Chapter 211: The Tragic Bombing Formation
Ever since mankind invented something like an airplane that can soar in the blue sky, this epoch-making thing has been quickly used in military affairs. Then the spear had a shield, and after the plane was given the function of killing, in order to deal with this killing weapon invented by itself, human beings had to invent another weapon that could resist it, so the anti-aircraft gun was born.
However, the original anti-aircraft guns were operated manually, and the aircraft was a high-altitude and high-speed weapon, and it was very difficult to find and shoot down the target with the naked eye alone, and it could only rely on luck, so the anti-aircraft guns that could only be passively beaten in the initial confrontation were at a disadvantage, but after all, human beings are intelligent animals, and the corresponding thing called radar appeared.
With the invention of radar, vehicle-mounted radar also began to come into being, weapons scientists soon combined anti-aircraft guns, radar and command instruments, in another time and space in the forties, a kind of anti-aircraft weapon called M2 90 mm anti-aircraft gun was born, this air defense weapon by 90 mm anti-aircraft gun, vehicle-mounted SCR-584 radar composed of anti-aircraft artillery integrated system and command instrument has a very high shooting accuracy and efficiency, it can find, search and lock within 40 kilometers of the flight target, and strikes at air targets at an altitude of less than 10,000. Even so, Su Jin was still not very relieved, and he also equipped this anti-aircraft gun with a big killer, that is, a radio proximity fuse was installed for high-explosive shells.
Feeling the increasingly powerful air threat of the Japanese, Su Jinyi gritted his teeth and spent more than 6,000 energy points to cash in 27 M2 90 mm anti-aircraft guns to form an anti-aircraft gun battalion, this anti-aircraft artillery battalion is mainly responsible for dealing with those bombers hiding in the air, today is also the first actual combat of this anti-aircraft artillery battalion, at the beginning of this anti-aircraft artillery battalion showed a very high efficiency, one by one 9 90 mm anti-aircraft bombs equipped with wireless proximity fuses exploded around the Japanese bombers as if they had eyes, In less than five minutes, six Type 97 heavy bombers were bombed at high altitudes, either exploding in the air at high altitude or falling to the ground with black smoke.
The sudden blow almost broke the Japanese pilots en masse, and they could never have imagined that the anti-aircraft guns that had been able to hit them by great luck would shoot so accurately as if they had eyes. And the most important thing is that no matter how they change the altitude, these shells can explode around them accurately, as if there are cannonballs staring at them.
"What the hell is going on? Why did the anti-aircraft artillery of the Chinese people hit so accurately? ”
Seeing this moment, Aso Ken almost collapsed, although he desperately commanded the bombing formation to desperately dodge the action, but all this seemed to be in vain, those shells seemed to identify them and still continued to explode around the formation, watching the bombers around them continue to explode and crash like birds with broken wings, the originally dense formation became sparse, and Aso Ken could only reluctantly give an order that he was most reluctant to say.
"Attention to the bombing formation, all units are dispersed, and return immediately after all the bombs are dropped!"
Kenichi Aso, who finished the order, pulled the joystick. The hatch in the belly of the plane opened, and dozens of aerial bombs were thrown to the ground like dumplings, and then flew towards the east.
The departure of the bombing formation announced that the retaliatory bombing operation of the Japanese aircraft formation had ended in a miscarriage, and the escort formation, which had been circling at low altitude to strafe and bomb, was also busy pulling up the nose of the plane and flying towards the way it came. The free M2 90 anti-aircraft artillery battalion has locked them in, and the anti-aircraft guns are constantly chasing and exploding with them in the air, compared with those 97-type heavy bombers, those Nakajima fighters who have not had time to escape are more vulnerable. In addition, the Japanese fighters are known for their thin skin and large filling. Seven or eight more were lost as they passed through a barrage of metal bullets, and when they escaped from the death zone, the commander of the escort formation fainted on the spot as he looked at the several fighters that were gradually gathering together.
Unlike the Japanese army, which was like a mourning test, the ground troops who won a great victory were thunderous with joy. Even Su Jin, the initiator, was a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect that with the combination of several vehicle-borne radars and anti-aircraft artillery that seemed to him to be relatively primitive, it would burst out with such great power, and the chaos just now almost knocked out most of the Japanese formation, and the Japanese have always picked (ass) eyes and licked their fingers, which should be enough for them to feel distressed to the point of liver trembling.
