The northwest region of Mosul, an important town in the north of the Mesopotamia Plain, has fertile and flat land. In addition, humans have thrived here as early as three to four thousand years ago. It has been a famous granary since ancient times. The "Y"-shaped Tigris River and the
Zab River, from north to south
It winds through, bringing abundant mountain springs to the highlands of Turkey and Kurdistan. However, after entering modern times, due to the division of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, as well as disputes between tribes, religions and agents of great powers, wars continued and the place was deserted for a long time.
After the Anjia Army defeated the Japanese army and entered the area in 1940, relying on the deterrence of strong military power and the chaos after the Japanese army massacred them all, they supported and established the Kurdish Kingdom in the Mesopotamia region with Mosul as its capital in the north and Baghdad in the center.
The Kingdom of Baghdad with its capital and the Kingdom of Mesopotamia with Visiliyah as its capital in the south, while the territories of northeastern Iraq and southwestern Persia formed the Gulf North Province directly under the central jurisdiction of South China.
Like a fist that penetrates deep into the narrow area on the border of Turkey and Syria, it is rich in oil minerals and is of great significance to South China's regional politics. An Yi specially approved the establishment of Shuangxi City in Kirkuk, Erbil and Dehuk.
The local indigenous people all moved south into the Kurdish Kingdom, and Chinese immigrants took their place and established a production and construction corps to carry out military reclamation in this fertile land.
The so-called production and construction, in the case of war, is the first priority. In more than a year, Anjia Army engineers and strong laborers among immigrants built a solid fortress group near the border and set up several deep fortresses.
While the women, the old and the weak stayed in the reclamation area to carry out farmland water conservancy construction and grow food. However, due to the complexity and particularity of the border area, most of the food needed in the area still needs to be supplied from the rear.
Fortunately, after more than two years of construction, the railways connecting Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan and India have been fully connected. At the same time, the railways being built along the southern coastline are also under intensive construction, coupled with the construction of multiple road networks, and
The convenient waterway navigation in the two river basins made supply no problem.
Since relations with Germany became increasingly tense in the middle of this year, Daqing City has become a war zone. Many farmlands have been filled with soil and gravel, and then flattened with road rollers into large flat areas, poured with asphalt and then paved with a thick layer.
Concrete, enough for large bombers to take off and land.
These large flat areas built in the wild are usually covered with straw or branches, but when the camouflage is removed during war, they can accommodate a large number of air forces.
In fact, as the Germans mobilized their troops, our army also made tit-for-tat arrangements. Radar-guided vehicles and fuel trucks were stationed in many of these areas. Around these flat areas, large camouflage tents and simple panels were built.
Houses and armored communication vehicles are neatly arranged on both sides, and in the large tent at the end of the runway, there are various aircraft parked.
As night fell, the airport, which had been under cover for air defense, rarely turned on its lights, illuminating the straight runway.
In a large square tent, an Air Force major wearing a gray and sky blue camouflage military uniform was speaking to more than a hundred pilots wearing brown and black flight jackets in front of them.
Behind the major, there were some linear graphics with arrows drawn on the black demonstration board, and the pilots each held a thin document in a simple transparent plastic folder.
After the explanation, the young major representing the theater air force command solemnly asked: "This is the mission tonight. Is everyone clear?"
"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison.
When the major announced the disbandment, he walked out of the tent first and went to the communication command vehicle outside to report to his superiors. The pilots exchanged their views on today's mission in a low voice and dispersed one by one. The tent that was still full of people just now, soon only one person remained.
Stack of empty chairs.
A quarter of an hour later, in an open space not far from the tent, fifteen huge aircrafts drove out of the simple hangar one after another and parked on both sides of the airport runway. Many ground staff began to get busy around the perimeter, and some people picked up oil cans.
The vehicle's oil gun refueled the fighter's fuel tank. Some people hoisted round aerial bombs into the belly of the fighter. Some climbed ladders to install aviation machine guns and cannons on the nose, wings, back and tail of the aircraft.
