Chapter 372: Homeland Air Defense Annihilation Battle: Sweeping the Japanese Army's Sneak Attack Aircraft Cluster
"Giggle......
At about 4 o'clock in the morning, Li De was woken up by a rooster crow, as a soldier, or in an extraordinary period, he felt very sensitive, and recovered quickly from the hazy sleepiness. This night I slept at the house of the village chief Zhao Yunshan, and I felt pretty good.
"Village Chief Zhao, who are you? It's not good, it's simple. ”
After getting dressed and going out, I saw Zhao Yunshan and his wife killing chickens, and they got up at 4 o'clock to get busy, and it seemed that they were preparing to entertain themselves.
"There's nothing else at home, just a lot of chickens, and killing a chicken to eat is nothing."
Zhao Yunshan knows the current situation in China, whether it is a military or political official, he is not allowed to give special entertainment at the grassroots level, but killing a chicken is not within this rule, after all, his family has to kill one or two a month to eat.
"You, that's not good. Forget it if you kill it, and I'll settle the bill privately when I go back. ”
Li De didn't say much, he rolled up his sleeves and went over to help pick up the water to scald the chicken and remove the hair.
After a short time, the meal was ready before five o'clock, Zhao Yunshan and his family were at home, the eldest son worked in Tianjin, and the second son was a soldier in Southeast Asian provinces.
"Woo woo woo ......"
As soon as they put down their jobs, before they had time to clean up the table, Li De and Zhao Yunshan were woken up by the rapid alarm bell.
"Air strike!!"
As soon as they heard the alarm bell, Li De and Zhao Yunshan rushed into the radio room in the courtyard, which was specially located at the village chief's house.
Sure enough, a small red signal light came on, and the alarm bell was constantly ringing over the radio from the old elm tree in the village.
"Quick, dodge!"
Zhao Yunshan nodded, turned on the microphone of the radio, and shouted loudly: "Air raid, air raid, everyone do what you did during the exercise, go into the bomb shelter!" ”
Soon, the whole village was in a commotion, although there were many drills, but the shouting could not be avoided, the children with their children and daughters were crying, and the old people had designated young adults to help carry them. Because it was already said during the exercise, the sirens of the air raid were to notify everyone in advance, and as long as they hid in the air-raid shelter in time, there would be no problem.
Although it is not yet dawn, there are plenty of flashlights in the village, and basically every household has one, and according to the previous notice, every household should have enough flashlights at night.
In less than five minutes, the entire village, including the elderly and children, had been moved to the bomb shelter.
"Folks, don't be afraid, the air raid has not yet arrived, and it will not necessarily come over the village, maybe the enemy planes are just passing over the nearby sky, just in case. Everyone can hide here with peace of mind, and when the crisis is lifted, there will be a broadcast to notify everyone.
As for the livestock and houses, I repeat, don't be reluctant, in case of damage, the state will turn to the war fund to pay in full......"
After pacifying the villagers and putting the militia squad in charge of maintaining law and order and preventing emergencies, Li De and Zhao Yunshan climbed to the lookout hole of the air-raid shelter to observe the situation in the air.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Li, won't this devil's plane really pass over our village? If so, how long will it take? Zhao Yunshan asked with concern.
"According to the previous notice from the superiors, the warning time in this area should be about 10 minutes. The location here is close to the sea, and it is a necessary way to Shandong and Tianjin, and it is likely that enemy aircraft will pass over it. Moreover, it is likely that the enemy planes will disperse, not to mention too much, as long as one plane passes over the village, the villagers may be strafed if they do not dodge.
The current situation is that we hate the devils to the core, and the devil soldiers and the devil political axe also hate us to the core, and maybe they will retaliate wantonly. ”
Li De said with a worried face, although the political axe did a lot of things in response to his own revenge, he still hoped that it was best for a countryman not to die.
Ten minutes later, it was almost five o'clock, and the sky was a little cloudy.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Li, this enemy army is still not moving?" Village Chief Zhao asked.
"Don't worry, if you see the plane coming, it's too late to hide in the bomb shelter. Without notice from our superiors, we must not get out of the bomb shelter in advance. Li De said solemnly.
"No, I didn't mean that, hehe, it's a poor nervous heart." Zhao Yunshan said with a smile.
