Chapter 295: The Battle of Tunisia (11)

"Attention crews, we are about to arrive in the predetermined airspace, and the fighter unit will come with me. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info" put down the walkie-talkie in his hand, Sha Jin, who was calm, took a deep breath, stepped on the accelerator hard to open the afterburner, and took the lead in flying out of the huge flight formation.

Sha Jin miraculously escaped after the last shot down, returned to his own unit and was treated as a hero. Not only was he promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but he was also appointed captain of the flight group and became the lead pilot. When the North African theater began to carry out an air attack on northern Tunisia, it was still the powerful Daming Army Air Force that took the lead.

Zhang Cheng's personality has an upright spirit. Patton's counterattack made his face gloomy, so he mobilized his troops to return it ruthlessly, even if the affairs of the imperial capital were more important, he would rather command remotely here in North Africa, and he must see the Americans defeated.

Similarly, the Daming Army Aviation suffered a lot of losses in the previous air battles. Mainly because his elite looked down on his opponent and was beaten by the Americans with numerical superiority. Not only did they fail to provide emergency support to the ground forces, but they also put themselves in a lot of strength. Many ace pilots were bloodied in previous battles.

After this fierce battle, Zhang Cheng quickly came to his senses. Although under his guidance, the equipment level of the Ming army and navy is leading the world, and the elite level of the Ming army is also the best in the world.

However, Zhang Cheng and the Ming army are a little too dependent on the elite. Gradually, they began to prefer to defeat their opponents with equal or fewer troops in order to show their strength. This approach abandons the most powerful advantage of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the numerical advantage of the Ming Dynasty.

Hundreds of years of colonization around the world have made the Ming people follow in the footsteps of the pioneers all over the world. One after another huge and fertile land fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty, who have always been representatives of the farming clans, were naturally able to manipulate the land to feed more people. With the continuous progress of industrial science and technology, when the agricultural atom of industrial fertilizer popped up, the population of Daming showed explosive growth. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty implemented a universal education that is unique in the whole world, which made the quality of the population extremely high.

In addition to population, Daming's numerical advantage in the field of industrial capacity is also unmatched by other countries. While many small countries are still excited about the increase in 100,000-ton steel production, Daming has begun to clean up those small steelmaking plants.

In the second year of the war, the full-scale outbreak of the Ming Dynasty alone produced nearly the output of all the countries of the anti-Ming alliance combined!

This vast amount of steel will be sent to factories everywhere to be turned into aircraft, tanks, artillery, and other materials that will be used in the war.

Daming has almost inexhaustible high-quality human resources, and Daming has the world's best industrial production capacity. The Ming Dynasty had a huge territory and a large number of second-class ethnic groups that could be enslaved to engage in heavy manual labor such as mining.

Endless grain fields and various mineral resources everywhere are the solid foundation for the final victory of the Ming Dynasty in this war. And Zhang Cheng and the previous Zhang Yue, and even the entire Ming Dynasty didn't realize this, they actually played the way of elite combat. This is called a typical promotion of weaknesses and avoidance of strengths.

Perhaps it was because of the clamping of the family consortium before, and the fact that Daming is a highly developed capital world, and a large part of everything owned by Daming is privately owned. It's not easy to use all your power in one place.

But now that the war has gradually entered its peak, the opposition forces in the country have basically been swept away, and the few remnants can no longer play a decisive role. As for those army leaders who are entrenched everywhere and do not listen to the supreme command, they are actually not Zhang Cheng's opponents at all. They had nothing but some troops and wealth on their hands.

Since entering the era of industrialization, Daming has always adhered to the traditional concept that the best things should be kept at home. No matter how much wealth they have earned, they will return to their hometowns to use or save their wealth.

Most of the factories and advanced equipment of the industrial era were built in the local area, and there are large enough places in the local area to build one large industrial base after another.

The industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty in overseas colonies was already very strong compared to other countries, but it could not be compared with the local land at all.

The vast majority of Daming's heavy industrial capacity is in the country, just like all the large shipyards are built in the country. The colonies were more of a place for the supply of raw materials and the dumping of industrial products.

And now these are in Zhang Cheng's hands, and those military leaders who seem to be powerful in their hands have put their lifeblood in Zhang Cheng's hands. Unless they rebelled directly or cooperated with the anti-Ming alliance, Zhang Cheng could cut off their supplies at any time. The more modern the army, the more dependent it is on logistical supplies. It is almost impossible to defeat a powerful hoplite army with light infantry. Unless Zhang Cheng has reached the point where the hearts of the people are lost and everyone betrays their relatives.

