Chapter 436: Burning Lorraine
Although the situation was very unfavorable, the Allied pilots still gritted their teeth and insisted that although the air force of the Chinese Empire had advanced fighters, they were many in number, and they could not win quickly.
The air battle continued, while the Allied fighters were gathering more and more, and the Chinese air force soon felt the pressure. Because the planes were inferior to the people, the Allied pilots adopted the tactics of crowds, and a large number of fighters gathered here to fight with the fighters of the Chinese Empire.
If there are too many planes in the same airspace, the flexibility of the advanced fighters will be greatly reduced, and the fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force will also have to be cautious in the midst of the dense enemy planes, because the slightest negligence on their part may cause an aircraft collision. Losing its flexibility, the Golden Eagle 2 fighter of the Chinese Imperial Air Force finally began to show battle damage, and what Fang Xiaoyu was most worried about still happened.
After another half hour of fighting, the Chinese Imperial Air Force had lost more than 40 planes, more than a third of which were crashed and fell due to collisions with the opposing side. Compared to the Golden Eagle 2, the slower Allied fighters were safer and less prone to accidents.
Seeing this situation, Gao Zhihong, the wing commander in charge of the air combat command, knew that he could not delay any longer, and he immediately ordered all the Golden Eagle 2 fighters to return home. Taking advantage of the higher speed, the pilots of the Imperial Chinese Air Force quickly broke out of the airspace of the engagement and flew towards their own airfields, while the Allied pilots behind did not dare to pursue and returned.
In this air battle, although the Chinese Empire withdrew on its own, not a single Allied pilot believed that they had won, and compared to the loss of 40 aircraft of the Chinese Empire, the Allied lost more than 200 fighters.
The fact that the Entente had won such a large victory by the other side even though the number of planes exceeded that of the other side was even more shocking than the last time when the two sides were almost equal in numbers in the southern subcontinent.
Since then, the Allied air force has changed color when talking about the Chinese air force, and as long as they hear that it is the Chinese air force operation, the Allied pilots are not enough to take to the skies to fight.
The Allied air force leaders did not expect such an outcome in advance, and it was not until the returning pilots returned to describe it, and after the army handed over the captured Chinese air force pilots to the Allied air force, they learned that the Chinese air force had entered the western continental battlefield.
The panicked top brass of the air force immediately reported the situation to the top command, and when the senior generals urgently discussed countermeasures, they did not expect that the object of the air battle was not all of the opponent's aircraft group, and a large number of bombers were approaching.
Victory in air warfare could not bring any useful help to the ground war, bombers were the root of victory, and under the cover of forty Golden Eagle 2 fighters, the bomber group flew rapidly to the south.
After the news continued to be transmitted from the ground observation posts, the Allied high-level officials realized that the main purpose of the large number of planes sent by the other side today was to bomb, but the Nantes Imperial military quickly determined that the target of the Chinese Air Force was the capital La Défense. Therefore, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery positions in La Défense were immediately mobilized, and a large number of anti-aircraft guns raised their muzzles, waiting for the arrival of the opposing side.
As the capital of the Nantes Empire, La Défense is still very strong in air defense, and the Nantes military believes that it can teach the Chinese Air Force an unforgettable lesson here, find the field of defeat in the previous air battle, and let them know that the aircraft is not invincible, and the air defense artillery of the Entente is also not easy to provoke.
The mixed formation of the Chinese Air Force, as if it knew the intentions of the Nantes military, made a big bend a hundred kilometers from La Défense, and turned west.
Before the Nantes military could understand the intentions of the Chinese Air Force, a heavy aerial bomb had already landed in the most important industrial area of Lorraine in the Nantes Empire. As Fang Xiaoyu, who is very interested in history, the successful example of the United States using the strategic air force to attack Germany's industrial areas in World War II made him very fascinated, and now he barely has such an ability, so he naturally has to give it a try.
"Attention units, prepare to drop bombs." The lead commander gave the order first, and then he was the first to start lowering the altitude, and the bombardier pressed his eyes to the sight, watching the cross in the middle of the shot slowly approach the target, and the moment the crosshair latched on the target, his hand flipped the switch to activate the bomb bay.
The bomb bay under the belly of the Kunpeng 1 bomber, the leader of the team, slowly opened, and a string of small bombs rolled down the pulley of the bombardier, and with the help of inertial bombs, a long thin line was sprinkled in the air, and these small bombs, painted red warheads, hit the ground at a very fast speed, bursting into flames.
