On 1 February, Li Guang received news that the Germans had not been able to continue the offensive under the city of Moscow, and ended the battle of Moscow, which lasted for several months, with a rout. It is said that the reason is that the logistics of the German army cannot keep up. However, this brutal tug-of-war is even bloodier than the Battle of Moscow that once took place in the history of another time and space. Although the Soviets won, the city of Moscow was badly damaged, and the Soviets paid more lives.

After this battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and it is estimated that both Germany and the Soviet Union will need to gather strength, and it is not known when the next major battle will begin.

And on the battlefield in North Africa, the German tanks led by Rommel were almost invincible. The situation on the battlefield was completely reversed from last year, when the British army, led by Verville, defeated hundreds of thousands of Italian troops by tens of thousands of British troops. Now the German army is less than 100,000, but the Allies are losing hundreds of thousands. One of the more conspicuous episodes is the German No. 4 tank, which is equipped with a long barrel, which beats all the tanks equipped by the British army.

In the Andaman Sea, the fighting of the naval resistance army did not stop for a day. Although it was difficult for the Japanese air force to pose a threat to the Liberty Dragon, it was inevitable that the two sides would encounter each other on the battlefield.

On 6 February, the weather was clear. An Australian unit, the strength of a division, was chased by a Japanese brigade and had no way to go to the ground, so it had to urgently seek help from the Naval Resistance Army.

Tu Yuanchao led 12 P40 and 12 dive bombers to take off for reinforcements immediately, and arrived over the battlefield at about 9 o'clock in the morning.

After a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment, several Japanese Type 95 light tanks were completely blown up, and the Japanese army had no choice but to retreat to a dense forest.

The Australian army finally had a respite and formed a makeshift defensive line. After Tu Yuanchao dropped the bomb, he found that he could not form an effective blow to the Japanese army in the woods that covered the sky and the sun. So a message was sent to the Liberty Dragon, asking that in the next air raid, it would be better for the fighter to carry napalm. Then the fighter began to return home.

This would have been the last few days. What the pilots on the Liberty Dragon used to do. Fighters were used almost every day to support the ground operations of the British or Australian troops, but the aircraft group did not encounter the Japanese fighters in dozens of sorties.

On the way back, Tu Yuanchao did not expect to encounter the Japanese army at all, he just followed the escort tactics formulated by the Naval Resistance Army, nine fighters opened the way in front, twelve bombers in the middle, and three fighters were on alert in the tail.

There is not much magic about this formation in itself, and the fighters and escort bombers of all countries in the world are roughly like this. The difference is that the nine fighters led by Tu Yuanchao flew relatively high and kept flying in formation at an altitude of 5,000 meters.

"Enemy aircraft ......" there are pilots shouting. Tu Yuanchao heard the excited shouts of his comrades from the earphones.

All of a sudden, Tu Yuanchao began to get excited. After such a long battle, the air force had the opportunity to encounter an air battle, and all the pilots had an expectation in their hearts to compete with the Japanese air force.

Tu Yuanchao quickly searched in the air. Three Japanese fighters are flying below the fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army. Obviously, the Japanese fighters were not Tu Yuanchao's Type 96 carrier-based aircraft. In the heart. Tu Yuanchao decided that this was the Japanese Zero fighter that Li Guang had been reminding him to pay attention to. But in fact, Tu Yuanchao encountered the new land-based fighter type 1 fighter of the Japanese army. The performance of this fighter is actually no worse than that of the Zero, but it is not as famous as the Zero fighter.

In the early days of the Pacific War, Japan had a supply of high-grade gasoline, and this fighter was no worse than the Zero in terms of speed and agility. It was only later that Japan tilted the high-grade octane gasoline of 92 to the Navy's Zero fighter, and this land-based fighter could only use gasoline with an octane number of 87, which caused the decline of the first fighter. In the Pacific theater. Many of the fighters encountered by the US military are Type 1 fighters, but because of their similar appearance, they are also called Zero fighters by US pilots.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, you must know that the bomber formation of the Naval Resistance Army is behind. Thereupon. Tu Yuanchao gave an order, circled in the air, and swooped down with his wingman.

