The night battle hurricane No. 214 was refueling in the air. Zhou Zhihan was not in the mood to see the majestic Kunlun Pass scenery, and soon flew over the bridge between Jiutang and Batang.
The so-called bridge is not big, but it is quite big compared to other bridges on Kunlun Pass. It is built between three cliffs that are closely adjacent to each other in the shape of a "pin" and are as steep as a sharp blade.
These three closely connected peaks are all over 3,000 meters above sea level. They are surrounded by cliffs. The mountainside is surrounded by white mist, covered with trees, and the scene is wild and wild.
Night Battle Hurricane No. 214 hovered in the sky, surveying the mountains.
The shapes and structures of these three peaks are very strange. When a cross wind blows, the leaves on the mountainside of the three peaks sway and roll forward like rippling blue waves.
Viewed from the air, if you want to blow up the bridge, it is almost impossible to drop bombs from high altitude, because the cross wind on the mountainside is strong and can easily change the landing point of the bomb.
The most effective way is to dive and drop bombs against the knife-edge mountain peaks, but the prerequisite is to avoid the cross wind on the mountainside. Otherwise, during the dive, a strong cross wind will blow and the fighter plane will most likely lose control.
Watching the crosswind rolling around the mountainside like a belt, the branches and leaves stopped swinging violently. Zhou Zhihan's brows relaxed slightly. If he could grasp the interval of the crosswind, he could avoid it.
But even if you avoid the cross wind on the mountainside, the certainty of dropping bombs at high altitude is still very low. Since the bridge deck is at least three thousand meters from the peak, if you want to accurately drop the bomb on the bridge deck of three or four meters wide, it is equivalent to standing five meters wide. Upstairs, holding a penny and throwing it into a beer bottle.
The battle situation was urgent and changing rapidly, and there was no time to practice throwing coins and beer bottles.
Since the mountains are very close to each other, the space is small. Whether it is a bomber or a fighter jet, if it does not have time to pull up the nose of the aircraft after diving to release bombs, it will crash into the opposite mountainside... But...
Zhou Zhihan looked down the mountainside and said to himself: "After the fighter plane drops the bomb and pulls up, even the helicopter may crash into the mountainside, let alone the fighter jets and bombers.
But after dropping the bomb, instead of pulling up, I rolled 360 degrees backwards and in the opposite direction. This would give me a lot of space and time to pull up the nose of the plane, and then climb up against the mountain...
Okay, okay, the space here is too small, even the most powerful bomber can't roll back 360 degrees, so we can only fight hurricanes at night, but I can't guarantee that two bombs can do it..."
"The labor and management have been here for a long time, and the Japanese didn't even send out machine guns to greet us with a few blasts of machine gun fire!"
Zhou Zhihan said as he took out his binoculars and looked toward the bridge.
After solving the problem of escape after dive bombing, another bigger problem appeared in front of us, that is, on both sides of this end of the bridge, the Japanese built more than a dozen overt and covert machine gun bunkers, and the bridge was less than 100 meters long. and a complete lockdown across the bridge.
Zhou Zhihan looked across the bridge.
The open space on the other side was almost stained red with blood. After more than a dozen attacks to blow up the bridge, killing and injuring hundreds of soldiers, the Chinese army stopped attacking and no longer made unnecessary sacrifices, so the task of blowing up the bridge was handed over to the Air Force.
Across the bridge, there are rolling mountains, undulating ravines, and narrow mountain roads that cannot be destroyed with heavy artillery. More than a dozen Japanese bunker towers command the pass, making it difficult for thousands of troops to pass across the bridge.
If a fighter plane wanted to dive and drop bombs, it would have to survive the enemy's dozen machine guns and cannons in more than a dozen open and hidden bunkers.
Since we can only dive and drop bombs from the air, we must first investigate what Xu Jianghua and the others call the unknown airflow coming from the bottom of the valley.
Night War Hurricane No. 214 circled a few more times, flew above the three peaks, and slowly descended to the same height as the peaks. First, he tested whether there was any unknown undercurrent rising from the valley bottom. During this period, what he just saw That crosswind appeared again.
The aircraft's attitude is normal.
No unknown air currents appear.
Zhou Zhihan continued to press the pole slightly and lowered the height. The No. 214 Night Battle Hurricane turned 90 degrees and made a large-angle maneuver between the three peaks.
The flight attitude of the fighter plane was still normal, and there was still no unknown airflow that Captain Xu Jianghua and the others said.
correct.
Based on the crosswind blowing the leaves on the mountainside, Zhou Zhihan thought that if there was airflow at the bottom of the valley, the treetops at the bottom of the valley would definitely swing significantly.
This is the best way to determine whether there are unknown air currents at the valley bottom.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhihan pressed the lever lightly, pushed the joystick forward slightly, and carefully circled to continue lowering the height. He held the telescope in his left hand and stared closely at the treetops at the bottom of the valley. If there was an airflow, the treetops would give an advance warning.
The treetops at the bottom of the valley are just moving slightly, and there is no upward airflow.
Night War Hurricane No. 214 continued to hover on the same plane. After two minutes, there was still no undercurrent coming out of the valley bottom.
Could it be that Xu Jianghua and the others were unable to blow up the bridge, so they were afraid of being punished and falsely reported the situation?
Zhou Zhihan immediately denied his guess. Xu Jianghua was the captain of the bomber brigade. He was a tough man. It was impossible for him to lie about military information. Otherwise, he would not have formed an aerial death squad because he had nothing to do.
The climate of Kunlun Mountain is unpredictable. Affected by the mountains, unknown air currents may appear several times within ten minutes, or sometimes not even once in half a day.
The more this happened, the more cautious Zhou Zhihan became. Unknown and sudden dangers were the most terrifying.
Continuing to push down to lower the height, Zhou Zhihan drove the No. 214 Night Fighting Hurricane and made another circle between the three peaks. When the cross wind passed again, the No. 214 Night Fighting Hurricane suddenly made a small dive.
Let's first ask for directions and detect the enemy's firepower in the bunker.
The Japanese who visited the Hurricane on the 214th Night Battle had already discovered that the attack distance was not enough and they had been holding back. When they saw the Chinese fighter planes swooping down and entering the shooting range, two red tongues of flames immediately spewed out of the bunker, forming an intertwining network and biting them head-on.
Zhou Zhihan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, pressed the stick, rolled the fighter plane to avoid the Japanese machine gun fire, continued to approach the other side, and chuckled: "Hey, the IQ of the little Japanese in reality is indeed not comparable to that in the anti-Japanese drama. , if this was placed in a drama, all the firepower of the little devil would be exposed immediately."
"Tu tu tu tu..."
A few wisps of green smoke suddenly appeared from the thick grass, and then two tongues of flames spurted out, biting towards Night War Hurricane No. 214, very fiercely.
Zhou Zhihan was well prepared. He rolled sideways to avoid it. At the same time, he pressed the button on the joystick. The two machine guns fired at the enemy's firing point. However, they all hit the mountain wall and scattered sparks...
After seven or eight trials, Zhou Zhihan basically figured out all the enemy's machine gun firepower points. It was very difficult to dive and blow up the bridge during the day, because the Japanese machine guns and cannons completely blocked the route to dive and blow up the bridge. Unless an aerial death squad was formed and the plane was loaded with Explosives, hit the bridge and explode.
It seems that we can only wait until dark and use the night hurricane to blow up the bridge.
However, Bai Chongxi had given a death order and the bridge must be blown up before dark to prevent the Japanese reinforcements from breaking through the Chinese blocking forces in Batang and joining the Japanese from the Miki Regiment.
what to do?
