"What are you doing... After a whole day of bombing, thousands of aircraft were dispatched... and now, you are telling me that I have forgotten such an important target?" Tang Army Commander Braxi tapped the document in his hand.
Mu stared at his subordinates with an ugly expression.
A colonel turned red from holding back, and finally couldn't help but explain: "General, each of our pilots has flown at least two sorties. There are too many targets on the ground for us to attack at all..."
"I understand, but it is a fact that you are greedy for credit. Everyone knows that as long as you drop a bomb, you will get credit, so everyone likes to attack targets close to the border so that they can return as soon as possible, and then mount the bomb and continue to attack!" Brahim said to this kind of attack
The matter was very clear and he interrupted his subordinates.
"But how can we miss the key targets? Hmm? If it delays His Majesty's important event, what's the use of cutting off your heads to apologize?" He walked past his officers with his hands behind his back.
After sorting out the attack targets for a day, they realized a serious problem. The airship base deployed by the Qi army behind the defense line, which had been marked by ground investigators, did not have any troops to take care of it...
This is obviously a bit excessive. The main force of the Air Force's bombing force, that is, the main force for ground attack, is deployed on the Western Front. The main bombing target of the Strategic Air Force is the King's City of Qi.
The ones who carried out the bombing of the Qi troops on the middle line where the eldest prince was located were actually Tang fighter units. These troops were equipped with FW-190 fighter jets, which originally had a small bomb load, and the tasks they were responsible for were also very limited.
The original order given to these fighter pilots was to block the eldest prince's possible reinforcement movement to the west. Therefore, these pilots also focused their attacks on the Qi army's front-line positions.
They strafed and dropped bombs to their heart's content, as if they were in uninhabited territory, and achieved a lot of results. However, they were not a professional attack force against the enemy, so some mistakes were inevitable.
The fight continued until this time, when it was getting late. When the commanders of these fighter jets were summarizing their attack reports, they unexpectedly discovered that they had missed a very important target.
That's right, this target is the most important airship base of the Qi Air Force deployed behind the defense line that the eldest prince is responsible for.
There are more than 40 airships deployed in this airship base. It can be said to be the most important airship attack base on the front line. It stores a large amount of gas and some bombs.
As long as you attack this place, it is almost equivalent to destroying the Qi Air Force - at least it can be said to have destroyed more than half of the Qi Air Force's bombing airship units.
But now everyone remembered that there was such an important target here, and they didn't even attack it!
This is so fucking embarrassing...
"Inform the ground troops to prepare... Let them deploy anti-aircraft artillery troops to intercept as soon as possible." Brahim sighed and ordered the officers in front of him: "Tomorrow morning, destroy it there! Send out at least 30 aircraft!
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"Yes!" All the school officials stood at attention, saluted, and promised loudly.
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"I just said these winged bastards are unreliable!" On the ground, a commander of the air defense force complained in disgrace after receiving the order.
Next to him, a six-wheeled truck was parked on the roadside, and soldiers were hurriedly unloading the ammunition from the truck.
In an open space farther away, there is a Bofors 40mm caliber anti-aircraft gun that has been deployed. This thing can be said to be the most advanced anti-aircraft gun in the world that can be used today.
It adopts a more stable and efficient bomb supply design, and has a maximum shooting height of more than 3,000 meters, which can completely threaten the fragile body of the airship.
What's even more frightening is that because the caliber is not very large, it has a faster rate of fire, can quickly adjust the shooting angle and height, and can intercept faster aircraft in the future.
Tang Mo didn't think it was worthwhile to build an 88mm anti-everything cannon to deal with balloons now. That thing would shoot too high and overflow seriously, so there was no need at all.
Moreover, it seems a bit reluctant to say that the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is an anti-all gun, because in most cases it is still used as a combat anti-aircraft gun.
In other words, the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is not so much an anti-aircraft gun as it is more appropriate to say it is an anti-tank anti-aircraft gun that can temporarily serve as an anti-aircraft gun.
Later, the German army even began to use 88 mm caliber artillery to support the infantry. Most of the 88 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns produced were not even equipped with anti-aircraft sights and measurement devices.
Qi State does not have strategic bombers or even aircraft. It is a complete waste of its time to build large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.
It’s the same as the choice of fighter jets: good weapons are beaten out by the enemy. Germany was the worst tortured by the British and American air forces, and the U.S. Navy was tortured by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes. Obviously anti-aircraft guns are more powerful.
