Chapter 242: The Battle of Nanjing Takes a Sharp Turn (2)
At this moment, Peng Mengzhi walked indifferently on the fortress full of large and small craters, the huge crater left by the heavy bomb of the army was still emitting green smoke, and the stump and broken arm on the side of the crater and the broken parts nearby showed that a Swedish-made Forts four-barreled anti-aircraft gun had been deployed here, and at this moment, this four-barreled twenty-millimeter anti-aircraft gun had been blown apart along with its eight members of the artillery squad.
Peng Mengzhi looked at this large crater with a diameter of nearly three meters, recalled that the sky shook during the battle, and the column of smoke rising dozens of meters high, and said that he seemed to be eyeing the Yanziji Fort, and he had to put himself in a dead place to stop, so in order to prevent the army from killing the horse pistol, Peng Mengzhi immediately ordered the German-made 150 mm heavy howitzers, 105 mm howitzers, and 75 mm field artillery units in a concealed state to immediately move to their positions and stand by, and anyone who exposed the target was executed on the spot.
The battle an hour ago caused heavy losses to the Yanziji Fortress, because the aircraft group in the air of the Japanese army failed to achieve the tactical goal of destroying the Chinese aircraft group on the ground, so the naval ships on the river and the Yanziji Fortress were regarded as the primary bombing targets, because since the start of the war, since the beginning of the war, the army intended to outflank the back road of the Qixiashan Fortress, or attack the front line of the Purple Mountain, it will be bombarded by fierce artillery fire from the Yanziji Fort. Moreover, the destroyer fleet of the Yue army was also sunk in the sand and halberd at Yanziji, so when I was formulating the air raid plan, I repeatedly marked the location of Yanziji with a red circle.
Therefore, after the air attack on the main force of the Chinese Air Force by the military aircraft group was unsuccessful, the Yanziji Fort was regarded as one of the key attack targets, and it happened that the Chinese Navy ships were also assisting in the defense, which also made the Yuejun more aware of the important surname of the Yanziji Fort to the Chinese defenders, and the Wulongshan Fortress, which was originally listed within the scope of the attack target, was only hit by a dozen bombs.
Peng Mengzhi is actively adjusting his deployment and using ground firepower to resist large-scale air raids, and his losses are bound to be very heavy; although Peng Mengzhi had already made certain psychological preparations before this, the serious casualties suffered by the troops still exceeded Peng Mengzhi's expectations and psychological preparations.
Sure enough, four hours after the first round of air raids by the Yue army, the Yue army aircraft group once again pounced on the sky over Nanjing, and in the grim alarm, Gao Zhihang led the last 22 BF-109F multi-role fighters of the Rehe Air Force to take to the air to fight, Gao Zhihang hung a small jade Buddha with a red rope in the cabin, stared at the little jade Buddha Gao Zhihang showed a pleased smile, the number of incoming planes will not be less than 300, and they only have 22 fighters that can take off into the air to fight.
During the operation in Nanjing, the Rehe Air Force lost six of the 75 BF-109F multi-role fighters due to mechanical failure, and the remaining 47 were shot down by the Yue Army, and 31 pilots were bloodied in the sky.
Gao Zhihang knows that the last battle of the Rehe Air Force represents the heroic resistance of the Chinese Air Force in the face of a strong enemy! The soul of the Chinese Air Force will always be with the blue sky of the motherland.
Under the command of leader Gao Zhihang, the group of planes began to climb up, using the clouds to conceal and raid the fighters from a high altitude, which was more conducive to giving full play to the surname of the BF-109F multi-role fighters.
Kobayashi Tazawa Osa, then the commander of the Third Wing of the Army Air Force, commanded the Type 96 attack aircraft and Type 97 attack aircraft to guard the core of this operation, 67 precious Type 97 heavy bombers, a brigade of ** type biplane bombers drawn from North China, etc., forming a huge attack aircraft group of 317 planes, although the Chinese Air Force severely damaged many warships and aircraft carriers of the Imperial Navy in the first wave of air raids, but due to the lack of necessary effective ammunition, Therefore, it failed to sink any of the large surface ships of the Japanese army, and only sank the old heavy cruiser Yaeyama.
However, the Chinese Air Force paid a considerable price for this, in the first wave of air raids, the army destroyed almost all the field airfields, so it is difficult for the Chinese Air Force to immediately prepare for the battle, the only possibility is to continue to transfer, the second wave of the attack aircraft group of the army at the moment seems very relaxed, almost every pilot of the army has a smile on his face, the air attack on the capital of China, suppress and destroy the heavy artillery of the China army, the BF-109F multi-role fighter of the China army has lost most of it, and the rest is estimated to have already been transferred, The remaining Hawker III and the N-15 and N-16 attack planes equipped by the Soviet Volunteer Air Force for China do not occupy an absolute advantage in the surname compared with the 96 and 97 attack planes, and the final victory in the battle for air supremacy over Nanjing will belong to the Great Empire.
When the huge group of military planes arrived in the sky over Nanjing, there was only sporadic firepower from the ground to stop it, and there was no trace of the black death in the sky over Nanjing in the past.
