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Chapter 1278 Air Battle in North China (2)

The reason why the first wave of strikes caused so much damage to the Japanese fighters was that the radar, the secret weapon of the An Jiajun, played a powerful role. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSince they are in a state of pursuit, most of the Japanese fighters are moving in a straight line, so there is a trajectory to follow. In the clear annotation of the cartographer, almost all the Japanese fighters have a calculation in advance of the direction of advance, and the ground forces are the first to strike the Japanese fighters, creating conditions for the counterattack of the Chinese Air Force, so the target is also the first to lock on the Japanese fighter group.

After the enemy planes entered the ambush circle of ground artillery fire, all the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns, under the command of the dispatchers, assigned their own targets to attack, and pointed the strike points to the front of the route of the Japanese fighters they were responsible for. Subsequently, at the moment when the command command order was issued, more than 200 antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns fired 10,000 rounds in unison, giving the Japanese fighters a dismount.

Of course, once the formation of Japanese fighters is chaotic, radar support for ground air defense units will be extremely limited, and unless the Syrian government's research department develops in advance a targeting radar air defense system that organically links radar, computers, and antiaircraft artillery, it will have to rely on the experience of the officers and men and the spirit of bravery, tenacity, and unafraid sacrifice to attack the Japanese fighters.

With the dispersion and evasion of Japanese fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes, the hit rate of ground antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns was greatly weakened, but Japanese planes were still shot from time to time, and brilliant sparks erupted in the air. The Japanese fighter group finally came to their senses at this time and realized that they might have fallen into a trap carefully set by the squadron. However, out of the arrogance of the Japanese army, the Japanese fighters did not retreat, but began to look for targets and carry out fierce strikes on ground fire points, especially the light and heavy bombers of the Japanese army, which rained bombs one after another.

In a short period of time, the Japanese bombers dropped 10,000 kilograms of bombs on the fire points they considered threatening, the earth trembled and roared, and the air waves and shock waves set off when the bombs exploded were very frightening, and the dirt, sand and gravel they brought up were overwhelming, and the entire ground was shrouded in gunsmoke.

Fortunately, the design of the ground air defense positions of the An Jiajun is extremely ingenious, and the organic combination of antiaircraft artillery, machine guns, and antiaircraft machine guns is all set up in permanent fortifications built in a triangular shape.

Because the Japanese Army Aviation Brigade is not yet equipped with dive bombers such as the German Stuka at present, and the threat of powerful firepower on the ground, the Japanese bombers can only drop bombs at high altitudes, which is very problematic in terms of accuracy, so the casualties of the ground air defense units can still be borne at present.

In the scuffle, a Japanese fighter plane was hit by ground artillery fire and rushed straight to the residential area in Baoding City, causing a skyrocketing fire. In the current tragic battle of open space, no one dares to risk their lives to rush out of the shelter or the hiding hole to put out the fire, seeing the billowing smoke in the distance, many people who are worried that their homes will be engulfed in flames can't help but cry.

"Look! What is that? An Jiajun is An Jiajun! ”

Suddenly, someone pointed to the street opposite the cave and shouted. Everyone turned their heads to look and saw a team of more than 100 people dressed in camouflage uniforms, ignoring the Japanese fighter planes raging in the sky, holding buckets, porcelain basins and other water-holding utensils, rushing towards the fire point in the city.

Some young people who were deeply touched by it plucked up the courage to join the firefighting army amid the scolding of their parents and relatives.

At this time, seven Japanese fighters were hit, four of them exploded in the air, and the rest smoked and let out a terrible scream, and when they landed, they stirred up a high column of smoke.

The air-ground battle outside the city became more and more intense, and the Japanese pilots were also well-trained, and although they suffered huge losses under the blows of intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire, they still had undiminished fighting spirit, made all kinds of thrilling evasive maneuvers, and then concentrated their firepower to strike at the ground air defense units. At this time, the Japanese fighter group had already given up the plan to pursue the fleeing Chinese Air Force, and they found targets one after another, and dived down to the ground, with two 7.7 mm caliber ** machine guns in the nose pumping towards the ground anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, and machine gun positions like fire-breathing whips.

In a bunker outside the city wall of the East Gate, a non-commissioned officer chief ignored the machine gun bullets that swept over his head and "crackled" on the cement wall behind him, and while looking up to observe, he shouted: "At eleven o'clock, at a visual distance of 300 meters, the Ninaka Island Type 97 fighter is approaching...... Launch! ”

The main fire output point of this bunker is a 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft gun, the loader quickly loads the shells, the aiming hand stirs the direction machine and the high and low machine, the large cross-ring direct sight is aimed at this menacing fighter, and when he hears the firing order of the master chief, he immediately steps on the firing mechanism under his feet, and the shells are fired at the enemy plane at a rapid rate in the sound of "bang bang bang bang".

The Japanese fighter was probably an experienced veteran pilot, who swayed from side to side continuously while diving and firing, and several times the shells grazed the fuselage of the opposing plane. The Master Chief and the loader in the bunker were hit by a machine-gun bullet and fell down with a torrential amount of blood, and the aiming man gritted his teeth and continued to shoot, finally hitting the tail of the enemy plane. The Japanese pilots were also ruthless, knowing that the plane could not be saved, they simply controlled the fighter plane and crashed straight into the anti-aircraft artillery position.

