Li Yiguang looked at the number of anti-aircraft balloons, there were thousands of them, so he decided: All bombers should be put into the action of attacking the balloons.Li Yiguang picked up the microphone and said: "The first team flew to the left side of my fleet and attacked the air defense balloons on the left side of my fleet; the third team flew to the right side of my fleet and attacked the air defense balloons on the right side of my fleet. Route, attack the air defense balloon in the middle."

Li Yiguang's No. 001 plane belonged to a large group, but he did not follow the direction of the large group, but raised the altitude to 6000 meters, observed from a high altitude, and commanded the overall situation.

Hongyi's cannon is located at the tail of the plane, so the plane has to fly past the anti-air balloons to fire at them. I saw bombers flying lightly over the air-proof balloons, shooting at the anti-air balloons with their tail cannons, and green tracers streaked across the sky. Out of an arc, hit the anti-air balloon.

Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Yiguang didn't see a single anti-air balloon being shot down. He immediately grabbed the communicator, first contacted the captain of the first team, and said, "What's going on? I see that you have been fighting for a long time, but why didn't you have a single balloon?" Beat it down?"

The captain said helplessly: "Our aviation machine guns were originally intended to hit anti-aircraft guns on the ground, so the shells are equipped with trigger fuzes, but the outer surface of the anti-air balloon is too soft, and the shells will not explode when hit, but will go straight through. It passed through and left a few big holes on it, but it stands to reason that the balloon should leak if there are holes, and it would still fall if it leaked, but these balloons did not fall."

Li Yiguang said: "I have read the "Airship Technical Manual" written by Lin Shuai. It says that airships use multi-airbag technology, and even if a few airbags are damaged, they will not lose their buoyancy completely. I think this anti-air balloon uses multi-airbag technology. , although your shells pierced the balloon, they did not break the air bag inside, so the buoyancy of the balloon has not been lost."

The captain said, "Then what should we do?"

Li Yiguang said: "You shoot more shells, and blow up their airbags!"

The captain said helplessly: "But our speed is too fast. It didn't take long before we flew out of the range of the machine gun. We were all fully loaded and didn't dare to lower the speed too low, so we couldn't hit many shells at a time. , if you fly over again and again, the plane will run out of fuel again."

Li Yiguang thought in his heart: "This is indeed a problem. It seems that we have to go back and replace it with shells with laser proximity fuzes." Landing, because the landing of the plane has certain risks, if it lands with bombs, once the plane malfunctions, the bombs in the plane will blow up our own people!"

"If you want to return to the field and land, you have to throw all the bombs down, but where should you throw them? You can't just throw them down from an altitude of 6000 meters, because the error is too large, and it is very likely that you will accidentally bomb a residential area. It would bring unnecessary trouble to our future operations, and it would be a pity if all the bombs were thrown into the sea."

Li Yiguang hesitated for a moment in the air, but at this time the Japanese army on the ground started to act. The troops stationed in Xiaguan are part of the No.12 Division of the Japanese Army. This division is responsible for the defense of Xiaguan and Kitakyushu. This is Japan. It is one of the industrial centers in China, and it is also the key point to confront the landing of Lin Yuan's troops.

The head of the No.12 Division is named Chai Qi Yayoi, a tough militarist, and his fanatical worship of the emperor is almost engraved in his bone marrow. He received a telegram from Matsumoto Yunqing on June [-]th , the telegram said that Lin Yuan's troops would attack Xiaguan first.

Chai Qi Yayoi laughed at Lin Yuan's stupidity, and ordered the troops to raise the air defense balloons. These air defense balloons are one of the secret defense weapons developed by the American Weapons Company for Japan, and they are also the one with the lowest technological content among the secret defense weapons. When Li Yiguang led the bomber unit to arrive outside the balloon array, Chai Qi Yayoi received the news.

Watanabe Kazuya, the chief of staff next to Chai Qi Yayoi, also said to Chai Qi Yayoi: "Mr. Chai Qi, do you think those balloons can block the aircraft of Lin Yuan's army?"

Chai Qi Yayoi shook his head and said: "It's definitely unstoppable, but those balloons can provide time for our anti-aircraft artillery troops. Our radar stations were completely destroyed by Lin Yuan's troops. The anti-aircraft artillery doesn't know where to go to find Lin Yuan's troops. These balloons trap Lin Yuan's troops, and our anti-aircraft guns will have a chance."

Kazuya Watanabe said: "What if the aircraft of Lin Yuan's army dropped bombs above the balloon? Our balloons will definitely not be able to stop the bomb."

Chai Qi Yayoi shook his head and smiled, "No, if the bomb falls, it will definitely hurt civilians. Lin Yuan won't do that. After all, Lin Yuan doesn't want to be an enemy of the 5000 million ordinary people in Japan."

Kazuya Watanabe said: "But the current situation is that a considerable part of the 5000 million people already wants to return to Linyuan."

Chai Qi Yayoi laughed loudly, and said: "Watanabe-kun, those things are not what we have to consider, what we have to consider is how to wipe out as many Lin Yuan troops as possible! Well, don't say more, I order, approach The entire anti-aircraft artillery unit is dispatched to attack the aircraft of Lin Yuan's army!"

With the lessons learned from Korean operations, Japan paid special attention to the mobility of the 125mm anti-aircraft guns. They even equipped each anti-aircraft gun with two tractor trucks. A considerable part of these tractor trucks were imported from China before the war. It soon arrived outside the air defense balloon array, and then launched an attack on Li Yiguang's bomber group.

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units dare not use radio proximity fuzes at all now, because Lin Yuan’s plane has jammers, so they all use altitude fuzes, or time fuzes, which can control the detonation time of shells, so as to reach a certain altitude. The purpose of the explosion.

The shells exploded in the air, and Li Yiguang immediately thought to himself after seeing it: "We can't stay here anymore. The Japanese have a lot of anti-aircraft guns. If Hongyi is shot down, it would be a shame and shame. We must Returning, as for aerial bombs, just waste them, anyway, there are plenty in the base.”

So Li Yiguang ordered to return, and the bomber group pulled up the fuselage and left Xiaguan amid the farewell sound of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns. Li Yiguang ordered the troops to turn north in the air and dropped bombs on the vast sea before returning to the base. , the Japanese side saw the bombers of Lin Yuan's troops leaving, and immediately issued a telegram: "The Air Defense Force of the No.12 Division of the Empire of Japan repelled the attack of Lin Yuan's troops at [-]:[-] this morning and shot down [-] bombers. , captured three pilots!"

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