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Chapter 256: Fatal Blow to the Japanese Airport

From the perspective of passers-by, rockets flying across the blue sky are of course a beautiful sight.

But for the Japanese soldiers in the target area, this is a nightmare!
With the arrival of Dongfeng Express, most of the Japanese airports in North China felt like they were in hell.

The Japanese airport in Shingo is still busy. Due to the high-intensity attacks and the many quality problems in the production of the fighter planes themselves, after each takeoff and landing, the Japanese maintenance team and pilots have to carefully check and repair various problems with the fighter planes at the airport.

Now that a great war is about to begin, the Japanese pilots have received orders not to leave the airport within the next 72 hours and must be able to take off and fight at any time!

Therefore, the Japanese pilots did not dare to be negligent. They raced against time and took the Japanese engineers from the maintenance team to constantly check every part of the fighter plane.

Prepare to restore the fighter to its best condition.

"Mr. Mizuta, do you see that as a shooting star?" By chance, a Japanese soldier looked up and saw the Dongfeng Express flying in the sky, and asked uncertainly.

"What?" The Japanese soldier named Shuitian looked up and his face changed drastically!
"Enemy attack! This is an enemy rocket attack!" Shuitian was an old Japanese soldier who had luckily escaped from the 107th fire attack on the airport. When he saw the Dongfeng Express flying rapidly towards him in the sky, a fear from the depths of his soul made him tremble and speechless.

I wanted to shout loudly, but the sound that came out was as unpleasant and unclear as a duck's voice.

He was unable to notify the rest of the Japanese to escape in the first place.

I watched helplessly as the rocket flew in, exploded in the air, scattering countless cluster bombs, and then exploded a second time, spraying countless fragments all over the area of ​​several thousand square meters near the center point!

Mizuta and his companions could not avoid such a dense attack of debris, and instantly turned into bloody people with debris embedded all over their bodies!
Several fighter planes below the center of the explosion were hit and their fuel tanks began to catch fire. The fighter planes and Japanese soldiers outside the center were also covered with fragments, and holes were pierced in the wings and fuselages.

Dozens of wounded but not killed Japanese soldiers began to wail in pain.

Before the Japanese could fully react, the second Dongfeng Express arrived at the airport and exploded 1 kilometer away, indiscriminately covering the other half of the airport!
After being bombarded by these two Dongfeng Express missiles, there were almost no intact Japanese soldiers or planes left in the entire airport.

But this is not the end!

The third missile followed a minute later, this time landing between the two Dongfeng Express missiles, instantly igniting the few tattered fighter planes still remaining in the central part of the airport!
A Japanese airport with more than 20 fighter planes of various models. The Japanese soldiers and fighter planes on the airport were almost completely destroyed.

Except for a few Japanese maintenance engineers who hid in the belly of the fighter plane and managed to escape with their lives, dozens of Japanese maintenance engineers and pilots were caught in the chaos at the airport!

But it’s not over yet!
Two P51D Mustang fighters suddenly emerged from the clouds in the sky and dived rapidly towards the airport.

Looking at the black smoke billowing over the airport, the leading Rogue Eagle pilot was a little surprised.

However, he was not curious, but followed the previous combat orders and launched a rocket directly at an altitude of 1000 meters while diving close to the airport, making a finishing move towards the airport!

Although the effect cannot be confirmed, as these 12 rockets were launched, there was more smoke on the airport!
Apparently, many of the rockets hit their targets when launched.

Now the airport is littered with the waste of fighter planes. After the rockets were launched, they ignited the oil leakage of the Japanese fighter planes again, setting the entire airport on fire!
Now the entire airport was engulfed in thick smoke and fire.

Compared with the last air raid on Yanjiao Airport, Ren Zhong's attack this time was more fierce and comprehensive!
In this round of attacks, the airport was completely paralyzed!

Although I didn't expect that I could kill so many Japanese air force pilots and maintenance personnel while hunting rabbits, this was an unexpected surprise.

However, after such an attack, the airport had to be abandoned for at least half a month before it could be cleared, and the Japanese had to mobilize fighter planes and maintenance personnel from other places before it could be reopened.

The same scene was played out one by one at the Japanese airports all over North China. Although there were no fighter planes to make up the attack on the distant airports, airports close to the base, such as Zhengding and Zhangbei, were completely destroyed after being attacked by rockets.

However, under the saturation coverage attack, most of the fighter planes at these airports were also destroyed.

At least 200 Japanese fighter planes were permanently damaged, and there were still dozens of them left with certain repair value. Their engines and cockpits could still be reused, but their wings were basically riddled with holes and could not be used.

Therefore, the Japanese's major airports in North China, regardless of size, were hit by the devastating saturation attack of Dongfeng Express.

Before this battle, Ren Zhong spared no expense in pulling out his last trump card and launched a devastating attack on the Japanese fighter planes at the North China Airport. The damage was more thorough than the last attack. If a saturation attack had not been used, some fighter planes might have been repaired and used again, just like in the last attack. However, after this attack, the Japanese fighter planes parked at the airport were basically turned into scrap metal!

