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However, on the 5th, in order to coordinate with the army's offensive, 10 E-15 fighter planes from Guofu flew from Zhumadian to Zhoujiakou Airport to refuel and load ammunition, and then flew to the vicinity of Lanfeng to bomb the artillery positions of the Doiyu Division.

As a result, they were surrounded by dozens of fighter planes from the 2nd Fighter Group of the Japanese Army Air Force. Five of their planes were shot down and five were damaged by the Japanese.

It can be said that the air force supported by Guofu was rendered useless in this one air battle, and Xue Laohu completely lost air superiority over the Lanfeng area.

Today, air superiority over the eastern Henan region is entirely in the hands of the Japanese, which, combined with ground forces, makes them even more formidable.

Fortunately, Xue Laohu is Xue Laohu. Under such circumstances, he still calmly set up an encirclement, planning to compress the Tufei Regiment and Division into an area of ​​several hundred square kilometers in five counties: Lanfeng, Neihuang, Minquan, and Kaocheng, trapping them like turtles in a jar.

To ensure everything went perfectly, he hadn't dared to close his eyes for the past few days. He had imagined countless possible reactions from the Tufeiyuan Division in his mind, and then devised solutions for each one.

However, he only thought about defending against the enemy and not about defending against his incompetent teammates. Who would have thought that his most valued elite troops would perform the worst, even worse than the ragtag army?

This caused his entire plan to fail and come to nothing.

The "pig teammate" incident hasn't happened yet, but it'll happen in the next day or two.

Although the Anti-Japanese United Army was stationed near the breach, waiting for their elite troops to escape so they could step in and plug the gap, who knows what the outcome would be?

After all, Japan's ground forces have very strong firepower, and the Doi Division has brought a lot of artillery and armored vehicles this time. With air support, the outcome is still uncertain.

Li Mu made contact with the front-line troops via telegram. They had already engaged in combat with the Japanese peripheral forces. According to their opinions, the biggest threat to the Japanese Allied Forces now was their air force.

Whether it's the armored battalion, the artillery battalion, or the heavy artillery battalion... they haven't been allowed to show their faces much these past two days, for fear of being targeted by the Japanese air force and subjected to a barrage of bombs, which would render them useless before they even get to the battlefield.

After reviewing the intelligence, Li Mu studied the map for a while. Currently, the largest airport in eastern Henan is Jinan Airport.

This is thanks to Han Fuqu, perhaps because he cherished the time he spent in Jinan, he didn't destroy the military airfield in Jinan when he fled with his troops. As a result, the Japanese North China Area Army reaped a huge benefit.

Because the airport here is well-equipped and well-maintained, capable of handling relatively large aircraft, it became a temporary base for a part of the Japanese North China Area Army Air Force.

Li Mu had long disliked this airport. His recent night raids in southern Shandong and Taierzhuang were all intercepted by fighter jets from this airport. On many occasions, he had no choice but to retreat upon seeing Japanese planes approaching.

Most of the bombing raids on the Fifth War Zone were carried out by aircraft from this region.

So, if possible, he would have liked to blow up this airport long ago. However, it was too far away, far exceeding the combat radius of fighter jets, so he had to put it off.

Now, the conditions are finally ripe.

Some time ago, Li Mu sent engineers to the Taihang Mountains and the Dabie Mountains to build two military airfields respectively.

The requirements aren't high; it just needs to be able to handle simple takeoffs and landings of fighter jets. These days, fighter jets don't have high requirements for runways, so the project isn't very large.

Just a couple of days ago, news came from there that the Yubei Airport has finally been completed. It is located in the southern part of the Yubei Wing of the Taihang Mountains, and Jinan is also within the combat radius.

After studying the map for a while, Li Mu boarded his fighter jet and flew towards the Yubei Airport.

This time he was flying a modified I-16, with a top speed of 580 kilometers per hour and a combat radius of 700 kilometers.

As one of the world's fastest planes, Li Mu arrived at Yubei Airport, located deep in the Taihang Mountains, in just one hour. The airport was quite rudimentary, with only one runway, nestled in a small valley.

A battalion of infantry was stationed around the valley to guard the military airfield, with supplies provided by the Muwu Trading Company. Located deep in the mountains, with few roads leading to the outside world and no large armies ever entering, security was not a concern.

The plane landed slowly, and Li Mu took a brief look around. After the plane was refueled, it took off again to Jinan to scout the terrain.

Although I already know the location of Jinan Airport by heart through intelligence, I've never actually seen it in person. It would be better to check it out during the day beforehand, just to be on the safe side.