After thinking about it, it is too expensive to build a German half-track vehicle and use ball lightning. It would be more comfortable to simply and directly produce the Bofors 40mm caliber anti-aircraft gun.
Anyway, Tang Mo has no plans to strengthen his ground air defense forces. In Tang Mo's opinion, it is more appropriate to leave the air defense matter to the Air Force.
In order to destroy an enemy plane and fire 20,000 anti-aircraft shells, Tang Mo really couldn't do it. He was not that stupid, so he was going to follow the route of an American tycoon.
That's right, if you use the air force to destroy the enemy's air force, won't the ground troops not have to prepare anti-aircraft guns? Hey, save money, no problem!
The shooters operating the anti-aircraft guns rotated the crank handle, and the muzzle of the anti-aircraft gun quickly rose up - this was a professional anti-aircraft gun mount, which was much more advanced than the 76mm caliber anti-aircraft gun mount previously sold by Datang Group.
How many times.
"Get ready! It's almost dark!" The anti-aircraft gun commander looked at the truck on the other side and continued to shout depressedly.
On the truck over there, soldiers were connecting the generator to the searchlight on the third truck.
As an essential piece of equipment for night air defense, searchlights can be said to be the eyes of anti-aircraft guns. Without them, anti-aircraft guns would be unable to fight at night.
The anti-aircraft artillery units at night are organized according to matching arrangements. One searchlight guides four anti-aircraft guns in combat. The four anti-aircraft guns are distributed around the searchlight. If the searchlight finds the target, the attack will begin.
Of course, if you just rely on searchlights, it seems impossible to cover the sky in the entire war zone. Finding airships mainly depends on another set of equipment.
Because he had enough experience in using airships, it was naturally impossible for Tang Mo not to equip his air defense troops with audio transducers.
This device is like a large gramophone, with large speakers pointed at the dark sky.
With this device, alert soldiers can hear the engine sound of the approaching airship as long as they put their ears close to the device.
When they are sure that an airship is approaching, they can order the searchlight deployed nearby to light up and shine it to find the target.
Once the target is found, the anti-aircraft guns can fire at night to shoot down these bulky hard-shell airships.
The nights in this era were still pitch black, and the silent night was not the best disguise for military operations. Not only was the Tang army unwilling to launch large-scale military operations at night, but the Qi army was also unwilling to deploy troops at night to launch a large-scale counterattack.
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The main reason is still due to the constraints of the command system. After the troops disperse, they can't find themselves. What the hell is that?
The Tang Army was also very troubled. Tang Mo himself knew the power of intermittent night battles, because he was the man who had seen the strongest light infantry on the surface.
But the problem is that the Tang army is not a light infantry, but an armored force relying on weapons and equipment. Such troops have lost the ability to break into pieces for large-scale night battles, so Tang Mo has no choice but to give up the sweet potato of night battles.
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Just after nightfall, the Qi Army began to take off airships, preparing to launch a night counterattack - but unlike what the Tang Army thought, the targets of these Qi Army airships were not the Tang Army's frontline field airports and arsenals.
In fact, the Qi army did not know the specific location of these military facilities of the Tang army. The Tang army hid them so well that the Qi army had no way of taking action.
Under such a premise, the battle plan drawn up by the Qi army is very interesting: the airship troops they assembled were actually planning to bomb the city Anpu, a city in the north of the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, this can be said to be an important strategic node for the Tang Army, because after all, there are railways and roads here, as well as some important industrial facilities.
However, the importance here is really not as important as the field airport built by the Tang Army on the front line, as well as the hidden oil depot and ammunition depot.
Unfortunately, the Qi army did not have detailed intelligence, so they could only fly in the direction they thought was the most important with their eyes closed, getting closer to Anpu step by step.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, a soldier at the guard post deployed on the front line of the Tang Army clearly heard a buzzing sound coming from a distance through the receiver.
He didn't pay attention at first, but when the sound of the engine became clearer and clearer, he suddenly realized that it was the sound of an enemy airship.
So, he quickly sounded the air-raid siren beside him. He shook the handle to make the circular siren scream, which made people's hearts beat with fear.
Everyone nearby looked towards the sky. Through the hazy moonlight, everyone saw the huge black figures floating in the sky.
"Airship! Enemy airship!" A soldier shouted nervously. At the same time as he shouted, a beam of light suddenly lit up, as if it was about to penetrate the entire sky.
