If someone asked Xu Jie who he would be more optimistic about if the German High Seas Fleet and the Luftwaffe were to engage in a direct battle between sea-based and land-based aviation. Xu Jie would choose the Air Force. This point is based on historical experience, first of all, historically, under the same technical conditions. Sea-based aviation has too many limitations. If the opponent's land-based air forces are located on scattered islands, then they can be broken individually, and even this will be a long process, for example, when the American imperialism swept the Japanese-controlled islands in World War II, the huge fleet of nearly 10 aircraft carriers took nearly one year to gradually approach the Mariana after Santa Cruz. And if the other side is deployed on the mainland, then the situation will definitely be more tragic.

What's more, who in the German Navy in this plane can use good aviation Xu Jie doesn't know, but in history Richthofen (a relative of the Red Baron, who was once the commander of the Eighth Air Army in history, want to ask this guy who participated in that battle?) The offensive and defensive battles of the Sevastopol fortress were commanded by him. Kesselring, these are the beings of the demons. The former, in particular, is almost at the highest level in Germany at the tactical level. And the latter is also the commander of the air and land of the Ming Dynasty. So Xu Jie is more optimistic about the Luftwaffe.

However, in this sword-wielding exercise, codenamed Ibilisi, what Xu Jie did not expect was that the German sea-based aviation began to occupy a certain advantage in the confrontation with the air force. And the reason for this is also to make people laugh and cry, and even from a certain point of view, the German Navy has a much better grasp of the Ibilis Peninsula than the Luftwaffe on land!

You must know that the German Navy has already deployed submarine bases in Spain as early as the 1st World War. Subsequently, the then Allied Mediterranean Fleet was also stationed in Spain. Although the Luftwaffe also entered Spain, it was a pity that they were all withdrawn to the mainland after the war, while the German Navy remained. In particular, the important coastal military ports of Spain and Portugal were more or less involved in the German navy. The Germans wanted to simulate a real confrontation on land and sea in the Atlantic. However, it turned out that the number of airfields that Spain and Portugal could provide was a drop in the bucket compared to the huge Luftwaffe regiments! And so. After German coordination from the General Staff, a considerable part of the Luftwaffe entered the airfields of the German Navy. Not to mention, these large airports, which were originally intended for four-engine long-range patrol aircraft, are really useful.

One advantage this gave to the Navy was that the Navy knew better about these airfields than the Air Force, where anti-aircraft guns were deployed, from which access could be maximized with the help of the cover of the terrain, and the location of hangars, ammunition depots, pilots' quarters and oil depots, as well as important runways was clear to the Luftwaffe. If that's all there is to it, then forget it. But the key point is that the Luftwaffe and the navy have very different cipher systems and command and dispatch mechanisms, the former is better, for the Luftwaffe can be solved with a new dumb puzzle cipher machine and wired telephone. As for the latter, it will be the life of the Luftwaffe.

The same is aviation guidance. Sea attacks are much more difficult than ground attacks, first of all, the former does not have the so-called landmarks to determine the direction, and the British Royal Air Force night bomber unit in World War 2 even has terrain scanning radar to assist navigation, what do you do at sea? Secondly, the target at sea will move. Even if the reconnaissance aircraft bites the opposing fleet, and the opposing fleet is constantly moving, then the attack aircraft group needs to constantly change course. On paper, if the voyage is 400KM, in actual terms, the group of aircraft attacking the sea follows a broken line. And the words of the land attack. If the necessary tactical elements are not taken into account, then a straight line is taken. The voyage is actually different. The German Navy has been studying this thing for a long time, but the Luftwaffe is almost a smear. And considering the confrontation between the two sides and the conflict that has just erupted, it seems that the German Navy will not be able to do such a thing as directing the air force to attack its own fleet anyway, right? And so. The Luftwaffe decisively fell into the pit.

On the first day of the fight, German sea-based aviation unleashed a massive swarm of 300 planes to take off at dawn and then appeared next to an air base, bypassing the porous radar network along the coast. After a short simulated attack, two squadrons of fighters and a squadron of bombers in the airfield were destroyed. In just half an hour, a Luftwaffe brigade was crippled. Another fleet destroyed a material transfer station. 5,000 tons of spare parts, fuel and other munitions were judged destroyed.

The Luftwaffe, which had been beaten with a stick at the beginning, naturally expressed its unacceptability. After a concentrated maneuver, three squadrons of long-range reconnaissance aircraft searched the fleet at sea from different directions. Thanks to the relatively close range of the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft, the Luftwaffe reconnaissance planes decisively found the position of the other side, but then Kesselring and others discovered a problem, the other side had run out of the range of fighter cover, and simply sending bombers was tantamount to sending them to death. As a result, the Luftwaffe could only watch the other side retreat to the open sea, and the first day of engagement ended.

