sovbooks Chapter 58: Annihilation of the Japanese Air Force Group; The Terrifying Power of Anti-Aircraft Mach
Chapter 58: Annihilation of the Japanese Air Force Group; The Terrifying Power of Anti-Aircraft Mach
The fighter jets continued to move forward with their immense inertia, like giant rolling stone rollers, crushing the Japanese soldiers who had no time to dodge.
Wherever they went, one could see dripping blood, broken limbs, and Japanese soldiers crushed under the belly of fighter planes, their bodies reduced to half, screaming in agony.
The roar of the anti-aircraft machine guns did not stop.
Long Wenzhang roared, this time their target was the five bombers behind them.
This type of dive bomber needs to descend to a certain altitude to ensure the accuracy of its bombing.
So they followed the fighter jet in front and dove down, but during the dive, they saw the fighter jet in front suddenly shot down, leaving only one plane wobbling as it rushed into the air.
This made the Japanese pilots realize that the enemy's anti-aircraft fire was fierce, and they had to quickly climb to a higher altitude to escape the range of anti-aircraft machine gun fire.
But it was too late. At that moment, twenty anti-aircraft machine guns were already roaring at the Japanese bombers in the air.
"Hiss hiss hiss!!!!"
The sound of the MG42 machine gun was like tearing cloth; the bullets fired with a hissing sound ultimately tore apart the fuselage, cockpit, fuel tank, and even bomb bay of the Japanese warplane.
"Boom!!!!!"
An aerial bomb was detonated by a bullet, exploding in mid-air and causing the entire fighter jet to disintegrate and crash to the ground, triggering a new round of explosions.
At that moment, Bai Mu Jiangchuan's furious roar rang out.
"Drop bombs! Bomb the enemy's anti-aircraft positions!!!"
He was covered in blood and was barely holding onto the control stick with one hand to prevent the plane from crashing.
"Hai!!!!"
Upon receiving their orders, the Japanese bomber pilots gritted their teeth and roared with bloodshot eyes.
"Onboard!!!!"
Within the communication channel, shouts of "Banzai" were even heard.
The remaining bombers simultaneously changed direction and swooped down directly towards the anti-aircraft machine gun positions atop Yuhuatai.
"Don't panic, keep firing!!!"
Long Wenzhang stared coldly at the Japanese bombers diving down, showing no intention of backing down.
The machine gunners operating the MG42 kept their fingers on the triggers, and the machine guns fired bursts of bullets as the guns shook.
Machine guns on the wings of the Japanese bombers began to roar.
Heavy machine gun bullets instantly felled several soldiers on the anti-aircraft position, producing a series of muffled thuds.
But these soldiers showed no fear. Instead, their assistant gunners took over and continued to fire at the Japanese troops.
Before they even reached the summit, bullets flying straight at them tore the Japanese pilots in the cockpit apart.
With such a high density of firepower, even pilots in high-speed moving fighter jets would not escape being torn apart by bullets.
One bomber after another began to go out of control, and some pilots hurriedly dropped their bombs, which either went astray or landed right in the middle of the Japanese troops.
Finally, after a loud bang, the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground screaming in agony.
By this point, the bombers and fighter groups had been essentially wiped out.
When Hyakume Egawa saw this, he knew that the battle could not continue, but he did not choose to leave. For him, the battle was not over yet.
If he were to flee now, abandoning his fallen comrades, it would mean a shameful betrayal, and it would mean he was a coward.
"Come on, let me show you what we're made of."
Hyakumo Egawa let out a low growl, pulled the control stick with one hand, and surprisingly turned the aircraft around again, diving towards the anti-aircraft machine gun position once more.
Seeing the wobbly Japanese warplanes swooping down again, Li Jianghe was quite surprised.
Long Wenzhang said with an icy gaze:
"Keep firing!!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, 20 MG42 heavy machine guns fired simultaneously, the bullets forming a web that instantly enveloped the Japanese warplanes.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!!!"
Numerous bullet holes quickly appeared on the metal body, and Hyakume Eikawa's body was shattered by the bullets.
The fighter jet wobbled and eventually plunged into the Qinhuai River behind Yuhuatai.
This scene was witnessed by everyone, by the Nationalist soldiers, and by the Japanese army.
Zhu Chi lowered his binoculars and saw the last fighter jet plunge into the Qinhuai River. He couldn't help but look at the machine gun emplacement that Li Jianghe had deployed on the top of Yuhuatai.
"I didn't expect them to have this trick up their sleeve. This machine gun can not only be used to fight the Japanese, but also for anti-aircraft purposes. The key is that it is much more effective than the Maxim gun."
The Maxim gun can also be used for anti-aircraft defense, but its rate of fire is insufficient, so its coverage effect is still somewhat inferior to that of the MG42.
Zhu Chi admired Li Jianghe even more. It seemed that he had already thought of the possible air defense problems from the beginning and made combat deployments in advance.
On the city wall, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, was naturally watching this scene.
He originally thought that if they encountered enemy fighter planes, Yuhuatai would likely be directly breached.
But who could have imagined that the Japanese air force, which they once thought was almost invincible, would be completely annihilated, with all its fighter planes and bombers destroyed by anti-aircraft machine gun fire from Yuhuatai.
"Li Jianghe, where did this guy get these machine guns with such a high rate of fire?"
Sun Yuanliang couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, and at the same time secretly thought that if he also had these machine guns, he wouldn't have been so passive when encountering Japanese warplanes in Zhabei.
Gao Zhisong, standing to the side, also exclaimed in admiration:
"Commander, it seems that the brothers at Yuhuatai are much stronger than we thought."
Sun Yuanliang said coldly:
"What do you know? These two attacks were at most probing by the Japanese. The enemy hasn't really gone all out yet."
He knew very well that among the ground troops, although the Japanese infantry had high individual skills and extremely accurate marksmanship, they were not too difficult to deal with.
After all, they all have two shoulders supporting one head, so a bullet will just leave a hole.
What truly worried Sun Yuanliang was the subsequent armored attack by the Japanese army.
That would be deadly.
Even though some anti-tank guns still existed on Yuhuatai, they would be destroyed by the Japanese army during the attack. At that time, only flesh and blood could withstand the Japanese army.
On the Japanese position, Shigeharu Suematsu watched the retreating troops, his face growing even colder.
They originally wanted to make a name for themselves in front of the 6th Division, but they didn't expect to land face-first.