Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 256 Insert the aerial bomb into the city wall!

 In Taiyuan City, Yoshio Iwamatsu sighed with great disappointment. He watched helplessly as the observation balloon for which he had high hopes fell from the sky.

At this moment, the old Japanese soldier remembered something. The Eighth Route Army not only had an excellent air force, but also had an anti-aircraft artillery regiment that was comparable to the anti-aircraft firepower of the inner circle of the United Fleet.

　　When I handed over to Shinozuka Yoshio, the other party specifically reminded me. The tragedy just now reminded him of the Battle of Nomenkan.

 But the matter has come to this, and there is no use regretting it.

Yoshio Iwamatsu clenched his fists angrily, and then issued a new phase of order to the correspondent on standby.

“All artillery units abandoned their mission and immediately moved to the No. 3 reserve position. No one is allowed to fire without my order.”

"Let the Sanada unit be divided into two groups and be prepared to reinforce Yingze Gate, Yinghui Gate and Yichun Gate at any time. The Eighth Route Army will definitely launch the main attack from the east and south, and the enemy must not be allowed to touch the city wall!"

“Contact the reinforcements, tell them the current battle situation, and ask them to speed up the reinforcements.”

 After a while, Yoshio Iwamatsu regained his composure.

 The current battlefield situation seems to be very unfavorable to the First Army, but the old Japanese still have a glimmer of hope in defending the city. This courage comes from strong city walls.

According to the battle report just returned from the front line, he did not find that the Eighth Route Army had large-caliber heavy artillery of more than 105 mm.

 This means that the enemy does not have the ability to demolish the city wall.

 If you want to attack a city, you must use the most primitive tactics. In other words, the opponent must use a sufficient amount of explosives to blast at a fixed point, and then need to carry a ladder to climb the city wall.

 The above series of processes are all more beneficial to the defender.

 The Eighth Route Army did have an advantage in firepower, but it could not ignore the casualties of its own soldiers and carry out indiscriminate shelling of the city wall.

After a sudden realization, Yoshio Iwamatsu raised the telescope in his hand and continued to observe Lu Hang’s situation. In the old devil's heart, he had begun to look forward to the scene of the moat being dyed red.

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 The flight distance from Wusu Airport to the Southern Group airspace is only 23 kilometers.

 The Spitfire MK9 and Hurricane MK2B can definitely be ranked in the first echelon of fighter jets in the current era. At their speed, even including the taxiing time on the runway, they can reach the battlefield within five minutes.

As soon as everyone entered the combat airspace, they saw the gorgeous fireball over Taiyuan City.

“Captain, the Japanese still have a hand in hand. It seems they haven’t completely given up on counterattack.”

“It’s such a pity that I haven’t shot an observation balloon before. I don’t know if I will have the chance to encounter it in the future.”

While everyone was talking, the sudden attack of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment attracted the attention of the pilots.

That was a salvo of one hundred and fifty Hotchkiss 25mm anti-aircraft guns. No one could ignore such powerful firepower. There was even a soldier who subconsciously wanted to maneuver to avoid it.

As soon as the cannon fired, Captain Wang Hai began to look for the enemy plane.

Following the trajectory of the tracer bullets, he quickly locked onto the dive bomber trying to break through the anti-aircraft fire network.

 “The mission has changed, priority is given to artillery support.”

“The target is two 97 single light aircraft. We cannot let the enemy drop aerial bombs.”

“Now the enemy is weak and we are strong, everyone dives with me. Try to kill all the enemies in the first wave of attack!”

 As the first formation to be dispatched, the remaining five pilots are not bad at all.

 They have experienced the baptism of the Zhongtiao Mountain air battle, and each of them even has a shooting record. Know that a calculated and unintentional surprise attack can have the final say.

 After receiving the order, five Hurricanes followed closely at the pace of the Spitfire.

 All the fighter jets turned sideways and changed their course, taking advantage of their energy advantage to attack the unsuspecting Jiuqi Danqing.

It seemed that his sixth sense had given him a warning. Eiichi Ishida, who was still diving towards the Eighth Route Army artillery position, involuntarily glanced behind him due to his intuition.

 You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

 There are actually several fighter jets chasing us in the sky above our own side. The leader is the 079 Spitfire, which is famous in the entire North China Front Army and Aviation Department.

 “Mitani-kun! Queen”

Before he finished speaking, Captain Wang Hai had successfully locked on and pulled the trigger. The 20mm Western gun hits the target easily like a hot knife cutting through butter.

 “Boom!”

 A few seconds later, the first 97 Shanqing exploded in the air, and its body was torn apart. The exploding aviation gasoline ignited a fire and slowly fell from the sky.

Captain Wang Hai pressed down on the rudder and controlled the rear side of the fighter to roll to avoid the wreckage of the enemy plane. He ignored the other one and flew directly towards the reinforced concrete fortress.

The teammates did not betray their trust, and the other dive bomber had a worse ending, being tortured to death.

 There were two Hurricanes eyeing Sangu Kangfeng, with 24 7.62mm Browning machine guns firing directly into them. The bullets from the small water pipes penetrated into the enemy's cockpit like eyes.

The scene was like squeezing a fat insect to death, with red blood and white brains splattering everywhere.

Jiuqi Shanqing lost control and fell away from the battlefield with black smoke.

The support from the 1st Air Division greatly shook the morale of the artillerymen on the ground, and everyone wanted to follow the infantry and charge into the battle.