On the day of the large-scale launch of Dongfeng Express, many beautiful rainbows appeared in the sky of North China, which was a good omen for many ordinary Chinese people. Some superstitious people even began to make wishes when they saw these special rainbows, hoping to encounter good luck.

But for the Japanese airport, today was the darkest day in the history of their Army Aviation, and it directly created a new history in terms of losses.

After much difficulty, more than 300 fighter jets were gathered together, but they were severely damaged in the attack that lasted less than an hour. More than 200 of them were completely destroyed. The remaining fighter jets also needed to be overhauled, at least to replace the holes in their wings, before they could fly again.

However, this happened when the war was about to break out. Ren Zhong's fatal attack hit the Japanese army's head which had just been stretched out, and the commander of the Ninth Area Army, Lieutenant General Kurihara Nobuo, was hit so hard that his head was buzzing.

After receiving all the loss reports from his subordinates, the old Japanese soldier Nobuo Kurihara felt dizzy and almost fainted.

An elite flying division was assembled with great difficulty. Not only did it lose two-thirds of its elite Zero fighters, but most of the pilots who were inspecting and repairing them at the airport were also lost. Only a few small airports out of range managed to escape the disaster.

The loss of pilots is even more heartbreaking. For the Japanese, elite pilots are now more scarce than fighter planes. After all, training elite pilots is more difficult than producing fighter planes.

The series of fierce sea and air battles with the Rogue Eagle over the Pacific Ocean have almost consumed the elite pilots of the Japanese army. Now most of the pilots on the Army Aviation side are rookies who were hastily trained in aviation schools and have basically no combat experience.

The only flying division that could be called elite, the Zero Fighter Squadron, had most of its soldiers wiped out in this attack!

How could the old Japanese soldier Nobuo Kurihara, who was full of confidence and preparing for a large-scale attack, accept this?

But the fact had already happened. Nobuo Kurihara, who had spit out several mouthfuls of blood, had to order the front line to speed up the clearance of the airport even if he didn't want to admit it. He needed to mobilize fighter planes from the Kwantung Army again to fight for the air.

After some bargaining with the Imperial Headquarters and the Kwantung Army, the old devil Nobuo Kurihara finally got the 8th Flying Regiment to enter the country to fight again.

The Japanese 33th Flying Regiment of the Kwantung Army included the 16rd Fighter Squadron, the 58th Light Bomb Squadron and the th Heavy Bomb Squadron.

其中33战队一共有3个9架零式战斗机的中队，以及轻轰炸机16战队的3个93型双引擎轻型轰炸机和重轰炸机58战队的3个九七式重爆击机，一共又凑齐了80多架战机暂时补充到华北战场。

This is the minimum air attack force required by Nobuo Kurihara. If it is less, the air advantage will be lost.

At the same time, Nobuo Kurihara ordered the cleanup of all the attacked airports, and then organized the remaining maintenance teams. From now on, they had to urgently dismantle parts and mobilize wings of more than 100 damaged and repairable fighter jets of various models remaining at the airports to repair the aircraft as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Japanese made up their minds to build airstrip bunkers near the airport, so that when the bunkers were built, if the fighter planes were not hit directly, they would not be wiped out like those parked on the airport.

However, it was already a little late.

The Japanese had limited resources to begin with, and now they had to support so many wars on the battlefield. It would not be so easy for them to restore their air power in Asia. After all, the Pacific battlefield had experienced several major battles involving hundreds of fighter planes, resulting in heavy losses. The landlords had no surplus food, and the Zero fighters produced had to be used to support the Pacific battlefield first.

More than 200 permanently damaged fighter jets can now only be dismantled for use in some parts, but the maintenance team members have also suffered heavy casualties, and the fighter jet operation and maintenance capabilities have been greatly weakened. The subsequent maintenance and support capabilities will also be greatly reduced.

After this fatal blow, facing the extremely weakened Japanese Army Air Force, the Divine Eagle Squadron was under great pressure due to the huge disparity in the number of fighter planes.

However, after Ren Zhong's attack, the Air Force finally made up for some of its shortcomings in strength and began to have the confidence to directly confront the Japanese Air Force in North China.

If not for this, according to the preparations of the Japanese before the war, there were more than 300 fighter planes of various types, but the Divine Eagle Squadron had only more than 50 planes. No matter how powerful they were, there was a limit. They could not fight ten with one.

Nowadays, when fighter jets engage in air combat, if there is no generation gap in the quality level of the fighter jets, then the difference in combat effectiveness mainly depends on the ability of the pilots. Now that the Condor Squadron has been supplemented with a group of elite Rogue Eagle pilots, flying the best P51D Mustang fighter of this era, they will have no problem fighting most of the Japanese fighter planes one-on-one.

But to fight one against three is basically impossible.

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