The continuous rain consumed the water vapor and rain clouds in the area, and then the weather became like a hot sun.

In this subtropics, even the April sun is like a fire, and the temperature can even exceed 40 degrees, and the whole Assam region seems to be a huge oven, like a sauna steam room, and the hot weather makes everyone want to pull off a layer of flat skin.

The scorching sun quickly dried the ground, and the muddy roads quickly became dry and hard.

Li Bufan's face was ugly, and if the roads were dry and hard, and the traffic conditions improved, then the heavy weapons of the coalition forces of the Western powers could quickly reach the front line, and they could even launch an attack quickly. The reason why it was not launched before was because the heavy artillery groups of the Western coalition forces did not reach the front line, but China needed these heavy artillery, and the nearly 1.5 million troops of the Western coalition troops on the Assam side were stretched too long, and the distance was equal to the time given to the other side to react, and it was very likely that the effect of inflicting heavy damage on the enemy would not be achieved.

Li Bufan clearly realized that the situation of forcibly destroying the army with a wave of his hand did not exist in reality, the so-called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel after all, and only Luo Guanzhong, who has not experienced the battle array, will write such idiotic chapters as the "empty city plan" that scares away hundreds of thousands of troops. The war may have been fought by the warriors, but the history was written by the literati, and the civil and military battles in Chinese history, after the Song Dynasty, continued to respect the literature and suppress the generals, and the historical description also took it for granted that the role of strategy was emphasized, but in fact, both sides of the war were not fools.

As the weather cleared, a large number of British "Avenger" fighters and French "Napoleonic fighters" immediately appeared in the sky, and these were the most advanced fighters in the West that Britain and France were forced out by China's advanced planes, and they were advanced fighters developed by Britain and France with the strength of the whole country.

The plain of the Brahmaputra River in Assam is no more than 100 kilometers wide. However, whether China or the West is deploying millions of troops on such a defensive line, you can imagine how dense the army is, and if such a dense deployment of troops, if it is bombed, the losses will be unimaginable.

Naturally, the Chinese Air Force quickly dispatched and launched an air battle over Assam. Although Western aircraft are developed with the strength of the whole country, they cannot cooperate with the clone experts to improve the J-2 Swallow multi-function fighter in all aspects of the base vehicle, and a large number of planes are shot down every day.

"Western planes are already very advanced, their speed is close to 300 kilometers per hour, and they already have a certain ability to fight with our air force fighters." Because of the fierce air fighting in the Assam region, Lee's air force mobilized a large number of fighter jets to concentrate here, and he himself flew to Assam.

The Li Air Force was a little nervous, although the Western planes were still much behind the J-2 Swallow fighters, and their bomb-carrying bombing crews could not carry 100 kilograms of bombs like the Swallow fighters, and they could not even dive almost vertically. However, the industrial capacity of the West is much stronger than that of China, and if their industrial capacity is tapped, they can even produce much more planes in a month than China in a year.

The Western coalition forces make several thousand sorties of warplanes every day, which puts a lot of pressure on the Chinese side, and the planes in the sky cover the sky.

Li Air Force gritted his teeth and said: "We are glad that our radar has been put into use, which can provide us with an early warning range of nearly 100 kilometers, which is equivalent to giving our air force nearly 20 minutes of preparation time, and we can carry out an air ambush interception strike at the exact time and place within these 20 minutes." However, if it is reduced to a war of attrition in Konghong, it will not be a good thing for our country, and almost every time our fighters are on duty, every plane has to deal with several times the number of enemy planes after the other side's reinforcements arrive. ”

Li Bufan said in a deep voice: "I don't want to hear any reason, in short, the air force must entangle the opponent's fighters to ensure the safety of our airspace." ”

Li Songshan said with a wry smile: "If our air force cannot gain an advantage and seize air supremacy in a short period of time, then the weather will be fine, and a large number of artillery groups of the Western coalition army units will soon arrive at the front line." Artillery we are at an absolute disadvantage, and once the war spreads, our army will suffer heavy casualties. ”

Li Bufan pondered for a while, and said to Zhang Xiaozhun: "What does the chief of staff mean?" ”

Zhang Xiaozhun said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, instead of waiting for others to attack us, it is better for us to attack the opponent's heavy weapons before they are in place." ”

Li Bufan's mind thought quickly, and he said for a long time: "I don't care how to fight me, but our predetermined defense line must be firmly in our hands." Since it is to be fought, it is necessary to fight hard enough, so that the battlefield becomes a huge magnet, and the enemy's forces are firmly attracted to the front line. ”

Zhang Xiaozhun hesitated and said: "It is not a problem to attract, but what I am worried about is that if this ghost weather is continuous sunny days, the consequences will be very serious, the opponent's heavy weapons are constantly arriving, if we rely on ground firepower alone, it is impossible for us to gain the upper hand, and we need favorable air support." ”

