Chapter 708: Bombing (End)
Looking at the lower part of the fuselage, those bombs fell from the bomb magazine like raindrops, and the mentality of the pilots piloting the plane seemed a little complicated. As I once said, this is their first time participating in actual combat, and many recruits will have a reaction on their body, and they will naturally have it on their body.
In the same way, they knew exactly how powerful the weapon they were piloting, and when they saw the bombs raining down on the ground, they almost understood what would happen to the Russian cavalry below...
Ejoice, excitement, joy?
Sad, sad, or a blank in your head?
I'm afraid no one can clearly understand the thoughts in the hearts of these nearly 1,000 pilots, after all, everyone is different...
However, no matter what they thought in their hearts at the moment, those aerial bombs finally brought a devastating blow to the Soviet Russian cavalry on the ground...
At this time, the establishment of army aviation bombers was relatively rough, after all, this weapon had just been finalized and put into service for a short time. Even if there had been a long period of practice before entering service, no one knew how to use these weapons in order to play their role...
Therefore, the establishment of these bombers is similar to that of the fighter group of the Army Aviation, which is a 4-aircraft formation. To put it simply, four bombers are a squadron, three squadrons are a squadron, plus the planes of the squadron leader and deputy squadron leader, a total of fourteen bombers. The three squadrons were a group, and counting the planes of the chief and deputy captains, there were forty-four bombers in total. Every three brigades is a regiment, counting the planes of the chief and deputy commanders. A total of one hundred and thirty-four bombers.
In this way, it became the basic establishment of a bomber regiment.
However, this time, the number of bombers in Wang Yuqing's regiment was not 134, but 162.
H-19γ As you can see from the number, this bomber entered service only in 19. Although China's industrial strength is relatively strong, especially the aviation industry, which is relatively new to the world, it has reached the leading point, and the structure of this H-19 bomber is relatively simple, at least much simpler than the B-29 and the like in later generations.
But in just one year, no. It is impossible to mass-produce such a bomber even in less than a year.
So today, there are only three bomber regiments in the country.
These three bomber regiments. They are stationed in the Urals, Beijing and Shenyang military regions. As for the other military regions, since the threat they face is not very great, they will not be able to take care of it for the time being.
Not surprising, after all, is now a region in China where war is likely to take place. There are only a few of them. Among them, the northeast side has now started training with the Japanese on the Yalu River. The Ural Military District is also facing pressure from Soviet Russia, coupled with the fact that Beijing is the capital of a country, the capital of Beijing, and there is a Bohai Bay there, these three places must be the first to be equipped with this weapon...
On the other hand, although the banks of the Yalu River are lively, in fact, the pressure brought by Japan is not very great, and there is no need to worry about it at all. So one army bombardment regiment is enough.
In the same way, Beijing is indeed very important. After all, it is the capital of the country, but with the protection of military ports such as Dalian and Weihai, plus there are still a large number of submarines loitering in the Bohai Bay, in addition to the fact that Tianjin and other places are heavily guarded, it is almost impossible for the enemy to land in the Bohai Bay, so Beijing's security can also be temporarily put on the back burner.
Only the Urals ...
Even now that Soviet Russia is busy dealing with Britain and France, the pressure it brings is still too great. You must know that the strength of Soviet Russia has now reached more than 4 million, and according to the estimates of the Special Affairs Bureau and the Ministry of National Defense, it is not impossible to reach more than 5 million next year, and at present, the strength of the entire Chinese army is only more than 2 million.
Of course, in many cases, it is not only about troops, but also about weapons and equipment, as well as logistics. Although Soviet Russia had a large number of troops, compared with China, the gap in weapons and equipment was obviously very large. What's more, don't look at the current Chinese military strength is only more than 2 million, as long as you want to, you can expand the military strength to more than 10 million at any time, after all, China's population is there.
However, with the scale of China's industry, it is difficult to say whether it can support such a large number of troops, after all, China's industrial scale is not particularly outstanding today.
Don't look at the scale, it doesn't seem to be very small, but if you count it per capita...
However, in any case, the more than 4 million troops of Soviet Russia have always brought great pressure to the Urals. Moreover, the distance between the Urals and the interior is too far, and the logistical difficulties of relying on two railways alone are obviously much greater than those of Soviet Russia.
The most important thing is...
The Urals, especially Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural province, can be said to be the gateway of Soviet Russia to Siberia. If this gateway is breached, then the gates of the whole of Siberia will be opened to Soviet Russiaββββββ don't forget, how close Siberia is to Soviet Russia, even if China has two railways available, the advantage in this regard is not comparable to Soviet Russia...
