The outcome of the air battle, to a considerable extent, will affect the course of the battle.

And this situation is even more prominent for multi-directional coordinated operations.

This situation, in a more subjective way, is called "air supremacy".

It's not that Zhang Shixin doesn't know the importance of air supremacy, but in most of the previous battles, first, there is no need for this, and second, there is no ability for him to make a choice.

And here, in the sky above the town, about 20 kilometers east of Madrid, Zhang Shixin quickly tried the pleasure of holding air supremacy tightly in his hands again.

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Although the I-16 is the leader of the first generation of monoplane propeller fighters, in terms of performance, it is far from being the opponent of the BF-109S, although the latter's maneuverability has been weakened a little in disguise, but the I-16, which has a speed of only about 300 kilometers per hour, is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of speed and maneuvering and steering performance.

The factor of weapons and equipment, the gap is not much, the rocket attack of the BF-109S group, the hit rate is quite low, because of the distance factor, for the enemy's attack group, the threat is not too great, except for a few unlucky aircraft, the other groups quickly dispersed, and the BF-109S has flown to the close range of combat combat.

For a while, dozens of black dots were flying in the sky chasing each other, and tracer bullets pierced the sky from time to time.

Zhang Shixin constantly understood the situation of air combat in the real-time report of the BF-109HS at higher altitudes.

The battle was not one-sided, but because the performance gap between the fighters of the two sides was too large, even if an I-16 was a pilot who found an opportunity to carry out a rear-end attack, it was soon quickly rear-ended by the pilot of the summoner who used irregular maneuvering to quickly get rid of the rear-end of the I-16, and then after a somersault in the air, the I-16 that could not react at all was counter-rear-ended.

It can be said that this air battle reflects the importance of fighter performance to air combat, and is no less than the flight technology gap between pilots.

In fact, the air combat ability of the pilots on both sides, Zhang Shixin's summons are better than the pilots of the international column on the whole, but what Zhang Shixin lacks is a real ace pilot, and several I-16 pilots, including Moniv, are all ace pilots in active duty in the Soviet Union.

Of course, this ace pilot does not refer to the number of shot down, but to the level of flight combat technology.

Monif and a few others were able to maintain the balance of battle in a short period of time, but as the combat losses of the I-16 continued to increase, Moniv and several others were quite horrified to find that their allies were getting fewer and fewer, and their planes were constantly increasing this kind of performance that made them quite envious, and now it was the plane that was mostly afraid.

Why this happens, they all know very well that it is their partner who has been *lost.

"Captain, retreat!! If this continues, we will all have to die in this place!! Another of Monif's wingman pilots uttered this phrase over the communicator.

In fact, not only this pilot, but also the escort fighter formation of the attack group had lost more than two-thirds of the I-16 in less than fifteen minutes, and Monif, who guessed the probability, thought quickly, but, at this time, he was horrified to see the pilot who spoke, and above the I-16 he was driving, there was exactly a BF-109S rushing down diagonally above the opponent, A series of 12.7mm tracer bullets quickly swept above the fuselage of the I-16, sending out two rows of uneven bullet holes.

"I was hit !!"

At the same time as the communicator sounded these words, Monif also saw the location of the fuel tank of the I-16 and suddenly exploded.

"How could it be like this again???" Moniff roared in disbelief, and then, he glanced at the I-16 that had exploded in the air, the wreckage scattered and landed, and gritted his teeth: "Withdraw!" There's no way to fight it!! ”

However, at this time, Zhang Shixin would not let the other party leave easily.

As for the group of bombers and ground attack planes, Zhang Shixin was quite speechless for their early misfortune and quickly left, without even dropping a few bombs. Well...... Of course, the other party did this, which made Zhang Shixin relatively worry-free.

Zhang Shixin's BF-109S formation once again pursued the I-16 formation of the international column.

