Chapter 221 Bombing Shanghai Airport
At about noon, the roar of planes began to appear at Xiaoshan Airport again. Planes slowly drove from the apron to the runway, began to accelerate on the runway, and then jumped into the blue sky.
This time, during the air strike at the Shanghai Airport in Little Japan, Ye Feng dispatched all the B-17 "Air Fortress" bombers, and the two squadrons had a total of 48 bombers. The "Air Fortress" bombers were the main force in the strike against Shanghai Airport this time.
The bombers were escorted by four BF109 "Messmit" fighter squadrons, with a total of 96 "Messmit" fighter jets. Ye Feng left one squadron of fighter jets that were not dispatched for the time being, and stayed at Xiaoshan Airport as a maneuvering force.
In order to train troops, about half of the pilots dispatched this time were recruits pilots, and the other half were professional pilots from the "Nuwa" system. They were also a combination of new and old, which not only attacked the Japanese, but also achieved the purpose of actual combat training.
Ye Feng stood in the airport command building, through the huge glass window, looking at the planes with very blue sky, then completed formations in the sky and flew towards Shanghai together.
This morning, the 3rd Japanese Division in Suzhou bombed and killed four or five thousand Japanese devils, including the commander of the Japanese Lieutenant General Zhenglong Yamashita, who had earned more than 100,000 meritorious values for Ye Feng.
In the air battle over Hangzhou Bay, more than 70 Japanese planes were annihilated, and with the Japanese pilots, the total merit value in the "Nuwa" system approached 200,000.
Originally, the merit value of the army was only a few tens of thousands of in the series of major constructions, plus the exchange of various weapons, equipment, ammunition, and various talents. Today, there is a great harvest. The merit value is almost 200,000.
If the air strike at Shanghai Airport is successful, it will increase a lot of merit. Ye Feng looked at the huge Xiaoshan Airport and thought to himself that the number of aircraft should be increased, especially the "Air Fortress" bombers.
Shanghai Airport.
At this time, the Japanese at the airport had already received the news that they had sent two bomber squadrons to attack the newly formed 6th Army Xiaoshan Airport. One fighter squadron was destroyed over Hangzhou Bay.
In addition, these Japanese Aviation Forces also received news that the 3rd Division of Suzhou was subjected to a large-scale air strike, with heavy casualties. The commander of the 3rd Division was killed in the air strike.
At the airport command headquarters, the Japanese Aviation Captain Jiro Kimura's face was gloomy. He had so many planes shot down, and Kimura felt a little unacceptable to this fact. When did the Chinese team have such a powerful air force?
At this time, the number of small Japanese aircraft was about 6 or 70, including various fighter jets, transport aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft. As for bombers, the number was very small, with only a few. Most of the bombers set out to bomb Ye Feng’s Xiaoshan Airport this morning and were all shot down.
Although the planes parked at the airport looked neat and neat, the Japanese were listless and had low morale. Such a blow was a bit big for the Japanese.
Chinese airspace has always been the back garden of the Japanese aviation army. The Japanese aircraft came and went freely and flew wherever they wanted. There was almost no restriction. Today, they suffered an unprecedented blow. So many aircraft were shot down, and none of them returned.
"Christian Colonel, we are going to avenge the dead warriors, and we are going to dispatch planes to attack the new 6th Army again." A Japanese lord yelled.
The Japanese were a little suspicious that the newly formed 6th Army should have done the annihilation of aircraft like him. When did this Japanese master see his troops suffer such a big loss and shout for revenge?
However, without the above order, Kimura Jiro obviously did not dare to issue such an order, so he could only have a gloomy face and say nothing.
In the airport command center, in addition to Kimura Jiro, the Japanese Grandmaster who was just shouting, there were many Japanese officers, one junior, two junior officers, and some other middle and low-level officers.
The morale of the entire command center was low, the faces of the Japanese officers were not good-looking, the atmosphere was very depressing, and even a little sad.
However, sharp and harsh aviation alarms broke the atmosphere, and waves of alarm sounded, and a large number of Japanese devils at the airport were stirring up. At the airport, there were busy figures of Japanese devils everywhere, and some Japanese devils hurried to their posts.
Some Japanese anxiously turned the muzzle of the anti-aircraft machine guns, and some anti-aircraft machine guns at the airport also began to face the sky under the operation of Japanese.
A large number of Japanese pilots hurriedly ran towards their plane, hurriedly climbed into the aircraft cabin, and started the plane to prepare for the airplane to take off.
The entire Shanghai Airport was in panic!
