Chapter 179: Air Combat

Radar at the airbase detected that the British Air Force had begun to take off, and sirens sounded in the sky.

Level 1 Combat Readiness!

The entire base immediately became agitated.

Commanders at all levels received their own orders, and each of the three brigades of Warhawk-1 cells was functioning in an orderly manner. The whole brigade immediately began its pre-war mobilization, and all flight training was suspended until yesterday; This morning, the pilots and ground technicians presented their final briefings. Everything went in an orderly manner, and all the captains of the entire Warhawk-1 detachment (the wing was changed to a detachment) did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and foolproof was definitely not a slogan in their heads.

In the underground ammunition depot, the chains and bombs were lifted up by elevators, neatly stacked together, inspected one by one, and then loaded into trucks and transported to the planes.

The ground crew was making final preparations, and the pilots were not idle.

In an open corner of the base, the venue for the pledge meeting has been marked with a white line.

The majestic sound of military music shook the audience, and what was louder than the sound of military music was the sound of the pilots' passwords and rumbling footsteps. More than 300 Warhawk-1 pilots stood in knife-cut tofu blocks in their assigned positions.

The queue is the first and most boring thing for every soldier to enter the barracks to study. After being stuffed into a uniform of a unified standard, the queue training is to unceremoniously strip off each person's personality and then rebuild it according to the unified norms, so as to complete the first step from civilian to soldier. The army is a team, and there is no army. Formation is the most basic requirement for all branches of the Defence Force.

With the gathering of different teams, the morale and morale of the army are also condensed little by little.

Qian Pengfei, who was in the command headquarters, saw the square team on the ground through the window, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. He quickly walked down the headquarters and walked towards the venue of the pledge meeting.

"Stand upright!" The originally silent team roared under the rostrum, and hibernate again.

After Qian Pengfei walked straight to the rostrum, he picked up the microphone that had been prepared and said:

"I'm the biggest veteran here, and there is a choking saying in the army: it's not the same when you've never been a soldier, and it's even different if you've been a soldier or not! It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to soar into the blue sky like you, defeat one opponent after another, and travel the endless sky forever. ”

Below the stage were rows of burning black eyes, focused at the same time from different distances and angles, and the temperature was enough to melt the rostrum. The pilots have completely forgotten themselves and entered a quasi-war state, turning into rows of shells wearing military caps, putting fuses on them, and at the slightest order, they will explode en masse without hesitation.

"How did deterrence come about? It was fought out, and it was fought by winning one victory after another. We have the ability to win, the Air Force needs a victory, we need a victory, you need a victory now! This air battle is the first large-scale air battle since the founding of our Air Force, and we must display our prestige and tell the people of the world that China not only has a powerful navy and army, but also an air force that will never stop advancing. ”

For a second or two, there was no applause.

Qian Pengfei's speech slammed the entire army, which was already burned red, on the anvil, and slammed the hammer several times, causing sparks to splash everywhere. So the troops were silent, but there was a sizzling quenching sound.

The pilots silently expressed their determination with their actions, and the scorching air in the venue seemed as if it was about to fall down, and in any case, a release was needed.

"Let's go!"

In the end, Qian Pengfei only said two short words, but at this time, these two words completely boiled the scene.

There was no applause, no shouting, and the pilots trotted to their own cars. However, Qian Pengfei could see from their eyes that everything was proved by practical actions, and applause and shouts were to celebrate the victory.

Eight runways were running together, and in half an hour, all the planes had formed a huge group and were rushing towards the British Air Force.

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The war on the ground continued, and the entire battlefield was filled with gunsmoke and blood.

Today's Praetorian Guard's attack was very rapid, and in just half an hour, it had broken through two lines of defense. The number of armored vehicles also increased to two hundred, and most of them were flamethrowers. The fighters have become accustomed to the smell of burning, and the whole battlefield, everywhere there is such a smell.

The Anglo-French forces were losing ground and there was no artillery to destroy the armored vehicles, so they had to run out of the trenches with explosives packets, but this method was completely ineffective. After countless infantry trainings, they had no chance to run twenty meters in front of the armored vehicle, and each time they died too much to die. The fighters of the Praetorian Guard did not give them a chance at all, and many times the explosive packs were directly exploded.

The arrival of the British Air Force was a powerful booster for the British and French forces. The Anglo-French soldiers who were pinned down in the trenches immediately cheered, expecting their air force to teach the Chinese army a big lesson.

