Act Thirty: Natural Disaster
In Roger's time and space, when World War II entered the second half, the Germans had lost their air supremacy on the Western Front. Allied bombers could find targets in the sky of the German-controlled area to bomb, and fighters could also hunt around. Although the Germans' planes were fighting and new models of new fighters emerged one after another, even with overwhelmingly advanced fighter jets such as jet fighters, due to the huge gap in production capacity, the Germans' resistance was more like providing some rebellious pleasure for the Allied "beep..." behavior, and could not really stop the Allied forces from taking action.
For the army, it would be extremely painful to lose air supremacy, because they even gathered troops to fear. Under the powerful air offensive of the Allied forces, the Germans often suffered nearly half of the losses during the daytime military assembly and material transportation activities, which was simply a loss rate that drove the army generals crazy. If the troops were blown out half of their combat power during the assembly period before the war began, would it be a big fuck? Even if the God of War possessed them, there would be no way!
Therefore, in order to deal with this situation, the Germans had to transfer the transportation assembly operation to night and equipped the infrared night vision device to the vehicle, thus avoiding the huge losses caused by large-scale air strikes. Of course, the efficiency of night transportation is definitely not as effective as during the day, but there is no way to do so.
Now, Major General Chiaki Shigefuji's team is facing the dilemma that year... well... it should be considered the dilemma that the Germans will face in the future - their actions were targeted by the Qiongya Naval Air Force.
Generally speaking, the combat targets of the naval aviation are enemy aircraft and ships, and occasionally bombard the fixed targets on the ground. They rarely perform such a task of suppressing enemy ground forces. Although they are not deployed for special ground attack aircraft, due to the Japanese lack of the ability to compete for air superiority, the attack actions of the naval aviation are quite unscrupulous.
Before the battle began, Chen Xuchu took into account the situation of the Japanese sending troops to reinforce. This was obvious. If his side had already started landing, the Japanese would not send reinforcements, which would be strange. Therefore, after collecting the first wave of fighter planes carrying out the bombing mission, the second wave of bombing formation took off. They divided into three waves and rushed towards the three Japanese brigades stationed in Taiwan. The other targets were temporarily put aside, and priority was given to concentrating their strength to blow up the three Japanese brigades. The marching troops were obviously much easier to attack than those hiding in positions.
Since this bombing mission is not to bomb ground buildings, position bunkers and other solid targets, but to deal with the Japanese marching team, the Qiongya bombers are lightweight but loaded with a large number of light bombs. Even the fw190 fighter that performs escort missions are fully loaded with aviation bombs, and are ready to blow it up before escorting. Of course, if they encounter Japanese planes without flying over the target, they will immediately drop the bomb and throw it into air combat.
When Major General Shigetoki Chiaki personally led his troops to rush to Gao*xiong in a truck, the plane of the Qiong Army appeared above their heads in the sky.
"Air strike! Air strike!"
"Hidden! Look for Hidden!"
Seeing the black spots getting closer and closer in the sky in the distance, the Japanese convoy was winding on the road was suddenly in chaos. The soldiers jumped out of the car in panic and fled into the farmlands and forests around the road. The vehicles also tried to drive off the road and find a place to hide.
In just a moment, before the Japanese army could evacuate the Qiongya fighter planes dived down with the howling sound. Bombs fell straight into the convoy and exploded violently, and the entire convoy was immediately trapped in a sea of fire.
Seeing that the cars at the front of the team were blown up and blocked the road, several trucks rushed into the fields beside the road in panic, hoping to drive all the way into the woods to hide, but it was obviously impossible. When the truck rushed into the muddy rice fields, it could no longer drive. There was no way. The drivers who were unwilling to wait for the car to be a living target could only quickly pull the door and get out of the car and run away.
Major General Shigetoki Chiaki was in the middle of the convoy. Seeing Qiongya fighter jets roaring, Major General Shigetoki Chiaki immediately ordered his driver: "Drive the car into the woods next to him!"
"Hey!"
The driver blew the cold sweat from his forehead, turned the steering wheel, and was about to turn around and drive into the woods not far away. However, his turn around obviously caught the truck behind him off guard. He failed to brake the car under the tension of the plane bombing and directly hit the side door of the Shigefune Chiaki car.
The road was already a little higher than the ground next to it, because the car's body was small, Major General Chiaki Shigefuji was still sure to drive on the small dirt road next to the rice fields, and would not get stuck in the mud like the previous unlucky trucks. However, when he was driving off the road, he was hit by the car behind him, and just hit the car off the road and overturned.
Fortunately, the turn was very slow, and even if the car overturned, nothing happened. Major General Chiaki Shigekeng kicked open the car door and climbed out of the car in a mess. Looking at the truck behind him, the Major General, who was already in a state of anger, was already trembling and touching the sword on his waist.
"I want to kill you if you don't succeed!"
