November is almost the most comfortable time in the Philippines. Winter has already entered in other parts of the northern hemisphere, but the weather in the Philippines has only gotten a little cooler. The hot and rainy rainy season has passed, and the Philippines has ushered in the most pleasant period of the year.

In the cool and dry season, typhoons also stay away from this area, and the sea is calm.

The battle line has been in a stalemate in the middle of Leyte Island for some time. With the help of rainforests and tunnel fortifications, the Japanese have been resisting tenaciously. Compared with the Japanese Navy and Air Force, whose technical and tactical levels have obviously declined, the Japanese infantry's technical and tactical levels are not bad.

.This seems to be different from Ron’s second brother’s description. However, the decline in the Japanese military’s combat capabilities in Shandong was actually caused by the changes in the situation in the Pacific.

Over the years, the Japanese have continuously transferred experienced and well-trained troops from the Chinese battlefield and replenished them to the Pacific. With this method, the Japanese ground forces in the Pacific have maintained good technical and tactical skills.

level, but the price paid for this was that the technical and tactical level of the Japanese ground forces declined rapidly on the Chinese battlefield and in the Northeast region where it was in confrontation with the Soviet Union.

The Japanese have always emphasized long-distance precision shooting training, which should have allowed the Japanese Army to have many snipers. But I don’t know whether it is because of the influence of the so-called "Bushido" spirit, or simply not understanding the real sniper tactics.

What is it like? They only regard it as a "cold shot" that is not on the table. The Japanese's performance in sniper operations is very clumsy. For example, in order to obtain better

To improve their field of vision, they will climb to the top of a big tree. US snipers will not choose such a sniper spot, because although doing so can expand their field of vision, it will also allow more people to spot them. Moreover, staying in the tree will also

Making movement difficult. For a sniper, it is very important to quickly move the shooting position and change places after shooting. Some Japanese will even tie themselves to trees.

Although the Japanese

Their shooting tactics were very poor. They would stay in inappropriate places and shoot at their opponents constantly in one position, but they still caused a lot of trouble to the Americans. Coupled with the Japanese tunnels, it was even more

This annoyed the US military. The Japanese built a fortification underground with multiple exits. The exits were all disguised. The Japanese hid in such caves and tunnels, waiting for the US military to approach, and then suddenly and rapidly shot at the US military.

.These things have greatly increased the casualties of the US military and slowed down the advance of the US military.

In the past, the US military's method of dealing with such fortifications was to first use firepower to suppress it, and then the flamethrowers would move forward and use flamethrowers to solve the problem. This was quite dangerous, because the flamethrowers were always the enemy's top priority.

Target. And once he is hit, especially the fuel tank on his back, it is almost equivalent to being directly cremated.

But now, the Americans have a safer way, which is to use attack aircraft to drop "Thor's Hammer" fuel-air bombs.

It was already noon. At Leyte Island Airport, several P-38 attack aircraft were ready for attack and were waiting at one end of the runway.

"The Temple of Odin is calling Thor One, Thor One, please pay attention, Thor One, please pay attention!" Romney, the pilot on duty, who was sitting in the cockpit of the P-38 attack aircraft, was eating ice cream chatterly.

Suddenly a call came from the line. Romney immediately threw away the half-eaten ice cream and replied: [

"This is Thor One. This is Thor One. Please give me instructions!"

"Thor 1, discovered the enemy fortification group in area 31, set off immediately and launched an attack on the target indicated by the ground forces!"

"Understood, Thor One is requesting to take off immediately!" Romney smiled excitedly. Obviously, he liked such a combat mission very much.

"Thor One, you can take off!" the tower command came from the headset.

Romney started the two engines in sequence. Due to the increase in the weight of the P-38, the original two 1475-horsepower V-1710-111173 water-cooled engines seemed a bit underpowered compared to the significantly increased weight. This made

Its flight performance has dropped a lot compared to the original P-38 fighter. If it is in other

In the country, as an attack aircraft, the P-38's current flight performance is already very good, but the luxurious Americans are not satisfied, so they replaced it with two Cadre V1650s with a maximum horsepower of 1720 horsepower.

-7 liquid-cooled engine, which is the American authorized version of the British Merlin engine on the P-51.

When Ron was in Europe, his P-38 attack aircraft had not had time to be equipped with such a thing, but now he has all the new gadgets in his hands. The flight of the P-38 attack aircraft after the replacement

Although the performance is still not as good as the original P-38 fighter, it is already capable of fighting against most of the Japanese fighters, and may even have a slight advantage.

The two V1650-7 liquid-cooled engines started to rotate happily, and Romney's P-38 attack aircraft began to taxi at high speed on the runway. Finally, near the end of the runway, the aircraft began to gradually leave the ground.

There is a thick and long giant bomb hanging under the belly of the P-38 attack aircraft. This is the "Thor's Hammer" fuel-air bomb weighing 25 tons.

After Romney successfully took off, his wingman, Lieutenant Collins, also took off in another P-38, followed by two P-81s, one for escort, and the other two P-81s.