Therefore, even if it is just to ensure the security of Siberia, China needs to deploy a large number of troops in the Urals, and some other new technical equipment will be used in the Urals first...
This time it was the same, originally the bombers should have been equipped in Beijing first, after all, the security of the capital is very important. But in the end, under Yan Shao's emphasis, all the bombers produced in the end were sent to the Urals.
Moreover, even when there is only one regiment in Beijing and Shenyang, and there is not even a single bomber in other places, the Ural Military District is ready to equip almost 400 aircraft, that is, one division of H-19, to form a bomber division ...
The two extra squadrons of the bombers commanded by Wang Yuqing were originally intended to form a second bomber regiment, but the follow-up bombers and pilots have not yet arrivedββββββ so do you have to come step by step...
But...
Even at present, these bombers are equipped with 100-kilogram aerial bombs. And the number of bombers was only one regiment plus two squadrons, but even so, the power of more than a thousand aerial bombs. It's still unimaginable. What's more, any of these aerial bombs will be far stronger than heavy artillery shells of the same weight in terms of power...
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The conventional bomb load of the H-19 is 1 ton, and each bomb is 100 kg, which means that one H-19 can carry 10 bombs. At present, there are a total of 162 bombers in the sky above the 7th Cavalry Division, which is 1,620 aerial bombs...
If they were all hit on the head by these bombs, it would almost be equivalent to being fired in a salvo of 1,620 heavy guns. And it is the one with a larger caliber than the 210mm gun.
The most important thing is...
At this moment, they were riding on horseback, not hiding in the trenches. It's also surrounded by plains, and there is no shelter...
This is undoubtedly extremely fatal for Antonov ...
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Aerial bombs rained down from the sky, and the air waves set off by the explosion directly tore all the surrounding Soviet cavalry apart and flew away...
Although Antonov's order was given in a timely manner. But the marching cavalry units were not so easy to change formations. What's more, the cavalry units of this era have never encountered an air attack, and there is no good solution to the bomber group flying from a distance.
In addition, Wang Yuqing and the speed at which they flew over were very fast, but before the Seventh Cavalry Division could disperse, those aerial bombs had already fallen on their heads, and these aerial bombs also brought them heavy losses...
Under the 'rain of bullets', these Soviet cavalry did not even have the ability to resist. It's a one-sided slaughter...
And for those Soviet cavalrymen who were not yet dead, what happened to their companions around them was also terrifying. At the same time, the explosions around them made them want to escape from here.
Fortunately, the horses of the Seventh Riding Division are all trained, even if the explosion occurs around, as long as the distance is not particularly close, most of the war horses will not have problems...
After witnessing dozens of his comrades-in-arms being blown up by a bomb, Alexei, who was only 21 years old, felt a chill in his heart. He once thought about using his horse pistol to shoot back at the enemy in the air, but his horse pistol could not hit the enemy in the sky at all, and in the end he had no choice but to lie on the horse's back and flee for his life...
Alixei was lucky, when his comrades were sent to the sky by the explosion one by one, he was always on the edge of those explosions, although the qiΔ set off by the explosion affected him, but did not cause him any damage, and the partner under his crotch, in this hellish scene, also showed a very tenacious spirit, not like other war horses crazy, running around, but obeying Alixe's orders, constantly running towards the 'road of hope'...
"Hurry up, a little bit in one piece!"
After galloping his horse for almost a minute, Alexei was excited when he saw that he was about to run out of the range of the explosion.
He could see that there were few planes in the sky and bombs, and then he just had to escape from here, and those heavenly enemies would not care about such an insignificant cavalryman as him...
Thinking of this, Alexei waved his horsewhip again, trying to make his companion under his crotch run faster.
And it seemed that the pain in his hip felt Alexei's mood, and the war horse under his crotch also ran faster.
Finally, he rushed out of the smoke of the explosions, and the moment he rushed out, he was even disgraced. This is not surprising, after all, it is more than a thousand aerial bombs, even if he is lucky not to enter the effective killing range of the aerial bombs, but the smoke and dust kicked by the explosion will still not bypass him, his luck is already very good, just made by those dust, unlike his comrades...
I'm very lucky to be able to leave a whole corpse...
Rushing out of the smoke and dust, Alexei felt like he had escaped, because it meant that there were no more bombs for those enemies in the sky, and it also meant that he was safe.
Merely...
Just in his arms this thought. He slowed down his crotch partner and was about to look back at what was going on behind him, when he suddenly heard a buzzing sound in his ears from far and near. It's as if those planes in the sky are suddenly approaching...
