Chapter 439: Bombing Tokyo (2)
Up to this time, China's air force had formed a scale, with a total of more than 3,300 new and old fighters, and the fighters were also divided into fighters, bombers, torpedo planes, transport planes, and reconnaissance planes. On the other hand, in Japan and Europe and the United States, Japanese aircraft have only just started and can only be used for reconnaissance, and there is no other purpose for them.
Due to the outbreak of World War I, the development of aircraft in Britain, Russia, Austria and other countries has been accelerated, and now the Entente has a total of more than 800 aircraft, while Germany and Austria and other allies have more than 600 aircraft, but whether it is the Entente or the Central Powers Until recently, their aircraft did not have the ability to fight in the air, but their aircraft was only installed with a "deflection system", that is, a steel plate was installed on the propeller blades to deflect the warhead that hit it - thus making it possible to install a fixed coaxial machine gun on the fuselage, Aiming and maneuvering for pilots were greatly simplified, making the aircraft qualified for a real fighter.
The French pilot Garros, who invented this "deflector system", and his plane were captured by the Germans, who, after studying the deflector system of the Allied aircraft, found very obvious shortcomings, the performance of the propeller decreased after the addition of deflectors, and the deflected warhead could also bounce back and damage the engine.
Up to now, because neither camp has invented the "machine gun firing coordinator", the battle of aircraft in the sky has not yet been able to really carry out air combat, that is to say, the two camps have not yet carried out large-scale air combat fighters, and the aircraft produced can only be engaged in bombing missions or reconnaissance missions loaded with some small shells due to problems such as speed, range and load, and as for the use of transport planes and torpedo planes, it is basically a matter of no shadow.
The Japanese themselves only have a few planes for reconnaissance, which they purchased from the United States before, and they do not have planes and aircraft factories themselves, so they have no way to resist the bombing and strafing of Chinese planes.
Yokosuka Port is known as the first military port in the East because of its unique facilities for berthing facilities, ship repair capabilities, oil and ammunition storage facilities, and rest facilities for soldiers. The military restricted area covers an area of about 2.3 million square meters, and also includes the Navy's Yokosuka Town Guardhouse, Navy Yard, Marine Corps, Personnel Department, Quartermaster Department, Port Department, Ship Department, Manager's Department, Military Judge Council, Navy Corps, Naval Signal Corps, Garrison Corps, Garrison Corps, Naval Hospital, Naval Punishment Office, Naval Gunnery School, Mine School and other buildings and units. The predecessor of the base was the first shipyard "Yokosuka Iron Works established by the Edo shogunate in Japan" in 1865, and later in 1872 it was transferred to the Ministry of the Navy by the Meiji government at that time, and in 1903 it was renamed "Yokosuka Naval Yard". During the Russo-Japanese War, the plant's shipbuilding capacity was greatly improved, and it was able to build cruisers, battleships, and other capital ships of the time.
On the watchtower of the base, two Japanese soldiers stood guard side by side with rifles on their backs, and one on the left endured the sweat left on his forehead because of the hot weather, and said to another soldier next to him: "Shimose-kun, I heard that the Sasebo military port was bombed by the planes of the Shina people, and I heard that it was so miserable, after the bombing of the plane group, the entire military port was set up in ruins, and there were few people alive, even the commander Fujii and his adjutant were blown to pieces by the bombs!" If we had such a powerful fleet in the Japanese Empire, we wouldn't have to be afraid of the Shina people, who used to pee their pants in fear when they saw us Japanese, but now it's their turn to show off their might, all because we don't have a strong air force, hey! ”
After listening to his companion's words, Shimose was a little worried, and asked, "Inoue-kun, will the plane of the person you are supporting come to bomb us?" ”
"What?"
"Do you think the planes of the Shina people will come to bomb the Yokosuka military port?" Shimose repeated.
Inoue turned his head to look at Shimose and said with a smile: "Shimose-kun, I see that you don't even have a little military knowledge, as far as I know, only the planes of the Shina people are the strongest and most advanced, but it is impossible for their planes to fly from Shina to Yokosuka Military Port, because they can't fly back after they fly, rest assured, it is impossible for the Shina people's planes to fly here, unless their brains are broken!" ”
After Inoue finished speaking, he saw that Shimose didn't react, and his eyes suddenly widened when he looked ahead, and he asked, "Shimose-kun, what's wrong with you?" Do you think I'm not right? ”
Shimose's mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, and he pointed to the sky in front of him and stammered, "Inoue-kun, you, you, look, what is that?" Is it an airplane? ”
"What? Are you kidding me? Inoue turned his head to look ahead, and suddenly his eyes widened and his mouth opened, and it took a few seconds for him to react and exclaim, "Quick, take a look through the binoculars!" ”
Shimose immediately took the telescope from his side and put it in front of his eyes, and a group of black and oppressive things in the telescope became clearer and clearer, that's right, it's an airplane, a big iron bird!
