Devil's Army

In order to ensure that the first army's aircraft can land safely at Yanglin Airport and refuel and ammunition smoothly.

The ground crew at Yanglin Airport braved the bombing of Japanese aircraft and continued to repair the destroyed runway.

This also resulted in the ground crew at Yanglin Airport becoming the unit with the heaviest casualties in this Japanese air raid.

In order to protect the ground crew at Yanglin Airport, pilots from Kunming Aviation School and the Second Air Squadron of the First Army frequently attacked Japanese bombers that were bombing Yanglin Airport.

The Japanese fighter planes also seized the opportunity and successively surrounded and annihilated the Devil Force's sharp fighter planes that came to reinforce.

Two Huaxia III fighters and one Huaxia II fighter were destroyed in the sky above Yanglin Airport. But the pilots of the First Army had no choice.

If they had not died bravely, the ground crew at Yanglin Airport would have suffered even greater casualties.

This air battle lasted for more than two hours. The brave pilots of the First Army shot down 22 Japanese fighters and 8 bombers.

However, 4 Hua Xia III fighters and 2 Hua Xia II fighters were also shot down.

There are also 11 Huaxia II and III fighters that have varying degrees of damage and need to be returned to the factory for repairs.

This battle let the soldiers of the First Army know that the Japanese air force is still very strong. They devoted themselves to the construction of the smelter with greater enthusiasm.

The ground crew at Yanglin Airport was divided into two parts, one was the First Army ground crew brought by Leng Feng, and the other was the Yunnan Army ground crew.

They all made great sacrifices to defend Yanglin Airport.

For this reason, Leng Feng awarded pensions to the Yunnan Army ground crew members who died in the air raid according to the standards of the First Army.

The Japanese 18th Division took advantage of the fact that the Air Force of the 3st Army of the Kunming Aviation School was fighting with their Air Force and had no time to take care of other things, and arranged three bombers and three fighters to launch a fierce bombing on the David Mountain position in Yaoshan Township of the 3th Army.

Then they broke through the David Mountain position in one fell swoop and approached Kaiyuan City.

At this time, the Japanese 18th Division was only 200 kilometers away from Kunming.

The 18th Brigade of the 55th Division continued to advance towards Kunming.

When the Japanese army reached the front of the Nanpan River Gorge, they were blocked by the 182th Regiment of the 1078nd Division.

The Nanpanjiang Gorge near Longtan Village, Denglongshan Village, Xiaolongtan Town, Kaiyuan City, has high mountains, deep valleys and lush vegetation.

The 1078th Regiment used the cliffs, boulders and woods in the canyon to set up an ambush and block the Japanese army from a high position.

Moreover, the river water can serve as a natural barrier to hinder the Japanese army's large-scale rapid breakthroughs.

The Japanese artillery and aircraft launched a fierce bombing on the highlands on both sides of the Nanpan River Gorge. Then the infantry tried to take advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the 1078th Regiment were bombed and had no time to take care of themselves and quickly pass through the Nanpan River Gorge.

The 1078th Regiment suffered heavy casualties under the fierce bombing of Japanese aircraft and artillery, but the soldiers still held their positions in the Nanpanshan Gorge and fiercely attacked the Japanese infantry who tried to pass through the gorge.

The soldiers of the 1078th Regiment in the position were blown out of the trenches, and the soldiers behind them immediately took their place.

The machine gun fire points in the trenches roared non-stop, killing the Japanese troops who attempted to cross the Nanpan River Gorge.

The Japanese attack was repelled, and the exit of the canyon was littered with Japanese corpses.

The soldiers of the 1078th Regiment took advantage of the Japanese artillery fire to repair the fortifications, but the Japanese did not give the soldiers of the 1078th Regiment a chance to breathe.

As soon as their infantry attack was repelled, planes came to bomb.

The newly built fortifications were destroyed by bombing by Japanese planes.

A batch of wounded soldiers had just been sent down the canyon heights, and now another batch of wounded soldiers were waiting to be transported.

At this time, the six Huaxia II fighter planes of the First Army, which had already ended their empty field operations, had no time to refuel and immediately flew towards the Nanpan River Gorge.

The fighter planes of the First Army saw from afar that the Japanese bombers were wreaking havoc in the Nanpan River Gorge positions and quickly pounced on them.

The three Japanese Zero fighters escorting nearby were horrified when they saw the sharp-nosed fighters of the Devil's Army, but they also rushed forward and fought with the Chinese II fighters of the First Army.

The three Japanese bombers that were bombing immediately stopped and flew towards Vietnam.

Seeing this, the other three Huaxia II fighter planes of the First Army quickly chased after them, firing non-stop until they shot down the three Japanese bombers on their way to escape.

The Japanese lead pilot who led the fighter-bomber team to bomb the Nanpanjiang Gorge position squadron was an ace pilot.

His flying skills are quite proficient.