"Report, the people of China are aware of our bombardment, and they are covering the target with smoke. Their means, albeit rudimentary, are useful, and we do not see the goal. ”

A man in a flight suit and a leather flight cap looks down through the bomb sight on the bomber.

He could still see the Yangtze River like a ribbon of light under the long-lasting flares dropped by the leading fighters.

But he just couldn't see the target, the white smoke rising from the limelight over the city. Not only did the docks and warehouse areas disappear, but the city was almost gone.

"Bastard, how could the people of China think of such a method, they didn't do it before when we came to bomb."

The bombardier muttered curses, his fingers adjusting the bomb sight, his eyes fixed on what he thought was the target area.

But there was no way, because of the white smoke that kept coming out, he couldn't see anything clearly.

The reason why the Japanese Army Air Force began to bomb Wuhan as soon as the Battle of Jinling was fought was due to its military considerations.

After the Battle of Jinling, Wuhan became the economic and political center of the Chinese War of Resistance. Although the center of gravity has shifted to Chongqing, Wuhan is closer to the front.

Therefore, the Japanese army originally wanted to attack Wuhan directly, but when the troops were insufficient and the conditions in all aspects were not available, they had to consider attacking Xuzhou first and creating a favorable situation for attacking Wuhan.

At this time, the Japanese base camp had obviously not yet decided on the strategy of attacking Xuzhou first, so bombing Wuhan, which had been exporting arms and military supplies, had become the main task of the army air force.

The initial bombing was quite successful, although the docks of the Chinese were simple. Even if it is bombed, it can rely on some emergency terminals to transport goods. What is even more disturbing is that the Chinese made a large wooden raft that used only wood and gasoline drums, and even installed charcoal oil stoves to become powered boats.

No matter how many times they were bombed, there was no large-scale reduction in the number of military supplies piled up in the warehouse. The front line also reported that the supply of the people in China did not appear to be affected.

And now, these hateful Chinese people have come up with the means of using smoke to block the bombing mission, and the difficulty of carrying out the bombing mission has increased geometrically.

Just when the bomber was in a dilemma and could not see the target in the air, a signal flare was suddenly launched from the ground. Not only did it shoot a flare, but it even pointed at the direction that the bombardier always felt was the target.

"There are instructions on the ground to prepare for bombing."

As the bombardier gave the command, the Japanese group flew more smoothly and lowered altitude.

Six hundred meters, which is quite a low altitude for a horizontal bomber. However, due to the previous high-altitude bombing, the bomb landing point was very inaccurate, so this time it was changed to a low-altitude night attack.

And Zhang Sixing is to blame for this matter, when the army department complained about the huge casualties of the troops, it came to the conclusion that the paratrooper major who came back from Germany on the Chinese side - the "Four Elements Demon King" really liked night attacks too much.

And this guy's night raids are varied, from breaking into offices to assassinate them, to attacking heavy artillery units at night, according to war examples. It was even possible to control the heavy artillery units and fire at Japan's own units.

These bizarre examples were a headache for the infantry, but excited the officers of the Army Air Corps.

As long as the night target guidance work is done well, then the bombers that can fly freely in China will be able to carry out relatively accurate bombing. Therefore, the Wuhan branch of the "Inoue Mansion" was used.

I have to say that the work and awareness of the national government's anti-espionage are so weak that there is almost none, and of course, the military commanders who only care about being the overwhelmed in the enemy's war zone are not so concerned about espionage.

As the bomber fleet descends in altitude, try to keep the aircraft as stable as possible. After all, they didn't come all the way to deliver bombs for 5,000 miles to deviate from their targets.

But when it is close to the height of 600 meters and close to the target. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, and then the incandescent light of a vapor lamp suddenly bloomed in the sky.

At this time, all the crew members of the bomber had one word in their minds - "broken".

After all, there is only one purpose of lighting above them, that is, the lack of searchlights in Huaxia, but the high-altitude lighting will make the shadow of their bombers, in the eyes of the anti-aircraft gunners, as eye-catching as a wild goose, and will also make them easily shot down like a wild goose.

Sure enough, as they approached the target, the sound of a thirty-seven-mm anti-aircraft gun sounded on the ground.

However, the training of the antiaircraft artillery units of the Chinese army was very poor, and the shooting elements they calculated according to their altitude and orientation were often full of errors, and the shells could not reach the side of the fighters at all.

I heard that someone wanted to increase the hit rate of anti-aircraft guns with radio-fused shells, but that should not stop in the minds of scientists. It's still a long way from appearing on the battlefield.

In fact, the radio proximity fuse is one of the important prerequisites for the US military to be able to use anti-aircraft artillery to achieve excellent results in the Pacific naval battle.

"Tom ......"

Those that fired almost continuously were German-made 20-mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Compared to thirty-seven mm anti-aircraft guns, these little guys are more annoying. Although they do not hit fighters, warheads hardly explode.

However, it uses visual tracking, which makes it more accurate than the shells that need to be calculated.

But none of this was too much for the bombers to worry about until ......

Strings of machine-gun bullets suddenly rose from the ground, and not only that, but smaller, finer flashes of light appeared on the ground.

It was a reaction of thousands of rifles fired together, a large number of bullets rushing towards the bomber fleet, and the tracer rounds dressed up the vicinity of the target as if it were Christmas night.

"Boom"

A fighter jet exploded in the air with a large fireball, presumably hit the fuel tank by tracer bullets from a dense stream of bullets.

There is no way to be a country that lacks resources, and all fighters and tanks aim to achieve the same effect with the least amount of materials.

This created unarmored "Zero lighters", as well as tanks that were thinner than the armor of European armored vehicles.

As clusters of machine-gun rifle fire rose into the sky on the ground, the bomber's crew became hysterical. They screamed, and some tried to manipulate the machine guns on the fighter planes to fire at ground fire.

"Bastard, it's a trap, go, go, that flare is just a decoy......"

"Fly away, now in the eyes of the Chinese people, we are as easy to fight as the slowest flying geese."

Indeed, the lights in the sky make all the fighters look like geese in the eyes of the soldiers on the ground. The figure of the bomber is huge and slow, and it is not too clear under the light source at high altitude.

It may be said that the ground is not covered in smoke.

In fact, clouds and fog obscuring the view refer to seeing from a distance. And to see the sky under the cover of smoke, when the smoke concentration is not large enough, you can still see clearly.

To the delight of the infantry on the ground, the Japanese bombers were not only flying low, but also slow, and this was not a good time to vent their anger on these guys.