631 Jet Age

The birth of the Ezo People's Republic was not a big deal in the forties and fifties, with the end of British and French imperialism, a large number of colonies declared independence, and new states were established almost every year, especially in the sixties, with the liberation movement of black Africa, the number of countries in the world suddenly increased. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Of course, the political significance of the birth of the Ezo People's Republic is still obvious, which means that Japan is no longer monolithic, which means that Japan is likely to face a situation of division again in the future. Of course, this makes the Americans quite unhappy, and the Americans are unhappy, and they always have to stand up and do something.

And there are still a lot of things in this world, and there are also a lot of bad points related to the Soviet Union, such as China. In fact, the first year or two after the founding of the People's Republic of China were in a period of integration and adjustment, and although the large group of scrapers of the Kuomintang was wiped out, there were still a large number of remnants of the Kuomintang in the country, and these remnants of the Kuomintang were not willing to be defeated, and hid in the mountains and forests to engage in the most primitive and evil deeds -- bandits or bandits.

In order to enable the people of the whole country to live a peaceful and stable life, a vigorous anti-bandit campaign began. At the same time, Chiang Mou, who was entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands and Hainan Island, and the remnants of Li and Bai, who were entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands and Hainan Island, were not willing to be defeated, and took advantage of the superiority of the navy and air force to constantly attack the mainland, that is, whether it was on the ground, in the sky, or in the sea, a great contest with the remnants of the Kuomintang began.

In the first two years after returning to China, Zhang Huangxin's combat career was also thrilling, and several dangerous situations in the battle of crossing the river almost killed him, but after this stage, everything was still smooth. In 1948, as a top pilot, Zhang Huangxin began to fly jet fighters, which were actually MiG-15s.

This batch of MiG-15s is very valuable, and it is the most advanced fighter purchased with precious foreign currency. The total number is only 60 aircraft, which is just enough to form two regiments and one teaching squadron. At that time, the new Huaxia could fly the MiG-15 and the top of the top.

After half a year of adaptive training, Zhang Huangxin's troops formed combat effectiveness, and at this time, the Battle of Mountain Island broke out in World War I, so Zhang Huangxin's troops entered the battle reasonably.

At the beginning of the battle, according to the unified deployment of General Zhang Aiping, the first thing to do was to seize air supremacy. So Zhang Huangxin began to fight, and at first he did not encounter any difficulties, because the scraping party was still equipped with old P-51 fighters. Perhaps in other parts of the world, the Mustang is still an advanced fighter, but in East Asia, the Mustang is far from enough to see when facing the MiG-15. Zhang Huangxin shot down three Mustang almost effortlessly, bringing his total number of downed aircraft to 35, including 28 fighters and the rest bombers.

I have to say that the Air Force of the People's Party is really a big show, and during the Anti-Japanese War, Chennault and the United States provided foreign aid, and the performance was okay. But from the beginning of the war of liberation, they were a joke. To call them a joke is not to say that they are poor in the face of the weak air force of the PLA, but that they are too good at bragging.

According to the statistics of good deeds, during the two-year war of liberation, the air force of the People's Party announced that it had killed the communists. A million bandits. Let's not talk about the other results, just this million annihilation numbers are worth spitting out for half a month. Why? Two years is 712 days, and if you remove it with one million, you will know that the Scraping People's Air Force killed an average of more than 1,400 enemies a day in the War of Liberation, and you must know that this is two battalions. How strong is the Air Force, which can annihilate two battalions of the Ground Forces in one day, and is the Scraping People's Air Force at this level?

To be realistic, it is not, because the statistics of the results of the enemy's annihilation of the Kuomintang Air Force are basically the upper lip touching the lower lip, and the pilots will casually calculate what they say, and there is no basis at all. Let's put it this way, scraping the data of the People's Party Air Force on destroying the enemy is completely blowing water, and if you seek truth from facts and skim off the water in it, it will be really ugly.

Of course, it should be said that the data of the air force brothers of the People's Party destroying the enemy is quite polite. If the data of the People's Liberation Party's army is even more watery, if the data of their annihilation of the enemy in the war of liberation are accumulated, it will properly exceed 100 million. In history, the Liberation War only lasted four years, which means that the army had to annihilate 20 million **** a year.

That's all for digression, back to the point, in the day's battle, the best-performing MiG-15 fighter pilots shot down five enemy aircraft, and it can be said that the average result was also around two. What is even more remarkable is that only one MiG-15 crashed due to mechanical failure. In addition, several others were damaged. In general, it can be described as a one-sided battle.

The next day, the two sides continued to fight hand-to-hand, but the results were still not much different. Relying on the superiority in speed and vertical performance, the MiG-15 could almost beat the P-51 one-sidedly. After the end of this day's air strangulation, the air supremacy in the waters around Yijiangshan Island has basically been mastered by PLA.

