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#256 - Fatal blow to the Japanese airport

From a bystander's perspective, rockets flying across the blue sky are undoubtedly a beautiful sight.

But for the Japanese devils in the target area, it's a nightmare!

As Dongfeng Express deliveries arrived one after another, the majority of the Japanese devils' airfields in North China felt like they had fallen into hell this time.

The Japanese devils' airfield in Xinxiang was still bustling with activity. Due to high-intensity sorties and inherent quality problems with the warplanes themselves, after each takeoff and landing, the Japanese devils' maintenance team and pilots had to carefully inspect and repair various issues with the warplanes.

Now that the great battle was approaching, the Japanese devils' pilots had received orders not to leave the airfield for the next 72 hours, ensuring they could take off and fight at any time!

Therefore, the Japanese devils' pilots dared not slack off. Each of them raced against time, constantly inspecting every part of the warplanes with the Japanese devils' engineers from the maintenance team.

They were preparing to restore the warplanes to their best condition.

"Mizuta-kun, look, is that a shooting star?" A Japanese devil, looking up by chance, saw the Dongfeng Express flying in the sky and asked with some uncertainty.

"Nani?" The Japanese devil named Mizuta looked up and his expression changed drastically!

"Enemy attack! It's a rocket attack!" Mizuta was an old Japanese devil who had survived the 107 rocket attack on the airfield. Seeing the Dongfeng Express rapidly flying towards him in the sky, a fear from the depths of his soul made him tremble and unable to speak clearly.

He clearly wanted to shout loudly, but the sound he made was as unpleasant and garbled as a duck's voice.

He was unable to notify the other Japanese devils to escape in the first instance.

He watched helplessly as the rocket flew over, exploding in the air and scattering countless submunitions, which then exploded a second time, spraying countless fragments everywhere within a few thousand square meters around the epicenter!

Mizuta and his companions could not avoid such a dense fragmentation attack at all, and instantly turned into bloody figures covered in fragments!

Several warplanes under the epicenter were directly hit in their fuel tanks and caught fire on the spot. The warplanes and Japanese devils outside the epicenter were also covered in fragments, with the skin of the wings and fuselage pierced with holes.

Dozens of injured Japanese devils who had not been killed began to wail in pain.

Before the Japanese devils could fully react, the second Dongfeng Express arrived at the airfield and exploded in the same way 1 kilometer away, covering the other half of the airfield with indiscriminate attacks!

After the baptism of these two Dongfeng Expresses, almost no Japanese devils or planes on the entire airfield were intact.

But it wasn't over yet!

The third one arrived in quick succession a minute later, this time landing in the middle of the two Dongfeng Expresses, instantly reigniting the few tattered warplanes that remained in the central part of the airfield!

A Japanese devils' airfield with more than twenty warplanes of various types, the Japanese devils and warplanes on the airfield were almost completely destroyed.

However, he was not curious, but followed the previous combat instructions and launched rockets directly at an altitude of 1000 meters as he dived towards the airfield, adding insult to injury!

Although the effect could not be confirmed, as the 12 rockets were launched, there was even more thick smoke on the airfield!

Obviously, the rocket launch also hit many targets.

Now the airfield was full of warplane wreckage. After the rockets were fired, the leaking oil from the Japanese devils' warplanes was ignited again, setting the entire airfield on fire!

The entire airfield was now engulfed in thick smoke and a sea of fire.

Compared to the last air raid on Yanjiao Airfield, Ren Zhong's attack this time was even more fierce and comprehensive!

In this round of attacks, this airfield was completely paralyzed!

Although he didn't expect to be able to kill two birds with one stone and incidentally annihilate so many Japanese devils' air force pilots and maintenance personnel, this was a pleasant surprise.

However, after this attack, this airfield would have to be abandoned for at least half a month before it could be cleared, allowing the Japanese devils to transfer warplanes and maintenance personnel from other places before it could reopen.

The same scene was staged one by one at Japanese devils' airfields all over North China. Although the airfields further away did not have warplane reinforcements, airfields like Zhengding and Zhangbei, which were closer to the base, were completely destroyed after the rocket reinforcements.

However, under the saturation coverage attack, most of the warplanes on these airfields were also destroyed.

At least 200 Japanese devils' warplanes were permanently damaged, and dozens of others still had some maintenance value. The engines and cockpits could still be reused, but the wings were basically riddled with holes and could not be used.

Therefore, the main airfields of the Japanese devils in North China, regardless of size, suffered a devastating saturation attack by Dongfeng Express this time.

Before this great battle, Ren Zhong spared no expense to take out his last trump card and launch a devastating attack on the Japanese devils' warplanes on the North China airfields.

The damage was more thorough than the last attack. If a saturation attack had not been used, some warplanes might have been repaired and reused like in the last attack, but after this attack, the Japanese devils' warplanes parked on the airfield would basically become scrap metal!

