Chapter 905: Tokyo Air Battle Five
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However, since the war broke out, it was natural that the most powerful force could launch a war of annihilation, with thousands of planes bombing Tokyo, and the targets of destruction were still directly booked on civilians. If this kind of thing is put in the eyes of the so-called humanitarian believers, it is a naked anti-humanity, and if China is defeated, these generals who instigated and carried out these direct bombing of civilians will be judged 100%.
It is a pity that the probability of China's defeat is infinitely close to zero, so the person who launched this air battle will be a hero, and future generations will only relish the scale and success of the bombing of Tokyo!
Defeat is scum against humanity, victory is a hero for the benefit of the world, and the world of mankind is so simple!
Although Tokyo is not a megacity like Shanghai or New York, there are a lot of people in it, and it is impossible to evacuate too many people at once, so you can only let people into a small number of bomb shelters, and the number of air raid shelters is not enough to accommodate all the people, so you can only let the people take shelter from air raids on their own.
In fact, not to mention Tokyo, even Shanghai, China, is difficult to evacuate under a massive air raid!
Many of the officers present had already foreseen a large number of casualties in the approaching Tokyo, but at this time, those present said, "I still thought that the bombing targets of the Chinese Air Force were military facilities and industrial facilities, and they did not expect that the Chinese Air Force would directly aim their butcher knives at civilians!"
"An attack on Tokyo is already inevitable, now all we have to do is to avoid the maximum losses and shoot down the most enemy planes!" Even if he did not know that the Chinese Air Force's bombing was aimed directly at civilians, judging by the scale of the traditional bombing, even if the Chinese Air Force targeted its bombing at military facilities and industrial facilities, the bombs dropped by hundreds of bombers would be enough to kill and injure thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
While the Tokyo air defense command post was carrying out all kinds of tense commands, the anti-aircraft guns in Tokyo's many air defense positions were already urgently preparing for the largest air attack ever on Tokyo, and many fighter units in the Kanto region had already taken to the air one after another, and they were taking advantage of the time before the Chinese bomber group arrived to climb as high as possible to prepare for the incoming Chinese bomber group in the best condition.
All this shows that the air defense units in the central region will not be able to intercept such a large-scale bomber group in just over Tokyo, and the reason why this happened is that the scale of the incoming Chinese aircraft group is too large, and as a barrier in the Kanto region, the air defense units in the central region will not be able to intercept such a large-scale bomber group at all. Up to 100 anti-aircraft guns of medium caliber and above were fired one after another, but the results achieved were very limited, and only a small number of Chinese aircraft were shot down.
As for the Kanto region, its air defense is also a relatively thick air defense area due to the presence of the city of Tokyo, second only to Kyushu and the 'Chugoku' region. In order to achieve the greatest results in interception, then the only way to do so is to conduct interception operations in the skies over Tokyo, concentrate the largest number of fighters, and carry out interception operations with the cooperation of a large number of ground anti-aircraft artillery fire.
As for the previous interception operations over the central region, the fundamental goal was to consume the strength of China's escort fighters, and there was no need to even deliberately pursue too many shot downs, as long as the fuel of the escort F5 fighters could be consumed, then it would be successful.
The fuel of the F5 fighters is limited, and if they want to accompany the B16 bombers throughout the operation, they must maintain enough fuel so that they can stay in the sky over Tokyo for a long enough time to escort the bombers, and once a lot of fuel is consumed on the way, then they will not be able to stay long in the subsequent bombing of Tokyo, and the duration will drop from the expected 40 minutes to 30 minutes to 20 minutes or even less.
And this situation was already demonstrated by the huge losses of the Germans in the air battles of the British: very dangerous for the attacking side!
The most fundamental reason why the Luftwaffe, which was invincible in the early stage of the Soviet-German war in the Polish and French battles, was that their escort fighters did not have enough range, and when they took off from the major airfields along the coast of France to the skies over Britain, they could only stay for more than ten minutes, and when the time came, the fuel would run out, and they would have to drop the bombers and return home. However, the German bombers without fighter escort could not fly at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters like the Daxin strategic bombers of China and the United States, so they suffered heavy losses in the face of many British Spitfires and Hurricane fighters.
This air battle has been considered a classic defeat by the air forces of all countries in the past few years!
And now it is said that "Ben also wants to replicate the situation of the British Air Force in the British air battle, and use the interceptor fighters along the way to entangle and intercept and consume the fuel of the escort fighters, so as to create a favorable opportunity for the main interceptor fighter unit in the skies over Tokyo!"
