Luo Ziqiang's tactics successfully repelled the Japanese's two landing operations, but he suffered a loss in the third landing operation.

The 79th Marine Corps Brigade was used by the Japanese for landing operations.

This unit returned to the island to rest and recuperate after fighting several battles with Eagle Sauce in the Pacific and being almost disabled.

Although most of them are new soldiers, they have rich combat experience, especially the middle and high-level commanders. When they saw that the Eighth Route Army used such a style of play, it put the landing operation into trouble...

Each time, the Eighth Route Army launched its charge halfway through the landing after the Japanese firepower was prepared. At this time, the main force of the Japanese was still completely exposed on the beach and could not gain a foothold, so it was beaten twice by the Eighth Route Army with heavy casualties.

Luo Ziqiang is also a ruthless person. Once he bites a Japanese enemy, he will stick to it. If the Japanese naval guns had not blown up a wall of fire between the two armies regardless of accidental damage, all the more than 2000 Japanese soldiers who had just landed would have been driven into the sea to feed the fish.

But even so, more than half of the more than 2000 Japanese soldiers who landed were killed or injured.

During the third landing operation, the Japanese played a trick. The landing troops did not charge immediately after the fire cover. Instead, they waited for a while and then fired another wave of artillery fire when the Eighth Route Army launched the charge.

At this time, the Japanese followed the extended artillery fire and charged in the direction of the Eighth Route Army.

The soldiers led by Luo Ziqiang were caught off guard and retreated steadily. If not for the timely reinforcements from another regiment, Huludao would have been lost.

However, the situation in Huludao is still not optimistic.

Because the Japanese have naval guns and hundreds of fighter planes for bombing, the numerical advantage of the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army cannot be exerted. And as the Japanese marines advance forward and land in batches at the rear, the numerical advantage of the Eighth Route Army will soon disappear.

It was at this time that Wang Xuexin took action. He ordered: "Order the Third Air Force to attack!"

Wang Xuexin's order surprised Chen Songyong and Zhang Zongping.

The Third Air Force is the "J-1" stationed at Zhoushuizi Airport. Although the straight-line distance between it and Huludao is only more than 100 kilometers and within the combat radius of the "J-1", the Japanese have "Wind" fighters...

Zhang Zongping even suspected that he heard it wrong: "Commander, our J-2 is the Fifth Aviation Group..."

"I know!" Wang Xuexin ordered: "Reinforcements from the Third Aviation Group!"

"Yes!" Zhang Zongping hurriedly conveyed the order.

The reason why Wang Xuexin issued this order was because he knew that the Japanese "Haifeng" fighter jets retained their strength.

This is news from the front line. The old bombers flying over Huludao are "97 Ship Attack" and "99 Ship Explosion", as well as some reconnaissance aircraft used for artillery correction.

As for the "Haste" fighter planes, Wang Xuexin believed that the Japanese had only used a small part and were still watching from a high place.

If the Eighth Route Army were to engage in "J-2" operations at this time... its opponents would be those old bombers rather than the "Wind".

Because it is obvious that the Japanese "Haifeng" saw that the Eighth Route Army's "J-2" was hunting bombers and naturally did not dare to join the war. It was meaningless to join the war. Not only could it not save the bombers, it would also get itself involved.

The final result was that the "J-2" shot down a group of bombers and returned in despair.

At this time, the Japanese "Haifeng" can even take the opportunity to counterattack... They will follow the "J-2" and chase them to Xinjing Airport by hanging their tails.

At this time, the "J-2" was embarrassed.

Although they are the most advanced and fastest fighters, their fuel and ammunition are about to run out. How can they fight against these "Gusts"?

Then it will be a situation of "a tiger falls in peace and is bullied by a dog". In the end, the "J-2" is likely to be killed by the "Blaster" because it has to land at Xinjing Airport.This is a commonly used tactic in air combat... If the target cannot be shot down in the air, then consider whether it can be blown up at the airport.

Wang Xuexin certainly does not allow the "J-2" to fall into such a predicament.

So the first batch he dispatched was the "J-1" instead of the "J-2".

Thirty-six "J-36"s from three squadrons took off and headed straight for Huludao.

For the "J-100", it took more than ten minutes to cover more than 1 kilometers. As soon as they arrived in the relevant airspace, they launched an attack on the Japanese bombers.

Almost at this moment, two four-machine formations with a total of eight "Hasts" swooped down from the clouds to join the battle group.

But "Hast Wind" failed to take advantage in the battle.

The reason is that Wang Xuexin told the pilots before the war to ignore the "Hast Wind". Their target was the Japanese bomber, and their tactics were the same as when fighting the "Zero War", and they always maintained the highest speed during combat.

This is because Wang Xuexin knows that the actual speed of the "Haste" fighter is slightly lower than the "J-1".

Although it's not much lower, only a dozen or less than twenty kilometers.

The difference is only a dozen or twenty kilometers per hour, which can be said to be almost no difference.

But lower is still lower...

This gap may be nothing to the Eighth Route Army fighters, because the Eighth Route Army has air-to-air missiles with a longer range, and even if they cannot catch up, they can still rely on air-to-air missiles to shoot them down.

But this gap is not the case for the Japanese "Haste" fighter jets.

The "Wind" fighter jets still use machine guns and cannons, and their tactics are still tail-biting and chasing to knock down the target.

The sad thing is that the "Haste" is slightly slower than the "J-1", so in the process of biting the tail, it is not getting closer to the target but getting further and further away.

As a result, the "Hast" was almost unable to enter the effective range of the machine gun.

Although the cannon can hit the target, the density of the cannon shells is not enough and the hit rate is low. Especially the cannon has recoil, which affects the speed as soon as it fires and the target immediately moves away...

Therefore, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield:
The Eighth Route Army fighter planes shot down the Japanese bombers one after another. Although the Japanese "Blast" chased behind and kept firing, it never achieved any results.

Not only were there no results, but the two "99 Ship Explosives" were shot down by the "Haste"... The "Haye" fired desperately with machine guns, but failed to hit the "J-1" but hit the much slower bomber.

This made Ozawa Jisaburo who was watching the battle with a telescope on the "Taiho" very angry. He scolded Okabe Naosaburo in a telegram: "What is going on with your fighter plane? Aren't you talking about the best fighter plane? Do you want it?" Use our bombers as your victory?"

Ozawa Jisaburo himself does not have much prejudice against the Army. He usually says some disparaging words about the Army mostly to echo Toyota's deputy military commander.

But this does not mean that the Army's fighter planes can fight against the Navy's bombers!

Which is tolerable or intolerable? As long as I don't discriminate against you, you still dare to make me unable to explain to my subordinates?
Although Naosaburo Okabe was an Army General and had a higher military rank than Ozawa, he did not dare to say anything when faced with this situation. He could only hastily order the main force of "Hayate" to take off to fight...

This is what Wang Xuexin hopes to see!

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