Chapter 178: Crazy Stuka
The sky has just brightened, the hour hand has pointed to half past seven, but at this time the air is full of dark clouds, the visibility above is also very limited, the gloomy sky is like people's mood is as low, especially for the people in Jinxi City, Su Dao has issued a notice, because the thief is not dead, trying to attack Jinxi again, Su Dao asked the people of the city to make all preparations for defense against the enemy, Jinxi City entered a wartime control state, every day from eight o'clock in the evening to seven o'clock the next day to prohibit going out, If you are okay during the day, you should stay at home as much as possible to avoid being injured by stray bullets.
The coming of the war was like a huge blow to the people in Jinxi, who had just lived a happy life for less than two months, and hundreds of people could only follow Su Dao's orders and reduce the time they spent going out as much as possible. Looking at the situation in the air, there is a heavy snowfall, and snow in the Northeast seems to have become a common thing since December, and most of the people here have summed up some experience, and they will judge the size of the snow according to the changes in the weather.
Unfortunately, looking at the current trend in the sky, this snow is definitely not small.
Jinxi Air Force Airport,
The ground crew is carrying out the final inspection work before take-off, the upcoming university seems to be a test for them, and it is also a great challenge for the take-off and landing of fighters, and the pilots without any experience, even they themselves do not know what the success rate of take-off and landing in the snow is.
As soon as they got up in the morning, the air force pilots received a new mission, the target was the mountainous area in the northeast corner of Lingyuan, where the air force was going to complete the bombing by nine o'clock in the morning, and looking at the increasingly dense dark clouds in the sky, the weather seemed not suitable for flying.
One after another fighter planes took off from the airfield, at this time the airfield has long changed its original appearance, for fighters with low take-off and landing requirements, the engineering unit has repaired a large open space next to it, where air force fighters can take off, and the original runway is used for bomber takeoff.
In less than 20 minutes, 90 B24 bombers, 30 Stuka dive bombers, and 40 BF109E3 fighters completed the formation in the air.
Five BF109E3 fighters and three Stuka bombers formed an advance detachment, and the first step was to reconnoiter the target, which they had already reconnoitred several times, but the ground forces still found the shadow of the enemy there, which made the air force pilots feel that they had lost face.
This is not only a matter of disgrace to the Air Force, but also indicates that the Air Force's intelligence is inaccurate, if it is said that a small group of troops of the Kwantung Army of hundreds or one or two thousand people can escape aerial reconnaissance, but this is a whole division, and more than 20,000 troops can escape the detection of the Air Force, which seems to be enough to show that the Air Force is wasting resources.
In less than half an hour, eight pilots full of anger flew over the target, and as they had previously scouted, they did not find any shadow of the enemy, and the eight fighters circled in the sky for two full circles and still did not find anything.
"Captain, I still haven't found out." When the second round of reconnaissance was over, one of the pilots said to his captain as if deflated.
"Peng Yongchang, do you see the path in the direction of three o'clock? Fly a little lower to take a look, and notice the traces of the army passing by on the road. While Li Fei had a headache, he suddenly remembered that the ground troops said that they had discovered that the division had entered here through the traces on the road, and Li Fei immediately ordered.
"Understood!" Peng Yongchang responded, and then pulled the longitudinal rod, the fighter instantly changed direction, and directly approached the ground quickly in a low-angle dive, due to the relationship between the mountain, Peng Yongchang could not fly the fighter too low, and could only maintain the same height as the top of the mountain, so the distance between him and the ground was still one or two hundred meters, and it was a fool's dream to see the footprints on the surface clearly.
When Peng Yongchang flew forward for about a minute and still didn't find the target, and was about to risk lowering the height of the fighter again, he suddenly saw something, a defensive position hidden in the concave part of the mountain, Peng Yongchang had even seen something similar to a heavy machine gun, but because the distance was too far, there was no way to confirm it, but the fortifications composed of sandbags were enough to prove the existence of enemy troops here.
"Captain, when I found the enemy fortifications, the little devils were really hidden, if it weren't for my sharp eyes, maybe they would have been able to dodge." Peng Yongchang reported while piloting the fighter plane towards the target he found, and when he was about to reach the target, Peng Yongchang did not hesitate to drop one of the two 50kg bombs he carried under the wings.
'Boom! ’
With a violent explosion, the bomb did not directly hit the fortifications, because the fortifications were set up enough to be concealed, and the cover of the mountain, it was still difficult to hit directly. Although this bombing did not directly blow up the fortifications, it also blew up the little devils hidden inside, which made Peng Yongchang more sure of the news of the enemy army here.
