The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Chapter 567 "Feiyan-1" Laser Glide Guided Bomb

Tanabe Moritake was rudely awakened, and a surge of anger rushed to his head.

He had just fallen asleep for less than three hours. He was exhausted from the recent days of paying attention to the White Eagle's offensive in Luzon and being prepared for a possible attack from the South Seas in half a year (this was Tanabe Moritake's judgment).

His precious sleep was interrupted at this moment, and the already hot and humid weather made him extremely irritable.

"Baka!" Tanabe Moritake suddenly sat up and yelled at the staff officer, "Bombers? It's so dark, do they have eyes? Even if they have eyes, how can they see anything in the dark? They're just bluffing and harassing us."

He waved his hands irritably, as if to shoo away flies:

"Didn't you come here several times in the past few days? You dropped a few harmless bombs and ran off. The battle in Luzon isn't over yet, and that brat Zhang Chi dares to attack Sumatra now? Isn't he afraid of a counterattack from General Yamashita? Stupid, get out. Just turn off the lights and increase vigilance, and don't bother me again."

The hot and humid weather is not so bad in this courtyard, but once you go underground, even with ventilation equipment, you will still be sweating all over.

If he really entered the bunker, Tanabe Moritake estimated that he would not be able to sleep tonight, so he directly refused to move.

The staff officer looked at his commander's face, which was distorted by lack of sleep and anger, and swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

Tanabe Shigetake's judgment is not entirely unreasonable.

Nanyang was founded not long ago and its foundation was not stable. The war in Luzon was raging and the White Eagle was in a desperate situation. In the eyes of these devils, it was indeed unlikely that Nanyang would devote all its strength to attacking the heavily guarded Sumatra at this juncture.

The previous air raids were more like tests and harassment.

Besides, in this pitch-black night... what could a few bombers do? Wouldn't the small number of bombs they dropped be deflected and blow up dozens of miles away?

The staff officer glanced at the thick darkness outside the window, then looked at Tanabe Moritake's murderous expression, and finally did not dare to persuade him anymore.

If you wake up this hot-tempered commander again, you will not just be scolded, you will definitely be slapped.

"Hey! I obey your command!" The staff officer bowed and retreated, conveying the order helplessly.

The fire was extinguished and all personnel took cover and increased security, but the commander... refused to enter the bunker.

The courtyard soon fell into silence again, with only the roar of the engine continuing to approach in the night sky. Tanabe Shengwu turned over irritably, covered his ears with a pillow, and soon fell into an angry light sleep.

The sultry air seemed to freeze, with only the sound of his heavy breathing.

At the same time, about 4.3 kilometers northeast of Palembang City, on an unnamed hill.

This is a gentle slope covered with dense shrubs. It is located at a high vantage point with a wide view. You can just see the outline of the edge of Palembang city over the sparse treetops, especially the location of the Tanabe official residence.

Night is the best cover and distance is a natural barrier.

The Japanese patrol would never come so far to the outskirts of the city at night, and they would never have imagined that a deadly threat would come from here.

Colonel Lin Laisheng and his squad were like ghosts, their faces covered in thick jungle paint, and their helmets and weapons carefully wrapped in dark cloth to avoid any reflections.

They lurked silently, with only the slightest sound of breathing and heartbeat.

Harriman and the technicians were carefully assembling the two precious "Nd:YAG laser pointers".

"Azimuth confirmed, pitch angle confirmed..." Harriman's voice was very low, and his fingers turned slightly on the precision adjustment knob, making the final fine-tuning with the help of the compass and the coordinates mapped in advance.

Lin Laisheng put on the latest head-mounted infrared night vision device that was airdropped.

His vision instantly turned into a strange green, and the originally dark world became clear before his eyes - the blurry but recognizable shadows of trees, the faint outline of the city in the distance, and even the vague roof shape of the Tanabe official residence in the distance were vaguely visible.

This equipment, which was ahead of its time, gave him "eyes" in the dark.

"Unit 1 has been erected and is in good condition!"

Harriman reported softly, his voice trembling with a barely perceptible excitement.

"Unit 2 is on standby and in good condition!"

Lin Laisheng nodded, took a deep breath, and took over the control of laser pointer No. 1.

The heavy barrel was mounted on a sturdy tripod. Through his night vision goggles, he locked onto the blurry green area in his field of view that represented the roof of the Tanabe residence. His finger pressed the trigger button steadily.

There was no dazzling beam of light, no earth-shaking sound.

Only Lin Laisheng, who was wearing night vision goggles, could see that a near-infrared laser beam, completely invisible to the naked eye, accurately crossed a distance of more than 4300 meters at an angle of almost zero divergence and landed steadily on the thick tiled roof of the main building of Tanabe Moritake's official residence.

It was a tiny, continuously flickering invisible spot of light, like a precise death mark.

"Laser illuminated! Target locked!"

Lin Laisheng's voice was steady, but his heart was beating wildly in his chest. Success or failure depended on this one move.

"Radio connected." The signalman immediately adjusted the encrypted radio to the designated channel.

"Falcon, Falcon. This is Gopher. Lasers activated, target area confirmed. Repeat, lasers activated, target area confirmed. Requesting bomb release, over."

Over the island of Sumatra, 3000 meters above sea level.

Four huge B-29 "Super Fortress" bombers were flying steadily in the dark night sky.

Inside the cabin, the pilot and bombardier stared at the instrument panel and out the dark windows, their nerves tense.

The ground below was completely dark, with only a few faint lights in the Palembang refinery area, making it impossible to distinguish specific targets.

"Falcon received! Signal clear! Laser captured! Over!" The voice of the lead bombardier came through the headset.

"Oh my god... will this thing really work?" the co-pilot couldn't help but ask. They had flown countless night bombing missions before, and their success rate depended entirely on luck and blanket coverage.

This combination of ground-based laser guidance and glide-guided bombs dropped from aircraft was only used in a few experimental deployments even in Southeast Asia before it was brought to the real battlefield due to the urgency of the war.

No one knows whether it can succeed in actual combat and whether it can really kill Tanabe Moritake.

"Attention, all aircraft, enter the bombing route, altitude 3000, maintain speed. Open the bomb bay and prepare to drop the 'Flying Swallow'." The captain of the lead aircraft gave the order decisively.

The huge bomb bay doors of the four B-29s slowly opened, and cold air rushed into the cabin.

The bomb hanging on the special rack revealed its hideous appearance.

They are different from ordinary aerial bombs. They have a more slender body, are equipped with a streamlined glide kit, and have a transparent fairing on the head, through which the sophisticated silicon photodiode guidance head inside can be vaguely seen.

This is Nanyang’s secret weapon - the "Feiyan-1" laser glide-guided bomb, each weighing more than 2000 pounds (about 907 kilograms).