Chapter 170: Zhang Cheng's Secret Weapon
The pilot was able to fly the plane to deliver the final blow to the Devils, causing the Devils troops to collapse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, he did not expect the artillery unit of the devil to arrive so soon, so this idea had to be brought forward.
He was originally going to wait for the weather to be better, after all, the wind was still a little strong, so it was not suitable for the plane to take off.
However, the situation on the battlefield is urgent, and the devil's artillery is too much of a threat to their troops, if this crisis cannot be resolved as soon as possible, then let alone a counteroffensive, even if it is defended, it will not be able to hold it.
"Dismantle the aviation machine guns in the back and stuff all incendiary and high-explosive shells into it as much as possible." Zhang Cheng shouted orders to the soldiers beside him.
Equip the aircraft with ammunition as much as possible, although it is much higher than the load of the aircraft, but Zhang Cheng believes that this is not too much of a problem.
Although the Ki-21 has a load capacity of only one ton, it can carry two tons of weapons and ammunition without removing the aviation machine gun in the rear, plus it does not require too high a flight altitude.
Just like the American bombers, the carrying capacity is 8 tons, but when they do not require the maximum liftoff, they can even transport light tanks of about ten tons, so Zhang Cheng carried all the high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs into it.
The Ki-21 needed a pilot, and six or seven bombardiers, because his bombing ammunition was not delivered automatically, but by a soldier to push him off the plane, which was a very primitive way of dropping bombs.
Wang He, the captain of the flight brigade, led seven soldiers, and when they were about to take off, they suddenly heard the sound of the devil's cannon again, and a cold light flashed in Wang He's eyes.
He quickly climbed up to the cabin, and several of his soldiers quickly crawled towards the cabin, while the two in front of him began to manually power the propellers.
The plane had to be manned for takeoff, and there were six or seven soldiers on each side of the wing ready to push forward at any time.
Because of the bomber's huge weight and carrying a large number of weapons and ammunition, it is difficult to take off quickly with its own power alone, so it must be blessed by external forces.
Airplanes......
Wang He ignited the engine, and the plane instantly let out a roar, and the propeller in front of it suddenly rotated.
At the same time, at the same time as the plane started, the soldiers on both sides began to struggle to push the plane forward, and the plane began to move forward with the blessing of external force and their own power.
Buzz Buzz......
The speed of the propeller is getting faster and faster, and the speed of the plane is getting higher and higher, and the soldiers on the ground are nervously watching the speeding plane one by one.
Whoosh......
The operating lever in Wang He's hand was slowly raised, and the nose of the plane slowly began to rise in the shaking, and the whole plane began to move awkwardly off the ground towards the sky.
"Yaga?" Kang Tianfu, the commander of the devil, looked at the plane taking off from Yinping Mountain with an incredulous expression, he didn't expect that there was a plane in Yinping Mountain that could take off.
Kang Tianfu also frowned, she had a bad premonition, although the plane flew towards the west.
But it was obvious that he didn't think that the plane was escaping alone, that was simply impossible, and there must have been a conspiracy to fly the plane out at this time.
"We must be prepared that there must be some conspiracy among the people of China flying the plane." Kang Tianfu said loudly.
There was some speculation in his mind that the artillery units that were preparing to bomb them must have been prepared, because on the current battlefield only artillery posed a great threat to the troops of the New First Army, and the other troops were not a great threat.
After all, in terms of troops, the devil is not stronger than the troops of the New First Army, although the soldiers of the devil occupy the upper position in combat and training, and have a slight advantage in weapons, but on the whole they are still weaker than the troops of the New First Army.
In such a situation, if there was no artillery, then it would be impossible for them to destroy the defenders in Yinping Mountain.
Nakagawa Hiroya's face changed slightly, but before he could give the order for the transfer of artillery, the bomber had already made a detour in the air for hundreds of meters, and then rushed towards the devil's artillery position.
The artillery positions of the devils also stopped shelling at this time, and the artillery of the devils panicked.
They hurriedly diverted the shells that had been piled up around the artillery, because they were afraid that the air attack would cause the artillery to detonate and destroy the important artillery on their side.
