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Chapter 226 Air Raid on Chongxing Fortress, Iowa-class Battleship Battleship Arrives

In the airstrike against the Chongxing Fortress, the first wave of attacks did not come from the Air Force, but from two tactical missile regiments deployed by the Strategic Rocket Force in the southern part of Qidong Province.

With a wave of Jiang Hua's hand, 2000 Changkong-8 short-range tactical ballistic missiles were produced in one go, allowing the Strategic Rocket Force to use them in this war.

The cost of a single missile of this type is 5000 yuan, which adds up to only 1000 million yuan.

Therefore, the Strategic Rocket Force used this tactical missile without any hesitation, and fired 162 tactical missiles equipped with high-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, and bunker-buster warheads at the area where the Chongxing Fortress was located in one breath.

When a barrage of tactical missiles fell from the sky, the defenders of Chongxing Fortress were so frightened that their scalps tingled.

The atmosphere in Chongxing Fortress itself was heavy at the moment, and both the generals and soldiers were on edge.

After seeing this scene, hundreds of large and small anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns of various calibers of the air defense forces roared.

For a moment, black fog produced by the explosion of high-explosive bombs exploded in the sky.

Invisibly, shrapnel flew everywhere, forming a barrage in the path of the incoming tactical missiles.

However, the terminal speed of the Changkong-8 tactical missile exceeds Mach 5, which is in the hypersonic category. It cannot be intercepted by ordinary anti-aircraft guns.

So they didn't stop any of them.

One missile after another hit the earth like a comet, causing earth-shaking explosions.

These tactical missiles mainly rely on luck. If they can hit the target, it would be the best, because that means there is an unlucky person who happens to be at the impact point.

Even if it missed, it could still cause chaos in the Chongxing Fortress and reduce the air defense pressure faced by the Air Force during the air raid.

So this is the purpose of the Strategic Rocket Force cooperating with the Air Force in combat.

Among them, the biggest threat to Chongxing Fortress is the Changkong 8 missiles with ground-penetrating warheads.

As a tactical ground-to-ground missile, Changkong 8 has a warhead carrying capacity of 600 kilograms.

A 600-kilogram bunker buster bomb is also very deadly to shore-based artillery.

There really is an unlucky guy in Chongxing Fortress.

A 203mm breech-loading fortress gun located in a semi-buried fortification of the Chongxing Fortress was hit at close range by the earth-penetrating warhead of a Changkong-8 missile.

Then, under the violent impact, countless mud and gravel flew into the sky, and even the ten-ton coastal defense gun was blown away for a distance.

Among them, the Changkong 8 tactical missile carrying a napalm warhead caused the greatest chaos to the Chongxing Fortress.

The gelatinous napalm reached a batch of shells stored in the coastal artillery fortifications, causing a huge explosion under the high temperature, directly destroying several nearby 120mm caliber howitzers.

Sparks of flames spread throughout the Chongxing Fortress, and the defenders in the fortress hid directly in the fortifications, not daring to show their heads at all, allowing the flames to spread.

Moreover, the flames produced by the explosion of napalm bombs cannot be extinguished by ordinary means.

Even if they wanted to destroy it, they couldn't.

In the Chongxing Fortress Command, a Southern Alliance lieutenant general with a face as black as the bottom of a pot walked back and forth in the command center.

The damage caused to them by this attack was not particularly great, but this unknown means of attack also made him feel frightened.

Who knows if another group will come at any time and blow their fortress to pieces.

"The Restoration Army's air force is here!"

Soon, his phone rang. It was a call from the air defense sentry post.

Hearing this, his heart sank.

Under the unknown attack just now, part of their air defense positions were destroyed, and only dozens of anti-aircraft guns were left.

Originally, the plan was that the Chongxing Fortress should deploy about 300 large and small caliber anti-aircraft artillery pieces in order to form a sufficiently dense anti-aircraft firepower in such a large fortress.

Anti-aircraft guns from the United States have even been shipped to the island.

However, at the command of some big shots, batches of people were transferred away.

Some appeared directly in the arms black market, while others were deployed around the residences of certain bigwigs.

For example, more than 200 anti-aircraft artillery pieces of various calibers are deployed around the Presidential Palace.

This is also related to the previous bombing of the Yugoslavian Allied Forces by the Restoration Army.

The explosion was only a few kilometers away from the Presidential Palace.

Therefore, many important figures in Jinling are worried about their own safety.

Transfer a few doors there, transfer a few doors here.

Therefore, the number of anti-aircraft artillery deployed in Chongxing Fortress was only about 100, and the largest caliber did not exceed 75 mm.

The largest caliber before was 127 mm, which was a dual-purpose anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft gun removed from a retired warship.

But under the selection of the big shots, it is not their turn.

This is not only the case in Chongxing Fortress, but also in several other fortresses. The situation is just a little more serious in the newly built Chongxing Fortress.

After the first wave of missile strikes, the Fuxing Army's carrier-based aviation formation gained a basic understanding of the Chongxing Fortress's air defense firepower.

Then, a number of F-8 Crusader carrier-based fighter jets took the lead and flew towards the Chongxing Fortress in a diving posture.

