Expedition to Europe
Chapter 517: Horrible (Seventh update for the leader of Cheng Jiao 110 brothers)
The bombardment of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" in the European style lasted all night.
The three artillery regiments fired more than 50,000 shells in total, and carried out fire strikes on 17 Japanese-defended artillery positions.
This is far from enough. There are a total of six artillery groups in the north of Lushun, with more than 40 artillery positions or bunker groups.
These artillery positions or bunkers are built on higher terrain. The tank engines of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" are not powerful enough now, and they cannot launch attacks on these artillery positions. If they want to use human lives to fill them, it is estimated that it will not be very effective to fill all the "Vladivostok Allied Forces".
In the Russo-Japanese War 15 years ago, the Japanese army paid the price of 110,000 casualties in order to conquer Lushun, which was defended by the Russians.
After more than ten years of hard work, the scale of the Lushun artillery positions is now larger than that in 1904. If the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" want to attack when the tanks cannot play a role, it is conceivable how much it will cost.
In the early morning, the smoke did not dissipate with the rising sun, but the atmosphere became more tense.
The planes sent by Xie Rundong to help finally arrived.
The first batch of fighter planes that flew to Lushun were fighter planes sent by the Northern Expedition Fleet. Compared with the huge and clumsy bombers, fighter planes were more flexible and faster, and naturally more difficult to hit.
Cheng Debai was right. The Japanese did prepare anti-aircraft firepower. They put the Taisho 3-year-old heavy machine gun on a wooden stake and then fired at the air.
Although it was indeed a bit crude, it could barely be considered an anti-aircraft weapon, and it would pose some threat to the aircraft. But unfortunately, even if it was modified with heavy machine guns, the number was always too small, and it could not form a scale, and the threat to the aircraft was quite limited.
Japan is a country lacking resources. The only resources the Japanese had were used on the navy, and the equipment level of the army has never been improved.
In the First World War, heavy machine guns shined brightly, and the Japanese also saw the importance of heavy machine guns. Therefore, the Army Department made an expansion plan in the middle of the World War, which stipulated that a battalion of the Japanese army should be equipped with a machine gun squadron with eight heavy machine guns.
If this plan can become a reality, a Japanese division will have 96 heavy machine guns. Although this is not as good as the level of nearly 1,000 machine guns in a US division and nearly 700 in a French division, it can greatly enhance the firepower configuration of the Japanese army.
But unfortunately, although the World War has ended for less than a year, this plan is still on paper and has never become a reality.
At present, the Japanese army has less than 20 heavy machine guns in a division. Even in an important port like Lushun, all the machine guns of the three divisions and the coastal defense forces add up to less than 200. It is wishful thinking to intercept the Lan Fang Air Force with such firepower density.
These 200 heavy machine guns are the total number, and some of them are to be installed on the turrets to prepare for the "Vladivostok coalition" that may launch an attack at any time. It is impossible to use all of them for air defense.
So the fighter pilots have to face less than 50 Taisho 3rd Type. The most important thing is that these Taisho 3rd Type heavy machine guns are all fed with 50 rounds of ammunition. This feeding must be assisted by the assistant shooter to ensure smooth feeding. Even if the assistant shooter has only a little strength, it will affect the shooter's aiming.
Lan Fang's fighters are also very powerful even for ground attacks. Each of Lan Fang's fighters has two machine guns, and this wave of fighters has a total of 12, so although the battle has not yet begun, the balance of victory has begun to tilt towards Lan Fang.
As the first fighter began to dive, the ground anti-aircraft firepower opened fire one after another. For a moment, the chain of tracer bullets seemed to strangle the light little thing, but the fighter just simply pulled up and escaped from the seemingly impenetrable fire net and flew straight into the blue sky.
When this fighter plane dived, other fighter planes were circling in the sky, waiting for the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground to open fire, and then they would look for their respective targets.
Without any communication, eleven fighter planes dived towards the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground from all angles, and at this moment, no one noticed them at all.
This was the first time that the Japanese army fought against aircraft and the first time that the Japanese army conducted air defense operations. It was impossible for the Japanese to arrange firepower distribution and cover each other.
When these eleven fighter planes began to dive, almost all machine gunners were still chasing the diving fighter plane just now, wanting to shoot it down and get a good start.
At this moment, more death gods swooped down from the sky, like a goshawk catching a hare on the grassland.
Puff puff puff...
Until the dust stirred up by the machine gun bullets appeared on the ground next to the shooter, these machine gunners realized that danger was coming.
It was too late to turn the guns. Although almost all the machine gunners were desperately trying to turn the guns, at least eight heavy machine guns still stopped firing after the fighters completed their dives.
