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[216] Left Battalion

Yang Tao, the acting commander of the 8th Division, was checking the instruments of the pressurized cabin of the 5th and preparing to pressurize the cockpit.

Although he was young, only 28 years old, he was used to the 160 decibels of noise inside the bomber. Before returning to China, when Yang Tao was training in the Soviet Union, he flew the Tu-4 "Bull" bomber, which is a Soviet copycat version of the American B-29 "Super Flying Fortress", and the noise in the four-propeller Tu-4 "Bull" long-range bomber reached more than 220 decibels. Compared to the bulls, the noise of the boom five is already very low.

As the leader of this group of bomber pilots who studied in the Soviet Union, after returning to China, Yang Tao was picked up by Liu Yalou, the commander of the Air Force, for a detailed discussion, and gave him a mission to form China's first bomber division.

Yang Tao can't forget the first time he saw the scene of the bombardment. At the end of last year, Commander Liu of the Air Force took him to the Nanyuan Airport in the northern capital, where more than 100 H-5s were neatly arranged on the tarmac that had just been built.

The winter sun hits the aluminum alloy body, as if rustling and refracting the silver light. Yang Tao was intoxicated by this metal jungle, his blood was boiling, his youth was bursting out, and he was young and vigorous, and he made a military order to Commander Liu Yalou beside him:

"Commander! I will definitely train the first batch of H-5 pilots and form a bomber division to enter service by the end of March.

Two weeks ago, Yang Tao fulfilled his promise to Commander Liu ahead of schedule and officially entered service with the H-8 Division, which was formed by the first batch of H-5 pilots. This was a leap forward for the Air Force of the Republic of China, and from this day on, New China had a front-line bombing capability at the division and regimental level.

"At an altitude of 5,000 meters and a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, the whole regiment entered the cruising state, and each aircraft paid attention to the distance from each other and maintained a double-box formation. Prepare and bang a confluence. Yang Tao gave instructions one by one.

Following Yang Tao's instructions, the H-5 jet bomber units of the first and second brigades of the H-2 Regiment of the H-8 Division became two squares with four planes on each side.

"Here is a bomb, here is a boom, the height is 5000, the speed is 700, please instruct the division commander." Ma Weiming's voice came from the radio, and there is currently no regiment commander in the first regiment, but Ma Weiming, the deputy regiment commander, acting as the head of the regiment.

Because in the previous bombing of Shenjiamen on Zhoushan Island, the only H-5 bomber piloted by Ma Weiming to participate in the battle performed outstandingly, the higher authorities decided that Ma Weiming would serve as the deputy commander of the H-1 Regiment to exercise the functions and powers of the regiment commander, and the position of regiment commander was temporarily vacant. There is no doubt that if the mission of bombing the Kaohsiung Zuoying Military Port is successful, Ma Weiming will be appointed as the regiment commander.

"Attention to the first bomb regiment, I am the division commander Yang Tao, and my second bomb regiment is moving closer to you, please keep the box-shaped formation and prepare to join my second regiment."

"Boom a ball received."

"This is the 5th Air Division, this is the 5th Air Division, my 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment have formed a slotted interceptor formation, and they have now arrived above your bomber cluster, with an altitude of 9,000 and a speed of 800, and have entered the cruise." At this time, the voice of Wang Hai, the new commander of the Fifth Air Division, appeared on the radio.

"The Eighth Division has received, please maintain altitude and escort my bomber group."

"The Air Fifth Division received it and is carrying out escort missions."

With the convergence of the 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment of the 8th H-8 Division, which took off from Fuzhou and Xiamen respectively, the 48-plane H-5 formed four box-shaped formations in the sky and converged into a Tianzi.

Above them, the four one-line formations composed of 48 J-5 and J-6 of the Air Fifth Division were lined up at an altitude of 9,000 meters, guarding the H-8 Division below.

Ninety-six fighters and bombers finally formed a large-scale formation in the skies over the Taiwan Strait under the guidance of ground radars and air commanders.

Air Force Commander Liu Yalou was telegraphing from the front line in the northern capital at this time, paying attention to the first large-scale bomber cluster bombing operation dispatched by the New Chinese Air Force. As Commander Liu pointed out at the operational meeting before the war:

If the formation of the first phase of the Eighth Division has solved the problem of "whether it can fly," then this operation will examine whether the Eighth Division "can fight." ”

The chairman attended the pre-war Supreme Council of the Air Force, at which he stated: "The main task of the Air Force at this stage is not to completely overwhelm the enemy in the air, but to assist the Navy and the Army, to win greater victories, to annihilate the enemy, and to liberate the islands off the southeast coast." The chairman also asked the Air Force to intensify its training, to bring in the old and the new, and to expand the scale of the existing nine aviation schools.

In addition, the chairman also gave an inscription to the inaugural issue of the "People's Air Force" magazine: "Create a powerful people's air force, annihilate the remnants of the enemy, and consolidate national defense." ”

The general headquarters of this operation was set up in Fuzhou, and General Chang Qiankun, deputy commander of the Air Force, was already personally in command there. Under the guidance of the high-performance radar purchased by Xiaoqiang, the deputy commander paid close attention to the battle situation.