The important thing is that the coalition formed by the Spanish Republic, which has lost air supremacy, and the international column will be directly under the multidimensional attack of Zhang Shixin's artillery unit and bomber formation.

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As for why Zhang Shixin didn't care about those troops just now, in fact, Zhang Shixin was worried that once the artillery unit opened fire, God knows if there would be a stunned I-16 pilot who broke through Zhang Shixin's BF-109S air defense line, and then saw something he shouldn't see, causing trouble for Zhang Shixin.

The above reasons are of course quite important, but Zhang Shixin's other reason is to consciously put the enemy troops into a closer distance, and then make the attack of the artillery unit more accurate.

The drop circle is a correction that helps with the hit rate, but you can't expect a gun to hit the enemy accurately from God's perspective of about six kilometers, it's a matter of complete luck.

The drop point circle only lets the gunner know where the shell will probably hit, not the gunner's plug-in...... Well, this is indeed a plug-in. But what about the effect...... See what you think.

Zhang Shixin's artillery unit, except for those "Bishop" self-propelled mortars that can really be used as assault guns, the range of other howitzers is more than 10 kilometers, which means that the vast majority of coalition troops who have entered the effective range of artillery are difficult to effectively dodge shelling in this relatively flat terrain.

After the first wave of shelling, the coalition troops, located between six and five kilometers away, quickly filled with craters and enemy casualties as a result of the shelling.

At this time, there was a slight confusion in the enemy's team, but for the overall formation, such a blow did not seem to be enough to make the opponent change the existing mode of action.

However, Zhang Shixin's summoner artillery unit, in addition to being within the effective range of the Eagle Eye and the relatively high hit rate, the rate of fire of the artillery was already in a very terrifying data.

In less than three minutes, the enemy's already chaotic formation, the road or the ground, was blown to the surface of the moon.

A considerable number of enemies who are still alive can only risk being killed by burning vehicles that may be killed, and hide behind these abandoned vehicles or armored units as much as possible.

Because here, it's a little safer than in an open area. At the very least, it is unlikely that a high-explosive grenade with a caliber of more than 122mm will be blown up directly without a whole body......

And at this time, a member of the international column hiding behind a T-35 multi-turret tank that had been blown up by a high-explosive grenade directly into the main turret, and did not know that it was a member of the international column, saw that more than fifty bombers were constantly descending in altitude.

"Oh my God! What is our air fleet doing? ”

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What he didn't know was that the remnants of the I-16 group were the lucky ones who were able to return to the Madrid military airport because the I-16 flight formation was able to return to Madrid, and the others were either killed directly in the air battle, or because the injuries were too serious, the pilots could not fly the planes back to the Madrid military airport, so they had to parachute to escape.

For such an air battle result, Zhang Shixin is still quite satisfied, 40mm rockets, at this time, as long as it is not the other party's super luck, even if it is Junkers Ju-52, this transport aircraft known for its sturdiness and reliability, I am afraid it will not be able to withstand a few rockets. If a critical part is hit, for example, a rocket explodes directly into the cockpit, or breaks the wing, then the Junkers Ju-52 may also be directly killed.

The wounded I-16s were lucky because they dodged the last wave of rockets from Zhang Shixin's BF-109S, and Monif, as the commander, could even see a rocket flying just above his cockpit, flying forward with a tail flame.

As for the ground attack formations of the attack aircraft group, in addition to playing soy sauce, they made some contributions in order to waste the fuel reserves of the Spanish Republic.

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The soldiers of the international column, who were amazed, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw those planes flying directly over their heads, but he didn't know that his name was on the list of death's harvests.

A gunner of an M12 targeted a T-28 multi-turret tank that had been blown off its tracks and paralyzed on the ground.

After waiting for the shells to be loaded, the gunner quickly adjusted the Hawkeye perspective and then targeted the T-28 in the center of the attack.

Soon, a 155mm high-explosive grenade quickly came out of its disembrehance.

