Chapter 460: The Road is High
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"There are more and more enemy planes, and it is very dangerous to go on like this," Shen Honglie said with a worried expression as he looked at the ghost reconnaissance plane in the distant sky. The enemy planes are now learning to behave, they just need to make sure that they don't lose their targets, but they don't rush too close, and although the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the task force are within reach, they are not precision weapons suitable for point firing, and if a few reconnaissance planes have to be covered by airspace barrage, the waste of shells will be too serious, you must know that now the task force is fighting in the far sea, and if the reserve shells are knocked out, there will be one less round, and if you don't save a little, the Japanese planes will only have to repeat this several times. Task forces that have run out of anti-aircraft shells will be left to their own devices.
In fact, the problem was not serious at the beginning, because with the help of radar, as long as night came, the task force could easily get rid of the tracking of enemy planes, but in the past few days, the ship-borne radar of the task force found that no matter which direction the warship was going, there were enemy reconnaissance planes patrolling that area, so the command of the task force immediately realized that the number of Japanese reconnaissance planes in Taiwan had increased by a large margin compared with before, so it was able to carry out this kind of dragnet search, and as long as the Japanese high-level brains did not enter the water, It will not be only reconnaissance planes that will increase the number of troops in Taiwan
In this case, the situation of the task force will be very dangerous, and no matter how strong the air defense liliang is, it will be a passive party after all. If the number of Japanese bombers increases to hundreds, no matter how large the losses are, as long as a few bombs are dropped, they will be heavily damaged even if they are not sinkable if they are not sinked. Or divide into small teams to attack in turns (to consume the ammunition of the task force), it will be difficult for the task force to deal with, and it is no wonder that even Shen Honglie, the proposer of the battle to break the battle, is inevitably uneasy. In other words, although he is much more expert than Ye Fei, the original army general, his thinking mode is still largely within the framework of the traditional navy to navy. But I didn't expect the devil's countermeasure to be to control the sea with air.
Listened to Shen Honglie's words. Ye Fei couldn't help but fall into deep thought, but he finally said with a resolute face, "We haven't brought the devil's fleet over yet, and we can't stop the mission no matter what." But. All we have to do is cut off the devil's maritime trade routes. There is no need to be confined to the Bass Strait all the time. We can go all the way south, leave the combat radius of the Japanese land-based bombers in Taiwan and continue to carry out the mission of breaking diplomatic relations, so that the devils can only send a fleet against us. ”
The sudden southward movement of the task force ordered the Japanese Navy Command Department to control the sea with air to lose its effectiveness. On the contrary, the Japanese Navy had no choice but to lower its posture and negotiate with the army and request Taiwan's army aviation units to cooperate in the operation to make up for the shortage of naval bombers. However, even so, Taiwan's Japanese army still could not dispatch too many bombers in a short period of time, and because the task force could get rid of the tracking of the Japanese reconnaissance planes once it was night, even if it was only temporary, with the high speed of heavy patrols, as long as the Chinese were determined to go south, two or three days would be enough time to keep them away from the reconnaissance range of Taiwan's Japanese planes. "That's it. Therefore, knowing that there was no certainty of victory, the Japanese Navy still ordered several air groups in Tainan to be dispatched immediately, and asked a flight regiment of the Army Aviation to cooperate in the operation and pursue the task force together
"I didn't expect the devil to come to see us off, so we can't be too stingy", Ye Fei looked at the dense spots of light on the radar screen and sneered. Judging from the results of radar detection, the devil dispatched about seventy or eighty planes this time, although there are a lot of them, but Ye Fei, who is full of confidence in the air defense capability of the fleet, is not afraid, but he still ordered the two ships to speed up to the south, the reason is very simple, whether it is a bomber or a fighter, every point of combat distance increases, the combat efficiency will decrease accordingly, and the distance of six or seven kilometers does not seem to be long, but in a battle that is not necessarily won, this difference may determine success or failure.
Fearing that the enemy's fleet would flee at night again, the Japanese bomber group did not try to pounce on the two heavy cruisers, and unlike the rookies of the Kaohsiung Air Force before, the pilots who flew these bombers were all excellent at Jishu, so it was natural to adopt new tactics to reduce the losses caused by the enemy's large-caliber anti-aircraft guns. But the devils don't know that since they came up with this new tactic, including Hu Weidong, the officers and men of China's air defense forces and the personnel of the military industry have been thinking about how to crack it, and the reason why the 57mm anti-aircraft gun, which was once abandoned, has been able to be finalized and produced and equipped with troops is of course because the successful development of the transistor proximity fuse has greatly reduced the size of the proximity fuse, and also because the new tactics of this medium-caliber antiaircraft gun, which can effectively fire at an altitude of about 5,000 meters, are used to deal with the devil bomber formation
Since the lethality of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns was greatly weakened by the new tactics of the Japanese flying formation, in order to save shells, Ye Fei ordered the 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns and 88mm anti-aircraft guns on the two heavy cruisers not to fire for the time being, which undoubtedly further fueled the arrogance of the devil pilots. However, just when they rushed into a distance of 5,000 meters and quickly formed a combat formation, many 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 88mm anti-aircraft guns, and 57mm anti-aircraft guns equipped with the task force ships opened fierce fire at the same time, among which the 57mm anti-aircraft guns became the main force of air defense at this distance with their terrifying rate of fire of more than 2 rounds per second, the amazing destructive power of the rod warhead, and the ultra-high shooting accuracy brought by the gyroscopic sights. Or even disintegrate directly in the air
Even the most experienced devil pilots had never seen such dense medium-range anti-aircraft fire, and they could not help but panic, and the bombing formation they had just formed was disrupted as soon as they landed, with some brave pilots charging forward, while some frightened ones unconsciously slowed down their flight. At the same time, many small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the two ships opened fire one after another, which not only made up for the weakening of the firepower of the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns due to the loss of effectiveness due to the close proximity, but also caused greater damage to the Japanese fleet
Seeing the enemy plane flying into the effective firing range, the gun squad of a "Skynet" close fire cannon on the Zhiyuan ship immediately manipulated the gun to aim at it and fired fiercely, "There are really people who are not afraid of death, look at Lao Tzu to name you!" (To be continued......)