In addition to military strength and military quality, the most important thing in war is fraud.

This is the Dragon Boat Festival’s deep understanding of tactics. Whether it is Sun Tzu’s Art of War or Sun Bin’s Art of War, to put it bluntly, it is inseparable from the word “deception”.

If you deceive the enemy, you will win. Even if your military strength and military quality are far inferior to the other party. Because you deceive the enemy into your strategy and you have already taken the initiative on the battlefield, it will be difficult for you to win.

The Japanese Air Force Fleet was deceived by Dragon Boat Festival. They were sure that the anti-aircraft artillery in Jiangyin Fortress could not see them without turning on the identification light.

But they were wrong. Dragon Boat Festival never thought about seeing every plane clearly, but sent people to a camp where the Japanese army was bombed.

Do you still remember the first battalion of the 672nd Regiment went to the Japanese camp to plunder?

They not only searched, but also investigated the enemy's bonfire guide. The results of the investigation were as expected by Dragon Boat Festival, according to the layout of Jiangyin Fortress.

The first air strike of the Japanese army was heading towards the position of the 672nd Regiment. The second air strike was probably a full-scale bombing.

Therefore, the anti-aircraft artillery was arranged on the necessary route of the Japanese aircraft early.

Scream~

When four flares were hit by anti-aircraft cannons to a height of 7,000 meters, it would be a nightmare for all Japanese pilots.

Their eyes had adapted to the darkness, and the sudden strong light caused their pupils to contract suddenly and entered a brief state of blindness.

The Japanese were unable to operate, so they could only wait for the damn blindness to disappear.

The Japanese Flight Regiment captain was in the middle and rear part of the flight formation, and the impact he received was relatively small. He loudly ordered the plane in front not to move around and to drop bombs according to the original plan.

Although the Japanese wing captain realized that something was wrong at this time, he had to fire the arrow on the string. What's more, he had already received news of the brief blindness of the soldiers in front of him through the radio. If he had randomly operated, he might have probably not yet shot the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery, and their planes would have collided together by themselves.

Moreover, the captain of the Japanese Flying Regiment had realized that he had been fooled, and the enemy troops in Jiangyin Fortress had always been able to see them.

The flares were shot into the air through large-caliber anti-aircraft guns. He only hoped that after the flares disappeared, the Chinese soldiers would not see them again.

Of course, this is also good news for Japanese aircraft. The flares not only illuminate them, but also allow them to see the location of the enemy's air defense positions.

So the flare is a double-edged sword, which is no different from the daytime air strike. Both sides are betting on luck.

Of course, what the Japanese army did not expect was that when the flares dimmed again, the second wave of flares they imagined did not appear.

The pilots of the vanguard of the Flight Wing also recovered from a brief blindness.

"Baga! What are the Chinese people doing? If you don't attack, just shake our eyes?"

"Maybe they didn't have the courage to fight the Air Force of the Great Japanese Imperial Army head-on."

"Yes, the Chinese have almost no air defense weapons. They can't do anything to us."

"The stupid pigs from Fujino's brigade were tricked by the Chinese people and were ambushed while firing against enemy positions."

"Yes, as long as we keep it at an altitude of more than 800 meters and drop bombs, the Chinese people's air defense weapons will not do anything to us."

"Warriors of the Empire, we are ready to drop bombs. The target is 1,000-800 meters to dive bombs,..."

"Hi!"

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The first flight brigade and the second flight brigade of the Japanese army were already ready to drop bombs in the dark night.

After the sudden appearance of the flare just now, they were much more alert. They would not risk diving to the ground. Although any kind of bomb drop would be more accurate, it is not cost-effective to ruin their lives for a small gap, as well as the imperial planes.

So the Japanese are not really not afraid of death, they only choose to die when there is no way. Otherwise, if the pilot dies with the enemy every time they go on a mission, the Japanese pilot will have died long ago.

At the same time, Zhou Weiguo was complaining about why the Dragon Boat Festival fired the flares so early, and the Japanese planes did not arrive at all, so he could only reveal his intentions.

Zhou Weiguo was going crazy. If this were his soldiers, he would kick Dragon Boat Festival aside with one kick.

But unfortunately, the Dragon Boat Festival in the entire defense zone is the final say, and he actually started to twist it.

The Dragon Boat Festival stood at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, threw away the crutch in his hand, and slowly raised his hands upwards, as if he was holding a ceremony.

Crazy and nerves. Among the countless eyes in the cave, Dragon Boat Festival is the commander who is the least like a commander. Many people even think that Dragon Boat Festival is just a brain disease.

But in the eyes of the old men of the Independent Group, this battle has already had a result.

Just as the flares ended and the whole world returned to darkness again, the air defense weapons of Jiangyin Fortress sounded.

But this time, the first one to fire was not the Sulutong ST-5 20mm machine gun.

Although the Sulutong ST-5 type 20mm machine gun has excellent performance, its effective range is only 2,000 meters, which is almost the same as the effective range of an anti-aircraft machine gun. And at this time, it is not the time for it to show its power, because its firing speed is too fast, even the Dragon Boat Festival is a bit unbearable.

