Chapter 502: The Age of Nuclear Weapons
"Attention machines, attention machines! Apollo is in the middle of the opposing bomber group, the belly is severely bulging, the number is 219, if the conditions allow, please attack it with all your might! ”
First it was broadcast in Chinese, and then Li Huamei said it again in German on the communication channel.
"Apollo" is synonymous with the "weapons of mass destruction" that the military informed the pilots before the war that the US military might use in this war. They were warned before the war that they would act in accordance with the appropriate "operating procedures" as soon as they heard the imminent use of Apollo by the enemy.
During the raid on the B29 fleet, the ME262 piloted by Li Huamei did not rush to the front, but stayed in the middle and rear to act as a guide aircraft. The ME262 that was set up in this sortie had been completely "eroded" by her beforehand, and she even brought out her own parasitic object, directly turning this fighter into her own parasitic machine.
After the spirit, this caused her perception distance in the air to increase to about two thousand meters. The disadvantage is that if your own plane is injured in an air battle, your body will also suffer a certain amount of damage.
The opponent's fleet of B29s is too large for pilots to easily identify targets and focus on attacks in a hurry. However, after Li Huamei pointed out the general direction, the pilots of the interceptor planes knew how to "have a definite target."
"The B29 with the third engine on the right is emitting black smoke is the target!"
On the ME262 painted with the number "17" (this is the fourth ME262), Li Huamei conveyed this information to the group while swooping towards the B29, which was already emitting black smoke.
The two 13mm machine guns on her ME262 first opened fire from a distance of 500 meters, and this time during the sortie, the ground crew installed two thirds of the bullets she mounted on the tracer armor-piercing rounds, and one-third of the incendiary bullets. When firing, the shiny trajectory is very noticeable in the air and is the best indicator.
The two friendly planes that followed Li Huamei's left and right approached the target together under her shooting guidance.
The one on the left is Li Huamei's "old friend", Germany's number one ace pilot Marseilleu. The ace pilot, who had the same talent for shooting as her, opened fire from a distance of 400 meters. It was only at a dangerous distance of 120 meters that he stopped firing and escaped. Li Huamei's perception of the overall situation confirmed that the B29, which was locked and fired by Marseilleu and another friendly plane at the same time, was hit by nearly 20 30-mm shells in just over ten seconds, and even swallowed dozens of 13-mm machine gun shells, and three of the four engines were blown out, which had ignited a large fire. The personnel in the cabin of the B29 also flew in a bloody manner under the baptism of the violent rain of bullets, and the personnel in the cabin were also killed and injured.
The B29 bomber, carrying an atomic bomb, was in the air at a distance of about seventy kilometers above the target. The nose of the plane fell low to the surface of the sea.
Because it was no longer possible for the plane to fly to the target and drop the nuclear bomb in advance, Li Huamei fired another round at the plane at the last moment, and after hitting several 30-millimeter shells, she pulled up the nose of the plane and gave up the pursuit and quickly left this airspace.
When she separated, Li Huamei issued a pre-agreed code message on the radio in three different languages: German, English, and Chinese:
"One of the arrows has been broken! One of the arrows has been broken! ”
Soon, the jet fighter unit, which had completed the first wave of scheduled assault missions, left the battlefield at the fastest speed with high speed, and then climbed at full speed, quickly leaving behind the F8F, which had been repeatedly pursued by "Grief and Fury".
When it comes to detachment. All the pilots of the jets did what they had been instructed beforehand. Wear inky goggles just in case.
But probably because they were beaten so badly, all the crew members in the cabin were wiped out, and until they fell headlong into the sea and smashed into pieces on the surface of the sea, no legendary powerful mushroom cloud rose on the sea.
Less than five minutes after the "219" was shot down, MacArthur, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Theater on Artura Island, received a coded message from the front: The string of the first cello had been broken.
After seeing this telegram, MacArthur's face suddenly became ugly.
And "the strings of the second cello". At this time, it is also on the verge of breaking.
