Chapter 307: Carpet bombing? Let's leave it to their homeland.
Chapter 307 Carpet bombing? Let's leave it to their homeland.
As the officers roared at the top of their lungs and the roar of the aircraft became louder and louder, the devils in the cavalry group subconsciously made various evasive movements.
The most skilled among them is naturally the 71st Tank Regiment. They were affiliated with the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army before being transferred to the Mongolian Army, and have experience in fighting the entire Battle of Nomenhan.
The bombing intensity of the Maozi back then was no worse than it is now.
“Disperse quickly! Each tank squadron focuses on evasion! Don’t have any unnecessary thoughts!”
"Baga! What are the infantry doing! Do you want to compete with the planes in speed? Where are the machine guns? Hurry up and set up the light and heavy machine guns! The enemy fighter planes are flying very low! Fight back while you dodge!"
“Contact the headquarters and ask the Army Aviation to send fighter jets to support!”
Obviously, these devils who were not sent to Siberia to dig potatoes still had a few brushes.
Facing the sudden air attack, more than fifty light and medium tanks immediately moved to the south and north directions under the command of their own company commander.
The trucks responsible for logistics transportation were driving east and west in an attempt to disperse the troops and minimize losses.
The situation of the infantry was relatively miserable. There were few natural bunkers on the plains. They can only crouch down to avoid and wait for counterattacks, and their moves are so skillful that they make people laugh.
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Escort fighter group, pilot aircraft.
Comrades who have studied physics all know one thing, that is, horizontal bombing is no less difficult than dive bombing.
There are many items that need to be calculated during the entire operation process, including aircraft airspeed, ground speed, deflection angle, wind speed, flight altitude, average falling speed of bombs and many other parameters.
In film and television works, the behavior of flying directly above the target before dropping a bomb is pure nonsense, and it is not even as reliable as pressing the button to enter the bombardier's aiming perspective in the game.
As a twin-engine fighter that first flew in 1935, the Blenheim's bomb delivery device was just a simple optical sight. The bombing accuracy naturally relied on the personal experience and feeling of the bombardier.
When the entire **** formation was about to arrive over the Japs, Captain Wang Hai said through the communication device:
“Enter the combat position! Fang Ziyi! Let’s give the enemy some color to see!”
As the bombardier, Fang Ziyi didn’t talk nonsense. He carefully checked the airspeed indicator and altitude indicator. Then he pulled the lever to open the bomb-drop cabin with an expressionless expression, and began to observe the situation on the ground through the sight.
A few seconds later, he first dropped two 227-kilogram aerial bombs.
At the same time, fighter aircraft that have suddenly lost weight have a tendency to increase in altitude. Captain Wang Hai quickly stabilized his flying posture, fearing that it would affect the accuracy of his teammates' bomb delivery.
After the two big babies left the cabin, eight 20-kilogram small melons followed immediately. The entire plane kept throwing aerial bombs like a hen laying eggs.
After seeing the pilot aircraft in action, the remaining crews dropped bombs together.
A full 240 aerial bombs, carrying the scream of death, covered the evacuation route of the 71st Tank Regiment from south to north.
The 227-kilogram aerial bomb is a classic model of the Air Force Division. Even if it explodes near the Type 97 medium tank, it can paralyze the tank. At a slightly closer distance, it can even directly reduce the enemy to its parts.
Although 20 kilograms is a junior among aerial bombs, the charge coefficient of even small aerial bombs is outrageous. Using it to deal with the Type 95 light tank and the Type 97 medium tank is quite similar to anti-aircraft cannons hitting mosquitoes.
“Boom, boom, boom!”
Aerial bombs fell on the path of the 71st Tank Regiment one after another, and the powerful shock waves would occasionally overturn the Japanese industrial waste.
A certain Type 95 light tank was so lucky that it was even given the title of Warrior for receiving aircraft bombs from its turret. The horizontal bombing technology of the 1st Air Division is indeed very immature, and some crews even only hit the enemy with the first bomb.
However, the number of aerial bombs was really large. Many Japanese soldiers were torn into pieces near the explosion point, and their body parts were mixed with the soil in the Suiyuan area.
Facing justice from heaven, the young people have long forgotten the orders of their captains.
Fight back? It's good to be alive. Now they just hate their parents for giving them two legs.
Looking at the destroyed tank below, Fang Ziyi nodded with satisfaction. This was the first time that the troops carried out horizontal bombing in actual combat, and it was barely qualified to achieve such a result.
“Team Wang, does our attack count as the carpet bombing Director Huang mentioned?”
“In the past, one of our aircraft could carry up to two aerial bombs. Even in the fiercest battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, we never dropped two hundred bombs at a time.”
Hearing what his team members said, Captain Wang Hai smiled and shook his head.
Although the entire formation has just dropped 240 aerial bombs, the total weight is less than ten tons, which is still far from the level of carpet bombing.
“Where is this? Ten tons of aerial bombs are barely enough in the Asian battlefield, 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 deploy hundreds of Lancaster bombers to drop thousands of tons. The target of carpet bombing is densely populated or industrial areas. It is nothing to blow up a few broken tanks."
It seemed that he had some resentment in his heart. When he said this, Captain Wang Hai specially adjusted Blenheim into a shallow dive attitude, and then used the four aviation machine guns under the belly of the aircraft to sweep away the Japanese on the ground.
“Attention all crews, attention to all crews!”
“The mission of clearing the aerial bombs has ended. Don’t be too eager to fight and leave the battlefield immediately! I will continue to serve as the pilot for the rest of the trip.”
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“Damn Eighth Route Army! I will fight you until death!”
Looking at the wailing plains, Kawasaki Zentaro clenched his fist tightly, and he didn't even notice that his nails had pierced the palm of his hand.
Since the main target of the 1st Air Division was the 71st Tank Regiment, the casualties of the 14th Cavalry Regiment were not serious. Only more than 200 soldiers died in the air raid.
However, such battle losses are completely unacceptable to an old Japanese from a noble background.
Before we said that the initial cavalry group consisted of two units, the First Cavalry Brigade and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, both of which also adopted the organization of two regiments.
In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the 4th Cavalry Brigade was almost completely wiped out on the Eastern Front battlefield. The first time the Kong 1st Division licked the ground, it killed half a regiment of cavalry.
Taking into account the losses just now, half of the cavalry group was lost to the Eighth Route Army Air Force.
For a Japanese like Zentaro Kawasaki who values honor more than his life, the hatred of the First Division has exceeded that of the 35th Army in the Eighth Theater.
“Signal Corps! Go and see if Senior Colonel Chun Xiu is broken, and ask them how many tanks they have left in the regiment that can be used normally.”
“We can still encounter the Eighth Route Army’s air force in a place like this. The enemy is most likely escorting their airborne troops! If we go back in despair, Lieutenant General Nishihara will definitely not be able to spare us.”
“If we can kill that airborne force, we will be considered guilty of meritorious deeds! I will not be a human being unless I take revenge for this!”
(End of this chapter)