At this time, Lao Chiang learned from the pilots who had escaped by chance that the T Communist Party had obtained jet fighters. This surprised him, and soon Jiang used the skill he had always been best at - kneeling and begging his godfather.

What do you ask for? Naturally, I asked my godfather to support the jet fighters.

Did the Americans have jet fighters at this time? Naturally, there were, that is, the P-80, which was later the F-80, in addition to the F-84. But whether it is F-80 or F-84, there is still a bit of a gap between the performance and the MiG-15, of which the F-84 is good, the F-80 is poor, and the F-84F may be almost the same as the MiG-15, and the real one can be compared with the MiG-15, and the longer and shorter is still the F-86. It's just that at this time, the F-86 is still flying test, and it will definitely not be able to catch up.

When the Americans heard that the T had acquired a jet fighter, they immediately realized that it was supposed to be the Soviet MiG-15. They have also been paying attention to the MiG-15 for a long time, but because of the super secrecy of the KGB, they can't figure out the specific performance data of the MiG-15, so they can only guess.

According to the Americans' guesses, the USSR lagged behind the United States in cutting-edge technology and industrial capabilities, and naturally the MiG-15 lagged behind American contemporaries in terms of performance. And what is the American contemporary? It's the aforementioned F-80. The maximum level flight speed of the F-80 is about 930 kilometers per hour, and the combat radius is about 700 kilometers (maximum range is 2200 kilometers), so the Americans believe that the maximum speed of the Soviet Union's first-generation jet fighter is 850 kilometers, and the transition range is about 500 kilometers.

And what about the real performance of the MiG-15? It should be said that it was completely unexpected by the Americans, and the maximum flight speed of this cargo was close to 1080 kilometers per hour, which was much faster than the F-80, and the maximum range was estimated by the Americans. It's just that the MiG-15 is more maneuverable than the F-80, and the reason lies in the swept wing. As the world's first jet fighter with a swept wing, the MiG-15's flight ability can be said to be quite powerful.

When the Americans are self-righteous and think that the MiG-15 is nothing more than that, I am afraid that it will be carried and fought. At this time, although Truman still hated Chiang very much, he also knew that he was in need of encircling the Soviet Union and curbing the expansion of communism, and he could no longer ignore Chiang. So he reluctantly agreed to the request to sell the F-80 to Chiang.

Note that Truman promised to sell the F-80 instead of military aid the F-80. The difference is huge. Selling is a business act, it is a business, it is a business, and military aid is a free gift, which is a debt of favor. The problem is that for the Scraping People's Party, they bought the plane with real money, but at the same time the Americans said, "You still owe me a favor!" This one must be returned! ”

In other words, the People's Party is not only a grandson of money, but also a grandson, and this business is called a nest. And there is another problem here, there is no problem with buying the F-80, the problem is that the plane can be bought, but the pilot can't buy it! In other words, if the Kuomintang buys this batch of F-80s, I am afraid that it will not be needed for a while, because it takes time to train pilots, especially from propeller planes to jet planes, and the difference here is still very large.

It is even very interesting that the Americans said again: "Selling airplanes does not include training!" If you want to train pilots, you have to pay extra! ”

I have to say that the Americans really make money, and after collecting the training fees of the Scraping People's Party, they do not forget to collect the money for weapons and ammunition again, and as for what spare parts are sold at a high price, even the maintenance service has to be charged. Anyway, the People's Party is really a high-quality buyer comparable to Ah San, and it is really a stupid person who slaughters a lot of money.

Continuing to return to the issue of pilots, if the Scraping People's Party is asked to send seed pilots to the United States for training and then come back to train other pilots and then participate in the battle, it will really be cold daylily. But the pilot can't change it out of thin air! What to do?

Don't worry, there's a way. The relevant US tackling companies first made a suggestion to the Kuomintang that as long as you are willing to give money, we will help you to attack the Congress, and try to help you get Congress to agree to send American pilots to help you fight.

At first, Lao Jiang thought that this method was good, anyway, the real uncle of the United States is Congress, and the president does not necessarily count, as long as the old men of the Senate are willing to raise their noble hands, there is nothing that cannot be done.

It's just that the price offered by the public relations company in the United States really hurt Jiang's eggs, and it was 20 million US dollars as soon as he opened his mouth. How much aid did the United States give him to fight the Japanese back then, but it was only a few hundred million, and he finally saved a little coffer, Nima, as soon as one of your public relations companies opened its mouth, it was 20 million, I wiped it!

If you want to talk about the committee, don't be busy with foul language, because the public relations company in the United States said that 20 million is just their service fee, and the filial piety of the congressmen is another expenditure, so you have to scrape the People's Party out of your own pocket, let alone prepare another 30 million or 20 million!

Can you get $50 million? That must be able to be obtained, he scraped the ground from the mainland, but it was three feet high. However, unlike the leaders of the four V in the future, he is not the unjust leader and can be slaughtered by the United States. So he was resolutely unwilling to pay for this money.

