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Three days later, the Japanese occupied the airport in Haikou.

At noon, a scorching sun hung high in the sky.

At this time, which should be a time for summer vacation and rest, Dayingshan Airport, once known as the Window of Qiongya, is bustling with people and is extremely busy.

"Kawaguchi-kun, quickly lead your team to drive away the nearby seabirds. We must not let them interfere with the flight plan of the support forces."

"Team Miki, your mission is to prepare fuel, ammunition, and spare parts. Although we don't know Commander Sunagawa's specific arrangements, our ground crew must be fully prepared."

"At this critical moment, no one is allowed to slack off. Everyone, take action immediately!"

In order to welcome the reinforcements coming from the mainland, all ground crews at Dayingshan Airport were mobilized.

These devils had clear division of labor and performed their duties. They repeatedly checked themselves in front of the iron hangars, and they looked like they were ready to go into battle at any time.

During the long wait, a relatively young Japanese soldier showed an expectant look on his face and kept asking the leader beside him for detailed information about the support troops.

"Captain Takeuchi, our Commander Sunagawa has a strong backing. He has 37 fighter planes, all of which are the latest Zero- models. If it were an ordinary lieutenant general, how could he have such a grand display?"

"By the way, do you know the specific numbers of our friendly forces? Who is their commander, Major?"

"I heard that this unit is the ace of the naval aviation force. It has shot down countless British and American fighter planes in the Pacific battlefield. Each of them is a top talent."

Qiongya was extremely important to the Japanese army. The Japanese not only saw it as a key location for obtaining rich strategic resources, but also as one of the rear bases for their southward advance plan.

In a sense, the title of "Navy Manchuria" is not groundless.

Because of the island's extraordinary strategic value, the Military General Staff approved Kanetiao Sunagawa's request for assistance without hesitation and sent an almost fully staffed elite flying team.

The team members' curious inquiries caused the ground crew leader, Takeuchi Yujiro, to silently roll his eyes.

Such confidential military information was not something a small sergeant like him could have access to.

However, in order to maintain his image in front of the younger generation, the old devil still pretended to scold:
"Shut up, don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. In wartime, it's best to put away your curiosity. Be careful that the intelligence agency of the Security Bureau arrests you as a spy!"

"When the support troops arrive, you must stay close to the team members and do not leave my field of vision."

Upon hearing this, the Japanese soldiers were like eggplants hit by frost, with all their vitality gone.

Knowing that his teammate had a dream of flying, Takeuchi Yujiro shook his head, then patted him on the shoulder, signaling him to give up those unrealistic ideas as soon as possible.

There is no way, HNA is now focusing on the elite route.

The pilots who flew the Zero fighters were all elites who had been selected through layers of tests.

The training content for these people is quite rich. In addition to physical fitness, air combat theory and flight knowledge, they also have to go through a lot of practical flying.

An ordinary soldier from the ground crew has no chance of becoming a pilot.

Unless, try your luck by joining the Army.

I heard that the Army Aviation Department is currently drawing flight candidates from the military, and has even recruited a group of enthusiastic young people who meet the physical fitness standards from the public. It seems that they are planning to launch some large-scale campaign.

"okay, I get it."

Just as the two Japanese devils were talking, a burst of urgent alarm bells suddenly rang out in Dayingshan Airport.

Accompanied by the shrill air raid sirens, the ground crew who were still checking the tool list immediately took action.

They decisively stopped all the work above, and then quickly moved towards the anti-aircraft artillery positions in groups, ready to engage in battle and fight enemy planes at any time.

"Captain Takeuchi, could the enemy be the legendary Eighth Route Army Air Force? What should we do now? There is no course on air defense in the training manual."

Unlike his own teammates who were panic-stricken, ground crew leader Yujiro Takeuchi was quite calm.

The old Japanese first covered his subordinates' mouths to prevent them from continuing to confuse the army's morale.

Then he looked at the Type 96 fighter jet not far away and explained confidently:

"Don't worry, it definitely won't be the Eighth Route Army Air Force. Qiongya is so far away from the North China region of the Republic of China. A rash attack is totally inconsistent with the logic of modern military operations."

"Besides, the fighter jets at the airport have not been deployed, so the unknown target is most likely our support force."

Sure enough, just half a minute later, the airport broadcast sounded again.

"The alarm has been lifted. All ground crews must return to their posts immediately. The coastal reconnaissance post has just sent back a message that the support force from the mainland is about to land."

The navy of this country does indeed attach great importance to the radio-related technology tree.

However, due to technological limitations, the quality of their transceivers is very poor.

This thing not only makes a lot of noise, but also has various malfunctions from time to time.

The above problems were barely solved until the Zero fighter was developed to the Type 52.

Therefore, many pilots of Hainan Airlines will take the initiative to remove the radio of their aircraft and saw off the antenna on the top of the aircraft in order to achieve the purpose of weight reduction and perfect aerodynamics. Without a radio, how can they contact the tower of the destination in advance? This is why the air defense alarm was just sounded at Dayingshan Airport.

