Chapter 633 The Target of the Anti-Japanese War in Songhu (2)

In one-on-one fighting, the Japanese Nakajima style could not catch up with or catch the unicorn of the Fourth Route Army, and if the unicorn let go of his hand and engaged in aerial combat with Nakajima, even if Nakajima was doubled, it might not be pleased.

Fortunately, the unicorn did not aim at Nakajima-style, and let Nakajima-style follow behind the ass in vain to hurry up, but just focused on the Japanese army's Type 13 naval attack, giving full play to the advantage of the long barrel cannon with long range and great power, no matter how far away, as long as the opponent is put into the scope, it is a long point shot.

For a time, a large group of Japanese ships were attacked by eight unicorns, and it was not lively, and the sky was full of Japanese 13-type ship attacks running around like headless flies.

The air battle lasted for more than an hour, and the time for the Japanese carrier-based planes to return finally arrived, and the Japanese Type 13 naval attackers, who were exhausted by the unicorns and the Junker fighters of the Central Army, fled in a swarm to the southwest as if they had been amnesty.

There were more than 30 Nakajima planes left, barely as many as Newburgh, Unicorn, Junkers, and Kesse, and after entangling for a while, they threw down two of their companions who were falling in smoke and fled to the southwest in a panic.

In this air battle, the Air Force Corps of the Fourth Route Army won a complete victory.

In the air battle, the Japanese Nakajima type was shot down eight and two were wounded, and the 13th type ship attack was shot down twelve and four were wounded. The Newburgh of the Fourth Route Army was shot down by the Japanese and four were wounded, three were wounded, one was lost by the Unicorn, and both were wounded.

Speaking of great victories, it is not only the 5:20 record of the Chinese Air Force, but the most important thing is that they successfully interfered with the bombing of the squadron by more than 100 carrier-based attack aircraft of the Japanese army, saving the ground forces from heavy losses.

The Japanese fleet fled, and the planes of the Fourth Route Army Air Corps did not chase after them, leaving only seven unicorns hovering high in the air, and the rest of Newburgh began to dive and strafe the Japanese on the ground.

Huang Yupei piloted its No. 007 Junkers plane, just under the Japanese 13th ship attack, and wanted to take its fleet to chase, it can be seen that the air force corps has begun to strafe the ground, knowing that the ground forces are in a tense situation, and thinking that the sea is not far ahead, the Central Air Force has never experienced sea training, and it is easy to get lost, and at that time, not only the plane will be damaged, but whether the personnel can come back or not will have to be left to fate. had to turn the fuselage hatefully and lead the remaining five Junkers of the Central Army to join the ground attack.

At this time, Atsuichiro Houto's 11th Division was surrounded by tens of thousands of troops of the 87th, 78th, and 187th Divisions and the Independent Brigade in a narrow area with Huating as the center and an area of only a dozen square kilometers.

However, the situation of the 88th Division, which was responsible for blocking the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, was not very good, and under Shirakawa's strict orders, Matsuki Mashiro launched a key attack on Tangjiazhai with the strength of a wing, and the attack on the scale of the brigade has been launched three times in a row, and even once broke through the two lines of defense of the 88th Division in front of Tang's house and approached the entrance of Tang's house.

forced Li Yannian to transfer Feng Shengfa's 523rd Regiment as a reserve in advance.

Feng Shengfa, the commander of the 523rd Regiment, was also a fierce general, he graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, and when he received a call from Li Yannian, he immediately personally led the troops to launch a counterattack.

At this time, the Japanese planes had just withdrawn, and more than a dozen Chinese planes had begun to dive down and begin to strafe the Japanese assault troops, which greatly increased the confidence of the officers and men of the 88th Division. The officers and men of the 523rd Regiment, who had high morale, under the leadership of Feng Shengfa, rushed back with bayonets and sapper shovels and re-sealed the gap.

Seeing that the success was lost, Matsuki was really angry and brainy, and was about to brave the strafing of the planes to organize the troops to charge again, when seven more bombers flew from the western sky. …,

These bombers were also Central Army planes that flew from the Qiao Driver Field in Hangzhou, and they were ordered to move to Changshu. At this time, when he saw a large group of his own planes strafing the Japanese position, he immediately flew over the battlefield excitedly.

These bombers came from both the Central Army and Guangzhou. These bombers have not come in handy since they came to Hangzhou, and at this time there are a large number of their own fighters in the air, and where there are any scruples, they immediately swarm up and start a fierce bombardment of the positions of the 14th Division.

