Chapter 546: Air Support

For the Japanese, as long as he is subdued, he will be a very loyal thug, in fact, the Japanese have the potential to be a thug, this point, Zhang Xiaozhun can be regarded as seeing it in these days, so he is not stingy with these Japanese thugs, as long as the military supplies, weapons, ammunition and military expenses brought from Tsarist Russia and the British are all distributed without leaving any spare, and the hearts of those Japanese thugs are touched, beyond words.

Since the German attack on Kiev, the battle has been raging for ten days, and in the past ten days, the German army has launched several attacks every day, sometimes even a dozen times, and not only the German army itself has suffered heavy casualties, but even the Japanese troops defending in Vissneve have suffered heavy losses.

In terms of casualties, Zhang Xiaozhun has sent people to make statistics, on the whole, the casualty ratio between the German army and these Japanese thugs is basically maintained at about 1:2, and these Japanese thugs are still the strongest combat effectiveness of the second army, if it is replaced by the army of other vassal states, I am afraid that this casualty ratio will increase exponentially, or directly unable to withstand the strong offensive of the German army and rout.

Zhang Xiaozhun can not care about the soldier's plain zhì, anyway, the number is here, if he can't win, he will take human life to pile up, he can also not care about the soldier's individual weapon lags behind the German army, in fact, the Japanese army's Type 38 rifle is not much worse than the Mauser rifle used by the German army at this time, he can also tolerate the number and power of his own artillery is not as good as the German army, but he can't tolerate air supremacy being controlled by the German army, and the consequences of air supremacy being taken away by the enemy are too strict. The artillery units of the Second Army Corps were bombarded on a daily basis, although the air defense forces also had some successes. But the Luftwaffe didn't care at all about such a little loss, for Zhang Xiaozhun. The top priority at the moment is to regain air supremacy as much as possible, and it is necessary to connect with the country. Let the country send air force units to suppress the German air force, otherwise this war will not be fought, although the Tsarist Russia also has some air force, but Tsarist Russia can not even guarantee its own air supremacy, where is the surplus fighters to guard the air supremacy for the Second Army?

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Huaguo, Beijing.

The weather was very hot, and after dinner that day, Xiao Zhenlei was strolling in the yard with his son in his arms, and Cheng Baguio followed him to talk about some trivial things, and complained that it was too hot from time to time. His son has prickly heat or something, Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said: "In this case, you discuss it with Yanan, and in two days you will take the children to Chengde for summer vacation, now there are a lot of things at home and abroad, and I am too busy to take care of you, you should take a break when you go over there to escape the summer, and I can also deal with some things wholeheartedly!" ”

Cheng Biyao heard this: "I have no problem, but I don't know if Sister Yanan wants to go." Well, I'll ask her when I get back! ”

"Hmm!"

The couple walked along the river, and there were security guards dozens of meters before and after. At this moment, a voice sounded from behind: "Great President." It's me! ”

Xiao Zhenlei stopped holding the child, turned to look at the visitor, and it turned out to be Chen Xunen, deputy director of the president's chamberlain, who walked over quickly. So he asked, "It's Hikoji!" Is there something wrong? ”

Chen Xunen stood still and said, "Yes, the president." The Chief of General Staff Chiang asked to see him, saying that there was something very important! ”

Seeing this, Cheng Biyao hurriedly said, "Then let's go back." Don't keep Chief of General Staff Chiang waiting."

Xiao Zhenlei sighed: "Hey, there's no time to relax, okay, go back!" ”

When a few people came back, Jiang Fangzhen was talking to Wang Yanan, and when he saw Xiao Zhenlei and the others coming back, he immediately stood up and said, "President!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei handed the child to Cheng Biyao, signaled to Jiang Fangzhen, and the two came to the study one after the other, and after sitting down, Xiao Zhenlei threw over a cigarette and asked, "What's so urgent?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "The matter of the Second Legion."

"Oh, tell me more".

Jiang Fangzhen pondered and said: "Since the Second Army Corps and the German army began to fight, our army has fought quite well, under the command of Zhang Xiaozhun, our Second Army focused on the defense of Kiev, the German 11th Army began to attack the first line of defense of Visnewe ten days ago, Wang Zhanyuan's Japanese Corps is responsible for the defense there, until now, the first line of defense is still firmly in our hands, but the losses of the Japanese Corps are quite large, according to the statistics of the front, the casualty ratio of the German army and the Japanese Corps is about 1:2."

