Chapter 263: Surprises
If you want to run, how can it be so easy, anyway, the enemy aircraft of the defending side that attacked first has been completely suppressed, and although the western Sichuan aircraft group has divided into a flight squadron to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of miscellaneous brand aircraft groups, it still occupies the initiative in the sky.
The new fighter is very terrifying, with easy to maneuver, fast speed, good hovering performance, three major advantages, this is good, the pilots of the miscellaneous brand aircraft group, are like ashes, want to escape but can't escape, want to fight but can't fight, have to make a trapped beast fight, hope to pull a cushion before dying.
At this time, the first flight squadron to take up the alert mission was already exhausted, so it had to get out of the entangled state and prepare to return directly, and the enemy group that attacked first was also secretly relieved and was ready to run away, otherwise when the miscellaneous aircraft group was destroyed and the western Sichuan fighters were encircled again, I am afraid that they would not be able to run if they wanted to.
Fortunately, the enemy planes that attacked first were all new fighters of the same type as the western Sichuan planes, and if they really wanted to run, the western Sichuan aircraft group could not take them, but it was good to run, and the western Sichuan aircraft group just surrounded and annihilated the miscellaneous aircraft group, humming, and injured the enemy's ten fingers, it was better to cut off the enemy's fingers, and these backward planes would all be left.
When the defender's new-type fighters just wanted to escape from the airspace of the battle, a large group of fighters, about 30 of them, flew in the western direction of Sichuan, and they did not stop at all about the destruction of the combat zone and went straight to the Dujiangyan airfield, causing all the officers and men of the defending side to gasp, and some commanders even shouted on the spot, "This is not scientific, they have committed a foul."
Seeing the questioning eyes of the referees, Liu Yun couldn't help but chuckle lightly, and explained slightly, "According to the requirements of the European and American air forces, some fighters will be strengthened when the war is imminent. ”
This is the reason, but the western Sichuan Air Force is also too good, looking at the quality and equipment of the air wing, it is already comparable to its European and American counterparts, and it is indeed easy to deal with the chaotic air force of the Sichuan Army, and many German officers have a higher evaluation of the Western Sichuan Air Force.
At this stage of the exercise, for many generals, the follow-up part of the exercise can actually be ignored, and the ground forces that have lost air supremacy are basically a live target, and the only difference is to see if they can lose beautifully, but out of respect for Liu Xiang and Liu Yun, they have to patiently read the follow-up part.
At the same time, due to the successful surprise attack on the defender's airfield by the western Sichuan aircraft group, almost all the original 100 fighters at Dujiangyan Airport were wiped out, and the remaining 20 or so fighters had to be transferred to Chengdu Airport immediately.
At this point, the attacking side temporarily gained air supremacy, and for 8 hours, the defending air force could not launch any effective counterattack.
What is the battle loss ratio of this air battle? This is the biggest question for all visitors.
Bai Chongxi's battlefield director department said that Yang Gengguang's Dujiangyan director department was embarrassed, and hesitated for a moment before announcing the results, "The defenders lost one front-line airfield and 86 fighters, including 28 new fighters, 43 old fighters, and another 15 were destroyed on the ground."
As for the losses of the attacker, it is not announced, everyone can guess how many points, but Admiral Yang still announced the data as usual, "The attacker lost 22 aircraft, 1 tank, 3 cars, and 17 officers and soldiers."
Well, the losses are small, and if you talk only about new fighters, the gap between them is not too big.
By the way, only 3 fighters in the battle damage of western Sichuan were shot down by miscellaneous groups. This result, to the shock of all visitors, the exchange ratio exceeded ten to one, and the new fighter of Kawanishi was too hanging, so that the previous fighter of Hawker III was directly swept into the garbage heap of history.
