Chapter 26: Enemy Air Raids
After the meeting, Han Xing was most worried about air defense, Han Xing wanted to go to the air defense camp with Captain Dong Yimin, and he said to Fan Zhuxian: "Commander Fan, I'll go to the air defense camp to have a look, and you will come here to guard the old camp."
Fan Zhuxian said: "It turns out that I said that military affairs are mainly up to you. Well, you guard the old camp here, and I'll go down there and have a look! ”
Han Xing hurriedly said: "That's not good, the water can't flood the bridge, or you sit in the formation, and I'll take care of the errands." I also took this opportunity to go down there and learn more. ”
Zhang Weihan also helped Han Xing beat the side drum and said: "Commander Fan, didn't you say that you should let Han Xing exercise more, don't go around the bottom much, I am not familiar with the following situation, how to exercise, you just let him go!" ”
Since both of them said this, Fan Zhuxian had no choice but to give in, and he said to Han Xing: "Then you go and go back quickly, the matter at the airport, I am a toad jumping into the well - I don't understand (plop), everything is also temporary, now learn and sell." ”
Han Xing followed Dong Yimin, trotted, and quickly arrived at the position of the air defense battalion.
The anti-aircraft battalion was established under the establishment of Han Xing, and each squad was equipped with two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, 18 per company, and 54 for one battalion. This heavy machine gun has a high gun mount, can be flexibly turned, and is equipped with an aiming net, which can lasso enemy aircraft, with a theoretical rate of fire of 450-600 rounds per minute, and an effective range of 1,500 meters, which can be used with ordinary 12.7 mm bullets, as well as shell-piercing armor-piercing shells, incendiary tracer bullets, and armor-piercing explosive incendiary bombs provided by the arsenal. For now, this is a big killer against devil tanks and planes.
The position of the air defense battalion is built between the command center and the barracks, and it is not too far from the tarmac, if you want to say where the airfield is the most important, Han Xing believes that it is still the command center, and if you want to say the planes on the apron, the oil depot of the airfield is not unimportant, but the devil is arrogant and always thinks that they can take back the airfield, so under normal circumstances, they will not blow up the aircraft and oil depots.
Zhang Weihan believes that the little devils can't do anything, and if they can't attack it, they may also blow up the plane and the oil depot, and we can plan for the worst, hide the plane and the fuel, but the time is too tight, and this is not something that can be done in a day or two. If the airfield really cannot be defended, then blow up the oil depot and the planes, and must not support the enemy.
Han Xing and Zhang Weihan also made a bet that whoever loses will pay for a drink.
Dong Yimin turned out to be a company commander of the 10th detachment, with a bit of ink, a lot of combat experience, and a good way to study knowledge, so he was directly transferred to the air defense battalion as a battalion commander. Han Xing asked him: "Do you have confidence in heavy machine gun airplanes?" ”
Dong Yimin smiled and said, "I haven't fought." However, with the power and range of the heavy machine guns, and the dense number of bullets, I don't believe that I can't beat the small Japanese planes. ”
Han Xing asked him again: "How do you train your troops to fight planes with heavy machine guns?" ”
"Actually, the training is also very simple," Dong Yimin said, "it is nothing more than aiming at the net to lasso the plane, if it dives directly at the machine gun or escapes, it hits it, if it is in flight, it must have a certain amount of advance, and the calculation of the amount of advance is mainly based on its flight speed." In the training of the troops, they have been practicing this subject repeatedly, but in the end, whether they are effective in actual combat or not, can only see if they can hit the plane and get off the plane. There is also the use of tracer bullets, which directly use tracer bullets to correct the trajectory of bullet flight, which can also be regarded as a way. ”
Han Xing nodded, it seems that he is basically satisfied with the answer of the commander of the air defense battalion, in this era, after all, air defense is still a new science, and it can only be constantly explored in actual combat.
The position of the air defense battalion turned out to be a crop field, and after the devils built the airfield, they did not let the common people plant crops, and the land was barren, so only some weeds grew. In order to minimize the height of the heavy machine guns and prevent damage from enemy air strikes, each heavy machine gun bunker was dug down half a meter before the machine guns were reloaded. In order to prevent the planes in the sky from seeing the machine guns below, the top of each machine gun was covered with a piece of cloth, some of the white cloth was dyed green, the same color as the grass, and some were sprinkled with some weeds, which was also a more real protection.
In August, the sky was bright at five or six o'clock, when the sun was already a pole high, that is to say, it was more than nine o'clock, and the red was shining too brightly, making the whole earth seem a little steaming. The fighters were dripping with sweat, carrying bullets, tidying up bunkers, and grooming their camouflage.
At this time, the air defense alarm suddenly sounded, and since the entire airport was taken down, the whole set of equipment of the little devil was at my disposal. Not to mention, the siren of this little devil still works, as soon as the alarm sounds, the entire airfield enters a state of air defense and combat.
