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Chapter 258: Destroying the Japanese Flying Regiment
"Attack!" Lieutenant Colonel Sam, who was hovering high in the sky and temporarily took over the command of the Condor Squadron, continuously receiving information from the Japanese fighter planes on the ground, finally issued the order to attack.

The four squadrons separated into four different directions, swooped down from the high clouds, faced the Japanese 4rd Regiment, and began to attack in a dispersed manner!
The Japanese aircraft fleet discovered the abnormality from a thousand meters away, and like a school of frightened fish, they rolled over to avoid the pouring fire from the machine guns of the Condor Squadron, and at the same time began to turn and increase the distance, trying to find a position to counterattack and open fire!
Only two or three planes were unable to dodge and were hit, and began to emit black smoke. The thin aluminum fuselage was ignited by the special incendiary bombs, and as they caught fire, they began to rush towards the ground in despair.

"Baga!" Changling Guisuke didn't expect that the enemy had been lying in ambush in the sky. Changling Guisuke did not blame himself for his mistake. Instead, he was furious at the Divine Eagle Brigade for their lack of martial ethics.

After dodging the first round of sneak attacks, Changling Guizhu quickly pulled the plane into the sky.

"Come on baby!" Lieutenant Colonel Sam faced Nagamine Kamejiro. Seeing that his opponent's reaction was not slow at all, he felt full of fighting spirit as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

It was as if only such an opponent was worthy of his attack.

Driving the Mustang, he rolled over and turned towards the sky.

Chen Zhi, who was acting as Sam's wingman, understood what Sam meant and followed him to rise. After suppressing Changling Guizhu, the two planes formed a pair of flying shapes and turned towards Changling Guizhu.
Chen Zhi opened fire, and the machine gun fired a continuous rain of bullets.

Changling Guizhu was startled and pulled the full Zero Turn to fly sideways to avoid this round of attack.

Then after a roll, he fired a volley of bullets at the butt of Chen Zhi's fighter plane!

Chen Zhi made an oblique cross flight, taking Changling Guizhu higher and higher.

After being brought to a high altitude unknowingly, Changling Guizhu found that the performance of his fighter plane was declining too quickly, and he felt a chill in his heart.

"Shibata-kun! Bite the enemy's wingman's tail!" Nagamine Kameji issued an order to his wingman.

The Japanese soldier Shibata was actually still trying hard to get rid of Sam's attack, but the leader gave the order, that was to fight at all costs!

So Shibata had to force himself to fly sideways to temporarily break away from Sam's attack lock, and then rushed towards Chen Zhi's fighter.

Chen Zhi was not panicked when he saw that he was entangled by two Japanese fighter planes.

He immediately turned and flew towards Nagamine Kamezuke, carrying the Japanese soldier Shibata behind him. When Sam, who was in the lead position, saw that a large area of ​​Shibata's flank was exposed, he immediately seized the opportunity and launched a machine gun attack on the Japanese soldier's flank!
There was almost no suspense, Shibata's fighter plane was hit and a firework exploded in the air!

"YES! first KILL!" Sam screamed.

Without hesitation, he pulled up the wild horse again and headed towards the sky.

The Merlin engine's powerful ability at high altitude was clearly demonstrated, directly blowing up the helpless and furious Nagamine Kamesuke!

At high altitudes, the engine's performance dropped sharply and it was simply unable to keep up with the pace of Chen Zhi and Sam.

Changling Guizhu had to dive to lower his altitude.

Even if he had to give up revenge temporarily, Nagamine Kameji would return to the airspace where the Zero fighter was best at.

However, inadvertently, Nagamine Kamezuke discovered that there were stars in the sky, as if there were scenes of Zero fighters being blown up everywhere.

Changling Guizhu was unable to communicate directly with other groups to understand the situation and was shocked.

It has only been a short time since the start, and they have already lost more than half of their fighter planes.

Thinking of this, Changling Guizhu had to send out a signal to gather.

The Japanese's aerial communications at this moment can only be carried out between the leader and the wingman. To communicate with the entire team, they can only send out special commands like radio signals to activate the alarm devices on other fighter planes.

Compared with the aerial version of the walkie-talkie provided by Ren Zhong for the Mustang fighter, it is completely behind the times.

Watching the Japanese fighter planes gathering.

Sam yelled. "Brothers, chase these damned Japs and fire!"

It was obviously extremely dangerous to forcibly retreat from the battle in the air. The Japanese gathered together and made them turn their planes around and run away as if their butts were on fire.

For the Divine Eagle Battalion, these Japanese devils are obviously easier to beat.

Follow the turn and grab the ass of the Japanese fighter plane to output firepower!
It’s just that the Japanese were too mobile, and a large amount of their output was directed into the void.

At this moment, a large group of Japanese bombers arrived. Seeing the swarming Japanese fighter planes, the Condor Squadron almost without hesitation abandoned their Zero fighters and rushed towards the Japanese bomber group!
The Japanese Major General Atlantic did not expect that the 33rd Squadron was so weak. Not only did they fail to defeat the opponent, but they also failed to warn themselves!
You can only bite the bullet and fight!
Today's bombers don't have many powerful weapons other than bombs.

But there are also many machine guns.

Seeing the Eighth Route Air Force Mustang fighters rushing up, the Japanese bomber groups also opened fire one by one.

It's just that the 7.7mm machine gun is not fatal to the Mustang fighter, so it can continue to fight after being hit a few times. But if the 20mm machine gun on the Mustang fighter hits the Japanese bomber, it will basically be gone.

Due to the huge difference in maneuverability, the bombers that were circling to attack the Japanese were hit and caught fire one after another!

