Chapter 240: The Battle of Nanjing’s Defence of Light Cavalry (Part 2)

June 7, 1937, for the acting commander of the sending army of the Central Branch of the *** Empire, Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, it was an extremely disgusting morning. The aircraft carrier group of the *** Navy anchored outside Wusongkou was attacked by the Chinese Air Force, which was absolutely superior.

When Asakagumi Hashihiko heard the news, he was enjoying breakfast and was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Zhongzhang Airport and completely destroy the victory of the Battle of Air Force. Asakagumi Hashihiko was extremely satisfied with his surprise attack plan. Isn’t the Rehe Army’s bf-109f multi-purpose fighter powerful in the air? Then our Great Imperial Army will destroy you all on the ground. As long as we have the air supremacy over Nanjing, the initiative in the Nanjing battle will change hands.

However, what surprised Asakagumi Kuchihiko was that he had just sent all the fighter planes to attack the four major field airports and two backup airports in Jiangbei, Zhongzhangkou. As a result, the fleet anchored outside Wusongkou was attacked by the Chinese Air Force that had an absolute advantage and almost all out of the nest. It is said that the battle situation was extremely tragic. There were even Chinese bombers loaded with bombs directly hitting their own warships?

Asakagumi Kurahiko could understand the crazy actions of the Chinese Air Force, because in his memory, a Chinese pilot who had parachuted was blown by the wind to the Japanese position during the Battle of Shanghai. The pilot changed his name to kill four imperial soldiers in a row with his wearing revolver and committed suicide with his last bullet. Asakagumi Kurahiko even remembered the name of the Chinese pilot, whose name was Yan Haiwen.

Asakamiya Hikari decided to immediately convene the captain of the Army Aviation Corps, who belonged to the Third and Fourth Flight Divisions, and the Chief of Liaison Staff of the Navy Aviation Corps, to hold an emergency meeting.

Third, the Fourth Flight Division was expanded from the former Shanghai Expeditionary Force flight units. Its headquarters was under the First United Airlines Group of the Army Aviation, commanded by Colonel Tozuka Dotaro, the Second United Airlines Group, commander Captain Sanrisaki Satoshi, the 21st Air Team, commander Colonel Hasegawa Kishi, the 23rd Air Team, commander Colonel Okada Shinnosuke Nakasato, and the 12th Air Team, commander Major General Yoshiichi Miyata, the First Air Team of the Army Aviation Headquarters, commander Major General Takasu Shiro, commander Major General Okae Rokuro and others were summoned from Asaka Miyagi Hatsuhiko from his command center, and even the airport command tower to the Extraordinary Headquarters of Asaka Miyagi Hatsuhiko to attend the emergency meeting.

As a result, everyone arrived for a full twenty minutes, but the convener of the "emergency" meeting, Asakamiya Hirohiko, the convener of the "emergency" meeting, did not show up. Many senior officers of the Japanese aviation forces could not help but look at each other. Major General Takasu Shiro, the commander of the First Air Force of the Army Headquarters, said to Jue Jiang Liuro beside him with a cold face: "It's all our three-monkey princes doing some things that are angry and resentful. Now it seems that what they say is true? Today's such an important military operation, the Chinese Air Force fighter jets attacked our warships at Wusongkou, but what are we doing? As commanders, we were actually waiting for an idiot to have a meeting for us? It's really outrageous."

Jiujiang Ruoro sighed helplessly and said, "I really don't know what His Majesty the Emperor is thinking. If it were General Matsui Ishione, our army would have already attacked Nanjing City. I heard that after a total of twelve days of fighting, the troops in the front were suffering heavy casualties, but the troops only advanced to the city walls of Nanjing. If they continue to fight like this, they may not be able to defeat Nanjing even if they reinforce the five divisions."

Hasegawa Ki, who was sitting beside him, looked around and lowered his voice and whispered: "The poor people on the front line have been defeated. I heard that those who reported to our aviation troops are not reported to us, saying that we cannot control air superiority and cannot eliminate the artillery. This is the real bastard. At that time, the *** people in Chengde did not have any aircraft yet. Our army has fighter jets, heavy artillery, and chariots have not captured that small town? Now that we have lost the battle, we don't criticize ourselves, and we have to slander us."

As soon as Hasegawa Ki finished speaking, with the voice of His Highness Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, the acting commander, arrived! The senior Japanese officers present immediately stood up and saluted!

Asakami Hirohiko looked at the rumbling sound of cannons and explosions in the direction of Wusongkou, and looked around the people present indifferently and said, "Those arrogant guys in the Navy always think they are one step ahead of us. Now, in front of the bombs of Zhong***, everyone is equal, both the army and the navy.

Since all the generals of the army were present and the chief of staff of the Navy, Toshiichiro Nishida, had not arrived yet, everyone present laughed heartlessly. The Japanese generals below were also shocked by the guy who never spoke through his brain and always thought about problems with his butt.

It was as if the one who was bombed outside was not the warships of the Great Empire, but the Chinese!

