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The Pacific War had nearly exhausted the Devils' Combined Fleet, and several naval battles had wiped out elite pilots, but Uncle Sam's strategy shift in June led to the subsequent Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Plus the blood return in this half a year.

At present, the little devil still has a little capital.

Even after separating part of the defense of the mainland and part of escorting the subcontinent, about 150 warplanes were dispatched to Bo Bay, including aircraft carriers and road-based aircraft, plus planes squeezed out by the army, and the Kwantung Army.

At this time, there were 500 combat aircraft in the Bo Bay.

Of these, there are 300 fighters.

The number of fighters and the troop cluster commanded by Ding Wei are still slightly exceeded, and the devil pilots do have an advantage, so it is naturally normal to suppress Ding Wei, who does not dare to attack to the death.

But today, those 300 planes are facing a separate regimental fleet of more than four figures.

Three to one.

The pilots of the independent regiment have been trained, and they are not pure rookies, and many of them have actually flown for about the same time as devil pilots, you must know that these people have only been in contact with airplanes for half a year.

Moreover, after upgrading the engine, the performance of the latest fighter has been greatly increased, and the firepower, maneuverability, and defense are much stronger than the devil's fighter.

No matter how powerful the technology is, even if most of the pilots of the independent regiment are attack aircraft pilots and have very little combat experience, the number and performance are enough to make up for it, and the devils can only fight on the streets.

The battle began.

The devils' air supremacy was completely lost, and one plane after another fell like turkeys, and the soldiers on the positions of the independent regiment were amazed, while the devils were dumbfounded.

"Yaga."

Looking at the rout of his own fleet, the commanding Hattori Kotaro was furious.

He did not expect that the enemy would suddenly burst out so many planes and crush the Imperial Air Force in one fell swoop.

"Order the positions to strengthen their defenses."

After all, it was Chengde and Ding Wei who had been confronting each other for half a year, and Hattori knew that the next step would be a fierce attack, so he hurriedly responded, let the position strengthen the defense and dispatched the reserves:

"Order the 27th Division, the 55th Division, the 1st ...

After mobilizing all the reserves, Hattori's face still did not ease.

The longer he confronted the so-called Independent Regiment, the more he felt hopeless, and concluded from the example of the Battle of Taiyuan that if he lost air supremacy, his heavy concrete fortress would barely be any different from the enemy's burrowing bullets.

And once he loses his strong fortress, he will be defeated in the face of a tank cluster attack.

Even because of the air force, retreat is probably an extravagant hope.

The development of the battle situation confirmed Hattori Kotaro's speculation, and with the crushing defeat of the air force, the fortified fortress groups that had repeatedly blocked the attacks of the enemy's armored forces were destroyed by the enemy's bombers one by one.

This was followed by an offensive by ground forces.

Under heavy artillery fire, the four-digit tanks swooped down like a tsunami.

Without the blocking of a strong fortress node with strong firepower, several positions of the devils were overwhelmed by armored clusters like paper paste, and in just five hours, they broke through three positions.

Meantime.

In addition to the fact that a few devil warships outside Bo Bay were running fast when they saw that the situation was not good, several devil warships in the bay were besieged by hundreds of attack planes one after another, and in the face of a combined attack of torpedoes and bombs, three devil capital ships, including a small aircraft carrier, were sunk.

The confrontation lasted for several months, and in just one day, the entire defense line of Bohai Bay completely collapsed, and the locust army of dozens of divisions fled in a hurry like a swarm of locusts, unable to organize effective resistance at all.

In the end, Kotaro Hattori, who couldn't accept the facts, committed suicide by caesarean section.

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South China Sea.

Twenty torpedo boats gathered together and, under the cover of the islands and guided by AWACS aircraft in the sky, approached the devil convoy.

It's like a pack of wolves hunting.

Although in this era AWACS aircraft can only provide approximate position, speed, and even intermittent, low accuracy, it is impossible to talk about guiding long-range attacks, but this does not matter, over-the-horizon reconnaissance has already given the independent regiment the upper hand.

However, at this time, the wolf pack was still a group of young wolves, with sharp claws and teeth not yet sharp, lacking strong and powerful head wolves, lacking experience, and it was still very difficult to deal with the devil navy.

After all, one light cruiser, seven destroyers, and the strength of the devil's fleet far exceeds that of Wang Gensheng's fleet, which is not something that can be compensated for by a self-guided torpedo of ten kilometers.

But that's okay too.

In this battle, in the sky, there were also a hundred belly-mounted torpedoes to support. With these eagles, the strength of the two sides is completely reversed. The era of giant ships and cannons has passed, and the current naval battle is the world of aircraft carriers.