"Hello Master, please go to the woods to hide! The Chinese plane is here again!" Seeing Major General Chiaki Shigefuki, he was actually knocked out of the fury, the driver who had just crawled out of the car quickly hugged him and pulled him to run towards the woods.
When Major General Chiaki Shigefuki heard that the plane was coming again, he was shocked all over. He looked up at the sky. Sure enough, a plane was swooping towards him. He didn't care about the truck driver who had just happened to make a mistake, and it was important to run away quickly.
The plane that rushed in was a fw190 fighter. It seemed that the person who could take a car must be a senior Japanese officer. He immediately gave up the target he had chosen and began to shoot with a whistle.
The bullets fired by the aviation machine guns splashed large pieces of dust on the ground, and also gradually became bloody mist on the unlucky Japanese soldiers. They turned their heads and saw two rows of "earth dragons" chasing him. Major General Chiaki Shigefuji was immediately frightened and turned around and jumped into the mud of the rice fields. After all, they escaped the disaster, but when he got up again, no one could recognize him as the major general and became a clay man.
Dragging the mud and water all over his body, Major General Chiaki of Chongteng trekked through the rice fields with deep and shallow feet, and fled into the woods. He temporarily avoided the attack of Qiongya planes.
This time, the main task of the Qiongya Navy Aviation Army was to block the Japanese army's marching, so their attack targets were mostly concentrated on either blocking the road or trapped in the trucks in the rice fields. The soldiers who were fleeing were only strafing and did not entangle too much to hide in the woods and could not see clearly. This gave the Japanese soldiers who fled into the woods time to breathe.
After escaping into the woods, Major General Chiaki, who was still dripping mud on his body, sat on the ground with a big breath. He saw his team running around in a panic. Some brave people raised their rifles in their hands to shoot at the Qiongya fighter jets in the sky, and some people even set up a heavy machine gun to shoot in the sky, but they were soon blown into pieces by a bomb and a gun, indicating the consequences of the rebels.
As a local garrison force, Major General Chiaki Shigeun was not satisfied with the equipment and was poor. In addition, he had ordered all the heavy equipment to be sent onto the ship before. Now, those who did not have anti-aircraft artillery fire could not fight against the Qiongya fighter jets in the sky with the light weapons in their hands. Now, Major General Chiaki Shigeun was able to do nothing but wait, waiting for the group of death gods in the sky to leave. Then gather troops to make other plans.
However, soon Major General Chiaki Chongteng was disappointed - the Qiongya plane in the sky seemed to have no intention of leaving, and kept hovering over their heads.
"How could this be? How could this be so!" Major General Chiaki Shigefuri murmured with a dead face.
More than ten minutes have passed since the start of the air strike. Although these more than ten minutes have made Major General Chiaki Shige and his subordinates feel that life is like years, they finally have to wait until the Qiong Army's planes no longer drop bombs. It seems that their bombs have all been thrown away.
However, even so, the planes in the sky still had no intention of leaving and continued to hover in the sky. Any attempt to gather the troops again would be fired, leaving the Japanese soldiers to continue to hide in the woods and wait helplessly. Major General Shigefuji Chiaki understood that they were delaying their marching speed.
But what if you know the plan of Qiong Army? The woods next to the road are not big, so it is okay to hide temporarily, but if you want to continue marching, you must leave the woods and return to the open area. Do you have to marching with the strafing fire from the sky? How is this possible? Before you arrive at Gao*xiong, their team will be defeated by the Chinese air force!
"How could this happen? How could this happen? It is obviously our home court! This place is clearly the territory of the empire, how could we emperors be so oppressed by the Chinese people!?" Major General Chiaki Shigefuri wailed angrily, but he could only use this to vent his grief and anger in his heart, but in fact he could not do anything.
In grief, Major General Shigetoki Chiaki saw that his team had almost all been hiding into the woods, so he turned to the driver beside him and said, "You go and find the chief officers of each team, bring them to me, and tell the soldiers to gather according to their respective divisions and make adjustments, and we will act again at night."
Now, only the driver knows around Major General Shigefuji Chiaki, so he can only do this kind of thing.
"Operation tonight!? It's not until noon yet! What if this is the last air strike of the Chinese man?" Despite the huge gap in status, because he was too surprised, the driver still shouted in shock. If he really gave up the march during the day, he would know how many troops the Qiongya people could land in the entire day. Isn't this a waste of opportunity to fight?
Hearing the driver's scream, what else could Major General Chiaki Shigeto do besides a wry smile? If he had not forced himself, he wouldn't want to do this. But he knew the situation of the road ahead. For a long distance, there was an open area without any cover on both sides. If he was just walking on the road like this, if he was attacked by the Qiong Army again, the loss would be serious. If he just went all the way, he would probably be on the verge of collapse before he arrived at the reinforcement site.
As for the last air strike of the Qiongya people? Major General Chiaki Shigeto doesn't think so, it's not yet noon. The Qiongya people have no reason not to continue dispatching planes to block their actions.
