Zhou Zhihan was a little timid when he thought of the huge destructive power caused by the explosion of the St. Pol Oil Refinery. None of the dozen fighter planes near the refinery at that time were spared, and they were all swallowed up by the huge shock wave.
Although the capacity of the Japanese oil storage tank is much smaller than that of the Saint-Pol Refinery at the Dunkirk dock, the oil tank is too low to the ground, and the space for the Spitfire to rise after it dives and drops the bomb is very small. At this time, the entire airport It has become a sea of fire, leaving even narrower room for improvement.
Zhou Zhihan once again calculated his chances of escape after the dive bombing, half and half at most.
He immediately decided to abandon the dive bombing.
Now is not the time to show off as a hero. If the fighter planes are hit and injured during the oil tank explosion and withdraw from the battlefield, then Xu Jianghua and his eight bombers will have a hard time getting away from the Japanese Type 97 attack.
But this oil storage tank must not be left to the Japanese.
Use incendiary bombs!
The incendiary bomb cannot explode the oil tank immediately, but it will still explode when the heat on the surface of the oil tank reaches a certain level.
Just do it!
Zhou Zhihan began to dive, and when he was about to reach the sky above the oil tank, he suddenly released gasoline and poured it down from the top of the oil tank. Then he took off again and pulled up the fighter plane. He quickly turned around at a small angle and dropped an incendiary bomb. After the explosion, it split into fifty Multiple small incendiary bombs.
"Buzz!"
The oil tank was swallowed up by the fire in an instant. As the temperature continued to rise, it would explode soon. Now the little devil had no time to take care of himself, and no one would risk his life to put out the fire.
At this time, the Chinese bombers began to launch the third and final wave of bombing attacks. After the completion of the bombing attack, the Chinese bombers could advance to victory.
Seeing the Japanese airport being engulfed in fire, Zhou Zhihan felt happy. He raised the Spitfire and prepared to enter a high-altitude ambush, waiting for the Japanese Army's Type 97 land battle to return to defense.
What he has to do today is to lead the bombers to accurately find the Japanese airport, launch a precise strike, and then protect the bombers from returning safely.
As for the task of bombing the Japanese airport, it was all left to Xu Jianghua and the others. His current task was to serve as a realm in the air, intercept the Japanese fighter jets returning from Kunlun Pass, and ensure the safety of the Chinese fighter jets.
Suddenly, Zhou Zhihan saw a Type 96 warship accelerating crookedly on a lawn, pulling up and raising its head. The landing gear jolted twice before leaving the ground, and was about to take off.
Zhou Zhihan changed the push rod during the pull-up, and the Spitfire dived at a small angle, arriving behind the tail of the Type 96 ship that had just taken off.
The pilot of this Type 96 battleship was none other than Saburo Itai. He endured the pain and managed to take off the fighter plane successfully. He was overjoyed for a few seconds when he suddenly felt a violent tremor coming from the fuselage. Then he flicked the control stick in his hand and the nose of the aircraft It sank violently, fell to the ground, and hit the ground hard a few seconds later. The violent impact caused his wounds to be painful, and he almost fainted.
After gasping for breath for a few seconds, Saburo Itai rolled and crawled out of the cabin. Only then did he realize that although the plane crashed, fortunately the plane took him out of the explosion zone and he was finally recovered. A life.
Zhou Zhihan didn't know that the pilot sitting in this Type 96 battleship was the famous Saburo Itai who later became an ace pilot.
Zhou Zhihan succeeded with one blow, pulled back the control stick, and the fire flew into the sky like a swift in a tropical jungle, quickly climbing into the air.
More than ten kilometers away, more than a dozen Type 96 land attack aircraft arrived at lightning speed, and the pilots were extremely anxious.
In the dark night, the little Japs on the air defense position outside the airport were even more anxious. They watched helplessly as the airport was bombed by the Chinese Air Force at low altitudes and were helpless. If the Chinese fighter planes had not left and the fighting was still going on, the position commander might have been He committed suicide by caesarean section to thank the emperor.
Suddenly, the soldiers on the outermost edge noticed that there was another roar of fighter jets coming from the west, and immediately reported it to the position commander.
what to do?
The commander of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position was once again entangled.
At this time, the airport had been destroyed by fire, and because the fire was so strong, their position was in flickering light and darkness, so he could not see clearly whether the fighter planes roaring from the darkness in the west were enemies or friends.
Based on common sense and time judgment, this group of fighters should be imperial fighters returning from Kunlun Pass.
But what if it’s not?
At this moment, the commander of the Japanese air defense position fell into the biggest dilemma he had ever encountered in his life.
