Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 94 Duel in the Air
Cheng Yi is deploying combat forces in Huang Xin. 【Full text reading】Du Shouwei has no idle altar
By telling the tactical datalink. Duchway was able to grasp the situation on the front line in a timely and accurate manner. After the armoured units, which were now on assault duty, retreated on their own initiative, Duchway finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although Blucher was eager to win and dared to counterattack with only two battalions, the lieutenant general did not lose his way at the critical moment, let alone blind confidence, and allowed hundreds of American GIs to escape.
It's just that Du Qiwei can't make it easy.
After the retreat of the American troops who counterattacked the reactionary counterattack. The Iranian army, which had been advancing at a high level before, stopped and waited for the main forces behind to arrive. Although the resolute counterattack of the U.S. armored battalion caused the Iranian army to suffer and lost a lot of armored power, it was nothing for the Khomeini Division, which had many powerful tanks and uranium tanks, and the Ahvaz Division, which had many tanks and advanced tanks for thugs. The U.S. military's counterattack only made them more fearful. Clearly, Blucher's counterattack had the effect of striking. The fact that the Iranian army is no longer blindly advancing is the biggest disaster for the US military. As long as Khomeini's division and Ahvaz's division advance steadily to the south, plus the Hassan division following behind, Ahmadinejad's division, Andymeshke's division, Abadan's division, and Basra's division, which are operating in the south. Blucher couldn't hold Hakkari at all. To put it mildly, as long as the Iranian army does not make low-level mistakes, Pei Chengyi does not need to send ground troops to deal with Blucher at all.
Thinking of this, Du Qiwei's mood was like fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down.
He didn't wait to think of a way to deal with it. The staff officer sent the war report.
The armored battalion that moved the counterattack did not suffer much loss, and the infantry battalion stationed in the front was almost completely annihilated!
The casualties were very heavy.
When the armored battalion broke through the defensive positions of the infantry battalion, it found not only a few wounded, but also hundreds of corpses. What was even more fatal was that at the beginning of the shelling, the officers and men of the infantry battalion entered the fortifications built by the Turkish army, and none of these fortifications had the ability to throw heavy artillery shells of the fierce kilogram. Because the shelling was so intensive, many fortifications were hit directly by shells. The few American officers and soldiers who survived were very lucky because the fortifications they were in were not directly hit by shells. Other words. Under the ruins of defensive positions. There are also hundreds of corpses of American officers and soldiers. Because the Iranian army was not far away, the armored battalion did not stop to exhum the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and quickly left the combat area with the wounded and the remains of the American troops exposed to the sky.
This battle report suddenly made Duqi feel extremely desperate.
The long-range artillery fire of the Republican Army was too fierce, "the artillery of a combat unit can destroy the thugs in an instant, and the American infantry battalion that has entered the defensive position can be wiped out in an instant, and if the artillery of the three combat units fighting on the northern front fire at the same time, I am afraid that the strength of the two brigades in Blucher's hands will not have anything to count on."
As always, Duchway was composed and calm.
After reading the battle report, the first thing he did was to contact Blucher and ask the lieutenant general to pay attention to the tragic experience of the infantry battalion in the direction of Bashkale, either to rebuild the fortifications or to strengthen the fortifications of the Turkish army, anyway, not to pin his hopes on the Turkish army.
The facts are sharp, and without Duchway's warning, Blucher knows what to do.
The round-covered shelling killed one infantry battalion, and the blow to Blucher was even greater. You know, he has 2 brigades in his hands, about the strength of the old battalion. If the opponent wishes, he can completely stop the frontal attack and completely wipe out the beauty entrenched in Hakari with continuous and heavy artillery fire.
The problem is, it did. It doesn't necessarily work.
After warning Blucher, Duchway was very direct about whether it was necessary to break out before the Iranian army encircled Hakkari.
Regardless, the question itself is problematic.
As the supreme commander, it was up to Duchway to decide whether or not to settle again, rather than throwing such an important issue to the front-line commanders.
Blucher is not a fool. When Dudgway raised this question, it occurred to him that the main purpose of the Marine Corps general was to hold him accountable for the battles that followed. To put it bluntly, if Blucher gives up the breakout, even if the two army brigades are wiped out, it will not have much to do with Duchway. If Blucher made the opposite choice, even if Duchway still had to bear the direct result of the defeat, he would try to put part of the blame on Blucher, so that the US Army and even the Pentagon would intercede for Blucher, that is, for him.
Faced with such an important question, Blucher did not hesitate at all, and asked a few questions before answering. The address of this site has been changed to: Eliminate the heart, delete please log in to read!
It is when the other combat units of the European Legion will be able to reach Diyarbakir, second, when they will be able to provide air support, third, whether they will be able to airdrop supplies when necessary, and fourth, how many main forces the opponent will devote to this battle.
