Chapter 399: The Nightmare of the Eleventh Division
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Compared with Qi Zhibiao, who was frightened by the huge power of napalm. 【. com text] Tabota Osa doesn't have to worry about this fright. He escaped the first wave of blasters, but not the second wave of napalm. A 100-kilogram napalm that landed near his command post cremated himself and his wing headquarters on the spot.
And the cremation is so clean, even if someone wants to collect the ashes for them, they can't find it. Of course, the biggest advantage is that it reduces a lot of trouble for both the enemy and us, at least there is no need to collect their corpses. I don't have to worry about the plague caused by the decomposing corpses in the early summer weather.
Before the Japanese troops, who had escaped the catastrophe in the raging fire, woke up from the terrifying blow that fell from the sky, the plane, which had already dropped all the bombs, swooped down again and used the 12.7 mm large-caliber machine gun on board to carefully comb the Jinshagang line. The Japanese soldiers on the ground who survived the air raid were beaten by a chicken, a dog, and a dog, plus heavy casualties.
After all the planes had exhausted all their ammunition and started to return home. Zhang Yi, who was a little worried about the results of the battle, swooped down again, and after carefully observing the results made by himself on the ground, he took his subordinates away with satisfaction. Behind them, there was a scorched Jinshagang and a 12th Wing that had been completely destroyed.
And this bombing became almost a nightmare experience for all the surviving officers and men of the 12th Wing. They were horrified that the new bombs dropped by the other side could not escape even if they hid in what they thought were the safest place. When you are ignited by an incendiary bomb, you will not be able to extinguish it even if you use any means. I could only watch my comrades being burned alive.
In particular, the most terrifying scene that occurs when the new bomb burns is that even if you are lucky enough to avoid all the attacks of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs, you will still be suffocated to death by the inexplicable lack of oxygen. A large number of officers and men of the 12th Wing were not killed or burned to death, but suffocated to death due to the lack of oxygen in Yanzhòng.
The officers and men of the 12th Wing, who looked like they were in hell, didn't know that compared to their comrades who had also suffered roughly the same treatment in Qingyuan, what happened to them in Jinshagang was not the worst. Because the number of napalm that fell on their heads was far less than the number that fell on the heads of their comrades in Qingyuan. They still had survivors, and almost no Japanese officers and soldiers in Qingyuan escaped the bombardment.
Less than five minutes after the bomb was dropped on the Jinshagang line, Qingyuan, where the division headquarters of the 11th Division was located, also enjoyed roughly the same treatment. The only difference is that compared with the Jinshagang line, which only has light bombers and fighter modified attack aircraft, the Qingyuan line has been bombed more violently.
Taking off from Jiamusi, at such a close distance, these bombers with a bomb load of about tons all took off with full loads. In order to ensure that there were enough bombs for this bombardment, under Yang Zhen's construction, Yuan Bin not only cleared the inventory of bombs at one time, but also asked Zhang Zhenhua to approve the warheads of 15150 mm howitzer shells, which were urgently converted into 75 bombs.
If it weren't for Yang Zhen's disagreement because he was worried about being unsafe because he hadn't been tested, this guy would have directly hung a 107mm rocket or a 122 rocket directly on the plane and used it to attack the ground. However, although Yang Zhen did not agree with his plan, this guy's idea reminded Yang Zhen. At this time, the rockets were not good at air combat because of their poor accuracy, but they were quite good ground attacks.
Jiangbei had already used rockets as airborne weapons during the Battle of Normenhan, although unsuccessfully. But in Yang Zhen's view, this is not that this weapon is not suitable as an airborne weapon, but that they are using it in the wrong direction. At this time, although the unguided rockets were powerful, their accuracy was far from that of other airborne weapons, especially the airborne machine guns that are currently being used on a large scale.
In addition to the fact that it has a little power to deal with heavy bombers with large targets and slow flight, it is quite powerless to deal with various fighters and light bombers that are much more agile, both in terms of accuracy and firepower intensity.
This weapon is actually more suitable for ground attacks, but it is quite lethal in attacking marching groups and vehicles, especially trains that are difficult to move. Even for tanks, the king of 6 battles, it is extremely threatening. In the European theater of the next few years, this weapon, which now seems inconspicuous, will become a star. Even in the coming decades, it will become a weapon with the highest cost-effectiveness ratio for large-scale use of ground attack aircraft and helicopter gunships.
Those unguided air-to-surface rockets even performed extremely well in several large-scale local wars after World War II. Even the US military, which has deep pockets and is equipped with a full range of precision-guided weapons, has not eliminated such weapons. Instead, it has been used as the standard equipment of helicopter gunships.
