Chapter 120: Fighting the Japanese Naval Aviation

"The ammunition is a little tight!" Huang Huamin reported with some embarrassment.

"Got it!" Meng Xiang didn't say much, but responded lightly.

The theoretical rate of fire of the MG-34 machine gun can reach ** 100 rounds per minute, but in combat, due to the need to consider the strong recoil and rapid fire caused by the barrel heating and other mechanical problems that are easily caused, in addition to considering the supply of ammunition, the general combat rate of fire is only controlled at about 100-120 rounds per minute.

But even so, only 415 MG-34 machine guns were intensively attacking for at least nearly 2.5 million rounds in just one hour, and this also had to consider the bullets consumed by 210 M2HB large-caliber heavy machine guns with a rate of fire of about 500 rounds per minute, plus the consumption of machine guns on the slope and the shells consumed by small carpet bombing, Huang Huamin set a new record. A record that made Meng Xiang feel distressed for a long time.

Fortunately, such a dense attack did not last for an hour, and the devils collapsed, and all Meng Xiang finally got was a consumption bill of more than four million bullets. In less than half an hour, there were no moving living people in sight on the position, and even the exposed corpses were whipped by the bullets again, and they were broken into pieces that did not look like human shapes.

Half an hour later, there was no one on the ground anymore, only bullets still screaming.

The Miyamoto brigade, which was attacking head-on, had withdrawn. After losing more than half of his manpower, Miyamoto still felt lucky. None of the soldiers of the two brigades on the north and south slopes have been withdrawn so far. Those who retreated, as long as there were more people, were taken care of with machine guns, and when there were fewer people, the sniper's bullets always followed closely. No one fled to the bottom of the mountain, and only a dozen dead bodies rolled down the foothills.

"Hurry up and get dark!" Miyamoto prayed.

"Hurry up and get dark!" Yujiro Nagano was also looking at the sky and muttering, the command knife in his hand had been stuck in the dirt on the ground, and he was left to erect it by himself.

It was just past noon.

"It was still four hours before the 3rd Wing of the Reading Hill Artillery could arrive, and they encountered a sudden attack by a strong group of armed forces, and the losses were heavy." The staff officer of the wing hurriedly came over and whispered in front of Nagano.

"Got it!" Nagano said lightly, he no longer expects the support of the mountain artillery wing, there is still heavy artillery over there, and the mountain artillery will not change the overall situation.

The Kumamoto Brigade also retreated, and after losing more than 200 people, the Kumamoto Brigade became the most powerful in the entire wing. Even the reserves withdrew after losing more than a hundred men. Everyone watched the sound of machine guns and sniper rifles constantly coming from the slope.

After the small carpet bombardment swept through the first area, there were no targets worth bombing, and if it continued, it could only bombard targets of two or three people with dozens of shells, and Huang Huamin decisively stopped this exercise.

"My plane is coming!" Rat Qisan walked quickly to Huang Huamin's side and said.

"Where's our plane?" Huang Huamin frowned and said, there are a lot of guns on the mountain, although there is also the defense of anti-aircraft guns, but some bombs are dropped, and the dense weapons that have not had time to evacuate will lose a lot. This formation has these shortcomings, when the firepower is super strong, the defense is generally relatively weak. A dense attack also means a dense arrangement of nozzles, and when counterattacked, the losses are slightly larger.

"If hundreds of machine guns were fired into the sky together, would the plane still run?" As soon as he thought about it for a while, he heard Rat Qisan report: "The third fighter squadron will arrive soon." ”

Liang Tiancheng was also a little excited in his heart, because he was not used to seeing some things in the Central Army, he had a conflict with his boss, and he was unexpectedly replaced by the vanguard army. Ben came to a local army, he was a little discouraged, but when he arrived at the vanguard army, he found that the air power of the vanguard army was not inferior to the central army at all.

The Air Knights of the Vanguard now had only one brigade, modeled mainly on the Luftwaffe's formation.

The two-plane and four-plane formations composed of long planes and wingmen are the most basic tactical formations;

Three four-aircraft squadrons with a total of 12 aircraft are the lowest level of tactical formation;

The Vanguard now has only three squadrons of fighters all BF-109B, a squadron of 8 Stuka dive bombers, a squadron of 8 Ju-52 transport aircraft, and a heavy bombardment squadron that is being formed.