The first three questions, Du Qiwei answered very briskly, while on the fourth question, he was not so direct.
Obviously, Du Qiwei also didn't know how much of the main force Pei Chengyi would invest. Although he has enough reason to believe that Pei Chengyi will not let Buchancher live a stable life, and will definitely kill Blucher when he intensifies the assault and remove the security risks in the rear, but do... Pan's series of deployments all told Du Shouwei that he did not put Buchancher in... Fox 4, he did not intend to waste a single soldier of the Republic Army on Blucher. When it comes to this issue, Duchway has no reservations. Told Blücher everything he knew. In other words, Duchway gave Blücher the decision to hold on to Hakkari and wait for reinforcements.
If Blucher had been a fierce general, he would not have flinched.
As it turned out, he was indeed a fierce general. In Duchway, it was guaranteed that the rest of the Eurocorps units would be sent to Diyarbakir as quickly as possible. After the air forces were deployed in place, the priority was to provide air cover and air support, and to provide war supplies by air and airdrop, Blucher made the decision to hold on to the province of Hakkari, and personally assured that they would fight to the last of their soldiers until reinforcements arrived.
In any case, we must first admit Blucher's bravery.
From another point of view, we have to admit that Blucher is a fierce general with brains. Judging from his assurances, even if he could not hold Hakkari Province, he could use the excuse that "reinforcements did not arrive in time" to shift the blame to Duchway. More importantly, if the province of Hakkari can be held, the pressure on the entire northern front will be relieved, and there will certainly be many more people who know Blucher than Duchwe.
It can be seen from this that Blucher intends to use the thug Wan Mei to gamble his future.
Dudgway wasn't stupid either, he knew what Blucher was thinking, but for him. Before considering whether or not Blucher will steal the limelight, we must first consider whether there is a way to be in the limelight, or whether there is a way to achieve the ultimate victory in this battle.
It was also when he was on the phone with Buscher that the staff officer sent two pieces of information at the same time.
The first information was related to the air battle in the south. At the time of a fierce battle between the ground forces under the command of Blucher and the armored forces of the Iranian army. The fighters of the U.S. Air Force and the Naval Air Force also fought the largest air battle since the start of the war.
According to the information provided by the staff officers, it is possible that carrier-based fighters of the Navy of the Republic also took part in air battles.
In contrast to the air battles that preceded the ground war, the Air Force and Naval Aviation were reassigned their tasks in accordance with their pre-war deployments. The Air Force's heavy air supremacy fighters are responsible for seizing air supremacy. The Navy's medium multirole fighters are responsible for striking ground targets. The light multi-role fighters, which entered the battle until the evening, coordinated with the air superiority fighters to carry out the task of air defense suppression, specifically striking the enemy's air defense systems.
I have to admit that the air power of the United States is absolutely one of the best.
In the air battle that morning, 4 justified the name of the US Air Force. In the fight with the air force of the Republic of China, and in the battle shot down the Shaojia "Wa."
Because the Republican Air Force also released the exact location of the wreckage of the downed fighter planes on both sides and released some video footage, but the US Air Force did not produce relevant evidence, the Republican Air Force announced the results of the battle with greater credibility. In the afternoon of the same day, the two sides fought three more air battles, but they were still worried that Xiaoqu's performance was among the best, and it was difficult to distinguish between the superior and inferior, and the US Air Force lost the tractor fighters, and the Republic Navy Air Force lost the recess fighters.
There were several very noticeable results of these air battles during the day. The new address of this site has been changed to: Heart. 8. Please log in to read!
The scale of the engagement was not large, and at most more than a few fighters were put into each air battle, and at least a few. The main reason is that the air supremacy of the heavy fighters of both sides is very prominent, and they can cover a wider area when performing air supremacy combat missions; If too many fighters are invested at one time, it will facilitate the use of long-range air-to-air missiles by the other side, and thus pay an even heavier price. And that's exactly what happened. In addition to the 8 air battles between heavy air superiority fighters, the old multiple battles of heavy fighters against medium and light fighters were fought during the day, as a result of which the heavy fighters, who were not superior in numbers, were victorious, and the medium and light fighters flying in dense formations were lost.
Second, the airspace for the warring is very vast, stretching from the Karen River basin in Iran in the east, to the northwestern waters of the Persian Gulf in the south, to the waters of the eastern Mediterranean between Syria and Cyprus in the west, and to the skies over the Karasu River in Turkey in the north. Fighting in such a wide area is also one of the main reasons why the warring parties do not engage in battle in small groups. What's more, with the exception of parts of the north, most of the air combat zone is under the control of the republic. And that's exactly what happened. The Republican Air Force and Navy were able to produce so many convincing video footage when they announced the results of the battle, but the US Air Force had no way to confirm the results they announced.
