Chapter 1133: Aerial Duel
"Da Da Da!" Crimson tracer bullets shot out of the aviation machine gun and hit the U.S. military's 'Hurricane' fighter in front of it. The bullet pierced the cockpit of the fighter, and the American pilot inside was killed instantly. After losing control, the plane fell to the ground and was shattered in a violent explosion. If only the plane was damaged, the pilot inside could still parachute to escape, but the pilot was shot directly, it would be all over.
The 16 FB Haidongqing fighters of the Chinese Air Force rushed down from a high altitude, scattered the group of US Army Air Forces, and shot down four US fighters. Subsequently, the Chinese Air Force began to engage in a fierce air battle with the US military, and it should be said that the US troops were scattered and fled like rabbits. In the face of the F5 'Hai Dongqing, fighter of the Chinese Air Force, in the absence of numerical superiority, the US military simply cannot resist.
"Sir! The Chinese have an absolute advantage, and we are almost unable to hold on! "The officer of the American major used a walk-around to communicate with the airfield in the rear. Under the same number of conditions, the 'Hurricane,' fighter is not at all the FB of the Chinese Air Force' Hai Dongqing, the opponent of the fighter. Not to mention that now they are still at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.
"Hold on, Major. Reinforcements are coming! Our eighty fighters that took off urgently will be able to arrive in ten minutes at most! "The commander of the rear told Major Sù. It's just that ten minutes is enough time for the bombers of the Chinese Air Force to fly over the airfield
"The squadrons are ready. In five minutes, we will fly over the target and drop the bomb. The American fighters have already been driven away, we only need to pay attention to the anti-aircraft fire around the airfield. I repeat, keeping bombs dropped at an altitude of one and a half thousand meters, the 1 squadron bombed the airfield runway. The 2 squadron bombed the oil depot of the airfield. The 3 squadron bombed the ammunition depot at the airfield. After the bombing, we climbed immediately and we left from the heights, so that the fighters could continue to teach those American grandchildren a lesson! "The captain of the 52nd Bomber Group of the Air Force ordered to the forty HB' Hongyan bombers of the entire group. They carried out bombing missions, and as for the mission of the duel with the US Army Air Corps, naturally it was not their turn!
"Whew!" Mournful sirens rang out from the airfields of the US Army Air Corps and echoed in the air. The anti-aircraft positions deployed by the US military around the airport have long been in full position. After the discovery of the arrival of the Chinese Air Force in US airspace, the air defense forces were already in position. Anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were aimed at the southern sky around the airfield. It's just that because the planes of the US Army Air Force are divided into dozens of airfields, although this reduces the danger of being wiped out by the Chinese Air Force, it also increases the difficulty of air defense. After all, the US military only has so many air defense units, and in addition to stationing dozens of airfields, the US military also needs to deploy a large number of air defense units on the Rio Grande defense line. Otherwise, the Chinese Air Force dispatched bombers to bomb the US defense line, wouldn't the fortifications built by the US military be destroyed in one fell swoop?
"Da Da Da! Bang bang bang! "When forty HB' Hongyan bombers of the Chinese Air Force appeared from the south, the US air defense positions immediately began firing. Dense anti-aircraft machine gun bullets and anti-aircraft artillery shells flew into the sky. The russet tracer bullets almost formed a web of fire.
However, the danger to high-altitude aircraft is not great. The anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns of the US army, although the maximum fire height is much higher than 2,000 meters. However, the effective firing range is not very large, and basically at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the power of the bullets of the anti-aircraft machine gun is limited, and it basically cannot cause damage to the aircraft. And those anti-aircraft artillery shells, as long as they are not directly hit, will not cause serious damage. After all, the size of the bomber is also stronger than that of the fighter.
"Leave those anti-aircraft fires alone, drop to a height of 1,500 meters. Get ready to drop the bomb! "The captain of the 52nd Fighter Group gave the order.
Dozens of HB' Hongyan, fighters descended to a predetermined altitude to drop bombs in accordance with the tasks assigned previously, while the fighters who had escorted them before began to strike at the anti-aircraft fire of the US military. Faced with the 'Haidongqing', which was circling down and constantly firing bullets, the U.S. air defense positions targeted these fighters and not the bombers. After all, these fighters are the most threatening to these anti-aircraft fires than the bombers. And it is precisely this effect that the Chinese Air Force needs. After the US anti-aircraft fire was attracted by the fighters, the bombers were able to calmly drop bombs.
