Chapter 383
Wang Wei's wish for air war has still not been realized, and he really hates that iron cannot become steel, so why don't the Americans hurry up and produce an aircraft that is enough for World War I? In fact, he misunderstood, even air combat is a team action, and it also needs support from the ground, even if there are no advanced aircraft, there is still a possibility of sneak attack in the absence of radar warning.
For example, now, Wang Wei pilots his pirates to dump ammunition at the Oahu airport, rows of planes are quietly parked on the airport runway, and many planes can be seen in the semi-open hangar. There were 32 American planes parked here, and the airfield did not receive any warning before the arrival of the Chinese planes, and the raid route chosen by the Hainan Airlines was not guarded except for the reconnaissance post where Lucci was located, and the fighters and bombers taking off from the Baiqi attacked from the northeast of Oahu, and the HNA planes that took off from the Huo Qu Sick attacked from the northeast of Hawaii Island.
One after another P02 combat/reconnaissance planes were blown up and caught fire, and the air defense positions around the airport also became important targets for fighter attacks, and even the airport tower was strafed by arrogant Chinese fighters, and some soldiers even raised their hand rifles to shoot at the planes whizzing through the air, but none of the bullets could hit the high-speed moving targets. Fighters carrying small bombs accurately drop them on air defense positions, reducing the number of targets available to dive bombers behind.
Second Lieutenant Spatz was hiding in an air defense position with three pilots and eight ground crews, countless machine gun bullets were sprinkled in the sky, the original soldiers and machine guns of the air defense position were destroyed, and the sandbags around the position did not give Second Lieutenant Spatz much security at all. Sure enough, a ground crew member was hit in the thigh by a stray bullet, presumably piercing an artery, bleeding profusely, and the man screamed in pain, but no one paid attention to the wounded man, because they had a more important mission.
"Dolly, George, Taylor, run to their respective hangars as fast as possible, and then start the plane as fast as possible, take off while the smoke on the airport, let's give the Huaguo monkey a little color!" Spatz curled up, pistol in his left hand, and shouted at the other three pilots.
"Louie, you bring someone to the tower to give us guidance on takeoff, contact by radio, go now!"
"Cesar, you take the ground crew to prepare the plane as quickly as possible!" Spatz gave several orders in quick succession.
"Captain, Hangars 7, 8 and 9 have not yet been attacked, and the plane has enough fuel in it, so it only needs to be loaded with machine gun ammunition!" Cesar, the ground crew, replied loudly.
Spatz nodded, this is better, Louie and the other two quickly left the bunker and ran towards the tower more than a hundred meters away, but unfortunately, they were targeted by a Chinese fighter jet, and soon, two deep craters caused by large-caliber machine gun shells appeared between Louis and the three. The two fell to the ground, and only Louis survived, who froze for a moment before running towards his target.
The sacrifice of the other two provided an opportunity for Spaside and the others, and seeing that no fighter was paying attention to this, Sparts shouted, and everyone jumped out of cover and quickly ran towards the hangar. Someone was also shooting into the sky with the rifle in his hand as he ran, and just as Spatz tried to stop it, a fighter jet noticed that the fighter jet flew by in the air, leaving two bullet marks, dust and blood mixed together, and a pilot and two ground crew members fell to the ground.
More and more Chinese fighters noticed Spatz and the others, and they began to hover and make a gesture of attacking the place, and in a moment of tension, the plane in Hangar 7 was finally ready, and the pilot was about to push the control stick, and the bullets in the sky pierced through the weak roof of the hangar and poured into the plane.
A plane in the No. 8 hangar successfully drove out, but its good fortune ended there, and before it reached the take-off runway, it was attacked by two Chinese fighters and exploded on the runway.
Spatz sat on the plane in Hangar 9 with a sweaty face, he was terrified, but the unscrupulous and cruel nature of the Chinese plane aroused the ferocity in his heart, and like a cowboy before the decisive battle, Spatz pushed the control stick ruthlessly and slid to the take-off runway. Lady Luck favored Spatz immensely today, from taxiing, accelerating, taking off and finally taking to the skies, he was not attacked by Chinese fighters.
But the good luck ended here, the eye-catching American biplane in the sky instantly attracted the eyes of countless beasts, and before he could make a turn, Spatz's P02 fighter was hit in the wing by a fighter flying from the side and crashed to the ground. Seriously wounded, Spatz was rescued by American soldiers on the ground more than ten minutes later, and eventually survived to become a prisoner of war of the Chinese army, and did not return to the United States until the end of the war.
