This should be the first time in more than two years that the Japanese aircraft fleet has encountered such fierce ground-to-air defense firepower in bombing the mountain city.
However, the escorting Zero fighter jets were much smaller than the bombers and had greater maneuverability. They could pass through the white mist caused by anti-aircraft grenades with little loss.
The Japanese air commander of the bomber formation was also extremely experienced. He knew that just escaping was of no use now. He had to first reduce the load on the bombers. Only in this way could he quickly raise the altitude and leave the range of the anti-aircraft guns.
As for the previously set bombing targets, they are no longer that important!
Aerial bombs were thrown from the belly of the bomber and landed inside and outside the mountain city. There were also flashes of fire on the ground, at least when viewed from an altitude of 5,000 meters.
For a full 10 minutes, the sky and the ground in the mountain city were shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and the roar of artillery and the sound of bomb explosions were heard endlessly.
The entire city is trembling under the high technology created by humans!
No amount of anti-aircraft guns can prevent the fleet from dropping bombs and destroying the city. This is the most essential difference between defensive warfare and offensive warfare. One is passive and the other is active.
However, the defender's efforts are not ineffective. A fierce and determined counterattack will still leave terrible wounds on the enemy.
In 10 minutes, the Japanese aircraft fleet entering the mountain city area dropped almost dozens of tons of bombs, incendiary bombs, and even poison gas bombs. Regardless of whether they achieved the set tactical goals or not, the city below was already the most important city in China.
, has ignited a raging fire that can be clearly seen from thousands of meters in the sky.
However, the initiator of all this was only able to leave the mountain city area safely, 41 of them!
Nine Japanese 97 bombers and their crews remained forever in the city they bombed. Four of them were directly hit by 40mm anti-aircraft guns and disintegrated in the air, and three struggled to move forward due to damage.
It crashed after more than ten kilometers, and the last two were forced to make an emergency landing.
Don't tell me, the technical level of Japanese pilots is really outstanding. Half of the wing of a 97 bomber was cut off by shell fragments, and there was a hole the size of a washbasin in the tail of the aircraft. Just like that, this aircraft
The bombers also made an emergency landing in a farmland 20 kilometers away from the mountain city.
Then, the four-man Japanese Navy crew who had just escaped death on the bomber faced the darkest moment of their lives.
More than 200 Chinese mountain people, armed with poles, sickles and other crude weapons that the Japanese pilots couldn't even name, surrounded them.
In fact, if the Japanese pilots had been decisive and smart, and immediately put down their weapons and surrendered, their lives might have been saved. After all, the national government had already issued reward orders through various levels of government, and no one who caught the Japanese pilots would be alive.
The reward is 200 yuan, and 50 yuan for dead ones!
Just like in the livestock market, live pigs are much more expensive than dead pigs, and people are very sensitive to the price difference.
How can you say that such a big machine can't bring out hundreds of oceans? The villagers in the mountain village who gathered around now thought of catching the Japanese pilot so that every household could share the money.
But how proud and arrogant the Imperial Japanese Navy pilots were, especially when they saw a group of approaching "barbarians" approaching, how could they let themselves fall into the hands of such a group of enemies and immediately shoot with pistols.
The villagers were caught off guard, and three people were killed and four or five others were injured.
What kind of character do Sichuan people have? It has been cultivated by eating chili peppers for generations. It is so explosive that the 'beast' who wants to exchange it for money turns back.
"The dead can be exchanged for money, but the living can be given away, and their heads will be used as a memorial to our people." Following the village chief's order, the whole village, old and young, immediately dispersed and surrounded the tattered Japanese aircraft.
This mountain range belongs to the Wushan Mountains. It has beautiful scenery, but from the perspective of human survival, it is extremely bad. People who have been able to thrive in such mountains for hundreds of years have long learned to fight against the cruel nature.
Relying on simple poles, sickles, and hatchets?
Not long after, the four Japanese pilots who were relying on the tattered fighter plane as a cover were horrified to see that the "barbarians" surrounding them more than 100 meters away moved a big gun from a distance.
Yes, it took four strong men to carry that thing, and it can only be described as a "door".
We can't blame the Japanese for their lack of knowledge. That thing should not be called a gun, but a cannon, because its caliber is definitely over 20 mm, and its name is so unpretentious - a cannon!
Perhaps in order to show off its earthy characteristics, the gun barrel is made of unknown material. There are 11 iron hoops on the barrel, which clearly shows that the quality of the barrel is worrying, and its range is also appallingly short. China
The villagers moved it to a location no more than 100 meters away from the plane before placing it on the ridge.
But none of the four Japanese could laugh, especially after the fuse was lit and the first shot was fired.
The solid bullets activated by black powder easily pierced the aircraft's fragile skin and the supposedly strong aluminum alloy frame. A hole the size of a basketball showed that even if the gun was so dusty that it could tear the aircraft body into pieces.
The angry Chinese villagers did not move the artillery so close because of insufficient range. They wanted to ensure the hit rate. The effective range of the Southern Type 14 pistol worn by the Japanese pilots would never exceed 70 meters.