The first wave of the offensive was launched by the Eagles, and thirty aircraft attacked the flotilla from all sides.

In the face of the sudden air attack, the commander of the devil's escort fleet was stunned at that time.

Didn't you say a torpedo boat attack?

How did it come to be an airplane? Thirty at a time!

And there seem to be more planes in the sky!

Before leaving, he was ordered to prepare for an attack by torpedo boats, for which the fleet's flat-fire artillery was specially strengthened to prepare for the onslaught of high-speed torpedo boats, for which even a little anti-aircraft guns were removed.

In the formation, the escort warships were scattered around the flotilla to ensure that there were no interspersed dead ends, but it also made the escort warships too scattered.

And in this formation, air defense is a big taboo.

In the first wave, thirty torpedoes came at the convoy from all directions, some attacking the transport ship and the other attacking the frigate.

Prepare for an opportunity to attack again.

With new engines, the air trucks have a strong payload capacity, and even in order to maintain mobility, each of them has two torpedoes, allowing for repeated attacks.

The commander of the devil's fleet is also a veteran, although he can't figure it out in his heart, he still reacts as soon as possible, orders each ship to evade it, and once again forms an air defense formation.

"It's now, offense."

Seeing the change in the formation of the devils, Wang Gensheng ordered the troops to attack.

Boom, the engine of more than 10,000 horsepower was running at full speed, driving twenty torpedo boats to rush towards the devil fleet at a speed of nearly forty knots, and the propellers stirred up a violent rapid.

"Torpedo boats, fifteen nautical miles away."

"Twenty."

The lookout immediately discovered something new.

On the calm sea, even a low torpedo boat was fifteen nautical miles away, that is, nearly thirty kilometers away, and it was discovered by the devil's lookout, and even quickly figured it out.

The old navy is fully revealed.

But to no avail.

At this time, the convoy was dealing with evading the attack from the air, and the second wave of thirty attacks had already begun, and the devil commander was also panicked in the face of the sudden attack of torpedo boats.

His eight destroyers were already a little difficult to face only thirty torpedo planes, not to mention that there were many more planes waiting for an opportunity to attack, as well as torpedo boats attacking at high speed.

Boom...

Finally, a destroyer was shot in the stern, lost speed and began to sink into the water. A minute later, another destroyer was also shot, losing speed.

In the face of the attack of torpedo boats and torpedo machines, losing speed and evasion at this time was equivalent to waiting for death, and soon the two destroyers were blown to pieces by the swarming torpedoes.

As the warships were eliminated one by one, only the light cruiser was left to resist, and the attack aircraft group and torpedo boats began to divide their forces against the transport fleet.

"You shouldn't be here."

Looking at the destroyed warships, the little devil commander regretted his mistakes.

In order to save more than a thousand kilometers of distance, choose a route close to the Republic of China, it shouldn't be!

"How can there be enemy planes here?"

At the last moment of being sunk, the devil commander was puzzled, but he didn't have a chance to figure it out, and with the sinking of the light patrol, he also sank in the depths of the South China Sea.

Five hours later.

"Send a report to the regimental headquarters."

王根生 says:

"The devil's fleet has been wiped out."

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Noon on the same day.

Around the Palembang oil field.

A mountain peak, 12 meters high, made of wooden beams and disguised as a tree-clad anti-aircraft tower.

Sato Osa looked at the sky with a telescope and a leisurely expression.

After Prime Minister Mine came to power, he began to repair the Palembang oil field damaged by the bombing, I don't know where to buy second-hand oil field equipment from the United States, the repair speed is very fast, a month ago, the oil field resumed oil production, and just yesterday, the oil field returned to maximum production.

Even more than the pre-bombing level.

A steady stream of fuel departs from Palembang to the mainland.

The enemy, of course, bombed.

But they strengthened their air defense, camouflaged the oil field facilities, the facilities were scattered, the bombing effect was very poor, and even if there was some damage, they were able to quickly repair it.

Naturally, as the head of air defense, Sato Daisa has been very laid-back lately.

"Your Excellency, the enemy bombers are coming."

The phone rang and a message came.

"Hmph."

"It's been so many times, and you still won't give up?"

Sato Daisa sneered, his expression still leisurely.

The main facilities of their oil fields are located between the valleys, as well as between the jungles, the high valleys block the bombs from falling and the power of the bombs, and the dense tropical rainforests also limit the view from the sky.

Unless they can empty a valley at once, or empty a rainforest, the bombardment will be ineffective.