It is not easy to train a pilot, but it is not easy to train a heavy machine gunner either, especially for the Japanese army, which is extremely stingy with bullets. It is even more difficult for them to train a qualified heavy machine gunner.
Before the commander of the ground air defense force felt sorry for the heavy machine gunner's death, the planes in the sky came again...
Well, for the Japanese army, whose lives were threatened at any time, this was really tormenting.
But soon, they will know how lucky those machine gunners who died in the air raid just now were.
A faint roar has been heard from the horizon, and the sound is getting louder and louder. This is the bomber formation coming.
Xie Rundong released all the bombers, a total of 92, all of which were loaded with solidified bombs, 50 kilograms each, and 14 were loaded on each plane.
Compared with fighters, bombers are indeed bulky, but if it comes to ground attack effects, twelve fighters combined are not as good as one bomber.
The Japanese must not have obtained relevant information about Keelung Port, otherwise, it is estimated that the Japanese would rather retreat to the mountainous areas of Goryeo to fight guerrilla warfare than choose to stick to Lushun. Soon, when the first bomber dropped the incendiary bomb, the Japanese paid the price for their lack of attention to communication.
Lan Fang's bombers were all horizontal bombers, and dive bombers had not yet been developed. When the Japanese saw Lan Fang's bombers flying over Lushun in a level flight, some of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
No dive, no dive...
But what was that?
Before the Japanese could see clearly what those rapidly falling black dots were, a group of flames like hell engulfed everyone in the explosion range.
The original text is in Liu # 9 @shu/bar!
When these bombers were dispatched, Xie Rundong issued an order to turn Lushun into another Keelung. So although Lushun was the land of the Republic of China, these pilots had no scruples. They were only responsible for bombing and not for handling the aftermath.
With the experience of using solidified bombs on a large scale in Keelung City, Lan Fang's bomber pilots still made certain arrangements before the war, such as which bombers were responsible for the artillery positions, which bombers were responsible for bombing the barracks outside the city, which bombers were responsible for the Japanese ships anchored in Lushun Port, etc., so that there were contingency plans.
The consequence of having a contingency plan is that the efficiency is extremely high. When these bombers flew over Lushun, the sky behind them was already covered with smoke.
Some bombers still flew back, because of the efforts of the "Vladivostok Alliance" last night, some bombers responsible for bombing the artillery positions lost their targets, so they returned to Lushun and, like in Keelung, randomly found a target to drop solidified bombs.
It is still different from Keelung. In Keelung, the bombers dropped all the bombs in the port, while in Lushun, several bombers dropped solidified bombs into the city.
Of course, the explanation given by these bomber pilots afterwards was that the smoke blocked their sight and they could not see clearly.
But what it looked like, I am afraid only they themselves know.
Anyway...there are no Chinese in Lushun anymore. If we accidentally hurt Japanese expatriates, it would be a pity.
"Do we have any other choice but to attack?" Wang Dingshan hesitated as he looked at Lushun, which seemed to be burning even the sky.
"Of course we have to attack. Can you guarantee that all the Japanese soldiers in Lushun are dead? Even if they are all dead, it would be nice for the brothers to warm themselves by the fire." Liu Zizheng had to see it with his own eyes to feel refreshed.
"Okay, attack, attack, brothers, let's get started..." Wang Dingshan shouted and jumped on his "Bulldog".
In the distance, the First Division of the Foreign Legion led by Xu Sheng was ready to attack.
As a fortress with complete defense facilities, Lushun is not so easy to attack. On the way to Lushun, the Japanese buried a huge minefield. If the "Vladivostok Coalition" wanted to attack the Lushun fortress, how to pass through these minefields was a big problem.
At this time, engineers must not be sent to clear mines in front, which would be equivalent to sending engineers to die.
When the Japanese army laid mines, they would definitely leave a predetermined passage, which was convenient for the Japanese army to send out their own troops and to lead the Lanfang army to the place they wanted, and that place was often the crossfire coverage point of the Japanese bunkers.
If it weren't for the bombers, the "Vladivostok Alliance" would really have to pay a heavy price to capture Lushun. However, when some of the artillery positions became ruins and some of the artillery positions were covered by fire and thick smoke, the attack intensity of the "Vladivostok Alliance" was really about the same as marching.
Along a road that was obviously not damaged, the "Vladivostok Alliance" successfully arrived at the anti-tank trench. The Lanfang army had accumulated enough experience in dealing with anti-tank trenches. Soon the tank troops successfully passed the anti-tank trenches and bypassed several hills with artillery positions. Xu Sheng finally came to the core area of Lushun.
"Retreat..." This was Xu Sheng's first sentence after seeing Lushun City.
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