Chapter 1 August 17, 1937, 6:30 AM

At Nanjing Airport, the Japanese airmen were just roused by the reveille.

This branch of the military had no night operations.

Nor were they required to stand guard over the airport's security.

Therefore, these technical Japanese could sleep soundly at night.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke was leading more than fifty Japanese soldiers in daily training.

They were currently doing simple physical training:

Running around the airport.

In the eastern sky, the morning sun had already risen.

The crimson sun dyed the clouds on the horizon red.

The morning sun was like fire and blood,

Blood-red clouds!

Sergeant First Class Ito Shijuro looked at the morning sun painting the entire airport in crimson colors,

And blurted out, "The morning sun is like blood, foretelling great misfortune today!"

He was a Japanese soldier with a strong admiration for this country's culture.

Before joining the army, he had specially come to this country to study the *I Ching*.

If the empire's war of aggression hadn't been so difficult,

The original airmen in the Japanese army would have long been exhausted.

Ito Shijuro would still be lecturing to students at the university.

His subject was the *I Ching*.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke, although much higher in rank than him,

Didn't really care about him.

This Japanese soldier got along with the entire squadron,

And was very amiable with all the Japanese at the airport.

There was no other reason:

He had expertise! He was a university professor, and lectured on the *I Ching*.

When the soldiers encountered indecisive matters,

Lost things, or wanted to know about their family's situation,

They would all run to this university professor to inquire.

Sometimes Ito Shijuro guessed right,

Sometimes he didn't.

Those Japanese soldiers who were guessed right, vigorously promoted him,

Believing him to be a god-like figure.

Those Japanese soldiers who were not guessed right,

Would only complain that their hearts were not sincere,

And that was why he wasn't accurate.

Such a person, in his own squadron,

Just said a word during morning exercises,

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke naturally wouldn't bother him.

However, Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke also had an ominous premonition in his heart.

He secretly prayed: "Please, let there be no combat missions today!"

A few days ago, Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke had fallen in love with a girl who had just come from the home country.

He was uneasy, worried about gains and losses,

Like all people in love, wondering if he could hold onto her!

He found the god-like Ito Shijuro,

But Ito Shijuro told him:

This woman was not someone he could control,

Her own orders were not in her hands.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke certainly didn't believe it:

How could the beautiful and gentle Minako possibly lie?

Until one day, he saw Minako at a reception hosted by Commander Yan Junroku.

That time, Minako ignored him.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke secretly inquired and learned:

This Minako's husband was also a marine corps warrior,

The warrior died in battle, and his will was for other Japanese soldiers in the unit to take care of his wife.

So Minako was sent from the home country to the Third Fleet,

To be taken care of by her husband's comrades.

Because she was beautiful and had charisma,

The people taking care of her ranged from the naval lieutenant junior grade at the beginning,

All the way to Commander-in-Chief Hasegawa Kiyoshi of the Third Fleet, who knew about her.

Later, when Commander Yan Junroku took office,

Hasegawa Kiyoshi gave her to Commander Yan Junroku.

That was how she was taken care of all the way to the Central China Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

A comfort woman!

Greatly frustrated, Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke returned,

And was lonely for a while.

He frequented the Qinhuai River whenever he had time.

This also cultivated another hobby in him,

And gradually, he forgot about Minako.

However, he deeply believed in Ito Shijuro's predictions.

Just at this moment,

The airport's alarm sounded:

"Whoop~ Whoop~"

The sound was rapid and piercing,

Just like that, it kept screaming in a continuous cycle.

On the red airport, with such a sound,

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke's ominous premonition became even clearer.

In any case, what they had to do now was to quickly run back,

And find out what was going on!

They hadn't even run into the airport's pilot conference room,

When a messenger ran over,

Panting heavily, "Huff! Huff!"

Waving a piece of paper in his hand:

"Captain Kitakaze! Orders!"

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke took the paper with an unkind expression.

At the bottom half of the paper was a bright red seal,

As conspicuous as a clump of fresh blood.

This was the seal of the airport headquarters.

The top half of the paper read:

"Order Kitakaze Squadron to take off immediately,

And go to Tianzhushan Airport to provide support."

Tianzhushan Airport! Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke's squadron was certainly clear about it.

They had been there the day before yesterday.

And had stopped there for a while,

To refuel and load ammunition,

And then continue flying to Wuhan to drop bombs.

