My client Li Yunlong

"take off."

A Japanese military airfield near Shimen.

Following Garner's order, six Type 99 twin-engine bombers slowly took off from Beiping Airport. After circling in the sky, they formed a team and flew towards the Zhizishan Bridge.

Looking at the six bombers leaving, Garner's eyes were filled with pride.

Type 99 twin-engine bomber produced by Kawasaki,
The maximum level flight speed reaches 480 kilometers, the maximum bomb load is as high as 800 kilograms, and the fully loaded range is 1,000 kilometers.

It is the Empire's newest and most advanced bomber.

Official production started in July, and only ten units have been produced until now.

It was originally supposed to be sent to the south to bomb the mountain city, the core city of preserved fruits, but with the rise of Tubal Road in North China, the base camp deliberately stepped in and allocated the latest batch of thirty to the North China Front.

Used to bomb the Eighth Route Army base areas.

For this reason, the Imperial Logistics and Supply Department also specially manufactured special 800 kilograms of special aerial bombs for bombing bridges and warehouses on Tubal Road.

of course,

The new aerial bombs have not yet been transported, and are still being produced in the empire’s local factories.

Therefore, in this bombing, the six Type 99 bombers carried eighteen 250 kilograms of explosives.

But it's enough.

Because what was bombed this time was the wooden Zhizishan Bridge.

Although frontline investigators reported that although the Zhizishan Bridge is a wooden structure, it uses a lot of wood. The wooden beam structure is strong and can withstand the passage of heavy tanks.

But wood is wood after all,

A single bomb hit can destroy the bridge.

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"Is the Japanese plane coming?"

One hour after the Japanese plane took off.

Zhizishan Bridge.

A telegram arrived at the Second Battalion of the New First Regiment stationed at Zhizishan Bridge and the Ma Rongshun Platoon of the independent regiment.

Observers deployed by the headquarters near the Japanese airport immediately discovered the Japanese bombers taking off and issued an early warning.

Although I don’t know the target of the Japanese bombers, I can just order all places to strengthen air defense.

"Prepare air defense."

Ma Rongshun immediately led the entire platoon into the preset air defense position.

With the expansion and reinforcement of Zhizishan Bridge,
The bridge's fixed air defense positions responsible for air defense have also doubled, from the original fifteen to the current thirty. Among them, there are only five mobile single-tube ones, which cannot be increased.

But the fixed number of double-barreled heavy machine guns was increased to twenty-five.

In other words, there are fifty-five 12.7mm gun barrels facing the sky deployed around the Zhizishan Bridge, a wooden bridge less than 100 meters tall.

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at the same time.

On the highway from Taihang Base Area to Jinan Base Area.

"hidden."

"Take cover where you are."

"Pull up the concealment net."

Thanks to sufficient shortwave radio stations, each transport team received the warning in time, and one after another found bunkers on the spot to hide, or set up camouflage air defense concealment nets to avoid Japanese bombings.

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"We still have to have fighter jets."

A few Japanese planes put the entire base area on full alert. The suspension of all transportation teams made Li Yunlong far away in Yangcun have an idea in his mind.

Air Force is needed.

Even though a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns are deployed in various places, the total number is as high as 350, of which as many as 300 are double-barreled.

A few Japanese planes took off and flew towards the base area. Not only did they put the entire Taihang, Taiyue, and Southern Hebei base areas on alert, they also put six grain transport teams on the Taihang-Taiyue highway into hiding.

If it weren't for the night trucking fleet,

Grain transportation efficiency will be seriously affected.

Although the anti-aircraft machine gun positions can block the enemy's bombing of key positions, it is obviously unable to prevent the bombing of transport teams and truck convoys.

As the base area expands in the future and the demand for supplies increases, there will come a time when truck fleets will need to transport supplies during the day.

In military materials, it is clearly written that the best air defense is fighter jets.

No way...
Li Yunlong once again took out the weapons, equipment and material information book. There was indeed a lot of weapons and equipment in it, including a large basket of advanced fighter jets, the most powerful propeller fighter jets, and supersonic jet fighters.

But currently, the only ones that can be exchanged are the two-wing transport aircraft Yunwu.

"Fuck..."

The feeling of being able to only read but not use made Captain Li very unhappy, but after putting away the information and thinking about it, he suddenly had an idea.

"What do you want to do?"

When Zhao Gang saw it, he felt that Li Yunlong had a bad idea.

"Old Zhao, you said..."

"Our transport plane has almost completed its mission recently, right?"

"Transport silver coins to Beiping and transport talent bases from Beiping and Jinling."

"Transport students to the border area."

"Transporting silver coins to Mount Wutai and the Shaanxi-Gansu border area."

"There are no missions recently."

Zhao Gang answered.

Limited by the number of pilots, although the Independent Regiment has twelve biplane transport aircraft, it can only take off at most ten at a time. Although the headquarters has been looking for ways to recruit pilots, considering safety and confidentiality, the new batch of pilots have not yet Did not pass review.

So far there are only ten pilots.

Fortunately, ten planes can transport fifteen tons at a time, or up to eighty adults.

At present, ten transport aircraft have completed their mission.

Including two million silver dollars paid to purchase military machinery and equipment from American businessmen.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhao Gang continued to ask.

"I'm wondering."

Li Yunlong rolled his eyes:
"Anti-aircraft machine guns can only block precision bombing by Japanese aircraft, but it is difficult to shoot down Japanese aircraft."

