The Albatross fighters that joined the Paraguayan army were painted in a completely different livery from the original German - the blue, white and red colors of the Paraguayan flag turned the fierce falcon into a fancy turtledove, but this did not prevent them from showing their superb attack skills in front of the slow and clumsy large bombers. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Those Bolivian pilots trained by the Americans can control the big guys made by the Italians to take off and land, and it is already very good to carry out bombing missions or big girls go into the cave room, ignorant and ignorant, where do they have the experience of dealing with fighter jets? The two "albatrosses" were far apart, and the shooters on the bombers could not wait to start shooting, wasting bullets in vain.

Seeing that the opponent's shooting was so unreliable, the two old German birds piloting the "Albatross" fighter suddenly became relaxed. The 35-year-old Captain Hermann Goering was a top student at the Lichtfeld Higher Military Academy and the Karlsruhe Air Force Non-commissioned Officer School, and after the war, he continued to serve in the prestigious 2nd Fighter Wing, spent three years in the Persian Gulf and two years in the Caucasus, and then returned to the Air Force Non-commissioned Officer School as a flight instructor, known for his excellent flying skills. The 27-year-old Second Lieutenant Helmut Gerber, also from the Karlsruhe Air Force Non-commissioned Officer School, has thousands of flight hours, has flown all the reconnaissance and fighter models in active service in the Luftwaffe, has been to the Persian Gulf, and has also spent four months in the Irish Air Force officer exchange, and has strong technical and tactical skills.

Captain Goering picked up a small microphone in his right hand: "Ranger Tactics...... Attack the target! ”

After a few moments, a murmuring but unmistakable voice rang out from the headphones: "Order, Ranger Tactics!" ”

In this era when fighter jets generally have no radio equipment, the Germans relied on the world-class electrification technology level and strong military innovation capabilities to walk in the forefront of the times, even around 1914 finalized and put into production Albatross-D, also in the rear of the cockpit is equipped with a low-power radio transceiver device, which can be used by pilots and ground command tens of kilometers away or wingmen more than ten kilometers away, and all radio-loaded aircraft have an obvious appearance feature - the fuselage protruding radio antenna!

I saw two "albatrosses" deftly swinging their wings, pulling away from each other, one heading straight for the three Caproni flying in formation, and one going around behind them. The standard configuration of the Caproni Ca-32/33 is 4 crew members, 2 pilots, and 2 people operate machine guns located in the nose and back of the machine - its original weapon is a light machine gun made by Fiat Levoli, and the Caproni purchased by the United States Air Force is replaced with a Lewis light machine gun with a large sleeve radiator, the latter has better performance, but the cartridge feed still has the disadvantage of continuous fire ability, In the mid-20s, the German army has been fully equipped with MG-18/21 machine guns that can use two feeding methods of drums and chains, and in air combat, it has a triple advantage in rate of fire, range and continuous firepower against the older generation of aviation machine guns, so the "Albatross" piloted by Captain Goering can use three short shots to adjust the crosshair, two long shots to attack, and successfully hit a Caproni in the first round, which greatly shocked the Bolivian pilots who lacked all kinds of experience. The two American pilots who were in charge of piloting and directing the first Caproni Ca-33 had no choice but to hurriedly drop their bombs and beckon their wingmen to quickly retreat.

Captain Goering nearly knocked out a Caproni in his first attack, and then he played tricks right under his opponent's nose: the brightly painted "Albatross" attracted the attention of the opponent with its continuous tumbling and rapid circle, and on this opportunity, Ensign Geber swooped down with his Fighting Falcon, staring at the Caproni at the bottom of the formation, and then a long shot that lasted for more than ten seconds, draining all the bullets in the first pair of ammunition boxes. The onslaught had an immediate effect, as the rain of bullets tore through the veil on Caproni's right wing, breaking the wooden brackets on the wing, and killing the shooter in the nose on the spot. The sound of the beans died down, and the only thing in my ears was the helpless cry of Lewis's light machine gun, and the brightly colored "albatrosses" whistling past the Bolivian bomber formation, and then hovering and pulling up arrogantly, without the shadow of the "dive crisis" of the early years.

Caproni, who folded his wings, lost his balance and began to spin in a circle to the ground, and the surviving crew barely jumped out of the cabin, saving their lives with a parachute that was patented to Austria-Hungary. The frightened Bolivians had not yet recovered from the beautiful blow of Ensign Gerber, the Luftwaffe's Ranger tactics continued to show their might, and the "dancing" Captain Goering rushed straight from the right front, and when he was still about five or six hundred meters away from the Caproni formation, his "Albatross" dived sharply downward, immediately avoiding the self-defense fire of the two Bolivian bombers, and then made a jumping motion with the excellent aerodynamic performance of the fighters, firing while climbing upwards, Two strings of bullets with tracer bullets pierced the abdomen of the giant monster bird like two slender sharp swords, the two forms were very different, but the result was that the thin sword stabbed the monster bird cleanly.

