Chapter 59: The Eighth Route Army's Great Counteroffensive
Now the Eighth Route Army has been equipped with a lot of Fury fighters, as well as tank destroyers, heavy artillery and other equipment, in such a situation, the situation with the Japanese army's weapons and equipment has been reversed, especially the new regiment and the independent regiment, the equipment is the best.
This time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to launch a series of major counteroffensive operations, and Li Yunlong and Kong Jie became important counteroffensive vanguards.
In order to better accomplish the combat mission, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army has made special arrangements this time, and the aviation team will fully cooperate with the combat operations on the ground, for which Duan Yunpeng also made a pre-war mobilization.
Now these novice pilots, although they have not experienced a major war, they are all soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and they all have a strong courage to kill the enemy, so it is easy to mobilize.
The battle plan was also formulated by Duan Yunpeng personally and Li Yunlong, and this time Duan Yunpeng also proposed a new concept called air-ground integrated operations.
Moreover, in order to gain absolute air supremacy, this time Duan Yunpeng will personally lead eight Fury fighters of the air force to attack an air base of the Japanese army, where there are dozens of devil's combat planes.
Today was an auspicious day, eight Fury fighters were ready, and the ground crew was almost done, and these eight Fury fighters all hung thirty kilograms of bombs under the wings, each with two bombs.
It looks like these bombs are a bit pitiful, but there is no way to hang so many fighters in this era, after all, their maximum take-off weight is only about two tons.
Duan Yunpeng took the pilots to the tarmac, and the ground crew hurriedly stepped forward to report.
Looking at the bombs under the wings, Duan Yunpeng nodded and said, "Very good, you guys did a good job, now we are ready to take off!" ”
The ground crews began to withdraw, and the eight Fury fighters started their engines one after another, then slid off the tarmac, and soon they took off from the runway in turn, and then climbed to an altitude of 5,000 meters, and flew in the direction of the Japanese air base.
The Japanese air base is 500 kilometers away from the arsenal, which is still a long distance and takes about an hour to arrive.
At a height of five thousand meters, you can clearly see the mountains and rivers, Duan Yunpeng can't help but think of the inscription of returning my rivers and mountains, now it is indeed time to say to the little devil, return my rivers and mountains.
In this major counteroffensive, the Eighth Route Army planned to recover at least 10,000 square kilometers of land, which is equivalent to many counties.
Therefore, this battle is bound to be a big war, because the devil will not give up easily, and it is estimated that if the devil really wants to fight hard, he will mobilize at least 300,000 to come over.
Today's Eighth Route Army has expanded to as many as 150,000 people, so under the condition that there is a certain advantage in weapons and equipment, it is still certain to fight against 300,000 Japanese troops, and when the time comes, maybe Chu Yunfei and they will take the opportunity to sneak attack the little devil again, so this little devil must guard against Chu Yunfei and them.
Now that the flight is halfway over, Duan Yunpeng looked down from the cockpit of the Fury fighter jet, and saw that the Yellow River was at his feet, this is the mother river of the Chinese, and now many places are occupied by little devils.
Soon everyone saw that a large wheat field appeared in front of them, which looked very dazzling.
Now this is a plain, so Duan Yunpeng accelerated his flight with the group, because there were still about a hundred kilometers ahead of him to be the little devil's aviation base.
At this time, it is estimated that the sentinels of the little devils may find them.
Therefore, the sooner you reach the target airspace, the better, because if it is too late, you may face the fighter jets that the little devils urgently take off, and the effect of the operation will be greatly reduced.
And this can't have the effect of a surprise attack, so now the eight Fury fighters, all of which are at full power output, have flown at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour.
At present, the main fighters equipped by the Japanese army are Type 97 fighters, and the performance of these fighters is far inferior to the Fury, their maximum flight speed is only 460 kilometers per hour, and their firepower is only two 7.7 mm aviation machine guns, and these two machine guns are no different from burning sticks in front of the 14.5 mm Gatling machine guns.
Therefore, unless it was a devil who swooped down from a high place to sneak attack, then it could not pose a threat to Duan Yunpeng and them, so now Duan Yunpeng and they would not be in danger as long as they flew over the target as soon as possible.
Even if the devils take off urgently, there will not be a few fighters, and they will be easily packed up when the time comes.
However, the ground anti-aircraft fire of the devil will pose a certain threat to the Fury fighters, after all, the bomb needs to dive down, and cannot be dropped at a high altitude, so it will be very inaccurate and may be thrown in vain.
Soon, he was only twenty kilometers away from the target, and Duan Yunpeng's eyesight surpassed that of ordinary people, and he could clearly see the devil's airport with the naked eye.
Sure enough, there were dozens of combat planes at the airport, and the alarm should have sounded at the airport at this time, and there were several devil-like Type 97 fighters, accelerating to take off on the runway.
Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "It's a good time, today we must let the team members practice how to shoot down the devil fighter." ”
Duan Yunpeng waved his wings and told the team members that the devil's aviation base was ahead, and at the same time, he also told them that the devil's fighter had taken off and was ready to meet the enemy.
There is no need to keep the radio silent now, Duan Yunpeng said loudly: "Unit 08 and I are preparing to meet the enemy, and the rest of the people are ready, dive to attack, and immediately pull up after dropping the bomb, pay attention to the ground air defense fire of the little devil, this time we must return with all the staff!" ”
When the team members heard this, they all became excited, this is about to start, it would be nice to bomb a few more devil planes.
The No. 8 machine and Duan Yunpeng directly dived down towards the five devil fighters that had just taken off, and they had not yet had time to climb to a high place.
Those devil's Type 97 fighters didn't expect the Eighth Route Army Air Force to be so fierce, and when they saw the two fighters swooping down, the devil pilot also desperately pulled up, forming a head-on hedging trend.
There were two Type 97 fighters coming at Duan Yunpeng and them.
Duan Yunpeng thought to himself that it was a good time, the brave won when they met on a narrow road, and now it was time to take revenge on the blood hatred.
The two sides opened fire before they could get close, but it was clear that the 7.7mm machine gun had a much shorter range and, most importantly, had a greater advantage in diving.
So in this first round, the two sides hedged, and the four fighters were like fighting bayonets, and the devils on the ground, only saw their fighters, and both of them burst into flames and disintegrated in the air.
This was directly disemboweled by the Gatling gun, and Duan Yunpeng shouted loudly: "Pull it up!" ”
The pilot of the No. 8 plane hurriedly pulled up the plane, just now he was just careful, if he didn't pull it up, he would hit the fragments of the devil fighter.