Seeing the sudden Japanese attack, Wang Jingguo's heart sank.
He was well aware of the power of Japanese aircraft. During the Battle of Xinkou in 1937, 300,000 Chinese troops fought against 70,000 Japanese troops. In this battle, the Chinese army was four times the number of Japanese troops, but in the end they were still defeated. Except for a single
In addition to the reasons of soldier quality and weapons, the most important thing is that the Chinese army does not have air superiority.
At that time, let alone planes to assist the battle, the Chinese army did not even have a few anti-aircraft guns. He could only watch the Japanese planes bombing the Chinese army indiscriminately. He witnessed with his own eyes that many troops were killed before they even reached the front line.
The Japanese planes were blown up and fled in all directions. Countless newly dug positions were blown to pieces by the heavy bombs dropped by the Japanese planes. After a month of bloody fighting and the heavy casualties of 100,000 people, Xinkou, an important
The pass finally fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
To be honest, when he saw the planes of the Liantai Flying Group bombing the Japanese positions, he was more excited than anyone else, but it was a pity that the Japanese plane arrived just a few minutes before he was happy.
At this time, Wang Jingguo, who was observing the sky attentively, did not notice that his hand holding the telescope was already wet with sweat.
The plane arriving this time was none other than the old rival of the Rendai Flying Group...the 21st Flying Group stationed at Taiyuan Airport, led by Colonel Fujino Shigeharu, the captain of the 21st Flying Group.
Originally, Fujino Shigeharu, as the captain of the 21st Flying Squadron, did not have to personally lead the team to perform missions. However, during this period of time, the 21st Flying Squadron and the Liantai Flying Squadron fought fiercely. Both fighters and pilots suffered heavy losses.
Most of the newly added pilots are novices, so as the captain, he can only go into battle personally.
In view of the fact that Taiwan's Taiwan Flying Group has repeatedly dispatched recently to compete with the 21st Flying Group for air supremacy, Fujino Shigeharu did not dare to neglect this time and dispatched eighteen Type-1 fighters, four Type-97 heavy explosive aircraft and seven Type-9
Nine-type double-engine light explosive machine.
Unlike the Type 97 heavy explosive aircraft, the Type 99 light explosive aircraft is a light bomber and has a pitifully small bomb load of only 400 kilograms. It is not even as good as the JU-87 Stuka dive bomber, but it is not without its merits.
In addition to the shortcoming of a small bomb load, it far exceeds the Stuka in terms of range and speed. At the same time, it is also the first Japanese aircraft with night bombing capabilities so far.
Today, the first to arrive at Weijiazhuang was the Type 97 light explosive aircraft. The pilots who had just arrived at the battlefield first saw Weijiazhuang still filled with smoke and fire and the Stuka squadron that was struggling to climb in the distance.
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In order to see clearly, Second Lieutenant Matsuoka Ikuji, the leader of the Type 97 light explosive aircraft group, lowered the aircraft to an altitude of more than 300 meters and looked at Weijiazhuang, which was shrouded in thick smoke, and Jinsui, who was wearing a blue military uniform and appeared from time to time.
When he saw the several bunkers that had been bombed into ruins, he immediately knew that these must be the good deeds of those Chinese bombers just now, and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Amaterasu...what did the Shina people do?"
Just when Matsuoka Ikuji exclaimed, Fujino Shigeharu's voice suddenly sounded in his headset: "Matsuoka-kun, be careful... the Chinese plane is coming towards you... on your left!"
Ikuji Matsuoka looked up to the upper left, and sure enough, more than a dozen fighter planes were swooping down on their fleet from high altitude.
"not good!"
Matsuoka Ikuji's heart tightened, and he shouted without thinking: "Everyone, pay attention...shoot...shoot quickly, don't let the Chinese fighter planes get close!"
"Dong dong dong... dong dong dong..."
Accompanied by bursts of dull gunfire, the formation of Type 99 light explosive aircraft began to pour out tongues of fire toward the upper left wing.
It should be noted here that the Type 99 light explosive aircraft is a very Japanese-style bomber. The designer of the modified bomber, Takeo Uye, took the Japanese frugal style to the extreme in order to control the weight and volume of the aircraft body.
Many people may not believe that the empty weight of such a bomber is only 4,500 kilograms, which is dozens of kilograms lighter than the P47 Thunder fighter (empty weight 4,536 kilograms) equipped by the Liantai Flying Group.
When the aircraft was designed, it was originally equipped with a crew quota of four people. However, due to the extremely narrow and limited cockpit space and the small bomb load, each aircraft was actually equipped with only three people, namely the pilot, the electromechanical operator and the bombardier.
This aircraft is equipped with three 7.7mm machine guns, located at the nose, belly and tail.
The machine gun at the tail of the aircraft is in charge of the electromechanical personnel, but what to do with the remaining two machine guns? You can't let the pilot control it, they still have to fly the plane, so the bombardier has no choice but to multi-purpose, so in
During the war, the bombardier could only scurry around in the narrow cabin like a monkey.
Without further ado, let’s get down to business. The Japanese responded very quickly. It only took less than ten seconds from the time they discovered the enemy’s situation to the time they opened fire.
But the trouble with light bombers is here. Since there is no machine gun installed on the roof, and the fighters of the Rendai Flying Group come from the rear left, only the tail machine gun can be used.
Faced with the bullets fired by the Type 99 light explosive aircraft, Huang Kebiao, who was leading the team, just smiled contemptuously, pushed the throttle valve lightly, and the P47 fighter jets pounced down at a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, accompanied by bursts of dull sound.
With the sound of machine gunfire, the eight 12.7 mm large-caliber Browning machine guns installed on both wings of the aircraft sprayed hundreds of bullets in just a few seconds, and in an instant, a Type 99 aircraft located at the rear of the aircraft group was lightly exploded.
The machine was shrouded.
Gao Hongming, who came from a later generation, may not know much about the Air Force, but he remembered that when visiting a military forum, a post once said.
In order to maximize the performance of their aircraft, the Japanese seldom install fenders on their aircraft. Almost all of them are built of light aluminum alloy. Their ability to withstand strikes is very fragile. They do not use closed fuel tanks. Once they are hit, they are very easy to catch fire.
After the Americans discovered the characteristics of Japanese aircraft in the late World War II, they immediately began to change the aircraft's machine gun bullets to a configuration where three white phosphorus bullets were added after every five armor-piercing bullets.
As a result, Japanese aircraft rarely fail to catch fire as soon as they are hit. For Japanese aircraft that do not have fire extinguishing devices installed on the aircraft, once they catch fire, it means that the aircraft is hopeless.
It was the same today. After being hit by more than a dozen bullets, the Type 99 light explosive machine at the end of the formation immediately ignited into a raging fire, and soon turned into a ball of fire in the air before exploding in the air.
Seeing Huang Kebiao's victory, the eleven P47s behind him were not to be outdone. They attacked the selected targets in a double-plane formation. However, in the first round of attacks, four Type 99 light explosive aircraft were defeated.
Fireball, of the four downed light explosive aircraft, only one pilot was able to parachute and escape.
It was only then that the Type 1 fighter formation led by Fujino Shigeharu arrived on the battlefield. Looking at the P47 formation that turned around and ran away after a round of attacks, Fujino Shigeharu was so angry that he cursed...