"Fortunately, there is an air force".

After dawn, on the battlefield of Ardmore, the protagonist became the Air Force, the Royal Air Force against the US Air Force.

Wang Tiehan continued the old tactics of the 27th Army at Sunflower Ridge and did not send an armored division in time to effectively contain the US tank cluster. As a result, two lines of defense in a row were quickly broken through by the US military. The 25th Army and the 7th Army of the Western Regions, which were on top of the periphery, suffered heavy casualties in the four-hour battle.

And the price paid by the US military is only less than a hundred M4 Shermans.

Fortunately, when the US bomber wing and the escort fighters appeared on the battlefield, at the field airfield in Waco, the Royal Air Force fighters also took off in time, and the aircraft group flew over Dallas, and immediately turned into two distinct formations, high and low.

More than 60 G-40C Veyron attack planes launched a dive attack mode at a low altitude of 2,000 meters, accurately firing the "Long-crested Penguin" air-to-surface missiles at the US tanks raging in front of the Allied positions.

The 48 Tianlong fighters erected a protective film for the "Weilong" at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and the "Sparrow" air-to-air missiles produced by the Huangdao Company and the latest "Fairy Penguin" air-to-air missiles produced by the base were the sharp swords of the "Tianlong" to pierce the enemy. In the face of nearly 100 advanced US fighters, the pilots of the "Tenryu" were brave and fearless. With the existence of the "Spinosaurus" early warning aircraft, the "Celestial Dragons" did not suffer a loss in the competition with the US F-110A Mithra (ancient Persian god of light) fighters carrying AIM-120 prison air-to-air missiles. Relying on the excellent maneuverability and strong power of the J-39E "Tianlong", the AIM-120, which is claimed to be "locked and shot down" like the "Fire Phoenix-8" air-to-air missile, did not have the courage as imagined, and in the first round of line-of-sight strikes, more than 20 "prisons" only shot down 6 "Tianlong".

Under the guidance of AWACS aircraft, the "Tianlong", which was the last striker, also shot down 5 "Mithra" in the first round of confrontation. The F-110A, which was pinned on by the Americans, did not fall behind in the confrontation with the advanced fighters of the Han Dynasty, but it disappointed the top brass of the US Air Force, who thought that the combination of "Mithra" and "prison" would definitely be able to dominate the sky like the "dragon and phoenix" of the Han Kingdom.

In fact, whether it is in terms of fighter performance or air-to-air missile range and tracking capabilities, the F-110A and AIM-120 perfectly reflect the strong scientific research and military capabilities of the United States. It can be said that if the opponent of the US Air Force is not the Royal Air Force, then the combination of "Mithra" and "Prison" is definitely a difficult opponent.

The German "Black Knight" fighters, which are still taking pleasure in bullying the relatively weak Soviet Air Force, are predictably blown up in the face of the US F-110A because of the performance limitations of radar and missiles.

Resource bans and economic sanctions have left the continent somewhat isolated. The super-fast replacement speed of the fighters of the air forces of China and the United States dazzled the Germans. In short, the German Führer ordered that the "Black Knight" should no longer be technically improved, but that a new generation of German fighters should be directly developed with higher technical specifications, so as to surpass all the fighters already in service in China and the United States in terms of performance.

Closed R&D, and the protection of all aspects by the German Gestapo forces, left agents in other countries with little information about the new German fighter planes, and even the Reichsmitage Six and the newly created European Division of the Economic Investigation Bureau did not gain much.

It's just that in the skies of North America, relying on early warning aircraft to multiply the combat power of the Air Force, the combination of Dahan's heavy fighter J-42A "Raptor" and "Fire Phoenix" air-to-air missiles is still staging a myth of "seeking defeat alone".

In the sky above Admore, when the "Draco" group and the "Mithra" team entered the "dog fight" mode, and the chase game in the sky was hotly staged, the 24 "Raptors" 120 kilometers away began to lock on their prey under the command of four "Spinosaurus".

Radar locks, smooth flight, "Fire Phoenix" unlocks, confirms the target...... When the pilot pressed the launch button, the heavy "Raptor" fuselage also trembled slightly, and at the same time, the two "Fire Phoenixes" that left the pylons roared out with scorching flames.

