Chapter 45: Incendiary bombs
The sharp air raid sirens sounded again, and the Japanese soldiers who had just served their lunch boxes scattered in all directions, ignoring the food that had already been put in their mouths, and ran out of the empty camp one by one like rabbits. As in the previous cases, it was the fighter planes that swooped down from the clouds, and the bombers that the Japanese had been worried about at the airfield did not appear, and the bullets fired from the large-caliber machine guns of "Da Da" smashed several rows of wooden barracks, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were extremely unlucky fell in a pool of blood, and they were hit by the machine guns and almost none of them could continue to breathe.
Four P40 fighters circled back and forth over the airfield, which had been devastated by yesterday's explosion, and the barracks that had survived the explosion had been flattened by bullets fired from fighter guns. Several barrels of fuel piled up on the side of the runway exploded after being hit by a machine gun, and the splashed fuel burned into a piece on the runway.
The fighter jets were gone, the air raid sirens had finally stopped, and looking at the black smoke burning everywhere in the airfield, Takahashi Ken, who had just taken over Noyama's position, couldn't help but feel bitter. It's lunch time, starting from dawn, this is already the fourth wave of air raids, what the hell are the people of Zhina, saying that the air raids are actually sent by fighter planes, is it possible that the people of China want to use fighter jets to force the Imperial Japanese Army to abandon Yuncheng Airport? Takahashi's brain is much better than Noyama's, he has already thought of the crux of the problem, the people of China do not hesitate to use fighter jets to suppress the Yuncheng Airport, which currently does not have a single fighter, isn't it just to force them to be unable to repair here.
The air raid siren sounded again, less than 20 minutes after the four fighters that had just left, and the air raid siren sounded again at the Yuncheng airport, this time it was still four P40 fighters, and the Japanese soldiers who had not yet made their butts hot began to rush to the outside of the camp again. There are also those grumpy guys who are scolding at the sky, but what's the use, the fighters have already begun to dive towards the airfield, if they stay in place, they will definitely become a pile of rotten meat scattered on the ground, I really don't know where the people got so many P40 fighters.
"Da Da" Hansen fired the last string of bullets at a truck parked in the airport, and began to pull up the nose of the plane with the handle, "Black One calls Black No. 2, Black No. 1 calls Black No. 3, Black No. 1 calls Black No. 4, mission completed, ready to return, repeat, return home as soon as the mission is completed" Before leaving, Hansen glanced at the airport with black smoke below from the window, tilted the corners of his mouth to reveal a disdainful smile, and roared away with his own group of fighters.
After receiving Tang Lei's telegram yesterday morning, Zhao Zhi was also thinking about Tang Lei's fact that they didn't have time to blow up the runway of Yuncheng Airport, Tang Lei and they suffered more than half of the casualties, and they no longer had the strength to attack the airport again. Then send a small team from Zhangwu County to support, it is too late in time, although Yuncheng and Zhangwu County are not very close, but that is talking about the distance by land, it will not take long for Japanese fighters to take off from Yuncheng Airport to come to Zhangwu County, Zhao Zhi does not want Qinglongping Airport to pull a camouflage net all day long to pretend to be wasteland.
Hansen's flying team was the first batch of fighters who had just arrived from Xi'an Airport, and for three days, they could only watch the sky nest on the airport runway to wipe their fighters, because Zhao Zhi did not allow them to drive the fighters out without permission, and before the Qinglongping Airport was fully put into use, Zhao Zhi did not want to be remembered by the Japanese air force. Hansen, who was anxious to soar in the blue sky, didn't need Zhao Zhi to say much at all, so he promised his flight team that he would continue to suppress and harass Yuncheng Airport, anyway, Zhao Zhi had enough fuel and ammunition in his hands, and Hansen didn't mind taking his pilots to Yuncheng for a walk.
In the piercing air raid siren, Takahashiken with a blue face stared at the P40 that swooped down in the air, this is already the eighth air raid today, it is only four o'clock in the afternoon, and it will be more than an hour before it gets dark, God knows if the fighter jets of the Chinese people will come to the airport to make trouble. "Inform all those engineers to go to the field to rest, and the work of repairing the runway will be done at night, and only a small number of guard sentries will be left in the airport, I don't believe that the fighters of the Chinese will also come here at night" In desperation, Takahashi Jian made a difficult decision, which was also the first order he gave after taking over the airport.
The engineering brigade that followed Gao Qiao Jian to Yuncheng Airport withdrew, and the guard sentries who stayed in the airport were all in danger, so they simply stayed until it was dark, and the P40 of the people did not appear, which made Gao Qiao Jian secretly relieved, and finally had an explanation to the above. All the facilities at the airport were destroyed, but the loss of the runway was not large, the materials needed to repair the runway had already been prepared, and those engineers only needed one night to restore the runway to a state where they could land fighters, and as long as there were fighters in the airport, the P40 of the people of China would definitely not be pleasing when they came again.
