Chapter 584, The Battle of Burma 32
"The brothers' decisive battle begins! Rush up and me hard! "Knock me down all these dog days, and leave no one behind!" "Brothers, kill!" Wei Lei, Li Tao, and Hu Gang respectively led the super fighter formation of the flight division of the headquarters in the shape of a zigzag, and marched all the way and finally collided head-on with the devil fighter group in the airspace from Zhaituo Town to Paben Town. The enemy is very red when they meet, the air forces of the two sides have long formed a mortal enemy, and at this time, the two sides meet again in the air, and then only the ultimate decisive battle between you and me remains.
"Fuck me!" Wei Lei rushed to the forefront first, adjusted the nose pointing and put the sight on a devil zero fighter, and then suddenly pressed the fire control switch. Bang bang bang, four clusters of blue light shot away in an instant. As an Air Force lieutenant general and division commander who has fought all the way, Wei Lei has long been an ace pilot with real money, and he is not an ordinary ace.
At this time, it is a sharp killing move as soon as you get started, and it does not drag the mud and water at all. Whether it is now or in modern society, it is very difficult to train excellent air force pilots, and an excellent pilot is even more valuable than a fighter. In addition, the high risk factor of pilots is a high-risk profession, and they face the danger of plane crash and death at any time, but at the same time, it is also easier to receive awards for meritorious service, coupled with the policy of encouragement and incentives, which also leads to the fact that the chances of pilots being promoted are much higher than those of the army.
As a result, pilots with the rank of colonel and colonel are common, unlike officers in other units, and it is extremely difficult to be promoted to the rank of colonel officer. And Wei Lei was able to be promoted to lieutenant general and division commander of the Air Force in one or two years, which is not only a matter of easy promotion in his career, but that he is indeed outstanding and has excellent real materials.
When the devil pilot on the opposite side saw the flash of fire in the distance, he keenly felt a thick killing plane rushing towards him, and quickly pulled up the nose of the plane without the slightest hesitation. The maneuverability of the Zero fighter is indeed outstanding, and in just over a second, this Zero fighter has climbed more than ten meters steeply, easily dodging Wei Lei's blow. "Yaga! Dead, dead, dead! "The devil pilot quickly adjusted the nose pointing, and then pressed the machine gun to shoot at the rapidly flying fighter plane." Hmph, little devil, you're thinking too much! ”
The corners of Wei Lei's mouth curled slightly, and the fighter he was piloting at this time had already rushed within 500 meters, and he pulled up the nose and pointed at the belly of the devil fighter. "Don't let me die yet!" In the flash of light, Wei Lei rushed within 300 meters, and at this time, the four machine guns of the Mustang fighter suddenly flashed out a long tongue of fire, and a black tiger came to dig out his heart.
Bang bang bang, the four clusters of blue light flashed and disappeared, and almost at the same time, I saw that the Devil Zero fighter was knocked out of countless holes. Boom, there was no room for resistance, and this devil fighter was blown up by Wei Lei's volley, turning into a raging fireball, and the plane was scattered into countless fragments before it landed.
At this time, Wei Lei had already driven the Mustang fighter to escape in style, killing one person in ten steps, and not leaving a thousand miles. "Holy shit, don't let me die yet!" Li Tao, the commander of the 2nd Pilot Division, who was also born as a pilot, was the same as he was guts, and his skills were extremely good, and he won the first kill of the individual with the same face.
"Die!" "Kill!"
The pilots of the Asian People's Liberation Army around Wei Lei and Li Tao did not show weakness, they were all like tigers descending from the mountain, and as soon as the war began, they used all their strength, forming teams in pairs to fight with the devil fighters with bayonets! Silver eagles flew up and down in the sky, and blue light flickered wildly between the blue sky and white clouds, forming beams of death, constantly punching out a string of holes in the devil's plane.
The fighter group of the Asian People's Liberation Army (PLA), which had an advantage in numbers and performance, soon achieved major results, shooting down more than a dozen Zero fighters in succession, which are known as "air lighters." Boom, boom
"Eight Ga Ya Road!" "Dead, dead!"
Although they occupied a disadvantage, the devil air force pilots would never sit idly by, and all of them burst out with red eyes and all their combat potential, and they stepped forward to fight with bayonets without giving an inch. These battle-hardened devil pilots were very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of their own Zero fighters, so as soon as they received the fire, they did not hesitate to rush into the Huaxia fighter formation and engage in close quarters with the pilots of the Tiger Army, taking advantage of the high mobility of the Zero fighters to fight dogs at close range. The clash of strength and power is simple and crude, there is no opportunism to speak of, and when the two armies meet, they instantly enter a blazing climax without any prelude!
