Age of Rebirth

After Prince Zairen transferred the fighter unit, he had to appoint commanders. Ono and Takamura, the two commanders of the headquarters of the southern defense zone of Honshu Island, both committed suicide and apologized.

This time, Prince Zairen learned his lesson and never transferred to laymen. He issued an order to transfer Major General Hashimoto Shiro, Chief of Staff of the Flight Command of the Home Defense Command, to serve as the commander and air defense commander of the Southern Defense Zone Headquarters of Honshu Island. Major General Honshiro, who was born in the Imperial Army Aviation Department, had the experience of serving as the commander of the Army Aviation Army Air Force, and was familiar with air combat command, even the dead Major General Takamura could compare.

There is also a heavyweight figure who has entered the eyes of Prince Zain. He is currently Colonel Bradbury, the captain of the recruiting flight team at the headquarters of the Southern Defense Zone of Honshu Island. He is responsible for the command of air defense operations in the Tokyo area, that is to say, including the four air teams of the Imperial Army, all of them are under his command, so the power is great!

Prince Zaijin never dared to be ambiguous about the appointment of the commander of the southern defense zone headquarters on Honshu Island. Tokyo is the capital of the empire, and His Majesty the Emperor, the symbol and spiritual pillar of the Great Japanese Empire, lived here. He was bombed one after another by the Chinese fleet Well, it is not only the morale of the people that is affected, but the only brother of the emperor has three ups and two downs, and the Great Japanese Empire is completely over.

Prince Zairen knew the Frenchman Colonel Bradbury quite well. He knew that this guy was very capable of tactical command. He also carefully learned about the large-scale incident that took place in the airspace south of Miyake Island today through the phone. The insider of the air battle has become more and more appreciative of this Westerner.If Ohno and Takamura had followed his advice, the outcome of the air battle would certainly not have been like this.Maybe it will achieve the brilliant record of annihilating more than [-] fighter jets of the China Independent Division in World War I.

After finishing these tasks, it was already the afternoon of the second day.Prince Zairen finally got some free time, and he felt that his heart ached to the point of bleeding. The empire lost more than a thousand fighter jets and pilots in the battle in the airspace outside Tokyo. The extremely heavy loss was no different from the current battle situation. To make matters worse.

Le Yiqin commanded the mixed land and sea fleet to carry out the second bombing of Tokyo.Immediately reported to the headquarters of the Independent Division. When Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe received the telegram from the Deputy Division Commander Tang Qiusheng from the Ogasawara Islands, it was already early in the morning. , with excitement, drove to the teacher's residence.

As soon as he entered the door, Tang Qiuli was eating breakfast, a bowl of millet porridge.A plate of steamed buns with cornmeal and two plates of exquisite pickles are the whole content of breakfast. See Zhao Yuhe come over early in the morning.He greeted Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, it's better to hurry up, come sit down and eat together. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it after dinner!"

Zhao Yuhe took out the telegram.He said mysteriously: "Teacher, I'm not busy with dinner. You should read the telegram from Deputy Commander Tang first. Le Yiqin commanded the land-based aviation unit and the carrier-based aircraft unit of the Southern Fleet to bomb Tokyo again in the early morning of this morning!"

"Ah!" Tang Qiuli opened his eyes wide in surprise, excitedly took the telegram, read it carefully, turned his head and shouted into the room: "Xinlan! Xinlan!" On duty, Liu Xinlan was the only one at home. Apart from Tang Qiuli's three meals a day, as long as she was at home, the two women would cook for her husband.

Wearing a small floral apron, Liu Xinlan, who was busy in the kitchen, heard the sound, with tiny drops of water on her hand, first nodded to Zhao Yuhe with a smile, and then asked strangely: "What? What's the matter?"

Tang Qiuli was beaming, and said, "Take out the dried bacon and cut it into a plate, and then bring the bottle of wine I hid. By the way, get an egg, and I'll have a drink with Chief of Staff Zhao!"

Liu Xinlan's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly, and reminded softly: "Drinking early in the morning is not good for your health, and you don't have this habit either!"

"I'm happy!" Tang Qiuli looked at his wife with a smile, and there was pleading in his eyes, and said, "Le Yiqin won a big victory, and it deserves to be explained! It's just this one time, it's not an example!"

Liu Xinlan's attitude softened immediately, she rolled her husband's eyes, twisted her beautiful waist, and prepared to go according to her husband's instructions.

After taking a big gulp of wine, the spicy liquid seeped into his blood, Tang Qiuli sighed comfortably, and said, "Le Yiqin's victory not only caused serious damage to the Japanese air defense force, but also brought great damage to Liu Cuigang. Created an opportunity!"

Zhao Yuhe took a sip of the wine, picked up a piece of dried meat, chewed it with relish, and asked, "Master, why did you see that?"

"The Japanese army suffered heavy losses in the air defense force in the southern part of Honshu Island, so they had to mobilize combat aircraft from the north! Tokyo is the capital of the Japanese, and it is impossible to be in a state without air defense force." Tang Qiuli analyzed: "In this way, Honshu In the northern part of the island, isn’t there a shortage of troops? With Liu Cuigang’s experience and brains, how could he fail to seize the opportunity? By the way, Yuhe, forward the original text of this telegram to Liu Cuigang, and he will know what to do!”

