※: The strategist's fire reinforcements failed to make Pei Chengyi change his attack on Youya Suding

At noon on the old days, Pei Chengyi's first order after lunch was to let Yuan Chenhao start the combat operation of attacking Diyarbakir before dawn on the day of the thug? Not a harassing offense, but a general offense?

Pei Chengyi did not give this order in the morning, because the first combat unit did not reach Bismir until noon on the same day, and Ling Yunxiao also determined that the first combat unit could recover its combat effectiveness before dawn on the day of the thugs and reach the front line. 【】

Because everyone knew that the Republic Army would storm Diyarbakir, the impact of Pei Chengyi's order was not so eye-catching. Among the events that took place on the battlefield that day, only two things stood out, one of which was the construction of a front-line airfield in Mardin by the Army of the Republic.

During the Indian War, the Republic Army built front-line airfields out of prefabricated parts, and achieved good results.

Compared with a few years ago, the current "prefabricated components for field airfields" are not only more reasonable in design and can greatly reduce assembly time, but also use a large number of lightweight and wear-resistant materials, which greatly reduces the quality of the whole system?

According to the standards put forward by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic when ordering the system, in the case of laying a runway with a long beater and a wide meter, which can allow large transport aircraft to take off and land with full load, the overall mass of the system shall not exceed o tons, and it can be transported by air by vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft with a force frame, that is to say, the maximum single weight of the force sleeve system shall not exceed Wu tons, and it must be designed in accordance with the size standard of the air transport pod used by the mother.

Taking into account the relatively high performance indicators, the Ministry of Defense did not put forward excessively harsh requirements in terms of price when signing development contracts with enterprises developing the system. Realistically speaking, the quality of the system is definitely very high. Among other things, even if it is made of the best lightweight wear-resistant composite materials, the total mass of the runway will not be less than the strong ton. And the quality of the other subsystem beaters is around Diton. In order to reduce costs, relatively inexpensive composite materials can only be used, so that the quality of the system exceeds the design requirements.

Because this is a project day led by the Ministry of National Defense, there is room for technical approval. According to the calculation of the standard of air transportation with a knife holder, the maximum mass of the system can be increased to Asahi tons. Other words. In order to reduce manufacturing costs. Cheap materials can be used appropriately without paying too much attention to the technical standards of the system. In fact, when the design of the system was completed, the total mass had reached a ton of tons, and the total mass of the system was almost a ton of blades, including the necessary living facilities and living materials of the entourage.

Starting with four, the Ministry of Defense began to purchase this numbered as planing, small ballast. According to an investigation report drafted by Shuai Yongkang himself, it is only necessary to cover up the "prefabricated components of the field airfield" to ensure that the republican ** team can complete its combat mission at any location and without relying on a fixed military base.

Regardless of the relevance of this report from the Ministry of Defense, the "field airfield prefabricated components" is definitely a good thing.

It is a pity that by the time the war broke out in the Middle East, the Republic Army and Air Force each had only a glove system. Because the Air Force has access to air bases and civilian airfields in Iran, Iraq, and Syria, there is no need for field airfields on the front line. Before that, the army had no need to play in this regard. It wasn't until Pei Chengyi determined that a new offensive was needed in the central part of the northern front that the army sent the prefabricated components over.

In the hour, a field airfield appeared in the wilderness on the western outskirts of Mardin.

In addition to being lightweight, the prefabricated components of the new field airfield have the advantage that they are very easy to assemble. At the time of design, the engineer put forward the idea of "toolless assembly", that is, all the subsystems are connected by a fool-like structure, and only need to align the interface when assembling, and tools are needed at all. Even when it is disassembled, it is only necessary to disassemble it one by one according to the assembly process. Generally. Is it to improve the convenience of the system as much as possible, and to reduce the work burden of the front-line officers and soldiers as much as possible, as well as the training burden of the troops? To put it bluntly, any person with normal intelligence and a certain amount of hands-on ability can complete the assembly and disassembly work according to the instructions, and only need the officers and soldiers of the knife to complete the entire work within 4 hours, during which only the troops in charge of transportation work need to send the various subsystems to the exact point?

Of course, there is one more thing that needs to be done well in order for this system to work, and that is to install a power supply system.

Because the integrated quality of the power supply system is about to stew, the Ministry of Defense did not require the field airfield system to have power supply capacity, but to separate the two systems. To be precise, it is to make full use of the mobile power supply system existing in the army, and no longer invest in it alone.

