503 The Day After Tomorrow
On the morning of the 18th, just after dawn, the staff on duty at the lighthouse in Keelung Harbor spotted a fleet approaching Keelung Harbor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time, the results of the Battle of Cam Ranh Bay and the Battle of Laute Island had been transmitted back to Japan, and although the Japanese government blocked the news of the defeat, the staff on the lighthouse must have known accurate information, so the lighthouse sounded the alarm bell as soon as possible.
The tricolor flag flying over that fleet clearly identified itself as Lan Fang's fleet.
For a moment, the staff at the lighthouse were in disbelief.
Didn't you say that Lanfang didn't have large warships? So why do so many of the warships in that fleet look so majestic......
Forgive this uninformed countryman, except for the Lanfang people, people in other countries in East Asia have hardly seen airplanes, let alone know that there is such a thing as an "aircraft carrier".
When the alarm bell of the Keelung Port Lighthouse sounded throughout Keelung Port, Xie Rundong was giving the battle order.
"Order, all ships immediately release bombers to carry out indiscriminate bombing of all valuable targets of the Japanese army, and must eliminate the resistance of the Japanese coastal defense forces to the greatest extent......
Prior to this, Agent Lan Fang had obtained a lot of information about the Japanese defense in Keelung Harbor, which was already well known to the commanders of the ships, and many battle plans for these defense facilities had been formulated, Xie Rundong only needed to decide when to launch the attack, and did not need to make detailed arrangements.
In fact, there are not many valuable targets, in Keelung Port, there is a coast guard brigade, an internal security force, these two forces are similar in nature to the police, do not need to pour too much attention. It should be noted that the barracks, where two wings are stationed to be responsible for the defense of the Keelung area, in addition to the forts, but perhaps because the Japanese are more confident in the strength of their own fleet, there are not many coastal defense batteries in Keelung Port, at least not comparable to the density of batteries in Cam Ranh Bay and Ningbei Port.
As for the anti-aircraft batteries, well, not to mention the port of Keelung, there is no such thing in the entire Japanese-controlled area, so for the Lanfang Air Force, the entire airspace of Japan is open.
It was a golden age for the Air Force.
"The marines on each ship will land first, open up a landing field, establish a defensive position, and cover the landing of armored troops is your task, don't care about the rest, withdraw immediately after completing the task, and we will carry out the next battle plan." Xie Rundong did not want to give the Japanese a respite.
The fleet led by Xie Rundong on this trip included almost all the main forces of Lan Fang's navy and air force, in order to sweep away the remaining naval warships of the Japanese and completely destroy all of Japan's resistance capabilities.
Keelung Port is indeed very large, but in Japan, the real home port of the Navy is Yokosuka, and Keelung is not ranked at all, so Yokosuka is Xie Rundong's ultimate goal.
Following Xie Rundong's order, a group of bombers began to take off, and they completed the formation over the aircraft carrier, and then flew towards the intended target.
For the defenders of Keelung Port, this is destined to be an extremely humiliating but helpless day, if Lan Fang's army lands now, even if the defenders of Keelung Port can't beat it, they can prove their courage with their lives, but Lan Fang's army has not yet been dispatched, and the bombers have already flown overhead, which simply makes the Keelung defenders extremely mad.
In fact, the navy bomber is very different from the army bomber, the navy bomber is smaller than the army bomber in terms of range and bomb load, Lan Fang's army bomber currently has a range of 1,800 kilometers and a bomb load of one ton, and the navy bomber has a range of only 800 kilometers and a bomb load of 700 kilograms, which is the result of Long Chengyuan's maximum ability to improve.
However, in terms of performance, Lanfang's bomber performance is second to none in the world, there is no doubt about this, especially after Qin Zhiyuan, a "model aircraft enthusiast", began to optimize the aerodynamic shape of Lanfang's aircraft, Lanfang's aircraft performance has been on a higher level than during World War I.
What's even more damaging is that when Xie Rundong came out this time, most of the bombs he carried were incendiary bombs, and there were not many high-explosive bombs and armor-piercing bombs, which was more powerful and more effective when dealing with Japanese cabins.
Well, in fact, Lanfang's houses are mostly wooden, so Lanfang's engineers have done many tests, and under the same conditions, the damage effect of incendiary bombs on wooden houses is equivalent to three times that of high-explosive bombs.
In this way, it seems that it is okay to have a smaller bomb load, and bomb technology can make up for all this.
As a result, under all kinds of deliberate calculations, the Keelung garrison, which had nothing to do but scold Lan Fang's military planes on the ground, was sad.
When the first bombs were dropped, the military personnel inside the target sought cover.
I have to say that the Japanese have done a good job in training, and the port garrison is not as embarrassed as the army's funds because it belongs to the navy, and there is capital to build all kinds of bunkers.
What else can they do but scold?
Nothing can be done.
In fact, at this time, the bombing accuracy of the bombers was very problematic, and each 50-kilogram aerial bomb could carry 14 bombs at a time, and it would be good to throw half of them at an altitude of about 500 meters.
