Chapter Seventy-Four: Typhoon Raid (2)
Dark clouds cover the sky, and the wind howls furiously.
Typhoon Butterfly swept across the western Pacific Ocean, sending torrential rain and winds to the Philippines, Guam, Japan-administered Taiwan and the southeastern coastal areas of China.
In this bad weather, people in coastal areas have left their homes to avoid disasters, and even in most of the inland streets, they dare not have pedestrians to walk, and people have closed their doors and windows with wooden planks and iron cables, not daring to be careless. Even in the surrounding countries and regions affected by typhoons, the coastal military bases of various countries will be temporarily closed for use, especially the planes, airships, and other aircraft that have emerged in modern times that have been greatly affected by the weather can only be put into storage, and warships of all types are also berthed on the shore and tied together by huge iron chains.
On the island of Taiwan, which was most affected by the typhoon, the three major military towns of the Japanese army, Taipei, Tainan and Hualien, were also forced to close, and all the bases of the Japanese army were preparing to resist the typhoon, because the typhoon butterfly was so powerful that even the reinforced military bases were not very safe.
Under the dim sky, Typhoon Butterfly landed from Tainan with the power of destroying the world, and the hurricane swept countless houses away, scraped off giant trees, and rained downpour, and the streets and alleys were flooded by rain in the blink of an eye, like a flood raging.
Most of the people have been evacuated, and a few unwanted misers are still unwilling to stay at home, and the Japanese troops in the military base are still hiding in their rooms, and the Japanese troops in most of the coastal defense fortresses along the coastline have basically evacuated back to the base, and only a few remaining Japanese troops are symbolically stationed in it as sentinels.
If someone dared to attack at this time, even a commando team of only a few dozen people could easily take the Japanese coastal fortress. Because there were no Japanese troops on guard, even a few conscientious Japanese soldiers were blocked from sight by the torrential rain. You can't see the situation five meters away, and the alert is nothing.
Of course, the most important thing is that from the top of the Japanese army down, no Japanese army thought that the Tang Army would attack at this time.
However, the soldiers are also treacherous, and winning by surprise is the best strategy.
The Japanese army has always regarded the Tang Empire as a mortal enemy, and basically monitored every move of the Tang army 24 hours a day. It was almost impossible for the Tang Army to raid the Japanese army, especially since the Tang Army's Guam base was the closest to Taiwan, and the Japanese army in Taiwan was even more cautious and cautious. It is simply impossible for the Tang army to raid Taiwan with the help of the Guam base.
However, under normal weather conditions, the Japanese army could use aircraft and balloons to dispatch warships to patrol on alert. But in a typhoon environment. The Japanese planes and balloons were put away, the battleships were locked on the shore, and although the submarine could still carry out the task, it did not dare to surface easily, and it was carried out in the torrential rain, and the visibility was too low to play a warning role at all, so the Japanese simply took back the submarine. It's just the right time to overhaul and replenish.
The rare typhoon month is also a rare rest time for the Japanese army. For the average person. During the typhoon is a nightmare, they cannot work to earn money, but for the servicemen, it is a heavenly time for holidays and rest.
However, what the Japanese army never expected was that what they had always thought of as a heavenly month would now become a hell month that they will never forget for the rest of their lives.
The Tang Army really came, because it was a great opportunity to win by surprise. Coming under the circumstance that all the military strategists in Shijie said that it was impossible, the army that fought in a super typhoon environment for the first time in human history, regardless of whether they succeeded or not, this courage and great pride will be admired by everyone, including the enemy.
Of course, the Tang Army is not a stunned fool, knowing that taking military action under a super typhoon is tantamount to suicide. What the Tang Army really relied on was science, the leading Shijie jishu and the fearless adventurous spirit.
Typhoons have always been called natural disasters, and no one dares to compete under them. Only the Tang Army, at the insistence of Li Haichen, successfully avoided the reconnaissance of the Japanese army under the cover of the typhoon, and unexpectedly appeared on the sea 50 kilometers near Tainan.
It turned out that the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group was hiding in the eye of the typhoon. The typhoon butterfly is very powerful, but its eye of the wind reaches a diameter of 93 kilometers, but it is an area with stable air pressure, and the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Army is driving slowly in the eye of the wind and is completely unaffected by the typhoon, and even the aircraft carrier aircraft can take off and fly safely in the eye of the wind.
This discovery was not sudden, the initiator was Zhang Meng, who once fantasized about a strategic sneak attack through the eye of the typhoon in a war game exercise, but at that time, no one in the Tang army believed it as a joke. Only Li Haichen was interested, he never questioned Zhang Meng's words, and even remembered anything Zhang Meng said.
When the Tang Dynasty decided to attack Taiwan in an offensive against Japan, as military strategists, they all thought about how to win by surprise, after all, it was the best means to make use of the Tang Army's powerful naval aviation, and once the Tang Army's aircraft group avoided the Japanese army's reconnaissance and achieved a surprise victory, then the Tang Army's strong and domineering air raid would cause a devastating military blow to the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army was closely watching every move of the Tang army, and it was not easy to win by surprise. In the end, everyone had nothing to do, and when they planned a head-on showdown with the Japanese army, Li Haichen proposed to carry out a surprise attack with the help of the safety of the eye of the typhoon.
