Since the air defense force of the Jiangyin Fortress was severely damaged in the First World War, Ouyang Yun had given up hope of using ground firepower to suppress Japanese fighter bombings. The Jiguang LK tank was the organic unit that suffered the greatest losses in that air-to-ground battle. It turned out that a brigade After that battle, there was only a little more than one battalion left. According to the comparison of air and ground numbers, one battalion's anti-aircraft tanks could only cope with two fighter planes at most. Considering this harsh reality, he simply put the remaining All the anti-aircraft tanks were dispersed and assigned to various divisions, allowing them to act as armored vehicles. Once the anti-aircraft tanks that could be quickly transferred were lost, the remaining air defense units with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns as their main weapons hardly moved. The weakness in capabilities is revealed. The bombing targets of this wave of Japanese planes are obviously artillery and tank troops. Although they do not carry special heavy bombs, relying on the numerical advantage, as long as the pilots operate properly, they can give the trainees It is not impossible for the army's tank troops to be severely damaged. Ouyang Yun took this reality into consideration, so the combat order given to the air defense regiment was just to let them try their best to attract the attention of the Japanese planes. As for whether they could shoot down the enemy planes, that was It depends on your character,
Jiang Haiyang's character was obviously good, and under his influence, the character of the entire air defense regiment improved. Not long after he shot down the enemy plane, Captain Jiuping came over in person.
Captain Jiuping's mind was obviously burned out by his anger. He even turned around the plane without even communicating with the other two subordinates and rushed towards the air defense position.
Just when Jiang Haiyang shot down an enemy plane and jumped up and down with excitement, others were not happy: "Old boss, you are not kind. You don't let everyone play with just such an enemy plane. You alone..." Before this person could finish his words, someone shouted in surprise: "There's another fight." "Really, fight, fight." Almost everyone rejoined with happy faces. This scene in a combat position does not look like a life-and-death struggle, but rather like fighting for some toy.
Seeing the behavior of the brothers around him, Xu Xin, the leader of the air defense regiment, laughed and scolded: "These guys, this is a war, but people will die." Although he said this, he himself was also relatively excited. After all, This is also the direct reason why when Ouyang Yun assigned the mission to the Third Division Air Defense Regiment, he only asked them to try to attract the attention of Japanese aircraft.
Over the tank group, the other two Japanese planes had also dropped their bombs. Because of Qian Guangming's previous experience, he ordered the small phalanxes to disperse quickly. This resulted in the bombing effect of the Japanese planes being worse than the previous one. After a lot of damage, only one was destroyed and three were damaged in the end. After dropping the bombs, the two Japanese planes also began to use their cannons to conduct dive attacks on the tanks. Obviously, before the shells were fired, they were Will not leave the battlefield,
Because one of the two Japanese planes in front was destroyed and the other was injured, the attack of the two Japanese planes became much smarter. The Japanese pilots opened the distance between each other, then flew to the periphery of the tank group, lingering on the periphery. Focus on attacking the small phalanx of tanks there.
Using anti-aircraft machine guns to fight planes relies on intensive firepower output, and the range of anti-aircraft machine guns is limited. Once the Japanese planes are far away from the center of the battlefield, the attack they receive is much weaker. This makes the two Japanese pilots become bolder. The one on the left One of them chased after a relay tank, dived back and forth twice in a row, and used its cannon to blow up the track belt of the tank. The machine gunner on top was even hit by shrapnel. Die with hatred,
Qian Guangming had long been pulled into the tank by his guards. However, due to his order, the top cover was not sealed. He sat in the tank, looked up at the sky, and saw two more Japanese planes. He flew over his head and began to adjust his position to prepare for dive bombing. He was very annoyed and said: "The little devils are very rampant. Well, it's not a bad thing to deceive all their bombs. At least Commander Li's place is safe. Down below, it's all about the consumption of bombs." They only have artillery shells, but the little devils have made progress. This kind of bomber is actually equipped with cannons."
Intensive bombing came again. This time, due to the harassment of the two Japanese planes, the formation of the tank group was a bit chaotic. The Japanese planes continued to dive and bombard. Although the attack on the tanks did not achieve much effect, they were killed. They lost a lot of machine gunners, and losing the machine gunners meant losing the eyes to observe the enemy situation in the air. This caused problems with the positioning of some tanks. The two new Japanese planes that joined the battlefield were obviously aware of this. The bombing direction was exactly the two small square formations on the left and right sides of the tank group.
Strings of bombs fell again. This time, because the location of the Japanese aircraft could not be determined, three tanks were directly hit by the bombs because of their turrets, causing huge casualties to the crew in the tanks. One of them was even more... An explosion occurred and turned into a pile of burning scrap metal. As many as four tanks were affected by the explosion and overturned.
