Chapter 396: Project Torch
While hundreds of planes painted with the Huaxing Aviation logo were wreaking havoc in the skies over Nanjing, Senior General Matsui Ishine, a temporary command in Nanjing, had just received the news that 100 bombers sent from Shanghai had arrived over Nanjing.
Before Matsui Ishone could give the order to start the bombing, he heard the Japanese pilot's shout over the radio of the Japanese bomber: "I have been attacked by an unknown aircraft, and I want immediate support." ”
Then, just as all the staff members of the command were wondering, the air raid sirens sounded around the headquarters.
Matsui Ishone did not believe that Chinese planes would be encountered in the sky over the city of Nanjing.
As early as the Battle of Shanghai, the Republic of China government's limited dozens of planes had been exhausted in the air battle in Shanghai. Today, the entire government of the Republic of China will definitely not have more than ten fighters.
This is also the reason why when he ordered a hundred bombers from Shanghai to come to Nanjing to help in the war, he only asked eight fighters to escort them. However, when he heard the air raid siren, he did not go to the basement to take shelter as required.
Instead, he took the lead in rushing out of the headquarters, and he wanted to see how many planes of the Republic of China government dared to follow him to Nanjing to die. And the staff officers of the headquarters saw that the commander-in-chief fearlessly rushed out of the headquarters, and naturally rushed out with Matsui Shigen.
Everyone came to the open space in front of the church, looked up at the sky, and found that in the air, hundreds of clumsy bombers of the Japanese Air Force were being frantically shot by dozens of fighters of unknown nationality.
One bomber after another pulled black smoke down from the sky, and one beautiful umbrella flower after another fell from the sky. Many bombers were hit and exploded in the air, and many crew members did not even have a chance to jump out of the plane.
Almost every one of the eight escort fighters in the bombing formation was tightly bitten by at least two Chinese fighters, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce air battle.
Everyone cheered that their fighters had blown up the Chinese fighters, and at the same time they lamented that their fighters had been blown up by the enemy.
Just when everyone was still wondering where the Chinese soldiers got these dozens of fighters, they saw more than a dozen huge bombers in the air not far away.
Although Matsui Ishine is old, his eyesight is indeed very good, and he is almost the first to see the fuselage of these dozen bombers sprayed with several big characters of Huaxing Airlines.
He and the staff officers around him were very curious, why there were so many fighters and so many bombers in Nanjing?
It's a pity that before Matsui Ishine and others could figure out why so many Chinese fighters came to Nanjing, everyone suddenly found that several Huaxing bombers flew overhead in the air.
Then a dozen huge packages were dropped from these planes. Matsui Ishine watched as these dozen or so large packages flew towards his headquarters.
"How so? Can't they see that this is a European-style church? Then, just as Matsui Ishone looked at him in surprise, the packages were suddenly detonated. Wrapped in mid-air, it immediately turned into a cloud of fire, and countless rain of fire fell towards the church.
Matsui Ishone saw a huge spark fall in front of him, he didn't even hide, as a general of the empire, as the highest-ranking general in China, he had to maintain the demeanor of a soldier of the Imperial Japan at all times.
Not far away, several reporters were pointing their cameras at them, although they were also afraid that this spark would burn their general's uniform, but the insistence of the soldiers made them ignore this small spark.
He had more important things to do, he was going to give orders to the air force in Shanghai immediately, so the planes immediately took off and bombed Wuhan, bombing all the Chinese defenders near Nanjing.
Just as he was about to walk back to the church, the spark finally floated to his chest, and then he heard Matsui Ishine let out a more miserable voice than anyone else: "Ahhh~~~~~~h ”
The commanders of several divisions in the city of Nanjing encountered the same fate as Matsui Ishone, and almost all the headquarters and heavy troops of the divisions were bombed by a few to a dozen Chinese bombers.
At the beginning of the bombing, these division commanders also did not take the Chinese Air Force seriously, even if so many bombers came, it did not mean that they had enough aerial bombs, and in the eyes of these division commanders, if the Republic of China government had so many planes and bombs, why not use them when the battle in Nanjing City had just begun.
Now the people of Nanjing City have been killed by the Japanese army, and even the defenders of Nanjing have less than 20,000 people left, surrounded by 80,000 troops in Nanjing. So send some bombers converted from passenger planes to scare whom?
Just when the division commanders deeply despised the air force of the Republic of China, the incendiary bombs dropped by these planes were not like ordinary incendiary bombs that would detonate and catch fire when they hit the ground.
These incendiary bombs were directly detonated in the air, turning into countless rain of fire, and then falling in all directions with strong winds. Hordes of soldiers were hit by a rain of fire, as more and more soldiers were set on fire by the soldiers on fire. It was only then that the commanders of these divisions discovered the horror of the Chinese Air Force.
What kind of incendiary bomb is this, and why is it so powerful. Seeing countless rain of fire falling on the soldiers, burning the soldiers to the point that they were all gone, and countless rain of fire fell on tanks and armored vehicles.
At this time, several division commanders suddenly found that these originally fire-resistant heavy equipment were also on fire one by one, and the fire was so big that it was about to burn all the locations of the troops.
