I just don't like it anymore, but as a soldier, an order is an order. Since the North China Front Army has the 1st Brigade of Combat Vehicles, it is assigned to the command of Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai. Then as a major general of the Imperial Army, Major General Ano Yasuri has nothing to say except for the out-and-out execution.

For the current Japanese Army, it has long been a thing of the past. The orders of the boss must be resolutely obeyed whether they are right or wrong. If you don't obey the order, you can only be repaired and returned to your home country to retire from active duty. This result is undoubtedly difficult for a person who has already become a major general in the army to accept.

It's just that this Major General Ano Anri immediately launched a hasty attack without coming up. Major General Yashiro, who has been paying close attention to tank warfare on the Soviet-German battlefield, is still one of the very few Japanese generals who has studied tank warfare quite a bit and has always followed the trend of the world, but he still adopted relatively stable tactics.

Of course, among this old man, there may not be the idea of holding his own tank, which is more expensive than a soldier who is a consumable. Therefore, he did not adopt the tactic of using tanks to cooperate with the infantry to attack directly, but was prepared to adopt the tactic of opening the gap with the infantry first, and the tanks rapidly expanding into the enemy's depth. As for anti-aircraft defense, he deployed only a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns.

It's not that Major General Ano Yasuri was overly careless, but that during the tactical discussion on the first day, Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai told him clearly. Don't worry about enemy aviation, because the Empire's newest fighters and aviation units. When he was still fighting fiercely on the battlefield of Wangdu, he inflicted heavy losses on the enemy aviation on the battlefield east of Baoding.

At the moment, the enemy aviation, there is nothing to worry about. The valiant Imperial Air Samurai will hold up an air umbrella for his 1st Brigade of Chariots. Although he was skeptical of Lieutenant General Sakai's words, he only had a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns in his hands, and he did not want to accept him with limited cards, so he could only accept the appeasement of Lieutenant General Sakai Yasu.

It's just that the uneasiness in his heart is getting stronger and stronger, but he doesn't know that a big net in the sky is flying towards his first brigade of chariots. As for those heroic Imperial air warriors, because of the results of the air battle on the first day, they were still squatting in the nest and licking their wounds.

Liang Futang, one of the few survivors of the first batch of pilots trained by the Anti-United Nations Air Force since its formation, after several years of bloody battles. He is currently the captain of the 3rd Attack Aircraft Flight Regiment of the Anti-United Nations Air Force, and the first Captain Flight Regiment to be fully equipped with Il-2 attack aircraft.

His regiment was also the first Il-2 attack aircraft regiment to be put into operation in the Jizhong battlefield during the Anti-United Nations Air Force. The two brigades under its command, with a total of four flying squadrons, and 96 attack planes from 12 flying detachments, were all put into the battlefield in central Hebei.

As a result of receiving a report from the front, the enemy dispatched a whole tank brigade and regiment, hundreds of tanks and artillery fighting vehicles of various types, as well as a large number of mobile trucks and infantry in the north of Baoding. So when he received the order to attack, he simply came to a full dispatch. And he, the head of the regiment, also personally put on the command of the battle.

There is no way that this is the Il-2 attack plane, after joining the sequence of the anti-United Nations air force, the first large-scale sortie, he is not very relieved not to come to the front line to command. As his fleet approached the assembly area of the 1st Brigade of Japanese Tanks, he looked at the large number of tanks, artillery fighting vehicles, and trucks lined up on the ground. Rao is a veteran from a hundred battles, and it is difficult for Liang Futang to suppress the excitement in his heart.

There are so many targets that are almost defenseless, and they are simply beckoning to themselves when they are placed in front of them. Fighters are rare, and if this battle is not fought well, I will be sorry for the cooperation of the Japanese. What's more, the aircraft group under his command also carried the latest weapons specially designed to deal with the Japanese tank group.

In each of the four squadrons he commanded, the eight Il-2 attack aircraft of one detachment were equipped with two 37-millimeter anti-tank guns specially modified by the Anti-United Nations and two PTAB cluster bomb boxes.

In each of the other two detachments, there was a detachment of eight Il-2 attack aircraft, carrying four 82-millimeter rockets under the wings on either side, and a cluster bomb box in the bomb compartment inside the fuselage. The remaining detachment was all but two 23-mm cannons, and carried four PTAB cluster bomb throwing boxes that had shown their might on the Soviet-German battlefield.

The 37-millimeter guns used under the wings on both sides of the anti-United Nations Il-2 attack plane were copied and improved on the basis of the T10 37-millimeter aircraft guns on the American-made P63 fighters. It is not very successful with the Soviet one, and the Sanqi aircraft gun, which was improved from anti-aircraft guns, is two different things. Although the power is weaker, both the accuracy and recoil far exceed the Soviet-style 37 aircraft guns of the same period.

Although these 37 aircraft guns could not destroy the Japanese Type 1 modified tanks from the front, there was still no problem in hitting the Japanese Army's Type 97 modified tanks and penetrating the Type 1 tanks from the side and rear. Coupled with the fact that each aircraft carries at least seventy PTABs, as well as a large number of rockets, it is enough to send the current 1st Brigade of Combat Vehicles home en masse.

