Chapter 313, Air Combat Trap 4
Faced with the reappearance of the American swarm, Rì himself was caught in a dilemma. First of all, they could not judge the type of incoming US military aircraft. If it were another fighter plane, and Rì himself would send a plane to intercept it again as he did last time, I am afraid that the result would be even worse than the big battle just now. In the battle just now, it was still relatively "experienced" pilots who carried out combat missions, and now, it is obviously difficult for these pilots who have just gone through a high-intensity air battle to devote themselves to air combat again, they are already too tired. And if you send those inexperienced guys who have an average flight time of only a dozen hours, and who are likely to fall off by themselves if they make a circling move, what is the use of sending the results of the battle to the Americans? Even if it is a real bomber group that is attacking, with those rookies, it will definitely not be able to exert the best climbing speed, and it is really difficult to say whether it can climb to the height where the enemy planes are.
And even if these rookies can climb to this height, it is a question whether they can effectively attack enemy bombers. At the level of these rookies, relying on machine guns or machine guns to confront air giants like the B-29 bomber is simply looking for death. So if they want to effectively fight the enemy's bomber forces, they can only rely on kamikaze ramming.
But considering that these rookies have never had a hit rate of more than one-third even when they hit warships with larger targets and much slower speeds, and now they have to hit targets that are smaller in size and more than ten times faster, how high can the hit rate be when they hit them? Launching a kamikaze attack on a warship, these rookie techniques can barely be used, and launching a kamikaze attack on bombers, the difficulty is not something that these rookies with an average age of more than 15 years old and an average flight time of a little more than ten hours can overcome.
Therefore, proceeding from reality, sending a new group of interceptor planes will not actually have much effect, but may bring unnecessary losses. So giving up this interception is probably the best option. However, in the face of an enemy who came to the door, he did not dare to attack, and such a depraved thing would definitely seriously dampen morale. And for the current rìben, morale is the most precious. Because there is nothing left but morale.
So Rì Ben again sent a group of interceptors. However, having learned the lesson of the last time, Rì himself waited until the group of planes that took off had joined together under radio guidance before guiding them to intercept the American group. Although if it is a bomber, then the interceptor group will almost certainly not be able to intercept effectively. In fact, I'm afraid the commander didn't expect these rookies to complete the interception. All he needs is the fact that "we continue to fight".
This time it wasn't fake bombers that arrived, Ron currently had only over 600 fighters in his hands, all of which had already been sent out in the first round of operations. Now that these planes are on their way back, it is certainly not possible to reappear over Rìmoto at once. It is indeed 300 B-29 heavy bombers of the 21st Air Force that are flying towards Tokyo today.
As expected, when the bomber group reached the skies over Tokyo, the Rìmoto fighter group that came to intercept it had an altitude difference of about a thousand meters from the bombers. Such an altitude difference almost means that the American bombers have a complete action.
The bomber group flew all the way over Tokyo, then opened the magazine and began to drop bombs. This time the Americans dropped high-explosive bombs. When the air raid jǐng newspaper sounded again, some people in Tokyo hurriedly ran into the bomb shelter, and some people remembered last night's fire, and remembered the corpses found in the bomb shelter after the fire was extinguished, and did not even dare to enter the bomb shelter, but only dared to run along the street. There are also some stupid and bold who simply raise their heads and look up at the sky, wanting to see how the rìben fighters intercept the American bombers. Then, the bomb fell right above their heads.
A burst of bombs blew up the people who were still on the ground and at the same time rì himself, who happened to be in the bombing range. Then, when some of the lucky people who were lucky enough not to be killed ran out of their hiding place, they found that countless pieces of paper were falling like snowflakes.
These falling pieces of paper were leaflets dropped by the U.S. military. Dropping leaflets at the enemy and waging propaganda warfare and psychological warfare is not a new thing, and the US military was not the first to drop leaflets on the enemy. As early as 1938, the KMT Air Force sent two Martin-139WC bombers to drop leaflets on Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Kitakyushu in Rìmoto. Some of these leaflets are earnest, some are strict. But if you want to talk about the effect, well, it has a good effect in improving the morale of the people, and there is almost no effect at all in terms of hitting the morale of the people. Because, without the support of force, the mouth cannon cannot scare anyone.
