Let’s talk more about the 75MM anti-tank gun mounted on the BF109.
Ever since this thing appeared, book friends have always had questions about it, so I will give a unified reply here.
The first is the issue of internal space. Some book friends think that the BF109 cannot be installed...but the 75MM gun is hung under the belly of the fuselage and does not need to occupy the internal space at all. There are real pictures of it mounted on the Internet. Interested book friends can
Go search, the specific model should be "Xiansheer 129".
The second is the engine problem. Some book friends believe that the "Hensher 129" ground attack aircraft has twin engines. Just because it can be mounted does not mean that the BF109 can be mounted.
However... the BF109 is an air superiority fighter. All air superiority fighters have the most advanced and most powerful engines, but the engine requirements for ground attack aircraft are very low, because no matter how slow it is, it is faster than a tank on the ground.
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I won't check it in detail. I have forgotten the engine model a long time ago, but I remember that the engine used by Henschel has a single engine of 700 horsepower, and the two engines together can produce 1,400 horsepower, while the BF109 has a single engine of 1,500 or 1,600 horsepower.
In other words, if the Henschel twin engine can be used, the BF109 single engine can certainly be used, and it can be done with ease... The reason is that the two engines of the Henschel must be heavier than the single engine of the Bf109, and the Henschel is still ground-mounted.
Attack aircraft require very thick armor protection.
Therefore, even if the engine thrust is smaller than the BF109 but its weight is larger than the BF109, such a ground attack aircraft can be mounted, but there is no reason that the BF109 cannot be mounted.
Therefore, a fighter aircraft with two engines is not necessarily better than a single engine. Sometimes two engines mean that its performance is lagging behind and it has to use two engines. For example, the Rafale fighter has two engines, and the thrust of its two engines is equivalent to the thrust of one engine of the J-10.
, but the weight of the two engines is definitely heavier than the single engine of the J-10... Anyone can know which one is more advanced!
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Naosaburo Okabe hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed to Shizue Sasaki's request.
Naosaburo Okabe was not thinking about breaking through the Golden State Line of Defense like Shizue Sasaki... but it was correct to say that he was breaking through the Golden State Line of Defense, because only by breaking through the Golden State Line of Defense could he take back the port and shipyard. What he was worried about was the accumulation of land.
Supplies at the port.
Naosaburo Okabe only received a supply list when the port fell. To be precise, it was a partial list of supplies. The dozens of thick pages densely listed the quantities of various supplies.
Naosaburo Okabe flipped through it casually and handed the list back to Ojodo Sanji with a dark face, saying: "Just tell me how much they total!"
Oshiro Sanji answered with difficulty: "Your Excellency, General, according to incomplete statistics, there are 200,000 tons of food alone, and there are also 300,000 tons of various arms, for a total of more than 500,000 tons!"
Although Naosaburo Okabe was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by this number. As the commander of the North China Front, he certainly knew what this number represented. The daily material consumption of a division was only more than 300 tons, and the military supplies at the port
Although there are more than 500,000 tons, this means that the materials are enough for the Eighth Route Army to equip 100,000 people for more than half a year.
This is only a preliminary estimate by Naosaburo Okabe, and it is based on the Japanese material consumption.
The Eighth Route Army's material consumption is much less than this, and it can usually get supplies from the people, so these materials are enough for one hundred thousand Eighth Route Army troops to fight for a year.
"Why are there so many supplies?" Naosaburo Okabe asked doubtfully.
"Your Excellency, General!" Sanji Ojodo replied helplessly: "A considerable part of these supplies were shipped to the Pacific battlefield, but during this period, Eagle Sauce implemented a blockade on our Pacific Islands, so..."
Then Naosaburo Okabe understood that these supplies could not be shipped out for the time being, so they were accumulated in the port. Now they have all fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.
Naosaburo Okabe broke into a cold sweat when he thought more carefully: There are nearly one million people in Dalian, plus the population of Fengtian. It is not a problem for the Eighth Route Army to recruit 200,000 to 300,000 people in a short period of time, and the supplies at the port are enough.
After a few months of fighting with the new troops, the number of the Eighth Route Army will not only be 100,000 but 400,000.