It was precisely for this reason that the first to land on the field airfield were the four Gandasbi transport planes transporting the power supply system.

As the power supply system began to work, a steady stream of large transport planes rushed over, sending a large number of combat troops and combat materials?

One might ask, why not take advantage of the airports in the area?

In the southeastern region of Turkey. Many airports, such as the airport in Yashuzhir, have a runway for flying and training, and there are also airports in Batman, Sirt, Mardin and Van City, but the runway length of these airports is calculated from the height of the meter above the ground, and the take-off and taxi distance is more than a meter. In other words, if the airport in Diyarbakir is used for strategic air transportation, only Diyarbakir can meet the basic requirements. Because the Republic Air Force has eliminated all tactical transport aircraft, and it is difficult for the army's VTOL transport planes to carry out long-distance airlift missions, the airlift is done in two steps, that is, the strategic transport planes first send troops and supplies to the airfields in Iran or Iraq, and then the VTOL transport planes relay them. This is time-consuming, effort-consuming, and inefficient.

After the field airfield was built in Mardin, the situation was completely different.

Said that the efficiency of air freight has too much impact on the small ratio. As a result of the liberation of the army's vertical take-off and landing transport fleet, the air force's capability has been greatly improved. For example, when Gambi transports combat troops to the front line, the leg condensation group can deliver combat materials and combat equipment to the front line. Or participate in offensive combat operations of front-line troops.

Of course, what shocked the outside world was the efficiency of the Air Force's strategic transport fleet.

Because the fleet sortie rate is taken into account when designed, and the support for all-electric transport aircraft instead of fighter jets and bombers that need to consume aviation fuel, the field airfield can achieve maximum efficiency when serving the small old.

From the old days, the Gan beaters reached Mardin in batches per minute.

Each batch has a mouth frame with a thug, and after landing in turn. The crust transport aircraft replenishes power as cargo is loaded and unloaded, while airport maintenance crews begin to clear the runway in preparation for the take-off of the transport planes and for the next batch of transport aircraft. Because there is no need to carry cargo when returning home, and there is no need for the loading procedure, the mouth frame leaves the runway, and the first of the second batch of old ones has been aligned with the runway, entered the descent flight channel, and is about to land on the runway made of composite materials.

Because of the intensity of use, the airport's maintenance personnel had to take advantage of the intermittent time between take-off and landing of transport planes to sprinkle water on the runway with sprinkler trucks to reduce the temperature of the runway. There is no way to do this, the thermal capacity of the composite material is not very good, and the quality needs to be controlled, so the runway has to be made as thin as possible. If the runway is not cooled in time, it will cause deformation and make it impossible for the transport aircraft to take off and land safely.

According to each fight, it is said that a small combat unit is more in line with the actual situation. Of course, the U.S. intelligence agencies cannot rule out that the other side will let the Xiaobi fleet run at full capacity. In addition, it is possible to use forces such as the 2nd Convergence Group to airlift a combat unit within the time of divination. In fact, Stark mentioned this possibility when he reported to Dudgway, and reminded Dudgway that the Republicans hadn't done this before. In order to achieve the goal of the war, Pei Chengyi will definitely use all his strength.

There is no doubt that if the 6th Combat Unit had entered the battle on Fighter Day, the situation on the Northern Front would have changed significantly

The question is, is there anything Dochway can do to change this unfavorable situation?

There is a way, but the second major event in his life made the method he just thought of come to naught.

After preparations were made, the Syrian Air Force concentrated all its forces and dispatched combat aircraft. Sneak attack on the US Navy aircraft carrier battle group, which is operating in the waters northwest of the island of Cyprus.

Although this sneak attack did not achieve its goal, the fighters of the Syrian Air Force were spotted by the US AWACS aircraft when they were still taking off, and the US fighters rushed over the territorial waters of Liu Ya, a group of aircraft carrying anti-ship missiles? In the fierce heart; Only a handful of Syrian fighters fired anti-ship missiles? Because it was not possible to form a saturation attack, the US military did not even use a forced electromagnetic interference system, intercepting all missiles only with the fleet air defense system. By the end of the battle, only about the strength of the Syrian fighters escaped, and the US military lost only less than the strength of the air defense fighters. From this, it can be seen that this battle has little tactical value. However, no one can deny the operational and strategic value of this battle, and shortly after the end of the air raids, in addition to allowing the artillery formation composed of "Lawrence" class destroyers to continue its activities in Mersin Bay, the US fleet operating in the eastern Mediterranean took the initiative to retreat about a short distance to the southwest and moved to the waters between the islands of Cyprus and Crete.

