Great time travel

Chapter No.17, surprise attack on Jiangtian Island

During World War II, radar research and development in various countries was still in its early stages, and its performance was very unreliable.The ability to identify friend or foe is particularly bad.

Over the past few days, Japanese pilots have spontaneously piloted planes and fled to Hiroshima from the prefectures and counties in the northeastern region that are being occupied to join the large forces.Because the communication and command system of the local Japanese army has now completely collapsed, these planes will naturally not have any advance notice when they come over. On the radar at the beginning of the year, it was impossible to tell whether it was an American plane or a Japanese plane.

As a result, there were a bunch of misfire accidents. Several ace pilots of the Japanese navy and army and high-level officers of the air teams of various places did not die in the hands of the enemy, but were almost beaten down by their own people... Finally, the lawsuit When we got to President Takeo Kurita, he consulted with a few experienced people, and then ordered the radar station to distinguish between the enemy and us by looking at the height: the incoming US plane must be the B-29 Super Sky Fortress, which can fly to eight The altitude is 9000 meters, while Japanese aircraft generally cannot fly so high.Therefore, those who come from high altitudes are enemies, and those who come from low altitudes are our own people.

Radar stations and air defense outposts act according to the law as if they were ordered by the imperial edict.As a result, for more than a month before and after, only our own planes came, and there was no trace of half of the American planes (at this time, the United States had never bombed the area west of Kyoto in Japan), so we gradually relaxed.Unexpectedly, today, the enemy planes attacking from the east are not the B-29 super sky fortresses bombarded at high altitudes, but the torpedo planes and bombers of the US aircraft carrier Naval Air Forces that raid at low altitudes!Wu Gang didn't wake up until the first bomb was dropped on his head, so he sounded the alarm...but it was too late!
The sharp air raid siren and the sound of anti-aircraft guns sounded at the same time, and the sky above the Jiangtian Island Naval Academy was filled with smoke and flames for a while.But it still couldn't stop the U.S. military planes from diving and dropping bombs one after another, causing huge columns of smoke to rise everywhere on the campus.

——The three principals, Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita, and Narumi Inoue, led a group of subordinates and just rushed out of the office building. The British-style red brick dormitory building is being smashed through the roof by a [-]-kilogram semi-armor-piercing bullet... Then there was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the whole house "inflated" like a balloon, all kinds of bricks, stones, Wood, broken glass, and metal components were all carried far away by the air waves, falling like raindrops, and a raging fire was also ignited on the fragmented wreckage.

However, the buildings on the ground are dead objects after all, it's a pity that they were blown up, but that's all.What made these naval personnel feel even more distressed was that all the Japanese warships moored in the bay at this time were also bathed in thick smoke and flames:

Due to being caught off guard in advance, most of the sailors were on the shore and did not have time to return. There were no planes and pilots on several aircraft carriers at all, and there was no time to fire up and sail out of the port. The result was like the American warships in Pearl Harbor. It is extremely vulnerable to air attack.

Squad after squad of U.S. bombers or torpedo planes drilled out of the leaden gray clouds one after another, swooped down almost vertically, and hit the sea like a lead pendant. Almost skimming the waves and pounced on the moored warships, which fully demonstrated the proficiency of these U.S. naval aviation units, and also made almost all the hastily organized anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese army useless...

The first batch of attacking US planes were mainly dive bombers. Except for a few that were shot down, most of them rushed until they were about 50 meters away from the target ship before dropping heavy bombs.At this distance and speed, the aerial bombs bounced off the sea like boulders floating in the water, and hit the hulls of various Japanese battleships or aircraft carriers from the weak side, and some even penetrated into the ship at once. In the belly!
Next, accompanied by one after another of explosion flames and heart-piercing desperate wailing, the battleships Haruna, Ise, and Hyuga, the aircraft carriers Amagi, Katsuragi, Fengxiang, and Ryuho, anchored in the waters of Kure Port, the most eye-catching big men, All started to catch fire one by one.On the turbid sea full of heavy oil and sundries, sailors who dived to escape were struggling everywhere.There are also several large merchant ships that have finished unloading their cargo. They seem to have been regarded as aircraft carriers by the American pilots with bad eyesight. They were also blown into burning iron coffins by the aerial bombs that fell from the sky.

After the first wave of U.S. dive bombers left, the slow and belated U.S. torpedo planes finally arrived on the battlefield, bravely resisting the still fierce anti-aircraft firepower, facing the still struggling steel on the water. The behemoth released the torpedo——Although Wugang has lightning protection grids and lightning protection nets, there are too many ships coming from all over the world these days, and it cannot be accommodated at all. In addition, the port staff of the former tutelary mansion were in a riot They escaped a lot, and now they are managed by military students. The management of the anchorage berths is a mess, and many warships are not protected by lightning protection nets at all.

So, looking at the aircraft carrier Amagi that I took as the flagship from the Yokosuka tutelary fortress, it failed to release any counterattack planes at all, and was blown to pieces by torpedoes one after another, and slowly sank... Ozawa Jisaburo I couldn't help taking off my military cap, and shed tears of pain.

