Chapter 2: Hearty air raids
Revenge came so quickly. Junichiro Mako was unprepared. After receiving a report on the enemy situation from a squad leader of the military police brigade at the airport, he ran out of the office, and watched in amazement as he watched the 15 "Flying Fortresses" descend and drop bombs in an invincible posture amid the piercing sound of air raid sirens.
The air defense of the Kaohsiung airfield was still very tight, and the response of the troops was not bad. The lookout post was about to sound the air defense siren, and the devils of the air defense forces had already entered the position. Immediately, the sound of the "empty ......" anti-aircraft artillery rumbled, and "fireworks" burst out one after another under the "air fortress." It was beautiful to look at, and the momentum of indomitable progress was enough, but it looked so helpless and weak, as if it was laughing at itself.
The 101 piloted by Tie Linfei was the first to drop bombs. After all, it was a long-distance high-altitude rapid landing, and although Tie Linfei had controlled the details to the best, the first round of bombs dropped by 101 was still unsatisfactory, and only a few of them hit the airport in the end. That's enough, though. The first few fighters in the 101 and other formations were all equipped with anti-runway bombs, and the explosives department of this research and development institute will successfully develop and equip the bombs of the troops, not to mention that only a few of them have fallen on the runway of the airport, and once they are blown up, there will be hundreds of small craters. The craters were connected and at once completely destroyed a take-off runway. As a result, a Japanese plane on the runway, which was sprinting with all its strength and preparing to pull up, was caught off guard and plunged headlong into the dense tunnel, turning into a stupid bird that could not fly headfirst and tail to the sky.
"Get out of the way, let me take off first!" Asakura didn't pull the cockpit seal, he directly turned on the plane engine, and then shouted as he controlled the plane to the other take-off runway.
But the airport is too chaotic, all the devil pilots are trying to lift their fighters into the air, and the ground controllers have lost effective management of the airport, which has instead caused the airport to be blocked. Chaocang Ying simply stood up and shouted and scolded, wanting to take the lead in the air: "Bage, get out of the way, let me take off first!" Eight squares! ”
When Asakura Eagle was still trying to rise into the air to face the battle, Tie Lin Fei and the others would not give him another chance. After flying three Japanese planes in succession, the two "Flying Fortresses" numbered 103 and 111 adjusted their positions and completed the bomb dropping in a timely manner. Nearly 150 anti-runway bombs densely covered the remaining two take-off runways, and the next moment, these two runways were blown up into loopholes, and there were potholes on them, not to mention landing planes, and even walking became difficult.
Once the runway is destroyed, the next thing is the slaughter of those Japanese planes. 103 and 111 quickly pulled away, and the other fighters immediately replenished.
Several more fighters flew over the air defense positions, and one frequented an oil storage depot not far away.
Seeing that the take-off runway was completely destroyed, and his front was also blocked by fighters, he yelled angrily into the sky: "Despicable Shina, you have the ability to let me rise into the air and duel with me!" ”
"Boom!" The sound of continuous explosions drowned out his voice, and one after another Japanese planes were easily shredded like building blocks, turning into flaming fireballs and scattering in all directions. From time to time, a ghost soldier who cried wolf and was on fire rushed out of the fireball, which made more and more ghost soldiers on the fighter plane that had not yet been engulfed by the explosion choose to abandon the plane and flee.
"Is the captain crazy?"
"There is this possibility, the blow is too huge!"
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A few devils ran past Asakura Hawk, looked at him like an idiot with sympathetic eyes, and then tacitly exchanged glances, dragged him off the plane, picked him up and ran. The only ace of air combat in the Asakura Brigade - even if you are crazy, you are still a hero, isn't it?
"It was these fighters who blew up the 'Akagi'! The Empire's combined fleet was almost destroyed by these fighters, for what? Why don't the high-ranking officials of the empire strengthen the development of aviation?! The maworker, who finally came to his senses, watched the huge fighter planes dumping bombs wantonly on top of the anti-aircraft fire, and muttered with a look of remorse.
