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spn Chapter 285: In the Burning Pearl Harbor

In the war room of the Dachu aircraft carrier, Lieutenant General Ge Cunsheng was anxiously waiting for the return results of the two "Sea Eagle" high-speed reconnaissance aircraft sent out to reconnoiter Pearl Harbor.

According to the plan, the first wave of warships and aircraft of the Chinese task force will mainly use the advantages of Chinese aircraft in height and speed to carry out horizontal bombing from high altitudes after the first wave of Japanese air strikes on Pearl Harbor.

.Compared with the level of mid- and high-altitude horizontal bombing by the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries, the People's Army Air Force's bombing technology and the corresponding equipment required for horizontal bombing are much more advanced.

Although dive bombing is effective, in addition to being easily exposed to the eyes of the Japanese and Americans, the battle damage ratio is also really high. If the countries were still at the original level of World War II, it would be better, but now, as countries

The air force is generally stronger than its original historical development level, and its air defense firepower has also been greatly improved.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng has been paying great attention to training horizontal bombing techniques at medium and high altitudes. It is okay if the hit rate is slightly lower. After equipping several instruments that can improve the effect of horizontal bombing, when there are enough aircraft, it is better than diving down to meet the dense bombing.

Strong anti-aircraft firepower.[

The entire "Yellow Bird" plan has been fully demonstrated, every step is rigorous, and even enough emergencies have been taken into account.

The Dachu aircraft carrier Chang Jiangming raised his wrist and looked at the time. He frowned and said, "Lieutenant General, according to the scheduled plan, the first wave of attack aircraft is less than 30 minutes away from Oahu. Judging from the Japanese army's sneak attack plan, this

By that time, Pearl Harbor should have been attacked, and the Seahawk reconnaissance plane should have results."

"Wait a moment." Standing in front of the huge topographic map of Pearl Harbor, Ge Cunsheng said firmly.

According to the "Yellow Bird" plan, the first wave of attacks by the Chinese task force must be carried out only after the Seahawk high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft sends back enough good information. Otherwise, even if it is only ten minutes' flight from Pearl Harbor, the first wave of attacks will be carried out.

The wave fleet could only find a piece of sea to drop the bombs, and then return.

This good information means that before the first wave of Chinese aircraft arrived, the Japanese had already launched a surprise attack and successfully hit Pearl Harbor's defense system. In addition, except for some Japanese fighter aircraft that carried out battlefield suppression, other first wave attacks

It is only good enough if the fleet has returned.

Otherwise, rushing in rashly, even for so-called 'help', may cause Chinese and Japanese planes to fight on Pearl Harbor. At that time, the biggest joke in the world will happen, a battle involving hundreds of planes.

Therefore, in the Oriole Plan, this wave of horizontal bombing must be carried out under absolute safety. If conditions do not permit, the fleet will even take the initiative to return. After all, the Chinese attack fleet equipped with radar early warning aircraft is much better than the Japanese.

The aircraft group has a great advantage. At least, relying on the speed of the aircraft group, it can quickly avoid the large Japanese aircraft group when it is discovered in advance. As for the small groups of Japanese aircraft that may be encountered, they will be shot down directly.

The Seahawk high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft is a new aircraft type that just completed its second test flight at the beginning of the year. When the Yellow Bird Project was first established, it was not even equipped with the military. In the following months, this aircraft was used on Navy aircraft carriers.

The final debugging was completed, and the aircraft successfully took off and landed on the aircraft carrier, completing the scheduled reconnaissance mission.

Previously, the reconnaissance aircraft used by the People's Army were simply modified from high-speed fighter jets and lacked sufficient capabilities to perform frontline reconnaissance. Facing the increasingly approaching full-scale World War II, Zhang Shusheng found that not only the People's Army Air Force, but also the Naval Aviation and Army were urgently

A frontline reconnaissance aircraft is needed.

Its design requirement is that it must be able to climb to an altitude of 15,000 meters within 5 minutes and maintain a maximum level flight speed of nearly 800 kilometers.

Moreover, as an aircraft designed for frontline reconnaissance, in addition to high altitude and high speed, it must also be equipped with efficient ground photography and reconnaissance equipment.

Among the existing aircraft, the J-2 fighter jet and J-3 fighter jet have undergone many improvements, especially after replacing the updated Kunlun engine, and their flight speed has been greatly improved compared to when they were first finalized. Among them, the J-2 fighter jet

The maximum level flight speed of the J-2 fighter jet has been increased to 650 kilometers, which is close to the speed of the prototype J-3 fighter jet. Initially, it was only

The J-3 fighter with a speed of 620 kilometers has been improved and replaced with engines and the fuselage has been reinforced. The speed has increased to 770 kilometers per hour, which has exceeded the -47 Thunder fighter just equipped by the Americans. The maximum speed of the Thunder fighter at an altitude of 9,000 meters

At a level flight speed of 690 kilometers per hour, it will definitely not be able to catch up with the J-3 fighter jet.

