Chapter 98: Chinese are not afraid of death
"Send a report to the army headquarters, the air raid was a complete success." Shen Chongyu, who was excited, ordered the telegraph operator on the plane, but suddenly heard the pilot of the second plane shouting anxiously through the on-board radio, "Squadron leader, be careful!" ”
I saw that the three Japanese carrier-based fighters probably returned home after carrying out the alert mission, and after discovering that the fleet had been attacked, they immediately swooped down on the three Type 93 bombardments on Shen Chongzhi's side, and the bomber that issued the early warning bore the brunt of the attack, and soon burst out of smoke and tumbled into the sea under the concentrated fire of a total of six machine guns on the three Japanese fighters
"Li Shan! Bao Wenlin! Shen Chongyu angrily called out the names of the pilot and bombardier on the plane, but just a dozen seconds later, the plane he was piloting also became the enemy's target, although he relied on superb flight jishu continuously dodged the enemy's two rounds of strafeing, but the bomber will be the fighter after all, after all, Shen Chongyu felt that the risk was too great, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, even the machine gunner did not bring, so now it can only be made a cameo by the bombardier, and the shooting accuracy is obviously not good, This makes it even more powerless to fight back. Shen Chongxue, who knew that he could not be spared, came with the determination to die, and at this moment he resolutely issued an order to his subordinates, "If there are bombs, throw them, and if they don't have bombs, blow up the troop carrier first (there is no anti-aircraft firepower, and the volume is much larger.) Bomb the warship again, let the little devils see, we Chinese are not afraid of death! ”
Yu Bi Shen Chongzhi took the lead in driving the plane and rushed towards a nearby troop carrier, and the three Japanese fighters suddenly followed his landline like crazy and fired wildly, but the power of the 7.7mm machine gun was too small, and it was not very difficult to penetrate the shell of the bomber and kill the crew inside, but it was almost impossible to hit the huge bomber into a volley explosion, even if it was lucky enough to hit the fuel tank, it could only make it catch fire and burn. But at this time, Shen Chongzhi was already bent on death, he used his body to press the lever tightly, even after being killed by dozens of machine gun bullets in his body, his 93-type heavy bombardment still barely changed direction, and dived towards the giant passenger ship with a displacement of more than 15,000 tons diagonally at an increasing speed
"Are the Chinese crazy?" Even the officers and men of Japan's most elite permanent division were also shocked by Shen Chongzhi's determination to die at this time, and the unprecedented despair caused by the fact that they could only wait for death made them feel frightened, and some of the younger Japanese soldiers on the ship were even so frightened that they shouted "Mom". And even the few veterans who were still able to maintain their composure were deeply shocked by Shen Chongzhi's courage, and unconsciously exchanged the habitual disparagestation of "China" for "China" for the first time
Although Shen Chongzhi's landline has no ammunition except for some machine gun bullets, its weight of more than 6 tons alone has unimaginable destructive power when it rushes down from a high altitude, after all, no matter how large the tonnage of a civilian ship is, it is also a civilian ship, and it is actually very fragile without armor protection. It was only after a loud bang that the huge ship, whose tonnage even exceeded that of the aircraft carrier Longxiang, was shrouded in billowing smoke, the flames spread everywhere on the ship, and the air was filled with the disgusting smell of barbecue, and many soldiers jumped into the sea in panic, but less than a third of them were rescued later. And the troop carrier, which had been burned to the point of almost an empty shell, finally sank to the bottom of the sea
Inspired by the squadron leader, plus the other three Japanese carrier-based planes on alert also returned, completely cutting off everyone's way of life, and the crew members of the remaining ten bombers also rushed to the nearest ships with the determination to die. Six Japanese fighters kept pouring machine gun bullets, but only one bomber was blown up until some of the machine guns began to overheat and jam due to continuous fire. …,
As for the anti-aircraft guns on those warships, the performance of the small-caliber machine guns is not good, the firing range is not enough, and it is very difficult to protect themselves and the ships next to them, not to mention those troop carriers that are far away (ships sailing in the same direction generally try to keep a distance from each other, otherwise the small boats will be sucked by the big ships due to the principle of hydrodynamics and cause collision accidents), and the rate of fire and hit rate of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns (Note 1) are really not complimentary, so more than 100 anti-aircraft guns on so many warships have opened fire, but only two have been shot. Among the seven bombers that were not shot down, all of them threw away their bombs without hesitation and crashed into the Japanese troop carriers, and those with bombs exploded one and then hit another, and one of the bombs that had not yet been thrown away was stared at by the enemy planes, worried that the night would be long and dreamy, so they simply took the bombs and stabbed directly towards the nearest giant ship, and for a time the sound of explosions was endless, and the billowing smoke could be seen clearly dozens of miles away, which became an obvious signpost. The Red Army fighter brigade, which was in a state of flux, quickly determined the direction of its advance. But even so, Gao Zhihang and they were still a step late
Gao Zhihang saw the enemy ships that were about to sink with smoke on the sea and the six Japanese fighters that were about to fly to Dalian because the aircraft carrier was gone, and he immediately guessed the battle that had just happened. ”
Without waiting for Gao Zhihang's order, the Red Army's fighters swooped down on the remaining six carrier-based planes of the Japanese army in groups of two and two (the 22 formation can improve the utilization rate of the aircraft). Although these 24 Type 95 fighters are quite advanced fighter models of the Japanese Army Air Force at present, there is still a certain gap compared with the latest equipment of the Japanese Navy's Type 96 carrier-based fighters, and the quality of the pilots of the Japanese Navy is extremely high, and most of them are novice rookie Red Army pilots can be compared, even if there is a numerical advantage of 24 to 6, the Red Army fighter group will inevitably have a lot of losses, and the Japanese pilots are even more out of habitual contempt for the Chinese Air Force. Despite the fact that most of the machine gun ammunition and aviation gasoline have been consumed, they insist on staying to fight. But this maiden battle of the Red Army fighter brigade surprised almost everyone
Note 1: In fact, before the invention of the proximity fuze, large-caliber anti-aircraft guns did not rely on direct attacks, at that time, the fixed height fuse was generally used, that is, the shell will explode when it flies to a specific height, but before this kind of shell is launched, the artillery needs to calculate the height of the enemy aircraft and set the fuse height in advance, and the effect of dealing with the bomber formation acting together is okay, but in the current chaotic situation of ten bombers fighting separately, it is too late to be busy