670 air strikes befell us
The situation faced by the Qin army at this airport is not bad. The Qi Air Force did not take the risk of lowering its flight altitude to drop bombs. And at the other two airports. The airship pilots there are quite bold.
The flares of the Qin army not only illuminated the situation of the outer positions, but some flares also reminded the Qi Air Force of the position of the planes in the airport. The main purpose was to prevent the opposing partisans from infiltrating and firing.
In fact, the military's later investigation revealed that some of the Qi people who had infiltrated the Qin military airfield had indeed taken the opportunity to cause chaos. They burned a portion of the oil drums, causing a fire to break out inside the airport. When something like this happened, Qin Jun had to take urgent measures.
These emergency measures were friendly at another airfield, where the gendarmes and other soldiers detained all the Qi people, and some who tried to resist were killed, but at the other airport, the Qin army apparently did not have that much patience.
There was a burst of random shooting, all the Qi people, regardless of the innocent. Shoot them all. This is the battlefield emergency measure. It was just an unexpected vignette.
The airship of the Qi Air Force was taking advantage of the fact that the Qin army was shifting its attention to the ground. They quietly lowered the altitude. The airship is propelled by manpower. Imagine how fast it is. It is also because of its slowness that it cannot make a loud noise, so it is lowered to a distance of only 100 to 200 paces.
"Drop bombs at those damn planes. Fast. "The driver commanded. Bombardiers rely on the only sighting devices they have to deliver their bombs. Although one of the bombs dropped by one of their airships may have only one hit, or none of them hit. But the bombs dropped by other airships could make up for it. As early as when the airship landed at altitude, the pilot aircraft had already issued an order for all of its owners to drop bombs freely, but only retained the direction of bombing, that is, entering from north to south, and after dropping bombs, they could quickly evacuate to avoid retaliation by the opponent when returning.
Another advantage of only throwing bombs is that you can avoid shooting into the air of mobile guns as much as possible, you know, their height is only between 100 and 200. At this distance, it is estimated that a bow and crossbow can knock them down. Moreover, free-throw bombs can cause as much chaos as possible.
In fact, this was indeed the case, the Qin army did not expect the opponent to bombard them from the air at all, and when the bomb went off, they did not think that the attack would come from the sky at all. And their first reaction turned out to be how could the guerrillas still have artillery. This made them break out in a cold sweat.
But the bombs were dropped one after another, which made the Qin army hurriedly clean up the planes on the airport before they had time to think about it, especially some troublemakers by the Qi people and the attacks of the guerrillas on the periphery. It directly affected the Qin army's immediate reaction, and it was not until more than half of the bombardment that the Qin army reacted.
So, the machine gunner urgently re-erected the machine gun. They looked for mounds of earth on an inclined plane and fired their machine guns at an elevation angle. It was these machine guns that allowed the Qin army to save some face. Ground machine guns shot down two airships. Some pilots urgently disassembled machine guns from the planes for anti-air firing. But by this time, the airship had already flown south. Most of the planes parked at the airport caught fire, some intact planes could not be fired at once, and there were exploding planes on them, and some aircraft parts were scattered all over the runway.
"At about 9 o'clock last night, our three airports were subjected to premeditated air raids by the Qi army."
"The Qi army first used the guerrillas in the rear last night to light the fires, and now we know that the role of these fires is to indicate the target. But these fires create a great sense of fear and distraction for us. This led our base commanders to focus their attention on the guerrilla offensive on the ground. ”
"In fact, it is impossible for these Qi guerrillas, who have only light weapons and no heavy weapons, to pose a great threat to a solid and well-established defense system. Just when our attention shifts to the ground. Our opponent, the Qi Air Force, suddenly launched a premeditated air attack on us. ”
"As a result of the ・・・・・・ air strikes, we suffered heavy losses from aircraft at all airfields, except for one of two squads of six aircraft that were well preserved. There are currently fewer than eleven aircraft that can fly. In terms of fuel, except for one airport, which lost a fuel depot, the rest was saved for the future. Ammunition is well preserved. Personnel losses, the pilot had two wounded. Three people died on the Marine Corps side. More than two dozen people were injured. Three of them were seriously wounded, and two machine guns were destroyed. ”
The next day, the supreme commander of the Eastern Front of the Qin army reported the losses to the State Captain's Office and the General Staff by telegram. When this news arrived, Wang Jian and others still didn't believe it. They really couldn't imagine that the Qin Heavenly Army was actually attacked by the Qi Air Force.
All the previous reports were still reporting how many Qi Air Force airships were shot down by the Qin Heavenly Army every day. I didn't expect my opponent to hit a backhand so quickly.
Seeing such a telegram, Wang Jian had some bad premonitions. Back in the time when a new airship appeared in the Air Force of the State of Qi. Wang Jian felt that he paid full attention to his opponent. But at that time, the war in the Western Regions was in full swing, and no one paid attention to it, and now it happened.
Wang Jian's hunch was correct. The Qi army is organizing a large-scale counteroffensive. After the air strikes. The fighters of the Qin State Celestial Army are in a state of repair. The Qi Air Force sent a small group of airships to test it. Although the Qin army barely rose into the air to fight. But it made the Qi army see that the strength of the Qin Heavenly Army was greatly damaged. This allowed the Qi Air Force to occupy most of the air supremacy.
After the seizure of air supremacy. The ground operations of the Qi Air Force entered a counteroffensive state. A large number of infantry entered the front line. The Qi army began to distribute ammunition, dry rations. The front line constantly selects excellent, brave soldiers to form commandos. They issued long magazines of thirteen rounds. Some commandos also purchased high-powered wooden-handled grenades at their own expense. These grenades have begun to be disassembled, disassembled, and then copied one by one, and then improved. It won't be long before mass production can be carried out. Because this grenade has a simple structure and is easy to manufacture.
The Yan army, on the other hand, focused on how to neutralize the impact of the sneak attack on the Qin airport, and the Yan army felt that the top of their heads was not safe. Many soldiers were terrified. Even the veterans of the Yan Army think so.
At this time, the high-level of the Yan army propagandized that the Qin and Yan armies had completely collapsed the guerrillas in the rear. The partisans suffered heavy losses. In order to convince people that this is real. A large number of guerrilla corpses were displayed in a centralized manner. In this way, the disgust of the Qi people in the rear was even more aroused.