kingnovel Chapter 1275 How to launch a sneak attack?
Chapter 1275 How to launch a sneak attack?
A surprise attack aims to inflict significant losses on the enemy when they are unprepared. The entire Jiaodong region is currently in a state of heightened alert, practically on edge. No matter what method you use for a surprise attack, you cannot achieve victory in this area.
The main problem is that there are still many submarines in the waters off Jiaodong Peninsula. You can't detect these submarines at all; they might even spot you as soon as your fleet arrives in the area. At that point, their shore-based aircraft will fly over based on the coordinates provided by the submarines, and it's really hard to say who will be the prey and who will be the hunter.
The day of the air raid arrived quickly. In the following days, some Japanese naval vessels were also spotted in Southeast Asia; although not combat ships, they were there to survey the waters. It seemed Japan could no longer tolerate the 72nd Army's blockade of Southeast Asia.
It's quite normal to think about it. The Japanese have always claimed that they have a certain degree of control over the Pacific. Now, they're being suppressed by the 72nd Army's navy, unable to exercise their rights in Southeast Asia. If this continues, they'll likely face pressure from their domestic army alone, and their navy will also be unable to survive.
In Japan, a strange country, the Emperor deliberately instigates conflict between the army and navy in order to maintain control over the military. Now, the navy can no longer guarantee the safety of overseas merchants, and if the army were to stand by and watch, their conflict would extend far beyond a century-old one.
At an airport in Jiaodong, planes roared, and heavy bombers were already running everywhere.
Flying to Korea from here would be an extremely simple matter for them; they could drop the bombs and return without missing lunch—that's the distance between the two places. Besides, they'd done it many times before.
After seeing Ma Leizi nod, Liu Tianye began to issue orders from the control tower. All the combat aircraft took off from the four runways, forming a huge formation in the sky, and began to fly towards Goryeo.
In fact, the Japanese troops stationed in Korea were the most miserable. They were constantly subjected to powerful air raids. Although they had strengthened their ground-based air defenses, the problem was that they didn't have enough fighter escorts. All the fighters had been deployed to various battlefields in Korea, and they couldn't get any there.
However, this place also serves as a transit point, with a significant amount of supplies needing to be transported here first. Resources plundered from Northeast China also need to be transported here before being shipped out to sea. Therefore, there are quite a few targets for bombing here.
During this period, apart from reconnaissance planes, there weren't many bombers coming to Korea, so the troops here were somewhat relieved. Little did they expect that such a nightmare day would return.
When the air raid sirens sounded at the Japanese Governor-General's residence in Korea, many Japanese who had just arrived in Korea didn't understand what was happening. They had only been there for a few months and had never experienced a heavy bombing raid.
But it was different for those who had been there longer. Those guys had been there for years, and they still vividly remembered the previous bombings. Now, when they heard the air raid siren, they immediately dropped what they were doing, some even dropping the eggs they were holding. They used all their strength to rush into the air raid shelter before the doors closed.
These people knew very well that if you weren't in an air-raid shelter when the 72nd Army's planes bombed, you were already half-dead. In that situation, you had to find a place to stay inside; the chance of being killed on the ground was over 50%.
Of course, this was the situation with previous bombing raids. Compared to before, the bombing by the 72nd Group Army will definitely be much more intense now. Moreover, according to the air defense department, this time the number of aircraft is the largest, and all of them are four-engine aircraft.
For Japan, twin-engine bombers were the limit; they never even considered researching quad-engine bombers because the country simply couldn't afford them—the technology and resources were insufficient—and researching such technology would be pointless. Furthermore, they believed their adversary was the Chinese, and therefore had no need for quad-engine bombers.
But the very China they looked down upon was now bombing them with four-engine bombers. As the air raid sirens blared, the first bomb had already fallen on the power plant in the south of the city. This plant had just been built, constructed next to the ruins of the original power plant. The Japanese had invested approximately 120 million silver dollars, but now, thanks to the efforts of a few bombs, that money had turned to ashes.
The anti-aircraft guns beside them were firing desperately. However, there were only two anti-aircraft battalions around the entire city. If we're talking about anti-aircraft artillery, there were only about 30 pieces. This was practically nothing to the massive number of aircraft in the sky. Moreover, they hadn't anticipated that four-engine bombers could fly that high; their anti-aircraft shells were even 500 meters short of their intended range.
The city's officials, far from commanding the battle, were so focused on saving their own lives that they forcefully expelled a group of ordinary people who had already entered the air-raid shelters before they could even find a place to live. Whether those expelled people survived or not was none of our business.
The Koreans, who were usually obsequious to them, weren't even allowed into the air-raid shelters at this moment. Despite their usual service to the Japanese, and despite the Japanese even praising them as friends, they were not permitted entry in this crisis. All the Koreans who entered were kicked out, making them understand that serving the Japanese as dogs for life meant nothing. In a critical moment, even the Japanese's dogs might get into the air-raid shelters, but these dogs were not.
Many Koreans regretted it at this point, but there's no going back. If you're thinking of doing something, you'll never get the chance.
The B-17 bomber's ground-sweeping capability was quite strong; as long as it was over the target, it would basically leave no useful buildings below. The Japanese had been bombed before, but this time they truly felt what despair meant.
Around the Japanese military camp, many people ran out to open spaces and lay down on the ground. They thought this was a good way to survive, but unfortunately, three planes swept through the area. Could you outrun a plane?