Chapter 1511 Bombers Vs. Battleships
Zhang Tuohai recruited 9 million troops and distributed them to various battlefields.
Then order each battlefield to take the initiative to attack and achieve results.
Otherwise, you are a sinner of the empire.
Japanese troops abroad received the order and began to take action.
The fastest move is in the direction of Australia.
Because although Australia has a vast land, there are relatively few people. Moreover, most of the cities are concentrated in the coastal areas. The vast inland areas are deserts and grasslands with almost no people.
This gives Japan an opportunity.
The warships led the army all the way south. When they encountered a city, they bombarded it, and then the infantry landed and mopped up the rear.
Soon, they captured a large area of control in Australia.
The army here has been at peace for a long time and has no combat effectiveness at all.
Marshal Mai, who fled here, is even more of an empty-headed commander, with not much strength under his command.
Forced by the military front, they had no choice but to take their people and run inland to hide.
Reports of military successes in the South spread frequently, and it was hoped that the country would send immigrants to occupy this place as soon as possible.
Compared with the Southern Army's consecutive battles and victories, the Westward Army was much slower.
Because if you want to march to India, you must cross the rainforest.
But at this time, there were no roads in the rainforest, and supplies could not be transported there. It was impossible to carry much with just two legs. The commander of the westward marching army was another fool.
They clamored to conquer Imphal even if they eat grass.
Then, half of the entire army starved to death, and finally retreated to Southeast Asia in despair.
For this kind of person, the Minister of War would have brought him back and sent him to a military court for trial.
But Zhang Tuohai stopped him.
He finally found such an anti-Japanese hero, how could he let him go.
Not only was the other party absolved of the crime, but he was promoted to a higher level and asked to continue leading the westward marching army.
Make the other person shed tears of gratitude.
Among the three armies, the most miserable was the East March Corps.
The most manpower and equipment are added here.
Even rare submachine guns and mortars have been added here.
However, facing the powerful howitzers and tanks of the American army was no different than scratching an itch. They could only build positions on the beach under the cover of naval guns.
The Americans have also discovered the weaknesses of the Japanese and have been studying how to break the situation.
Then, they figured out a way and spent three months suppressing more than 10,000 bombers.
These 10,000 bombers are all heavy-duty aerial fortresses, with a total of six machine gun positions at the front, rear, and top. They are heavily guarded and are veritable aerial fortresses.
Because they did not need to fly a long distance, these 10,000 aircraft were all fully equipped, full of machine guns and full of bombs, and formed a dense formation to fly towards the Japanese army.
The Japanese lookout was so frightened when he saw so many planes that he almost fell off the observation deck.
The alarm was quickly sounded.
When Nagyun saw the densely packed fighter planes, he felt numb and quickly let the fighters take off to protect the fleet.
Hundreds of Zero fighters quickly took off to prepare for the enemy.
In their view, fighter jets can easily deal with bombers.
Moreover, there is no fighter escort, so isn’t this just delivering food?
The fighter group rushed toward the bomber formation aggressively.
When they rushed to the bomber formation, they were stunned.
Because this bomber formation formed a dense formation, the Zero fighters did not dare to rush in, otherwise, they would be hit by the dense fighter planes.
They wanted to fight, but there were more machine guns on the flying fortress than on the fighter jets.
Completely taken care of in all directions.
No matter which direction they attacked, they had to face thousands of machine gun fire.
This is a real steel storm.
The Zero fighter is famous for its thin skin and large stuffing. In order to reduce the weight of the aircraft, the aluminum alloy steel frame is used under the skin, and the body even uses a hollow frame. This results in the aircraft's defense being zero. .
As long as you are hit by two shots, you will lose your ability to fight.
The Zero fighters circled around the bomber group twice, but failed to find an opportunity to attack. Instead, they lost more than a hundred aircraft and suffered heavy losses.
At this time, the fighter group had already flown above the combined fleet.
Anti-aircraft fire from numerous ships of the Combined Fleet opened fire.
The bomber fighter formation also opened its magazine, and iron bombs poured out one after another.
Normally, dive bombers or torpedo planes are used to deal with ships.
There are almost no heavy bombers.
The main reason for this is that the ship's evasive movements are very fast and must be attacked at close range by dive bombers or torpedo planes.
Heavy bombers, on the other hand, deliver bombs over an area and can attack fixed targets. However, they are much less effective against such moving targets.
But those are normal situations.
Something is different now. In order to attack the combined fleet, the Americans used 10,000 heavy bombers.
So many fighter planes formed a dense formation in the air, almost covering the battlefield sky.
Then, all the planes dropped bombs together, directly covering the entire battlefield.
Facing the rain of shells in the sky, no matter how fast the ship evades, it cannot avoid all the bombs. It can only pray that it will not be hit by too many bombs.
Boom, boom, boom.
Massive bombs exploded in the battle waters.
Most of the bombs fell into the sea, stirring up waves.
However, some of the bombs still fell on the ship.
In order to achieve the attack effect, the United States uses heavy bombs of 500 kilograms, which can directly blow through the deck when they fall on it.
Falling onto the turret can directly blow the turret away.
After many small destroyers were hit by bombs, the hulls were directly blown through. A large amount of seawater poured in, and the ships sank directly, without the ability to even support them twice.
The cruiser can probably hold two four-shot bombs, but any more will sink.
In the case of an aircraft carrier, it loses its combat effectiveness as soon as a shot hits the deck. It needs to return to port immediately for repairs and is unable to fight at all.
Only battleships with rough skin and thick flesh can resist for a while.
The American strategy is very simple, which is to drown the combined fleet with massive bombs.
It is the crushing of industrial strength.
Faced with this crushing level of battle, the combined fleet had nothing to do.
Yamamoto could not bear the fate of the entire Combined Fleet being annihilated, and immediately ordered the Combined Fleet to evacuate and return to Pearl Harbor to rest.
At least the aircraft carrier must be repaired.
The combined fleet retreated in despair, and the three million soldiers of the East March Corps who remained on the shore were dumbfounded.
If you leave, what will we do?
Without the support of fleet artillery, what support would they have?
There were sighs and groans all over the camp.
Soon, they won't have to sigh anymore.
Because the Flying Fortress is back loaded with bombs.
They came back with a vengeance.
In order to achieve the effect, when the US military selected pilots, they specifically selected people from the West Coast as pilots.
They have an unforgettable hatred against the Japanese army.
Naturally there will be no mercy.
This time, without the threat of fighter jets, the Sky Fortress even directly lowered its altitude and conducted intensive bombing at a height of one thousand meters above the ground.
After the aircraft formation flew over, the Japanese defense line looked like the surface of the moon.