mixed in the war

Hankou, Wangjiadun Military Airport.

This used to be the site of the Chinese Air Force. During the Battle of Wuhan in 1938, the Chinese Air Force set off from this airport to fight the Japanese army.Also in the same year, Chinese pilot Thompson set off from here with a single-wing Prussian reconnaissance plane and entered the sky over Nanjing, which had been occupied by the Japanese army.Also in the same year, two B-10 bombers led by Xu Huansheng and Tong Yanbo took off from the airport and went to Kyushu, Japan to distribute leaflets, becoming the first foreign bomber to fly into Japanese airspace after World War II.The only pity is that because the distance is too far, what Xu Huansheng and others are carrying is not a bomb, but a pile of papers.Although this "humanitarian expedition" shocked the whole world with "paper bombing", it also greatly aroused the enthusiasm and confidence of the Chinese people in the war of resistance, and shocked the Japanese, but it always makes people feel a little bit Unfinished business.

I guess the Japanese think so too.

Their air force hardly uses "weapons" like leaflets, they only use bombs.Whether it is for soldiers or ordinary people.

……

"Sakai-kun, how many times have you flown this month?"

Airport restaurant.Fio Shirane sat in front of Saburo Sakai with his own plate.

"Lieutenant!"

Sakai Saburo hurriedly got up and stood at attention.

"Sit!" Baigenfife waved casually as he sat there, "We're not those idiots in the Army who only know form, so there's no need for that."

"Yes, Lieutenant."

Saburo Sakai responded, and after taking a look at Feifu Shirane, he sat down again.

"Today's food is not bad." Bai Genfei took a bite of the rice ball and glanced at him, "How is it? It's been almost a year since I came to China, can I still get used to it?"

"Lieutenant. Isn't it too late for you to ask me this question now?" Sakai Saburo replied with a smile, "As you said, I have been in China for almost a year."

"That's right. It's been a year, from a rookie to a quasi-ace fighter pilot." Shiragenfife also laughed.

"It's still the support of the seniors." Saburo Sakai said again.

"It's also your own efforts." Bai Genfeifu took a mouthful of food, and said: "According to the latest news, we will soon carry out a new round of large-scale bombing of Chongqing. The Chinese will definitely Desperate. You have to be careful."

"Please rest assured, my family will not disappoint everyone." Saburo Sakai nodded solemnly, and then looked at the senior lieutenant who was said to be the son of the former cabinet clerk with some blank eyes: "But I don't understand one thing. Why are there so many bombings of Chongqing recently? Is our original routine bombing not enough? It’s like today, Mr. Gao and the others set off without lunch. In the evening, Koshiro Yamashita and the others seem to be flying again. In addition to the large-scale bombing a few days ago... Does the higher-ups want to use only the air force to force the Chinese people to surrender? "I don't know too well, I just heard that it was because the Chinese people angered the dispatched army headquarters in Shanghai! Fio Shirane replied casually: "Their agents have killed many people in Shanghai, and even extended their hands to Commander Nishio Hiszo and General Doihara Kenji. It is even heard that they almost killed them." General of the Empire.so.In retaliation, we bombed Chongqing. "

"It's amazing." Saburo Sakata stuck out his tongue involuntarily. "They dare to assassinate general-level officers?"

"Yes. Very bold." Bai Genfeifu also nodded. "I heard that many local officers were killed. And if it wasn't for the luck of the two generals, maybe they would have suffered too... That's why the dispatched army headquarters was so angry. I even heard that even the Tokyo base camp also responded to this matter I was extremely shocked and reprimanded for power generation."

"Didn't the intelligence agencies of the empire find out?" Saburo Sakata said dissatisfied.

"If you find out, these things won't happen." Bai Genfeifu said lightly: "And those guys only know how to let the traitors of the Chinese people do things, and they don't understand anything at all. The Chinese people dived from the sewer to the general. They don't even know about the official residence. It's really incompetent."

"sewer?"

"You are the Air Force, so of course you don't know how complicated a city like Shanghai will have an underground drainage system." Bai Genfeifu said: "If you don't have a complete drawing of the underground drainage system, even if you go down one by one, you won't be able to It may be completely detected. And the Chinese people used this system. They easily buried the bomb at the gate of the official residence of the two generals... Although I look down on their despicable methods like rats, it must be admitted that this This method is very effective. If they did not launch multiple operations on the same day, but only focused on assassinating the two generals, their chances of success would be very high..."

"This should be a secret?" Saburo Itata asked suddenly.

"Secret? It's just a rumor." Bai Genfeifu rolled his eyelids, "An old friend of mine in Shanghai told me in a letter. Now these things have spread throughout Shanghai, because it was just after the assassination of the Chinese people Not long after, the Shanghai Municipal Government began to clean up the underground drainage system, and those who were interested naturally guessed something."