Compared to the thousand-word "Letter to the People" on the leaflets dropped by China, the words on the American flyers are much simpler. But paper and print are far more than Chinese leaflets. For example, now, Kameda, who escaped death, picked up such a flyer. The flyer was printed on coated paper with a string of falling bombs and scattered cherry blossoms. There are also two rì haiku sentences next to it, which read: "Bombs fall like torrential rain, and the imperial kingdom drifts like falling flowers." ”
Looking at this leaflet printed with jīng beauty, Kameda trembled all over. The enemy has already shown in front of them the power to destroy xìng. Not to mention yesterday's and today's bombing, but this leaflet, such good paper, such good printing, is far beyond any book I've ever seen. Doesn't this also fully prove the overwhelming material power of the enemy in relation to rìben?
Just as Kameda was mobilizing all his might, a hand reached over and snatched the flyer from his hand.
"You red deer, what are you looking at?" The man who snatched Kameda's flyer yelled at Kameda. Kameda fixed his mind before he recognized this person as Hirota, a neighbor who did jǐng cha.
Hirota glared at Kameda, and then whispered, "Kameda-kun, such a thing can't be read in public, and there will be trouble." ”
Kameda, of course, understood that Hirota was doing it for his own good, and hurriedly bowed to him to express his gratitude.
On the other side, a soldier standing next to a small-caliber high-caliber cannon picked up a leaflet, glanced at it, and then wept silently. An old soldier snatched the leaflet from his hand and looked at it. The leaflet depicted a large burning torii gate with the following sentence next to it: "The Yasukuni Shrine no longer exists, so where will your soul return in the future?" ”
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"Ron, you've had a good day." Li Mei was sitting in Ron's command center, looking at the group of fighter jets that were landing on the runway, and said this to Ron.
"Yes, it is not bad, it has shot down more than 300 enemy planes, and its own losses are only 20. Of the twenty aircraft lost, nine flew to the open sea, where they made a forced landing. The Navy was able to save a large part of it. But that's nothing compared to your last night's results. Ron said.
"No, I don't see it that way. Ron, your battle today has broken the backbone of Rìben's air defense, and the significance is quite far-reaching, I hope that it won't be long before our bombers can swagger to Rìben to burn houses in broad daylight. Li Mei apparently disagreed with Ron's "not worth mentioning" claim.
"Burning down someone's house in broad daylight? Are you going to change the way you attack now? Ron was taken aback.
"Of course, you think I'm born with a love of bombers with no self-defense weapons? If there are no enemy fighters during the day, why not do it during the day? During the day, Rì's own workers were working in those workshops, just in time for a fire to burn down. Moreover, the more brazen during the day was a greater blow to the morale of Rì himself. ”
"Well, that makes sense. Speaking of demoralizing Rì himself, those leaflets you printed are really good. Those who designed these leaflets should be awarded. Ron said.
"I've never been too concerned about the propaganda department. I heard that it seems to be made by some rì-Americans and experts on rì issues. Li Mei said.
"Don't underestimate the publicity," Ron said, "and Rì himself is now left with only morale." Defeat their morale, and defeat them. After saying that, he remembered something a little more, and added: "Well, your leaflet reminded me, otherwise, we will send planes there one day in advance to drop jǐng leaflets before every air attack on a certain target in the future." Do you think about the effect of this? ”
"Do this?" Li Mei thought for a while, and her two eyes began to glow, "Well, as long as we can be honest and trustworthy in lighting fires in a few cities, as long as we make a jǐng sue in the future, I'm afraid that everyone in the whole city will run a jīng light." In this way, the damage to production will be even greater than that of incendiary bombs, after all, we cannot really burn a city down in one bombing. But such intimidation can literally turn a city into a ghost town. You guy, you really have a bit of an apocalypse knight! ”
"Well, we'll have to wait until more fighters are available." Ron complained that in his opinion, the current more than 600 fighters were indeed not enough, and at least a thousand or so would be useful.
"Don't worry, the United States has no shortage of fighter jets. But the key factor limiting the number of fighters you have in your hands is the number of airfields, right? Li Mei said.
This is true, in two airfields, more than six hundred fighters were piled up, and this density is already very large. Simply piling up more planes can only reduce the efficiency of those planes, and it will not increase the number of planes that are actually in the air for combat by much. The third airport is still under construction, and the construction of the fourth airport has already begun. It is estimated that when these airports are completed, the day will come when the sky will be completely controlled.