Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 228 Successful Deception
Of course, these anti-aircraft machine gun positions cannot be the same as ordinary machine gun positions.

Anti-aircraft machine gun firing positions don't need to be large, but they need to be deep, so that it's easy for someone to stand inside the pit and fire at the air.

There's no need for a roof, because a roof would obstruct the line of sight for shooting.

As a result, circular anti-aircraft pits appeared on both sides of the airport, and each anti-aircraft pit contained an M2 heavy machine gun.

There was no other way but the M2 heavy machine gun could effectively kill the bombers.

Ordinary 7.62 or even 7.92 caliber machine gun bullets have an effective range of only 1,000 meters. Beyond this range, the bullet's power is greatly reduced, and it is even questionable whether it can penetrate the cockpit of an aircraft.

The 12.7mm machine gun bullet has an effective range of up to 2,000 meters, and the bullet's weight is four times that of a 100mm rifle bullet. Therefore, it has enough kinetic energy to easily penetrate the cockpit of an aircraft at an airport within a range of 2,000 meters.

Of course, there weren't many of these anti-aircraft guns, only about two hundred.

Unfortunately, the Third Field Army doesn't have many M2 heavy machine guns at the moment. After all, although they had previously captured Jinan and annihilated Huang Baitao's army, Huang Baitao's army was a mixed force, as was Jinan.

Therefore, they did not obtain many M2 heavy machine guns; most of them remained Wang Gensheng's own. Of course, the Fourth Field Army did have quite a few M2 heavy machine guns, but unfortunately, the Fourth Field Army was too far away, and distant water could not quench immediate thirst.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The old man's revenge came quickly. Early in the morning, five B-24 bombers arrived in formation and had already entered the low-altitude dive bombing phase.

Its altitude was less than 500 meters above the ground. Wang Gensheng naturally wouldn't tolerate such suicidal behavior.

Immediately, mental perception was activated, and the bomber's flight speed was sensed. The enhanced brain then quickly calculated the lead time.

That's right. When shooting down high-speed targets like bombers, the key is to accurately calculate the lead time.

However, with bombers roaring overhead at speeds of three to four hundred kilometers per hour, the opportunity to fire a shot is only a few seconds long, so ordinary people don't have that kind of calculation ability.

Therefore, skilled anti-aircraft machine gunners mostly rely on experience to estimate their shots.

However, Wang Gensheng was different, because his enhanced brain made his calculation ability six times that of an ordinary person.

Therefore, the computing power is still very fast. As a result, Wang Gensheng's shooting was like a precise sniper shot, and he successfully hit the cockpit of the lead B24 bomber.

Not only did they penetrate the cockpit, but they also killed the pilot and co-pilot.

The B-24 bomber immediately lost control, even though it was in a dive bombing maneuver.

So, without its pilot, the bomber crashed headfirst into the ground, bursting into flames and turning into a fireball, followed by a violent explosion.

Unfortunately, the gasoline combustion caused the bomb inside the fuselage to explode.

After the first bomber was shot down, the four bombers that followed immediately increased their altitude and escaped Wang Gensheng's accurate firing range.

Having learned from the previous experience, the four bombers never dared to lower their altitude to bomb again.

Instead, they all raised their altitude to two thousand meters without prior arrangement.

At an altitude of 2,000 meters, the planes at the airport look like ants.

Therefore, they are not afraid at all that the plane that was bombed was not a normal plane, but a fake plane made of wood.

boom! boom! boom!
After dropping several tons of explosives, the four planes left, presumably to report their results to the old man.

Of course, Wang Gensheng didn't relax. He held out until nightfall without discovering that Lao Jing had sent any more bombers. Only then did Wang Gensheng relax, as this meant he had essentially gotten away with it.

The next thing to do is wait another six months or so, until the old man is driven to the island and becomes the island's owner, before these fighter jets can appear at the airport.

After all, once the old pheasant is driven to the island, it will be more than 1,500 kilometers away from Xuzhou, which is 3,000 kilometers round trip.

This distance is already the limit for most bombers.

Of course, Lao Jing also received the false news that most of the planes at Xuzhou Airport had been destroyed.

Looking at the more than fifty fighter jets that had been successfully preserved, Wang Gensheng even wondered if he could build an aircraft carrier battle group.

After all, by modifying the Congqing, such as widening the deck and removing some turrets, it is still possible to convert a cruiser with a full-load displacement of more than 7,000 tons into an aircraft carrier.

After all, these fighter jets are all propeller planes, and the takeoff distance is only two or three hundred meters, so they don't need any catapult devices to take off, thus the requirements for aircraft carriers are particularly low.

It's worth noting that the United States claimed to have over 150 aircraft carriers during World War II, but in reality, 117 of them were converted from merchant ships, with a displacement of only a few thousand tons.

Furthermore, eleven of these aircraft carriers were converted from cruisers.

These cruisers only weighed around 10,000 tons, so it wouldn't be a problem for Wang Gensheng to convert the Congqing cruiser into an aircraft carrier.

However, given the current industrial capacity of the country, building an aircraft carrier is quite difficult, since fighter jets are, frankly speaking, consumables.

Therefore, it is wishful thinking to think that relying solely on these few dozen fighter jets and one aircraft carrier can deter the United States.

However, it would be a lie for Wang Gensheng, now a naval officer, to say he doesn't want an aircraft carrier.

Therefore, even possessing the simplest aircraft carrier still carries a different significance.

Just as Wang Gensheng was pondering how to develop the future aircraft carrier, Du Yuming, who was in Xuzhou, also made the decision to evacuate from Xuzhou.

Although Du Yuming chose the third route for retreat.

However, Du Yuming also understood that if they took the third route in a high-profile manner, they would undoubtedly be surrounded and intercepted by the Third Field Army.

Therefore, Du Yuming came up with a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

This plan involves using spies within the Liberation Army in Laojing to reveal the retreat route, thus achieving the goal of luring the enemy away from their stronghold.

The results were quite good; the news that Du Yuming would choose the first retreat route was quickly passed on to the deputy commander of the Third Field Army through an undercover agent.

However, the deputy commander of the Third Field Army did not believe that Du Yuming would be so foolish as to choose the first option.

After all, although the first route is very short, it is a dead end. For large groups with excessive loads, too many rivers and wetlands are a nightmare. Therefore, taking the third or second route by sea is the correct method.

But unfortunately, Wang Gensheng was waiting for the second sea route!
Furthermore, Lao Zi has now lost the support of the Du Lu, so he simply doesn't have enough ships to transport soldiers.

Therefore, the third, wide land route was ultimately Du Yuming's only option.

(End of this chapter)