Although the number of fighters is large, the machine gun from the air is not as powerful as the machine gun on the ground. The machine-gun strafing on the ground was in the form of a surface, while the strafing on the ground in the air was in the form of a line, and these fighters did not cause much damage to the Japanese troops, but more caused huge psychological pressure on the Japanese troops, and could also play a role in boosting their own morale.

The addition of these bombers is different, although the bombs they carry are all 50 kilograms of small bombs, but the number is relatively large, these American-made bombers, each aircraft has a bomb load of more than two tons, and the number of bombs carried is more than 40. Although the power of such a small bomb was not very great, it was enough to kill and injure the infantry, and the strings of bombs blew up the Japanese soldiers in a mess.

At this time, even if Matsuki Ryo wanted to carry out Shirakawa's orders, he couldn't organize troops at all, so he had no choice but to order the troops to cover and avoid air raids.

Li Yannian took advantage of this opportunity and ordered his troops to seize the time to strengthen the fortifications, and at the same time readjust the allocation of troops in various parts of the battle line to prepare for the subsequent attack of the Japanese army.

After more than 100 Japanese carrier-based attack planes and Nakajima-type fighters left the battlefield, they reorganized their formation in the air and then headed straight for the sea to the southwest.

At the meeting point agreed in advance between the aircraft group and the aircraft carrier, on the sea more than 100 kilometers southwest of Shanghai, the Japanese Nakajima-type fighters flew at a relatively high speed and flew in front, the Type 13 carrier-based attack aircraft group flew in a group some later, and several wounded Japanese planes followed the rear of the group crookedly with black smoke.

As soon as they came to the skies above the sea, the nerves of the Japanese pilots finally relaxed. In Shanghai this time, the planes of the Chinese Air Force had never flown out of the mainland, and the Japanese army knew very well that this was because the other side lacked experience in flying at sea, and if they wanted to catch up, it would be difficult for them to go back.

Moreover, the reason why the aircraft carrier stopped in the sea area more than 100 kilometers away from Shanghai was also carefully calculated. Even if the Chinese planes want to fly to the sea to attack the aircraft carrier, the planes of the Chinese Air Force after air battles will not have enough fuel, and this sea area is basically beyond their combat radius.

However, what the Japanese pilots never expected was that their every move did not escape the tracking of the Fourth Route Army Air Force Corps, and at this moment at an altitude of 14,000 meters, a pair of eyes were staring at them tightly.

A few kilometers behind the Japanese fleet, a large single-wing, three-engine aircraft painted in blue-gray was closely following them.

Fifteen kilometers later, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, there was a Junkers transport plane following behind.

The high-altitude plane has a very long wingspan, more than 30 meters, and it is a high-altitude reconnaissance plane codenamed Hawkeye developed by the Aviation Research Institute of the Fourth Route Army on the basis of the Junker-52 it purchased.

In order to be able to fly at high altitudes, except for the skeleton, which is made of metal, all other parts are made of wood as much as possible.

Eagle Eye uses a rare wooden structure - 'molded plastic synthetic wood structure'.

The 'Molded Plastic Synthetic Timber Structure' was first introduced by a small aircraft manufacturing company, the LWF Aircraft Company, in 1919 on the LWFV aircraft. LWFV aircraft, which are produced in small quantities, are only equipped with the Czech Air Force. In 1922, the American company Northrop also adopted this structure on the S-1 biplane. …,

This is a 21-foot-long mold made of concrete, then flakes of spruce wood are coated with cheese glue and placed alternately, then the lid of the mold is closed. At this time, compressed air is filled into the rubber airbag in the middle, and a piece of wood structure is formed after the cheese gum is cured, and the left and right wooden structures are aligned. In August 1922, the structure was granted a U.S. patent. Due to its low cost of production, the S-1 aircraft was called the 'poor man's biplane'.

On the basis of this structure, Eagle Eye improved the wood in the middle of the wooden glued structure to light wood, that is, the paulownia that grows in abundance in Henan. This further reduces the weight of the wooden structure and increases its strength. In addition to the two metal spars in the middle of the wing, the entire wing is composed of two integrally molded upper and lower flaps. The fuselage is made of two halves of wooden glued structure on the left and right to form a cylindrical load-bearing structure.

These weight reduction measures have been effective, and the maximum ceiling of the Eagle Eye has reached an astonishing 15,000 meters. Nowadays, it is rare in the world to fly to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and there are very few aircraft that can fly to more than 12,000 meters. This height is enough to ensure the safety of an unarmed eagle eye.

In the cabin, in addition to the pilot and observer sitting side by side in front of the nose, in the middle of the cabin, there is also a telegraph operator and a backup observer, as well as a high-power transmitter and a high-power voice communication device.