That airport was always a little closer than the Nanjing side.

It was more convenient to bomb Wuhan.

"What happened to Tianzhushan Airport?" Asa Shihiro whispered to Ito Shijuro beside him.

This time Ito didn't dare to speak.

Now was the time to wait for the captain to speak.

He was most able to accurately read the situation,

Saying what should be said when it should be said, and not saying anything when it shouldn't be said even if it meant death.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke waved the order in his hand:

"Like you,

I don't know half a thing more than what's on this paper.

Ito! What happened to Tianzhushan Airport?"

Captain Kitakaze still wanted to know about the situation there,

Because his feeling today was really bad.

Ito Shijuro then spoke:

"Tianzhushan Airport has two infantry battalions, one aviation battalion,

And a tank squadron guarding it.

It's sending out a distress signal now,

Which means that the National Army attacking the airport is very fierce,

Very fierce!

We have to be careful!"

After he finished speaking,

The Japanese in the entire Kitakaze Squadron were thinking about the first sentence he said:

"The morning sun is like blood, foretelling great misfortune today!"

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke forced a smile:

"We soldiers dare to face the fiercest battlefields.

Board the planes! Go to Anqing!"

Their squadron's eighteen planes were the first to arrive at Tianzhushan Airport.

Because of Ito Shijuro's prediction,

The Japanese in the entire Kitakaze Squadron were very cautious.

Arriving at the airport, they only looked down at the airport from an altitude of three thousand meters.

They could see that the airport buildings had been bombed into ruins.

The planes on the airport were nowhere to be seen,

Not even a trace of wreckage.

However, there were tank wrecks on the runway,

And they could vaguely count twelve of them!

They could no longer see any signs of fighting on the ground.

All they could see were many people running around inside the airport.

Looking down from an altitude of three thousand meters,

Those people were like ants moving house,

Moving the supplies inside the airport to the outside.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke pondered in silence.

He was struggling in his heart:

This place is ominous!

The Japanese in the entire Kitakaze Squadron were actually a little scared.

This time, in order to save his life, Ito Shijuro

Suggested: "Captain!

The battle below is over.

There's no point in us going down.

Why don't we leave here?"

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke was also in a dilemma:

To believe or not to believe?

He believed that there must be an ambush at the airport below.

Otherwise,

With so many planes flying in the air,

Those "ants" who were moving house wouldn't still be able to maintain order.

In the past, when he led the team to bomb the National Army's ranks,

As soon as the planes were discovered,

The National Army's soldiers,

Would immediately scatter like a disturbed hornet's nest!

But today, the people below,

Completely ignored the planes,

Such disregard for them,

Was a little infuriating!

It also made these Japanese in the Kitakaze Squadron more vigilant.

In the morning, thirty-six planes were flown back from Tianzhushan Airport to Qianshan.

The entire flying team, along with the ground crew who came from Jurong,

Were all busy.

These people were busy spraying patterns and writing numbers on the planes with paint.

On the top, belly, sides, front, and tail of the planes.

Next to each plane, someone was setting up a bamboo ladder,

Climbing onto the plane and busying themselves.

The commander of this flying team, twenty-five-year-old Xiao Jianying,

Was urging:

"Everyone, hurry up.

Tianzhushan Airport is waiting for us.

The Japanese lost so many planes at once,

They will definitely vent their anger on Commander Chen and Commander Li.

Will we agree to that?"

"No!" The voice of everyone on the temporary airport shouted.

"What will we do if we don't agree?" Xiao Jianying asked loudly.

"Fight those sons of bitches!"

"Shoot down the Japanese planes!"

"Kill the Japanese!"

...

This time the answers were no longer unified.

Xiao Jianying didn't care about these details.

He said loudly:

"If we want to shoot down the Japanese planes,

We have to fly up quickly.

Everyone, hurry up!

Just have a mark that can identify us as our own people!"

They flew the planes back.

And were nervously making marks, just so they could identify their own people.

Because they were flying Japanese planes,

And fighting the Japanese planes,

It was impossible to distinguish between friend and foe in the air,

So they needed to paint marks in various locations.

This mark was a fat tiger,

And next to it was the number of each plane.

This fat tiger was specially drawn by Old Man Qian at Lin Fan's request.

It looked cute and cuddly, while its sharp eyes and hidden claws expressed its ferocity.

