Chapter 1333: Blood, Fire, Blue Sky 3
Bomblets rained down from the sky, and the German bomber pilots watched in amazement as the bombs passed through the formation, followed by a series of explosions coming from the group! Explosions produced fires and smoke spread through the group, and countless shrapnel tore through the aluminum skin of the plane under the impetus of high-energy explosives, shattering the frame of the plane, and penetrating the glass to blur the flesh and blood of the pilot behind! One after another, huge bombers were hit by this kind of blow, and then fell to the ground! A few hapless bombers were simultaneously hit by the explosion of several bombs. The entire plane was instantly torn to shreds by the furious energy. After the aviation fuel and the bombs inside were detonated, with a loud bang, a huge mushroom cloud rose in the formation, and the furious energy even affected the surrounding friendly planes, and the affected bombers were forced to dissolve the formation with bullet holes all over their bodies!
"How is Huaxia's bomb set up? Bombed so accurate?! Grim, who was in the back, looked at the bombers that fell from time to time in front of him in shock, the Germans also have this kind of thing, but they use time bombs to control the detonation time, the air flow in the high altitude is changeable, and the set detonation time is often inaccurate, and this time, although the bomb efficiency of Huaxia cannot be counted, the attack efficiency of this time is obviously much higher than the Germans' approach! In the three minutes from which the bombs began to fall, Grim saw at least five bombers destroyed. And the entire upper box formation was also blown apart in this ** explosion, even if the pilot has a tenacious nerve in the face of this attack, he can't keep shocked, and in front of him is a heavy interceptor like a heavy knight, and this kind of explosion point set a strange accurate bomb was dropped on it! Under the flanking of two directions, the formation of the German bomber units was already showing signs of collapse.
"The test on the experimental field is really unreliable!" Just when Grim was shocked by the power of Huaxia's "air-to-air bomb", the Huaxia Air Force's evaluation of this kind of bomb was not high, according to the technical personnel, in the simulation test, this kind of bomb can destroy a formation at once, but from the actual combat effect is not so, although some results can be obtained, although it can disrupt the opponent's formation, but what about destroying a box formation? The reason for this is not the problem of the new radio proximity fuses, but the fact that the shrapnel and energy generated by the explosion after these bombs are dropped are also transmitted to the bombs dropped behind. The unlucky ones were destroyed or scraped elsewhere by shrapnel or shock waves, and the luckier ones were broken by the parachute at the tail of the bomb. Then the bomb fell like a stone! So the result is that the first wave of bombs dropped works well, but the later ones are much worse!
Just when the self-defense firepower of German bombers could not guarantee their own safety, the arrival of a large number of German escort planes changed the whole situation of the war again. In the face of the desperate attack of China, the Luftwaffe decisively invested all the fighters, and the two sides launched a life-and-death battle around the German strategic bomber force, and the hot scene of the whole battle is difficult to describe in words, and there are at least 350 fighters on both sides alone! The two sides are like red-eyed gamblers, throwing squadrons of planes into the battlefield one after another! The pilots on both sides didn't even have time to make any tactical maneuvers before they came into contact with the same red-eyed opponents on the opposite side, and head-on firing situations, which are rarely seen in air combat, abound in this battle! The Huaxia heavy interceptor desperately rushed at the German bomber, while the German fighter was not afraid to intercept it.
"The tactics I learned in class and training seemed to be useless all of a sudden, and I didn't like the hand-to-hand combat, because he didn't bring out my skills and the agility of the plane. I was surrounded by dense planes, both enemy and ours. All I could do then was point the nose at the nearest enemy plane and pull the trigger! A German fighter squadron leader commented on the situation.
Almost every minute, a fighter was smashed to pieces by bullets fired from several directions. There were even hapless fighters who were knocked down by friendly forces with high nervous tension. Or be punched a hole by a part that doesn't know from which plane it fell. The white wake of exhaust gases from aircraft engines and the crimson fiery snake intertwine in the air. This battle is not so much a test of the driver's skill as it is a matter of luck.
In this battle of Verdun in the air, the commanders and fighters of both sides would rather die than retreat, and in the continuous collision of the two huge aircraft groups, in less than half an hour, nearly 100 fighters on both sides were destroyed! A month's production capacity of an aircraft factory was wasted! The debris and smoke of gunpowder that has not yet dissipated and the occasional parachute tell the bloody story of the great war, but it is not over yet, this is only the first act of a stage play called War! With a large drop in the number of aircraft on both sides, the entire battlefield was finally empty. The aircraft groups on both sides were scattered, and the squadron leaders hoped to regroup and deploy, at least to form several 4-plane formations, otherwise it would be too dangerous to fight in such a situation where there were enemy planes up and down, left and right. And taking advantage of this opportunity, the strategic bomber forces of the Germans finally reached the skies over the target area! Ground bombing is about to begin! The huge formation spread out like a carpet, and the bombers flew towards the target in a single formation, the huge magazine had been opened, and the bombardier began to look for the target.
Boom, boom, boom!! Suddenly, a series of loud noises came from below, and on the way that the German bombers had to enter the target area, one by one slender anti-aircraft guns were raised, and under the guidance of the radar, a long series of fireballs were highlighted, and the shells with an initial velocity of more than 800 meters per second whistled towards the bomber group, and dense explosion points instantly appeared in the group. After the first few rounds of test firing, the attack gradually came to an end, with radar waves constantly hammering at the German bombers, and then processing the data through the fire control room and then transmitting it to the various gun positions via wires. A company or even several companies of anti-aircraft guns fired intensively at a certain area, and with the help of the loader, the rate of fire of each gun position gradually reached the set speed, and one by one orange fireballs formed a barrage in front of the bomber, and moved with the movement of the group!
In this operation, the Luftwaffe was originally equipped with a special JU88G electronic warfare aircraft to provide electronic suppression, but in the melee just now, the two sides were in a mess, except for the strategic bomber force has been able to barely maintain the formation, the rest of the support aircraft have long been unknown to where they went, luckier, with scars all over the body hiding in a place to survive, and if you are unlucky, I am afraid that it has been torn to pieces by the other side, so when the bomber force launched a bombing, The remnants of the electronic warfare aircraft of the Germans were simply not able to suppress numerous fire control radars on the ground.
A flame suddenly erupted from the fuselage of a HE177 bomber flying at a constant speed, and a shell hit the direct position of the magazine and the cockpit, and the high-explosive warhead weighing nearly 10KG was like a sharp blade that instantly broke the bomber in two. An explosion followed, and the flames spread along the body's internal wiring and oil circuits, turning into a fireball after a dozen seconds. Under the guidance of radar, the anti-aircraft effectiveness of artillery increased exponentially. Any bomber that wants to penetrate this fire net will have to pay a certain price, and under the dense anti-aircraft artillery fire, even the Huaxia fighters dare not continue to intercept it. Once again, the sky boiled, and the dense barrage became the last obstacle before the bombing of the German bomber forces.
The Germans fought their way through this last hurdle, and a huge base complex was revealed to the Germans. This is the most important aviation base in China connecting the front-line airfield with the rear airfield, where not only are there several important artillery shells deployed by radiographers, but the runway is surrounded by aprons, many of which are reinforced with reinforced concrete anti-bomber forts. Then there are oil depots, radar stations, control towers, and even repair shops and spare parts warehouses, where an aircraft can complete engine overhauls and replaces large parts of the fuselage. It is one of the most complete bases in the entire Huaxia Air Force Base in Iran! So this is also a thorn in the side that the Germans must get rid of!
"Let's get started!" With Grim's order, the German strategic bomber unit held back its anger all the way and finally released it with the bombs falling from the pylons. The command to drop the bomb spread through the entire fleet through radio waves. The pilot bomber first flew over the airfield, dropping a mixture of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs, and the bombs were like a huge paintbrush to outline a curve on the huge airfield, including most of the important units in the airfield, and the area enclosed by this curve would become the target of the next bombing!
