Chapter 141: Tang Su Secret War
In just half a month, the North Korean army has captured most of the territory of South Korea, and at this time, the Tang Army, the army, navy, and air force have also been mobilized.
The Tang Army's North Korean Air Force at Jeju Air Base was the first to enter the battle, and more than 200 second-generation Raptor fighters played a huge role in stopping the North Korean Air Force from pushing all the way over Gwangju.
The two sides fought each other, but the result was one-sided. The first-generation fighter of the Second World War era, which the North Korean Army inherited from the Soviet Union, could not be compared with the second-generation fighter of the Tang Army, and the gap in speed and firepower was too great, and the North Korean Army lost more than 300 fighters on the first day of air combat, while only three fighters of the Tang Army fell due to accidents.
In the following half a month, the Tang Army arranged a tight air defense line over the Gwangju area, which the North Korean Army called the Raptor Corridor, where the North Korean Army lost more than 700 fighters, accounting for more than half of all its fighters. The North Korean Air Force was finally deterred, knowing that there was a country outside the sky, and there was a huge gap between them and the Tang Army.
It was precisely because the Korean air force of the Tang Army took the lead in intervening in the war that the retreating South Korean troops were able to regroup in the area south of Gwangju and no longer be chased away like rabbits.
Half a month later, four armored divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions of the Tang Army, which had been driven from the military base on Jeju Island, arrived in Gwangju.
As the ground forces of the Tang Army entered the battle, the situation was suddenly reversed, and the Tang Army and the South Korean Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive operation, and the North Korean Army did not win a single frontal battle with the ground forces of the Tang Army, and all of them ended in a crushing defeat.
The result of this one-sided reversal was mainly due to the Tang Army's absolute superiority in weapons and equipment, which was manifested in the fact that the Tang Air Force seized air supremacy over Gwangju and suppressed the North Korean troops on the ground from the air, especially making their artillery units unable to play a role, greatly reducing the firepower of the North Korean Army.
On the ground, the Tang Army is equipped with the latest main battle tank of the "Tiger" 2A8M, which is more advanced than the "Tiger" 2A7+, equipped with optoelectronic sights, and the 125mm gun is aimed at where it hits, and the firepower is very ferocious. The North Korean army is equipped with Soviet T43 tanks with thin armor and weak firepower. It is a light tank, but it is slower than the heavy tanks of the Tang Army in terms of speed, and this absolute gap is very disadvantageous on the battlefield, resulting in the tanks of the North Korean Army being easily destroyed by the Tang Army one by one.
However, to the tragedy of the North Korean army, the Tang army also has a big killer weapon at low altitude, which is the TZ50 Shenbow helicopter equipped by the Tang army.
This is the world's first helicopter gunship with low-altitude, high-speed maneuverability, high firepower output, and anti-tank rockets. It was used for the first time on the Korean battlefield. I played a miracle of might.
The Tang Army had only 40 Shenbow helicopter gunships participating in the battle. But it dominated almost the entire battlefield of the tank battle between the Tang Army and the North Korean Army, and every time the anti-tank rocket was fired, it would be accompanied by the destruction of a North Korean tank, and a 20 mm caliber seven-barreled Gatling cannon hung under it. Every time it spun and fired, swaths of North Korean soldiers fell, corpses strewn across the field and rivers of blood.
On the first day of fighting, when the North Korean army suddenly saw the ferocious Shenbow helicopter gunship, many people were frightened to pee their pants, and they turned around and ran, but unfortunately, whether it was a two-legged man or a four-wheeled car, they could not outrun the Tang army's helicopter gunship, and on that day, the North Korean army engaged in the tank battle with the Tang army 6 armored divisions and 2 mechanized infantry divisions were all crippled and destroyed. Loss of combat effectiveness.
Although the Tang Army only had four armored divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions, it pushed all the way and drove more than one million North Korean troops directly out of Gwangju, which shocked the whole world, which is the strong military strength of the Tang Empire.
Meanwhile. In the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Tang Army arrived and immediately launched fierce naval and air attacks.
In the vicinity of Incheon in the Yellow Sea, four aircraft carriers, six battleships, three heavy cruisers, eleven light cruisers, thirteen destroyers, four submarines, and one electronic reconnaissance ship of the Tang Army were deployed in place.
Accompanied by the deafening sound of artillery bombardment from six battleships, 200 second-generation Raptor carrier-based fighters and 100 second-generation Hellfire carrier-based bombers of the Tang Army roared into the air and launched an attack on Incheon.
On the other side, in the Sea of Japan, five aircraft carriers, seven battleships, four heavy cruisers, twelve light cruisers, and seventeen destroyers of the Tang Army were also attacking Tokusa.
The two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Tang Army launched a fierce attack from both sides of the Korean Peninsula, leaving the North Korean army with the enemy on its back, and the few hundred fighters quickly rushed back and forth between the two places, exhausted, and lost air supremacy in less than three days.
As a result, the Tang Army's formidable fleet firepower and aviation firepower almost leveled Inchon and Dongcho and turned them into a sea of fire, inflicting heavy casualties on the North Korean army.
North Korea immediately appealed to the Soviet Union for help, and Stalin was also shocked by the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, but many Soviet generals thought that they had won the war with the Soviet Union and did not take the Tang Army seriously at all. They insisted on sending the Soviet Air Force into battle, but Stalin knew that once the showdown between Tang and the Soviet Union broke out, not only would there be a risk of a nuclear war, but it would also be more likely to push the originally neutral Tang Empire to the side of the United States, and the gains would outweigh the losses in the end, but if North Korea was abandoned, then the Soviet Union's plan to intervene in the Asia-Pacific region would inevitably be destroyed, after all, the Soviet Army had already begun to build a naval base in North Korea, and was reluctant to give up.
Therefore, Stalin agreed to send the Soviet Air Force into battle, but not to have any Soviet markings, and the Soviet MiG-5 fighters were painted with North Korean symbols, and every Soviet pilot could only wear North Korean military uniforms from the inside out, and was warned not to be captured by the Tang Army.
The Tang army pushed all the way and in less than half a month, it defeated more than 2 million invading North Korean troops back to the area north of the 38th parallel, annihilating more than 500,000 enemies, and the Tang army only paid the price of less than 1,000 casualties, which shocked the world.
However, as the Tang Army prepared to cross the 38th parallel and push North Korea, the Soviet Air Force intervened.
Although only the Soviet Air Force intervened, it brought huge military pressure to the Tang Army, after all, the Soviet Army grew up in the blood and fire of World War II, and had strong combat experience and technology. Moreover, the MiG-5 fighters of the Soviet Army are also jet-type, and they do not have to be much worse than the second-generation Raptor of the Tang Army in terms of speed, and one of the two sides has an advantage in horizontal maneuverability and the other in vertical maneuvering, and the battle is almost a one-to-one battle loss ratio.
This shocked the Tang Empire, and the Ministry of Defense immediately launched a thorough investigation, how the North Korean Air Force suddenly became powerful. Zhang Meng was the only one who knew this, and he knew that it was the Soviet pilots who had entered the war.