As for the five 7MM machine guns originally equipped on the Type 97 heavy explosive aircraft, they were either on the nose or on the wings or could not be used due to crash landings. 70 meters was the last distance for the four Japanese pilots to defend their pride.
As a result, the four Japanese pilots could only watch in despair as the Chinese used this inferior weapon to destroy their last bunker bit by bit and tear it into pieces.
In the face of an absolute number of people, the so-called so-called sophisticated skills are nothing more than that.
But what is even more ironic is that what really destroyed the Japanese pilots' last line of defense was not the cannon, which could only fire 15 rounds at most before it exploded, but the Chinese villagers holding torches and firewood.
The Chinese villagers know very well that the cannon alone cannot kill these stubborn Japanese. Their purpose of using this 100-year-old cannon is more to intimidate and attract the attention of the Japanese.
The real killer move is people!
Taking advantage of the blind spot of the Japanese pilot hiding in the plane, several agile and agile young people gradually approached the plane carrying firewood and torches, and then set the plane on fire with a torch.
The four Japanese pilots trapped in the plane were like ants on a hot pot. In the end, they jumped out of the plane one after another in the spirit of death if they could not get out.
However, it was useless. The unused aviation fuel was ignited and the explosion caused even injuries to Chinese villagers more than 100 meters away, let alone the Japanese who were less than 10 meters away from the plane.
Three Japanese pilots were burned to death on the spot. One Japanese pilot who was lucky enough to survive and was stunned by the explosion was hung upside down from a big tree in the mountain by the angry villagers, waiting for people from the township office to arrive, intending to make a living.
The county received the reward, only to find that the bloody Japanese pilot's body was already covered with creepy mountain ants.
Not to mention the question of survival, I don’t know how much of the flesh on my body has been eaten!
The other three who were charred were not much better. Their heads were chopped off and placed in front of the souls of the three dead villagers. The headless corpses were taken away by the township office in exchange for rewards. For this reason, the villagers in the village would rather have each corpse.
The corpse costs at least 20 oceans.
It is said that the three heads were finally thrown into the cesspool where the villagers kept their excrement. In the words of the elders, these three devils were suppressed and would never be reincarnated.
Several years later, the descendants of three Japanese pilots found this village based on clues, hoping to use money to recover three heads lost in China. The price was as high as one million, and the villagers held a village collective meeting for this purpose.
A 70-year-old man just pointed to the hillside opposite the village and said: "As long as your uncles, grandfathers, and uncles agree, that's fine."
The young villager who yelled the loudest immediately became too scared to mention the matter again. Three people died in the village at that time, but there were 50 men in the village who joined the army. In the end, only one old man returned to the village after 13 years.
All his cousins died in the battle, including young ones! All 76 households in the village hung white flags!
Another Japanese bomber chose to make an emergency landing on a simple road. Their life was obviously a little better than that of their colleagues, because the location they chose was absolutely perfect. It happened to be the observation post of an anti-aircraft regiment.
There were 8 soldiers at this checkpoint, and they watched in disbelief as the Japanese bombers landed on a dirt road only 1,000 meters away from their checkpoint.
The Chinese soldiers holding rifles cautiously approached the aircraft, only to discover that the four Japanese pilots in the 97 bomber, which had a nearly complete structure, had already lost 3 to 100 lives and 1 to 1 were injured. Two of them were probably killed by shrapnel in the air, and 1 was killed.
Due to the huge impact of the plane's emergency landing, the head wearing the flight hat was smashed into shape, like a ripe watermelon being punched twice.
At that moment, the soldiers all felt that it was better to be in the army, which was issued with a steel helmet after all. Look at these flying men, wearing a leather hat is not only good-looking but also useful as a base.
Even if the Chinese soldiers wanted to make a living for the injured one, there was nothing they could do. They were just a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers. Their ability to kill people was not high, and their ability to save people was almost useless.
What's more, a nearly complete Japanese plane can't be worth more than the Japanese? The eight soldiers made a very wise choice at that time. They threw the four Japanese into the field and picked up their weapons.
Just cut branches in the mountains and camouflage the plane first.
Even with such a simple camouflage, the Zero fighter jet that passed over from an altitude of 2,000 meters in search of its colleagues missed it, and the last chance to destroy the Type 97 bomber was lost.
In the end, this Japanese bomber was not only thoroughly studied by engineers sent by the Americans, but was also repaired and put into active service by the Chinese, and later participated in the bombing of Jianghan Airport occupied by the Japanese.
But for the Japanese aircraft fleet that had poured out their bombs in the face of intensive ground anti-aircraft fire, their losses were by no means limited to just these nine bombers. Their disaster had actually just begun.
The moment the air raid siren sounded, Chinese pilots from a total of 4 flying groups located in a total of 6 airports in Shancheng and Sichuan Province had already rushed to the fighter planes.
96 Wildcat fighter jets and 32 I-15 and I-16 fighter jets, a total of 128 fighter jets, continued to fly to the south.
Their mission was not to prevent the Japanese aircraft fleet from entering the sky above the mountain city, but to intercept the Japanese aircraft fleet on its way back.
