Feicheng Airport was originally stationed by a Japanese flying squadron, which had three squadrons. The 1st and 2nd squadrons were equipped with 12 Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft respectively, and the 3rd Flying Squadron was equipped with 16 Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft. It carried fighter jets, but three of them had malfunctions and were unable to take off.
Little Japan's idea of building an army is heavily inclined to the navy, and it despises the 6th Army. This can be seen from the model naming of fighter jets. The fact is that almost all aircraft are designed specifically for the navy. The 6th Aircraft Fighter is either Carrier-based attack aircraft used directly are either modified based on carrier-based aircraft.
Japan does not have fighter jets or attack aircraft specially developed for combat on the ground.
The Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft has a crew of three and a combat radius of nearly a thousand kilometers. It can take off from Feicheng Airport to support the Xuzhou battlefield. Its main weapon is an airborne machine gun, and an 8ookg heavy-duty aerial bomb can be hung under the belly. 2 25okg medium bombs or 6 6okg light bombs.
The Type 96 carrier-based fighter is the predecessor of the Zero fighter. In addition to being slightly slower, it is generally an excellent fighter. At least it is more than enough to deal with the ****-3 fighter equipped by the Chinese Air Force at that time. In Hangzhou In the air battle and the Wuhan air battle, the Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets all achieved overwhelming victories.
Early this morning, after confirming that Andarota had suffered a misfortune, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Central China Front's aviation corps, urgently ordered all attack aircraft and fighter jets in Feicheng to be ready. So starting from two o'clock in the morning, the little devil's eighty Several pilots stayed on top of the plane, and they had to urinate and defecate in the cockpit.
Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's intention is that if there is still hope for the battle in Feicheng and the sight is good after dawn, the flying team stationed in Feicheng will take off urgently to assist in the battle and assist the Feicheng garrison brigade in bombing the Dameishan Independent Regiment. But if Once the defeat in the Battle of Feicheng has been decided, the entire flying team will be scrambled to take off and return to Nanjing.
In any case, the 37 aircraft of the flying team must not be missed at all. Japan is a resource-poor country. The cost of building such 37 attack aircraft and fighter jets is really high. If one guy loses 37 of them, Combat aircraft were a disaster for the Japanese army.
Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's idea was good, but after dawn, there was heavy rain in the entire central Anhui area. After the heavy rain, there was heavy fog, and the visibility was even less than 50 meters. In such weather conditions, the combat aircraft of the flying team simply did not have the ability to rise. There is no possibility of air combat, so we can only continue to wait patiently.
But what awaited in the end was not good news, but bad news.
Knowing that the defeat of the Battle of Feicheng had been decided, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi immediately ordered the entire flying team to return to Nanjing. As for the three Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets that were anchored at Feicheng Airport due to malfunctions, two of them were seriously damaged. There was no possibility of repair inside, so it was blown up on the spot, and the remaining lightly damaged aircraft was fully repaired.
Nakagawa Jiro was ordered to carry out emergency repairs on the lightly damaged Type 96 carrier-based fighter.
Jiro Nakagawa was not only a qualified pilot, but also a very good mechanic. He took two ground crew members to disassemble the engine of the Type 96 carrier-based fighter and found the fault in the shortest time. However, , just as Jiro Nakagawa was racing against time to troubleshoot the problem, trouble came.
The sudden gunfire shattered the silence of the entire airport.
Without looking up, Nakagawa Jiro knew that it must be China. The army was coming to kill him. It seemed that the Chinese were not stupid. They knew that they would come to the airport to try their luck as soon as possible. If they could seize a few planes, they would make a lot of money. However, as long as he is around, the Chinese will never succeed in their attempts. This Type 96 fighter jet will never be left to the Chinese!
"Hurry, hurry up!" Nakagawa Jiro quickly turned the wrench and ordered the ground crew, "Hurry up and push the fuel over and fill the fighter with fuel. Hurry up!"
"Sir, the plane is not ready yet." A ground crew member said blankly.
"Baga, the plane will be ready soon, but it will be too late for me to refill the fuel after repairing it!" Nakagawaji yelled, "You two idiots, hurry up and push the fuel over."
The two ground crew members quickly ran away in despair.
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Over there, Xu Rui has already led the cavalry battalion and the Langya squad to charge over.
Xu Rui looked through the telescope and saw the fighter jets parked outside the hangar at a glance. He couldn't help but raise his head to the sky and say haha, and then said proudly: "Veteran, what did I say?"
Leng Tiefeng poured cold water on Xu Rui and said, "Old Xu, don't be too happy. According to the intelligence, there are more than thirty planes at Feicheng Airport, but now there is only one left. It can be seen that this plane There must be something wrong with the plane, and even if it is a faulty plane, if things go wrong, the Japanese will definitely blow it up first."
