readx; On the night of 16 July, many bombers from the major military airfields on the island of Kyushu took off one after another. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Due to the limitations of the Chinese army's own bomber and fighter planes, this time the Japanese army's bomber group did not intend to fly at high altitudes at all, but took the risk of adopting the mode of low-altitude cruise and low-altitude bombing.

Because if daytime high-altitude bombing is adopted, not to mention that bombers cannot fly as high as 10,000 meters, even if the bombers fly high enough, they will not be able to find fighters that can climb so high to escort them, and a limited number of high-altitude fighters will have to be used in local air defense.

Therefore, it is said that "Ben simply uses the mode of low-altitude entry and night bombing, so that although it will be intercepted by enemy night fighters and blocked by ground artillery, it is much better than being passively attacked at high altitude during the day."

At 12:05 p.m., a destroyer of the Fifth Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy sent an alert that nearly 100 planes had been spotted over the East China Sea heading southwest.

After receiving this alert, China's coastal air defense system was quickly operational, and many radars along the coast kept a close eye on any suspicious targets in the East China Sea, but the bomber group adopted a low-altitude cruise mode, and this mode made it impossible for China's long-range early warning radars to find targets at too long distances because of the influence of the earth's curved surface.

Five minutes later, an air defense alarm was issued in Shanghai in the Pearl River Delta and adjacent Nantong in the planned course of this bomber group, and the terrible sound of air defense sirens resounded throughout the night sky of Shanghai, but although the air defense alarm had been sounded, the citizens of Shanghai did not say that they ran out of their homes in a panic, and since the start of the war, Shanghai's air defense sirens have been sounded at least three or four times. At the beginning, the people were still panicking to take refuge in the major air-raid shelters, or staying in their basements, and even some timid citizens left Shanghai and went to the inland cities to escape the possible bombing.

However, thanks to the hard work of the Chinese Air Force's native air defense force, that is, the Fifth Air Force, it said: "The first four bombings against Shanghai were all complete failures, and basically the incoming bomber group had already been shot down or driven away in the sea east of Shanghai, and in the four bombings, only Nantong north of the Yangtze River was bombed in small quantities, while Shanghai had not been bombed by even a single aerial bomb."

After three or four times of this, the citizens of Shanghai were not surprised, and now they were somewhat indifferent when they heard the air raid siren, because they believed that the local air defense force was enough to destroy any invading enemy planes.

Ordinary citizens were indifferent, but the air defense units deployed by the Fifth Air Force in the Pearl River Delta region had all entered a state of emergency, and the pilots on duty were quickly running to their fighters, while the ground crews were making all kinds of intense preparations. At the same time, more ground crews and pilots were urgently woken up, and they rushed out of the barracks to carry out various preparations before they had time to freshen up.

In the entire Yangtze River Delta region, there is the densest cluster of military airports in China, and at this moment, these airports are already boiling, and all of them have entered a state of emergency.

The Shanghai Air Defense Command, China's largest air defense command, is responsible for the air defense of the entire Yangtze River Delta region, with a total of more than 1,000 F10, F6, and F7 fighters in five wings, as well as more than 4,000 anti-aircraft guns of various calibers in eight reading air defense regiments.

And this is only the strength of the air force, in addition to the Shanghai military port is also stationed a naval shore-based fighter wing and a naval base air defense regiment.

It can be said that in this small area of the Yangtze River Delta, there is a concentration of air defense forces not only in China, but also in the world.

It is precisely because of such a huge air defense force that it was able to wipe out the bomber group above the sea in the first four bombings of the bombing and ensure the security of Shanghai and the surrounding areas.

In the Shanghai Air Defense Command, Lieutenant General Bi Yangtong was also urgently woken up from his sleep and walked into the operational command room, he didn't even pay any attention to his appearance without buttoning his clothes, but directly asked a commander on duty: "Staff Officer Chen, what's the situation?" ”

The person who was questioned was Colonel Chen Huaping, a staff officer on duty at the Shanghai Air Defense Command, who was about 40 years old, and although he did not look good-looking and was not well-known in military circles, his background was not small, because this person was a child of the Chen family. And this Chen family naturally does not mean other Chen families, generally when today's Chinese people talk about the Chen family, they all refer to Chen Jingyun's Chen family.

He is Chen Jingkai's eldest son, and Chen Jingkai is the eldest son of Chen Jingyun's third uncle and Chen Jingyun's cousin. If you count it down, Chen Huaping is also the cousin of Chen Jingyun's successor Chen Huatian.

