Chapter 21: Attack on Kyushu Island (1)

Dropping all the bombs they had brought, the parachute team that was raging over Nagasaki turned around without hesitation, knowing that in half an hour at most, the second group of friendly bombers would fly here again. Pen~fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info all the enemy planes circling in the sky have been withdrawn, but Nagasaki has been turned into a city of fire, and countless Japanese civilians who have been awakened from their sleep can only gather in the wilderness, and secretly pray that Amaterasu will bless him and his family from this catastrophe.

The Japanese troops stationed in Nagasaki urgently reported the bombing to the military headquarters, and the Japanese military headquarters who received the telegram were confused, wondering if this could be a false war report from some drunken guy. According to the analysis of the military department, the Americans are still fighting hard in the Philippines, and it is impossible for them to pull out an air crash to attack the Japanese mainland, and the protective umbrella, which has always been regarded as a great enemy by the Japanese military, has already followed the British to North Africa, and there is no air force in the Chinese army across the sea.

Without receiving a reply from the military headquarters, the Japanese army in Nagasaki sent a telegram with the same content one after another, and received telegrams from Nagasaki one after another, which finally attracted the attention of the Japanese military headquarters. But at this time, the second group of bombers from Jeju Island had already crossed the sea to Kyushu Island, and their chosen target this time was no longer Nagasaki, but Sasebo north of Nagasaki.

Nagasaki was bombed, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe was directly vomited blood and fell unconscious, and the emperor, who had always been undecided, was also confused, and hurriedly convened other cabinet members to discuss countermeasures. Fumima Konoe vomited blood and fainted, and the pillars of the entire Japanese government collapsed as if in an instant, and the cabinet fell into a state of chaos at the first time. If it weren't for Emperor Hirohito's direct intervention, the chaos in the cabinet would have even spread.

Konoe Fumima was unconscious, and the emperor and other cabinet members did not have a good countermeasure, and at the emperor's insistence, the command of the home defense fell to Hideki Tojo without accident. A series of orders were issued from the Imperial Palace, and the limited Japanese troops on the island of Kyushu began to rush to their own defensive line under the dispatch of the staff headquarters. Under the command of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island were ready to meet the battle, but before they had arrived at the defense area, the second round of bombardment under the umbrella had already come.

Although the British flying team was not equipped with modified heavy bombers and could not use large cloudburst bombs in bombing, Zhuo Fei prepared a large number of powerful incendiary bombs and white phosphorus bombs for them. From the time Sir James came to the door to ask for the help of the umbrella, Zhuo Fei had already made up his mind to sell a large amount of arms to the British, and now, there is nothing more profitable than the arms business.

The British flying team was equipped with powerful incendiary bombs and white phosphorus bombs, on the one hand, to increase the casualties and losses of the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island, and on the other hand, to allow the British flying team to see with their own eyes the power of the weapons of mass destruction created by the umbrella. The radar station and airfield on Kyushu Island were the first targets of the Umbrella Special Forces forces, and along the coastline, these successful special forces members planted time bombs early, which would be detonated at regular intervals when the time came, and the flames that spread after the bomb exploded to guide the fighters.

The effect of night bombing is actually not very ideal, Zhuo Fei also knows this, the reason why he ordered the night bombing of Kyushu Island is really to shock the Japanese army. After two consecutive rounds of air raids, the sky has appeared white, and the island of Kyushu, which is full of fireworks, has become orderly from the panic, and a large number of troops have driven out of the barracks, evacuating the civilians gathered together, while strengthening the fortifications and positions, waiting for a new round of enemy attacks.

Naturally, there was an attack, but Zhuo Fei temporarily stopped the third round of flying teams, and the attack was replaced by the temporary fleet that had just arrived off the coast of Nagasaki. McHausen hurried to the open sea less than 100 kilometers from Nagasaki before dawn, and when the sky was bright and the visibility became clear, the temporary fleet was ready to attack, first with the launch of 120 carrier-based aircraft, and then with the entire fleet moving forward.

McHausen's temporary fleet is no longer what it was when it was first formed, and now it has more than 30 warships, including large cruisers, in addition to 20 aircraft carriers and mobile rocket artillery warships converted from ocean-going freighters at the Kuala Lumpur shipyard, and the combat effectiveness of the fleet has already increased significantly. The appearance of the temporary fleet could not hide from the Japanese reconnaissance stations on the islands off Kyushu Island, and it was determined that a fleet appeared off the coast of Nagasaki, and the Japanese army realized that it was the US-Australian coalition forces that dared to attack Kyushu Island.