"It's a pity that our bombs can't be thrown into the sewer..." Saburo Sakai said with a smile.

"We are the Air Force..."

"Buzz-"

Before Shiragenfife finished speaking, there was a "buzzing" roar outside the restaurant.And with the ears of these pilots, they naturally recognized the sound of the aircraft engine at once.

"Kun Gu and the others are back." Saburo Sakai glanced outside and said.

"Let's go, let's go to meet them, and by the way, ask where it was bombed again this time."

Baigenfief fooled a few more casually, got up and walked out of the restaurant.Saburo Sakai glanced at the food in front of him, picked up a rice ball and followed.

……

Walking out of the restaurant, Shiragenfife and the two soon arrived near the runway.Behind them, many pilots who were eating, as well as the airport staff rushed over... Every time they bombed Chongqing, the Chinese Air Force would resist tenaciously. So hurt each other.Even the Japanese Air Force did not expect the level of the pilots of the Chinese Air Force because of its large size at the beginning, and the total loss was even greater.Therefore, although they have an advantage, these Japanese air force personnel also have no confidence in their flight, and they are afraid that they will not be able to fly back if they fly out.And every time the plane returns, as long as there is nothing wrong, the people on the ground will take the initiative to greet them around the runway.For nothing else, just for these pilots to come back alive.

Shiragenfife covered his forehead with his hands, looking at the patches of clouds in the sky and the black shadows in the middle of the clouds, feeling a little impatient.

"These clouds are a nuisance."

"Hehe, don't worry, Mr. Gu and the others will come down soon." Saburo Sakata smiled and pointed to the sky: "Hey, Lieutenant, look, the altitude has already begun to lower. That plane should..."

"That's not our plane—"

Sakata Saburo's voice had just stopped, the smile was still on his face, and the screams had already sounded.Immediately afterwards, a sharp air defense siren sounded at the airport...

……

"It's too late, little devils!"

In the sky, on a Soviet-made Iraqi-16 fighter jet, Liu Zhesheng, the captain of the 24th Squadron of the Fifth Air Force Battalion, looked at the suddenly rushing crowd below, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth:

"Kill it!"

Pushing the joystick forward, the Yi-16 took the lead and swooped down towards the airport.

……

"This lunatic. He really is a 'Desolate Vulture'!"

Next to I-16, Kurishenko watched as he gave up his protection mission and swooped down on Liu Zhesheng, and shook his head:

"Ready to bomb!"

……

"Run—"

Saburo Sakai is running.

Not only him, but the entire Wangjiadun Airport was in chaos.He is relatively calm, he wants to find his own plane, he wants to go to the sky... But, under the high speed of the dive, the speed of his two legs is so pitiful.Just when he saw that he was about to touch his plane, a bomb was accurately thrown into the fleet.

After the sound of "Boom", in an instant, one plane after another exploded in a row.

Saburo Sakai was directly blown away by the blast.

Most of the bombers and fighters parked side by side on the long runway were burning.Pieces of flames floated out from the exploded fuel tank, billowing thick smoke.Some aircraft fuselages are leaking oil after being pierced by shrapnel, and they haven't burned yet.The fire went from one plane to another, where the gasoline dripped and burned, and the entire long row of planes turned into dark red mushroom clouds.Bombers exploded like firecrackers; fighter jets burned like boxes of lit matches...

Wangjiadun Airport is on fire!

The two bomber brigades of the Chinese Air Force and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force to China raged over the airport, plowing the airport that originally belonged to China over and over again.

……

And just one day later, Zhou Zhirou found Chiang Kai-shek and reported:

"It was a battle. Our Air Force and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force to China Aid Air Force raided Wangjiadun Airport in Hankou. In this battle, more than 160 Japanese aircraft were destroyed and injured, and Hiroshi Ogawa, the deputy captain of the Kanoya Air Force of the Japanese Navy, and Ishikawa, the deputy commander of the Kisarazu Air Force were killed. Dan Dazuo and many other officers, the commander of the Second Air Force of the Japanese Navy, Tsukahara [-], was blown off his left hand by our army in this air raid..."

"In addition, more than [-] planes of the Shinto Saburo formation that had gone out to carry out the bombing mission to Chongqing were intercepted by the Li Xiangyang Department of the Fourth Battalion of our Air Force on the way home. All were shot down by me, and only two destroyers of our department were injured."

"That's why. In this battle, our air force destroyed and damaged more than [-] Japanese aircraft. The enemy aircraft at Hankou Airport have basically been eliminated!" (To be continued...)