Chapter Ninety-Nine, Confrontation

If the problem of the "reverse cross" summary meeting is that it is not serious enough and is often boring crooked, then the summary meeting of the Soviets is too serious and often a serious crooked building.

"I am to bear considerable responsibility for this failure," Kotin spoke first, "and I have been too rash in adopting the battle plan that some veteran pilots have put forward without careful investigation and study. He glanced at Valia and saw that her face was flushed, and under her long eyelashes, her big brown eyes were faintly shining, like lightning hidden in the clouds before a thunderstorm. Kejing suddenly felt a little happy, a little pity, and maybe even a little panicked. He suddenly doubted himself: "Is it right to point the finger of criticism at this woman?" ”

However, Kotin was immediately relentless, knowing that as a leader of a non-combat unit, he would naturally be suspicious of the pilots, and Valia had publicly expressed his contempt for him on several occasions. If you can't overwhelm her, then how can you lead this team in the future?

So Kotin continued his speech:

"Some of our comrades, because they have won more battles, have begun to become complacent, and this is an extremely dangerous situation! It is a manifestation of the decadent ideology of the bourgeoisie, which is a matter of forgetting one's own identity and thinking that one is a hero, so that one can be above the general masses and even above the party organization! It is inconsistent with our identity as revolutionary soldiers, if @δΈ€@本本@read-novel xstxt can't recognize this well and seriously correct it, it will jeopardize our cause! will become a sinner of the party and ** ideals! I hope that you will all think about this seriously and show it in the statements that follow.

The revolutionary cause of the proletariat, the cause of the liberation of the peoples of the world, requires us to be vigilant at all times, not only against those who are openly but also against those who are hidden within us, but also against our own minds......"

Kotin's speech took half an hour. Although there is a lot of content, the most important points are actually only the following:

1. This failure is not accidental, the root cause of the failure is not in the technical and tactical aspects, but in the failure to guide oneself with correct thinking.

2. It is necessary to strengthen the party's leadership, strengthen organizational discipline, and take a clear-cut stand against individual heroism.

3. We must remain humble and cautious, and oppose the behavior of being complacent when there is a little achievement.

In the end, Kejing also said that all people must speak, carefully investigate the reasons, find a way, and pass the test one by one!

When his speech ended, there was silence.

Kotin sat silently, scanning the rest of the room. Kovzan sat upright and straight, with a blank face; Skomorokhov didn't know what he was thinking, he just turned a pen around in his hand; Popkov took his hat off and put it on the table, and then brought it to his head...... Finally, Cotin saw Valia, who saw that his eyes were spewing fire, his hands clenched into fists, and he seemed to be about to jump.

"Comrade Valya, do you have anything to say?" Kotin deliberately named Valia. He looked her in the eye deliberately defiantly.

"Hurry up and get angry, hurry up and lose your temper!" Kotin said in his heart. This meeting is a party meeting, and everyone's speeches will be recorded in detail in the minutes. If Valia had jumped up at this point, Kotin would have been able to give a report to her superiors, and if it had been a few years earlier, such a report would have been enough for her to go to a certain department for tea. Now, of course, no, the state will no longer kick an air combat hero out of the gulag because of a word or two of nonsense, and now at most it will give her a punishment and then return her to her original combat unit. Still, to be able to get this damn woman out of here, Kojing felt that was enough.

"I have something to say." Valia slowly stood up. She wasn't actually a female tyrannosaurus-like figure like she usually showed, to a large extent, it was just a disguise for a woman to stand out in the combat army. At least, that's how it was in the beginning. Many years ago, when she was still in middle school, she was a little girl who would blush shy and blush whenever she talked to someone. At that time, she still wore two beautiful pigtails and spoke so softly that Boris, who taught mathematics, would often smile and say, "Valya, you have to make your voice louder, or an old man like me will not hear anything." ”

It's just that many times, the character you are disguised will also subtly affect you, and now, even Valia herself doesn't know if she is about to become a real female tyrannosaurus.

