The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The defeated soldiers led by Henderson had just landed on their front feet, and before all the wounded could be carried out, there was a sudden scream in the sky, and two JF-2 Skyhawk attack planes galloped over the towering dense forest. come!

This scene almost scared the soldiers standing in the guard tower on the hill two kilometers away from the airport to pee!

In the feeling of those three soldiers, it was as if there was a violent air wave out of nothing, passing by their ears suddenly, and the explosion sound caused the eardrums to be ruptured, and the head was even more open. It's a mess, it's buzzing, you can't hear anything, your mind is blank, your internal organs seem to be turned upside down, it's like you can't even stand still.

Moreover, the jet fighter passing by at an ultra-low altitude and the flames shining at the tail reminded them of a frightening thing in legends like a conditioned reflex.It is said that the fire-breathing guy on the tail can tear a powerful battleship in half with one shot, or razed a military camp the size of a football field to the ground.This is only a tiny bit short, and it will let them go directly to heaven!

When they came back to their senses and sounded the alarm, there were already large groups of fireballs starting to tumbling upwards violently at the brightly lit airport not far away.Immediately after, a series of explosions rolled like thunder, and the howling shock wave was visible to the naked eye, spreading around the forest!

For the sake of safety, the two attack planes only carried a total of ** tons of ammunition, but they were not ordinary aerial bombs, but submunitions specially designed to damage the airport runway, and napalm bombs for arson!

The sub-munitions of the same series as the glider bombs disintegrated, and each one turned into hundreds of egg-sized sub-bombs, scattered randomly and randomly on the long runway, and smashed one by one with the help of the inertia of the impact. The little hole to bury yourself in.Half of them exploded on the spot, but more remained silent like time bombs.No one knows how to touch it, and it will explode!

This thing is a terrible thing that even the manufacturers themselves would not dismantle.When assembling, there is no guarantee because of the safety bolt, but as long as the mother shell is broken, the bullets will be scattered.There's only one way to clean it up - detonate!

Generally, the air force is not willing to take things that may explode if they are dismantled by themselves. If they are brought out, they will never hang them back.When you get close to the target, throw them out first, safety first!

There are not many such things, one can paralyze the runway of 200 meters, two attack planes attack together, after a rumbling explosion.The two runways that had been removed from the camouflage were riddled with holes in an instant, and the five or six fighter jets that were still parked on them before they could be pulled away had a bad luck. They were not shot down on the battlefield, but they were blown up on the ground and exploded!

One-third of the napalm bombs were smashed hard on the hangar and seemingly important buildings, and the viscous incendiary was scattered around with the explosion, and the busy ground crew and soldiers who couldn't escape were swept away. Dozens of people entered, causing a series of screams like howling ghosts and wolves!

Major Henderson couldn't figure out how the other party could come so quickly.Instinctively thought that it must be his own people who showed their feet.It is too late to be held accountable.He yelled at the top of his voice, telling everyone to abandon everything in front of them immediately, get in a car, and run as far as they can.This airport, this base, can't take it anymore!

It is also impossible to stay.As a veteran who has fought against the Chinese many times.He is well aware of the style of the Chinese Air Force, that is, once an enemy is found, it will definitely rush up and down like crazy.Not surprisingly, it is estimated that within half an hour, there will be a large group of planes descending.Or any other strange super-explosive weapon fell down, and staying here can only wait for death.

Another major commander at the base was almost killed, clutching his head that was scratched by the shattered wood, cursing: "It must be you gang of goddamn birdmen who have exposed the target! Bastard, we are doing well here!" Stayed there for two full years! Because of your reckless actions, everything is over!"

Major Henderson was wronged by himself, and he was not in the mood to argue with him. He just focused on evacuating the crowd and retreating to other bases.

This means that the Americans have invested heavily in advance and built a base that should be quite mature. They forcibly opened up bases one by one from the dense primitive jungle as an offensive springboard. Each base can accommodate at least one division or hundreds of aircraft. The takeoff and landing of the plane, supplies and so on, there are too many to count.

They have never been short of cars. A large number of base guards fled in their own cars. The ground staff reluctantly abandoned the plane and left together. One is one.

The sad air defense soldiers couldn't escape immediately, they had to bite the bullet and set up their guns, aiming at the flashing flames in the air, shooting in vain, and shooting out the crooked explosion light belt, There was not even a trace of smoke on the buttocks of the two Skyhawks.

The goal of the two attack planes is not to cause much damage. They must first confirm that the information is correct, as well as detect the enemy situation below and report immediately.

The huge military base, because of the disastrous defeat of a group of air forces, revealed its prototype. After removing the camouflage net and turning on the lights, it was hurriedly left behind. You can find that countless car lights illuminate the forest passages, radiating toward Spread out around at least five or six places.

The base surrounded by the middle of the road is at least three to four square kilometers in size, with at least four runways, and more barracks and warehouses that cannot be clearly seen or counted.

