Chapter 627: Revenge 2
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On the afternoon of April 30, the day after the Chinese Empire officially declared war on the United States, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire issued a retaliatory order to the Pacific Command at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for an air strike on Washington. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.infoββ
Commander Lin Zhiguang of the Pearl Harbor base, which is one of the bases in Hawaii, had already convened an emergency military meeting yesterday, and after the attack on San Juan, he had a premonition that the imperial government would issue a military action to retaliate against the United States, so he made military arrangements in advance.
According to Lin Zhiguang's retaliation action plan, the Hawaii Base Command has transferred all long-range strategic bombers, about 2,500 H7 bombers and 2,400 H6N5 bombers, to Lin Zhiguang for unified command.
This operation was about the honor of the empire, and Lin Zhiguang did not want anything to go wrong, so he designated Lieutenant General Xin Zhiguo as the commander of the bomber group, and Gao Zhihang as the captain of the escort group.
Emperor Wang Chenhao attached great importance to this operation, and issued a special decree to confer the title of minister on Lin Zhiguang, allowing him to temporarily assume command of the air force of the base groups in Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Lin Zhiguang boasted to Wang Chenhao that he would go to Haikou and promise to raze Washington to the ground, winning a good start for the empire to enter the war.
Since the Chinese empire has always believed in the principle that the first victory will lead to victory, and if the first battle is lost, the battle will be lost, so Lin Zhiguang made good use of the privilege given to him by Wang Chenhao and transferred almost all the bombers and more than two-thirds of the escort fighters from the Pacific Base Group and the North Atlantic Base Group. ββ
Until 3 p.m. on April 30. The number of planes in the bomber group of the air attack on Washington has reached 10,190, including the most powerful H7 Flying Fortress strategic bomber 5,380, 2,060 H6N5 and H6N4, and even the retired H6N3 has been dragged back from the cemetery of various bases by the military, and after simple repairs, it is incorporated into the bomber force of the air attack on Washington.
They were joined by 2,750 B2 tactical jet bombers, though they had a limited range and could not take off from Hawaii. The Bermuda Air Force Base, the closest to Washington, could not accommodate so many bombers, so Lin Zhiguang urgently contacted the Mexican military. At the same time, the Mexican military also offered to participate in the air raid on Washington, willing to provide 880 H6N4 bombers and 1,200 Jian-10 fighters, but Lin Zhiguang politely declined, and he agreed to bring the Mexican Air Force to the next air raid, and the air raid will be completed by the Chinese Imperial Air Force alone.
Lin Zhiguang obtained the temporary right to use more than 70 airports in Mexico, 2,200 B2 bombers and 2,400 J-11 combat strength after receiving the order. They arrived at major airports in Mexico from the night of the 29th to 10 a.m. on the 30th, and the remaining 550 B2 bombers and 300 J-11 fighters were assembled at the Bermuda base on standby.
Meantime. The Pacific Fleet's 1st Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, which includes the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Taishan, the aircraft carrier Fanjingshan, the aircraft carrier Wutaishan, and the aircraft carrier Putuoshan, left Pearl Harbor. Sailed to the west coast of the United States to serve as an air escort for bomber groups in the eastern Pacific. ββ
The Atlantic Fleet, on the other hand, dispatched five aircraft carriers, the Wudangshan, Qiyunshan, Qingchengshan, Longhushan, and Jiuhuashan, to the east coast of the United States, where carrier-based aircraft were located, to contain interceptors and anti-aircraft fire over Washington and cover the movements of the bomber groups. More than 30 capital warships of the First Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet will serve as escort missions for the aircraft carrier battle group.
After everything was ready, Lin Zhiguang saw off Xin Zhiguo and other air force officers and men at the airport and gave the order to leave.
Tens of thousands of planes took off from airports in the Hawaiian Islands in less than an hour. This is a take-off speed that no other country's air force in the world can do. This was all thanks to the Chinese Empire's investment in the construction of the entire Hawaiian base complex. From the beginning, the Hawaii base complex served as the most important forward base for the Chinese Empire to contain the rise of the United States. The Chinese Empire invested a total of nearly 7 billion dragon dollars in the construction of the Hawaiian Islands for more than 20 years. Nine super airports have been built one after another.
