Chapter 327: Considerations of the Boston Empire
Although he didn't know the bottom of his heart, on the surface, Aik still pretended to be full of confidence, because as a supreme commander in the field, once he revealed even the slightest lack of confidence, the troops could collapse at any time.
When Ayik was anxious, the reinforcements of the Chinese Empire had actually arrived, and 300 kilometers took less than two hours for the Kunpeng 1 bombers, and when the sun rose from the sea level, 80 Kunpeng 1 bombers were already like a black cloud, flying towards Ezo Island in the morning sun and soon approaching the naval fleet of the Japanese State.
"The third squadron is going to support the Ezo soldiers inland, and the other squadrons are going to bomb the warships with me." The captain of the bomber group gave the order on the radio.
The bomber group of the 102nd Wing immediately began to split into two groups, one of which was a group of eight planes that broke away from the large formation and flew inland.
"What's that?" The lookout on the Japanese battleship finally noticed the abnormal black cloud in the sky, and when he raised his binoculars, he saw something he had never seen before.
"Oh my God, it's an iron bird, such a big iron bird." The news of the Japanese people is quite closed, they do not know this new weapon that has been in the limelight on the battlefield of the Western Continent, although the lookout does not know what these things are and what harm they are to the fleet, he still hurriedly sounded the alarm bell.
The Japanese sailors on the deck of the warship who had just been idle for a while immediately became busy again, of course, they were also busy, and the Japanese sailors who did not know where the danger of the road came from did not know what they should do, and many sailors on the deck raised their heads and looked up at the planes that were flying closer and closer, and they were at a loss.
The huge body of the Kunpeng 1 bomber, driven by four engines, quickly approached the Japanese naval fleet, and it seemed that it had a premonition of unusual danger, and the Japanese sailors hurriedly turned their guns, wanting to shoot at the iron bird.
It's a pity that the current warship design concept is to deal with plane threats, not only the speed of the muzzle rotation can't keep up with the aircraft, but the elevation angle can't reach it at all, so these Japanese sailors can only watch the bombers fly over them, but there is no way at all.
"All of them, start dropping bombs as a squad." The captain of the pilot gave an order, and the Kunpeng bomber formation took four planes as a basic unit, found its own target and began to reduce its altitude.
The pilots struggled to keep their sail steady, while the bombardier stared closely at the cross in the middle of the horizontal sight, watching it slowly approach the center of the warship below.
"Bomb dropping." The bombardier shouted and pressed the bomb switch, and the belly door of the Kunpeng bomber was opened, and a series of 250 kg bombs slid through the bombardier, falling out of the plane in a string, and floating down towards the warships below.
"Get out of the way." Seeing the danger, the captains of the Wa Kingdom roared hoarsely and shouted orders to evade. It's a pity that the bulky warship is very slow to turn, how can it compare to the high-explosive bombs that are doing free-fall motion, and a series of bombs quickly exploded on the warship, and the continuous explosions almost swept away the superstructure of the warship.
The Japanese navy, which could only be beaten passively, tried to get the warships out of the battlefield, but how could a warship with a speed of more than 20 knots compare to an aircraft with a speed of more than 100 knots, and they could only helplessly withstand the bombing of the Kunpeng bombers in turn, and this kind of bombing was still powerless, because there was no weapon on the warship that could shoot into the air.
Each plane carried two tons of bombs, and these pilots did not resist at all after seeing the other side being bombed, and they knew that the Japanese warships had no anti-aircraft firepower, and they began to boldly descend to the flight altitude, and some pilots even let the belly of the warship fly over the top of the warship's mast, so close at such a distance, the accuracy of the bombs naturally improved a lot.
These Kunpeng bombers have a clear division of labor, basically two squads to fight a battleship, a squad to fight a cruiser, under the bombardment of aerial bombs in turn, even if the power of the 250 kg bomb is not high, the fragile horizontal armor and hull structure of the warship can not withstand it at all, the backward warship design ideas have become their lifeline, although they try their best to dodge, but the clumsy dodge of the warship how can avoid the flexible aircraft, after bearing too many bombs, they are quickly blown to pieces, Gradually sinking to the bottom of the sea.
"The captain has no more bombs." The pilots reported their situation one after another.
Captain Hong Tao said into the intercom: "Isn't there a machine gun when there is no bomb?" We went to support the 3rd squadron, using machine guns against the infantry. ”
"Okay, let's rush." There are still many wealthy pilots who are very supportive of the captain's decision.
At this time, the Japanese infantry was not having a good time, the bombers of the third squadron suddenly flew into the air when they were unprepared, and the Japanese soldiers had not yet figured out what it was, the bombs had fallen overhead, and the Japanese troops in dense formation were instantly blown up on their backs, and countless casualties were killed.
The panicked infantry used the Arthur 88 rifles in their hands to attack the air, but unfortunately the probability of hitting the plane with the rifle was similar to winning the jackpot in the lottery ticket, which was basically negligible.