But this is enough to prove its authenticity.After throwing away all the bombs and using machine guns to severely destroy several firing anti-aircraft firepower points, the two Skyhawks drove away at full speed, took some photos by the way, and passed the coordinate data to the reconnaissance plane behind.

Behind them, the fighter jets took off from the archipelago airport, and the last bomber group has arrived in the airspace south of the Riau Islands. After receiving the notification, they immediately turned around, and a large group of black and white menacingly headed straight for this exposed base. come.

Half an hour later, the overwhelming bombs turned an area of ​​ten square kilometers into a sea of ​​flames!Including the entire base, large forests and rolling mountains, all of them were blasted into the sky!The bombs exploded, the rumbling explosion sounded, and a pillar of fire hundreds of meters high flew up.People mistakenly think that there is a volcano erupting nearby!

Major Henderson and his car stumbled and ran out on the forest road for less than ten kilometers, and the sound of explosions followed one after another, and the forests on both sides seemed to be impacted!The boiling fire illuminated half of the night sky, and the faces of all the soldiers reflected were pale!

Many people subconsciously made the sign of the cross on their chests desperately, muttering to themselves: "Oh! God! Oh my God. Blessed by Jesus Christ, the terrible Chinese..."

I'm really scared!How can there be such a war in the world?They don't know where the enemy is at all, and they get bombarded for no reason. I'm afraid they won't be able to sleep or eat well in the future.

Major Henderson suddenly felt that he and the people in the air force might have thought of things too simply before. It turns out that the Chinese are not really likely to take a defensive position if the front line is too long.Rather, they didn't actually think about defending at all.They are always gathering the most advantageous forces, waiting for someone to make trouble, and then launch a sharp counterattack!

This is like the saying in a certain boxing technique that the enemy cannot move, I don't understand.If the enemy moves, he can't even recognize his mother.

It's just that it's too late to realize now.The heavy damage suffered by their group of new fighters is probably beyond the imagination of the headquarters.Next, the pursuit of the South China Sea Fleet.I'm afraid the difficulty will increase by an order of magnitude.

The car roared, and the bones of the bumpy people were about to fall apart.American fleeing.Everyone was silent.

Bangkok, the coalition headquarters, Lord Alexander's face was ashen, he put down the phone, let out a long sigh, and his straight waist slumped in a blink of an eye.It seemed to be 20 years old all of a sudden, and he said exhaustedly: "The Air Force's operation failed again! It also lost an important base! Gentlemen, I'm afraid we have to prepare for a tough battle in advance!"

MacArthur was more depressed than others.Although those p61s have concentrated a lot of British technology, and claim that the pilots have also learned a lot of experience in night air battles with the German army.But the facts are in front of them, they still have no good way to achieve the goal of severely injuring the Chinese.

Old Mike really didn't feel pain about the loss of planes and supplies. He was just worried that if the Ministry of National Defense really couldn't figure out a way and had to give up the interests of Asia and even the Pacific, his lifelong dream would come to an end. And he will bear the notoriety of a three-defeated general until his death.

"No! We can't just admit defeat like this!" MacArthur just thought about the consequences and made up his mind, "I will continue to ask the Ministry of Defense to increase our support. In any case, we must contain the damn Chinese. Otherwise, if they ally with the Germans, the world order will completely collapse!"

This possibility is not impossible!

Lord Alexander reluctantly nodded. In fact, in his heart, he no longer had much hope.

The news of the failure of the Henderson formation quickly spread to the United States, and the staff officers and generals of the Department of Defense who were on duty day and night immediately started a heated debate about it.Chief of Staff Marshall first unceremoniously invited out those bureaucrats who only knew how to label them and pursued political responsibility, leaving only those who were doing serious business, and analyzed the situation nervously based on the collection of several aspects.

It took an hour, and without much debate under his pressure, he came to a decision that Roosevelt also supported: "Continue to provide support to the Asian battlefield at all costs! Even if all the planes are shot down, we will use fighter jets. We must ensure their supplies! The attack on the Chinese navy cannot be stopped, and we must do our best to delay their attack!"

The United States dare not say anything else, the speed of producing aircraft?Losing a hundred planes a day is really not a big deal!

Marshall and others believe that at least until the arrival of the new Navy fleet, or even after the arrival, the main force of the engagement will still be faster and more powerful air power, as long as more advanced fighters -- including The jet fighters that are already in the experiment are put into use. In three or two years, the United States can always use its strong comprehensive national strength to wipe out the outstanding combat power of China!

So, there was no need for Major Henderson and the others to state their views, and there was no need for MacArthur to worry about it. Flocks of aircraft scattered all the way from the United States to dozens of transit airports in Southeast Asia, soaring into the sky like migrating migratory birds, one stop after another. Heading towards Sumatra, Malaya, and Indochina Peninsula!

The U.S. Air Force, Army Aviation, and Naval Aviation are almost desperate!

In the early hours of the next day, another batch of U.S. warplanes set off north, near the Nicobar Islands in the southern Andaman Sea.The main force of the South China Sea Fleet, which was marching in intensive formations, was found.With about fifty p61 and more than 30 p38 heavy fighters as the main force, together with about a hundred ultimate zero fighters, p51 and other fighters, several sharp points are formed, and they launch a dive attack fearlessly!