"Veteran, you are such a crow, can't you say something nice?" Xu Rui cursed, then turned to the cavalry battalion commander Tiegang and said, "Gangzi, order the entire cavalry battalion to attack. At all costs, we must do it in the shortest possible time. Break through the Japanese airport’s outer defense line within the time limit and load this fighter jet for me, do you hear me clearly?”
"Yes." Tiegang responded while galloping on his horse, "Listen clearly."
Xu Rui then said loudly: "Repeat my order just now?"
"Yes, repeat it." Tiegang yelled at the top of his voice, "At all costs, we must break through the outer defense line of the Japanese airport in the shortest possible time and intercept this damn plane for the captain!"
"Go!" Xu Rui waved his hand, then turned to Leng Tiefeng and said, "Veteran, the mission of the cavalry battalion is to tear open the outer defense line of the Japanese airport in the shortest possible time and send your Wolf Fang team in, and you Wolf team Team Ya's mission is to intercept and save this plane at all costs, do you understand?"
"Understood!" Leng Tiefeng nodded, then turned around and shouted, "Team Wolf Fang, follow me!"
Watching Leng Tiefeng galloping forward with several members of the Langya Team, Xu Rui reined in his horse's head and rushed diagonally toward a hill near the airport.
Feicheng Airport originally had a brigade of garrison troops stationed there.
However, in order to reinforce the Feicheng garrison brigade, the Central China Front Army Command transferred three and a half infantry squadrons from Feicheng Airport. Now there are only one and a half squadrons of garrison troops left at the airport. To make matters worse, the terrain near the airport is flat, so the cavalry battalion It can open a wide front for charging.
Xu Rui said no matter the cost, Tiegang really means no matter the cost.
Usually, the officers and soldiers of Tiegang and the Cavalry Battalion were very precious to their war horses, but now, the officers and soldiers of the Tiegang and Cavalry Battalions spurred the horses straight away and without hesitation crashed into the barbed wire fence outside the airport. In an instant, , the barbed wire fence outside the airport was torn to pieces by the charging horses, but the cavalry battalion also paid a heavy price. At least a dozen horses were seriously injured by the barbed wires and fell to the ground.
The iron-steel Chitu was also strangled in the chest with a blood groove that was deep enough to show the bone. However, this damage not only failed to make Chitu fall down, but instead aroused Chitu's wildness even more. Chitu was seen standing up. With a loud and long hiss, the sprint speed that had already reached the limit miraculously increased again!
Like a flash of red lightning, Red Rabbit carried Tie Gang and crossed the airport's outer defense line in one go.
Tiegang only had time to press down the saber in his hand before Chitu violently rushed into the Japanese defensive position. The next moment, Tiegang only felt his hand sink slightly and saw a head rising into the sky, but it was a small one. The Japs' machine gunner was decapitated by him, and the machine gun that was spitting out fire suddenly stopped working.
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Jiro Nakagawa has repaired the Type 96 carrier-based fighter.
However, the airport ground staff was slow to deliver the fuel. After two minutes, seeing that the Chinese cavalry had broken through the barbed wire fence outside the airport, the two ground staff finally pushed the fuel over and opened the fuel port of the fighter jet. , began to refuel the fighter, but the Japanese used a manual pump, so the speed was a bit slow.
Jiro Nakagawa didn't have time to change his flight suit, so he climbed into the cockpit wearing a mechanical suit.
As soon as he entered the cockpit, Nakagawa Jiro opened all the instruments as quickly as possible. At the same time, he forced the engine to start and kept it idle regardless of the risk of fire and explosion. Nakagawa Jiro must ensure that once the refueling is completed, he can start the engine as soon as possible. Enter the runway, taxi and take off, because the Chinese cavalry over there has already charged over.
Through the cockpit, Nakagawa Jiro could see the Chinese cavalry approaching quickly.
I looked down at the fuel gauge again, but it only jumped to half a bar, and there were still three and a half bars before it was full!
After waiting for a while, when the speed was almost three-quarters of the scale, Nakagawa Jiro couldn't wait anymore. He pushed the control stick fiercely, and the fighter engine roared suddenly, then turned to the runway and started taxiing. This was really painful. Of the two Japanese ground crew members, one pushed the refueling equipment and followed the fighter jet, while the other had to pump the fuel.
After sliding for about twenty meters, the two Japs ground crew couldn't keep up.
Leng Tiefeng led the Langya team to chase behind the fighter jet, but found that the fighter jet had begun to increase speed, and the horse's running speed had begun to fail to catch up with the plane. Leng Tiefeng fiercely raised the 38 cover and took aim on the horse. He got into the plane, but he didn't dare to pull the trigger, because he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to hit the Japanese pilot while on horseback.
If the Japanese pilot missed but hit the plane's fuel tank, the fighter jet would immediately turn into a huge fireball, and Lao Xu's best wishes would be in vain. (To be continued.)