If you can't spend money to buy a road, then you can only find another way, after all, the living can't let urine force you to die, right? What's the other way? The committee quickly thought of the model of the Flying Tigers, can you make another version of the Flying Tigers 2.0, you can volunteer in the past, but now you can pay for it!

Not to mention, this road really works. For Americans, as long as they are willing to give money, they are willing to give their lives. After all, even pilots in the United States do not have a very high status, and there are not a few who sleep on the road after retiring. So as soon as I heard that the commission spent a lot of money to hire pilots, the applicants almost crushed the embassy and consulate of the government in the United States.

After some screening, the Scraping Democratic Party hired the first batch of 100 pilots, and some people may ask if 100 pilots is a bit less? For the time being, it is still enough, because Congress has only approved the sale of 50 F-80 fighter jets to the Scraping Party, and one plane with two pilots is enough.

Of course, the salary of this group of pilots is really not low, 50,000 US dollars a year for each person. Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, an annual salary of $50,000 is not particularly awesome, especially if you still use $50,000 to buy your life, which is really cheap. In later generations, the American mercenaries who mixed up in Iraq and Afghanistan would earn $200,000 a year, to say the least.

The problem is, comrades, the $50,000 in 1948 is not the $50,000 in 2016, and in the past 70 years, the dollar has depreciated more than forty times. That's $50,000 in 1948 worth more than $2 million in 2016! Two million dollars for mercenaries is quite extravagant.

And be mindful that these are just the salaries of hired American pilots, and the Scrape Democrats have to help with insurance, and the contract also stipulates that there will be a large amount of compensation in the event of death or injury. Anyway, these high-priced American pilots are all gold and expensive, that is, only those with deep pockets can afford to use them. In other words, the T Communist Party really doesn't have so much money, at most, it is to ask Big Brother to send a group of pilots disguised as T pilots to participate in the war.

Well, after tossing for a month or two, by the time all these expensive pilots and planes are in place, the battle of Yijiangshan Island has ended. PLA managed to recapture the island and annihilate the island's defenders.

Belch? Is this money in vain? Not really, because after the end of the battle of Yijiangshan Island, the T**** Committee believed that it had accumulated a certain amount of experience in cross-sea operations, and that it could begin to liberate the Zhoushan Islands and Hainan Island.

In order to liberate these two islands, the first thing that must be avoided is the struggle for air supremacy. Therefore, this group of pilots can still come in handy. However, we all know that the compradors of the People's Party are always unreliable, or they will try their best to make money, and it costs a lot of money to bring in this batch of planes and pilots, but when the planes arrive in Zhoushan, they find that they have forgotten a very important thing, and they have patronized the planes and pilots but have forgotten to bring in ground crews, and without the maintenance of ground crews, the planes will not be able to go to the sky. So the commission had to hurry up and bring in ground staff, anyway, it was another toss-up, and in the end the Americans made a lot of money.

In fact, the Americans are not only black, the fifty F-80s sold to the commission are actually second-hand for one or two years, and they are basically transferred from the active duty of the US military, probably Congress thinks that the F-86 will be put into production in a year anyway, and it is quite cost-effective to dispose of this batch of F-80s with poor technical performance at twice the high price.

It was not until the second half of 1948 that this batch of aircraft could be considered to be able to fight in the sky. The early campaign to liberate the Zhoushan Islands also began. Unlike the commission, the introduction of the MiG-15 by the T Communist Party is much more reliable, and the big brother is not so black, basically it is sold at the factory price, as for the incidental instructors and consultants or something, as long as the T has incidental expenses, it is basically given for nothing. After the air battle on Yijiangshan Island, the T Gong also discovered that although jet planes are expensive, they completely blow up propeller planes, and instead of buying a large number of backward propeller planes, it is better to grit their teeth and buy jet planes.

So in the second half of 1948, a total of almost a hundred orders were placed, of which about 48 were transferred directly from the active service of the Soviet Red Army, and the rest were re-produced. As for why it is only a hundred, the reason is that the Soviet side informed the T Communist Party that our more advanced MiG-17 has completed test flights and is being put into production, so you might as well wait and buy a better MiG-17!

This is the difference between comrades and brothers and kowtowing to recognize the godfather, the godfather doesn't care about your life or death, you play with your life when you are valuable, and when you have no use value at all, you will kick it away.

Continuing to return to the topic of air warfare, after the air battle in the early stage of the Zhoushan Islands Campaign began, the commission was looking forward to a turnaround battle for its own air force, especially the American jets and pilots imported at a high price. Not to mention that the F-80 is not at all advantageous in front of the MiG-15, even if it is an American pilot, it is difficult to beat the MiG-15 pilots of the T Communists, and even if they are not careful, they will be blown up in turn.

Just a week after the start of the air battle, fifty F-80s were knocked out of a dozen or a dozen, and more than a dozen were nested in hangars waiting for repairs, and this result stunned the commissioners and the Americans...... (To be continued.) )