At the airports that China is rushing to repair in East Bengal, and even on some relatively smooth roads, planes are constantly taking to the air.

In this era, airplanes are light in weight, have very low take-off requirements, and can be forcibly taken off as long as they are relatively flat and open ground.

Due to the destruction of the "Gonggong Plan", not to mention the airport in Assam, even the road was destroyed, and although an airfield was forcibly repaired in Guwahati, it was at most only able to support the take-off of more than 100 planes, which was really insignificant compared to the large-scale air battle that was about to be launched.

Chinese fighters mainly took off from temporary airfields in East Bengal and airfields in southern Burma, and they were the main force against the enemy's air force.

In the command room of Guwahati Airport, the sound of telephone calls is constantly heard.

"'Sky Eye' found that the enemy plane took off, azimuth 323.45"

"'Sky Eye' spotted enemy aircraft taking off, azimuth 318.112"

A sneer appeared at the corner of Li Air Force's mouth, and he kept listening to the coordinates and locations of the enemy's airfield transmitted back by the front-line radar, looked at the stack of materials in front of him, and immediately gambled on the staff officer: "Convey the documents to the various attack teams, and their task is to destroy the enemy's nest." ”

The staff officer hesitated and said, "Commander, a super-large-scale air battle is about to break out over Bangladesh, don't the planes at the airport go to support?" ”

Li Air Force sneered: "I think that in order to suppress China's industrial capacity, the great powers came to a 'bottom of the kettle' for the talents we introduced. We're going to give them a draw today. Airplanes have a range and can carry a limited amount of fuel. It's like a tired bird returning home. But when they find out that the nest is gone, what will happen to that? ”

The staff officer was stunned for a moment, and quickly opened his mouth wide. He seemed to see that after the air battle, when countless enemy planes that were about to run out of fuel flew back to the take-off airport, they suddenly found that the airfield was damaged and could not land, and thousands of planes were forced to force a forced landing. As a staff officer of the Air Force, he understands very well that a forced landing is not so easy to do, especially since Western planes are not as strong and perverted as the Chinese J-2 at all, and he is only afraid of a forced landing. Most of the enemy's planes were destroyed and killed.

The staff officer thought for a moment. I was happy in my heart, but then I thought of the Bangladesh battlefield, and I couldn't help but say: "Commander, but we can do this." Then the pressure on our Air Force in the air battle in Bangladesh will be even greater. ”

Li Air Force sneered: "Who said that you want to fight to the death with them? Our aircraft manufacturing capabilities lag far behind the West. Overall. It's not good for us. The purpose of our air force's sortie is to engage and entangle with the enemy, consume the enemy's planes' fuel, and force the enemy to run out of fuel and return home. Don't forget. Our J-2 Swallow has almost twice the range of the enemy, and we can even have the air force follow the enemy's evacuated fighters, wait for them to make a forced landing, and launch an attack on the enemy aircraft that have successfully landed on the ground, destroying them all on the ground. ”

If enemy planes return to airfields, a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower will generally be deployed at airfields, and a certain amount of losses will be suffered by storming airfields, and if enemy planes quickly replenish fuel, they may even take to the air for combat. However, if the enemy plane is forced to land in the field, it is impossible for the enemy's antiaircraft antiaircraft weapons to be deployed all over the mountains, and for this reason, even if the enemy plane makes a successful forced landing, it will be tantamount to a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and it will simply have no power to fight back.

China's military has always been constrained by the capacity of its military industry, so it avoids entanglement in every battle, either by winning quickly or by avoiding losses as much as possible. As far as the strength of the air force is concerned, China's air force is completely capable of forcibly defeating the rapidly assembled enemy planes during this period, even if the number of enemy planes is more than twice as large, but such a hard fight will also cause a large number of losses to the Chinese planes, which is not conducive to long-term combat planning.

The Western coalition forces, mainly Britain, France, and the United States, can build five or six thousand planes a month, while China can only produce two or three hundred planes, a gap of almost 20 times. With such a huge gap, the results of hard work can be imagined.

Didn't Li Bufan and Li Air Force want to defeat the enemy's air force and declare the Chinese Air Force invincible with a dignified and tragic air battle? Yes, of course. But no.

An ordinary general may think of a bloody battle, and they have the determination and courage to throw their heads and spill their blood. However, for the top leaders and even leaders of a country, they cannot but consider the overall strength of the country, and they have to consider not the victory of a battle, but the entire war.

If China were to fight desperately at this time, it might have fought a mighty battle and won a victory, but the huge attrition could lead to the final defeat of the war. People are at different levels, with different focuses and completely different ways of dealing with problems.

The war is not at all as bloody as imagined, but cold and full of deceit, and both sides are almost unscrupulous to achieve the end.

The document was quickly sent to the various Air Force combat groups, each consisting of two J-2 fighters and four H-1 Thunderbird bombers due to the limited capacity of the airfield. The role of fighters is mainly to escort escorts, and bombers are to strike and destroy enemy airfields.

Li Air Force waited calmly.

