Chapter 22: A duel in the air

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The air battle was the first to start in the sky above the Siden Line, and the ground forces of the Japanese army had been defeated and retreated, seeing that the first squadron was about to close and completely block the retreat of the Japanese army, and the reinforcements were blocked by the Chinese Air Force, both sides were fighting with flesh and blood, and the squadron had a numerical advantage, and the Japanese army was almost unable to hold on.

China's BF109 and more than 160 Type 96 bombers of the Japanese army encountered on the Siden line, and the Japanese army wanted to bomb the Chinese armored division, and now that they have met so many advanced fighters, they can only bomb the squadron attacking on the Siden line instead, how could Hartman's air force let him get his wish.

Since the Japanese army did not have fighter planes to cover this long-distance bombing, Okuda, as the commander of the team this time, adopted a dense formation of bombers, relying on various machine guns and artillery to cooperate with each other to form a fire network for defense, and each Type 96 G3M medium bomber was equipped with a 20 mm machine gun and three machine gun turrets, which was a very good self-defense firepower at that time.

This practice is also a common tactic used in the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan by the US B-24 and B17 bombers. However, compared with the B-17 "Flying Fortress", which is a hedgehog-like self-defense artillery fire, the Type 96 is too thin, so Okuda's phalanx tactics cannot be effective at all.

More than seventy BF109 was one of the most advanced piston fighters at that time, before the P51 Mustang and Backfire came out, other piston planes in the world were not his opponents at all, Hartmann saw that the Japanese bombers were in a dense formation, and immediately ordered the planes to be divided into two groups, one group rose to a high altitude and hit from top to bottom, and the other group descended to a low altitude and hit from bottom to top, and the side was the place where the Japanese bombers had the strongest firepower, Hartmann did not send planes at all.

The top and belly of the fuselage of the Japanese bombers are all fragile places, and the firepower is also weak, which completely becomes a one-sided slaughter, Hartman's one charge, so that more than 30 Japanese bombers are on fire, the Japanese bombers are panicked, this is completely to death! Hurry up and drop the bomb, no matter how much it blows up to the point that it can't be blown up, the bomber that dropped the bomb will fly much faster, and now at this speed, there is no way to escape at all, even if they lose the bomb, can they run past the BF109? The answer is no, the wish is wonderful.

The remaining Japanese bombers opened their bomb magazines one after another, and threw bombs indiscriminately, and the screaming sound of the bombs falling was terrifying, and then a large cloud of mist rose from the ground, and within a radius of two or three kilometers, there were bombs dropped by Japanese planes, except for the reinforced concrete fortifications built by Zhang Jun. The others were all floating clouds, and the ** and Japanese troops who were fighting below all disappeared at the same time and were reduced to ashes in the explosion.

At this time, the Japanese troops who were struggling to hold on to the Siden Line were all killed by their own people, and the ** of the two regiments that attacked also died heroically, but there were many people! Seeing that there was no defender in the gap of the Japanese army on the Siden line, he hurriedly commanded the follow-up troops to quickly close, which completely blocked the retreat of the Japanese army, and the Japanese bombers did a great favor to the squadron.

Hartman turned the fuselage, caught up with the fleeing Japanese bombers, and attacked again, this time only shooting down more than 20 Japanese bombers, and two of his own planes were damaged and withdrew from the battle.

When Hartmann turned the fuselage to prepare for an attack, a larger group of Japanese planes appeared in the sky, this time it was not bombers, but the carrier-based aircraft on the four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy - Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy can appear here, indicating that the aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy are not far from Shanghai, otherwise their combat radius is not enough, Hartmann was ordered to find this Japanese aircraft carrier before, but he has not been able to find it, saying that the range of the JU87 is not very far, Now that the Japanese aircraft carrier can be captured, how could Hartmann let go of such an opportunity:

"Order, all JU87 bombers immediately go to the waters around Shanghai to look for Japanese aircraft carriers."

Hartmann could only mobilize his JU87 dive bomber, and the horizontal bomber on the central side had little effect on the ship, so Hartmann did not ask for the support of the central bomber, and this time it was a very wise decision, but it left Hartmann with lifelong regrets.

After Hartmann gave the order, he took seventy-four BF109 to meet more than 200 Japanese carrier-based aircraft, at this time the central fighter finally arrived at the battlefield, but at this time Hartmann has been entangled with the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, the sky is full of fighters flying up and down, from time to time there are fighters with thick smoke and planted on the ground, or are hit by a volley explosion, but the Japanese carrier-based aircraft account for the majority, the loss rate of the aircraft is about one to six, this is still Hartmann's pilot training for a short time, Otherwise, with the performance of Japan's 96 carrier-based aircraft, it is not an opponent of the BF109 at all, only the part of the slaughter.

When the planes of the central side joined the team battle, the situation of the battle completely changed, the fighters of the central side and the Japanese carrier-based aircraft were tied, and the aircraft loss rate was basically equal, and the BF109 led by Hartman became the can opener of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and in the thirty-minute air battle, the two sides completely separated the victory and defeat, and each other's fuel was not much, and the fighters of the two sides began to disengage and return.

