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Chapter 1996 is a big victory

The northwest region of Mosulan, an important town in the north of the Two Rivers Plain, has fertile and flat land, and human beings have lived in this place as early as three or four thousand years ago, and it has been a famous granary since ancient times, with the "Y" shaped Tigris River and the Great Zab River, which meanders from north to south, bringing abundant mountain springs in the highlands of Turkey and Kurdistan, but after entering modern times, due to the division of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, as well as the disputes between tribes, religions and proxies between the powers, wars and turmoil, this place has been barren for a long time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the Anjia Army defeated the Japanese army and stationed there in the 40th year, with the deterrence of strong military power and the chaos after the Japanese army was slaughtered, it supported the establishment of the Kurdish Kingdom with Mosul as the capital in the north, the Baghdad Kingdom with Baghdad as the capital in the center, and the Mesopotamia Kingdom with Vesseliyah as the capital in the south, while the territories of the former northeastern Iraq and southwestern Persia formed the Gulf North Province directly under the central part of South China.

For example, a fist penetrates deep into the narrow area of the border between Turkey and Syria, which is rich in oil and minerals, and at the same time has great significance for the geopolitics of South China, An Yi specially approved the establishment of Shuangxi City in Kirkuk, Erbil and Dahuk, and the local indigenous people all moved south into the Kurdish kingdom, and the Chinese immigrants replaced them, and established a production and construction corps to carry out military reclamation in this fertile land.

The so-called production and construction, in the case of war, the first priority. For more than a year, the engineers of the Anjia Army, together with the strong laborers of the immigrants, built a strong fortress group near the border line and set up several blocking positions in depth, while the women and the weak remained in the reclamation area to carry out farmland and water conservancy construction and grow food. However, due to the complexity and particularity of the border area, most of the food needed in this area still needs to be replenished from the rear.

Fortunately, after more than two years of construction, the railway connecting Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan and India has been fully completed, and the railway along the southern coastline is also in full swing.

Since the beginning of this year's growing tensions with Germany, Daqing has become a war zone, with much of the farmland filled with mud and gravel, flattened by road rollers, poured with asphalt and covered with a thick layer of concrete, enough for large bombers to take off and land.

These large areas of flat ground built in the field, covered with straw or tree branches, and dismantled in wartime, can be used by a large number of air forces.

As a matter of fact, with the deployment of troops by the Germans, our army also made a-for-tat layout, with radar guidance vehicles and refueling trucks stationed in many of these areas, and around these flat grounds, large camouflage tents, improvised board houses, and armored communication vehicles were neatly arranged on both sides, and in the big tent at the end of the runway, all kinds of planes were parked.

As night fell, the airfield, which had been carrying out air defense concealment, had its lights turned on in a rare way, illuminating the straight runway.

In a large square tent, an Air Force major dressed in a gray and sky blue camouflage uniform spoke to more than a hundred pilots in brown and black flight jackets in front of him.

Behind the major, a black presentation board was marked with lines and arrows, and the pilots were each holding a thin document in a simple transparent plastic folder.

After the explanation, the young major, representing the command of the air force in the theater, solemnly asked: "This is tonight's mission, is it clear to everyone?" ”

"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison.

After the major announced the disbandment, he took the lead out of the tent and came to the communication command vehicle outside to report to his superiors. The pilots whispered their views on today's mission, and then dispersed one by one, and soon the tent that had been filled with people was soon reduced to a pile of empty chairs.

A quarter of an hour later, in the open space not far from the tent, 15 huge planes drove out of the improvised hangar one after another and stopped on both sides of the runway, and many ground crews began to get busy around the perimeter; some picked up the fuel guns of the fuel tanker trucks to refuel the fuel tanks of the fighters; some hoisted round aerial bombs into the belly of the fighters; and some climbed ladders to deliver iron boxes containing ammunition for aviation machine guns and cannons to the nose, wings, back, and tail of the planes.

The ground crew all wore gray overalls that were resistant to dirt and stains, and next to each plane, one or two officers and men wearing brown and black flight jackets helped to check for any defects or omissions. Today's task is very arduous, and the slightest problem can lead to the death of the crew, so they must not be careless.

Today's B5 large bomber, which was ordered to attack, follows the mature AN7 transport aircraft manufacturing technology, and has many innovations in the local area, its length is 31 meters, the wingspan is 44 meters, the height is 8.5 meters, the empty weight is 34 tons, the full load weight is 55 tons, the maximum take-off weight is 62 tons, and four 2,300 horsepower supercharged engines are used, the maximum speed is 590 km / h, the combat cruising distance is as high as 5,500 kilometers, and the transportation cruising distance has reached 9,200 kilometers. The practical ceiling is 12,000 kilometers, and the anti-aircraft armament is 12 12.7 mm aviation machine guns on both wings, and one 20 mm cannon on the top and one on the tail.

Each B5 bomber group usually consists of a pilot, a co-pilot, a flight engineer, a bomber, a navigator, a radioman, two side gunners, an upper gunner and a tail gunner, a total of 150 pilots. We must not underestimate the role of these 15 bombers, who were able to drop more than 300 tons of bombs at a time to a distance of 2,500 kilometers, and were the most terrible weapons of war in this era.

At ten o'clock in the evening, after exchanging "good luck", the drivers raised their right thumbs up to the outside of the cockpit, and soon, in the huge roar of the engine, the propeller rotated at high speed, and a piece of flying sand and rocks flew on the ground. Under the guidance of ground-based radar, the first B5 large bomber slid off the ground and took off, and ten minutes later, fifteen bombers completed the formation over the airfield, and then flew towards the dark sky in the north.

