Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Flesh Mill (2)
The sky was overcast, and the weather was still very bad after the typhoon, and it soon began to rain profusely.
Above the clouds, although the Tang Army aircraft group could not see the terrain below, there were Tang Army mechanized units on the ground, and every tank and combat vehicle had a radio that could provide some guidance to the fighters.
The 11th Brigade led by Hattori Sususuita was slowly advancing in the direction of Chashan, and he deliberately slowed down the troops, because he tasted the strength of the Tang Army, and planned to let the other two divisions take the lead first.
However, it didn't take long for his wishful thinking to be heard, and a roar was heard in the sky.
"Our plane must have arrived!"
"Great, kill the Tang Army to avenge us!"
The Japanese troops of the 11th Brigade were excited, they had been severely defeated by the Tang Army an hour earlier, and they had suffered heavy losses, and they were all holding their breath at this moment, eagerly hoping that the Japanese Air Force could ravage the Tang Army and avenge them.
"This voice is coming from the direction of Chashan to our side!"
Hattori Susukita was genuinely happy at first, but his keen military instincts soon realized that something was wrong.
"This should be the Tang Army's fleet!"
"Oh my God, they're here to blow us up!"
The staff officers around Hattori Susukita suddenly screamed, and the entire 11th Brigade was shocked, and nearly 10,000 Japanese troops panicked.
"Hide in place!"
Hattori Susukita immediately ordered, and the Japanese troops took refuge in the rocky forests on both sides of the road.
However, the Japanese army still had a large number of convoys and artillery trucks that were difficult to conceal for a short time. At this time, several Tang Army Raptor ships swooped down from the clouds and immediately spotted the Japanese army.
Soon, the Tang army aircraft group swooped down through the clouds. The airborne artillery swept down first, and suddenly there was no time to conceal the Japanese soldiers who were shot, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, and they were screaming again and again.
The leading Tang Army's Raptor ships swooped down and strafed after a while, and then the Hellfire ships behind swooped down, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, and one aerial bomb after another fell. Suddenly, earth and rocks were splashed, trees were broken, and gunsmoke rose to the sky.
Japanese convoys were blown up and set on fire. All kinds of materials and ammunition were destroyed, leaving huge craters one after another, and the shock wave of the explosion was three points stronger than that of the typhoon, and the Japanese troops within 100 meters of the explosion point were suddenly swept away. It was dismembered into countless rains of blood and sprinkled hundreds of meters away.
Such a fierce bombardment really frightened the Japanese officers and soldiers who were hiding stupidly. Compared with the aerial bombs of the Tang Army, the aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese air force were simply tickling, and their power was much worse.
The 11th Brigade was an ace unit of the Japanese army with actual combat experience, and it had a very deep understanding of the cruel side of the war, and they were immediately frightened by the bombers of the Tang Army, which showed the horror of such bombing.
Hattori Botian was cramping all over his body, and he shouted vigorously in his mouth that he regretted that he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out today, why was he targeted by Tang Jun. In just ten minutes. The kilometer-long road was bombed and filled with huge craters, and all the Japanese convoys on the road were destroyed. An entire artillery wing was reimbursed, and one cannon was either blown apart, or the barrel was twisted into a twist by the force of the explosion, and the Japanese soldiers who did not have time to dodge suffered heavy casualties, I am afraid that thousands of dead and wounded.
Click! Click!
After the other planes left after the attack, they turned around and killed back, and shot the remaining bullets at the rocks where Hattori Susukita was dodging, causing the rocks to fall piece by piece, sparks splashing, ricochet actually killed a Japanese captain, and even Hattori Sukita's face was rubbed with blood.
"!"
Hattori Susukita's eyes were blood-red, staring at the few distant Tang Army fighters and scolding. In the blink of an eye, when he saw that the huge mountain rock had been knocked out of countless deep pits the size of a basin, he couldn't help but change his face drastically.
"What kind of bullet is this, and it's so powerful?"