Although it is said that no one in Chen Jingyun's generation joined the army, Chen Jingyun's cousins are all in business, but the third generation, that is, the descendants of the Chinese generation, most of them have chosen to join the army, although not everyone will say that they choose to be a soldier for a lifetime, but the pace of youth is the same, that is, after graduating from middle school, they will enter major military schools, or Wuhan Military Academy, or Nanjing Naval Academy or Nanjing Air Force Military Academy, and serve after graduation. If you aspire to be a professional soldier, you will continue to serve like Chen Huaping, while if you have other ambitions, you will choose to retire after serving for a few years and engage in other industries, and most of them will also work in many companies in the Chen family.

The main reason for this situation is that in order to balance the domestic antipathy towards the family, Chen Jingyun never let his cousins join the army or even politics, but let them go into business. By the time of the third generation, since Chen Jingyun sent all his sons to the army, several other families naturally followed suit, no matter what industry they wanted to engage in in the future, they would serve for a few years first.

Therefore, among the third-generation children of the Chen family, the male descendants have served in the army, and there are also a few who have stayed in the army as professional soldiers, such as Chen Huaping, who served in the Air Force, and Chen Huatong, the eldest son of Chen Jingsheng, who has served in the army and has served as an officer or general.

However, among these third-generation disciples, except for Chen Jingyunshu's eldest son Chen Huatian, his sister-in-law Chen Huajun, and Chen Jingsheng's eldest son Chen Huatong, the others are still ordinary officers, and they are just like Chen Huaping in the lieutenant and school officer class. As the children of the Chen family, their future is guaranteed, and at the same time, in order to avoid other people's gossip, the speed of promotion is generally step-by-step, and they can only be promoted after accumulating enough qualifications. However, the biggest advantage they have over others is that as long as they have enough qualifications, they will basically rise without suspense when the time comes, which is already a huge advantage compared to ordinary officers.

As for Chen Jingyun's two sons and Chen Jingsheng's eldest son, there are some exceptions, first of all, Chen Jingyun's two sons, Chen Jingyun was originally prepared to train these two people as heirs, and the speed of promotion in military ranks cannot be understood according to the way of ordinary people, they were already official lieutenant generals in their twenties, and after Chen Jingyun determined Chen Huatian as the heir, he immediately promoted Chen Huatian to general, and Chen Huatian was only thirty-one years old at this time. But on the other hand, Chen Huajun, who was not recognized by Chen Jingyun, was exiled by Chen Jingyun to the north as a garrison commander, if there was no accident, Chen Jingyun would not continue to promote Chen Huajun's military rank. But Chen Jingyun didn't pull it down directly, but just let it go, in Chen Jingyun's heart, Chen Huajun can be regarded as a second heir, in case something happens to Chen Huatian, Chen Jingyun has to consider letting Chen Huajun take over his class.

Chen Jingyun's two sons belong to special circumstances, and Chen Jingsheng's eldest son, Chen Huatong, has been in the army very early, and if he is 43 years old this year, he has been in the army for more than 20 years, and he has been in the army step by step to the position of major general.

Others, seniority is too shallow.

Although Chen Huatong has a better background than others, he has great advantages but also has some flaws, first of all, in order to avoid suspicion, he rarely appears to be promoted quickly, but the sensitivity of his identity also makes him cautious in his military career, but he does not dare to put on the identity of the descendants of the Chen family in front of outsiders, otherwise, although outsiders can't help him, but once it reaches the ears of the family elders, especially Chen Jingyun's ears, it will be a big deal.

Chen Huaping put his position very right, and immediately replied after being questioned by Bi Yangtong: "According to the information conveyed by the navy, the attacking aircraft group appeared about 200 kilometers northeast of Shanghai, and the number was about 100, but their cruising altitude was relatively low, and our ground radar could not detect it for the time being. ”

Large long-range early warning radars on the ground are theoretically capable of detecting large aircraft groups hundreds of kilometers away, but this is only theoretical.

With the large-scale use of radar technology in various countries, some anti-radar tactics have also been proposed, and the most effective of them is to enter at low altitude and use the curved surface of the earth to avoid radar reconnaissance. This tactic had already been used in the 1940 German bombing of Britain, and in the naval and air war between China and China not long ago, the carrier-based aircraft attack groups of the two sides also adopted the method of entering at medium and low altitudes, and did not climb quickly until they were about to reach high, in order to avoid being detected by the enemy's radar in advance.

Of course, if the B16 bomber is a typical high-altitude bomber, there is no such problem, I found it, I flew so high, even if you found it, what can you do with me?

Chen Huaping continued: "Now all radar stations have entered a state of emergency and are searching for enemy aircraft. In addition, the 22nd Wing and the 23rd Wing have also entered a state of emergency, and the brigade on duty is already taking off! The air defense regiments have also conveyed their operational instructions to them, and now our army is ready to meet the incoming enemy planes at any time! ”