Third, air combat is mostly conducted in the form of long-range engagement. In addition to the air battles against medium and light fighters, of the eight air battles between the heavy fighters of the two sides, only the one that was born over the central region of Turkey was fought from outside the line of sight to within the line of sight, and the other seven ended outside the line of sight. In fact, when the limited number of fighters put into the battle by both sides caused the interception method of direct rear, whether it is a lawsuit or a small fighter, there are enough missiles to attack the opponent. Because they all know that the opponent has enough missiles, after firing the missiles, the pilots of both sides will choose to turn to evade, and will not continue to approach, so they rarely engage in aerial dogfights.
Due to these factors, the air battles during the day were not intense.
The main reason for these phenomena is also simple. The U.S. Air Force is still adjusting its deployment, and the number of heavy fighters reaching the front line is very limited. Moreover, they are all deployed on air bases thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, and the tankers and other aircraft that can support fighters to fight in the theater are very limited, so the US Air Force has to invest in batches. Affected by the combat radius of fighter jets, most US pilots are reluctant to engage in dogfights. The dogfight in the skies over Turkey was also based on the idea that the US fighters could land at the nearest Turkish airfield after running out of fuel, and there was no need to think about returning home, otherwise they would not have fought with the little fighters of the Republic Air Force.
There are problems with the US Air Force, and there are problems with the Air Force of the Republic.
On the second day of entering the war, the main task of the republican Air Force remained to strike at important military targets in Turkey, preparing for the upcoming large-scale ground offensive. Because Pei Chengyi wanted to convince Du Qiwei that he would use the 5th Combat Individual and the 8th Combat Unit to storm Karachi, he needed to focus on attacking targets in depth in the early bombing campaign. As a result of this, the air supremacy that the Air Force of the Republic was able to devote was quite limited. Affected by the activities of the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle groups in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, the Republic's air force and naval aviation had to temporarily adjust their deployment on many occasions to be vigilant against the US fleet and prevent a surprise attack by the US Navy. This also led to the fact that when carrying out air supremacy combat missions, the air force of the Republic had to have some reservations and did not dare to devote all of it to the navy.
Of course, two of the most advanced fighters in the world appeared on the same battlefield, and the pilots of both sides had reservations.
Whether or not Russian and French fighter engineers admit it, the Little Fighter and 4 are the most advanced heavy air supremacy fighters in the world today, and the best-selling heavy fighters. The derivative models of the former are exported to many old countries, and the total export volume does not include the intention order, which is the same below; The derivative of the latter is exported to several countries, and the total export volume is more than persuasive; The Russian and French heavy fighters are in fact medium multirole fighters similar to the original. It's just that at the time of improvement, by using the motive of thrust greater, the maximum take-off weight was increased to more than Wu tons, and the threshold of heavy fighters was crossed, and so far no foreign orders have been obtained.
More importantly, in addition to being vigilant, the air combat commanders in the rear will also be very cautious. Among other things, there were at least three air battles because the commanders of the air battles between the Air Force and the Navy of the Republic gave the order to retreat after the start of the air battle outside the visual range, fearing unnecessary losses, and did not let the pilots pursue the fleeing enemy planes. According to the relevant information released by the US Air Force after the war, during the battle, the front commanders of the US Air Force also issued several orders to retreat. It can be said that until the situation of the opponent is figured out, neither side is willing to risk fighter jets worth tens of billions of yuan.
It is precisely because of this that in 8 air battles, both sides lost about the fighters that fell, with an average loss of 6 to 7 aircraft per air battle. At all costs. This is a less than ideal, or rather less drastic, outcome. You know, in the past, it was very normal to lose several fighters in an air battle.
The problem is that this can't go on forever.
Through several exchanges during the day, the two sides basically figured out each other's situation, knew how powerful the opponent's fighter was, and also knew how powerful the opponent's pilot was. After the tentative battle, whether procurement officials from both defense ministries want to do it or not, as night falls, the two world's most powerful air forces will use two of the world's most expensive fighter jets for control of an airspace not directly related to the two major powers, in the largest air duel since the Korean Peninsula War.
Dudgway could not stop the aerial battle. It won't change the situation.
Fortunately, the Pentagon, in accordance with his request, prioritized the deployment of heavy air superiority fighters of the Air Force. Before dark, the first heavy air superiority fighter unit arrived in Turkey. If all goes well, the air power that is coveted by the 2 dozen in Ankara time is not an air power that can be easily defeated by the enemy.
In fact, Dudgway was not concerned with air combat.
For both warring parties, the scale of a ground strike operation will be very limited until a duel with a heavy air supremacy fighter is decided. After all, in the absence of air supremacy, a ground strike means taking risks with light fighters and medium fighters. The address of this site has been changed to: anti-8, please log in to read!
What Du Qiwei was more concerned about was the second piece of information sent by the staff officer, the information related to the 10th combat section.