Chapter 307 Carpet Bombing? Let's Leave It to Their Homeland.
With the officers' screaming and the increasingly loud roar of the planes, the Japanese soldiers in the cavalry group subconsciously made various evasive movements.
The most skilled of them was naturally the 71st Tank Regiment. Before they were transferred to the Mongolian Army, they belonged to the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army and had experience in fighting the entire Battle of Nomonhan.
The intensity of the bombing by the Russians back then was no worse than it is now.
"Scatter quickly! Each tank squadron should focus on evasion! Don't have any extra ideas!"
"Baga! What are the infantry doing! Are you going to compete with the planes in speed? Where are the machine guns? Hurry up and set up the light and heavy machine guns! The enemy's fighter planes are flying very low! Fight back while evading!"
"Contact the headquarters and ask the Army Aviation to send fighters to support!"
Obviously, these Japanese soldiers who were not sent to Siberia to dig potatoes still have some skills.
Faced with the sudden air raid, more than 50 light and medium tanks, under the command of their own regiment commander, moved to the south and north at the first time.
The trucks responsible for logistics transport drove east and west, trying to disperse the troops and minimize losses.
The situation of the infantry was relatively miserable, as there were almost no natural shelters on the plains. They could only crawl and hide, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, and their actions were so skillful that people wanted to laugh.
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Escort fighter group, lead aircraft.
Comrades who have studied physics know one thing, that is, the difficulty of horizontal bombing is no less than dive bombing.
The entire operation process requires many items to be calculated, including aircraft airspeed, ground speed, drift angle, wind speed, flight altitude, average bomb drop speed and many other parameters.
In film and television works, the behavior of flying directly above the target before dropping bombs is pure nonsense, and it is not even as reliable as pressing a button in the game to enter the bombardier's aiming perspective.
As a twin-engine fighter that first flew in 1935, the Blenheim's bombing device is just a simple optical sight, and the bombing accuracy naturally depends entirely on the bombardier's personal experience and feeling.
When the entire escort formation was about to arrive above the Japanese, Captain Wang Hai said with a communication device:
"Get into combat position! Fang Ziyi! Let's teach the enemy a lesson!"
As a bombardier, Fang Ziyi didn't waste words. He carefully checked the airspeed indicator and altitude indicator. Then he pulled the lever expressionlessly to open the bomb bay and began to observe the situation on the ground through the sight.
A few seconds later, he first dropped two 227 kg bombs.
At the same time, the fighter plane, which suddenly lost weight, had a tendency to rise in altitude. Captain Wang Hai quickly stabilized his flight attitude, fearing that it would affect the accuracy of his teammates' bombing.
After the two big babies left the cabin, eight 20 kg small melons followed. The whole plane kept throwing bombs like a hen laying eggs.
After seeing the action of the pilot plane, the rest of the crew dropped bombs together.
A full 240 bombs, with the scream of death, covered the evacuation route of the 71st Tank Wing from south to north.
The 227kg bomb is a classic of the Air Force First Division. Even if it explodes around the Type 97 medium tank, it can paralyze the tank. If it is a little closer, it can even directly restore the enemy to its parts.
Although 20kg is a small bomb, the charge coefficient of even a small bomb is outrageous. Using it to deal with the Type 95 light tank and the Type 97 medium tank is quite like using an anti-aircraft gun to hit a mosquito.
"Boom boom boom!"
One bomb after another fell on the route of the 71st Tank Regiment, and the powerful shock wave would overturn the Japanese industrial garbage from time to time.
A certain Type 95 light tank with great luck even won the title of a warrior who received the bomb on the turret.
The horizontal bombing technology of the Air Force First Division is indeed very immature, and some crews even only hit the enemy with the first bomb.
However, the number of bombs is really large, and many Japanese were torn into pieces near the bombing point, and the body parts were mixed with the soil in Suiyuan area.
Faced with justice from heaven, the little guys had long forgotten the orders of their own wing commander.
Counterattack? It's good enough to be alive. Now they only hate that their parents didn't give them two less legs.
Looking at the destroyed tanks below, Fang Ziyi nodded with satisfaction. It was the first time for the troops to carry out horizontal bombing in actual combat. Such a record was barely qualified.
"Captain Wang, is our attack this time considered the carpet bombing that Director Huang mentioned?"
"In the past, each of our planes carried at most two bombs. Even in the most intense battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, there was no single case of dropping 200 bombs."
Hearing the words of his own team members, Captain Wang Hai smiled and shook his head.
Although the entire formation had just dropped 240 bombs, the total weight was less than ten tons, which was still far from the level of carpet bombing.
"This is just the beginning. Ten tons of bombs are barely considered a lot in the Asian battlefield, but they are definitely not enough in Europe."
"When we have the opportunity to attack the enemy's homeland in the future, we will have to deploy hundreds of Lancaster bombers to drop thousands of tons. Carpet bombing targets densely populated or industrial areas. Bombing a few broken tanks is nothing."
As if he had some resentment in his heart, Captain Wang Hai specially adjusted the Blenheim to a shallow dive posture when he said this, and then used the four aircraft machine guns under the belly of the aircraft to sweep at the Japanese on the ground.
"Attention all crews, attention all crews!"
"The mission of clearing the bombs has ended. Don't fight and leave the battlefield immediately! I will continue to serve as the navigator for the next trip."
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"Damn the Eighth Route Army! I will fight you to the death!"
Looking at the plain full of wailing, Kawasaki Zentaro clenched his fists tightly, and he didn't even notice that his nails had pierced his palms.
Since the main target of the Air Force 1st Division was the 71st Tank Regiment, the casualties of the 14th Cavalry Regiment were not serious, with only more than 200 soldiers killed in the air raid.
However, such losses were completely unacceptable to the old Japanese who came from aristocratic families.
We have said before that the original cavalry group was composed of two units, the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 4th Brigade, both of which also adopted the organization of two regiments.
In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the 4th Cavalry Brigade was almost completely wiped out on the Eastern Front. The first time the Air Force 1st Division licked the ground, it killed a cavalry regiment and a half.
Counting the loss just now, half of the cavalry group was defeated by the Eighth Route Army Air Force.
For Japanese who value honor more than life like Kawasaki Zentaro, the hatred of the Air Force 1st Division has exceeded that of the 35th Army of the Eighth War Zone.
"Signalman! Go and see if Colonel Chunxiu died, and by the way, ask them how many tanks they have left in their regiment that can be used normally."
"We can still encounter the Eighth Route Army's air force in a place like this. The other party is most likely to escort their airborne troops! If we go back now in disgrace, Lieutenant General Nishihara will definitely not forgive us."
"If we can kill that airborne troop, we can be considered to have made meritorious contributions! I swear I will not be a human being if I don't avenge this!"