Wang Wei, who hit the American plane, was greeted badly by many peers on the radio, who gave him the best position! Unexpectedly, after the outbreak of the war, the only two air battles of the Chinese Air Force were met by Wang Wei, and the targets were both Spatz!
All the planes on the airfield were destroyed, and the US anti-aircraft artillery fire was also thinning out at a speed visible to the naked eye -- there were not many anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery in the first place, and there were still various military points scattered on several major islands, and only 15 anti-aircraft machine guns and four anti-aircraft guns were distributed on the airfield, and the sparse firepower was powerless in the face of the ultra-high-speed Chinese planes.
Wang Wei, who was in a state of dismay, pulled up the plane, and he even felt a little pitiful for the Americans on the ground, especially after a pirate plane swept a dense crowd. But the enemy is the enemy, and Wang Wei will not be stupid enough to figure out these things.
The fighter group contacted the bomber group in the rear, and the content was: The hunting ground has been controlled, please come and hunt to your heart's content!
The commander of the Hawaiian garrison received information from Arnold that the two major airfields of our army were under heavy attack by the Chinese army, and the fighters could not take off on the ground to counterattack, and all of them were destroyed. Now the Chinese army is organizing a larger-scale bombing, and it is expected that the oil depot and army barracks near the airport will be attacked.
Not only the airport, but when the intrepid of the HNA arrived, the US military barracks, material storage bases, and coastal fortifications became the main targets. Forty-five Dreadnoughts appeared on the island of Kauai as the first target, and the bombers whistled in the dive, like the ghostly cry of the devil after crawling out of the gates of hell, and a small sounding device could achieve a good psychological attack effect - the defenders felt that the sound was extremely harsh at first, but then found that the bombs that followed the sound were even more deadly. The heavy aerial bomb fell off the belly of the dreadnought, accurately hitting a shore fortification, and after dropping the bomb, the dreadnought's fuselage was light, and the pilot struggled to control the plane to pull up, and behind him was a violent explosion full of fire.
The aerial bomb penetrated the heavy top armor of this coastal defense fortification, and a large-caliber coastal defense gun inside was instantly destroyed, and the highly-anticipated coastal defense gun was reduced to pieces under the air attack. Along with the artillery, thirty-five American soldiers in the fortifications disappeared, but these people were relatively lucky, losing their lives almost the moment the bomb fell, and did not have to suffer too much before dying.
After a small oil depot on Kauai Island was hit by a bomb, a platoon of American soldiers who were guarding the place not far away were unlucky, they were not hit by the bomb, but they were covered by the oil depot with splashing oil, and all the soldiers were enveloped in fire, and the screams of the last American soldier disappeared completely after fifteen minutes.
"We are under attack by Chinese aircraft, and more than half of the barracks, defensive positions, shore fortifications, and ammunition depots are all targets of the enemy's attack. We need support, we need to repel the Chinese planes! The telegram from Kauai for help doesn't give a picture of the tragedy that happened there, but Raymond can feel it. On the island of Couai, Raymond deployed two battalions of troops, with fifteen coastal defense artillery as the core of the defense, but in fact the strength was not sufficient. A year before the start of the war, the U.S. military had been storing war materiel here since the construction of the fortifications at Pearl Harbor and the Hawaiian Islands, so Raymond had the only place to worry about logistics. Even after receiving the news that a large number of Kauai's material storage bases have been destroyed, there are still many semi-underground storage bases that can always meet the needs of more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers in Kaumai.
"We can't get any support to get to Kauai, they're on their own!" Raymond said helplessly, Wesley, the commander of the 25th Division, was also very helpless, his own troops were too small, and he had to focus on defending Oahu, Hawaii Island and other islands, and Kauai Island could only be listed as a secondary place.
"Commander, if we continue like this, we will definitely have a shortage of troops, once the Chinese army occupies Kauai Island, it will be used as a base, as long as a military airfield is built on it, we can be bombed back to the primitive era by planes. We need aircraft on the ground and more army divisions to augment the defenses, otherwise it will be difficult to hold out. ”
Raymond didn't know that! Since the logistics were cut off, the most work he has done is not to arrange defenses, but to cover up the news of the logistics being cut off and appease the troops. It was clear that domestic rescue could not reach Hawaii, and they were alone, and as the new commander of the Pacific Fleet, they could not return to their homeland to take charge of the fleet. This must not be known to the soldiers, otherwise it will be the collapse of the whole army - they are not the elite of the army, but the soldiers of the National Guard, poorly trained and demoralized, and after leaving the West Coast, they have to arrange a rotation of leave every two months so that the soldiers can go home to see their relatives, to put it bluntly, they are a bunch of old soldiers. (To be continued.) )