From time to time, finally the hum of an airplane came from the distant sky.
"The plane is coming?" Zhao Yunshan looked at Li De blankly.
"It's not right, it looks like it's from the rear."
Li De, who has been in the army for many years, can of course accurately distinguish the direction of the plane, and he can already vaguely see the misty sky when he raises his telescope.
There were more than a dozen planes flying in the sky in several formations, and the sound of the planes was very loud, not the ordinary sound of propeller engines.
"It's our jet fighter!!"
Li De only felt a burst of hot blood rising from the soles of his feet, and there were more than a dozen vague shadows in the telescope moving in the direction of the sea.
However, almost at the same time, more than a dozen shadows flew in the distant sky facing the sea, and all of them were very low, and the lowest planes might even be only about two hundred meters high.
"Could it be my plane?"
Li De guessed in his heart.
His suspicions were quickly verified, and in a very violent way.
I saw that more than a dozen jet fighters suddenly began to dive violently like eagles that had seen rabbits, and the huge roar of the jet engines shook the entire bomb shelter to the ears of the entire bomb shelter.
Some people were so scared that they thought it was an enemy plane. However, the militia reassured everyone that the bomb shelter was very safe.
"Da Da Da ......"
The jets in the air were the first to fire, and the planes, glowing white in the hazy sky, were very beautiful, almost identical to the pictures of Chinese jets that Mr. Li had seen in newspapers and news.
The planes of the army suddenly encountered a Chinese plane diving from a height, and knowing that it could not escape in terms of speed, they also recognized that it was a Chinese jet fighter, so they had to go head-on.
"Boom ......"
In the blink of an eye, five planes were shot down, and the Chinese jet fighters, which had an advantage in terms of number and aircraft technology, were abusing these dozen or so Zero Army Air Force fighters with an overwhelming advantage.
Looking at the downed military plane, Li De only wished that he could have wings on his back and go to the sky to shoot down two planes. When he was a soldier, the army did not have such advanced aircraft, and he couldn't help but feel the strength of the country and the strength of the army.
"I'm 47 years old this year, and I don't know if I have a chance to go back to the battlefield, even if it's a logistics soldier."
Looking at the sky that had just ended a short air battle, Li De was a little distracted.
Almost all of the planes crashed in the mountains and farmland, and these losses could be registered and compensated by the government.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Li, that's the devil's plane, right? It's too unbeatable! ”
Zhao Yunshan only felt that from beginning to end, the devil's plane was constantly shot down, often two or three were shot down in less than a minute, and finally the two devil's planes wanted to crash into the village but were blown up by volley.
"The reason for not fighting is that the difference between the surnames of the two sides is too big, many of the devil's planes are bombers, and the air fighting ability is too poor, but fortunately, the air force came in time, otherwise the village would have suffered." Li De sighed, the village here is preserved, but what about other places? War is so merciless that even if people can hide, houses cannot be moved. "Keep waiting, you must not go out without notice."
Sure enough, just over 30 minutes later, another group of Japanese planes flew in the direction of the village, but this time they were chased by Chinese planes from behind, and were finally shot down in the sky far away from the village.
The villagers, on the other hand, have been hiding in bomb shelters, playing cards, chatting nonsense, listening to other people's portable radios, eating and drinking, and returning to the village after the air raid is over.
...... "Aso-kun, let's act according to the plan." ”
The commander-in-chief of the army's sneak attack on the Chinese aircraft group, Lieutenant General Sao Eto of the Army Air Corps, ordered in a cold voice.
In formulating the plan for a sneak attack on the Chinese mainland, the generals and staff officers of the military headquarters and the army air corps gave full consideration to various factors.
In view of the fact that the Chinese's radar and aircraft and even ground anti-aircraft fire are very powerful, the plan for this sneak attack on the mainland of China can be described as a revisation and modification before it can be implemented.
In fact, Sao Eto knew very well that this bombing was not so much about how much damage it would cause to the Chinese, but rather about what it was for the people of Yuben and the allies.
"Eto-kun, this time the mission you are carrying out is very important, whether you succeed or fail, the people of the empire will see the efforts made by the emperor [***] for the war. Even if we lose, we can use this as a condition to ask the Americans for more assistance. At that time, they will have no excuse to refuse us any longer, thus raising us to the same supply status as the British. ”
These are the words that General Sugi of the Army Air Corps personally said to him before departure.