The three Type 92 fighters produced by Nakajima did not immediately enter the battlefield after they climbed quickly, but first bypassed them far away, and then formed a zigzag formation outside the battlefield, and then recognized a "LZ-I" numbered 112 and rushed over. "Kill, give!" As soon as a fighter plane in front of it entered the firing range, its pilot hissed and roared and opened fire eagerly, and the two machine guns on its wings spit out dazzling flames, which made the devil soldiers on the ground who were lucky enough to see this scene feel a little relieved - the Imperial air force finally flew up, even if it could shoot down an enemy plane. However, the Japanese were stunned by the scene that followed, dozens of machine gun bullets accurately hit 112, but 112 was like a giant being punched by a child, and there was no reaction. And the three devil pilots who flew the Type 92 fighter saw it more clearly, and they were surprised to find that the blow of so many bullets actually only left a faint scratch on the fuselage of the 112, and they actually failed to penetrate it.
"Eight grids?! What kind of fighter is this? The Japanese pilot, who was the first to fire, muttered, forgetting to continue firing. Although the pilots of the two Japanese planes that followed were also frightened by this scene, they held on to the psychology of luck, thinking that it was because the range was too long, so they all flew closer and wanted to shoot at close range, but they did not believe that the 112 was really "invulnerable". Of course, the 112 and the recent "LZ-I" are not dead objects - it is already a mistake to let them fire first, and it cannot be a mistake again and again. The shooters on several nearby "Flying Fortresses" that had been prepared for a long time opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets immediately knocked all three fighters into funnels, and one of them was even hit by a volley explosion and disintegrated, and the pilot and fighter planes were engulfed in a flaming firework together, and then turned into fragments and flew in all directions.
"Do the little devils think that our 'Flying Fortress' is just a simple bomber?! Ha Luha, what about six machine guns, this is not an ornament! Stupidity! Tie Linfei said with a sneer, pulling up the 101 who threw the bomb, and turned to the task of vigilance.
There is certainly not only one airfield on the island of Taiwan, and it would not be beautiful if it was attacked by enemy planes taking off from other airfields, and the damage to the "LZ-I" from the Japanese airborne machine guns was limited, but what if the Japanese themselves went crazy and took a suicide attack or were equipped with machine guns? I have to guard against it, after all, the student army is so much of a belonging, if this is defeated at one time, then the commander-in-chief won't eat himself?!
On the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese air force played the role of having the absolute upper hand, thus fighting with a teasing mentality. But today, they themselves have become the object of ridicule, which all Japanese do not want to see and do not want to admit. However, in the face of the powerful deterrent power of the "LZ-I", they could only watch the fighter plane being destroyed but had no choice but to abandon the fighter in humiliation and flee for their lives.
This kind of role, Asakura Eagle would never have dreamed of playing before, but today he can't help it. He was dragged out of the cab by several of his men, and then struggled to be dragged away from the blazing airport like a red-eyed gambler.
At the edge of Dabao Village, Long Chen listened to the explosion that resounded in the sky, and his face was intoxicated. He felt that there was no more beautiful sound in the world than this explosion! And the blazing flame, how beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!
The father and son of the Xie family had already discovered his abnormality and surrounded him curiously. When they heard that it was a plane from the Cadet Army, they flew over from the sea to attack the Japanese airfield, and their faces turned red as if they had drunk a little wine, and they all looked extremely excited. "Is the Cadet Army really that strong?" Xie Luoyang asked again and again, not only did he not believe his ears, but even Chen Long's mouth did not believe it. "This explosion, this skyrocketing fire is not fake, right?" Xie Changan couldn't stand his brother's endless anymore, and scolded with a smile.
Xie Luoyang smiled stupidly and said, "I really didn't expect Little Japan to have such a day." Hehe, I don't know how the second grandson of King Lu Dao will feel when he sees this scene. ”
After the Japanese colonized Taiwan, they asked the Chinese to change their Japanese names, and the second grandson of Wang was originally surnamed Wang, but later added a second character to the queen, thus becoming "Wang Er". The Xie family actually has a Japanese surname, but that is to deal with the helplessness of the Japanese, but whenever there is no Japanese present, they call each other by their original names. And it is not difficult to see from the names of the three fathers and sons of the Xie family how eager they are to return to the embrace of the motherland! In the eyes of the people of Dabao Village, Wang's second grandson is a complete traitor, an unscrupulous descendant who has insulted his ancestors. Wang's second grandson's real name is Wang Chenghua, which is the name his father gave him, but he actually disliked it, changed it to Wang Erjuntai, and wagged his tail behind the Japanese "Taijun" all day long and begged for mercy. As a result, he was looked down upon by others in Dabao Village and became the "second grandson of the king".
