The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Everyone applauded. In everyone's opinion, these devils who surrendered deserved to be beaten to death.

Comrades from the Eighth Route Army should not stop the common people.

At this time, continuous explosions suddenly came from the street, and whistles for the urgent gathering of the Japanese city defense troops sounded everywhere.

The people in the teahouse suddenly became confused. Shopkeeper Dong said: "Don't panic, everyone. We are not worth money. If you want to find trouble, we will go to the Japanese. Don't panic, everyone, and continue drinking tea!"

At this time, someone ran in and said, "Oh no, the boilers, blast furnaces, and oxygen preparation workshops of the steel plant have exploded."

Not long after, someone came and shouted: "The boiler of the thermal power station exploded."

At this time, another group of Japanese soldiers passed by in a hurry.

A hawker ran in and said, "The Japanese have looted several bank vaults."

A series of explosions followed, and the whole city seemed to be lively.

Everyone looked out the window and saw that the sky was filled with leaflets from the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, more Japanese soldiers came out of the military camp and headed north of the city. Puppet police continued to join them along the way, and pedestrians on the street were driven into shops along the way.

The army marched out in waves.

After everyone inquired, they found out that the serial explosions in the city attracted the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops. The airport in the north of the city was accidentally ransacked by the Eighth Route Army. Even Okabe's special plane was taken away by the Eighth Route Army, and the entire place was temporarily under martial law.

When everyone heard this, they wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to say anything for fear of being caught by the Japanese and puppet troops who were under martial law outside.

General Okabe, who was originally in the city, planned to attend the Japan-China Friendship Meeting with Iwamatsu, the traitors from Taiyuan City, some local tyrants, evil gentry, and traitorous businessmen.

After hearing this series of news, and then receiving a special thank-you letter and gift from Li Yunlong, Okabe, the old devil, turned green.

After Okabe, who was originally the first ignition of the new official, came to power, through a series of military deployments and actions, he first recaptured a large number of key transportation lines from the Eighth Route Army, and then successfully captured five cities including Licheng.

Can be described as high-spirited.

Thought that the matter was settled, Okabe, an old Japanese soldier, even privately believed that perhaps it was because he had given too much of a deterrent to the Eighth Route Army that the Eighth Route Army had retreated in the face of difficulties and temporarily avoided the front line.

Who would have thought that a slap in the face would happen so quickly.

Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the First Army under the North China Front, which was specially operated by the Japanese army, was unexpectedly attacked and destroyed by the Eighth Route Army in such a blatant way.

The commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, who accompanied Okabe on a tour of the city, looked even more ugly.

This is the territory under his jurisdiction, and it is also the home base of his First Army.

But in the final analysis, if Okabe had not insisted on pro-people policies, promoted Sino-Japanese friendship, and even relaxed the security of the entire Taiyuan City, the Eighth Route Army might not have been able to infiltrate Taiyuan City so easily to carry out these small actions.

Okabe also didn't expect that these Eighth Route Army would be so rampant. They even took advantage of the lax defense of Taiyuan City to launch a sneak attack.
It is a pity that this China-Japan Friendship Association has reached a critical moment.

But being slapped in the face by the Eighth Route Army seemed to be a big joke.

The friendly faces of the little devils could no longer be hidden soon. Under the orders of Okabe and Iwamatsu, Taiyuan City immediately strengthened its vigilance and re-entered a special alert state.

All major city gates are closed tightly, and people coming in and out must undergo strict searches and interrogations.

Soon, the leaflets distributed by the Eighth Route Army that sneaked into the city were brought to Okabe and Iwasong by the Japanese signal corps.

Okabe's nose almost turned crooked when he saw the propaganda leaflet, which was written in Chinese and even had a Japanese translation attached. It hit the nail on the head and exposed the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Japanese army.

He knew that this was the Eighth Route Army's counterattack.

They themselves promoted the Sino-Japanese friendship in an attempt to paralyze the Chinese people in the occupied areas and appease their anti-Japanese sentiments. The Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to carry out sabotage and sing the opposite tune.

As the base camp of the First Army in Shanxi, Taiyuan City, a heavily guarded base, could be so easily infiltrated by the Eighth Route Army, let alone other surrounding counties, towns and towns.

Sure enough, Yoshio Iwamatsu and Okabe soon received news that the pro-Japanese friendship meetings held in major counties, towns and towns around Taiyuan City, as well as various propaganda campaigns, had also been sabotaged by the Eighth Route Army.

The so-called Sino-Japanese friendship cannot be promoted at all.

In the end, the old Japanese soldier Okabe left Taiyuan full of anger.