The four warriors were instantly smashed into meat sauce by the fighters that rushed down, "boom-", a violent explosion sound was heard immediately, and the flesh and blood of the heroes were mixed with the flesh and blood of Little Japan, and turned into ashes in the continuous explosions and skyrocketing fires......

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In the face of the frenzy of the Japanese fighters, the ground air defense units also deliberately increased the output of firepower, and all the 36 88-mm FLAK18 towed anti-aircraft guns purchased from Germany used high-explosive shells with timed fuses, striving to defeat the arrogance of the Japanese fighters.

This high-explosive bomb weighs 14.7 kilograms and the shell weighs 9.5 kilograms.

Ye Ziquan, who was commanding the operation in the underground bunker, saw with his own eyes that when a high-explosive bomb exploded in the air, he happened to destroy two Japanese fighters at the same time, and he was stunned and immediately had the idea of suggesting to An Yi to buy a large number of such anti-aircraft guns or simply buy a production line from the Germans to produce it himself.

Since the ground fire was almost entirely aimed at the Japanese fighter group, which was almost mired in frenzy, this provided the Japanese bombers with a low-altitude opportunity to drop bombs.

Japanese fighters, including several reconnaissance aircraft groups that had already entered the battlefield, began to drop bombs downwards like raindrops, and the ground was filled with flames, and explosions piercing people's eardrums were heard one after another.

Violent waves of qi were stirring in all directions, and pillars of mud rose into the sky, as if the end of the world was coming.

For the first time since the engagement, there were massive casualties among the air defense forces, with nearly half of the fire being dumbfounded. However, in this hand-to-hand battle, the Japanese army's fighter losses were also unusually heavy, and only 20 of the 77 main fighters remained, and they were still tirelessly attacking the ground, long forgetting that their responsibility was to deal with a strong enemy in the air.

"Let's act!"

After receiving the order from the ground command center, Gao Zhihang, commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Central Air Force, who was hidden in the air at an altitude of 10,000 meters, yelled at the intercom, and immediately swooped down like a tiger out of a cage and pounced on the ignorant Japanese fighters.

Gao Zhihang was born in a poor family in Tonghua, Northeast China, and was selected as a pilot by Zhang Xueliang in the spring of 25 years and sent to France to study. At that time, he was not called Gao Zhihang, but Gao Zhiheng. Before leaving the country, he approached Zhang Xueliang and asked to change his name. He said: "To defend the motherland, air heroes are my goal. Since then, "Zhihang" has been both his name and his motto that inspires him. In two or six years, he graduated with honors and continued his studies in Shenyang after returning to China. On the day of 918, Gao Zhihang actively asked for battle and asked to take off to kill the enemy, but he received an order of "no resistance". Gao Zhihang was angry and boarded the train to Beiping to ask Zhang Xueliang for battle in person, but he still gave the same answer. In this case, Gao Zhihang left the Northeast Army and went south, and Ning Ken was demoted by one level by the officer, and finally stayed at the Central Aviation School. Because of his hard training, strict requirements, and superb flying skills, he soon became the captain of the Fourth Air Brigade, leading three fighter squadrons until he was stationed at Baoding Airport before the Lugou Bridge Incident, and competed with Japanese planes for dominance in the sky over North China.

When he was still more than 2,000 meters away from the enemy planes below, Gao Zhihang said into the intercom again: "All pay attention, first destroy any enemy planes you see, if the Japanese fighters come up, the main goal is to destroy the Japanese fighters." Although the enemy's bombers are also armed with aviation machine guns, their air maneuvers are extremely clumsy, the ceiling is very low, and the flight speed is extremely slow, as long as we destroy the Japanese fighters, then these bombers will become fish on our meat board! Do you understand? ”

"Yes!"

Soon there was a heart-warming reply from the headphones. Gao Zhihang nodded, it seemed that after listening to the tragic battle situation below through the radio system, all the brothers couldn't hold back, eager to vent their surging ** and passion.

In an instant, a hovering Japanese fighter plane appeared in front of him, and Gao Zhihang shouted: "Brothers, kill!" Then he pressed the button to fire the cannon and machine gun, and in an instant, a Japanese Mitsubishi Type 92 heavy explosive plane was hit and exploded.

The remaining 24 fighters that swooped down opened fire in unison, and the machine guns and machine guns fired a salvo, and almost in a flash, the Japanese fighters lost 13 fighters, except for some direct hits that set off fireworks in the air, the rest dragged a long smoke into the ground, and the flames of the explosion stirred up dozens of meters high.

It was only at this time that the Japanese fighter group discovered the shadow of the Chinese Air Force and panicked, and almost all the bombers and reconnaissance planes hurriedly threw the remaining bombs to the end in order to reduce the load of the planes as much as possible, and tried to fight to the death with the Chinese Air Force with their onboard weapons.

A wave of surprise attacks just now led to the attrition of Japanese fighters.

Of the 16 remaining fighters, only one of the Nakajima 97 fighters with the most superior performance remains. The Japanese fighter group had woken up from its previous madness, quickly adjusted its course, and after confirming the position and number of Chinese fighters, it frantically increased its altitude in an attempt to find an opportunity to bypass the flank of the Chinese fighters and carry out a sneak attack.