Just before, when Dragon Boat Festival destroyed six Japanese bombers in a short period of time, the ammunition consumption of Sulutong ST-5 20mm machine guns reached more than 300 rounds, and the consumption of anti-aircraft machine guns reached a terrifying more than 1,800 rounds of bullets.

This is simply an astronomical figure for the Jiangyin Fortress, which was originally not granted air defense weapons.

Therefore, with the Japanese planes still about 1.2 kilometers away from the Jiangyin Fortress and a flight altitude of 2,000 meters, it is impossible for the Dragon Boat Festival to use small-caliber machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns.

Because this is meaningless, it is just simply consuming bullets.

However, since this is the case, why did Dragon Boat Festival launch flares in advance?

There are only two reasons. The first is to determine the target position, because no one can do it by judging the location of the Japanese plane based on sound alone.

The Dragon Boat Festival needs to see the exact position of the Japanese plane in a short time, calculate the flight speed of the Japanese plane, and determine the time of the gun fire.

The second point is to prepare for the shelling.

Because it has reached this point in time and the Japanese army is ready to drop bombs, they cannot change the combat formation at all, and it is very dangerous to change the combat formation during this period.

If they want to temporarily change their formation, they must turn on the identification light so that the planes can identify each other. Otherwise, the original formation will be disrupted and the planes will fly randomly, and it is very likely that they will collide together.

Therefore, without changing the formation of Japanese aircraft, the ground air defense artillery can determine the position of Japanese aircraft based on short memory.

Sure?

Of course, this is just a joke, because it is impossible to determine the location of the Japanese plane in such a short time, and only a rough location.

But this was enough for Dragon Boat Festival. He ordered the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns and Bofors 88mm anti-aircraft guns to open fire.

The Bofos 40mm and 88mm anti-aircraft guns are all produced in Sweden and are one of the most famous air defense weapons in World War II.

Its excellence is not only due to its excellent performance, but also the only anti-aircraft gun that both sides of the war are mass-producing and using. Whether it is Germany in the Axis Alliance or Britain in the United States, and the United States, they are produced and equipped. Its figures are spread throughout every war zone of World War II.

And especially the Bofos 40mm anti-aircraft gun, its firing rate is also very fast. Its firing rate can reach up to 120 rounds per minute, and the initial speed of the shell reaches 854 meters per second, which can hit 0.9 kilograms of shells to an altitude of 7,200 meters.

Moreover, after the Bofos 40mm anti-aircraft gun is fired, the next shell will be loaded automatically until the ammunition is exhausted. It will not stop working. It is a completely automatic fire weapon.

All of this makes the 40mm "Bofors" anti-aircraft gun a successful gun.

The Bofors 88mm anti-aircraft gun has a design concept that is almost the same as the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun and is even more powerful. However, this steel monster weighing about five tons is extremely difficult to move, so it has always been an air defense weapon for the Huangshan Fort.

But at this time, two Bofos 88mm anti-aircraft guns were working with eight Bofos 40mm anti-aircraft guns to blindly shoot the Japanese army fleet.

Because the artillery could not see the exact position of the Japanese plane, they could only shoot blindly. But this was not important, because the Japanese planes were all on the ballistic scheduled for Dragon Boat Festival.

When the flames soared into the sky continued to rise, a series of explosions came one after another in the air. The fighter planes of the first brigade of the Japanese Futian Air Wing were hit almost at the same time and exploded and caught fire.

The terrifying explosion flew around the air with plane debris, directly causing two of the three nearby aircraft to be destroyed, one seriously injured and lost its power and fell towards the Yangtze River.

The plane behind him was urgently avoided it when he saw this. But he didn't expect that the two planes would hide in the wrong direction and collided together.

After a loud bang, the two planes affected a wider range after the explosion, and the scattered shrapnel actually hit the four planes.

Two of them were destroyed, and the other two aircraft were injured and fled from the left and the right.

"Avoid, avoid!"

The captain of the Futian Flight Regiment shouted a loud order, but at this time, only seven or eight planes behind him could answer him. The rest of the planes either exploded and crashed, or tried their best to avoid artillery fire from the ground and explosions that had not yet dissipated in the air.

The Futian Flight Wing encountered a nearly devastating blow before it even bombed. At least fifteen aircraft were destroyed or injured in this shelling.

When he saw this scene, Zhou Weiguo was extremely shocked. He originally thought that Dragon Boat Festival was a pig, but he fired a flare before the Japanese plane dropped the bomb, which made the Japanese army alert. But he didn't know that Dragon Boat Festival was just watching whether the Japanese plane was on the artillery trajectory.

Moreover, why did the Japanese air strike plan succeed?

Although most of the fortresses in Jiangyin Fortress are in air raid shelters, it is difficult for Japanese aircraft to pose a threat to them. However, the periphery positions are also very important. These positions are the support of all officers and soldiers of the 112th Division.

Dragon Boat Festival cannot let Japanese planes destroy them easily. He wants to severely damage the Japanese planes before they drop bombs, and anger the Japanese again.
Chapter completed!