Every heavy fighter has torpedoes hanging on its belly, and there are also some primitive glide bombs. In short, all the advanced weapons that the Americans can come up with are packed.Throwing it from a high altitude ten kilometers away, and then diving down at full speed, intending to beat the old master to death with random punches, and inflict heavy damage on the enemy ship in the group fight!

This method has a certain effect.At least those gliding bombs have brought a lot of trouble to naval ships.For a while, the radar couldn't distinguish a large bomb that was about the size of a small fighter jet, and the air defense pressure increased several times due to this!

A dense formation of ships, followed by a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser and several destroyers.At the same time, the anti-aircraft firepower was fully activated, and hundreds of gun barrels of different thicknesses spewed out flames, forming several intercepting firepower nets in the blink of an eye.

The American pilots who have experienced many battles are well-educated. They know very well that if they rush down in a dense formation, they will most likely become the prey of the terrible "Iron Curtain" rocket interception system.After the bombs were piled up together, they dispersed suddenly, regardless of whether they might collide with each other at low altitude, and only maintained a continuous longitudinal queue.Like a curved chain, it penetrates at high speed towards the rear of both sides of the fleet with the smallest cross section!

More than 100 aircraft have formed more than a dozen attack groups.The heights and distances are different, but the speed is about the same. It seems that arrows are aimed at ships of all sizes. It looks like a suicide attack by the Japanese "Kamikaze Special Forces"!

One of the deputy commanders of the South China Sea Fleet, the seasoned Lieutenant General Chen Ce looked at the gunpowder smoke rising to the left from the fully enclosed compass bridge command room of the flagship.The short body seemed to be full of strength, with a disdainful smile on his face, he said to the slightly nervous young adjutant: "The foreign devils still use such backward tactics to attack, and apart from wasting their troops, they can't achieve real benefits. It’s ridiculous that they are still obsessed with their obsession. Trying to be like a chariot. Humph, it’s just right, let our soldiers also use the blood and fire of actual combat to forge it!”

He served as the leading general this time, replacing Commander Ma Han in the attack, partly because the old man seemed to be a little bit reluctant to let him go, so he simply let him stay at the Hainan base to look after the house.

Chen Ce didn't have any psychological burden at all. He had been ups and downs for half his life, and now he finally had the opportunity to show his strengths with pride. He wished that the enemy would come more violently!

The destroyers and cruisers surrounding the capital ship fired all kinds of artillery fire at this time, and the light and heavy bombs rushed in from the gaps in the firepower net, and exploded on the sea between the ships, setting off generations of bright and thick water columns, which were fiercely fired. As soon as the storm blows, the choking smell of gunpowder pervades every battleship, making a large number of recruits who are fighting for the first time tremble slightly, and their adrenaline is soaring!

The powerful p38 and p61 began to show their design advantages, with rough skin and thick flesh, and a few anti-aircraft gun fragments shot up, at most it was a hole.The self-styled mailbox guarantees that it will not explode in one hit, and the key protective armor such as the pilot's cockpit and engine that can withstand the 12.7mm heavy machine gun can prevent them from dying.

Even though wireless proximity fuze bombs are flying all over the sky, the twin-engined big birds, which are more than twice as smart as conventional bombers, are still surprisingly tenacious. At low altitude, even approaching within three kilometers, they dropped strips of airborne torpedoes on the surface of the water, and the sea and air rushed towards the target!

Another part climbed violently from a very far distance, until the airspace that reached almost the ceiling suddenly turned back, locked on the huge capital ship in the center, and plunged down with a scream!

War can most promote the improvement of human quality.In just over a year, the Americans paid the price of thousands of aircraft, but they also learned how to dig new tactics and crack the dense defense of the Chinese navy.There are so many queues advancing together, blocking the firing angle of anti-aircraft guns at ultra-high altitudes, and avoiding radar scanning at ultra-low altitudes. There are many tricks, and they all have certain effects!

There is a saying that if ants kill elephants, if more than 100 planes are killed together, even if one-tenth of them succeed, the damage caused may be unbearable for the navy!

The two battleships and three aircraft carriers monitored the enemy plane's change of formation clearly with radar. This is equivalent to a super-saturation attack, and it is not a small test for the fleet.Chen Ce saw it clearly on the screen of his commander's main console, and he still did not forget to admire: "I have to say that there are also brave and desperate warriors among foreigners. boring!"

The rear decks of the two "Taishan-class" battleships were opened one after another, and a series of anti-aircraft missiles were thrown out in piles like free money, facing the diving enemy planes!

At this time, in the Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles away, a mighty fleet was approaching the Strait of Gibraltar, and the German fleet that was raging around heard the news and fled far away, not daring to approach.Headed by two majestic "Yamato-class" battleships.

They are the new Pacific Fleet rushing to support the Asian battlefield.Commander, Nimitz! (To be continued..)