Chapter 848: Air Attack!!
readx; In the western Pacific Ocean and the eastern waters of the Ryukyu Islands, a fleet of more than 20 warships of various types is speeding across the Pacific Ocean at high speed, and the five-color flags fluttering in the wind on each warship fully indicate the country to which they belong, China. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At this time, the commander of this fleet, that is, Liu Tianpu, sat on his flagship Songshan, looking at the top-secret telegram sent from the headquarters of the First Fleet in his hand, he was a little excited in his heart, and he took a few deep breaths in a row: "It's finally here!" ”
"After three or four years of waiting, now the opportunity has finally come!" Liu Tianpu muttered: "It's good, it's good!" ”
After Liu Tianpu looked at the order from the headquarters of the First Fleet in his hand to let him lead his troops to blockade the eastern waters of the Ryukyus, he knew that this war was about to break out, and he did not know what benefits this war would have for the country and the nation, but he knew that this war was a golden opportunity for himself.
He is no longer young, he is fifty-eight years old this year, although he is not old among the high-ranking generals of the navy, but he is only a rear admiral, unlike those young generals who rely on their military exploits to rise quickly, he Liu Tianpu has survived step by step, and more than 30 years of naval career has allowed him to climb to the position of rear admiral, and if there is no special opportunity, it is impossible for him to continue to be promoted to vice admiral in this life. After all, although seniority is also important in the army, the superiors often prefer to promote those young and promising generals, and those officers who are focused on cultivation are often already colonels before the age of 30, major generals at the age of 40, and can already be promoted to lieutenant generals when they are in their fifties.
He Liu Tianpu is not a potential general in the eyes of those naval tycoons, it is not easy for him to climb to the rank of rear admiral and serve as the commander of the Third Fleet, you must know that countless naval officers have been stuck at the level of colonel all their lives. The reason why he was able to skip this hurdle was that he saw early that the Chinese Navy paid attention to aircraft carriers and made up his mind to put the future development direction on aircraft carriers, so he was transferred to an aircraft carrier after a long time in his early years, and then got the opportunity to go to the Aviation Department of the Naval University for further study, and after graduation, he served as a staff officer in the Aviation Department of the Admiralty, and then transferred to the aircraft carrier as deputy captain and captain, deputy commander of the aviation fleet, deputy director of the aviation department, and commander of the aviation fleet. It took decades of hardship for him to take up the post of commander of the Third Fleet, a process that was not inhumane to outsiders.
And in the current war that is about to break out, he sees an opportunity, an opportunity to make a breakthrough and continue to take a step forward.
June 24 at 6 a.m
In North Korea, the searchlights of Pyongyang Air Base, Busan Air Base, and many other air bases are all lit up, rows of planes have been towed out of hangars, countless ground crews are sweating to refuel and reload the planes that are about to go into battle, and many pilots in various conference rooms are listening to their superiors explain combat orders.
Nanjing, said, 'This embassy in China, Gu Zhengzhi was hurriedly woken up in his sleep, and he was woken up early in the morning, Rao is his temper is still good, but he is still a little angry, don't they all know that I fell asleep after midnight last night?
But when he saw his subordinates handing over the declaration of war with panicked faces, his face changed instantly, and he didn't have time to put on his clothes, so he stood up in his nightgown and opened the documents, and almost instantly his whole person was almost unsteady as if he had been struck by lightning: "How is this possible?" How is this possible? ”
"Give me a call from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, quick!" Gu Zhengzhi said in a panic, silently thinking in his heart, this must be a mistake, it must be a mistake, how could China declare war on the empire!
How is this possible! Even though the Sino-Chinese relations have plummeted and even reached a freezing point in the past six months because China has stopped supplying strategic materials to China, it is impossible to reach the point of breaking out into war, not to mention that there was no warning at all. So Gu Zhengzhi's first instinct was that they were mistaken!
However, a few minutes later, Gu Zhengzhi put down the phone with a pale face, and Gu Weijun personally answered the phone on the other end of the phone just now, clearly telling him that this is a fact, not a dream without waking up!
Gu Zhengzhi was sweating profusely, and at this time he still hadn't changed his clothes, and he was still wearing the nightgown: "Quick, report to China!" ”
After the shock, Gu Zhengzhi immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, and China said, "Ben has declared war, although Gu Zhengzhi has not even been able to understand the reason for the declaration of war, but he knows that he must report the news to the country as soon as possible, because anyone with common sense knows that after handing over the declaration of war, it will be followed by military action." Even Gu Zhengzhi, who does not know much about military affairs, knows that at this time, I am afraid that China's naval and air forces have already carried out relevant operations, and perhaps the Chinese bombers have already taken off and flown towards the mainland.
You can't afford to lose a minute!
After quickly sending the news back to China, Gu Zhengzhi also recovered from the shock and said, "Destroy all documents and prepare to evacuate!" ”
China has given them an official ultimatum, giving them 24 hours to evacuate, of course, this is not one-sided, but two-sided, because the same China also has a large number of diplomats and expatriate businessmen, so if it is not a barbarian country, even if it declares war, it will not directly arrest the diplomats of the hostile country, but expel them. Because it's actually a quid pro quo, and if you arrest a diplomat from an enemy country, they will arrest you.
