Chapter 1 The Enemy's Attack

Yongshan Yizhi screamed in terror, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

All the Japanese devils in their squadron knew they were under attack, because not only had Captain Hisaki Ken's plane exploded, but at least six or seven planes in the entire squadron had exploded in that instant.

The Japanese pilots who were caught in the sudden attack immediately took evasive action, descending sharply.

Lei Wenshan shouted, "The Japanese devils are running away!"

Jin Tieyu immediately said to the other two comrades, "Turn around and chase!"

They had run all this way specifically to lure the Japanese devils to chase them; now it was time for them to turn around and hunt down the Japanese devils.

Yongshan Yizhi was fortunate enough to escape the previous wave of attacks, but the fighter plane closely following him had not stopped firing.

Yu Yingwei closely pursued the fleeing enemy plane, sticking to its tail and continuously strafing it with machine gun fire.

This Japanese devil was like a frightened rabbit, constantly darting east and west, trying to shake off the pursuer behind him, which made it difficult for Yu Yingwei to lock onto the target.

Finally, he spotted an opportunity, fired a cannon shell, and with one shot, destroyed the enemy plane that had been jumping around for a while.

Yongshan Yizhi was dead. At this point, the entire Hisaki Ken Air Group, with its one hundred and twenty-seven fighter planes, was declared annihilated.

Captain Oonishi Ryosuke led a squadron chasing after the fleeing planes in front, but after four minutes of chasing, they still hadn't caught up.

Looking around, below was the boundless sea, and ahead were continuous layers of clouds. If they continued to chase like this, the fighter planes in front would have the opportunity to enter the clouds, but once they entered the clouds, it would be difficult to find them.

"Why don't these planes escape into the clouds?" Captain Oonishi Ryosuke wondered to himself.

But seeing the special brigade fighter planes flying at low altitude in front, he found another reason: as long as those fighter planes climbed in altitude, they would enter the range of his pursuers.

Captain Oonishi Ryosuke, who was feeling complacent, suddenly saw that the fuel gauge was empty.

At this moment, he suddenly woke up: if they continued to chase, there wouldn't be enough fuel for the return trip.

He loudly ordered, "Return! All planes abandon the pursuit and immediately gather at Taoyuan Airport."

By the time he issued the order, it was too late. Many planes in his squadron had already been ambushed. His air group originally had one hundred and twenty-three fighter planes.

Now, he didn't know how many planes had survived.

Squadron Leader Guan Guohao angrily watched the suddenly turning enemy planes, and could only turn around and chase after the Japanese devils instead.

His squadron had already received reports from at least five or six detachments that they had lured all the chasing Japanese devils into traps and killed them.

These detachments had joined forces with the flight squadrons of Zhu Qingmao's squadron, one luring the enemy into the trap, and the other lying in ambush in the clouds.

They quickly and efficiently counter-killed the Japanese devils who had chased after them.

The team members all had achievements, but the Japanese devil planes he had lured were only two thousand meters away from the ambush circle when they turned back.

This information was immediately transmitted to Mao Wenxing. He combined all the information and, after a little analysis, understood what the Japanese devils were thinking: they hadn't seen through the trap, but rather the Japanese devils were low on fuel and needed to replenish it.

Taoyuan Airport was busy loading goods at this time, and couldn't be disturbed.

Mao Wenxing ordered, "All fighter squadrons in northern Wan immediately intercept the enemy planes. All bombers in the air gather over Taoyuan Airport, patrol at an altitude of four thousand meters, and prepare to attack the Japanese devil fighter planes."

They had to prevent the Japanese devil fighter planes from attacking the planes parked on the airport at all costs. This was the common thought of all the fighter pilots in the special brigade's air group.

Captain Pan Yongshan, leading thirty fighter planes, was the farthest from the battlefield and the last fighter squadron to arrive.

After receiving Mao Wenxing's order, the entire squadron immediately began to deploy on the periphery of Taoyuan Airport. The Guan Guohao flight squadron and the Zhu Qingmao flight squadron were also accelerating to catch up behind the Japanese devil fighter planes.

