Chapter 360: One-sided aerial slaughter
Air strikes before the start of the day of the operation, just appetizers.
However, the aircraft of the World War II era were easy to transfer and could even take off directly on ordinary roads, and air raids were only effective the first time.
On the same day, Japan diverted a large number of aircraft, making it pointless to continue the air raids.
Comparing the precision strike effect of missiles and guided bombs, the value of the targets that can be hit is too small.
The strategic bomber unit has become the main force of air strikes.
In particular, the air raids on the Ryukyu Islands were carried out on a large scale on the day of the start of the day, with strategic bombing units from the Mariana Islands, Iwo Jima, and Ogasawara Islands.
On the island of Okinawa, a large number of Japanese defense facilities were destroyed one after another.
In this air raid of the Air Force, the reconnaissance department of the Space Force gave more than 1,800 main targets, 3,000 secondary targets, and more than 2,000 optional targets.
The three-day bombing resulted in the dropping of more than 20,000 precision-guided bombs of more than 500 kilograms, destroying a large number of Japanese bunkers on the island of Okinawa.
At the same time, a large number of special detachments infiltrated the Okinawa Islands in submarines during the bombing, carried out detailed fire reconnaissance, and guided the fighters to accurately destroy the Japanese defense facilities on the island.
There is no detailed timetable for the plan of action for the Fourth Theater of Operations, and the time to prepare firepower can be half a month or a month, because this will be the last landing battle of the Fourth Theater against Japan.
Therefore, all kinds of preparations were quite sufficient, and many special forces who landed on Okinawa Island were mixed in with the Japanese army, lurking in search of valuable targets for attack.
And this also gave Ushijima a taste of what is called a new mode of war.
Completely different from the previous Pacific theater, the Xuanwu Fleet did not bomb Okinawa indiscriminately, did not waste ammunition, and every attack was aimed at the direction of precise strikes.
The special forces who infiltrated the Japanese army, after confirming that there was a strike, would leave behind the miniature positioning system, and then leave, and the bombing would follow.
A large number of tunnels and bunkers prepared by the Japanese on the island were all destroyed by precision strike missiles.
In the face of those sturdy bunkers, the main guns of the Hades battleship will occasionally join in the excitement and brush up on their presence.
There was no rumbling artillery fire, only accurate point fire, as if there was a gap between machine gun fire and a sniper.
This made Ushijima quite puzzled, and he couldn't understand why the enemy didn't make a mistake in attacking one by one.
Ushijima, who couldn't figure it out, could only order the troops, continue to hold their positions tightly, and wait for the enemy to land.
However, time passed day by day, and the Red Guard Corps still had no intention of landing, and the Japanese positions on the island were rapidly destroyed every day, and in just a few days, half of the Japanese defense facilities on the island were lost.
Ushijima Mitsuru has not yet been unable to sit still, and the Japanese naval and land air forces have not been able to sit still.
Because the strategic bombing force of the Red Guard Corps began to carry out devastating bombing of a large number of aviation airfields on Kyushu Island.
and the devastating bombing of the Japanese aircraft factories in Kure, Osaka, and Kobe, as well as air raids on air supply bases on the island of Kyushu.
Under repeated bombing, the losses of the Japanese air force became serious.
In the eyes of the Japanese, if the aviation is not mobilized again, there will be no chance.
On the eighth day of the operation, Japan dispatched its first batch of more than 200 carrier-based planes to launch an air attack on an aircraft carrier battle group located less than 120 kilometers off the edge of Kyushu Island.
However, before these planes could get close to the carrier battle group, they were intercepted by twelve Wasp carrier-based aircraft and quickly destroyed.
The Wasp vertical take-off and landing planes that took off from the new amphibious assault ship also carried out precision strikes on the exposed Japanese airfields, destroying dozens of Japanese fighters.
However, the Japanese did not give up, gathered almost all the fighters that could take off, launched a large-scale suicide attack on the three-aircraft carrier battle group, and also dispatched motorboats and suicide torpedoes at sea.
On these motorboats, the so-called Japanese soldiers, all of whom were only 14 to 16 years old, shouted that they had sunk the Red Alert aircraft carrier, rushed into the sea, and rushed directly towards the position of the aircraft carrier battle group.
This is the last madness of the Japanese navy and air force, and no matter what the outcome of this battle, the last vestiges of Japan's vitality will be exhausted.
More than 600 Japanese planes were densely packed and frantically approached the three-aircraft carrier battle group.
Many of the pilots on these planes were all novices, not professional aviation pilots, and the flight time was within 30 hours.
And these pilots have one thing in common, that is, they are very young, the oldest is only in their twenties, and the youngest is even less than fifteen years old.
On their planes, there were hardly any attacking bombs, but on the contrary, the planes were all filled with high explosives.
After the bloody battles in the Pacific, Japan has already lost all those excellent pilots, and although Japan has been training reserve pilots in the mainland, it is a pity that the war did not give Japan enough time.
Many pilots did not reach the level of qualified pilots, and some were sent into the sky with a glass of Zhuangxing wine before they even learned how to land the plane.
On the ground of Kyushu Island, a large number of Japanese women looked at the group of planes flying in the sky with a desolate expression.
There was no cheer for the trip, only silent tears, and every time the plane went out, none of them came back.
There are also many people who fell directly to their knees on the ground and sent their sons away.
The morning sun rose, and the afterglow of the morning sun fell on these planes, and they crossed the coastline, a hundred kilometers away, and were the targets of this attack.
However, before the relatives who had seen them leave could withdraw their gaze, a piercing whistling sound was heard in the sky, and a dense number of missiles fell in the group, and a dense explosion appeared in the Japanese group.
The panicked fleet of planes scattered in all directions, and some planes even collided directly in the sky.
In the sky, hundreds of Wasp carrier-based planes appeared above the clouds, one after another combat missiles broke away from the pylons under the wings, and one Japanese fighter plane after another exploded in the sky.
With its speed, the Wasp carrier-based aircraft, which quickly rushed into the group, launched a one-sided slaughter.
On the coastline, many Japanese people screamed and shouted something, and looked at the downed planes with sad tears.
Some extreme Japanese even simply cut themselves by the sea and went with their families.
As a result of a one-sided air war, this is no longer a war, but a one-sided slaughter, and if such a war continues, it will become meaningless.