The next day, the Luftwaffe tended to be conservative in defense, all the radars were turned on, and the fighters took to the air early to prepare to meet the enemy. THE ATTACK OF THE GERMAN NAVY WAS VERY CLOSE, GENERALLY AROUND 350KM. Just imagine, all the rearmament and battle planning can be done at night. When the sun has just risen, they can send a group of planes to attack, and they attack the immobile airfield, not the fleet cruising around, and they don't need to reconnoiter at all, and hundreds of planes directly sweep over. Under such circumstances, the only advantage of sea-based aviation -- the concentration of troops -- was brought into full play! If idealized a little, then the Luftwaffe could even catch up with the average person's breakfast time from the beginning of the dawn to the end of the attack! How can you defend against such a fast strike speed? What's more, some of the Luftwaffe bases use the Navy's radar stations, and the blind spots are clearly grasped. There really isn't much difference between having and not having it! So the Luftwaffe, which had been beaten on the first day, was beaten away again on the second day. Two aviation bases were raided, and although the fighters that were launched in advance had a certain impact on the German Navy, they were unfortunately outnumbered. A maximum of three squadrons of fighters can be deployed at an airfield, and they will have to face a large fleet of 200 to 300 aircraft! After resisting for a while. At least two more brigades were in vain.

As the saying goes, there is a repeat, there is no repeat, there is no repeat, there is a A person can't always fall in a pit, right? But it turns out that at times this is nothing more than wishful thinking. Because until some key issues are solved, it will be difficult for the Luftwaffe to deliver a fatal blow to a massive fleet roaming the seas. And the hastily established command and coordination mechanism also seems to be difficult to deal with the opponent's point-like rapid strike method. The German Navy was not greedy at all. Attacking once or twice a day, the German Navy wanted victory, not a complete devouring of all the Luftwaffe exercise troops, because the latter was unrealistic, and the latter was about 1.5 times as large as the former in terms of total strength. The German military top brass had already taken the actual situation into account when designing this confrontation, because in future battlefield engagements, the German Navy would definitely face superior land-based aviation, so it was normal to give the air force a little more aircraft during the exercise. Even after several rounds of consumption. The Luftwaffe still has an advantage in the total strength, as for the exchange ratio? Well, it's kind of miserable.

However, Kesselring is not a mediocre talent, and he is also adapting to the situation of the war, and has made appropriate adjustments according to the situation in the previous period. First of all, the deployment of the air force began to retreat, and if the enemy fought along the coast, the opponent could easily reach his own airfield, and the efficiency of hitting birds and ending bird's nests was clear at a glance, and in order to place his own airfield was continued to be cut off by the other party, Kesselring rationally chose to retreat. There's no way around it. After all, everyone uses the BF109, and the short legs of this cargo are also famous in the Navy and Air Force.

Second, the establishment of more field backup airfields. Some airfields that had been abandoned because of not very good conditions were used, and these airfields in poor conditions were mainly used for fighter takeoffs. Because there are too many of these similar airports. The Navy also does not know the deployment of the other side. So after these two actions by the Luftwaffe, the strike efficiency of the Navy also plummeted. Because the airfield where the Navy thought it was supposed to be deployed was empty, and the group of planes that had gone out to attack was attacked by Luftwaffe fighters who came out of nowhere. The situation on the battlefield is developing in the direction of stalemate.

But that's not enough. It is a soldier who knows that shrinking the direction of the turtle is a palliative but not a cure. What's more, in the early stage the German Navy was already too far ahead. The result of this delay was the victory of the German Navy. And this is no less intolerable for the Air Force. Just as the plan was being implemented, Kesselring received instructions from Richthofen. The Air Marshal was very dissatisfied with the results of the exercise. Quite dissatisfied! It was even revealed that the General Staff Department has plans to readjust the aircraft allocation targets that were set not long ago. As soon as he heard this information, Kesselring suddenly became anxious. The difference between winning or losing an exercise is nothing, and if the hard-won share is gone, the marshal will certainly have a dull face, and the Luftwaffe may not be able to fight in the future Iranian campaign.

As for his own future, then I'm afraid it has also ruined most of it, although the air force suffered a lot more losses than the other side during the Italian Civil War, but it finally won, and there are some bright spots, and this time, it seems that from the beginning to the present, there have been all kinds of sorrows. So for the sake of his own future, Kesselring also needs to fight.

"Fight! But! After gritting his teeth for a long time, Kesselring finally decided to invest in the Air Force's own ocean-going reconnaissance planes, thanks to the Air Force's relatively sufficient military expenditures, and these ocean-going reconnaissance planes converted from HE177 four-engine heavy bombers were equipped with anti-air and anti-sea search radars! Moreover, the 4 JUMO engines also provide it with sufficient power, and the larger fuel load capacity makes it have an ultra-long range, which is much stronger than the FW200 ocean-going reconnaissance aircraft currently used by the Navy! These aircraft can even be released in the second half of the night and then patrol the pre-allocated sea area. Although the early anti-sea radar can only be described as sad, the size of the German Navy's fleet was simply too large. More importantly, the German Navy did not have the ability to fight at night. Even if the Air Force told the Navy that there was an HE177 5,000 meters above their heads, the latter would not be able to do it.

