This defeat was actually not a big blow to the morale of the "reverse cross", after all, due to the influence of clouds in this battle, there were too many uncertain factors, and there were many luck elements in the victory. However, the "shot down" Boynton was unlucky, and now, almost all the instructors, after seeing him, will joke about him with "not even holding up for 15 seconds".

"You guys, in that situation, if you change it, can you hold it?" Boynton's face flushed, and his beard, which had not been trimmed for days, stood on end.

The people who made fun of him certainly didn't dare to say that they could hold on much longer in that situation. In fact, falling into that situation, being shot down is almost a sure thing. But they still have their own words:

"We're not like you, lucky enough to carry it like that. You know, luck is also part of strength. ”

This almost shameless answer made Boynton even more angry. But he knew that those boring guys wanted to see him thunderous, and he knew those bastards too well, because he was such a person himself. Instead, Boynton calmed down and smiled.

"Have you ever heard of the law of 'limited luck'?" He pretended to look around proudly, "A person's luck is limited, and if you use too much in one place, you won't have enough in other places." A fool would be willing to drain all his luck in a meaningless simulation battle. ”

*a* read* the novel xstxt Then, he held his head up triumphantly and swaggered away.

……

In the final squad battle, the weather didn't help anyone, and as a result, relying on the advantage of aircraft performance, coupled with the Soviet ace Kovzan's natural skill "Air Bumper Car", it was unconditionally forbidden to use. The "Reverse Cross" achieved another victory. In this way, in the first skirmish, the Americans emerged victorious. This made the Soviets very unhappy, and some Soviets said that if they brought the La-5FN, they would definitely be able to beat the Yankees all over the ground. Although the Yankees expressed their "letter cuts" one after another, they admitted in their hearts that in this confrontation, because the difference in the performance of the aircraft used by the two sides was obvious, it was indeed a bit of a victory. But because of Ron's orders, the guys put on a triumphant look in front of the Soviets, and they all raised their noses high and threw out the phrase: "The victor is not to blame." ”

Ron did this for a reason, because the next exercise was a scale-up confrontation exercise with a tactical background. In order to save face, the Soviets will certainly play more seriously in this project that they are more familiar with, so that the Americans can learn more.

The reason why the so-called scale-up confrontation exercise with a tactical background is more familiar to the Soviets is because the project is set up like this:

BLU armoured forces launched an attack on RED's defense line in an area. The Red side sends a group of attack planes in an attempt to attack the Blue team's armored forces, and sends a group of fighters to escort them. The BLU fighters were ordered to protect the armored forces and repel the attacking aircraft group. According to the agreement of the two sides, if within 4 hours, more than 50 percent of the armored vehicles of the armored forces are still alive, the blue side will be deemed victorious, otherwise the red side will be deemed victorious.

Such tasks were the norm on the battlefields of the Eastern Front. Most of the combat missions performed by Soviet pilots were of this category.

Close-range ground fire support is also a subject that Americans now have less experience and urgently need to make up for it. Ron hoped that the previous victory would spur the Soviets to show more real skills.

In this exercise, the "Reverse Cross" and the Soviets will play the role of red and blue in accordance with the draw. The instructors in the establishment of the "reverse cross" were more fighter pilots. As a result, there are really not many top pilots in ground attack. Well, there are quite a few good bombers on the navy's side, but most of them can't get it when they come to the navy (I heard that the navy is also preparing its own set of similar things), and to be honest, sometimes the navy is more defense-resistant than Japanese spies. Second, these top naval figures are more familiar with attacking warships rather than tanks and the like. So in the end, the "reverse cross" decided to simply pull the rookie bomber pilots who were being trained over to fly the attack planes.

The Americans do not have in their hands such an attack aircraft as the Il-2, so one of the roles can only be replaced by the A-20 attack aircraft. Although the A-20 bears the brand of an attack aircraft, it is more like a light bomber in terms of shape and structure. It's just right for the rookie bomber pilots to drive it.

The Soviets didn't bring many attack pilots with them, so when Ron suggested that the Soviets use A-20 attack planes piloted by American rookie pilots as their own attack aircraft unit while playing the red side, the Soviets agreed. It was only after they practiced with those rookies a few times that they vaguely revealed such a meaning: Yankee's ground attack skills are really problematic!