And the "Raptor" also became lighter because of the sudden unloading of a load of nearly a ton. 5、4…… Five seconds later, the "Fire Phoenix" entered the stage of active radar guidance, and no longer needed the data provided by the "Raptor" radar, and could also find its own targets on its own.

The eight "Raptors" launched in the first round were divided into two wings in the air, drawing a beautiful double-palm lifting pattern, giving up the airspace suitable for attack to the next "Raptor" squadron.

Dozens of seconds later, in the ears of the pilots of the "Raptor" group, the loud shouts of the radar operators on the AWACS aircraft were heard, "Beautiful, 14 out of 16!" ”

A regular "Raptor" squadron, eight fighters, launched sixteen "Fire Phoenixes" in a single round, and shot down fourteen American fighters! Such a shooting percentage, such a record...... It's a little speechless. You must know that the "Fire Phoenix" did not shoot down second-generation fighters like the F-86 Sabre or F-11 that had no way to deal with medium-range active guidance missiles, and in one round of attacks, it shot down 14 F-110A, the most advanced third-generation fighters of the US Air Force. I wonder if Spatz, the commander of the US Air Force, who has always asked to avoid the war, will bleed in his heart when he learns of such a battle -- the F-110A has just successfully flown and walked off the production line. Mithra, who has less than 100 planes in the entire U.S. Air Force, is counting on the "God of Light" to bring light to the United States.

The battle was not over, and even if Spatz wanted to disobey the president's order and withdraw the group, he would not have been able to notify him in a matter of minutes. In the skies over Gainesville, halfway between Ardmore and Dallas, it took only 120 seconds for the RAF "Raptors" to change formations.

Three minutes later, when the second round of roaring "Fire Phoenix" shot down 11 more "Mithra," the air commander of the US aircraft group took the lead in giving the order to evacuate.

33 to 8, such a record is not unexpected in the showdown between the Han and US air forces. From the West Coast and Sierra Nevada to Phoenix and the Gulf of Mexico, the Royal Air Force has been gradually reducing the scope of the US Air Force with battle losses of about five to one.

However, in the air battle of Ardmore, when the Royal Air Force lost all eight fighters of the "Celestial Dragon" and the 33 fighters shot down by the US military were all "Mithra", the heart of the commander of the air force, Admiral Spatz, became cold. This means that the U.S. Army Air Force is simply not capable of resisting the attack of the Royal Han Air Force.

The backwardness of the early warning aircraft in the air made it possible for the "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" to easily shoot down the "Mithra" at a long distance, while the "Prison", which had almost the same range, had no more room to play and was reduced to a dog fight with the "Sky Dragon".

This is not a matter of tactics, the US military also has a significant number of short-range fighters. Like the role of "Tianlong", a large number of fighters such as F-9 Black Panther and F-105B Lei Gong can do the same or even better.

However, without long-range warning, what if more fighters are sent? One Spinosaurus can lock on and guide sixty targets, and one Raptor can attack four targets at once. Spatz believes that it is necessary and necessary to protect the existing fighters until the long-range early warning of the US Air Force is resolved. Otherwise, even if the E-3 "Watchtower" early warning aircraft, which claims to be comparable to the "Spinosaurus" of the Han army, can enter service, the strength of the air force will be damaged heavily, and how will it confront the Allies at that time?

Using a large number of colonial troops, the Army's battle against American GIs has been a wake-up call for the Air Force. The Grand League has a large population, more resources, and greater industrial capacity than the United States.

Aircraft factories in the United States can produce dozens of advanced fighters every day, but what about Han? Admiral Spaths has been closely following the Royal Air Force of Dahan since the start of the African campaign. Although there are only a few Han aircraft factories that he is familiar with, such as Huangdao and Han Fei, he believes that as long as the Han Emperor is willing, the Han Kingdom can definitely come up with more fighters in a short time.

This conclusion puzzled Spats, but he had to go to war in North America, and after several defeats by the U.S. Air Force, he developed a strategy for the Air Force to temporarily avoid the war and keep the planes for the later decisive battle.