The same situation also happened in other consulates in China, and the Chinese diplomats in China also urgently destroyed all documents and evacuated at the same time, and for the sake of secrecy, everything before the declaration of war was kept secret, except for the dozen or so people who were the core military and political leaders in China, even the military generals could not know in advance, they could only know the approximate time period, and ordinary diplomats could only be notified after the official declaration of war.
In the early morning of June 24, 1944, countless radio waves spread over the earth, and the personnel on both sides of the Chinese and Chinese sides who received the news one after another quickly took action.
In Tokyo, Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at the report in his hand with a black face: "They really did it!" ”
"Now the Americans and the British are pressing forward on the Australian side, and now China has declared war on us, this ......" The group of sea and land generals below all looked worried, they are not stupid people, and they don't even have to think about the current situation to know that they have lost this war.
"There is still hope for us, as long as we resolutely hold on to our homeland and persevere, we can achieve a decent peace!" What they now expect is to let Britain, the United States, and China know that they are not easily defeated, and that it will take a huge price to defeat them, and once this price is beyond the capacity of Britain, the United States, and China, then they will have the hope of obtaining a decent peace, and those occupied colonies are probably not wanted, but it is still possible to guarantee the national system.'
Just as he said, 'After receiving the declaration of war, the Chinese planes had already crossed the sky over the Tsushima Strait!'
In this huge fleet, the front is a squadron of F5C fighters, F5C fighters are the third modification of the F5 series, the surname can be much higher than F5A, the huge design margin of the F5 fighter makes the F5 fighter have great potential for improvement, which makes the F5 series fighter still the main combat strength of the Chinese Air Force three or four years later.
In the bombing operation, the F5 fighter with a range of more than 3,500 kilometers became the main escort fighter.
Lin Houying sat on top of the F5C fighter jet, flying high in the air at this time they had already crossed the Tsushima Strait, and at this time, he saw that there were several black dots flying towards them in the half-bright sky.
"Attention, enemy aircraft were spotted at two o'clock, six!" After Lin Houying said that, he flew over with the F5 fighter group of his squadron, because their altitude was relatively high, and the altitude of this aircraft was low, so they could occupy a lot of advantages when facing each other.
However, as soon as he turned around, Lin Houying found the clouds and once again appeared a large area of this plane, he snorted coldly and continued to report: "Report, thirty enemy planes have been found, and the direction is three o'clock, ask for support!" ”
At the same time, several squadrons of F5 fighters swooped down at high altitude, a total of four squadrons, and a group of nearly 50 F5 fighters met the intercepted fighters.
The sound of machine guns and the characteristic humming sound of propeller planes resounded throughout the airspace, not some planes were hit, dragging black smoke, flipped and plunged into the sea, and some were even hit by fuel tanks and caused a fire or even a volley explosion.
Seventy or eighty fighters from both sides fought in this airspace, but while they were fighting, on the other side of their combat airspace, there were several larger groups of planes that still maintained a dense formation and flew towards the city.
A bombing formation of hundreds of bombers and an almost equal number of escort fighters crossed the Tsushima Strait at high speed and then headed for the island of Kyushu.
Such a huge group of planes almost covered the entire sky, and the planes even blocked the early sun, leaving a huge shadow on the ground, and the bomber groups that covered the sky flew like locusts, and occasionally a small number of fighters rose into the air to intercept them, but they were like moths to a fire, crashing headlong in front of the huge Chinese planes.
After entering the hinterland of the city, the first wave of bombers immediately carried out a super-large-scale bombing of various airfields, air defense facilities, communications facilities, and power facilities in the city in accordance with the predetermined combat objectives.
Therefore, in the first time after the declaration of war, China did not say that it would dispatch its navy to fight a decisive battle with its own navy, nor did it immediately dispatch a landing force, but immediately dispatched the largest bomber group in the history of the Chinese Air Force, which was not much worse than the United States bombing Germany.
However, in this wave of attacks, the bomber group of the Chinese Air Force was not all four-engine strategic bombers or twin-engine horizontal bombers, and half of them were front-line support bombers, because in the first wave of attacks, the main targets of the Chinese Air Force were airfields and air defense facilities.
It can be said that it has been facing the threat of Chinese bombing for decades, and a large number of air defense facilities and airfields have been deployed along the coast of the Tsushima Strait, and although the number of aircraft in them is insufficient because of the Pacific War, the number of anti-aircraft guns is still very large. To destroy these targets, a certain amount of precision bombing is required, and the most effective method of precision bombing in these years is dive bombing.
Although the range of front-line bombers in the Chinese Air Force is not long, the Tsushima Strait is only as wide as it is, and the range of a bombing trip is only a few hundred kilometers.
