Chapter 45 Chapter 9 Blood in the Sun (4)

Fortunately, the enemy stopped not far from the scouts. Perhaps the mosquitoes and flies flying in the barn and the stench from the barn stopped the Japanese.The enemy officer opened his collar, showing a relaxed look. Of course, he didn't know that there were several pairs of vigilant eyes and black muzzles lurking in the stinking abandoned barn in front of him.This is the rear of the Japanese positions, and the officer was very relaxed. He just walked around casually, smoked a cigarette, got some air, and then unbuttoned his crotch and stood under a tree to pee.At this time, a slanting sun passed through the bushes and shot at the officer impartially like a spotlight, Xiao Jinjin almost cried out, his eyeballs almost popped out due to the great surprise, because the scouts don’t use binoculars at this time It can also be clearly seen that there is a shiny thing on the collar badge of the enemy officer, which is a gold star.

He is a major general. In the Japanese army, the division of military ranks is extremely strict. The commander of the regiment (regiment) is the general, the head of the brigade (division) is the major general, and the head of the division (army) is the lieutenant general. They must not be confused with each other.The unexpected appearance of the enemy major general at least shows the following fact, that is, the rank of the enemy commander is the head of the brigade. Based on this, it can be inferred that the strength of the enemy should be at least no lower than the two main wings.According to the regulations of the Japanese army's combat order, the main wing can be equipped with artillery, engineers, cavalry, and transport brigades, etc., so the enemy's strength may even reach a record tens of thousands. I believe this is the real reason why the Chinese army has been unable to attack for a long time. where.

To the great regret of the scouts, if they were not burdened with heavy responsibilities, they would not dare to expose their targets easily, otherwise they would never miss this golden opportunity to kill or capture the Japanese general alive.It was night when the scouts returned to their positions the same way, and important information was quickly delivered to the higher command.The Wuhan base camp attached great importance to this, and urgently dispatched the main force for massive reinforcements. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the Soviet heavy bombers that had just arrived at Wuhan Airport to be dispatched secretly, and must deal a head-on blow to this cunning enemy.

5 The "Air God of War" Zhongzheng fleet secretly transferred to a field airport in the Central Plains, and ambushed under the nose of the enemy to carry out the combat mission of escorting bombers. New pilot Yu Shicheng sat in the cabin and stayed up all night. For fighter jets, the field airport is equivalent to a temporary attack position, because there were no aerial tankers at that time, and the fighter jets carried limited fuel and had a short range, so they had to be stationed at the field airport in advance to ambush.However, stationing at a field airport often takes a lot of risk, because once the enemy finds out, the consequences will be unimaginable. Such tragedies happened frequently in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

It was getting dark, and a signal came from the radio, indicating that my bomber fleet had taken off from the rear airport.The combat alarm was sounded, the motors were started, and the fighter taxied to the runway to stand by.Second Lieutenant Yu Shicheng was appointed as the captain's wingman. He saw that the night sea was ebbing, and the eastern sky began to be dyed red by a ray of morning light. The bright sky indicated that there would be fine weather in the eastern Henan theater.The new pilot couldn't help but secretly worried, because the tactical instructor said that fighter jets lacking cloud cover have less room to maneuver, and Japanese planes often have the upper hand in numbers, and sunny days are not good for the Chinese fighter planes serving as escorts.

At about 7 o'clock, the radio station sent a signal again, indicating that the bomber fleet was approaching the airspace of the theater.Following an order, the entire ZOZEN fleet attacked, one after the other, and after completing formation in the air, the large fleet flew towards the eastern sky facing the rising sun. With thunder and thunder and the sky shaking, the new pilot Yu Shicheng, full of hatred for the enemy, rushed to the battlefield in a fighter plane.Soon the lead plane started shaking its wings, which was the signal to find my bomber group.Yu Shicheng saw a large group of silver bright spots moving rapidly in the direction of nine o'clock, and the fighting pride surging in the pilot's chest was instantly ignited.Look, this is a group of powerful Soviet bombers that came to China to help in the war; flying above them are light bombers commonly known as "Katyusha", and they are like a group of slender sword sharks swimming deftly in the blue air.Flying slower is the main force of this operation, the "Ilyushin-3" heavy bomber. This huge bomber, nicknamed "Sky Fin Whale", is a new type of weapon recently put into the battlefield by the Soviets. Like a black giant whale riding the wind and waves, it is enough to make any ground enemy fearful.The two large fleets reunited in the air and re-formed. Chinese fighter jets occupied high altitude as escorts, followed by bombers in a "herringbone" formation, and the Chinese and Soviet fleets went straight to the bombing target.

Flying to the battle zone, the ground fires red and blue signal flares to indicate the enemy's position for the fleet.The Chinese and Soviet fleets changed formation again, and Yu Shicheng closely followed the escort lead plane to raise the altitude, and was always on alert to intercept the enemy planes that came to attack.The bomber group continued to lower their altitude. They were linked head to tail like a school of fish migrating to spawn, and each of them calmly opened the distance. The light bombers were in front, and the heavy bombers were in charge, and then began to perform the classic Soviet "Kolo Husband type" dive bomb.

This is the most perfect cooperation between the Chinese and Soviet air forces since the Anti-Japanese War. The light bomber that took the lead dived close to the ground, almost touching the roof and treetops, and then dropped the bomb accurately on the enemy's head the moment the nose was raised. "Korov type" is the meaning of ultra-low-altitude strike.Immediately afterwards, the real protagonist of the battlefield appeared.The Soviet heavy bomber with a wide wingspan is simply a bomb depot flying in the sky. They fly unhurriedly over the enemy lines, graceful and calm like ovulating whales, and drop those powerful heavy bombs and incendiary bombs one after another. continuously excreted from the body.For a moment, the calm air seemed to be stirred by a giant hand. First, a dazzling golden spray appeared in the enemy's position, followed by a mushroom cloud.The plane repeatedly circled and dropped bombs until the bomb bay was emptied. The heavy bombing turned the enemy's position into a magma-erupting volcano.