In this battle, the total number of enemy and enemy fighters exceeded 1,000, and after the huge combat aircraft groups of the two sides formed out and collided, it was you and me, I and I, and the fighters of both sides chased after me, flew up and down, and in just more than 10 minutes, the fierce battle battlefield expanded to thousands of square kilometers.
Nankan, the command post of the national army. "Report to the military seat, Chongqing emergency call!" When Gan Lichu, Zhong Bin, Zhang Zhen, and others were discussing the war, cordial greetings from the chairman of the committee arrived. After reading the telegram, Gan Lichu said to Zhong Bin and Zhang Zhen with a smile: "Brother Zhongbing, Brother Yi, the principal is very satisfied with our performance, and orders us to continue to make persistent efforts, and we must play the prestige of the Central Army, haha!" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Zhen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The committee really treats us as a dish, but in fact, we are really embarrassed now!" The two devil wings of the three armies combined to attack Lashio and Xibu took a lot of effort, and thousands of dead and wounded were able to conquer and recover, which can be regarded as barely saving some face.
Now our three armies can be described as sleepy and scarred, and there are only more than 10,000 people who really have combat effectiveness. Zhong Bin said with a smile: "The principal has always placed high hopes on us, hoping that we can make contributions and greatly boost the prestige of the national army, which is completely understandable!" It's just that we really have more than enough heart and less strength now, if we fight it out, in that case, wouldn't we be even more sorry for the principal's cultivation! ”
Gan Lichu said with a smile: "What the two brothers said is not unreasonable, but the angle and height of the principal's consideration are more far-sighted. In the following encirclement and annihilation battle, our three armies really can't be absent, and we must fight beautifully! Zhong Bin said with a bitter face: "But the problem is that the devil has been forced into a corner, and the combat power that has erupted should not be underestimated." It's like our battle to recover Lashio, those little devils are simply not people, they are simply a group of killing machines!
Moreover, now that the armored clusters and combat aircraft of the southern Burma battlefield have all been transferred to the southern Burma battlefield, the artillery in our hands is also seriously insufficient. Seeing that victory was in sight, and there were many heavy casualties before, Zhong Bin and Zhang Zhen were really unwilling to press down all the troops they had and beat themselves into bare-bones commanders. At this time, Gan Lichu said with a smile: "The 18th Army of the devils is now a turtle in the urn, we don't have to fight with them at all, we just need to besiege and not attack, and in a few days, these little devils will collapse on their own."
What's more, the little devil is now in the encirclement of the Tiger Army, I'm afraid that even if we want to attack the main attack, they won't give us this credit. Therefore, we must strive for this posture and glory of actively attacking and launching the final encirclement and annihilation battle, otherwise, wouldn't it be a real thing to let people settle accounts after the autumn? "If that's the case, that's no problem at all!"
Zhong Bin nodded, as long as he didn't gnaw hard and consume it. Zhang Zhen also nodded and said, "It is indeed a wise move to wait for work!" "Then it's settled! Two brothers, let's discuss now how to carry out the principal's instructions! ”
Gan Lichu smiled and picked up a wooden stick and drew it on the map: "At present, the Japanese army is divided into 4 areas, of which the closest to us is the mouth of the ...... Xidang River. After an hour-long assault at full speed, eight submarines, 12 speedboats, and eight frigates of the Huben expeditionary navy all rushed to the battlefield.
At this time, the Burmese 1st Army, the Burmese 4th Army, and the 5th Army of the National Army on land were already fighting with the Devil's Guards Division, 10th Division, 33rd Division, 45th Division and other Devil's troops. At the same time, under the bombing of the Air Force bombers in turn and the containment of the infantry clusters, the pontoon bridge built by the devil sappers never played a big role!
In more than an hour, there were only more than 5,000 devil soldiers who successfully crossed the river! This is still the result of the joint efforts of devil destroyers and gunboats, otherwise it would be good to be able to pass two or three thousand people. In turn, the devil soldiers trapped on the west bank of the Xidang River are as high as 160,000.
And these devil soldiers are also facing the strong offensive pressure of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, especially the front-line troops are suffering heavy casualties every moment. It was not until later, in anger and anger, that the commander of the devil concentrated all the anti-aircraft weapons in the section of the river where the pontoon bridge was erected, which caused great pressure and casualties to the Burmese Air Force by exchanging injuries for injuries.
