The operation of nearly 6,000 fighters of various types is a huge test for the command and dispatch of the Air Force, and its complexity is no longer something that can be completed by manpower.

I have the confidence that Zhong Yi plans such a big action as "Beidou".

Thanks to the rapid development of computer technology in the base, the process of computer miniaturization is not as difficult as imagined. The concept of "notebook" was proposed, so that the "Beidou" communication and command system finally came out after a long time.

On the Zhongmou command ship and in Asmara, the two sets of command systems on land and sea were successfully docked, marking the success of the test of the most powerful star-gathering function of the Beidou system.

The so-called "gathering stars" means that the information of the command systems of different branches of the military and different units is gathered in the same command center and shared. Compared with the later C3 system, the difference is only a satellite signal. With the maturity of long-range rocket technology, plans to launch communications and reconnaissance satellites have long been on the agenda of the empire.

Relatively speaking, even without the support of communication satellites, the "Beidou" of this era is powerful enough, and the intelligence and instructions of early warning aircraft and radar stations can be transmitted to the long plane of each formation in the aircraft group, to the combat units at the army regiment level, and to every main warship of the navy through the relay and assignment of the command center.

Of course, there is still a lack of immediacy and detail in the instructions, which is the biggest shortcoming of the first generation of Beidou. However, it is enough to correctly express the orders of the command department, and it can be said that the multi-arm and multi-department joint operation model has begun to take shape in the Imperial Army, especially in the Guards Corps.

Relying on the "Beidou" communication and command system, Yun Jiu, commander of the Air Force who visited Asmara in person, was able to learn in a short period of time the location of each aircraft group and the situation of completing its tasks, and could adjust the airborne area of the follow-up troops and the support area of the air supremacy units in a timely manner based on the information fed back by the paratroopers.

As the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Thunder" operation, Yun Jiu tried for the first time the improvement of the combat effectiveness brought by high technology to the troops, and the Air Force shouted three times nostalgically, "Cool, really cool, really XX!" ”

Through the Beidou system, the feeling of commanding the troops participating in the battle is indeed extremely comfortable for the commander. You don't need to go through too much conjecture and analysis to judge the situation on the battlefield, because every change in the battlefield can be reported back to the command in time, and the commander only needs to make decisions accordingly.

Lieutenant General Xiao Guoxing, commander of the ground forces of the "Thunder" operation, was also surprised by the role of the "Beidou." In the past, he had only heard His Majesty often advocate information-based warfare, and when he really used the "Beidou," he knew that what His Majesty said was true.

The 20th and 21st Parachute Divisions of the 7th Guards Army, which were the first to carry out airborne paratroops, were the earliest paratroop units in the Empire, that is, the old units that carried out the first large-scale paratroop operations during the landing in Niigata, Japan. Later, they parachuted into Tokyo and captured Haneda Airport, contributing to the liberation of Tokyo.

Such a meritorious unit once again assumed a heavy responsibility in the "Thunder" operation, and the most bitter and difficult first parachute will once again appear as veterans.

The narrowest section of the canal in Rasoush, Tina, Kab, and Kantara, built on the salt marshes of Tina, was the target of the paratroopers of the 7th Army. Although bound by international conventions, Britain and any belligerent countries were not allowed to destroy the canal channel, it was clear that Jiang Yunzhi did not believe in the character of the British, or Churchill to be exact. The Proclamation of Constantinople states that the canal was a neutral zone under the protection of the British Empire, and that it was open to ships of all nations, both in peace and in war. In addition, the Convention provides that there shall be no hostilities in the waters of the canal and that no fortifications shall be built along its shores.

"A neutral zone under the protection of the British Empire?" It's your British Empire that fights, will you still be neutral?

The first parachutes were made in the salt marshes of Tiena to preserve this section of the canal, which is most vulnerable. If Britain were to blow up the canal, as long as this section was kept, it would be easier to dredge the other sections of the canal.

At the same time, the battle was also launched at the beginning of the canal, Tawfik and Suez City. The battleships Fengxian and Yuanjiang (Zhangji) and the heavy cruisers Xingba and Ziyi of the Northern Fleet of the Royal Navy formed a battlefleet and entered the Gulf of Suez and launched an indiscriminate artillery bombardment of the heavily defended city of Suez.

According to the proclamation, no fortifications should be built along the canal, and the British did not dare to risk the world. However, they built numerous bunkers and secret military stations in Suez City, where more than 20,000 troops, including a Royal Dragoon Regiment and the 9th Lancer Regiment and the Anglo-Indian 19th Division, were stationed.

Because most of the surrounding airfields were destroyed in the first Allied air raids, the RAF was unable to provide strong support to the Canal Zone guards, and most of the Han planes with the golden dragon logo whizzed over the canal. In order to prevent the accidental bombing of the canal, the air force did not bomb the urban agglomeration that developed along the canal, but it lost its air superiority, and the enemy's planes were full of them, which was enough to make the British troops tremble.

In particular, without the deterrence of British aircraft, the battleships of the Han fleet could bomb the British positions along the coast with impunity. In fact, it is not a position, just some simple fortifications made of sandbags and wood. Under the bombardment of the 410-mm naval guns of the battleships, these ...... The fortifications were blown away to the slag without any suspense. The indiscriminate shelling also caused a large number of civilian casualties in Suez, and of course the bunkers and secret military stations built by the British army were not spared, and the British commander's plan to stick to the lane station was destroyed by this unconscionable shelling.