A tin box for ammunition.
The ground staff all wore stain-resistant gray overalls. Next to each aircraft, there were one or two officers and soldiers wearing brown and black flight jackets to help, and at the same time, they checked whether there were any defects or omissions. Today's task was very difficult, and there was a slight problem.
The slightest problem may lead to the death of the crew, so they have no choice but to be careless.
The B5 large bomber ordered to go out today follows the mature An7 transport aircraft manufacturing technology, and has many innovations in some areas. It is 31 meters long, has a wingspan of 44 meters, a height of 8.5 meters, and an empty weight of 34 meters.
tons, with a full load weight of 55 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 62 tons, and four 2,300-horsepower engines.
It has a powerful supercharged engine with a maximum speed of 590 kilometers per hour, a combat range of up to 5,500 kilometers, a transportation range of 9,200 kilometers, a practical ceiling of 12,000 meters, and anti-aircraft weapons.
There are twelve 12.7mm aviation machine guns on both wings, and one 20mm cannon on the top and tail.
Each B5 bomber team usually consists of a pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, bomber, navigator, radio operator, two side gunners, an upper gunner and a tail gunner, a total of ten people. A squadron of fifteen aircraft is 150
pilots. Never underestimate the role of these fifteen bombers. They can drop more than 300 tons of bombs 2,500 kilometers away at one time. They are the most terrifying weapons of war in this era.
At ten o'clock in the evening, after exchanging "good luck", the pilots raised their right thumbs toward the outside of the cockpit. Soon, amidst the huge roar of the engine, the propeller rotated at high speed, and a piece of flying sand flew up on the ground.
Shi. Under the guidance of ground radar, the first B5 large bomber slid off the ground and took off. Ten minutes later, fifteen bombers completed their formation over the airport and then flew toward the dark sky in the north.
Not long after, two S4 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft took off one after another and flew towards the northern sky. The two aircraft were equipped with four radar signal receivers for electronic reconnaissance, a radio communication detector, a radiation source direction finder and an electromagnetic radiation detector.
Reconnaissance aircraft equipped with advanced equipment such as source tape recorders will provide the necessary early warning for the bomber group to avoid interception and attack by the German fighter group.
The bomber formation at an altitude of 8,000 meters soon flew over Turkish territory. Although the German radar station provided timely warning, it seemed powerless at night - before that, there were about four or five reconnaissance planes.
It broke into Turkish airspace and dropped many aluminum chaff strips, causing the Germans to wonder whether the information fed back by the radar was true.
In addition, the current radar technology of the German Air Force still uses the technology of the South China Air Force two or three years ago. The Air Force also lacks confidence in night flights. At the same time, the Mosquito fighter, which is very suitable for night combat, can only fly up to seven thousand meters due to problems such as its body structure.
In the air, the Luftwaffe deployed in Turkey just reported it to their superiors and ignored it.
The attack targets of this long-range bomber squadron are oil fields and refineries in Romania.
Romania discovered oil in the middle of the last century. After being exploited by domestic and foreign capital, Romania gradually became the largest oil exporter in Europe except Baku. Romania's oil fields are mainly distributed near the Transylvanian Alps, the main oil refining industrial area.
Ploiesti, which is located near a tributary of the Danube River and at the junction of many highways, is more than 2,450 kilometers away from the nearest airport of the Anjia Army Air Force, and is just within the combat radius of B5 bombers.
Five hours later, the planes flew over Romania and gradually dropped their flight altitude. By the time they reached the sky above Ploiesti, they were already at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The air defense sirens sounded shrilly in cities along the way.
Under the guidance of two S4 reconnaissance planes, the leading bomber took the lead in opening its bomb bay door. More than a hundred aerial bombs weighing 100 kilograms to 200 kilograms were dropped one after another like fish laying eggs in the water.
It was thrown out, and not long after, a series of dense explosions sounded continuously, and a large area of Ploiesti was covered in thick smoke, fire and dust.
