It was almost dusk, and Chinese and Japanese fighter jets were still entangled at the Kunlun Pass. The flames of artillery fire on the Chinese positions began to become redder than the setting sun.
The wing of an I-153 was on fire during the battle. The pilot successfully parachuted and landed on the edge of the 42nd Wing's position.
Immediately, a small group of Japs rushed out screaming, trying to capture the Chinese Air Force pilot alive.
During the Anti-Japanese War, there were only Chinese Air Force pilots who died in battle and no captured pilots.
After parachuting and landing, the pilot immediately pulled out his pistol and hid in a bush, shooting at the Japanese who came at him from time to time. After the first magazine was finished, he took out the second magazine, took out a bullet and put it in his breast pocket for himself. All pilots did this, and waited until the second spare magazine was finished. , he shot himself with spare ammunition without hesitation.
Seeing the Chinese pilot parachuting, Colonel Zheng Tingji pulled out his pistol and shouted: "Guard, attach the bayonet to me. We must rescue our pilot, and we must not let our brothers in the Air Force feel cold."
"yes!"
The guard companies fixed their bayonets one after another and rushed out under the leadership of the company commander.
Zheng Tingji also wanted to rush forward, but was hugged tightly by his two personal guards. He yelled with red eyes: "Artillery support, give the labor and management a hard beating...Brothers, rush forward to rescue." people……"
Major Masao Maruyama secretly wondered that today, these dozen Chinese fighter jets changed from their usual timidity and still fought to the death even after one was shot down and at a complete disadvantage.
However, this is exactly what Maruyama Masao wants. In the past, the Chinese Air Force turned around and ran away when it saw the Japanese fighter planes, making it difficult to catch up. Now that it does not leave, his squadron can gain a few more victories. He smiled ferociously: "Since it doesn't If you go, then leave them all."
Guilin Airport, China.
Eight bombers appeared over the airport, firing landing flares and waiting to land.
A signal flare was suddenly fired into the sky to suspend landing at the airport, which meant that there were either other military aircraft on the runway, or there was an accident on the runway.
Therefore, these eight bombers could only hover in the air, and after a quarter of an hour, they landed one after another.
Before dusk.
Japanese Army Nanning Airport.
In the large war room, the commander of the Japanese base, Major General Tsukamoto Tsukamoto, stood in front of the glass window and watched batches of fighter jets and bombers landing at the airport. The ground crews were working nervously and orderly. Both sides of the runway were filled with about 100 fighter jets of various types. 180 aircraft, including land and sea aviation fighters, all took off from other air forces and aircraft carriers and came here.
The last batch of fighter planes are landing one after another. They are the Type 96 land attack force led by Lieutenant Colonel Nitta from the Kanoya Air Wing of three squadrons.
Yesterday, the Japanese army's plan was to gather 120 fighter planes at Nanning Airport. This morning, the headquarters of the Japanese invaders suddenly issued an order to double the number of reinforcement fighters and go to Nanning Airport to win the Kunlun Pass Battle as soon as possible, and then quickly launch their swords. Liuzhou, cutting off the Hunan-Guangxi and Qian-Guizhou railway lines, important communication lines in China's rear area, and approaching the Chinese *** team in the fourth theater.
It turned out that the Battle of Kunlun Pass dragged on for too long. The Japanese Army Headquarters felt that this would give the Chinese troops more time to increase troops and deploy to Liuzhou, so the Japanese Army Headquarters ordered a large number of fighter planes to assemble at Nanning Airport, and then launch seamless attacks on the Chinese Kunlun Mountain Army every day. Continuous bombing strikes and cooperation with ground troops quickly captured Kunlun Pass and quickly seized Liuzhou.
"General!" An intelligence officer walked into the war room. "Major Masao Maruyama sent a telegram. The Chinese bombers headed for Kunlun Pass immediately returned after seeing our fighters. More than a dozen Iraqi fighters acted as rearguards and were surrounded by our fighters. Get away.”
Major General Tsukamoto 243 held his sword in both hands and nodded. He expected the Chinese bombers to retreat.
The intelligence officer knocked his heels and exited.
Ten minutes later, another intelligence officer came in: "General! A secret message from Guilin Airport. Eight Chinese bombers returning from Nanning returned to Guilin Airport and landed. Major Masao Maruyama just called again. He shot down two Chinese bombers at Kunlun Pass. The Iraqi fighter jets and the remaining Chinese aircraft fled back to Guilin Airport. Major Masao Maruyama is on his way back."
