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535 Chapter 535 Forgotten
"What's going on... Bombing all day, dispatching thousands of planes... But now, you tell me that I forgot such an important target?" Tapping the document in his hand, Tang Army Commander Brash Mu stared at his subordinates with an ugly expression.

A colonel blushed, and finally couldn't help explaining: "General, each of our pilots has flown at least two sorties. There are too many targets on the ground, and we can't attack them at all..."

"I understand, but it is a fact that you are greedy for credit. Everyone knows that as long as you drop a bomb, you will get credit, so everyone likes to attack targets close to the border, so that you can return to the voyage as soon as possible, and then mount the bomb and continue to attack!" Brahim said to this kind of The matter was very clear, and he interrupted his subordinates.

"However, how can the key attack target be missed? Hmm? If this delays His Majesty's important event, what's the use if you all chop off your heads to apologize?" He walked past his officers with his hands behind his back.

After sorting out the attack targets for a day, they realized a serious problem. It had already been marked by the ground investigators. The airship base deployed by the Qi army behind the defense line had no troops to take care of it...

This is obviously a bit too much. The main force of the air force's bombing force, that is, the main force for ground attack, is deployed on the western front. The main bombing targets of the strategic air force are the King City of Qi,

It was Tang's fighter force that carried out the bombing of Qi's troops on the center line where the eldest prince was located.These troops are equipped with FW-190 fighter jets, which originally carry not many ammunition, and the tasks they are responsible for are also very vague.

The original order given to these fighter pilots was to block the Grand Prince's possible westward reinforcements.Therefore, these pilots also focused their attacks on the frontline positions of the Qi army.

They strafed and dropped bombs to their heart's content, as if entering no one's land, and achieved a large number of battle results.However, they are not a professional attacking force against the enemy, so some mistakes are inevitable.

Fighting until this time, it was getting late, and when the commanders of these fighter jets were summarizing their attack reports, they unexpectedly discovered that they had missed a very important target.

That's right, this target is the most important airship base of the Qi Air Force, which is deployed behind the line of defense that the eldest prince is in charge of.

There are more than 40 airships deployed in this airship base. It can be said that it is the most important airship attack base on the front line. It stores a large amount of gas and some bombs.

As long as they attack here, it is almost equivalent to destroying Qi's air force - at least it can be said that more than half of Qi's air force bombing airship unit has been destroyed.

But now everyone remembered that there was such a very important target here, and he didn't even attack it!

This is so embarrassing...

"Notify the ground troops to take precautions... Let them deploy anti-aircraft artillery units to intercept as soon as possible." Brahim sighed, and ordered the school officers in front of him: "Tomorrow morning, destroy there! Dispatch at least 30 planes! "

"Yes!" All the school officials stood at attention and saluted, promising loudly.

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"I just said that these winged bastards are unreliable!" On the ground, a commander of the air defense force who received the order complained in disgrace.

Beside him, a six-wheeled truck was parked on the side of the road, and the soldiers were scrambling to unload the ammunition from the truck.

In an open space farther away, there is a Bofors 40mm caliber anti-aircraft gun that has been deployed. This thing can be said to be the most advanced anti-aircraft gun in the world that can be obtained in the world.

It adopts a more stable and efficient bomb feeding design, and has a limit shooting height of more than 3000 meters, which can completely threaten the fragile body of the airship.

What's even more frightening is that because the caliber is not very large, it has a faster rate of fire, can quickly adjust the shooting angle and altitude, and can intercept faster aircraft in the future.

Tang Mo doesn't think it's worthwhile to use an 88mm anti-everything gun to deal with balloons right now. It's too high to overflow, so it's not necessary at all.

Moreover, it seems a little bit reluctant to say that the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is an anti-everything gun, because it is still used as a battle defense gun in most cases.

That is to say, the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is not so much an anti-aircraft gun as an anti-tank warfare anti-aircraft gun that can temporarily serve as an anti-aircraft gun.

Until later, the German army even began to use 88mm caliber artillery to support the infantry. Most of the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft guns produced were not even equipped with anti-aircraft sights and measuring devices.

Qi State has no strategic bombers, or even planes, so it is a waste of your time to engage in large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

The same as the choice of fighter jets: good weapons are all beaten out by the enemy. Germany, which was abused the worst by the British and American Air Forces, and the US Navy, which was devastated by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, obviously anti-aircraft guns are more powerful.