Xiao Zhenlei frowned when he heard this: "The German army is the attacker, and our army is on the defensive, the casualty ratio is still 1:2, the combat effectiveness of the German army is really not to be underestimated!" ”

"yes!" Jiang Fangzhen nodded, and said: "On the one hand, the German army is a single soldier who is strong and tactically skilled and properly used, on the other hand, because the German artillery fire is too fierce, and although our army later transferred a large number of artillery to strengthen artillery support, the German army transferred the air force to bombard our artillery positions from time to time, and our army's artillery losses are relatively large, and now our army basically has no air supremacy in Eastern Europe, and the air force of Tsarist Russia can't even take care of itself, of course, it is impossible to take care of our army, Didn't Zhang Xiaozhun send a telegram just now, saying that if the air force was not transferred to contain the high-altitude bombing of the German army, this battle would not be able to be fought, and the casualties caused by the Luftwaffe to my Second Army Corps were too great, if it was our national defense force, it would be nothing, but it was the Japanese corps that was defending, which caused a lot of psychological pressure on those Japanese soldiers, so I came over to ask the president, is it to send the air force to support? ”

Xiao Zhenlei pondered for a moment and asked, "Is the Air Force prepared?" You must know that 300 warplanes have just been dispatched to the Middle East, and if the air force is to be transferred to Eastern Europe again, will the domestic air defense of Southeast Asia, Siberia, and the DPRK be able to take into account the domestic air defense, and will there be any problem in suppressing Japan? ”

Jiang Fangzhen was obviously prepared, "Before coming, I had already communicated with Air Force Commander Ma Hanlong, and he said that he could transfer up to 2,000 fighters out without any pressure, and it should be no problem to keep 1,000 fighters in China to defend the airspace and deal with sudden situations, but because we need to complete the order of 2,000 first-generation fighters issued by various countries, we cannot add new fighters within a year."

Xiao Zhenlei pondered whether it was necessary to transfer fighters to Eastern Europe, if the fighters were transferred over, and the number was enough, Zhang Xiaozhun's life would be much better, and his own casualties would be much less, if he commanded properly, not only would the defense be more than enough, but also the counterattack could be counterattacked, if the fighters were not transferred over, the life of the Second Army would be very sad. In the future, the German army will always press the Second Army Corps to fight, after all, the air supremacy is in the hands of the German army, and the German army can fight if it wants to, withdraw if it wants, and it is almost free to come and go.

It seems that it is not possible not to transfer fighters in the past, but it is still necessary to transfer fighters in the past, but the number of fighters allocated must be carefully considered, if the number of transfers is enough, although it can help the Second Army a lot, but in this way it will attract the attention of the German army, if the German army feels that there is a huge threat on the Eastern Front, then the German army is likely to focus on the Eastern Front battlefield, and let go of the United Kingdom, which is now in the respite stage, this is not what Xiao Zhenlei wants to see, Xiao Zhenlei wants Britain to bear most of the pressure on the German army, and at present, Britain is also responsible for almost most of the German attacks, especially the air force and navy, if China now transfers a large number of fighters to the Eastern European battlefield, then it will inevitably attract Germany's air force. Therefore, the number of air force fighters transferred cannot completely suppress the German army in terms of the number of air forces in the Eastern European theater and the overall combat effectiveness, and they must appear slightly weaker, and they can contain the German air force in Eastern Europe, and they cannot be allowed to bomb the Second Army completely unscrupulously.

Under this principle, Xiao Zhenlei said: "I agree to transfer fighters to the past, but the transferred fighters cannot be the third-generation fighters used by our current air force, and the first-generation fighters must be transferred to the past, and the overall combat effectiveness of the fighters transferred in the past cannot be stronger than the German air force in Eastern Europe now, so as not to attract the attention of the German army from the British to ourselves, this is not cost-effective, how many fighters do you think need to be transferred to the past?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen was surprised: "Transfer the first generation fighter to the past? We don't need the first generation fighters now, the remaining 300 first-generation fighters were all sold to the British, and now the major aircraft factories are producing the first generation fighters, but this is all for the production of countries, we need to complete the orders of various countries, this is a time limit, of course we can use these fighters first, but if we can't deliver on time when the deadline comes, then we have to pay huge compensation! ”

"So?" Xiao Zhenlei patted his head, he forgot about it, and after weighing it, he said: "Then what if the second-generation fighter is transferred over?" How many are suitable? ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "According to the information from our intelligence officers, the German air force near Kyiv now has about 100 first-generation fighters, mainly used to deal with our second army, if we transfer second-generation fighters to the past, I should have 60 in detail, of course, the German army cannot always have so many fighters, they will definitely increase gradually, if so, we must also gradually increase to ensure that we use enough air force to contain the Germans, and when the time is ripe, We will allocate a large number of air forces to destroy the German air force in one fell swoop and gain air supremacy! ”

Xiao Zhenlei listened to Jiang Baili's analysis, and immediately made a decision: "Okay, just do as you say, first transfer 60 second-generation aircraft over, logistics must be guaranteed, the airport's air defense facilities and early warning facilities must be built and perfected, if you want to evacuate after the war, some key things must be demolished, so as not to fund the enemy!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen stood up and said: "Understood! (To be continued......)