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There are only a small number of patrol troops on guard in the surrounding area. After all, this place is close to Jinzhong and Taiyuan. Once the airport is attacked, the main force can arrive in an hour and a half.

A Japanese soldier on a watchtower was yawning in boredom, looking at the dark night sky. Suddenly, he saw a bright flame streaking across the north, looking a bit like a shooting star in the sky.

But before he could react, the tail flame instantly streaked towards the airport and was then engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers lurking in the farmland a few kilometers away saw the sky suddenly filled with flames, and then the airport was engulfed in flames and explosions continued to sound. They all opened their mouths in amazement.

Deputy Commander Ou, the special forces regiment leader, was stunned. Then, realizing what was happening, he immediately ordered a forced march toward the airport. After all, their mission, assigned by headquarters, was to rush to the airport and investigate the situation immediately if it came under fire. The four rounds of bombardment, combined, only lasted ten minutes.

As Zhang Ziwei continued to adjust the parameters of the impact point, four rounds of artillery began to be fired towards the entire airport. After the firing, he immediately organized the soldiers to dismantle the gun barrels, clear the traces of the positions, and disappeared into the night under the escort of the special forces.

When Captain Ou and his soldiers arrived at the airport, it was in a mess. The planes on the runway were blown to pieces. At the same time, the explosion of the artillery shells ignited the power of the oil depot explosion, and a huge fire broke out at the airport.

Without time to think, Captain Ou immediately ordered his troops to start investigating the shelling situation in batches and eliminate the remaining wounded Japanese soldiers. In less than an hour, they evacuated and disappeared outside the airport.

When the Japanese troops from Taiyuan and Jinzhong arrived, they were so embarrassed by the scene that they looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never expected that the locust army's airport in Taiyuan and Jinzhong, which was heavily defended, would be attacked by surprise at such a fast speed.

There was no other way, so the commander of the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade, Tadao Yoshizawa, could only send a telegram to Taiyuan to report the actual situation at the time, and at the same time send soldiers to clean up the airport and count the losses.

At the same time, Shijiazhuang Airport in the north of Shijiazhuang and Handan Airport in Handan were both attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The Handan Airport was attacked by special forces who sneaked into the airport and placed explosives. After the explosion, the 88th Regiment, led by its commander Xia Wenkai, directly captured the airport, eliminated all the defenders, and then evacuated.

At Shijiazhuang Airport, the Second and Third Battalions of the New First Regiment, led by Li Yunlong, blocked a regiment guarding the airport next to Zhengding County. To the north, Division Commander Rong blocked reinforcements from other directions. After the attack of the 10089th Unit was completed, the Second and Third Battalions of the Special Operations Brigade immediately began the mopping-up work of the airport and then quickly evacuated.

In Taiyuan, the First Army Commander Okabe Naosaburo, who was resting at the time, was awakened by a disturbance by the orderly.

When Okabe Naosaburo was awakened by the anxious orderly, his heart skipped a beat. The scene seemed familiar. He suddenly remembered that Commander Katsuki Seiji had been awakened in the same way when the locust army on the Shota Front suffered heavy losses.

Suddenly, he was startled and his mind cleared up instantly. He hurriedly asked what happened. When the orderly told him about the attack on Taiyuan Airport, his face showed disbelief.

If it weren't for the orderly's anxious look, Naosaburo Okabe would have thought the orderly was lying. Without thinking too much, he immediately got up and went to the staff headquarter to inquire about the details.

As Naosaburo Okabe received the telegram from Tadao Yoshizawa, commander of the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade who was rushing to support him, he read the news reported in the telegram that Taiyuan Airport was attacked. When he saw that the airport suffered heavy losses and almost all the aircraft were destroyed, and the pilots and the guard squadron guarding the airport were all killed, he almost fainted.