In addition to military strength and the quality of soldiers, the most important thing in fighting a war is deception.
This is Duan Wu’s in-depth understanding of tactics. Whether it is Sun Tzu's Art of War or Sun Bin's Art of War, to put it bluntly, they are inseparable from this deceptive word.
If you deceive the enemy, you will win, even if your military strength and the quality of your soldiers are far inferior to the opponent's. Because you have deceived the enemy into your strategy and you have taken the initiative on the battlefield, it will be difficult for you to win.
The Japanese Air Force Wing was deceived by the Dragon Boat Festival. They were sure that the anti-aircraft artillery of Jiangyin Fortress could not see them without turning on the identification lights.
But they were wrong. Duanwu never thought about seeing every plane clearly. Instead, he sent people to the camps where the Japanese troops had been bombed.
Do you still remember that the first battalion of the 672nd Regiment went to the Japanese camp to search?
They didn't just go looting, they also scouted the enemy's campfire guides. The results of the investigation were as expected by Duanwu, and were based on the layout of Jiangyin Fortress.
The Japanese army's first air raid was directed at the 672nd Regiment's position. The second air strike will probably be a full-scale bombing.
Therefore, early in the Dragon Boat Festival, anti-aircraft artillery was deployed on the path where Japanese aircraft must pass.
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When four illumination bombs are hit by anti-aircraft guns to an altitude of 7,000 meters, it will be a nightmare for all Japanese pilots.
Their eyes had adapted to the darkness, and the sudden appearance of bright light caused their pupils to shrink suddenly, causing them to enter a state of temporary blindness.
The Japs were unable to operate and could only wait for the damn blindness to disappear.
The captain of the Japanese flying wing was in the middle and rear of the flying formation, and the impact he received was relatively small. He loudly ordered the plane in front not to move and to drop the bomb according to the original plan.
Although the Japanese captain at this time had already realized that something was wrong, he had to shoot as the arrow was ready. What's more, through the radio, he had received news that the soldiers at the front were temporarily blinded. If they operate randomly, their aircraft may collide with each other before the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery fires.
Moreover, the captain of the Japanese Flying Wing has realized that he has been fooled, and the enemy forces in Jiangyin Fortress have always been able to see them.
The flares were fired into the air by large-caliber anti-aircraft guns. He only hoped that after the flares disappeared, the Chinese soldiers would no longer be able to see them.
Of course, this is also good news for Japanese aircraft. The flares not only illuminated them, but also allowed them to clearly see the location of the enemy's air defense positions.
So flares are a double-edged sword, no different from daylight air raids. Both sides are gambling on their luck.
Of course, what the Japanese army did not expect was that when the flares dimmed again, the second wave of flares they imagined did not appear.
The pilots of the vanguard of the flying wing also recovered from their brief blindness.
"Baga! What are the Chinese people doing? If they don't attack, they just glare at us?"
"Maybe they don't have the courage to fight head-on with the Imperial Japanese Air Force."
"Yes, the Chinese have almost no anti-aircraft weapons. They can't do anything to us."
"Those idiots in Fujino's brigade fell into the Chinese people's trick and were ambushed while strafing the enemy's position."
"Yes, as long as we keep dropping bombs at an altitude of more than 800 meters, the Chinese anti-aircraft weapons will not be able to do anything to us."
"Warriors of the Empire, we are ready to drop bombs. We will dive and drop bombs at a target range of 1,000 meters to 800 meters..."
"Hi!"
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The Japanese First Flying Group and Second Flying Group were already preparing to drop bombs in the dark night.
The sudden appearance of the flare just now made them a lot more vigilant. They won't risk swooping close to the ground. Although which bomb will be more accurate. But it is not cost-effective to risk one's own life and the empire's plane for a small gap.
Therefore, the Japanese are not really afraid of death, they just choose death when there is no other way. Otherwise, if the pilots died together with the enemy every time they went on a mission, all the Japanese pilots would have died long ago.
At the same time, Zhou Weiguo was complaining about why flares were fired so early in the Dragon Boat Festival. The Japanese planes had not arrived at all, which could only expose his intentions.
Zhou Weiguo was going crazy with hatred. If this had been his soldier, he would have kicked Dragon Boat Festival aside.
But it's a pity that now Duanwu has the final say in the entire defense zone, and he actually twisted.
Dragon Boat Festival stood at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, threw away the walking stick in his hand, and slowly raised his hands upwards, as if performing some kind of ceremony.
Crazy and nervous, among the countless eyes in the cave, Duanwu is the commander who is least like a commander. Many people even think that the Dragon Boat Festival is a disease of the brain.
But in the eyes of the old men in the Independent Regiment, this battle has already come to an end.
Just when the flares ended and the whole world returned to darkness again, the anti-aircraft weapons of Jiangyin Fortress rang.
But this time, it was not the Sulothong ST-5 20mm cannon that fired first.
Although the Sulothong ST-5 20mm machine gun has superior performance, its effective range is only two thousand meters, which is almost the same as the effective range of an anti-aircraft machine gun. And at this time, it is not the time for it to show its power, because its rate of fire is too fast, even the Dragon Boat Festival can't bear it.