However, this stimulant has just reached the skies over the battlefield and has not yet played its role.

A flock of Warhawk-1s swooped down in the sky, and fireworks burst into the sky, and dozens of camels had already been blasted in the air before they could react. The wreckage of the explosion fell weakly, and the hearts of the British and French troops underground also fell. The cheers just now came to an abrupt end, and only then did they remember that it was not only Britain that had an air force, but that China's air force had dropped countless aerial bombs over them these days.

The sudden air battle made the British and French forces forget about the counterattack for the time being, but the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard did not hesitate at all, and the pace of the attack did not stop for a moment.

Compared to the battle on the storefront, the battle in the sky is much more exciting. From time to time, fireworks burst out one after another, which also added a lot of brilliance to the air battle.

Although the Warhawk-1 fighter is an old fighter, its performance is not bad at all. Especially in the face of camels with winged structures, it was simply an asymmetrical slaughter.

Countless warplanes rolled in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, several planes were directly blown up, or dragged down helplessly with black smoke. These planes are painted with eye-catching rice flags, and they should be proud of their might, but now they can only be ruthlessly eliminated.

The two-wing structure itself lacks excitability, let alone speed. In the eyes of British pilots, those planes painted with golden dragons were too cunning. No matter how much they chased them, they couldn't catch up, and there was no way to aim at the left and right. finally hit the other party, but the other party didn't seem to have anything to do, and shook the fuselage and joined the battle.

At the beginning of the air battle, Haig and Gammel had already walked out of the command. The air battle broke out on the heads of the two, and like the British, French and Indian soldiers, when the plane appeared, it also made the hearts of the two feel slightly comfortable. The sudden Chinese fighter plane made the hearts of the two fall into a trough again.

"Alas! Again, in vain, what's the point of continuing such a fight? Gan Molin said with a sigh. Although the number of Chinese planes that were killed from the sky was not as large as that of the British Air Force, they achieved great results at once. Gan Molin was helpless in his heart.

"I remember that this kind of fighter is called a war eagle by the Chinese, and if it weren't for the war, we already had this kind of aircraft." Haig seemed calm, perhaps he had long expected this to be the outcome, but it was a little luck in his heart that kept him going. In his heart, he had always hoped that the British Air Force would be able to play the glory of World War I, but the ruthless fact shattered his illusions at one time, and now he is a little numb. This can't be called the Yellow River's heart is not dead, and the coffin is not shed tears.

"What's the use of saying that, airplanes were invented and made. Since war has been declared, it is naturally impossible to continue to give it to us. Basically, most of the countries in Europe have purchased this type of aircraft, and if we can't invent a fighter comparable to this, then the air force strength of our two countries will be the lowest in Europe. "The defeat of the camel made Ganmalin think a lot, and the most advanced French fighter was about the same as the camel, and now he was a little worried when he saw the downed camels everywhere in the sky.

At this time, the relationship between Germany and China was very ambiguous, and Gammelin believed that as long as the time came, Germany could already buy a large amount of weapons and equipment in China, which was a great threat to France. If he hadn't seen the power of China, he might have scoffed at it like the rest of the French, but now his thoughts have taken a 180-degree turn.

"It's not up to us to decide, and now we're stuck to our posts." Haig was not as sentimental as Gammelin, and more on that later. And Haig also felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker, and he was very worried that he would go directly to Jesus one day.

"This morning the troop convoy has left the Red Sea, and it is only a few days away from Myanmar, let's hope we can hold on!"

After Gan Molin finished speaking, he glanced at Haig, and the two looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

As the two spoke, the battle in the sky had already entered a white heat, and within a radius of several kilometers, hundreds of planes fought to their heart's content. The jungle on the ground was also on fire in many places due to downing planes, but no one on either side of the war cared about it.

400vs300, if the strength of the two sides is equal, it is of course the side with the largest number of advantages. But in air combat more attention is paid to quality, as well as the technical level of the pilot. The battle situation in front of us is enough to explain all this, the battle has been fought for half an hour, and only half an hour has passed. At this time, there were only dragon-shaped signs in the air, and all the rice-shaped flags had fallen. Except for the thirty Warhawk-1s that staggered back to the airfield, the rest of the warplanes were intact.

The Chinese Air Force completely annihilated 400 British Camel fighters at the cost of wounding 30 fighters, which was definitely a big news that shook the world.

Although the scale of this air battle was not the largest in history, its achievements are enough to go down in aviation history.

(To be continued)