Chapter 6: Landing in Incheon (1)

Zhao Zhi's generosity made Wang Yaowu dumbfounded, a whole U.S. fleet provided landing assistance for the Thunder, not to mention, Zhao Zhi also deliberately mobilized a large number of fighters to cooperate with the operation, even if the Japanese army deployed heavy troops in Incheon, according to the troops invested by Zhao Zhi, it is estimated that the Japanese army may not be able to block Zhao Zhi's landing force even if it mobilizes the strength of two divisions.

It can be seen that Zhao Zhi is bound to land at Inchon this time, and both the firepower configuration and the attack sequence have been carefully considered, and counting the large-caliber naval guns of the US fleet, Wang Yaowu can't think of any loopholes in such an action. "We can't take it lightly, the Japanese have been operating in Korea for many years, and Inchon is a port city, so the Japanese army will have to build some fortifications and deploy some elite troops in Incheon, so the attacking troops must be cautious after landing, and remember not to take the enemy lightly." Compared with Wang Yaowu's optimism, Zhao Zhi is much more cautious.

As the sky grew darker, as the old fishermen had predicted, a layer of mist began to appear on the sea, and the ships that sailed slowly began to speed up, and the soldiers in the cabins used the last of their time to close their eyes and recuperate. The military command is the department of the national government that is specifically responsible for collecting intelligence, but unfortunately North Korea is too far away, and the military commander has not been able to intervene, and Zhao Zhi does not want to obtain relevant information through the CCP, so Thunder can only rely on the map and some information obtained from the Kwantung Army as a basis.

"Let's start" Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhao Zhi, who had not closed his eyes all night, finally gave the order for the fighter to take off, and the fleet had left the Jiaodong coast for 4 hours, and according to the speed of the ships of the Seventh Fleet, they were now almost an hour away from the coast of Incheon. Zhao Zhi is now sending fighter planes to bomb the vicinity of Incheon, firstly to cut off the rescue of the surrounding Japanese troops to Incheon, and secondly, to divert the attention of the Japanese troops in Incheon and let them relax their defense of the coastline.

Including the escort fighters, Zhao Zhi used more than 120 fighters of various types this time, and it is very appropriate to use dark clouds to cover the moon to describe the grand occasion when the fighter troops were dispatched. The Japanese army in Incheon has an airfield, when Zhao Zhi raided Jiaodong, the Japanese army in Incheon, across the sea, once sent fighters to help the war, but unfortunately they were all pushed back by the Thunder's fighter group, if Zhao Zhi can take the Incheon Japanese airfield intact this time, it will be very beneficial to the next battle of the Thunder in Korea.

"Air defense, air defense, there are enemy aircraft." As Zhao Zhi expected, as soon as the Thunder fighter unit flew over Incheon, it was discovered by the Japanese coastal troops, and the anti-aircraft guns on the coastal defense line rang out like beans, but the Thunder fighters did not entangle with them at all, but pulled up the altitude and went to the north of Incheon. By the time the Japanese fighters in Inchon had reached the altitude of their ascension, the group of thunderous fighters that had just been exposed to the fire of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery had already disappeared.

"Nani? There is no line of defense in the north, what are they going to do to our north? The Japanese commander in charge of the defense of Inchon was confused, and was woken up by his adjutant in the middle of the night to find that the enemy could not be found, which made people somewhat depressed. More than 30 Japanese fighters that hastily lifted off into the air circled back and forth, always looking for a group of fighters to appear at night, and it would never be as simple as flying around in such a dark night, and the Japanese fighters at Incheon had no intention of landing until they found the traces of the opponent's fighters.

"It was reported that a large number of parachutes were found falling from the sky at the Gimpo post north of Incheon." The information sent urgently made the Japanese officers present suddenly realize that the other side was not a bombardment attack at all, but an airdrop attack on Incheon, and those parachutes must be the thunderous airborne troops. "It is reported that a large number of parachutes have also been found south of Seoul." The news that followed shocked the Japanese officers present that Inchon was close to Seoul, but Gimpo was closer to Seoul than Incheon, and the Japanese Minister of Defense was visiting Seoul, and if Seoul was attacked by the other side, then the Minister of Defense and his entourage would inevitably be affected.

The use of airplanes to carry out airborne landings reminded the Japanese officers present of the incident of the Thunder raid on the Kwantung Army garrison in Harbin a month ago, as if the Thunder was the best at this kind of combat method, directly parachuting the attack team to the target location, and then disappearing without a trace after a quick attack. If this is the case this time, will they be targeting the Japanese defense minister and his party stranded in Seoul this time? Thinking of this, the officers could not help but have a cold war, and if the defense minister of their own country was captured, it would mean that Japan would lose face in the international community.