The US military is not afraid of the Syrian Air Force, but of a sudden blow from the Air Force of the republic.

To put it bluntly, the Syrian Air Force's Xiaozhan and Xiaokou fighters are capable of attacking the US Navy, so the heavy fighters of the Republican Air Force are more sure to take out the American aircraft carriers? Even if, in the eyes of the US military, the authorities of the republic have no reason to spread the war to the sea, because it is not beneficial to either side, but it is not without reason that a single surprise attack can disrupt the combat operations of the fleet, weaken the combat capability of the fleet, and appropriately retreat to the west?

Of course, in this round of assault. And the most important thing is that the fighters of the Syrian Air Force "accurately" found the American fleet?

You must know that the Syrian Air Force does not have a decent large early warning plane, an advanced reconnaissance plane capable of breaking through the US air defense blockade, and still less a decent reconnaissance force at sea and under the sea, so it is unlikely that the US fleet will be present and accurately judge the navigation situation of the US fleet. You must know that even if you attack the fleet with sound fighters, you need to grasp the navigation data of the fleet in advance before you can attack.

There is no doubt that the Republic provided relevant intelligence to the Syrian Air Force.

That is, the republic knows where the American fleet is and what it is doing.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about this. The aircraft carrier battle group is not a fighter group, and even if it stands to reason, the navigation degree of the warships has been increased to more than Feng Jie, but compared with the fighters, it is still much slower, and it is impossible to escape the monitoring range of the reconnaissance satellite. In addition, the eastern Mediterranean is so large and local, and the US fleet, with three aircraft carriers as the core, has dozens of warships, which is a very eye-catching target everywhere, and it is easy to see and track. If the Republic does not even have the ability to do so, is it still qualified to compete with the United States?

The problem is that, in the eyes of many American news media, this is not a trivial matter at all.

If the Republic is able to provide the Syrian Air Force with tactical intelligence to help the Syrian Air Force attack the US fleet, why can't it provide the Syrian Air Force with better combat aircraft, more advanced anti-ship missiles, and even better pilots, or why should the Republic Air Force not let its fighter jets be painted with the Syrian Air Force logo and take out the American fleet that is in the way?

According to the interpretation of the American news media, the Republic is moving towards a world war by helping Syria attack the American fleet.

Of course, this mentality of the American news media is quite understandable.

You must know that at that time, the two US fleets operating in the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea were within the strike range of the Republic's air force or navy, while the two Republican fleets operating in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea were far away from US military bases, and at most they only had to worry about the US carrier-based aviation and the strategic aviation deployed in Diego Garcia, and the United States did not deploy its air force in Djibouti, and the threat was far inferior to that of the US fleet.

In other words, it is really necessary to fight at sea. The US Navy will definitely suffer a big loss.

It is just that in the eyes of the top level of the United States, attacking the US fleet is tantamount to attacking the US mainland, which is tantamount to starting a war against the United States and leading to a world war. If the authorities of the Republic had wanted to fight a world war a long time ago, they would not have fought openly and covertly with the United States in the Middle East. Since the authorities of the republic do not want to fight a world war, they will not joke about the American fleet, and even less take the initiative to expand the scale of the conflict.

In the words of the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, if the republic attacks the American fleet, the United States can immediately attack the republic's fleet with tactical nuclear weapons.

Of course, there is one point that cannot be overlooked. That is, the republic strikes the American fleet in the name of Syria.

At a time when Dudgway needed reinforcement the most, the American fleet turned around and left the battlefield. Because of the sneak attack during the day, the U.S. fleet operating in the eastern Mediterranean was unable to provide support to the front-line troops until Hitter's Day. The U.S. fleet operating in the Red Sea is only responsible for providing support to the U.S.-Israeli coalition fighting in Syria, so Dudgway doesn't want air support from the Navy.

The situation of the US Air Force is not much better, and the combat missions of the various units are full.

Because Mardin was out of range of long-range American artillery, when the air force and navy could not help, unless Dudgway sent an artillery unit to Diyarbakir, he could not pose a threat to Mardin's field airfield.

Considering that the Republican Army had a more powerful long-range artillery, Duchway dismissed this idea and could only use the other side to increase troops to the front line through field airfields.

By this time, the U.S. military was only one step away from defeat on the northern front.