Chapter 517: The Great Killer - Cloud Burst Bomb
In the sky above the jungles of Southeast Asia, twenty-four giant spirits dragging huge bodies headed straight in the direction of Chiang Mai. In the past three days, they have already walked this route countless times, and even if they do not have a specific direction to discern, they will not get lost.
It's just that today's sky has become a little overcast, and from time to time there are loose raindrops hitting the glass mirror on the nose of the plane, leaving water stains one by one. However, with the rapid advancement of the plane, the sky in the distance was already empty.
As the squadron leader of the bombing squadron, Li Zhimin sighed with emotion: "Those old guys from the meteorological department are really not covered. ”
While still at the airfield, the squadron of bombers that had been loaded did not set off, because in the gloomy sky, rain was constantly falling. It was not a good day for liftoff, and they were waiting for a definite order.
The crews of all the bombers quickly packed up all the miscellaneous spare parts, and the crew members did not board the plane, but chose to rest next to the plane, which had the advantage of being able to board the plane quickly after receiving the order.
The rapid ringing of the phone made everyone turn their heads to look at the culprit who broke this tranquility, only to see that the person in charge of the tower did not wait for the phone to ring a second time before picking up the phone, and after Xun's identity was announced, a microphone sound made everyone prick up their ears.
"The forecast of the meteorological department is accurate, the weather is improving, and all the aircraft participating in the battle are entering the first level of preparation. The plane that carried out the bombing mission, immediately took off into the air!! ”
As soon as the order was issued, the tower began to get busy excitedly, and various orders were quickly issued, not only here at the tower, but also at the entire airport. Even other airports scattered around the country are also busy.
However, it was not other planes that took off first, but the squadron of Djinn bombers carrying special aerial bombs. With the rapid hustle and bustle of the crew, the plane lifted into the air.
"This kind of weather doesn't seem to be much better."
The co-pilot looked at the sky outside, and although the clouds were thinning and the sky was no longer so dark, it was still raining in the sky that the pilots hated.
"It should be fine later, after all, those who are engaged in meteorology are a bunch of old men, in this regard. People have been immersed in prostitution for decades, and if they can't say it accurately, the work ahead will be in vain. ”
Perhaps to verify Li Zhimin's words. The bomber squadron flew ten minutes before continuing. The sky has cleared here, and the pesky raindrops have not fallen again.
"Check the details of the goods to ensure that there are no surprises when delivered." It was not far from the target, and Li Zhimin did not forget to ask them to confirm the whole body of the bomb this time.
"The signal indicator is complete. Captain. No problem at all. The three lights flashed back and forth in turn. pylons, mother bomb fuses, explosive fuses. All three indicators are perfectly normal.
"Guys, just don't make a mistake, and get ready for a rare fire show later." Li Zhimin spoke again. There was excitement in his words, and it was obvious that he was quite looking forward to the next picture.
The footage returns to the ground, in the ruins of Chiang Mai, and the Japanese troops who are collecting reinforcement items on the ground can hear the humming of the sky getting closer and closer. Suddenly, in the entire city of Chiang Mai, all the Japanese soldiers put down what they were doing and rushed to the nearest passage to the underground bunker.
"Hurry up and hide in, the Chinese bombers are coming again, run!"
The image is like the instinctive reaction of a flock of rats seeing eagles foraging in the sky. A swarm of bees rushed towards the rat's nest, with a posture of fleeing from the road, for fear that if the pace was slow, it would be difficult to save their lives.
Seeing the figures running below, if it was before, the bomber pilots might have accelerated and dropped the bombs before these "rats" had even hid in the rat holes. But this time, the group of bombers in the sky still approached unhurriedly and slowly lowered their altitude. There is no hurry, and the little Japan on the ground are hiding in the tunnel and becoming the "rats" in the tunnel.
"When they arrived over the target, each plane pulled away and began to drop bombs according to the previously established position." Chiang Mai is already clearly visible below, and Li Zhimin did not forget to explain.