"It can't be like this, absolutely not." Cao Kei, who was in charge of Incheon's defense, immediately ordered the troops outside Incheon to set off for Seoul immediately, and it was necessary to intercept the enemy before the other side's airborne troops attacked Seoul, and at the same time, Cao Ji sent most of Incheon's fighters to the direction of Seoul, and whether or not the other side's planes could be intercepted, at least it was possible to conduct an air search after dawn.

"Damn, isn't there a guard in Seoul? There is a whole U.S. fleet on the eastern coast of China across the sea, and what should we do if they suddenly cross the sea to carry out a landing operation against Incheon? With insufficient troops and most of the planes being redeployed, do we want our soldiers to fight their naval guns with rifles? Yu Caojiao's different attitude is his deputy Tozuka Keno, in fact, he has been reminding Caojiao to pay attention to the situation on the other side of the sea, but his opinion has not been taken seriously by Caojiao.

Most of the Japanese officers stationed in Korea were the kind of people who were not treated well by their superiors, and Cao Jie was a guy who wanted to climb up, so he naturally refused to pay attention to Takeo Torizuka's opinion, and after some arguments, Cao Jie still decided to send troops and planes to support Seoul. He didn't worry much about the enemy who had landed in the air, there was a Japanese infantry wing stationed on the outskirts of Seoul, and there were no less than two Korean divisions, and he just wanted to leave a deep impression on the Minister of Defense and find an opportunity for himself to climb up.

"Guys, it's time for us to play and give those Japanese monkeys some awesomeness." At 5 o'clock in the morning, just after dark, the group of US bombers that took off from the deck of the fleet carried out a "carpet bombing" of Inchon under the cover of fighter planes. At the same time, the Seventh Fleet, which suddenly broke through the fog and appeared off the coast of Incheon, began to approach the waters off Incheon, and carried out targeted gunfire clearances in the pre-divided area.

The bombarded battleship's sub-turrets fired a spectacular time-lapse shot, the battleship's huge guns were fired with a sound wave visible to the naked eye, and the thundering soldiers standing on the deck of the landing ship were dumbfounded, and the cruisers, fire support ships, and tank landing ships were even more obscured by the multi-mounted four-millimeter rockets, and groups of bright spots rushed straight to Incheon Port. The explosion turned the port of Incheon into an artificial volcano, and as the ground shook more and more violently, it seemed as if the entire port would sink at any moment.

No one in front of him will doubt whether this battle can be won, and more Thunder soldiers are afraid that this time they will run in vain, the battle is estimated to be enough to choke and fight, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to run for the little devil to clean up the greasy work of stumps, broken arms and meat mud. If the war continues like this, I am afraid that before they can land at Incheon, the Japanese troops deployed in the port will be wiped out by naval guns and aircraft, and they can only clean up the battlefield.

The US bombers that had been diving and circling from time to time to drop bombs had just withdrawn, and the Thunder bomber group that had dived down from a high altitude had also arrived. More than 30 new high-efficiency incendiary bombs turned the periphery of Incheon Port into a sea of fire, with the wind, the flames rising high began to spread to the port, the Japanese army who was lucky enough to escape the naval artillery bombardment was not happy now, not to mention the fire, even the smoke inhaled is fatal, the only thing they can do now is to find a way out and feel like fleeing for their lives, otherwise when the fire spreads into the port, the fate of these people can only be burned to charred corpses.

The Japanese airfield at Incheon was the first to be hit, with fewer than 20 fighters rushing into the air from the two airfields, and they were besieged by more than 80 American fighters. The battle came too suddenly, so that the adjutant woke up again did not wake up for a long time, the loud explosion reminded the grass mustard that this was not a joke, through the window you could see the fire and smoke rising in the direction of the port, the angry grass mustard had to gather all the troops in his hands to resist, and at the same time call the surrounding Japanese troops to come to the rescue.

The front line was tight, and the Japanese army in Nanyang had already transferred elite pilots from Korea, and most of the pilots who remained in Korea were novice Japanese pilots who had only received a few months of training. In the face of the absolute superiority of the US military's air power, Incheon's last air force, the remaining 20 or so fighters, could only be destroyed by US fighters under the watchful eyes of the ground forces. Not satisfied with such a battle, the US fighter group, which had already controlled air supremacy, simply turned its target to those ground anti-aircraft fire points that were still stubbornly resisting, and swept through those anti-aircraft positions like a chain of bullets and fires spewed out from machine guns, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese air defense units.

The order to start the landing was issued half an hour after the naval artillery attack, and countless landing craft and armored vehicles were crowded in front of the beach like ants, and the American GIs were driving these big guys to load and unload supplies and personnel, and the beach was full of noise, mixed with the roar of armored vehicle engines, which completely muffled the sound of Hailang. Looking at the fleet that could only be seen in front of him, Yan Wudao really understood the origin of his husband's consistent self-confidence at this moment, and even he himself believed that what was displayed in front of him at this time was an invincible force, and no one in heaven and earth could compete with it.