Seeing that the target was on the verge of destruction, Captain Goering's "Albatross" reversed in the air and turned downward with a gorgeous maneuver that had only been seen in an air show show before, and the whole process went smoothly, without giving the opponent any chance to counterattack.

The battle between two "Albatrosses" and three "Carrotponi" is not like the helplessness of the light cavalry against the heavy cavalry, but the slaughter of the heavy infantry by the archers. The slow Bolivians sang their bitter end. The duel between the two sides was not only a battle of willpower, but also a contest of military technology and tactical ability, where the Germans easily defended their war superiority, and the wealthy Americans realized that it was difficult to oppose the German military power by relying on the relative superiority of national strength alone.

If the Azores crisis convinced Americans that a transatlantic war was inevitable, the impact of the Chaco war was that the American leadership changed the illusion of head-on hostility and bayonets to adopt a smarter strategy, co-opting all the countries at its disposal, sparing no effort to provide them with economic and military support, and to make them charge ahead......

The Chaco Wars were in full swing in Central and South America, and the Christian War against the religious policies of the Mexican government in Mexico gradually turned into a civil war that affected most of the countries in North and South America, thanks to the influence of the Central Powers behind the scenes. From its initial scattered and fragmented state, the Christian army gradually gathered around a flag, and Navarro Oliger, the former mayor of Penhamo, Guanajuato, became the flag bearer. After being defeated by Mexican government forces in the open field, the courageous leader led his supporters to retreat to the mountains for guerrilla warfare, and although his troops and the reinforcements that arrived in Monterrey were almost wiped out, the catastrophic defeat did not extinguish the flame of hope for the Mexican Catholics, but rather gave them a clear vision of the current situation and what they lacked most.

After escaping to Lapska, Oliger regained his strength. The new fighters, trained by military personnel from Spain and Ireland, quickly mastered the most basic combat skills, skillfully ambushed a Mexican government army that had come to clear the area, and then quickly and decisively withdrew from Lapsca, using the terrain and the sympathy and support of the population to wage a real guerrilla war. After more than three months of arduous and outstanding guerrilla warfare, the Christian army under the leadership of Oliger grew stronger. Coming from a wealthy family, the leader was well-educated and knew how to gain popular support, but he had little knowledge of the formation, and officers from Ireland and Spain became his right-hand men. By November 1928, more than 4,000 Axican Ajalama soldiers and more than 300 freedom fighters from around the world had returned to Lapsca and controlled a large area of the surrounding area. At this time, the main forces of the Mexican army were overwhelmed by the resistance in the south, and Oliger's men were able to establish their first military stronghold, the fortress of Lapsca, using the engineering equipment and building materials secretly transported from Europe.

In February 1929, the Mexican government army mobilized 20,000 troops to attack Lapsca, and whether it was the "potato digger" replaced by the U.S. army, the Colt M1895 heavy machine gun, or the outdated performance of the American-made 1902 75mm field gun, could not shake the concrete-poured fortress, and the field fortifications dug according to European war standards were also helpless, the Mexican government army failed to enter the core of the fortress for half a month, they transferred gunboats, and tried to launch an attack from the waterway. But he was severely taught a lesson by the mines laid by the Christian army and the artillery deployed in the fortress.

The resistance to the fortress of Lapsca greatly emboldened the Catholics of Mexico and dealt a heavy blow to the prestige of the Mexican government, and President Elias Calles appointed his predecessor, General Álvaro Obregón, a hero of the Mexican revolution, as commander-in-chief of the Mexican army, and carried out a general mobilization for national defense, recruiting more than 100,000 troops to attack the eastern seaboard. At the same time, representatives of the United States and Mexico launched a series of negotiations in Mexico City, and both sides kept the content and results of the negotiations secret, after which the number of Mexican military firepower and equipment put into the front line increased significantly compared with the previous period, and American pilots flew American planes with changed livery to help the Mexican army fight, and the United States Navy sent a number of ships to the Gulf of Mexico to help the Mexican government blockade the east coast and cut off the channels for the Christian Army to obtain external assistance. Even secretly mobilized two capital ships and several cruisers of the Atlantic Fleet to prepare for a devastating bombardment of the fortress of Lapska, where the Christian army was entrenched, if necessary.

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