This result did not surprise Liu Yun, he remembered another time and space, in 1940 when the Japanese Zero fighter was just launched, the Chongqing Air Force was actually beaten 27:0, and the Zero type that participated in the war was only more than a dozen, although it is still 1936, his Q version of the zero war, naturally not as good as the real zero war, but the early wooden biplane fighter, can not be compared with the Chongqing fighter in 1940.
However, the German advisers had a different view, believing that the root cause of the defeat was "the defensive side's inappropriate tactics."
Although these planes are maneuverable and fast, their skin is too thin, and the defenders should form a tight air formation to form a firepower network with no dead ends, and in the end, even if they cannot win in battle, they can protect themselves.
These boring derogatory remarks, not only Bai Chongxi, who was "on the verge of supervising the battle", was speechless, but even Yang Gengguang, who was far away in Dujiangyan, was dumbfounded, and the Germans' requirements were too high, and among the Asian countries, it was already very good to be able to achieve a perfect four-plane formation in battle, and even an air force power like Japan could only be done by senior pilots, not to mention the Huaxia Air Force.
As for the air force that can organize seven or eight kinds of miscellaneous aircraft groups, old and new, into a strict flight formation and calmly respond to the battle, only the Luftwaffe can barely do it, and although the Americans can do it in the future, they still rely more on the thick-skinned B29 bomber group, and as for the air combat that only relies on the mixed formation of miscellaneous aircraft groups, it is simply a fantasy.
Liu Yun, the commander of the attacking side and an amateur translator, didn't bother to pay attention to these derogatory remarks at this time, and if he really met these German cattle men in the future, wouldn't he send out the Flying Bear fighter, which was an air superiority fighter similar to BF110, and a burst of dense shells hit it to see if their formation was still in order.
Commander Liu's number one military division, the eldest grandson Mingyue sat beside him, and his appearance was slightly handled, at first glance, he was a very ordinary second lieutenant staff officer, she pointed to the mountain pass of Yingxiu Town very casually, which shocked someone, and hurriedly directed the armored troops to continue to advance through the radio.
At about 11 o'clock in the morning, the forward troops arrived near the mountain pass in Yingxiu Town, and the tank units immediately began to form a defensive formation, and their soldiers began civil engineering operations, striving to repair the trenches and light and dark bunker groups as soon as possible.
The civil engineering operation methods of the attacking troops have also opened the eyes of military personnel at home and abroad, and after a burst of explosives have been blasted, no matter high-grade roads, mountains, or rocks, all of them have been broken quietly, and in less than an hour, a standard defense line has been built.
The German judges applauded. Why is it applauded? Many of the judges were a little confused.
Although they were seventy or eighty kilometers away from each other, Bai Chongxi and Yang Gengguang still explained in unison, that it was because the attacker's fortifications were just stuck five kilometers away from the mountain pass defense line, which was a very evil distance, so that the defenders' artillery fire could not reach it at all.
Of course, it may be that in the eyes of the defenders themselves, this distance may be just right, they can't reach the attacking troops, and the attacking side can't reach them, as long as the time of the exercise is delayed, hum, they won't win without a fight, and then when they see a large-caliber howitzer being pulled up, they really panic.
The 32 howitzers, which can just form four artillery groups, take turns to launch artillery attacks on the mountain pass positions, and the shooting accuracy is surprisingly good, the more obvious pillboxes have been pulled out one after another, and there are dozens of fighters in the air, taking turns to launch dive attacks, once they find out where there is a suspicious situation, it is a rain of bullets waiting.
After an hour of repeated bombardment, the mountain pass in Yingxiu Town was already in a mess, and the defenders suffered extremely heavy losses.
Liu Yun immediately filed a record with the director's department, and the attacking command center judged that the loss of the defending army's vital force was expected to exceed 2,000 people, and all kinds of fortifications were basically allocated, and the enemy's morale was generally low, so it immediately ordered the infantry to attack, with tanks and armored vehicles providing cover.
In fact, the losses of the defenders on both sides of the mountain pass were far greater than Commander Liu expected, because the Sichuan army had no experience in defending against heavy artillery, let alone dealing with large-caliber howitzers.
