When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the airport runway, the fighter pilots of the Tang Army rushed out of their barracks with orders.
The ground crew had already been prepared. They inspected the aircraft with the help of lights before dawn.
The FW-190 fighter jets that took off this time were equipped with two 250-kilogram bombs under their belly. They were going to completely paralyze the target they had forgotten yesterday.
Soon, the engines of these planes began to roar, the propellers began to rotate rapidly, and the plane at the front had already pointed its nose at the takeoff runway.
The first FW-190 fighter roared to the end of the runway, and then shot into the sky there, followed by the second and third.
All the planes formed a formation in the sky, and then flew towards the Qi army's defense line in the distance.
The ground troops of the Qi Army who had just woken up were dumbfounded. As soon as they got up from the bed, they saw a scene that frightened them. They had already seen it yesterday.
Dozens of planes passed over their heads in dense numbers, and the engines of the planes in the shape of "Shi" roared as they rushed past the place where they were.
Everyone prayed silently in their hearts, praying that these planes would not suddenly lower their altitude and then return to their location.
What is very gratifying is that their prayers seem to have had an effect. Those Tang Army aircraft that flew in with murderous intent early in the morning obviously had no intention of attacking their position.
These planes roared into the distance and disappeared over the horizon without looking back. All the Qi troops secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where on earth did these damn guys go to blow up?" a Qi soldier said in fear, holding his weapon.
"Why do you care so much? As long as they don't bomb us, you can bomb us wherever you like." Another Qi soldier said.
"Don't worry, I heard that our main force is preparing to counterattack, and the Tang Army will be finished soon!" The squad leader on the Qi position looked at the Tang Army planes that were gradually receding, and confidently comforted his subordinates.
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Some people are lucky, and some people are unlucky. Behind Qi's position, an airship just dropped its rope and began to lower its height.
The attack last night was obviously unsuccessful, so the returning airships were landing carefully. They carried a large amount of ammunition, and there was a large amount of hydrogen above their heads, so they were very fragile and dangerous.
Landing this thing is still very troublesome, and it often takes more than 40 minutes for an airship to land.
The good news is that a large amount of hydrogen has been released, because the airship needs to lower its height, cooperate with the operations on the ground, and dock little by little next to the special building.
Inside the building, there are machines for preparing hydrogen and raw materials are stacked. There are power plants and ammunition depots next to them.
In short, this is a very complex and professional special "pier", which is a base that must be built to use airships.
At this time, the entire base was very busy. Even if the airship returned early, it would still take a lot of time to deal with these returning big guys.
While he was busy, a warning sentry deployed outside the airship saw the Tang Army aircraft rushing over in the distant sky.
In order to attack the enemy's country as deeply as possible, most of the airship bases are built very close to the front line. This is actually less than 60 kilometers away from the Qi army's main defense line.
Coupled with the distance between Tang Jun Airport and the defense line and the inclined route, the actual distance between the two sides is only about 150 kilometers.
For a fighter jet with the speed of the FW-190, it only takes less than 20 minutes at most to cover 150 kilometers. In fact, the Qi Army could not react at all, and the Tang Army's aircraft was already close to Chi Chi.
"That's the plane of the Tang Army?" Yesterday's attack has spread the word "plane" among the Qi army. People who have seen it and haven't seen it before are now talking about such high-end weapons and equipment as the plane.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Another Qi soldier immediately began to shout loudly, reminding his companions to prepare for battle quickly.
But when he looked back, a desperate sight came into his eyes: the huge airship was still hovering in mid-air, and the cables thrown off the airship were still bending and shaking.
The fragile factory building was left unprotected, and even the roof was painted bright red to prevent the airship from colliding when it landed.
No joke at all, except for a few anti-aircraft guns and a few machine guns of the ground security forces, there may not be any force here that can participate in the war!
"Quick! Get the machine gun positions ready!" The desperate Qi army officer on duty hurried over and shouted loudly as he rushed in front of them.
At this moment, the Tang Army's fighter jets had already pounced in front of them, and at the same time they had begun to adjust their formation and swoop down one by one.
"It's over...it's all over..." the Qi officer murmured, looking up at the enemy planes in the sky with no thought of struggling at all.