A Japanese officer suddenly pushed open the gate of the airport command center, and had no time to stand attentively salute, and immediately shouted anxiously: "Children Colonel, the enemy attack! Large-scale enemy attack!"
When a large number of Japanese officers at the command center heard such a sharp alarm, they naturally knew it was a large-scale air strike. However, when they heard the report of the Japanese officer, they still felt nervous and looked into the sky through the glass window of the command center.
In the sky, there is a huge aircraft formation, composed of at least one hundred aircraft. However, this aircraft group has a very high flight height, not five thousand meters, at least three or four thousand meters. At such a high flight altitude, the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns are beyond the reach of the dust.
Even the anti-aircraft machine guns equipped at the airport are really difficult to hit such a high target, not to mention that the soldiers will soon start dropping bombs at high altitudes.
The "Air Fortress" bomber is a high-altitude high-precision large bomber equipped with radar bomb drop aiming device. The accuracy of bomb drops is very high, even if it is dropped at an altitude of four or five thousand meters.
In addition, the airport of Japan is huge and it is easy to drop bombs into the airport. Soon, one "air fortress" bomber after another began to drop bombs on a large scale.
Large bombs whizzed down one by one, densely packed, just like dumplings.
The Japanese never expected that at such a high altitude, the planes of these teams began to drop bombs. At this time, there were indeed not many high-altitude high-precision bombers. Ordinary bombers had a dive process, dived down, dropped bombs at low altitude, and then pulled up, dived and dropped bombs, and then pulled up.
Most of the Japanese who were responsible for air defense have not yet prepared for air defense, and a small number of them have been prepared for air defense and can shoot the Japanese. They are still waiting for these planes to rush down and then shoot at these planes after rushing down.
On the airport runway, some planes have already rushed onto the runway and are ready to take off, and more planes have barely started and are heading onto the runway, and they have not reached the position of the runway at all.
A large number of bombs in the sky had already roared, hitting the target with a loud bang, making a dense, earth-shaking sound. Suddenly, many places on the airport were flooded by violent explosions.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The Japanese Apron was bombed in a key way. There were a large number of planes on the apron, with at least dozens of planes. These planes were being launched and were about to drive towards the runway not far away. A violent explosion sounded and suddenly became a mess.
Many planes were directly affected by explosions and were blown to pieces.
Several planes were blown into several large pieces, and with the explosion air waves, they flew far away and hit the ground heavily. Among them, a large piece of plane fragments hit a launching plane heavily.
The fragment of the aircraft weighing hundreds of pounds directly smashed a big hole in the launching aircraft, and almost broke the wings.
There were many planes directly blown up, and there were more planes that were exposed to the explosion. Some planes were affected and were suddenly deformed or riddled with holes. The explosion shock waves and air waves, mixed with cement or some broken parts of the plane, splashed onto nearby planes, making small holes, and many planes almost became sieves.
Bombs were constantly dropped, the wide apron became a sea of fire, the solid cement ground was blown out, and the planes became wreckage, burning violently on the ground, or exploding violently, and some fuel or bombs on the planes exploded.
On several runways of the airport, a small number of planes were taxiing and preparing to take off. At this time, some bombs were dropped on these runways.
With a loud "boom", an accelerating plane was affected by a bomb and was blown to pieces. The plane was blown into pieces and flew away from all directions.
There is also an aircraft that is rapidly taxiing. It is about to take off. The plane has a slightly better "luck". A bomb did not directly hit the plane, but just exploded in front of the runway, blowing a big pit on the ground.
The Japanese pilot who was flying this plane saw the big pit ahead of him. Seeing that the plane was about to take off, he immediately pulled it up and wanted to get out of the ground immediately. However, it was still a little short of it. The plane ran directly towards the big pit, and the plane's wheel immediately rushed into the big pit.
The Japanese pilot shouted, and the plane began to flip over immediately and was about to take off. The plane was very fast. It would be strange if it was bumped by such a big pit. The flipped plane made a large spark that was ripped on the runway.
With a "boom", the plane turned into a big fireball. It might be that the fuel tank exploded. The plane slid out of the runway and exploded in the open space next to it. It soon became a pile of wreckage and burned wildly.
In the sky, 48 "Air Fortress" bombers were dropping bombs, and a large number of bombs were constantly dropping at the target. The explosions at Shanghai Airport were dense and fierce. The escorted four fighter squadrons hovered at high altitude, as if cheering for these bombers.
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Two updates today, the first update will be given.
Chapter completed!