Chapter 635: The show has just begun

See the War of Generations. For the offensive side, the most important thing is a thunderous oath, momentum, there is no doubt that in this attack on Lushun and Dalian, the Chinese Air Force task force has indeed achieved a thunderous victory.

The momentum of the attack is made, and as for the effect of the attack, this needs to be comprehensively analyzed.

It is the Air Force General Staff and the General Staff that are responsible for analyzing the effects of the attack, and this is a technical task, and it is not the air force assault force that has the final say, and this requires them to come up with evidence, and this kind of evidence is basically aerial reconnaissance photos.

This air assault. The reason why the reconnaissance planes accompanied them was to take pictures of the battlefield at the end of the attack and to serve as the main basis for the staff department to analyze the results of the battle; according to the original task assignment, both the 6 Army Aviation and the Naval Air Force each sent their own reconnaissance planes to carry out this mission, and these reconnaissance planes were supposed to arrive in the battlefield airspace 10 minutes after the air raid began, but due to some problems in communication, in the end, the naval aviation only took off a few minutes before the reconnaissance planes of the 6 Army Air Force. As soon as the bomber group was put into battle, a formation of reconnaissance planes of naval aviation appeared in the sky, and they even directly participated in the task of attacking the sea and the sea.

The commanders of the 6 th Army Air Force were very unimpressed with the naval aviation's "merit-grabbing" behavior, but since they had already rushed to the battlefield, there was no need to worry about it.

The airstrike. Strategically and tactically speaking, they were all successful, and the key is to see how many losses have been inflicted on the naval fleet, sinking several capital ships, and destroying several important buildings. The air raid operation has not yet completely ended. But some shrewd air commanders have already begun to calculate the results on their own.

In addition to the heavy bomber units, there were also light bomber and medium bomber units participating in the air raid on Arthur. However, due to the limited range, they had already returned home after carrying out the air raid mission, and only the heavy bomber units would stay over the military port for a long time if they had enough fuel.

As the supreme commander of the heavy bomber unit, Qin Bing is now concentrating on calculating the effect of the attack, his "vulture" heavy bomber is a special communication and liaison aircraft, does not load bombs and torpedoes, so it does not directly participate in the attack operation, in fact, from the beginning of the battle, his "vulture" has been hovering at an altitude of more than 500 meters, and uses signal flares to direct other "vultures" to carry out attack missions; This kind of command method is very backward, but under the current communication conditions, it can only be simplified because of the ugliness. After all, there are only two "vultures" in the cabin with radio stations.

In fact, at the beginning of receiving the "Vulture" heavy bomber, Qin Bing considered the issue of communication between the bombers. He also wrote this idea in the report and reported it to the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief also thought of this problem, so several private electronic machinery factories received relevant communication equipment development plans, but because the electronics industry exhibition is far less fast than the aircraft industry exhibition, and it is more lacking in talents, so, until the "Zhangde exercise operation" began to be implemented, the expected light communication equipment is still not equipped with troops, Qin Bing and his colleagues can only continue to rely on signal flares. Primitive means of communication, such as swinging wings, were used to communicate with each other, and as for the radio stations on the planes, they were only used to communicate with the rear bases.

Qin Bing had imagined. Can we first use the radio principle to create a one-way device for receiving radio station passwords, without seeking two-way communication, as long as it can allow other bombers in the formation to receive orders from their superiors, but this idea was put forward a little late, and it was not until the attack plan was decided that he proposed this to the General Staff and the General Logistics Department. ideas, even if the plant is able to develop such a device. It's too late to catch up with this battle.

Without proper means of communication, the heavy bomber units were more or less sluggish, and before the operation, the commanders of the aircraft had been explicitly told by the Air Force Staff that they deemed it necessary. They could re-select the targets they thought fit to carry out the key attacks, but perhaps out of caution or out of dogmatism, some bomber captains still stubbornly adhered to the pre-formulated attack plan, and carried out key attacks on the two old Japanese battleships "Iwami" and "Zhoufang", while turning a blind eye to the two new-style battleships "Satsuma" and "Kongo" in the military port, and only a few bombers attacked the two battleships, although the bombs and torpedoes hit the targets. But it didn't hit the target.

Seeing this scene, Qin Bing was very helpless, and he desperately asked the "Satsuma" and "King Kong." The signal flares were fired from the berth, but to little effect, and only two heavy bombers attacked the "Satsuma" and "Kongo", although it was true that two torpedoes accurately hit the two new Japanese naval battleships. However, due to the effective management of the damage of the Japanese ships, the two battleships still had the possibility of escaping, and Qin Bing was a little annoyed by this, but fortunately he held a military meeting before the heavy bomber formation took off. The order of the attack was arranged so that the airspace aircraft would not affect the bomber's attack accuracy too much, so he still had a chance to attack.

