The Chinese and Japanese fighter planes chased each other back and forth over Xiaoshan. This was already the second round trip. It was exactly the same. The fighter planes of the Xuebing Army first chased it aggressively, and then failed again and returned. There were many Japanese planes chasing them. It was more than doubled. Both Chinese and Japanese infantrymen, whether dead generals or soldiers, had a clear understanding of the relationship between the results of air battles and themselves. In this way, the Japanese army all cheered for His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperial Army; Not counting the guerrillas as regular troops, everyone's expressions were solemn and even ugly.
The thirty or so medium-sized Baiji bombers flew at the front. The Baiji's innate speed advantage allowed them to easily leave behind those Japanese carrier-based bombers and torpedo planes even when fully loaded. Behind these fighters was Wang Hai. The flying fortress, as an early warning and command aircraft, was only loaded with two or three tons of bombs, so its speed was not as fast as those medium-sized Baiji bombers. Behind Wang Hai's plane, there were nearly seventy of them in a stretched formation. The group of air fortresses was very sparse. During the escape just now, three more air fortresses were knocked down by the Japs. So far, Xia Quanyong's troops had lost six air fortresses and two Baiji Dolphins. This made him and Wang Hai's heart was throbbing, and his face was completely pale. Behind the air fortress cluster were more than three hundred Chinese and Japanese fighter jets, carrier-based bombers, and torpedo planes that were entangled together. It looked particularly chaotic. Whether Wang Hai, Liu Xuefeng and other senior officers of the Cadet Army Air Force above the division commander level admit it, this is the biggest crisis the Cadet Air Force has encountered since its establishment. Compared with the veteran Japanese aviation force, the Cadet Air Force is still too big. Too immature, and the reason why they have been able to maintain a balance of power and firmly block the Japanese army from the airspace of the Xuebing Army is just the two left and right punches of Baiji Dolphin and Sky Fortress, which can both attack and defend. The total number of air fortresses owned by the army is only a little over 200. In addition, it is difficult to manufacture and costly. It can be said that each one is the commander-in-chief's heart. Six air fortresses is almost equivalent to removing a piece of flesh from the commander-in-chief's heart. , If more than one division is lost, Wang Hai and Xia Quanyong simply cannot imagine what kind of reaction the commander-in-chief will have.
The sound of gunfire in the air is endless, and dense tracer bullet marks are intertwined and swept across. Fighters crash or explode and disintegrate in the sky every minute. As a mere spectator, this scene is really spectacular. Shozo, Ishihara Wanji and Uchiyama are all on the riverside. Eitaro watched with the telescope for a while. His face was flushed and he couldn't hide his excitement. His eyes were shining brightly. He said to Ishihara and Uchiyama in a meaningful way: "Yamamoto-san has a clever move. The Chinese are going to steal the chicken this time." It’s a waste of money.”
Ishihara's expression was equally excited. In the telescope, he saw three friendly fighter planes chasing an air fortress into the sky and into the ground. He sighed with emotion: "In terms of aviation tactics, Mr. Yamamoto is worthy of the title of the first man in the empire. The reason why the military's original 'Sink It' was successful was because the Combined Fleet's carrier-based bombers and torpedo planes could only attack the ground but not control the air. It turns out that bombers can still be used in this way, which is a great benefit."
The Japanese army was bullied miserably by the Aerial Fortress. Seeing the Aerial Fortress in such a mess, both Hebian and Ishihara could not help but feel elated. Uchiyama's mood fluctuated little, but at this time he saw something was wrong. There was a cargo mounted under the belly of an aircraft. A Baiji carrying a heavy aerial bomb suddenly swooped down. He looked in the direction of the dive and was shocked to find that it was his own artillery position.
The mountain artillery and field artillery units of the four brigades are already the last artillery units of the Second Army in Hangzhou. If this unit is annihilated, the Second Army will have to rely on the aviation unit to provide heavy fire support. This will It will definitely affect the advancement speed of the ground troops, and it also means giving the Xuebing Army more time. The Xuebing Army is famous for being good at counterattacks. This made Uchiyama nervous and said to Hebian: " Sir, it seems that the Chinese want to bomb our artillery positions."
It seemed that at this time, a Baiji dolphin had completed the dive and dropped the heavy aerial bomb. The appearance had become a fait accompli. A huge mushroom cloud exploded in the corner of sight of the river and Ishihara, and then There was an earth-shattering explosion. Hebian and others felt that the ground beneath their feet was shaking, and their expressions immediately changed.
"The Chinese people are beginning to struggle to the death." Hebian said, his tone was a bit harsh, and the few human-shaped black dots at the top of the mushroom cloud stung his heart. Even if they were struggling to their death, it was not something that the artillery unit could bear, and this was just the beginning. ,,
As if receiving an attack signal, one after another Baiji began to dive and drop bombs. In just five minutes, the Japanese artillery position was completely engulfed by fireworks. The ground continued to tremble, and the parts of the field artillery and mountain artillery were still there. Corpses of Japanese soldiers appeared one after another in the sky above the fireball, and shrill howls rang out. The Japanese artillery unit, which had been arrogant just now, suffered a devastating blow in an instant.
The nameless sandy land was only three to four kilometers away from the Japanese artillery positions. It was so close that Muranozo and his Japanese soldiers could clearly see the Japanese artillerymen dancing with the artillery parts in the air with the mushroom cloud as the background, and felt the sound coming from under their feet. Trembling, and then looking up at the huge fuselage of the air fortress that was flying closer and lower, Murano San finally realized the situation he was in, and roared: "Spread out." Then the first one went out. rushed out,
The flying fortress was helpless against those Japanese carrier-based bombers and torpedo planes that dared to fight hand-to-hand, but it was still a symbol of death to the Japanese soldiers on the ground. Murano San's reaction was already fast enough, but for those who could easily fly four to five hundred thousand an hour For a flying fortress of 300 meters, it is a race between a snail and a cheetah. The result is self-evident.
In the eyes of Murano and others, the trainee airmen of the Sky Fortress were in a state of embarrassment. They had long been provoked by the Japanese Air Force and were so anxious that they couldn't devote themselves to it now that they had the opportunity to vent their anger. As horizontal bombers, the Sky Fortress was actually at an altitude of four thousand meters. Then the bombs can be dropped. However, in order to increase the accuracy of bombing, the student bombardiers requested to lower the height to three thousand meters or even two thousand meters. As a result, the strike range was reduced, but the bombing density was greatly enhanced. The fortress contained about ten tons of bombs. According to the orders of Xia Quanyong and Wang Hai, the student aviation soldiers wanted to drop all the bombs as soon as possible so that they could travel lightly, so a whole brigade of air fortresses dropped the bombs in succession. In only about five minutes, The nameless sandy land, including the adjacent Qiantang River, was immediately covered by continuous explosions. There were more than two thousand Japanese soldiers from the 104th Regiment, as well as the 20th Regiment that was crossing the river, and one unit each from the Third Division of the Communist Army, including the Qiantang River Task Force. Almost at the same time, they suffered a devastating blow. I don’t know how many Japanese soldiers were torn into pieces. Many people were wiped off the face of the earth almost instantly.