Listening to the roar of Western fighter planes getting closer and closer, a few seconds later he made what he thought was the shrewdest decision in his life: order all gunners to be ready to fire and turn on the lights on the anti-aircraft positions. If flying in from the darkness from the west If it is an imperial fighter plane, it will not attack its own people. If it is a Chinese fighter plane, it will definitely drop bombs immediately when it sees the fire on the air defense position, and then the air defense position can fire back immediately.
The position commander believes that even if enemy planes fly in and attack the air defense position, their sacrifice is worth it. At least they have contributed to the airport and attracted the firepower of the enemy planes.
Zhou Zhihan was in the air, watching the Japanese air defense positions outside the airport suddenly brightly lit. He immediately understood the Japanese's intentions. After thinking for a moment, a sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he calculated the arrival of the Type 97 Land Warfare from his flight helmet. At the same time, with a press of the lever, the Spitfire quickly met him at high altitude, then quickly turned around and flew towards the air defense position without the opponent knowing it.
Major Masao Maruyama saw from a distance the flames over the airport and the thick smoke rising into the sky, dyeing half of the sky red. Due to the thick smoke, he could not see the Chinese fighter planes dropping bombs at low altitude at the airport. He asked the airport tower several times but there was no one. After receiving the answer and knowing that the airport was under attack, he returned home quickly and led the fleet to accelerate back to the defense at an altitude of two thousand meters.
At this time, the Japanese fighter units were unable to share communications with the anti-aircraft artillery units.
Not to mention little devils, at this time, even in the UK and Germany, which have the most developed communication capabilities, the communication between the two fighter squadrons cannot be shared, unless the communication settings of one squadron are changed to the same channel as the other squadron in advance, but this It's tedious and takes time.
Zhou Zhihan saw a group of Type 97 land attack aircraft about to enter the Japanese air defense position at high altitude. He smiled mischievously again and suddenly pushed the stick. The Spitfires swooped down and launched a sudden attack on the Japanese air defense position before the Japanese aircraft fleet arrived. blow.
An incendiary bomb whizzed down, and the fighter plane fired several bursts in succession during the dive, regardless of whether it hit the Japs. Then it quickly pulled the lever before the Japs opened fire, and then made several consecutive pull-ups and jumps. Enter the darkness and fly out of the firing height of anti-aircraft guns.
"Boom boom boom..."
The incendiary bomb exploded in the air, and dozens of small fireballs fell on the air defense position, exploding and catching fire instantly.
"shooting!"
The Japanese commander finally got the answer. Another Chinese fighter jet came from the west. In anger, he drew his command knife and pointed it straight at the sky.
As soon as he finished his roar, he felt that the entire ground beneath his feet suddenly sank. There were clouds of black smoke billowing around him, and red cannonballs shot towards the dozens of fighter planes flying from the west like meteors.
In order to quickly return to defense, Major Masao Maruyama flew the fighter very low so that it could fly at the fastest speed.
suddenly.
Major Masao Maruyama cursed "Baga!" because he saw a fighter jet diving down from a high altitude in front of him at high speed. The moment it dropped a bomb, it fired several bursts and then lifted up into the darkness like lightning.
Then, thousands of bombs were fired from the empire's anti-aircraft positions, like large fiery red nets, rising from the ground to the air. The intensity of the artillery fire was astonishing.
The artillery fire came too suddenly and too intensively. All the Type 97 land fighters were completely unprepared and flew very low. They were caught off guard. Two of them were hit because they were unable to evade. The tails of the aircraft were trailing thick smoke and were burning with hidden fires. , falling towards the distance.
Being suddenly attacked, the Japanese fleet fell into panic. Seeing that their comrades were hit again, several pilots mistakenly believed that the air defense positions on the ground were also occupied by the Chinese ** team. In the panic, a Type 97 Land Combat shot out a Long shot...
"idiot……"
Major Masao Maruyama angrily stopped his men's stupid behavior, but it was too late, and the box that imprisoned the devil had been opened.
The anti-aircraft guns on the ground were attacking with all their strength. The gunners had just watched the airport being bombed and were helpless. At this time, everyone vented their anger on the fleet led by Major Masao Maruyama. The bomb carriers turned off the lights around them. , the position flickered in and out instantly, condensing a trail of artillery shells that stabbed into the air like sharp swords.
At an altitude of 2,000 meters, they were suddenly attacked fiercely and intensively. The Type 97 Land Combat could not withstand it. How could he still be in the mood to go to the airport and return to defense? It is human nature to save life first. Just now, some pilots thought that the air defense on the ground was not good. The position was occupied by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At this time, most pilots thought so. Even Major Masao Maruyama began to suspect that his fleet was attacked by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. However, he was still rational and continued to fight. Before he was sure, he yelled desperately to order his pilots to stop attacking and spread out to both sides until he could find out the situation.
Major Masao Maruyama could see that the further we flew toward the airport, the more intense the artillery fire on the ground became.
The little devils on the ground devoted their entire lives to preventing Major Masao Maruyama's fleet from flying over the airport.
