Chapter 287 bombing
Of course, this is planned, and this plan is specifically used to avoid bombing of Japanese fighter jets.
In fact, the US radar soldiers searched the location and even speed of the Japanese aircraft fleet as early as 18 minutes ago and passed the data to Zhang Chi's command center...
The S-type air-to-air radar on the US destroyer can theoretically detect large aircraft groups of 175 kilometers, but this is only the theoretical farthest detection distance. Because the radar itself is unstable and unfavorable factors such as the Earth's curvature and air refraction, it is good that the S-type radar can detect aircraft groups of 100 kilometers in actual combat.
This time, the US destroyer detected a Japanese aircraft fleet around 75 kilometers... This destroyer pretended to search for Japanese submarines on the sea, so it did not attract the attention of Japanese submarines. If the Japanese army knew that the destroyer running around the waters near the "Wolf Horn" was detecting the situation of Japanese aircraft over the "Wolf Horn" and reporting it to the "Wolf Horn", they would have concentrated their firepower and sunk it with wolf pack tactics.
Because the Japanese fighter jets are slow to fly, the speed is only more than 200 kilometers per hour. If calculated at this speed, 75 kilometers will take another eighteen minutes, which means that the Chinese troops still have eighteen minutes of preparation time.
But Zhang Chi knew that this time could not be calculated like this, because when the Japanese army approached the target, that is, the "wolf horn", it would speed up and dive down to launch an attack.
So Zhang Chi made a quick decision and immediately ordered the fire!
In an instant, hundreds of artillery shells poured out into the direction of the Japanese army. Since the shells were mixed with many smoke bombs, smoke soon became everywhere on the Japanese positions.
A few minutes later, a Chinese regiment was lined up in neat formation under the cover of the "Sheerman" tanks, and soon disappeared into the smoke.
Yamada Daoyu's time is very accurate, and Zhang Chi's attack is just right.
The Chinese troops and tanks had just entered the smoke, and the fleet led by Yamadadadao dived into the sky above the "Wolf's Corner".
"We did not find the enemy's tank!" Major Nakaju shouted: "Maybe the Chinese hid them somewhere!"
"Impossible!" Yamada Doyu shouted: "'Wolf Horn' is only one square kilometer. They have to set up three regiments of troops, and they have no time or space to hide such a huge tank unit! Find it carefully!"
"Yes!" Major Zhongju responded and then dived with several fighter planes again.
But the Grand Master Nakaji made two turns over the "Wolf Corner" and reported to Yamada Doji again: "There is still no, their tanks are completely gone as if they were drilled into the ground! Also, we didn't even see a few people, only some artillery... "
This made Yamada Doji a little incredible. He personally flew down from a high altitude with a fighter plane, and then skillfully controlled the fighter plane to fly backwards... Such a flying posture could allow Yamada to see the entire "wolf horn" below from a high place.
"It's true!" Yamada Daozhi said to himself, and then he saw a cloud of smoke in the Japanese defense line and the faint sound of gunfire and explosions from the sound of aircraft motors. He suddenly understood something.
"Oh! Cunning Chinese!" Yamada Dao suddenly felt like he had been taken away. He was so energetic that he wanted to do something big, but now he felt that everything was over.
"Zakazuki!" Yamada Daoyu corrected his flying posture and ordered Master Nakazuki on radio: "Drop all the bombs and return!"
"But..." Major Nakaju said unwillingly: "Is our target not the enemy's tank? How can we just give up like this?"
"Their tanks... are attacking our positions!" Yamada Daoyu replied: "Execute the order! We cannot complete the mission. If we delay any further, it will be too late to wait for the American fighter planes to arrive!"
The Master Zhongju was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he responded helplessly: "Yes!"
Then he led various types of fighter jets and bombers to bomb the "Wolf Corner" below.
But such bombing obviously would not have much effect. The personnel and materials had long been hidden in underground tunnels, and only a few cannons were exposed... These cannons were still in a hurry and had no time to hide.
However, the word "hiding" is not accurate here, because the artillery of the Sino-US coalition forces did not have so much time to build tunnels for these 105-caliber howitzers. Building a tunnel that can accommodate such large-caliber howitzers is a big project. Moreover, even if such a large tunnel can be built, a few minutes will not be enough to push the thing weighing more than 2,000 kilograms into the tunnel, so the US soldiers can only use a simpler method... After firing the cannon, they covered the cannon with a rag of similar color to the soil. In this way, it is difficult for Japanese pilots to find the artillery below when they look down from the sky.
Of course, the US military, which basically did not suffer losses in air supremacy and had little practical experience, did not know this. This is no exception. The simple and practical knowledge taught by Chinese soldiers to the US military.
After a burst of targetless bombing, the Japanese fighter jets had to leave in disappointment... In fact, they had not completely dropped the bombs because the fighter jets responsible for reconnaissance on the periphery reported to Yamada Doji and found that US fighter jets were coming, and they were new US fighter jets.
Those were the twelve "Hellcats" fighters taken off from the US aircraft carrier. In terms of number, the twelve "Hellcats" are indeed much less than the more than 60 various fighter jets of Yamada Doyu. However, on the one hand, there are only about 30 fighters in the Japanese fleet, and on the other hand, the loss ratio between "Hellcats" and Zero War is 1:13, so the twelve "Hellcats" can undoubtedly defeat the seemingly huge fleet of Japanese troops.
At this time, the particularity of air combat has gradually been highlighted... Land warfare, naval warfare often occurs when more ants bite to death, especially land warfare. However, in air warfare... the number advantage is often that it cannot make up for the disadvantages in technology and equipment. Backward fighter jets often can only become targets for the enemy without any ability to fight back.
Yamada Moino also understood this, especially he also knew that the speed of this new fighter of the US military was as high as more than 600 kilometers per hour, the exact number was 667 kilometers, while the fastest speed of Zero War was only 533 kilometers per hour.
This huge gap made Yamada Daoyu dare not fight... If he did not escape, he would be caught up by American ghost fighters on the way back and was wiped out.
Chapter completed!