Two Type 96 carrier-based reconnaissance planes guided the 97 heavy explosive group and began to pounce on several locations on the north bank of the river where the heavy artillery of the China Army might be hidden.
The rest of the military fighters pounced on the set targets one after another, and even many attack planes joined in strafing the ground, and 22 BF-109F multirole fighters under the command of Gao Zhihang circled over Nanjing and waited for an opportunity.
Sure enough, due to the sparse firepower on the ground, the military fighters began to dive and strafe unscrupulously, and Gao Zhihang saw that the military aircraft group began to disperse, and the escort planes also began to turn to the ground strafing attack.
Gao Zhihang used the radio to call all the fighters to concentrate on attacking the clumsy Type 97 heavy bombers of the Japanese army, and the latest heavy bombers equipped by the Chinese army brought the most damage to the ground troops, so the first to attack was the 97 type heavy bomb group of the Japanese army.
The BF-109F multi-role fighter roaring down from the air began to accelerate and dive, Gao Zhihang used the cross crosshair on the sighting board to firmly lassoate a 97-type heavy explosion with a tail number of 131, Gao Zhihang constantly lightly jogged the shooting button, and the actual continuous shooting in air combat is rare, because the storage of ammunition for aviation machine guns is very limited, and experienced pilots mostly calculate and estimate the amount of advance and attack enemy planes by means of point firing, one is to save ammunition, and the other is to improve the hit rate of shooting.
Under Gao Zhihang's continuous point shooting, the two engines of the 97-type heavy explosion suddenly emitted billowing smoke, stopped in the air, and the bomber of the Yue Army suddenly lost its power and rolled into a tailspin state, and fell to the ground with black smoke whistling.
The first round of attack by the 22 BF-109F multi-role fighters that suddenly pounced out of the clouds knocked out as many as seven Type 97 heavy bombs, and the panicked group of aircraft exploded like a frightened flock of birds.
The ground-to-air fighting surname of the BF-109F multi-role fighter is actually not very good, and the Flying Tigers who clearly understand this point are not at all engaged in the struggle with the fighters of the Yue Army at low altitudes, and after completing the attack in the twenties, they quickly rise, and in terms of climbing and turning radius, the Type 96 and Type 97 attack aircraft of the Yue Army are not the opponents of the BF-109F at all, and these BF-109F multi-role fighters, which are known as the Black Death of the Yue Army, are all flying in a two-plane formation.
The four fighters of the two groups provided cover for each other, and the radio communication between the chief plane and the wingman was adopted, and the classic two-group coordination tactics were adopted.
The panic of the Yue army was only short-lived, although the tactics of the Flying Tigers were used very properly, and from time to time, the fighters of the Yue army were hit and emitted thick smoke, or they directly exploded in the air.
Many Chinese officers and men in the city of Nanjing even stepped out of their bunkers, and even the offensive of the Chinese and Chinese armies stopped, and the officers and men of both sides of the Chinese and Chinese sides were looking at the sky with their necks held high; whenever a Chinese fighter plane was hit, the Chinese soldiers on the defending positions would burst into cheers, and whenever a Flying Tiger fighter plane was hit, the Chinese soldiers would grit their teeth and curse Xiao Yue for not dying well.
This is because the Chinese officers and men on the positions have been informed by the Nanjing Garrison Commander's Headquarters that during the transfer of the air force, all fortresses, batteries, and defense lines in Nanjing will lose air support, all units will carry out air defense preparations, and heavy artillery units will be scattered and hidden.
However, they did not expect that when the army aircraft group attacked, the remnants of the Rehe Army's Flying Tigers bravely attacked the huge group of the Yue army with only 20 fighters, and also shot down dozens of fighters of the Yue army.
Gao Zhihang was being bitten by three fighter planes of the Yue army at the moment, his wingman had already been shot down, and two fighters of a group that cooperated with him were also shot down, and Gao Zhihang, who was fighting alone, still stubbornly shot down two Type 97 heavy bombs in succession, and the losses of the Type 97 heavy bombs, which he regarded as a treasure, in the sky over Nanjing were far beyond his ability to bear.
The rest of the Type 97 bombs dropped their bombs one after another, and then began to climb out of the war zone and return home, saying that they were not Americans, and they could not afford to lose because of their narrow land and lack of resources.
Gao Zhihang seized the opportunity to slam on the throttle valve and made a feint of climbing, and the following planes were suddenly fooled and followed one after another, because the speed of the fighter will slow down when climbing, and its flexibility and maneuverability will be reduced to a minimum.
When Gao Zhihang discovered that the following plane had been deceived, he immediately reduced the throttle valve to the minimum, and the plane suddenly made a turn and plunged down, biting the tail of a Type 96 carrier-based attack plane, and the tail of the plane was discounted by two point shots, and the plane that had lost its tail fell to the ground.
This is the seventh military fighter shot down by Gao Zhihang, when Gao Zhihang bit a military fighter again and pressed the shooting button, he unexpectedly found that his landline had run out of ammunition and food, and most of his subordinates had lost everything.
Gao Zhihang led the scarred only two fighters out of the battle, and the military fighters did not pursue them due to the range.
(To be continued)