This tactic was formulated by Tang Dao and Zheng Shaoyu, captain of the 4th Flying Group, through continuous practice and calculation during the 10-day training period.
Although the two did not want to face this cruel fact, they had to admit in the end that the 3:0 record achieved by 6 fighter jets against the Zero fighter in the battle over Yiling was more luck than strength itself.
Shen Chonghai, Zhang Dafei, Lin Heng and other 6 people were already the best pilots in China at that time. With the targeted tactics developed for them by surprise attack and Tang Dao, and under the situation of using more to defeat fewer, it was still extremely difficult and even almost caused a loss.
He got the ace pilot Shen Chonghai.
If the number is expanded to 100, even if they can kill each other equally, they will actually lose.
Because, in order not to further stimulate the Japanese, the United States has stated that it will not provide complete fighter planes in the short term. The Chinese side will lose one less one, while Japan, which has a complete military industrial system, will continue to invest in fighter planes.
Therefore, they not only want to make the Japanese heartbroken, but also try their best to preserve their strength to meet more challenges.
Therefore, the interception operation named "Sunset" was destined to involve sacrifices even before the fighter planes took off.
The artillery fire of Yamashiro's counterattack was the first wave of consumption of Japanese escort aircraft groups and bomber groups. It consumed not only the number of Japanese aircraft, but also the spirit of Japanese pilots.
After all, if you want to escape from the barrage, your highly stressed brain nerves will not recover quickly, and the Chinese pilots responsible for the ambush airspace are waiting for their jobs.
But it is not only the burning city that will be sacrificed, but also fighter planes and pilots. The 32 Iraqi series fighters that were ordered to take off were used as decoys to induce the Japanese escort aircraft groups to pursue them.
Only the Wildcat fighter fleet would swoop down to attack the Japanese bomber group.
Although every Iraqi series fighter pilot was clearly informed before the war that they only need to lure the Japanese escort fleet away and try to entangle them, rather than engage in air combat with them. When the fighter plane encounters damage that cannot return, it must parachute immediately without considering the replacement of fighter planes.
question, but Zheng Shaoyu, who looked at the firm faces of his pilots, knew very well that these young faces were likely to be gone forever!
Because the Japanese bombers are not soft persimmons that can be manipulated by others. The several self-defense machine guns they are equipped with are destined to become thorny hedgehogs at that moment, winning the last glimmer of hope for themselves. If they want to shoot them down, they also need enough weapons.
time.
During this period of time, how many people in the Iraq series fighters, whose performance lagged behind the Zero fighter in all aspects, could survive until the war?
Zheng Shaoyu, who personally planned all this, could not predict the outcome, but Tang Dao knew that in the Bishan air battle in time and space, the Chinese side was 30 to 13, but was beaten 0 to 24!
Before the battle between the lion and the tiger, there is bound to be a moth flying into the flame!
The so-called "setting sun" shoots down not only the scarlet sun flag, but also the falling glory.
Shooting down a Japanese aircraft is an honor, falling down is even more glorious!
Zheng Shaoyu was appointed as the first commander of the air force by the Air Force Command. He personally led 48 Wildcat fighter jets and 24 Yi series fighter jets to hover at an altitude of 6,000 meters above Bishan on standby. In the direction of Guangyuan, Huang Xinrui, captain of the 3rd Flying Group, led
48 Wildcat fighter jets and 8 Yi series fighter jets circled over Jianmen Mountain.
Captain Shinto Saburo, leading 22 Zero fighter jets, escorted 25 bombers and returned at high speed along the route they came from!
Captain Saburo Shindo's face looked ugly. Only one Zero fighter of the two aviation squadrons he led was damaged in the fierce fire and was ordered to leave the formation and return early. This kind of loss was still within an acceptable range, but the escorting bombers
However, the formation lost up to 5 aircraft.
This huge loss has exceeded the total of the past year.
An all-out bombing operation ended in a loss for both sides. This was something the Japanese naval aviation, who were determined to seek revenge, did not expect.
It would be great if Chinese fighter planes could come to intercept at this time, so that he could find some balance for the loss of the five bombers.
Captain Shindo Saburo turned his head and looked at the green mountains below the wing, his eyes full of unwilling anger.
Then, he heard shouts coming from the radio.
"Enemy attack!"
Looking up, I saw at least 20 bi-wing fighter planes roaring and swooping down from an altitude of 4,000 meters, heading straight towards the group of aircraft.
"Chinese, suffer death!" Shinto Saburo was filled with murderous intent and struck the rudder.
"Imperial warriors, follow me to kill the enemy. This battle will definitely crush the last air resistance of the Chinese people in one fell swoop!"
24VS24, the first bomb of the famous Bishan air battle, begins!
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PS: Some readers in the comment area said that the chapter title should not be 'Big Bombing' but should be 'Air Defense Counterattack', which is more appropriate. Fengyue actually thought about it, but finally decided to name it Big Bombing. This book happened in the past
It is a romance in history, but Fengyue still hopes that my book friends and I will not forget the darkest and most glorious history, and hope that this chapter can commemorate the real history that happened on that day! ()