Soon, twenty-four bombers in the sky opened up in formation, and the distance between each aircraft was several fuselages, maintaining the same height, covering the city of Chiang Mai below under the fuselage.
"Bomb dropping."
With the release of the reputation of bomb dropping, all four magazines of each aircraft were opened, and all the huge aerial bombs inside were dropped at the same time. As the plane advanced, the dropped bombs lined up in a line, whizzing, and quickly falling towards the ground.
Twenty-four giant spirit gods dropped nearly 300 huge one-ton bombs from the bomb magazine. The dense aerial bombs instantly seemed to cover the entire Chiang Mai sky.
However, these flying bombs did not explode after landing. Instead, it exploded in the sky four or five hundred meters above the ground, and in a crisp explosion, four more small bombs with parachutes flew out of the belly of each bomb. The bomb resembled a cylindrical beer keg, with a long iron rod sticking out from underneath, tied to a parachute, and fluttering downward.
Then, in a series of bomb explosions that were much quieter than usual, the earth was enveloped in clouds of white mist-like gas.
Before the Japanese troops on the ground who had been hiding in the tunnel could figure out what was going on, suddenly, thunder poured down, a great earthquake trembled, and suddenly, the city of Chiang Mai, the size of dozens of football fields, was on fire.
More than a thousand mushroom clouds suddenly burst out of Chiang Mai City, and the rising flames covered the whole of Chiang Mai without a single gap.
In the strong firelight, the flowers and trees around Chiang Mai withered and burned in an instant, and some jungle creatures such as greedy rats were killed by the sudden heat in an instant, even earthworms and rats hiding underground could not escape their fate.
The high temperature of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius in an instant, and it is still heating up rapidly, turning the entire Chiang Mai into a Jedi, even if it is hidden in a tunnel several meters underground, it is impossible to escape. As soon as the explosion sounded, the fire came out, and this place had become purgatory, even the steel would be melted, the wood would turn into charcoal in an instant, the sand and gravel and dust would be burned into powder by the high temperature, and the surface of the ruins would be on the ground. It dropped by dozens of centimeters in an instant.
This is one of the killer weapons in the Zhonghua No. 2 arsenal, cloud burst bombs, also known as air bombs, fuel air explosives, oil and gas bombs, etc. Its scientific name is "fuel air explosive bomb". A weapon of mass destruction that was banned by the United Nations in later generations, it is also known as a subnuclear bomb.
The explosion process of the cloudburst bomb is as follows: when the cloudburst bomb is dropped or launched into the air above the target, the mother bomb is detonated under the action of a special fuse, and the fuel in the missile body is evenly dispersed in the air, which is fully mixed with the air to form an aerosol in a suspended state, and gathers in the air above the target to form a cover, like a dense fog. When the aerosol reaches a certain concentration, the fuse detonates a second time in the air, and the entire fog mass explodes. A large amount of heat energy is released in an instant. A high-temperature and high-pressure fireball is formed, usually at a temperature of about 2500 °C, and rapidly expands at a speed of 2,000 to 2,500 meters per second to achieve the purpose of destroying the target.
There is no need for the huge seismic force produced by the explosion. Dense shrapnel is also not needed. Temperatures comparable to magma. Kills any living creature within the explosion. It is also accompanied by a huge impact, especially in an enclosed space, and its impact is more lethal than ordinary aerial bombs. Meantime. Cloudburst bombs have another effect, which is to burn oxygen.
The main charge of a cloudburst bomb is a cloudburst agent, also known as fuel-air explosive. Cloudburst is not an explosive, but a high-energy fuel. Under certain detonation conditions, the cloud burst agent is thrown away, mixed with the air and violently explodes, which is called cloud detonation. Because the detonation time is dozens of times longer than that of ordinary bombs, and the invasion time of high temperature and high pressure to the target is also dozens of times, the destructive effect is much greater than that of ordinary bombs. Because the cloud detonation will consume the surrounding oxygen, the explosion site is generally seriously hypoxic within four minutes, which has a suffocating effect on humans and animals.