Now it is a time of war, and the army of the Ming Dynasty comes from all over the world, but they are all citizens of the country who have received higher education. The national fortune inherited by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years is not a joke, and this country has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. How could these ordinary officers and soldiers follow the commander to treason? Their families and friends are all in China!

The Ming Dynasty of this era is not the era of war and chaos in history. At least the vast majority of people would not choose to rebel with others. Without the army, what storms can be set off in this era?

The military leaders everywhere seemed to have received the benefits for the time being, and they had also received Zhang Cheng's promises and guarantees. But they may also know very well that the benefits of eating will be spit out one day, and Zhang Cheng's assurances and promises must be admitted by him himself.

Zhang Cheng was determined to begin to make a transformation, began to give full play to the strong numerical advantage of the Ming Dynasty, and began to drag his opponent to death with a war of attrition. It doesn't matter if it's the French, the Germans, the Russians or the Americans on the other side. All dragged to death.

The Ming Dynasty, which had changed its combat strategy, began to break out. In a short period of time, the strength of the Ming North African Theater was almost doubled, especially the air power.

The air power that Zhang Cheng was proud of before suffered heavy losses under the full resistance of the US Army and Air Force, not to mention that it had not been able to rescue the ground troops at a critical moment. As the person who single-handedly created the land aviation, the anger in Zhang Cheng's heart can be imagined. He soon remobilized a large number of air forces and came to the North African theater to compete with the U.S. Army Air Force.

Although there were only four air corps on the front line, a large number of reserve troops were enough for the Ming Army to maintain strong pressure on the US army. Zhang Cheng even ordered the strategic bomber unit to bomb the US positions under the cover of night fighters. And the fighter group led by Sha Jin was to provide cover for the bombing of the aircraft group during the day.

"Enemy aircraft spotted." Sha Jin picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered loudly: "All units will attack to meet the enemy." ”

Hundreds of Fighting Falcons roared down from the sky, and the golden light of the morning sun reflected on the fuselage rushed towards the group of American fighters who came to meet them. Fierce fighting between the two sides broke out in an instant.

The sand brocade that returned to the blue sky became more mature. After experiencing the thrilling story of being shot down and behind enemy lines, Sha Jin's mentality has changed, and after experiencing the test of life and death, his mood can be very quiet in any situation. When the mind calms down, his skill level is greatly improved.

It's like soldiers who can score very high in their usual shooting training. But once you go to the battlefield, you feel the rain of bullets, and life and death are instantaneous. Those who can play at the usual training level of two or three percent are already elites. The same is true of the aviation forces.

After experiencing the test of life and death, Sha Jin, who had readjusted his mentality, had already taken life and death very lightly, and his technical level, which was originally only top-notch, quickly climbed to the top.

After controlling the lever and stepping on the afterburner to increase the speed, he bit the tail of a US P36 Eagle fighter and pressed the fire button. A series of long chains of tracer bullets broke the left wing of the P36, tumbling and tumbling to the ground.

"One." Sha Jin curled the corners of his mouth and chuckled to mark the next blow for himself. The camera on his shooting gun had already recorded the hit, so it would be nice to go back and make sure.

"Next." After greeting the wingman, Sha Jin shook his wings a few times and pounced on another US fighter not far away. He's going on a killing spree today.

The ever-improving Fighting Falcon fighter has been developed to the fifth generation, and ace pilots like Sha Jin fly the latest Fighting Falcon. Compared to earlier models, the Fighting Falcon was faster and more powerful than the earlier model, with a higher engine and a new 23mm cannon. No aircraft could resist the attack of the new Fighting Falcon artillery.

After dozens of minutes of fierce air battles, Sha Jin achieved six new results in succession, increasing his number of downs to 121. In the entire air battle, the battle losses of both sides were 41 to 79, and the Ming Army Air won the victory.

While the fighters of the two sides were fiercely tangling, the bomber units escorted by Shajin and their escort had already bombed ground targets. The destruction of a number of Allied artillery positions and barracks soon ended the battle. Just as Sha Jin's air formation was returning and retreating, another wave of Daming Army Air attack aircraft had already flown over.

In the face of the strong pressure of the Ming Army Aviation, the U.S. military quickly recovered from the joy of repelling the Ming army some time ago. Da Ming is still the powerful Da Ming. Although he suffered occasional setbacks, he was soon able to throw out more powerful forces to make all his opponents despair.

Now not only the quality, but also the quantity is the Ming Dynasty that has begun to take advantage. The pressure on the Allies has increased like never before. (To be continued.) )