 The movement in the sky could also be seen clearly by the staff officers at the field headquarters. The battle of the air force is always so enjoyable no matter how many times you watch it.

“Commander-in-Chief, the comrades of the First Air Division have already started taking action.”

"Do you think we should attack now and cooperate with Captain Wang Hai to launch an siege?" This seemingly reasonable proposal was rejected by the brigade commander.

 The current Eighth Route Army has always been famous for its field operations and has never attempted urban offensive operations.

 If the troops want to capture Taiyuan with minimal damage and fastest speed, they cannot do without the help of the air force.

 After all, close air support is an effective tactical means that can severely damage high-value enemy targets or destroy enemy fortifications.

Just like in the early stages of the Tour de France tank cross-country race, Germany's Stuka dive bombers greatly increased the advancement speed of ground armored forces.

 Il-2 and Cannon Bird on the eastern front also beat the opponent's logistics troops to tears.

However, this tactic extremely tests the coordination ability of infantry and aircraft. Most of the soldiers in the 1st Air Division only have one month of actual combat experience, and the infantry are not completely accustomed to battlefields with air support.

 If either side makes a mistake, the bomb may deviate from the target and the efficiency of the operation will be greatly reduced. At worst, the aircraft cannons and bombs flew directly onto the infantry's heads, which resulted in the infamy of severely damaging friendly forces.

 After all, reality is not Anton Star, and the enemies’ heads will not automatically be marked red with their names appearing.

Even if a country in later generations has popularized precision-guided weapons, it will have specialized guides on the ground to ensure the accuracy of the weapons and the safety of friendly forces.

 However, there were still cases of warthogs accidentally injuring friendly troops on the battlefield.

For the Eighth Route Army at this stage, before the Weapons Experimental Research Bureau develops advanced radio technology, the best way to coordinate is to use fighter planes as flying artillery.

 After the air force clears the enemies on the ground, the infantry will clean the battlefield to end the battle.

 This is the collaborative plan that maximizes damage and minimizes the possibility of friendly fire.

 Looking at the expectant eyes of the staff. The brigade commander could only pour cold water on him temporarily.

“Wait a little longer and let the First Division clear the reinforced concrete fortress and blow up the city wall before setting off.”

“I applied to the deputy general staff for thirty hours of combat time, and now even one-thirtieth has not been used up. We still have plenty of time.”

“Get the engineers ready for battle. They need to deal with the remaining obstacles and moats.”

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The perspective switches to outside Taiyuan City, where a fighter jet is swooping in at high speed.

 In the era without precision guidance systems, only carpet bombing was effective for horizontal bombing. If you want to bomb a certain target accurately, you can only choose dive bombing.

If you are on the European battlefield, when a fighter plane dives towards the ground, it is definitely a challenge to death. After all, the field air defense of those established military powers is very strong, and can even be said to be flying in anti-aircraft artillery.

 But the situation is different now. The Japanese in the reinforced concrete fortress are simply lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

During the dive, Captain Wang Hai was bearing considerable overload while aiming at the defenses below.

 After reaching a safe position, he pressed the bomb release button. A 250-kilogram aerial bomb left its pylon.

At the same time, the nose of the Spitfire was suddenly pulled up to avoid contact between the bomb and the propeller.

As the pilot with the strongest overall strength in the 1st Air Division, Captain Wang Hai directly hit the target with his bomb. The moment the aerial bomb made contact with the fortress, it made a huge roar.

The power of an aerial bomb of this level is astonishing. In terms of sheer charge, neither the US 406 nor the Yamato 460 has as much HE charge.

 A King Tiger will be completely destroyed if it is hit by a near miss fifteen meters away.

 If it were in a city, the glass would be shattered within a kilometer or so.

With just one dive attack, he destroyed the fortress that could not be penetrated by the M1897 75mm cannon's armor-piercing projectiles.

 Half an hour later, all reinforced concrete fortifications were removed.

Captain Wang Hai is about to return to the battlefield, and his next target is the city wall ahead.

 Because the city wall of Taiyuan is extremely strong, high and thick, it has strong defensive power. Even the Japanese army at that time could only use 105 and 150 caliber heavy artillery to blast the gap.

 With the current strength of the Eighth Route Army's artillery, there is no chance of breaking the situation.

Just when the brigade commander was about to design a set of tactics centered around fixed-point blasting, Captain Wang Hai took the initiative to put forward his own idea.

  Under normal circumstances, after an aerial bomb is thrown on a city wall, there is a high chance that it will be bounced away.

Even the most powerful 250-kilogram aerial bomb of the First Air Division has basically no lethality when it explodes more than ten meters away, let alone blowing through the city wall.

If steel bars are installed around the aerial bomb, and the steel bars are inserted into the city wall based on the principle of gravitational potential energy and rotational energy after the bomb is dropped, it will definitely cause great damage to the city wall.

 When these words came out, everyone was shocked.

 In order to test the possibility of this plan, Captain Wang Hai personally took action.

 After dozens of experiments, everyone found that the bomb must be dropped at a 45-degree angle so that the metal thorns could penetrate the city wall with a certain probability and secure the bomb.

 To drop the bomb at a 45-degree angle, it means that the aircraft needs to fly at an ultra-low altitude. The number of people with this strength in the Kongyi Division is no more than one hand.

There are real cases for this plan.

When Tengchong was attacked, this was how the city walls were blown up.

 (End of this chapter)