Even if the humans and animals in the explosion were not roasted to death by the heat, they would have died of suffocation because the oxygen was burned out.
Of the nearly 300 aerial bombs, more than 1,000 cloudburst bombs were separated, and the weight of these cloudburst bombs was about 250 attacks. The huge destructive capacity of one such cloudburst bomb is comparable to that of a heavy aerial bomb of more than one ton.
A one-kilogram cloudburst projectile is three to eight times more lethal than an ordinary one-kilogram artillery shell. One kilogram of cloudburst is equivalent to three to eight kilograms of TNT-equivalent explosives.
This time, in order to cover the entire city of Chiang Mai, China actually did not use all its force, and these cloud burst bombs were all small guys in the cloud burst bomb arsenal, all of which were more than 200 kilograms of cloud burst bombs. The cloudburst bombs that are truly known as subnuclear weapons should be those that weigh more than one ton. The lethality ranges from a radius of 200 to 500 meters, and everything will turn into coke at this range.
At this moment in Chiang Mai City, although China did not use the powerful large-scale cloud burst bombs, the power of more than 1,000 lightweight cloud burst bombs was also extremely terrifying. After reasonable calculations, the cloud burst bombs dropped by the bombers also just covered the whole of Chiang Mai.
The intense fire made the figure of Chiang Mai City completely disappear in front of everyone's eyes, leaving only a huge sea of fire. There is a myth depicted in the Flaming Mountain, where the sea of fire envelops everything and cannot be approached by humans and animals.
"It's so beautiful, this is his attack, there has never been a mission in my life that is as cool as today." Seeing the dense mushroom cloud rising below, and feeling a blazing heat coming from the ground, Li Zhimin couldn't help but scream.
Twenty-four bombers hovered in the distant sky of smoke and flames, and the crews of the bombers all took out their cameras, leaving a beautiful picture of this moment.
Then the twenty-four bombers left the place in turn, maybe they could imagine the feeling of the Japanese soldiers in Chiang Mai at this moment, but they would never appreciate the experience of the Japanese soldiers below at this moment.
Sakurai did not leave the underground command room, and the arrival of the Chinese bombers, he also received the news. It's just that as in the past three days, he just ordered the soldiers not to go out, and he didn't care about anything else.
Anyway, in the past few days, Chinese bombers have come many times a day, and for him, all this has become numb. Air defense positions have long been destroyed, Japan's own fighter jets are huddled in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and there will be no aviation to support Chiang Mai. The bombing could only be left to China to bomb, and he was helpless against it.
However, he did not know that this time China had brought a powerful weapon to bury him.
Even in later generations, the cloudburst bomb did not appear in World War II, but the cluster bomb was used by Germany in World War II, but on a small scale.
Chen Shao has brought a lot of butterfly effects. Cloudburst bombs are one of them.
Sakurai's fate was not bad, and he was the first Japanese general in Japan to enjoy a cloud burst bomb. Of course, if you let him know in advance and let him choose, he will never hesitate, even if a deserter is executed, he will definitely stay away from here.
The dull sound of the explosion stunned all the Japanese soldiers who were ready to meet the earth-shattering noise, even Sakurai was no exception. At this time in the past, it was already exploding outside. It's deafening.
Sakurai was a little puzzled. Today's situation is completely different, not to mention the explosions that seem to burst the eardrums, and even the ground does not shake in the slightest.
But then after the dull explosion. The ground began to shake violently. There was a violent tremor. Sakurai couldn't help but cover his chest. He felt as if his internal organs were about to be shattered, and it was like a thousand boulders pressed against his heart, all of which made him feel like he was facing death. The root of the tooth is clenched. There was a slight streak of blood.