However, the staff officer seemed restless, and after a long time, he finally couldn't help but say: "Commander, are all units ready for battle?" Why not attack yet? ”

Li Air Force said lightly: "Wait for news." ”

The staff officer was surprised: "Waiting for news? What news are you waiting for? ”

Li Air Force said: "Wait for the news of the air battle over Bangladesh." Only the main forces of our air force and the main forces of the enemy's air force engaged in a fierce battle over the Bay of Bengal, and at this time, the enemy planes wanted to retreat and would have to face the pursuit of the main forces of our air force. Our planes are faster than theirs, have twice as long range, and they can't run in the first place. If they know that the airfield has been destroyed and flee, they will face a chase from our air force, or even an aerial 'massacre'. ”

Li Bufan, Li Air Force, and others who are desperately trying to completely annihilate the enemy's air force will certainly not give the other side a chance to escape. If they attack ahead of schedule, the enemy's air force will learn that the enemy planes will withdraw backwards before they have even arrived at the battlefield, and when they have sufficient fuel, they may choose to land at a farther airfield or on a good road to minimize the losses of the air force. Of course, Li Bufan will not let this happen, you must know that many of the pilots who entered the battle in the early days of the enemy are proud of the air force who have experienced world wars, and even if they are not, they are also good fighters who have undergone long-term training. As long as these planes and pilots are killed, then even if the West can produce a large number of fighters industrially, the vast majority of their flying fish will be rookies in the future, and these rookies will face the slaughter of the Chinese Air Force when the aircraft's speed, flexibility, range and other aspects are inferior to China's.

A telegram came.

After Li Air Force saw it, his face changed, and he immediately shouted: "Battle alert." ”

The staff officer said in surprise: "The air battle in Bangladesh has begun?" ”

Li Air Force said with an ugly face: "No, it is hundreds of enemy planes that have gone straight to our Guwahati airfield. ”

"Huh!?" The staff officer's face changed drastically, and he immediately said: "Commander, then our fighter plane should take off urgently to meet the enemy." ”

Li Air Force snorted coldly and said, "Meet the enemy." All units act according to the plan and there must be no mistakes. ”

The staff officer hurriedly said: "But what about our airport?" ”

Li Air Force sneered: "Will it be destroyed?" It's just an empty airstrip, and I won't feel bad if I blow up a hundred of them. "Wars are always full of accidents, and you may be able to lay countless traps, but the enemy may not always walk into your traps. What does it matter if this airfield was destroyed, it was repaired temporarily, and it was extremely rudimentary, and the range of the Chinese plane, after completing the mission, could fly to the East Bengal airport or even further away to the Dibrugarh airport and land.

A poignant battle alarm resounded over the entire airfield.

Soon, one plane after another quickly took off under command.

Watching the plane take off into the air, Li Air Force said to the staff officer: "Except for the air defense personnel, everyone else should evacuate the airport immediately." ”

"Yes!" As a staff officer of the Air Force, due to the rapid expansion of the army, he may not be an excellent pilot himself and was chosen to take on this position, but after all, after so long, he also understands that the Air Force is not only important for pilots, but also for ground crew, and without the overhaul and maintenance of ground crew, the safety of the aircraft will not be guaranteed.

And at this moment, the fighting on the Western Front in East Bengal has entered a white heat.

The British launched an attack at three o'clock in the morning, although they found that the Chinese had artillery, but the opponent's artillery was really small, and finally moved the artillery forward, and the real British main force also crossed the Brahmaputra River and gradually entered the battle.

Zhu Guangming was promoted to the commander of the second battalion, and there were thousands of corpses of the enemy's colonial legion in front of his position, and the real blood flowed like a river, you must know that after the battle of the second line of defense, his battalion was only less than 300 people (one battalion and four companies), and on average, each person almost killed more than ten enemies.

However, after the British army entered the battle, the casualties of his troops skyrocketed, and the British troops continued to set up machine-gun fire points several hundred meters away to suppress the fire on the position.

"Mortars, mortars to take out enemy machine guns." Zhu Guangming yelled.

"All of them." Mortars fired continuously.

Zhu Guangming was so angry that he didn't hit more than a dozen shots, but he killed a lot of British and colonial legionnaires on the side, and he was about to jump up and scold his mother, just when he saw that the enemy machine gun fire point was blown away with a single shot, and the enemy machine gun exploded into parts.

The mortar process is simple, easy to operate, easy to learn and difficult to master. If you want to hit accurately, you need not only calculation, but also experience, and sharpshooters can be everywhere.

Seeing that the enemy colonial legions began another round of assault, he shouted: "Machine gun fire suppression." ”

"Battalion commander, the machine gun can't fire anymore."

Zhu Guangming said angrily: "How is it possible? We have a lot of ammunition. ”

"Then I have to put on the chain."

Zhu Guangming looked at the boxes of ammunition and empty bullet chains everywhere in the rear hatefully, his heart was full of bitterness, after several hours of fighting, the machine gun almost never stopped, and the barrel was changed I don't know how many times, but who would have thought that the other party would fill it with human lives?

"Everybody's ready for a white-knuckle fight." (To be continued......)