It was carved out of sheet metal,

And it only needed to be placed on the plane,

And a few brushes of paint would create a lifelike tiger.

This was woodblock printing!

Although their movements were fast,

Each plane had to be painted with six marks.

There were a lot of them,

And everyone was quickly painting marks.

The pilots who were going to fight in the first batch today were checking the condition of the planes.

All kinds of fuel, weapons, and ammunition had to be checked again.

Xiao Jianying was the first batch of pilots trained by the Special Operations Brigade itself.

There were only three of them in that batch.

Their first flight was taught by Lin Fan.

This was also the only batch of pilots that Lin Fan had directly taught so far.

The icons had been painted on,

And were very conspicuous.

With such planes flying in the air,

Even if they were mixed up in a dogfight with the Japanese,

It wouldn't cause misjudgment by their own people.

Those pilots who were already in the cockpits,

Didn't get off the planes at all.

Xiao Jianying had already issued the order:

"Take off!"

They were still going to the airspace over Tianzhushan.

The First Regiment had just sent a telegram,

Saying that there were eighteen Japanese planes circling over the airport.

For some reason, they weren't attacking,

But they weren't leaving either.

"They're waiting for us to shoot them down!" Xiao Jianying had someone reply with these words.

Mao Wenxing had just turned around and come back,

And discovered the Japanese aircraft formation over Tianzhushan Airport.

He quickly ran in the direction of Qianshan!

Of all the places,

Only where the brigade commander was,

Was the place where Mao Wenxing felt most at ease.

The brigade commander was in Taihu County, nearly a hundred kilometers away from here.

It was a matter of more than ten minutes.

He had to fly over there.

A plane that was different from the others appeared in the sight of Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke's squadron.

And immediately saved them from the embarrassment of not daring to attack the airport all along.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke ordered loudly:

"Chase after it and destroy it!"

The entire formation, eighteen planes, all chased after Mao Wenxing.

The distance between the First Regiment and Mao Wenxing's plane wasn't far.

Chen Sichuan shouted to Mao Wenxing nervously:

"Wenxing! Run faster,

Eighteen planes are chasing you.

Xiao Jianying just replied that they have already taken off.

You can go to Qianshan Airport first,

And then go to Taihu!"

Chen Sichuan certainly knew:

In the entire Special Operations Brigade,

The only one who could perfectly protect Mao Wenxing,

Was Lin Fan!

Although he had prepared to shoot down the planes,

He didn't have the brigade commander's sharpshooting skills that were always accurate,

And he was afraid of something unexpected happening.

Mao Wenxing was now the treasure of the entire Special Operations Brigade.

When fighting,

With him doing aerial reconnaissance,

According to Lin Fan's words:

"Mao Wenxing alone is worth a regiment!"

Now Jurong had specially selected talents from among the pilots,

And was training them in the direction of battlefield command.

After all, the Special Operations Brigade couldn't only have one Mao Wenxing.

According to Lin Fan's words:

"We must have thousands upon thousands of Mao Wenxings,

Every pilot must be able to accurately judge the situation in the air,

And guide the ground troops to carry out various bombing and infiltration operations."

Xiao Jianying's plane soared into the blue sky,

Circling over Qianshan twice,

Organizing the formation of the entire flying squadron,

And then flew towards Tianzhushan Airport.

When flying to the boundary of Huaining,

His radio transmitted Mao Wenxing's shout:

"Xiao Jianying! Xiao Jianying, please respond if you hear me."

The Special Operations Brigade's current radio had a communication range of only five kilometers.

After Mao Wenxing received the situation reported by Chen Sichuan,

He immediately flew in the direction of Qianshan,

And was also constantly calling Xiao Jianying.

"Received! This is Xiao Jianying!"

"This is Mao Wenxing, there are eighteen Japanese planes behind me,

Where are you?"

"We just came out of Qianshan, at the boundary of Huaining.

Fly along the Qinglong River, at an altitude of two thousand.

We're providing cover from above."

"The Japanese are chasing right behind me,

I don't need cover, I just need you to shoot down the Japanese!"

Mao Wenxing said.

"Received!"

A minute later:

"This is Xiao Jianying,

I've already seen you.

I've also seen the Japanese behind you.

Don't worry, the Japanese have entered our ambush,

They can't escape."

