Chapter 622: H7 Flying Fortress Mighty
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Rapid battle sirens sounded in the air, and after a period of panic and panic inside the San Juan base, most of the non-combatants had already taken refuge in anti-aircraft bunkers, and the air defense units were quickly ready for battle. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.infoββHowever, there are still hundreds of ambulance personnel who are not afraid of danger and do their best to rescue the wounded in the ruins.
"Hide!"
Although the officers and men of the nearby fighting units shouted loudly and told them to hide quickly, it basically did not have much effect. People are angry and admired at their actions.
"Cover them with all your might!"
"Yes!"
As soon as the commander gave the order, the officers and men responded in groups, and the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns opened heavy fire, making every effort to block any enemy plane from rushing to the rescue team.
The target of the US military is the combat aircraft and warships in the San Juan base, and the airport and hangar have basically been destroyed in the first wave of US air raids, so the US bomber group focuses on attacking the warships of the Chinese Imperial Navy in the port of San Juan, and the main ships with large size and tonnage are mainly attacked.
At this time, the warships in the harbor had completed the air defense preparation procedures, and the anti-aircraft guns of the ships were ready for battle to meet the enemy planes. In particular, more than a dozen Aegis air defense heavy cruisers were also forced to deploy fleet anti-aircraft fire preparations in the harbor in order to protect the capital ships that could not leave the port.
At 8:23 a.m., the second wave of attack planes of the Nimitz fleet and the continental bomber group of the US mainland arrived over San Juan almost simultaneously.
"Target 050! Anti-aircraft fire ready! β
"Ready!"
"Shoot!"
As the commanders in the positions of the various anti-aircraft guns drew their command knives. In the direction pointed by the blade, streamers quickly shot into the sky, and huge sparks bloomed around the enemy plane.
As a result of Langrid's early preparations, the artillery shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns on the San Juan base and the anti-aircraft guns on the battleships not only used radio proximity fuses, but also a considerable part of the shells were equipped with the same magnetic induction device as those on the wake self-guided torpedoes. This magnetic induction device is basically useless against small and fast fighters, but it is just right for relatively slow and bulky bombers.
The trajectory of the anti-aircraft shells that were originally fired into the sky was an arc of low curvature. When the magnetic induction shell approached the large bomber of the US army, it was quickly attracted by the electromagnetic signal generated by the friction between the long flight and the air on the metal fuselage of the huge bomber, and the arc of low curvature quickly turned into an arc of high curvature, and it crashed straight into the US bomber.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! β
One after another, the US bombers that rushed to the front were hit and exploded, bursting into blood-colored fireworks at an altitude of several thousand meters, and the wreckage dragged long fireworks down from the sky, like a rain of meteors.
However, the number of bombers in the US military is simply too large. The black pressure cloud swept from west to east, quickly obscuring the entire sky.
"Vulcan Phalanx Ready - Fire!"
"Toot ~~~ Toot ~~~~~ Toot ~~~~~"
When the enemy aircraft lowers the altitude. When preparing to drop a bomb. They were already within the radius of the fleet's anti-aircraft fire in the harbor. The Vulcan phalanx on more than a dozen Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruisers, known as the Aegis ships of the Chinese Empire, opened fire one after another in a phalanx. I saw that the two 7-barreled Gatling machine guns in each phalanx were spinning rapidly, and flames more than two meters long erupted from the muzzles of the guns, and hundreds of shells were fired in an instant, forming a dense wall of fire in the sky. ββ And all the Vulcan phalanx opened fire from all angles, quickly weaving a huge net of fire, and all the American fighters and bombers in the net of fire were spared, and all of them were shot down.
Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruiser at this moment. The powerful anti-aircraft fire on board the ships immediately terrified the American pilots.