Take the Pearl Harbor base military airfield, for example, which has eight large command terminals. Arranged in eight directions in a regular octagon, each command terminal controls four 9,000-meter-long 5A-class runways, each allowing one H7 strategic bomber and one J-11 fighter to take off in parallel or two B2 tactical bombers to take off at the same time. Pearl Harbor is capable of taking off 32 H7 bombers or 64 B2 bombers in three minutes, while the H7 bombers have a minimum take-off distance of 3,500 meters, and the extra 5,500 meters of runway behind can park up to 200 H7 bombers or 400 B2 bombers at a time, and then a wave of planes can take off every three minutes or so. ββ
The reason for designing such a long airstrip was proposed by Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, because he had always been worried that Pearl Harbor would be attacked by the US military one day in the future, so in order to be able to take off fighters in the event of an attack on the airstrip, he built a nearly 10,000-meter-long airstrip, so that even if the runway was hit by multiple enemy aerial bombs at the same time, there was a great chance that a relatively complete runway would appear for fighter jets to take off urgently.
The eight large terminals have the ability to take off and land aircraft in all directions, no matter what wind blows in the sky, there are always one or more runways that take off with the wind.
The huge group of bombers and fighters took off into the air, almost obscuring the sun in the sky, and Lin Zhiguang watched the group go away until it disappeared into the east of the sky.
Under the cover of carrier-based aircraft of the Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier battle group, the tens of thousands of planes that took off from the base group in Hawaii crossed more than 3,000 kilometers into US airspace and are expected to arrive over Washington at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Until then, the carrier battle group of the Atlantic Fleet will be close to the east coast of the United States. A large number of carrier-based aircraft were sent to Washington to attack and harass. Another 2,700 B-2 bombers will take off from Mexico's airfield and Bermuda base in 10 hours, and more than 2,000 Jian-11 fighters will serve as escort for them.
Roosevelt first received an air defense alert from the east coast, because the US military deployed more troops on the east coast, mainly because the Bermuda base of the Chinese Empire was much closer to Washington than the distance from Hawaii to Washington, and the US military was most worried about the planes from the Bermuda base or the planes taking off from the island of Cuba, and finally the planes of the Chinese Empire coming from the direction of Hawaii. ββ
"Mr. President, ground-based air defense posts in Indiana have spotted a large fleet of aircraft from the Chinese Empire, with a preliminary estimate of tens of thousands of aircraft. The Air Defense Command judged that it was a retaliatory measure taken by the Imperial Chinese Air Force, and the target was likely to be Washington. β
"What?" Roosevelt was taken aback and asked, "Where did they come from?" β
The secretary replied: "According to the judgment of the Air Defense Command, this should be a group of aircraft coming from the direction of Hawaii." The Chinese Imperial Air Force was cunning, they chose to enter from the direction of Canada, where our air defense alert was weak, so it was not possible to detect the enemy earlier. β
Roosevelt was so angry that his eyebrows almost stood up. He said angrily: "Tens of thousands of enemy planes arrived in our hinterland only to find that they were simply a bunch of rice buckets!" β
Arnold's face was very bad. As a direct supervisor of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He once boasted to Roosevelt that it was impossible for the Chinese Empire's retaliatory bomber group to fly directly from Hawaii to Washington, and even if the Chinese Imperial Air Force dared to do so, the United States' huge strategic depth would be enough for the US air defense forces to actively deploy and shoot down enemy planes one by one.
But now he realized how stupid he was, forgetting how poor Canada's air defense system was not long after the annexation, so much so that the bomber groups of the Chinese Imperial Air Force evaded most of the ground air defense stations of the American army through the skies over Canada and were not discovered until Indiana. ββ
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency. It's my rereliction of duty! β
"You are derelict in your duty!" Roosevelt glared at Arnold and said, "But I don't want to hold you accountable now." You should now return to your air defense command, and I want you to intercept enemy planes out of Washington. β
"Yes! I'm going to take command myself! Arnold immediately took the order. Leave in a hurry.
After Arnold left, Roosevelt suddenly angrily shouted at the secretary: "The enemy plane is still early in Washington, what kind of air defense siren is being raised?" Stop now! Listen to me and get upset! β
The secretary scolded him, so he went out with a bitter face to convey the order.