Xiao Jianying had just told Mao Wenxing to fly at a low altitude of two thousand meters,

In order to make the Japanese who were chasing Mao Wenxing only be able to fly at low altitude.

This way, he could lead the entire squadron at high altitude,

Not only could he spot the Japanese in advance,

But he could also swoop down from high altitude,

And launch a sneak attack on the Japanese!

The Japanese of Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke's squadron,

Saw that the National Army's plane in front,

Wasn't flying very fast,

And couldn't shake off their planes.

Obviously, the pilot was panicking.

He was trying to fly lower,

Trying to escape by this method.

"How is this possible?" Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke had already decided.

"Today, no matter what, we have to shoot down this plane.

That way, we can go back and report.

And we won't have to go to Tianzhushan Airport to risk our lives."

Perhaps the chase of eighteen against one made him feel relaxed.

The ominous premonition that he had since morning,

Had now disappeared.

He was very excited now,

As if he had regained a new life.

Xiao Jianying, over the Qinglong River, had already issued the order:

"According to the numbers, Numbers One and Two attack the first enemy plane in front,

And so on.

Attack!"

His plane was Number One.

It had just been painted on, and it had taken off before the paint was dry.

But now, the paint should be dry.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke was speaking to the Japanese in the entire squadron in a relaxed manner.

Suddenly, he felt the fuselage shaking,

As if it had been hit.

At the same time, he heard many Japanese shouting in his headphones,

Like a cacophony of demons.

Ito Shijuro's voice was the loudest:

"I knew this day would come.

I said it this morning, there will be great misfortune today!

Great misfortune today!"

Asa Shihiro was also shouting:

"I've been hit! I'm falling!

I'm falling!

I'm going to bail out!

I'm bailing out!"

The sound of "I've been hit!" rose and fell.

At this time, Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke could hear the sound of machine gun fire in his headphones.

"Da-da-da! Da-da-da!" This sound was like the Black and White Impermanence demanding his life.

It kept following him.

Like him now, flying at a low altitude of two thousand meters.

What else could he do?

He could only continue to descend,

And quickly turn,

And see if he could get rid of the frightening sound of machine gun fire behind him.

Planes were all spiritual.

They would shiver every time they were hit by a bullet.

Now that he was constantly being hit, he kept shivering.

Shaking Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke so that he was also shaking.

This was not a good sign.

An operation that could normally be completed in one second,

Now three seconds had passed,

But the plane still didn't respond.

Kitakaze Shinnosuke was really panicking now.

Just now, in order to get rid of the pursuit behind him,

He had directly nosedived,

Now he wanted to level the plane.

He planned to fly level at a height of twenty meters above the water.

Pulling up at such a low height,

Required skill and courage,

And he possessed both! But today was different.

The plane, which was usually as obedient as Minako,

Suddenly began to act spoiled,

Completely ignoring Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke's operations.

Now, at this time,

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke couldn't even bail out.

Asa Shihiro, who had already bailed out and was floating in the air, as well as the other Japanese who had escaped by bailing out,

And Xiao Jianying and the other pilots of the Special Operations Brigade were all admiring this Japanese who would rather die generously.

In fact, the plane that was chasing Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke had given up at a height of five hundred meters.

They had originally wanted to wait for this highly skilled Japanese pilot to pull up the plane,

And then compete with him.

They didn't expect that this plane had already been riddled with holes from the strafing just now,

Many parts had been damaged, and it was impossible to fly again.

Captain Kitakaze Shinnosuke plunged into the water headfirst.

There was absolutely no hope of surviving.

Ito Shijuro's plane was also emitting black smoke at this time,

And was falling towards the ground.

Of course he was going to choose to bail out.

Even at this point,

Ito Shijuro was still thinking about preserving his useful body,

To change the fate of the empire.

In his spare time, he had also idly predicted the fate of the empire.

Each time the result was disappointing to him.

All eighteen planes crashed.

Seven parachutes were floating in the air.

Ito Shijuro was already operating the parachute,

Trying to find a flat and safe place to land.

As long as he could land safely,

He wasn't worried about his safety.

Pilots like them,

Originally belonged to a rare species.

If the National Army could capture them alive,

They would definitely not let them die.

Because only if they were alive,

Could they be used to exchange for some benefits from the empire.

All the Japanese who bailed out had this idea,

And being captured was only the worst case scenario.