More than 20 years ago, the U.S. Air Force learned the power of the Chinese Imperial Navy's powerful fleet anti-aircraft firepower. It can be said that I have endured all the hardships. More than twenty years later, the US military thinks that their aircraft are several times more advanced than they were twenty years ago. At this time, the air defense of the Imperial Chinese Navy was stronger, and the most advanced Vulcan Phalanx system was installed with a powerful fire control radar command system, which no longer needed manpower to control, and realized the ability of automatic firing at the terminal. This is a hundredfold increase in the efficiency of personnel in controlling and attacking enemy planes, and with the speed of US fighters and bombers at this time, it is impossible to get rid of the tracking of the fire control radar of the phalanx.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! β
Under the fierce blows of the Vulcan Phalanx system, the US bombers that dived down were hit one after another, dragging long smoke and flames, and crashed into the sea and exploded in a rapid whistling sound.
However, there are too many bombers in the US military, and although the Aegis air defense cruiser of the Chinese Imperial Navy has strong anti-aircraft firepower, the biggest shortcoming of the Vulcan Phalanx is that the instantaneous firepower is too fierce, so that the ammunition consumption is huge, and under the high-intensity air defense operation, the more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition brought by the phalanx are quickly exhausted. Despite the fact that the ammunition operators below the deck of the Phalanx kept changing their ammunition boxes, there were minutes when the Phalanx would have a fire vacuum.
At this time, several American torpedo bombers broke through the fire net and threw torpedoes one after another into the water.
With a snort, the torpedo crashed into the battleship at high speed. The ship's anti-torpedo guns opened fire quickly, detonating some of the incoming torpedoes, but four torpedoes still hit several ships.
"Boom! Boom! β
With a few loud bangs, a battleship, an air defense heavy cruiser and two air defense destroyers exploded. ββ For the battleships of the Chinese Empire, one or two torpedoes could not sink them. However, for air defense cruisers and destroyers, the former will be hit hard by a torpedo, and the latter will be blown to pieces in an instant if they are hit by a torpedo.
Two Tempest-class destroyers were blown up in an instant, and the port side of one Aegis ship was heavily damaged and flooded, but the officers and men on board still fought valiantly, shooting as far into the air as possible. Shoot down as many enemy planes as you can before sinking and protect other ships.
"Babble~Babble~Babble~"
With a piercing roar, the US high-altitude bombers, risking being shot down at any time, once again dropped criminal aerial bombs on the San Juan base.
A violent explosion rang out, and more than a dozen warships were hit by heavy aerial bombs, most of which were on fire, and smoke and dust billowed into the sky.
An American heavy bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns. A fire broke out on the plane, and the American pilots, seeing that there was no hope of escape, drove the plane directly into the battleship Song Shenzong. The bomber loaded with ammunition and fuel slammed into the No. 3 main turret at the rear of the battleship Song Shenzong, and the huge explosion instantly blew the No. 3 turret away, affecting the entire stern, and instantly a sea of fire.
In the air defense bunker, Xu Jianwen looked at the US military planes flying all over the sky. and the officers and men of the ships in the bitter battle, turned to Lan Lide and reprimanded: "This is your coping strategy? Didn't you say that everything was under your control? So what's going on with these planes? β
Lang Lide was also confused. Look at thousands of U.S. bombers. He couldn't help but wonder, "I'm wondering too!" Where did these planes come from! β
Xu Jianwen gritted his teeth and wanted to grab Lan Lide's collar again, but this time Lan Lide avoided it with some precautions.
