readx; The concept of aerial bombardment in 1913, especially the concept of aircraft bombing, has not yet been figured out by all countries in the world, and even the airships that have been maturely equipped in various countries for aerial bombardment are now only a concept, but they have not been subjected to large-scale actual combat. Pen "Fun" www.biquge.info In the Chinese battlefield, the Nationalist Army has taken the lead in using airplanes to carry out small-scale bombing, although the D4B bombers equipped by the Nationalist Army last year still have great defects, but the Nationalist Army has used this kind of bomber to carry out aerial bombardment of the Beiyang Army, and the scale of the bombing has reached nearly 30 aircraft, in the first few bombing operations, the Nationalist Army's bomber group has achieved good results, and even destroyed some of the heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army's heavy artillery regiment for a time, making a great contribution to the victory of the Nationalist Army.

However, after several bombings, the Beiyang Army also had defense, the Beiyang Army quickly installed a lot of Madsen light machine guns, and some of the heavy machine guns were modified, raising the firing range for anti-aircraft shooting, the bomber group of the National Army suffered a lot of losses in the follow-up operations, and several bombers were shot down in the connection, plus some of the bombers that crashed due to accidents, so that the bomber group of the National Army finally only had about twenty D4B bombers, because the D4B bombers were defective, So after the production was stopped, the B3 bomber was modified, and by now, the national army has two B3 bomber squadrons and a D4B bomber squadron, with a total of more than 40 bombers.

Among the three bombing squadrons, the 3rd Bombing Squadron and the 4th Bombing Squadron were respectively equipped with B3 bombers, of which the B3 bombers of the 4th Bombing Squadron were newly accepted, and the latest four B3 bombers were just produced by the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory this month.

In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the bombers, and at the same time to avoid reducing the losses of the bombers, Wu Shizhong rarely let the bombers go out before, and if the current bombers want to bomb, they can't fly too high, otherwise the bombs thrown down will not know where to fly, and the current bombers are too slow, but the speed of about 150 kilometers per hour is easy to be destroyed by ground fire.

Since Chen Jingyun announced the start of the Northern Expedition in July, the three bombing squadrons at the Nanjing base have been training and preparing for the battle. The bomber force was not allowed to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the fixed fortress positions of the Beiyang Army in Jiangbei, and if it was really to bomb, not to mention how much the Beiyang Army could not lose, it was more likely that the bombers of the Nationalist Army would suffer heavy losses. And after the Beiyang Air Force was stationed in Jiangbei in late July, Wu Shizhong struggled to find out the base of the Beiyang Air Force and then carry out air raids, so he kept the bombers on standby, instead of casually going out to fight.

Now, the time is finally ripe, and Wu Shizhong personally watched dozens of planes take off at the base at dawn, preparing to launch an air attack on the air base of the Beiyang Army. Since yesterday when the order was received for combat readiness, the entire Nanjing Air Base has been busy, and a large number of ground crews are carrying out final maintenance for the planes, and not only bombers, but also fighters and reconnaissance planes are carrying out maintenance and inspections.

After a night of emergency preparations, the group was already prepared at dawn, and then Colonel Li Tunyang, the wing commander of the first wing, personally led the group to carry out the bombing mission, and the main force involved in the operation was naturally mainly three bombing squadrons, and the three squadrons sent some planes that could not be dispatched because of a malfunction, and all the other 25 B3 bombers and 15 D4B bombers participated in the operation. In addition to these forty bomber mainstays, there were all sixteen D2A fighters of the 5th Combat Squadron, which escorted the bomber group.

The bomber group, with a total of 56 planes, is the maximum combat strength that the Nationalist Air Force can now assemble at the Nanjing base.

When such a large-scale bomber group formation flew over Taishan Town, it was naturally discovered by many Beiyang Army, Feng Guozhang looked at the group of planes flying slowly in the sky, and his brows furrowed.

An adjutant on the side also gasped when he saw the dense group of planes in the sky: "There are more than 50 planes, and the strength of the air force over here is not small!" ”

Some people also saw that the planes of the National Army in the sky seemed to be a little different, Wang Ruxian looked at the planes in the sky and said: "Half of the planes are bigger than the planes around!" Then he said to an Air Force lieutenant colonel beside him: "Lieutenant Colonel Li, you know a lot about the planes in the south, tell us a few!" ”

Wang Ruxian is an army general, and he knows nothing about airplanes, and he only sees a little bigger, but in the command of Feng Guozhang's Second Army, there are also air force officers from the Air Force Department of the Beiyang Army, and this Lieutenant Colonel Li is the liaison officer sent by the Air Force Department to the military headquarters of the Second Army, and is mainly responsible for the liaison affairs between the army and the air force.

