temporary airport.
There is a reason why Wang Xuexin did not launch the improved "high fire" until this moment.
Before that, Professor Su and He Zhimin had tried to launch improved "high fire" to destroy the two temporary airports of the Japanese after the war started.
"This is very beneficial to our army!" Professor Su said: "If the Japanese lose these two temporary airports, it means that their air support will be much weaker. Then, the Japanese's 'blitzkrieg' may not be able to work.
We will also be less in danger!"
He Zhimin also agreed: "If the Japanese don't have a temporary airport, they won't even be able to blockade our military airport and seize air supremacy, because their Type 96 fighter jets and Type 97 bombers will not be able to travel frequently because of the increased range of 400 kilometers. By then,
Our fighter planes can take off normally and compete for air supremacy with the Japanese in a 'zero battle'... Our army has x1, do we still need to worry about the Japanese in a 'zero battle'?"
Objectively speaking, what Professor Su and He Zhimin said is indeed very tempting.
Because the Eighth Route Army's speculation that the Japs had "new tactics" to deal with x1 was just speculation. Even if the Japs had "new tactics," they did not dare to say that such "new tactics" would be 100% effective.
So, why can't "Hawker 81" rely on x1 to compete with "Zero War" for air supremacy?
Once the Eighth Route Army seizes air supremacy, won't the Japs' mechanized troops that tear through the Yuncheng defense line and invade the Eighth Route Army's hinterland be doomed?
But after thinking about it, Wang Xuexin finally rejected this plan.
"We are only allowed to win and not lose!" Wang Xuexin said: "The devils are short of planes, but what we are short of are pilots. We currently have only fifty pilots capable of fighting in the air. In case the devils have to deal with it,
What about x1’s new tactics? What if this new tactic is effective?”
These words immediately silenced Professor Su and He Zhimin.
Wang Xuexin sighed and said: "The Japanese can try again if they fail, but we cannot fail once. Otherwise, we will never be able to organize a decent air force. Therefore, unless we have to do this,
Otherwise we can't let the aviation team take risks!"
Therefore, Wang Xuexin chose a more adventurous style of play.
In other words, as the war situation develops, let the Japanese take advantage first and go deep into the hinterland, and even their mechanized troops can fight all the way to Wangxing Airport.
Even Wang Xuexin occasionally doubted himself.
Because there were so many things about this battle that surprised him, such as the Japanese colluding with the bandits in Sanjia Store, the Japanese deploying airborne troops at Wangxing Airport, and the Japanese actually showing the drawings of Wangxing Airport, etc.
As long as one of these accidents succeeds, the Eighth Route Army will lose everything.
In other words, it would be better to let the aviation team risk a "zero battle" decisive battle with the Japanese from the beginning.
Fortunately, none of these had any effect, and the Eighth Route Army finally managed to hold on until dark.
The reason why they have to wait until dark is because as long as it gets dark, the Japanese fighter planes will collectively return to the temporary airport and swarm there, so the improved "high fire" can be used.
Morimoto Ehide also thought of this. After he guessed that the destination of the "special bomb" was the temporary airport, his head exploded with a "coax".
"Asshole, there are a large number of fighter jets and bombers parked there, as well as a lot of fuel and ammunition!"
"In addition, because they are temporary airports, they do not have many protective measures. A lot of fuel is transported by train, and they refuel the fighter planes before they even have time to unload it!"
"If these 'special bombs' were allowed to blow up at the temporary airport, the entire airport would cease to exist!"
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Thinking of this, Ehide Morimoto immediately shouted anxiously on the radio: "Your Majesty Colonel, the enemy's 'special bomb' is coming, please organize an anti-aircraft artillery unit to shoot it down immediately!"
Morimoto Ehide's idea is a good one. The anti-aircraft artillery unit is indeed capable of shooting down "special bombs", especially when fighter planes and anti-aircraft artillery units cooperate.
The problem was that it was already dark at this time, and there was a "Zero War" flying in the sky... No one could tell whether the black shadow in the sky was a "special bomb" or a "Zero War".