At the same time, one by one, the devil soldiers were holding light machine guns and waiting for them.
The devil is a barren country, and he cares very much about artillery, the god of war, especially the devil's artillery, who simply does not want to watch their artillery destroyed by the troops of the New First Army.
The commander of the devil's artillery company, Ping Muqu, had a serious expression, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, as an artillery commander, he had a very high status in the devil's troops, and even ordinary brigade and regiment-level officers did not dare to put on a high posture when they saw him.
Because artillery is so important, no one will choose to offend such a force, of course, the main thing is the worship of giant ships and cannons in the country of devils.
In the artillery and naval units of the devils, there has always been a tradition of ships and people, and artillery destroyers and deaths, so they stick to their posts one by one.
Wang He's pilot bomber rushed towards the devil's artillery unit, and he couldn't help but show a sneer when he saw the appearance of the devil soldiers waiting for battle.
If he was equipped with those aerial bombs of the devils on the plane, it would not necessarily be able to completely incapacitate the artillery units of the devils.
But he was not armed with those weapons, but high-explosive shells, which might not directly destroy the artillery, but the terrifying killing would destroy all the devils within hundreds of meters of the artillery position.
The weight of a high-explosive bomb is only fifty catties, which is about the size of an ordinary household mineral water bucket in later generations, but its power is enough to cover a radius of twenty or thirty meters.
"Prepare to drop bombs, drop high-explosive shells, all in number." Wang He ordered through the megaphone in his mouth to the soldiers in the cabin behind him.
Wang He's voice sounded from a loudspeaker in the cabin, and soldiers began to prepare high-explosive bombs one by one, waiting for the hatch in the middle of the cabin to open before dropping.
Buzzing...... The characteristic roar of the plane sounded in the sky, and the huge bomber swooped down like an eagle towards the artillery position of the devils.
The devils are waiting for each other, but the devils still know a lot about aircraft, after all, the devil troops are equipped with as many as 2,000 aircraft of various types.
They all knew that the bomber was still at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and even if they fired, it would not have the slightest impact on the bomber, but they remembered that the bomber in the sky made a move that made all the devils unbelievable.
On the battlefield behind the devils, the troops of the first division moved quickly, and the moment they saw the plane take off, all the troops entered the combat state.
Chen Qingshan stared at the huge bomber in the sky without blinking, and at the same time, all the troops under his command were ready for battle, and they all knew that it was time to see the performance of this bomber.
However, even those of them who didn't know much about airplanes couldn't help but show shocked expressions when they saw the plane's appearance at this time, and then their faces were full of worry, and only the devils let out a burst of laughter one by one.
Because the plane piloted by Wang He actually fell.
Woo Buzz...... The bomber rushed vertically down in the sky, and if you looked at it from a distance, it looked like the whole plane was about to fall.
Because in this era, there are few people who can fly an airplane like this, but if there is a regular pilot here, it will be able to understand at once that the plane is not a crash at all, but a vertical maneuver, which is the flight maneuver that Zhang Cheng requires every pilot to know.
This is the standard charge situation for dive bombers, but it is used against warships with strong anti-aircraft fire or important stronghold targets, and this move is not used at all under normal circumstances.
Of course, the devils naturally do not know, even the pilots of the devils do not have the slightest experience of this, because their opponents do not have anti-aircraft weapons.
Therefore, there is no need to use this method, and at the same time, because the devil himself does not have this kind of weapon, he does not understand how to dodge anti-aircraft fire such as anti-aircraft guns.
The devil did not even start developing anti-aircraft weapons at this time, and for the devil he now has almost no air threat.
Therefore, Japan has not formally incorporated air defense weapons into the development of military industry, and it was not until later that the devils of air warfare with the United States began to hastily import technology from Germany for production.
Seeing the relaxed appearance of the devils, Wang He's face showed a hideous smile.
This style of piloting was one of the most common forms of combat in later generations, although propeller planes were less powerful than later jets.
However, there is no problem with this kind of flight maneuver, because the plane will dump most of the ammunition at an altitude of four or five hundred meters, and then the plane can resume flight again through an upward arc.
