Chasing and fleeing, this tank battle that Qi Yiming was looking forward to evolved into a competition of off-road performance of two generations of Chinese and Soviet tanks. The 78th Tank Division is mainly equipped with T-64s, and there are a few T-80 tanks that are still in a state of semi-test, but it is impossible for T-80 to leave T-64 behind and run by itself, so the overall speed is dragged down to the level of T-64.

The T-64, with a maximum off-road speed of 35 km/h, is excellent among second-generation tanks, but it is nothing compared to the Type 3 of the 99 of the +++. Even with a heavy body of 58 tons, the horsepower 99 tank can easily reach an off-road speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour on the sand, and it is only a matter of time before they start at full speed and catch up with the 78th Tank Division.

This open, flat sand terrain allowed these armored vehicles to drive. The thick sand and dust rolled up by the high-speed movement of the tanks allowed the armored units of the 309th Division to see the enemy's direction from a long distance.

However, Yamakov was not a completely incompetent commander-in-chief, and the sand and dust revealed their position, which could also be a bargaining chip for him to retreat.

"It was found that the enemy was moving in three directions, and because of the sand and dust, it was impossible to judge which one was its main force." Qi Yiming tilted his head, feeling that the enemy was not completely easy to deal with.

Just now, the army aviation cut off the tail left behind by the 78th Tank Division, and also gave their large troops a little time to escape. The three enemy forces now mixed in the thick sand and dust are either evenly divided into three by Yamakov to confuse the pursuit of the 309th Division, or only one of them is his main force, and the others are camouflaged by a few tanks with greater width and depth. The purpose is, of course, to protect the presence of the main force as much as possible, to let go as many tanks as possible from the enemy's pursuit.

It's just that Qi Yiming pondered for a while, then showed a smile and said in a low voice: "In the face of absolute strength, no kind of tricks and tricks will work!" ”

Just when Yamakov and his armored troops thought that they could use this to deceive the Chinese army and increase their chances of escape. On the battlefield, some strange-looking flying machines appeared at medium and low altitudes.

This is the army's reconnaissance drones under the jurisdiction of the 309th Division Special Brigade, which are carried out by vehicle-mounted rocket ejection and recovered by net, and their main function is to provide the army with a wide range of detailed and covert reconnaissance. Moreover, these drones are generally equipped with infrared imaging and other equipment, even in a layer of sand and dust, they can use the heat signature to determine where the enemy's main force is.

"In the middle lane!" Qi Yiming smiled happily and immediately ordered a large tank force to follow up.

When Yamakov saw that the smoke and dust behind him were getting thicker and thicker, he already knew that the Chinese tanks were running faster than them, and he could never escape back to the main force of the 32nd Army just like this, but Yamakov was not willing to be discouraged, and he quickly picked up the communicator of the radio station and asked his boss Fiskov for help.

“…… Please immediately send armored and anti-armored units to support our troops, who are being pursued by a large number of enemy tank units! Repeated, our department was ...... ......"As soon as Yamakov said this, he noticed that their communication equipment was suddenly filled with noise, and they could not convey their message to the friendly forces at all.

"What's going on?" Yamakov was furious, believing that the communications corps had broken the car radio.

"Comrade division commander, all the vehicle-mounted radios in our vicinity cannot be used, it must be the electromagnetic suppression of the Chinese, I heard that the Territorial Defense Force has repeatedly suffered losses from electronic warfare."

It was useless to know the reason, and Yamakov could only hope that when the communication was still smooth for the first time just now, Fiskov had already received his call for help.

The main culprits of all this are the two electronic warfare aircraft converted from the Y-8 flying in the sky - the electronic warfare-8F. After Qi Yiming redressed the whole army, a series of special aircraft had their own numbers, early warning aircraft: KJ (air police), patrol alert aircraft (XJ), anti-submarine aircraft FQ (anti-submarine), electronic warfare aircraft (DZ), psychological warfare aircraft (XZ), flying gunboats (FP) and so on. In fact, most of these aircraft come from the Yun-8 high-tech project, such as the Air Police-200 is Gaoxin No. 5, the anti-submarine -8VI is Gaoxin No. 6, and the Heart Warfare-8VII is Gaoxin No. 7.

However, the original medium-sized propeller transport aircraft platform, the Air Force is equipped with not many Y-8s, and most of them are optimized from the Y-9 based on the Air Police-200 platform.

No. 1 to No. 4 of the high-tech project can be roughly said to be seeking the road to the development of early warning aircraft, and after the KJ-200 platform matures, there is naturally no need to continue production. However, the Air Force still needs a large electronic warfare aircraft that is larger, has stronger electronic suppression capabilities than the Electric Flying Leopard, has greater power, and is mainly used for battlefield electromagnetic hub role, and the DZ-8F came into being.

On such a large plane, there are only 6 passengers, and the rest of the space is basically reserved for various electronic devices. When such an aircraft appears in the sky of a theater of operations, unless the enemy has a strong enough electromagnetic countermeasure capability, it will basically face the situation of communication failure, radar detection failure, active fire control and so on.