Some fighter planes that had been ambushing in front of the Japanese devil flight squadron also revealed their fangs and launched an attack on the passing Japanese devil squadrons.

Squad Leader Tan Haodang reported, "When our six fighter planes attacked the Japanese devils, we shot down six enemy planes, but the Japanese devil fighter planes didn't chase after us."

Upon receiving this report, Mao Wenxing immediately understood, "The Japanese devils are really short on fuel. Their fighter planes don't dare to stop along the way, for fear that engaging in aerial combat will delay their time to get to the airport. Their planes may stall in the air."

After the second squad attacked the Japanese devil fighter planes, there were still no enemy planes chasing after them. Mao Wenxing was certain that the Japanese devils were at the end of their rope and unable to continue fighting.

He immediately ordered, "The Japanese devil fighter squadron is seriously lacking fuel. They are no longer engaging in any combat. All fighter planes pay attention to taking advantage of this and launch an attack on the Japanese devil squadron."

Japanese Air Force Squadron Leader Uehara Takumi loudly requested, "Captain! Request for the Uehara Squadron to block the enemy planes!"

He saw the special brigade's fighter planes constantly passing through the entire squadron, and each time they shot down several Imperial planes. At this rate, they really couldn't withstand it.

Captain Oonishi Ryosuke ordered, "Hold on, we will still face enemy attacks when we reach the airport. That is when you will need to block them."

All the Japanese devil pilots in the entire squadron knew that fuel couldn't be added just by circling over the airport.

They still needed to descend to the airport to refuel, and during this time, they would be completely without any resistance, which was the most dangerous time.

If there were no fighter planes protecting them in the air at that time, those landing planes would only be sitting ducks.

Squadron Leader Uehara Takumi could only obey the order: he also knew that if they stayed behind, they would run out of fuel and crash into the sea in no time.

Pilot Tanaka Yusuke said painfully, "Is the high command sending us here to die? We have such a powerful navy, what about the Fifth Fleet? They should be nearby!"

Pilot Eiki Kenjin also echoed, "If we can contact the Fifth Fleet and request their support, we will be safe."

Just now they encountered so many fighter plane interceptions, and these Japanese devils actually had an ominous premonition in their hearts. Now they only hoped that a miracle would happen.

Even Captain Oonishi Ryosuke knew in his heart that his entire air group was probably finished.

He hadn't received any news from Captain Hisaki Ken's squadron for a full ten minutes. The entire Hisaki Ken Air Group, with its one hundred and twenty-seven fighter planes, hadn't had a single pilot speak for a full ten minutes.

What did that mean? Of course, it meant that they had all crashed.

Would it be our squadron's turn next?

No matter what, Captain Oonishi Ryosuke still had to make a final rescue attempt. He ordered, "Upon reaching Taoyuan Airport, the Uehara Takumi squadron will be on aerial alert, and all other planes will land immediately to refuel as quickly as possible.

The fighter squadron that refuels first only needs to add a quarter of the fuel and take off immediately to take over the mission of the Uehara Takumi squadron.

When there are fighter planes to take over the escort mission, the Uehara squadron will immediately land at the airport to refuel.

All of you are the wealth of the empire, and cannot be easily defeated or consumed. Good luck to all of you!"

This was already his final mobilization for the entire air group.

Several voices came from the headset again: "Plane out of control! I'm going to crash, I'm going to bail out."

The entire Oonishi Ryosuke Air Group had more than sixty fighter planes left. These planes were silently flying towards Taoyuan Airport, ignoring the attacks of those special brigade combat detachments that were constantly tearing through their squadron.

Guan Guohao reported, "The propellers of some of the enemy planes have stopped spinning, and they can only glide into the field."

This was good news. This location was still more than ten kilometers from Taoyuan Airport. Without interference, these planes would only have one chance to make an emergency landing.

Captain Oonishi Ryosuke did not expect that the entire air group would run out of fuel before reaching Taoyuan Airport. Now they were all fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of the special brigade fighter planes still shuttling through the air.

Mao Wenxing learned about the situation in the air from his comrades' reports: the enemy planes no longer had the strength to struggle. If they honestly operated the planes, they would still have a chance to make an emergency landing at Taoyuan Airport.

