662: Air Division

On the afternoon of 7 June, when the aircraft carrier squadron once again followed the fleet to Japan's coastal areas, the aircraft carrier battle group, which had received a reconnaissance report, immediately dispatched two reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the waters near Kagoshima. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At 4:10 p.m., two reconnaissance planes took off from the aircraft carrier and arrived over Kagoshima at 4:37 p.m., and at 4:45 p.m., the reconnaissance planes heading to the inland sea area for reconnaissance spotted five warships of the Japanese Navy more than 10 kilometers north of Kagoshima.

From a high altitude, the appearance of the five warships below is not good-looking, sitting on the beach, hitting the ship, and floating corpses can be faintly seen on the sea, about dozens of them.

The deck of the warship was also full of corpses, and the pilot of the reconnaissance plane was also frightened by this scene, but in the end he chose to lower the altitude, hoping to observe the situation on the warship more clearly.

The final result was the same as what he saw at high altitude, the soldiers on the Japanese warship below were already dead and could no longer die, and they looked very miserable.

With deep doubts, the reconnaissance plane quickly flew away from the incident area and returned to the aircraft carrier to land as fast as possible.

The navy doesn't know how the army killed these warships, but judging from the scars on the warships, it seems that there is not much difference from the last time I saw them, and it is very likely that the army did not attack the Japanese navy at all, so why did the Japanese navy have such a tragic incident?

After returning to the aircraft carrier, the pilot of the reconnaissance plane immediately reported the situation to fleet commander Deng Haohong, and after hearing about the situation of the Japanese warship, Deng Haohong did not dare to be careless in the slightest, and immediately reported the situation to Sa Zhenbing, vice commander of the navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet.

However, the well-informed Sa Zhenbing had already realized what was going on in front of him when he saw this battle briefing, and the angry Sa Zhenbing directly scolded for a long time, and it was not until a few minutes later that he gradually calmed down.

After venting, Sa Zhenbing could only accept this fact, and then reported the situation to You Botai, the commander-in-chief of the landing operation, and expressed the navy's dissatisfaction with this matter in a telegram.

However, in You Botai's reply to Sa Zhenbing, he wrote that human life is greater than equipment, and politics is greater than military.

With just this sentence, Sa Zhenbing instantly understood what You Botai meant, and then he no longer had any entanglements in this matter, whether it was You Botai or Sa Zhenbing, the positions of the two of them were not wrong, and different positions stood together, and some collisions were inevitable, and as long as the two sides maintained good communication and always maintained a trace of sanity, then it would be impossible to have the kind of contradiction between the Japanese Navy and the Army.

As a veteran of the two dynasties, Sa Zhenbing has seen the strength of the Beiyang Navy, witnessed the decline of the Beiyang Navy, and personally saw the threat to China brought by the absence of a navy in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

All of this has grown up in the testimony of Sa Zhenbing, and Sa Zhenbing also knows very well that the loss of these nine warships is actually nothing to the navy, because they will soon replenish it.

And the naval shipyard is also constantly expanding, the speed of equipment construction of the navy can now be said to be the first in the world, which is incomparable to any country in the world.

Moreover, he also knows very well that letting the army capture warships is simply a fool's dream, the people of the navy are people, and the people of the army are also people, and there is no need to lose a lot of lives for the sake of equipment.

Although the final result was somewhat unsatisfactory to the Navy, for the country, such a result could not have been better, if not better.

The naval fleet had already set off yesterday morning, and You Botai's telegram on mobilizing equipment for the 51st Division had only been sent back last evening, although the navy had not had time to transport the equipment of the 51st Division.

However, as a period of war, the loss of equipment was also taken into account in the logistics aspect, so in this batch of supplies, there was a division of spare equipment.

As for the chemical defense suits, because this is an urgent use, and the navy has already set off, there is no time to transport it, so this task is entrusted to the airborne troops.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 7th, the two regiments of airborne troops that were ready took off from the Nantong base, passed through Jeju Island, and finally arrived at the airfield that had just been built in Ajiune, Japan, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Escorting the two airborne regiments was the 1st Air Division.

After arriving in Japan, the 1st Air Division and two airborne regiments will also be stationed in Japan to provide various support to the army forces attacking Japan.