Not long after, two S4 high-altitude reconnaissance planes took off one after another and also flew towards the northern sky. These two reconnaissance planes, which are equipped with four radar signal receivers for electronic reconnaissance, radio communication reconnaissance planes, direction finders for the direction of radiation sources, and magnetic tape recorders for electromagnetic radiation sources, will provide the bomber group with the necessary early warning to avoid being intercepted and attacked by the German fighter group.

The bomber formation at an altitude of 8,000 meters quickly flew over Turkish territory, and although the German radar station gave a timely warning, it seemed powerless at night - before that, about four or five reconnaissance planes broke into Turkish airspace and dropped a lot of aluminum foil, so that the Germans could not figure out whether the radar feedback was true.

In addition, the radar technology of the Luftwaffe is still the same as that of the South China Air Force two or three years ago, and the Air Force is also not confident in night flights, and at the same time, the Mosquito fighters, which are very suitable for night fighting, can only fly up to 7,000 meters in the air because of problems such as the structure of the airframe, so the Luftwaffe deployed in Turkey only informed the higher authorities and ignored them.

The targets of this squadron of long-range bombers were oil fields and refineries on the territory of Romania.

Romania discovered oil in the middle of the last century, and after the exploitation of domestic and foreign capital, it gradually became the largest oil exporter in Europe outside Baku. Romania's oil fields are mainly located near the Trans-Sivanian Alps, the main oil refining industrial area is located in Ploiesti, near the tributaries of the Danube River and at the junction of several highways, and is more than 2,450 kilometers away from the nearest airfield of the Anjia Air Force, which is just within the combat radius of the B5 bomber.

Five hours later, the group flew over Romanian territory and gradually lowered its flight altitude, reaching an altitude of more than 2,000 meters above Ploiesti, and the cities along the way sounded a terrible air defense siren.

Under the guidance of the two S4 reconnaissance planes, the bombers in the lead took the lead in opening the door of their bomb bays, and more than 100 bombs of the 100 to 200 kg class were thrown out in strings like fish spawning in water.

Other bombers also aimed their own bombs at the target based on the electronic map provided by the S4 reconnaissance plane. More than 1,000 aerial bombs almost covered the entire city of Ploiesti, and the oil refineries all over the city and the continuous oil well areas on the outskirts of the city were hit by aerial bombs one after another, and thick smoke rose in the light of the bright and extinguished fires, and then there was a violent sound of martyrdom, and the entire land was almost illuminated by the flames that rose to a height of 100 meters.

The anti-aircraft guns rang out one after another, but it was difficult to tell the crosshairs in the night, and the "crackling" explosion clouds kept flashing in the air, but it was a pity that tens of thousands of shells were not collected.

Sirens, gunfire, explosions, and shouts filled the perimeter of the city of Ploiesti, and although oil extraction and refining facilities were said to be the main targets of the sortie, there were always aerial bombs that deviated from their coordinates and occasionally fell on civilian facilities, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties.

After a quarter of an hour of bombing, the bombing was over, and the B5 bombers looked very relaxed, regrouping over Ploiesti and then embarking on the journey back, by which time the largest oil center in Europe had been completely engulfed in fire and smoke.

Without waiting for the Anjia Army bomber group to leave, more than a dozen German planes that ventured into the air flew from Bucharest in the south, and saw that the most important energy base of the Axis countries was so destroyed, the Luftwaffe pilots gritted their teeth one by one, although most of the pilots deployed here were rookies, but they still bravely drove the Mosquito and BF109 fighters to rush towards the Anjia Army bomber group.

At this time, the entire B5 bomber group was in the process of ascending, due to the timely warning of the S4 reconnaissance plane, one after another B5 bombers began to use their airborne firepower, under the guidance of the S4 reconnaissance plane, to shoot at the attackers, in front of the fifteen B5 bombers lined up in a dense defensive formation, the German planes that were not suitable for night battles could not find an opportunity to take advantage of, so they had to brave the rain of bullets, wandering around the Anjia military aircraft group, and trying to launch an attack from the lower part of the aircraft group, where the defense of the group was the weakest.

However, the machine guns and cannons on the wings, back, and tail of the B5 bombers, although they could not strafe their own lower parts, they could clear the lower part of the obstacles for the other bombers in the formation, and the four German fighters that were vertically pulling up and preparing to fire upwards were driven out by rows of holes by the 24 aviation machine guns of the two B5 bombers that took the initiative to descend, and two of them fell to the ground wakily, and two of them exploded in volleys.

The rest of the German fighters helplessly dodged, continued to circle, and prepared to round up the two B5 bombers that fell behind, but the top and rear guns of the two fighters continued to spit fire, and one Bf109 fighter was unlucky to be hit, and while the other fighters were dodging, the two B5 bombers had returned to the group and continued to climb up in battle formation.

It didn't take long for the Anjia military aircraft group to rise to an altitude of 7,000 meters, and the German fighters, whose fuselage could not withstand the huge pressure, had to return to the air.

In the comfortable sunshine of eight o'clock the next morning, two S4 reconnaissance planes and 15 B5 bombers and more than 150 pilots on them returned home smoothly.

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On this night, Germany's Grozny, Margobek, and Zaterechne oil fields in the northern Caucasus Mountains, the Galzan oil fields in Turkey, the Suez, Alamein, and Western Desert oil fields in Egypt, and the oil fields in Romania were simultaneously attacked by the Anjia Air Force.

The air defense sirens of the Germans in the rear cities 2,500 kilometers away from the border line sounded frequently, and both officers and soldiers and ordinary citizens were disturbed.

However, due to the huge losses suffered by the Luftwaffe on the first day of its active attack, as well as the missile attack that followed, the Luftwaffe lost its sharpness, and the peculiarities of the night battle, the German defense system was thrown into a mess and the losses were extremely heavy.

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