And as the distance of the plane became lower and lower, the devil saw that the propeller of the plane was still rotating at this time, which means that the plane was not falling at all.
"Yaga, quick, shoot fast, he's attacking us." Pingmuqu's face changed in vain, because he now understood that the other party was preparing for a surprise attack on their artillery position.
The devil's soldiers were slightly stunned, because they didn't expect the plane to have such an attack.
It was a weird way, but they reacted quickly and quickly pulled the trigger on their hands.
A stiff light machine gun fired wildly into the sky, and the bullets rained down like dense raindrops.
Bang bang bang...... Bullets hit the fuselage of the plane, punching holes in the wooden planks of the plane, and some bullets hit the metal frame of the plane, which also made the nose of the plane slightly deformed.
However, the firing range of the light machine gun is only about seven or eight hundred meters, plus this is an upward shot, because of the downward gravitational pull of the earth, the bullets fired by the devil are four or five hundred meters in the air, and most of the kinetic energy is gone.
Wang He did not have the slightest fear, his eyes were fixed on the devil's artillery position.
Pulling the operating stick violently in an area of almost four or five hundred meters, the entire plane shook suddenly, and instantly crossed an arc from a position of several hundred meters to the left of the devil's artillery position, stabilized again, and flew from the devil's artillery Zhu very low.
"Bomb drop! Bombing! Wang He pulled the lever with both hands, and the high-intensity flight action put the bomber's engine under tremendous pressure, so the load must be reduced as soon as possible.
Whoa......
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At the moment when Wang He shouted, the lower hatch in the cabin opened, and one after another high-explosive shells were thrown by the soldiers, and ten high-explosive bombs were like a chain in the sky towards the artillery position of the devils.
"Yaga, hidden!" Seeing the plane dropping bombs, Pingmuqu shouted loudly to the ghost soldiers around him.
There was no use in doing anything at this time, because the bombs had been dropped and they had nothing to do.
But he was also convinced that even if the planes of the New First Army dropped bombs on the artillery positions, they would only be able to destroy a few pieces of artillery at most, and it would be impossible to destroy all of his twelve guns.
Because they had already diverted all the shells of the artillery before the gap in the aircraft, so that the artillery would not be in danger of being detonated.
But as soon as he climbed to the ground, Pingmuqu found that something was wrong.
The bombs dropped in the sky were of a very strange shape, not the regular bombs they used, but something like a small kerosene drum.
Obviously, these weapons were modified by the New First Army itself, but he did not understand why he used such homemade weapons instead of aerial bombs.
In his opinion, these homemade weapons could not be more powerful than aerial bombs in any case.
But Zhang Cheng didn't have any intention of using it, because that kind of bomb was too heavy, and each 200-millimeter aerial bomb weighed more than four or five hundred catties.
With such a large weight and size, the plane can only carry one or two, and if the caliber is a little larger, then only one can be carried.
It may be very lethal for a fixed stronghold, but for the twelve devil guns scattered in a line scattered across the ground, it can only destroy three or four at most.
Because the distance between each of the devil's artillery pieces was about ten meters, Zhang Cheng chose to use his own high-explosive shells.
The total weight of a high-explosive bomb, including the internal bomb and the external iron drum, is only 50 kilograms, but the power of its explosion is enough to cover a radius of 30 or 40 meters, and more than 10 high-explosive bombs are enough to cover a radius of 1 mile.
This makes all the artillery of the devil shrouded, and coupled with the terrifying high temperature generated by the explosion of high-explosive shells, any life in range will be directly killed.
At the same time, the high temperature generated by the high-explosive shell will heat the artillery, and even if it cannot destroy the devil's artillery, the devil's cannon cannot be used again for a few hours.
Coupled with the fact that the devil artillery is hiding not far from the artillery, then the high-explosive shell is enough to inflict a devastating blow on the devil artillery unit.
Although a 120 mm howitzer is precious, in Zhang Cheng's opinion, it is not as important as a ten-man artillery team, and if Wang He is given a choice, he will choose between artillery and personnel, killing and injuring the opponent's personnel.