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Five minutes later, thirty-seven Type 21 Zero fighters emerged from the clouds one after another.

Even at the end of the journey, the Japanese naval aviation pilots still maintained their combat formation and did not relax their vigilance at all due to external factors.

After circling over the airport for a while, the fighter jets were divided into three pair-plane formations to guard the surrounding airspace, while the others landed at Dayingshan Airport in an orderly manner according to the numbers on the tails of their planes.

"Wow! Look at the tail of the lead plane. That Zero fighter has four kill marks. The pilot flying it is actually a potential ace!"

"This is the first time that our Qiongya Garrison has received a big shot of this level!"

"Three lives are lucky, three lives are lucky!"

Looking at the green fuselage and the tick-shaped symbol on the tail, the Japanese ground crew present all exclaimed in surprise.

For these low-level soldiers in the rear, a quasi-ace-level naval aviation pilot is almost a big shot that they will never be able to reach in their entire lives.

After the fighter plane came to a complete stop, the flight team captain Daisuke Shinjo climbed out of the cabin first, then jumped down by stepping on the pedals on the fuselage.

Diagonally behind the old Japanese soldier, thirty-six short subordinates followed closely behind him.

Compared with the local pilots of the Qiongya Garrison, this reinforcement force is truly impressive.

"Hey, hey, isn't this Makado-kun?"

"How come you've only been promoted one level in rank after three years? Could it be that you, the man of the year in school, can't even produce a decent achievement?"

"In my opinion, why don't you just join me? My flight team is not fully staffed yet, so adding you can barely be considered as a supplement to our strength."

In the early days of the Pacific War, a series of conflicts of varying sizes occurred between the two major belligerents, Japan and the Ugly.

During this period, the rich combat experience of the Japanese naval aviation pilots fully utilized the Zero fighter's light weight, long range and excellent maneuverability, and for a time they had no place to compete on the battlefield.

There is no other reason, because Achou’s main carrier-based aircraft is still the F4F Wildcat.

This legendary durable machine developed by Grumman Steelworks was clumsy and heavy, and had no advantage in terms of maneuverability. In addition, the Sage-Scissor tactics had not yet been fully popularized, so the pilots of this plane naturally had a smooth journey.

If you really want to hunt turkeys, you have to wait for the subsequent F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair.

After hearing the sarcastic sarcasm from his former classmate, the local flight captain of Qiongya, Masaku Kan'o, immediately changed his expression.

But he was unable to refute it, because he was not as skilled as others.

With the idea of ​​losing the battle but not the battle, he tried to save his dignity by saying:
"Lieutenant Commander Shinjo, since we are both graduates of the Naval Academy, I advise you to put away your arrogance."

"The local resistance organization in Qiongya is affiliated with the TG, and the Eighth Route Army's air force is unique in the Asian battlefield. Can you pat your chest and guarantee that those guerrillas will not ask their superiors for reinforcements?"

"Don't forget, the enemy's aircraft has a longer range than the Zero fighter."

As soon as these words came out, Shinjo Daisuke laughed out loud. In the eyes of the old devil, the old classmate was just forcing himself to save face.

In fact, the intelligence department of the Japanese Navy had already collected information about the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and the General Staff and the Combined Fleet had also issued relevant documents.

However, the above series of behaviors did not attract the attention of frontline pilots.

The proud Sea Eagle believed that the description from the battlefield of the Republic of China was too exaggerated, and it was most likely an excuse made by the Army Idiots and their colleagues for their failure.

It is just a semi-colonial and semi-feudal agricultural country. Even if it has the ability to produce fighter jets, its technology is far inferior to its own Zero fighter.

So in their flight identification manual, there was not even a photo of the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

"Mr. Zhenjiao, I think you are scared by the Eighth Route Army. The so-called Eighth Route Army Air Force is just an Asian force flying British fighter planes."

"It's just a Spitfire and a Mosquito. I've seen these planes before. Bullying the Army is already their limit."

"If I come across them, I will make sure the enemy has no chance of returning!"

In Daisuke Shinjo's opinion, the Spitfire of the Eighth Route Army Air Force was most likely an initial model such as the MK1, and its performance was barely comparable to that of the Zero Fighter Type .

But what he didn't know was that when Mr. Bay's Spitfire fighter first appeared, it was a MK9 that was far ahead of its time.

Coupled with more than a year of technological iterations, its performance in all aspects is almost the same as the future Griffin Spitfire, and its maximum level flight speed is even infinitely close to the Grudge.

What's more, the comrades of the 1st Air Division are not the second-rate pilots who stayed in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Advanced air combat theory, coupled with combat experience both large and small, will surely give the IJN a Chinese shock in the next action.

Just as Masaku Kan'o was about to continue his rebuttal, a burst of urgent air defense alarms sounded again over Dayingshan Airport.

"Hmm? There are support troops? Don't you have only 37 Zero fighters?" (End of this chapter)