Chapter 34: Carpet Bombing? Let's leave it to their homeland

With the roar of the commanders and the louder and louder roar of the planes, the devils of the cavalry group subconsciously made all kinds of dodging moves.

The most skilled of these were naturally the 71st Tank Wing, which was part of the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army before being transferred to the Mongolian garrison and had experience in fighting the entire Battle of Normenhan.

The bombardment of Maozi back then was no worse than now.

"Spread out! Each tank squadron is mainly dodging! Don't have extra thoughts! ”

"Yaga! What are the infantry doing! Do you want to compete with the speed of airplanes? What about machine guns? Hurry up and rack up the light and heavy machine guns! Enemy fighters flew low! Dodge and fight back for me! ”

"Contact the headquarters and let the Army Air Force send fighter jets to support!"

It is clear that these devils who were not sent to Siberia to dig potatoes still have a few brushes.

In the face of the sudden air attack, more than 50 light and medium-sized tanks, under the command of their own wing commanders, immediately moved to the south and north.

The trucks responsible for the logistics were heading east and west, trying to disperse their troops and minimize losses.

The situation of the infantry was relatively miserable, and there were few natural bunkers on the Great Plains. They can only prostrate and dodge and wait for the opportunity to counterattack, and a set of movements is so skilled that it makes people want to laugh.

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Escort fighter group, pilot aircraft.

Comrades who have studied physics know one thing, and that is that horizontal bombing is no less difficult than dive bombing.

There are many items that need to be calculated in the whole operation process, including aircraft airspeed, ground speed, yaw angle, wind speed, flight altitude, average bomb falling speed and many other parameters.

In film and television works, the behavior of flying directly above the target to drop a bomb is pure nonsense, and it is not even as reliable as pressing the button to enter the bombardier's aiming angle in the game.

As a twin-engine fighter that first flew in 1935, Blenheim's bomb delivery device was only a very simple optical sight, and the bombing accuracy naturally depended on the personal experience and feeling of the bombardier.

When the entire escort formation was about to arrive in the sky above the devils, Captain Wang Hai said with a communication device:

"Get into a combat position! Fang Ziyi! Let's give the enemy a little color and see! ”

Fang Ziyi, as a bombardier, did not talk nonsense, he carefully looked at the airspeed and altitude indicator. Then he pulled the lever with a blank face to open the bomb bay and began to observe the situation on the ground through the sight.

A few seconds later, he dropped two 227-kilogram bombs.

At the same time, the sudden weight of the fighter aircraft has a tendency to increase in height. Captain Wang Hai quickly stabilized his flight attitude, for fear of affecting the accuracy of his teammates' bomb throwing.

After the two big babies left the cabin, they were followed by eight 20-kilogram melons, and the whole plane kept throwing bombs like hens laying eggs.

After seeing the pilot plane in action, the rest of the crew dropped bombs together.

A full 240 aerial bombs, with a scream of death, covered the evacuation route of the 71st Tank Wing from south to north.

The 227-kilogram bomb is a classic of the 1st Air Division, and even if it explodes around the 97-type medium, it can paralyze the tank, and even if it is a little closer, it can even directly restore the enemy to a part state.

Although 20 kg is a small character in an aerial bomb, the charge coefficient of even a small aerial bomb is outrageous. Using it to deal with the 95-type light tank and the 97-type medium tank, it is quite a bit of anti-aircraft artillery to fight mosquitoes.

"Boom, boom!"

One after another, the aerial bombs fell on the path of the 71st Wing of the combat vehicles, and the powerful shock wave would overturn the industrial garbage of the devils from time to time.

A certain lucky Type 95 light tank, and even directly liked the title of a warrior who received the bomb in the turret.

The horizontal bombing technology of the 1st Air Force Division is indeed very naïve, and some of the crews even hit the enemy with only the first bomb.

However, the number of aerial bombs was really a lot, and many devils were torn to pieces near the bombing site, and the corpses were mixed with the soil in the Suiyuan area.

In the face of justice from heaven, the little days have long forgotten the orders of their wing captains.

Counterattack? It's good to be alive, they only hate their parents now for giving birth to two legs for themselves.

Looking at the destroyed tank below, Fang Ziyi nodded with satisfaction. For the first time, the troops carried out horizontal bombing in actual combat, and they were barely qualified to achieve such a feat.

"Team Wang, is this attack considered a carpet bombing as Director Huang said?"

"In the past, one of our planes carried a maximum of two bombs, and even in the fiercest battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, there was no single drop of 200 bombs."

Hearing the words of his own teammates, Captain Wang Hai shook his head with a smile.

Although the entire formation had just dropped 240 aerial bombs, the overall weight was not even ten tons, which was far from the level of carpet bombing.

"That's where it goes, ten tons of aerial bombs are barely a lot in the Asian theater, but they are definitely not enough in Europe."

"When there is a chance to attack the enemy's homeland in the future, we will have to throw hundreds of Lancaster bombers and throw thousands of tons to qualify. The target of carpet bombing is a populated or industrially dense area, and it is a matter of blowing up a few broken tanks. ”

It seemed that there was some resentment in his heart, and when he said this, Captain Wang Hai specially adjusted Blenheim into a shallow dive attitude, and then swept away the devils on the ground with the four aviation machine guns under the belly.

"Attention all crews, attention all crews!"

"The mission of emptying the bombs is over, don't fall in love with the war and leave the battlefield immediately! I will continue to be the pilot for the rest of the trip. ”

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"Damn the Eighth Route Army! I'm going to die with you! ”

Looking at the wailing plains, Zentaro Kawasaki clenched his fists tightly, and he didn't even notice that his nails had pierced his palms.

Since the main target of the 1st Air Division was the 71st Tank Wing, the casualties of the 14th Cavalry Wing were not serious, and only more than 200 soldiers died in the air raids.

However, such a war damage is completely unacceptable to an old devil from an aristocratic background.

As we said earlier, the original cavalry group consisted of two units, the 1st and 4th Cavalry Brigades, both of which also had two wings.

In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the 4th Cavalry Brigade was almost completely wiped out on the Eastern Front. The first time the 1st Air Division licked the ground, it killed a half-wing of cavalry.

Counting the losses just now, half of the cavalry group was folded into the hands of the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

For a devil like Kawasaki Zentaro who regards honor as more important than life, the hatred of the 1st Air Division has exceeded that of the 35th Army of the Eighth War Zone.

"Signal Soldier! Go and see if Tsubaki Shui's Ichisa is broken, and by the way, ask them how many working tanks they have left in the wing. ”

"In this kind of place, you can also meet the air force of the Eighth Route Army, and the other party is most likely to escort their airborne troops! Now that we go back in disgrace, Lieutenant General Nishihara will definitely not be able to spare us. ”

"If we can kill that airborne force, we can also be regarded as guilty and meritorious! If you don't avenge this revenge, I swear that I won't be a man! ”

(End of chapter)