Tu Yuanchao's flying action was extremely beautiful, and he turned around and dived to accelerate in one go. The fighter plane is like a dexterous swallow, as fierce as a goshawk, and the whole process only takes a minute or two. The heavy fuselage of the P40 fighter from the cruising speed of more than 300 kilometers, constantly accelerated, dived down.

The P40 has a heavy body and excellent dive acceleration. When the fighter approached the Japanese fighter plane, the P40 let out a sharp roar, and the speed was already more than 700 kilometers. The fighter plane piloted by Tu Yuanchao was already less than 100 meters away from the Japanese fighter when the Japanese pilot was unaware of it, and when Tu Yuanchao opened fire, the two fighters were less than 50 meters apart.

Tu Yuanchao grasped the timing of the cannon very accurately, and the four airborne cannons fired together, pulling out chains of fire in the clear sky, and the Japanese fighters were blown up by volleys without resistance.

At such a high speed, Tu Yuanchao slightly changed the direction of the fighter and easily avoided the fragments of the explosion of the Japanese fighter.

In the following tens of seconds, Tu Yuanchao's detachment action was more classic, and the P40 fighter quickly changed from dive to level flight, and the fighter did not slow down at all, and with a few serpentine maneuvers, the fighter was already out of the sight of the Japanese air force.

In just two or three minutes, Tu Yuanchao showed a profound foundation, and the entire battle process was like a cloud of peers, concise and neat.

The movements of the other pilots of the Naval Resistance Force were actually not much slower than those of Tu Yuanchao, and the other two Japanese fighters could not survive in the sky for more than a minute. One of them was killed by the wingman pilot who slaughtered far more than others. The other was hit by two pilots with a cross-fit and was smashed into a fireball in the air.

Tu Yuanchao had just pulled the fighter plane into the air again, and found that there was a group of Japanese planes behind him, most of which were bombers.

Tu Yuanchao was immediately overjoyed, and the nine fighters of the Naval Resistance Army rushed down without formation. The pilots were so excited, so many Japanese bombers, for the fighters to deliver food.

At this moment, the Japanese bombers had just discovered the group of the Naval Resistance Army, and the previous three Japanese fighters were shot down and did not have time to give a signal.

The performance of the Japanese army's 99 twin-engine bomber is not bad, but it depends on who compares with it. If it is not inferior to a dreadnought bomber, it even has advantages in some aspects. But when it comes to fighter jets, it's definitely a dish on the plate.

The little devil was very experienced, and after the attack, twelve bombers immediately scattered and fled. It is not easy for the devil who is at a disadvantage in all respects to dodge a wave of dive shots. Holding a bomber and a fighter dogfight has no chance of winning at all.

High in the air, Japanese bombers were beaten into firebirds.

Tu Yuanchao shot down a Japanese bomber again, and before he had time to raise his fighter again, he suddenly had a feeling of cold hair standing on end.

Purely subconsciously, Tu Yuanchao didn't even notice where the danger came from, so he quickly lowered the nose and continued to dive down.

Tu Yuanchao's intuition saved him, and in the process of diving, bullets on both sides of the fighter plane continued to cross the portholes, flying around the fighter like a stream of fireflies.

Tu Yuanchao made several maneuvers to dodge in succession. None of them were able to escape the pursuit of Japanese fighters. In a few minutes of escaping for his life, Tu Yuanchao's cold sweat had already soaked his whole body. In just a few minutes, the fighters were hit by Japanese fighters in at least two places.

There is a special term for the aerial combat of fighters - dog fighting. Because in fighter fighting, the most effective means is to find a way to chase the opponent's tail. It is very similar to the fight between puppies. Hence the name dog fight.

Once rear-ended by an opponent, your own fighter will not be able to shoot at the enemy. It is completely at the point of being passively beaten. Tu Yuanchao naturally mastered a lot of ways to get out of it in training. But several attempts to get rid of it failed to work, and the little devil still chased after him. Tu Yuanchao finally discovered that the little devil's fighter not only has good maneuverability, but also is faster than his P40.