If they struggled, they could only plunge into the sea one by one.

Air Group Captain Oonishi Ryosuke was now hesitant: "The entire air group still has fifty-seven fighter planes, will all the Japanese devils live or die?"

He had to make a choice. If they wanted to live, they had to work hard to make an emergency landing at Taoyuan Airport; if they wanted to die, they could just plunge into the sea here.

Just thinking about fifty or so fighter planes plunging into the sea at the same time, that scene would be very spectacular!

Just thinking about it like this, he couldn't make up his mind. At this time, he remembered what Tanaka Yusuke had said earlier: the high command intentionally sent the entire squadron to die.

Yes! The empire's fleet was so powerful. If the fleet had sailed three hundred nautical miles, the two air groups, more than two hundred fighter planes, would not have been almost completely wiped out.

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't give the order.

Finally, he ordered, "All fighter planes maintain altitude and glide into Taoyuan Airport."

Mao Wenxing received a report that all the Japanese devil fighter planes had begun to glide smoothly and were no longer making any maneuvers.

Finally, he ordered, "All fighter planes follow the enemy planes one-on-one. If they don't fire on the ground, don't shoot them down.

We want to prepare to seize this batch of enemy planes."

Then he ordered Shi Junxia, "A batch of fifty-seven Japanese devil fighter planes have stalled in the air and are gliding towards Taoyuan Airport. They are preparing to make an emergency landing.

You immediately prepare to control the Japanese devil pilots on these planes. If you encounter resistance, kill them immediately. Destroying the fighter planes is also acceptable."

"Understood!" Shi Junxia immediately became excited.

He immediately ordered each platoon to leave a squad in place for guard duty, and the remaining soldiers immediately rushed to the side of the airport runway to ambush.

Rushing onto the runway, he ordered Zhang Zhixin, the company commander of the Quanzhou Airport Guard Company, "Gather the troops, a batch of Japanese devil fighter planes will be making an emergency landing soon. Prepare to board the planes.

If the Japanese devil pilots show any signs of resistance, kill them immediately!"

When Zhang Zhixin and Huang Hongda heard Shi Junxia's order, they almost couldn't believe their ears. It wasn't until Company Commander Shi Junxia repeated the order that they immediately took action.

Nearly three hundred soldiers were ambushed on both sides of the airport runway, nervously watching the sky. The fighter planes and bombers that had been patrolling in the air had already left. The planes that had been parked on the runway loading cargo and refueling had also taken off urgently.

Only fifty or so soldiers in Japanese devil uniforms were left training on the entire airport runway.

Squadron Leader Uehara Takumi, flying in the front, reported with some surprise, "The airport runway is empty, which is perfect for an emergency landing."

Without saying anything, his plane had already plunged towards the runway. The planes following behind him also landed one after another without hesitation.

In fact, they had no choice at all. No matter what was on the airport, they had to land.

Even though Shi Junxia had been notified beforehand that fifty-seven Japanese devil fighter planes were landing, he still counted them carefully.

Fifty-seven fighter planes, not a single one was missing. Uehara Takumi, who had landed first, had parked the fighter plane at the fuel depot and jumped out of the plane, preparing to have the Japanese devils refuel.

The Japanese devil pilots who landed behind him saw a large group of bombers suddenly appear overhead. The belly of these bombers, like the belly of the planes escorting them, was painted with a cute Fat Tiger.

"What's going on?" Captain Oonishi Ryosuke looked at the menacing bombers in the sky and of course understood that if they wanted to bomb them, the fifty-seven planes parked on the airport would have no power to fight back.

Just when he couldn't understand, a large team of Nationalist soldiers suddenly rushed out from both sides of the runway.

Squadron Leader Uehara Takumi quickly drew his pistol, it was a conditioned reflex. He immediately met with the "Da da da!" of submachine gun fire.

Most of the Japanese devils made the same reactive movement, so intense gunfire broke out on the entire runway.

The gunfire stopped quickly, and Company Commander Shi ordered, "Clean up the battlefield!"