But after nearly 20 seconds of flight, while locking the target to another crater where more than a dozen soldiers were marked, the gunner subconsciously saw that the shell did not hit the target, but hit the car more than 30 meters behind, which had been blown up to the back of the T-35 chassis.

The gunner of the "......" was speechless, and he had to retarget the T-28.

However, what this gunner did not know was that that one shell, which officially sent a person who had lost the will to fight, to hell.

If Zhang Shixin knew about this situation, he recalled a joke he heard when he was playing.

"If you don't fight with SPG, why are you hitting me?" A certain IS-4 player, who had a second of fire, angrily shouted and cursed in the public channel.

The T92 player was silent for a moment, and during the reload time, replied: "I want to hit that GWE too, but you can only be considered unlucky because the cannonball is deflected on your top cover." ”

IS-4 player: "......"

This is the most realistic portrayal of the SPG gunner in reality and games.

Because they can only shoot the shells, as for where the shells will fall...... Only God knows.

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The target of the bomber group was not the enemy forces that were in the effective range of the Hawkeye, but the enemy units further behind the artillery units that could only rely on coordinates for blind fire.

In fact, in just a few minutes, this group of Spanish Republican Army and the International Column Coalition Army that attacked had been forcibly divided into two parts, the former and the rear, because of Zhang Shixin's fierce artillery bombardment.

The main force behind them, they were also greatly defeated by the artillery force brought by Zhang Shixin's artillery unit, and the will to fight was greatly defeated.

The commander of the Spanish Republican Army, even more abandoning his allies, gave orders to his subordinates to retreat.

When a group of bombers descended on the targets to be hit, most of these targets were members of the international column.

When the 125kg small aerial bomb fell like raindrops, it was already doomed to the enemy in this area, and the difference between luck led to the appearance of a moment of life and death.

Luckily, there are times when a fragment grabs a person's face and cuts through the neck artery of a person in the back, something like that really happens.

Bad luck, the person who was cut in the neck artery was not the most sampled person, but someone who was directly killed by an aerial bomb. Because the former is still a whole corpse, but was directly killed by an aerial bomb, then, for the sake of the system, must be a high-quality reason, this bomb will not have a dumb fire, 125kg of aerial bomb, the charge is about 80kg, under such an explosion power, this dead person, even a complete corpse, it is difficult to find.

At an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, the BF-109HS, the co-pilot and intelligence officer, who was responsible for dispatching intelligence, saw a large number of hostile marking points on the tactical map, constantly disappearing from east to west, a distance.

Although there are a small number of fish that have slipped through the net, this small omission is completely acceptable to anyone as a result of the overall bombing effect.

At this time, the Ju-87S also began dive bombing, and the targets of these pilots were not those who were left behind, but more valuable targets.

For example, vehicles or enemies that gather together.

The effect of dive bombing, because the bombing altitude is relatively low, and the accuracy of hitting is relatively much better than that of the Ju-190S medium bombers, which carry out horizontal bombing at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters.

However, this is not inevitable, because sometimes, pilots due to various factors and luck cause the bomb to be dropped relatively far away from the target, and such things also happen.

And in terms of overall results, the results of the bomber formation were much worse than those of the artillery units with the Hawkeye bug. However, the heavy bombing of the bomber group became the "last straw that broke the camel's back."

Because a few minutes later, Zhang Shixin received information that it was the enemy this time, and he actually retreated on all fronts.

Zhang Shixin was speechless and jumped off the M6 heavy tank as a car, then looked at the armored troops that were ready to go, and was silent for a while before he burst out with a sentence: "For Mao, the enemies of this world are so unbeatable?" This is the warm-up, the main drama has not been staged. And just ran away??? ”

And in Zhang Shixin's mind, there was a spit out of Sinia: "You are embarrassed to say that when you encounter such a blow, you will be blown up before you touch your ground troops, and normal commanders will not fight you to the death, you are an idiot when you are a person in this world." ”

After Zhang Shixin heard this, he subconsciously thought about it, and then could only reluctantly admit that Sinya's words were very correct.