In this way, the devil soldiers were barely able to retreat through the pontoon bridge at a relatively fast speed. "Haha, it's finally our turn to play, brothers! Quick, rush up and blow up all those doggy warships! Seeing the devil destroyers and gunboats that were acting as transport ships on the distant river and were still firing their guns frantically, the submarine detachment leader Luo Faren's hanging heart instantly fell to the ground: Fortunately, the battle is not over yet, and his own fleet can still come in handy!
Otherwise, it's all for nothing! "Kill!" "Fuck these shit!" The Burmese navy roared with excitement as if they had been beaten with blood, and all the ships moved forward at full speed. "Frigate squadron, speedboat squadron, don't be tough first, let our submarine detachment take the lead and kill the devil's ship!"
After rushing forward for a short while, Luo Faren roared loudly on the communication channel. This is not because Luo Faren wants to grab people's heads, but because the frigates and speedboats are small ships with a displacement of less than 100 tons, and the weapons equipped are either small-caliber naval guns or pure heavy machine guns, and there is no way to cause fatal damage to the devil's destroyers and gunboats.
On the other hand, the destroyers and gunboats of the devils are not weak in firepower, and they have enough lethal damage to these small-tonnage ships of their own fleet. In this inland river area where the river is not wide, the torpedo boat torpedoes are invincible killers, and it is guaranteed that one will kill one, and two will kill a pair!
"Understood!" "Roger!"
The naval commanders of the frigates and speedboats naturally understood the reason, and consciously slowed down their speeds and let the submarine brother attack first. "Yaga! Where did the Great Japanese Imperial Air Force go? Why haven't you come for reinforcements yet? Baga, if you wait any longer, the Imperial Army on the West Bank will really not be able to come back! Watching the increasingly fierce ground fighting in the distance and the almost non-stop air raids and bombardments, Iida Shojiro frowned, and his heart became more and more anxious.
An hour ago, Iida Shojiro was full of confidence, and he was very sure that although the Burmese army had failed this time, it could only be regarded as a small defeat. Because in the whole process, the Burmese dispatch army caused great casualties and loss of weapons and materials to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and also cut off the Yunnan-Burma highway for a time, causing serious supply difficulties in China.
Iida Shojiro believes that the worst outcome at present is at best the collective crushing of the 18th Army in the northern Burma battlefield, and the three armies in the southern Burma theater temporarily retreating to the east of the Siddang River to wait for a new combat opportunity. But now, Iida Shojiro was shocked to find that the small river in front of him, which was only more than 100 meters wide, had turned into a moat of life and death, blocking the return of the imperial soldiers on the west bank.
If this situation continues for another four or five hours, the Chinese armored cluster that is heading south from the battlefield in northern Burma will arrive in the battlefield in southern Burma, and the 160,000 imperial troops on the other side of the river will really be unable to escape! Haruki Isayama said with a dark face: "Your Excellency, the Imperial Air Force did not come to support, but was intercepted by the Huaxia Air Force, and at present, the Imperial Air Force is already too busy to take care of itself, and I am afraid that it will not be able to draw up its forces to attack the Huaxia bomber group." "Yaga!"
Shojiro Iida is not a fool, how could he not know this situation, but now the only hope is the Japanese Air Force! How much did Iida Shojiro hope that the Japanese Air Force would show great courage and kill all sides, and help the army bomb those extremely hated Huaxia bombers as soon as possible after quickly overthrowing the Huaxia fighter group, so that the engineering units could build enough pontoon bridges without distraction. Iida Shojiro was not too worried about the war on the west bank, but hoped that the Chinese Expeditionary Force would attack more violently, because he was very confident in the positional defense capability of the Imperial Army.
It's just that Shojiro Iida knows that the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for them. Not to mention the Huaxia armored group, which is rushing at full speed, the Huaxia fighter group, which is becoming more and more dominant in the airspace above the battlefield, is a great threat. Once the Japanese Air Force is completely wiped out, there is no need to wait for the Huaxia armored group to rush to the battlefield, and the Huaxia fighter group will become a group of bloodthirsty killing machines, slaughtering the Japanese ground forces one-sidedly!
Thinking of this terrible possibility, Iida Shojiro was about to cry, but after all calculations, he missed the seemingly powerful Imperial Air Force and could not defeat the Huaxia Tiger Air Force. "Your Excellency, Commander, look, what is that? Haha, it must be the Imperial Navy that has come to our aid! Just when Iida Shojiro and Isayama Haruki were both worried, a devil staff officer suddenly shouted excitedly.