There was also another situation, which was that they landed on the ground,

And could quietly sneak back,

Or be treated as honored guests by sympathizers,

And be sent back.

Just as these seven Japanese were nervously controlling their parachutes,

Those planes that had completely won came over.

Ito Shijuro looked at these planes.

And his eyes suddenly widened:

"These are imperial planes!"

Today, the entire Kitakaze Shinnosuke Squadron was annihilated.

Shamefully, they didn't even know who attacked them.

Only now did Ito Shijuro realize:

"The Kitakaze Shinnosuke Squadron was actually accidentally injured by friendly forces."

Then he saw the machine gun under the wing of the friendly forces' plane firing a series of bullets.

"You want to kill us to silence us?" Ito Shijuro used all his remaining strength to say this sentence.

His gaze finally solidified on the plane that had just passed by him.

On the side wing of this plane was a small, chubby tiger pattern.

And there was a number: 15!

The Murakawa Yuta Flying Squadron, which took off from Jiujiang Airport,

Arrived fifteen minutes after the Kitakaze Shinnosuke Flying Squadron left Tianzhushan Airport.

Captain Murakawa Yuta looked at the airport, which was bustling with people.

Those people were like they were going to a fair, driving large carts,

Driving mules and horses, happily dragging all kinds of supplies,

And walking towards the outside of the airport.

In this situation, without looking carefully, one could know:

"The airport has been lost,

And has been occupied by the National Army!"

"Attack!" Captain Murakawa Yuta immediately issued the order.

The entire Murakawa Squadron had just arrived at the airport,

When they saw the situation at the airport.

Upon hearing Captain Murakawa Yuta's order,

They immediately began to dive.

They were all fighter planes, and diving to the lowest point,

Was when they strafed.

Those people on the ground didn't panic at all,

When the planes had just arrived at the airport,

And circled around,

They were still continuing to do their own things.

Now that they saw the planes starting to dive,

They finally became flustered.

Those people began to run towards the trenches beside the runway.

Some people who were close by,

Had already jumped into the trenches.

This situation made these Japanese in the Murakawa Yuta Squadron in the air very happy.

Each one was laughing loudly.

Two anti-aircraft machine gun companies, hidden in the ruins,

And a rocket launcher company,

Following the method from the last time at the Anqing city wall,

Waited until the Japanese planes were close.

Five thousand meters away from the airport,

Four thousand meters,

Three thousand meters,

...

Just at this moment,

At the tail of the Japanese diving team,

Another group of planes suddenly appeared.

Xiao Jianying reported:

"Reporting to Commander Chen, the eighteen enemy planes that were chasing Mao Wenxing,

Including the pilots, have all been killed,

We're right behind the Japanese aircraft formation,

And are attacking!"

Chen Sichuan said with a smile:

"Well done!

You came just in time!"

Chen Sichuan ordered: "Rocket launcher company, mortars, and infantry guns are not allowed to attack,

Anti-aircraft machine gun company,

Prepare!"

Rocket launchers could hit targets thirteen kilometers away.

It would be bad if they accidentally injured their teammates.

Anti-aircraft machine guns were different.

The effective range of the bullets was one thousand meters, and at most two thousand meters.

Xiao Jianying and the others were behind the Japanese.

The two anti-aircraft machine gun companies could completely attack the planes in the front first.

And destroy the Japanese's arrogance.

Seeing that the Japanese planes had approached to a distance of seven hundred meters,

"Fire!" Chen Sichuan ordered loudly.

At the same time as they fired,

Xiao Jianying and the others, who had caught up with the Murakawa Yuta Squadron, also fired.

They fired at the last three Japanese planes.

Just as Higo Yutaro was preparing to dive,

He suddenly felt the plane shake.

Looking back, he saw that his side wing was emitting black smoke.

He was so frightened that he shouted loudly:

"I've been hit!

There are enemy planes!

There are enemy planes!"

At the same time, Sankai Dosusumu also shouted:

"I've been hit too!

There's an enemy attack!"

Captain Murakawa Yuta was shocked.

He immediately ordered:

"There are enemy planes! All planes, pull up!

Pull up!"

After his order was issued,

All the Japanese who were diving,

Immediately began to move.

They knew that at this time, being able to move one second faster,

Might allow them to pull their feet back from the gates of hell.