The British sent a group of Meteor interceptors, a total of forty-five, of which twenty were British products similar to the ME262 and designed using 30mm MK209 cannons.
Due to the difference in the location of the airport, when the British stopped the second wave of B29 fleets. The target is less than 60 kilometers away from Japan's island of Zeto.
According to the secret agreement in advance, the British were also not very enthusiastic about intercepting a nuclear attack, and their purpose of interception was more to test the interception and strike effect of jet fighters against four heavy bombardments in actual combat.
The second wave of B29s was closer to the island, and at this time they were covered by the rest of the F8Fs that were fighting here, and the surrounding area was densely packed with covering fighters like flies.
The British jet fighters, who did not want to lose too much blood and lose their strength here, adopted the same tactics as the Germans, first detouring behind the target, climbing hard to gain absolute altitude superiority, and then diving down with all their might, first attacking the group of aircraft with rockets, and then approaching with a cannon attack.
The fleet commander of the B29 group, which responded to the attack of jet fighters, took a completely different response than the previous team. As the British jet group climbed directly behind it, it had been warned by the escorting F8F fighters. In the face of the absolute superiority of jet fighters in the climb advantage, the nearby F8F at that time could only gasp and helplessly compete with the opponent to climb, and the result was of course very tragic. By the time they were halfway up, their opponents had arrived at their predetermined location ahead of schedule and then swooped down in one go.
Unlike the first wave of friendly planes that insisted on maintaining the formation formation, the commander of the leading aircraft of this formation made a decision when the British planes were still climbing the hierarchy and ordered all the B29 bombers to disband the formation and fly freely.
Nearly 100 B29s were scattered "everywhere" in a few minutes like mung beans that had been poured to the ground.
This is the correct tactic.
The first three hours of air combat had proved that the jet fighters in the dive stage were not intercepted by the piston planes of this era, and when they easily broke through the interception net formed by the F8F, they found the prey that was originally densely packed. It's completely scattered.
The group of meteor fighters in pursuit, the air-to-air rockets launched only shot down a few unlucky B29s. Then they had to chase the B29 who fled in all directions. But these scattered targets are very difficult to catch, and there are F8Fs everywhere around, in the spirit of "dead friends do not die poor", the British volleys are not very "desperate", they bite a target casually. It took more than ten seconds to finish the shells, and then he hurried away from this dangerous battlefield.
When Li Huamei arrived with the British and German forces, the B29, which flew in the front, could already see the coastline of the target island in the air.
"You don't have to rush down right away, let's go around the sky first!"
Looking at the B29s scattered everywhere, Li Huamei also felt a little headache, but she, like the British, was not too enthusiastic about stopping the possible nuclear attack aircraft in the second wave of B29 fleet. Her mission this time was only to add more "psychological pressure" to the US fleet. Forcing the target to "drop the nuclear bomb on the island as soon as possible".
The actual situation is just as Li Huamei expected.
Having just suffered a surprise attack by more than 40 Meteor fighters, the pilots of these B29 bombers were already terrified after seeing the other side easily break through the interception, shoot down more than a dozen B29s, and damage more than 20 of them.
The goal of their trip was to bomb Kunashir Island and Island, the largest of the four northern islands. The B29 bomber with the atomic bomb number "66" had already entered the skies over the island of Selecto.
And then, at an altitude of eight thousand meters. The belly magazine of the aircraft was opened, and a huge white umbrella flower opened in the sky
Whether it is Li Huamei in the air or Lin Han's "father and daughter" who acts as a human radar a hundred kilometers away. It was discovered that this "weapon of mass destruction" had been dropped.
If the U.S. B29 drops bombs later, Li Huamei will order the ME262 group to attack with all its might.
When she saw the huge umbrella flower blooming in the air, Li Huamei gave a new code command in the communication channel as quickly as possible.
"The arrow has been fired!"
A few seconds later, the pilots of the coalition countries who were fighting heard the instructions of their superiors through the call from the air traffic control on the ground: do whatever it takes. Fly away from the battlefield with your back to the island, and don't forget to wear your goggles.
