Chapter 82: Devastating Air Raid
"Great, it's our air force...haha"
"Well done, kill these little sons of bitches. Long live the Air Force!"
The fierce battle in the air was going on, and almost a massacre on one side was going on. On the ground, the officers and soldiers of Sujiatun's 1st Recruitment Regiment were so excited that they shouted loudly.
Soon, about thirty Japanese planes were wiped out without any suspense. It was not that they did not want to escape, but that the BF109 fighter jets of the air force did not give them a chance to escape.
With the BF109 fighter planes flying at almost twice their speed, they chased them from behind and shot them down one by one without any doubt.
After completing their first battle, Liu Cuigang and Gao Zhihang led their fighter planes to swoop towards the Japanese 6th Division's attack position.
"Tap-tat-tat...boom-boom-boom..." The 12.7mm caliber MG17 heading machine gun and the 30mm machine cannon roared.
The dense bullets were like tongues of fire, pouring towards the enemy's attack position.
The Japs on the ground were unable to evade and were immediately injured and killed numerous times.
It was not until all the ammunition they carried was exhausted that Gao Zhihang and other pilots flapped their wings and returned home with satisfaction.
Just after Gao Zhihang and others returned, another wave of combat aircraft took off from Beiling Airport. This time the fighters took off, including eight Stuka dive bombers, two HE111 medium bombers, and ten BF109 fighters responsible for escort.
This wave of mixed aircraft did not fly towards Sujiatun, but flew directly over the canal in the southeast of the city.
An air attack was launched directly against the attacking troops of the Japanese 2nd Division who were forcibly crossing the river to attack.
The Stuka dive bomber was a famous two-seat anti-tank attack aircraft during World War II. In addition to being equipped with powerful airborne weapons, each aircraft can carry six bombs with a total weight of 1,800kg.
The total weight of bombs carried by the eight JU Stukas has reached an astonishing 7,200 kilograms.
The maximum takeoff weight of the HE111 medium bomber is more than 12,000 kilograms, and it can carry 4,500 kilograms of internal and external aerial bombs. Therefore, with the two HE11 medium bombers, the total weight of bombs they carry is close to 7,800 kilograms, which is 15,600
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Not to mention a 15,000-kilogram bomb, even a 15,000-kilogram non-explosive steel dropped would be enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot.
The first to launch the attack were ten BF109 fighter jets. They attacked the Japanese troops who were crossing the river and fired simultaneously. The powerful and intensive firepower caused heavy casualties to the Japanese troops crossing the river.
The machine-gun shells hit the river, causing a series of water splashes.
The small landing craft and rubber dinghies used by the Japanese to cross the river were punched with countless holes by the firepower of the directional machine guns and machine guns, and they quickly took on water and sank.
The power of the 30MM machine gun is enough to penetrate thinner tank armor, and the effect on people can be imagined.
Several Japanese soldiers were hit by machine-gun shells and cut off at the waist, turning into a pile of minced meat.
The enemy's nightmare has just begun. The first round of dive and strafing strikes by fighter jets has just ended.
Eight JU Stukas arrived as scheduled. Not only did they drop bombs, but the two 37mm machine guns equipped by the Stukas also opened fire at the same time.
After the machine-gun-like strafing, the bombing of heavy aircraft bombs arrived as scheduled, setting off waves of shocking waves on the river, and the landing craft and rubber boats filled with Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces.
The Stuka passed in front of it, and a 7.62mm heading machine gun located behind the cockpit began to fire again.
After the first round of strafing bombing, most of the nearly a thousand Japanese who crossed the river to attack had been killed or injured.
At the same time, two HE111 medium bombers headed straight for the Japanese artillery positions.
"Qiuqiuqiu..." Amidst the rapid and harsh screams, bombs weighing more than 300 kilograms began to fall one after another in a free fall under the control of the bombardier.
"Boom, boom, boom...boom, boom, boom..." Aerial bombs weighing more than 300 kilograms exploded one after another, and the range and power of the radiation were beyond words.
Viewed from a high altitude, the entire ground was engulfed in a sea of fire, with thick smoke and fire rising into the sky one after another.
In the historical European battlefield, the HE111 medium bomber was originally used by the German army as a heavy bomber.
Such powerful aerial bombs may not be a big deal in the dense artillery and aerial bombardment of European battlefields.
But in today's Asia in the 1930s, in Northeast China, it is absolutely a destructive force.
Except for the Japanese battleships and heavy cruisers, the power of large-caliber naval gun shells can be compared with it.
When a 300-kilogram aerial bomb falls, it will create a large crater with a diameter of more than ten meters, and the shrapnel shock wave covers a range of tens of meters.
Therefore, two HE111 bombers, just two, bombed the artillery position of the artillery wing directly under the 2nd Division into rubble through a violent bombing.
Dozens of artillery were all blown into piles of scrap metal. The violent explosion caused the detonation of the Japanese artillery shells, which caused superimposed damage to the Japanese.
After the two HE111s easily completed their bombing mission, they flapped their wings and began to return.
The performance of eight JU Stukas and ten BF109 fighters is not over yet.
They dived and strafed the Japanese attacking troops already crossing the river and on the river bank. After inflicting heavy damage on them, they did not turn around, but continued flying along the Japanese positions.
During the low-altitude flight, all machine guns and aircraft-borne machine guns opened fire, and Stukas also continued to drop bombs.
The Japanese troops of the 2nd Division only felt that their heads were covered by a rain of steel bullets, and they fell down in pieces after being hit by bullets.
Some unfortunate people were directly blown to pieces by the explosion.
Similarly, the mixed air raid group of the Shenyang Air Force did not start its return flight until all the ammunition it carried was dumped on the Japanese positions.
What almost caused the Japanese commanders to collapse was that their nightmare continued.
When the second wave of bombers returned, a larger mixed group took off from Beiling Airport.
This time, Gao Zhihang personally led the team and used the remaining twelve JU Stuka dive bombers and twenty-eight HE111 medium bombers. In addition, thirty fighter jets were used for escort and cover.
Forty bombers carry a total bomb load of more than 150,000 kilograms, which is 300,000 kilograms.
This time, Gao Zhihang chose the 6th Division and the 20th Division in the direction of Sujiatun as the targets of the air attack. Of course, this was Zhang Xinghan's intention.
More than 300,000 kilograms of bombs fell on the positions of the 6th Division and the 20th Division in less than an hour.
The Japanese collapsed, their positions were almost completely plowed by the explosion, and many fortifications were completely destroyed.
All regiments and groups suffered heavy casualties, especially the 6th Division, which suffered the heaviest losses after having already gone through a day and night of fierce and bloody battles.
Even the division headquarters of the 6th Division was blown to ashes by the pilots commanded by Gao Zhihang. Division Commander Masaemon Sakamoto and Chief of Staff Kotaro Uedanaka and other senior officers of the division were all killed in one fell swoop.
The most cowardly one is the 20th Division, which came thousands of miles from North Korea for reinforcements. It has been crippled by a sudden and devastating air strike without firing a single shot.
Chapter completed!