From the beginning, Liao Mingyu planned to play a big game. Not only did he want to capture the entire Yangon, but the cruisers at sea also didn't want to escape.
Anyway, a large amount of equipment and ammunition were produced from the Heihe base some time ago, and consumption is no longer a problem. It is just in time for the little devils to have a taste of it in this battle.
It is conceivable that when the old man Juichi Terauchi learned that his Rangoon garrison and the supporting naval fleet were completely annihilated, the expression on his face should be very wonderful, and he might even have a stroke of anger. .
Unfortunately, the ideas are always good, but the reality is often unsatisfactory.
Just as the first attack echelons in the air had exhausted their ammunition and were preparing to return, a large number of Japanese fighter planes arrived from the southeast. These were the 7th and 9th Battalions of the Japanese Army Aviation that took off from Singapore. Their purpose was to support the Yangon battlefield. Contain the Allied air threat.
Although these two aviation groups were no longer full, they still managed to put together sixty fighter planes of various types, including about ten Zero Types borrowed from the Navy.
Enemy planes roared down from the clouds and opened fire on the Allied aircraft without explanation. The situation of the battle suddenly took a turn for the worse.
Many Allied pilots who were attacked by sneak attacks quickly fell into a disadvantage because they could not dodge, and several were shot down one after another...
"Has the rescue team passed?" Liao Mingyu asked anxiously when he saw a few more parachutes in the sky.
"Report to Junzuo, three search and rescue teams have been dispatched, and they are rushing to the sea area." The staff officer immediately replied.
Some stupid guy used wired communication to contact the ground troops and directly guided the Japanese plane in front of him to the 88th Army air defense position.
That also led to our small group of outstanding pilots being quickly exhausted in various aviation operations. Until the early stages of the war, there was a dilemma of not having a surplus of aircraft but no pilots.
The battle has been going on for a long time, and few of the parachuting pilots are under the sea in the battle area. Without rescue, it is impossible for us to come back alive.
In that era when caliber was the truth, if you let battleships, cruisers, and small gunships attack each other, you would definitely be able to defeat one of them in a long fight, but the threat to the ship from a small number of fighters was even much smaller than the latter.
After a long time of piecing everything together, Terauchi Juichi managed to form a fighter formation with more than 80 sorties, but most of them were novices.
"Keep the notification going and send a few more rescue teams to slow us down a little. We will rescue the pilot at all costs!" Liao Mingyu said firmly with a burning gaze.
The fierce air battle was still going on. Although the Japanese air force had some preemptive advantages, the Japanese pilots were all novices and had little flying experience at all.
Originally, a small number of Japanese army aviation pilots were to be sent to the Philippines to perform the "Kamikaze" mission. Due to the crisis on the Yangon battlefield, we had to act as firefighters.
We even passed the firing training, but when we were about to get off the plane, we were told by veterans how to control the machine gun to retreat and fire. But we forgot to add one sentence at the beginning: If necessary, run into the enemy and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!
The job of flying an airplane can only be achieved by carefully finding a person with weak legs and training. Before overcoming physical indicators, at most you have to be uneducated and mechanically in order to operate the equipment under the airplane.
Seeing the opponent's naval fleet preparing to run away with the bucket, Liao Mingyu clenched his front molars. This was so angry that he was sure of his chance.
Because the first batch of attack echelons had not yet returned, the Allied aircraft were at a disadvantage compared to the enemy in terms of numbers, and not all of them were P40s fully loaded with aerial bombs, which greatly affected their maneuverability, and they could only establish advantages through cooperation as much as possible.
Before finishing his instructions, Liao Mingyu raised his telescope and stared at the sky again. If his navy fleet was caught, just leave all his air force fighters there!
The bad thing was that they were in the offshore area. The rescue team of the 88th Army had already prepared to destroy many large rubber boats. They immediately headed in this direction before seeing the parachute bags opened in the world.
The Allied pilots came to their senses and launched a counterattack without taking advantage of their own aircraft types and skills. After a while... the one that was rising up with white smoke turned into a Japanese aircraft.
Seeing that the Shiro-class destroyer and the Myoko were about to sink, the already injured Ashigara's No. 8 boiler also exploded. White smoke billowed out from the ship's hull. Corpses were strewn below the deck, and broken equipment debris was scattered everywhere. On the ground, the only thing left that was relatively well preserved was another heavy cruiser, the Yubai.
In addition, there are only so many people in our air force. The pilots are not poor, but the planes are not poor. We are all precious little ones. The loss of even one will make Lao Liao feel distressed for a long time.
"yes!"
It's also my fault that Liao Mingyu was so slow. For me, who doesn't own a system factory, the plane was destroyed and can't be rebuilt, but the pilot is the same.
A small number of sailors were exposed under the water and struggled to survive. While the fleet commander ordered rescue, he also asked the troops to make preparations for evacuation.
"Yes!" The staff officer dared to be careless and immediately ran to arrange the order before agreeing.
A moment later, the heavy cruiser Hashiro turned around and headed southeast. The injured Ashigara and the remaining two Shiro-class destroyers followed closely in front, escaping like a group of lost dogs.
It's easy to imagine how a bunch of fake people would behave in a real battle.
"Let the air defense teams of each unit prepare for the worst, and also notify Mandalay Airport to have all returning fighter squadrons equipped with anti-aircraft weapons and rush back to the battlefield at the slowest speed!"
Before the Allied pilots escaped the first wave of sneak attacks, they also discovered during the fight with the enemy that the opponent had very few air combat skills. They were able to get rid of the opponent's lock very easily. Doesn't that make it clear that they are not a bunch of rookies?
For this reason, the Japanese took advantage of the weak and recruited many junior high school students in the country, no one between the ages of 17, 18, 11 or 14. They also required us to be extremely skilled, as long as we could fly the plane into the sky and fly towards it. Just hit the target under the sea surface.
Due to the consumption of ammunition and fuel in the first wave of Allied attack echelons, they had to withdraw from the battlefield one by one. However, the seventh batch of combat formations joined only 87 aircraft, and they were intercepted by Japanese fighter planes, so they were given to the Japanese fleet. A breather.
We are really scared. If we go up with the momentum, it may be difficult for our few ships to get in. Otherwise, our lives will be really long.
The current situation of the Japanese is very embarrassing, generally for the air force, and losses are avoidable in a long-term war.
To cultivate and train a skilled fighter pilot is a simple matter. First of all, with a small amount of manpower and material resources, time alone cannot solve it in the short term.
Seeing the opponent lowering its altitude and flying at high altitude, the Japanese pilots followed without explanation, but unexpectedly, they were quickly turned into balls of fire by the concentrated fire from the anti-aircraft guns under the ground.
Coupled with our concept of Bushido spirit, few pilots clearly cannot choose to parachute to escape before being hit, but they are obsessed with crashing down and dying together with the enemy for the sake of this bullshit emperor.