In fact, Su Jin was right. When Aso Ken led the formation back to Jiujiang Airport and got off the plane, when all the planes returned, he knelt on the ground and cried when he saw the sparse planes parked on the runway. He took a total of 26 Type 97 heavy bombers and 18 Nakajima Type 97 fighters with him during this bombing operation, but in the end only a few 18 (8 Type 97 heavy bombers and 10 Nakajima fighters) returned to the airfield, and nearly half of them were wounded.
But his nightmare was not over, and before his subordinates could persuade him, two gendarmes with armbands on their arms were already standing in front of him and said coldly: "Your Excellency, in view of the great losses in this operation, Your Excellency the division commander invites you to go to the division headquarters and explain to him all the process of this operation. ”
After speaking, the two gendarmes stepped forward to grab Aso Ken left and right, and dragged him away, looking at the back of Aso Ken being towed away, all the pilots who had just gotten off the plane showed a sad and helpless look on their faces, intellectually speaking, they all knew that the failure of this operation could not be entirely blamed on Aso Ken Dazuo, but the loss of this operation was so big, someone had to be responsible for the loss of more than 20 fighters, as the person directly responsible for the operation, Ken Aso is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate for the size and length of the black pot.
As the main culprit in the failure of the Japanese bombing campaign, our commander Su found a place to sleep well, and did not wake up until noon, and the first thing he did when he woke up was to ask the guards to ask for a single ration and eat it.
Although the energy points in Su Jin's hands are increasing day by day, his supply of individual rations for soldiers has not changed much, and he generally purchases a large amount of sorghum rice, rice and flour, and cashes out a batch of Spam luncheon meat to supply the troops. Nowadays, Spam luncheon meat has become a scenery of the Independent Brigade, which is disgusted by countless American officers and soldiers in another time and space because of its high fat, high calorie and high salt, but this kind of disease is tantamount to the best tonic for the Chinese soldiers who cannot even guarantee the most basic nutrition, and this kind of luncheon meat is welcomed by the officers and soldiers of the army in the Independent Brigade.
And the men of the Independent Brigade also relied on the talent of the Chinese people to come up with dozens of recipes, such as luncheon meat rice, luncheon meat stewed potatoes, luncheon meat and vegetable soup, dry fried luncheon meat, luncheon meat buns and other dishes with a wide variety of names, so that even the initiator Su Jin was dumbfounded.
Just as Su Jin was eating a plate of luncheon meat fried rice, Zhou Yusheng opened the curtain and walked in, and handed a telegram to Su Jin: "Sir, we already know about the capture of Xinlong Airport, Chief Xue sent a commendation telegram, look at it!" ”
Su Jin took the telegram and glanced at it and pouted: "It's all flashy things, and it's not affordable at all." ”
Zhou Yusheng smiled: "Sir, our independent brigade is now famous, it's good that Chief Xue doesn't come to fight the autumn breeze, and he will send us something?" Besides, the weapons and equipment of our independent brigade are already the only scorpion in the national army, what more do you want? ”
Su Jin's eyes widened: "Who said that he didn't want it, at least I want Dayang and the establishment, if he dares to give me an army establishment, Lao Tzu will immediately lead his troops to attack Nanchang City now!" ”
Zhou Yusheng smiled bitterly: "Eh, my brigade seat, you have only been out of Shandong for a few days, in less than a year, you have changed from a mountain king to the brigade commander of the security brigade, and the boss also agreed, if you can take Nanchang this time, you will expand our division into a division, but you can't expand into an army in one step, right?" ”
"You can't say that." Su Jin said: "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, who of us who leads the soldiers doesn't want to make their soldiers as many as possible, and with more soldiers, we can better realize the ambitions in our chests." ”
While the two were talking, Zhou Yusheng suddenly changed his words and asked, "Sir, I heard that you asked Chief Chen for two Japanese fighters and several flight and ground crews, do you want to ......?"
"Don't guess, I really want to build an air force of my own." Seeing Zhou Yusheng asking, Su Jin happily admitted, "I think you have also seen how arrogant the Japanese planes are, if we hadn't been prepared this morning, I'm afraid our troops would have suffered heavy losses, but since ancient times, there have only been thieves for a thousand days, and there are no thieves for a thousand days, in case we accidentally get into such a loophole by the Japanese one day, we don't even have a chance to cry, so I thought about whether we could train a group of our own pilots first, and maybe they could be used in the future." ”
Cultivating his own air power, Rao is Zhou Yusheng had already prepared in his heart, but he was also taken aback, he hurriedly persuaded: "Sir, the government has already issued a decree, stipulating that no army except the central government can retain air power privately, even the original air force of the Gui and Feng departments has been returned to the central government, and I am afraid that you will provoke the anger of the committee member." (To be continued.) )