Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1881 Bombing
But it was too late to inform Ozawa Jisaburo.

Because at the moment Seishiro Sakagaki gave the order, the Fourth Aviation Brigade of the Eighth Route Army had already launched a bombing on the Japanese transport fleet.

Leng Hua, the deputy captain, led the Fourth Aviation Group. He saw that the Japanese wooden extra-large ships were roughly divided into two batches: one batch had just finished loading personnel and left the port, and the other batch was loading at the port.

Leng Hua immediately gave the order: "The first squadron is responsible for bombing the port, and the second and third squadrons are responsible for pursuing the targets on the river!"

"Yes!" After responding, the two squadrons split up and attacked.

Leng Hua used the word "bombing" when ordering the first squadron, while the second and third squadrons used the word "pursuit".

This may not sound like much difference, but it actually makes a difference.

"Bombing" means hitting with rockets.

The target loading people and supplies at the port is in a stationary state, and the Japanese wooden super-large rockets are still made of wood, and each ship is crowded into a group. Even if the rocket accuracy is low, it can hit the target in pieces and cause a lot of damage. Big damage.

Just like now, the 12 fighters of the First Squadron suddenly climbed up and then dived down when approaching the target.

This is the experience gained by Eighth Route Army pilots in combat.

The accuracy of rockets is not high to begin with, and the hit rate is even lower when they are hung on a fighter plane and affected by airflow. Sometimes dozens of rockets fired by a fighter plane seem to "bang" and the ground is filled with fire and smoke, but when the smoke After taking a look...the target was still there with its hair intact and not injured.

This caused a lot of trouble for rocket fighters, such as bombing bridges, bombing warehouses, bombing trains, etc. Once a good opportunity was missed, the enemy would immediately be on guard, and the next time they bombed they would have to pay a higher price.

Later, the pilots thought about a question: If diving when dropping bombs can improve the hit rate, does the same apply to shooting rockets?
After trying it in actual combat, it was found that this is indeed the case. As long as the fighter plane is controlled to dive towards the target and the rocket launcher is launched, the hit rate will be two or three times higher than before.

The pilots don't know the reason for this, but this is actually a kind of artificial "inertial guidance"... The fighter plane dives toward the target at high speed. Because it is "diving toward the target," the fighter plane and the rocket have an inertia pointing toward the target.

When rockets are launched, even though they are still affected by wind direction, wind resistance and rocket engines, there is always an "inertia" pulling them closer to the target, so the hit rate is higher.

The only drawback is that it takes more than ten seconds for the rockets to be launched one after another after ignition, and the dive time is sometimes only a few seconds.

However, this problem was soon solved by the pilots.

They adopted Hans's cyclic bombing tactic: every two fighter planes formed a bombing formation in a long snake formation, and then wave after wave of cyclic bombardments dived towards the target to fire rockets.

There is another advantage to fighting this way: subsequent fighters can fine-tune their angle to aim at the target based on the impact point of the forward fighter. Or if the target has been destroyed, there is no need to fire at the same target again, but a secondary target can be selected until all the rockets are hit. over.

In this bombing tactic, the 12 fighter planes of the [-]st Squadron very accurately hit the rockets in batches at the more than [-] wooden super-large ships docked. In an instant, those transport ships were blown into a sea of ​​flames. The Japanese on it were blown to pieces and jumped into the water to escape.

The wooden jumbo must have been the main target, because without them the Japanese would have no means of transport.

Then the First Squadron turned its target to the Japanese and supplies gathered on the shore, including more than a dozen cars filled with ammunition... This round of rockets immediately caused a new round of explosions, and the entire port was filled with flames. Smoke billows.

The tasks of the second and third squadrons will be relatively difficult, although their targets are not many, with only more than thirty wooden super ships.

These thirty or so wooden boats are already sailing on the river and are still flowing down the river.The maximum speed of the wooden extra-large engine is ten knots, and when coupled with the water flow, the speed is more than ten knots.

Although this is nothing compared to the speed of a fighter plane, the difficulty is that the target will perform "S"-shaped maneuvers to avoid it, and the full load displacement of 34 tons also means that it is small in size.

Such a small target was maneuvering to dodge, so it was very difficult to hit it with rockets, especially when the Japanese ordered them to distance themselves from each other and disperse.

That's why Leng Hua used the word "pursue", which means to hit with machine guns.

The cannon uses the same HC-2km cannon as the "J-23".

At this time, the Eighth Route Army had many of these cannons idle. The reason was that Wang Xuexin imported hundreds of them from Mao Xiong and the production of the "J-2" could not keep up, so the cannons were piled in the warehouse.

Of course, Leng Hua, who had a machine gun with a range of more than 1000 meters, was not willing to let it get moldy in the warehouse. Especially after knowing that the mission was to fight Japanese Japanese giants, he decisively replaced the machine gun with a machine gun.

This is also due to the fact that the original configuration of the "La 5" fighter jet was two cannons on both wings. Later, the pilot thought that it was not suitable to use cannons in air combat and replaced it with machine guns. Now if it is changed to cannons, there will be no problem of insufficient internal space. .

At this time, the 23MM caliber cannon hit the wooden fuselage of the Japanese transport ship as easily as cutting tofu. With a "bang bang" sound, two water columns appeared on the water extending towards the escaping transport ship, and then only Hearing the "pop" noise, the transport ship was beaten to pieces and pieces flew everywhere.

Because the transport ship was crowded with people, the river surface where the shells penetrated from the other end instantly turned into a bright red, full of the flesh and blood of the Japanese.

That's not even worse.

Because the fighter planes swooped down and fired at the transport ship at an angle, the shells often penetrated the bottom of the ship below the waterline through the deck. River water poured in from the hole in an instant, and soon the transport ship lost its balance due to water intrusion. .

Leng Hua was flying a fighter plane in the air and looking at the battlefield coldly. He had not taken action until now.

As a frontline commander, he should be in control of the overall situation rather than chasing down a certain target.

Of course, the exception is if there is a goal worthy of his shot.

Soon Leng Hua actually discovered such a goal.

This transport ship is no different from other transport ships, except that it is slower and there is a plume of black smoke on the ship.

If you didn't look carefully, you would have thought it was a damaged transport ship.

The Eighth Route Army pilots were indeed fooled by it and did not regard it as a target.

But Leng Hua saw the clues: the black smoke came from the middle section of the ship, but the wooden extra-large engine was at the rear end of the ship.

What kind of injury would cause black smoke to emit from the middle section of a wooden Daihatsu that transports people?

Unless the devils set the fire themselves to deceive others...

(End of this chapter)