For such offensive and defensive results, not only Yang Gengguang was speechless, but Liu Xiang was also thundered, looking at the eyes of the Second Brigade and the Third Brigade, he always felt a little strange, Ding Ming and Zhang Zhen, the two brigade commanders, had already buried their heads under the table, for fear of being known by others about their real positions.
Fortunately, Liu Xiang himself is not a layman, he is a real soldier, and he is also familiar with the things of marching and fighting, and he knows many things and is not entirely to blame the two brigade commanders, but nearly 20,000 Sichuan troops can't hold the natural danger of Yingxiu Town, and he is really depressed.
The two armies participating in the exercise are five kilometers apart, and it is not close to each other, but it is not far away, even if it is advanced by tanks and armored vehicles, it will take more than 10 minutes, and nearly 60 tanks, which can carry hundreds of soldiers, plus more than 30 armored personnel carriers, can just send more than 1,000 infantry, which is enough to cope with the contention for forward positions.
Seeing that the attacker began to throw in infantry and combat vehicles, the defending troops were also anxious, and no longer ignored the threat from the air, dragging out artillery from various hidden corners, ready to give the attacking troops a "surprise", but unfortunately it was still miscalculated, because with the infantry attacking, not only the support of tanks and armored vehicles, but also the barrage Xu Jin.
Barrage Xu Jin, that is, not far from the advance of the infantry group, the numerous shells are beaten into a line, and with the gradual advance of the infantry, and slowly move forward, and when the defenders can really get out of the bunker, the attacker's bayonet is probably close to the chest, because it looks like a curtain wall of shrapnel flying from a distance, hence the name.
This barrage tactic is a product of the First World War, is a tactic specifically aimed at the tight defense, trenches and dark forts, the purpose is to prevent the extinguished fire points, and suddenly recover, thus causing great obstacles to the attacker, but the implementation of this tactic requires extremely high quality of artillery, it is said that even devil artillery is difficult to do.
Whose credit is it for training such sharp artillery? Seeing the proud and cautious German officers, everyone suddenly realized, but envy is envy, and it is not a day or two that Kawanishi is "in cahoots" with the Germans, and it has been a problem since 1934, and it is now the third year, and it is not surprising that he is well-trained.
The infantry flag that followed the barrage was the unique tricolor flag, well, no, it was a Japanese devil, Bai Chongxi, who was observing the battle situation on the front line with a gun scope, couldn't help but be shocked, it was really alive, it was unbelievable, rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, it was really a Japanese devil.
All the shit yellow uniforms, the triangular array that has not changed for 10,000 years, the already short man is still bent on the waist, dragging the 1.7-meter 38 big cover, like a witch dragging a big broom, as soon as there is a sound, he immediately lies on the ground and aims indiscriminately, and is also equipped with a water Type 89 grenadier, Type 92 heavy machine gun and 70mm infantry gun.
If it weren't for the fact that the defenders on the mountain pass had already collapsed, the soldiers of the Tricolor Wing were still preparing to launch the "pig rush" tactic.
Bai Chongxi's face is as black as the sole of a shoe, the "pig assault tactic" is the Japanese god of war Nogi Noshinori, the invention of the meat bullet tactic, this tactic is simple and effective, that is, a squadron or brigade of soldiers, divided into 3 or 4 groups, close to the enemy position, take turns to launch a decisive charge, no matter how big the casualties, the charging troops have to charge to the end.
"Pig sudden" is not a surprise attack of domestic pigs or meat pigs, but a brutal collision like a wild boar. Therefore, the secret of this tactic is that the decisive charge cannot be interrupted, and the formation is relatively scattered, like the waves of the sea, the waves are impacting, and the waves are not settled and the waves are rising, so that the defenders have great psychological pressure, as if there are endless enemies, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of spiritual warfare, which is particularly effective against poorly equipped recruits.