【108】Dong Hongjun's shot

Ma Jizhuang, the captain of the Taicang and commander of the First Fleet of the Kuomintang, was waiting for news about the Xinyang and other ships that were attacking at the temporary headquarters of the First Fleet not far from the dock. Hearing the shouts of air raids and explosions everywhere, he rushed out to see what happened. When he saw the Taicang, which was smoking on his butt, he saw that he was seriously injured and could no longer move, and his legs suddenly became weak and almost fell to the ground.

He was so excited that he said in a random way:

"The gifted bandit dares to attack, dares to attack, Taicang, my Taicang..."

In addition to this lucky bomb that severely damaged the Taicang, several bombs dropped by the H-5 fell into the water in the dock, and the water surface bulged, water columns soared into the sky, and the sea water splashed around like rain.

Yang Dezhi, the machine gunner sitting in the tail gun cabin of the H-5 aircraft, was so excited that the explosion was the most real from his perspective. He would never forget the scene in his life. In the past, he had no chance to look down at the battlefield from the air.

He shouted at the in-flight caller, "Captain, we hit a warship, the tail of the target was shot and caught fire."

Captain Ma Weiming and Navigator Hao Liang laughed when they heard the report. After dropping the bomb, Hao Liang and Captain Ma Weiming were no longer nervous, but were a little unconfident. God knows how the final bombing effect would be. If the battle report tells them that all the bombs fell into the sea, they would not be too surprised. Bi Jin, the bomber originally scheduled to be in service at the end of February, was drawn for actual combat in less than the end of January. This urgent effect and quality cannot be improved.

Unexpectedly, it was a surprise that the warships could be bombed. The three people on board called for luck. The captain Ma Weiming reported to Wang Hai, the commander of the Air Force, that the bombing was completed and Wang Hai ordered him to return immediately.

Wang Hai could vaguely see the fired dock and Taicang below. He was in a very good mood at this moment. He let out a breath from his mouth, and then he was a little relieved and glanced at the surrounding airspace alertly, and continued to order the remaining escort fighter jets to continuously expand the alert range.

The J-5, who were diving with bullets, followed behind the H-5, and they arrived.

Like a raptor rushing, they rushed towards the ships in the dock. Some of the ships caught off guard at the dock were busy setting up anchors and igniting the steam engine with the intention of setting sail and leaving the dock. Some saw the "Taicang" being blown up, thinking that this was the prologue of the start of a large-scale air strike, and they abandoned the ships and fled to the shore. It didn't matter if they didn't go to the dock. Many sailors chose to jump into the sea to escape. For a moment, the dock was still as if they were dumplings. The Kuomintang sailors jumped down and then swam down toward the shore.

The J-5 uses a 250-kilogram bomb to hang a wing under each wing, dives and drops bombs in an oblique manner. The sight has only one optical pre-aim equipment calculated according to airspeed and angle that was installed in the 1970s. The bomb drop accuracy is not high, and the pilot's feeling and prediction play a great role in the bombing results. In order to practice fighter bomb drops, the New China Air Force has worked overtime recently and finally mastered it. It is still unproficient.

After the first squadron was thrown down four J-5's eight aviation bombs, the explosion sounded, and two small 25-ton gunboats were directly overturned by the near-explosion waves, but they were unable to blow up to three Japanese-fed sea frigates with a capacity of more than 1,000 tons, which were anchored in the port.

The second ammunition loading squadron saw this situation and discussed with Wang Hai for some adjustment. Anyway, the enemy had no air defense firepower at all, and there were no reinforcements from enemy planes. So he ordered the four aircraft to disperse and select targets and try to lower the bomb drop height.

The squadron leader Dong Hongjun took a fancy to the Cheng'an, which was sandwiched among the three large ships. It seemed that the ship was full of supplies. If it were blown up, it would be great that Chiang Kai-shek's army would go hungry. Dong Hongjun's thoughts were so simple.

He dived and pressed to a height of 200 meters, dived and dropped bombs in the direction of the bow to the stern of the ship. This drop finally made a good start for the fighter bombing. One of the shots hit the pile of material on the central deck of the Chengan. The intensity of the explosion was unexpected. Dong Hongjun on the J-5 only felt a wave of air rising from behind and below. The J-5 he was driving rose violently like a paper plane blowing from bottom to top by strong wind. The entire fighter was swaying, which shocked him to hold the joystick tightly and rush out desperately.

Even Wang Hai and the others were admiring that the bomb was too powerful. With the rumbling sound of dying, a small mushroom cloud could be seen after dispersing. The explosion not only blew Cheng An almost from the middle, but also seemed to seriously blow up the two ships next to him. Wang Hai suspected that if it weren't for the ammunition depot of the ship in the middle, it would be that there was something strange about the material piled on the ship.

Their observation was correct. The bridges on the decks of Tong'an and Tai'an were tragically blown up by shock waves. The Tong'an even the mast was overturned and the chimney was blown off. The two destroyers near Cheng'an were severely damaged, and the Cheng'an itself, the middle of the hull was torn and broken from top to bottom. It seemed that no one in the ship was spared.

The reason why this bomb is extremely powerful is due to Guojun's brainless logistics. Considering the inconvenience of transportation between island groups, Guojun's logistics stacks a large number of shells and explosives on the deck of the Cheng'an, and some are stored in the cabins of some landing ships. They can be transported to the garrison troops on each island by sea at any time. As for preventing air strikes for military personnel... Hahaha... Don't joke... Haha... You are so funny...

Ma Jizhuang and his first fleet staff rushed out of the temporary headquarters and lay among the rocks on a small hill near the dock. He cried and looked at the dock with a fire, the Taicang obviously could not move. The two ends of Cheng'an were sluggish, and it was afraid that the turret of Cheng'an would not last long before it would sink. The deck of Tong'an was blown out, not to mention the bridge, and even the main mast was tilted. This was only one step away from sinking. Tai'an was not clear in the fire, but judging from the broken bridge, there was little hope of survival.

"It's over, everything is over..." Ma Jizhuang's face looked like a corpse, jumping up like a corpse, and was about to take out his pistol and commit suicide. The staff adjutants around him rushed up one after another, hugged him tightly, and took away his pistol.

"Commander, Commander, Commander, you must not do this... The green mountains are there, and you are not afraid of burning firewood..."

Everyone snatched Ma Jizhuang's gun, and while persuading him, they had a plan in their minds: Seeing that this huge defeat was coming, Ma Jizhuang had to go out and take the blame. If he died, who would report the defeat to Chiang Kai-shek at that time?

Ma Jizhuang sat on the mud, panting. He now understood that the Xianning and the ten-gun boat gang that went out to browse were probably in danger. The result he guessed was correct, but in the process, the Xianning and his gang were not defeated by air raids, but by naval battles.
Chapter completed!