At about the same time, the pilots of the American planes flying the F8F also heard instructions asking them to evacuate the sky over the island at full speed regardless of everything.
A moment ago. The pilots of both sides who were still trying to kill us in the airspace over the island, as if they had heard the final whistle, almost unanimously gave up the air battle at the same time, and then did the same thing: they flew with their backs to the island and fled from this place at full speed.
On the island, the anti-aircraft artillery was still ringing non-stop, and the shooting had stopped five minutes before the B29 group dropped the nuclear bomb.
The commander of the garrison received urgent instructions from the cruiser Tenryu and ordered the defenders of the island to withdraw as quickly as possible to the nearest dugout to avoid the impending explosion.
With Lin Han's character, he didn't care about the life or death of the Japanese army on the island at all. However, Li Huamei, who controlled Japan at that time, was affected by the Yamato Nadeshiko in her belly, and became very "concerned" about the life and death of these Japanese soldiers.
And then really. After the birth of the Japanese ship Reidai and Nadeshiko, she adopted a strategy of external weakness and internal reality in the defense of the northern mainland, with only 4,000 troops stationed on the island, and then repeatedly reinforced the existing bomb shelters on the island.
In front of the station, the Japanese troops stationed on the island were instructed by the upper echelons to be mentally prepared for the opponent to use "taboo" weapons at any time, and they conducted many exercises. After the danger alarm was issued, the first thing the Japanese troops on the island did was to leave their positions as soon as possible and desperately run to the nearby bomb shelters.
Whether these artificially built nuclear shelters can withstand the direct attack of this 20,000-ton nuclear bomb called "Fat Man" at close range depends only on the luck of these Japanese.
When the atomic bomb was dropped, not only the Hokkaido region, but also the Old and New Worlds, the breath of the entire earth was synchronized with the white umbrella flower that was falling.
At 12:27:17 p.m. on March 30, 1945, a dazzling white light flashed, and then a huge mushroom cloud rose up over the island.
The "fat man" dropped by B29 exploded at a height of about 600 meters above the ground.
Due to the preparations and relevant plans in advance, the Eurasian coalition forces and US military planes in the sky suffered minor losses in this nuclear explosion.
But there are also unfortunate people.
The two air-raid shelters on the island, which were relatively close to the center of the nuclear explosion, collapsed under the blow of the shock wave of the nuclear explosion because they were not built well enough, and nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers who were taking refuge in the caves were either killed or wounded, and suffered heavy losses.
But there are people who are more unfortunate than them
That is, in the previous air battle, the pilots who were knocked down and landed on the island, especially the pilots of the US planes, especially those who had just been shot down dozens of minutes ago.
Before they entered the war, the pilots of the Eurasian coalition were warned: As a last resort, they should not parachute over the four northern islands as much as possible, and persist in parachuting over the islands of Hokkaido as much as possible.
And the pilots of the US planes do not have such "preferential treatment".
George. Herbert. Walker. Bush is such an unlucky bastard.
George. Herbert. Walker. Bush, the pilot of an F8F fighter jet, was unlucky to be shot down in the air by a British vampire fighter fifteen minutes before the atomic bomb was dropped.
Pilot Bush successfully parachuted.
However, when he struggled to manipulate the parachute rope and let himself land on the island instead of falling into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped by a friendly plane over his head fell on his head.
First, an unimaginable blazing light instantly filled his eyes: In an instant, Bush felt a sharp pain in his eyes, and before he could react, the high temperature and blazing heat brought by the strong light swallowed the pilot who happened to be at the center of the nuclear explosion, directly vaporizing him entirely.
George. Herbert. Walker. George W. Bush, the future 41st president of the United States (1988), and his son George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States eight years later.
But none of this will happen again in this plane.
Bush Sr. died on 30 March 1946 in an atomic bomb attack by US planes on the island, and his son George W. Bush Jr. was not yet born.
On this day, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the island, killing two future presidents of the United States. (To be continued......)