"It's an airplane, I'm sure it's an airplane!" Shimose handed the telescope to Inoue, who took the telescope and looked over.
Soon, from the watchtower, there was a heart-rending shout of broken gongs: "The plane of the people of China is coming, the plane of the people of China is coming."
This watchtower was originally used to observe the situation of ships on the sea, but now it is used to observe the situation in the sky, but it can be regarded as a useful use.
The news that a group of Chinese fighters was flying toward the Yokosuka military port soon spread throughout the entire military port, and the Japanese naval officers and men and garrison troops in the military port were all thrown into confusion, originally thinking that this place was very safe and that it was impossible for Chinese planes to fly here, but they did not expect that Chinese fighters could fly so far to bomb.
It's chaotic, it's chaotic, it's all chaotic, and now the entire naval base doesn't have any air defense measures at all, and everyone in the navy is so frightened that they are scurrying around like headless flies, and there are many people rushing directly outside the base, and running outside is much better than staying here and waiting for death.
However, the Marine Corps Corps guarding the security of the naval base soon formed several air defense positions under the command of an officer, and rows of soldiers squatted on the ground to point their guns in the direction where the planes were flying, and there were several heavy machine guns on the sandbags of several circular fortifications, and the soldiers operated the machine guns to squat in the ring fortifications and put the muzzles of the heavy machine guns upward, but due to the problem of the tripods, the elevation angle of the muzzles was not large, and the threat to the aircraft was limited.
In front of the group, a fighter is the command plane of the bombing operation, and the pilot in the plane is the commander Tan Yaorong, who has already seen the Yokosuka military port in front of him, and now there are some old warships and some offshore patrol warships moored at the dock of the military port, and then look at the dock, the Japanese side seems to be making defensive preparations, he picked up the telescope and looked, the black pressure on the pier is soldiers, these soldiers are squatting on the ground in a neat formation, the muzzle of the gun is aimed at this side, they want to use a rifle to fight the plane?
Tan Yaorong made a few gestures to the captains of several other detachments of the wingman, ordering the fighter planes to be responsible for the ground defense, the bombers to be responsible for bombing the ground military installations, and the torpedo planes to drop torpedoes on the warships anchored in the harbor.
But after the order was communicated to the pilots of each of the planes, the fleet had arrived at the Yokosuka military port, and each plane began to carry out its own mission.
The fighter formation was divided into two according to Tan Yaorong's command, one part of which was designed to dive towards the ground defense units, and the other part was to strafe the Japanese soldiers who were scurrying around the docks.
"Dadada, da"
"Boom, boom, boom"
"Woo woo".
The screams of artillery shells, the firing of fighter machine guns, and the explosion of aerial bombs after they landed on the ground were all struck together, and soon they were intertwined, and the dock was soon plunged into a sea of fire.
The defensive forces organized by the Japanese army were completely vulnerable to the strafing and bombing of fighters and bombers, and after the fighter formations were only used to attack and strafe back and forth, more than half of the Japanese troops on the ground defense were killed and wounded, and the remaining Japanese soldiers were suddenly frightened, and only a few people remained, and not even a single plane was shot down in the first few rounds of shooting. When these people saw that the Huaguo aircraft group began to prepare to strafe again, they immediately abandoned their guns and fled, and even the officers shot and killed several soldiers in succession.
Under the bombing of the bomber group, the military facilities in the port were blown up one by one, the first to be blown up was the military facilities, but after the military facilities were blown up, the shipyards, repair shops, etc. were successively recovered by the bomber group, and then the hospital and school were all bombed, the whole port was under fire, the only thing that was not bombed was the "Yamashiri" battleship under construction in the dockyard, the Yamashiro battleship was almost completed, just before the arrival of the group, the workers in the shipyard were still nervously building the battleship, But the shipyard was blown up soon after the arrival of the group, and the workers were killed and wounded, and the remaining workers and technicians left the unfinished battleship and fled, and because of the order, none of the planes in the group dropped bombs on the dock, so the battleship, which was about to be completed, was preserved.
The torpedo groups were wreaking havoc on the sea, and the Japanese coastal defense battleships docked at the pier were used as targets, and the torpedo groups in the sky swooped down one after another to drop torpedoes on these warships, and after being hit by the torpedoes, these warships began to explode one by one, some of them were directly blown into two, some were blown up, and some of the side chords were blown up to expose large holes, and the battleships were quickly tilted by the influx of sea water, and the wharf and the sea were full of raging fire and smoke, and in the bombardment for nearly half an hour, The entire Yokosuka military port was destroyed. R1152