"I'm also a major general, you're just one level higher than my rank, don't keep catching me like a soldier. βββ
Xu Jianwen suddenly glared, and was about to step forward, but the adjutant hurriedly stopped him and said, "Commander." Serious matters! β
Lan Lide escaped, so he said: "This is obviously a group of bombers flying from the mainland of the United States. How did they evade our radar? β
The adjutant then explained: "If I am not mistaken, these enemy planes flew to Mexico first. Bypass the Reich's radar station in Havana, Cuba, and then turn to us again. They thought that our radar station in San Juan would not be able to detect them, but our radar station had resumed its work and had detected them in advance, but unfortunately our radar station thought that the planes of the Imperial Air Force had arrived from Panama to reinforce them, so they took advantage of the loophole. β
"I understand this!" Lang Lide said: "What I don't understand is that our intelligence department clearly says that the number of bombers in the US military is not large, and there are not many that can carry out bombing from a long distance, how can there be so many at once?" Looking at the model of the bomber should be the C30, we have been closely monitoring its engine supplier, its range is simply not enough to go around San Juan, and its production number is only a few hundred, which is not enough to arm these thousands of bombers on a large scale. β
Xu Jianwen snorted coldly and said, "What is the use of just looking at the top of the shell?" Don't the Americans know that the Reich has been spying on them? Won't they sneak in and hide some? Besides, if the United States exports materials to Germany on a large scale, won't it import advanced aero engines from Germany and install them? β
Lan Lide nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, these damn American devils will even play conspiracy!" β
Xu Jianwen asked, "Now it's obvious that you underestimated the enemy!" What to do? If you look at the enemy planes flying all over the sky, we can kill half of them at most, and drop the remaining half of the bombs, and our base will be completely finished! β
Lan Lide frowned, then picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Blue Fox Squadron, I'm Lan Lide, I order you to come to San Juan immediately for reinforcements." βββ
"This is the Blue Fox squadron! We're in the process of gathering and expect to be on our way to San Juan in an hour! β
"Command modify! I order you to immediately take all the planes that are capable of fighting, replenish your ammunition and rush to San Juan for reinforcements immediately! β
"But ......"
"No, but! You must arrive within fifteen minutes, or military law will be committed! β
"Blue Fox understands! Let's go! β
Lang Lide hung up the intercom and sighed, "This is the only way I can do it!" The war preparations of the American devils seem to be very adequate, we have made a mistake and underestimated the strength of the enemy too much! β
Xu Jianwen proposed: "Do you want to give up attacking the main force of the enemy fleet and transfer the aircraft carrier back?" β
"No!" Lan Lide suddenly shook his head and vetoed: "Now we can only make a desperate bet, but this San Juan let the Americans bomb, and we will concentrate all our efforts to kill the Americans' aircraft carriers, so that we will lose both, it is much better than transferring the aircraft carrier battle group back to fight the fire." Anyway, San Juan is already like this, and now it can only be a broken jar! β
Xu Jianwen did not agree with Lang Lide's strategy. But he couldn't come up with a better strategy, so he had to acquiesce.
The Blue Fox Squadron is a simulated imaginary enemy of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, and they have a total of more than 240 combat aircraft from all over the world that are in active service. This unit was deployed on more than 30 islands in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea, and because the Blue Fox squadron was too sidelined, the 240 planes included 154 models, and it was difficult to assemble and fight in unison, because the performance of the fighters varied greatly from each other. So Langlid started and fought to get them into San Juan. Now that San Juan is in crisis, Langlid has to bring them up to fight for the time being, until the Imperial Air Force fighter group that has flown in from Panama arrives.
He ordered Luo Qidong to continue to command the aircraft carrier battle group to attack the Nimitz fleet, as long as the Nimitz fleet can be destroyed, then the sneak attack on San Juan can also be explained to the citizens of the empire.
Ten minutes later, the Blue Fox squadron appeared in the sky above San Juan. In the face of the overwhelming group of US fighters and bombers, the Blue Fox squadron, with less than 170 fighters, resolutely entered the battle.
Since the fighters of the Blue Fox squadron are all fighters from all countries of the world. It's all propeller-type. This super motley army is not able to play the overall cooperative operation, because the performance of more than 100 different models of fighters varies greatly from each other. However, fortunately, the U.S. attack aircraft group thought that San Juan had no air force, so they no longer had a large-scale battle formation when attacking various targets in San Juan, which allowed the Blue Fox squadron to quickly disperse into dozens of squads to attack enemy planes, and directly melee with the U.S. military, but avoided weaknesses. gave full play to the superb tactical accomplishment of the pilots of the Blue Fox Squadron, and just joined the battle. It shot down more than a dozen U.S. bombers and got off to a good start.
