Chapter 1507 Those who succeed need to pay a price!
The Japanese army also obtained dozens of tons of food while competing for China's airdrop supplies, but it was mixed with poisonous stuff, and they did not dare to eat it without fear. They had to find a place to store it, and they lost 200 people for it.
And consumed a lot of medicine.
It can be regarded as a big loss. How can the Japanese, who love calculations the most, be willing to suffer this loss?
If this doesn't work, then look for other ways to make up for it.
Although the Japanese army basically lost its air superiority, under Tian Junliu's strict order, the 5th Aviation Regiment, which spent ten days to replenish dozens of fighters and bombers from the Kwantung Army, restarted its work.
The Japanese army has basically figured out the dispatch patterns of Chinese and American air force fighter planes, especially the American ones, which basically only appear in the sky at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
If we can't beat them, the Japanese army will take a detour. You won't come until eight or nine o'clock, so I will arrive before eight o'clock.
Early in the morning on June 30, as the sun had just risen, a huge fleet of Japanese aircraft descended into the sky in large numbers. They first bombed the city of Hengyang indiscriminately, then flew to the south of the city and took turns dive bombing the highlands.
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The air defense battalion of the Si Xing Regiment, which has been hidden until now, finally has a place to be used!
As early as the moment Cheng Tietsou sounded the air defense alarm in Hengyang City, he ordered the anti-aircraft gun squads hidden in the artificial caves around Yanhui Peak to use 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, quadruple 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns and specially reinforced 20 mm machine guns.
Pull him to the gun position.
Since the war broke out in Hengyang on June 1, apart from occasionally using 20mm machine guns to support the front line, the air defense battalion has not fired a single shot, whether it is the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun or the quadruple heavy machine gun.
In the words of Tang Dao: "The battlefield is not a gambling table, but if you want to win, you must not only fight for the spirit of death, but also fight for wisdom and patience. A good hole card may not be enough to win the final victory, but it may
Become an important cornerstone of victory.”
As a result, most of the officers and soldiers of the air defense battalion were patient and watched the bloody battle between the enemy and ourselves in the sky without being able to help at all. Fortunately, the Chinese Air Force gradually gained the upper hand. Otherwise, this would have been very difficult for the Four Lines Regiment, which attached great importance to friendly forces.
For the officers and soldiers, it was definitely an extremely painful psychological torture.
This patience lasted for a whole month, until that day when the Japanese army used a total of 24 Zero fighters and 12 97 bombers to bomb the Hengyang and Chengnan positions in a time lag.
As an old rival, Isamu Yokoyama actually knew that the Four Lines Regiment had anti-aircraft guns. From the military orders he issued to each division, he mentioned at least ten times that 'Be sure to be alert to Chinese surface-to-air defenses. If traces of them are found,
Try your best to destroy it!', you can know how deep the shadow of Yokoyama Isamu's defeat in the Battle of Shipai was.
But whether it is Yokoyama Isamu, the Fifth Aviation Corps or the 116th Division in the south of the city, after a month of hard fighting, they have never seen the Chinese surface-to-air equipment appear, and they have finally subconsciously recognized this equipment that has caused them
The terrible force of great damage was forgotten.
There is an old Chinese saying that "the scar is healed and the pain is forgotten", which refers to this kind of psychological state!
The Fifth Aviation Corps has actually taken most of the details into consideration. They have considered the fastest dispatch time for Chinese fighter planes, how many fighter planes China can send to the battle at one time, and why Chinese fighter planes have been able to arrive on the battlefield in time many times in a row.
, then China must have deployed observation stations along the route and issued warnings.
So this time, the fleet from Jiangxia Airport set off at 6 o'clock, deliberately made a large circle, flew at least 300 kilometers more, and kept the altitude above 5,000 meters, successfully evading the 10th Army's attack in Hengyang
Three early warning points are deployed in the mountains one hundred kilometers outside the city.