Tu Yuanchao was very wise, and it was also clearly stated in the air force training of the Naval Resistance Army that the Japanese fighters had excellent low-altitude performance. The rate of climb is better than that of the P40. Tu Yuanchao did not dare to choose to climb, once climbed, the speed of the bulky P40 will drop significantly, and then it will be more auspicious.

p40 if you want to accelerate. There's only one way – dive. You must know that Tu Yuanchao piloted the fighter, and the altitude was still less than one thousand meters at the moment, and it would be very dangerous to dive again, especially at this time when the P40 was already at a high speed of four hundred and eighty kilometers.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, Tu Yuanchao swooped down against the sea. Tu Yuanchao's move worked, and the Japanese pilots obviously did not expect Tu Yuanchao to dive again. Japanese fighters quickly flew over Tu Yuanchao's head.

A thousand meters may not seem short, but for a fighter with a speed of more than 100 meters per second, it is a moment.

With this kind of high-speed dive, Tu Yuanchao can't care about looking at the speedometer, and can only judge the distance by experience. Looking at the rapidly approaching sea, Tu Yuanchao calmly recited "1,2,3,......"

When he read 5, Tu Yuanchao immediately pulled up the nose with all his might. From a distance, the fighter plane almost hit the water, and the air vibrations brought by the fighter and the strong wind from the propellers blew a mist of water.

Tu Yuanchao couldn't see clearly ahead at all at this moment, and was just trying to control the fuselage with his own senses.

A few seconds later, the fighter plane came out of the mist. Tu far surpassed the speed brought by the inertia of the fuselage and flew quickly to the left.

The Japanese fighter pilots lost Tu Yuanchao's whereabouts from the moment they crossed Tu Yuanchao's fighter, and when the devil circled back, Tu Yuanchao not only increased the speed of the fighter to a terrifying level in less than a minute, but also flew at least five or six kilometers, and was out of the sight of the Japanese pilots.

In fact, if the little devil is smart, he can still find out Tu Yuanchao's position. Although the weather was clear, there was no absolutely cloudless time in the Indian Ocean, and Tu Yuanchao was hiding in a cloud like a cloud in the distance.

The battlefield was full of miracles, Tu Yuanchao was still breathing, and the little devil pilot actually flew towards the clouds.

Tu Yuanchao thought that he was discovered by the Japanese fighters, regardless of the 3721 fighter planes again, he pulled up the fighters again, got out of the clouds, and prepared to seize the advantageous terrain. This little devil pilot is definitely a master, and the only way to win is the perfect dive shot he practiced.

And the Japanese fighters actually didn't notice Tu Yuanchao at all, and actually flew below the clouds. When the Japanese fighter plane passed under the clouds and showed its figure in the gap between the white clouds, Tu Yuanchao was very happy to find that the tail of the opponent's plane was facing the nose of his plane.

What's so polite about this, Tu Yuan repeated the old trick, the fighter plane roared and swooped down, just like that, after the Japanese fighter was hit by dozens of bullets and shells, it was once again beaten into a fireball, and after a violent explosion, it turned into pieces of garbage and polluted a small area of water in the Indian Ocean.

When Tu Yuanchao got in touch with his comrades again, he knew that the air battle was over. It turned out that the Japanese escorted not three, but six. When the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army raged and slaughtered the Japanese bombers. was caught off guard by Japanese fighters, and one of the fighters pursued Tu Yuanchao. Although the other two Japanese fighters were sneak attacks, they were not able to shoot down the P40 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, and only one was damaged, and the pilot was unscathed.

When the three fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, which were responsible for tail guard, joined the battle group, the two Japanese fighters barely struggled, and were shot down on the spot by the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army in a two-on-one and three-on-one manner.

In the end, only six Japanese bombers were able to escape. The Japanese bombers were able to escape, not because of the devil's skill, but because the P40 range of the Naval Resistance Army was too short. There is no way to pursue it long distances.

In this battle, the number of fighters of the Naval Resistance Army and the Japanese army was equal, and both sides had 24 fighters. However, the composition of the fighters on both sides was different, with the Navy's 12 fighters and 12 bombers, while the Japanese had only 6 fighters to escort 18 bombers.

The Japanese fleet had a fatal flaw. The number of escort fighters is much smaller than that of bombers, and this shortcoming is not only manifested in land-based aircraft groups. It is also manifested in aircraft carrier battle groups. And the Naval Resistance Force has always been a one-to-one configuration of fighters and bombers.

Sometimes. It is very strange that certain habits or regulations of an army are formed. For example, the configuration of aircraft carriers and bombers of the Maritime Resistance Army is one-to-one. At the beginning, this was because the Naval Resistance Force only had 30 dreadnought bombers, and six were selected for the defense of Tanggang, and at the same time there was an intention to train pilots. So there were twenty-four bombers on board the Liberty Dragon. Originally, the Liberty Dragon was supposed to carry 36 fighters according to the plan, but Li Guang wanted to increase the striking force. Simply arranging fighters on the deck, the total number became forty-eight, and the ratio of fighters to bombers became one to one.

It was originally a patchwork result, but in the long-term combat training of the Naval Resistance Army. Finding that such a ratio is relatively safe, this habit has been maintained. The inertia of thinking is extremely terrifying, and although this inertia is an advantage for the Naval Resistance Force, it is difficult to guarantee that this kind of thinking inertia will cause great harm in any respect.

For example, the little devil went through World War II, and in the end, he did not change the problem that the battleship was the core of the decisive battle force. This kind of thinking is actually a kind of inertia, and it has not been rigorously scientifically demonstrated.

The pilots of the Naval Resistance Force truly experienced the second air battle in the history of the founding of the Naval Resistance Army. In this battle (the first was in the Battle of the Arabian Sea. The pilots of the Naval Resistance Army on the Liberty Dragon defeated the Japanese air force.

In this battle, the naval resistance army only lost one fighter, or the fighter plane was damaged rather than shot down, because it was difficult to control the landing, and Huang Zhonghua decisively ordered it to be abandoned. The pilot who flew the fighter plane parachuted out. The result was the shooting down of all six Japanese fighters and twelve Japanese bombers.

The elite line that Li Guang had always adhered to finally showed its might. The pilots deployed on the Liberty Dragon are all elite in the first echelon, with more than 800 hours of flight time and several battles. Not only is the technique good, but the psychological quality is also strong enough. More importantly, in the face of the Japanese army's superior performance fighters, the P40 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were tactically right. Dive shot, horizontal detachment. Simple tactics are practiced to perfection.

In fact, even in dog fights, the level of these pilots of the Naval Resistance Army was no worse than that of the Japanese pilots. The last three Japanese fighters shot down were all victorious in dogfights.

The reason for this is that the criteria for selecting pilots created by Li Guang are more scientific. Second, the training methods of pilots are also more perfect.

After the war, the eleven pilots who had achieved the results happily painted small sun symbols on their fighters.

Tu Yuanchao was born out of thin air, and according to international practice, shooting down five fighters is an ace pilot. Tu Yuanchao thus became the first ace pilot of the Naval Resistance Army.

Tu Yuanchao killed two Japanese fighters in the Battle of the Arabian Sea, and this time he captured three Japanese fighters in World War I. This result made Liu Gensheng, who was the captain of the flight, envious, and he did not attack at all on the Liberty Dragon in this battle. So far, Liu Gensheng's fighter plane is still bare, and there is no victory. The Naval Resistance Army blew up a lot of planes, but unfortunately, they were all on the ground, and they could not be counted into the results of the battle.

It was not only Liu Gensheng who was stimulated, but also other pilots of the Naval Resistance Army. You must know that the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army are all elite veterans, and in terms of technology, Tu Yuanchao is not the captain of the fighter squad, and he may not be able to rank in the top 20. Stimulated pilots, they take the initiative whenever the weather permits. Sometimes the Liberty Dragon can strike up to five sorties in a single day.