What the Seahawk high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft needs is a prototype with a mature structure, solidity and reliability, especially with better performance at high altitudes and high speeds.

As a result, the J-3 fighter jet once again became a modified template aircraft.

By removing all weapons, dismantling some armor at key locations, moderately modifying the aircraft structure, and finally installing the "Sea Eagle Eye" high-altitude photography system, the J-3 high-altitude reconnaissance model has been completely renovated.

The maximum level flight speed at an altitude of 10,000 meters has increased to 810 kilometers per hour, which is already the best in the world. Even if it does not fight back, no aircraft except China can catch up with it in the air.

Not long after the task force had taken off the first wave of attack aircraft, at an altitude of 10,000 meters less than ten kilometers away from Oahu, two Seahawk high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, which were somewhat similar to J-3 fighter jets, were rapidly approaching

Approaching Oahu.

"Aircraft 02, Oahu is ahead. Our aircraft has turned on the panoramic infrared camera and front-range camera, and is preparing to lower its altitude and conduct battlefield reconnaissance."

The two Seahawk reconnaissance aircraft that reconnoitred Oahu this time. The 01 aircraft is mainly responsible for battlefield photography and medium-altitude visual reconnaissance over the battlefield. However, the 02 aircraft is different. It is not equipped with as complex photographing equipment as the 01 aircraft. There is only one

The high-altitude infrared panoramic camera only needs to assist the 01 camera in taking pictures through clouds at high altitudes.[

Its actual mission is to build an air-to-ground dual-purpose search radar with a range of 30 kilometers. The purpose of transforming it is to cooperate with the No. 1 aircraft and perform battlefield search and warning.

Just 2 minutes ago, a large area of ​​dense aircraft signals was seen on the radar oscilloscope of aircraft No. 02.

"After receiving the 02 aircraft, I have turned on the infrared panoramic camera. I have confirmed the target again. The radar characteristics are consistent with the characteristics of Japanese Zero aircraft, Aichi bombers and Nakajima attack aircraft. The number of Japanese aircraft is approximately between 220-290.

, 01 plane, there is a group of Japanese planes 5 kilometers ahead of you at an altitude of about 3,500 meters. The others are more than 10 kilometers away from you. It is recommended to conduct reconnaissance at an altitude of 5,000 meters. I wish you good luck."

"clear."

After receiving the reply from the radar-equipped aircraft No. 02, Lieutenant Liang Zhikai, the pilot of the front cabin of the No. 01 aircraft, reconfirmed the report of the camera operator in the rear cabin that the camera equipment was working normally, and then began to slow down. After the aircraft speed dropped below the safe value

, and then quickly lowered the altitude at a larger dive angle.

During a violent turbulence, the altitude of the aircraft dropped rapidly. Soon, as the value on the altitude indicator continued to change and decrease, from time to time, the altitude of the No. 01 Seahawk reconnaissance aircraft finally dropped to an altitude of 5,500 meters.

"Unit 01, there are a large number of aircraft 3 kilometers in front of you at an altitude of 1,000 meters. They are still rapidly lowering their altitude and are expected to launch a surprise attack immediately. The time difference between the time and their scheduled combat time is only less than 2 minutes." Unit 02

Quickly report the information to Unit 01 via the aircraft radio.

Liang Zhikai thought for a moment and then replied, "The Japanese air raid is about to begin. I want to pass over Oahu at high speed to reconnoiter the battlefield situation."

"Understood, wish you good luck." Unit 02 replied.

Because, just five minutes ago, they had received a notification from the Chinese task force that the first wave of attack aircraft had left Oahu in less than 40 minutes. According to the plan, the attack aircraft group of the task force was to have a time lag.

, the first wave of aircraft groups had to basically avoid the Japanese army's first wave of aircraft groups, and had only 15 minutes to attack. Although, compared to the Japanese aircraft group,

With such a short stay-in-the-air attack time (for absolute safety, the Japanese army's individual voyages are more than one hour, and the overall stay-in-the-air time of the fleet is relatively short.), these 15 minutes do not seem too short. After all, the Chinese fleet only needs to attack ports, oil depots and

It is enough to carry out horizontal bombing or secondary horizontal bombing on aircraft maintenance plants, airport runways, etc. There is no need to dive to fight.

After intensive transformation, it is equipped with the second-generation 'Songshan' horizontal bombing system. Its aiming system includes a simple mechanical computer for calculating the impact point, a telescopic eyepiece, and a high-altitude jng for stabilizing the Songshan system.

Automatic gyro horizontal stabilization system.

In the test, the bomber equipped with this Songshan horizontal bombing sighting system was not as amazing as the dive bomber in horizontal bombing of warships, ports, barracks and other large buildings, but it was already very satisfactory.

