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Chapter 262 Lashio Secret Airport

"Everyone, pay attention, the devils are moving, reduce speed to minimum!"

[The slowest speed a jet plane can fly is about 250 kilometers per hour. If it does not reach Mach 1, the sound of its flight can only be transmitted a few kilometers at most. Therefore, as long as you keep a certain distance here, the Japanese planes will not be able to detect you!

Assuming the height of the middle cloud is 5000 meters, as long as the plane exceeds this height, the clouds will block the view for people on the ground, and they can neither see the plane nor hear the sound of the plane. If it is higher, they can hear it even less.

So there is no need to worry about the J-5 being exposed! 】

Observing the abnormality of the Japanese, Meng Bo immediately shouted and took the lead in circling at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour in the air at meters.

Soon, the Japanese planes disappeared because the First Flying Squadron was above the clouds, and the Japanese planes landed below the clouds, blocking their view.

"Captain, what's the situation now? Do you want to follow us?"

Meng Bo immediately made up his mind and said, "Brothers, let's give it a try! There is at least a 30% chance that the Japanese have landed, so this is most likely the Japanese airport! With enough fuel, we can still fly at most 30 kilometers with afterburners, so let's fight for these kilometers of fuel.

All planes, get ready, rush down with me, no matter if it's a Japanese airport or anything else, drop the bombs on the planes for me!"

"Roger that!"

"Roger that!"

"Roger that!"

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In an instant, the 12 pilots, ready to die, made their last stand!

The Japanese planes would rather fly out of the Tang Dynasty than land here. This is very likely an important base of the Japanese in northern Myanmar. If the bet is won and this base is bombed, the air supremacy of the entire western Yunnan will fall into the hands of Xu's army.

If we lose the bet, each plane still has nearly half of the machine gun shells. The worst that can happen is that we have to fight the Japanese!

swish swish...  

To put it simply, afterburner flight means adding the maximum amount of fuel so that the jet engine runs at maximum power and the fighter can fly at the fastest speed.

The J-5's maximum flying speed is 1145 kilometers per hour, which is enough to allow the J-5 to descend to an altitude of 1000 meters within half a minute.

And on their ground, as Meng Bo expected, this was a Japanese airport, Lashio Airport, and all the Japanese planes in western Yunnan were transferred from here.

It is no exaggeration to say that Lashio Airport was the base for the Japanese Army Air Force to attack the southwest of the Tang Dynasty. You can imagine how important this place is.

The escaped Japanese planes clearly took off from an airport in western Yunnan, so why did they have to fly all the way to Lashio?

Because they were frightened by the unknown fighter planes of Xu's army, after a battle, the Japanese also understood some of the J-5's performance, such as high climb rate, fast flight speed and strong firepower.

Although these Japanese pilots were not ace pilots, they had participated in many operations in Southeast Asia, so they quickly guessed that the J-5 must have a high fuel consumption and a short range.

So when these Japanese soldiers were fleeing, they thought that if they were chased by Xu's army's fighter planes, it would be almost impossible for them to survive if they stopped at the nearest airport.

So they could only rely on their luck and run as far as possible at full speed, hoping that the J-5 behind them would give up the pursuit due to lack of fuel due to momentary negligence.

Meng Bo was able to rank among the top ten in flying skills among the first batch of 500 pilots. He had received two and a half years of training in the military academy and had very strong military theory. That was why he was able to become the captain of the first flight squadron.

In fact, when the Japanese planes were escaping, Meng Bo felt that the Japanese airport would not be in Baoshan, which was so close to the front line, but should be in Tengchong or Longling. He wanted to follow them directly, and after determining which direction the Japanese were heading, he would shoot down the Japanese planes and then rush directly to the airport in that direction to cause damage.

But when he saw that the Japanese planes were not heading towards Tengchong or Longling, but further south, he realized something was wrong.

So they hurriedly ordered all the planes to climb higher to create the illusion of retreat. In this way, their 12 J-5s followed the enemy planes within the farthest visual range behind them.

"Great, brothers, it's the Japanese airport. There are about 20 planes parked there, and they look like most of them are bombers!"

"Fuck, this is a huge win! Captain, how did you figure it out? You actually guessed there's a Japanese airport here!"

"Alright, alright. Stop wasting time. Each of our J-5s only has two bombs. Drop them accurately. Mainly target bombers and oil drums!"

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There were two squadrons of troops guarding the Japanese airport. There were quite a few light and heavy machine guns for defense, and even a few field artillery. However, they did not expect that the location of the airport would be known by the Tang Air Force far away in Yunnan Province.

Before all the Japanese planes landed, 12 J-5s had already flown over their heads. Looking around, the two bombs under the wings were very conspicuous.

"Air raid, enemy air raid, everyone defend!"

"Baga, it's an enemy fighter plane, machine gun fire!"

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All the Japanese fell into panic and they could only set up their light machine guns to use as temporary anti-aircraft weapons.

Boom boom boom....

The 12 J-5s each found their target and dropped two bombs.

The Japanese light machine gun is a Type 6.5 light machine gun with a caliber of 400mm. Not to mention that it has no power for anti-aircraft shooting, the damage at an altitude of more than 200 meters is negligible. Even if it hits a J-5 at a distance of 5 meters, it can only leave a slight mark on the J-.

Therefore, the flight altitude of all J-5s is controlled at around 500 meters. The hit rate of dropping bombs at this altitude is at least 8%.

Looking sideways at the pile of exploded fuel barrels on the ground, Meng Bo's mouth curled up slightly.

"Hehehe, brothers, let's go home!"

It lasted only about 30 seconds, which can be said to be the shortest battle in history.

But it was during these 30 seconds that more than 30 tons of fuel at the Japanese secret airport in Lashio were destroyed, 14 bombers were destroyed, and an ammunition depot was destroyed.

"Captain, this is so frustrating! If it weren't for the lack of fuel for the return flight, I would really like to turn back and fire a few more rounds of machine gun fire at the Japs!"

"That's right. We flew so far in fear and almost couldn't get back. And we only dropped two bombs and ran away. What a loss!"

"I was fine. I took advantage of the gaps between bombs to fire dozens of shots. One of the Japanese bombers exploded because my machine gun hit its fuel tank!"

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Today's aviation radio development technology is still immature, with poor communication effects and a lot of noise.

In addition, piston propeller aircraft have limited power, and in order to increase range and payload, most aircraft are not equipped with radio systems to reduce overall weight.

Some were even equipped with radios at the factory, but the Air Force personnel found ways to saw off the antennas themselves and then used blackboards, hand gestures, lights, etc. to communicate.

There is no aircraft in the world like the J-5 that can carry out air-to-air ultra-short wave radio communications over hundreds of kilometers and air-to-ground communications over hundreds of kilometers!

This also enabled the aircraft of the First Flying Squadron to communicate and cooperate with each other at any time, which enabled them to severely damage the Lashio airport with only 24 bombs.

Listening to the cheers of his men, Meng Bo was not happy, because he knew what he would face when he returned.

"I attacked without authorization and almost brought the entire brigade into a desperate situation. This is a big trouble. I hope the brigade commander will let me make up for my mistake in view of the heavy damage to the Japanese airport..."