It is inevitable to find a spray and be scolded. Spatz made up his mind that no matter how others insulted him, even if he was a coward, a traitor, etc., he must keep the plane and stick to the service of the E-3.

But after the "Christmas speech", the president's order was something that Spatz could not refuse under any circumstances. If you persist in disobedience, then the result is very likely to be that you will be removed from your post and replaced by a commander of the air force, and then the US Air Force will still attack, still in the absence of advanced early warning aircraft.

Only by keeping one's position can one hold out for the US Air Force until the appearance of fighter planes and hope for the United States. So, the Battle of Ardmore, the US Army Air Corps went all out...... Unfortunately, the miracle did not happen, and the fiasco ended long before Spatz expected. This also strengthened its strategy of avoiding war and protecting planes and waiting for the "watchtower".

On the Allied side, the Air Force commanding Admiral Long Xiaotian received a result of 84 to 13, and the Royal Air Force paid the price of eight "Tenryu" fighters, shooting down a total of 84 American fighters. In addition to the 33 "Mithra", more than 50 US bombers and attack planes that lost their escort were shot down.

The other five planes shot down by the Royal Air Force were all "Weilong," and in the battle of attacking US armored units at low altitudes, the US shoulder-mounted "Stinger" surface-to-air missiles were still full of power. The "Stinger," which has a range of more than 3,000 meters, does not pose any threat to fighters fighting at high altitudes, but when the "Weilong" dives to a low altitude and attacks armored targets with air-to-ground missiles, the Stinger has a very good chance of hitting the "Weilong."

In particular, the "Stinger" missile plus the launcher is only a few tens of kilograms, and it can be carried and moved by a single soldier, and it is very concealed, and it is very difficult to give priority to strikes.

But such losses are worth it. When the U.S. armored charge was about to break through the third line of defense of the Allied forces, it was stopped in time by a precision strike from the air. Each G-40C "Veyron" can carry as many as sixteen "Long-crested Penguin" light air-to-ground missiles, condescending to attack, not to mention the "matchbox" like the M4 Sherman, even the M26 Pershing heavy tank, will be easily destroyed. The turret and upper armor are the Achilles heel common to all tanks. Perhaps the only exception is the "Mammoth", the "Mammoth" heavy tank with all-round super protection capability and strong anti-air combat capability, which is the fighter of the rooster and the Tyrannosaurus rex of the dinosaurs.

Similarly, because the equipment is too thick, the "Mammoth" cannot adapt to most types of battles, and North America is full of rivers, if the "Mammoth" comes here, not to mention how much role it can play in the battle, I am afraid that its slow movement ability and bulky size will cause many commanders to worry.

Africa, and only the desert areas of Africa and the Middle East, is a paradise for "mammoths" to gallop to their heart's content. It is also because of this that Marshal Wang Yizhe, the commander of the imperial garrison in Africa, dared to make a bold statement: as long as there is the 30th Guards Armored Division, Africa will always be the empire.

That's a bit exaggerated, it's not crazy! Rather, unlike the four colonial regions, the empire did not legally assert sovereignty in the Middle East and Africa. The Middle East and Africa were not nominally imperial overseas territories, but had independent states and governments.

Although, whether it is Marshal Wang Yizhe in Africa or General Yu Xuezhong in the Middle East, the two generals from the Northeast Army are the emperors in the actual sense of the entire region. Its authority is the same as that of the Dragon Fat Man in Hawaii, and it is no different from the four governors.

Many people do not understand why His Majesty did not agree to the establishment of satrapies in these regions to implement the rule of the empire. Zhong Yi could not explain the wave of colonial independence that lasted for decades after 1945.

It's just that if the empire can achieve victory in the North American war, will the end of the colonial era be postponed? Is there still any soil for the surging war of independence in various places?

But no matter how the history that has been changed beyond recognition changes, Zhong Yi has no intention of giving up Nanyang, the Western Regions, and Dongying, or even the Beihai, that is, the Far East. These places are all places where the Chinese have multiplied, survived or opened up wasteland in thousands of years of history, leaving sweat and wine and blood. Since the long-suffering Xinhua still needs to recuperate and grow, then let the Han Empire become the messenger of protecting China!