"Kumagaya's observation post reported that the enemy group was passing over and confirmed that there were one hundred and thirty-eight bombers, one hundred and eight of its bomber models B16, and one hundred and eight escort fighters. The speed is 400, the course is 170! At this time, in the Kanto air defense command post, a captain urgently reported to the commanders in the war room.
Xiong Liichiro Osa, who has been in charge of the commentary, immediately said: "According to the information of the Chinese people's aircraft group that has been observed before, this should be the first team of the Chinese people, and when the group of the Chinese people first entered the sky over the imperial territory, it had at least one hundred and sixty bombers, and the escort fighters were also more than one hundred and eighty. It seems that our asymptotic approach strategy has achieved some results! ”
He was not wrong in what he said, saying: "Although the fighter unit under the central air defense command post of the local air defense force has not been able to achieve great results because of the defects in its surname, and it is very difficult to shoot down the F5 fighters and bombers in the high altitude, their multi-wave fighter trembling plan along the way is still quite successful, and at least 60 or more F5 fighters have been forced to return first because of excessive ammunition or fuel consumption. As a result, the number of escort fighters in the group of Team A was directly reduced by nearly one-third.
As a result, the number of escort fighters dropped from more than 180 to about 100 at the time of departure, but this kind of consumption and losses were already within the expectations of the First Air Force and the Sixth Strategic Air Force, and in fact, it was precisely because of the prediction that there would be a shortage of fuel, so the escort fighters did not say that when the interceptor fighters arrived, they would all be dispatched to meet the attack, but only a part of them, and the main thing was to intercept, and the main thing was that the fighters did not take the initiative to attack. Then these F5 fighters will not care about them.
Moreover, a considerable part of this part of the F5 fighters that returned home carried aerial bombs and undertook the mission of ground attack; after all, the bomber group did not say that they directly flew directly over Tokyo with a swagger and dropped bombs, and along the way, they would also carry out accurate fixed-point strikes on some radar stations and communication facilities that were discovered, so as to ensure that these radar stations could not continue to undertake the task of commanding air combat after they were destroyed, and at the same time, it was also to ensure that they would not be discovered by these radar stations during the next bombing.
Xiong Liichiro continued: "The 143rd Flying Team, the 144th Flying Team is already on standby, and it is expected that they will be able to contact the enemy A team in fifteen minutes!" ”
Lieutenant General Suzuya Katsura above nodded: "Okay, let them carry out the interception according to the predetermined plan!" What is the current situation of the 187th and 192nd flight teams, and where are they located? ”
Xiong Liichiro said: "According to the contact a minute ago, the 187 flight team is northwest of Tokyo, with a distance of one hundred, a course of 240, and an altitude of seven thousand, and is currently continuing to climb!" ”
The planes equipped by the flight team in the Kanto region are not the latest Hurricane fighters, but mainly the Army's Type 3 Feiyan fighters, and a small number of Zhong Kui fighters.
At present, the four flight squadrons that are responsible for the air defense mission in the Kanto region are equipped with a total of more than 200 Feiyan fighters and 70 Zhong Kui fighters, in addition to a considerable number of army type 1 fighters, but the army type 1 fighters can be backward because of their surnames, not to mention that they are not competent for high-altitude interception tasks, and in fact, they cannot meet the needs of modern air warfare in medium- and low-altitude operations; by today, in 1944, it is said that "the type 1 fighters in this army air force have been completely relegated to the second line." Therefore, these Type 1 fighters can only serve as a supplementary force at medium and low altitudes, and are not the main force in high-altitude interception operations.
In addition to these 270 fighters, there were also a large number of ground-based anti-aircraft guns, and the entire Kanto region, centered on Tokyo, concentrated about 100 anti-aircraft guns.
Although there are two or three thousand anti-aircraft guns as a whole, the main part is concentrated in the Kyushu region and the 'China' region, and the number deployed in the central part of the rear and the Kanto region in the traditional strategy is not much.
He said: "The number of local ground anti-aircraft guns is not large, far inferior to the more than tens of thousands of anti-aircraft guns that are lined up in China's coastal areas, and even less than that of Germany, which is also facing strategic bombing by Britain and the United States, and Germany's ground anti-aircraft firepower is calculated in tens of thousands."
To put it simply, 'The country's strength is weak!'
In terms of the quality and quantity of various military equipment, it cannot be compared with the great powers of China, the United States and Germany.
The sorrows of a small and weak country in the face of a big country are fully reflected in the war, and the weak and small country has no power to resist in the face of an attack by a strong country, let alone fight back.