However, the three pilots who had rushed the fastest, Miki Yushō, Watanabe Yuta, and Oishizuka Jin, had been hit by anti-aircraft machine guns.

They were hit while diving.

The Japanese, along with the planes, swept past the airport and rushed into the open space outside the airport.

In an instant, the mines that Captain Nasukawa Taichi had specially laid were detonated.

The explosions of "Boom! Boom!" were endless.

When the three planes fell down,

They had already fallen apart.

Now, they were even more blown to pieces,

And didn't look like planes at all.

A plane tire stubbornly rolled in the open space.

All the way, landmines kept exploding.

This tire was like a mischievous elf,

Each landmine explosion gave it a little power,

Allowing it to continue rolling.

It rolled for a thousand meters in the open space.

Before finally running out of strength and falling to the ground.

When it fell, it was blown up again by a landmine.

When it landed again, it finally became well-behaved,

And lay quietly on the ground, without moving.

Today, the scene on the battlefield,

Opened the eyes of the migrant workers who came to transport supplies.

They saw the First Regiment and the Tenth Regiment storm the airport,

And they saw the people of the First Regiment and the Tenth Regiment drive away the enemy's planes.

The planes that had just scared them so much that they pissed their pants,

Were actually shot down.

And were constantly being blown up by the Japanese landmines.

These people thought that they had really opened their eyes.

That tire really opened their eyes.

When it was running, many people were cheering for it.

Now that the tire couldn't run anymore,

They also sighed.

But they immediately forgot about it.

They looked up at the battle that was taking place in the sky.

Those planes with the same shape,

Were dogfighting each other.

Captain Murakawa Yuta was a little depressed.

The planes that came to attack them,

Were the empire's planes.

With these identical planes,

How could they distinguish between friend and foe?

Its difficulty was also the difficulty of the entire Murakawa Yuta Flying Squadron.

In the battle just now,

They had already lost six planes.

Kito Takeo was flying a plane, watching a plane rush towards him.

Looking at it briefly, the plane was the same as his,

They were all new fighter planes.

These planes had never been sold to foreign countries.

Just when he relaxed his mind,

The plane opposite him suddenly fired.

Two machine guns fired two long tongues of fire,

Like two chains, they locked onto the Kito Takeo's plane at once.

In just the blink of an eye, Kito Takeo felt a sharp pain in his chest.

Looking down, his entire chest had a big hole.

He only shouted one sentence:

"I'm dead!"

And then there was no more sound.

This situation didn't only happen to him.

Captain Murakawa Yuta stared at a fighter plane flying towards him.

When the other party rushed to a distance of five hundred meters,

He grinned and pressed the machine gun firing button.

And said fiercely, "Strike first!"

Shichijo Yusuke was hit, and immediately began to fight back.

The two planes flew towards each other.

Soon, he saw clearly that it was Captain Murakawa Yuta who had fired at him first.

Anger made him forget about the hierarchy.

Shichijo Yusuke angrily denounced loudly:

"Captain Murakawa, why did you attack me?"

The friendly fire incident left Captain Murakawa Yuta at a loss for words.

He turned his nose of the plane,

Following behind Shichijo Yusuke's plane,

Watching the plane with black smoke coming from its wings,

Was wobbling in the air.

It was obvious that it was impossible to fly back.

Captain Murakawa Yuta was speechless.

He could only weakly say:

"I thought it was an enemy plane!"

These words immediately made the remaining planes of the entire Murakawa Yuta Squadron despair.

They couldn't believe the planes around them now.

Although the captain's attack was friendly fire,

It was true that the planes that attacked them were the same as their own!

Unless they got close and saw the people in the cockpit,

They couldn't tell friend from foe.

Shichijo Yusuke crashed with a belly full of anger.

He couldn't even bail out.

The anger just now made him forget about the pain.

In fact, in the brief exchange of fire just now,

Captain Murakawa Yuta's skills were on point.

Not only did he damage Shichijo Yusuke's plane,

He also hit Shichijo Yusuke himself,

Completely cutting off his chance to continue accusing him.

Watching Shichijo Yusuke's plane crash with his own eyes,

Before Captain Murakawa Yuta had time to pull up the plane,

He heard a swooshing sound in his ear.

This was the sound of machine gun bullets.

Hearing this sound at this time,

Meant that the other party's bullets had pierced through his plane.

Behind Captain Murakawa Yuta, there were two planes attacking.