But General Jisaburo Ozawa has no time to care about his flagship at this moment, and the most important concern right now is his life.

——Because of the previous slackness in defense, the Japanese aircraft in Wugang basically failed to take off for half an hour after being attacked. Various ground targets that can be found:

Just a few dozen steps away from the group of people, I saw an F4U "Pirate" plane swooping down in an extremely rampant manner, shooting a deadly chain of fire on the ground of the Jiangtian Island Naval Academy, burning several The naval cadet who fell on the ground and rolled on the ground was completely torn into pieces of burning flesh and blood!Next, after the F4U "Pirate" plane pulled up to the height and turned around, it shot at the three principals with endless enthusiasm!

Looking at the oncoming enemy plane spitting flames, the group of fleeing people were at a loss for what to do. Some froze in place in fright, and some screamed and threw themselves on the ground and burrowed into the grass (these guys are soldiers, but Most of them are in the military academy and sit in the office, and most of them have never even seen the battlefield), Ozawa Jisaburo was so angry that he almost wanted to curse.However, a strange young man who was following Principal Narumi Inoue suddenly took out a gadget that looked like a mini grenadier from his backpack, set it on his shoulder, and pointed it at the F4U "pirate" that had just flown over his head in the air The machine pulled the trigger!
The next moment, with a not-so-big roar, a small rocket flew up from his shoulder, and hit the rampant F4U "Pirate" aircraft viciously from the belly, causing it to drag With a puff of smoke, it fell crookedly, and finally fell to the ground with a crash, exploding into a pile of burning aluminum pieces.

Seeing the enemy plane being shot down, the fleeing crowd couldn't help but let out a burst of cheers.However, General Ozawa Jisaburo looked at the young man and the "miniature bazooka" in his hand with curious and confused eyes... It's just that the air strike is still going on, it's not the time to talk.So he just took a few glances at the strange young man, then turned around and took the bulletproof steel vest his subordinate had just found and put it on.Then, in order to reduce the target and avoid being caught in the same pot, the three principals led their respective staff to evacuate separately, and went in different directions to find bunkers to avoid the air raid...

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As wave after wave of U.S. fighter planes attacked one after another, from Jiangtian Island to Wugang, there was a raging fire and thick smoke everywhere.

However, after being hit so fiercely by the naval aviation of the Halsey Fleet, as time went by, although the scene was still very chaotic, the Japanese naval and army flying teams gradually began to organize counterattacks.In any case, the current Hiroshima area is full of tens of thousands of Japanese navy and army aircraft. Even if those slow transport planes, torpedo planes, bombers and seaplanes are deducted, as well as reconnaissance planes that lack armed firepower, there are only There are at least [-] old-fashioned biplanes suitable for spraying pesticides, including fighter jets of various types.Even though the current Japanese army has lost its unified command, there are still many pilots who are willing to go to the sky spontaneously to fight the enemy with their blood!
About an hour after the air raid began, from the already somewhat obsolete Zero fighters, to Mitsubishi's Venus and Thunderbolt fighters, and Nakajima's Army Type [-] fighter, the Hayate, had never been destroyed. The aircraft carrier and airport took off, and launched an unprecedented fierce bloody fight with the incoming US naval aviation, but unfortunately the results were not satisfactory, and the opponents slaughtered them like hunting turkeys:

First of all, since most of the best aircraft are in Nanyang, the performance of most fighter jets in Japan is generally one level behind that of American fighter jets.

Secondly, because the Tokyo nuclear explosion came too suddenly, there was no preparation for local operations from top to bottom. Therefore, the pilots who stayed in the Japanese Empire at this time, whether they belonged to the navy or the army, were also mostly novices, or they were flying transport planes. Yes, there are even many rookies who haven't even graduated from flight school. As for the real air combat elites, they are basically far away from the front lines in Nanyang.

But on the other hand, the Halsey Fleet, the U.S. aircraft carrier naval aviation force that came across the ocean, concentrated the essence of air combat in the entire United States. There are many ace pilots who have fought bloody battles with Japanese aircraft and Nazi German aircraft: in World War II During the period, 70.00% of the planes shot down in air battles all over the world were shot down by ace pilots, although their number only accounted for 5.00%.The actual combat experience, experience and tactics of these veterans cannot be replaced by anything.They know the strengths and weaknesses of various enemy planes, how to approach, how to fire, and how to escape.

Therefore, even though hundreds of Japanese pilots, with their youthful blood, rushed to the sky to face the powerful enemy.But in general, the interception of Japanese fighter jets obviously lacked reasonable organization, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire was not close enough and lacked rules.The U.S. naval aviation continued to penetrate the interception of Japanese planes, as well as the intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire on the port ground and enemy ships, and dropped deadly torpedoes and bombs on the Japanese fleet in the harbor time and time again.

All of a sudden, the sky was covered with colorful puffs of smoke, and the sea was covered with water columns like a forest. thunder.The anti-aircraft gun fire on the ground and on the ship was as fierce as a volcanic eruption, and the sailors operating the anti-aircraft gun had been knocked out, as if they were fighting in a dream.But the planes of the U.S. Naval Air Force were still entangled.

