In order to calm Juichi Terauchi's anger as soon as possible, the Army Air Force acted very quickly. In less than a day, a wing's mixed fleet was assembled.
At dawn the next day, a total of thirty-six planes took off from various airports. After completing their assembly in the air, black clouds rushed toward the Eighth Route Army Arsenal.
"Order all personnel in the arsenal to enter the factory. No one can come out except the sentries who are on guard and observation!" Wang Ping's office in the arsenal, after hearing the news of the incoming Japanese plane, frowned and began to issue the order.
"The air defense forces are prepared for air defense. No one can shoot to expose the target without orders!"
"The devils are coming with great force this time, and they have been fooled once. They will definitely not be fooled easily this time!"
Soon, the bustling arsenal became quiet, and the engineers in charge of camouflage quickly covered the exposed ground around the arsenal with the camouflage nets prepared in advance, trying to blend in with the surrounding mountains as much as possible without exposing the target.
Colonel Ishida, in order to determine the bombing target, this time he gave up the slow speed and slow response of the bomber, and instead flew a combat aircraft with three small aerial bombs.
As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Colonel Ishida controlled the fighter plane to dive to the ground, and then cruised closely against the mountain tops.
Soon, the target of the last bombing, which was still a scorched earth, came into Colonel Ishida's field of vision.
"It's on the top of that mountain!" Colonel Ishida, who was in a fighter stance, quickly showed a confident expression, and then said to himself.
After cruising in the air for two more times and confirming that the location of the arsenal was correct, Ishida immediately raised the fuselage and then dived towards the ground with a huge roar.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Three aerial bombs exploded in the middle of the arsenal, and then three huge plumes of smoke rose up.
With the guidance target in mind, the remaining bombers immediately began to take action, and groups of three began bombing.
A brigade of fighter jets was not idle either, cruising in the airspace at different altitudes on alert. There were also many fighter pilots staring closely at the ground, ready to eliminate any anti-aircraft firepower that the Eighth Route Army might expose at any time.
"Captain, the little Japs are indeed well prepared. The first bomb hits the target! Do you want to order the air defense company to fire? If we counterattack now, we will definitely kill at least two Japs bombers!" The chief of staff looked very serious, but proposed.
When he made this suggestion, his eyes still showed an expectant expression.
"No!" Wang Ping, who stared at the sky, refused without thinking.
"Didn't you see that the Japanese escort fighter jets are all staring at the ground? If we fire now, even if we can kill the two Japanese bombers, our air defense company will be finished!"
"We only have this little air defense force, we can't fight against Japanese planes!"
This time the Japanese obviously increased the bomb load of the bombers.
The bombing operation took nearly ten minutes longer than last time to end.
On a hilltop six or seven kilometers away from the arsenal, more than thirty Japanese planes had just left, and a middle-aged man holding a telescope showed a very satisfied smile on his face and said happily.
"Yo Xi, the bomber group is right in the middle of the Eighth Route Army arsenal!"
"Send a telegram to your superiors immediately. We are approaching the arsenal now to make sure that the Eighth Route Army arsenal has been completely destroyed!"
The Japanese Army North China Front Headquarters in Peiping, Commander Juichi Terauchi, the Commander of the Army Air Force, the Minister of Intelligence, and several senior officials of the North China Japanese Army all gathered around the huge combat sand table in the war room, waiting for news on the success of the air force bombing.
Finally, there was a rush of footsteps at the door of the war room, and then an excited voice sounded at the door of the war room.
"Sir, the aviation bombing was successful."
"Ground intelligence personnel reported that all bombers in the bomber group hit the target, and the Eighth Route Army arsenal had been blown into a sea of flames. Moreover, during the entire bombing process, the group of aircraft was not hit by the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft fire, and all returned safely!"
"Intelligence personnel reported that they are trying to get close to the Eighth Route Army Arsenal to confirm whether the arsenal has been completely destroyed. It won't take long for the news to come back!"
The aviation commander was the first to breathe a sigh of relief.
He also had a proposal to let Colonel Ishida serve as commander-in-chief again. If the bombing failed, he would be implicated in some way anyway.
Now that I heard the news that the bombing was successful, my tense nerves relaxed immediately, and he said to Juichi Terauchi: "Your Excellency, Commander, Colonel Ishida will not be the best aviation commander in North China. I knew it would not necessarily succeed!
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Perhaps because the last bombing failure brought too many lessons to Terauchi, Terauchi didn't have too many smiles on his face.
"Don't be too happy yet! Now we can only confirm that our bomber group hit the Eighth Route Army Arsenal. We still need to wait for the news whether it destroyed it. I don't want to be happy in vain. After the final news comes, if it is really successful
, I will definitely reward Colonel Ishida greatly!"
"Hi!" the Air Force Command replied with a disapproving expression.
Then he analyzed: "Your Excellency, Commander, I believe in the power of the aerial bombs made by the empire. If dozens of tons of heavy bombs are hit, the copper and iron walls will be blown into scrap metal, not to mention the Eighth Route Army arsenal!"
After waiting for a full two hours, the communications staff returned to the war room.
To everyone's surprise, the communications officer's face did not show the excitement just now, and there was not even a smile at all.
As soon as he rushed into the war room, he replied with a heavy face: "Sir, the confirmation telegram from the ground intelligence personnel has arrived!"
"How do you say it?" the aviation commander, who already felt a bit of a bad premonition, immediately replied.
Just now I was talking nonsense, the aviation force must have blown up the Eighth Route Army arsenal.
If something unexpected happened, the big words he just said would be a real slap in the face. Therefore, he wanted to know the contents of the telegram in the hands of the communications staff more than anyone else.
"They reported that the Eighth Route Army Arsenal building was intact. Only a lot of things outside the arsenal were blown to pieces, but it did not affect the arsenal building!"
"Not long after the bomber group left, the arsenal began to resume production!"
"Nani? How is it possible, absolutely impossible, they must have seen it wrong!" the aviation commander shouted with disbelief.
Others stared at the communications staff officer with expressions of disbelief.
"Intelligence personnel reported that the arsenal's factories are caves dug directly into the mountain, and the entire mountain is made of stone, which is very solid. Aerial bombs cannot do anything to those factories. Unless the entire mountain is razed to the ground!" the communications staff explained!
Surprisingly, Juichi Terauchi did not get angry this time. Then he said as calmly as possible: "Now it seems that if you want to destroy the Eighth Route Army arsenal, you can only rely on the army!"
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