On this day of large-scale Dongfeng Express launches, for many ordinary people in China, many beautiful rainbows appeared in the sky over North China, which were auspicious signs. Some superstitious people even began to make wishes when they saw these special rainbows, hoping to encounter good luck.

But for the Japanese devils' airfields, today was the darkest day in the history of their army aviation. The losses directly created a new historical record.

It was not easy to scrape together more than 300 fighter jets, but almost all of them were severely damaged in less than an hour of attack, of which more than 200 were completely destroyed. The remaining fighter jets also needed to be overhauled, at least replacing the riddled wings before they could fly again.

However, this was at a time when a great battle was about to be launched. Ren Zhong's fatal attack was like a head-on blow to the Japanese devils' heads that had just been stretched out, directly making Lieutenant General Kurihara Nobuo, the commander of the Ninth Area Army, dizzy.

After receiving reports from all his subordinates on the extent of the losses, the old Japanese devil Kurihara Nobuo felt a darkness in front of his eyes and almost fainted.

An elite air division that had been painstakingly assembled not only had two-thirds of its elite Zero fighters directly destroyed, but also lost most of the pilots who were inspecting and repairing on the airfield. Only a few small airfields outside the range escaped this disaster.

The loss of pilots was even more heartbreaking. For the Japanese devils, elite pilots were now rarer than warplanes, after all, training elite pilots was more difficult than producing fighter jets.

The continuous fierce naval and air battles in the Pacific with the Rogue Eagles had consumed almost all of the elite members of the Japanese devils' pilots who had been transferred there. Now, most of the army aviation personnel were hastily trained from aviation schools and basically had little combat experience.

The only Zero fighter squadron that could be called elite had now lost most of its members in this attack!

This was something that the ambitious old Japanese devil Kurihara Nobuo, who was preparing for a large-scale offensive, could not accept.

But the fact had already happened. Even if Kurihara Nobuo, who had spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, didn't want to admit it, he had to order the front line to speed up the clearing of the airfield. He needed to transfer warplanes from the Kwantung Army again to compete for air supremacy.

After some bargaining with the headquarters and the Kwantung Army, the old Japanese devil Kurihara Nobuo finally managed to get the Eighth Air Regiment of the Kwantung Army to enter the customs for combat again.

The Kwantung Army's Eighth Air Regiment included the 33rd Fighter Squadron, the 16th Light Bomber Squadron, and the 58th Heavy Bomber Squadron.

Among them, the 33rd Squadron had a total of 3 squadrons of 9 Zero fighters each, as well as 3 squadrons of 93 twin-engine light bombers from the 16th Light Bomber Squadron, and 3 squadrons of 97 heavy bombers from the 58th Heavy Bomber Squadron, bringing together more than 80 warplanes to temporarily replenish the North China battlefield.

This was the minimum requirement for air attack power that Kurihara Nobuo needed. Any less than that and air superiority would change hands.

At the same time, Kurihara Nobuo ordered all the airfields that had been attacked to be cleared, and then organized the remaining maintenance teams to start dismantling parts from the more than 100 damaged fighter jets of various types that remained on the airfield from now on, and mobilize wings, etc., to repair the warplanes as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Japanese devils were determined to start building aircraft shelters near the airfield, so that after the aircraft shelters were built, unless they were directly hit, the fighter jets would not be swept away like they were parked on the airfield.

However, all of this was already a bit late.

The Japanese devils' resources were originally very limited, and now they had to support so many battlefields. Their air strength in Asia was not so easy to recover. After all, the Pacific battlefield had gone through several large battles with hundreds of warplanes, suffering heavy losses. The landlord's family had no surplus grain, and the Zero fighters that were produced had to be given priority to support the Pacific battlefield.

More than 200 permanently damaged warplanes could now only be dismantled for some parts to be used, but now the members of the maintenance team had also suffered heavy casualties, and their ability to operate and maintain the warplanes had been greatly reduced, and the subsequent maintenance and support capabilities would also be greatly reduced.

After this fatal blow, facing the Japanese devils' army aviation air force whose strength had been extremely weakened, the Shenying Brigade, which originally had a disparity in the number of warplanes, was under great pressure.

But after Ren Zhong launched such an attack, the air force finally made up for some of its lack of strength this time and began to have the confidence to directly confront the Japanese devils' air force in North China.

Otherwise, according to the Japanese devils' preparations before the war, with more than 300 warplanes of various types, the Shenying Brigade only had more than 50. No matter how good they were, there was a limit. They couldn't always fight ten against one.

Now, in fighter jet air combat, if the quality level of the fighter jets is not much different, then the difference in combat effectiveness mainly depends on the pilot's ability. Now that a group of elite Rogue Eagle pilots have been added to the Shenying Brigade, driving the most excellent P51D Mustang fighter jets of this era, facing most of the Japanese devils' warplanes, there will be no problem in a one-on-one fight.

But wanting to fight three against one is basically impossible.

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