At 7:55 a.m., the first HB' Hongyan, bomber dropped bombs on shells at the US airfield. For every HB' Hongyan, the bomber wrote about 20 aerial bombs of 50 kg. Against the field airfield shells of the US army, this is already no problem at all. In the midst of a fire! The army's airfield shells were blown out of large craters with a diameter of two or three meters. When the rack HB
'Hongyan, after the bombers finished dropping their bombs, the two shells of the American army were already in tatters. If you want to take off and land planes again, it is simply impossible. However, it is estimated that there will be no need for planes to take off and land at this airfield, because in addition to the bombing of the shells at the airport, the bombing of the ammunition depot and oil depot of the US military by other HB' Hongyan fighters has also been completed. Thousands of tons of jet fuel stored in the oil depot next to Zài Airport were blown up and burned, causing an explosion, sending thick black smoke into the sky. After the ammunition depot was successfully detonated, a loud explosion was produced. This is also the US military's airfield ammunition depot, which is stocked with ammunition for anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, as well as ammunition for fighter jets and aviation machine guns. The U.S. military is not equipped with bombers, so naturally there are no aerial bombs. In addition, the remaining bombers, which had not yet had time to drop bombs, dropped their bombs on the dormitories of US pilots and ground crews, killing some pilots and ground crews who did not have time to evade. But even so, the airport is completely scrapped. If the U.S. military wants to reuse, it will have to not only fill in the craters on those runways, but also restockpile fuel and other supplies. However, the most critical point is that there are not many of the 20 fighter jets parked at this airfield under the strikes of the Chinese Air Force. It is also difficult to say whether the remaining fighters will be able to hold up to the end. There are no fighters, and naturally this airfield is useless.
In the process of dropping the bombs, only two of the 40 HB' Hongyan fighters were damaged, and the others were unharmed. And the fighters escorting the bombers were shot down by anti-aircraft fire around the airfield. But on the whole, such losses are not large and within acceptable limits.
After completing the mission, the bomber immediately began to climb, climbing to an altitude of three thousand meters before accelerating southward, trying to get out of the battle in the shortest possible time. And the bombers completed the task, but the task of the fighter group was just beginning. Just as the bombers were bombing the airfield of the American army, reinforcements from the US Army Air Corps had arrived. Eighty
The arrival of the Hurricane fighter gave the U.S. military an absolute numerical superiority in air combat. One fighter of the Chinese Air Force, which was originally chasing the US military, had to abandon its goal and prepare to join the main force of the group. They had shot down 11 U.S. fighter jets before, and the U.S. military was left with only a struggling support. Together with the four planes shot down at the beginning, the number of fighters shot down by the US military has risen to one in this air battle. And the Chinese Air Force paid the price of only two. Even with the fighter shot down during the bombing of the US airfield, the losses were one to five.
"Base, base! Reinforcements from the Americans are coming, there are hundreds of planes, and we need support! "Seeing this, the captain of the 71st Fighter Group of the Chinese Air Force immediately requested support from the airfield in the rear. Now he has only thirty-seven fighters, while the Americans have eighty-five. Although the US military has more than twice the advantage, after a really tragic air battle, these fighters of the US Air Force will not take advantage of it at all. Of course, even if the 71st Fighter Group of the Chinese Air Force wins in the end, it will only be a pyrrhic victory.
After learning that the main force of the US Army Air Force had appeared, Major General Hu Liming, commander of the 7th Fighter Wing of the Chinese Air Force, immediately ordered 80 fighters from the 72nd Fighter Group and the 73rd Fighter Group to rush to reinforcements. One of the main purposes of bombing US airfields is to attract the main force of the US Army Air Force to fight and then destroy them. Only in this way will the Chinese Air Force be able to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the US Army Air Force, thereby gaining air supremacy near the Rio Grande.
Only then can the bombers of the Air Force be able to bomb the US defense line with impunity, and then they will be able to cover the Army's forced crossing of the Rio Grande and launch an attack on the US defense line.
Major General Hu Liming told the 71st Brigade that they only needed to hold out for half an hour before reinforcements arrived. In addition, Major General Hu Liming also contacted the commanders of the other three wings. The fighter brigades of the other three wings are also ready. If they needed help, their fighters were to rush to the airfield near Nuevo Laredo to support the 1st Fighter Wing.
When the two groups of the 7th Fighter Wing, 80 fighters, crossed the Rio Grande once again and entered the US airspace, Lieutenant General Kevinson, commander of the US Army Air Corps, panicked and hurriedly contacted other airfields and immediately ordered some fighters to be dispatched to reinforce the Laredo direction!