The bombs landed one after another, and a fiery red bright line gradually rose on the ground, it turned out that these red-headed bombs were not ordinary bombs, in order to increase the power of this bombing, the air force stationed in the western continent specially applied for a batch of the latest napalm bombs, and now in order to increase the effect of bombing the industrial area of Lorraine, they used this big killer that can be called more than white phosphorus incendiary bombs.
A bomber immediately behind the leader of the plane, dived from the other direction and dropped a string of incendiary bombs as well. The two strings of incendiary bombs landed cross-sectionally, burning a large fork on the ground. The bright fork seemed to point to the target of the bombing, and subsequent bombers used it as a landmark to drop the new incendiary bomb in the vicinity.
Napalm is the latest new type of incendiary bomb produced by the Chinese Empire, its burning duration is long, the viscosity is not easy to extinguish, once it is contaminated, it is difficult to remove, and even if it is splashed with water, it will not be extinguished, unless it is completely submerged with sand to isolate oxygen.
At this moment, the entire industrial area of Lorraine has been intensively bombarded with such incendiary bombs, and the factory area is full of wolf smoke. All the factories in the industrial zone are still in production, and when the incendiary bombs fall into the buildings, the flames ignite everything here.
Many workers rushed out of the factory with a wail of flames, and those who survived used everything they could to extinguish the fire, but they did not know the properties of napalm, and many of them could not fight the fire, and even because they were accidentally contaminated by the flames, these people soon became slowly burning humanoid torches, and the screams of the burned people were endless.
The entire industrial area of Lorraine suffered heavy losses, especially many of the military factories that produced flammable and explosive products, which were eroded by the flames, and the chain of explosions caused by the flames, leveling everything around them.
However, the explosions were not the most terrifying, and the bombed chemical plants were even more dangerous, with scorching flames melting steel tanks that stored toxic gases, causing widespread leaks of toxic gases such as chlorine.
The fire in the industrial area of Lorraine was raging, and everyone was fighting the fire, they did not notice the approach of the poison gas, and when they reacted, many people were already surrounded by the poison gas, and the number of people who died of poisoning began to surge.
At this time, the defense forces of the industrial area had no air defense, there were no more rich people to operate the anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-aircraft guns, everyone was engaged in firefighting and disaster relief, the whole area was in chaos, and the black smoke caused by the fire covered an area of dozens of square kilometers, which could be clearly seen even in La Défense.
The bomb load of the Kunpeng 1 bomber is large enough, but the ammunition load and fuel load are relative, and if you carry more ammunition, you need to carry less fuel.
This was the case with this bombing, the bombers were not fully loaded with fuel in order to reload the ammunition, so they did not have enough fuel to return to base after the bombing of the industrial area of Lorraine.
In order to increase the bombing effect and solve the problem of range, Al came up with a shuttle bombing trick, and the Kunpeng 1 bombers did not return after attacking the industrial area of Lorraine, and they went directly to the territory of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, which was not far away, where there were many military airfields, enough to provide them with fuel and ordinary aerial bombs.
After the replenishment was over, the bombers took off again, flew over the Nantes Empire, and bombed the important supply depot area located behind the Marne crossing, causing another monstrous fire.
With this successful experience, the Chinese Air Force began a daily shuttle bombing, in which all valuable targets in the Nantes Empire were bombed by bombers repeatedly.
The Entente armies on the front line began to run short of ammunition, and the number of weapons and ammunition manufactured by the Nantes Empire also plummeted, and the route from the Saar Empire to the Nantes Empire was blocked by Allied surface ships and submarines, and the situation of the Nantes Empire became more and more difficult.
Faced with this situation, the Nantes Empire intensified the development and manufacture of anti-aircraft weapons, and the entire Nantes Empire was soon filled with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and the bomber efficiency of the Chinese Imperial Air Force began to decline, and their bombing results were no longer so obvious.
Although the bombing effect is no longer obvious, the novel tactics of the Chinese Air Force have once again made the world realize the value of the air force. After repeated research, the Saar Empire re-improved and enlarged the fuselage of the existing Handley Page 100 bomber, and created a four-engine Handley Page 400 bomber, which was soon launched into the Nantes Empire.
Handley Page 400 bomber is the highest embodiment of the Saar Empire's aviation technology, the performance is comparable to the Chinese Empire's Kunpeng 1 bomber, its comprehensive ability can be described as quite excellent, but unfortunately this excellent performance bomber is really not at the right time, at the beginning they did get some small gains, but it was limited to bombing the Yaman Empire outposts.
After discovering that the Entente side had also begun to equip itself with new bombers, the Golden Eagle 2 fighters began to conduct combat patrols on the front line, and with the presence of these air killers, the Handley Pace bombers were only unlucky, and after several attacks with heavy losses, the Saar Empire had to suspend its bombing operations.
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