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Text Chapter 398 The long-term impact of this battle

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    This battle, although for the entire Anti-Japanese War, was just an ordinary night air raid.  But the impact is quite long-term and huge.  It even affected the direction of the entire war against Japan and the decision-making of some aspects of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    The experience of night air raids accumulated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance through this battle has cultivated a group of pilots who are familiar with night battles.  Not only many of these tested pilots became the backbone of the bombing campaign against Japan and commanders at all levels.  Many people also became team instructors, and through their efforts they brought out a large number of pilots who were familiar with night bombing.  A large number of effective forces have been trained for the bombing of Japan next year.

    Coupled with the various new tactics practiced in this battle, as well as various new navigation and positioning equipment.  This group of people will use the United States and Britain to provide long-range bombers, which will bring catastrophic blows to the Japanese mainland in the next few years.  Let the Japanese, who are still far away from the battlefield so far, know what real war is.

    It taught the Japanese an unforgettable lesson, letting them know what real air strikes are.  Let the Japanese know that good and evil will eventually be rewarded. It's not that they won't be repaid, it's just that the time has not come yet.  As long as the Chinese have strength in their hands, the Chinese can do the things they do.  Tooth for tooth, eye for eye, this is the real answer given by the Chinese to them for launching this war.

    As for the current large-scale night battle of the Resistance Alliance aviation, not only technical means are used, but a variety of support and technical support means are adopted as much as possible.  A lot of effort was also spent on the selection of aircraft to participate in the war.  Because the instruments of Soviet-made aircraft are relatively simple and backward, not only are the performance of flight instruments less accurate than those of American-made aircraft, but many of the instruments necessary for instrument flight are not even available.  Therefore, the aircraft used for night bombing are all American-made A-20 attack aircraft.

    Compared with ordinary light bombers and dive bombers, this kind of twin-engine attack aircraft is relatively bulky because of its large body.  However, it is equipped with advanced aviation instruments and has rough skin and thick flesh.  The fuselage is fully protected by armor, making it difficult for ordinary small-caliber ground firepower to pose a threat to it.

    Not only does it have a wide range of functions, it can be used for both dive bombing and horizontal bombing.  Moreover, the dual-engine design also ensures its strong survivability.  Even if one engine is damaged, the remaining engine can still return.  Its maximum bomb load of 1,800 kilograms can not only meet the needs of ground attack, but also carry out tactical bombing.

    The range of 1,750 kilometers, although it is a bit short as a bomber, is not as good as the Soviet bombers currently equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  But for an attack aircraft whose main mission is to conduct battlefield interdiction and ground support, this range is quite sufficient.

    Compared with the Su-2 light bomber equipped at the same time as the Anti-Japanese War, it has one more crew.  However, in terms of equipment, range, bomb load, and especially protection capabilities, they are far from comparable to the fragile Su-2 bomber.  In addition to the range, the rest of the performance is even higher than that of the db three bomber as a full-time bomber.

    At the same time, its powerful self-defense firepower and maximum level flight speed that is almost as fast as the current Japanese most advanced Zero fighter also give it relatively strong survivability on the battlefield.  For the Allied Air Force, this aircraft is much more popular than the Soviet-made Su-2 light bomber, which lacks armor, and the slightly bulky db-3 bomber.

    This ground attack aircraft with excellent performance was deeply loved by the Anti-Allied aviation throughout the war.  Even the excellent B-25 bomber that the Americans have provided since 1942 is far less popular.  Of the subsequent similar aircraft and subsequent modifications produced by the Americans, one-third of them were aided by the Anti-League despite the efforts of the Anti-League.

    As for some of the Blenheim bombers aided by the British, they are far less popular than this kind of aircraft.  After the Mosquito fighter-bombers entered large-scale service, the British not only assisted some Blenheim bombers in the Anti-Japanese War.  Under the coordination of the Americans, most of the attack aircraft they equipped were transferred to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    This type of aircraft was the most popular model among the aircraft provided to the Anti-Japanese War by the United States and Britain after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Its popularity even reached the level of the aircraft designer himself who visited Northeast China in 1943.  They never thought that the aircraft they designed, which even the US Army was unwilling to adopt, would receive such attention from the Chinese.

    ¡°After arriving in the Northeast, this designer was stunned when he saw the Anti-Japanese Alliance pilots flying this relatively heavy twin-engine attack aircraft in a maneuver that even a single-engine aircraft would not dare to do.  The A-20 aircraft's sturdy body and powerful engine allow this aircraft to maximize its performance in the anti-cooperation battle.

    Even within a period of time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance willThis aircraft is used as a heavy fighter.  Not only does this aircraft take on the important task of air defense in important areas, but it also uses its relatively large body and some spare engine power to improve it into many special combat aircraft.  It was even equipped with a light radar and converted into a night air defense combat command aircraft.

    These American-made aircraft, together with the Il-2 attack aircraft produced by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the TBF and SBD used by the US-aided navy, which were originally carrier-based but are now converted into dive bombers, constituted the entire Anti-Japanese War aviation force.  The main force for ground support during this period.