Commander Huang Hongda and Company Commander Zhang Zhixin saw the special brigade soldiers opening their bayonets and stabbing the Japanese devils lying on the ground, then dragging the Japanese devil corpses to the side.

Company Commander Shi directed Zhang Zhixin's men to push all the Japanese devil fighter planes to the apron, clear the runway, and then special brigade bombers and fighter planes began to land again.

Mao Wenxing ordered, "Select fifty-seven co-pilots from the various bomber crews to drive these fifty-seven planes to refuel, and then prepare to drive them back to Huiyang."

The three fighter squadrons immediately continued to patrol according to the originally designated areas.

After bombing Quanzhou Airport into a wasteland, the Ishizu Seiku bomber squadron immediately flew towards Taoyuan Airport. The time they arrived was just right.

The special brigade's three fighter squadrons had just finished a major encirclement, seized fifty-seven fighter planes, and hadn't completely dispersed when they encountered this team of Japanese devil bombers.

More than a dozen bombers were completely destroyed without any resistance.

The special brigade's bomber squadron continued to search for traces of Japanese devil infantry in the skies over Wan Island. Mao Wenxing constantly ordered squadrons of bombers to land, refuel, load cargo, and leave.

Although there were a lot of materials prepared by the Japanese devils at Taoyuan Airport, they still couldn't meet the loading needs of more than two hundred bombers.

In the end, these bombers were all loaded with barrels of gasoline.

The patrolling fighter squadrons also began to retreat team by team. The last to retreat were fifteen bombers and Zhu Qingmao's fighter squadron.

Several bombs were thrown into the fuel depot at Taoyuan Airport, and soon a raging fire broke out.

These bombers and fighter planes first flew to Quanzhou to send Commander Huang Hongda and his men back to the airport.

When they arrived at Quanzhou Airport, they saw that the entire airport had completely changed its appearance and could not be landed on at all. There was no way, they could only transport all these people and goods to Huiyang Airport.

Although they were unable to land at Quanzhou Airport, Commander Huang Hongda was happy in his heart: he had already seen the fuel depot being burned, which relieved him of a major worry.

When the special brigade set out, there were three hundred and forty planes, but when they returned, there were three hundred and ninety-seven planes.

This made the soldiers at the airport very happy. Ji Wudi led all the doctors and nurses from the field hospital and saw this scene. Everyone's faces were flushed with excitement.

Only Ke Xiangtong's face was pale. She had already learned from the bomber pilots who returned first that the special brigade's air group had gone to Wan Island to bomb again in the afternoon.

Now seeing that they had actually seized fifty-seven Japanese devil fighter planes and brought them back, she couldn't imagine how this had been done.

Lin Fan personally telegraphed Gu Zhtong to explain the results of this operation and that because he went to bomb the Japanese devils, it had caused the Japanese devils to retaliate and destroy Quanzhou Airport.

And because the plan was changed temporarily, in order to strengthen the infantry force occupying Taoyuan Airport, he had brought Commander Huang and the guards from Quanzhou Airport to Taoyuan without permission.

He had the soldiers from Quanzhou Airport help refuel the planes and direct the planes to take off and land. Commander Huang and his men made outstanding contributions in this operation.

When Gu Zhtong heard that Lin Fan had led his troops to occupy Taoyuan Airport, and had all the planes refuel with Japanese devil oil at the Japanese devil's airport, and then went to fight the other Japanese devils on the island.

They had wiped out more than three hundred Japanese devil fighter planes, eighteen bombers, and seized fifty-seven Japanese devil fighter planes.

He didn't believe such a battle result. But hearing that his subordinates had participated in this great battle, his mood suddenly improved.

He immediately said to Lin Fan, "Since they can't land at Quanzhou, send them to me here."

Lin Fan said without hesitation, "It's already late today, I'll send planes to send them over tomorrow. Our army has seized fifty-seven Japanese devil fighter planes.

Everyone gets a share of the spoils, Commander Huang and his men contributed a lot, and I have to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers here, I'm very poor.

I'll just take the opportunity to offer thirty fighter planes as a gift to Commander Gu as a meeting gift. At the same time, I have a request that I would like to ask Commander Gu to agree to."