Where there are Chinese, there is the five-clawed golden dragon banner of the Han Dynasty, and there is the mighty army of the Han civilization. The four governors' palaces represent the four major overseas settlements of the Chinese, which are the traditional sphere of influence of the Han people, and the coast of the land where the emperor goes.

As for Africa and the Middle East, it is not impossible to plunder resources aggressively or cooperate with locals to obtain resources after the changes of the times, as long as the Arabs and blacks do not block the "road to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the dream of the rise of a great power", and give them some space to survive.

Only the United States, a harmonious and complete United States of America, must not be tolerated by Zhong Yi.

In the previous life, in the previous life in which China suffered for decades, in the 21 st century, it is still a situation in which China and the United States are vying for hegemony. So in this life, when the Han people are unprecedentedly strong, when the Han Dynasty is strong, and the descendants of Yan and Huang are once again infinitely close to the top of the world's nations, how can Zhong Yi allow a fateful enemy to develop and grow?

When the report of the fierce battle of Almoder was transmitted back to Chang'an, when the Yuzhou Regiment struggled to block the fleeing American troops in Dallas in Gainesville, when the Qingzhou Regiment and the armed forces of the American Workers' Party took the lead in entering Dallas's Dealey Square, and when Marshall's "Blizzard Knights" operation finally succeeded in rescuing nearly 200,000 American troops from four armored divisions and six motorized infantry divisions, the discussion on "transoceanic landing" and opening up a second battlefield in North America on the east coast of the United States had already begun.

The General Staff of the Imperial Army organized a strategic exercise on the course of the war in North America, in which several marshals of the Empire and the military commanders of the Allied countries participated.

Ye Weixunyuan, chief of the General Staff, said in his summary report: If the attack is carried out step by step, state by state and city by city, then after the Allied forces gradually penetrate deep into the hinterland of North America, the battle line is gradually lengthened, and the resistance of the US forces becomes more stubborn, the combat operations of the Allied forces will no longer be as smooth as before. It is inevitable that you will encounter greater and more difficulties, and winning each battle will become more difficult. With the strength of the Allies in North America now, forcing the U.S. government to surrender will be more than three years or even impossible without the use of unconventional weapons!

Given the strategic depth of the United States, and even taking into account the larger area of Canada, and making strategic deductions based on the current strength of the US military and the combat strength of the Allied forces, a large proportion of the results of the complete conquest of the United States are impossible......

According to Chung, the capture of the Gulf Coast states and the pressure of the U.S. government to accept armistice negotiations and recognize the independence of the southern region were also considered impossible.

With the United States forces still strong in their military power, even if the Allies forcibly supported the establishment of the workers' regime, it would not be possible to maintain the confrontation with the government in the north for a long time. Unless...... The possibility that the Allies had been stationed in North America for a long time in large numbers has proven to be unrealistic! Millions of Grand Alliance troops stationed in North America? I'm afraid that when the time comes, if you don't have to fight others, the empire itself will drag itself down.

This also included the weaker Indian kingdoms.

In short, on the premise that the United States military retains considerable strength, the "Hou Xi" plan can hardly be called a success. If we want to "divide the United States into three parts," we must completely defeat the US military, make the envisaged three countries more balanced in military strength, or at least achieve confrontation with the help of the empire.

There are only two ways to achieve this goal.

One is just as Marshal Jiang Yunzhi said: Continue to bomb the United States with nuclear weapons, throw a dozen or twenty "little naughty monsters," completely destroy major cities in the United States, destroy the industrial infrastructure of the United States, and create a number of "dead places" in the economically developed regions of North America.

If His Majesty continues to be cautious about the use of atomic bombs, then the only way to resolve the North American war is for the Allies in Europe to temporarily abandon their deterrence against Germany, carry out transoceanic landings, open a second battlefield on the east coast of North America, and destroy the living forces of the American forces as much as possible to force the United States Government to surrender.