mtl008 Chapter 729 High Altitude Bombing
Chapter 729 High Altitude Bombing
729 High Altitude Bombing
"Go report to the commander quickly. A group of suspected Chinese bombers is heading towards our airport."
A Japanese sergeant at the airport shouted with a terrified look on his face.
At this time, Lengshui Junmu, who heard the noise outside, had already rushed out from his command center.
Looking at the group of planes approaching their airport in the west, his face was solemn.
"Baga, you're here after all!"
"Everyone, prepare for air defense operations."
He immediately shouted loudly to the Japanese officers around him.
"Destroy these Chinese bombers and protect our airport."
Lengshui Junmu grabbed the collar of a Japanese lieutenant colonel and asked with a ferocious look, "How is the evacuation going at the ammunition depot and fuel depot?"
For the Japanese, the most important facility at their airport is not the runway.
The fighter planes of this period did not have particularly high requirements for airport runways.
Even if it was destroyed by bombers, the Japanese had the ability to recover as long as they had enough manpower.
The most important facilities in the Japanese airport are actually their ammunition depots and fuel depots.
Once these two places were blown up.
So, even if they repaired the airport later and allowed the front-line fighters to escape back, it would be of no use.
A fighter plane without ammunition and fuel is nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.
It was simply too late to transport ammunition and fuel from other places.
"General, we don't have enough men.
The enemy's bomber group came too fast.
Our people didn't have enough time to move the ammunition and fuel depots."
The captured Japanese major looked helpless.
They really tried their best.
The airport where they were located in the north of Yangcheng was the largest of the three airports built by the Japanese around Yangcheng.
It also has the largest number of soldiers stationed there.
There were a total of more than 500 Japanese soldiers and 800 Imperial Army troops stationed around.
However, there is no problem with this number of people being responsible for the daily security of the airport.
But now, they have to not only carry out air defense, but also empty the huge ammunition and fuel depots.
At the same time, Meng Jifei's first batch of P38 fighter jets flew over Yangcheng, and at this moment the incoming bomber group appeared.
There was only less than half an hour in between.
With just half an hour, they have so little manpower to accomplish so many things.
This was also the reason why Meng Jifei dared to fly over Yangcheng in a swagger before, without worrying about the Japanese discovering them.
The reasons that affected the subsequent bombing of the Japanese airport by bombers.
Their appearance was so unexpected that the Japanese were completely unprepared.
The time left for them is too short to do much.
"Baga, you're a piece of trash!"
Lengshui Junmu kicked the Japanese major down with one kick, and could only feel helpless and furious.
Because he knew that what the Japanese major said was right, the truth was so cruel.
As they were talking, the bomber group in the distance split into three.
The largest group of them was about to fly over their airport.
The other two scattered bomber groups went to destroy the other two Japanese airports.
"Air defense, air defense!
Shoot them down.”
Seeing that the bombers had arrived, Lengshui Junmu had no time to take care of the ammunition depot and fuel depot.
He immediately shouted loudly to the Japanese soldiers on the surrounding anti-aircraft gun positions.
Bang bang bang!
Immediately, all the Type 75 mm anti-aircraft guns deployed in the Japanese airport opened fire.
One anti-aircraft shell after another was fired at the fifteen B17 and B24 bombers flying in the western sky.
In the sky, barrages of bullets exploded immediately.
"Two kilometers to the left, the enemy's 75mm anti-aircraft guns."
On a B24 Liberator bomber, the tail machine gunner shouted loudly to remind the pilot.
The 75mm anti-aircraft guns at the Japanese airport below were roaring continuously at this moment.
More than a dozen 75mm anti-aircraft guns and even more Type 25 mm machine guns formed a three-dimensional air defense fire network.
But unfortunately, the Japanese soon made the embarrassing discovery.
The 25mm machine guns in their hands could not hit bombers flying at altitudes above meters.
Only their dozen or so 75mm anti-aircraft guns could barely hit the B24 bombers.
They could do nothing about the B17, which could fly at an altitude of meters.
An American lieutenant in the driving seat immediately adjusted the rudder after hearing the machine gunner's reminder.
The B24 tilted to the right like a frightened kite, and a high-explosive bomb grazed its left engine.
The propeller instantly twisted the shrapnel into a metal storm.
Several other B24 bombers were all facing the same danger at this moment.
After all, what they bombed was not an airport that was completely defenseless. The Japanese anti-aircraft guns could still pose some threat to them.
But, it's just a little bit.
The theoretical range of the Japanese 75mm anti-aircraft guns is over meters.
It is a little higher than the B24’s highest altitude of meters.
But in actual combat, the Japanese found that even the 75mm anti-aircraft guns in their hands could hardly hit the B24 bombers at an altitude of more than meters.
The main reason was that the Japanese had too few 75mm anti-aircraft guns.
They also didn't expect that the airport in Yangcheng would be bombed by enemy bombers even though they had hundreds of fighter jets.
This was something that was impossible to happen.
Under normal circumstances, if there were Zero fighters in the Japanese airport.
The bombers flown by these British and American pilots could not get close to their airports at all.
The Japanese would intercept them outside the airport by their Zero fighters that were urgently launched, and the airport would not be bombed at all.
This resulted in the Japanese not deploying too many anti-aircraft guns at the airport.
Boom!
There was an explosion.
However, there are also unlucky ones!
A B24 bomber was hit directly on the nose by a 75mm shell from the Japanese.
Suddenly, the entire bomb bay, along with the navigator, turned into a flaming meteor and fell to the ground.
"Fake!"
Commander Duke cursed.
That B24 bomber was really unlucky.
"All B24s hold steady and drop bombs according to combat regulations."
Commander Duke shouted to all the B24 bomber pilots on the communication channel.
As for the other B17s, he didn't have to worry about them.
Because the Japanese 75mm anti-aircraft gun could not hit the B17 flying over meters.
Fortunately, the British and American pilots and crew members participating in the war this time were all elite.
Faced with this situation, the B24 bomber pilots and crew members did not panic.
They knew very well that they had to withstand the Japanese's not-too-intensive anti-aircraft fire attack.
As long as they can hold on, it will be their time for revenge.
Boom boom boom!
Half a minute later, the roar of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns never stopped.
But unfortunately, the record they achieved was still the same as that unlucky B24.