According to Qin Bing's arrangement. Among the 36 "vultures", in addition to the two communication planes, the remaining 34 "vultures" were directly put into attack missions, of which 26 "vultures" were mounted with "lobster" torpedoes, and the other eight "vultures" were loaded with bombshells, and the "vultures" carrying bombs formed the first echelon, which was responsible for bombing some key buildings around the military port, such as the Japanese army headquarters and the Kwantung Governor's Office, while those "vultures" carrying torpedoes formed the second echelon. The second echelon was divided into the first detachment and the second detachment, of which the first detachment was assigned 15 "vultures" to be responsible for the first round of lightning strikes, and the second detachment was assigned to 11 "vultures" to be responsible for the second round of lightning strikes, and after the first round of lightning strikes began, the second detachment would be temporarily on standby at high altitude until Qin Bing gave them a signal. These "vultures" will be thrown into the second round of lightning strikes.

Now that the first round of lightning strikes has ended, the "vultures" of the first detachment have returned home under the escort of some "Wasp" fighters, and the rest depends on the attack of the second detachment, Qin Bing also pinned his hopes on the second detachment, and he hoped that most of the captains of the second detachment would correctly understand his orders, boldly attack the battleships "Satsuma" and "King Kong", and strive to expand the results of the battle and lay the foundation for the victory of the battle on the 6 Shang.

And before giving the attack order to the second detachment, Qin Bing also needs to confirm the results of the battle, see the damage of the battleships "Iwami" and "Zhoufang", and whether they need to supplement the attack, after all, he has not many torpedoes left, and he must carefully choose the target for attack.

To facilitate bombing sighting, a set of bombing sights was installed on the bottom plate of the cockpit of the "Vulture", through which the sights passed. Qin Bing could clearly overlook the entire military port and exchange views with the naval officer beside him; Ask for his opinion, just now, it was this naval officer who identified the "Satsuma" and "Kongo".

"Judging by the situation in the port. Of the four battleships of the Japanese Navy, with the exception of "Iwami", the other three battleships did not receive a fatal blow, given that "Satsuma, and Kongo". It is actually a new battleship of the Japanese Navy, therefore, I think, it should be

The stunned mountain was late to attack the self-standard on the two battleships. The naval officer finally helped Qin Bing make up his mind, so Qin Bing gave an order to the two machine gunners, ordering them to use flare guns to fire signal flares at the berths of the "Satsuma" and "King Kong", and at the same time order the pilot to appropriately lower the altitude of the plane, and personally send a telegram to the "vulture" communication liaison plane on standby at high altitude. Let it lead the second detachment into the attack.

Soon, the 12 "vultures" hovering at an altitude of 1,500 meters began to reduce their flight altitude, one of the communication planes flew in the front, and the eleven "vultures" behind were divided into three formations, and they flew in one row, and when the formation altitude dropped to 500 meters, they immediately dispersed and pounced in three directions, the "vultures" of two formations chose the battleships "King Kong" and "Satsuma" respectively, and the "vultures" of one formation chose the battleship "Zhou Fang". This made Qin Bing very pleased, and the rest depends on the performance of these "vultures", in order to see more clearly, Qin Bing ordered the driver to reduce the height of this "vulture" to two hundred meters.

At this time, there were still a large number of fighter planes cruising in the airspace of the military port, and seeing the "vulture" group coming down from a high altitude, the fighter pilots consciously moved out of the attack route and began to concentrate their fire on suppressing the anti-aircraft fire coming from the deck of the warship and on the dock, and the gunfire became more intensive.

Qin Bing glanced at the hanging watch, he was a little anxious, according to the time calculation, the fuel and ammunition of the fighter have been almost consumed, if the torpedo attack cannot be ended as soon as possible, then the bomber will have to fly alone when it returns home.

Qin Bing also noticed that the decks of the battleships "Satsuma" and "King Kong" were already full of sailors, all of whom were armed with rifles, shooting at the banquet in the sky, and although they were attacked by the "wasps," they were still desperately firing at the "vultures" that were getting closer and closer, even with heavy casualties.

However, the concentrated fire of the Japanese sailors did not affect the determination of the "vultures" to attack, and under the dense rain of bullets, all the "vultures" had already entered the attack route of throwing torpedoes and distanced themselves from each other.