Maruyama Masao ordered his fleet to evade and not attack, but the Type 96 Land Attack that followed him didn't know the reason. Seeing the intensive artillery fire from the front, he attacked his own Type 97 Land Attack and shot down two of them, and several aircraft The gunmen immediately used firepower to suppress the ground, reducing the pressure on the Type 97 land battle...
Seeing the hail of firepower coming down from the air, the Japs on the ground became even more desperate.
Faced with the fierce fire attack from the ground, Major Masao Maruyama finally determined that the air defense position of the airport was occupied by the squadron. Otherwise, the airport would not have suffered such a devastating blow. He ordered the fleet to start attacking the ground...
As a result, the Japanese ground artillery fire and air fighters inevitably started fighting.
Slowly speaking, in fact, the thinking time left between the Japanese on the ground and the Japanese in the air was only a few seconds. In the flash of lightning, they were suddenly attacked and counterattacked, and the Japanese and Japanese suddenly started to bite each other... …
"What a blessing! Isn't it too easy to sow discord?"
Zhou Zhihan was hiding in the sky, witnessing everything that happened below. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, no one else would have believed the fire-breathing dive bomb, so he instigated the dogs to bite.
Chinese bombers dropped bombs unimpeded above the Nanning Airport. The third wave of bomb drops ended in less than half a minute. All fighter planes finished dropping bombs, reduced their weight, and quickly lifted up. Under the cover of thick smoke, one after another, according to the compass and The compass indicated accelerating northward, which was also one of the original plans.
At this time, the Japanese army had no radar, and as long as the bombers entered the darkness, their safety would increase exponentially.
The pilots drove the bombers into the darkness, and the gunners, navigators, and bombardiers looked down from the air at the Japanese airport that turned into a sea of flames. It felt like they were dreaming.
Even sweet dreams don't go so smoothly, right?
So someone simply slapped him twice in the face until it hurt, or the crew pinched each other's thighs and grinned. Then they were sure that it was not a dream, and the brothers were indeed at Nanning Airport where they killed the little devil.
Some pilots were so happy that they cried. This great victory tonight swept away all the depression and humiliation that the Chinese Air Force had suffered since the Anti-Japanese War.
Everyone's excitement was indescribable. The results tonight were enough to brag about their awesomeness for a lifetime.
The Air Force war song began to be sung on some planes:
Ling Yun's wish was fulfilled,
The sky is full of twists and turns,
Serve the country with great ambition,
Just in time to fly away in the wind,
Thousands of miles in the sky,
Restore my old rivers and mountains,
effort!
effort! !
Don't take any time to rest,
The responsibility for the rise and fall of the nation rests on my shoulders.
Must have a spirit of sacrifice,
Spread your wings and soar into the sky...
As they sang, they began to cry, with tears streaming down their faces...
In the darkness, Zhou Zhihan watched the Chinese bombers one after another, entering and leaving in the darkness in an orderly manner. He felt relieved and ignored the dog-eat-dog fight between the Japanese and Japanese bombers for the time being. It rolled and changed direction and flew towards Nanning Airport.
At this time, the Japanese oil tank had not exploded yet, and he was worried. He could not leave until he saw the large oil tank explode with his own eyes.
Flying over the Nanning Airport again, looking down in the darkness, I saw that the airport had been completely destroyed. The bullets and bombs on the Japanese fighter jets and bombers began to explode, blowing the aircraft bodies that had been burned into empty shells into pieces and jumping around on the ground. , flying in the air, those Japanese who did not have time to escape were huddled together by the fire and turned into black coal, as unrecognizable as dead dogs.
Not far away, the two Type 97 Marines that had been hit by ground artillery fire crashed and exploded on the ground. Two huge fireballs rose up. In the light and fire, the pilots parachuting could be faintly seen, and the strangulation of ground machine guns in the aisle became... His limbs were broken, his parachute was punctured, it leaked and fell rapidly, hitting the ground.
It was only then that the Japanese troops on the ground saw the plaster mark on the flight suit of the killed pilot and the word "Must Win" on the flight cap, and realized that they had accidentally injured one of their own, so they yelled "misunderstanding, misunderstanding", but Their voices were like saliva drowned in the surging waves, and they could not be stopped until the gunners who ran over to pull the fire. But the artillery position with a radius of more than ten kilometers could not stop for a while.
Moreover, even if they stopped, the fighter bombers in the sky had no intention of stopping...
Zhou Zhihan saw from a distance that the oil storage tank was still burning, and no one was around to put out the fire, so he was not worried about it.
While circling, he once again confirmed from his flight helmet that the Chinese bombers had left safely and that the Japanese fighter planes could no longer catch up. Zhou Zhihan was completely relieved and quietly waited for the explosion of the oil storage tank, which was as powerful as a small nuclear bomb.