Other bombers also aimed at the target and dropped their own aerial bombs based on the electronic map provided by the S4 reconnaissance aircraft. More than a thousand aerial bombs almost covered the entire city of Ploiesti and were scattered throughout the refineries in the city.
, as well as the continuous oil well area on the outskirts of the city, were hit by aircraft bombs one after another. Thick smoke rose up in the flickering fire, and then violent explosions were made. The entire land was almost illuminated by the flames that rose to a height of 100 meters.
Anti-aircraft artillery fired one after another, but it was difficult to tell accurately in the darkness. "Crackling" clouds of explosions kept flashing in the sky. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of artillery shells were fired without any success.
Sirens, gunfire, explosions, and cries filled the area around Ploiesti. Although oil production and refining facilities were the main targets of this attack, aerial bombs always deviated from the coordinates and fell from time to time.
On civilian facilities, causing a large number of civilian casualties.
After a quarter of an hour of bombing, the bombing came to an end. After dropping the bombs, the B5 bombers seemed very relaxed. They reorganized over Ploiesti and then embarked on their return journey. At this time, the largest oil center city in Europe
, has been completely engulfed in fire and smoke.
Before the Anjiajun bombers could leave, more than a dozen German planes took the risk and flew in from Bucharest in the south. Seeing the Axis' most important energy base being so damaged, the Luftwaffe pilots gritted their teeth one by one. Although they deployed
Most of the pilots here are rookies, but they still bravely drive Mosquito and BF109 fighter jets and rush towards the Anjiajun bomber group.
At this time, the entire B5 bomber group was in the process of ascending. Due to the timely warning from the S4 reconnaissance aircraft, the B5 bombers began to use their airborne firepower, under the guidance of the S4 reconnaissance aircraft, to shoot at the intruders.
In front of the fifteen B5 bombers in the dense defense formation, the German aircraft, which were not adapted to night combat, could not find an opportunity to take advantage of them. They had to brave the hail of bullets and hover around the Anjia military aircraft group, and tried to launch an attack from the lower part of the aircraft group where the defense was weakest.
However, although the machine guns and cannons on the wings, back, and tail of the B5 bomber were unable to straf the lower part of the B5 bomber, they could clear the lower obstacles for other bombers in the formation. The four German fighter planes that were pulling up vertically and preparing to shoot upward were blocked by two
The twenty-four aircraft machine guns of the actively descending B5 bombers opened rows of holes. Two of them staggered and fell to the ground, and two of them exploded in the air.
The remaining German fighter planes reluctantly avoided and continued to circle, preparing to round up the two B5 bombers that had fallen behind. However, the cannons on the top and rear of the two fighter planes continued to spray firepower, and a bf109 fighter was unfortunately hit.
While other fighter jets were avoiding, the two B5 bombers had returned to the fleet and continued to climb upward in combat formation.
Not long after, the Anjia military aircraft group had risen to an altitude of seven thousand meters. The German fighter planes, whose fuselages could not withstand the huge pressure, had to return sadly.
In the comfortable sunshine at eight o'clock the next morning, two S4 reconnaissance planes and fifteen B5 bombers and more than 150 pilots on board returned successfully. In this operation, only six machine gunners suffered any injuries in the battle.
Injured, but not a big problem, it can be said to be a great victory.
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That night, Germany's Grozny, Malgobek, Zaterechny and other oil fields in the northern Caucasus Mountains, the Garzan oil field in Turkey, the Suez, Alamin and Western Desert oil fields in Egypt, as well as the oil fields in Romania, were simultaneously attacked.
An attack by the Anjia Army Air Force.
The German air defense sirens sounded frequently in cities in the rear 2,500 kilometers away from the border, disturbing both officers and soldiers and ordinary citizens.
However, due to the huge losses suffered by the Luftwaffe during its proactive attack on the first day and the missile attacks that followed, the Luftwaffe lost all its edge. Coupled with the special nature of night battles, the German defense system was messed up.