The Chinese side had a total of more than 200 fighters participating in the war, and those who went back, less than 150, lost more than 50 planes, the main loss was the fighters of the central side, and Hartmann's BF109 lost 8 planes, the Japanese army participated in the war with a total of 160 bombers, with a loss of 60 planes, and a total of more than 260 Type 96 carrier-based aircraft participated in the war, and only 120 planes went back, with a loss of 140 planes.

It is said that the JU87 aircraft group sent by Hartmann bypassed the airspace of the battle and flew to the sea off Shanghai to search for Japanese aircraft carriers, this thing is too huge, and there are countless frigates, as long as they are close to Shanghai, they can be easily detected.

The JU87 easily found the Japanese Air Fleet under the white clouds, and the four aircraft carriers were fifty kilometers off the coast of Shanghai, and they flew directly over the Japanese aircraft carriers without saying anything and began to dive and bomb, while the aviation fire on the Japanese aircraft carriers and the aviation fire on the frigates began to attack the JU87 in the sky like a storm.

Dive bombing has several advantages, the first is the high accuracy of bombing, the second is almost vertical bombing, and the aviation artillery fire on the ship can not have vertical strike ability, his firing height range is 70 degrees, it is very remarkable, how can a 70-degree elevation attack a vertical dive aircraft, there is no possibility at all, only the aviation fire on other ships has a chance to hit the dive bomber, the problem is that when the dive bomber is diving, the speed of the aircraft reaches 1,000 kilometers, and it takes only three seconds from the dive to the bomb, Before the people could react, the dive bomber had already dropped its bombs and flew away.

JU87 made a call of death, screamed, and dived down against the aircraft carrier, "booming" Japan's first aircraft carrier "Kaga" was shot, igniting a skyrocketing fire, the deck has been torn apart by 500 kg of aerial bombs, and then exploded inside it, the second JU87 continued to dive, the plane was hit by other frigates and exploded in the air, and the third, the successful bomb continued to hit the "Kaga" This bomb directly detonated the "Kaga" ammunition depot, The violent explosion directly overturned the nearest destroyer.

"Akagi, Longxiang, Fengxiang" the other three aircraft carriers were attacked by JU87 at the same time, the sky was shuttling orange bullet chains everywhere, JU87 was also fearless to death, bravely and fearlessly flew above the Japanese aircraft carrier, began to dive and drop bombs, if the 500 kg bomb hit the water, the water column produced by the explosion was more than 60 meters high, if it hit the aircraft carrier, it would also make the huge ship sink and float, like a flat boat, "Fengxiang" followed the tragedy of the "Kaga", sank into the icy sea," Chicheng and Long Xiang "were hit hard, the flight deck was completely destroyed, and it was completely impossible to take off and land fighters, at this time Japanese carrier-based aircraft also flew over the aircraft carrier, but the JU87 had finished dropping bombs and began to flee rapidly, and the Japanese carrier-based aircraft were almost out of fuel at this time, so it was impossible to chase the JU87.

They fought fiercely over the Siden Line for too long, and their fuel was just enough to return to the aircraft carrier, and now such a change has occurred, their aircraft carrier has been sneak attacked, either sunk or seriously injured, and the remaining 96 carrier-based aircraft did not dare to do the slightest hovering, and hurriedly flew towards Shanghai, hoping to make a forced landing on Shanghai Beach, and this forced landing lost the remaining half of the 96 carrier-based aircraft, and the aircraft carriers of Japan's 1st and 3rd fleets were all wiped out. If Hartmann had informed the horizontal bombers of the central side at this time, then the other two aircraft carriers that had been injured would have been live targets, and they would never have escaped the fate of being sunk, but Hartmann did not ask the horizontal bombers of the central side to support, and when the JU87 returned to the airfield and went to bomb with ammunition at one time, the Japanese Navy had dragged two seriously injured aircraft carriers into the depths of the vast sea, and they could not be found, and the range of the JU87 was also very tragic. This is what Hartman regrets for the rest of his life, he could have sunk all the aircraft carriers, and it was wasted.

Rommel took the armored division, attacked, attacked, and attacked again, continuous and non-stop attacks, the Japanese army had no air support, and even the artillery was destroyed by the Chinese Air Force, the fortifications were just temporary field fortifications, Rommel's armored cluster advanced extremely fast, and the Sixth Division was defeated by Rommel, when the follow-up troops surrounded and annihilated the remnants of the Sixth Division, Rommel had already crossed the city of Changzhou with his armored assault group, and at this time only the 74th Army was followed by two all-German mechanized infantry divisions, The Japanese army, under the command of Matsui Ishone, began to desperately block Rommel's advance.

The commanders of both sides nervously looked at the map in front of them, and then judged the intentions of the other side according to the situation on the battlefield.

Matsui Shigen, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army, was in Danyang City at this time, and the battle report sent from the front line made this old devil tremble, why is the all-German armored division formed by the Chinese side so powerful to the point that it is terrifying, in just half a day, he was lost a chariot wing and an elite standing division, to such a loss rate, he is 200,000 troops, and it will be exhausted in a few days, and the heroic imperial soldiers must not be lost in vain, we must find out and crack Zhang Jun" Blitzkrieg".

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