"Nani? Haha, the Imperial Navy has sent warships to support us again! Yo Xi, now the Imperial Army is saved! Iida Shojiro hurriedly looked for prestige, and sure enough, he saw a small tonnage fleet coming quickly at the mouth of the sea far downstream.
Without thinking too much, the old devil automatically made up his brain that "his own people came to the rescue", because in the existing information, there is no naval ship unit in the combat sequence of the Chinese Expeditionary Force! Shojiro Iida is now like a person who is about to drown, even if there is only a straw in front of him, he will hold on to it firmly, and at this time, such a large group of ships is naturally ecstatic.
In his opinion, this group of ships can not only provide strong fire support, but also become life-saving ships, greatly increasing the transportation capacity and helping the imperial army on the west bank to withdraw to the east of the river. At present, Iida Shojiro has no other extravagant hopes, just to save as many imperial troops on the other side as possible, and to preserve his strength as much as possible in order to make a comeback. But obviously, the old devil is thinking too much about himself.
"Quick! Launch the torpedo now! Fuck me hard! "Dog's day! Don't let me die yet! "When they rushed within a 2-kilometer range, before the devil ships that were busy transporting troops could react, eight submarines fired a Type 95 torpedo one after another.
Sou! Sou! Sou! The eight-fired torpedo was like eight strong swimmers, blowing a series of rapidly rippling water lines on the surface of the river, and a speed of 90 kilometers per hour rushed forward rapidly. After a while, eight torpedoes were fired out, and the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, wave after wave! The 16 torpedoes were like a grim reaper, full of invincible slaughter, and the death march was blown on the surface of the river.
"Nani? What is that? Is it the Imperial Navy submarines and naval fleets? How come I've never seen the dozen or so small ships in the back? ”
On a devil destroyer that was crossing the river to ferry, the devil captain Matsuura looked left and right for a moment when he was idle and had nothing to do, and suddenly found a naval fleet on the river on the right that was approaching at full speed, and he couldn't help but be stunned. "yes, I don't feel right either! We haven't heard any more reinforcements from the Imperial Navy to help transport troops, have we? ”
The first mate of the devil who was standing next to Matsuura was also stunned, and he really couldn't understand what was going on in front of him. "Yaga! Not good, they fired torpedoes! "Bagaya Road, they are not the fleet of the Empire, they are the enemy fleet!" "Quick, sound the alarm!" "Hurry up, get ready to fight!"
Just when the devils were stunned, 16 torpedoes were launched one after another, drawing a wave of rapid advancement on the surface of the river, and shooting at a very fast speed. Seeing the scene in front of him, the old devil and the devil soldiers still didn't understand what was going on, and the devil fleet exploded in an instant! The devil destroyers and gunboats began to make the fastest U-turn and get into combat mode while minimizing the attack surface.
It's just a pity that it came too late! In order to maximize the efficiency of troop transportation, the Devil destroyers and gunboats can only choose the section of the river that is not too wide, and in the process of ferrying back and forth, the destroyers and gunboats of the Devil can only be vertical, which maximizes their attack area.
In such a narrow water, the devil fleet in a ferrying state wants to dodge such a dense torpedo attack, and also thinks about launching a counterattack by the way, how easy is it to say?
"Eight Ga Ya Road!" "Dead, dead!" "It's over, it's over!" "Amaterasu bless!"
The devil warship really had no way to dodge, and there was no way to avoid it, so I could only watch the torpedoes get closer and closer, and a boatload of devil army and devil sailors were full of despair, turning into a group of ants on a hot pot and turning around in a hurry! However, however, this is of little use.
Sooner or later, 16 torpedoes rushed into the section of the river where the devil's fleet was located.
The two destroyers and two gunboats in the front did not have time to adjust their posture when they were hit by torpedoes ranging from one to three. Air is a gas that can be compressed, and when a cannonball missile hits the hull of a warship and explodes, the surrounding air will be compressed to play a buffering role.
Water is liquid, incompressible, its density is about 772 times that of air, torpedoes attack the part below the waterline of the battleship, and all the energy of the torpedo warhead explosion acts on the shell of the warship or submarine through the water.