The Murakawa Yuta Squadron had a total of eighteen planes.

In the first moment of the battle, three were destroyed on the ground, and three were destroyed in the air.

Thirty-six against twelve, with this kind of fighting,

And both sides were the same type of fighter plane,

The side with more planes completely won.

In addition, at the beginning, the Japanese of the Murakawa Yuta Squadron couldn't tell friend from foe at all.

And after being attacked by Xiao Jianying and the others at close range,

These Japanese dared to confirm that they were opponents.

Often by this time, no matter how hard they struggled, it was already too late.

Chen Sichuan watched Xiao Jianying and the others shoot down the planes in the air one after another.

He was very happy in his heart.

This flying team would be his in the future.

The brigade commander also wanted to transfer twenty planes from Jurong,

To strengthen his air power.

In that case, the Jiangbei base area could be vigorously expanded.

The battle in the air wasn't only seen by Chen Sichuan and the others.

The Japanese of the Utada Goro Infantry Battalion, which set out from Anqing,

Also saw the battle that was taking place in the air.

The battle that took place in the air was confusing.

The warring parties were all the same planes.

They were all their own people.

In fact, they didn't distinguish clearly who were with whom.

However, they would soon no longer need to distinguish,

Because their troops on the ground were attacked.

Having received the mission to snipe the Japanese reinforcements coming from Anqing,

The First Company, Second Company, Third Company, and Fourth Company all charged with all their strength.

They used the fastest speed to place mines and directional bombs on the road two thousand meters away from the airport.

Watching a long line of cars drive over,

Company Commander Gui spoke softly on the radio:

"Nine motorcycles, ninety large cars!"

He was communicating with the Second, Third, and Fourth Companies.

The Fourth Company commander said softly:

"Let them enter the bottom of the pocket before firing!"

"Received! Received!"

The Fourth Company was at the bottom of the pocket.

Fourth Company Commander Yan Yuanbai watched and finally saw the nine motorcycles rushing in front.

This was a good thing, not picky about the road, and strong.

The Fourth Company Commander ordered the platoon leader of the First Platoon:

"Distribute it, the First Squad will deal with the first motorcycle,

The Second Squad will deal with the second one.

Be sure to kill the Japanese on the motorcycles at the first time.

We want these motorcycles."

"Yes!"

The platoon leader immediately transmitted the order downward.

This was to let a squad of people only attack the three Japanese on one motorcycle.

The Japanese had long entered the ambush circle.

It was just that their formation was long.

The Japanese in the front continued to penetrate into the pocket.

The Japanese behind were still outside the pocket.

Yan Yuanbai waited until the nine motorcycles drove out of the bottom of the pocket,

Before ordering:

"Fire!"

"Bang! Bang!"

The sound of gunfire rang out first,

And then the sound of explosions rang out.

The nine motorcycles at the front of the Japanese formation,

When the gunfire rang out, the Japanese on the motorcycles fell one by one.

The motorcycles began to twist and turn.

And drove into the ditches on the side of the road, finally no longer moving.

When the explosions rang out,

Some cars stopped immediately.

Some were still moving forward,

And used force to push the butts of the cars in front.

The entire Utada Goro Battalion was in chaos.

At the same time as the directional bombs rang out,

Heavy machine guns also began to strafe.

Rocket launchers, mortars, and Type 92 infantry guns were all firing.

These were all fired at those cars.

There weren't many bunkers that the Japanese could find on this road.

When the Japanese were suddenly attacked,

Before they had time to react,

They were immediately stunned by the overwhelming bombardment.

Battalion Commander Utada Goro had just survived the directional bomb explosion,

It hadn't had time to jump out of the driver's seat,

When the shells landed.

It quickly pushed the door open and got out of the car,

Ran away far away, before loudly ordering:

"Get out of the car! Establish a defense!

Counterattack!

Counterattack!"

They were now in the smoke and dust that filled the air.

And their vision couldn't see far at all.

The directional bombs just now didn't cause as much damage to these Japanese standing in the car compartments as they did to those walking.

It was just that the damage to the cars was very great.

All the cars were severely damaged.

The Japanese of the entire Utada Goro Battalion began to get out of the car.

Some Japanese had just had time to get out of the car,

When they were blown up by the shells.

With such an example, the speed at which the Japanese of the entire Utada Goro Battalion got out of the car suddenly increased.