Section 515 Prologue to Operation Sea Lion
By the beginning of June of the 18th year of the Taichu Dynasty, the Chinese Volunteer Army had dispatched more than 8,900 sorties and 4 were shot down; The defense system and key cities of the British Isles suffered heavy losses, with nearly 10,000 citizens killed, 1/5 of the houses in the urban area of the industrial city were blown up, more than 1 million buildings were damaged, and 147,000 innocent civilians were killed or wounded, accounting for 20% of the British casualties in the war. Transport and public facilities were severely damaged, and the number of trains leaving London per day was reduced from 60 before the bombing to four. Other nearby cities were also damaged to varying degrees, the most serious of which was Coventry, the center of the aviation industry, where China's Yinpeng dropped more than 34,000 tons of bombs, almost destroying the entire city and 12 aircraft parts factories.
In such a fierce air battle, a group of ace pilots naturally emerged, and the top five aces of the British Air Force were: Captain Allad of the 85th Squadron and Second Lieutenant Lacey of the 501st Squadron tied for first place, both with 23 aircraft; Third place went to Major Crosley of the 32nd Squadron with a record of 21 aircraft; Tied for fourth place were Major McKella and Second Lieutenant Locke of the 41st Squadron, both with 20 aircraft. Among the 68 pilots seconded to the Air Force by the British Naval Aviation, three aces also emerged: Lieutenant Pol, who shot down 7 enemy planes, Lieutenant Black, who shot down 6, and Lieutenant Colonel Kirk, who shot down 5 enemy planes. Among the foreign pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain, Francesec of the Czech Republic ranked first with 17 downed planes. However, none of these achievements were achieved by the Volunteer Air Force, and in fact only one plane was lost in the air battle, while the other three were all crashed by anti-aircraft artillery hits. But in contrast, there are only 5 people in the Chinese Volunteer Air Force who have more than 30 aircraft, and Captain Wang Haichuan, the youngest disciple of Su Beipo, the commander of the 11th Wing of the Chinese Royal Air Force, drove an F6 "Golden Eagle" to shoot down 27 Spitfires, 14 Hurricanes and 2 handsome soldiers, with a record of 43:0, which made the Luftwaffe jaw-dropping.
Britain has long foreseen that the key to Britain's survival depends on the struggle for air supremacy, so it has been taking all measures to strengthen air defense in a planned and purposeful manner since May last year, and has made full preparations in terms of the command structure and the deployment of air defense forces. However, Germany always had the illusion of inducing Britain to make peace, and carried out diplomatic and political activities to lure Britain, and its military preparations were obviously insufficient. Moreover, the German high command has never had a relatively mature and perfect offensive plan, and the "Sea Lion Plan" was also hastily completed, lacking the necessary research and analysis. Even after the start of the air raids, Sitara had always dreamed of forcing Britain into submission through air raids, and did not make serious and thorough preparations for landing operations. An even more serious mistake was that Germany issued the "Sea Lion Plan" on July 16, but decided to attack Red Russia on July 31, so strategically so half-hearted, how could it not be defeated without strong foreign aid to join? From the point of view of national strength, Germany is inferior to Britain in terms of resource reserves and military technology, and if it cannot defeat Britain and replenish it before its strategic resources are exhausted, it will inevitably repeat the mistakes of World War I. The German top brass also knew this, and by occupying LinkedIn, it would greatly make it difficult for the Allies to land in Europe, and by occupying Red Russia and its resources (such as the Caucasus oil fields), it would gain the strength to fight the Allies in a long time, both of which were too difficult for Germany. The participation of the Chinese Volunteers was a good correction of this strategic mistake of Germany, as the backing of the Workers' Party, China's opinion was that Sitara had to seriously consider it, and the achievements of the Chinese Volunteer Air Force gave the Germans the hope of completely defeating the British, thus building an Atlantic barrier and avoiding the curse of fighting on two fronts. "Operation Sea Lion" is no longer on paper, with the expansion of the air strike area, even inland cities such as Aberdeen can not avoid being affected, Yinpeng and Golden Eagle accompanied the door, as far as Belfast to pay respects, the British Royal Air Force has exhausted the mountains and rivers, less than 10% of the personnel at the beginning of the war, no more than 100 fighters, all the goods of the Royal Air Force are not as many as a wing of the Royal Air Force of China.
RAF Spitfire (including Mk.I and Mk.II), Hurricane (Mk.I), Dreadnought, Handsome Fighter Heavy Fighter. Reich Air Force Messerschmitt 109 (including E and early F), 110 fighters; Junkers JU-88 flat-volt dual-purpose bomber, JU-87 Stuka dive bomber; Heinkel 111 horizontal bomber, FW-190 Hundred Tongue (Shrike Bird) (only appeared at the end of the period, but forced the British to develop a Spitfire 9 to compete with it).
