Chapter 31 Aerial Fire Support

However, with the Gatling machine gun and light machine gun on the plane, Erdan still feels very confident, with such a good plane, if he can't clean up the little devil, it won't be a shame for the master.

On the ground, Wang Chengzhu also saw the gyroplane in the air, originally he thought it was a little devil's plane, but if you look closely, this is not a little devil's plane, it seems that the regiment commander said, what kind of gyroplane Duan Yunpeng is developing.

Could it be that our own people are here? Is Duan Yunpeng here?

The devils who were chasing the Eighth Route Army also saw two planes flying in the air, and they thought it was their own people, after all, where did the Eighth Route Army get the plane?

These devils would never have thought that this was the rotorcraft of the Eighth Route Army that came to kill them, and they thought it was a new type of aircraft made by the Empire.

In fact, this air rotorcraft is also a very good air fire support weapon, it is like a gunboat machine, it can be covered with powerful firepower to annihilate the enemy.

It's just that in comparison, because the rotorcraft is relatively small, it can't be compared with the gunboat planes of the US military in terms of firepower.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used four CH47 Chi Nuk transport helicopters to convert into gunboat aircraft, which had a take-off weight of nearly 20 tons, so the firepower was very powerful, it not only had several machine guns, but also rockets.

Next, the U.S. military engaged in a more powerful gunboat aircraft, this time modified with a fixed-wing aircraft, that is, the AC47 gunboat aircraft, which was equipped with three Gatling heavy machine guns, and the pilot used the azimuth formed by the fuselage tilt to aim at the surface in a hovering manner, and then fired the machine gun through an electric switch.

Of course, the planes at this time were still relatively small, and later, the Mi Army engaged in the AC130 gunboat machine, which is a real air gunboat, this medium-sized transport aircraft can carry 20 tons, so it can install four six-barreled Gatling guns, as well as four Gatling guns, and even later added a 40 mm medium-caliber cannon, and then even a 100 and 5 mm howitzer was moved, and the firepower was extremely powerful.

Of course, the gunboat machine needs to be used under the condition of complete air supremacy, otherwise the loss will be very large, after the 105 mm howitzer is loaded on the plane, it can be very good to hit solid targets on the ground, such as fortresses, and even tanks and armored vehicles.

In the current situation, Duan Yunpeng still has absolute air supremacy over the devil, because the devil does not have air defense weapons, so even if the devil shoots in the air with a machine gun, it basically cannot constitute a threat.

At this time, the battle on the ground had already begun, and the devils were charging while attacking the Eighth Route Army with mortars and field artillery.

Seeing this, Duan Yunpeng was also very anxious, and now he had to give full play to the power of the gyroplane.

Duan Yunpeng drove the plane to dive down towards the Japanese army, and while ordering Zhang San in the back seat, he used a Gatling machine gun to strafe the devils on the ground.

Of course, he was not idle, he controlled the plane with one hand, and set up the light machine gun in front of him with the other, and fired at the devils who were charging intensively.

The rotorcraft roared down, the dense bullets were like a rainstorm from the sky, and those devils couldn't dodge, and a few devils actually wanted to shoot the plane, but their speed was too slow, and they were knocked down before they could fire.

As soon as the soldiers of the new regiment saw that these two planes were indeed their own people, and the devils had fought so badly, their morale immediately skyrocketed.

The devil was stunned by the blow from the air, and even the charge stopped.

Duan Yunpeng had just strafed and eliminated at least fifty devils, and then the second wave of attacks came, this was Wang Erdan swooping down with a gyroplane and sweeping at the devils.

Suddenly, many devils were shot and fell, and one devil fired at the sky with a light machine gun, but this hit it, and the gyroplane flew by at once.

I have to say that this aerial gunboat is indeed the natural enemy of the devil, Duan Yunpeng fought very hard, just flew over and turned around, dived down again, and the two machine guns swept at the devil for a while.

This bullet is like no money, beckoning to the devil's head, poof, poof, and there are many devils, who were shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood, this is the end they deserve!

The commander of the devil, when he saw that the firepower in the air was too strong, didn't know what to do, so he had to ask his superiors, but he didn't expect the answer he got was to continue rushing.

There was no way for this little devil to give the order and continue to charge, after all, there were more than 2,000 of them, and no matter how strong the firepower in the air was, it was impossible to wipe them all out.

Because it is true that the consumption of bullets is very large, a dive down, the Gatling gun will consume two or three hundred rounds of ammunition, and the light machine gun will also consume a lot, dozens of rounds.

Although it is said that a lot of devils are destroyed, it can't hit a few times, and the fuel is also limited, so it is impossible to dive and attack like this all the time.

However, the devil's charge still gave Duan Yunpeng and them two gyroplanes, plus Wang Chengzhu on the ground and their counterattack were blocked, and the devil left at least five hundred corpses, looking down from the air, it was really spectacular.

For a while, the devils didn't dare to charge, and there were gunboats in the air.

Taking advantage of this, Wang Chengzhu led the troops and immediately carried out a rapid retreat.

By the time the devils found out, it was already too late, and after the last round of strafing, Duan Yunpeng and the others had already finished all the machine gun bullets and had to return.

Fortunately, this time I came out, and I didn't come in vain, and I rescued the three battalions.

And Duan Yunpeng did not return directly, but flew to the battlefield on the other side, only to see that Li Yunlong's new regiment and Kong Jie's independent regiment were about to finish destroying the devils there, Duan Yunpeng was also very excited, but the brigade reinforced by the devils was only three or five miles away from them.

Duan Yunpeng hurriedly told Li Yunlong and Kong Jie the news by dropping a note in the air, asking them to get ready, and drawing the formation of the devils or something, and then it was up to them.

Seeing that Duan Yunpeng, this kid, actually drove all the planes out, and also eliminated a lot of devils and helped the third battalion get out of trouble, Li Yunlong couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Duan Yunpeng and them in the air.

There is still a tough battle to be fought next, and Li Yunlong and Kong Jie are busy making arrangements.

Of course, Duan Yunpeng and the others flew back this time, and they were also preparing to come again, after all, this battle was not easy to fight, and it would be much better if there was air fire support.

It's not enough to rely on machine guns, Duan Yunpeng is going to get two rocket launchers up this time, but this machine gun will have to be one less, because it's too heavy to fly.