On the morning of the 18th, at dawn, the personnel on duty at the Keelung Port lighthouse discovered a fleet approaching Keelung Port.
At this time, the results of the Battle of Cam Ranh Bay and the Battle of Rout Island had been transmitted back to Japan. Although the Japanese government blocked the news of the defeat, the staff on the lighthouse must have known accurate information, so the lighthouse immediately sounded the alarm.
The tricolor flag flying over the fleet clearly showed its identity. This was Lan Fang's fleet.
For a moment, the staff on the lighthouse felt unbelievable.
Didn’t you say that Lanfang doesn’t have large warships? Then why do many of the warships in that fleet look so majestic?
Forgive this ignorant countryman. Except for the people of Lanfang, people in other countries in East Asia have almost never seen an airplane, let alone an aircraft carrier.
When the alarm bell of the Keelung Port Lighthouse rang throughout Keelung Port, Xie Rundong was issuing combat orders.
Ordered each ship to immediately release bombers to carry out indiscriminate bombing of all valuable targets of the Japanese army, and to eliminate the resistance of the Japanese coastal defense forces to the greatest extent.
Prior to this, Agent Lanfang had obtained a lot of Japanese defense information about Keelung Port. Each ship commander already knew this information, and many combat plans for these defense facilities had been formulated. Xie Rundong only needed to decide what
Launching an attack at the right time does not require detailed arrangements.
In fact, there are not many valuable targets. In Keelung Port, there is a coast guard brigade and an internal security force. These two forces are similar in nature to the police and do not require too much attention. What needs attention is the military camp.
There are two regiments stationed here, responsible for the defense of the Keelung area. In addition, there are forts. However, perhaps because the Japanese are more confident in the strength of their own fleet, there are not many coastal defense forts in Keelung Port. At least
It is incomparable to the density of forts in Cam Ranh Bay and Ningbei Port.
As for the anti-aircraft forts, well, let alone Keelung Port, there is no such thing in the entire Japanese-controlled area, so for the Lanfang Air Force, the entire Japanese airspace is open.
This is truly a golden age for the Air Force.
The marines on board each ship will land first, open up landing sites, establish defensive positions, and cover the landing of armored forces. It is your task. Don't worry about the rest. After completing the task, withdraw immediately. We still have to implement the next combat plan. Xie Rundong does not want to give
A breathing space for the Japanese.
The fleet that Xie Rundong brought on this trip included almost all the main forces of Lanfang's navy and air force. The purpose was to wipe out the remaining Japanese naval warships and completely eliminate all Japanese resistance capabilities.
The Port of Keelung is indeed very large, but in Japan, the real home port of the Navy is Yokosuka, and Keelung is not ranked at all, so Yokosuka is Xie Rundong's ultimate goal.
Following Xie Rundong's order, groups of bombers began to take off. They completed their formation above the aircraft carrier, and then flew towards the intended target.
For the garrison of Keelung Port, this is destined to be an extremely humiliating but helpless day. If Lanfang's army lands now, even if the garrison of Keelung Port cannot be defeated, they can prove their courage with their own lives, but Lanfang's army
Before Fang's army was dispatched, the bombers had already flown overhead. This made the Keelung defenders extremely crazy. They really hated the sky and the earth without any control.
In fact, navy bombers are very different from army bombers. Navy bombers have smaller range and bomb load than army bombers. Lanfang's army bomber currently has a range of 1,800 kilometers and a bomb load of one ton. The navy bomber's
The range is only 800 kilometers and the bomb load is 700 kilograms. This is the result of Long Chengyuan's best efforts to improve it.
However, in terms of performance, Lanfang's bomber performance is second to none in the world. There is no doubt about this, especially after model aircraft enthusiast Qin Zhiyuan began to optimize the aerodynamic shape of Lanfang's aircraft.
Compared with the First World War, it has improved to a higher level.
What's even more sinister is that the bombs Xie Rundong came out on this trip were mostly incendiary bombs, but not many high-explosive armor-piercing bombs, which are more powerful and more effective when dealing with Japanese log cabins.
Well, in fact, most of the houses in Lanfang are made of wood, so Lanfang engineers have done many tests. Under the same conditions, the damage effect of incendiary bombs on wooden houses is equivalent to three times that of high-explosive bombs.
Calculating it this way, it seems that it is okay to have a smaller bomb load, and bomb technology can make up for all this.
Therefore, after all kinds of deliberate efforts, the Keelung garrison, which was fighting on the ground and had no other choice but to curse Lanfang's military planes, became miserable.
When the first batch of bombs were dropped, military personnel inside the target looked for bunkers to take shelter.
I have to say that the Japanese have done a good job in training. Because the port garrison belongs to the navy, it is not as strapped for funds as the army. It has the capital to build various bunkers. Therefore, soon, they were still yelling at each other just now.
Many Japanese soldiers hid in bunkers and continued to curse.
What else can they do besides yelling?
Nothing can be done.
In fact, the bombing accuracy of bombers is very problematic at this time. Each aircraft can carry 14 50 kilogram aerial bombs at a time. If they are thrown down from an altitude of about 500 meters, it would be good if half of them are thrown on the original target.