The destructive effect of the cloudburst bomb on the target mainly depends on the overpressure and temperature field effects generated by the detonation, as well as the scouring effect of the high-temperature and high-pressure detonation products. Cloudburst agents release much higher energy than explosives of equal mass, and the blast wave generated can damage large areas of military objectives. The detonation wave is reflected and superimposed between the walls, and the overpressure value is much higher than that of the open space, so the lethal effect of the cloudburst bomb is greater in the confined space.
Staying in an underground bunker may be able to dodge the shock wave of an ordinary bomb explosion, as well as the sputtered shrapnel. But these things are useless against the cloudburst bomb at all, and the ultra-high atmospheric pressure generated by the explosion of the cloudburst bomb can make people with weak heart ability die instantly. Even a very healthy person will receive a very severe impact on the internal organs, and internal bleeding is very normal.
The Chinese Cloud Burst Bomb is not very advanced, because there are two steps that must be passed through to fully detonate the Cloud Burst Bomb. Cloud explosives in the process of detonation, divided into 2 explosions. The first detonation is used to disperse the fuel contained in the container, mixing it with the air to form an aerosol cloud, and the second detonation is used to detonate the cloud to form a blast effect. And the huge impact pressure officially comes from the effect of the explosion.
Although the maximum detonation overpressure value of the detonation wave generated by the cloud burst bomb is lower than that of ordinary explosives, because its detonation reaction time (including deflagration reaction time) is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary explosives, and the continuous action time is long, the destructive effect of the shock wave is much greater than that of ordinary explosives, and its area of action is also larger.
At this moment, not only Sakurai Shozo, but also the other Japanese soldiers, as well as the members of the headquarters in the 14th Front Army Headquarters, were all covering their chests. Many Japanese soldiers with weak heart ability fell to the ground with blood congestion and were crushed to death by high pressure in the shock wave.
Early death can be said to be unfortunate or lucky. It was a little bad luck to die earlier, but those Japanese soldiers who did not die under pressure were the real sorrow. Because they will die even worse.
After the explosion, the temperature was rising rapidly, and after two minutes, the Japanese soldiers who had covered their chests were no longer so uncomfortable. But at the same time, they also feel a kind of scorching heat of being grilled. The temperature comes to the surface. Immediately afterwards, many Japanese soldiers gradually felt that it became more and more difficult to breathe.
It was hot, scorching, and many Japanese soldiers already felt as if they were being roasted in a fire. In the thin air in the underground bunker, there was a smell of barbecue.
Hot and sweaty? Many Japanese soldiers felt a burst of heat all over their bodies, and water droplets kept overflowing from their bodies.
Is this Khan? No, what was left before was sweat, so what is now? Raise your hand to touch it, it's greasy. I saw that my hands were red, and there were constant droplets of water coming out, and they made a squeaking sound.
Only then did many Japanese soldiers realize that this was a drop of oil, not some droplets, and that it was a drop of oil that came out of them.
"Ahh Yes! The fear came quickly, and the Japanese soldiers screamed in surprise. But their voices grew quieter and quieter, and at last only a murmur remained. The oxygen had begun to wear off, and their cries of fear had gradually dissipated in the tunnel.
The same is true of Sakurai Shozo, the entire headquarters is full of the smell of barbecue, and the electronic instruments inside have been destroyed in the heat, and the people are almost at the last moment.
On the surface, the thick flames have not yet dissipated, and the heat causes the material on the surface to condense and crystallize. In the underground tunnels, all the Japanese soldiers were already lying in the dense tunnel network under Chiang Mai City. The smell of barbecue keeps coming out.
When the cloudburst bomb began to explode until now. It was already five minutes later. The tunnel was already filled with the smell of burning, and the Japanese soldiers lying inside could not see their original appearance, and all of them turned into a dried corpse with a burnt smell.
The heat evaporated all the water, leaving only a skinny skeleton.