Roosevelt said uneasily: "Although I knew that the Chinese Empire would retaliate, I didn't expect it to be carried out so quickly, and I sent tens of thousands of planes over in one go, what a big deal!" β
Ella said, "Is 10,000 planes amazing? Although we have lost most of our long-range bombers and carrier-based aircraft, our army aviation still has a very large number of combat aircraft. We had long guessed that the Chinese Empire would retaliate against us, so we had already prepared for it. β
"yes!" Marshall said on the side: "Your Excellency the President does not need to worry too much, we have deployed more than 4,000 combat aircraft near Washington, plus more than 20 anti-aircraft artillery regiments, even if the Chinese Empire sends more than 10,000 aircraft?" We will destroy as many of them as they come. β
Cal? Spartz also chimed in at this time: "We lost a large number of planes in San Juan, and this time we also lost tens of thousands of planes to the Chinese Empire, which is exactly what we were looking forward to, isn't it?" β
Roosevelt nodded, undeniably making perfect sense in what they said, but he was always a little worried.
"I'm worried about what we're going to do if we do the same thing we did last time we attacked San Juan?"
MacArthur nodded and said, "It's true that you can't underestimate the enemy!" The military power of the Chinese Empire was far greater than we thought. In the air battle of San Juan, the Chinese Empire no longer had fighter planes, but they actually transferred a large number of bombers from around, using bombers to attack our bombers, although this method of warfare is a helpless move, but it can also be seen that the H7 bombers of the Chinese Empire are worthy of the name of the air fortress, if it is said that tens of thousands of planes are attacked, only the H7 bombers that can fly from Hawaii to Washington have this endurance. Whether our more than 4,000 fighters can intercept the enemy may be variable, and we need to prepare for the worst. β
"This could be very big!" Eisenhower agreed: "Although the H7 Flying Fortress does not have the fighting ability of a fighter, it carries more than a dozen guns and machine guns, and like an air fortress, it cannot be easily approached or shot down by a fighter." β
Ella explained: "We have previously reconnoitred that the Chinese Empire has only deployed a few thousand H7 bombers around us, and this time the 10,000 planes are estimated to be other old bombers and escort fighters, so there should be no major problems." β
Carr added: "Older bombers such as H6\H5 are not very protective and can be easily shot down by our interceptors. And the endurance of the jet fighters of the Chinese Empire cannot fly from Hawaii to Washington, and the fighters escorting the escort must be old-fashioned J-10 propeller aircraft, and the performance of our fighters is no worse than that of the other side, and the interception problem is not big. β
Roosevelt and the others nodded one after another, slightly relieved in their hearts.
However, at this moment, the secretary ran in again and shouted: "Oh no, Mr. President, the Delaware air defense station has discovered a huge fleet of aircraft from the Chinese Empire, about three thousand bombers and two thousand fighters, and they are crossing Delaware and going straight to us. β
"What?" Roosevelt and the others suddenly lost their voices and were shocked.
It turned out that Lin Zhiguang's tactic was to use the bombers and escort fighters that had taken off from the Bermuda base to cross Delaware and rush to Washington first, which would force the US interceptor planes in Washington to take off early to meet the battle. Lin Zhiguang will use the Bermuda Air Wing to spend time with the US military, mainly in order to exhaust the fuel of the US military planes.
To be on the safe side, the bomber and fighter groups that took off from Mexico arrived in the District of Columbus an hour later than the Bermuda Air Wing. More than 2,000 B2 jet bombers and Jian-11 jet fighters will force all US fighters to take to the air to meet the battle, and consume some of the fuel of US planes.
However, the construction of US military airfields is generally very narrow, and it is not possible to allow a large number of planes to take off and land at the same time. Once the US military plane in front is forced to land because it runs out of fuel, the take-off of the US military plane at the airport will be affected. The main group of planes flying from the direction of Hawaii will arrive in Washington in an hour, and the US military will have to keep it in the air if it does not want to be blown up on the runway of the airport, although it has more than 4,000 fighter planes to intercept it.
The H7 strategic bombers of the Chinese Empire had enough time to circle around Washington, D.C., as long as they were consumed by the US planes, forcing most of the US planes to land and replenish fuel before attacking...... There was an error when copying the text when uploading yesterday, so that the next 4000 words were missing, sorry to see it. (To be continued) RQ