In the past few days when Chen Long came, he was rarely heard of the "second grandson of Wang", and he said proudly: "Luoyang, you wait and see, the Japanese will have to eat deflated in the hands of our cadet soldiers in the future." It's not for me to amplify the words, this island of Taiwan will one day be recovered at the hands of our commander-in-chief! ”
Xie Luoyang and Xie Chang'an have listened to him talk about the deeds of Xuebing Bingjun and Ouyang Yun in the past few days, and they are convinced, but Xie Hanmin is noncommittal. The old man looks at things differently, and he also sees things with internal forces more deeply. In his opinion, although there was nothing to say about the determination of the Xuebing Army and Ouyang Yun to resist Japan, it was impossible for such a warlord force alone to defeat the Japanese. Whether China can really thwart Japan's conspiracy of co-prosperity in East Asia depends on the central government. But for now, the performance of the central government is not very confident about its future. "Even if the student army has a certain strength, what should be done at present should be Taoguang and obscurity. Ouyang Yun couldn't help but retaliate because of the Japanese sneak attack on Dongshan Island, this kind of bearing is not what a person who has achieved great things should have. In this way, the Japanese were certainly hit, but the next retaliation was only afraid that the strength of the Xuebing Army alone and the three places of Minyue and Qiong would not be able to resist it. The central government has been defeated and retreated, no matter how powerful Ouyang Yun and the Xuebing Army are, they can't be their opponents! The old man had his own logical thoughts, and looking at the burning battlefield in the distance, he felt a little pity after the initial excitement and after thinking about it carefully.
This round of bombing lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and then Tie Linfei gave the order to retreat without hesitation, and immediately turned around with all 15 "Flying Fortresses" and returned to Baiyunshan Airport in Guangzhou.
Ten minutes later, nearly 30 Japanese planes that had taken off from Taoyuan Airport rushed to the sky over Kaohsiung Airport, but in addition to the raging flames on the ground, there were also firefighters running around, and the figure of the "LZ-I" long-range bomber had already swept into the clouds and could not be found. This made Takada Yamatoshi Daisa, who led the rescue team angry, and scolded the people for being cunning, but there was nothing they could do but return in a huff.
Kaohsiung Airport suffered huge losses in this air raid, 63 of the 69 warplanes parked on the airport and in the hangars were destroyed, and the only oil storage depot was also set on fire and detonated.
Ma Gong, as the supreme commander of the base, will bear unshirkable responsibility for this attack. Therefore, when the cadet group left, he sat down on the ground, wanting to cry without tears, and he was not even in the mood to organize firefighting.
In stark contrast to his decadence, Asakura Taka seemed to have changed and become extremely active after looking at the sky where the Cadet Army Aircraft Group had left for a while. "Ladies and gentlemen, don't you have any thoughts about today's air raid?" He changed his previous state of being dragged off the landline to death, shouted excitedly, and gave a speech, attracting the attention of many pilots. The many pilots slowly approached him, the expressions on their faces were angry, but more than that—obviously, they hadn't recovered from the blow just now. Chao Cangying glanced at everyone with wide eyes, suddenly waved his right fist, and shouted: "I have a lot of ideas!" Didn't the performance of the people of China today touch you? The people of China, who were once overwhelmed by us, now have such advanced fighters! What does this mean? It shows that the people of China are more aware of the role of aviation in modern warfare than we are. Doesn't that touch us? Those bigwigs in our country, can they still treat our aviation forces as mere vassals of the army and navy? If this continues, sooner or later, we will lose the battle because of their short-sightedness! The sinking of the 'Akagi' and the situation today are illustrated. I have decided, I will write to His Majesty the Emperor. Gentlemen, you go to the book with me, we can't be silent any longer, the warplanes of the Chinese have already begun to bomb our homeland, if we are silent any longer, then sooner or later, our base camp may suffer this kind of air raid! That is a great threat to the Empire! You guys, got it? ”