The 1st Air Force Division has three regiments, namely the 21 st Air Force Combat Regiment, and four brigades under its jurisdiction, each of which has four squadrons, and each squadron is equipped with 12 fighters, that is to say, the 21 st Air Force Combat Regiment has 192 fighters, which is far beyond the establishment of an aircraft carrier battle group.

The difference with the aircraft carrier battle group is that the fighters of the 21 st Air Force Combat Regiment are also different from those of the naval aviation, and the planes of the land-based air force are larger than the fighters of the naval aviation in terms of size, and in exchange for more powerful power, greater space, and longer range.

In addition, the land-based fighter did not design the bomb-carrying project, this regiment is a simple combat regiment, and after the bomb-carrying is canceled, coupled with some designs for the interior of the aircraft, this also makes the combat firepower of the Type 08 biplane fighter equipped with the 21st Air Regiment unprecedentedly powerful.

The whole aircraft is equipped with two 12.5 mm aviation machine guns, which are located on the left and right wings, which are different from the 500 ammunition of Hainan Airlines, because of the larger body, and a more calm design, which also doubles the number of ammunition of the Type 08 biplane fighter compared with Hainan Airlines, and the two machine guns add up to a total of 2,000 bullets.

In addition, in the front of the fighter, where the aircraft were mounted on the European battlefield at this time, there was a 20 mm aviation cannon with 200 shells, which was quite useful for attacking the enemy's large aircraft.

Well, although the enemy does not have large aircraft now, if it is a fighter, if you dare to be hit by a 20-mm aviation cannon, it means that the plane can directly say goodbye.

The other is the Air Force 51 Fighter-Bombing Regiment, with the same establishment, the same 192 aircraft, as the name suggests, this regiment is equipped with similar aircraft to the HNA aircraft, but it is also larger, which can be regarded as a strengthened version of the HNA fighter-bomber. It can carry up to one 300-kilogram bomb and two 50-kilogram bombs, and if it does not carry any ammunition, it can carry a total of 500-kilogram aerial bombs.

The last one was the 91st Air Bombing Regiment, which was smaller in size, only half the size of the first two regiments, with 96 aircraft.

Although the number is not large, the role of this regiment must not be underestimated, first of all, the planes of the 91st Bombing Regiment are larger, to what extent? The answer is the size of three fighters, and the bomber is also the first time to adopt a fully enclosed construction concept, equipped with three high-power aero engines, its full load state, the maximum speed can reach 305 kilometers, which is faster than the fighter plane, and even the fighter can't catch up with them.

Speed is just one of its strengths, and this bomber, named the Terminator, has even more desirable features.

For example, its bomb load of up to three tons means that if all of them are equipped with 50 kg bombs, then the Terminator bomber will be able to carry 60 bombs, which is equivalent to the bomb load of fifteen fighter-bombers (the war bomber only has four hooks).

If the above two advantages are not satisfied, then it can fly at an altitude of up to 5,000 meters, which is his biggest killer feature.

And before the advent of the Terminator bomber, no one believed that it could fly to such a high altitude, which was even unimaginable. Although the tester felt some difficulty breathing at that altitude, it also proved that it was capable of flying at that altitude.

And what is the flight altitude of a fighter? The answer is that there are very few people who can fly to an altitude of two thousand meters below two thousand meters, and during the domestic experiment, the testers flew to an altitude of two thousand meters at most under full armament, and flew for half a minute.

And the memories afterwards also prove that flying at that altitude is simply fatal, and such a thing as an oxygen mask has not yet been studied. Oh yes, the tester was wearing a sealed version of the gas mask......

The 1st Air Division will arrive in Ajiune in the next two days, and the sappers here are also busy day and night, and the take-off site of the fighter is easy to say, and the bombers are too heavy, so the requirements for the site are also very high.

But in any case, the pressure on the Chinese side to attack Japan is continuing to increase, and Japan can only retreat one after another, and in the situation where the army lacks equipment and ammunition, and the navy is basically wiped out, it is difficult for even the Japanese top brass themselves to imagine what will happen next.

Of course, so far, the Japanese top brass has not received news of the total annihilation of the Japanese navy, nor has it received news that the Japanese army has lost more than four divisions since the Chinese landing.