After thinking about it, it is too expensive to engage in German half-track vehicles and play ball lightning. It is better to be simple and direct, and to produce Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns.

Anyway, Tang Mo didn't intend to strengthen his ground air defense force. In Tang Mo's opinion, it's more appropriate to leave air defense to the Air Force.

Tang Mo really couldn't do such a thing as firing [-] anti-aircraft shells in order to destroy an enemy plane. He was not that stupid, so he was going to follow the route of an American tycoon honestly.

That's right, if the air force is used to destroy the enemy's air force, don't the ground forces need to prepare anti-aircraft guns?Hey, save money, no problem!

The shooters operating the anti-aircraft guns rotated the handles, and the muzzles of the anti-aircraft guns were quickly lifted up—this is a professional anti-aircraft gun mount, which is more advanced than the 76mm anti-aircraft gun mount sold by Datang Group before. how many times.

"Get ready! It's going to be dark!" The anti-aircraft gun commander looked at the truck on the other side and continued to shout depressedly.

Over there on the truck, soldiers were connecting the generator to the searchlight on the third truck.

As the equipment that must be used in conjunction with air defense at night, searchlights can be said to be the eyes of anti-aircraft guns.Without this thing, anti-aircraft guns can't fight at night.

The anti-aircraft artillery units at night are all organized according to the matching. One searchlight guides four anti-aircraft guns to fight. The four anti-aircraft guns are distributed around the searchlight. If the searchlight finds the target, it will start to attack.

Of course, if you only rely on searchlights, it seems that you can't cover the sky of the entire theater, and you still have to rely on another set of equipment to find the airship.

Because Tang Mo has enough experience in using airships, it is naturally impossible for Tang Mo not to equip his air defense force with sound displacers.

This kind of device is like a large phonograph, with large speakers aimed at the dark sky.

With this device, alert soldiers can hear the engines of approaching airships as long as they put their ears close to the device.

When they are sure that an airship is approaching, they can order the searchlights deployed nearby to light up to look for the target.

Once the target was found, the anti-aircraft guns could be fired at night to bring down these bulky hard-hulled airships.

The night in this era is still dark, and the silent night is not the best camouflage for military operations.Not only is the Tang army unwilling to launch large-scale military operations at night, but the Qi army is also unwilling to invest troops in the night to launch a large-scale counterattack.

The main reason is because of the constraints of the command system. After the troops dispersed, they couldn't find themselves. What the hell?

Tang Jun was also very distressed. Tang Mo himself knew the power of interspersed night battles, because he was the man who had seen the most light infantry on the surface.

But the problem is that the Tang army is not light infantry now, but an armored force that relies on weapons and equipment.Such an army has lost the ability to break down into large-scale night battles, so Tang Mo has no choice but to give up the night battle.

Just after nightfall, the Qi army began to take off the airships, preparing to launch a counterattack at night-but unlike what Tang Jun thought, the targets of these Qi army airships were not the first-line field airports and arsenals of the Tang army.

In fact, the Qi army didn't know the specific location of these military facilities of the Tang army at all. The Tang army hid them so well that it was impossible for the Qi army to start.

Under such a premise, the battle plan drawn up by the Qi army is very interesting: the airship troops they assembled are planning to bomb the city of Anpu in the north of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, this place can also be said to be an important strategic node for the Tang army, because after all, there are railways and highways, as well as some important industrial facilities.

However, the importance here is not as important as the field airport built by Tang Jun on the front line, and the hidden oil depot and ammunition depot.

It's a pity that the Qi army didn't have detailed information, so they could only close their eyes and fly towards the most important direction they thought, approaching Anpu step by step.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, at the guard post deployed by the Tang army on the front line, a soldier clearly heard the buzzing sound from a distance through the listening device.

He didn't pay attention at first, but when the sound of the engine became clearer, he suddenly realized that it was the sound of the enemy airship.

So, he hurriedly sounded the air defense siren beside him. He shook the handle to make the round siren hiss, which made people's hearts tremble.

Everyone nearby looked at the sky, and through the hazy moonlight, everyone could see the huge black shadows floating in the sky.

"Airship! The enemy's airship!" A soldier shouted nervously, and at the same time as he shouted, a beam of light suddenly lit up, as if it was about to penetrate the entire sky.

(End of this chapter)