Liang Futang, who couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, turned on the on-board radio and ordered the squadron leaders: "The first and third squadrons plus the first detachment to which each squadron belongs will concentrate their firepower to deal with the Japanese tank clusters, and the remaining two detachments of the second and fourth squadrons will deal with the Japanese infantry and automobiles, and the Japanese artillery positions. ”

"The squadrons attacked according to the established tactics, and first gave them a rain of bombs as an appetizer. After that, they used cannons and rockets to give them a good meal. Let's take on the main combat mission today, and let the infantry big brother take a breather. ”

"I can tell you, the big brother of the infantry is watching there on the north bank of the Cao River. If anyone disgraces me, he will be responsible for cleaning up the planes of the whole regiment when he goes back. After giving the order, Liang Futang, who couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, took the lead in lowering the nose of the plane and rushed towards the Japanese tank cluster on the ground at a height of 150 meters.

Ignoring the anti-aircraft machine guns that the Japanese troops were desperately firing on the ground, they swooped into the sky above the Japanese tank cluster that was trying to disperse and open the formation to prepare for an air raid, and opened the magazine to drop more than 130 bombs on the head of the Japanese tank cluster in the box carrying two PTAB bombs.

Although the accuracy of the seventy 2.5-kilogram armor-piercing bombs like the scattered flowers of the Heavenly Maiden is a little worse, the density is enough. When Liang Futang threw away all the bombs in the two bomb boxes in the fuselage magazine and pulled the plane up, more than a dozen Japanese tanks on the ground had already emitted black smoke. The distance of 500 meters was obviously too short for the evacuation of the Japanese troops.

Seeing that the regiment commander took the lead in attacking, the squadron leaders were not ambiguous, and led their troops to swoop down behind the regiment commander. With the detachment as the first line of formation, the first use of the PTAB cluster bomb carried in the fuselage brought a rain of bombs to the Japanese army.

Although the PTAB bomb weighs only 2.5 kilograms, it was specially developed by the Soviet Army to deal with the German tank clusters, specially designed to attack the weakest top of the tank, and it is the latest weapon that was put into use in the first half of the fourth or third year. Each Il-2 attack plane can generally carry 280 pieces of ammunition without carrying rockets or modifying large-caliber cannons.

At the same time, it can throw at least 60 of the standard, forming a dense rain of bullets in a short period of time. With the protection of Japanese tanks, it is difficult to escape as long as one is hit. Although the 96 Il-2 attack planes deployed by the Anti-Japanese Federation generally only carried two bomb boxes equipped with 70 pieces each, the bombs dropped in one attack were enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot.

Although the attack aircraft group of the Anti-Japanese Federation approached the assembly area of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Tank Regiment, the Japanese observation post had already sensed that something was wrong from the 1 August Red Star on the fuselage. However, at a distance of 500 meters, it was too late to give the Japanese army any time to react.

When the first attack wave passed, Liang Futang took his group of attack planes and climbed and turned to prepare for the second round of attacks. The 1st Brigade of Japanese Tanks on the ground, throwing out the losses of the previous day. Of the remaining 100 or so tanks and artillery fighting vehicles, only one-third are still operational.

If it weren't for the fact that two-thirds of the aircraft group was assigned to deal with the Japanese infantry, and the first wave of attacks came down, I am afraid that the first brigade of the Japanese tank would have nothing left. But even with only two-thirds of the troops, the Japanese suffered heavy losses in the first round of attacks.

And not only the tank units of the Japanese army, but also the infantry and artillery of the 1st Brigade of the Tank Regiment, also suffered heavy losses. PTAB bombs, not only against Japanese tanks, are quite powerful. Against the Japanese infantry and artillery, it seems that the power is still higher than that of the Japanese tanks.

The first wave of attacks achieved good results, so that Liang Futang immediately launched the second wave of attacks without the slightest hesitation. The group of attack planes that dropped the PTAB bombs carried by the light began to dive and attack again in accordance with pre-war training, using 37 and 23 mm cannons and 82 mm rockets.

Despite the Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun group on the ground, the reaction was not slow. As soon as the first wave of blows had passed, they fired back. But their 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns were almost useless against the Il-2 attack aircraft, which was covered in armor.

Quite a few planes have received a few or even a dozen 13-millimeter bullets that would have been shot down if they were replaced by any kind of aircraft. However, these anti-aircraft machine guns, which are very powerful against other fighter-bombers, are helpless against such hard-skinned attack aircraft. The Japanese fired intensively, but did not shoot down a single plane.

On the contrary, he was targeted by a pack of wolves that smelled meat, and several Il-attack planes that were separated from the attack aircraft group of the Anti-United Nations used 23-mm cannons on board, and they were directly beaten into a pile of parts with men and equipment. The Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun group did not achieve a single success, and was completely dumbfounded in just a few minutes.

As for the dozens of tanks left by the Japanese tank units on the ground, although they tried their best to maneuver and avoid the attack aircraft group of the Anti-Union. But its hasty maneuver was so fragile and slow under the blows of the rockets of the Il-2 attack plane, mixed with 37 and 23 mm aerial shells.

In the second round of attacks, 32 Il-2 attack planes, which accounted for one-third of the total number of anti-United Nations attack planes and carried two 37-mm artillery pits with 60 rounds of artillery shells, exerted decisive power. The 37-millimeter cannon shell, which was not low in accuracy, easily tore through the side and rear armor of the Japanese tanks and paralyzed the Japanese tanks one by one.

The group of anti-coalition attack planes in the air made the Japanese tanks on the ground unable to escape, wanted to hide but had nowhere to hide, and wanted to fight back but had no power. Despite the fact that the tanks that survived the first round of attacks, they kept turning in circles and scattered, trying to dodge the overwhelming shells and rockets. But he found that his maneuver to get rid of it was simply futile for these gods of death who fell from the sky.