The generators rumbled non-stop, cobweb-like wires covered the runway, and the engineers who had slept all afternoon fought at night to repair the big potholes in the runway. Half of the concrete tower was destroyed by the attackers' artillery fire, but fortunately, the fighters transferred from elsewhere by the aviation unit landed during the day, even if there were no towers, so Takahashi Jian arranged for all the engineers to repair the runway.
"I'm tired, it's finally done" The last cart of cement slurry was also used up, and Yamaguchi Tanami, who was a construction worker, straightened up and rubbed his waist, the area he was responsible for had been completely repaired, the sky was white, and the airport runway had finally been repaired. The engineers didn't care about resting, dragging the burned black wood and grass ash on the runway, the runway is only now repaired, and it will take time to really use it, these things are just some camouflage, so that the P40 of the people of China will not find that the runway has been repaired by them.
Camouflage the restored airport runway, this has to be said to be a good way, Takahashi Ken himself thinks so, so he slept very well last night, he didn't even dream, and slept directly until the daylight. The air raid sirens sounded on time like an alarm clock, or the P40 fighter of the Chi Na people, Takahashi Ken showed a smile on his face, no matter how much fuel and ammunition you have, you wouldn't think that the runway full of messes has been repaired. Sure enough, the P40 in the air still swept with the cannon for a while as usual, and then pulled up the nose of the plane, and they didn't notice the catty on the runway at all.
"Stupid Shina man" Takahashi Ken stood in front of the window and looked at the departing P40, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice, but soon his face changed color, and the smile that succeeded in his plan turned into consternation. The four P40s turned their noses and left, but three big guys appeared in mid-air, "Oh my God, it's a bomber, the people sent a bomber" Takahashi Ken looked at the bomber that had begun to bomb the dive with some distraction, muttering to himself.
The bombing hatch in the belly of the bomber was opened, and the bombs dragging a sharp whistling sound fell towards the airfield, and a large cloud of smoke rose from the runway that the "boom" and "boom" engineers had worked hard to repair all night, and stones and cement slag were splashed in all directions, and the foot of Takahashijian, who was 100 meters away from the runway, shook and fell to the ground. Takahashi had seen the power of the 50-kilogram aerial bomb loaded by the Japanese bomber, and compared to the explosion just now, the 50-kilogram aerial bomb was simply a child, and the bomb dropped by the people of China just now was definitely more than 100 kilograms.
After more than a dozen explosions, the airport was full of devastation, and the runway of the airport that was repaired last night was full of huge craters, looking at the dilapidated airport and those Japanese soldiers who rolled the ground like gourds, Takahashi Jian wanted to cry without tears, such an airport is definitely not worth repairing again, and it seems that the plan of the aviation unit to transfer fighters to Yuncheng Airport is about to be aborted. "Here they go again, here they are, the bombers of the Shina people" A frightened soldier pointed to the sky and screamed in shock, and two bombers that had just dived down from the clouds appeared in Takahashi's sight.
Looking left and right, Takahashi Ken smiled bitterly and said to himself, "What else is there to fry here?" Are there enough bombs in China to make it possible to pay for it? The bomb compartment door in the belly of the bomber slowly opened, and four huge black cylinders were dropped in two batches, looking at the black cylinders that kept turning and falling in mid-air, Takahashi's heart was filled with a trace of malaise, in his memory, aerial bombs did not seem to look like this. At the moment when the bomb was about to land, Takahashi was lying on the ground with his elbows on the ground, lifting his chest and abdomen off the ground, covering his ears tightly with his hands and opening his mouth.
The first two black cylinders dropped by the bomber exploded when they hit the ground, but the shock that Takahashi Ken expected did not come, and the movement of this bomb when it exploded did not seem to be as good as the kind of bomb dropped in front of the Chinese man. "Boom" "Boom" The hot Lang mixed with the explosion slammed into the Japanese army that remained in the airport camp, and the flames as high as more than ten meters high swept the Yuncheng Airport like an overwhelming sweep, the flames were like extremely corrosive sulfuric acid, wherever the flames were affected, a long-lasting fire was ignited, and Takahashi Jian watched a piece of iron sheet be burned into molten iron before he finally lost consciousness.
Takahashi's hunch was right, it was indeed different from the aerial bombs he remembered. The black cylinders that explode on the ground are not ordinary bombs, they are new incendiary bombs that have just arrived at Qinglongping Airport from the United States, each weighing 300 kilograms, and the flames caused by the incendiary bombs are as high as 1500 degrees Celsius.