Just when he was wondering what was going on, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, and then he heard a series of gunshots...
At the same time, more than 100 meters above him, a [Winged Fire Snake] fighter was wantonly strafing Alixei on the ground, waiting for him to raise his fuselage, Alixei and his partner on the ground had already been unrecognizable...
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On the plains. Just when the remnants of the cavalry of the 7th Cavalry Division finally left a life under the bombardment of the bombers, they were slaughtered again by the escort fighter group...
Moreover, this time the massacre was noticeably more detailed than the previous bombardment...
Not surprising either. Although it is more than 1,000 aerial bombs, it is still a little bit worse to destroy a cavalry division at one time...
Especially before the bombing, Antonov had already given a more sensible order to disperse. Although this order was issued. The cavalry division was a little confused, and it wasn't particularly effective, but the effect was always there, at least a lot of the cavalry fled to both sides, and there had to be some luck like Alexei, who also survived the bombardment...
In the end, under the bombardment, the 7th Cavalry Division, which originally had more than 6,000 people. In the end, only more than 2,000 people survived...
But obviously, before you go. Wang Yuqing had already expected that a bombardment would not be able to completely solve this cavalry division, so before setting off, he had already issued an order to the escorting troops, asking them to continue to slaughter the surviving cavalry after the bombing, and this also led to the complete destruction of the 7th Cavalry Division...
The cavalrymen who had been lucky enough to survive the bombardment were slaughtered again and again before they could celebrate their good fortune.
After the bombardment, the fighters who had been escorting them lowered their altitude and began to strafe cavalry like Alixa. Those cavalrymen are rejoicing in their good fortune, few people will still be vigilant, plus they just came out of the explosion, their hearing is a little less sensitive, even if the fighter above has flown very close, they may not be able to feel it, and they can't dodge it in time...
Outcome...
The fighters in the sky slaughtered the cavalry on the ground with impunity, and in the face of the slaughter of the fighters, the remaining cavalry did not even have the ability to fight back except for fleeing for their lives...
Looking at this scene in front of him, Antonov, who was also lucky to survive, almost gritted his teeth...
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As the commander of the 7th Cavalry Division, Antonov was always proud of his troops, believing that no enemy in this world could destroy his own troops. Whether it is those hateful intervention troops and white bandits, or those vile and shameless Chinese in the rear of the Ural Mountains...
However, at this moment, after surviving the bombing by luck, he could only watch those planes in the sky with his own eyes and launch a one-sided slaughter of his subordinates!
At this moment, he wished that he had died in the explosion just now, instead of surviving to witness the humiliating scene in front of him!
"You damned cowards, don't hide in the sky, come down, come down and fight us!" Grabbing a horse pistol from several soldiers who had survived like him, Antonov raised his horse pistol and fired a shot at a fighter in the air that was chasing several cavalrymen.
Antonov's marksmanship was accurate, and that shot accurately hit the fuselage of the plane.
But the plane continued to chase and kill the cavalry as if it didn't feel anything.
Seeing this scene, Antonov clenched his teeth and fired the machine gun again, which, like the previous one, was also accurate. All but one shot was missed, and all the remaining shots hit the plane...
Finally, he managed to attract the attention of the plane, which soon turned around and flew towards Antonov's figure...
Noticing this scene, several of Antonov's subordinates did not even praise Antonov's marksmanship, and had already fled on horseback to both sides. The series of encounters just now had completely frightened them, they no longer had the courage and fighting spirit of the past, and when they saw these demons in the sky flying towards them, they had no second thoughts except to escape...
At the same time, Antonov was loaded with bullets and continued to shoot at the plane, while the partner under his crotch, who had been following him for many years, was also standing there motionless, ensuring the accuracy of his old man's shooting...
Merely...
Just as the plane that had been shot several times by Antonov in the air turned around, intending to make Antonov look like the others, before the plane could fire, the pilot of the plane saw Antonov who was firing at him, and the men and horses were sieveed by a series of bullets fired from the side.
After seeing this with his own eyes, the pilot on the plane 'cut' and then turned the nose of the plane again to participate in the massacre of the surviving cavalry on the ground...
About 20 minutes later, under the strafing fire of more than 100 fighter jets, there was not a single living person left on the plain except for the corpses...
More than ten minutes later, Wang Yuqing began to withdraw from this airspace with his troops, and more than an hour later, when the 11th Cavalry Division felt the scene, the destruction of the 7th Cavalry Division shocked the entire Soviet Russia... (To be continued......)