In the plan, the bombing of the Chinese was mainly divided into two major directions, the northeast direction and the Pingjin direction, of which the aircraft group in the Pingjin direction was the most powerful. Sao Eto will command the main aircraft group to swagger towards the Chinese Pingjin area, while the Yuejun planes in the Pingjin direction will split a considerable part to evade the Chinese's radar and break into China at an ultra-low altitude. Ryutaro Aso was the commander, and his mission was to organize these planes scattered into China again, and then bomb any city in Beijing and Tianjin for the Chinese.
Soon, Ryutaro Aso commanded that part of the aircraft group to fly in dozens of small formations at ultra-low altitudes close to the sea, trying to enter the Chinese mainland.
"Did the radar detect the Chinese's plane?"
Sao Eto asked.
"No notice, no movement within 20 kilometers."
Some of the P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt fighters equipped by the military are equipped with small airborne radars provided by the Americans, and even some of the Zero fighters are also equipped with them.
This radar is capable of effectively detecting enemy aircraft targets in an airspace of 20 km, which is somewhat clumsy, but quite practical.
You must know that in today's air combat, being able to provide a warning distance of 20 kilometers is already very remarkable, of course, China's radar has always been ahead of World War II countries, except for other countries.
At this time, China's plane fleet was already lying in ambush at an altitude of 10,000 meters more than 30 kilometers away, and was waiting for his plane group to come in.
"Lower the altitude, each formation is free to attack!!"
After reconfirming the results of the radar search, Major General Liao Yizhou, commander of the interceptor group, resolutely issued an attack order in the face of more than 700 military planes coming at high speed on the opposite side.
This is over the coastal sea, less than 50 kilometers behind Chinese mainland.
More than 700 fighters and bombers of the Chinese army are flying over in a posture covering several kilometers of airspace more than 20 kilometers away, and it can even be said that the whole world is covered with military planes.
The main task of the 500 Tianlong jet fighters commanded by Liao Yizhou was to intercept the main group of the Japanese army.
Although intelligence and radar detection have shown that there has been a small-scale diversion of the Yue army's aircraft fleet, it is believed that some of the Yue army's aircraft have infiltrated Chinese mainland at ultra-low or ultra-high altitudes.
The group of jet fighters lurking high in the air began to lower its altitude from all directions and flew towards the group of military planes, which was dominated by bombers.
"High-speed enemy aircraft were detected, the target was about 5 km ... 4 km..."
In the jaw-dropping astonishment of the radar soldiers of the Chinese army, a large number of targets appeared on the radar screen, densely covering the entire screen.
At this time, there is no need for a commander like Sao Eto to think about the problem, even the radar soldiers can guess that the Chinese must have used the old way, hiding at an altitude of 10,000 meters, that is, outside the limit altitude of the American airborne radar, and then frantically dived down and went straight to their own side.
"Da Da Da ......"
A large number of jet fighters hardly had to be deliberately aimed, and the sky was full of their own clumsy bombers, and although at the forefront of the group were escort fighters, they were still blown up by the dense firepower.
The cannons of all colors were like a rain of bullets falling from the sky, enveloping the dense group of aircraft. At this time, the sky happened to be slightly bright, and the planes of the Japanese army, which had very poor night combat capabilities, were even confused, and it was difficult to locate the direction of the Chinese planes, so they could only fire indiscriminately, and the bomber groups behind were scattered and fled in all directions when they saw the bad situation.
For a time, the air was full of long training aviation machine guns and machine guns firing, and one after another military planes were shot down, most of them clumsy bombers, compared to China's jet fighters, these clumsy bombers could never escape since they were found.
"Boom!!"
In the chaos, the army's own bombers collided together.
Perhaps only I know why this is the case, because the night flight equipment is insufficient, and many bombers rely on radio contact, with inferior night flight equipment, or even standard speed, flying under the command of aircraft with night flight equipment.
Suddenly, they were intercepted by a group of Chinese planes, and their command was ineffective, and some military planes began to collide at dawn when their vision was extremely poor.
Most of the planes that fell from the sky were bombers, and they either exploded or splashed into the sky and were swallowed up by the sea.