Several division commanders immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and retreat desperately to the outside of the city. Moments before the retreat, they separately sent telegrams to the Nanjing Provisional Command that they had been attacked by the Chinese Air Force and had suffered heavy losses.
At this time, the Nanjing Provisional Headquarters, which was already in disarray, also sent an urgent telegram to the Japanese base camp, and their Japanese army in Nanjing was attacked by the Chinese Air Force, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Yanagawa Heisuke and several division commanders each fled outside Nanjing with the remnants of their men. At this time, no weapons and equipment are important, and the most important thing is to escape from this burning hell as soon as possible.
When Yanagawa Heisuke finally ran out of Nanjing City, he found that several division commanders, including Gu Shoufu, had already run out of the city, and everyone greeted each other, and suddenly found that Commander Matsui Ishine did not run out.
Fortunately, Lieutenant General Ariya Toshio persuaded everyone that Commander Matsui Ishine was old after all, and it was common for him to escape slowly.
While they were still waiting for the fire to be extinguished.
Fifty fighters over the city of Nanjing have completed the task of destroying the Japanese bombers. And began to escort more than 100 new bombers imported from the United States to the Hainan base.
Hundreds of other bombers converted from passenger planes flew to Chongqing, and since then they have been back to their old business as passenger planes.
When these planes had just completed their bombing mission, Li Tie, who was far away in Chongqing, received a secret report that the Nanjing City Torch Plan had been perfectly executed.
Looking at the battle damage report in his hand, Li Tie was still very pleased: "All eight Japanese escort fighters were shot down, and all 100 bombers were shot down, and only eight fighters and two passenger planes that fell due to engine failure were lost.
Compared with their results, the loss of this aircraft was almost negligible, because the Hainan Air Force not only wiped out all the incoming Japanese air forces, but also bombed hundreds of useful Japanese targets by detonating napalm in mid-air.
Although the specific losses of the Japanese army have not yet been counted, just looking at the flames burning everywhere in the city of Nanjing, and the Japanese soldiers who fled in the desert, we know that the results of this napalm must be indispensable.
This napalm is a new type of bomb developed by Li Tie and the Lei brothers a few years ago, and it is only stronger than the napalm of the later generations of US imperialists.
These gasoline bombs were personally identified by a group of German experts in the Huaxing Laboratory, and are unanimously regarded as the greatest weapon invention of the 20th century.
However, because the napalm is too powerful, it has also been warned by German experts that under napalm, steel will also burn, so it should not be used at will unless it is absolutely necessary.
As a strategic reserve, this kind of gasoline bomb was produced in very small quantities, and Li Tie used up almost all of the gasoline bomb reserves at one time in order to teach the Japanese army attacking Nanjing a profound lesson.
As the first bombing mission of the Hainan Air Force, the Torch Project has greatly boosted the people's hearts by achieving such good results. You must know that half of these bombers on a mission were temporarily joined by Huaxing Airlines' passenger planes......
Li Tie never thought that the Japanese army would be able to enter Nanjing City with as many as 80,000 soldiers, and originally just wanted to blow up all around the Hainan Escort Army to create a green passage for the Hainan Escort Army to escape from Nanjing.
Who knew that the 80,000 troops of the Japanese army surrounded the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army, and considering that it was just right to kill and injure a large number of Japanese troops, and at the same time, the people in the city were almost killed by the Japanese army, so the combat mission was temporarily increased.
Fortunately, Huaxing Airlines has already opened dozens of routes in major cities across the country, so it is not difficult for Li Tie to temporarily gather more than 100 passenger planes. That's why he temporarily modified Huaxing's passenger planes and used them all to load napalm.
Moreover, the proud Japanese air defense work was very bad, and they never thought that they would be bombed by the Chinese Air Force, otherwise once these bombers were hit by anti-aircraft fire in the air, they would also lead to a disaster for the entire Hainan Air Force.
This is one of the reasons why this bombing mission became a resounding sound. It is believed that after this bombing, the Japanese army's air defense work will do a better job, and Li Tie will never be given another chance to make such a sneak attack.
The day before these 300 planes flew to Nanjing to carry out the bombing mission, it happened to be in time for Nanzao Yunzi to deceive another 100 bombers, so Li Tie took the opportunity to make a move and formulated a plan of action to divide his troops and attack.
All the bombers continued to bomb the target as originally planned, and the 50 fighters that escorted the aircraft added another task of destroying the Japanese fleet.
As the first air battle of the First Air Force of Hainan Airlines, the 16 fighters against the eight fighters of the Japanese army, and the fact that they could achieve a record of 1 to 1 is enough to show the strength of the Hainan Air Force.
At the same time, Li Tie was able to fly 300 planes at one time under these torch plans, which also shows that Li Tie's unremitting efforts in training pilots over the past ten years have finally paid off.
At present, there are no less than 1,000 pilots of fighter planes with flying ability under the control of the entire Huaxing Gong. There are also 2,000 flight cadets of various types. These people will be an important capital for Li Tie's future conquest.