"really."

Zhao Gang nodded.

Anti-aircraft defense, anti-aircraft defense, nine out of ten defenses. This is not empty talk.

Many foreign combat cases have proved that relying on air defense weapons alone can only block or weaken enemy bombing, and it is difficult to shoot down a large number of enemy aircraft.

"There is an old saying that the best offense is defense."

Li Yunlong chuckled and said:

"so··"

"Hey hey hey·"

"Do you plan to use transport planes to transport mortars and bombard the Japanese airport?"

Zhao Gang's eyes suddenly lit up.

He understood Li Yunlong's idea.

Although the biplane transport aircraft does not have combat capabilities, it has strong transport capabilities. If it carries a load of 500 to 800 kilograms, it can take off and land on very complex surfaces.

The total weight of the 82 mortar is 120 kilograms, and the total weight of the mortar does not exceed kilograms, and the total weight with the shells will not exceed kilograms.

With a range of five to seven kilometers and powerful artillery shells, it is enough to threaten the Japanese airport.

"Hehehe, yes."

Li Yunlong sounded proud.

"Good idea!"

Zhao Gang loudly agreed.

After getting the equipment, Li Yunlong had more and more clever ideas for fighting.

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"Arrived at target."

Although the Japanese were very satisfied with the performance of the newly commissioned Type 99 twin-engine bombers,

However, due to poor engine performance and poor structural aerodynamics, the cruising speed was less than 200 kilometers per hour when fully loaded. It took a full two hours of flight before the six Type 99 bombers arrived above Zhizi Mountain.

This cruising speed is not even as good as the B17 four-engine bomber that the Americans served in the past few years.

The Type 99 bomber can actually only be regarded as a light bomber based on its bomb load and range.

"lower the altitude."

Arriving from the mainland, the Japanese Major pilot who was in charge of the command naturally did not know this. He proudly ordered the six cutting-edge bombers to lower their altitude.

Above Zhizi Mountain,
Six Type 99 bombers gradually lowered to altitude.

"Drop bombs from five hundred meters."

The Japanese commander continued to order.

At a height of 500 meters, the skill can avoid all weapons of the Eighth Route Army and can hit the Zhizishan Bridge with relative accuracy.

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"Japanese plane."

When Ma Rongshun saw the Japanese plane lowering its altitude in the sky, there was no nervousness in his tone, but he was full of excitement.

"It's here!
The machine gunner next to him had the same tone.

"Prepare."

Through the field phone, Ma Rongshun issued the order.

Although walkie-talkie communication is convenient and fast,

However, the walkie-talkies currently obtained by the regiment are only company-platoon-level individual soldier backpack walkie-talkies, and the technology is only about ten years more advanced than the Motorola 300 equipped by the United States during World War II.

Electronic technology has only improved in reliability in the past ten years.
Unlike mortars, there is no technological generation gap.

Handheld walkie-talkies are not equipped.

Therefore, always prepare a strong position, and the telephone is obviously easier to use than the walkie-talkie.

Following Ma Rongshun's order, thirty anti-aircraft machine guns and fifty-five barrels were pointed at the sky, and the ammunition hand carried boxes of ammunition out of the ammunition depot.

The machine gunner raised the barrel of the gun, looked at the sky through the special anti-aircraft sight, and placed the Japanese aircraft gradually lowering in the center of the sight.

"One thousand two hundred meters."

Holding the telescope and looking at the Japanese planes in the sky, Ma Rongshun calculated the altitude in his mind.

Measuring aircraft altitude is easy.

Similar to the thumb distance measurement method, the regiment leader had already obtained the performance and size of the Japanese Type 99 aircraft. Ma Rongshun knew it by heart. Through the comparison method, he could measure the altitude of the Japanese aircraft.

The effective range of the 12.7mm heavy machine gun against air is 800 meters.

The terrain near the Zhizishan Bridge is relatively complicated, with mountains on three sides. Although the bridge is nearly a hundred meters long, its structure is slender. The Japanese Type 99 bombers need to get down to about 600 meters to have a chance of bombing.

"Six hundred meters."

"Open the magazine and release the safety."

"Fire."

When the Japanese plane approached an altitude of 600 meters, the Japanese commander ordered the plane to release the bomb safety and prepare for bombing.

But Ma Rongshun ordered to fire.

dong dong dong

Thirty guns, a total of fifty-five 12.7 mm gun barrels, weaved a dense network of firepower over Zhizi Mountain with a density of nearly ten thousand rounds per minute.

The sky covered the entire Zhizishan Bridge.

Thanks to the tracer bullets spaced every five bullets, this firepower network is visible to the naked eye.

In the sky, it is beautiful.

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The magnificent fire net is the most beautiful from the sky, but in the eyes of the Japanese, it is the most dangerous and terrifying net of death.

"Climb."

"bomb."

The devil commander's voice was hoarse.

He did not expect that the Eighth Route Army actually had anti-aircraft weapons, and there were so many of them.

Kakakka··

Bullets after bullets hit the Type 99 bomber at an altitude of 600 meters, leaving holes one after another.

"Unit Three."

An unfortunate Japanese plane was hit in the engine and fell down with black smoke billowing.

boom··

The plane's fuel and the bombs that had not yet been dropped exploded on the ground at the same time, raising huge clouds of explosion smoke. (End of chapter)