Devil's Army

The battles in Yingkou and Andong in Liaoning Province began, but negotiations between Commander Okamura Yasuji in Peking and the Second Front Army of the Tangshan base continued.

Gray Wolf speculated that Commander Okamura Yasuji was waiting for support from their country for fighter planes. Otherwise, the Japanese army in North China would not have gone to such great lengths to negotiate with them.

Since the tribe's airport is more than 2600 kilometers away from Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, without adding auxiliary fuel tanks, the flight time is quite limited.

Xinjing Airport is more than 1000 kilometers away from Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. If Japanese air force reinforcements arrive, it will take nearly an hour to provide them.

For a fleeting air battle, one hour is clearly too long.

In order to conceal his tracks, Gray Wolf secretly arranged for his troops to rebuild and expand Jianchangying Airport in Qian'an County and Tijiachang Airport in Dongguan, Zunhua.

In order to strengthen its control over eastern Hebei and compete with the Tangshan Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, the Japanese army seized more than 400 acres of land on both sides of Beiyuanyingfang Road in Jianchangying Town, Qian'an County (now Heping Village, Beixinzhuang Village, and Baoyi Village) and built a temporary airport.

The Japanese army also built an airport covering an area of ​​303 acres in Tijiachang, Dongguan, Zunhua.

As Zunhua County and Qian'an County were recaptured by the Second Front Army of the First Anti-Japanese Army, the two airports were also destroyed and abandoned.

The reason why the Gray Wolf mobilized a large number of troops to build these two airports was that they wanted to encircle and annihilate the Second Air Force Battalion of the Tangshan Base when the Japanese Air Force reinforcements from Tianjin and Peking arrived to encircle and annihilate them.

Due to the effective confidentiality measures, the two airports were under construction 24 hours a day and night without being detected by the Japanese army.

As Andong City was recaptured, the Japanese Army Headquarters also felt that without air support, it would be a fantasy to destroy the devil troops.

On the day when the Jinzhou Air Force attacked the Japanese Navy in Dalian, 100 Type 52 Zero fighters were deployed to the Tianjin and Peking airports.

The intelligence stations of the First Anti-Japanese Army in Peking and Tianjin successively sent this news back to the headquarters.

According to the intelligence analysis of the intelligence station, the number of Japanese fighter planes in Peking and Tianjin will not exceed 130.

The number of fighter jets in the Second Air Force Squadron of their Tangshan base was close to 100.

With such a slight numerical advantage, the Japanese army would definitely not launch an air battle.

The Chinese and Japanese negotiators are still arguing over the number and location of troops stationed.

The Gray Wolves decided to start with the weaker Tianjin New Airport - Tianjin Zhangguizhuang Airport.

It is only 13 kilometers west of the center of Tianjin. On the one hand, the air raid on Zhangguizhuang Airport can weaken the strength of the Japanese air force, and on the other hand, it can also warn Commander Okamura Yasuji.

That night, hundreds of birds returned to their nests.

Two fighter squadrons and two bomber squadrons from Xiaoguanzhuang Airport turned on their night navigation lights and quietly flew towards Zhangguizhuang Airport.

When the first batch of fighters and bombers arrived over Zhangguizhuang Airport, a shrill air defense alarm suddenly sounded.

Immediately afterwards, dazzling beams of light from searchlights shot into the sky.

The anti-aircraft artillery troops at Zhangguizhuang Airport quickly took up their posts.

At this time, the machine gun shells and aerial bombs of the Xiaoguanzhuang Air Force were falling like rain on the anti-aircraft artillery positions and searchlights of the Zhangguizhuang Airport.

The anti-aircraft artillery troops who arrived later also braved the bombs from the Xiaoguanzhuang Air Force and fiercely strafed Wanzhong.

Tongues of fire rushed towards the brave Xiaoguanzhuang air force!