The vast majority of the bombers equipped by the Luftwaffe were dive bombers and light and medium bombers, with a large bomb load and a very small number of strategic heavy bombers with a long range, and they were simply unable to undertake the heavy task of strategic bombing. Only the Messerschmitt-109 could barely confront the British fighters, but due to the range limitations, it was difficult to play its due role in the battle. Although the British army has a small number of aircraft, it has excellent performance, and it has formed a complete air defense system with radar, anti-aircraft artillery and interceptor balloons, and it is a local operation, with almost no range restrictions, which greatly offsets the numerical inferiority. In particular, the British military has established a perfect radar early warning system, which can effectively discover the number and direction of incoming enemy planes, and avoid unnecessary air patrols and vigilance of fighter planes, so that fighter planes can take off to meet the battle, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.
However, such an advantage is worthless in the face of the Chinese locusts raised by dogs, and through ultra-low-altitude penetration and point-point point destruction, Britain's original prevention and control system has been completely cleaned up. The result of fighting fighter planes is also conceivable, in the face of Chinese pilots who are accustomed to all kinds of difficult aerial battles flying the golden eagle whose performance has almost reached the peak of the propeller era, the British rookie pilots really can't expect more than taking off to serve as an air target for the Chinese Air Force
"Kingfisher 3, Kingfisher 3, 11 o'clock direction, Spitfire 4, you organize the attack in formation."
"Kingfisher 3 understands." The throat transmitter was immediately transferred to its own four-plane formation, "Ska 3 and Ska 4 immediately climbed and dived to intercept." Kingfisher 4 followed me in a detour and copied the back road. ”
The four sullen Spitfires were rushing to West Bromwich to block the bombing of the German Third Air Force in a hurry, so they did not expect the Chinese aircraft group ambushed in the clouds. The sound of clattering strafing sounded, and a Spitfire directly turned into a fireball, which was a veritable Spitfire.
"Damn, it's a villain. Disperse the formation, maneuver in a serpentine shape, and be careful not to get bitten by the tail. The British rookies tried to escape with their low-altitude performance, but they were unaware that there were two golden eagles that they called Evil Owls waiting for their prey at low altitude.
"It's served." The Kingfisher 3 was the first to fire, and a Spitfire kissed the ground with thick smoke. The remaining two Spitfires were even more panicked, and in a panic, the two planes made a sharp turn together in an attempt to break away, but they collided together by coincidence and turned into a brilliant fireworks. The Kingfisher 3 captain and wingman were dumbfounded, but whose result was this? However, they soon forgot about this annoyance, because the signal of the "Tianmu" command plane came from the headphones, and less than 50 miles there was a small group of British fighters trying to support West Bromwich Albion. This time it was 8 hurricanes, it was completely a rush to add color, for fear of being preempted by other cattle if it was too late, the four-plane formation did not hesitate to turn to the indicated airspace, and did not get one or two rice words today, sorry for the Führer (the one who did not grow a beard), sorry for the ground crew, sorry for the audience on the left, sorry for the audience on the right, anyway, it is a shame to waste, and strive for the meaning of the whole package.
Originally, in the face of the Germans, although the British Air Force has a great disadvantage in the number of aircraft, but the British army also has radar troops, Britain is the first country to put the radar into actual combat, to July the country has built a total of 51 radar stations, including 38 in the southeast coastal area, accounting for about 75% of the total, forming a strict radar alert system, divided into two levels, the first layer is the medium and high altitude air defense radar system, which can effectively find the aircraft flying below 4500 meters, the second layer is the low-altitude air defense radar system, It can effectively detect aircraft flying at an altitude of less than 750 meters. In this way, the British army could measure the approximate direction and time of the German plane's attack through radar, and direct the fighters to meet the attack in the direction and time of travel. Before the use of radar, fighter planes are usually sent to patrol in the air, and the fighters discover the incoming enemy planes, and after the use of radar, every take-off of British fighters is purposeful to meet the battle, which greatly reduces the consumption of aircraft, fuel and personnel physical strength, and largely makes up for the shortcomings of the insufficient number of aircraft. Therefore, radar was undoubtedly the most important trump card for the victory of the British army. But now, even if there is a radar station that survives, it does not dare to turn on the plane, otherwise the electronic warfare patrol plane of the Chinese Volunteer Air Force will definitely summon the arrival of death
Although the British Air Force is operating on its own soil, the pilots are familiar with the climate, terrain, and morale is high, especially even if they are shot down, as long as the pilots land safely, they can still return to the unit to continue to participate in the war. As long as the Chinese and German planes are shot down, even if the pilots can parachute to escape, they still cannot escape the fate of becoming prisoners of war, which is the so-called loss of man and machine. But the cattle who couldn't stand this group of volunteer air forces would struggle to return to France to land even if they were scarred, so so far the British fighters have only had a confirmed result.
In the face of the formidable Chinese air force, the British army also exposed some problems, although the air force is not strong, but it did not attack the forward airfields of China and Germany with limited bombers, which is the biggest mistake. In addition, in the early air battles, because Dowding and Pike advocated that small units participate in the battle one by one, the British army often fought against the German planes under a disparity of ten, even twenty, and thirty times, and suffered a lot of unnecessary losses.
Once the pride of the sky, the current British Royal Air Force has reached the point of running out of fuel.