Chapter 329: Fire Falls from the Sky (Part II)

Gao Zhihang, director of the Air Force of the 10th Theater of Operations, personally went out to cover 127 BF-109F multi-role fighters, 159 BF-109K multi-role fighters, and 130 Saker fighters, covering 45 battle fortresses to fly in the direction of the Beiyin River, which is located 70 kilometers in the suburbs of Harbin. There is no question of precision or imprecise, and if you find a city, you will drop bombs, and that's it, and as for the effect and location of the bombing, I will naturally tell you about it in my own broadcast.

However, for bombers to bomb enemy-occupied areas for a long time, it is generally necessary to sail in large groups, usually bombers only need to follow the long plane, the long plane only needs to follow the formation commander plane, and the formation commander aircraft only needs to follow the pilot aircraft. If more than one aviation unit takes off from multiple bases, each base needs to have a pilot aircraft, and then the group must meet on time at the pre-set navigation point, and after the rendezvous, the pilot bomber of the entire large formation will pilot the flight to the target area to bomb, the pilot bomber is extremely important, there are at least two or more navigators on it to correct the navigation point, and even sometimes there is more than one pilot bomber to prevent unexpected situations such as trek or battle damage, even so, pilot plane trek is a common thing, Sometimes, due to the disagreement between the pilot plane and the formation command plane, the large formation inexplicably divided into two groups and flew to different targets, and there were even cases where they had to turn back after deviating several hundred kilometers.

However, this almost never happened to the air force units of the 10th Theater of Operations, because the number of navigators in the bomber unit was very limited, and basically there were only mistakes in flying and dropping bombs, and there was no situation where the formation split when there was disagreement.

In fact, when the bomber completes the bombing and returns home, it is possible to carry out radio navigation, because different bases will transmit radio signals of different frequencies, as long as you find the predetermined frequency, use the sound characteristics of the radio navigator to face the general direction of the loudest sound, and ensure that you are flying in the direction of the base, referring to the compass data.

Although the design of the Battle Fortress bomber installed by the 10th Theater Air Force is the most advanced, the navigation equipment in its cabin is very primitive, and in addition, most of the Rehe Air Force navigators lack the training of accurate navigation at night, so if ordinary bomb bombers are used, the air attack effect must not be ideal, and in addition, another obstacle affecting the bombing effect is that the bomb load of the main bomber Battle Fortress of the 10th Theater Air Force is not large enough to carry out a truly effective bombing with enough bombs.

However, this time, the base of Unit 731 in the Pingfang District of Beiyin River on the outskirts of Harbin City requires very accurate navigation and bombing; due to the problem of bombardiers, the hit rate of the 1,500-meter horizontal bombs of the battle fortress is only about 11 percent, so all of them are loaded with special incendiary bombs this time, so they can only rely on the special operations detachment that arrived in advance to use intensive radio wave communication and navigation means, otherwise it is very easy to get lost at night, and it can be said that the transport plane carrying the special operations detachment flew quietly from the territory of the Soviet UnionAs a result of the continuous large-scale air raids, the flying divisions of the Kwantung Army had long since withdrawn from the struggle for air supremacy, and all the Type 97 heavy bombs, which were regarded as treasures by the Japanese army, were transferred to Korea, and the air defense positions of the Japanese army that dared to open fire were all subjected to extremely fierce bombing counterattacks, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, had almost no way to deal with the air force of the 10th Theater of Operations sweeping the entire Manchuria.

The surname of any kind of fighter in the empire is not as good as the BF-109F series fighters, not to mention the BF-109 series K and Z and Saker fighters, Ueda Kenkichi estimates that Zhang Xuewu can dispatch no more than 300 fighters, but this series of large-scale air raids, Ueda Kenkichi was surprised to find that Zhang Xuewu actually has more than 580 combat aircraft? He was very strange how Zhang Xuewu was ruthless? Even if the Kwantung Army is smashed and sold iron, it can't piece together nearly 600 advanced fighters? Besides, the entire Imperial Army Aviation Unit has only more than 1,200 combat aircraft of various types.

Moreover, the Type 95 and Type 96 equipped by the Kwantung Army Flight Division are not opponents of the BF-109F at all, and it is said that the Imperial Mitsubishi Corporation is developing the Zero Battle, which is ready to start installation, has not yet completed the final test, and its surname can be compared with the BF-109K, which is completely outdated.

