Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 535535 Forgot

"What... After a whole day of bombing, thousands of aircraft were dispatched... and now, you are telling me that I have forgotten such an important target?" Brahim, the commander of the Tang Army, said with a look on his face as he tapped the document in his hand. He stared at his subordinates ugly.

A colonel turned red from holding back, and finally couldn't help but explain: "General, each of our pilots has flown at least two sorties. There are too many targets on the ground for us to attack..."

"I understand, but it is a fact that you are greedy for credit. Everyone knows that as long as you drop a bomb, you will get credit, so everyone likes to attack targets close to the border so that they can return as soon as possible, and then mount the bomb and continue the attack!" Brahim said to this kind of attack The matter was very clear, interrupting his men.

"But how can we miss the key target? Huh? If it delays His Majesty's important event, what's the use of cutting off your heads to apologize?" He walked past his officers with his hands behind his back.

After sorting out the attack targets for a day, they realized a serious problem. The airship base deployed by the Qi army behind the defense line had already been marked by ground investigators, but there were no troops to take care of it...

This is obviously a bit excessive. The main force of the Air Force's bombing force, that is, the main force for ground attack, is deployed on the Western Front. The main bombing targets of the Strategic Air Force are the King's City of Qi,

The ones who bombed the Qi troops on the middle line where the eldest prince was located were actually the fighter troops of the Tang Dynasty. The equipment of these troops is FW-190 fighter jets, which originally have a small bomb load, and the tasks they are responsible for are also very vague.

 The original order given to these fighter pilots was to block the Grand Prince's possible reinforcement movement to the west. Therefore, these pilots also focused their attacks on the Qi Army's front-line positions.

 They strafed and dropped bombs to their heart's content, as if they were in uninhabited territory, and achieved a lot of results. However, they are not a professional attack force against enemies, so some mistakes are inevitable.

 The fight continued until this time, and it was getting late. When the commanders of these fighter jets were summarizing their attack reports, they unexpectedly discovered that they had missed a very important target.

 That's right, this target is the most important airship base of the Qi Air Force deployed behind the defense line that the eldest prince is responsible for.

There are more than 40 airships deployed in this airship base. It can be said to be the most important airship attack base on the front line. It stores a large amount of gas and some bombs.

 As long as you attack here, it is almost equivalent to destroying the Qi Air Force - at least it can be said to have destroyed more than half of the Qi Air Force's bombing airship units.

 But now everyone remembers that there is such an important target here, but they didn’t even attack it!

 This is so embarrassing...

“Inform the ground troops to be on guard...let them deploy anti-aircraft artillery units to intercept as soon as possible.” Brahim sighed and ordered the officers in front of him: “Tomorrow morning, destroy it there! Send out at least 30 aircraft!”

 “Yes!” All the school officials stood at attention and saluted, promising loudly.

 …

“I just said these winged **** are unreliable!” On the ground, an air defense force commander who had received the order complained in disgrace.

Beside him, a six-wheel truck was parked on the side of the road, and soldiers were hurriedly unloading the ammunition from the truck.

Further away in an open space is a deployed Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun. This thing can be said to be the most advanced anti-aircraft gun available in the world.

  Adopts a more stable and efficient bomb supply design, and has a maximum shooting height of more than 3,000 meters, which can completely threaten the fragile body of the airship.

What’s even more frightening is that because the caliber is not very large, it has a faster rate of fire, can quickly adjust the shooting angle and height, and can intercept faster aircraft in the future.

Tang Mo doesn’t think it’s worthwhile to build an 88mm anti-everything cannon to deal with balloons now. The high range of that thing’s shot will seriously overshoot, so there’s no need at all.

  Furthermore, it seems a bit reluctant to say that the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is an anti-aircraft gun, because in most cases it is still used as a combat anti-aircraft gun.

 In other words, the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is more appropriately described as an anti-tank anti-aircraft gun that can serve as a temporary anti-aircraft gun rather than an anti-aircraft gun.

Until later, the German army even began to use 88mm caliber artillery to support the infantry. Most of the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft guns produced were not even equipped with anti-aircraft sights and measuring devices.

 Qi State does not have strategic bombers or even aircraft. It is a complete waste of its time to build large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

 The choice of fighter jets is the same: good weapons are beaten out by the enemy. Germany was the worst tortured by the British and American air forces, and the U.S. Navy was battered by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes. Obviously anti-aircraft guns are more powerful.