So Ron simply suggested that they bring in a few more authentic attack aircraft pilots from the Soviet Union. In this regard, the Soviets said that it was too troublesome, so they should forget it. It seems that the Soviets still have reservations about the technique of ground attack.

While the two sides were training with each other and their A-20 units, they joined forces and began to set up the exercise site.

Although the "Reverse Cross" is an army unit, it has absolutely no armored units among the subordinate units. Not to mention such high-end goods as armored forces, not even ordinary ground combat forces. At most, it's just a little garrison. What about the "armored forces" during the exercises?

Ron remembers that when the Germans were working on the "Blitzkrieg", there were no tanks, but they used Volkswagen trucks wrapped with wooden planks to simulate tanks. Anyway, there are so many "reverse cross" cars, it's not impossible to pass off cars as one. It's just that they still lack the talent to have a better understanding of ground offensive, as well as ground air defense.

Ron escalated the issue to General Arnold, hoping that the general would send them an expert in the area. Unexpectedly, the next day, he received an answer from the general. General Arnold actually transferred a real armored unit to him!

Still, the performance of this so-called "real armored force" made the Soviets shake their heads. In Valia's words, that is, if this force were to go into battle like this, whether it was us or the Germans, whether it was with air strikes or ground troops, they would be able to defeat them to the north.

Ron knew that Valia wasn't bragging, at least not yet. Historically, when the U.S. Army had just landed in North Africa, it was repaired by the Germans. Then he was nicknamed "the Italians on our side" by the British, who watched the excitement.

Fortunately, the Soviets did not complain in vain, and they also proposed improvements. Of course, the Maoists will not say "what will we do in the Soviet Red Army", but they will tell the Yankees that "the Fritz are like this...... Such...... Such. ”

In this way, after a week, everything is ready, and according to the draw, the "reverse cross" will play the red side in the first round three days later.

……

"Although we do not have much experience escorting groups of attack aircraft on close support missions, there are commonalities between the various air combat experiences. We've carried out a lot of escort missions for bombers, and these missions are actually similar in principle......"

"Judging from the exercises a few days ago, if the A-20 wants to accurately hit the target, it must reduce the altitude, so as to ensure the accuracy of machine gun cannon and rocket attacks. If the flight altitude of the A-20 drops, then the flight altitude of our escort fighters must also be reduced. But in this way, it was possible to cede the height advantage to the Soviets. ”

"Well, then the Russians will have a chance to crush our escort formation first, and then go and slaughter those rookie A-20s."

"Then why don't we simply widen the height difference between the escort and attack formations?"

"That's even worse, if I were Soviets, I'd pick a P-47 - you wouldn't dare choose a P-47 to escort low-altitude targets, would you? Then I'll just pounce and wash those rookies away. ”

"Either we'll split the escort into two tiers...... Ron said. Here, once again, Ron shamelessly plagiarized someone else's idea. The division of the escort cluster into two layers, high and low, is exactly the typical formation of the Soviet Air Force. If they succeed in treating others in their own way this time, it is estimated that the Soviets will really cry.

"Well, what if it'......"

"I have another proposal, how about we go and sneak up on their airport early in the morning?"

"Daddy, you're black enough. I see ......"

……

In the conference room of the Soviets, the Soviets were also meeting to discuss tactics.

"In the first round, it was the Americans who had escort missions. Let's talk about it, how do we deal with it? "Kotin knew he wasn't coming from a serious fighting unit. On this kind of issue, it is still necessary to listen to the opinions of the aces.

"First of all, and most importantly, early warning, the Americans' airfield is not far from the location of the exercise, and their fighters and A-20 attack aircraft have a decent range, which is enough to detour from different lines to the skies over the target area. If we don't get effective air crews early warning, we will be very passive. ”

"Why don't we arrange a reconnaissance plane to keep an eye on the Yankees?"

"Can you afford to be in such trouble?" Valia stood up and picked up a wooden stick that he used to point to the sand table.

"You see, this is the airport for the Americans, and here it is ours. Tomorrow morning after 6 o'clock the exercise begins, our armored forces will attack under our orders, and we can take off at about 5 o'clock and immediately carry out a counter-fire preparation on the American airfield before the armored forces attack......"

"Is this appropriate?" Kotin asked.

"What's wrong? By the time we flew over the American airfield, the exercises had already begun! Exercises are not acting, they are preparations for war! You don't even understand this, do you need me to teach you? ”