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Although, this battle is not even a warm-up for Zhang Shixin, because according to his calculations, he may have to pay a considerable price to be able to win.

In contrast to the almost harvesting massacre, Zhang Shixin did not know that this battle had caused an irreparable rift between the Spanish Republican Army and the international column.

Because the commander of the Spanish Republican Army did not even tell the friendly forces about the retreat, the losses of the international column in this battle were very heavy.

Excluding the battle damage of the air force, the ground forces of the international column, according to statistics, suffered far three times or more casualties than the Spanish Republican Army.

Zhang Shixin didn't think of this situation, and even if he did, he felt that the commander of the Spanish Republican Army was quite unkind.

After all, in World War II, it was also common to sell teammates, especially the first batch of expeditionary troops who were cheated by the British in Burma and couldn't take care of themselves, more than half of them were lost, and even Du Yuming, the most senior officer, almost died in Savage Mountain, is a typical example of being sold the most thoroughly.

If it weren't for the fact that a certain bald head also estimated the situation in many aspects, it is estimated that he directly ordered a declaration of war with the British.

In fact, in terms of quality and will to fight, the combat effectiveness of the first expeditionary force is much better than that of the second expeditionary force......

If Zhang Shixin was cheated like this, Zhang Shixin didn't say a word, and directly after leaving the battlefield, he looked for an opportunity to fight with the other party directly.

(That said, but here, pay homage to the heroic souls of Burma and the Savage Mountains.) They did not tarnish their military honor. They didn't deserve to die, but their efforts allowed China at that time to get more assistance and objectively improve many problems. It's just that the price is really too great. ）

In contrast to this situation, a considerable number of members of the international column who had laid down their arms appeared in the town where Zhang Shixin was stationed.

Among them, Zhang Shixin was stunned to see a respectable person.

He was Bethune.

Zhang Shixin was stunned that Bethune was constantly directing other lightly injured people for those wounded and assisting him in simple surgery.

Although Zhang Shixin did not order his subordinates to attack these scattered members of the international column, he basically did not provide much help.

He walked into the house and saw that many people were moaning incessantly, and he also saw Bethune's helpless expression, which could only be said to the pain of the wounded.

Zhang Shixin was silent for a moment, and then asked a summoner to carry some military drugs to this house, and then left.

As a hostile enemy, Zhang Shixin should not have needed to do this, and even if he ordered the execution of these wounded, it would not be a big deal.

However, at noon the next day, Zhang Shixin and Bethune communicated by chance.

This exchange changed Bethune's life. At least, in this world, that's the case.

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"Yesterday, thank you quite much for the medicine, without those things, many people would have died of pain." Bethune looked at Zhang Shixin with a complicated expression, and then expressed his gratitude to Zhang Shixin.

"Because, you are a respectable person, these things, some of my hearts." Zhang Shixin shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and then continued: "Since you are here, I will not let you return to Madrid easily, I have some things I hope you can help with." ”

Bethune shook his head and stared at Zhang Shixin for a while before he said, "Are you sure I'll help?" ”

"You will, because you will be a teacher, you will be a teacher, you will teach a lot of people, you are familiar with the medical treatment, and then these people will live more people. Because, dozens, hundreds, of doctors have done a lot more than you alone. Zhang Shixin showed a hint of a smile.

"Well, you convinced me, then...... Where do you need me to go? After thinking about Zhang Shixin's words, Bethune then agreed to Zhang Shixin's request.

"Australia...... There, you'll become a professor of medicine. Of course, you can also call some friends you can trust. Of course, there are some thoughts, and I don't want them to affect the people inside. ”

Zhang Shixin said this and stretched out his hand......

Bethune was silent for a moment, and finally, after half a minute, the two hands were clasped tightly together. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe (this site), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )