Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Two destroyers and warships headed for the coast, leaving the Great Wall alone. The two Peach-class destroyers that were heading north to receive troops were also ready, fully loaded with Japanese soldiers and heading south to prepare for boarding.

The Japanese planes received the message, lowered their altitude and launched an attack on the Great Wall.

Every move of the Japanese aircraft group was seen by the officers and soldiers on the Great Wall. When they reached the range of the Type 127 mm anti-aircraft gun, four groups of eight twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns began firing at the same time.

The punitive soldiers installed time fuses on the anti-aircraft shells, so that when the shells reached the preset position, they would explode, creating walls of shrapnel in the air.

This thing is extremely inefficient. Rather than directly killing enemy aircraft, it is more like blowing up a bombing zone in a certain area in the air, making it so that the Japanese aircraft dare not fly into this bombing zone.

The punitive soldiers chose to blow up the bombing zone in front of the Japanese bombers, so that the bombers would scatter and flee, unable to continue flying in complete formation.

The Punitive Army did not want to give these bombers the opportunity to fly from the bow to the stern of the ship and bomb in a line, as this would increase the area of ​​the warship that would be exposed to bombs.

Forcing the bombers to bomb from the side of the battleship, the shells would be very likely to fall into the sea.

The Japanese bombers also understood this, so they kept looking for opportunities to drop bombs from the tail to the head of the battleship, but the anti-aircraft guns of the Punishment Army kept staring at them and did not give them any chance at all.

Seeing that the bombers could not find an opportunity, the Japanese small planes tried to lower their altitude to harass the warships.

14 small planes began to lower their altitude, trying to drop the small bombs they carried onto the Great Wall to attract the attention of the air defense forces on the Great Wall.

From the perspective of future generations, warships have little ability to resist attacks from aircraft clusters. After all, the Pacific battlefield of World War II has proved this point.

But now it is 1932, the Japs are still using biplanes, while the Great Wall is equipped with 30 twin-mounted Type 85 anti-aircraft machine guns, greatly enhancing its air defense capability. The gap in weapons brings absolute destructive power!

The precision bombing attack range of these biplanes was less than 1 kilometer, and they had to descend in altitude to drop two 25-kilogram bombs.

The anti-aircraft machine gunners on the battleship saw the plane descending to 1500 meters and continuing to descend, entering their firing range, and immediately launched an attack!

The Type 85 anti-aircraft machine gun had a firing rate of 800 rounds per minute. The 60 anti-aircraft machine guns instantly spread a barrage of steel bullets over the Great Wall.

Several faster-flying Japanese planes were hit hard, with more than 10 machine guns aiming at them and firing at them at the same time.

An unlucky Japanese plane had just entered low altitude when it suffered an attack of this scale. The plane was hit by more than a dozen 12.7mm bullets in the air. The entire plane was shattered into pieces, exploded into a fireball, and turned into flying parts all over the sky and scattered everywhere.

Several other Japanese planes suffered the same treatment. They were either bombed in mid-air or flew away with black smoke, crashing into the sea and becoming floating garbage on the sea.

The anti-aircraft firepower displayed by the Great Wall shocked the Japanese pilots. There shouldn't be so many anti-aircraft machine guns on the Great Wall? The density of the barrage seemed to be nearly a hundred anti-aircraft machine guns firing. What was going on?

Such an abnormal situation made the Japanese air force a little overwhelmed. They tried their best to maneuver like snakes to avoid the barrage of bullets below.

But now they have reached low altitude. If they pull up the fuselage and escape, the several planes that have just been destroyed will be lost in vain. Then they will have to lower the altitude again to attack, and suffer casualties again.

All the Japanese pilots intend to carry out the attack to the end!

These Japanese planes struggled to fly in the steel rain of fire from the Great Wall, constantly looking for opportunities to attack, but most of the planes exploded into sparks in the air.

After a round of probing, the Japanese planes discovered that the Great Wall's air defense force paid the most attention to the defense of the bow and stern of the ship, and all the planes that wanted to attack from these two directions were destroyed.

As a last resort, the two planes that finally seized the opportunity to drop bombs could only do so from the flank of the Great Wall.

Two biplanes dropped four 4kg bombs on the Great Wall respectively. These bombs fell on both sides of the Great Wall one after another. Apart from creating high columns of water, they did not cause any damage to the Great Wall.

Before humans developed dive bombing skills and designed specialized dive bombers, the bombing accuracy of small aircraft was not very good.

The two planes paid the price for their low-altitude bombing. After dropping the bombs, they tried to rise, but the dozen or so anti-aircraft machine guns on the Great Wall locked onto them.

More than a dozen barrages of bullets chased after their tails, and the barrages fired by the high-rate machine guns formed a line, catching up with the two planes like a whip and completely tearing them apart.

The planes in the sky were destroyed one after another by the Great Wall, and the number of the Japanese small planes decreased rapidly, and soon there were only single digits.

However, after firing for a while, the Type 85 anti-aircraft machine gun began to overheat, and the shooters on the Great Wall had to reduce the frequency of firing.

The Type 85 anti-aircraft machine gun is lightweight and does not have the ability to quickly replace the barrel. The heavy ceramic steel barrel can fire 800 rounds continuously, which is enough for attacking ground targets and can be used to shoot down aircraft. A large number of bullets are used to lay a barrage, which is a bit difficult.

This also exposes the problem of the Type 85 anti-aircraft machine gun, which is not a specialized anti-aircraft machine gun.

The Japanese bombers noticed this keenly and thought it was a good opportunity, so they lowered their altitude and began to bomb the Nagato alternately.

The two bombers flew from the bow to the stern and from the stern to the bow respectively. They lowered the altitude to below 800 meters and prepared to drop bombs accurately.

When the shooters on the battleship saw this, they ignored the heat dissipation and fired at the bomber with all their strength. Some even poured water on the barrels to force them to cool down.

Smoke began to come out of the two bombers, and a large number of bullet holes appeared on the wings of the planes. One bomber dropped three 3-kilogram bombs over the Great Wall, and then the plane crashed into the distant sea with smoke coming out.

Everyone on the ship held their breath, and all eyes were focused on the three bombs.

Then, three bombs fell into the sea without even exploding.

Everyone on the ship breathed a sigh of relief, but the second bomber also arrived.

There were probably nearly a hundred bullets hitting the plane. It was riddled with bullet holes, swaying, and emitting black smoke, but it didn't explode.

It flew to the bombing position tremblingly and dropped three bombs. It was not known whether it had completed its final mission or because the weight of the aircraft changed due to the bombing, but the aircraft actually disintegrated in the air!

Everyone on the ship breathed a sigh of relief, but this time the Great Wall was not so lucky. Two bombs fell into the sea and one landed on the No. 3 turret, causing a violent explosion.