Wang He's plane slowly pulled up, and when all the high-explosive bombs were thrown, the fuselage of the plane shook suddenly, and then it began to stop falling in a downward diagonal direction, and slowly flew sideways and downward.
But Wang He is very anxious now, because he is above the explosion range of high-explosive bombs, and this wooden aircraft structure is not very strong, which is why the devil can't take off and fight in the stormy weather.
Because the planes of this era were all wooden structures with a small amount of metal frames, because once the weight increased, the performance of the aircraft would be seriously affected, and the piston engine could not support the weight of the all-metal aircraft at all.
The explosion of the high-explosive bomb will cause a large amount of air in the lower layer to expand upward, like a big wave on the sea, enough to tear this sturdy plane apart, so he must get out of here as soon as possible.
Just when Wang He was piloting the plane and wanted to fly away quickly, the high-explosive bomb also hit the ground fiercely, and then suddenly a huge fire filled the entire battlefield.
Even Chen Qingshan and the others, who were miles away, couldn't help but close their eyes, because the light of this explosion was too dazzling.
The speed of light was much higher than the speed of sound, so everyone first saw the huge firelight explode, as if there was no sound, the huge fireball instantly expanded to a height of tens of nearly 100 meters, and a series of fireballs instantly enveloped the area of the devil artillery within a radius of nearly a kilometer.
The devil soldiers around the devil's artillery position opened their mouths one by one to watch the explosion scene, and only a small number of troops and Kang Tianfu had seen the explosion of high-explosive shells in the devil's troops.
However, they had never seen so many high-explosive shells explode together.
Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble......
A violent explosion came, and all the devil soldiers felt that their ears were instantly deaf, and the ghost soldiers who were a little closer even couldn't help but have blood in their ears, but this was only the beginning.
Dense high-explosive bombs explode with a power that may not be comparable to that of an atomic bomb, and the high-explosive bombs dropped are also lightweight.
However, a series of high-explosive bombs exploded at the same time, which is like a bonus to waves, and the waves can form a monstrous tsunami when they converge together, and the shock waves of the explosion are even more terrifying because they are superimposed at the moment of explosion.
Rumble...... When the sound of the explosion passed through the devil's side, and the devils couldn't help but cover their ears and lie on the ground, a shock wave visible to the naked eye swept towards the surrounding devils.
Whoosh......
A team of devil soldiers were like pieces of paper in the wind that were instantly swept away by the shock wave, and even some trucks were instantly pushed far away under the impact of the shock wave.
There was no scream, no scream, and all the devils who were hit did not have a chance to make any sound under this terrible explosion.
Yes......
It wasn't until a thousand meters away from the center of the explosion that the last smashed ghost soldier let out a scream, because it was here that the shock wave began to weaken and could not cause fatal damage.
All the devils were dumbfounded, even Chen Qingshan was terrified.
This weapon is simply terrifying, from the telescope they can see a devil's artillery position as the core, spreading in the direction of more than two thousand meters around.
The innermost layer of about 800 meters is the most central area, but although that area is full of devastation, where the body of a charred devil falls, there is no 800 to 1,500 meters area to be feared.
The scene in this area is simply a Shura hell, full of stumps and broken arms of devils, even trucks have been dismembered by the impact of powerful shockwaves, not to mention those unlucky devil soldiers who have been affected.
Even a small pebble in the impact of the shock wave is like a bullet, and any piece of metal is a sharp and terrifying blade.
Even if the Devil Soldiers did not die under the blows of the explosion and shockwave, they would be killed or even dismembered by this ubiquitous blade, so the area was full of Devil stumps and severed arms.
The simple thing is that there are not many soldiers in this area, only less than 2,000 people, and the artillery unit of 1,000 people is only 3,000 people.
Such casualties were not too great a loss for the more than 20,000 troops of the devils, but when they saw the artillery position, even Kang Tianfu trembled.
Because the artillery is finished, even if the guns seem to be in good condition, but no one can operate them.
"Baga, immediately send someone to destroy those artillery, immediately withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops!" Yasutiano felt like he was going crazy.
He didn't understand where the Chinese came up with such a terrifying weapon, and even he had never seen such a powerful terrorist bomb in Japan.