After a week, let the temperature completely dissipate here. The Chinese army besieging Chiang Mai entered the city at this time, and Chiang Mai had become unusually quiet at this time. The majestic wind blew and rolled up fine soot.
All the soldiers waited in gas masks, because there was a disgusting smell from the place, and they went all the way. Sanitize along the way. After they opened the exit to the underground bunker. All the soldiers were shocked.
In front of the eye, there are layers of dry corpses, and the hideous faces can vaguely show the pain suffered before death. The bodies were intact and showed no signs of shrapnel. It's just that the mouth is wide open. In the most tragic situation were the soldiers who died in the hidden fortifications. They all scratched their throats before they died.
Three full days of busyness. In these tunnels, nearly 70,000 dried corpses were found, and these were all the remaining members of the 14th Front Army of the Japanese Southeast Asian Dispatch Army. There are also Japanese expatriates hiding inside.
The cruelty of war is once again reflected in front of everyone's eyes. Even the Chinese soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles and waded through the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, some of them couldn't stand the scene in front of them, and vomited the food and stomach acid they had just eaten in their gas masks.
In the ruins of Chiang Mai, a fire broke out again, and more than 70,000 dried corpses were doused with gasoline, and the fire turned them all into ashes scattered in the wind.
For a week at the foot of the hill in Singapore, he seemed to forget about Chiang Mai's 14th Front, and he focused on the defense of Kuala Lumpur. However, when the news of Chiang Mai's occupation by Chinese troops came, he only responded with a helpless sigh.
Because at the moment, Kuala Lumpur is also precarious.
Although China has taken into account Kuala Lumpur, there are still many civilians who have not used such things as cloud burst bombs. But the strong firepower, from the beginning of the offensive, brought tremendous defensive pressure to the Japanese army.
Yes, in a week's time, the Chinese Army, with the cooperation of the powerful air and sea, crossed from Chiang Mai and headed straight for the Malay Peninsula. Under the powerful blows of the Chinese Navy's air force and warships, as well as land-based fighters, Yamashita had no choice but to order the troops to begin to retreat.
Because he no longer dared to disperse his troops and defend them, he became a victim of the advance of the Chinese army. On the Malay Peninsula, in addition to Singapore, which is known as the first fortress in the South China Sea, only the big city of Kuala Lumpur has strong enough defense power to resist China's strong offensive capabilities.
In the sky, there are fighter planes raging at every moment. Here, the Zero fighters and Gale fighters of the Japanese Army Air Force were constantly attacking the incoming aircraft group of China, and the two sides were engaged in air battles every moment. The Japanese Army Air Force, which had the initial ability to fight at night, did not stop even at night, and the two sides engaged in a desperate battle over Kuala Lumpur.
Relying on the advantage of the nearest airport, while the Chinese fighters are running long distances, the Chinese side does not occupy much advantage in the air battle between the two sides. Moreover, the Japanese side also placed the airport outside a hidden cave, where all the fighters were parked, and most of the flight runway was also in the cave. This is also what makes the Chinese Air Force a little helpless, because it has become impossible for the Air Force to destroy Japanese airfields.
However, the intertwined air battles between the two sides did not affect the fighting on the ground. It's just that neither side can use fighter planes to influence the war on the ground. However, China's high-altitude bombers came and went freely, and even if the Japanese fighters were not entangled by the Chinese fighters, they would not be able to deal with the Chinese bombers at an altitude of 13,000 meters.
After two consecutive days of attacking, Kuala Lumpur's outer defensive line has been breached, and the city wall has also collapsed in the Chinese attack. The Chinese armored troops also began to swagger into Kuala Lumpur, and the street fighting came quickly.
However, at this moment, in the command center of the Ministry of National Defense in Hanjing, a major event occurred that shook the government and the opposition. When Chen Shao, who was in confinement, learned about it, he was even more furious and furious. (To be continued......)