Chapter 75: Chashan Landing
In the Chashan area, strong winds were raging and heavy rains were pouring. Typhoon butterflies finally landed in the Chashan area of Taiwan.
Countless houses were destroyed by typhoons, giant trees broke, and even the Japanese tea mountain base was severely affected. Large areas of gables collapsed, several barracks were overturned, three Japanese soldiers disappeared, and more than 100 injured.
Not long after the typhoon passed, the Chashan area ushered in a short hour of peace, which was the eye of the typhoon.
However, the Japanese army thought that the typhoon had passed and finally became safe, but they never thought that a greater crisis would come.
A roar suddenly came from the briefly clear sky. After passing the Chashan area where the typhoon was raging, many Taiwanese people couldn't help but walk out of some caves in Chashan and look down at the mountain to see if the homes they live in at the foot of the mountain escaped the damage of the typhoon.
Large pieces of wooden houses were destroyed and only a few people were preserved.
"Damn typhoon, our house was blown down again."
A fifteen-year-old mountain kid couldn't help but curse.
At this time, roars came from the sky, and Shanwa looked at the sky, and dozens of planes lowered their altitude and flew over the hill.
"Which country's plane is this?"
Na Shanwa originally wanted to point at the planes and curse the Japanese devils, but unexpectedly, the Japanese planes I saw in the past were all covered with plaster flags, but now these planes passing by the mountain were painted with blue eagle logos.
"Hide quickly!"
Shanwa's father hurried over and prepared to pull Shanwa back to the cave, because many people who grazed sheep here would be shot dead and injured by the Japanese plane. However, when he looked at the planes passing over the heads of their father and son in horror, his eyes gradually calmed down. Instead, he was surprised.
Although Shanwa's father was illiterate, he could recognize that it was not a Japanese plane.
"Is this Tang Jun's plane?"
Some day ago, he heard in the town that Tang Ri was going to start war again, and this time he targeted Taiwan.
Shanwa and his son quietly watched the planes with lower altitudes pass by the mountain one by one and flew towards the other side of the mountain.
"The other side of the mountain looks like the Japanese military camp!"
The next moment, Shanwa and his son turned their heads to look at the Japanese base on the other side of the mountain. Sure enough, the Tang army planes that lowered the height were flying towards the Japanese army's Chashan military base, and a harsh roar came soon.
“Yi—Yi—Yi—Yi—”
"Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-"
From the top of the mountain, Shanwa and his son could clearly see the planes dropping aviation bombs, and huge red mushroom clouds suddenly rose up in the entire Japanese tea mountain base.
The earth was trembling, like a major earthquake. Shanwa and his son could clearly feel the trembling under their feet. If they hadn't seen a huge explosion in the Japanese military camp with their own eyes, Shanwa and his son would have thought it had been an earthquake.
At this time, some Taiwanese people who were staying in the cave to avoid the typhoon also ran out in horror and shouted that the earthquake was coming.
"It's not an earthquake! Come and see it! The Japanese military camp exploded!"
Shanwa and his son shouted loudly, which was quite excited. Soon a large group of Taiwanese people rushed over and looked towards the direction of the Tea Mountain Base on the other side of the mountain.
At this time, the Tang army bomber group was raging above the Japanese base in Chashan. Aviation bombs weighing 500 kilograms fell. The Japanese barracks below were destroyed one by one, with earth and rocks splashing, and smoke soaring into the sky. The Japanese army in the barracks were blown to pieces, leaving behind huge pits with a depth of several meters and a diameter of nearly 100 meters.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Important targets such as the apron, ammunition depot, arsenal, granary, and oil depot were successively bombed by the Tang army, and violent explosions occurred one after another. In an instant, the fire soared into the sky, and the huge shock waves spread like floods that broke the dam. They spread in all directions, pushing everything flat.
The Japanese army's screams gradually came out. The sound became louder and louder, and soon the howlings of ghosts and wolves spread throughout the Tea Mountain, which made the Taiwanese people on the mountain feel so happy.
"Good fried!"
"Kill these beasts!"
These Taiwanese citizens who are only bullied and humiliated on weekdays are so happy to see the Japanese army being bombed and are talking a lot.
Within a few minutes, except for the Tea Mountain Base, people were shocked by the huge explosions from both sides of the east and west.
"Look, there is a sea of fire over Lao Foshan!"
"The direction of Dashan Mushan Mountain is also like fire to the sky!"
"The Japanese warships on Chashan Port seem to have been bombed too!"
Everyone looked southeast from the top of the mountain. Sure enough, all the places where the Japanese troops were stationed were under bombing, and Tang army bombers were hovering in the sky.
There is a brigade stationed by the Japanese army in Laofoshan. There is a train track below the Mushan Mountain of Dashan, where there is an important supply station for the Japanese army. There are several Japanese destroyers and gunboats parked in Chashan Port, and there are two coastal fortresses on the shore. At this moment, these Japanese strongholds are all devastatingly bombed, a sea of fire and smoke.
Typhoon Butterfly landed in Chashan first, so the Tang army had to attack the Japanese army in Chashan first.
In just over a dozen minutes, the entire Japanese-based area stationed in Chashan area was attacked devastatingly. The well-trained Tang Navy aviation force accurately landed aviation bombs one by one, quickly paralyzing the Japanese army in the area to live.
The Tang army aircraft group quickly dropped bombs and turned back. They did not dare to stay for an extra second because the eye of the wind was still moving quickly. The Tang army aircraft carrier battle group could only be docked on the sea not far from Chashan and could not get closer. All Tang army aircraft must land before the eye of the wind left the mothership, otherwise they would face the danger of being unable to land.
Even so, there were still several Tang army aircraft that had an accident when landing on the flight deck. Due to the tight landing time, a Hellfire heavy carrier-based aircraft was not caught by the blocking cable when it landed. As a result, the pilot was very experienced and quickly turned around and slid into the sea without hitting other aircraft on the deck. The other Hellfire landed too fast, and although it was hooked by the blocking cable, it turned out to break the wings and smashed the propeller. Fortunately, the Tang army had strict orders that no matter whether the target was found or not, they were not allowed to carry ammunition and auxiliary fuel tanks when returning, so it would not cause more explosive disasters.
The Tang army was well-trained. This time, Li Haichen took this into consideration, strengthened the damage pipe strength in the landing area, and arranged several vehicles similar to bulldozers. Once an aircraft landed, it would be pushed directly into the sea. This was to not block the landing runway and affect other aircraft's rapid landing. After all, the time for this air strike was too tight, and the Tang army needed to recover all aircraft as quickly as possible.
In the end, the Tang army completed the bombing operation at the slight cost of destroying one hellfire and three injured, destroying all Japanese bases in Chashan, causing the Japanese to lose a coast guard airport and twenty-two planes to be blown up. A whole Pingtung garrison brigade was wiped out, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were killed, and the port was lost to two Fengfeng-class destroyers and three gunboats, the coastal fortress was destroyed, and there were also a large number of arsenals, ammunition depots, oil depots, and granaries were blown up, causing huge losses.
When the Tang army was attacking the Japanese army in Chashan, two large dock landing ships also approached Chashan Port under the cover of several minesweepers. The bow gate of one landing ship opened and six amphibious tanks landed in a swimming ferry. After the gate of another dock landing ship opened, a naval battle battalion inside was also dropped.
Chapter completed!