After walking on the highway for more than 20 minutes, the airport appeared in front of the new regiment.

However, the airport is not as well defended as it could be...... From the outside, there were not many Japanese troops, except for a fence and a few machine-gun forts at the gates.

This made Zhang Chi and even Park Zhongjiong a little surprised, because as far as Park Zhongjiong knew, the Japanese troops stationed at the airport had about one brigade, that is, more than 1,000 people, but now it seems that the Japanese troops at the airport may only have one squadron of nearly 200 people.

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that this was all due to the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain...... The battle for the outlying islands of Rabaul was very tense, which forced the Japanese to transfer Rabaul's garrison out one by one, especially the garrison at the airport.

This is also the reason why the "Chinese Brotherhood" is eyeing the airport, Wu Yan and others' plan is that once the Allies launch an attack on Rabaul, then Wu Yan will snatch a few guns from the Japanese troops guarding them, and then take the airport in one fell swoop when the airfield is weak, so that they can effectively cooperate with the actions of the Allies to take Rabaul.

Of course, this plan has not been implemented in history, because the Allied countermeasure to Rabaul was to besiege but not attack, so there was no opportunity for the "Chinese Brotherhood" to revolt...... If there is a forced uprising, the more likely result is that the "Chinese Brotherhood" will be completely annihilated under the suppression of the Japanese army, after all, the "Chinese Brotherhood" has only more than 1,000 people, while the Japanese army is dozens of times that of them, and more importantly, the "Chinese Brotherhood" has almost no weapons in their hands.

In the end, it was not until Japan surrendered that the "Chinese Brotherhood" was freed, but at that time there were only more than 600 people left in the "Chinese Brotherhood", and they either died of exhaustion and disease under the abuse of the Japanese, or were executed by the Japanese...... According to the memories of the surviving Chinese prisoners of war, the Japanese used an abandoned dry well as a place to execute Chinese prisoners of war, and took the "criminal" or disobedient Chinese prisoners of war to the well, resting their heads on the edge of the well, and then pushing the corpses into the well, so that the corpses did not even need to be buried.

Of course, the situation was different now, but at this time the "Chinese Brotherhood" was also very depressed, because they thought that the Japanese had transferred another brigade to the airfield, which made them have no hope of occupying the airfield at all.

As for why the Japanese emptied the garrison at the airport, it should be because the Japanese did not expect such a situation at all...... The reason is not because it is not important, but because its location is in the hinterland of Rabaul, if the enemy wants to hit the airport, then he must first conquer the port and then the coastal defense of Rabaul, that is to say, if the enemy hits the airport, it means that Rabaul's defense line has basically collapsed, and the planes at Rabaul airport should have turned into an empty shell, so although the airport is important, it is the place that needs no defense the most. It was just that there were too many garrisons in Rabaul at that time to be used.

Seeing that this was the case, Zhang Chi was a little relieved, because at least it was not a big problem to win the airport.

"Hey!" The Japanese soldiers standing at the gate stopped the new group and shouted: "Who are you? What for?! ”

"Sir!" Park Jung-hyung walked out of the crowd and stepped forward, nodded and replied in Japanese: "We are from the 3rd Engineer Regiment, and we have received an order to maintain the airport!" ”

The Japanese soldier looked at the team and was not suspicious, he waved his hand impatiently to signal the new group to enter, and muttered and complained on the other side: "Harada is really true, next time I will send someone to let him call first!" ”

"Yes, yes......" Park nodded uncontrollably.

In fact, at this point, Zhang Chi is not too worried, because even if the Japanese army sees through it, he can launch a strong attack on the airport.

But when Zhang Chi and the others walked into the airport, they realized that things were not what they thought, because they looked at it...... There were not only rows of Japanese fighters parked in the airport, but also more than a dozen Type 95 and Type 97 tanks.

These tanks were not used to garrison the airfield, but because the area of the airfield was wide and flat, the Japanese army set aside a piece of land from it to train tank crews.

If it were according to the past, the soldiers of the new regiment would not be afraid of this kind of pitifully thin armor Type 95 and 97 tanks, but at this time, the new regiment was the equipment of "Korean sappers", and it was rare for a company to have a machine gun, so if they really wanted to fight, they might really have nothing to do with these tanks.

Zhang Chi glanced at his fellow villagers, and the villagers understood, and immediately walked to the tank soldier with a company pretending to build a road.

Zhang Chi led the main force to the hangar and walked towards a group of Japanese pilots wearing flight caps and discussing something around the map...... Along the way, Zhang Chi looked at the fighters in the airport all the way, and many of them were new fighters that he had never seen on the battlefield, and later learned that they were the Japanese army's "Huixing" bombers.

This bomber is much more advanced than the Japanese "97" bomber, not only the bomb load has been increased to a great extent, but the speed has also increased from 377 kilometers per hour to 580 kilometers per hour in the "97".

The bomber can reach a maximum speed of 580 kilometers per hour...... First of all, when the Japanese army was in its own formation, it was easier for fighters and bombers to cooperate, and in the past, when the Zero War coordinated with the "97" bombers, the Zero War had to slow down its speed and wait for the "97" type, and the "Comet" was equipped with no such worries, and the speed of the "Comet" was even faster than that of the Zero Battle.

Second, even at this time, the maximum speed of the "Wildcat," the main fighter of the US military, was only 515 kilometers per hour, which meant that the "Comet" bomber could leave the "Wildcat" far behind.

However, in the end, this carrier-based bomber, which had excellent performance, did not play much role in naval warfare...... This is not to say that the "Huixing" is not good enough, at this time the new fighters of the US military have not yet come out, and the "Huixing" could have been majestic for a while.

But the problem is that the Japanese army's high-quality pilots have almost been lost, and the "comet" landing speed is very fast, which requires superb landing skills, so there are always accidents when taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, and finally have to be used by the Japanese army on land-based airfields such as Rabaul airfield.

Looking at the Japanese fighter Zhang Chi, I couldn't help but feel a heartbeat: Damn, I accidentally crashed into the treasure trove today, this is an aircraft carrier and a new type of fighter, if you can hand over all these things, its value is not lower than taking Rabaul.

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that Rabaul's value was actually much more than that.

(To be continued.) )