More than 50 advanced aircraft of scale can be regarded as first-class in China.

The third squadron is Liang Tiancheng's team, and the squadron leader is the equally cold Feng Wu. The first and second fighter squadrons are there

"There are still three minutes to start contact with enemy aircraft! 12 enemy aircraft! Feng Wu's cold voice reminded.

"Understood!" Li Guidan replied calmly. He was also exchanged for two planes, and he didn't want to leave the Central Army, but his boss had already spoken, and he could only comply.

Li Guidan had been informed by Captain Feng Yi that he would be appointed as the squadron leader of the Fourth Fighter Squadron in a few days, which reminded Li Guidan of what his old superiors said before leaving: "Go to the vanguard army, and slowly their planes will become the Central Army's." ”

Li Guidan, who didn't want to get involved in the fight, was also a little helpless, he put aside these for the time being, and just stared at the plane of the devil naval aviation flying in front of him.

Naval aviation is a monstrous monster. It is said that the army does not have an air force establishment, but only the army aviation and the naval aviation, which belong to the army and navy respectively. Of these, naval aviation is the strongest. After all, the Navy has always believed that their opponent is the United States, and the imaginary enemy of the Navy is also American aircraft from the beginning. Compared with the army that aims at China, the strength of the air force is much worse.

It is said that there are many great bulls in the naval aviation in this country, and the new planes are equipped in the naval aviation in advance, which is often a grade higher than that of the army aviation, and the number is also much larger.

At present, the navy's sphere of influence is limited to Central China, and North China is the army's own territory, and there is constant collusion and stubbornness. At present, most of the cities along the Yangtze River have been bombed by HNA masterpieces, and even the famous bombing of Yucheng in later generations was also carried out by HNA. HNA planes can use the sun's azimuth to directly determine the direction and target without the help of a topographic map, which is incomparable to the ground airline.

The proud naval aviation units looked down on the army's defeat, and this time against the vanguard army, on the premise that they received accurate news that more than 20 planes had appeared over Jinan, they only quickly dispatched 12 fighters. The lesson of the Army Aviation was that they did not have to be followed by slow bombers, so as not to be targeted by the turning planes of the vanguard.

But they still didn't expect that the vanguard army also had a third squadron waiting for them in advance.

12 against 12, in the face of the Ninety-Six Type supported by the Devil HNA, the third squadron rushed straight forward on the premise of occupying a favorable vacancy in advance.

"It's the sixth!" Li Guidan silently thought in his heart that due to the intervention of the vanguard army, the battle situation outside Nanjing had changed somewhat, and it was not until the end of the year that Li Guidan reaped the results of his fifth plane and painted the trump card logo.

At the beginning of today, the target he aimed at did not have much defense, so he made a new contribution.

In the air battle, the two planes made a mistake, and the time for the battle was very short, and the favorable vacancy and the opportunity to prepare in advance in the air battle were very important. With the help of radar's advance prediction, the vanguard army has won the first opportunity. In an instant, two Type 96 planes were shot down.

"Damn!" The squadron leader of the devil plane, Mitsui Hongshou, scolded. Arriving in a hurry, they had just determined the location of the hill where the fire was being exchanged, but they coldly rushed down twelve vanguard planes from above. Even though it's a sunny day, there are always some clouds floating in the sky. The planes hiding behind the clouds could not be seen from afar.

Mitsui pulled up, got rid of the bite of a BF-109B behind him, and rushed high into the air, but another plane rushed in front of him.

"Damn!" Mitsui Hongshou also stopped dodging and directly hooked the trigger of the machine gun. The two fire snakes shot straight forward, but before they could hit the BF-109B in front of them, three fire snakes had already emerged from the opponent to fight back.

"Jingle bell." The bullets clanged on the metal frame of the fuselage, and the weak spots were directly penetrated, and black smoke rose from Mitsui's Type 96.

"Ahh Damn! Mitsui Hiroshi struggled to control the rapid descent of the plane, which had been out of balance. And the other party also seemed to lose momentum, emitting black smoke, and gliding towards the rear.

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