During this 15-20 minute time difference, the Americans were completely stunned and would not have any ability to fight back. They would never have thought that just after the Japanese planes left, there would be a second wave of non-stop coming from

Chinese planes arrive. Of course, if they try to resist the incoming high-altitude aircraft group, the Chinese escort fighter jets will kill them without mercy, and even the pilots will be killed.

Liang Zhikai quickly lowered his altitude. The weather today was pretty good. At an altitude of 5,000 meters, he was finally able to visually see Oahu in front of him.

Within his field of vision, what he saw was a dense swarm of Japanese aircraft, more than 200 aircraft, which almost completely covered the sky above Pearl Harbor.

From previous intelligence, Liang Zhikai knew that this was the first wave of combat aircraft launched from the 11 Japanese aircraft carriers. It seemed to be a large number, but in fact the opponent mainly had to defend against the American Pacific Fleet's nine aircraft carriers, as well as that number.

Hundreds of warships and aircraft.

At this time, the Japanese aircraft group had collectively lowered their altitude and began to dive and attack. Even the Japanese fighter jets joined in the low-altitude sweep of the airport runway to kill the navy in the port.

"On Plane 01, about 50 Japanese planes left the formation. They are flying far away, possibly searching for other American aircraft carriers."

Looking at Pearl Harbor from a distance, Liang Zhikai had no idea how many aircraft carriers, battleships or other warships were in the port. Until he flew over the Japanese aircraft and Pearl Harbor at high altitude and high speed, at that moment, he saw clearly

Well, there are actually only three aircraft carriers in the port, two escort carriers, and one large and medium-sized aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons.

The characteristics of the aircraft carrier are really easy to identify. From the long deck, from an altitude of 5,000 meters, Liang Zhikai, who has undergone special training, can even clearly see the US warships and aircraft parked on it, as well as those who saw the unidentified aircraft flying towards the port.

In the end, the American soldiers were either panicked or at a loss.

What is very surprising is that Liang Zhikai's plane flew over at an altitude of 5,000 meters and did not encounter a Japanese plane. Even when he turned and flew back again, he did not encounter a Japanese plane. The Japanese were obviously

We have searched mid- and high-altitudes for a long time, but we have not found any U.S. planes at all, and such a plane flying quickly at mid-high altitudes has not found any.

No one has noticed. Of course, even if a Japanese aircraft suddenly climbs to an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, or may find aircraft No. 01, aircraft No. 02 can also give an early warning, and aircraft No. 01 can climb quickly. However, at this time, the Japanese aircraft

They are busy harvesting the US military's ports and looking for other US military aircraft carriers near the ports, so they don't care about anything else.

After all, at this time, except for the six aircraft carriers that were lucky enough to leave port early in the morning for training, the rest of the U.S. military was still preparing to have breakfast.[

Looking out of the plane glass with a wide viewing angle, Liang Zhikai saw the Japanese planes in front of him frantically rushing towards Pearl Harbor. The lowest plane flying might even be only a few dozen meters high.

"boom……"

Even in the air, Liang Zhikai still heard the first huge explosion.

The torpedo was dropped directly into the port by the Japanese Nakajima attack aircraft. This modified torpedo with a wooden propeller easily got into the waterline of a cruiser docked in the port, and coincidentally detonated the torpedo.

Soon, Liang Zhikai saw an even more intense bombing scene, with Japanese planes like locusts frantically devouring U.S. warships, soldiers, airport runways, radar stations, etc.

Below his field of vision, one after another U.S. warships were hit by torpedoes or aviation armor-piercing bombs. There were explosions resounding in the sky, fires soaring into the sky, and crazy low-altitude machine gun fire from Japanese planes. The entire Pearl Harbor was running around.

U.S. officers and soldiers, and the Americans' counterattack, there was almost no...

Seeing this lively scene, seeing ships belonging to the U.S. Pacific Fleet being hit, exploding, and catching fire, Liang Zhikai switched the line to the communication channel with the task force and reported: "Seabird 1 report

, Mantis started the operation on time, and the results are brilliant so far. There are three US aircraft carriers, one large aircraft carrier, two escort aircraft carriers, and countless other ships including battleships in the port. The port is being bombarded by Japanese planes."

Just a few minutes ago, Pearl Harbor, the highest command of the US military at Pearl Harbor, the office of General Kimmel.

Admiral Kimmel opened his third-floor office facing Pearl Harbor. From this angle, he could see most of the ships docked in the port.

"What a beautiful morning. These majestic battleships are the most solid force for the great United States to sail across the Pacific." After his daily routine inspection of the port, Admiral Kimmel would always return to the office and look at the port. Every time he saw so many majestic ships.

The mighty warship docked in the port, and he couldn't help but admire it.
To be continued...