The sailors on several Japanese battleships even used the main guns to fire the famous Type III incendiary shotgun. To put it in an easier-to-understand way, it is a flower bomb. The target directly smears your face, and a piece of aircraft can be cleared with one shot-the formation of fighter jets in this era is different from that of modern fighters. It is not necessary for the two fighters to be far apart in order to avoid collisions.In contrast, many older aircraft at the time did not even have radios installed.In order for the pilots to see each other's gestures and even hear each other's voices, when dozens of aircraft are dispatched to fly in formation, they are usually tightly packed.It will only disperse during the battle.And the killing range of one shot of three-type incendiary shotgun is a spherical space with a diameter of about [-] meters. In theory, it only takes one shot to kill a squadron of the enemy.At that time, an aircraft carrier only had three to four squadrons of carrier-based aircraft. After a few shots from the Type III cannonballs, the aircraft carrier that released the fighter jets became an empty shell.

Unfortunately, with the hit rate of the main guns of warships during World War II, it is really difficult to get the first hit.And the enemy planes are not fools. When they see a Type [-] shotgun hitting them, they will immediately disband the formation.Therefore, unless there is a ship girl possessed, and the power of faith is added, so that the first round of bombardment of the three-type shotgun can hit the target, otherwise the delusion of a carrier-based aircraft formation with one shot will not be achieved at all.Moreover, launching this thing will severely ablate the barrel, and it is still a source of danger to install it on a large battleship. The U.S. bombers and the Japanese fleet relied on the Type [-] shotgun as the final weapon of battle.It didn't have much effect.

Starting from the fifth attack wave of the U.S. military, a large number of large aircraft such as B-17 and B-26 even appeared in the sky over Wugang, and the Japanese army still has very few new fighter jets in the sky, even if the old zero battle is over. All the shells couldn't shoot it down, and finally had to hit it...

In the face of the indiscriminate bombing by US planes, the decks of almost every large warship on the Wugang Sea were slick with blood, and there was no place where there were piles of shell casings and bloody corpses.Before the sailors who fell could get up, they were strafed by enemy planes.The damage control crews in those cabins below the waterline fought desperately against the fountain of water until they drowned themselves.The electrical circuits of a considerable number of ships failed, and the water pumps and steering gears could not be started. The sailors had to use hand pumps and hydraulic steering gears to drain water and control the warships. speed.In the end, if these ships cannot rush to the beach and sink in time, then the result is still doomed to capsize one after another amidst the flames and explosions.

——When the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor back then, it only released two attack waves and launched forty torpedoes. Nagumo Chuichi, who was commanding at the front line, could not wait to order the troops to withdraw and return, shouting that the wind was tight !But at this time, it was the turn of the Halsey Fleet's U.S. naval aviation to attack Wugang and Jiangtian Island, but they bombarded almost non-stop from morning to afternoon, releasing sixteen attack waves before and after!
Sixteen attack waves and at least [-] sorties of American fighter planes attacked wildly, making the Japanese navy in Wugang feel like it was in deep hell for a while.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, as the thick clouds gradually dissipated and the weather gradually cleared up, the U.S. Naval Air Force, which was the last wave of attack, finally withdrew after dropping all their torpedoes and bombs.The air raid, which was so long that it seemed to have no end, finally came to an end, leaving only a burning harbor for the Japanese.The sea and land with a radius of more than ten kilometers are full of thick smoke, raging fire, and explosions one after another.

The telephone line of the entire Wugang Township Mansion was completely disconnected, the tap water and power supply were all cut off, and even the self-provided power plant was blown up to the sky.Billowing thick smoke obscured the field of vision, making it difficult to count the damage just by looking at it.The hateful U.S. Air Force also dropped many small timed steel ball bombs, which detonated after a period of time after the bombing ended, further killing and wounding the Japanese rescuers and forcing them back into the air-raid shelter.

Another hour later, at 04:30 in the afternoon, the huge B-29 Super Sky Fortress finally arrived late, with a number of more than two hundred. However, they seemed to disdain Wu Gang and Eta Island, which had been bombed into ruins. They just dropped a little bomb symbolically, and rushed straight to the urban area of ​​Hiroshima in the north, as if they were planning to trouble the Japanese army over there. .

In this regard, after a whole day of destructive air raids, Principal Keno Kurita, who is now physically and mentally exhausted, had to put his hands together in the air-raid shelter, silently praying that the army there could prepare in advance after receiving an early warning, not like the navy Also caught off guard, suffered heavy losses...

However, the Japanese navy in Wu Gang and Eta Island obviously relaxed too early.At midnight that day, after the bombing of Hiroshima ended, a large number of B-29 super sky fortresses visited Kure Port and Eta Island again.As the ground and the sea were still raging, the U.S. military's B-29 Super Sky Fortress bomber did not even need to drop flares for night-time guidance and navigation, and bombarded the target precisely and indiscriminately again.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs made this cradle of the Japanese navy burn as bright as day in the night, as if it were the most glorious, splendid, and grand school abolition ceremony, as well as the cruelest and most brutal ceremony. The bloody farewell ceremony symbolized the withdrawal of Etajima Naval Academy from the stage of history.