The five aircraft carriers sent by the Japanese fleet in China were attacked by more than 300 Chinese Air Force fighter jets, as well as the destroyers, light cruisers and heavy cruisers that escorted it, all suffered heavy damage. Unfortunately, the Chinese Air Force was not equipped with torpedo attack aircraft. It was easy to severely damage the Japanese aircraft carrier with a 500-pound bomb. As long as two or three hits the flight deck, it would be enough. The Japanese aircraft carrier hit the deck by a 500-pound high-explosive bomb will take at least six or eight months of emergency repairs to fully restore combat effectiveness.

However, it takes great luck to sink the Japanese aircraft carrier, because the Chinese Air Force, the Rehe Flying Tigers, and even the Soviet Volunteer Air Force aid to China are not equipped with corresponding types of bombs suitable for attacking large surface ships, such as spiral tail armor-piercing blasting bombs, sharp armor-piercing blasting bombs, etc.

Ordinary high-explosion bombs can only cause major casualties to the surface and personnel of the ship, but cannot sink its ship. You should know that when designing surface combat ships, the ship's survivability must be placed before its firepower projection and combat effectiveness. Therefore, the fuel tanks, gas stations, ammunition depots and separate storage areas of the Japanese aircraft carrier are difficult to easily hit.

Although more than 20 Japanese fleets outside Wusongkou were rolling smoke, not many people could be sunk. Many Chinese people in Shanghai were climbing up to look at the restoration of the Southern Division. Some journalists from various countries in the British, French and American concessions also seized the high point and took photos that made the *** people extremely annoyed.

However, many foreign journalists gradually discovered that although the Chinese Air Force's offensive wave after wave, the bombs that actually hit Japanese warships did not pose much threat. That is, although the attack was very lively, the damage to Japanese warships was not really bad? And what is very strange is that the fighter jets of the Japanese Army Aviation in Hongkou have not yet come to reinforce? And where did the fighter jets of the Navy Aviation that are constantly taking off on weekdays? *** The navy relies entirely on the air defense firepower of the ships to passively defend?

As nearly 70 warships outside Wusongkou began to concentrate and formed a tight firepower network through coordinated cooperation, the losses of the Chinese Air Force suddenly increased.

Nine "Hengel" light bombers from the Eighth Battalion of the Air Force, which had been hovering at high altitudes, were hovering at high altitudes to find appropriate opportunities to enter the battlefield. In order to increase the load of bombs, they only had one-way fuel. One was to give up the fighter jets to parachute after bombing, and the other was to fly the plane to hit the Japanese ship.

Most Chinese pilots have already estimated that it is difficult to sink the large surface ship of the Japanese ship with just 500 pounds of bombs. The "Northpro" light bomber numbered 1029 hit the Japanese ship Yaeyama. The Japanese ship Yaeyama has almost sunk, making the pilots of the nine "Henger" light bombers lit up.

You should know that neither the Northpro" light bomber nor the Hengel light bomber are horizontal bombers. Their bomb hit rate of 1,500 feet to dynamic targets on the sea surface is only about 2%, which means that one hundred bombs can only hit two or three.

Therefore, most Chinese bombers ventured into the Japanese air defense fire circle, increasing the hit rate by diving bomb drops, and severely damaging the Japanese aircraft carriers can give the entire Japanese army a great deterrence and strike. The Chinese Air Force pilots understand this truth, and the Japanese army understands it better.

As the leader of nine "Hengel" light bombers, Li Hao discovered that a large Japanese aircraft carrier actually emitted black smoke and seemed to be driving enough horsepower. Moreover, the air defense firepower on it was much more violent than that of Kaga, Fengxiang and other ships. Li Hao immediately determined that this Japanese heavy aircraft carrier should be the new heavy aircraft carrier "Kanfeng" of the Imperial Navy.

Therefore, because the "Hengel" light bomber was not equipped with radio like the BF-109f multi-purpose fighter, Li Hao shook the plane's wings, pointed the nose of his bomber at the Japanese Kamikaze heavy aircraft carrier, and pushed open the side window to fire a red signal flare at Kamikaze.

Nine "Henger" light bombers began to climb, and they pointed their fighter heads at the Japanese Kamikaze aircraft carrier. The first Kamikaze, who started to evade, also discovered the offensive intention of the Chinese Air Force "Henger" light bomber formation, so Kamikaze began to use radio to contact nearby destroyers and cruisers for air defense fire blocking.

Braving the Japanese army's dense air defense firepower network, the nine "Henger" light bombers belonging to the Eighth Battalion of the Chinese Air Force were like air knights who were willing to die, heading straight for the Japanese "Kamikaze" air carrier in a storm.

Japanese soldiers in the anti-aircraft artillery position on the Japanese Kamikaze aircraft carrier howled and shot desperately under the command of the artillery position officer. A hit "Hengel" light bomber rolled and was installed on a Japanese destroyer, causing a series of large explosions.

Boom! The "Hengel" light bomber driven by Li Hao hit the command tower of the Kanyu with rolling smoke. Boom! In the orange-red explosion flames, the lives of the Chinese Air Force warriors were sublimated in the violent explosions! Honor will be with them.
Chapter completed!