Even the scale will grow exponentially, because every time the Eighth Route Army conquers a place, it can arm more people.
Although their combat quality may not keep up, the point is that the total strength of the Imperial Kwantung Army in "Manchukuo" is only 700,000. If the Kwantung Army is defeated like this, will it still survive?
So Naosaburo Okabe gritted his teeth and said: "No, we must not let these materials fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!"
His order to Sasaki Shizue was: "Not only must the 5th Air Force be dispatched, but bombers must also be dispatched to bomb the port!"
Then Naosaburo Okabe added: "In addition, after breaking through the defense line, we must take back the supplies in the port as soon as possible. Even if they are burned down, they must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!"
"Yes!" Shizue Sasaki responded and immediately ordered the 5th Air Force to take off to cooperate with the 57th Division.
At this time, the Japanese attack on Jinzhou had begun.
The person commanding this offensive battle was Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo, the commander of the 57th Division. The difficulties he encountered were just as Sasaki Shizue predicted, and he was helpless against the Eighth Route Army.
In fact, Takahashi Yiwang also considered these issues... It's not that he thought about it, but he came up and used a telescope to see the layout of the Eighth Route Army's defense line.
At the forefront of the defense line were sections of broken barbed wire. Takahashi Yiwang knew that they were the imperial barbed wire. They were beaten into this state during the Eighth Route Army's attack. The Eighth Route Army was using this as waste.
Then there are the trenches, which were also built by the imperial army, but the Eighth Route Army reinforced them and stacked some sandbags.
After that, there is an armored defense line here and there... This defense line is composed of tanks and half-track vehicles.
Among them, the chariots were completely exposed, and they were not worried about the attack of the imperial army at all.
There's really no need to worry, as the Imperial Army doesn't have any equipment capable of destroying it at such a long distance.
Instead, the half-track car built some fortifications, but this fortification only dug a small hole to protect the front wheel... The front wheel of the half-track car is a rubber wheel, which is easily broken by bullets.
Takahashi Imo sighed, even these half-track vehicles, the empire can't do anything to them.
He knew very well what such a line of defense meant to the Imperial Army: once the Imperial Army launched an attack on it, it would suffer three-dimensional firepower from trenches, tanks, and half-track armored vehicles.
The reason why it is called "three-dimensional strike" is because the firepower of trenches is relatively low, while half-track cars and tanks are on the ground and have a certain height. Their firepower is staggered with the firepower of trenches to form a high-low match.
Such a defense line and such firepower cannot be said to be difficult for the empire, but should be said to be a nightmare.
But Takahashi Imo had no choice but to launch an attack.
That's how the army is, if you can move, you have to fight, if you can't move, you have to fight!
Especially on the other side of this line of defense are the must-save places for the empire: ports and shipyards!
Takahashi Imo sent out one brigade in the first wave of attack and another brigade as a reserve.
The reason why only one brigade was sent was because Takahashi Yiwang knew that under the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, attacking with a dense formation would definitely not work. It would only cause the soldiers to die needlessly, but the relatively dispersed troops could be consumed.
Some enemy ammunition.
But then Takahashi felt desperate again: Can the Eighth Route Army's ammunition be used up? They have a large number of machine guns captured from the imperial army, and they have hundreds of thousands of tons of arms at the port. They can just send some casually.
Let them fight for days and nights!
The actual situation was worse than Takahashi's imagination. A large group that rushed forward was beaten by the Eighth Route Army in just ten minutes and withdrew with more than half of its casualties.
The soldiers of the Independent Regiment all crawled out from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The bullets they fired were accurate and ruthless. More importantly, the soldiers were very familiar with the Japs' tactical movements. They could even guess what the Japs would do.
When it is time to leap forward in which direction, you will know exactly what direction to take.
The result was that the sound of gunfire did not sound intense, but in fact, in just the blink of an eye, more than 600 Japanese soldiers had fallen on the battlefield.
This scene even chilled Nozomi Takahashi: How can we fight such a battle? Is the entire 57th Division going to lie here?
At this moment, Sasaki Shizue's telegram was delivered to Takahashi Nozo: "The 5th Air Force will cooperate with your unit in operations and be prepared for coordination!"