It was also full of rockets - they also wanted to see if there was any advantage they could take advantage of.

"Thor 1, climb to an altitude of 1,000 meters, direction 035." Another command from the command center came through the earphones.

"Thor One understands!" Romney adjusted his direction and flew towards the target. A little behind him on the left side was his wingman, and the two escorting P-81s flew about 600 meters above their heads.

on the position.

In fact, the fighting area was very close to the airport, and it took Romney less than ten minutes to reach the target area.

"Thor One is calling Valkyrie Three. Thor One is calling Valkyrie Three. Please specify the target area and make sure there are no our personnel in the relevant area." Romney began to call for ground instructions.

The so-called "Valkyrie" refers to the liaison officer assigned to the ground forces. After a while, Romney heard the answer from the "Valkyrie": "I am Valkyrie 3, we will use mortars to fire red

The smoke marks the target, and there are no more of our personnel near the target, so you can launch an attack!"

"Thor One understands!" Romney replied while suppressing a smile. Every time he heard the voice of a rich man saying "I am Valkyrie", Romney felt like

Extremely funny.

Two red clouds of smoke rose from the ground. The target was here. Romney quickly lowered the altitude and flew towards the target. At an altitude of 700 meters, Romney dropped the bomb, then quickly pulled up the plane and flew into the distance.

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As a burst of white mist spread, there was an earth-shattering explosion. The whole earth trembled in the explosion. Even Romney, who was flying in the air, felt the plane shake violently. He turned the plane and flew away.

Go back and observe the effect of this attack.

The originally bare hillside (the Japanese cut down all the trees in front of the fortifications in order to expand the firing range) was scorched black. Romney knew that this was the result of the grass on the ground being carbonized in the high temperature of the fuel air explosion.

.Because the explosion depleted the nearby oxygen, they could not burn, and they all turned into such a large piece of black.

"Well done! Thor One, there is another suspicious target. You also have Thor's hammer, right?" The extremely masculine voice of "Valkyrie" came to mind in the earphones again.

"Yes, please indicate the target!"

Then another cloud of red smoke rose about 400 meters away from the previous explosion point.

"We see the target! We will attack!"

This time it was Lieutenant Collins' turn. This was the first time he had dropped such a giant bomb. But in fact, throwing such a bomb was easier than throwing an ordinary bomb because it required lower accuracy.

This bomb also drew a large black spot on the hillside.

"The launch of 'Quake' has been completed," Romney said. "We are about to return. I wish you good luck."

"Thanks a lot brother!"

Romney turned the plane's nose and flew toward the airport. After flying for about four minutes, a call from an escort fighter suddenly came from the earphones: "Enemy planes have been spotted at 3 o'clock! We are preparing to attack."

Romney turned around and saw a group of Japanese fighter jets in the distance at 3 o'clock.

This is a group of Zero fighters. They are divided into two levels. There are 6 aircraft on the bottom level, flying at an altitude of about 800 meters. There are also 4 Zero fighters on the higher level, about 1,300 meters. Luo

Muni immediately realized that this was probably a Japanese suicide plane formation.

Although he was flying an attack aircraft, Romney felt that his aircraft still had obvious advantages against the bomb-laden Zero Fighters below. So he said to his wingman: "Follow me, and we'll go over and have some fun too!"

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Nishizawa Hiroyuki was escorting a group of "Kamikazes" heading towards the U.S. fleet. At this time, he suddenly discovered a group of American fighter jets. There were four U.S. fighter jets in total, and two of them had propellers on the front and rear of the fuselage, which he had never seen before.

There were some weird planes passing by, and two of them seemed to be P-38s.

Nishizawa Hiroyuki has no intention of fighting the Yankees in the past. Although he is very confident in himself, his main task is to escort him. If others don't discover him, it would be best to make peace with him. P-38 is not a

It is an easy target to deal with, but it is too strong and difficult to shoot down. As for another weird aircraft, it does not seem to be easy to deal with either.

However, air battles are not something you can avoid if you want to. The enemy obviously discovered them and began to turn towards them. Nishizawa Hiroki quickly pulled up the plane and began to prepare for the upcoming air battle.

The enemy's two weird fighter jets rushed straight over first. Nishizawa Hiroyuki knew that the firepower of heavy fighter jets was very terrifying, so they were more willing to shoot against their opponents. But if Zero Fighter went to shoot against others,

That would be like an old man hanging himself because he thought his life was too long. Nishizawa Hiroki stared closely at his opponent, estimated the opponent's speed and distance, and prepared to use a sudden upward pull to avoid the enemy's shot and occupy the enemy's 6 o'clock position.

"This plane accelerates so fast!" Nishizawa Hiroyuki exclaimed in surprise.

When they were still one and a half kilometers away from the enemy plane, the P-81s fired all the rockets under the wings at the Japanese. There was not much hope of shooting down the flexible fighters with these things, but firing them could at least interfere with the opponent.
Chapter completed!