    Subsequently, the Il-4 bombers that were put into production by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the B-25 bombers that were partially aided by the United States became the main force for the Anti-Alliance aviation forces to carry out tactical bombing.  At the same time, because of its long range, the Il-4 bomber also participated in the bombing of Japan before the B-17 bomber and the B-24 bomber, two long-range bombers, arrived in Northeast China.

    Especially the Il-4 bomber on the second day after the Pearl Harbor incident.  In order to show support for the Americans, the Anti-Japanese Alliance dispatched 74 almost operational Il-4 bombers, carrying more than 60 tons of napalm and explosive bombs.  With the cooperation of thirteen db three bomber-modified electronic warfare aircraft.  The first anti-Japanese air raid on the Japanese mainland was launched against Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

    These bombs dropped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance became the first batch of anti-personnel bombs to fall on Japanese soil.  Although it was three years later than the Japanese air raids on the Japanese mainland, the bombs that fell on the Japanese mainland were real bombs, not the pieces of paper dropped by the Japanese.  The number of aircraft dispatched is not comparable to that of Japan, which only dispatched two US-made B-10 bombers.

    On the surface, this air strike was carried out to respond to the U.S. military being beaten on the battlefield in the Pacific, but in fact it was carried out by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to obtain more assistance. It also officially kicked off the four-year air strike against Japan.  From that day on, the scale of the Anti-Alliance bombing campaign against Japan gradually grew larger and larger with the arrival of bombers assisted by the United States and Britain.  The targets of bombing gradually spread from Tokyo to all corners of Japan.

    With this actual statement from the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Americans naturally understand it.  A week after the Anti-Japanese Alliance's first air raid against Japan, the U.S. military deployed thirty-six B-17 bombers stationed in the Philippine Far East Air Force, as well as seventy B-77 bombers that had just been transferred from the mainland and were originally used to defend the Dutch East Indies.  Seventeen bombers and twenty-four B-24 bombers, flown by US military pilots, all flew through the Dutch East Indies and India to the Northeast and were transferred to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    At the same time, when its own production was still insufficient, in order to ensure the resistance against the Allied bombing of Japan and reduce its own pressure, the British were also mobilized to put the Stirling, which had begun to retreat to the second line, into service after the Lancaster heavy bomber was put into service.  Heavy bombers, Manchester bombers, and Wellington bombers provided assistance to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  Before the arrival of US-made long-range bombers, they supplemented the lack of long-range bombers for the Anti-Japanese air raids.

    In the eyes of Americans, the performance of the Il-4, the current main long-range bomber of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, is too backward.  To undertake the cross-sea bombing of Japan, both the bomb load and the protective power were too lagging behind.  As its own bomber production is still insufficient, the United Kingdom, which has begun mass production of new bombers with excellent performance, naturally becomes the first choice.

    And the British are naturally not good people.  On the one hand, the Anti-Japanese Alliance needed to weaken the war potential of the Japanese army to ensure the security of British India and British Australia.  On the one hand, it also used this matter to bargain with the Americans.  In the end, the United States and Britain did not know what agreement they reached. In May 1942, after the British army completed the thousand-plane bombing of Cologne.

    From mid-June to the end of July, the British successively transferred more than 300 Stirling bombers, 100 Wellington bombers, 40 Halifax bombers, and the second batch to the Anti-Japanese Alliance in India.  One hundred and sixty Hurricane fighter jets.  All Stirling bombers and forty Halifax bombers were transferred in July.

    Many of these bombers were directly drawn from the British mainland and even the North African battlefield.  Especially the bombers deployed from the North African battlefield still used desert paint on their fuselages.  However, for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which was in urgent need of long-range bombers, the transfer of British aircraft was not something they should worry about.

    After completing the conversion flight training in just two months, which surprised the British, these bombers began bombing Japan after they all arrived in Northeast China in September of that year.  In 1943, the British transferred all Stirling bombers still in service to the Anti-Alliance.

    This batch of British-made bombers was before the American-made B-17 and B-24 bombers began to arrive in Northeast China in large numbers in early 2003.  Especially in 1942, it undertook the main task of resisting the Allied bombing of Japan.  Of course, these things were only after the Pearl Harbor incident broke out three months later.

    But now, after adopting various technical means to ensure and the excellent performance of this American-made attack aircraft,?? Function.  In addition to having a general direction, the Anti-Japanese Alliance mainly used surface-kill weapons such as napalm bombs during night bombing.  Instead of ordinary explosive anti-personnel bombs, this is actually a point-kill weapon.

    This night, for the Seventh Division, they could not breathe a sigh of relief because of the protection of the night.  For the Seventh Division and their colleagues on the Tongliao battlefield, this night was still a horrific night of hell that those Japanese soldiers who survived on the battlefield would never forget.

    The bombing operations of the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not stop just because night fell.  On the contrary, because of the darkness, the threat posed by its few anti-aircraft guns to the coalition aviation was further reduced.  The anti-alliance napalm bombs continued the nightmare of the Seventh Division.

    A napalm bomb can set a mountain on fire where the Japanese troops are hidden.  A formation of 12 bombers, as is customary for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, can turn the entire battlefield into a vast sea by dropping sixty 150-kilogram napalm bombs after the previous formations have been sorted out with explosive bombs.  Sea of ??fire.
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