In the immediate vicinity of the Jinan airfield, the Japanese troops led by Captain Kono and a whole brigade had arrived, and they were waiting, and as soon as the air raid was completed, the entire army brigade would attack the airfield.
The shape became tense in an instant, the blood stains on the seizure of the airfield had not yet been wiped off, and it looked like an even more difficult battle to defend the airport was about to be carried out.
Squadron Leader Otsuka led 12 of the latest Type 95 biplane fighters to take off from Xuzhou Airport and quickly flew to Jinan Airport to carry out air raid missions.
When Squadron Leader Otsuka received this order, he was even a little strange, what was going on, could the Japanese troops guarding Jinan eat dry food, and why would the airport be occupied by the Chinese army. This is not only a shame for the Japanese army guarding Jinan Airport, but also a shame for the entire Imperial Army and the army.
The Type 95 fighter was the last improved Ki10 B, with a flight speed of an astonishing 455 km / h, which had reached the advanced level of monoplane fighters at that time, but at this time the army had already believed that monoplanes were the future development direction, so the Ki10 was not mass-produced to B type. The aircraft has a range of 1100 km, a 3-bladed propeller and armament with two 7.7mm machine guns. In order to deal more effectively with land targets, two 25-kilogram aerial bombs were added.
Squadron Leader Otsuka led his neat formation of planes first, and as if he were visiting a park, he first slowly navigated the sky above the airfield to see the terrain and landforms that were about to attack the target. The airfield is really built on the great plain, surrounded by a flat river, except for the green cornfields, that is, the vigorous millet and beans, only forty or fifty miles to the southeast, there are mountain peaks, that is the Taylor Mountains.
To the surprise of Squadron Leader Otsuka, there were 12 Type 96-1 fighters lined up neatly on the tarmac of the airfield, what was going on, according to the previous practice, after the Chinese army occupied the airfield, the first thing to destroy was the Japanese planes, why didn't they blow it up this time!? Do they think that having captured the airfield, these planes are theirs, it's really whimsical.
Then what made Otsuka happy was that the oil depot was basically stored, as long as the warehouse was stored, in such a short period of time, the Chinese army must not have had time to carry a large amount of oil in the warehouse, and there were oil drums outside the warehouse, I don't know whether it was an oil drum full of gasoline or an empty barrel, no matter what, as long as the airport was occupied, these oil were still from our Imperial Japanese Army.
What shocked Otsuka even more was that even the command building was basically complete, only on the top of the building, there seemed to be a few black spots, which could be regarded as the anti-aircraft weapons of the Chinese army.
As long as the planes, oil depots, and command buildings are there, the airport is still there, such a big cake, lost and regained, this great credit, it's up to me, Squadron Leader Otsuka, to accept it!
Captain Xiaohe asked for instructions on the radio: "Squadron Leader Otsuka, I can't wait." Where are we targeting? ”
Squadron Leader Otsuka issued an order to him: "Don't move the planes, oil depot, and command building, and a small team will attack the barracks first!" ”
"Hayi, understood!" The captain of the Xiaohe squad happily agreed, and led his squad to carry out the order.
The captain of the Xiaohe squad took the lead, leading his small group of four planes to roar down towards the barracks of the airfield, and while he was diving and flying, he calculated the distance from the barracks in his heart, "Three thousand meters, two thousand meters, one thousand thousand meters, five hundred meters," his right hand was placed on the button of the aerial bomb, as long as he waited for the most appropriate position, he threw the aerial bomb on the head of the Chinese soldiers, then let the Chinese soldiers be crushed!
This is the scene he is most willing to see, and it is also the most exciting scene in his heart, and the happiness of a lifetime is built on this moment of madness, and he will always be happy.
Suddenly, dozens of sparks flashed on the ground, the fuselage began to shake, the windshield of the plane was smashed, a sharp pain was felt in the chest, and the brain began to fog, and in an instant it seemed that the whole world had changed color, and the position of heaven and earth was also reversed......
The plane was so close to the ground that Xiaohe didn't have time to react at all, and crashed headfirst into the vegetable patch at the airport. A ball of fire flashed, followed by a huge cloud of smoke, and the violent impact and fire ignited the aerial bomb, causing an even bigger explosion.
The ashes of Xiaohe were gone, and they could only turn into a fire, a puff of smoke, and then drift into the sky, and then merge into the earth.
An airplane closely followed Xiaohe, and the wings of the plane were also hit by a series of small holes from heavy machine gun bullets, and the huge impact force made the strength on the wings unbearable anymore, and after shaking several times, it finally broke.
The plane tried to maintain its balance, but because it broke a wing, it could no longer balance, and after several efforts, it still opened its head, and the plane crashed into the ground, and then a fireball flashed, a cloud of smoke was raised, and then there was a "boom" sound, detonating the aerial bomb, and also falling into a shattered end.
The two planes behind were quite alert, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they quickly pulled up the nose of the plane, pulled it up, pulled it up, and quickly got out of the firing range of the anti-aircraft heavy machine guns.
Just as these two planes were shot down, the air defense positions were exposed.