The entire air battle lasted for a long time, until dawn, except for some of the military planes that escaped, most of them were shot down, and a considerable part was being frantically pursued by Chinese planes.
The Chinese side, which has early warning planes, is completely able to spot the bombers of the Chinese army that are escaping 20 or 30 kilometers away, and one after another orders are being given, and groups of Chinese planes are rushing over from all directions and starting to shoot down these planes.
...... "Discovery of the machine!! ”
A militia air defense battalion located somewhere in Shandong finally saw a plane flying in the sky in the distance after the warning time of more than 20 minutes had passed.
About five planes, three bombers, and two fighters were flying at a low altitude, causing a lot of movement, but instead of bombing the village on the road, they went straight to the nearest city.
The militia air defense battalion stationed here had already missed a wave of Japanese military planes just now, and four Japanese military planes flew far away, and the angle and distance were not suitable for firing artillery, and the militiamen had no choice but to watch as they watched.
Their artillery position was the highest mountain in the vicinity, and the conditions were already very good, and as soon as an aircraft flew over a distance of several thousand meters nearby, it would fall into the fire net of the air defense battalion.
"Adjust the shooting Zhu Yuan, ready to fire!!"
The commander of the air defense battalion ordered loudly, and from time to time, the guns returned to calibration and could fire.
"Aim at the target, fire!!"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The dense sound of anti-aircraft guns, one after another, fired anti-aircraft shells directly at the Yue army plane, which was only a few hundred meters high, and the straight-line distance was about 2,000 meters, and the Yue army plane did not expect that there were still Chinese air defense units hiding in the woods on such a hill, and suddenly the Yue army plane was recruited.
Although this air defense battalion is only a militia force, it is well-trained, China has no shortage of artillery shells and anti-aircraft guns, and the stock of artillery and artillery shells that have been eliminated since the southwest period are enough to arm the militia units throughout the country to the militarized level of World War II.
The two Japanese bombers, which could not evade the plane, were hit by bullets on the spot and exploded in the air, and the shells loaded inside the planes were even detonated on the spot, and they immediately exploded into a large ball of fire.
Of the other three planes, 1 bomber and 2 fighters were startled and immediately climbed and almost became targets for anti-aircraft guns.
After all, it is an anti-aircraft gun equipped by the militia, and it cannot be compared with the anti-aircraft gun in service, and there are some differences in the firing height and accuracy, and there are even more differences in the fuse of the shell.
The three startled military planes went into a frenzy on the spot, and the two fighters began to dive at a low altitude and prepare to strafe, while the bombers climbed high to prepare to drop bombs horizontally.
However, the three military planes did not expect that there would be an antiaircraft artillery battalion hidden on the hill below, and the pure revenge mentality immediately greeted the fierce welcome of the entire battalion of antiaircraft guns.
Boom Boom Boom ...... In the fierce artillery fire, the three military planes did not have time to pull up, and were blown up by volleys on the spot.
The same incident was staged in many areas in the north, and the air defense operations on the Sino-North Korean border even continued from Sinuiju to the vicinity of Shenyang, and the active antiaircraft artillery units and militia antiaircraft artillery units cooperated with interceptor groups and local air defense planes to deal the greatest blow to the fish that slipped through the net.
It was not until more than an hour later that a large number of escape planes began to flee in the direction of North Korea, and even the P-51 and P-47, which had sufficient range, fled to North Korea.
However, these planes were quickly surrounded by the fleet of aircraft of the sea fleet, and in the end there were less than 100 planes that were able to escape to the Korean mainland, and almost all of them were fighters, a small number of reconnaissance planes, and radar planes. Almost all of the bombers on this trip were shot down, either by interception, by air defense forces and groups of native defenses, and by chance after a few places were bombed by chance, and then shot down by pursuing aircraft.
In the face of China's huge air power, the sneak attack of the Chinese army ended in failure, and although it opened the prelude to the great cross-sea air battle between China and the People's Republic of China, it was only a naval confrontation, and until the Chinese team took a larger-scale special bombing of the mainland, except for the border directions between China and North Korea and the Far East and the northeast, he himself was never able to bomb an inch of China's mainland again. The balance of war between China and China began to tilt in China's favor.
(To be continued)