"Go and execute the order!" Major General Chiaki Shigefuki ordered helplessly.
At this moment, the Japanese soldiers beside Major General Chiaki Shigefune suddenly cheered: "Look, it's our plane! Our plane!"
"Huh?" Major General Chiaki Shigefuri wiped the telescope in confusion. Through the lenses that were blurred by mud and water, he saw that another team of planes appeared in the sky. He was very familiar with the plane. It was Kawasaki Ki10 Type 95 fighter, and it was his own plane!
"These guys are still here!" Major General Chiaki Shigefuki breathed a sigh of relief. Although they did not think that Kawasaki ki10 Type 95 fighter was an opponent of the new Chinese fighter, there were not many fighter jets used in this wave of air strikes in the Chinese, and their side had a numerical advantage.
"It's good to be able to disperse them." Major General Chiaki Shigefuki thought so.
The battle in the sky in front of him really made Major General Chiaki Shigefuri excited. Because he saw that after the appearance of his own Type 95 fighter jets, a large number of planes in the Qiong Army's fighter jet formation had indeed left the formation and turned around and fled! Only a few Qiongya planes were left in the sky. In front of a large number of Kawasaki Ki10 Type 95 fighter jets on his own, he seemed so weak.
In fact, what escaped was the useless bomber, and what was left was the latest FW190 fighter!
The gap in military strength between the enemy and us was so obvious that a large number of Japanese soldiers ran out of the woods excitedly, cheering and waving their hats, cheering and cheering for the pilots in their own places in the sky, although they also knew that it was basically impossible for the pilots to notice their actions.
But soon, the Japanese, including Major General Shigefuji Chiaki, were disappointed, and the first round of aerial fighting in the sky quickly decided to win.
As a biplane, the Kawasaki Ki10 Type 95 fighter is a biplane. Although it has very good handling and is very flexible in the air, the era of monoplane has arrived. The absolute disadvantage in speed makes the Japanese pilots stunned at the back of the fw190 whistling by. Even after going through a lot of hardships, they seized the tail of the fw190 fighter. However, the pilots of the Qiong Army didn't have to do anything at all. They just need to increase the throttle to fly out of the Kawasaki Ki10 Type 95 range in an instant. The entire fire time of the Japanese pilot will not exceed 1 second. If the human reaction time and mechanical response time are included, the real fire time will only be less.
The Qiongya pilots used their absolute advantage in combat performance and the Japanese aircraft with the advantage of numbers to fight, leaving immediately without a single blow, without giving the Japanese a chance to attack.
The air showdown between the two sides has just started less than 5 minutes, and four planes have fallen off after one convenience. Major General Shifu Chiaki couldn't even see the Chinese plane in the sky even if it was hit once!
The battle in the sky ended beyond everyone's expectations. Although the Japanese aircraft had the advantage in number, they did not cooperate with each other. The actual battle was still carried out in a one-on-one form. Qiongya fighters were like they all wore the protagonist's halo and became the protagonists in martial arts movies. Even if they had many enemies, they would only come up one by one and be kicked away instead of rushing to put the protagonist under a group of developed chest muscles.
Seeing that there were more and more fighter jets on our side falling from the sky, Major General Chiaki Shigefuri was no longer in the battle situation, but Qiongya fighter jets flew away unexpectedly! They gave up the Japanese fighter jets that were already smaller than them and returned on their own!
The Qiongya people's actions made Major General Chiaki Shigeunao very confused. He didn't understand why he had already won the enemy but retreated. But if you think about it carefully, the Qiongya people had consumed a lot of ammunition on the ground. Now they have experienced another fierce air battle. I guess they have no ammunition.
After the Qiongya plane retreated, the Japanese fleet in the sky felt that they had completed the mission and the heavy price of nearly half of the loss was worthy of the brothers on the ground. They stopped staying immediately and pulled the plane back.
Looking at the empty sky, Major General Chiaki Shigeto, who had already made up his mind to be out of action during the day, suddenly became more and more thoughtful - should he take advantage of the next wave of enemy air strikes to rush on his way? However, soon his little thought was completely dispelled by the increasingly larger black spots in the sky.
It’s better to talk about everything until night. As for whether Gao*xiong can withstand it, he can only leave it to fate.
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Above the Okayama Airport, C47 transport planes hovered in the sky waiting to land, full of soldiers and supplies. In order to seize time, the soldiers in the cabin moved out with supplies after the cabin landed. After the cabin was empty, the transport plane immediately took off and returned, and did not stay at Okayama Airport at all, in order to maximize the use of the runway.
Just as three Japanese brigades in Taiwan were blocked by air strikes, their landing and air operations had transported more than 10,000 Qiongya soldiers, 124 tanks and 240 armored vehicles to the land of Taiwan. It was just noon. By the evening, the number of troops successfully landed in Taiwan would reach about 20,000. At that time, even if the Japanese concentrated all the troops in Taiwan, they would not have been able to drive the Qiongya army into the sea. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!