Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1879 Time
It is indeed unrealistic to build an airport in mountainous areas at this time.

The reason is not that there is no place to build an airport in mountainous areas. In mountainous areas, you can always find a piece of relatively flat land for building an airport. If it is not possible, you can just fill it with soil and build it with wooden boards.

After all, the "La 5" is a propeller fighter. It has a short take-off and landing distance and does not emit high-temperature and high-pressure airflow like a jet engine... Jet fighters cannot use wooden runways to take off, because they will burn the runway.

The difficulty lies in several points:

First, it is difficult to transport fuel into mountainous areas.

However, this difficulty is not difficult to solve. If the runway is repaired, just use a transport plane to bring the fuel to the airport.

Second, the airport will be bombarded by Japanese troops.

There is a characteristic in mountainous areas. The walking distance may be long but the straight-line distance may be short. At this time, artillery can play its role. The Japanese only need to advance the front to a position where the artillery can reach the airport to bomb the airport indiscriminately. .

This can also be solved for the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army has artillery detection radar, and the two regiments that retreated into the third area each also brought a howitzer battalion. When the Japanese artillery bombed the airport, they bombed the Japanese artillery, and once they bombed one, it was still the Japanese artillery. Finished.

The most important thing is the third point: the Japanese can use fighter planes to bomb and blockade the airport.

At this time, the Japanese had already mastered the restricted air rights in the Donggang area. If bombers were sent to bomb the Eighth Route Army airport, the Eighth Route Army would have nothing to do.

but……

Wang Xuexin asked people to build an airport in the mountainous area just to allow the Japanese to blow it up.

"Time!" Wang Xuexin said to the two staff officers: "What we have to fight for is time. Once our military's new air-to-air missile or airborne anti-ship missile is successfully developed in half a month, it will be our military's time to regain control!"

After hearing this, Chen Songyong and Zhang Zongping realized that the construction of the airport mentioned by Wang Xuexin was just a bait to attract the Japanese troops and firepower.

The Japanese were actually very helpless. They were in a situation where they had to "be fooled".

Because as soon as Osawa Jisaburo heard that the Eighth Route Army was logging trees to build an airport in the mountainous area, he immediately informed Sakagaki Seishiro of this situation:
"Our reconnaissance plane has detected that the Eighth Route Army has built an airport about fifty kilometers to the north, and there are two airports. I hope your troops will block it and blow it up immediately!"

Seishiro Sakagaki frowned after hearing this. He replied: "Ozawa-kun, the Eighth Route Army is empty and defenseless. It is the time when our army is running in and out. If the existing landing forces are used to siege the mountainous area... I’m afraid I’ll miss the opportunity!”

"Sakagaki-kun!" Jisaburo Ozawa replied: "Do you know what will happen if the Eighth Route Army builds these two airports successfully? The Eighth Route Army's 'La 5' fighter planes can rely on these two airports to land for supplies, so the 'La 5' The shortcoming of short range will no longer exist, and the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" will appear over our army like bees... By then there will be no fleet, and there will be no follow-up landing troops. You will also be there all the time. Being bombarded by 'Pull 5', do you think we can still penetrate smoothly if this continues?"

Objectively speaking, Ozawa Jisaburo's words are correct. This is why he asked the Army from the beginning to first control a [-]-kilometer radius of Donggang. Nothing can be done until this is achieved!
The reason is very simple. The Japs gained air supremacy by taking advantage of the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes. Once the Eighth Route Army built an airport to make up for the shortcomings of "Pull 5", this loophole would be gone, all the advantages would be gone, and the Japs landing troops would be gone. Became a lone army.

It was precisely because of this that Wang Xuexin ordered the construction of the airport.

Seishiro Sakagaki knew this truth, but he was still a little reluctant: "Ozawa-kun, these newly built airports can be completed by your bombers, and our army can be free to break through quickly. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

"Sakagaki-kun!" Ozawa Jisaburo retorted without thinking: "What if the Eighth Route Army laid the airport at night and completed the entry of the 'La 5' fighter planes?" Seishiro Sakagaki couldn't help but be startled after hearing this.

As an army commander, he did not expect this: the fighter planes at this time did not have the ability to fight at night, and the bombers of Ozawa's fleet could not continue to bomb the Eighth Route Army airport at night... Only Sakagaki's army could do this, and the artillery measured the coordinates during the day. With careful calculation, the shells can be fired into the airport at night even if they cannot be seen.

Then Jisaburo Ozawa said: "Even if it is daytime, what if the Eighth Route Army's new fighter planes appear over the airport to provide cover for it?"

Sakagaki Seishiro was speechless.

Ozawa Jisaburo's concerns are justified. The Type 98 100MM anti-aircraft gun mounted on the Imperial Akizuki-class destroyer has a maximum range of only 19 kilometers, while the Eighth Route Army's airport is built more than 40 kilometers away, which is beyond its air defense range.

This means that the air control over the Eighth Route Army airport is actually no longer in the hands of the empire.

The reason why "actually" is used here is because the Japanese still have an advantage in air superiority in this area.

The reason is that the Eighth Route Army has a small number of new fighter planes, and it is impossible for it to keep fighter planes over the airport at all times.

Once the Eighth Route Army's new fighter jets have to return due to fuel problems, it will be the world of Japanese fighter jets.

However, Ozawa Jisaburo was unwilling to be so passive.

He said to Seishiro Sakagaki in the telegram: "So, during this initial period, we should deliver more anti-aircraft firepower, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., and preferably a few radars. Your ministry will use these anti-aircraft firepower In the mountainous area near the airport, our fighter planes can successfully blockade the Eighth Route Army airport!"

This is indeed how the war should be fought.

Because if the Eighth Route Army's new fighter planes dare not enter the air defense range of warships, then they also dare not enter the air defense range of the Army. What's more, the area is still mountainous and is suitable for deploying air defense firepower.

In this way, the Empire will have the advantage of using bombers to bomb the Eighth Route Army airports during the day and bombing them with mortars at night... The reason for using mortars is to avoid the Eighth Route Army's artillery detection radar.

If the bombing continues day and night, the Eighth Route Army Airport will not be able to be successfully repaired!

However, Sakagaki Seishiro felt something was wrong.

Deployment of anti-aircraft firepower is no joke. It includes anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as the ammunition they require, and it will take at least dozens of them to form a large scale!

So during these few days, is it that the wooden giant has been transporting nothing but anti-aircraft firepower?
At the same time, the infantry has to be dragged to fight near the airport and needs supplies and ammunition...

After a few days passed, did the Eighth Route Army respond again to fill the gap so that the imperial army could not penetrate so easily?
However, there was no room for Sakagaki to disagree.

Because soon Tokyo issued the same order as Ozawa Jisaburo...

(End of this chapter)