Devil's Army

The next morning, just after daybreak, the captain of the second battalion of the Japanese army led his troops to attack the first fortification that was lost the night before.

As soon as the Japanese troops of the Second Battalion arrived in front of the fortifications, they launched a fierce bombing on them, blowing up the fortifications they had built themselves, and causing sand and rocks to fly everywhere.

When the regiment commander saw that the Japanese planes had not arrived yet, he immediately called for air force support.

After a while, Captain Ren flew over the first line of fortification with three Huaxia-2 ​​fighters and four H-1 bombers.

The First Army's planes then launched a massive bombardment on the artillery positions and infantry of the Japanese Second Battalion.

Before the Japanese Second Battalion began to attack the fortifications of the Devil's Army, it was hit head-on by the First Army Air Force, suffering heavy casualties.

The Second Battalion's headquarters was also razed to the ground by two bombs. The Second Battalion's captain, chief of staff, and two squadron leaders all died on the island. Of the entire battalion's senior commanders, only the deputy battalion commander who was personally supervising the battle on the battlefield was safe and sound.

After the squadron leader's group bombed the Japanese Second Battalion to the north of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, they flew to the south and east of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport to bomb other Japanese attacking forces, and then quickly returned to Tangxiaocun Temporary Airport.

After a while, more than 80 Japanese fighters and bombers that participated in the battle yesterday flew to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. Seeing that their ground forces were beaten to pieces by the First Army and suffered heavy casualties, they began to bombard the First Army's fortifications and Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

The Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, which had not yet been renovated, was once again hit by intensive attacks from Japanese aerial bombs.

Brigade Commander Du knew that the Japanese army was vindictive, so when their ground forces were bombed by the First Army's aircraft, he notified each fortification to leave observation posts and the rest of the soldiers to retreat and hide.

Although this wave of retaliation by the Japanese Air Force destroyed many of the First Army's fortifications, the casualties were minimal.

The Japanese Second Battalion to the north of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport had already begun attacking the First Army's fortifications, and had suffered the most intensive bombing and the greatest losses, and had not yet recovered enough to organize a new attack.

The soldiers of the First Company of the Second Brigade stayed outside the fortifications, watching the development of the war.

When Captain Ren knew that the Japanese planes were coming again, he immediately refueled the planes and led the remaining six Hua Xia II fighters in the North China Theater to take off, search for fighter planes, and shoot down the Japanese planes.

The team leader, Captain Ren, soon discovered a group of Japanese fighter planes in front of his left.

The Japanese fighter group apparently also discovered Captain Ren's fighter formation and immediately turned around to engage in combat with the First Army's planes.

Captain Ren did not want to engage in a face-to-face aerial combat with these Japanese invaders who were trying to defeat the odds with their superior numbers.

He immediately increased the throttle and flew around, biting a Japanese Type 95 fighter from the side, and fired continuously from more than 800 meters away until he shot down the Japanese fighter and then pulled up the nose and flew over the Japanese fighter group.

His other comrades also made some achievements. In just one encounter, they shot down three Japanese fighter planes and damaged three.

The Japanese flight captain who led the team just came around and wanted to chase the fighter planes of the First Army. However, the fighter planes of the First Army fled at a good speed. The Japanese captain could only sigh in despair.

The fighter formation led by Captain Ren was searching for aircraft in the air and fighting with Japanese planes. Leng Feng brought them another good gift.

Leng Feng flew all five Hua Xia II fighter planes produced by the tribe during this period to the Xiaoguanzhuang airport to participate in the air battle against the Japanese Air Force Corps.

The tribe has been rushing to produce the Huaxia II fighter and the H-1 bomber. However, due to the backward production level and insufficient technical personnel, only one fighter can be produced every month. If it were not for the cross-generation combat performance of the Huaxia II fighter, which resulted in its extremely low loss rate, the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force would have been in an embarrassing situation where there were no aircraft available.

The two Chinese fighter jets that had just flown over from the tribe immediately achieved results as soon as they arrived at the battlefield.

Two Japanese Type 98 heavy bombers that were bombing the First Army without fighter protection were shot down.

The leader of the Tribe Hua Xia II fighter team was Instructor Xu Zhiwei, a colleague of Captain Yin.

Leng Feng heard that Captain Yin's fighter plane had been shot down and Captain Yin's life or death was unknown. He immediately appointed his colleague, Instructor Xu Zhiwei, as the acting captain. He brought five newly produced Huaxia II fighter planes of the First Army to support Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

The pilots brought by Instructor Xu had only received actual training and had never participated in actual combat, so their flying skills were worrying. When faced with the siege of the Japanese fighter group, one of them was quickly shot down and another was damaged.

Fortunately, Captain Ren and his fighter squadron came to the rescue in time and dispersed the Japanese fighter group.

The battle lasted less than half an hour when Instructor Xu's fighter squadron, which had come from afar, ran out of fuel and had to land at the Tangshan temporary airport.

There was only a fighter formation led by the next squadron leader left in the sky above Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

At this time, the Japanese bombers no longer dared to leave the protection of the fighters and carry out the bombing mission alone, which greatly reduced the damage suffered by the ground defenders of the First Army at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport from the Japanese bombing.