But. After suffering losses, the US attack aircraft group quickly discovered this super miscellaneous unit and immediately organized a counterattack. Because the number of US planes was too large, and the performance of the fighters was much stronger than that of the Blue Fox squadron, the Blue Fox squadron lost more than 100 planes in less than 20 minutes.
But fortunately, the great sacrifice of the Blue Fox Squadron bought precious time for the Panamanian Wing of the Imperial Chinese Air Force that arrived from Panama.
At nine o'clock in the morning, more than 200 Jian-11 fighter groups of the Panama Air Wing, which had been ordered to rush to the rescue, entered the battle. Although the group's bombers could not fight like fighters, the pilots of the bomber group were furious when they saw the devastation of the San Juan base.
"We can't just wait! The enemy is raging right before our eyes, and as soldiers of the Chinese Empire, even if we only have pants in our hands, we will use them to kill American devils. β
"Captain! You can give the order! Even if we collide with this super air fortress, we must knock the enemy down! β
"Not really! Although we could not catch up with the enemy's fighters, we were able to catch up with the enemy's bombers, and our bombers were equipped with powerful cannon fire, and we rushed directly into the middle of the enemy and attacked the enemy with our cannons. β
"Understood!"
"Let's get moving!"
More than 1,000 H7 strategic bombers of the Panama Air Wing, known as the Super Flying Fortress, made a landmark air combat operation in the history of human air warfare. More than 1,000 H7 bombers quickly rushed into the US bomber formation with strong armor protection, and then used more than a dozen large-caliber machine guns and heavy machine guns equipped on the air fortress to fire fiercely at the US bombers.
In comparison, the H7 Flying Fortress of the Chinese Empire is stronger than the C30 bomber of the US army in terms of armor protection, and in terms of firepower, the H7 bomber is equipped with three 30 mm machine guns and eleven 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine guns, and its firepower is so fierce that even the US fighters dare not approach easily. When the H7 bomber approached the C30 bomber, the powerful firepower suddenly hit the American bomber and burst into flames.
"That's fine!"
It was the first time that the air officers of the US bomber group had seen such a scene, and the bomber group of the Imperial Chinese Air Force engaged in an air battle with the US bomber group, which undoubtedly subverted the US Air Force's understanding of traditional air combat. Of course, for the Chinese Imperial Air Force, this is also the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair, and she is really forced to have no choice.
However, for this ultra-epochal style of play of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, the US bomber group appeared to be very passive. At this time, the US bomber group formed a number of echelon attack formations, taking turns to attack the Chinese Imperial Navy warships in the port of San Juan, which was originally blocked by the powerful air defense fire network of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and now encountered the Panama Air Wing and the Blue Fox Squadron that rushed to reinforce it, which has overwhelmed the US escort fighter group, and now even the bombers have begun to engage in air battles, and the entire sky over San Juan has suddenly become a pot of porridge.
Obviously, such a chaotic situation is very unfavorable to the US attack aircraft group.
In the ground air defense bunker, Xu Jianwen and Lan Lide and others were also dumbfounded, they did not expect that the bombers of the Imperial Air Force were also put into air combat. At this moment, their hearts were full of blood, and they couldn't help but shout loudly to cheer for the heroes of the Imperial Air Force, even though they couldn't hear it at all.
As the Panamanian Air Wing entered the air battle in San Juan, it suddenly disrupted the original established battle plan of the US bomber group, and the air fell into a state of melee, and many of the US military attack targets could not be completed, which allowed the Chinese Imperial Navy warships that were desperately resisting in the port to get a breather, and the naval officers and men seized all the time to repair the warships and weapons, and the Vulcan Phalanx quickly replaced the ammunition boxes and re-fired, and with the mutual cooperation of the Imperial Navy and Air Force, repelled wave after wave of attacks by the US troops. (To be continued)