It's just that this kind of weapon, which has just entered the battlefield, still needs a step-by-step maturity process. In particular, their own units have not yet had time to undergo adaptive training, and the weapons launch platform is in the air and not on the ground. In the event of any accident, the only thing that awaits the pilot is the destruction of the plane and the death of the person. So although he was also very excited, Yang Zhen still decided to give up for the time being.
However, although it is still immature at the moment, Yang Zhen will not give up this extremely powerful weapon in ground attack. In the case of only fighter jets and no converted ground attack aircraft, these rockets are well suited to be mounted on fighter jets to carry out ground attack missions. It just takes some time to figure out how to make it mature a little more. As for the time being, I don't need it yet.
Although they were not equipped with rockets, these 20 medium bombers, plus five light bombers with a bomb load of up to 700 kilograms, were enough to destroy a small city with more than 20 tons of bombs, plus napalm, enough to completely raze the small village of Qingyuan.
Of course, the focus of the bombing was not chosen here because I knew that this was now the headquarters of the 11th Division. In fact, it was because this was the baggage place of the 11th Division, and the headquarters of the 11th Division was just piggybacked. In other words, the bombing of the regimental headquarters of the 11th Division was just a matter of some unwarranted disasters.
Ushijima was very cunning, and hid the division headquarters in the garrison of the baggage wing. The reconnaissance troops from the north bank of the Qixing River did not find out where his division headquarters was, despite great effort. But it is not difficult to find the baggage, horses, and large quantities of supplies.
It is different from the Jinshagang front line, which first used high-explosive bombs to clear the Japanese artillery units, and then used napalm bombs to bombard its infantry. Since the baggage brigades of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army were deployed in Qingyuan Town, the effect of using napalm in such towns would be better. Therefore, on the plane that bombed Qingyuan, all napalm was carried. Only five light bombers and two Type 97 medium bombers carried more than four tons of high-explosive bombs as backups.
After the Chinese bombers led by An Zaijiang arrived in the sky over Qingyuan, according to the pattern of daily training, two DO17 bombers as the pilot aircraft took the lead in using napalm to carry out cross-bombing, and lit two blazing cross-fire dragons on the ground as instructions for the follow-up bombers to drop bombs.
Other medium bombers carrying napalm caught fire on the ground before dropping bombs. Accurately land the one carried on the fuselage at the intersection of the two dragons on the ground. More than a dozen medium-sized bombers, plus several transport planes that had been modified to carry one and a half tons of bombs under their wings, dropped all 20 tons of napalm into the small village of Qingyuan.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the bombers commanded by An Zaijiang dropped their bombs at an altitude of less than 700 meters. His tactic was very simple, after flying at a low altitude and dropping bombs, all the planes quickly climbed to a safe altitude and returned. After regrouping at high altitude, return home in a group.
Like the 12th Wing on the front line of Jinshagang, the divisional headquarters and baggage troops of the 11th Division in Qingyuan Town never thought that the opponent still had planes. Not only did they not make any air defense preparations, but they also did not carry any air defense weapons at all.
Not to mention anti-aircraft guns, not even anti-aircraft machine guns. Even the Type 92 heavy machine guns that could be used in the air were always pointed outside the town. As for the heavens, I didn't think that there would be an opponent at all. In contrast to the heavily guarded defense on the ground, the air defense was not arranged at all.
In fact, the air raid on the Mudanjianghai 1ang airfield was very clear to Ushijima, the commander of the lieutenant general's division. But stubbornly, he did not believe that his opponent would have the ability to carry out air strikes on field troops. The reason is very simple, before he came out, he had consulted the information on the various weapons used by his opponent after the start of this battle.
The adversary used a large number of artillery pieces of various calibers in various battles, but there was never a case of ground support using aviation. That is to say, although the opponent has a certain amount of air power, this power is not perfect. In other words, their air power can only carry out bombing of fixed targets, but does not have the ability to directly support the ground. It is simply not comparable with the experienced aviation of the Great Japanese 6 Army.
The most important thing is that Harata Shigeichi had promised him, and the Kwantung Army Command had agreed that it would do its best to mobilize new aviation troops from Harbin and Qiqihar to cover the 11th Division. When the 11 th Division advances westward, the newly arrived air force will set up an airtight air defense network over the 11 th Division.
With the assurance of his superiors, and Mitsuru Ushijima, who has always had confidence in the air warriors of the Empire, did not expect to encounter a threat from the air when formulating this battle plan. It's just that what Ushijima didn't expect was that this time he was really shaken by his boss and his boss's boss.
And the price paid by the 11th Division was not only the original hope of success, but even the possibility of reversing the previous passive situation of the northward operation, because of this air raid completely failed. What's more, Mitsuru Ushijima and his 11th Division also paid the price with their lives. After the battle, the officers and men of the 11th Division who could return were already less than 12 out of 10.
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