Just before, when Dragon Boat Festival destroyed six Japanese bombers in a short period of time, the ammunition consumption of the Sulotong ST-5 20mm machine gun reached more than 300 rounds, and the consumption of the anti-aircraft machine gun even reached A terrifying approximately 1,800 rounds of ammunition.
This is simply an astronomical figure for Jiangyin Fortress, which was not originally provided with air defense weapons.
Therefore, when the Japanese aircraft were still about 1.2 kilometers away from the Jiangyin Fortress and flying at an altitude of 2,000 meters, it was impossible for the Dragon Boat Festival to use small-caliber machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns.
Because this is meaningless, it is just consuming bullets.
However, in this case, why did the Dragon Boat Festival launch flares in advance?
There are only two reasons. The first is to determine the target location, because no one can determine the location of the Japanese aircraft based on sound alone.
Duanwu needed to clearly see the exact position of the Japanese aircraft in a short period of time, calculate the flight speed of the Japanese aircraft, and thus determine the time to fire.
The second point is preparing for the bombardment.
Because at this point in time, the Japanese army was already preparing to drop bombs, they could not change the battle formation at all, and it was very dangerous to change the battle formation at this time.
If they want to temporarily change their formation, they must turn on the identification lights so that the planes can recognize each other. Otherwise, the original formation will be disrupted, the planes will fly around, and they will most likely collide with each other.
Therefore, when the Japanese aircraft did not change their formation, the ground air defense artillerymen could completely determine the location of the Japanese aircraft based on their short-term memory.
Sure?
Of course, this is just a joke, because it is impossible to determine the location of the Japanese aircraft in such a short period of time, and some are only approximate locations.
But this was enough for the Dragon Boat Festival. He ordered the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns and the Bofors 88mm anti-aircraft guns to fire.
The Bofors 40mm and 88mm anti-aircraft guns are both produced in Sweden and are one of the most famous anti-aircraft weapons in World War II.
Its excellence lies not only in its excellent performance, but also in that it is the only anti-aircraft gun that is mass-produced and used by both sides of the war, whether it is Germany in the Axis alliance or the United Kingdom and the United States in the same country. equipment. Its presence can be found in every theater of World War II.
And especially the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun, its rate of fire is also very fast. Its rate of fire can reach up to 120 rounds per minute. The initial speed of the shells reaches 854 meters per second, and it can hit 0.9 kilogram shells to 7200 meters. the height of.
Moreover, after the previous shell of the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun is fired, the next shell will be automatically loaded and will not stop working until the ammunition is exhausted. It is a completely automatic firing weapon.
All this makes the 40mm "Bofors" anti-aircraft gun a successful gun.
The Bofors 88mm anti-aircraft gun has almost the same design concept as the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun, and is more powerful. It's just that this steel monster weighing about five tons is extremely difficult to move, so it has always been used as an anti-aircraft weapon for the Huangshan Fort.
But at this time, two Bofors 88mm anti-aircraft guns were working with eight Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns to conduct blind fire on the Japanese aircraft group.
Because the artillery could not see the exact location of the Japanese aircraft and could only fire blindly. But this is not important, because the Japanese aircraft are all on the planned trajectory of Dragon Boat Festival.
As the flames soared into the sky, a series of explosions were heard one after another in the air. Five bombers and fighters of the First Group of the Japanese Fukuda Air Wing were hit almost at the same time, exploding and catching fire.
The horrific explosion carried aircraft debris flying in the air, directly causing two of the three nearby aircraft to be destroyed, and one was seriously injured and lost power, falling towards the Yangtze River.
The plane behind him saw the situation and evacuated. But unexpectedly, the two planes hid in the wrong direction and collided with each other.
After a loud boom, the explosions of the two planes affected a wider area, and the scattered shrapnel actually hit four planes.
Two of them were destroyed, and the other two were injured and fled one on the left and the other on the right.
"Avoid, avoid!"
Captain Futian Flying Wing shouted orders, but at this time, the only ones who could answer him were the seven or eight planes behind him. The rest of the planes either exploded and crashed, or they were trying their best to avoid the artillery fire from the ground and the air. The dissipated explosion.
The Futian Flying Wing suffered a nearly devastating blow before even bombing. At least fifteen aircraft were destroyed or wounded in this bombardment.
When he saw this scene, Zhou Weiguo was extremely shocked. He originally thought that the Dragon Boat Festival was a pig, and fired flares before the Japanese planes dropped bombs. The Japanese army was alerted. But how did he know that Duanwu was just looking to see if the Japanese aircraft was on the artillery trajectory.
Moreover, why should the Japanese air raid plan succeed?
Although most of the forts in Jiangyin Fortress are in air raid shelters, it is difficult for Japanese aircraft to pose a threat to them. But the outer positions are also very important. These positions are the guarantee for all officers and soldiers of the 112th Division.
Dragon Boat Festival cannot let the Japanese planes destroy them all easily. He just wanted to severely damage the Japanese plane before it dropped the bomb and anger the Japanese again.
Because when a person is angered, he often loses his mind. At this time, it is time to collect people's heads during the Dragon Boat Festival. For the Japanese army, Dragon Boat Festival always has only one tactical concept, which is to kill a large number of the opponent's effective forces. Kill until the enemy is gone! ...
