Niangziguan is located at the junction of Shanxi and Hebei provinces, serving as the choke point of Shanxi and Hebei.

Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for the Central Plains countries to conquer the world.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was in frontier troubles and needed to be rebuilt and repaired. Niangziguan, which is in a dangerous terrain, was known as the "Ninth Pass in the World" due to its complete defenses.

In 1900, the Qing army defeated tens of thousands of German and French troops with a small number.

During the Battle of Xinkou during the Anti-Japanese War, the training regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army resisted an attack by an elite Japanese regiment at Niangzi Pass.

Therefore, Niangziguan is known as a natural danger.

Although most of the Japanese and puppet troops were wiped out by the independent regiment in the wild, there were still more than 200 Japanese troops in Niangzi Pass.

After the Japanese army occupied Niangziguan, they strengthened the defense and built large gun towers that were difficult to destroy even with mountain artillery.

There are also railway armored vehicles, as well as bunkers, trenches and other fortifications.

Although the number of independent regiments is ten times that of the Japanese army, if they want to capture Niangzi Pass, they may have to pay two, three or even more casualties from the Japanese army.

For example, in the Guanjianao battle in history, the Okazaki detachment only had more than 500 people occupying favorable terrain. The Eighth Route Army assembled 3 brigades and 2 regiments with tens of thousands of troops. They suffered heavy casualties but still failed to completely annihilate the Japanese. For those who are good at attacking tough battles

The Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare was indeed a shortcoming.

However, the task of the independent regiment is to capture Niangzi Pass and completely paralyze Zhengtai Road.

The military orders fell like a mountain, and Li Yunlong had no good solution at this time. Niangziguan had to be beaten when it was time to fight.

If Li Yunlong hadn't used a trick to remove most of the enemies in Niangzi Pass, it's still open to question whether the independent regiment could have conquered Niangzi Pass.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang discussed for a while and decided to let the troops surround Niangziguan first and wait one step at a time.

If it really doesn't work, then the only option is to be tough. The independent group will have to crack this tough nut no matter what!

Ten minutes later, each battalion quickly cleaned up the battlefield and then rushed towards Niangziguan.

…

Wei Dayong led the flight formation and flew in the air for more than an hour before finally approaching Taiyuan.

The surrounding villages of Taiyuan are scattered under the wing, and the outline of Taiyuan City in the distance appears in the field of vision. This city, which has not been affected by war for several years, seems a bit peaceful at the moment.

Taiyuan Airport is not difficult to find. The thousand-meter-long runway can be easily found high in the sky. It is located in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan City.

Although the Japanese army had aviation and anti-aircraft guns, the eye-catching plaster icons on the fuselage did not attract much attention from the Japanese on the city wall.

"Dongyao, Dongyao, we found the Japanese airport, do you want to attack? Do you want to attack?" Bomber No. 03 called to Wei Dayong.

Temporary flight formations are numbered to facilitate radio contact.

The two Zero fighters are numbered 01 and 02, the three bombers are numbered 03, 04, and 05, and the transport aircraft are numbered 06 and 07 respectively.

The Zero fighter piloted by Wei Dayong is of course No. 01.

Wei Dayong also saw the Japs' airport. There were more than 20 fighter jets and bombers parked on the airport runway. Looking from a high altitude, the Japs soldiers, who were about the size of ants, seemed to be waving to the high-altitude aircraft with their heads raised. Without looking closely, Wei Dayong

Dayong could guess that the Japanese soldiers must be welcoming him warmly with smiles on their faces.

Wei Dayong issued an order: "Dong 3 and 4 enter the attack position. Cave 2 continues to escort Cave 5, Cave 6 and Cave 7 to fly eastward!"

He pulled the control stick, and the nose of the plane suddenly sank, protecting the two bombers as they roared through the clouds and dived towards Taiyuan Airport. The distance of this dive attack was just a passing attack in the air, but when viewed from the ground,

But there is a distance of five or six kilometers.

Watching the open-air airport on the ground getting closer and closer.

The bomber pilot has put his hand on the bomb release button, and the 10 100-kilogram aerial bombs under the wings are ready.

Approaching the airport, the pilot pressed the bomb release button without hesitation.

Because the moment the aerial bomb falls, the inertial aerial bomb will have an initial velocity in the same direction as the aircraft.

When an aerial bomb falls in the air, its trajectory is a parabola.

Therefore, the aerial bomb must be dropped before the target reaches the airport.

When the plane flew directly over the target, the aerial bomb just landed on the target and exploded.

Most of the bombers at Yuncheng Airport are Type 96 bombers, which are medium bombers of the Japanese Army Air Force in World War II.

It was developed in the mid-1930s and began to be equipped in the late 1930s.

The Type 96 land bomber has a wing area of ​​75 square meters, a fuselage weight of 4.77 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 7.64 tons.