The huge shadow of the fuselage of the HE177 bomber was finally projected on the airfield, and with the arrival of the shadow of death, it was a sickle composed of bombs, because of the close distance, the bomb load of the German strategic bombers was relatively large, with an average of more than 4.5 tons! If you convert that to a 250KG bomb, that's 18 rounds! There are still more than 100 planes in the entire German bomber formation that have successfully reached the target area, and if you calculate it, all the ammunition together will throw more than 600 tons of more than 2000 rounds of 250KG bombs to the ground! If we talk about bombing density, it is a record in the history of German strategic bombers!
"Sure enough, there is not a single grass growing in the places where the strategic bombing has passed!" Watching the strings of bombs fall from the sky, Grim once again felt the terrifying combat power of the Strategic Air Force! A series of high-explosive bombs fell to the ground like seeds sown by a seeder, and the continuous explosions turned the ground into a pot of boiling water, and the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion tore everything it could touch, and the circular waves of air spread out in all directions with shrapnel and fragments left by various unknown objects. From the air, it seems that a car has also been lifted!
As the strategic bombers moved, all non-reinforced targets in the airfield were quickly consumed by flames and explosions, and the towers, hangars, and repair shops that had been intact a few minutes ago were reduced to rubble in a matter of minutes, with only a few shelves standing alone. Once again, the Strategic Air Force demonstrated its formidable strength, scorching everything it could see.
Inspired by the attack of the Chinese strategic air force on Schrager's troops, the Germans also began to study the tactics of low-altitude shallow dive bombing, which was mainly aimed at those solid targets, and destroyed these strong and valuable units by dropping heavy bombs, such as underground oil depots, reinforced aircraft forts, and so on. I have to say that the body structure of the German HE177 bomber is still very good, although it does not require 65-degree dive bombing as in history, but it can still be done with a shallow dive of 30 degrees, and the maneuverability at medium and low altitudes can also be done. The huge bomber flew to the ground like an eagle swooping down! And the talons of this eagle are the SC1000 heavy reinforced concrete armor-piercing projectiles placed in the magazine!
As the bomb fell off the pylon, the huge HE177 bomber also moved upwards slightly, under the action of gravity, the bomb became faster and faster with the decrease in altitude, and the accumulated momentum allowed the bomb to have extraordinary penetrating ability, boom! With a violent impact, the round and blunt warhead of the heavy armor-piercing bullet slammed into the reinforced concrete cover of the upper part of the underground oil depot! The entire body of the bomb then submerged into it, and although it did not penetrate the entire protective cover, the violent explosion still opened a large hole in the upper part of the cover. Then, under the successive bombardments, the entire oil depot was finally unable to withstand such a blow, accompanied by a series of violent explosions, the entire hangar collapsed, and was engulfed by fire along with the fuel that had not had time to be transported inside. The Germans bombed so thoroughly that at least the targets marked in the early reconnaissance were eventually destroyed by all kinds of bombs, and it is no exaggeration to say that even if China made every effort to repair it, this airfield would not be usable until the end of the war. In this sense, the strategic goal of this wave of attacks by the Germans has been achieved! The attendance rate of the Huaxia Air Force will be limited as a result, and the originally integrated ground support system will be forced to be divided into two parts, east and west, with the destruction of this important target in the middle!
"It's finally over?" Looking at the airfield that had turned into a sea of fire on the ground, Grim finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and all the strategic bombers began to climb and reorganize into box formations, and after completing the formation, they made a circle in the northeast direction of the airfield and embarked on the way home. Fuel consumption is almost half, and the speed of the bomber group after having dropped all the bombs will increase a little. This means that they will stay in enemy airspace for a shorter period of time. In other words, there will be fewer attacks.
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