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Chapter 181 The Change of Butterfly Wings

On New Year's Eve, the Eighth Route Army set off fireworks in North China, from Xijiao Airport and Dongjuzi Airport in Pingjin to Shimen Airport, Yuncheng Airport, Wusu Airport, and Yangmingbao Airport.
More than 150 Japanese fighter planes were destroyed in the sea of ​​fire, and nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers were buried with them. Ren Zhong used the Polaroid camera he brought to the world of Bright Sword to have the front-line artillery observers take pictures of it all, preparing to turn it all into a Spring Festival gift for the entire nation.

However, there is no Internet now, so for these photos to be published in newspapers, it would take about a week at the earliest to be delivered to the rear areas, and at the latest it might take two weeks.

But there was no need for a battle report. On the night of New Year's Eve, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the border region jointly sent a telegram to the world, and the Eighth Route Army launched an unprecedented attack, destroying more than a dozen Japanese airports in North China and more than 200 fighter planes (estimated results)!
When the news reached newspapers in the rear areas, almost all the editors-in-chief went crazy!

They kept trying to find connections to contact the Eighth Office in the temporary capital in an attempt to confirm the news. Soon, facing dozens of reporters who came over, the Eighth Office held a brief press conference overnight. The director of the Eighth Office announced the battle report of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters with great certainty, publicly named the airports that were successfully attacked and the estimated results, and explained that there were reporters on the scene who took photos of the attack!

Since the news was confirmed, all newspapers went into action frantically, replacing all the front-page headlines for the next day with the latest battle reports!

Xinhua: New Year’s gift, the Eighth Route Army launched a massive attack and destroyed more than 200 Japanese fighter planes!

Da Gong: The greatest victory, the Eighth Route Army destroyed 200 Japanese fighter planes on New Year's Eve!
Special issue of China News Agency: Great victory! Our army launched a massive attack on New Year's Eve, destroying 200 enemy aircraft!
Every newspaper put the results of the Eighth Route Army's attack on the headlines in extra-large fonts, and printed as much as they could at full capacity, because every editor knew that this news would surely ignite the New Year atmosphere of the entire nation tomorrow!
Rogue Eagle’s embassy in China.

Ambassador Gauss saw the war report.

His face was full of disbelief.

He looked at General Shi, hoping that he would say that this was not true, but General Shi had no intention of doubting it. He had dealt with the border area a lot, and knew that the border area might collect more information on some things, but General Shi absolutely believed that the estimated information on the attack on each airport that was passed to him was first-hand information from the scene.

Even if there are some differences, they are statistical errors.

What General Shi admired even more was that the Eighth Route Army used some unknown means to paralyze almost all of these airports and destroyed almost all of the fighter planes on the airports.

To accomplish this overnight, General Shi believed that there would be no other possibility except long-range artillery.

But how did the Eighth Route Army transport such powerful long-range artillery to right under the noses of the Japanese?

This is something General Shi could never have imagined in his dreams.

But that's not the point.

"Mr. Gauss, I think we need to re-evaluate the influence of the Eighth Route Army and the border areas on the war situation and tell Washington everything here. Our ally may be much weaker than the preserved fruit forces in the temporary capital, but their capabilities and mobility have proved that they are a force that cannot be underestimated on the Asian battlefield. We must face it and help them hold back more Japs and reduce our pressure in the Western Pacific." General Shi said to Ambassador Gauss with a serious face.

"I understand. General Shi, I will report everything you said to Washington." Although Ambassador Gauss still did not quite believe it, he did not dare to ignore it like he did with the Pearl Harbor intelligence last time.

Ambassador Gauss was slapped in the face again and again. He was too embarrassed to bear it and had to accept reality.

Ren Zhong also received information about the attack. Although he had anticipated it, he did not expect that 107 Fire's debut would be so brilliant and he would instantly become a god in the world of Bright Sword.

He believed that the Japanese were still confused at this time. Due to the confidentiality, the 107mm artillery is now a secret weapon of the Eighth Route Army that few people know about. This heavy artillery is simply the trump card of the Eighth Route Army now. Although this secret was kept at the beginning, the purpose of the Eighth Route Army headquarters was to use it to concentrate on a major battle during the anti-mopping-up operation.

The plan was to target a division with a wave of rockets, in an effort to wipe out or cripple a division of the Japanese. However, after Ren Zhong proposed attacking the airport, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters changed their mind and prepared to use the Japanese airport and fighter planes as a sacrifice to announce the deployment of the 107 rockets.

Now it seems that it was all worth it.

Destroying more than a dozen airports overnight was basically impossible before we had this weapon.

However, after what happened today, it will be unlikely to organize such a large-scale operation again in the future.

The Japanese will go crazy trying to find information about this weapon and obtain some characteristics of its transportation and use, so as to find flaws in future inspections and plug the loopholes in current airport defense.

Especially the open-air storage of aircraft.

However, it is unlikely for them to completely prevent such an attack. After all, for the Japanese airports in Shanxi, most of them are close to mountainous areas. If they want to cover an area of ​​200 square kilometers, they have to abandon the city.

Therefore, they could only carry out necessary patrols to reduce the preparation time for the Eighth Route Army to infiltrate, and at the same time deploy counterattack artillery near the airport. With the huge flame-spraying trajectory of the 107mm artillery, it would be very fast for the Japanese to reverse the launch point.

However, in this case, the Japanese would have to deploy at least a squadron of Type 105 field guns near the airport. Only this type of field gun and howitzers of mm or above would have the ability to counterattack at a range of more than meters.

Even the Type 41 mountain gun can’t reach it.

This would tie down more than a dozen mountain artillery squadrons at the airport.

In addition to strengthening patrols and defense forces near the airport, at least one more battalion of troops was needed to defend such a large airport threat area, and more than a dozen battalions were deployed.

In this way, the airport will tie up the Japanese's forces of one and a half Type B divisions or more than two mixed brigades.

Ren Zhong's plan of attacking the airport not only destroyed more than half of the Japanese North China Air Force, but also indirectly tied down the Japanese forces at the airport, killing two birds with one stone and exceeding General Shi's requirements.

The Japanese troops, who were originally planning to dispatch two divisions to the south, now dared not move.

This time was even more surprising than the Eighth Route Army's counterattack last year, because the battle showed that the Eighth Route Army had at least a dozen more heavy artillery battalions!

Originally, I thought that a division-level mopping-up operation would be safe, as the Eighth Route Army did not have the strength to deal with a division-level operation. But now the Japanese have completely changed their minds. If these dozen heavy artillery battalions are concentrated, wouldn't an entire division be a problem for them?

According to the analysis of the remaining Japanese soldiers who were bombed at the scene, the new type of heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army had a very fast firing speed. It could fire 12 rounds of heavy artillery in an instant, covering thousands of square meters.

Although the Japanese still have some remaining fighter planes to provide air support, if they have to wait for the air force to take off, I'm afraid the Eighth Route Army would have already cleared the battlefield.

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