717 Battle of Warsaw (XV): Air force sorted

Huang Yihan, a 24-year-old Datang Army Aviation pilot, was at the end of the pilot ranks, and he was very short and most often found here. www.biquge.infoDressed in flight jackets with goggles and helmets on their heads, the pilots trotted in a row before reaching the runway.

"The 45th Strike Flying Group 'Predator', all pilots are ready, please instruct." The captain of the group came out and saluted the deputy commander of the Army Aviation.

"Get your flight check ready to take off!" Deputy Commander Zhang Jiayi said.

This time, he personally came to the battlefield on behalf of the army and aviation troops to command the war as the deputy commander of the arms, which is really a high match. Compared with the last time when the Tang Dynasty used aviation forces to fight, this time it participated in the European war, and because of the huge scale, the army aviation also sent elite soldiers and a large number of aircraft at the request of the General Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense.

Ninety-two transport planes alone were deployed in the war to provide emergency support for supplies and rapid transportation of troops on the front lines of the war. It was only with the support of the transport planes of the Tang Army Aviation that the main force of the German army led by Blucher obtained sufficient ammunition and had more confidence to launch the campaign in Czechoslovakia.

On the battlefield of the Battle of Warsaw, the Army sent a total of 2 assault aviation regiments (48+5 aircraft) and 1 bomber aviation regiment (27 aircraft). The Qiang-2 is the foundation of the dive bomber, which is used for front-line bombing, and the full-time bomber H-4, which has the largest bomb load in the Datang Army Aviation Force, is basically a copycat of the B-17 Aerial Fortress of the US Army, which is a proper strategic bomber, but obviously it is doing much the same work as the Qiang-2, which is at the forefront of the relative front, pursuing output.

In fact, Datang has carried out a number of bomber projects in a row before, but there is only trial research and no large-scale installation. The H-1 is a twin-engine tactical bomber developed by McDonnell Douglas, which was basically designed by itself, but its performance was extremely bad, and even the prototype was dropped, and the Army Aviation did not consider it at all. Subsequently, Xiangzhan also developed the H-2 as a front-line tactical bomber, which was fair enough to have good performance, with better bomb load and flight performance than the J-2, but the army aviation was not very interested. In the end, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas cooperated to develop a large four-engine bomber, the H-3, which the Air Force still complained about. In the end, Boeing angrily smashed research funds and came up with the H-4 "Flying Iron City", which imitated the B-17 Flying Fortress, and finally won the order of Army Airlines. The number of the first orders for the Army Airlines is not too large, it is a total of 108 aircraft in four aviation regiments. Because it is stronger in materials, avionics, and flight control than the other plane in the early stage of World War II, the four 1,200-horsepower engines actually support the H-4 to carry 3,000 tons of bombs to carry a range of 3,000 kilometers. For example, when the airport is now located in Warsaw, this heavy bomber can carry 8 tons of weapons and ammunition to participate in the battle, and one top Qiang-2 is eight.

At this time, the temporary construction of this airport on the outskirts of Warsaw was still in poor condition, basically all dirt runways, but it was somewhat flat. The runway requirements of propeller planes are not perverted, so there is no risk of taking off here.

Huang Yihan has made some progress, and he has not been a pilot for long. He was a child of the crossing crowd, and he was still young when he crossed over, and he couldn't remember anything. After graduating from high school, he did not choose to go to college, but chose to attend a military school, where he was selected to become an army aviation pilot. After graduating, he trained in the army for several years, and now has the rank of lieutenant. He had not participated in actual combat, so he was very worried, but in fact, almost all of them in their flying group had not participated in the air support operations of the last Tangxi War.

After the Tang War, the army and navy expanded rapidly, and a large number of pilots were recruited and trained after that. Huang Yihan conducts about 200 hours of flight training every year, and since he officially started flying a strong attack plane at the age of 22, he has basically had five or six hundred hours of training now, and his flying skills are really not rookies.

During this period, the Tang Army did not know how to train in air combat or anything at all, and what they did in the air force was the most inferior dirty work that the air force of later generations felt -- ground attack, but the pilots of the Tang Army also trained very hard. In particular, the dive bombing technique is also a great test of courage and proficiency, and if something goes wrong and the nose of the plane cannot be pulled up, then it will be a direct kamikaze.

The captain of the flight team is very good at setting up the atmosphere, making everyone fold their hands together, but more like a sports team, and then everyone shouts: "Kill the Quartet!" ”

The pilot next to him, who was most accustomed to complaining, crooked his mouth and said: "What else can there be besides this result?" ”

Everyone laughed, everyone knew that the Russian-Prussian army did not have anti-aircraft guns, let alone fighters, and they were invincible in the sky.

Huang Yihan boarded the plane, and after completing all the flight inspections with the ground staff, he took off from the airport runway last in order. This temporary field airfield has multiple runways, and not only Huang Yihan and his "Predator" team are taking off at this time, but several heavy bombers on the other side are also clumsily raising their noses from the runways and flying into the sky.

Huang Yihan stuck a photo of his beloved girlfriend in the cockpit, looked at her like a flower, and said silently: "Good luck to me, Xiaoli......"

He piloted the strike plane, and after a brief taxi, it took off. Immediately, he quickly formed a battle formation with his comrades in the same flying group and flew towards the battlefield according to the instructions.

In the Datang Air Force, eight fighters of the flying group are basically used as the more commonly used tactical units, so each flying group has its own number and codename.

The target of the Predator Flying Group was the main force of the Russian-Prussian coalition under the command of Surovov, and according to the meaning of the front command, the Don Army had just routed the Russian forward unit of Eaglestrom, and at this time Surovov had not reacted at all, and it happened to send a large-scale air force to bomb it. Lieutenant General Yue Zhenfu did not expect to use a group of attack planes and bombers to completely defeat the 100,000 Russian-Prussian coalition troops, which is basically impossible, but he can use new weapons to bring fear to the enemy to the greatest extent, make the enemy confused, and even better able to cut the battlefield.

Because Yue Zhenfu, who is familiar with the tactics of modern warfare, has ordered the troops that directly defeated the Russian army to move forward quickly, and before engaging with Eaglestrom, he had already sent the motorized troops of the Eighth Brigade of the Tang Army to go around in a circle and insert themselves into the rear of the Russian army. Once his air support tactics work, then he can cut off the battlefield in front of him, cut out a Russian-Prussian army to annihilate it, and cut another piece in the back to cut off his back road. (To be continued.) )