There were very thick clouds piled up in the sky, blocking Yangxian, and reducing the temperature of Yafan and deleting the surface.

Six "Hornet" fighters swept through the sky under these low clouds, and the roar of motives resounded through the sky.

Meng Fei sat in the cockpit of the Hornet fighter at the forefront, looking to the ground with his head on his back. Although the visibility is not very good, he can still see some iconic landmarks on the ground clearly.

Just under the right wing of the plane, there is a rolling bay. This is Dalian Bay. A railway is next to the bay, extending from the narrow plain and hills to the north. The railway passes. Looking to the west, you can see a hazy black line at the end of the narrow plain and hills. It is also the dividing line between the six regions and the ocean. There is also a bay called Jinzhou Bay.

This plain and hills form a special geography-based terrain: the isthmus.

This is the Isthmus of Jinzhou. The narrowest place in the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula is the narrowest place. Dalian Bay is to the east and Jinzhou Bay is to the west. The narrowest place between the east and west is only three kilometers wide. The entire terrain is like a bee waist, guarding the back road of Lushun. If Lushun is the gateway to the Bohai Sea, then Jinzhou is the throat of Lushun.

Back then, the Qing court built a military port in Lushun. The engineering experts in charge of the construction work had seen the importance of Jinzhou and reminded the Qing court that they must pay attention to Jinzhou's defense. Otherwise, once the retreat of the 6th ground was circulated, the fall of Lushun would be in the evening. However, the Qing court ignored this suggestion. During peace, more than 200 foreign gun teams were stationed in the area of ​​the Imperial Waist of Jinzhou. Even after the war broke out, the garrison troops in the area were only 3,000, and there were a lack of rifles and ammunition. Such a weak 6th army naturally could not resist the attack of the large and well-equipped Japanese army.

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese army also saw the importance of Jinzhou's position and regarded Jinzhou as the main target of the 6th Army's 6th Army's 6th Operation. The Qing generals also saw this. However, due to insufficient troops, they could not effectively counterattack the 6th Army's 6th Army's 6th Army's 6th Army and asked for troops from Beiyang, but were blocked by the Beiyang head Li Hongzhang, saying "Each person guards the flood area". Therefore, after the Japanese army climbed 6th from Huayuankou, forty kilometers north of Jinzhou, the Qing army stationed in Jinzhou fought hard, but Jinzhou was still lost in a short time. At this point, the fall of Lushun was inevitable.

In fact, the small section from Lushun to Jinzhou is called the "Goldenzhou Peninsula" by geographers, which can also show the importance of Jinzhou to the entire southern end of the peninsula.

After Russia "lent" the Luda area, it also deployed heavy troops in the Jinzhou area. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese 6th Army once again implemented the same plan. From Chuanwudeng6, north of the Isthmus of Jinzhou, plagiarized the rear route of Lushun, and once again turned Lushun into a treasure. However, this time the Lushun battle was much more difficult than the Lushun battle in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. This was mainly because the Russian team built a solid fortification position in the Zhui area of ​​Lushun, relied on the fortress and the warship artillery fire in the military port, and caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

However, the experience of the Russo-Japanese War ultimately proves that any besieged fortress will eventually be occupied by the attacking party. Unless it can maintain contact with the rear and occupy a vast mobile space, it is impossible for the lonely army of Lushun to take the strategic initiative at all, and this is the strategic significance of the Jinzhou Isthmus.

Meng Fei flew over the Jinzhou Isthmus from the Daqin Island Logistics Base on the Bohai Sea. During this operation, he followed a bomber formation. The main task of this bomber formation is to bomb Japanese ground facilities in Lushun, Dalian and other places. As the commander of the fighter force, Meng Fei's main responsibility is to cover the bomber formation. This is the second large-scale air strike carried out by the Air Force bomber formation on the brigade area. Although there are not as many air strikes as the day of the war, in terms of strategy, this air strike is still of great significance.

This air strike in the brigade area, the main targets of the Air Force were concentrated in warehouses, railways, barracks, and highways. Although several bombs were thrown into the military port, it was just for harassment, and the key targets were all on the six grounds. The purpose was mainly to confuse the Japanese command organs and create an illusion that the Chinese team was about to launch a large-scale attack on Lushun, prompting the Japanese government to decide its strategy as soon as possible, either immediately cease the war and repaid all the occupied Chinese territory, or immediately send reinforcements from the country to reinforce Lushun.

Now, the bomber formation has returned. Most fighters have also returned to Dengzhou together. Only Meng Fei led the other five combat powers to fly over Jinzhou. They are the northernmost flight detachment in the entire formation, responsible for monitoring the northern airspace.

However, the Japanese planes never appeared, and Meng Fei and his team members never found a chance to fight. Meng Fei was very unwilling to give up, so when the bomber formation had returned, he still led the flight team to hover over the Jinzhou Isthmus, finding valuable targets.

