Chapter Seventy-Two: The Horizontal Bombing Show

In fact, the bomb delivery of the bomber group this time was still very accurate, because Duan Yunpeng taught them that if they dropped bombs by calculation, the deviation of 50 percent of the bombs would basically not exceed 1,000 meters.

The Allied pilots were very experienced, and they flew bombers that were able to drop 50 percent of the bombs within 8,000 meters of the aiming point, and 10 percent within 3,000 meters.

But they hadn't seen it as accurate as this bombardment.

Only the kind of dive bomber can achieve an accuracy of 100 or even 50 meters, and for a long-range bomber, it can only achieve higher accuracy when the field of view is extremely ideal and the anti-aircraft fire is not strong.

Therefore, in the Allied bomber forces, the target area is usually defined as the range of 500 meters around the bombing and aiming coordinate points.

As long as 23 percent of the bombs fall into this range, it is considered successful, and of course, later with better bombing sights, it can reach 70 percent.

However, Duan Yunpeng's bombing this time obviously exceeded the understanding of the allied pilots, because when the bomber he was sitting on dropped the bomb, almost 70 percent of the bombs fell within 500 meters.

The higher the flight altitude, the safer the bomber, and if there is a better sight, in fact, theoretically, it is possible to drop the bomb in a circle of 30 meters from the radius of the target at an altitude of 7,000 meters, of course, this is theoretical.

Is this the high level of Chinese pilots, or the performance of bombers?

Allied pilots could not have guessed.

The Japanese arsenal is really not small, with an area of several square kilometers, so at this moment, more than a dozen long-range bombers threw dozens of tons of bombs, causing the arsenal to be razed to the ground in many places, and the flames were soaring, and I don't know how many little devils were killed.

If you want to fully restore the operation of this arsenal, you will not be able to do it for half a year.

The Allied pilots were shocked by the powerful bomb-carrying capacity and bombing performance of long-range bombers, such a good long-range bomber was actually made by a backward China, and even such an aviation power as the United States and Britain could not do so well.

It has to be introduced, such a good long-range bomber, it is very good equipment to use whether it is a bombing day or a German one.

At this time, the escorting Furious fighter group found dozens of Japanese fighters who did not know where to take off, and the small day on the wing was very conspicuous.

Some hit, and now long-range bombers have also dropped their bombs, even in the face of fighter jets of the little devils, it is completely true.

The Allied pilot said excitedly: "This is the Japanese fighter group, Duan, can you let me see, how do long-range bombers deal with fighters?" ”

Duan Yunpeng smiled confidently: "No problem, if you're not afraid of death"

The Allied pilot laughed and said, "Of course I'm not afraid, come on, let me see how powerful this Kunpeng is1"

For bomber pilots, it is true that if the plane is shot down, it is difficult to survive, and fighter pilots can still parachute, but bombers are very difficult to jump because there is no cockpit canopy to open.

Of course, for the sake of safety, the remaining nine long-range bombers all accelerated away, and the devil's pilots could only look at the aircraft and sigh, the fighters they flew could not catch up with the bombers of the Eighth Route Army at all.

Now they can only prepare to compete with the escort fighters of the Eighth Route Army, but it is very strange why one of the long-range bombers of the Eighth Route Army did not run?

The devils were very excited, and there were four devil fighters, all of which rushed towards Duan Yunpeng and them.

The other Devil Fighter is fighting with the Fury Fighters.

You know, in the air, the fighter is like a small but more agile falcon, and the bomber is like the biggest eagle, and sometimes the falcon will actually attack the eagle.

Although the long-range bomber is said to be faster than the devil's fighters, its maneuverability is much worse than that of fighters, and it is almost impossible to talk about maneuverability, and can only be countered by the self-defense weapons on the aircraft.

The long-range bomber is equipped with four 14.5 mm Gatling machine guns, this is Duan Yunpeng's confidence, these four machine guns can protect themselves well, their firepower is stronger than ten 12.7 machine guns, after all, a machine gun has four barrels, which is equivalent to sixteen 14.5 mm machine guns.

So when the devils pounced, these Gatling guns fired.

I saw a Devil Type 97 fighter that wanted to sneak attack from below, and it was directly exploded by the Gatling gun, and it exploded in the air, like a brilliant firework.

There is also a devil fighter from the overhead, which was also blown up by the Gatling machine gun, although this guy is desperately using his machine gun to strafe, but the 7.7mm machine gun is far smaller than the Gatling gun in terms of firing speed and range, so these bullets almost didn't hit, only two bullets hit the long-range bomber, but because it was too far, it had almost no power, and both bullets were embedded in the skin of the plane, and they couldn't penetrate it.

There were also two Devil fighters, which were intercepted by two Fury fighters.

Now the Allied pilots saw a wonderful scene of air combat.

The devil's Type 97 fighter was cut in from the side hemisphere by a Fury fighter, and the distance was still more than 1,000 meters, and the anger erupted, and the firepower of the Gatling gun was indeed strong enough, and the Type 97 fighter was also directly hit and exploded in the air.

There is also a devil 97 fighter, trying to fight with the Fury fighter with bayonets, and the two planes are hedging head-on, and they are desperately strafing.

It's just that the gap in firepower is too big, this Type 97 fighter was directly blown up, while the Fury fighter quickly pulled up, and shot down the enemy plane perfectly.

Now the pilots of the Eighth Route Army Air Force have become very good pilots under the training of Duan Yunpeng, and some of them have shot down five enemy planes, and they can be regarded as ace pilots.

The battle in the air soon ended, the devils came with more than thirty fighters, but only a dozen ran away, twenty were shot down, and the Eighth Route Army suffered zero losses.

Seeing such a real scene, the allied pilots couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said: "Duan, your Eighth Route Army Air Force is really amazing, even more powerful than our Flying Tigers, amazing!" ”

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "Actually, this is not because our pilots are powerful, but because the performance of our fighters far exceeds that of devils' fighters, otherwise it is not easy to say, many of our pilots are still rookies, and they can't compare with you1"

Hearing this, the Allied pilot was of course also very happy, and said on the spot that he would report to his superiors and try to buy more long-range bombers and Fury fighters.