How meticulous was the commander of the Major General? In order to ensure that this round of bombing was foolproof, he even took into account the terrible "legends" and did not let the "Lone Star" Major Sasaki go into battle to prevent unlucky events.
This was also considered to be one of the wisest choices among all the deployments made by the major general commander after the war!
But only the Fifth Aviation Corps ignored the powerful ground-to-air force of the Fourth Line Regiment.
Really, no one could have imagined that there would be someone like this. The two sides have been fighting for a month, and there are scenes of blood and flesh flying everywhere in the sky and on the ground, and there are actually people hiding them.
Then, this weird thing happened to the Japanese.
In fact, Hengyang City was not the focus of Japanese bombing. The focus of Japanese bombing was the positions south of the city.
Therefore, the incendiary bombs dropped in Hengyang City were basically mounted under the wings of Zero fighter planes. Most of the 12 bombers carried 500-pound aerial bombs, which were specially prepared for the Chinese positions in the south of the city.
20 of the 24 Zero fighters circled in the 2,500-meter airspace to guard the bomber group. Only 4 Zero fighters accompanied the 12 bombers to dive into low altitude and drop bombs on the target.
Such a deployment shows that all Japanese aircraft's alert focus is in the air rather than on the ground.
Cheng Tieshou on the ground looked through the telescope at the group of Zero fighter jets still hovering in the sky, with a ferocious look on his lips.
Since you don’t take our ground seriously, today I’m going to let you have a good feel for the sudden explosion of Juhua!
Cheng Heilian, who has been promoted to Army Lieutenant Colonel, may still have a fiery temper at times, but seven years of war experience have long tempered this 33-year-old middle-aged man into a real piece of fine steel.
He is so calm that he is almost cruel!
Even though he watched helplessly as Japanese bombers shook their wings and dropped heavy bombs, blowing Zhangjiashan, Tiger Nest and other Chinese positions into a sea of flames, he remained unmoved and did not issue an attack order on the walkie-talkie.
"Batalion Commander, open fire! We rushed towards Huangcha Ridge like crazy!"
"Yes! The explosive power of a 500-pound aerial bomb is too terrifying. We can't let the devils do that..."
Anxious requests for battle from each company commander came over the walkie-talkie.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In their telescope view, the flames raised by the aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese planes were more than 40 meters high. You can imagine what kind of hellish scene it was on the ground!
"Shut up, everyone!" Cheng Tieshou shouted coldly, and the communication channel suddenly became quiet, with only the dull sound of rumbling explosions.
Cheng Tieshou was still waiting. The height of the Japanese Type 97 bomber was still quite high, a full 1,000 meters. At such a height, it could easily escape the range of the 12.7mm heavy machine gun.
The air defense battalion carefully deployed 36 quadruple 12.7 mm heavy machine guns on 12 positions to weave an airtight firepower network at a low altitude of 600 meters to 1,000 meters. For the 12 Japanese bombers entering the low altitude,
It will be more deadly than the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun.
As the commander of the air defense battalion, Cheng Tieshou did not lead his troops to participate in the war, but it does not mean that he was just having fun during the past 30 days.
This army lieutenant colonel, whose combat experience and command ability ranked among the top ten in the four regiments, observed the air every day. He found that the number of bombers dispatched by the Japanese army continued to decrease, and then one day it would increase again, but it never exceeded
20 aircraft.
This means that the war potential of the Japanese has long been weakened. At least for the Japanese Army Air Forces in China, replenishment can never keep up with consumption. A sudden increase means that replenishment has just been obtained, and the replenishment cycle is getting longer and longer.
For example, the 12 bombers dispatched by the Japanese army today should be the most seen on the battlefield in the past half month, which means that this is another supplement for the Japanese army.
As long as these 12 bombers can be shot down at once, the Japanese will not be able to think of more bombers arriving on the battlefield for at least 10 days. This will be of extremely important help to the entire battle situation in Hengyang.
