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The group of planes that appeared in the sky made the fleeing devils relax a little, but soon had a clear reaction in their minds, that way was not an imperial plane at all, and the direction of the flight was not right, and immediately retracted into the car and pulled the car cover, "No, it's the enemy's plane, disperse quickly!" ”

The hundreds of bombers of the Soviet Air Force did not attack the armored vehicles of the devils at first, but stared at the Japanese "mechanized" units that had been heavily damaged by the shelling of the new 38th Division, because there were anti-aircraft guns that could threaten them, although it was estimated that there were only a few left

After dozens of cluster aerial bombs weighing 600 kilograms were dropped, almost all of the less than 1,000 cars that survived the Japanese army were blown up, and less than one-tenth of the devils who escaped by chance were killed, and most of them were not lightly injured. At the same time that the bomber formation cleared its own hidden dangers, the more than 200 fighters escorted it preemptively launched an attack on the devil's tanks and armored vehicles, because they were worried that the trip would be intercepted by Japanese planes, so these fighters did not carry bombs, and freed up the load to give up the cannon shells and aviation gasoline, but this does not mean that these Soviet boys could not help the iron kings on the ground

When it was less than 500 meters away from a certain tank, the two 20 guns in the nose opened fire fiercely at the same time, aiming at the top of the tank where the armor was weakest

Historically, it was not until the Soviet pilots invented the tactics of attacking the top that the tanks designed by various countries began to pay attention to the protection of the top armor (the Soviet T-34 medium tank strengthened the top and side rear armor protection at the beginning), and before that, the top armor has always been the weakest of all parts, especially the Japanese tanks that have always been thin-skinned, take the current devil's strongest Type 98 medium tank, its main armor thickness has reached 50, This figure is even comparable to Germany's most advanced tank No. 4 (although Japan's armor steel is only two-thirds of that of Germany's due to its inferior performance). Therefore, the actual protection is still much worse. It has reached the current advanced level on the shijie, but the thickness of its top armor is only a meagre 8, even if the two 16 guns on the I-20 fighters of the Soviet aid air force are not equipped with special armor-piercing shells, it is enough to beat it to pieces. The top armor of the Japanese tank, which is less than a centimeter thick and not very good, can easily penetrate even the extremely cheap 20 hardened steel core bullets at a distance of several hundred meters

However, there are also several shortcomings in the fight against tanks by aerial artillery. First, the shell is solid and cannot explode, and the power is slightly insufficient, but even if it is a solid shell, it will splash steel fragments in the process of penetrating the top armor at high speed, causing damage to the people in the car. Moreover, the 20 guns are fired continuously, and even if one shot cannot kill the crew in the tank, few of them will be able to survive in a string. There is also a more direct solution, which is to attack the upper armor of the engine compartment instead of hitting the car cover. Although this part is very important, because of the ground artillery fire (the same is true for aerial bombs, because aerial bombs generally fall to the ground and explode a range, the probability of directly hitting the tank is so small that it is almost negligible. Because of the dead end, it is difficult to hurt, so the armor is also very thin, and after the engine is broken, the tank is completely lying on its stomach

Second, the machine gun needs the aircraft to dive at a low altitude, and if there are small-caliber anti-aircraft guns or even anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground, it is bound to pose a great threat to the aircraft. For example, the best dive bomber pilot of all time, "Tank Killer" Rudel, was shot down 32 times during World War II, most of which were done by anti-aircraft machine guns on enemy tanks and armored vehicles. However, for the current Soviet aid air force, this threat can almost be ignored, because the devil is paranoid about the pursuit of economy. As a result, all the tanks were not equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns that they should have under normal circumstances. Although some armored vehicles are equipped with 13.2 anti-aircraft machine guns, because the protection of armored vehicles is much weaker than that of tanks, and the shrapnel of a slightly larger caliber shell can damage or even destroy them, most of them have long been lost in previous shelling. Even if a few were lucky enough not to be killed, they were quickly destroyed by the cluster aerial bombs dropped by the bomber formations of the Soviet Air Force. Therefore, the pilots of the Soviet aid air force generally dared to fly to a low altitude or even an ultra-low altitude to attack, and this undoubtedly greatly increased the hit rate and lethality of the bombs and cannons. As a result, in just ten minutes, the devils lost more than 300 combat vehicles, which taught the whole army a good lesson, and made them deeply imprint in their hearts the great threat of aircraft to armored forces

Speaking of the commander of the Japanese First Mecha Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka is also a great blessing, seeing that he is about to die here, the Japanese Army Aviation aircraft finally arrived at the battlefield, and the fighters of the Soviet Air Force had to shift their targets to deal with this threat, so the delay not only consumed time, but also used up a lot of fuel (compared to the short range of the I-16 fighter) and shells, the Japanese Mecha First Army finally barely escaped a small part, and the devils whose morale had collapsed did not dare to stay, fled back to Xuzhou, which had been controlled by the main force at this time, and at this time there were only more than 300 chariots and more than 2,000 people left in the whole army

After a fierce battle, more than 100 Japanese planes were shot down, and the Soviet aid air force, including the losses caused by sporadic anti-aircraft fire on the ground, was shot down less than 30 planes. In addition to the superiority of the Soviet Air Force in terms of personnel, equipment, and the leadership of the main generals, the "eight-plane formation" tactic pioneered by Pokryshkin and the help of advanced airborne radio stations also contributed to such a huge disparity in the air combat exchange ratio

Due to the lack of reliable airborne radios and the lack of excellent tactical guidance of the Japanese air force, the largest single aviation formation is only more than 100 planes in history or in this time and space, which has not improved much in history until the defeat of Japan, and the "eight-plane formation" tactics created by Pokryshkin in advance combined with the latest airborne radio stations of each aircraft have been allocated to each aircraft by the Soviet aid air force at present, but the Soviet aid air force can dispatch thousands of planes at a time to form a super-large-scale flight formation

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