Devil's Army

The captain of the Japanese Army's Third Battalion said to the division commander, Wudeno, with a sad face:

"General, the Eighth Route Army's resistance is very tenacious, and our troops have suffered heavy casualties. If the battle continues like this, our Third Battalion will be wiped out."

The commander of the Wudenan Division looked at the Japanese soldiers who kept falling on the battlefield and finally said one word: "Retreat!"

The Japanese troops in other directions were fighting fiercely, so he had been able to fight his way here relatively smoothly. He had originally wanted to be the first troop to attack the base of the devil troops. Now it seemed that his plan was going to fail.

When the captain of the third Japanese army heard the order from the division commander Wu Dennan, he felt as if there was an amnesty, so he hurriedly led his troops with the captain of the ninth division to cover the division commander Wu Dennan's retreat towards Hengshui.

The Japanese First Battalion, which was responsible for blocking the Third Regiment of the Fifth Brigade, also withdrew from the battle after the retreat of Division Commander Wu Dennan and his men.

The Sixth Brigade was originally stationed in Sanhe County as a reserve force, ready to support the Hengshui battle at any time. However, as the Japanese army invaded the First Army's Tangshan base, the Sixth Brigade shifted its focus to the counties outside the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

At the beginning of the Tangshan anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Commander Tada Shun first ordered the air force to attack the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport of the Devil Forces.

Only by bombing and paralyzing the Devil Forces' airport could the Japanese army gain air superiority and effectively support the Japanese Army's encirclement and suppression of the Devil Forces in the Tangshan base.

Because the Japanese army went into battle in a hurry this time, the material preparations were not very sufficient.

Lieutenant General Masazo Terakura, commander of the Japanese Army's North China Provisional Air Force Corps, gathered 8 fighter squadrons and 8 bomber squadrons and rushed towards the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport with great momentum.

Captain Yin arranged the tasks for the three fighter squadrons, and then ordered the First Fighter Squadron, the Second Fighter Squadron at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport and the Third Fighter Squadron at Tangxia Village Temporary Airport to take off and fight.

If the First Army fighters still use the guerrilla strategy used by the Japanese army to encircle and suppress the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport last time, and use the advantage of the fast speed of the Huaxia II fighters to sneak attack the Japanese fighters, then the loss rate of the Huaxia II fighters will be very small. However, the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport will be devastated by the Japanese bombers again.

Rebuilding an airport would not only take two or three months, but also consume a lot of materials and manpower. At this time, the air force of the Tangshan base was much stronger than the last anti-encirclement and suppression campaign.

Captain Yin decided to do his best to protect the safety of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

When the Japanese fighter formation flew towards Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, the First Army's two Hua Xia 2 fighter squadrons immediately went to meet them.

The Japanese air force had apparently received special training against the First Army's pointed aircraft.

When a Hua Xia II fighter of the First Army pounced on the Japanese fighter group, a main fighter with two wingmen in the Japanese fighter group attacked the Hua Xia II fighter of the First Army from three directions respectively.

Captain Yin's fighter planes first attacked the right wing of the Japanese fighter group.

Soon, a group of three Japanese fighter planes swooped down on Captain Yin's plane.

Captain Yin took advantage of the excellent climbing ability of the Hua Xia II fighter, climbed quickly, turned at a small angle, and bit back the group of Japanese fighters.

However, this group of Japanese fighter planes did not flee as quickly as before, but quickly turned to the sides with small sweeping angles, trying to bite Captain Yin's plane again.

However, Captain Yin's Huaxia II supersonic fighter was much faster and more flexible than Japan's Type 95 fighter. In a blink of an eye, Captain Yin had caught up with the Japanese fighter host from the side and fired at him fiercely.

The Japanese fighter planes tried to break free several times but could not escape Captain Yin's pursuit and were disintegrated in mid-air.

As soon as the main engine of the Japanese fighter plane was shot down, another plane from the Japanese fighter group flew over to act as the main engine, and took two wingmen to fire fiercely at Captain Yin's fighter plane.

Captain Yin's fighter plane quickly climbed, then did a backward flip and caught up with the group of Japanese fighter planes from behind.

This group of Japanese fighter planes suddenly rolled over and slowed down.

Captain Yin's fighter plane had no time to slow down and whizzed past the three Japanese fighter planes.

The three Japanese fighter planes seized the opportunity and fired desperately at Captain Yin's plane.

Captain Yin's plane made a clanging sound as it was hit by bullets.

Fortunately, no important equipment was damaged, and Captain Yin's plane quickly got rid of the entanglement of the Japanese fighter group, circled to the right flank of the Japanese wingman, and attacked him.

The Japanese wingman on the right was hit by several shells in succession and flew towards Tianjin with black smoke coming out of its tail.

On the first day of the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the First Army's Air Force and the Japanese Air Force launched a brutal battle in the sky over the Tangshan base.

The Third Fighter Squadron of the First Army did not engage in a fight with the Japanese fighter group, but instead drove away the Japanese bombers around the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, protecting the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport from being bombed by Japanese bombers.

A few Japanese bombers that escaped the pursuit of the 3rd Fighter Squadron of the 1st Army were subjected to intensive fire from the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport when they flew over the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport for an air raid, and were successively destroyed in the sky above the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.