In the sky above Lu'an, the Japanese fighter planes were exploded everywhere like fireworks!
Seeing that the defeat was irreversible, the old devils in the Atlantic hiding behind had to send out a signal to withdraw their troops.

In this way, the Japanese Eighth Flying Regiment began to retreat.

But how could the Condor Squadron miss such a good opportunity to destroy the enemy? They aimed at an enemy plane and chased it!

We must keep these Japanese fighter planes in Taihang!
"We shot down more than 50 planes of the Japanese air force that came to bomb? Is this data true?" Ren Zhong was somewhat surprised when he looked at the latest information provided by Staff Officer Ye. After all, there were the Japanese elite Zero Fighter Team, which was arguably the strongest combat force of the Japanese Army Aviation at present. He didn't expect that they would be so weak and crippled this time.

"The wreckage and models of the enemy aircraft have been confirmed. In the battle of Lu'an, the Air Force shot down 15 Zero fighters, 18 Type 21 light fighters, and Type heavy fighters, which directly crippled the Eighth Flying Regiment." Staff Officer Ye said with a smile.

"Our air force tactics were very clever. Only three planes were damaged and crashed in this battle. All the pilots parachuted successfully. The other 3 planes that were damaged returned. This is basically a complete victory!"

Ren Zhong saw that there were quite a few Japanese Zero fighters inside, but he didn't expect that there wouldn't be any trouble this time. The temporary veteran pilots introduced from the Rogue Eagle had obviously played a big role. They all had rich combat experience in dealing with Zero fighters, and now they were just familiarizing themselves with them and practicing.

It doesn't seem surprising to have such a result.

However, the Japanese were in a difficult situation. They had originally wanted to boost morale through a sneak attack by the Air Force, but now the Air Force had also failed, and the support from the Army Aviation to the ground was almost zero.

But Nobuo Kurihara had to launch the attack despite the pressure! After so long of preparation and the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops, it was impossible for the Air Force to fail and not fight. Fortunately, Army Aviation has never been the protagonist of land warfare, so it would be nothing without it.

Nobuo Kurihara cheered up. When the wooden day arrived, the Japanese Ninth Front Army, which had suffered one blow after another, still began the attack as scheduled. Tens of thousands of troops attacked the Eighth Route Army's defense line.

From the Shotai Line to Hanoi, a total of six divisions of Japanese invaders launched the attack.

The Zhengtai Line was narrow, and a Japanese division launched a fierce attack from the Jingxing direction. The two infantry regiments and one artillery regiment in the vanguard started a bloody battle in the positions of the two villages of Dongzhuang and Huangdu.

The two Type B Eighth Route Army Regiments guarding here stubbornly held their positions and relied on favorable terrain to continuously kill and consume the enemy.

At almost the same time, in the direction of Hanoi, the Japanese launched an attack with four infantry divisions and one tank division.

From Ningyi County to Huaiyi County, which is more than 40 kilometers away, the Japanese launched a fierce offensive at the same time, covering our positions with brutal artillery fire.

The most deadly thing is that there is a tank division hiding in the back, and no one knows when it will rush out.

Tank charges are extremely deadly in plain areas.

Chen Brigade commanded the front.

"Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, now the Japanese's Second Tank Division has appeared on the front line. It's up to your tank battalion to handle this! You must find a way to destroy this Japanese tank division! Don't leave a single tank to the Japanese!" The brigade commander said harshly to his three generals.

If it were a year ago, when the brigade commander saw this tank division, he would have stayed as far away from it as possible and would not have confronted it head-on.

But now that he has five big cards under his command, the brigade commander is very confident.

Get rid of Li Yunlong and his iron triangle first!

As for the 771st Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the 772nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade which were reorganized from the st and nd Regiments, the brigade commander wanted to keep them in hiding for a while and use them as a surprise force.

"Yes, Commander, we will ensure that the mission is accomplished!" the three of them responded loudly.

Today may be their last day at the Chen Brigade’s forward command post. Once the battle begins, the three of them will have to return to the various brigade temporary command posts to take command.

Facing a reorganized tank division of the Japanese, the three men were not panicked at all.

According to the intelligence we had learned before, this time we encountered the Japanese 2nd Tank Division, which was composed of the 3rd Tank Brigade and the 4th Tank Brigade, four tank regiments including the 6th Tank Regiment, the 7th Tank Regiment, the 10th Tank Regiment, and the 11th Tank Regiment, as well as a 2nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment and a 2nd Mechanized Artillery Regiment.

Each tank regiment has three squadrons of medium tanks, 3 Type 45 medium tanks, and one squadron of light tanks, 1 Type 15 light tanks, and a squadron of artillery tanks. In terms of tank (tank) organization, it is exactly equivalent to a tank battalion of a mechanized infantry brigade. However, now the tank battalion of the mechanized infantry brigade has one company of T34 heavy tanks and two companies of M2 improved light tanks, all of which use 3mm tank guns and have exactly the same output power.

The main differences are armor protection and maximum travel.

But for the Japanese tanks, it made no difference. Hitting the vital points on the front was a fatal blow, leaving the Japanese no room to struggle.

So even though 3 vs 4 is a disadvantage in terms of numbers, in terms of quality, it is completely overwhelming!
The current T34 is considered to be tough and tough for the Japanese. Not to mention that the 37mm tank gun of the Type 57 light tank is just a tickle. Even a mm tank gun will not have much effect if it is hit head-on from a distance of four or five hundred meters away. At least it cannot be solved with one or two shots.

So there was nothing wrong with the brigade commander handing over a tank division to Li Yunlong and his three mechanized infantry brigades to deal with.

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