The Japanese soldiers gradually stabilized, because the third squadron was out of bombs. The Kunpeng 1 only has a bomb load of two tons, and the total number of 250 kg bombs is eight, and the throwing is very fast.
The pilots of the 3rd Squadron unwillingly circled twice over the Japanese position, indignantly preparing to return home, when Captain Hong Tao arrived with the remaining bombers.
Arriving at the sky above the Japanese army's position, Hong Tao did not say a word, and immediately dived one by one, and the four large-caliber machine guns mounted on the wings spewed out tongues of fire, plowing four deep trenches in the middle of the Japanese army's shape.
Seeing that the captain was the first to make a move, the pilots dived one after another, using the machine guns on the wings to strafe the Japanese army. The pilots of the 3rd Squadron saw that the captain was no longer ready to return home, and they all dived and strafed in the same way.
Thirty heavy bombers played cameo roles as ground attack aircraft, and although these planes were somewhat bulky, the lack of firepower of the opposing aviation made them a very safe attack environment.
As the planes took turns strafing, the formation of the Japanese army was shattered, and there were corpses everywhere, and the morale of the Japanese army finally collapsed, and they fled into the jungle as quickly as possible.
The trees in the jungle were very dense, and it was difficult for the Kunpeng bombers to find targets in the sky, and after turning around twice, they saw that there was not much fuel, and the bomber group returned angrily.
The performance of the Chinese Imperial Bomber Brigade made the Ezo people, who had been pressed and beaten by the Japanese army, cheer, and after the bombers left, the morale of the Ezo people was re-raised and they entered the jungle, and a new round of hunting began. With the help of Kunpeng bombers who came to bomb the Japanese army every day, three days later, all the Japanese troops who landed were killed in the jungle by the Ezo people, and none of them survived.
The combat capability of the bomber was verified, and soon the air force became a hot topic of discussion among the military officials, and with the military building confidence in the air force, Fang Xiaoyu immediately began to plan to build military airfields in various parts of the Chinese Empire and all allies, including large enough islands, to replace part of the mission of warships with aircraft, and protect the security of the sea frontier, and the focus of construction was placed by Fang Xiaoyu in Honolulu and San Martin Empire.
The next morning, Fang Xiaoyu held a press conference for reporters from all over the world, at which Xiaoyu announced the fact that the Japanese State had shelled the Chinese Empire's Diaojiao Island naval base without declaring war, and at the same time he impassionedly stated that the Chinese Empire must fight to the end until the evil government of the Japanese State was eliminated.
Fang Xiaoyu dared to make such a declaration this time because he saw the situation that the Western Continent powers could not be separated, and planned to completely solve this fishbone that had been lying in the throat of the Chinese Empire, as for the Boston Empire, Fang Xiaoyu very much hoped that they would intervene, if that way, with the ability of the Chinese Empire, he could solve two troubles at once.
When Gonbei Yamamoto received the news that the navy and army attacking Ezo Province had been completely annihilated, he almost thought that the intelligence officer had made a mistake.
The fact that the Chinese Empire used aircraft to destroy its own main fleet and land forces was beyond the scope of Yamamoto Gonbei's cognition, and after urgent consultations with the domestic bigwigs, their final decision was that the Japanese could not defeat the Chinese Empire alone, so the Japanese must be helped by the Boston Empire.
The Japanese Foreign Minister Shigechao Okuma immediately met with the Boston Empire's ambassador to the Japanese Empire, saying that he hoped to destroy the Chinese Empire together with the Boston Empire.
In order not to let the Bostonians retreat, he first hyped up the current dilemma of the Chinese Imperial Navy's lack of battleships and the results of his own sneak attack on Diaoyu Island, while concealing the fact that part of his fleet was destroyed by the Chinese Empire with bombers.
After research, the top brass of the Boston Empire decided to send a navy to assist the Japanese Empire, after all, the Chinese Empire has become more and more powerful over the years, and the allies are all over the coast of the Eastern Ocean, which has seriously threatened the security of the Boston Empire, so they will suppress the Chinese Empire whenever they have the opportunity.
The Boston Empire's vast Eastern Ocean Fleet was ordered to set sail in the direction of the Kingdom of Oahu. The Boston Empire and the Wa Kingdom were not of the same mind, and their plan was to take advantage of the naval vacuum of the Chinese Empire and the opportunity to fight with the Wa Kingdom to occupy the geographically important Kingdom of Wahu first.
Wait until they occupy the excellent sea base of the Ohu Kingdom, if the Wa Kingdom still has the upper hand, they will continue to attack, and if the Wa Kingdom is defeated, they will not suffer a loss, and they can rely on the Ohu Kingdom as a naval base to fight against the Chinese Empire.
The information on the attack of the Boston Imperial Navy fleet was transmitted back by Le Cheng, who had already served as the assistant to the prime minister, and when this news came back, Fang Xiaoyu found that he had played a little too far.
The Boston Empire actually took out all the belongings of the Eastern Ocean Fleet at all costs, including eight battleships and twenty-one cruisers, in addition to a large number of supply ships and a whole division of landing troops.