Devil's Army

After dealing with Okamura Yasuji's air force, the First Army began to plan to recapture Beijing and Tianjin.

At this time, good news also came from the 5th Brigade and the 11th Brigade.

They recaptured Baotou, the headquarters of the Japanese cavalry group in Inner Mongolia.

The Japanese army recovered Jining, Guisui (now Hohhot), Datong and other places occupied by the Japanese army.

Now, except for most of Ikh Ju League, Hetao region, Alxa Banner, Ejin Banner and other places in Inner Mongolia, which are under the control of the Nanjing government, the rest of the country is under the control of the First Anti-Japanese Army.

All Japanese troops have been driven out of Inner Mongolia.

Inner Mongolia became another province to be recovered after the four northeastern provinces and Hebei.

The recovery of Inner Mongolia also cut off the Japanese troops in Beijing and Tianjin from retreating to Inner Mongolia.

Leng Feng ordered the commander of the Fifth Brigade to strengthen the defense of Chifeng and Guisui, and at the same time ordered the arsenal to prepare ammunition and supplies as soon as possible.

After these two major air battles, the Second Squadron of the First Army Air Force was running low on ammunition and fuel.

The scale of the upcoming battle to recapture Peking and Tianjin will certainly be no smaller than the Dalian battle.

The leaders of the Tribal Arsenal and the Fengtian Arsenal took the order very seriously and loaded the necessary ammunition and supplies onto the bombers overnight.

The Qiqihar Field Arsenal also loaded most of the ammunition it produced onto trucks and sent it to the Tangshan base.

The next day, supplies from the arsenal were delivered to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport one after another.

Gray Wolf took into consideration that they were preparing for war, and the Japanese army must also be raising supplies.

Now that they had blocked all the outer routes to Beijing and Tianjin, and had seized air supremacy, the only way to transport supplies was by sea.

Gray Wolf sent a telegram to the intelligence officers at the Tianjin Intelligence Station, asking them to pay close attention to the situation in Tianjin Port and report immediately if they found any Japanese ships transporting supplies.

A week later at noon, the intelligence officer in Tianjin sent a telegram: four Japanese cargo ships suspected of transporting supplies were discovered.

On the one hand, Gray Wolf asked the air force to prepare for the air raid, and on the other hand, he replied: Pay close attention to whether there are any Japanese ships transporting supplies.

Intelligence officers discovered that the Japanese army had blocked a dock at Tianjin Port, and that the soldiers were the ones intercepting the cargo. However, the supplies were either wrapped or packed in boxes. From a distance, it was impossible to clearly see whether they were military supplies.

After hearing the intelligence from the intelligence officer, Gray Wolf was 70% to 80% sure that this was the ship used by the Japanese army to transport supplies.

He immediately ordered the air force at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport to take off and bomb Tianjin Port.

In order to prevent the remaining Japanese fighter planes from providing reinforcements, Captain Feng arranged a joint operation of three fighter squadrons and two bomber squadrons.

Soon, the Japanese army in Tianjin discovered Captain Feng's fighter formation.

They thought that the Devil Force Air Force was coming to bomb their Dongjuzi Airport again.

The anti-aircraft artillery units outside Dongjuzi Airport immediately took action, and a sharp air raid alarm sounded at Dongjuzi Airport.

However, after a while, a sharp air raid alarm sounded in Tianjin Port.

It was only then that Okamura Yasuji realized that the Devil Force Air Force was targeting his strategic supplies.

He immediately ordered the nearby anti-aircraft artillery units to rush to Tianjin Port for support.

At this time, explosions were heard continuously in Tianjin Port and flames shot into the sky.

Two fighter squadrons of the First Army dived and strafed the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units on both sides of Tianjin Port.

Another fighter squadron of the First Army cooperated with two bomber squadrons to desperately strafe and bomb the four Japanese cargo ships.

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery unit wanted to bomb the Devil Unit's bombers, but was entangled by their fighter planes.