He knew that he had already lost the first game between the two sides.

"In just a few short years, these damned Eighth Route Army have infiltrated the public security area under the jurisdiction of our Great Japanese Empire to such an extent? It's completely riddled with holes!"

Okabu attributed all this to Okamura's mistakes in controlling the situation in North China when he was still in office.

"If even stable security areas cannot guarantee stability, let alone those quasi-security areas and Eighth Route Army base areas."

"In this way, we are promoting the goodwill policy in the open, and these eight groups are secretly causing trouble. This road will not work at all!"

The Japanese Chief of Staff on the side probably still remembered the importance Okamura had for him when he was in power, so he said out of fairness: "General, when General Okamura was here, he also tried to implement pro-people policies in North China in order to further seek for peace. Gain the stability of the public security area.

It's just that these native-born Eighth Route Army soldiers always get twice the result with half the effort in terms of political propaganda, which is far better than us outsiders.

Non-my family, its heart must be different!
No matter how good our publicity is on the surface, I'm afraid it can't compare to the anti-Japanese propaganda and lobbying carried out secretly by the Eighth Route Army. "

Although Okabe was not happy to hear such words, he still nodded. This was a fact. Now he had lost one round and could only place his hope on the next round.

Follow Okabe's deployment.

Since the Eighth Route Army has spoken openly, during this period, major base areas have entered a period of rest and recuperation, suspending large-scale operations with other Japanese forces.

Okabe was also eager to use this period of time to quickly recover from the losses suffered by the North China Front in the May Day raids.

They gathered their forces and only firmly controlled some important transportation lines, as well as some counties and towns with high military value.

Unnecessary large-scale raids would only result in the loss of troops and generals in the Eighth Route Army base areas. Okabe ordered that troops from all regions were not allowed to enter the Eighth Route Army base areas at will. They only carried out local clearing campaigns in some quasi-public security areas and implemented the Baojia system and the continuous sitting system.

Further consolidate the internal defense and guard against infiltration by the Eighth Route Army.

But in fact, the effect is not much.

Speaking carefully, these strategies adopted by Okabe are basically leftovers from Okamura's tricks.

However, they were all exploited by the Eighth Route Army and soon lost their effectiveness. All the deployments to deal with the Eighth Route Army were only in name only.

On the contrary, Okabe used the North China flying team to continuously launch raids against some weak bases of the Eighth Route Army that lacked air defense systems, and made certain progress.

The little devil's flying troops deliberately avoided some of the more powerful Eighth Route Army bases in the Iron Triangle and Taihang bases, and launched air strikes against some weak Eighth Route Army bases, destroying various military buildings, various factories, workshops, and even farmland and crops in the Eighth Route Army bases. etc.

Finally, some losses were caused to the Eighth Route Army base area.Unfortunately, the proud look on old devil Gumbo's face did not last long before it solidified.

First, a team and some Eighth Route Army units with air defense capabilities in the Taihang base area secretly mobilized and lurked in some base areas that did not have air defense capabilities to launch counterattacks against the Japanese flying units in the air raids, resulting in a lot of damage to the Japanese fighter planes.

then.

end of August.

The generals of the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army headed by Kong Jie formulated a plan to use the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army to secretly attack the Japanese military airports in Datong, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, and Jinan.

According to the plan proposed by Kong Jie.

Targeting the Japanese military airports in various places, after searching for enough intelligence through intelligence lines in advance, aviation units were dispatched to carry out secret air strikes.

The way of attack is a combination of false and false, real and false.

Sometimes they used fake planes made of wood or iron to scare the Japanese, and sometimes they directly carried out live bombings. After the sneak attack was successful, they evacuated immediately.

Under such a tactic of true and false, fictitious and false, false and false, and hidden needles in the cotton, the Japanese army's major airports in North China, and the devil defenders were all on extra alert, panicking all day long.

Under the air raids that followed no rules at all, the losses at one or two Japanese airports may not be significant, but when added up to the entire area, the losses were quite exaggerated.

So much so that after Okabe, an old devil, received news several times of air raids on imperial military airports by the Eighth Route Army's secret aviation unit, he couldn't help but slumped down in his chair and couldn't recover for a long time.

"The strength of the aviation force secretly built by the Eighth Route Army has further grown!"

This is Okabe's conclusion.

"They even dare to use aviation power to compete with the flying troops of our Great Japanese Empire!"

Okabe had a headache. He could guess that the rapid growth of the Eighth Route Army's secret aviation force, in addition to the fighter planes seized and stolen from the Imperial Airport, must also be related to the reinforcements from various countries.