No troops continued to fight under the shelling of battleships without fortifications, and this was the greatest role of battleships in modern naval warfare. The two prince-class battleships have 12 main guns alone, with a caliber of 410 millimeters, and each cannon will create a circular no-man's land with a diameter of nearly 100 meters. There were also two heavy cruisers' 308 mm main guns, which were also far from being compared to ordinary army guns, and the two-hour shelling caused heavy casualties to the British troops along the canal, and the British commander was forced to give the order to go back, although he knew that this would give up the landing field, but no one could hold out in that kind of artillery fire. He was skeptical that if he did not give the order to retreat in time, the sergeants at the front would have provoked a mutiny?

But the British were not waste black troops, and after withdrawing from the range of the battleship's guns, the commander still made plans for a counterattack. The 5th Royal Dragoon Regiment, the only armored unit of the British army in Suez, and the latest 52 "Cromwell" medium cruiser tanks were the most powerful weapon for the British army to counterattack the Allied landing force in the Gulf of Suez.

Because the "Crusader" was blown up by the Han tanks on the battlefield, the British "Knight" and "Centaur" cruiser tanks were determined to be unable to compete with the Han tigers on the battlefield.

Buckingham Railway & Rolling Stock then redesigned the body of the Centaur and installed a 600-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin-style aero engine, and in early 1942, the first A-27M, the Cromwell-1, was built. The "Cromwell" tank weighed 32 tons, had a crew of 5 people, the thickness of the front armor reached 125 mm, and a 75 mm smoothbore gun was installed. Moreover, the "Cromwell" inherited the classic "Christie" suspension device, and the excellent mobility of the British tank was also inherited from the "Cromwell", which could reach speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour.

In this regard, even the tanks of the Han army have to sigh with convincing. However, His Majesty still turned his nose up at "Cromwell", "What's the use of running fast?" It's really faster than running, isn't it faster for us to get a batch of red off-road vehicles? Tanks are more powerful and stable than artillery, more than armor, and more powerful than power! Tank ...... of the British Let's wait for Challenger 2 to come out! ”

Challenger 2? The question is, with His Majesty's plan to destroy Great Britain in 1942, will Britain still have a chance to produce a challenger? However, His Majesty's words are not unreasonable, at this stage, the tank that the Han army needs to pay attention to is nothing more than the old American M4 "Sherman", which produced the largest number of medium tanks in World War II, and will soon replace the British tank after the United States enters the war and become the main battle armored force of the multinational force.

The Sherman, with its reliability and ease of maintenance, has an extremely wide range of uses, some of which are equipped with 60 barrels on the turret4. 5-inch rocket launcher; Some are equipped with flamethrowers to become Spitfire tanks. Others changed their main guns to 105mm howitzers to strengthen their soft kill capabilities. Of course, the mainstream Sherman is still equipped with a 76mm long-barreled high muzzle velocity main gun, which can fire armor-piercing shells, grenades and smoke grenades.

The Sherman's biggest drawback was its gasoline engine, which was vulnerable to fire from Tiger or Siberian Tiger tanks when fighting the Allies in Africa. So the American GIs gave it the nickname "Ronson", a famous brand of lighters.

The advertisement for this kind of lighter is "one dozen, every dozen".

The British Ministry of Defense claimed that this was the most powerful cruiser tank in British history, and the British soldiers who escaped from the fierce battleship fire pinned their hopes for a counterattack on the 52 "Cromwells" of the Dragoon Armored Regiment, and they seemed to have seen the Han soldiers who had just landed on Shanghai Beach and were driven back into the sea by the tanks.

It's just that the British soldiers don't know that the troops who were arranged to land in the Gulf of Suez are not ordinary Allied troops, they are the first Marine Division to be established in the Han Dynasty, and they are the trump card troops with countless glories. At the same time, it is also the first unit to be equipped with HNA helicopters.

The sad "Cromwell" encountered the natural enemy of tanks - helicopter gunships in the first battle.

Within 30 minutes of the start of the landing, the walrus amphibious tanks and clouded leopard armored vehicles that rushed out of the amphibious dock landing ship did encounter great casualties, and the armor-piercing shells fired by the 75 mm smoothbore guns of the "Cromwell" cruiser tank were quite a big threat to the front armor of the walrus less than 100 mm, not to mention the light armor of the clouded leopard of several tens of millimeters!

The sudden appearance of the British armored forces also caught the 1st Marine Division by surprise, and I thought that under the shelling of the battleships, it would be good if the British army could not collapse!

But the prestige of the 5th Royal Dragoon Regiment was also limited to the first thirty minutes of their sudden appearance. Thirty minutes later, the HNA helicopter regiment on the dock ship began to sortie, and the appearance of the WZ-41 Seahawk gunship was the sorrow of "Cromwell" and the end of the Royal Dragoon Regiment.

The damage given to the "Cromwell" by the improved Gentleman Penguin light surface-to-surface missile was absolutely fatal, no matter how thick the British welded the armor for the "Cromwell", but the weak protection at the top turned into useless work under the blow of the Gentleman Penguin.

The British army's carefully prepared beach counterattack turned into a chaotic rout due to the annihilation of the 5th Royal Dragoon Armoured Regiment, and the Egyptian colonial army, the Azan Bald Army, and even the elite Scottish Lance Regiment, more than 10,000 British troops began to become vulnerable under the uncontrolled rocket strikes of the "Sea Hawks", and another desperate escape began to be staged.

If there are rabbits, does HNA's helicopter unit have a tradition of playing rabbit competitions?