The power system is equipped with two Mitsubishi complex radial air-cooled 14-cylinder propeller engines, with a maximum flight speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

The weapon system is equipped with three 7.7mm aviation machine guns and 1,000 kilograms of aviation bombs.

As the pilot pressed the bomb release button, 10 aerial bombs weighing 100 kilograms fell continuously like dumplings.

The Japs in the airport had already used their binoculars to discover that it was their own plane in the sky. They were already ready for the plane to land. They saw several planes flying towards the airport one after another. Some Japs even came to the runway and waved small flags to prepare for guidance.

Landing.

But he never expected that the three planes in the sky not only did not slow down, but instead swooped down rapidly.

By the time the airport police realized something was wrong, they had no time to react and had no choice but to run away.

Ten aerial bombs were already heading towards the airport, falling with a unique sound.

The Japanese working at the airport can naturally recognize that this is the unique scream of a 100-kilogram level aerial bomb.

The bomber flew over the airport.

10 aerial bombs landed precisely where more than 20 aircraft were parked.

Accompanied by balls of orange fire, a series of loud noises followed, making the entire airport tremble!

The more than 20 Japanese bombers and fighter planes parked diagonally at the airport were blown to pieces in an instant, and not even a single intact part could be found.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Several huge clouds of smoke instantly rose from the airport, and a raging fire broke out at the location where the bomb was bombed.

Another bomber dived directly towards the location of the Japanese anti-aircraft gun position.

The Japs never thought that the planes were coming to bomb the airport, so there were no Japs on the anti-aircraft gun positions.

The two aerial bombs fell with a scream, and the Japanese anti-aircraft gun position was instantly razed to the ground!

It was only then that the air defense siren at the airport was sounded.

Immediately afterwards, a rapid air defense siren sounded throughout Taiyuan City, and countless people looked in the direction of the Beijiao Airport in shock.

Looking back, I saw that the aircraft on the airport below and the anti-aircraft gun emplacements on the edge were instantly destroyed.

Even Wei Dayong, who was sitting in the cabin, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

“Enjoyable!”

Wei Dayong ordered.

"Well done on holes three and four!"

"Let's take out the weapons depot and oil depot at the Japanese airport again this time!"

03 Pilot smiled and said: "Copy that! Do it again!"

Pilot 04 also said: "The ace pilot of the Eighth Route Army is at your service!"

The three planes quickly climbed up in the sky, turned around, and then quickly dived towards the airport.

The 04 bombers headed straight for several large warehouses on the edge of the airport, where...the arsenal and oil depots of the Japanese military airport were located.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers at the airport reacted, and the machine gunners fired into the sky with Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked handles.

Some Japanese soldiers held rifles, pulled the bolts and fired into the sky, trying to interfere with and organize the bombers' dive bombing.

However, the anti-aircraft guns at the airport have been destroyed, and the light and heavy machine guns in the hands of the Japanese have limited firepower, posing no obvious threat to the aircraft.

Wei Dayong piloted the Zero fighter and dived towards the enemy's firepower point without hesitation, pressing the cannon button at the same time.

Although there were two 50kg aerial bombs under the wings, he did not want to drop them here and planned to use them to bomb Niangziguan.

He knew that Niangzi Pass was not that easy to fight. The Independent Regiment might not be able to take Niangzi Pass for a while, and today was the day when the Independent Regiment launched an attack on Niangzi Pass.

After the bombing of Taiyuan Airport is completed, and then the fighter planes rush to Niangziguan, there is a high probability that they can catch up.

The machine guns and machine cannons on both sides of the wing roared, and the bullets fired splashed four half-meter-high layers of dirt and gravel on the ground.

Not to mention the machine gun, even the 7.7mm machine gun ammunition on the fighter plane is far more powerful than the Japanese Jaap 38 Japanese rifle ammunition, and the machine gun equipped on the aircraft has a rate of fire far exceeding that of the crooked machine gun.

Under the dense rain of bullets, four or five Japanese were shot on the spot. Their legs and feet were either broken, or their bodies were shot from the waist.

Four bullet marks followed and extended into a Japs' Type 92 heavy machine gun position. After a burst of blood splattered, all the Japs on the machine gun position were killed on the spot!

In this round of dive bombing, the 03 bombers and 01 fighter jets were both responsible for cover missions.

Although the 03 bomber does not have aerial bombs, it still has two 7.7mm machine guns on the aircraft. The bomber has another name, called attack aircraft.

"Die!" The crew member on the 03 bomber pressed the machine gun button.

Although these crew members are not pilots, they are all selected heavy machine gun shooters with special abilities.

Along with the shaking of the machine gun, the bomber suddenly erupted with a tongue of flame, and several Japanese who could not escape were beaten into a sieve.

Approaching the location of the warehouse, the 04 pilot pressed the bomb release button one after another.
To be continued...