This time, to avoid being discovered by the notebook, Li Mufei flew exceptionally high, maintaining an altitude of 8,000 meters. The distance of 300 kilometers was covered in just over half an hour.

He didn't get too close, but just circled around Jinan a few times in the high sky to memorize the surrounding terrain so as not to get lost, before returning to base.

It was past ten o'clock at night. The night was beautiful, with a full moon and a sky full of stars. Li Mu took a deep breath, climbed into the I-16 fighter jet, put on his flight helmet, and closed the hatch.

The next moment, the plane slowly taxied and flew into the night sky under the bright moonlight.

More than half an hour later, over Jinan, Li Mu opened the cabin door, took out his binoculars and observed for a moment before quickly locating the airport.

Clearly, after falling into the hands of the "Little Notebook" (a nickname for a local official), certain arrangements were made for safety reasons. Everyone within a radius of several miles was relocated, and not a single residence was left.

However, the notebook only considered preventing dangers on the ground, but forgot to prevent threats from the air.

After taking a closer look, I realized that as one of the largest military airfields of the Japanese North China Area Army, it had quite a few aircraft: more than a hundred fighter jets, a dozen transport planes, and seven or eight bombers.

There were several rows of barracks next to it, presumably housing airport ground staff, workers, and pilots.

Li Mu piloted the plane, slowly descending to an altitude of two thousand meters. The guards at the airport seemed to have heard something and looked up at the sky. Although the moonlight was nice, their vision was still very limited, and they could not see anything.

The guard became suspicious, patted the other guard beside him, pointed to the sky, and before he could speak, a small black dot suddenly grew larger and larger—it was… an aerial bomb…it looked like a lump of metal…

His mind raced instantly, and he opened his mouth, but before he could even shout… the next moment, with a deafening boom, a one-ton iron mass exploded at the airport. The sound was like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting; the ground trembled, and ears rang. Seven or eight fighter jets on the ground were blown away by the blast wave, and five or six were destroyed on the spot.

Then, one after another, one-ton iron lumps fell from the sky, and explosions that sounded like the collapse of the heavens and the splitting of the earth rang out continuously in the airport.

This metal lump was a specially made aerial bomb commissioned by Li Mu from the arsenal. Compared to conventional aerial bombs, it was easier to manufacture and required less technical expertise. Although it wasn't very aesthetically pleasing and was rather crudely made, it would be unusable in the hands of others. After all, it couldn't be mounted on an aircraft; even modern fighter jets couldn't carry a one-ton object, yet its destructive power was by no means diminished.

Most importantly, this aerial bomb weighs a ton and its power is astonishing. Not to mention airplanes, tanks and armored vehicles are as fragile as paper in front of it.

It was specially made by Li Mu. If conditions permit in the future, it is not impossible to produce a batch of two-ton, three-ton, or five-ton aerial bombs.

At that point, not only ground equipment, but also warships would be hit with a single blow.

……

Within a minute, Li Mu dropped more than thirty one-ton-yield aerial bombs over the airport, turning it into a sea of ​​fire with plane wreckage everywhere…

At this moment, the ground crew and pilots in the surrounding barracks also rushed out. Seeing the scene before them, some screamed in terror and ran around in all directions; others stared angrily at the sky, firing weakly into the air with their guns.

Li Mu's eyes lit up as he looked at the barracks and the scattered crowd. Airplanes are precious, and so are pilots, especially fighter pilots; training one is no easy feat.

The plane circled in the air for half a minute, then came over the barracks and dropped two dark bombs. After flying out of the barracks' area, it circled again for half a minute, then flew over the barracks again and dropped two more bombs.

After several such incidents, the barracks were completely reduced to ruins. Except for a small number of people who ran out of the airport area and stayed far away, the rest, like the barracks, all went to meet their Amaterasu.

It circled the airport twice more. Despite dropping tens of tons of aerial bombs, many of the less damaged planes were not completely destroyed.

Li Mu was prepared for this. The next moment, a huge plastic bucket appeared. Compared to the previous one ton of gasoline, this bucket had a capacity of three tons of gasoline. Inside, there was also a groove where a fifty-kilogram time bomb was installed. Li Mu named it the petrol bomb.

A dozen seconds later, the gasoline drum fell to a height of several hundred meters above the ground, and the fifty-kilogram bomb suddenly exploded. Three tons of gasoline turned into a rain of fire, spreading across a space of several hundred meters in radius, falling from the sky and covering the entire airport.

Next, Li Mu dropped more than ten tons of napalm bombs, turning the entire airport into a sea of ​​fire, burning fiercely...

He nodded in satisfaction. At this moment, the Japanese soldiers stationed in the city arrived and looked at the scene before them in horror.

