A few minutes later, Okamura Neiji received a report from the reconnaissance plane:
"Your Excellency, General! It is suspected that the enemy's 'special bomb' was found in Baoping Township, not Zhaojiaba!"
Okamura Neiji was stunned and immediately understood why the Eighth Route Army sent a convoy to Zhaojiaba in such a big way. It was just to divert the attention of the Imperial Air Force.
Okamura Neji didn't think much and immediately issued two orders:
"Order the air force to immediately rush to the direction of Baoping Township to intercept the 'special bomb'!"
"Order the artillery to evacuate immediately!"
Both commands are correct, but neither work.
Needless to say what the reason is, Wang Xuexin calculated the time early in the morning. With the distance from Zhaojiaba, it was too late for the Japanese fighter planes to rush to Baoping Township. Except for the 98 that deviated from the route...
The top speed of the 98 light explosion is 423 kilometers per hour, which is indeed faster than the "high fire".
But this 98 Light Explosion was used as a reconnaissance aircraft and also as a bomber... The 98 Light Explosion was originally a dive bomber with fairly good performance.
In the past, 98 light explosions carried machine guns and bombs on reconnaissance missions. That was because they bullied China for not having planes, and they had the momentum of the tiger being absent and the monkey being the king. So the 98 light explosion was used as an all-round machine, which could drop bombs and bomb.
You can use machine guns to shoot, but as for bringing too much ammunition, it will affect the flight speed... Anyway, there are no airplanes in China, so it doesn't matter if they fly slower and cumbersome.
But since the Eighth Route Army was equipped with Hawker 81, the Japanese 98 light explosion no longer dared to be so arrogant.
You must know that the speed of Hawk 81 can reach more than 500 kilometers per hour.
The 98 light explosion is already slow. If you carry too much ammunition, you will almost die if you encounter the Hawk 81.
Considering that the air combat performance of the 98 Light Explosion is poor, there is almost no point in fighting the Hawker 81. Therefore, when the 98 Light Explosion is performing reconnaissance missions, it only carries small bombs to assist bombers in bombing missions without carrying machine guns.
If you are driven away by Hawker 81, you may still have a way to survive by throwing away the bomb in time and escaping.
At this moment, the 98 light explosion suffered from this. It took Konan Nakano three minutes to catch up with these "special bombs", but he could only watch in the cabin, helpless to do anything about them.
While Nakano Konan was in a daze, an order from his superiors came over the radio: "Continue to track and report the location. In addition, briefly describe the situation of the 'special bomb'!"
Nakano Konan finally realized, "Even if you don't shoot down the target, just following it is still valuable. After all, this is the enemy's new equipment, a piece of equipment that has never appeared on the battlefield."
Nakano Konan quickly looked at these "special bombs" flying in the air, and then reported: "They look like an airplane, but there is no one piloting it!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The Japanese Air Force did not receive much information, so most people did not understand the "special bomb". The Japanese commander cursed: "How can you call a plane if there is no one piloting it?"
"I don't know, Mr. Colonel!" Nakano Konan replied in panic: "I didn't see it having a cockpit. It is fully enclosed, with a speed of about 300 per hour, and its flight is very stable..."
At this time, Nakano Konan saw the artillery troops that were busy retreating from a distance, and he quickly shouted: "Asshole! The 'special bomb' is about to approach our artillery, tell them to retreat quickly!"
The artillery troops on the ground also wanted to withdraw, but the problem was that they did not have that speed. They had already begun to retreat even before receiving orders from Okamura Neiji... Their combat plan was to leave after firing three artillery shells.
But it’s still too late!
Getting closer, getting closer, Nakano Konan could already see the panicked look of the convoy. Dozens of cars towing heavy artillery were running wildly on the road with full power, one after another, coming in all directions.
, but the speed is still too slow... The speed of cars on the ground, especially cars towing heavy artillery, is almost negligible compared to aircraft in the sky.
Nakano Konan couldn't help shouting: "It's too late, you fools, find cover!"
But that is only a judgment that can be made from the perspective of Nakano Konan.
From the perspective of artillerymen, they devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the movements in their hands in order to complete the evacuation as quickly as possible. Their attention was on the road, on the heavy artillery, on the car, and even a considerable number of people were behind the car.
The view inside the carriage was blocked and the sky was not visible.
Even if they could see the sky, it would be difficult for them to detect such a small "high fire" flying towards them in the distance.
Even if they saw the "high fire" flying towards them, the reaction time was far from enough.
Nakano Konan was in the air, so he could see far from the ground, and what he saw was a huge motorcade.
The artillery troops are on the ground. They are located low and have small targets. It is good to be able to visually see the "high fire" three kilometers away.
And three kilometers, for Gao Huo, is just over half a minute.
With more than half a minute to react, can the Japanese make a judgment in time?
Before they could react, "Gaofo" had already accelerated and entered the dive sequence.
Nakano Konan was so surprised when he saw this magical scene that he shouted: "It's so strange. They dive automatically as if they know where the target is. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe that there was no pilot flying..."
The words were interrupted before he finished speaking, because violent explosions were heard from the ground, and the shock waves of the explosions even caused changes in the airflow, causing Konan Nakano's plane to shake.
While controlling the fighter plane, Nakano Konan looked down and saw mushroom-shaped smoke rising from the ground. The smoke quickly spread in the air and covered a large area. Nakano Konan also wanted to see the situation of the artillery unit.
, but their shadows are nowhere to be seen.
Nakano Konan said to himself: "I hope it is obscured by the smoke and dust and cannot be seen!"
But this was actually just a self-deception. These were fifty "high-fire" shells, which exploded at the Japanese artillery position at once, destroying areas for several miles around.
Not to mention the Japanese artillery, there was a Japanese fuel supply station seven kilometers away, and a deflected "high-fire" hit it, causing it to burst into flames and thick smoke.
Many Japanese soldiers did not understand until they died that they were attacked by any enemy weapon... There was no warning at all. If the bomb was dropped by an airplane, at least you could still hear the sound of the airplane engine and the sound of the bomb being dropped from the sky.
But the "high fire" had nothing... The sound of the rocket engine was not loud in the first place, and the gunpowder pillar had burned out during the dive phase. It relied on inertial flight, so of course the enemy could not hear the sound.