This is the famous "multiplication effect", so much energy is enough to tear the hull material of a warship. The most terrible thing is that the torpedo exploded at a depth lower than the bottom of the ship, creating huge shock waves and bubbles in an extremely short time. Since the water is incompressible, the blast wave carries the bubbles to the bottom of the ship and spreads, forming a foam jet, and the shock wave acts on the hull, destroying and lifting the hull.
Then the diffused foam "diluted" the buoyancy of the water and caused the hull to sink, and the hull was in a state of oscillation up and down, and the damaged hull was eventually broken by its own weight after several "bending".
This also determines that the explosives of the same explosive yield are installed, but the power of torpedoes is much stronger than that of artillery missiles. When the torpedo hit the hull of the warship and exploded, the violent explosion instantly set off a huge wave of skyrocketing, and the powerful explosion energy and overpressure shock wave instantly caused fatal damage to the devil ship. Among them, two gunboats and a destroyer that were hit three times were directly torn into several pieces by the incomparable power of the explosion.
Immediately after that, the wreckage of the ship sank directly to the bottom of the river in just a few seconds, and disappeared, leaving only gurgling bubbles and whirlpools that kept whirling. The dead and wounded of the devils on the ship, and the devil soldiers who were lucky enough to break away from the hull and surface, all threw off their arms in horror and swam to the east bank of the river.
The river is not wide, and as long as you can swim, you do have a chance to swim to the east bank alive. The other destroyer, which had been bombarded with only one torpedo, was not directly blown in two and sank to the bottom of the river, but it also suffered fatal damage, and a huge hole was blown out of its hull. The surging river poured into the river frantically, and the destroyer's hull soon tilted badly, and the waterline was quickly raised.
With a little common sense, you can see that this devil destroyer is also completely finished, and it won't be long before it will only die at the bottom of the river with a whining and mourning. "Yaga, the ship is sinking, jump quickly!" "Throw away your weapons and swim ashore! Hurry up and drip" "Plop! Thump! ”
Seeing that the destroyer was hopeless, the devil soldiers did not sit still, threw their guns and ammunition into the river, and then plunged into the river and began to flee for their lives. "Baga Ya Road! What the hell is going on? How could the Empire's fleet suddenly come under such a powerful attack? ”
A violent explosion came from the river, and Iida Shojiro hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and suddenly the whole thing was stupid, the four warships that were still alive and well before didn't have time to make any effective response, and they were directly destroyed and sunk in the blink of an eye. "Your Excellency Commander, it is clear that the fleet we saw before was not the Great Japanese Imperial Navy, but our enemy!"
Isayama Haruki was also dumbfounded, just a minute ago he was still thinking that with such a fleet joining the great cause of transporting troops, the transportation efficiency would definitely be greatly improved, and at least tens of thousands of imperial troops could come back alive. However, the scene in front of me is too heartbreaking! "Baga Ya Road! What are the special high classes for, the Chinese Expeditionary Force has so many submarines and ships, why haven't we even received any news? ”
At this time, there was no need to remind Haruki Isayama, and Iida Shojiro also knew what was going on, but for this situation, Iida Shojiro couldn't accept it at all, and subconsciously threw the black pot out. Haruki Isayama said with a crying face: "Your Excellency Commander, the worst has happened, and now our top priority is how to kill this Huaxia fleet, otherwise the Imperial Army on the other side of the river will really not be able to come back!" ”
"Baga Ya Road! Eight Ga Ya Road! Iida Shojiro was really anxious and kept cursing. But it's useless, and sooner or later you'll have to pay it back! The Japanese Air Force was too weak to take care of itself, and there was no spare strength to come to support. As for the 2 destroyers and 4 gunboats that are turning to the battle in a panic, they are also mud bodhisattvas crossing the river at this moment, and it is difficult to protect themselves, not to mention fighting against the wind to keep the waterway of the Xidang River safe.
However, the heavy artillery and large-caliber field artillery of the army units have fixed artillery positions, and there is simply no way to transfer them in a short time. There are still a lot of mortars and small-caliber artillery, but it is not easy for these things to take out the ships, and most of the small-caliber artillery is concentrated in the front-line battlefield, and is engaged in fierce exchanges with the Chinese Expeditionary Force. In a hurry, Iida Shojiro was really blind, and there was no way to counter this sudden Chinese fleet.
"Hurry up, mobilize mortars and infantry artillery to kill these damn Huaxia ships!" After thinking about it, Iida Shojiro can only tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, and first ensure the smooth and safe flow of waterways, as for the front-line troops, it can only be temporarily delayed!