The staff officer on the side also said with trepidation: "According to the information we have, it should be the Tang Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter and Hellfire heavy carrier-based bomber that attacked us just now, it is said that the Raptor ship battle is equipped with four 20 mm caliber machine guns, and it is really powerful!" ”
Hattori Susukita suddenly shuddered, and blurted out: "No wonder just now when I saw a few soldiers who didn't have time to hide being swept by that machine gun, the body of a big living person was torn to pieces, which was three points more terrifying than the corpse of the five horses." ”
The staff officer sighed and said: "Judging from this situation, our aircraft is probably not the opponent of the Tang Army's aircraft, as far as I know, our fighter aircraft engines have not been up to standard, so we can only buy them from abroad, in order to save costs, our aircraft has to reduce the thickness of the metal skin and the caliber of the onboard weapon, it seems that it is still a 7.7 mm machine gun, and this power is suddenly weakened a lot." ”
Hattori Susukita was in a very bad mood, and snorted coldly: "That's their air team's business, we are suffering heavy losses now, and we just want to put the basin of the battle defeat on the head of the air team." ”
At this time, the casualty and loss statistics were already out. The 11th Brigade suffered more than 2,300 casualties, all its vehicles were destroyed, and the 36 guns of the artillery wing were not spared, and there were not many supplies and ammunition left.
Hattori Susuida's face twitched violently a few times again, and he sent a telegram to the base camp with difficulty for help.
At the same time that Hattori Sususuida's 11th Brigade was bombed by the first wave of Tang troops' aircraft group, a large-scale air battle also broke out over Chashan, with more than 300 Japanese fighters and bombers, including more than 150 Nakajima Type 4 fighters and 50 Type 96 fighters, fighting fiercely with more than 100 Tang Army Raptor ships.
The Japanese 96 fighter was only equipped last year, originally Jihua in 1936 began to be equipped on a large scale, but the relationship between Tang and Japan continued to be tense, after the alliance between Japan and France, the Japanese military believed that the local Mitsubishi Heavy Industries research and development speed was too slow, Nakajima aero engine is not enough, the Japanese military can't wait, long-term lag behind the Tang Dynasty in fighter has made the Japanese army crazy, so the 96 fighter abandoned the Nakajima engine research and development project, and instead used the French CBD1000 star engine.
In this way, the performance of the Type 96 fighter has been greatly improved, and it is no longer weaker than the Hellfire heavy carrier-based fighter of the Tang Army in terms of speed and range. It's just that because the Japanese economy has long been destroyed by the Tang Dynasty and the financial situation is tight, the Japanese army's funds for the production of Type 96 fighters are slightly thin, and in the end the Japanese army had to slim down the plane, carrying only 4 7.7mm machine guns.
The four 7.7 mm machine guns of the Japanese Type 96 fighters against the four 20 mm caliber cannons of the Tang Army's Hellfire carrier-based fighters were a big difference in firepower, and the speed of the two sides was about the same at medium and low altitudes, and the Type 96 fighters obviously suffered a big loss, because its 7.7 mm bullets could not penetrate the armor protection at the key point of the Raptor battle. In turn, the 20-mm cannon of the Don Army's Raptor naval battle could easily penetrate the armor protection of the Type 96 fighter and inflict heavy damage.
Click!
A Raptor ship of the Tang Army locked on a Japanese Type 96 fighter and opened fire fiercely, and four flames sealed the place where the opponent was going to fly in the next moment, and one of the fires hit the vital point of the Japanese plane's fuel tank.
Rumble!
The Japanese Type 96 fighter exploded in volley, turning into a ball of flames, and the wreckage of the plane fell to Chashan, and the Japanese pilot also fell freely from a height of several thousand meters.
In the ten minutes of the battle, the Japanese air force had already lost more than 30 fighters. However, most of them were previously in service with the Nakajima fighters, and the new Type 96 fighters did not lose a few units.
A few years ago, the Hellfire of the Tang Army could be said to be a one-sided slaughter of Japanese aircraft, and the Japanese planes must have fallen in the sky. Now that the Japanese army has 96 fighters, the situation has changed somewhat, but it is not so easy for the Tang army planes to shoot them down.
Fortunately, the Type 96 aircraft had just begun to serve in the Japanese air force, and the number was not very large, and in Taiwan there were only about 50 planes, and the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group was equipped with more than 200 Raptor warships, which were divided into several waves to take turns in combat, and soon seized air supremacy and dealt heavy damage to the Japanese air force.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese Nakajima-style bombers who came with the Japanese fighter group hurriedly dropped aerial bombs and returned home, with the result that most of the aerial bombs failed to land on the positions of the Tang Army, and did not cause much damage to the Tang Army.
The battle of Chashan came to an end quickly, and when Okada Zhenxiong in the base camp learned of the battle situation, his face was frosty, and the battle situation was very unfavorable to him, so he had to ask Tokyo for instructions again. (To be continued......)