Thinking about it, it is too expensive to build a German half-track vehicle and use ball lightning. It is better to simply and directly produce the Bofors 40mm caliber anti-aircraft gun.

Anyway, Tang Mo has no plans to strengthen his ground air defense forces. In Tang Mo's opinion, it is more appropriate to leave the air defense to the Air Force. Tang Mo really couldn't do something like firing 20,000 anti-aircraft shells to destroy an enemy plane. He was not that stupid, so he was going to follow the route of an American tycoon.

 That's right, if you use the air force to destroy the enemy's air force, won't the ground troops not have to prepare anti-aircraft guns? Hey, save money, no problem!

The shooters operating the anti-aircraft guns rotated the crank handle, and the muzzle of the anti-aircraft gun quickly rose up - this is a professional anti-aircraft gun mount, which is much more advanced than the 76mm caliber anti-aircraft gun mount previously sold by Datang Group. times.

 “Get ready! It’s almost dark!” The leading anti-aircraft gun commander looked at the truck on the other side and continued to shout depressedly.

On the truck over there, soldiers were connecting the generator to the searchlight on the third truck.

 As an essential piece of equipment for night air defense, searchlights can be said to be the eyes of anti-aircraft guns. Without this thing, anti-aircraft artillery would not be able to fight at night.

Anti-aircraft artillery units at night are organized according to matching arrangements. A searchlight guides four anti-aircraft guns in combat. The four anti-aircraft guns are distributed around the searchlight. If the searchlight finds the target, the attack will begin.

Of course, it seems impossible to cover the sky of the entire war zone with searchlights alone. Finding airships mainly depends on another set of equipment.

Because he had enough experience in using airships, it was naturally impossible for Tang Mo not to equip his air defense forces with audio transducers.

This device is like a large gramophone, with large speakers pointed at the dark sky.

 With this device, alert soldiers can hear the engine sound of the approaching airship as long as they put their ears close to the device.

 When they are sure that an airship is approaching, they can order the searchlight deployed nearby to light up and shine it to find the target.

Once a target is found, anti-aircraft guns can fire at night to shoot down these bulky, hard-shelled airships.

The nights in this era are still pitch black, and the silent night is not the best disguise for military operations. Not only was the Tang army unwilling to launch large-scale military operations at night, but the Qi army was also unwilling to deploy troops to launch a large-scale counterattack at night.

 The main reason is still due to the constraints of the command system. After the troops disperse, they can't even find themselves. What the **** is that?

The Tang Army was also very distressed. Tang Mo himself knew the power of intermittent night battles, because he was the man who had seen the strongest light infantry on the surface.

 The problem is that the Tang Army is not a light infantry, but an armored force relying on weapons and equipment. Such troops have lost the ability to break into pieces for large-scale night battles, so Tang Mo had no choice but to give up the sweet potato of night battles.

Just after nightfall, the Qi Army began to take off airships in preparation for a night counterattack - but unlike what the Tang Army thought, the targets of these Qi Army airships were not the Tang Army's frontline field airports and arsenals.

In fact, the Qi Army did not know the specific location of these military facilities of the Tang Army. The Tang Army hid them so well that the Qi Army had no way of taking action.

Under such a premise, the battle plan drawn up by the Qi army is very interesting: the airship troops they assembled were actually planning to bomb the city Anpu, a city in the north of the Tang Dynasty.

 In fact, this can also be said to be an important strategic node for the Tang Army, because after all, there are railways and roads here, as well as some important industrial facilities.

However, the importance here is really not as important as the field airport built by the Tang Army on the front line, as well as the hidden oil depot and ammunition depot.

  Unfortunately, the Qi army did not have detailed intelligence, so they could only fly in the direction they thought was the most important with their eyes closed, getting closer to Anpu step by step.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, a soldier at the guard post deployed on the front line of the Tang Army clearly heard a distant buzzing sound from the receiver.

He didn't pay attention at first, but when the sound of the engine became clearer and clearer, he suddenly realized that it was the sound of the enemy airship.

So, he quickly sounded the air defense siren beside him. He shook the handle to make the round siren scream, which made the people who heard it tremble with fear.

 Everyone nearby looked towards the sky. Through the hazy moonlight, everyone saw the huge black figures floating in the sky.

"Airship! Enemy airship!" A soldier shouted nervously. At the same time as he shouted, a beam of light suddenly lit up, as if it was about to penetrate the entire sky.

 (End of this chapter)