The US military, the British army, including the Soviet Union, these allies who stand on the same front as China will definitely provide them with secret reinforcements.

Originally before the May Day raids, and further back, the Japanese army, with its absolute air supremacy, could directly cut off the international aid transportation lines from allied countries to China.

This includes not only the Burma Highway in southern China, but also the air routes for aid from international countries to China.

However, from the Pacific War to the Southeast Asian War, successive outbreaks occurred.

Coupled with the disastrous defeat of the May Day raids in North China, the area occupied and controlled by the Eighth Route Army base areas, especially those dominated by the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang base area, has been expanded quite exaggeratedly.

Various Japanese military airports were attacked by Eighth Route Army troops one after another. Even three large military airports in Shanghai were attacked by aviation units secretly built by the Eighth Route Army.

At this point, the stability of the Japanese air supremacy, especially the air supremacy in the interior of China, has been severely affected.

The Japanese army has no time to take into account how many international aid routes, including international aid aviation lines, there are in the rear area of ​​the Eighth Route Army base area.

Especially the rapid rise of the aviation force secretly built by the Eighth Route Army.

When the Licheng air battle broke out, the Japanese army used multiple aviation forces from North China, Central China, and even East China as well as the navy in one fell swoop, but ended in a disastrous defeat.

Air combat is no longer the unique advantage of the Japanese army.

This time, the Eighth Route Army launched air raids against Japanese military airports in Datong, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Jinan and other places, as Kong Jie said at the headquarters.

"We just want to compete with the Japs for air supremacy on the front line. We can't let the Japs' planes continue to be so rampant. In the past, there were only Japs' air raids, and we could only stare at the Japs' fighter planes. Gone forever!" "

According to the comparison of the aviation strength of the two sides.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Even though the Japanese army has an absolute advantage in aviation power, in North China alone, the ground aviation force owned by the Japanese army has far more fighter planes and strength than the secret aviation force built by the Eighth Route Army.

But the Eighth Route Army also has its own advantages.

"First, our base is deep enough and covers a vast area. The aviation base we built secretly has not been detected by the little devils so far. The enemy is in the light and we are in the dark. This is a good time for us to take action."

"Secondly, if we say that our Eighth Route Army started out with guerrilla warfare, then the air force we build should also have this characteristic, starting with air guerrilla warfare.

After all, our Eighth Route Army is poor, and those who are barefoot are not afraid of the Japs wearing shoes. We don’t have that much to worry about. We can dispatch aviation units at any time to sneak attack on any area occupied by the Japs.

But the little devils are different. They can't focus all the flying troops' attention on our Eighth Route Army 24 hours a day.

On the frontal battlefield, the Pacific battlefield includes the Southeast Asian battlefield, as well as the control of coastal air supremacy. All aspects require the Japanese aviation forces to disperse the power.

When it comes to us, there are not many flying troops left that the Japs can mobilize. "

"The Japanese flying troops are powerful, so what? They blindly bombed our base a few times. Our barren mountains and forests that span hundreds or even thousands of kilometers were left open to their little devils to blow up!"

"But the Japanese airports and military bases in the occupied areas are all there in plain sight, like those greedy big fat meats. We can go up and take a bite at any time if we want."

At the end, Kong Jie once again expressed his emotion at the brilliant strategy of the Eighth Route Army's supreme command.

"Using the countryside to encircle the city and finally seize the national power, this tactic is so clever that it can be used not only in the development of the army, but also in the development of the air force!"

"This is exactly the anti-air guerrilla tactics of our Eighth Route Army aviation unit!"

"The little devils are using planes to sneak attacks on our base areas everywhere. In fact, don't they just want to lure our aviation forces out! But we are not stupid, why should we be fooled? There are so many military bases in enemy-occupied areas that can be used as offensive To achieve the goal, we just avoid the enemy's flying troops and bomb the enemy's rear."

"If the little devils blow up ours, let's blow up theirs. Let's see who can't withstand it first!"

In detail, this is like a replacement tactic for air combat.

the fact is……

After the anti-air tactics started in this way.

The Japanese army, especially the flying teams at major aviation bases, were completely helpless.

Although the Japanese military's aviation power has developed well, with a large number of flying troops, and can even occupy absolute air supremacy on the Sino-Japanese battlefield, it can never completely control the entire sky route.

The Eighth Route Army's aviation troops are elusive, which is more difficult to intercept and figure out than the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla troops and intervening troops.

After the air raids were carried out in various places, the Japanese army had no choice but to fend off...

(End of this chapter)