Since the B-25 bomber entered service in the flying group, the Stuka's status has become a bit embarrassing. Compared with the B-25, the Stuka, with a maximum bomb load of only 500 kilograms, seems to be outdated. In addition, the maximum bomb load is 600
With a range of 1,000 meters and a top speed of 320 kilometers per hour, the Stuka is already outdated no matter how you look at it.
But Gao Hongming paid no attention to this call.
On the surface, the performance of the Stuka is indeed somewhat mediocre, but compared with the B-25 medium bomber, the biggest advantage of the Stuka dive bomber is its ability to carry out precision bombing, especially its ability to carry out precision bombing against armored troops and ground troops.
Fixed-point killing is something that the B-25 cannot match.
Just like today, the first squadron of Stuka bombers was still in the lead. When the twelve Stuka dive bombers roaring shrilly dived to the ground at a nearly 90-degree vertical angle, the Japanese air defense forces on the ground almost
There is no way to make an effective counterattack.
The main anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese Army is the Type 98 20mm cannon, which is a copy of the famous Oerlikon 20mm cannon.
Judging from the data, its rate of fire is 120 rounds per minute, which seems pretty good, but I don’t know what the designer originally thought. This artillery uses a 20-round magazine, which means that the shooter steps on the firing pedal and double
The magazine will be empty after ten seconds of resistance, which is fucked up.
At the same time, this also resulted in insufficient firepower density and limited air defense effects.
Just like now, facing the group of Stukas swooping in from the sky at a nearly vertical angle, the Japanese gunners found that they could hardly lock on to the aircraft coming from overhead, and could only rely on prediction to fire randomly into the sky.
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"Dong dong dong... dong dong dong..."
As sparse shells exploded in the sky, the Stuka fleet also entered the bombing height. When the Stuka was about 400 meters away from the ground, almost all the pilots pressed the bombing switch.
Four 50-kilogram high-explosive bombs hanging under the wings broke away from their hooks and fell toward the ground with inertia.
Under the guidance of the smoke canister, most of the bombs dropped by the Stuka fleet hit the target.
"boom……"
A fifty kilogram bomb exploded less than ten meters away from a Nissan truck. The shock wave generated by the explosion instantly lifted the over five-ton truck into the air for several meters before falling heavily to the ground, and the tow truck
The Type 90 heavy cannon behind it, which weighed more than 20 tons, was blown into several pieces, and the barrel was bent into an arc when it landed. It can be said that this truck took this cannon worth two tons with it.
More than 100,000 yen of heavy artillery was instantly turned into scrap metal.
Looking at the thick smoke billowing everywhere and the overturned vehicles, and listening to the explosions one after another, Nishikawa Yasunai, who was standing on the hillside, was heartbroken. While he ordered the air defense brigade to quickly deploy for air defense, he also ordered the joint
The garrison brigade directly under the team quickly arrested those traitors who had sneaked in under their false names.
"Traitors... these traitors should all die!"
At this time, Nishikawa Kanai's eyes were red, and endless annoyance echoed in his heart. He was hating himself for not questioning those people carefully this morning, which led to a catastrophe.
As for why he insists that he is a traitor and not a Chinese who sneaked in, he has already told Major Miura.
"We must kill all these traitors and leave no one behind!"
When Nishikawa Kanna's roar echoed in the mountains and forests, the aerial bombing did not ease at all because of his anger. The first batch of Stuka dive bombers had already arrived over the heads of the Japanese troops.
The second batch of Stukas carried no ordinary high-explosive bombs, but a huge round drum weighing 500 kilograms.
This time they did not conduct dive bombing in pursuit of accuracy, but began to drop bombs horizontally at an altitude of one thousand meters.
When these barrel-shaped objects fell in a free fall, they grew bigger and bigger in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers who did not evade in a hurry. Finally, they passed over their heads at extremely fast speeds and crashed onto the road.
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When it was still hundreds of meters away from the ground, the iron shell of the round iron barrel was suddenly exploded, and then it decomposed into 19 small bombs and scattered like a goddess scattering flowers.
What is completely different from ordinary bombing is that these bombs did not make deafening explosions in the traditional sense after landing. Although the bombs continued to fall, the continuous explosions were not even as loud as the sound of pulling the bolt of a gun.
"Hiss...hiss...bang bang..."
But then, these bombs were detonated immediately when they hit the ground, and then sprayed out a fire dragon more than 300 meters long. The napalm blocks instantly sprayed fell on the road and around the Japanese camp. The original Japanese camp
It instantly turned into a sea of fire. It turned out that these bombs were actually solidified incendiary bombs.
Many Japanese soldiers in the camp were immediately hit. The napalm splashed on people was like lard ointment, thick and resistant to burning. The people who were hit wanted to pat the oil on their bodies with their hands, but the more they patted, the more the fire burned.
It was so big that their hands also burned. Some people who couldn't bear the pain tried to roll on the ground to put out the fire, but ended up being covered in fire.
Throughout the camp of the heavy artillery regiment, you can see Pyros screaming in the flames everywhere. Those Pyros who screamed as if they were in a sea of inferno tried their best to struggle and even rolled on the ground to relieve the pain.
The burning oil mixed with the oil and was thrown onto other people and vehicles around him.
Soon, more and more Japanese troops were on fire. The stumbling firemen knocked down surrounding objects and set many vehicles on fire. Some even set fire to trucks loaded with ammunition. Then the most terrifying thing happened.
"boom……"
An earth-shaking explosion soared into the sky, and a truck loaded with three tons of high-explosive artillery shells exploded. The shock wave generated by the explosion instantly blasted vehicles and artillery within a hundred meters into the sky. The explosion point was the
No Japanese troops within three hundred meters of the center were spared. Even the Japanese troops who were not affected by shrapnel were killed by the powerful shock wave.
Suddenly there was an explosion and flames surrounded the entire Japanese camp, and the Japanese soldiers' cries for help came one after another.
In the sky, the Stuka fleet that had finished dropping their bombs triumphantly swung their butts and flew towards the direction they came from.
But you thought the matter was not over yet. Then twelve B-25 bombers emerged from the clouds under the cover of more than a dozen P-47 fighters. The 75mm cannon installed under the nose of the aircraft flashed with a burst of light.
A chilling light.
Looking at the fleet of aircraft that emerged again, Nishikawa Kanai, who was standing on the hillside, had a look of despair in his eyes. He slowly raised the Nanbu pistol in his hand, pointed the muzzle at his temple and pulled the trigger...