Thanks to their rich experience in being bombed, the devils reacted very quickly, and the workers took refuge in the air-raid shelters, and many devils dodged into the anti-aircraft artillery positions, but they did not fire.

Because of the serious shortage of large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery, which is urgently needed at the front line and at home, the anti-aircraft weapons deployed in Palembang are all 20 mm caliber, plus the losses are very small, so it is basically a show.

"This bomber is different from the previous ones."

In a leisurely manner, Sato Osa looked at the thirty large 'bombers' and raised his eyebrows.

This time, the bomber had only four engines, and it was much, much smaller. Raising the telescope again, Sato stared at the thirty bombers he had seen for the first time.

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"Arrive over your destination."

In the air, in the transport fleet, the navigator reported the position.

"Prepare for bombing."

Looking at the dense rainforest below, Huang Quan, who was accompanying him, hooked the corners of his mouth and gave an order.

Thirty transport planes quickly changed formation, first three planes flew in a formation to the target, during which the aft cargo door was opened, and then three huge giant drum bombs fell.

As soon as it broke away from the hatch, the parachute in the tail section opened, and the bomb landed at a rather slow speed towards the ground.

The three bombs had not yet landed, and then the third wave of three bombs had already left the tail warehouse, and the third wave had already begun to prepare.

"Go on."

Looking at the skillful bomb throwing, the corners of Huang Quan's mouth were still slightly hooked.

The power of the new air incendiary bomb is simply too suitable for dealing with this kind of terrain, and as long as the current devil oil field facilities are built on the ground, they have no way to run.

This is carpet bombing.

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"What kind of bomb is this?"

Looking at the bombs falling from the sky, Sato's pupils shrank.

He was a top student who graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, and fought in the battlefield of the Republic of China as the North China Front Army and the Independent Regiment, knowing that the enemy was not only well-equipped, well-stocked, but also very cunning at the command level.

There must be a reason for sending new bombers and new bombs this time, maybe he found a way to bomb the imperial oil fields, so his face was very solemn at this time.

"Order the repair team to get ready."

Sato Osa quickly ordered.

It was the only thing he could do.

The bombs continued to fall, and all the devils looked at the slowly falling bombs, and the whole of Palembang fell into an eerie silence, except for the roaring engine sound in the sky.

In the sky, the crews of the transport planes that dropped the bombs also turned their eyes to the falling bombs.

Although they have tested it many times in live-fire training, this time it is different, this time the bomb will explode on the enemy's head and around him.

Boom Boom...

In everyone's sight, the giant bombs exploded before they hit the ground.

An unprecedented huge explosion wave spread out in everyone's field of vision, and the violent explosion wave swept across a radius of hundreds of meters, covering all the hundreds of meters in a radius of gunsmoke.

All the devils were stunned by this unprecedented explosion, and all of them, including Sato Daisa, fell silent.

In their lives, they had never seen such a violent explosion.

The bombs are still falling, the explosions are continuing, and the devils are sluggish.

"Is this a bomb?"

Next to Sato Daisa, a devil Nan Nan muttered to himself.

And Sato Daisa, who was holding the seized eight-fold telescope, was pale.

He didn't know why the bomb was so powerful, comparable to the explosion of dozens of tons of explosives, and he didn't know why it could cover a radius of nearly 300 meters.

But he knew.

This kind of bomb is simply a rainforest nemesis, one down, within a few hundred meters, those rainforests that are difficult to ignite are also directly emptied, in the face of this kind of bomb, no matter how hidden oil field facilities can not survive.

Thirty bombs were quickly dropped, and the group of planes, which had no losses, flapped their wings and left leisurely.

Sato Osa hurriedly took people to the oil field area to inspect.

"Thirty-seven wells were badly damaged and needed to be repaired."

"The soldiers and workers in the bomb shelter were all shattered, and the cause of death was suffocation."

The inspection made Sato Daisa's head dizzy.

Thirty-seven oil wells, equivalent to half of the production here, were directly halved, and they were so badly damaged that they were almost impossible to repair.

Moreover, he had sent maintenance personnel to the nearest bomb shelter, and then, those maintenance personnel who were hiding in the ground at a depth of nearly ten meters did not know what was going on, and actually suffocated to death.

"Report back to the Prime Minister."

Sato Daisa's face turned pale.

Although only half of the losses were lost, the enemy bombardment would continue, and there was nothing they could do.

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45 New Year.

The subcontinental fleet was attacked and wiped out.

Bowan was lost, and dozens of divisions were routed northward.

The Palembang oil field in the South Seas was bombed, and more than half of the losses were lost.

In this New Year's season, three pieces of news were quickly delivered to Mitsumasa's underground prime minister's office.