The transmitter can ensure that the information obtained by the Eagle Eye reconnaissance is transmitted back to the base in a timely manner. The voice communication device can maintain timely communication with the planes of the Fourth Route Army, which are equipped with voice communication devices.

At present, the transmission distance of the voice communication device of the Fourth Route Army Air Force is still very small, only 20 kilometers. In order to ensure effective communication between a large number of air groups, Song Zhewu suggested that Li Minghua, director of the Institute of Electronics, establish an air mobile communication relay station before the voice communication device is improved.

Song Zhewu's suggestion was vigorously praised by Li Minghua, and he immediately began to implement it, using the Junkers-52 transport plane, newly developed by the German Junkers Company, as a platform for the relay station. At present, the Air Force Corps of the Fourth Route Army can basically ensure the voice transmission of the Air Force Corps fleet when performing tasks through these mobile relay stations.

On the eagle eye, in the front of the nose, there is a large-caliber high-magnification observation mirror developed by the Optical Research Institute of the Fourth Route Army Research Institute, which can clearly observe the activities of objects the size of ground vehicles at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and even observe the activities of ground personnel when the line of sight is good.

Today's observer on the Eagle Eye is none other than Gao Zhihang, who made a temporary cameo.

Because of the arrival of Chen Haihua, chief of staff of the Northeast Army Air Force, Gao Zhihang had resigned from his post as chief of staff of the Air Force Corps before the Sino-Soviet War in North Mongolia and concentrated on serving as the commander of the fighter wing.

However, the planes that came to Shanghai to participate in the war this time included fighter planes, attack planes, and bombers, and it would be somewhat inconvenient for Gao Zhihang, the commander of the fighter wing, to take unified command of these planes. Therefore, before coming to Shanghai to participate in the war this time, Song Zhewu appointed Gao Zhihang as deputy chief of staff of the Air Force Corps.

The purpose of this operation commanded by Gao Zhihang was to strike at the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese Third Fleet, and in order to achieve this goal, Gao Zhihang even refused to bomb the troop carriers and escort fleets that the Japanese troops landed at the mouth of the Liuhe River.

Gao Zhihang believes that whether or not the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese army can be solved is the key to determining Shanghai's "1. The decisive battle of whether the "28th Anti-Japanese War" can be won, Gao Zhihang cannot sit and wait at the airport in Changshu with confidence, he must be there to command in person. For this reason, Gao Zhihang even resisted the urge to fly a plane to participate in air battles.

Looking down through the observation glass, the sea surface is sparkling with golden waves under the light of the newborn sun, and the scenery is very spectacular. …,

It's just that Gao Zhihang is not in the mood to enjoy this magnificent scenery at the moment, and he is engrossed in chasing the Japanese aircraft group. In the lens of his observation glass, the Japanese aircraft group is clearly displayed in the field of view against the background of the clear blue sea.

After observing for a while, Gao Zhihang raised his head, looked at the compass on the operating table, and compared it with the map around him, roughly estimated the distance he would fly over the sea, and then said to the operator behind him without looking back: "Order the fleet of aircraft at Changshu Airport to take off, and the target Japanese aircraft carrier must keep a distance of ten kilometers from Hawkeye before receiving the attack order." ”

The operator repeated loudly: "Yes, order the aircraft group at Changshu Airport to take off, and the target Japanese aircraft carrier must keep a distance of 10 kilometers from Hawkeye before receiving the attack order." Then, the operator skillfully pressed the electric button and quickly sent Gao Zhihang's order.

Gao Zhihang then ordered: "Turn on the navigation signal and guide the direction of the group." ”

The observer repeated aloud as he quickly pressed a button and began to send a guidance signal.

Gao Zhihang's current location is more than 200 kilometers away from Changshu, and it takes about an hour for the fleet to fly here.

When Gao Zhihang was an apprentice in the 23rd Destroyer Regiment of the French Army Air Corps in France, he saw the French aircraft carrier Béarne, which was about to be completed, and knew the process of the planes taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier. With more than 100 Japanese aircraft, it would take almost an hour to recover carrier-based aircraft on three aircraft carriers at the same time. In this way, the fleet of planes taking off from Changshu Airport arrived about 20 to 30 minutes in advance, thus achieving the effect of minimizing fuel consumption and leaving as much time as possible for attacking the aircraft carrier.

After giving the order, Gao Zhihang returned to the observation camera and continued to observe the movements of the Japanese aircraft group.

Ten minutes later, just when Gao Zhihang's eyes were a little sour, the outline of a warship suddenly appeared in the shot......

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