Cheng Tieshou's judgment was quite accurate. These 12 97 bombers were sent by the Kwantung Army for the sake of the base camp. Otherwise, in terms of level, the Kwantung Army directly under the jurisdiction of the base camp would also belong to the front army and would not be dispatched by China at all.
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If these 12 bombers are beaten down, no matter how shameless Tian Junliu is, he will be embarrassed to ask the Kwantung Army for reinforcements. Instead, he will have to transfer planes from Japan. Japan's current strategic focus is on the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields.
Looking at the country's strength, I don't know how long it will take.
Tang Dao's patience and Cheng Tieshou's tenacity at the last moment will eventually achieve fruitful results. From a strategic perspective in the defense of Hengyang, it is far greater than the downing of 12 bombers themselves.
Because, since June 30, no matter how bloody the Battle of Hengyang was, it was like a hell on earth, and not a single Japanese bomber appeared in the sky above Hengyang.
"Yo Xi! After this battle, the 11th Army should be much more relaxed!" A Japanese Army Major in the air felt the slight vibration of the plane and the black smoke rising from under the belly of the plane, and smiled involuntarily.
As the commander of the 6th Flying Regiment under the 5th Air Corps, Major Shichiro Yamashita actually had a very glorious past.
This Japanese Army Major was actually a former naval aviation officer, and had a record of shooting down five Chinese fighter planes. He was an ace pilot, but his luck was really bad. In the Battle of Jinling, he was still a naval aviation lieutenant and led 12 fighter planes.
, and as a result, they were chased and intercepted by the most luxurious lineup of the Chinese Air Force at that time over Jinling.
Three of the four aces of the Chinese Air Force attacked together and fought fiercely with the elite formation led by Shichiro Yamashita over the Purple Mountain. One can imagine the helplessness of the Japanese naval aviation lieutenant at that time. Not surprisingly, the fighter plane was damaged and had to fly
He made an emergency landing on the outskirts of Jinling and was captured by the defenders.
When Jinling retreated, the unlucky child was taken all the way to Jiangxia and then to a mountain city. He stayed there for six years until he was exchanged for a large amount of money and captured Chinese pilots and intelligence personnel by the Japanese last year.
There was no way to go back to the naval aviation side, so Shichiro Yamashita could only stay in the China Expeditionary Force and was promoted to major sergeant and served as the commander of a flight regiment of the newly established 5th Aviation Corps.
Only six years later, Major Shichiro Yamashita, who returned to the blue sky, was surprised to find that the Chinese Air Force was no longer Wuxia Amon, and the performance of its equipped fighter planes was completely superior to that of the Empire. Not to mention that he still wanted to shoot down five like before.
, even one is extremely difficult.
It took half a year for this former ace pilot of the Japanese Naval Air Force to finally accept reality and become a combat combat commander in earnest, instead of just having the dream of an ace pilot.
But today's relatively smooth bombing has rekindled the fighting spirit of this Japanese Army major who had lost a lot of his ambitions.
"All fighters, follow me and clear the obstacles for the imperial infantry to advance!" The Japanese Army Aviation Major, whose head was constantly secreting dopamine, was obviously a little excited. After giving the military order, he pushed the rudder and pushed the nose of his Zero fighter down.
Towards a low altitude of 600 meters.
He planned to use the 6 heavy machine guns mounted on the wings and nose of the 97 bomber to straf the Chinese positions. Only in this way could he live up to the expectations of the regiment commander.
The dense rain of bullets from the 12 97 bombers will surely kill the Chinese soldiers who have narrowly escaped the bombing in the trenches.
This will not change even if several years have passed.
The Japanese ace pilot, who had been in a Chinese jail for nearly six years, apparently returned to his past glory under the stimulation of victory.
The commander has spoken, how dare the bomber group disobey the command?
So the bombers lowered their noses one after another, entered the battlefield from the northeast, roared into a low altitude of 600 meters, and prepared to straf those Chinese positions that were still shrouded in smoke.