The appearance of these two special planes is a lesson that Qi Yiming learned from the previous victory but imperfection of the J-10 and MiG-23 in the absence of early warning aircraft, and ensured that at all times, all aspects of the guarantee can be in place, and he will never hope for the enemy's stupidity.

The sky of the battlefield has belonged to the Chinese since the Territorial Defense Force broke 33 fighters for the second time. Even if the Air Force wants to release a hot air balloon or something, they are not afraid of any danger. In addition to the two electronic fighters, the 24 J-10s of the 37th Fighter Division were fully loaded with bombs, and together with the three Leopard B Brigades directly under Qi Yiming, they also entered the sky of the theater not long after the electric fighters appeared.

The weapons they carried this time were mainly AR-2 anti-tank missiles and LT-3GPS guided bombs, and one medium and one heavy multi-purpose fighters wantonly poured the missile bombs mounted under the wings on the heads of the Soviet armored forces without any obstruction, especially the AR-2, the "Chinese version of the Maverick missile", which was simply terrible for the ground armored troops.

Yamakov's scalp tingled and cried: "What about anti-aircraft missiles? What about our 2K12? "The so-called 2K12 is the battlefield anti-aircraft missile codenamed SA-6 in NATO, which was once equipped in large numbers of motorized infantry divisions and armored divisions of the Soviet Union, and there are also some in the 78 tank division, and it is also the most guaranteed anti-aircraft weapon that Yamakov can use.

But at this critical moment, the last layer of defense he relied on had no effect. The reason is that the DZ-8F has obtained the right to control the electromagnetic after it came out of the field, not only the fire control radar of these missiles has been jumping the needle, and it cannot lock on to the enemy, even if it is launched, it will not be able to sweep the enemy's correct position and become a headless fly.

Qi Yiming dared to so blatantly let the Air Force throw on the head of the 78th Tank Division, of course, he had considered this. The 78th Tank Division naturally also has some anti-aircraft guns, but the range and height are very limited, and the position of the Chinese fighters is basically 40 kilometers away, and then they fight around Yamakov's troops, not close to the inner circle at all, this kind of caution makes Yamakov have nothing to do.

"Well, for those self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft missile vehicles or something, knock them out by name, it's an eyesore." Qi Yiming ordered again, and the red alert pilots of the air force over there were directly instructed, and after they entered the ground mode, they selected those anti-air targets, and then launched missiles to quickly destroy them.

Such a concise and effective strike completely wiped out the air defense in the hands of Yamakov, who was already small, within 10 minutes.

After the air defense was completely contained, the air forces became even more brazen, so much so that an aerial gunboat was directly involved in the attack.

The FP-8X, nicknamed the Cloud Battery, is also an improvement on the Y-8. Compared with the US AC-130 of the same type, although the cloud battery is not much larger, it is much more fierce in firepower. Its fuselage is flanked by two 30mm six-barreled Gatling cannons and two 100mm low-bore autoloading Air Force guns.

The two 100mm caliber air force guns weigh only 1 ton, unlike the 130mm guns of the US AC-130U, which require pure manpower to load, these two 100mm guns can be automatically loaded and produce much less recoil. It's a pity that this thing is also made by Qi Yiming to play, because this air gunboat system uses a lot of advanced technology, including a stronger composite fuselage, an Air Force type hydraulically made retraction gun with a recoil force even smaller than the 57mm gun, automatic reloading in the fuselage, etc., if you don't use base production, manufacturing an FP-8X is equivalent to manufacturing three or even four AC-130U, which is very cost-effective.

Even so, when the cloud battery entered the battlefield, it was like a Titan broke into the dwarf war, after the two Gatling guns turned, a puff of depleted uranium armor-piercing shells swept the Soviet tank on the ground, don't look at its caliber is only 30mm, but the armor-piercing ability is amazingly strong, and the Soviet tank that does not pay attention to secondary damage is always killed after being hit, which increases the killing effect of the cloud battery in disguise.

It's a bit difficult for two 100mm guns to be anti-tank in the air, but the lethality of high-explosive shells is still considerable. At such a high altitude, the shells can be dropped by gravity to increase the damage, and the FP-8X's left and right bows, especially for those armored personnel carriers and infantry units, hit a long field all the way.

Some of the struggling panzers climbed onto the roof of the car and fired at the FP-8X, which was not very high in the air, with their anti-aircraft machine guns, but they were disappointed to find that the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets hit the fuselage of the cloud battery, and even the sparks did not come out, and the seemingly bulky big guy seemed to be covered with a layer of armor.

However, it also reminded the pilots that they were not completely safe, and quickly ran out of their shells, and the FP-8X also completed its mission and quickly returned from the war zone. As a relatively easy plane to shoot down, and it was also an expensive plane, Qi Yiming did not want to add any more results to the Soviets.