"boom......"

As layers of shock waves emerged on the surface of the machine, a huge roar was heard.

The F-8 Crusader carrier-based fighter directly entered supersonic speed.

Their mission is to attract ground-based air defense fire, mark them, and then eliminate the most threatening ones.

Other soldiers can hide in the fortress's fortifications.

As anti-aircraft artillery soldiers, they have to face the jet fighters of the Restoration Army.

When they saw jet fighters rushing into the air defense network at a very fast speed, the anti-aircraft artillery scattered in the fortress opened fire.

Among them, the 40mm twin-mounted Bofors anti-aircraft gun has the most ferocious firepower.

Dense artillery shells hit the butt of an F-8 Crusader fighter directly.

However, its speed was too fast, and when the shell exploded in the air, the fighter plane had already disappeared.

It can also be seen from here that these anti-aircraft artillery soldiers have no experience in air defense operations.

Basically, they all fought on their own and did not form a dense air defense network.

After identifying the target, the F-8 fighter began to slow down, then rolled over and made a large-radius turn, turning its nose and diving towards the powerful 40mm Bofors twin-mounted anti-aircraft gun position.

At this moment, another F-8 fighter jet approached the anti-aircraft artillery position from another direction.

"Swish swish..."

Four aerial rockets whizzed out and headed straight for the anti-aircraft artillery position only one or two kilometers away.

“Boom…Boom…”

In a burst of intensive explosions, the 40mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft gun and more than a dozen soldiers were directly submerged in the explosion.

A few minutes later, the anti-aircraft firepower of Chongxing Fortress was directly suppressed by the agile F-8 jet fighters.

72 A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft entered the area from low altitude and headed straight for the exposed coastal defense batteries.

All four racks were loaded with 454 kg heavy bombs.

The swarm of A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft arrived, causing devastating damage to the large and small artillery batteries of Chongxing Fortress.

One after another, 1000-pound bombs fell from the sky and were accurately dropped into the artillery fortifications under the guidance of the bombing system.

In the midst of the violent explosions, these coastal defense artillery were directly destroyed without playing any role.

When the fortress commander received the information about the situation on the ground, he almost fainted.

Then a bitter smile appeared on his face.

Faced with this situation, no matter how powerful he was, he could only watch helplessly, and a feeling of despair and powerlessness surged in his heart.

More than half an hour later, all carrier-based aircraft had left.

At this time, another group of fighter planes entered the sky above the battlefield.

A squadron of 30 Tu-16 medium bombers entered the battle area, carrying AS-1 missiles. The AS-1 Comet missile is a bit ugly, but it is still very practical. Although the AS-1 is an anti-ship missile, its beam guidance capability can also be used for ground attacks.

After entering the area, 30 Tu-16 medium bombers, under the cover of escorting F-100 fighter-bombers, carried out relatively precise strikes on some surface fortress fortifications of Chongxing Fortress that had not yet been cleared.

Missiles came from the air several kilometers away and carried out precise air explosions.

The 800-kilogram shaped-charge armor-piercing warhead is not something that ordinary thickness concrete fortifications can withstand.

After just one hour of air raid, the Chongxing Fortress was reduced to ruins. The larger the target, the more severe the damage to the surface fortifications.

There were bomb craters of all sizes and reinforced concrete debris scattered on the ground.

Among these ruins, the bodies of some SAARC soldiers can still be seen.

It was not until more than ten minutes passed without any movement that the soldiers of the Yugoslav Allied Forces came out of the underground air-raid fortifications.

When they stood on the ground and looked at the ruins around them, they felt relieved that they had survived the disaster.

However, when they saw the artillery batteries emitting thick smoke and turning into ruins, their morale plummeted.

The core of Chongxing Fortress relies on these artillery batteries, and the hundreds of artillery pieces of various sizes are also the basis for their confidence in resisting the landing of the Fuxing Army.

However, these artillery batteries that once boosted military morale have now become ruins.

Under the air raid of the Restoration Army, their proud cannons did not play any role.

Without these artillery batteries, what would they use to resist?

On the sea about 20 kilometers away from Chongxing Island, a large fleet was cutting through the waves and traveling at high speed on the sea.

Each warship maintained a high speed of 30 knots.

This includes the Iowa-class battleships, which can reach a maximum speed of 33 knots.

Four Iowa-class battleships led the fleet, with Boston-class missile cruisers and Mitchell-class destroyers guarding them.

There are also two Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarines following under the sea to prevent unknown submarines from appearing in the sea.

After all, during the high-speed maneuvers of the fleet, the sonar system will be interfered with and unable to work, so we can only rely on submarines for anti-submarine operations.

But it is obvious that the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation does not have high-end things like submarines.

Soon the fleet approached the sea more than 10 kilometers away from the Chongxing Island Fortress.

At this time, the outline of Chongxing Island could be clearly seen from the warship.

The defenders at Chongxing Fortress could clearly see this huge fleet.

"Commander, a battle fleet has been spotted on the sea, with four battleships."

This news exploded in the fortress like a depth bomb.