Chapter Eighty-Two: Devastating Air Raids
"Great, it's our Air Force...... Haha"
"Good job, kill these little devils raised by bitches, long live the Air Force!"
Fierce battles were raging in the air, and almost one-sided slaughtering battles were underway, and the officers and soldiers of the first regiment of recruits in Sujiatun on the ground were excited and shouted one after another.
Soon, more than 30 planes were completely wiped out without any suspense, not because they didn't want to escape, but because the BF109 fighter group of the air force did not give them a chance to escape at all.
With almost twice the speed of the BF109 fighters, they were caught up and shot down one by one without any suspense.
After completing their debut in the first battle, Liu Cuigang and Gao Zhihang led their fighters to dive towards the sortie position of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.
"Dada...... Tom ...... "The 12.7mm MG17 heading machine gun and 30mm cannon roared.
The dense bullets were like tongues of fire, pouring towards the devil's attack position.
The devils on the ground couldn't dodge, and they were instantly injured and killed.
It wasn't until all the ammunition they were carrying was poured out that Gao Zhihang and other pilots were satisfied with their wings and returned to the flight.
And just after Gao Zhihang and the others returned, another wave of combat planes took off from Beiling Airport, this time with eight Stuka dive bombers, two HE111 medium bombers, and ten BF109 fighters responsible for escorting.
This wave of mixed aircraft did not fly in the direction of Sujiatun again, but flew straight over the canal in the southeast of the city.
An air attack was launched directly on the attacking troops of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, which were forcibly crossing the river to attack.
The Stuka dive bomber is a famous two-seat anti-tank fighter aircraft during World War II, in addition to being equipped with powerful airborne weapons, each can also carry six bombs with a total weight of 1800kg.
The total weight of the bombs carried by the eight justukas has reached a staggering 7,200 pounds.
The maximum take-off weight of the HE111 medium bomber is more than 12,000 kilograms, and it can carry 4,500 kilograms of built-in and external aerial bombs, so with the addition of two HE11 medium bombers, the total weight of the bombs they carry is close to 7,800 kilograms, that is, 15,600 kilograms
Not to mention a 15,000-pound bomb, even 15,000 pounds of steel that won't explode is enough for the army to drink a pot.
The first to attack were ten BF109 fighters, who directly attacked the Yue army that was crossing the river to attack, and fired at the same time with two guns and two guns, and the powerful and dense firepower caused heavy casualties to the devil's river-crossing troops.
The machine shells hit the surface of the river, and suddenly there was a series of splashes.
The small landing craft and rubber boats used by the devils to cross the river were hit by the fire of the sailing machine guns and machine guns, and they were punched out of countless holes one after another, and soon entered the water and sank.
The power of the 30mm cannon is enough to penetrate the thinner armor of the tank, and the effect of hitting people can be imagined.
Several devil soldiers were hit by machine shells and were directly cut off by the waist, turning them into a pile of minced meat.
And the devil's nightmare has just begun, and the first dive strafing strike of the fighter has just ended.
Eight Stuka arrived as promised, and not only bombed them, but also fired at the same time as the two 37mm guns equipped with Stuka were fired.
After the machine-gun bombardment was over, the bombardment of heavy aerial bombs came as scheduled, setting off a series of earth-shattering waves on the surface of the river, and the landing craft and rubber boats full of devil soldiers were blown to pieces.
Stuka flew in front of him, and a 7.62mm heading machine gun at the rear of the cockpit began to strafe again.
After the first round of strafing and bombing, nearly 1,000 devils who crossed the river to attack had already been killed or wounded.
At the same time, two HE111 medium bombers went straight to the artillery positions of the Japanese army.
Amid the rapid and piercing screams of the "......," one after another weighing more than 300 kilograms began to fall one after another in a free fall under the spur of the bombardier.
"Boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom, boom and boom ......" bombs weighing more than 300 kilograms exploded one after another, and the scope and power of radiation were really incomparable with words.
From above, the entire ground was plunged into a sea of fire, and thick smoke and fire rose into the sky one after another.
In the European theater of history, the HE111 medium bomber was originally used by the German army as a heavy bomber.
Such a powerful aerial bomb may not be a big deal in the European theater where artillery and aerial bombardment are intensive.
But in Asia in the thirties today, in the northeast of China, it is definitely a force to destroy the surname.
Except for the battleships and heavy cruisers of the devils, the power of large-caliber naval artillery shells can be compared.
As soon as the 300-kilogram bomb fell, it was a crater with a diameter of more than 10 meters, and the coverage of the shrapnel shock wave was even more than 10 meters.
Therefore, two HE111 bombers, just two, through a violent bombing, bombed the artillery positions of the artillery wing directly under the 2nd Division into ruins.
Dozens of artillery pieces were all blown into piles of scrap metal, and the violent explosion caused the detonation of the devil's shells, which caused superimposed damage to the devils.
After the two HE111s easily completed the bombing mission, they shook their wings and began to return home.
And the performance of eight Justuka and ten BF109 fighters is not over yet.
After swooping and strafing the attacking troops of the Yue army, which were already crossing the river and the bank of the river, and inflicting heavy casualties on them, they did not turn around, but continued to fly straight along the position of the Yue army.
In low-altitude flight, all the machine guns and aircraft machine guns were fired, and Stuka continued to drop bombs.
The soldiers of the 2nd Division only felt that their heads were covered by a rain of steel bullets, and they fell down with bullets in pieces.
Even more unfortunate ones were directly blown to pieces by the explosion.
Similarly, the Shenyang Air Force's mixed air attack aircraft group did not begin to return until all the ammunition it carried was dumped on the positions of the Japanese army.
And what almost broke the commanders was that their nightmare continued.
When the second wave of bombers returned, an even larger mixed group took off from Beiling airfield.
This time, Gao Zhihang personally led the team, using the remaining twelve Justuka dive bombers and twenty-eight HE111 medium bombers, in addition to thirty fighters for escort cover.
Forty bombers carried a total of more than 150,000 kilograms, or 300,000 catties.
This time, Gao Zhihang chose the 6th Division and the 20th Division in the direction of Sujiatun as the targets of the air attack, of course, this is what Zhang Xinghan meant.
More than 300,000 pounds of bombs fell on the positions of the 6th and 20th Divisions in less than an hour.
They were crumbled, their positions were almost ploughed by the explosions, and many of their fortifications were destroyed.
All the wings and brigades suffered heavy casualties, especially the 6th Division, which suffered the heaviest losses after a day and a night of fierce bloody battles.
Even the division headquarters of the 6th Division was bombarded to ashes by the pilots commanded by Gao Zhihang, and the division commander Masaemon Sakamoto and the chief of staff Uedanaka Kotaro and other senior officers of the division were all killed in one nest.
The most wrecked was the reinforcements of the 20th Division that had arrived thousands of miles from North Korea, and it was almost not fired a single shot before it was crippled by a sudden air raid of destruction.
At this moment, a cavalry of more than 1,000 people appeared in the southern suburbs of Shenyang.