In order to achieve greater surprise and results, in addition to striking at airfields and air defense installations along the coast of the Tsushima Strait, China also organized several other waves of massive bomber groups to bypass the Tsushima Strait and enter from the Tsushima Sea and then bomb the core area of Honko, several major cities in Honshu, and important transportation points such as Hiroshima, Osaka, and Kobe.
Within three hours of China's submission of the declaration of war, that is, at 9 a.m. on June 24, 1944, Ben had been bombed by at least 1,000 sorties, most of which were concentrated in the northern part of Kyushu Island, the air base and air defense facilities in the northwest of Honshu Island, and a small number of them were concentrated on bombing transportation hubs, water and electricity facilities.
At nine o'clock in the morning, he said, "This side also declared war on China after communication with China was fruitless, and thus the two countries officially entered a state of war."
China said that the declaration of war on each other immediately caused waves around the world!
The White House issued an emergency notice, in which it highly praised the anti-fascist cause initiated by the Chinese people, saying that after the Chinese people joined the anti-fascist camp, the day of complete global peace was not far away. In addition, he also highly praised President Chen Jingyun's great feelings, calling him the greatest leader in China's history, and China will definitely be able to win this anti-fascist war under Chen Jingyun's leadership!
At noon, the New York newspaper printed the news of China's declaration of war on the Chinese newspaper.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a radio speech in which he said that the British people and the Chinese people have an unprecedented unanimity in the anti-fascist cause!
In the face of the reaction of Britain and the United States, Chen Jingyun had already guessed it, but to be honest, China's declaration of war on Ben actually had no direct connection with them, and China and Britain and the United States were not military alliances, at most they could be regarded as a joint war relationship. The obvious point here is that immediately after learning that China had declared war on China, the United States contacted China in the hope of obtaining permission to use China's major naval ports and air bases.
Faced with a request, Chen Jingyun refused without hesitation, and the thought in his heart was, you fight yours, I will fight mine, because only in this way can Chen Jingyun have a reason to control the Philippines alone after the war. If it is made into a joint operation mode, who will this Philippines belong to in the future?
This is a war that has already been won or lost!
This is a war for post-war interests!
The so-called anti-fascist alliance is a joke, at least China and Germany have no conflict of interest, and even now China still has some support for Germany.
In order to better cope with this war, the navy set up several special task forces, including the first mobile fleet, the second mobile fleet, and the third mobile fleet, each of which has one or two air fleets, and is also attached to a number of cruisers, destroyers, auxiliary fleets, and ad hoc fleets.
After all, China's navy is huge, and the establishment of the First, Second, and Third Fleets is a strategic establishment, and the major air fleets under it are also relatively small in scale.
The specific tactical core is naturally those aircraft carrier battle groups, taking the First Mobile Fleet dispatched to the East China Sea as an example, with two air fleets under its command, each of which has three aircraft carriers, four cruisers, and twelve destroyers. In addition, there was a cruiser fleet of reading power, as well as a battlefleet
The First Mobile Fleet had already gone to sea a day in advance, and they were going to take the East China Sea and blockade this sea area to prevent the navy from launching a surprise attack on China's coastal areas, because Shanghai and other Chinese coastal cities were too close to each other, and if they didn't do a good job, they would be attacked on a large scale. In addition to the blockade, the navy must also act as a forward air defense force to prevent the air force from launching air strikes across the sea against Shanghai.
At the same time that China launched a large-scale bombing campaign against China, it naturally had to guard against launching an air raid on China's coastal areas, not only by the navy but also by the local air defense forces, and the radars of the coastal air defense network were all turned on, and patrol planes of the Chinese Air Force were carrying out patrol missions everywhere in the coastal areas.
The subordinate wings of the Fifth Air Force of the local air defense force have already canceled their vacations, a large number of interceptor fighters are ready to take to the air at any time to carry out interception operations, and F-10 jet fighters have been refueled and can take to the air at any time.
In the early morning of the next day, above the clouds over the East China Sea, dozens of bombers were flying in a southwesterly direction.
"The Chinese must be made to pay!" This is the words of Yamamoto Isoroku: "Since they can launch an air attack on us, can we only take a beating and not return fire?" ”
In order to be able to fight back, he called "Ben collected a small number of bombers, took off more than 60 bombers from the intact airfield in the south of Kyushu Island, and assigned a small number of fighters to escort them.
However, before they could get close to the coast of China, they were discovered by a radar alert ship of the First Coastal Defense Fleet.
At several coastal airfields in Shanghai, Jiangsu, and other places, two wings of the Fifth Air Force quickly took off a large number of interceptor fighters.
"They must not be allowed to drop bombs on our territory, not a single one!" This was Chen Jingyun's death order to Lieutenant General An Honghan, commander of the Fifth Air Army.
When the first wave of interceptor fighters arrived in the predetermined airspace, a tragic air battle was staged again over the East China Sea!
For the first time, the F10 fighter, which has been equipped for several years, has been given the opportunity to fight in real life!
Today, they will proclaim to the world that this is the era of jet fighters!!