Devil's Army

After the Battle of Changsha, the Japanese Army's 3rd Flying Division stationed in Hubei and Jiangxi will come to support.

Captain Du of the 4th Aviation Squadron of the First Army, who was still in Nanhai County, immediately returned to Sanzao Island Airport and made preparations for the war together with Captain Yang of the 3rd Aviation Squadron of Kunming.

According to the arrangement of Captain Yin, Captain Du was more familiar with the situation of the Japanese Air Force in the south, and he would be in command of the upcoming large-scale air battle.

Captain Yang of the Third Aviation Squadron cooperated.

Two days later, the Japanese Army's 3rd Air Division had not yet attacked the First Army's troops around Guangzhou.

Commander Zhang decided to add fuel to the fire of Sakai Takashi and ordered the troops of the First Army around Guangzhou to attack the nearby Japanese troops.

The Second Division of the Southern Front Army of Nanhai County entered Huangsha from Xiguan, west of Guangzhou City.

Part of the 104rd Regiment of the 103th Division of the Japanese Army, which was resisting stubbornly, was fiercely strafed and bombed by the First Army Air Force of Weizhou Island.

With the cooperation of the Air Force, the newly formed 1st Division and the 2nd Division of the Gui-Yunnan Front Army also broke through the Japanese defense lines and captured several towns.

At this time, the Japanese Army's 3rd Flying Division, which Commander Zhang had been waiting for for a long time, finally arrived.

The Japanese Army Department gathered 12 fighter planes from 144 fighter squadrons at three airports in Hubei and Nanchang Airport in Jiangxi, and 4 bombers from four bomber squadrons, and roared in.

As soon as the pilots of the Japanese Army's 3rd Flying Division arrived over the Devil Force outside Guangzhou, the bombers immediately launched bombing on the soldiers and positions of the Devil Force.

The Japanese fighter planes immediately chased the devil troops' pointed planes.

The First Army's air force was defeated and quickly retreated towards Zhongshan County.

The three First Army units of the Japanese army attacking Guangzhou stopped their attack under the bombing of Japanese bombers and quickly hid to avoid the air raid of Japanese bombers.

After the air bombing, the Japanese infantry quickly followed up, attempting to reoccupy the positions occupied by the devil troops.

When the Japanese fighter planes were led by the First Air Force to the vicinity of Sanzao Island Airport and Shantou Airport, the Japanese pilots were surprised to find that more than one hundred sharp fighter planes of the Devil Forces were flying over Sanzao Island Airport and Shantou Airport.

The Japanese fighter group saw that the number of sharp fighters of the Devil Force in the direction of Shantou was small, so they immediately concentrated their forces to break out in the direction of Shantou.

Upon seeing this, a military pilot at Shantou Airport bravely stepped forward.

Upon seeing this, Captain Du and Captain Yang each led a group of fighter jets and surrounded the enemy from both sides.

Upon seeing this, the two Japanese fighter groups turned around and blocked the fighter groups of Captain Yang and Captain Du.

This marked the beginning of the largest air battle between the First Anti-Japanese Army and the Japanese Army in the southern battlefield.

The air was filled with the roar of planes, the whistling of artillery shells, and the helpless sound of hit planes falling.

Captain Du's plane acted as the lead plane, and the fighter squadrons were arranged in a triangle on both wings of Captain Du, rushing straight into the Japanese fighter group like a sharp knife.

A series of artillery fire rang out, and a Japanese fighter plane flying towards Captain Du was hit and exploded in mid-air.

As soon as the pilots of both sides met, many Japanese fighters were shot down or damaged. However, several fighters of Captain Du's fighter squadron were also damaged.

The fighter planes of the First Army and the Japanese Army fought back and forth, one escaping and the other chasing. The fierce battle in the air lasted until dusk, and then they returned to their respective bases.

Since most of the Japanese Army's 52rd Air Division were equipped with the latest Zero Type 20 fighters, it was equipped with two long-barreled Type 60 No. mm cannons on its wings, with a firing rate of up to rounds per minute, which had a strong lethality.

It has two Type 7.7 300mm machine guns installed in its nose, with a firing rate of rounds per minute, to assist machine gun attacks.

This has greatly increased the firepower of the Type 12.7 fighter, which only has two 95mm machine guns.

This resulted in the Japanese fighter planes achieving the "good result" of exchanging three for one of the army's most advanced aircraft in the first day's air battle.

Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi was already satisfied with this.

Because of their domestic production situation, the downed fighters can be replenished quickly. However, the replenishment speed of the Devil Force's fighters is relatively much slower.

Moreover, the Japanese army has far more pilot reserves than the Devil Forces.

When Leng Feng heard Captain Du's air combat report, he immediately ordered the battle-hardened Captain Yin to fly to Sanzao Island Airport with a fighter squadron to command the operation.

Although the First Army fighters achieved a 3 to 1 record, which was considered good, he still felt heartbroken when 16 young First Army pilots died on the first day of the air battle.