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The port garrison was also a soldier. They had never eaten pork and had seen pigs running. When they saw the trajectory of the bomb, some people laughed. Such accuracy was really too poor.
But soon the laughter turned into howls.
Unlike the imaginary explosions and shock waves, the sound of these bombs was not loud when they fell, and the shock waves were not very big, but the energy of the instant explosion was still shocking.
It really doesn't look like a bomb, but more like a smoke bomb, because when the bomb explodes, there is no flying shrapnel or flying sand and rocks at all. What is there is just a large cloud of black smoke that is far beyond ordinary. It can only be seen when the wind blows.
Only then can you catch a glimpse of the orange-red flame.
Yes, it is a flame, a flame wrapped in black smoke, a flame that can burn anything, a flame that cannot be extinguished as long as it is ignited
It's not that it can't be extinguished. It can still be extinguished as long as it is isolated from the air. However, the Japanese army had not received similar training before. They did not know how to prevent this kind of solidification. Many people tried to extinguish the fire with water, but the fire did not reduce.
, but it got bigger and bigger, and more people rolled on the ground, like suppressing flames, but the flames were like tarsal demons, igniting every inch of the land they rolled over.
So the Japanese soldiers finally understood that this kind of flame was simply not something that humans could fight against.
Since you can't fight, just run, but where can you run? The Japanese military camps and coastal defense forts were built in areas close to the sea. The Lanfang Air Force carried out indiscriminate bombing of this area, so everywhere
It was thick smoke, there were flames everywhere, and there was no way to escape.
Fortunately, there is the sea next to it, and Japanese soldiers can jump into the sea to avoid being devoured by the fire.
But even if you jump into the sea, there is still nowhere to escape. There is an oil warehouse for the navy built in Keelung Port, and the incendiary gas fire quickly burned out the oxygen and created strong winds. The wind helped the fire, and it was quickly destroyed.
Warehouse caught fire.
After an earth-shattering explosion, the fuel in the fuel warehouse poured into Keelung Port, and the seawater was ignited. After being ignited, the seawater was even more terrifying. It not only burned the air, but also boiled the seawater. The entire Keelung Port was filled with clouds and mist.
Transpiration actually seems to have a violent beauty that destroys everything, as if the end of the world is coming.
The effect of the bombing was so good that the bombers that arrived at the battlefield later had lost their target position. There was thick smoke underneath the aircraft and they could not see the target clearly. Moreover, the aircraft could no longer maintain a flying altitude of 500 meters due to various reasons.
The heat wave is steaming and the air is extremely unstable. Even at an altitude of one thousand meters, you can still feel that the plane is out of control.
However, aircraft carrier-based aircraft cannot land on the ship with bombs, because if an accident occurs, it will cause irreversible serious consequences. Therefore, even if the target is lost, the bombers that arrive at the battlefield later still choose to drop the bombs.
Well, it would be too picky to find a target at this time, and you can't throw it away randomly. After all, most of the people living in Keelung Port are Chinese. If you just throw it away indiscriminately, the Chinese will suffer the most.
The Lanfang soldiers were not inhumane Japanese soldiers, so those bombers that had not yet dropped their bombs chose to keep their bombs in the sea. Of course, they were in the sea near Keelung Port, which further intensified the fire on the sea.
At sea, it doesn't matter, just burn it. Anyway, the people staying in the sea now are Japanese, or Chinese who are relatively close to the Japanese.
When the plan was first made, Xie Rundong always thought that the plan was not complete enough and did not cause enough damage to the Japanese. However, when he saw the effects of the bombing, Xie Rundong was really speechless.
The entire Keelung Port was still beautiful just now, and everything was vividly visible. Just after a wave of bombers bombed it, Xie Rundong could see nothing except overwhelming flames in his telescope.
Fire, fire, fire, everything as far as the eye could see was fire, as if even the sky was set on fire.
Division commander, the Marine Corps is ready. Major General Xu Zhenpeng, commander of the 1st Marine Corps Brigade, is ready.
According to the original plan, now is the time for the Marine Corps to attack, but looking at the situation in Keelung Port now, if the Marine Corps implements a landing, it will not be to fight, but to die.
Okay, let's set off as planned. Xie Rundong glanced at Xu Zhenpeng strangely, and then answered expressionlessly.
Commander, we can't get out. Look at how burned the Keelung Port is now. Are our brothers going up here to help the Japanese put out the fire or what? Xu Zhenpeng and Xie Rundong are also old acquaintances, and they will bite rabbits when pressed.
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You know you can't go, why the hell are you talking, evacuate, evacuate for me, why are you staying here to warm the fire? Xie Rundong was really furious.
You can't go, you can't stay.
Standing in Xie Rundong's position, it seems that he can feel the heat of Keelung Port, and the air seems to be filled with the burnt smell of some kind of creature being roasted. Xie Rundong is going to Ryukyu to see it, and will come back tomorrow.
No, it probably won’t be enough tomorrow, so it will be the day after tomorrow.