Li Mu circled once in the air. This time, no planes would arrive to provide support so quickly. Indeed, the place he had just destroyed was the largest military airfield within hundreds of kilometers of the Japanese colony. Where else could he get planes to provide support? Even if there were, it would take a very long time.

Chapter 440 Devastated

Since that's the case, Li Mu chuckled and went to the Japanese army camp nearby. The camp had also been disturbed, and there were noisy soldiers there.

One aerial bomb after another exploded in the crowd, each one sweeping across a section. The Japanese soldiers screamed and howled as they scattered to take cover.

Within minutes, there were only a few targets left to hide from. Li Mu smiled and said, "You're pretty quick at dodging!"

However, it's unrealistic to expect to eliminate ground troops through bombing. Otherwise, Japan would have maintained air superiority since the start of the war, and could have simply sent planes to bomb the enemy every day; there would have been no need for an army.

Looking at the notebooks that had run out of the military camp and scattered to avoid the bombing, Li Mu was too lazy to throw bombs anymore. They were too scattered and the accuracy was too low, so throwing them would be a waste.

After circling around Jinan for a while, they finally returned to Yubei Airport, satisfied.

More than twenty minutes after he left, a Japanese plane rushed over, but Li Mu had already disappeared.

Back at Yubei Airport, after refueling the plane and resting for a while, I took the opportunity to study the intelligence from Toiyuan.

At 1 a.m., the I-16 fighter jet took off again, this time at a closer distance, arriving near Lanfon City in just over 20 minutes.

Li Mu reduced the flight altitude and speed, opened the canopy, took out his binoculars, and observed the situation below while slowly navigating the aircraft.

This time he had plenty of time; the journeys back to Yubei Airport or Nanyang were not long. The largest airport in the surrounding area of ​​several hundred kilometers had been bombed, and support planes wouldn't arrive quickly enough.

There is ample free time to move around.

Soon, Li Mu flew over the armored regiment of the small army. Below, there was a dark mass of vehicles, more than a hundred armored vehicles and tanks in total. Their firepower was indeed formidable.

The air force, which posed the greatest threat to the united anti-Japanese forces, has been destroyed. The next greatest threats will be the armored forces and artillery forces.

Then, let's help the Japanese lose some weight.

The plane circled once in the air and flew over the armored wing. Two aerial bombs, each with a yield of one ton, fell one after the other.

After flying out of the armored corps' range, it turned around and circled in the air for half a turn before flying over the armored corps again, at which point two one-ton aerial bombs fell once more.

Below, just as the Japanese soldiers on duty noticed something was wrong, a huge aerial bomb came crashing down with a deafening roar that shook the surrounding area for miles around. The ground trembled, and more than ten tanks and armored vehicles were overturned by the blast wave, with seven or eight being destroyed on the spot.

Before anyone could react, another loud bang rang out, and the shockwave swept across an area of ​​hundreds of meters... Countless tank and armored vehicle wreckage flew into the air.

Next, as aerial bombs landed one after another, the ground of the entire armored wing looked as if it had been plowed, with armored vehicles and tank wreckage everywhere.

More than 20 tons of aerial bombs were dropped in succession, followed by more than 10 tons of napalm bombs, and the entire armored wing was engulfed in flames.

Now, even if some escaped, there wouldn't be many complete armored vehicles and tanks to be assembled.

His next targets were all artillery units, but when he flew over the artillery regiment, he seemed to be spotted by the vigilant Japanese soldiers, who began shouting.

As if they had learned of the dire situation at the armored detachment's location, instantly, anti-aircraft machine guns, cannons, anti-aircraft guns, and all anti-aircraft weapons began firing volleys into the sky.

Despite the pleasant moonlight, visibility was still quite poor; it was okay a few hundred meters away, but beyond a few thousand meters, you couldn't see anything at all.

To avoid any accidents, Li Mu immediately flew away from the artillery position and watched as the Japanese soldiers fired haphazardly into the empty night sky, attacking everywhere.

After a while, seeing no movement in the sky, no planes crashing, and no bombs being dropped, the Japanese soldiers seemed to think the planes had already left, and then they stopped firing into the air.

Li Mu smiled, raised the plane to 5,000 meters, and flew over the artillery position again, dropping one-ton aerial bombs one after another.

The scene that had just unfolded at the armored corps was being repeated at the artillery position, with countless cannon barrels being blown into the air and broken wreckage of artillery pieces scattered all over the ground.

After one round of attacks, looking at the sparse artillery pieces and the dropping of more than ten tons of napalm bombs, just as they were thinking about whether to go and explore other positions, the buzzing of airplanes came from afar.