The Japanese pinned the attack on Kyushu Island on MacArthur's head, and Zhuo Fei did not express any disagreement on this, but behaved very indifferently. The 120 carrier-based planes that had risen off the coast did not bomb the landing sites that had already been selected, but aimed the first round of strikes at the Japanese barracks near Nagasaki, and the air-to-ground rockets installed on the carrier-based planes became the sharpest weapons.

By the time the sky really dawned, the temporary fleet that was moving at full speed had bypassed those islands in the open sea and approached the coastline of Kyushu Island, and more than 50 warships of various types looked at a large area of Wuyang, dozens of nautical miles, and a large number of troop transports were moving towards this side. The aircraft carrier converted from an ocean-going freighter lowered its anchor chain, and the improved and upgraded second-generation helicopter gunship was lifted to the deck, and in just 10 minutes, more than 50 helicopter gunships were lifted off and headed for land.

The helicopter was not the first of its kind in the Umbrella, but for use in warfare, the Umbrella was indeed the first of its kind in the world. Most of the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island were native troops, and looking at the helicopter gunships flying from the sea, no one among the Japanese troops defending the coastline knew what it was. Rapid-fire machine guns and air-to-ground rockets are the combat weapons of helicopter gunships, and in order to get the most out of them, the gunships participating in the first round of attacks carried only one crew member except the pilot, and the main role of this crew member was to control the rapid-fire machine gun and change the chain.

The helicopter group, which was scattered in the form of paratroopers, was still several hundred meters away from the Japanese positions along the coastline, so they rushed to launch air-to-ground rockets, and then they did not even determine the effect of the bombardment, so they pulled up the nose and flew towards the rear of the Japanese positions. "Boom," "Boom," "Boom," and "Boom" air-to-ground rockets with white smoke trailing their tails exploded in the Japanese position, and fireworks and dust rose from the sky one after another, and before the Japanese troops on land could wake up from the explosion, the fleet on the sea opened fire.

The power of air-to-ground rockets fired by armed helicopters is almost equal to that of ordinary low-caliber infantry guns, but the caliber of naval guns generally exceeds 240 mm, and the caliber of the main gun of McHausen's flagship reaches 350 mm caliber. Naval guns with a caliber of more than 300 mm can be described as extremely powerful, and once a cannon goes down, it is within a radius of tens of meters within the killing range, and if it is lucky not to be hit by shrapnel, it will at least be shocked out of internal injuries or bleed from deafness in both ears.

The machine guns of the carrier-based planes returning from the bombing mission strafed the Japanese positions along the coastline, and the entire landing beach was filled with gunfire and fireworks. The enemy attacked Kyushu Island at night and used its fleet to carry out a strong fire attack on the coastline of Kyushu Island, and Hideki Tojo, who was far away in Tokyo, saw the intention of the temporary fleet and immediately dispatched a flight team from the air force defending Honshu Island to Kyushu Island to provide air support.

Hideki Tojo dispatched the flight team on Honshu Island to support the Japanese army on Kyushu Island, which was already in Zhuo Fei's expectation, judging from the telegram sent back by the special forces, the attack on the airfield in the Japanese mainland was not carried out very thoroughly, and the Japanese army still had at least more than 1,000 fighters of all kinds on the mainland. "Order, the fighter formation will take off immediately, and the helicopter gunship attack force assigned to the temporary fleet should speed up and take the airfield suitable for take-off and landing as soon as possible." Zhuo Fei, who was sitting far away on Jeju Island, issued a new order, and as for whether the Zha fighter formation that was taking off now could repel the Japanese air force, this was no longer in Zhuo Fei's consideration.

Vivian and the others were mostly unwilling to let the Umbrella's fighter formation fight hard against the Japanese Air Force, but Zhuo Fei still insisted on his decision and fought hard with the Japanese. If you count the British flying team that Sir James transferred from the North African battlefield, Zhuo Fei currently has more than 1,400 fighters, although among these 1,400 fighters, there are less than 500 fighters, but Zhuo Fei still thinks that it is time to send fighter formations to fight.

All the fighters participating in the war against Japan were also equipped with rockets, but the rockets assigned to them were miniaturized in terms of size and weight. The use of rockets in air combat is the first of its kind under the umbrella, and this miniaturized rocket is also a new product of the weapons laboratory, with a smaller size and weight, and a larger relative carry.

The overwhelming shelling lasted for more than half an hour, and the Japanese coastline positions that were more than 5 kilometers long and 3 kilometers deep were shelled back and forth by the temporary fleet. Once upon a time, when the Japanese attacked Shanghai, it was the Japanese fleet that stopped at the positions of the Nationalist troops on the opposite shore of the coastal waters to carry out covering artillery bombardment. Now, however, the two sides have changed radically, with the proud Japanese army on the shore enduring endless shelling, and the opponent who was once the object of their ridicule has become the attacking side.