Chapter 737: The Iron Army's Hot Hand
Field Marshal Halsey, who thought that the airtight anti-aircraft artillery position, had not achieved much success, because as the performance of laser-guided bombs became better and better, attack aircraft no longer had to go into dangerous low-altitude bomb drops. At an altitude of 8,000 meters, rows of guided bombs were dropped one after another, and the destroyers of the Axis fleet, knowing that the other side were all guided bombs, immediately turned on the tin foil strip thrower and sprayed the tin foil strip desperately in an attempt to stop the bomb attack.
Laser-guided bombs are different from infrared guidance and radar guidance, they are not interfered with by tin chaff at all, and countless bombs pass through the defense of tin chaff and accurately smash on Axis warships. The largest target of the aircraft carrier is naturally the preferred target of laser-guided bombs, and the aircraft carrier without carrier-based aircraft is useless, at this time everyone is busy with air defense, and no one cares about these aircraft carriers without carrier-based aircraft, and the anti-aircraft guns on the aircraft carrier are the least, so these aircraft carriers were destroyed one after another under the attack of bombs, and most of the more than 20 aircraft carriers were sunk in a while.
After all, air defense is a passive defense, and even the most intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire can prevent every bomb attack. Under the intense bomb attack, the occupants of the ships caught fire and sank one after another, and the port facilities were partially damaged.
Perhaps because they felt that the Axis fleet was not miserable enough, the bombers of the Chinese Air Force soon came to join in the fun, and a large number of Kunpeng 3 bombers, albatross dive bombers, and Vulture 1 and Vulture 2 attack planes came out one after another, and they all took off with the maximum bomb load and rushed towards the ports of the Axis countries.
The Chinese Air Force bullied the Axis Air Force to be wiped out, and they pounced without even bringing escort fighters. The army aviation aircraft are not comparable to carrier-based aircraft, they have no runway length limit, and the bomb load of the designed aircraft is much higher, especially the Kunpeng 3 bomber, as the main strategic bomber of the Chinese Empire, its bomb load can only be described as terrifying.
The Air Force's dense bombs fell like a torrent, and they did not even use guided bombs, so they directly carried out carpet bombing. The entry of the air force hastened the demise of the Halsey fleet, and the battle lasted only an hour before the Axis fleet anchored in various ports was completely wiped out, and all the armies were sunk on the berths.
Destroying the Axis navies, the Chinese Empire continued to do so with cruise missiles and large-caliber guns of battleships bombarding Axis facilities along the coast and in depth. Without the protection of the naval fleet, the Axis forces had to be fortified everywhere, which further thinned the strength of the Axis bloc, especially the Iron Army troops that landed in the territory of the Cerro Kingdom, although the number was small, but it made Howell feel like a thorn in his back.
The forces at the front were quietly withdrawn to consolidate the increasingly unstable rear and the perilous coastline, and Howell's forces were soon reduced to more than six million, unbeknownst to him, the forces of the Chinese Empire on the opposite side continued to increase.
At this time, within the front of the Chinese Imperial Army in the Kharkiv region, the iron-blooded army of the four armies is vigorously armed, and they will start a full-scale counteroffensive tonight. And in the rear of the Army units, fifteen wings of the Predator Air Force and fifty-one wings of the Imperial Air Force were also making intense preparations, and all aircraft were being overhauled to prevent breakdowns in battle.
At three o'clock in the night, the various airports of the Chinese Air Force are brightly lit, and planes begin to taxi onto the runway, and now the planes equipped in the various units of the Chinese Empire, whether it is the Golden Eagle 4C, Golden Eagle 5, Kunpeng 3 of the National Defense Force and the Guards, or the Golden Eagle 6, Vulture 3 and Kunpeng 4 of the Iron and Blood Army, all have a perfect radar system, as long as they are optimistic about the instrument data for night flight, they can easily fly, not to mention the latest equipment for the pilots' helmet sights with infrared night vision function, Let them see clearly in the dark.
The Imperial Chinese Air Force, which was unhindered in the dark night, took off more than 5,000 planes, and they formed more than 100 formations and rushed to their respective targets. This was a unique day in the history of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, which was not only the largest number of combat aircraft, but also the first joint operation between the Iron and Blood Air Force and the Imperial Air Force.
At this moment, their opponents were honestly parked on the ground, because although the Axis countries also had many planes in this area, they could not take to the air to fight because they did not have the ability to fight at night, not to mention that the radar and communications on the battlefield had long been jammed by electronic warfare planes and became blind, and the Axis military was not aware of it at all, and the danger was approaching.
"Attention everyone, it has reached the target and is ready to attack." Gao Yi, who had been promoted to group leader, operated the Golden Eagle 6 fighter and gave orders to his team members.
"Understood." The team leader Zhou Pingfeng agreed loudly, and he had skillfully locked the airport tower with radar.
"Start attacking." Gao Yi said, the first one pressed the button, a laser-guided bomb broke away from the pylon, flew towards the nest at the end of the runway, with a loud bang, the solid nest was directly penetrated, and the two F104 planes parked inside were blown into a pile of scrap metal.
One after another, the Golden Eagle 6 fighters dived one after another, dropping all kinds of bombs on the military airfields of the Axis countries, and despite the efforts of the anti-aircraft artillery units of the Axis countries, the advanced Golden Eagle 6 fighters still completed the task excellently. Soon a bomb was dropped into the oil depot, and the entire airfield burst into flames, and the fire lit up the Axis soldiers who were scattering and fleeing, and the soldiers of the Predator Air Force immediately lowered the nose of the plane and swept at the enemies who were running around.
More than thirty airfields close to the front line were attacked almost simultaneously, which were destroyed by a dense barrage of bombs, but it was not they who were really unlucky. More than a dozen Kunpeng 4 bombers were flying high in the air, and tonight their targets were the headquarters of the five-star General Howell and the barracks of an army group near him.
The Kunpeng 4 strategic bomber is the best strategic bomber of the Iron Army, this 49-meter-long, 56-meter-span giant aircraft has eight turbofan engines, a single power of 7,000 horsepower, a continuous flight time of 19 hours, a maximum speed of 909 kilometers per hour, and a flight radius of up to 7,400 kilometers.
The most important indicator of a bomber is naturally the bomb load, and the Kunpeng 4 bomber with eight engines is naturally very outstanding in this regard, it not only installs various radar systems, but also can carry 27 tons of bombs, which can be described as a super large capacity, and with such a large bomb load, the bombing effect is naturally quite good.