Since Meng Fei's fighter troops took off from the Daqin Island Logistics Base on the Bohai Strait, the fuel on the plane was enough to fly back to Dengzhou from Lushun. If he landed on Daqin Island, he could extend the air stagnation time over the war zone. He planned to leave a lot of fish in Jinzhou for a while. At least he threw the bomb on the fighter's mounted.

Meng Fei led the flight team to the north, and soon passed Dalian Bay and flew over Jinzhou City. With the emergence of Chinese planes, the Japanese garrison in the city stirred up. Meng Fei hesitated for a moment, but still did not throw the bomb at the barracks. After careful consideration, he decided to bomb the railway in the south.

So Meng Fei led the flight team to turn around and fly south again, passing through the narrow waist of the Jinzhou Isthmus again. At this moment, he found a train coming from the south and flying high to the north.

It was not an ordinary train, it was a truck with more than ten flatbed trucks. Judging from the cargo carried on the flatbed truck, it was obviously an arms train, because those flatbed trucks were loaded with dozens of field guns, which was the target worth attacking.

"Hard work pays off, the Japanese army! We must have avoided air raids somewhere just now

Meng Fei immediately rushed down the plane and swung the wings left and right, ordering the five fighter planes following behind to prepare for attack.

At a beautiful small angle dive, the aircraft's attack route coincided with the direction of the train. At a height of only fifty meters above the ground, Meng Fei decisively threw down the aviation bomb hanging under the belly of the aircraft.

The aviation bomb drew a parabola in the air and then landed accurately on a flatbed cart. It exploded with a bang, shrapnel flew everywhere, and the air waves swept across everything near the explosion point. Although it was not enough to lift the field cannons on the flatbed cart to fly away. However, this explosion was enough to damage some of the structures of the field cannons.

Then, the other five fighter jets also dived down one after another, throwing five aviation bombs. Four of them fell on the railway's roadbed due to crosswinds. Only the last bomb hit a tank carriage, but this bomb played a key role. After the bomb hit the middle-aged cabin, it did not explode immediately. Instead, it smashed through the wooden roof of the carriage and landed in the carriage, and then exploded. Then, there was another more violent explosion. The huge air wave immediately caught up with the bomb-dropped fighter jet and almost destroyed it.

Meng Fei was also shocked when he looked at the fighter plane struggling to fly high altitude. He was not relieved until the plane stabilized his posture. Then he went to see the train carrying arms.

The strong explosion exploded the entire silence of the train. Although the entire train had not been broken into two parts and had not derailed, the train's degree was obviously slowing down. Obviously, the carriage was filled with explosives, shells and other arms, which were detonated by the aviation bomb.

Of course, Meng Fei would not fly away like this. He quickly gave the order to continue attacking his subordinates, then drove the plane down, and fired the train with an aviation machine gun until half of the bullets were shot. Then he still felt unsatisfied and led the flight team to shake the wings and turn back to the south, flying towards the Daqin Island Logistics Base.

Everyone on the Japanese army was anxious about this sudden air strike. The destruction of ammunition was just a trivial matter, and everyone was even more worried about the distinguished guest on the train.

The distinguished guest was Major General Koichiro Takaha, the commander of the Kwantung Army. He had just taken this train to leave Dalian Railway Station. He planned to go to the Gaiping front line on the north side of the Liaodong Peninsula and personally command the Kwantung Army to defend Gaiping. Unexpectedly, as soon as the train arrived at the Isthmus of Jinzhou, he was attacked by six Chinese fighter jets.

Tachikawa Koichiro was lucky. His special car was hanging behind the locomotive, next to the butterfly car. Therefore, it was far away from the explosive military train car. The explosion only scared him, but he was not injured, but his itinerary seemed to be delayed.

"Send people back to Dalian and ask them to send people over to deal with the carriages behind us. As for us, we should rush to the Gaiping front line in the shortest time! We must guard Gaiping."

Tachikawa Koichiro quickly made up his mind and decided to let the Singer's car pull his special car to Gaiping first. As for the arms supplies, they would leave them to others for processing.

So the staff quickly unloaded the cars hanging behind the special car compartment, and then, the surprisingly short train headed north again. Because the load was much lighter, the degree was getting faster and faster. If the railway was kept open, Koichiro Takaha would be able to arrive at the Gaiping front line at noon today.

Sitting in the special car and watching the staff draft a defensive combat plan, Takaha Koichiro fell into deep thought.

"The Chinese Air Force is becoming more and more rampant. If domestic reinforcements cannot arrive as soon as possible, I am afraid that Gaiping will not be able to defend it for long. If the base camp blames it for this matter, who can take responsibility? Therefore, it is still necessary to urge the domestic troops to send troops to the 6th Liaodong Peninsula as soon as possible, but this requires the assistance of the joint fleet, but why has the navy refused to make a decision for a long time?"
Chapter completed!