In the Far East, on the other side of the Sea of ​​Japan, the Vladivostok Military Port of the Independent Division Navy and Air Force Base, in order to meet the war needs of attacking the Japanese mainland, the Air Force Northern Flight Group Command has moved from Jinzhou in the northeast to Vladivostok, where it is located in a building full of Russian divisions.

As soon as Liu Cui entered the office and just opened the documents on the table, Major General Dong Ningxuan, the chief of staff, walked in with a depressed expression. Liu Cui was immediately amused, and said, "What's the matter? The Major General’s Chief of Staff’s displeasure can’t be trivial, right?”

"Commander, please take a look at this first!" Dong Ningxuan took out a telegram and said, "People are more popular than others! The Southern Flying Group has shown its face recently, winning battles one after another. Just yesterday morning, the The little devil fighter jets around Tokyo have taken the blame, and in the early morning of this morning, they turned back to the carbine and blew up Tokyo again!"

"It's a good thing for us, we didn't have a good battle with the little devil's fleet, no, the division commanded the staff office to report the situation of the battle, and also sent us a telegram from Deputy Commander Tang's victory report! With that said, he handed the telegram to Liu Cuigang.

Liu Cuigang frowned, took the telegram and read it carefully, and then, without saying a word thoughtfully, Dong Ningxuan couldn't hold back, and asked anxiously: "Commander, what are your plans? Can we We can't keep stalemate with the little devil's fleet like this!"

Liu Cuigang shook his head and said, "The commander is using Deputy Commander Tang's telegram to remind us that a fighter plane has appeared!" In his mind, a bold battle plan is taking shape. Although it is only a rough idea, it is very feasible.

"Huh?" Dong Ningxuan frowned suspiciously, picked up the telegram again, and examined it carefully. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he said, "I'm too busy to pay attention to this, but I didn't notice it. I see, Le After the fleet commanded by the commander has taken over the little devil fighter jets around Tokyo in the south of Honshu Island, the little devil fighter jets in the north of Honshu Island will definitely be transferred to the direction of Tokyo.

"The northern direction of Honshu Island is the focus of the little devil's air defense. There are heavy troops gathered, and the number of fighter jets is more than ours. Once the troops are transferred to the southern direction, their strength will definitely be weakened to a large extent. This is an opportunity, Commander. how to spell?"

"I let you tell me my judgment. Did you respond quickly!" Liu Cuigang joked, "We can't do this as a family, and we need the cooperation of the Northern Fleet. You should go to the Northern Fleet headquarters immediately, please." Commander Amosiyev and Chief of Staff Tang Yunfei came to me, let's have a meeting to study it!"

"Commander, right now the Northern Fleet doesn't have an aircraft carrier, and there isn't even a single carrier-based aircraft. We're fighting an air battle!" Dong Ningxuan reminded.

Liu Cuigang glared at him and said, "Whoever said that the Northern Fleet would not be able to fight in the air without aircraft carrier-based aircraft? What nonsense is it? Hurry up!"

More than half an hour later, several military jeeps drove into the yard in front of the headquarters building of the Northern Flying Group. The commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Amosiyev, the chief of staff, Colonel Tang Yunfei, and several fleet staff officers, accompanied by Dong Ningxuan , into the building.

Liu Cuigang greeted him at the door. After arriving in the war room, Amosiyev was a straightforward person. Before he could sit still, he asked, "Commander Liu invited us here. Is there anything important to discuss?"

Liu Cuigang smiled and said, "The aviation unit of the South Route Offensive Force fought a good battle and took over the air defense forces around Tokyo, Japan. Commander Amosiyev knows about this, right?"

"I've seen the report on the battle situation from the Divisional Staff Office!" Amosiyev nodded, and then, his eyes flashed, and he said meaningfully: "Could it be that Commander Liu has any ideas? To fight with the Japanese army in the north." The air force needs the cooperation of our fleet to fight a battle?"

"Hahaha! Heroes see the same thing!" Liu Cuigang laughed and said, "I do have this idea, and the preliminary concept is established, so I invite you two to discuss it!"

Amosiyev suddenly became interested, and urged: "I would like to hear more about it!" After staying in China for a long time, he sometimes came up with Chinese idioms at his fingertips, which surprised the middle class officers of the fleet. Tang Yunfei, chief of staff of the fleet, had a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Liu Cuigang walked up to the military map, pointed to the location of the Korean Strait, and said: "The initial plan is to presuppose the air combat battlefield in the airspace around the Tsushima Strait, and our Northern Aviation Group will concentrate [-] fighter regiments as the first echelon. , Concentrate another six fighter regiments into the second echelon!"

"In this way, the number of fighter jets participating in the battle will reach more than 11, and the combat targets will be the Seventh, Eighth, No.12 and No.[-] Joint Air Forces of the Japanese Army in the northwest of Honshu Island, as well as the Japanese recruiting pilots. Headquarters!"

(to be continued) (to be continued...)