The situation of the tank troops was a bit bad, and the air defense troops also suffered a large number of casualties due to Jiu Ping Zhengyun's crazy revenge.
As a squadron leader in the Japanese aviation force, Jiuping Zhengyun's combat ability was much higher than that of his wingman. In anger, the little devil played a unique trick and directly attacked the air defense position more than a thousand meters away. He started to dive, and the general lowered the flight altitude to the bomb release height. He pressed the bomb release button and immediately pulled up the nose of the aircraft.
The bombs were thrown out of the belly of the Japanese aircraft in clusters more than 500 meters away from the air defense position. It seemed random. However, due to the inertia provided by the fighter planes, these bombs still hit the air defense position accurately. Moreover, because they fell at a relatively large angle, these bombs covered a larger area after leaving the fighter plane. Under this covering bombing, half of the entire air defense position was covered. This gave The officers and soldiers of the air defense force caused great damage,
Ouyang Yun also saw this scene. He squinted his eyes and looked at the Japanese plane carefully, and said with some worry: "This Japanese pilot is a master." Then he thought about it, what if this Japanese fighter was allowed to deal with Li Hanhun? If the artilleryman said so, the consequences would be disastrous. Although he knew it was wrong to think so, he still secretly said it was a fluke.
After Jiuping Zhengyun polished the bomb, he did not stop his revenge. As soon as he leveled the fuselage, he dived down. After the fighter plane descended to a certain height, several shells exploded next to his plane. At this time, the little devil performed again. After the two cannons installed on the wings spit out several balls of flame, the fighter actually rolled to the left.
Seeing such a scene, Ouyang Yun became completely worried. But this time, what worried him was the performance of the Japanese aircraft. After the fighter continued to roll for a full minute, it was immediately leveled. Then, the nose of the plane was lowered, and the two cannons fired again. Then, the nose of the plane was raised, and when the retaliatory firepower on the ground was about to begin, it climbed quickly, leaving several cannon fires far behind. ,
Jiang Haiyang's character is still good, but this time he means that his position was not hit by bombs, but about fifty meters away from him, there was an anti-aircraft artillery battalion with nearly four anti-aircraft guns and Several anti-aircraft machine guns, along with their shooters, had been engulfed by exploding fireworks,
The sacrifice of his comrades stimulated Jiang Haiyang's nerves. Seeing the Japanese planes swooping down on him, he remained unmoved. He clenched his teeth and narrowed his eyes into a line. He quickly shook the adjustment handle with his right hand and fiercely with his left hand. Pressing the button, of course, the enemy he encountered this time was really unusual. He had obviously calculated the advance, but the few shells he fired still missed.
After the Japanese plane pulled up, it flew over his head like a demonstration, and then made a sharp somersault. When it turned upside down, the two cannons were spitting out flames at the same time, and more than a dozen shells carrying flames hit him. He came over, "Boom." Amidst the continuous explosions, he only felt pain in a certain part of his body, and his eyes were dizzy for a while, and then he fainted.
In this open-air battle, in the end, the Xuebing Army drove away the Japanese planes at the cost of more than two hundred young lives, destroying fifteen tanks and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons. Alas, maybe it was not chasing them away, but The Japanese planes were out of shells. As for the Japanese army, out of eight new fighter planes, only three returned in the end, and one of them was injured.
The Japanese gunboats stopped shelling after the fighter planes arrived on the battlefield. When the Japanese planes hovering on the Xuebing Army position finally disappeared, Qian Guangming on the front line and Ouyang Yun in the headquarters both seemed to be exhausted. After sitting down, Qian Guangming immediately ordered the troops to withdraw, but Ouyang Yun thought: "We still need to seize the time to build the air force. If the pilots of the little devils are so good, then in future air battles, we will have to rely on numbers to win." , Although the design concept and model of the 'Wanfu-2' fighter jet are ahead of this era, without supporting weapons and electronic equipment, the combat power it can exert will be greatly reduced. In modern air combat , the most important thing is people.”
On the first day of the battle between the Japanese 11th Division and the Yamada Detachment in Pukou, the Xuebing Army won. However, considering that the air defense battle that followed was extremely passive and suffered heavy losses, This victory made Ouyang Yun unhappy.
The Japanese aviation finally showed its ferocious side. This is not the most important thing. What worries him most is that the update speed and quality of Japanese fighter aircraft far exceed that of time and space. What will this mean? ,
Among the many armies in the country, the weapons of the Xuebing Army are the most advanced. Now, even the Xuebing Army is completely suppressed. Then other domestic troops, they don’t even have a chance to give it a try.