But looking for Japanese fighters will not necessarily find fighters. Until early March, the Naval Resistance Forces had not been able to encounter several Japanese fighters. Although the naval resistance army has made some gains, the results are indeed not much, and Liu Gensheng's fighter has only added one result, and the gold content of this result is not high, only shooting down a Japanese bomber.

At the beginning of March, one of the most important warships of the Maritime Resistance Force was launched, and after two years of construction, the "Indian Ocean" aircraft carrier was launched, and it has already rushed to Shixiang Island to install anti-aircraft artillery. and ancillary equipment.

The completion of this aircraft carrier immediately absorbed the reserve manpower of the Maritime Resistance Army. The establishment of 1,500 men immediately depleted the officers and men of the Navy Resistance Army. You know, the entire navy has less than 2,000 recruits in reserve, and it has been transferred by a few destroyers and torpedo boats that have just been launched. There are only a little over a thousand people left, which is simply not enough for the staffing on the Indian Ocean.

An aircraft carrier wants to form combat effectiveness. It's not easy. If you don't have a few months to a year of training, I'm afraid it won't be useful. Even if there are no more manpower, Li Guang will have to replenish it immediately, and he will count on this Indian Ocean aircraft carrier in future wars. You must know that the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon, due to its small displacement, has some inherent problems that greatly affect its combat effectiveness.

Li Guang was seriously short of troops at hand. Forty elite pilots of the first echelon on the Liberty Dragon were transferred, and the pilots of the second and third echelons stationed in Tang Port were almost completely transferred.

In the first three echelons of the Naval Resistance Air Force, there were only about 200 pilots, while the Liberty Dragon needed 60. At least one hundred and twenty are needed on board the Indian Ocean. This configuration seems to be sufficient, but it is still extremely thin compared to the pilot configuration on the US aircraft carrier. The number of pilots on US aircraft carriers can basically reach 1.5 times. According to the configuration of US pilots, the Navy will need 270 people. In any case, the current naval resistance forces will not be able to do this.

In the seaplane squadron, the PJP squadron, the Atlantic squadron, and even the Tanggang land-based fighter squadron, a squadron can only carry three pilots of the top three echelons, and the rest are all rookie pilots who have just completed the transport aircraft piloting course. Twelve land-based bombers (not yet delivered) were deployed as a strategic force with only twenty-four elite pilots.

The naval resistance force is short of not only pilots, but also fighters. The total number of fighters and bombers equipped and to be equipped by the Maritime Resistance Force now stands at more than 130, and the total number of new and old maritime reconnaissance planes is nearly 70. Twelve land-based bombers. To say that there are more than 200 fighters, it is already a very powerful force.

But the aircraft carriers Liberty Dragon and the Indian Ocean alone require almost a hundred and fifty fighters and bombers.

After some deliberation, only 50 fighters were arranged on the USS Indian Ocean aircraft carrier for the time being, that is, the assistance that Professor Yuan had just received from the United States, and he had not yet arrived at Shixiang Island at the moment, and was still drifting on the sea.

At this point, the air force division of the Naval Resistance Force was basically determined.

Twenty-four vintage seaplanes were used for training and also for defense.

Madagascar, 12 new water reconnaissance aircraft (on board the PJP), 24 old water reconnaissance aircraft. Thirty-six in total.

The battleship Atlantic, twelve new water reconnaissance aircraft.

Twenty-four P40s, six new water reconnaissance aircraft, six dive bombers. Twelve B17 long-range strategic bombers. Forty-eight in total.

The USS Liberty Dragon, with twenty-four bombers and fighters. Forty-eight in total.

The USS Indian Ocean, fifty bombers and fifty fighters each. A hundred in total.

For these configurations alone, about two hundred and seventy aircraft are needed. In terms of quantity, there is a gap of nearly 100 aircraft, and the difference is still the main fighters.

Even so, most of these configurations can only stay on paper. Many fighter planes that have already been bought or will be bought are still in US ports at this time, or in transit at sea, and some are still on the production line.

Even if there is no battle damage, if you want to fully configure it, you will have to wait until June. (To be continued......)

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