Lieutenant Colonel Li's face changed extremely unnaturally when he saw those Nationalist Army planes in the sky, and his knowledge of the Air Force was naturally not comparable to those army generals, so he immediately explained: "The outermost kind should be the kind of air combat aircraft of the Nationalist Air Force, and at least half of our planes were shot down by them!" It is rumored that they have the number D5A on the side of the National Army Air Force! ”

The surnames of the planes of the National Army are all kept secret, but although ordinary people do not know the aircraft model, it is not a high-level secret, and the Beiyang Air Force can still find out with some thought.

"This kind of aircraft was built by Fuzhou itself, and although the surname of this flight does not have an accurate value, it is certain that it is better than the Gao Delong aircraft and pigeon planes equipped by our army, otherwise our military planes would not be restricted everywhere and would not be able to conduct aerial reconnaissance. Therefore, this aircraft is the number one enemy of our Beiyang Air Force, but our Air Force Department is already trying to find ways to purchase or manufacture more advanced aircraft, and this national army's air combat aircraft will not be proud for long! Lieutenant Colonel Li is very confident in his words, in his opinion, it is difficult to build a more advanced aircraft than the D5A combat, but other countries can make more advanced aircraft, and when the time comes, after the Beiyang Air Force buys a more advanced aircraft, it will naturally be able to defeat the D5A fighter of the National Army.

After Lieutenant Colonel Li finished talking about the D5A fighter, he continued: "And the one on the left is called a bomber in the Nationalist Army, and it is numbered D4B. According to previous intelligence, this aircraft is capable of carrying aerial bombs and bombing ground targets. This kind of plane has bombed our army many times last year, and you must be familiar with it. ”、

Wang Ruxian nodded, although he didn't know much about the situation, but he still knew a little about the aerial bombardment last year.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Li also continued: "As for the remaining relatively large aircraft, I haven't seen it, our Air Force Department has also been collecting relevant intelligence of the National Army Air Force, and I know that the Air Force of the National Army has carried out a large-scale expansion this year, and has installed a large aircraft, but there has been no relevant accurate information before, and now it seems that most of them will be able to use this aircraft." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Li was also secretly shocked as he spoke: he had seen the D5A fighter and D4B bomber on his head, but he had never seen any large aircraft, and through the telescope, he could clearly see that this large aircraft actually had engines mounted on the wings on both sides, and it turned out to be a twin-engine large aircraft, much larger than the D4B bomber next to him. This kind of aircraft can be seen at a glance by Lieutenant Colonel Lee, and it is definitely not the kind of aircraft used for aerial combat, but a bomber. And this twin-engine plane is so big, the bomb load is definitely not as small as that.

Alas, now the development of the air force over there is getting more and more rapid, the aircraft designed and produced by the Fuzhou aircraft factory and even several aircraft factories in Europe are willing to bow to the wind, and now the European aircraft manufacturers are still trying to add machine guns to single-shot aircraft, and can make machine guns shoot forward, the national army aircraft already has D5A fighters, when European countries are still stuck in throwing grenades down from the plane, and professional bombers are still stuck in the conceptual design drawings, Large twin-engine bombers of the National Army have been armed with dozens of them and are already used in real combat.

When Lieutenant Colonel Li sighed, Feng Guozhang over there had already ordered all departments to prepare for air defense, especially the artillery units, and they were even more ready to fight, Feng Guozhang sneered: "If this time the planes of the National Army still want to destroy their own heavy artillery regiment by planes alone like last year, then they will have to pay the price of dozens of planes!" ”

While the subordinate units of the Second Army of the Beiyang Army were rapidly making various preparations, the bomber group overhead did not lower the heights, nor did they turn or disperse, but continued to fly north.

This made many generals of the Beiyang Army on the ground puzzled, further north, there would be no major value targets of the Beiyang Army, they couldn't bomb the barren mountains and wilderness.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Li of the Air Force Department suddenly thought of something, and then shouted loudly: "They are not going to bomb artillery positions, their target is our air base!" ”

Then, he didn't care about anything else, turned around and ran backwards to prepare to go into the headquarters and send a telegram to the air base to prepare them for air defense, but unfortunately it was too late.

No matter how slow the Nationalist bomber group in the sky was, it was as high as more than 100 kilometers per hour, and soon flew over Taishan Town, and then arrived over the Beiyang Army Air Base.

Li Tunyang, who led the group, sat in the back seat of a B3 bomber, and seeing that he was almost at his destination, he immediately said: "Act according to the predetermined plan!" ”

After Li Tunyang finished speaking, the pilot in the front seat immediately controlled the flight and shook it slightly to transmit the message, and soon the entire bomber group was moving according to the predetermined plan. The D5A fighters on both sides flew forward and quickly flew over the Beiyang Army Air Base and strafed the ground, while the bomber groups in the rear lined up over the Beiyang Air Base and dropped a series of aerial bombs.