The first rays of dawn appeared on the horizon, and the dawn tore through the darkness.

The air base of the Hexi Allied Forces gradually began to become more energetic, and the crew began to make breakfast for the pilots.

Pilots in this era are extremely high-risk professions, aircraft failures are endless, whether they can fly into the sky, whether they can fly back is unknown, not to mention that the air force of the coalition forces only needs to face the Chinese air force with incomparably advanced fighters. The performance of the Chinese Air Force aircraft has simply made Western pilots extremely red-eyed, not only the performance is extremely superior, but more importantly, mechanical failures rarely occur, with the huge scale of China's air force, there are less than 10 mechanical accidents in a year. And the Western Air Force, even a squadron, has more mechanical failures in a year than the entire Chinese Air Force, and I don't know how many pilots are killed because of mechanical failures every year.

It is said that in order to design a fighter that could compete with China's J-2, Britain and France's Avenger fighter plane killed 17 test pilots, injured dozens of people, and broke down more than 300 times. The French Napoleonic fighters suffered more losses than the British side.

Pilot is such a high-risk profession that every meal of a pilot is as rich as the guillotine meal in ancient China.

In addition to bread, fried eggs, milk, fresh fruits, etc., the chefs are also very happy, because the pilots eat well, and they are equally happy. Today is the day when the Air Force is going to attack, and breakfast is especially hearty for this.

Of course, the airport did not know that at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, a huge group of planes was rushing towards them.

"Keep course, keep your distance."

Gao Zhihang's ears kept coming from the radio voice of the captain of the group. He was a little dazed about this mission, taking off from the runway through the searchlight at the airport in the dark, and after taking off, he received an order to follow the tail signal light of the long plane, which was temporarily installed on each plane, for this mission. But what he didn't understand was how to attack the enemy in this black sky, although the sky began to brighten, but the ground was completely dark.

"Now to the table. It's 5:36:18.19.23."

Gao Zhihang knows that the long plane keeps repeating seconds to ensure that the time is accurate to the second and constantly corrected. Align with the time. Immediately, the long machine asks if the table has been completed. There were constant affirmative answers, and finally it was his turn, and he said loudly: "1016 everything is ready." ”

"Good." Finally, after about half a minute, almost all the planes answered. Changji praised it very competently. There was a pause. "Pay attention to the time. At 5:41:17 p.m., he dived on time. Our fighter formations must use the bombshells they carry to destroy the enemy's airfield as soon as possible, so that the enemy planes cannot rise into the air to counterattack. Repeating, our task is nothing more than escort. It is to destroy the runway of the enemy's airfield at the first time"

"1016 understands." Gao Zhihang understood at this moment that the Western barbarians were afraid of being beaten by China, especially the Chinese Air Force, and the entire Western control area was full of observation posts, and at dawn, the planes could hardly escape the other side's observation posts, and as long as it was dawn, the other side would send a large number of planes to cruise, and there was no way to start.

Gao Zhihang is well aware of the current situation of the Chinese Air Force, which is still short of talent, and many pilots are undertrained, but they have to go to the battlefield because of the rapid expansion of the Air Force. Fortunately, after the start of the war, the enemy's planes were not arranged in place, and the Chinese Air Force had no opponents, so it only had to bomb the enemy indiscriminately according to training. It was barely a very fierce air battle in Assam, as Western pilots commented, there are many rookie Chinese pilots, otherwise with China's excellent fighters, they can completely kill them, but at that time, they can rely on their numbers so that the Chinese Air Force can only rely on superior fighters to entangle with them, or even dodge.

After more than half a year of the war, the rookies of the Chinese Air Force have grown rapidly, but they only barely meet the minimum standards of Chinese Air Force pilots, and the most important thing is that it is difficult for Chinese pilots to replenish. For this reason, if a large-scale air battle breaks out, the Chinese Air Force will choose the battlefield above the control of the Chinese Army, because in this case, the pilot can be quickly saved by parachuting, and there is a high chance of survival.

For now, the training of pilots in China is much more difficult than the creation of fighters, and replenishment is much slower. The best way to reduce the losses of the Chinese air force is to wipe out the enemy's air force on the ground. If you can't attack during the day, then bomb at night, and it should be said that the early morning is when people's spirits are the most relaxed.

Just a few minutes passed, Gao Zhihang constantly adjusted his spirit and checked everything.

Finally, the long plane called again: "Attention units, there are still 30 seconds, 28 seconds, 15 seconds and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 before the dive!" Follow me. ”

Gao Zhihang saw that the tail lights of the long plane were almost straight down, and he looked down, and the enemy's airfield had faint lights, but most of the places were pitch black, which was almost no different from jumping off a cliff, and you wouldn't know how high the cliff was and whether it would fall to your death. The dive in this situation definitely requires the courage to die, and the military order is like a mountain, and he gritted his teeth and dived down almost in a straight line.

