Chapter 49: The Uga River
The sun shone on the wasteland south of the Uga River, and the days when the ice thawed were warm and cold. The 101st Division, the new 32nd Division, and the 25th Artillery Regiment are ruthlessly excavating fortifications, artillery fortifications, machine gun fortifications, blocking fortifications, ......, at this time the frozen soil is not completely thawed, the upper layer is fine, and the two feet of soil are hard when dug down. The officers shouted orders, and tens of thousands of people dug in full swing day and night for two days, seeing that the Japanese reinforcements were coming, and many fortifications, especially the artillery fortifications, were still not completed.
"Damn, it's too late!" I heard that Major General Liu Zhenxuan, the commander of the 25th Artillery Regiment of the Japanese Army, threw his military cap on the table. This is the command post in front of the enemy, and Dong Qiwu, commander of the 101st Division, and Yuan Qingrong, commander of the new 32nd Division, are all sitting on the side. "More than half of the guns couldn't be put down, and the Japanese planes came ......"
"It's already ......" Dong Qiwu was also scratching his head, and he had calculated everything, but he didn't expect that the terrain on the south bank of the Wujia River was too low, the soil was not dry, and a lot of soil was still frozen. As he spoke, he suddenly remembered the sound of a military horn outside. Three short and one long, three short and one long, this is an air raid siren, warning the Japanese planes to attack.
"Quick, get down! Get down! Dong Qiwu and Yuan Qingrong were in a hurry, Dong Qiwu ran to the door and yelled outside, Yuan Qingrong wanted to rush out but was stopped by the adjutant. Through the gap on the top of the fortification, in the distance, Liu Zhenxing saw several small black dots appear in the sky. The night before yesterday morning, more than 20 Japanese planes went straight to the city of Gohara, and the entire white sky was attacked three or five times until the sun set. There were also Japanese planes today, but all of them went straight to Wuyuan City from the east, and they were not interested in this wasteland from the north of the city to the Wujia River, and only two Japanese planes circled the Wujia River at about 10 o'clock in the morning -- according to the plan, only one of the three bridges was left in the northeast, and the other two had been destroyed by the Suiyuan guerrillas who had completed the Fengji Canal.
The planes in the sky flew closer and closer, the sound of the engine went straight to the eardrums, and the concealment of the air had already been explained, but after digging fortifications day and night for two days, several exhausted soldiers did not seem to hear the air raid siren, or heard the siren but were not associated with the air raid, they were sweating in the trench and waving their hoes, but when they heard the bugle they jumped on it, looking around a little dazed, not knowing what was happening. They were at a loss, but the plane in the sky was extremely fast, and one plane immediately dived down, and at the same time the nose of the plane burst into flames, and after the gunfire of 'da-da-da', the soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
"Whose soldier is this? Whose soldier is this?! Dong Qiwu saw that the soldiers were swept by the plane, he was really angry and hateful, and he couldn't wait to rush out and scold them immediately. But the things that made him feel more than that, the plane swept past the machine gun and fired angrily, and the bullets fell to the ground in unison, stirring up a piece of rubble, and some soldiers who were already lying on the ground jumped up in fright, they probably wanted to run to the nearest trench to dodge, but as soon as they jumped, they were killed, and the two wingmen who followed the long plane dive just took advantage of the situation to shoot, and the two planes were like two sickles, easily harvesting these dozen lives.
The sound of machine guns, screams, and the sound of aircraft engines had never been so close to the heavenly Grim Reaper, and after the three planes flew low, the soldiers lying on the ground were all panicked. The recruits who were only replenished last month after the war, the commander only taught them to lie down when they saw the plane, but did not tell them what to do if it was useless to lie down. Cattle and sheep were plagued, hundreds of soldiers on the ground jumped up like headless flies scurrying on the wasteland, the soldiers panicked, the officers were at a loss, they kept shouting and lying down, but no one listened. The bomber was originally going to Wuyuan City, but when it saw so many enemy soldiers suddenly appearing on the wasteland, it immediately turned around and flew over.
"It's over, it's over......" Dong Qiwu, who rushed out of the command post, was eager to kill those soldiers with one shot and kill himself with another shot.
"Master, teacher, can't go, can't go!" Dong Qiwu rushed out, and the guards hurriedly dragged him in, but Dong Qiwu dragged him in, and Yuan Qingrong rushed out again, and his guards were a step slower, so they could only run forward after the division commander. Seeing this tragic situation, Liu Zhenxuan couldn't stand steadily, what he cared about was not the soldiers, what he cared about was his artillery regiment, 20 generals will be able to use the Jin mountain cannon, 18 American-made howitzers, maybe all of them will have to be explained here. "Quick, quick! To shoot the artillery regiment, to shoot the artillery regiment and protect the artillery! Protect the cannon!! He reached for the phone on the table, his eyes full of Scrooge's light.
'Boom! The explosion was deafening, not on the ground, but in the air, a Japanese bomber exploded in volley, and at a flash the fireball, an even larger plane swooped down from the sky, and then scrambled up. It was accompanied by a wingman - if the Japanese planes spit out a little starlight, then they spit out a three-foot-long Limman, which passed through the wing of another Japanese bomber, and at the same time as the smoke and flames started, half of the wing immediately broke and flew, and the unbalanced bomber began to spin, fall, and finally slam into the wasteland, blowing up a ball of fire.