If the ambitious Yamashita Shichiro could see those "stick-like objects" raised high and thirsty through the jungle, he would definitely regret his impulsive behavior.
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It is no longer enough to describe the inner feelings of the Japanese pilots at the moment when the ground firepower was fully unleashed.
In the words of Second Lieutenant Yamamoto, who was the only one captured after parachuting: At that moment, I felt that all the blood in my body had solidified, and I had no idea how to control the fighter plane.
In fact, facing this huge anti-air fire position with three quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns deployed every 400 meters, no matter how skillful the control, it is impossible to escape the bad luck of being hit.
That was almost equivalent to a salvo of 108 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, but it was not the final form of the firepower network laid out by the Fourth Line Regiment's air defense camp.
In addition, there were 24 20mm anti-aircraft guns that had been sealed!
The 20mm anti-aircraft guns were abandoned by the Four Lines Regiment because they were too heavy, and the cost of firepower output and manpower transportation and use were too high. However, this battle in Hengyang was too dangerous, and Tang Dao finally chose to seal these batches.
The machine guns used in the North China battlefield were shipped to Hengshan half a year ago.
This thing is the equipment that the Four Lines Regiment's air defense battalion started with. The veterans are all very skilled in operating it. As long as three veterans are used as gunners and a dozen recruits are trained for three months, a team with powerful capabilities can be formed in no time.
A machine gun squad with sufficient combat capability!
The 24 20mm cannons all use explosive shells to block the airspace between 1,000 meters and 1,800 meters. Any Japanese aircraft that escapes into this airspace from a low altitude of less than 1,000 meters will be their prey.
And at an altitude of 1,800 meters, it naturally belongs to the world of 40mm anti-aircraft guns!
However, these 12 40mm Bofors Mountain Cannons were mainly used against the 12 Japanese bombers and 4 Zero Fighters that had entered low altitude, but the 20 Zero Fighters that were hovering at high altitudes on alert.
Its function is not to shoot them down completely, but more to drive these smaller and more maneuverable fighters out of the airspace.
After all, if 20 Zero fighter jets are allowed to rush down to low altitudes and fire with machine guns, the anti-aircraft gun positions that have been completely exposed will also pay a price.
Sure enough, when the anti-aircraft machine gun position below opened fire violently and directly stunned 16 Japanese fighter planes that entered the low altitude, the white mist that suddenly bloomed in the high altitude also stunned 20 Zero fighter planes.
The Chinese anti-aircraft guns are also very powerful!
The Japanese high-altitude aircraft fleet dispersed instinctively, accelerating to a higher altitude and leaving the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery shelling area at high speed.
This is also a quality that any good pilot should have. How can you consider the team without saving yourself first?
The control level of the Japanese pilots is indeed quite good. The 12 40mm anti-aircraft guns that can almost dominate the altitude of 3,000 meters fired a wave of fire with all their strength. They fired at least 800 rounds of artillery shells, and they only shot down one and injured another. Most of them were shot down.
The Japanese planes all escaped safely from the airspace filled with splashing shrapnel.
But the Japanese aircraft group entering the low altitude was not so lucky.
Yamashita Shichiro, the air commander, was the first to bear the brunt, mainly because the Zero fighter flew the fastest, so he, the leading fighter, was targeted by at least three positions, which contained nine quadruple 12.7 mm machine guns.
In an instant, hundreds of bullets were sprayed towards the Zero fighter jet that was diving downwards at high speed, enough to form a barrage.
Yamashita Shichiro was unfortunate enough to run into this barrage!
The 12.7mm thick warhead effortlessly tore through the fragile aluminum alloy fuselage of the Zero fighter, punching holes the size of eggs.
Not only the nose and wings, but several rounds even passed through the belly of the aircraft and reached the cockpit. One of them directly hit Shichiro Yamashita's right leg.
Before he could feel the pain, a cloud of blood mist exploded in the cockpit. It was only then that Yamashita Shichiro was horrified to find that his right leg was already bloody.