But just as he was diving, the enemy's airfield suddenly exploded continuously, rising up with clusters of firelight, these fires were not dense, and the power of the explosion was not very large, but the fire was very large, and the scope was very large, even all over the perimeter of the airport. Through these fires, he saw the light in the dive, and clearly saw the runway of the enemy's airfield, which lifted his spirits and shouted: "Miscellaneous people, the master is here!" He dived directly to less than two hundred meters from the ground, pressed the bomb drop button, and then pulled it up with all his might, and in a few seconds, he heard an earth-shattering explosion from behind, and even the air flow of the explosion affected his pull up again into the sky.

The sudden air raid strike stunned the entire coalition air force airfield. Some pilots who had just gotten up to wash themselves didn't care about anything else and rushed straight to the plane. Because they understand very well the ruthlessness of the Chinese Air Force, and if they want to survive, the best way is to fly into the sky, even if it is not to fight, running with an airplane is much faster than running on two legs. At that time, the Chinese Air Force attacked the airfields of the coalition forces, and it was a complete carpet bombing. Not to mention airplanes, even pilots and ground crews have not survived.

But they rushed to the plane, and some of the fast-moving pilots quickly started the plane, but they were dumbfounded.

Where is there a runway ahead? It was a huge crater much bigger than a basketball court, with a maximum depth of more than ten meters.

Some pilots sit on planes in despair and look up at the sky, they can't see the number of planes, they may hear the overwhelming sound of the motors of the Chinese H-1 Thunderbird bombers; Some pilots jumped out of the plane like crazy and threw themselves at the air-raid shelters and even stinky ditches on the edge of the airport

Countless bombs fell, and the entire airport was reduced to a cloud of smoke and fire. Coalition warplanes parked on the airfield for sortie were reduced to pieces in the explosion. Immediately after that, several J-2 fighters swooped down at high speed and dropped 500-kilogram bombs on targets suspected to be oil depots. Countless people who were lucky enough to escape the bombing were engulfed in flames.

"Poof". Admiral Dannatt sat down on a chair in the headquarters conference room with a pale face.

Marshall and Hagrid were trembling. His face was like dirt.

Marshall broke the suffocating silence for a long time: "Damn, all three airfields along the coast have been destroyed, and the remaining five airfields have been bombed sporadically. We lost more than 500 planes. Then he stared at Dannatt and said, "Your Excellency, there are not enough planes, what can we do to contain the Chinese air force, if we can't contain the Chinese air force, then the combined fleet is extremely dangerous." ”

Dannat said viciously: "No matter how dangerous it is, there is no way back now, the sky is about to dawn, the combined fleet has approached Chittagong for a hundred kilometers, and it is not possible to walk if you want to during the day." Do not forget that the maximum range of the Chinese J-2 is 1400 km, while the range of our "Avenger" and "Napoleon" fighters is only more than 700 km, do you understand? ”

Marshall's face was pale, he wasn't stupid, of course he understood. If the fleet is within the combat radius of the coalition air force, the coalition air force can also defend the sky above it and even contain the Chinese air force. However, if the fleet withdraws and is out of the combat radius of the coalition fighters, it will have to independently face the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chinese Air Force. In the event of such a situation, how many warships will the Combined Fleet be able to escape? He didn't dare to think about it.

Dannatt gritted his teeth and said: "Although we have lost hundreds of planes, there are still more than 6,000 planes, and it may not be that we have no strength. After a pause, Marshall said, "You can also inform the Combined Fleet to retreat, I know you have a way." But let me tell you, if you do, then the United States will be hated by the whole Western world. Don't forget that we attacked at all costs to rescue the Burmese Front of Ha Fei and almost all the participating countries there. ”

Marshall had a feeling that he was about to vomit blood, knowing that the main body of the combined fleet was the US Atlantic Fleet, and the other warships combined were not as good as half of the US Navy's investment. But the current situation is that their fleet may be in the mouth of a sheep. Of course, he would not dare to order the evacuation of the fleet, for there is no doubt that he will be remembered for thousands of years, and the whole Western world will hate him to the bone and crush him to ashes.

Marshall has no master at the moment, and now he is just a temporarily promoted lieutenant general, not a five-star general in World War II in later history. He said in a bit of a panic: "Then in any case, we must let the fleet understand their situation, or at least be prepared." ”

A hint of disappointment flashed in Dannett's eyes, and he stared at the small sand table in the conference room and said, "I don't object. But I also want to tell them that if they hold on until the evening, they will have a way to live. During the day, I hope that they will strike decisively, defeat the main naval force in the Chittagong area of China, and provide fire support to the Xiafei Front with naval guns, opening a life passage for this million army. ”

In fact, Dannatt really hoped that the United States would let the fleet retreat, so that he could let the British retreat, and the change in the situation had already made him feel a strange crisis, which made him very uneasy. For the British Empire, the world hegemon that has been playing balance for hundreds of years, how much other countries have lost is not in their consideration, and what if the Burmese front does not save it? That added up to less than a full division of the British army.

But if the Chinese have a conspiracy in this battle, then he may not lose one division, but several armies. But the present situation is that the British cannot stop, and even if the British government knows that their two armies here will be completely annihilated, it is absolutely impossible to agree to retreat at this time. But if the Americans retreated privately, then they would have an excuse.

Obviously, the Americans are not stupid either, and Dannatt is really disappointed, disappointed (to be continued...... to be continued)