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In the sky, in the small and cramped cockpit of the fighter jet, the pilot of the Tang Army flew slightly diagonally and overlooked the target on the ground.
He saw the red roofs and the slender white airships that seemed to be docked at the dock.
Therefore, he started the attack without hesitation, and then reminded his wingman on the radio to keep up with him: "I start to dive and drop bombs! I start to dive to drop bombs! Follow me! Pay attention to ground fire! You are responsible for suppressing it!"
"Wingman understands!" the wingman pilot's voice came from the earphones, and then the two planes turned their noses and dived toward the ground: "I'm following you! Pay attention to the altitude!"
In an instant, the two aircraft found the target. They pulled down the bomb release handle at a height close to the critical point. The two 250-kilogram bombs separated from the pylons and rushed towards the ground target relying on inertia.
Counterattack artillery fire rang out from the ground. Unfortunately, the shells of the 76mm anti-balloon cannon were unable to keep up with the aircraft, and had long been thrown to who knows where.
If an aircraft is hit by a 76mm anti-balloon cannon and crashes at this time, it cannot be said that the other party's gunnery skills are superb, but that the pilot's luck can only be blamed on it.
"Machine gun! Machine gun! Someone is firing!" the lead pilot reminded his wingman while pulling up and releasing the bomb.
He had just seen the enemy's tracer bullets. The dense tracer bullets hit the sky, which more or less caused some trouble for the FW-190 fighter force that was about to dive and attack.
Frankly speaking, the low-altitude performance of the FW-190 fighter is not very good. The training the pilots receive is mainly fighter combat training, and ground attack is only a temporary guest appearance. Therefore, most of the pilots of the FW-190 fighter are unwilling to do so.
Staying at low altitude.
So when machine gun fire comes, most pilots will immediately pull up and change their path, avoid the attack and quickly regain altitude.
Air defense, air defense, nine out of ten, and the existence of fixed ground air defense firepower, in fact, the most important thing is to force the enemy to give up the target of the air strike, and then preserve the strategic target it wants to protect.
To put it more bluntly, the purpose of anti-aircraft firepower is not to shoot down enemy aircraft, but to interfere with enemy aircraft so that they cannot attack the target.
As long as the airport, factory, bridge... the anti-aircraft artillery wins, it has no direct relationship with how many enemy planes are shot down.
Therefore, just based on the results, it is obvious that the several machine guns deployed by the Qi army on the periphery played a temporary role in air defense and played a role in disrupting the Tang army's bombing.
Unfortunately, these peripheral anti-aircraft machine guns are too far away and do not really cover the airship base, so their role can only be said to be extremely limited.
After finding, or testing out, the locations of these machine guns, the Tang Army's fighter units began to bypass these fixed firepower points and continue to attack the eye-catching airship base.
At this time, the first bombs dropped landed on the airships and airship bases, and exploded, destroying everything around them.
The huge explosion suddenly caused the factory building, which was neither strong nor intended to be strong, to collapse, and the machines inside were completely crushed under the rubble.
This was originally a temporary frontline airship base, where the airship was inflated and made simple repairs were done. Cyric did not have time to build a solid building here, and he also did not make any emergency repair preparations.
After the first explosion blew off the roof, all the surrounding Qi people knew that it was over, and this place was about to become a hell on earth.
Sure enough, the second bomb hit the airship outside the factory at the same time, and the airship immediately exploded and burned into a huge flame.
In order to be cheap and enable large-scale construction, the disadvantage of Cyric using hydrogen instead of helium to fill the airship became apparent. The explosion destroyed the entire airship base almost instantly.
The subsequent FW-190 fighter pilots were completely dumbfounded. They found that because the target exploded so powerfully, they could not find a way to continue the dive attack.
There are flames everywhere, explosions everywhere, and burning air waves everywhere. The air flow near the entire airship base is already unstable. Every time it approaches the aircraft, it will shake violently due to the transpiration of the air flow.
It is no exaggeration at all. The pilots in the planes that had just dived to drop bombs all suspected that they had exploded into a giant ammunition depot. The explosions under their feet had connected into one, and it was so huge that it was scary.
This feeling is like a knife stabbing a major artery, blood spurting out uncontrollably, not only killing the other person, but also frightening the criminal who stabbed the knife...
