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#181 - The changes of butterfly wings

On New Year's Eve, the Eighth Route Army lit fireworks in North China. From the Xijiao Airport and Dongjuzi Airport in Pingjin, to Shimen Airport, Yuncheng Airport, Wusu, and Yangmingbao,

More than 150 Japanese warplanes were buried in a sea of fire, along with nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers. Ren Zhong brought the Polaroid camera to the world of "Bright Sword" and had the frontline artillery observers photograph everything, preparing to turn it all into a Spring Festival gift for the entire nation.

It's just that there is no internet now. These photos, if they are to be published, will take at least a week or so to reach the rear, and the latest may take two weeks.

However, war reports are different. On New Year's Eve, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Border Region jointly telegraphed the world, announcing that the Eighth Route Army had launched an unprecedented large-scale attack, destroying more than a dozen Japanese airports in North China and destroying more than 200 warplanes (estimated results)!

When the news reached the newspaper offices in the rear, almost all the editors-in-chief went crazy!

They kept trying to contact the Eighth Route Army Office in the capital, attempting to verify the news. Soon, the Eighth Route Army Office, facing dozens of reporters who rushed over, held a brief press conference overnight. The director of the Eighth Route Army Office very firmly announced the war report of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, publicly naming the airports that were successfully attacked and the estimated results, and stated that frontline reporters had taken photos of the attack!

Since then, the news has been confirmed, and all the newspapers have taken crazy action, replacing all the headlines of the next day with the latest war reports!

Xinhua: New Year's Gift, the Eighth Route Army launches a major attack, destroying more than 200 Japanese warplanes!

Dagong: The strongest result, the Eighth Route Army destroyed 200 Japanese warplanes on New Year's Eve!

Zhongshe Special Edition: Great Victory! Our army launched a major attack on New Year's Eve, destroying 200 enemy planes!

Every newspaper used extra-large fonts to put the Eighth Route Army's attack results on the headline, and went all out to print as much as possible, because every editor knew that tomorrow this news would definitely detonate the New Year atmosphere of the entire nation!

The U.S. Embassy in China.

Ambassador Gauss saw the war report information and looked incredulous.

He looked at General Shi, hoping that he would say that this was not true, but General Shi did not doubt it at all. He had dealt with the Border Region a lot and knew that the Border Region might make expansive exaggerations of some things, but General Shi absolutely believed that the estimated information on the attack situation of each airport that was passed to him was first-hand information from the scene.

Even if there are some differences, they are statistical errors.

What General Shi admired even more was that the Eighth Route Army did not know what means they used to paralyze almost all of these airports and destroy almost all the warplanes on the airports.

General Shi believed that the only possibility to achieve this overnight was long-range artillery.

But how did the Eighth Route Army transport this powerful long-range artillery under the noses of the Japanese?

This is something General Shi couldn't even dream of.

But this is not the point.

"Mr. Gauss, I think we need to reassess the influence of the Eighth Route Army and the Border Region on the war situation and tell Washington everything here. Our ally may be much weaker than the Guomindang forces in the capital, but their capabilities and actions have proven that they are already a force to be reckoned with on the Asian battlefield. We must face up to it and help them hold back more Japanese soldiers to reduce our pressure in the Western Pacific," General Shi said to Ambassador Gauss with a solemn expression.

"I understand. General Shi, I will convey everything you said to Washington." Although Ambassador Gauss still didn't believe it, he didn't dare to ignore it like the Pearl Harbor intelligence last time.

This time, he was slapped in the face again and again, and Ambassador Gauss didn't have the face to bear it, so he had to accept reality.

Ren Zhong also received the information about this attack. Although he had expected it, he did not expect that the debut of the Type 107 rocket launcher would be so brilliant and immediately become a god in the world of "Bright Sword".

He believed that the Japanese were still confused at this time, because for the sake of secrecy, the Type 107 rocket launcher is now a secret weapon that very few people in the Eighth Route Army know about. This kind of heavy artillery is simply the Eighth Route Army's trump card. Although the original purpose of keeping this secret was for the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to take it out and concentrate on a large-scale battle during the counter-sweeping campaign.

Aim at a division and launch a wave of rocket washing to strive to annihilate or cripple a division of Japanese soldiers.

However, after Ren Zhong proposed attacking the airport, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters also decisively changed its original intention and prepared to use the Japanese airport and warplanes to announce the equipment of the Type 107 rocket launcher.

Now it seems that all this is worth it.

Destroying more than a dozen airports overnight was basically impossible before owning this weapon.

However, after today's incident, it will be impossible to organize such a large-scale operation again in the future.

The Japanese will frantically inquire about the information of this weapon and obtain some characteristics of transportation and use, so as to find loopholes in future inspections and block the loopholes in the current airport defense.

Especially the open storage of aircraft.

However, it is unlikely that they will be able to completely prevent this kind of attack, after all, for the Japanese airports in Jin, basically the airports are靠着山区, and if they want to keep an eye on a radius of 200 square kilometers, they will have to abandon the city.

Therefore, they can only carry out necessary patrols to reduce the preparation time for the Eighth Route Army to infiltrate, and at the same time deploy counter-attack artillery near the airport. With the huge flame trajectory of the Type 107 rocket launcher, the Japanese can quickly reverse-push the launch point.

It's just that in this way, the Japanese will have to equip at least a squadron of Type 38 field guns near the airport. Only this kind of field gun and 105mm or more howitzers have a counter-attack capability of more than 8,000 meters.

In this way, the airport will hold up to one and a half Class B divisions or more than two mixed brigades of Japanese troops.

Ren Zhong's airport attack plan not only destroyed most of the Japanese Air Force in North China, but also indirectly held the Japanese troops at the airport, killing two birds with one stone, which simply exceeded General Shi's requirements.

The Japanese soldiers who were originally going to transfer two divisions south did not dare to move this time.

This time it was even more surprising than the Eighth Route Army's major counter-attack last year, because the battle showed that the Eighth Route Army had at least a dozen more heavy artillery battalions!

Originally, they thought that a division-level sweep was very safe, and the Eighth Route Army had no strength to deal with a division-level, but now the Japanese have completely changed their minds. If these dozen heavy artillery battalions are concentrated, isn't a division their dish?

According to the analysis of the surviving Japanese soldiers who were bombed on the spot, the firing speed of this new type of heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army is also very fast, and it can instantly fire 12 heavy artillery shells, covering thousands of square meters.

Although the Japanese still have the remaining warplanes to provide air support, but waiting for the air force to take off, I am afraid that the Eighth Route Army has already cleaned up the battlefield.

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