After the bombing the day before yesterday, Mandalay seemed to be much depressed, and there were fewer pedestrians on the street. You can often see
"Your Majesty Commander, would you like a cup of coffee?"
Chief of Staff Major General Rikichiro Sawamoto carried a tray and walked up to Lieutenant General Masato Tamoto, commander of the 33rd Army, and placed a cup of coffee next to him without waiting for his answer.
Duoben Zhengcai picked up the coffee and took a sip, frowned slightly and put down the cup: "Compared to coffee, I still prefer tea."
Rikichiro Sawamoto smiled, "But this thing can refresh the mind, and it is also very convenient to carry and brew, much more convenient than tea.
And don’t you think that after drinking it a few times, you will realize that the taste of coffee is not that bad after all?”
"Haha... maybe."
After Domoto Masato finished speaking, a trace of worry flashed across his face, "Sawamoto-kun, you must have noticed it, right? Since the Chinese people received assistance from the Americans, their strength has been rapidly improved.
Not only has the current China Expeditionary Force begun to equip itself with American equipment, but its logistics supplies have also been greatly improved.
According to intelligence coming from the front, we can often find coffee and cigarettes on the corpses of Chinese soldiers, which is not good news for us."
Rikichiro Sawamoto suppressed the smile on his face and sighed: "Senior generals like them certainly understand the importance of logistics to the army.
Even non-combat supplies such as coffee and cigarettes can be distributed to the soldiers. Such abundant material support can even be compared with the Japanese army."
Perhaps because he didn't want to discuss the matter anymore, Duoben Zhengcai quickly changed the topic, "By the way, where are those Allied prisoners of war now?"
"According to the report of Major Li Linqiao Long, they stopped to rest yesterday 160 kilometers west of Shan State.
By the way, Ririn Kyoryu also specially reported something. On the way, they encountered a brigade sent by the 18th Division. It is said that it was specially sent by the commander of Mutaguchi Renye Division to escort those prisoners of war to Shan State."
"What else is happening? Why didn't I know?"
Due to the sensitivity of the military, Daben Zhengcai immediately noticed something amiss, and he immediately said: "Send a report to Muta-kun immediately to ask about this matter, and report to me as soon as you get the reply."
"Hai!"
The efficiency of the 18th Division was very fast, and the call back from the 18th Division came within half an hour.
"What... Mutaguchi-kun didn't send out the escort troops?"
Tamoto Masato's expression immediately changed, and Sawamoto Rikichiro's face, who was standing opposite him, also turned pale.
"No, this force must be sent by the Chinese... Hurry... send a report to Ririn Qiaolong immediately and ask him to eliminate the force pretending to be the imperial army!"
In his desperation, Tamoto Masasai did not realize the question of whether the defense team led by Kuribayashi Hashiryu could defeat the opponent.
However, his order could not be issued immediately, because a buzzing roar began to be heard in the sky, and then the anti-aircraft artillery fire deployed across Mandalay began to sound.
As the head of a military-level force, Mandalay still has air defense capabilities, but given the Japanese's historical contempt for air defense capabilities, its investment in air defense capabilities is actually relatively small.
There are less than 60 anti-aircraft guns in the entire Mandalay, most of which are Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns, and a small number of Type 99 anti-aircraft guns.
As soon as the cannon sounded, Masato Tamoto and Rikichiro Sawamoto rushed out towards the door almost at the same time.
When the two of them rushed out of the headquarters building and came to the open space in front of them, they happened to see a plane painted black all over, resembling a huge pirate with a pair of inverted wings, diving towards the ground.
Accompanied by the low roar of the 12-cylinder engine, Wu Huajian felt suffocated while flying at an altitude of 4,000 meters.
As a rookie participating in actual combat for the first time, Wu Huajian was naturally very nervous.
Seeing the three-story building on the ground getting bigger and bigger, his heart beat faster and faster.
However, the ten months of aviation school were not in vain. Even though he was excited, he still slightly adjusted his course and began to dive towards the tall buildings on the ground. After completing a beautiful left turn in the air, the Stuka dived
The bomber began to dive downward.
Wu Huajian then adjusted the angle of his dive. The angle began to approach the red critical point, 60 degrees! 65 degrees! 68 degrees! 70 degrees...
With his eyes close to the mechanical sight, Wu Huajian opened the speed brake at the same time. The porous speed brake with extremely exaggerated shape on the wing was opened at a 90-degree angle, which can obtain an acceleration of minus 6G, slow down the aircraft, and improve the dive performance and
Bombing accuracy, this is what the instructor has repeatedly warned.
After doing all this, the plane began to make a shrill roar, and Wu Huajian knew it was the sound of a Stuka diving.
There is an air-driven sound device at the cooling air inlet of the Stuka's nose. When diving, it emits a shrill scream similar to an air raid siren. Before the bomb falls, it can have a great psychological impact on the people on the ground.
Impact, strengthening the blowing effect.
It has to be said that the Germans who invented this thing know psychology. They know that the harsh roar of dive bombers can have a psychological impact on the enemy sometimes even more than aerial bombs.
At the same time, Masato Tamoto and Rikichiro Sawamoto on the ground looked at the Stuka swooping down from the sky at an almost vertical angle, and were so frightened that they burst into tears.
"Run!"
Daben Zhengcai only had time to utter such a sound before sprinting forward at the fastest speed in his life.
In fact, not to mention the duo, when the Stuka rushed towards the ground at an almost vertical dive angle with a shrill scream like a hell monster, all the Japanese troops on the airport were shocked when they saw it.
They all stared dumbly at the demon-like plane leading the way.
"Six hundred meters, five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters!" The machine gunner sitting in the back kept reminding me.
"Dip, drip, drip" As he dived to the standard bomb-dropping height of 300 meters and the red warning light came on, Wu Huajian looked at the increasingly larger building on the ground, finally adjusted the angle, and quickly pulled down the bomb-dropping handle.
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When the bomb release handle is opened, the belly pylon is extended. This is to avoid that when the bomb is dived at a large angle, the bomb may collide with the propeller when dropped directly. The front part of the pylon is connected to the fuselage by a hinge, and the rear part is
When the bomb is dropped, the bomb leaves the fuselage, but is still connected to the pylon. The pylon rotates forward and downward until it is approximately 90 degrees with the fuselage before it is detached from the bomb, thereby avoiding contact with the propeller when the bomb is dropped.
Possibility of collision.
Then a 500-kilogram aerial bomb broke away from the hook and hit the ground heavily with inertia...