One of the "vultures" quickly flew to a distance of almost two hundred meters from the battleship "King Kong", and as soon as the torpedo was thrown, one of the engines on the left flank suddenly burst into flames and smoke, and the whole plane immediately lost its balance, if the altitude was sufficient. The pilot was able to restore the balance of the plane, but because the altitude was too low, he could not save the "vulture" in the end, and the moment the left wing tip of the plane was pressed down to the sea surface, the wing of the plane was broken, and the whole plane also fell headlong towards the sea, and after rolling twice on the sea surface, it finally disintegrated, and the tail was even thrown onto the deck of the battleship "King Kong".

However, the torpedo thrown by the "vulture" accurately hit the starboard side of the battleship "King Kong", and the violent explosion stirred up a huge column of water. The entire hull was also shaken.

Then, another "vulture" immediately lowered its altitude, rushed over from the other direction, and threw a torpedo at a distance of 200 meters from the "King Kong", this torpedo hit the port side of the battleship, and the violent explosion even shook some Japanese sailors on the deck into the sea, and at the same time, the third "vulture" in this attack formation also hit the starboard side of the "King Kong" again with a torpedo, and several huge whirlpools immediately appeared at the waterline of the warship, and the sea water rushed into the hull. I am afraid that no damage control measures can be done.

At the same time that the "Kongo" was attacked, the battleship "Satsuma" was also attacked by the same torpedoes, and the port side was hit by four torpedoes in a row, three of which exploded, and this huge battleship quickly tilted to the left, and even the layman could see that it was impossible for this battleship to escape from the military port, so the "vultures" that had not yet attacked immediately turned course and went straight to the battleships "Zhoufang" and "Iwami", and carried out a supplementary attack on the two heavily damaged warships to end their escape attempts.

The second round of torpedo attacks had a very good effect, and the four battleships of the Japanese fleet were all hit hard, although they had not yet sunk, Qin Bing believed. At least they have lost their combat effectiveness, and the bomber formations can return.

At the same time, the fighter unit also received a signal and returned to cover the bomber group amid the billowing black smoke and explosions in the military port

Boat.

At this moment, the naval air bomber formation and fighter formation that were heading for Dalian to attack also returned from the north; since they were breaking into the Liaodong Peninsula from the other direction, their attack on Dalian began at about the same time as the attack on Lushun, and now, they joined up with the air force assault force attacking Lushun and prepared to return to Dengzhou together.

The roar of the motive was deafening, Qin Bing walked out of the cockpit of the "vulture" without saying a word, came to the machine gun cabin at the tail, and then took out the hanging watch to look at the time, if you count from the moment when the fighter broke into the sky over Lushun, this air assault of the Chinese Air Force task force took less than 20 minutes, and the thunder came, and it simply went away, leaving behind a battlefield full of devastation and the loyal souls of the air force who sacrificed their lives for the country.

Standing in the machine gun cabin, Qin Bing looked down with the machine gun seat, and the wreckage of the wrecked fighters and bombers on the sea was clearly visible, and the Chinese people proved their loyalty to the motherland with their actions.

Qin Bing silently stared at the wreckage of those bombers, and then raised his right hand to salute those comrades who had sacrificed their lives and who might have survived, and that was all he could do now.

Qin Bing looked at the outer berthing ground of the military port again, where it was still abandoned, because the warships there were all light warships such as destroyers. The Chinese Air Force assault force ignored them, and the Japanese warships were largely unattacked, and orders from the General Staff forbade the dropping of bombs or torpedoes into the area.

At this moment, Qin Bing noticed that under the surface of the waterway between the outer and inner berths of Lushun, two slender black shadows lurked ghostly on the north and south sides of the waterway.

It should be a submarine, and there are more than those two, under the surface of the outer mooring, Qin Bing saw at least five black shadows lurking nearby.

Is it a submarine unit of the Chinese Navy?

Qin Bing can't be very sure, because the Japanese Navy is also equipped with submarines, but he knows that the naval forces of the "Lightning Plan" have also been deployed accordingly, and the specific details are not clear to him, an air force officer.

The waters near Arthur are shallow, so it is said that they are not suitable for submarine activities, but since the General Staff can plan a large-scale air assault. So, what reason do they have not to deploy submarines in the waters of this area?

This operation against Japan was by no means an action of the Air Force alone, and the actions of the Sixth Army and the Navy were also very important.

Although it is not known what actions the Navy will take. But Qin Bing knew very well that the show had just begun.