At the Joint Command Headquarters of the International Coalition in the Russian city of Ufa, after the military representatives of various countries determined the number of new fighters to support the Kuwaiti battlefield, and at the proposal of Schlieffen, the interim commander-in-chief of the Coalition Navy, Army, and Air Forces, the United European Fleet of the International Coalition and the Combined Pacific Fleet of the International Coalition were established. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The main task of the International Union Pacific Combined Fleet is to compete with the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire for sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean, while the first task of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations is to blockade the Persian Gulf, so that the reinforcements of the Chinese Empire cannot enter the Kuwait area in a steady stream.

After consultations between the United States and Japan, the commander of the United Pacific Combined Fleet of the League of Nations decided to be appointed by US Admiral Sampson, who led the US Atlantic Fleet to participate in the Second Joint Expeditionary Fleet during the war.

The commander of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, after deliberation among the military representatives of the Entente and the Allied countries, decided that the British Admiral John ? Jellicoo comes to serve, John? Jerichoe is currently the Commander of the Home Fleet of the British Navy and the Second Minister of the British Navy.

At this meeting of the joint command headquarters of the international alliance, it was also determined that the three major theaters of the international alliance in the land theater were the Eurasian theater, the Pacific theater, and the African theater, and that the commander of the Eurasian theater was concurrently served by Schlieffen, the interim commander-in-chief of the navy, land, and air forces of the international alliance, and that the more than 13 million army units of the international coalition countries gathered on the front line of the Ural Mountains were under the direct command of the Eurasian theater, and that India and the Kuwait region, which was at war at this time, were also classified as the Eurasian theater.

The commander of the Pacific Theater of Operations will have US Secretary of the Army John Brown? Joseph? Pershing, Japan's Mishima, Canada, and the United States are all classified as the Pacific theater, while the commander of the African theater is French Army General Michel ? Desailly served.

The time soon came to July 20, 1914, at this time the situation in Kuwait still did not change much, the army units of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were still blocked near the border of the Kuwait region, and the new fighters promised by several European countries to support the Kuwaiti battlefield were not yet in place, so the air supremacy in Kuwait was still in the hands of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, which also made millions of Ottoman Turkish Empire army troops unable to lose air supremacy. Break through the border defenses of the Imperial Chinese Marines.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on July 20, the European countries of the League of Nations finally officially launched a long-planned large-scale offensive on the front line of the Ural Mountains, with thousands of warplanes and dozens of artillery pieces simultaneously attacking the defense line of the Chinese Empire east of the Ural Mountains.

In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire, Defense Minister Wu Peifu said to Lin Daxin in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the coalition forces of various European countries have launched an attack on the Ural defense line of our Chinese Empire, and the focus of the attack is the Yunmengcheng area, Yebaocheng area and Daning City area of our Ural defense line. ”

Yunmeng City is the former Russian Nizhny Tagil, Yebao City is the former Russian Yekaterinburg, Daning City is the former Russian Magnitogersk, the above-mentioned Russian cities, as the area east of the Ural Mountains is all occupied by the Chinese Empire, have changed the names of cities with the characteristics of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Daxin said with a smile: "The offensive line of the International Alliance is not what we expected, it is really in the three directions of the Yunmeng City area, the Yebao City area and the Daning City area, which happens to be the entire Ural defense line, these three sections of fortifications are the most solid, and the defensive troops we have placed are also the largest." ”

Since the end of the last war, the Chinese Empire occupied all the areas east of the Ural Mountains, and began to build a permanent fortification stretching for thousands of kilometers along the Ural Mountains, which was called the Ural Line by the Chinese Empire.

The Ural defense line takes the Ural Mountains as a natural barrier, and the main defense line fortifications are concentrated in the Yunmeng City section, Yebao City section and Daning City section, all of which are composed of a support zone with a depth of 4~14 kilometers and a main defense zone with a depth of 6~8 kilometers.

The ground part of the fortification group is armored or reinforced concrete machine gun fortifications and artillery fortifications, and the underground part has several floors, including command posts, personnel lounges, food storage rooms, ammunition depots, ambulance stations, power stations, filtration and ventilation rooms, etc., and there are passages between the fortifications, the strongest reinforced concrete fortifications have a roof and wall thickness of 3.5 meters, and the armor thickness of the armored tower fort is 300 mm, all of which can resist the direct hit of two 420 mm mortar shells.

The fortification complex also has anti-tank obstacles, including anti-tank trenches, cliffs, cliffs, and metal and concrete piles, reinforced with minefields, and anti-infantry obstacles with metal piles or barbed wire, and in some sections with electrified barbed wire.

The Chinese Empire spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources on the Ural Line, which was only basically completed at the end of 1913, and its role was to guard against the whole of Europe, and I did not expect that it would be the turn of the Ural Line to play its role so soon.

Wu Peifu then said to Lin Daxin: "Your Majesty, at present, the troops of our Imperial Chinese Army on the front line of the Ural Mountains are basically concentrated in the Yunmeng City area, the Yebao City area and the Daning City area, but the above three areas combined, there are only 5 guards and 15 field armies, and the total strength is only 3 million, and the rest of the Ural defense line currently has only 200,000 people of the garrison army of Ural Province, but according to the reliable intelligence of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the CIA, At present, the total number of army troops invested by European countries in the front line of the Ural Mountains has exceeded 13 million, and we have a great disadvantage in terms of troops. ”

Lin Daxin thought for a moment and said: "According to the operational plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense before, we will use the Ural defense line to consume a large number of the living forces of the armies of European countries, and the current strength of the Ural defense line is enough to complete this task, after all, the Air Force has deployed more than 7,000 fighters in the Ural defense line, of which the new fighters account for half, but if you want to complete the goal of counterattacking into Europe, 5 Guards, 15 field armies and the garrison of Ural Province are still far from enough in terms of troops. So it is possible to start a large-scale expansion of the main forces. ”