Major General Tsukamoto No. 243 nodded with a satisfied smile on his face. Major General Masao Maruyama would never let him down.
At this moment, a major on duty for reconnaissance reported: "General! The four Type 95 reconnaissance aircraft that are conducting dual-phase searches are about to run out of fuel. Please return and land."
Major General Tsukamoto 243 looked at the landing 96-style land attack and still nodded.
The major continued: "General! Do you want to continue sending out reconnaissance planes?"
Major General Tsukamoto 243 asked without looking back: "How many reconnaissance planes are there?"
The Major replied: "Two Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft are now dropping supplies over the Kunlun Pass. The four reconnaissance aircrafts formed a two-phase search just now, and there is currently one left. If a two-phase search is needed, you need to wait for the landing reconnaissance aircraft to refuel. "
Major General Tsukamoto 243 frowned: "One?"
"Yes. General!" Yesterday, one was shot down by a Chinese fighter jet over the Kunlun Pass.
The so-called dual-phase search refers to the continuous dispatch of two groups of four reconnaissance aircraft at certain intervals within the same search area to form a seamless search and investigation.
At this time, the Japanese aircraft did not have radar and relied entirely on visual reconnaissance, so they could only conduct effective searches during the day. Dual-phase search could first detect enemy aircraft as quickly as possible, and the chance of omission was far less than that of single-phase search.
This effective search method continued to be used by the Japanese army in the subsequent naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway Island. This was also a major reason for the defeat of the Japanese army at Midway Island, because on the Chinese battlefield, faced with Chinese fighter jets that also had no radar, this This method is very effective, but when it comes to the vast sea, it lags far behind the US Air Force, which is already equipped with radar.
Because the clouds over the sea are sometimes very low, even if there are American fighter bombers hiding in the clouds, the Japanese army cannot detect them.
On the contrary, Japanese aircraft hiding in the clouds could not escape the detection of American radar.
Major General Tsukamoto 243 was stunned for a moment: "One-way search!"
"Hai!"
The major turned and left.
"Heweijun!" Major General Tsukamoto 243 suddenly turned around and shouted.
"Hai!"
When he reached the door, Major Hewei stopped and turned around.
Major General Tsukamoto 243 looked out the window: "It is almost dark, and bombers from the Kanoya Air Wing led by Major Nitta are landing at the airport. There are still two squadrons waiting to land in the air. Chinese bombers have landed at Guilin Airport. There is no threat anymore, and Major Masao Maruyama is about to return, so the landing will be even more crowded and the reconnaissance plane will not need to take off."
"Hai! General!"
Hewei Major agreed and turned around and went out.
Within ten minutes, all the bombers of the Kanoya Air Wing landed and slowly drove to both sides of the airport runway and parked. Seven or eight refueling trucks rushed back and forth, taking turns to refuel more than 200 fighter planes.
In the watchtowers at the four corners of the airport, the scouts held cigarettes in their mouths and looked at the bustling airport full of fighter-bombers. They were all filled with pride and talked about the changing of the guard later and how to have fun in the evening. .
It was already dark at this time, and the telescope in the hands of the scouts on the watchtower was almost blind.
In order to make it easier for the refueling trucks to refuel, fighter planes will take off to bomb Kunlun Pass at dawn tomorrow. The lights on the airport will be lit and it will be very lively.
At this moment, the roar of fighter planes came from a few kilometers away, which immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese scouts on the watchtower.
At this moment, all the aircraft flying in the distance turned on their navigation lights and made a push-rod flight posture in preparation for landing. So the scouts on the observation tower waved to the group of aircraft, then turned around and continued to watch the lively people in the airport. People come and go.
At the same time, Major General Tsukamoto 243 and his subordinate officers who were standing in the airport war room also heard the roar of fighter planes, and then they saw a group of aircraft flying in the distance, all with navigation lights on.
Major Kato said: "It's Major Masao Maruyama and the others who are back."
Saburo Itai looked through the glass window at the fleet of aircraft slowly descending from the sky, and said: "It's Major Masao Maruyama and the others who have returned in triumph."
Looking at the fighter-bombers filling the airport, and hearing that Major Masao Maruyama had returned in triumph, all the Japanese officers in the war room were filled with pride.
Major General Tsukamoto 243 showed pride on his face and said to his subordinate officers: "Let's go out together to greet the triumphant imperial heroes!"