Li Haichen knew that he could not convince them with lip service, so he ordered Gao Zhihang to lead an air death squad to venture into the eye of the typhoon, and Gao Zhihang succeeded in his mission. Gao Zhihang took out the aerial photos he took in the eye of the storm, which calmed the doubts of all the generals.
In the end, Zhang Meng came forward, and he was also curious about whether he could carry out a surprise attack through the eye of the wind, after all, this was the first time in the world, and it definitely had a surprising military value.
Any war is a military adventure, so if you want to achieve brilliant results, the spirit of adventure is essential.
Zhang Meng nodded in agreement, even if some other generals were still a little worried and suspicious, they did not dare to disobey Zhang Meng's intentions, so this was the typhoon raid operation personally commanded by Li Haichen.
The Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group successfully used the eye of the storm to get close to the island of Taiwan, and finally when Typhoon Butterfly landed in Tainan, it happened to be the landing site that the Tang Army hoped for and the place where the focus was on striking at the Japanese army.
"It is expected to enter the battlefield in ten minutes and start the action!"
On the bridge tower, Li Haichen and a group of generals watched the Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.
These carrier-based bombers have already been on the deck on standby to take off, the pilots sit in the cockpit to check all kinds of instruments and operating devices over and over again, and the ground crew checks the fuselage over and over again, for fear that any small mistake will occur, after all, in the eye of the typhoon, any small mistake may cause the plane crash pilot can not come back.
"Everyone has to remember that we only have 15 minutes of air strikes, so we must find the target as quickly as possible and drop all the aerial bombs. Don't linger when the bomb is over, return immediately, we only have ten minutes to land, and once this time is exceeded, the mothership will not be allowed to land, and then you will have to drive the plane out into the sea. ”
The leader of a squadron repeatedly stated orders to the pilots of each squadron and reminded them of precautions. All the pilots also knew that they were carrying out bombing operations in the eye of the typhoon, and once the time was exceeded, the eye of the typhoon would make landfall, and at that time it would be impossible for the aircraft carrier battle group to get close to the coastline, and it would be impossible to recover the fighters in a typhoon-ravaged environment.
"Captain, this time is still a little tight, in case the landing time is delayed, for example, if a fighter plane crashes and blocks the runway when it lands, then what should we do in the sky?"
"You kid is worthy of being a high-achieving student who graduated from the Imperial Aviation Academy, and he thinks very comprehensively, the probability of this happening is not very high for us veterans, but this time we are all flying in a typhoon for the first time, and I dare not guarantee that this situation can occur. But if it appears, don't hesitate, jump as soon as possible, and get closer to the neighboring warship as fast as possible after falling into the water, and we will send a rescue boat to rescue you. ”
"Hey, there is no difference between this nine deaths and one life, why are we full of food and have nothing to do to fight in the typhoon, with our strength, we can win the head-on battle with the little devil."
"Shut up, what's the whine? You know a! Do you know what it means if we succeed in a raid? The Japanese fighters in the Tainan area will be directly destroyed on the ground, and the Japanese ammunition depots, oil depots, equipment depots, air defense positions, and coastal positions will be destroyed by us, and most or even all of them will be destroyed, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops will be lying in the barracks, and an aerial bomb can kill a large number of devils, which will be enough to kill two-thirds or even more of the combat strength of the Japanese army in Tainan, and then our marines will quickly log in and seize Tainan, which will take a huge advantage strategically, and we will lose some planes and pilots. Even if we had a squadron that were all reimbursed, it would be worth it, because it would have been impossible to achieve in a head-to-head battle. ”
After the squadron leader's words, all the pilots understood that they were not afraid of death, and if they could exchange such a huge result, they would not care about life and death at all.
At this time, the captain Gao Zhihang opened the communication channel.
"What the captain of the third squadron said just now is very good, we as soldiers must have this spirit of sacrifice, our sacrifice is for more Tang Army brothers without sacrifice, our efforts are valuable and noble. But don't be too afraid, if the situation you are talking about, then I tell you, immediately climb to the highest altitude and fly out of the wind circle from the highest altitude. Our Hellfire has a ceiling of more than 10,000 meters, and I have tried to fly 5,000 meters high, and it is not a problem to fly out of the wind circle. However, you must know that once you fly to an altitude of 15,000 meters, the atmosphere will be thin at that time, and it will be difficult to breathe, so you must keep your senses, no matter how turbulent the plane is, you must fly out at full speed, and do not descend immediately after flying out, but slowly fall to the altitude, otherwise you will go into shock. ”
Gao Zhihang's words suddenly made the eyes of all the pilots light up, although they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the Tang Empire, but no one wanted to miss one more chance to save their lives.
Just then, the tower sounded again, and all the Hellfire bombers began to take off. (To be continued......)