This made the Empire's aircraft factories very depressed, and the large-scale introduction of BF-109 series fighters? It is obviously not in line with the interests of the empire's industrial production, and it is said that it is also an industrial country with its own production system, which is different from China, and Zhang Xuewu can also get the huge amount of money for the purchase of the aircraft, so that the assembly workshop that the Germans helped Rehe establish when the whole world was not optimistic about the BF-109 fighter, and even the later aircraft factory, Yu was unwilling to say that the political axe did not want to introduce the Germans in a full set of astronomical things, but any kind of fighter he produced, In terms of mechanical ability, it cannot be compared with the BF-109 series fighters, let alone the extreme launch of piston fighters with super-epochal significance such as the Saker.

Kenkichi Ueda even thinks that the defeat of the Kwantung Army in the 10th Theater of Operations is actually a huge failure of the Imperial Army's weapons replacement.

It's all the damn navy that occupies so much of the military spending, and most of the army's weapons are still antiques from the Meiji and Taisho eras, and the huge ships built as a result lack of opponents? The army lacks new artillery, tanks, submachine guns, the aviation unit lacks decent all-metal monoplanes, and the navy, which has huge ships, cannot be driven because of lack of fuel? How ironic is that?

For Kenkichi Ueda, who has already decided that he will fail and is responsible for this, he is extremely tired and depressed, if Unit 731 cannot decisively carry out His Majesty's orders, then he Kenkichi Ueda will not only end his career, but also probably his life will come to an end.

From the moment Okamura Ninji refused to carry out his orders, Ueda Kenkichi had already realized that he might be completely finished, because the overall battle plan for attacking Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater was concocted by him, using the lives and deaths of more than 100,000 people as bait, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Xuewu also saved his bit of Dongzang like a money jar of Zhou Papi's family, and this time the Kwantung Army Chariot Division and the Mechanized Division under the command of Tojo Chief of Staff had not collided headlong with Baotou, Zhang Xuewu's secret family background might not have been exposed.

So far, Ueda Kenkichi only knows that the Central [***] side has dispatched a new type of tank, except for the Taisho 4-year 100-mm cannon and the 38-type 150-mm cannon that can be effectively destroyed, all the combat vehicle defense guns of various calibers equipped by the army's infantry divisions and regiments have failed?

Ueda Kenkichi doesn't know if this is an excuse made by the people below or if it's really something? However, according to the report from the direction of Chaoyang Fortress, it was indeed encountered at the east gate of the fortress a very large chariot, equipped with at least 110 mm artillery, Ueda Kenkichi once proposed to tow back the chariot that was destroyed by Zhong [***] himself, but forcibly dragged it several times, except for the loss of five more Type 95 light chariots and the loss of more than 200 officers and soldiers, nothing was found, it seems that the weight of the chariot is really beyond the previous estimate.

Kenkichi Ueda, who was sitting in the basement feeling depressed, glanced at the night sky from the place where the ventilation hole was, and wondered when it started? The sky has already become Chinese? After the fighters of the 10th Theater arrived in Xinjing, now even two bicycle-ridden signal soldiers are also strafing, and the arrogance of the air force units of Zhang Xuewu's department makes Ueda Kenji feel that blindly dodging is not a way after all.

However, if you don't dodge, what will you do to fight back? Do you use a bamboo pole to poke a plane? Unaware of the fact that since the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, the largest single group of attack planes assembled on the Chinese battlefield was flying to Harbin along the Broadsword march.

The army's radio detection agency caught this anomaly in time? But I don't understand why the Chinese want to play this song that is very unfriendly to the empire on all public channels?

Gao Zhihang, who personally commanded the group, can be said to have gotten what he wanted, since he was promoted to major general and air force director, he has never taken to the air to fight, which is even more uncomfortable for him than death, it is precisely because of this large-scale major operation that Gao Zhihang returned to the blue sky again under the special approval of Zhang Xuewu, anyway, Gao Zhihang, who was sitting in the cockpit of the Saker, felt great, and the surname of the Saker was enough to meet Gao Zhihang's excellent flying skills.

Looking at a large special incendiary bomb carried by the BF-109F and BF-109K multi-role fighters, Gao Zhihang felt as if he was dressed up to attend a barbecue feast, the 500-pound large special incendiary bomb is the latest product of the Baotou Industrial Zone, compared with the napalm bomb of the air raid, the new napalm is also added with white phosphorus, this bomb can produce high-temperature flames when it explodes, and it is filled with a gelatinous substance made of gasoline and chemicals, which is splashed around when it explodes. When burning, it produces a high temperature of about 1,000 degrees Celsius, and can stick to other objects for a long time to burn, and it uses a blunt-tipped bomb without a bullet wing, which is constantly tumbling in the air after being dropped by an aircraft, so it can expand the burning area when it hits the ground and explodes!

This latest bomb is called "Hellfire"! Every "Hellfire" bomb was painted with a devil's smile before it took off.

(To be continued)