For this battle, Mahan made detailed pre-war preparations. To read the latest chapter of this book, please go to Baidu search: 1Novel.com and arranged 360 hybrid bombers into five peak wave lines, starting from John Oxen Singapore.
The southeast corner of the defensive position is in a progressively higher state, advancing in a deep wave shape towards the enemy's main defensive position. There are three most critical positioning words here - peak wave line, gradually higher state and wave-shaped advance!
The so-called peak wave line is a linear state with high to low fluctuations. Mahan set the flight altitude of the first bomber attack wing at 1800 meters. This altitude is just at the effective firepower of the John Bull Empire anti-aircraft artillery.
The edge of the range. This type of high-altitude cruising bomb has high safety, and the bomb hit rate is not too bad.
After that, the height of each flight line of the second, third, fourth, and fifth bomber wings dropped by 200 meters. But there is no absolute formula, it just depends on the situation at the time. And there are several aircraft on the flanks of each line.
If the flight altitude is slightly higher than this line, fighter-bombers will perform escort and warning missions to prevent emergencies from occurring.
The so-called gradual heightening state is a method for the bomber to gradually raise its body as the penetration depth deepens after dropping the ammunition, to prevent the enemy's deep air defense firepower network from attacking the fighter aircraft until the fighter aircraft completely turns around and returns.
Because the bomber company uses coastal air defense firepower to bomb in depth as its strategy, regardless of whether it hits the target or not, it will cause some damage to the enemy's coastal defense line. In this way, the teammate fighters behind it will be safer.
Moreover, there is a very big advantage of starting the bombing from the southeastern coast. That is, once an Imperial fighter plane is damaged, the pilot can turn the nose of the plane and gallop towards the southern Imperial Sea. The enemy-occupied areas that have been bombed are relatively safe.
Becoming less threatening can also avoid the possibility of the injured fighter being hit twice.
Another point is that there are warships of the Imperial Fleet cruising near the waters of the Southern Empire. They can provide the most effective protection at the first time, and search and rescue fighters that may fall into the sea, as well as random combatants. They can not only save people, but also
Protect the military secrets of Imperial warplanes.
The so-called wave-type propulsion is to be like a wave, delivering a heavy aerial blow to enemy-occupied areas in one shot. It is more like a tsunami wave, with each wave lower than the last.
However, the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and planned tactics often encounter unexpected situations. Just like the Mahan bomber company, and another 40 fighter-bomber squadrons, the originally planned tactics encountered unexpected situations.
It's the same when it comes to emergencies.
When the 40 fighter-bomber squadrons and the Sun Houzi bomber wing began to attack, they quickly broke through the clouds and rushed toward their target, the enemy's deep airfield.
But in the end they missed the target. Facing the empty enemy airfield, the depressed soldiers dropped the bombs. Because this was the only large-scale airport in the entire Malacca enemy defense line. Soldiers
After destroying everything here, there will be no space for enemy planes to resupply and take off and land.
To everyone's surprise, they almost returned to the rear base with injuries. This was because the enemy airport was surrounded by dozens of anti-aircraft artillery pieces and a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns. These forces were extremely effective against ultra-low-altitude bombing.
Imperial bombers are a great threat.
Relatively speaking, anti-aircraft artillery poses less of a threat to their security, but anti-aircraft machine guns are the main culprit causing injuries to all fighter planes.
In order to pursue a high hit rate, the soldiers lowered the fighter planes very low. They targeted the enemy's airports, runways, oil depots, machine rooms, etc. for bombing.
Although they achieved their final goal, facing numerous enemy anti-aircraft machine guns, they tried their best to avoid the indiscriminate crossfire of the cunning John Bull ghosts. In the end, not one of them was hit on the spot.
Exploded, or shot down, but the frame was covered in wounds and struggled to come back...
Moreover, many random soldiers were injured. The ones who suffered the most were the machine gun shooters accompanying them. Two machine gun shooters died on the road due to excessive injuries on the way home.
Most of them were bullet holes, and some fighter planes had their fuel tanks pierced. But surprisingly, none of them caught fire or exploded!
After the 40 fighter-bomber squadrons left the enemy-occupied area, they immediately made wireless notifications to the Imperial East Wanlu Headquarters and all participating units, especially the Sun Houzi Bombing Regiment and the Mahan Bombing Company.
But at this time, Sun Houzi's bomber wing was bombing the enemy's naval harbor with great joy!
At this time, the Mahan Bombing Regiment was already engaged with the enemy. It was impossible for the Mahan Bombing Regiment to retreat quickly in a stalemate!
As set by Mahan, the first wave of attacks in the Peak Wave Line was led by Mahan himself on the front line. Because at the time of the first wave of attacks, the enemy's defense line was complete. Although the first wave of attacks was
Of all the fighters on the attack line, it has the highest cruising altitude of 1,800 meters, but it is still the most dangerous.
This is like the feeling that a hunter has nowhere to start when facing a hedgehog with thorns all over its body. But once a few thorns are pulled out of the hedgehog, or its skin is broken somewhere, it will be easier to deal with Faduo.
At this time, Mahan's first bomber attack wave was in such a state when facing the John Bull defense in its heyday.
When Mahan's bombing company, the first attack wave of fighters, appeared over the southeastern coast of Singapore, the John Bull anti-aircraft fire network that had been waiting for a long time sprayed fierce fire snakes into the sky. The sun had just emerged at this time.
Half a face.
Originally, Mahan chose to rush in from here because he had the idea of ​​backlighting to make it difficult for the enemy to aim. However, what Mahan did not expect was that the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower on the southeastern coastline was unexpectedly denser than he expected.
, and the number of intelligence displays is more than 5 times greater.
There is another point that shocked Mahan. This is that the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower network is arranged quite reasonably. No matter what angle the fighter plane is at, as long as it reaches a certain cruising altitude, it is basically under the radiation of the firepower network, and there is no
Dead ends exist.
This unexpected situation left Mahan unprepared and was caught off guard.
How did Mahan know that the emergence of this situation was purely his own fault. Before the Great Battle of Wake Island, the military base of the John Bull Empire in the Malacca area was exactly the same as the intelligence obtained by the Imperial Intelligence Department. But in the case of Wake Island,
After the Great Battle of Kratos, the John Bull Empire was awakened.
Faced with the threat of carrier-based bombers carried by fortresses and aircraft carrier formations that could be moved at any time, the John Bull Empire immediately began to rebuild the Malacca defense system.