The port garrison is also a soldier, and I have never eaten pork and seen a pig run, and when I saw the trajectory of the bomb, some people laughed, and this accuracy was too inferior.
But soon, laughter turned into wailing.
Unlike the imaginary explosions and shock waves, these bombs are not loud when they fall, and the shock waves are not very loud, but the energy that explodes in an instant with a "bang" is still shocking.
It really didn't look like a bomb, but more like a smoke bomb, because when the bomb exploded, there was no flying shrapnel or flying sand and rocks, and there was only a large cloud of black smoke that was far beyond the ordinary, and only when the wind blew over, you could catch a glimpse of the orange-red flames.
That's right, it's a flame, a flame wrapped in black smoke, a flame that can burn everything, a flame that can't be extinguished as long as it is ignited......
It's not that it can't be extinguished, as long as it's cut off from the air, it can still be extinguished, but before, the Japanese army didn't have received similar training at all, and they didn't know how to defend against this solidified ******, many people tried to extinguish the fire with water, but the fire not only did not decrease, but grew bigger and bigger, and more people rolled on the ground, like crushing flames, but the flames were like demons on tarsal bones, igniting every inch of land they rolled over.
So the Japanese soldiers finally understood that this kind of flame was simply not something that could be fought against by manpower.
Since there is no way to fight, then run, but where can you run, the Japanese military camp and coastal defense batteries are built in the area near the sea, and the Lanfang Air Force has carried out indiscriminate bombing of this area, so there is smoke everywhere, there are flames everywhere, and there is no way to escape.
Fortunately, there was the sea next to it, and the Japanese soldiers were able to jump into the sea to avoid the fire.
But even if you jump into the sea, there is still nowhere to escape, Keelung Port has built an oil warehouse for the Navy, and the fire of incendiary gas quickly burns off oxygen, and it causes strong winds, and the wind fuels the fire, which quickly ignites the warehouse.
After an earth-shattering explosion, the fuel oil in the fuel depot was poured into Keelung Port, so the sea water was also ignited, and the sea water after being ignited was even more terrifying, not only burning the air, but also boiling the sea water, and the entire Keelung Port was steaming and steaming, and it looked like there was a violent beauty of destruction like the coming of the end of the world.
The effect of the bombing was so good that the bombers who arrived on the battlefield later had lost their target positions, and there was all smoke under the plane, and it was impossible to see the target clearly, and the plane could no longer guarantee a flight altitude of five hundred, because of the transpiration of various heat waves, the air was extremely unstable, and even at an altitude of one thousand meters, the plane could still be felt uncontrollable.
However, aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft cannot land with bombs, because if an accident occurs, it will cause irreparable serious consequences, so even if they lose their targets, these bombers who arrive on the battlefield later still choose to drop their bombs.
Well, if you go to find a target at this time, it will be too nitpicking, and you can't throw it indiscriminately, after all, most of the people living in Keelung Port are still Chinese, and if you throw it down indiscriminately, then it is the Chinese who suffer the most.
The Lanfang soldiers were not inhumane Japanese soldiers, so those bombers who had not yet dropped their bombs chose to keep their bombs still in the sea, of course, in the sea near Keelung Harbor, which aggravated the fire on the sea.
At sea, it doesn't matter, burn it, anyway, the people who stay in the sea now are Japanese, or Chinese people who are closer to the Japanese.
When the plan was first formulated, Xie Rundong always disliked that the plan was incomplete and that the damage given to the Japanese was not enough, but when he saw the effects of the bombing, Xie Rundong really had nothing to say.
The entire Keelung Port, just now the mountains and rivers were beautiful, everything was vivid, just after a wave of bombers bombed, Xie Rundong's telescope could not see anything except the overwhelming flames.
Fire, fire, fire, as far as the eye can see, all are fire, as if even the sky is ignited.
"Division...... Commander, the Marine Corps is ready...... "Major General Xu Zhenpeng, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps, is in the period of Ai Ai.
According to the original plan, now is the time for the Marines to attack, but now looking at the appearance of Keelung Harbor, if the Marines carry out the landing, it will not be to fight, but to find death.
"Okay, let's go according to the original plan." Xie Rundong glanced at Xu Zhenpeng very strangely, and then replied expressionlessly.
"Division...... Commander, I can't get out, look at what Keelung Port is burning now? This...... This asked our brothers to go up, is it to help the Japanese put out the fire or what? Xu Zhenpeng and Xie Rundong are also old acquaintances, and they will learn to bite rabbits when they are in a hurry.
"I know that you can't go, why do you bother to talk, withdraw, withdraw to Lao Tzu, why do you stay here? Is it a fire? Xie Rundong is really angry.
I can't go, and I can't stay.
Standing in Xie Rundong's position, he seemed to be able to feel the heat of Keelung Port, and the air seemed to be filled with the smell of some kind of creature being roasted......
No, tomorrow is not enough, then the day after tomorrow will be better.
(To be continued.) )