"Captain, I see the little devil." Peng Yongchang hurriedly reported the situation to Li Fei, the captain of the team a few kilometers away.
"You can come back, save some bombs first, and let the brethren in Stuka's squadron play first." Li Fei ordered evilly, and an even more evil expression appeared on his face at the same time.
The communication between the combat squadron and the Stuka squadron is not in the same channel, which is mainly to prevent radio chaos, and under normal circumstances, the radio communication between the squadrons or squads is maintained, of course, there is also the overall communication, which depends on the specific situation.
Just like this mission, Su Dao ordered that all the air force communications be set up in one channel, and the fighters that took off later were forbidden to use radio indiscriminately and closely observe the battlefield situation. And what Peng Yongchang said just now was heard not only by the seven comrades-in-arms not far from him, but also by the fighters and the Stuka squadron and bomber squadron that were flying towards this direction in the rear.
Under the will, the three Stuka quickly began to pull the fighters upward, and the five or six hundred meters they are now at an altitude of five or six hundred meters are not enough for them to use for diving, under normal circumstances, they will first fly the fighters to an altitude of more than four or five thousand meters, and then dive at a large angle, because at an altitude of about one thousand meters, they must pull the fighters up, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable, as for the JU87B1 fighters equipped by the Stuka squadron, they can only carry 500kg of bombs at most, and after modification, It is possible to carry one 500kg bomb, or one 250kg bomb, with four 50kg bombs under the wings. Of course, the exception is overload short-range bombing.
Obviously, the three Stuka dive bombers of the advance team this time carried a 250kg bomb and four 50kg aerial bombs, and their purpose was only to find out the enemy's position, and the specific bombing tasks were completed by the bomber formations and the Stuka squadron behind.
When a Stuka dive bomber flew to an altitude of nearly 6,000 meters, it suddenly made a U-turn, and the fighter plane slammed into the ground in a basically vertical state, fixing the whistle installed on the landing gear and the unique sound made by the shape of the Stuka fighter against the air.
This is definitely a terrifying existence, when Li Fei and the others heard this sound, they shivered for the first time, fortunately the Stuka dive bomber was on their side, if it was the little devil's side, it is estimated that the army brothers would be scared to death even if they were scared.
Li Fei's guess is not wrong, Stuka is indeed used to frighten, in addition to being able to effectively bomb the enemy, there have been many examples in history, when the German Stuka bombers finished throwing bombs and used up all the bullets in the machine guns, they did not choose to return to the airport for replenishment, but again and again pulled the fighters up, and then dived down, which made that characteristic sound, which scared the French army to abandon their positions and retreat.
'Ming! Toll! Toll! Toll! ’
A sharp and strange scream came from the air, and everyone here basically didn't hear the sound of Stuka dive bombers, even Li Fei and the others were no exception, until this moment they knew how powerful Stuka was, and the Kwantung Army soldiers below couldn't bear to show their heads to watch the situation in the air.
The sound sent chills down their backs, and they felt a sense of fear all over their bodies, and they couldn't stop the strong temptation in their hearts, so they could only show their heads in twos and threes to try to see what was going on outside.
It turns out that it is not good to be too curious, the JU87B1 Stuka is not able to carry out 90-degree vertical bombing, and the exposed heads of the group of Kwantung Army soldiers on the ground also guide the Stuka pilots to the correct target, and slightly adjust the angle during the dive, and rush directly to the Kwantung Army with basically invisible changes.
Immediately after that, a bombshell directly broke away from Stuka, and at this time, Stuka also directly changed the posture of the fighter, and after dropping the bomb, he was not interested in checking whether it hit, and directly pulled the fighter up to plan to do it again.
'Boom! ’
The sound of a huge explosion resounded throughout the valley, and due to the curiosity of the Kwantung Army soldiers, and the large number of Kwantung Army people crowded into such a small valley, the effect of this bomb was surprisingly ideal. What had just been dropped was a 250kg aerial bomb, and this bomb did not seem to have forgotten its mission, and at the same time as it exploded, it also took the lives of more than 20 soldiers of the Kwantung Army.
And the next time the three fighters in the air let out such a terrifying scream, no Kwantung Army soldier dared to show his head, but only listened to the distance of the sound to judge the distance of the bomb from himself. The bombs dropped in the air seem to be easy to dodge, but they are actually the most difficult to dodge. Because you can't see exactly where the bomb will fall on the ground, it seems that you are near its landing point, run, maybe if you are not careful, you will run directly to the center of the bomb landing point, so lying down is the only effective way to save yourself, of course, this requires luck. (To be continued.) )