Li Bufan said in a deep voice: "The air force will try to cooperate as much as possible, first destroy the enemy's artillery fire on the front line, and reduce the pressure on the army." Also, in this place, you don't need to worry about continuous sunny days during the wet season. In short, it is important to ensure that the 'co-work project' runs smoothly. ”

Li Air Force smiled and said, "I think our air force should be able to dispatch and destroy the opponent's airfield in one fell swoop." In addition, our bombers have no problem bombing the front line, not only because the speed of the opponent's fighters is not as fast as our H-1 Thunderbird bombers, but most importantly, our bombers bomb the enemy's front line, and their combat range is completely within the range of our radar monitoring. ”——

"Bomb" dozens of bombers launched wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the positions of the Western coalition forces.

In this damned part of Assam, where there is an abundance of groundwater and a lot of rain, it is impossible to dig a large number of standard defensive trenches. The low-diving trenches were flattened by the explosion of aerial bombs.

Due to the limitations of China's industrial capacity, there are fewer specifications of artillery, bombs, and shells, which are far less diverse than those of the West. The lightest aerial bombs of the Chinese Air Force are all 50 kilograms, and the power of such bombs is even less than that of a 150-mm heavy artillery strike.

As soon as such an aerial bomb is fired, it is a crater the size of a fish pond, destroying a target within a radius of several tens of meters, and it is absolutely impossible to survive the phenomenon of shells and bombs exploding not far from you like a movie, and the so-called explosion in the movie is at best the explosion effect of a grenade and a 60 mortar, or even worse.

In short, the bombing by the Chinese bomber group seemed to the Western coalition forces to be in hell.

Admiral Hagrid and Chief of Staff Marshall saw the bombing scene through the telescope, their mouths were wide open, they were different from Dannatt, Olife and Itagaki Seishiro, they had never seen the destruction of the Chinese bomber group, and they didn't know how powerful it was. However, for Dannatt and others, it seems that the Chinese side is not serious about such a large-scale attack at all.

Admiral Dannat said in a deep voice, "It's fine. The Chinese bomber group did not use 500-kilogram aerial bombs, which I think is only 50-kilogram aerial bombs, which shows that China has no right to attack. ”

Admiral Hagrid looked at Admiral Dannatt incredulously, and in his opinion, such a bombardment was like a swarm strike from dozens of 150 heavy artillery guns, and even more powerful than that. Admiral Hagrid, who participated in and commanded the Battle of the Somme, was definitely not an uninformed person who let the British and French artillery bombard it for seven days and fire millions of shells. However, the results of such a bombing are not the main attack in Dannatt and other high-level officials who have fought with the Chinese side?

Seishiro Itagaki said in a deep voice: "The strength of the Chinese Air Force is unimaginable. They have 500 kilograms of aerial bombs, and the power and lethality of such bombs can even reach nearly 200 meters, in short, there will be no living people within a radius of 100 meters. ”

Marshall gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, then we should send fighters to kill the Chinese bombers." ”

Admiral Hagrid said in a deep voice: "The fighter has been ordered to take off. After a pause, he said to Marshall, "Connect the airfield and ask them, why haven't our fighters come yet?" He had been looking through the lookout at the airspace in the distance, on which Chinese bomber groups were circling, and the explosion of anti-aircraft artillery shells that kept firing at the sky was like a continuous fireworks, gorgeous and poignant.

Suddenly, he saw the Chinese bomber group quickly turn around and return, and Admiral Hagrid was stunned by this change.

Marshall came over at this time and said: "The airport has called back, our fighter group has taken off, and I think it will soon be over the front-line position." ”

Admiral Hagrid kicked hard against the wall of the observation window of the headquarters and said angrily: "But the Chinese have already left." Sure enough, he soon saw hundreds of British "Avenger" fighters and French "Napoleon" fighters appear above the front line, just when he thought it was futile, suddenly from the clouds in the sky a silver-gray light, hundreds of Chinese J-2 Swallow fighters from the high altitude almost vertical high-speed dive, with the telescope he can even see hundreds of jets of flame, on the spot there are more than ten British and French fighters with smoke crashed or exploded in the air.

In an instant, the British and French fighters were like frightened birds scurrying in the sky, and under the hunting of the Chinese fighters, one after another fell, although they also saw the Chinese fighters being shot down, but in just ten minutes of air combat, the size of the Chinese air force did not seem to have decreased much, while the British and French air forces only a few dozen swooped to a low altitude to escape.

Admiral Hagrid, Chief of Staff Marshall, Dannatt, Olive, and Seishiro Itagaki all stared blankly at the sky, their faces as earthy as they were, and they were speechless for a long time. (To be continued.) )