But at least for now, Valia felt that she hadn't fallen to that point, for example, for now, she had completely seen through Kotin's intentions. She knew that Kotin was waiting for her to talk nonsense, and then took the minutes and kicked herself back from here. It's a good thing to go back to the fighting troops, but it's unbearable to be kicked out.

So Valia stared into Kotin's eyes, and she saw the anticipation and nervousness there very clearly. So she laughed.

"The problems mentioned by Comrade Kotin exist among us." "And the severity of the situation is as serious as what Comrade Kotin just said."

It is true that the leadership of our party committees is ineffective, and of course there is such an objective reason that we were formed on a temporary basis, but is there no subjective reason for the ineffective work? For example, as an old party member, I did not take the initiative to remind the party committee to strengthen its work

There is indeed a sense of pride and complacency in our team, always thinking that we are all high-level pilots, so we look down on our opponents casually, although we know that our opponents are also trump cards, we know that our opponents are more familiar with the air situation and terrain, and the aircraft we use are better than the performance in our hands, but we still hope that we can win a complete victory without taking risks. This is a manifestation of pride and ignorance! It also reflects that when analyzing problems, some of our comrades do not proceed from the materialist world outlook of seeking truth from facts, but from the world outlook of subjective idealism. If this subjective attitude is not abandoned, it will not be possible to analyze the problem effectively and formulate the best countermeasures.

We must remain modest and cautious, and our commanders, after receiving the advice, should think carefully, study its pros and cons, and make various plans for changes on the battlefield. But none of these principles have been observed......"

At the end of her speech, Valia made a suggestion:

"In order to help Comrade Kotin do a good job, I propose to form a staff group to strengthen the military command work."

This proposal was supported by many people, and one by one everyone stood up to speak, and on the surface everyone was supporting Kotin, but Kotin knew that they were in fact doubting their own command ability.

……

Just in the midst of arguments and reflections, the next round of confrontation is getting closer and closer.

In response to this war, both the Soviets and the Americans were busy.

In order to prevent another surprise attack by the Soviets, Ron has set up a number of lookout posts around the airport, both near and far, and he has also prepared some mobile lookout posts set up on the Willis Jeep.

The Soviets were not idle, and they developed a very similar plan, starting to place observation posts everywhere. It seems that last time, everyone was frightened by the other party's sneak attack.

After all the preparations, Ron felt that it might not be so easy for people to steal his chickens again. Of course, it is not so easy to steal other people's chickens, and the Soviets will definitely be prepared for defense. Then, there is only hope for the defeat of the Soviets in a hard-fought battle.

This round was the turn of the "reverse cross" to intercept the Soviets' attack planes, and as a traverser, Ron remembered that the Soviets had such common tactics when escorting the attack planes.

First, if their aircraft have a clear numerical superiority, they will try to arrange an ambush formation between the attacked target and the enemy airfield. One is to kill and injure the enemy, and the other is to disrupt the enemy's rhythm.

Of course, now the number of aircraft in the hands of the Soviets does not prevail, so it is unlikely that they will use this trick. Well, what the Soviets more usually did was this. They would divide the fighters into two tiers, the lower tier, which would be placed about 500 metres above the attack aircraft to provide direct protection. But in doing so, they will face the difficulty of ignoring the fighters and instead relying on the high speed gained when diving down from a higher altitude to get rid of them and attack directly at the attack aircraft group. In order to guard against this move, the Soviets placed a group of fighters about 500 meters higher than them at a height of about 500 meters 500-600 meters behind the fighters with a lower height of the first stage. The task of these fighters is that if the enemy fighters dare to dive down directly, when they try to pull up, they will fall headlong into the trap of the Russians, and the group of fighters behind them will give them a hard blow when they are weak to climb.

This tactic is probably the most likely tactic used by the Soviets this time. The question now is how to crack this tactic in a limited amount of time. This needs to be studied carefully. However, in this set of tactics of the Soviets, there are not without problems, especially now, the aircraft that carry out ground attack missions is not the familiar Il-2 of the Soviets, but the American A-20. When it comes to fighting fighters, the Il-2, known as a flying tank, is much more resistant than the A-20.