"Airplanes! Naval planes!! "Dong Qiwu propped up his hands at the door of the command post and didn't go in, and now when he saw the Japanese plane shot down, he pointed to the sky and shouted, and then stomped his feet and jumped sharply." Naval planes, fucking Navy planes! ”
It was the Navy aircraft that shot down the two Japanese bombers. Ten days ago, with the support of a 314 water tanker and a 314 cargo plane, two reconnaissance attack planes were stationed in Zhongning, Ningxia, and the day before, half a squad of six saboteurs also arrived at Zhongning Airport. The local government only found a few small boats and built a tower and a wooden dock to facilitate the unloading of tools and ammunition by the ground crew. After the battle began, one of the two reconnaissance planes hovered at a high altitude, mainly to observe the movement of Japanese reinforcements, and now the reinforcements were about to arrive at the Uga River, but they were discovered and bombed by Japanese planes, and they immediately dived down from an altitude of 8,000 meters.
Two bombers were shot down, and the Japanese aircraft formation immediately burst into a commotion, and several Type 97 fighters immediately climbed in an attempt to catch up with these two unique China Air Force planes. They did not miscalculate, although Nakajima's 610 horsepower nine-cylinder engine could not compete with the 1,850 horsepower HP R-2800 engine, but the empty weight of 1,100 kilograms of the Type 97 was less than one-third of the empty weight of the saboteur, and the Saboteur was no match for the Type 97 fighter compared to the climb.
Seeing that the Japanese plane was chasing closer and closer, the saboteur who knew that he could not climb the Japanese plane pressed the nose of the plane, and began to dive downward, rising and descending, the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and the fire from the 7.7mm machine gun was in front of the pilot's eyes, and a few rounds hit the fuselage, but this small-caliber bullet obviously could not bring any damage to the saboteur. With a 'buzz', the distance between the two sides began to widen, and the two low-flying saboteurs left this airspace at full speed, but the six ninety-seven planes behind them were in hot pursuit, but after chasing for a while, they found that they could not catch up, and the two Chinese planes flew faster and faster, and the speed was obviously higher than 500 kilometers per hour.
As the saboteurs rumbled low across the wasteland, the blue sky and white Japanese insignia under the wings stopped the confusion of the soldiers of the 35th Army on the ground, and took advantage of this opportunity, under the shouts of the officers, the soldiers began to lie on the ground, not moving. And when the Japanese bombers circled in the air and wanted to drop bombs, the saboteurs who relied on high-speed pulling up swooped down again. When the Soviet plane dived, its 7.62mm aviation machine gun could not hit the Japanese bombers, and the 20mm cannon equipped by the saboteur was a large hole of one meter square when it hit it, and as long as it hit the Japanese plane, it would either be killed or injured.
The saboteurs in the high-speed dive were invincible, and after passing the Japanese bomber formation, two more bombers were shot down and one was damaged, while the Type 97 fighters that followed were like a group of little children who hit people with slingshots, and they could only hit, not injure, let alone shoot down. When the saboteurs pulled up for the third time to prepare for the dive, the bomber formation finally stopped bombing and turned the nose to flee the dangerous airspace, but their decision was too late, and two more were killed when the group withdrew. After that, the fly-like ninety-seven pestered the saboteurs who swooped up, in order to make the bomber flee quickly, so as not to be plunged down by the Chinese plane.
The Japanese are at a loss at all as to what the new aircraft looks like and what its performance is, and the skies over Yunnan seem to have been ruled by the devil, and no matter how many planes are sent in, there will be no return. However, the 3.22 air battle in Wuyuan finally allowed the Japanese army to finally block the true face of the new aircraft. According to the visual inspection of the pilots of the Type 97 fighter in this battle, the wingspan of the new Chinese plane is more than 14 meters, and the length of the aircraft is about 12 meters. It uses a four-bladed propeller, a wide straight wing, a fat fuselage, and is very strong, with hundreds of rounds unscathed. The speed is definitely more than five hundred kilometers and most likely five hundred and fifty kilometers, but the climbing speed is not good, estimated at less than fifteen meters per second. The armament consists of two 20mm cannons, which are extremely powerful, and two 12.7mm machine guns (known from the fuselage bullets after landing). The pilots had no air combat skills and could only pull up and dive to attack. Its range is unknown, and after shooting down several of its own bombers, the two Chinese planes fled in a southwesterly direction, presumably heading for Lanzhou Airport, where it is expected to have a range of more than 1,500 kilometers.
The information of the Chinese Air Force plane was soon transmitted from Baotou to Beiping, and Beiping urgently reported Wuhan and Guangzhou. In the Haikou Kashima Air Force, Sueo Osa, who got this information, finally breathed a sigh of relief -- the people of China must not be allowed to have a peaceful sky, especially Kunming, where the naval aviation is located. For this reason, the Japanese Navy, which has been tentatively ineffective on a small scale, is in contact with the Army Air Force, and the two sides are preparing to assemble more than 100 bombers to bomb Kunming in order to completely destroy the Kunming Naval Airfield and Kunming's Wujiaba Airfield, which have just been put into operation.