Wu Peifu nodded and said: "Over the years, we have carried out a large-scale expansion of the garrison troops in various provinces, and at this time, we are just transferring backbones from the garrison forces in various provinces to build the main frame of the new main force, and then a large number of army reservists will be recruited to join the new main force, so that it will not take much time for the new main force to come in handy." ”

Lin Daxin immediately said: "Just implement this idea!" First expand the 10 Guards Army and 15 Field Army, as for the problem of weapons and equipment, I will solve it, and your Ministry of Defense only needs to get all the personnel! ”

Wu Peifu couldn't help but be startled when he heard that Lin Daxin was going to expand 10 more guards and 15 field armies, you must know that the main force of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire has a total of 10 guards and 25 field armies, and Lin Daxin's wave of such a big hand is equivalent to adding 3.75 million main forces to the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, which is a bit too fierce, you must know that the weapons and equipment equipped with each guard army or each field army are not a small amount.

Lin Daxin saw Wu Peifu's surprised look, and said with a smile: "What's wrong?" Does the Ministry of Defense have problems with the staffing of 10 Guards and 15 Field Corps? ”

"There is no problem, the minister is shocked by His Majesty's generosity!"

"Haha, I don't have anything else, it's just a lot of money, and I have already asked various arsenals to hoard a lot of weapons and equipment before, and it is definitely not a problem to form weapons and equipment for 10 guards and 15 field armies! By the way, the Ministry of Defense must report to me at any time on the situation of the Ural defense line, and whether the Ural defense line can be held or not can be directly related to the outcome of this war. ”

Just when Lin Daxin decided to expand the 10 Guards Army and 15 Field Army, the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force and the Air Force of the European countries of the International Alliance were staging an air battle of unprecedented scale in the sky above the Ural Defense Line, and thousands of fighters were invested by both sides, and the degree of tragedy was unprecedented.

Chu Donghai, one of the ace pilots of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, shot down a total of 14 fighters of the Entente and the Central Powers in the last foreign war of the Chinese Empire, and is now the major squadron leader of the 2nd Flight Squadron of the 1st Flying Combat Group of the 4th Wing of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire.

In this air battle over the Ural Line, more than 400 new fighters of the 4th Wing where the Sea was located in early winter were not absent.

"Boom-" In the early winter, Hai piloted the new Falcon fighter numbered L1887, and used the most common and practical maneuver in air combat, that is, the action of folding and turning, to hit a British Air Force Gull fighter and blow up this Dagu fighter in the air.

"The teams report the damage! Groups report damages! "Having shot down the Big Gull fighter that was entangled with him, the early winter sea immediately used a walkie-talkie to contact the other Falcon fighters of the 2nd Flying Squadron.

"There are no losses in the 2nd group! There are no losses in the 2nd group! ”

"L1896 of the 3rd group was wounded! L1896 of the 3rd group was wounded! It's now back! It's now back! ”

The 12 new Falcon fighters of the 2nd Flying Squadron were divided into three combat groups, each of which had four fighters, and each of the two fighters formed a two-plane formation.

Chu Donghai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that only one fighter of the other two groups had been damaged and had already returned, but looking at the position that should have been his wingman, he sadly shouted on the radio intercom: "L1888 of the 1st group has been destroyed!" L1 of the 1888th group was destroyed! L1895 of Group 3 immediately formed a two-plane formation with me as the wingman of L1887. ”

As soon as the voice of the early winter sea fell, a Luftwaffe Fokker fighter bit the tail of the L1887, and then opened fire violently, the early winter sea was very calm to pilot the L1887 Falcon fighter, made a downward roll in the air, and got rid of the range of fire of the Fokker fighter behind, when the fuselage of the L1887 Falcon fighter was parallel to the ground, the early winter sea took the technical action of folding and climbing, and soon flew to the back of the Fokker fighter, allowing the two fighters to change positions.

The Luftwaffe pilot of the Fokker fighter did not have such air combat technology as the early winter sea, and with the performance of the Fokker fighter, it could not support such a difficult technical action, so with a "boom-" sound, the Fokker fighter exploded in the air in the early winter sea again.

The air battle began at 9 a.m. on July 20, when the European armies of the League of Nations launched an attack on the Ural defense line of the Chinese Empire, and it did not end until about 5 p.m. on July 20.

In the early winter of the sea in the air battle, a total of 4 takeoffs, shot down 10 enemy fighters, if this record is placed on a new Ding, then the new Ding this day turned into an ace pilot of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire.

However, the tragedy of the air battle makes it difficult for a rookie pilot of the Air Force to become an ace pilot in one day, and even many rookie pilots of the Air Force have died in the tragic air battle.

He did not go back to the dormitory to rest, but stood next to the tarmac of the military airport behind the Ural Line, watching one fighter plane after another land on the tarmac, until no more fighters flew in the sky.

At this time, there was still a major of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire standing beside Chu Donghai, "Xiaohai, how are the losses of your 2nd squadron?" ”

"Brother Liu, our squadron lost 3 fighters, and 1 fighter was seriously injured, and now there is no news about the 3 pilots."

The major next to him is called Liu Chang, who has been friends with Chu Donghai for many years, once served as Chu Donghai's wingman, and is now the squadron leader of the 3rd Flight Squadron of the 1st Flight Combat Group of the 4th Wing.

"Alas, the losses of your 2nd squadron are not too big, our 3rd squadron has lost 5 fighters, and the lives and deaths of the 5 pilots are unknown, it seems that the losses of other squadrons are not small, the tragedy of this air battle is really unprecedented, and the new fighters of those countries in Europe are not useless!" (To be continued.) )