The heart-rending scream was just remembered when another warhead penetrated the side of the fuselage and shot into the unlucky child's right rib, leaving a bloody hole the size of a bowl on the body of commander Shichiro Yamashita.
Then penetrate the fragile fuselage.
The howling wind rushed from the gap towards the Japanese air commander whose consciousness was somewhat blurred due to extreme pain. This made Yamashita Shichiro seem to wake up at that moment.
Looking down with unwillingness, he saw that in the thick smoke, his eyes were filled with brilliant firelight.
That was a sight of countless anti-aircraft machine guns firing at the same time!
"Withdraw..." Shichiro Yamamoto, who still did not forget his duty as commander at the last moment of his life, shouted the last word of his life and hung his head slumped.
The Zero fighter that lost control was like a bird with broken wings. It suddenly turned downward and hit the hillside behind Zhangjiashan. The shock caused by the huge explosion also frightened the Chinese officers and soldiers who were still hiding in the tunnel to avoid the bombing.
The balls shrank suddenly.
Dodging bombs depends on your fate, right?
But Major Shichiro Yamashita was by no means the only victim of this ground-to-air ambush. The Zero fighter had a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, let alone the Type 97 bomber, which could only reach a speed of 400 kilometers per hour.
In the face of the crazy rain of bullets, the three Zero fighters could still move at high speed like sparrows in a net and struggle desperately. The 12 97 bombers were like stumbling old ladies. Apart from suffering damage, the only option was to pull
The rise accelerates upward.
But obviously, you can only be beaten passively!
If the Type 97 bomber hadn't been so big and capable of resisting, it would probably have been doomed long ago, but in a fight, those who are passively beaten will eventually be knocked down.
After taking a beating, 8 of the 12 bombers finally fled to an altitude of 1,200 meters with scars, but what greeted them was a barrage of 20mm machine guns.
The bombers, which had already begun to smoke and slowed down, could not hold on any longer. Three more bombers were shot down on the spot. The other five were still smoking and managed to escape the range of the 20mm anti-aircraft gun, but unfortunately they were shot at a height of 6,000 meters.
of 40mm anti-aircraft guns.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Finally, only two of the 12 97 bombers made a triumphant escape! They flew 30 kilometers in the air in one breath, and the Japanese pilots breathed a sigh of relief.
The story could have ended here, leaving two seedlings for the 5th Air Corps. Unfortunately, the two bombers were riddled with bullet holes, their fuel tanks were penetrated, and their fuel was completely exhausted. The six crew members
The members had to abandon the plane and parachute under the painful eyes of the 19 Zero fighter pilots who were escorting the return.
Unfortunately, because the Japanese fleet had to avoid being pursued by anti-aircraft guns, they chose the simplest straight line to escape, heading east. The area where the Japanese pilots parachuted was in the Chinese-controlled area.
Five of the six Japanese bomber crew members successfully fell to the ground, and only one fell to death because his parachute did not open. However, three of the five who fell to the ground were shot to death with sticks by the surrounding Chinese villagers on the spot, and only two were killed.
He was captured by the local security team.
These two people also became the only survivors of the bomber group of the 5th Air Corps that played time lag and played tricks.
Of course, even if they lived, they didn't live long. After the war, the two unlucky guys were tried for war crimes because they bombed the south of Hengyang City, causing casualties on the Chinese side, and were eventually shot in the mountain city.
So far, this round of assault bombing led by Japan's China Expeditionary Forces Command has had successes and failures. It successfully dropped incendiary bombs on Hengyang City and also dropped heavy aerial bombs on positions south of the city, but at the cost of 12 bombers.
and 5 Zero fighter jets were shot down, and 39 people including Major Shichiro Yamashita were killed on the spot.
This price left everyone in the 5th Aviation Corps stunned.
"Tiansha Lone Star" Major Sasaki patted his chest and was extremely glad that he did not go out in the battle. Otherwise, the 19 Zero fighter jets might not be able to come back if they were not repaired well.