After General Chang Qiankun went to the Soviet Union to study in 1926, he served as the navigator of the independent air force of the Soviet Red Army, and knew that the navigator was the heaviest task in the bombing mission.

At this moment, General Chang Qiankun said silently: "Hao Liang, Ma Weiming, your 8001 can be competitive." ”

Due to the strong radar guidance in Fuzhou, the bomber group does not need to carry out a single instrument flight, and can correct the route very accurately according to the parameters sent back by the radar at the base. An hour later, the bomber group had bypassed the Penghu Islands from the south and began to fly towards the Kaohsiung Zuoying Military Port. The entire bombing cluster has now risen to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and they have already seen the land -- this is Taiwan.

Taiwan Zuoying Inner Harbor,

Since yesterday, the breeze blowing from the southeastern land has dispersed the sea fog, and from the sky, countless warships and gunboats are densely lined up in the docks of the inner harbor, crowded to the brim. After the Japanese Navy was dismembered by the United States, the sight of dense ships here was quite like the first navy in Asia.

The main dock area in the inner harbor of the Zuoying Naval Base is anchored with seven warships of more than 1,000 tons of the Taiwan Navy.

This includes the 2,050-ton Danyang, which was renamed from the former Japanese Navy's auspicious ship Yukikaze.

There is also the Fenyang with a displacement of 2,701 tons, the former Japanese Navy "Yotsuki" aircraft carrier air defense direct frigate.

In addition, there are 1,800-ton Wuyi, 1,650-ton Shenyang, and 1,150-ton three U.S.-aided frigates Taihe, Taihu, and Taizhao.

Some of the smaller warships moored here are 13 650-ton US-aided "Yong" frigates, 23 frigates with a displacement of 200 tons to 400 tons, and more than 90 small offshore gunboats of various types with a displacement of less than 200 tons.

In the sea not far south of the inner harbor, a total of 98 Japanese and American-made landing ships are parked in the 10-kilometer-long wave-proof seawall.

Among them is the Lushan with a displacement of 887 tons, the former Japanese Navy's personnel transport ship, which can carry 5 tanks and 600 army troops.

However, the largest of them is the forty tank landing ships aided by the United States, of which ten LST-class tank landing ships have a displacement of 4,080 tons and can carry 17 M5A1 tanks!

Eight LSM medium landing ships with a displacement of 1050 tons can carry 5 tanks and 500 troops!

There are also a large number of combat vehicle landing craft with a displacement of 380 tons like the LSI class.

These landing ships were able to transport the group army to the coastal areas of the mainland in formation, and this was the confidence of Lao Chiang's counterattack on the mainland.

Lu Ping was an observer at the observation post of the Zuoying Military Port, and early in the morning, he went to the No. 6 observation post with a bamboo and wood structure on the beach outside the harbor to take over the night shift. Lu Ping climbed the ten-meter-high observation post along the simple wooden ladder, and sure enough, the night shift personnel were still asleep.

"Lao Wei, Lao Wei, wake up. Damn, you haven't slept enough after a night's sleep! Hurry up and fuck off, let Lao Tzu stare for a while. Lao Tzu was kicked up by the chief early in the morning to change shifts, is it easy to live? Lu Ping shouted at Lao Wei, who was still asleep in a daze at the observation post.

This observation post was built by the original Japanese army, and the place is very narrow, about the size of a toilet, with a thatched roof on top, and limited protection from rain.

Lao Wei crawled out of the broken quilt in the corner of the wall and wiped the secretions from the corners of his eyes and mouth with the sleeve of his military uniform.

"Shifts? Hey, I've stayed up all night, and my waist is about to break. ”

As he spoke, Lao Wei straightened up from the corner of the hut and stretched his waist.

"Hey, what's that?"

Suddenly, Lao Wei felt something shining in the sky in the distance.

"Lu Ping, what do you think that's that?"

Lu Ping looked in the direction of Lao Wei's finger and wondered: "I don't know what it is, isn't it an Air Force plane?" ”

Lao Wei hurriedly squatted down and took out a telescope from a wooden box in the observation tower to take a closer look.

"It's an airplane! Silvery! It's an iron plane! Damn it! It's for the army! ”

Lu Ping shuddered with fright, and almost lost his footing, and was about to fall off the low wooden fence at the edge of the outpost.

"Lao Wei, don't be mistaken, how can the supply army fly to Taiwan, separated by the sea, hundreds of miles?"

Lao Wei stared at the binoculars and shouted in horror: "It's for the army!" That's right! This is not the same as the American plane in Zuoying Airport! So much...... So much...... Damn! …… That's a lot! ”

Lu Ping listened to what Lao Wei said scary, and hurriedly said: "Lao Wei, this is an enemy attack, right?" Let's blow the whistle!? ”

Lao Wei was woken up by Lu Ping, quickly took out the whistle from the wooden box, rushed to the wooden fence and leaned out, and blew at the observation post in the distance. The shrill whistle pierced the silence of the early morning, and the sound echoed outside the Zuoying Military Port.