Of course, this alone will not work, after all, this is at most a solution to the problem of reconnaissance. The Luftwaffe also needed to solve the problem of attack. With the withdrawal of the air force deployment, it is certainly more difficult for the German Navy to reach the air base, but it is the same reason. It's also not easy to hit the other party by yourself! Thinking about the range, the Luftwaffe found that single-engine aircraft had to be equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks to barely guarantee escort for twin-engine bombers. If it's wartime. Naturally, they will take the initiative, but this is a drill after all. It would have been a failure if a bunch of planes had fallen into the sea because of a lack of fuel or had drowned a few more pilots during the exercise. The planes of the Navy attacking the Air Force are aimed at ground targets, and when they run out of fuel, they can make a forced landing on land. However, when the Air Force attacks sea targets, it is already difficult to track them, and it will be more difficult to estimate the fuel amount. What if something happens? Moreover, as a high-ranking member of the Air Force, Kesselring also knows that the Air Force's ability to attack ships is really limited, and it is no problem for you to let them blow up merchant ships, and it is okay to fight a single warship. But if you want to storm the super fleet covered by hundreds of aircraft, forget it. The Air Force has never practiced this. On the one hand, there is no urgency, and in fact, where is the Air Force looking for fleet training! This exercise is the first time!

So the historical Luftwaffe marshal developed two battle plans. By concentrating some of the advanced twin-engine rapid bombers and long-range twin-engine fighters as attack forces, this force actually has the idea of fighting if it can fight and if it can't. Moreover, according to the construction of Grim et al., the attack aircraft group will give up attacking capital ships such as aircraft carriers and battleships, because the heavy bombs carried by the aircraft group are 500KG, and according to the regulations of the exercise, it is difficult for bombs of this level to penetrate the armor of aircraft carriers, and if they carry 800KG bombs, they will either reduce the range or reduce the number of bombs carried. And diving with such a heavy bomb is a technical job in itself. There are too few people who can do it well. Although these bombs will not actually be dropped on the aircraft carrier, as long as the aircraft makes a dive action, it is precisely because of this problem that the pilot must control the overload and speed of the aircraft when pulling it up. Otherwise, it will get out of control if you are not careful, after all, the bomb is not thrown down, but the counterweight used as a bomb is real!

I thought about my own capital. Kesselring decided to give it a try and form this strike fleet, which could achieve the best results. If you can't get it, forget it, anyway, don't expect them to fetch food. Although there are not much expectations for the defeat of the High Seas Fleet itself. But when it comes to breaking the sword of the High Seas Fleet, this Air Force genius has a lot of ideas! As long as the sea-based aviation of the German high seas fleet can be severely damaged, then at least it will be an invincible and undefeated ending, and if it actually engages, then it will be the air force that will be earned, because the training of sea-based aviation itself is much more difficult than that of land-based pilots, not to mention that taking off and landing on warships is a big problem.

Although the air force is not as strong as the navy in terms of naval attack, when it comes to air combat, the air force is stronger than the navy, and the air force with ground support has more advantages than the navy in terms of tactical dispatch and the convenience of tactical selection. Not to mention, the air force fighting at home can use the ground tower and the air force's own radar to better understand the opponent's movements. As the deployment of the air force shrinks, the other side needs to go deeper and more dangerous if it wants to hit the airfield. This not only means more distance and more opponents, but also more opportunities for the Air Force to use its own tactics.

"There's no need for us to fight to the death with each other's fleet at the beginning, which is inefficient. We should be like wolves and let our opponents run first. The range of the opponent's fighters is almost close to the limit, and if we make the opponent abandon the auxiliary fuel tank prematurely after the opponent enters the battlefield, then it is obvious that these aircraft that have lost the auxiliary fuel tank will not be able to continue to escort after intercepting a wave, so they can only evacuate. After a few harassments and attrition, their fighters will be reduced to a very low range, and at that time, we will be able to solve the problem once and for all with only one fighter wing. In the end, Kesselring developed a plan specifically for the characteristics of sea-based aviation, and of course, these fighters who prematurely cut off the auxiliary fuel tanks could not be spared, and the air force would concentrate ace pilots to intercept those who were in a hurry to go home.

And the final battle really did not exceed Kesselring's predictions. Two days before the end of the exercises, German naval aviation finally suffered the only crushing defeat of this exercise. As in the past, as many as 400 aircraft of various types took to the skies, perhaps because the victories of the previous period had exhausted their character. Just ten minutes after the group departed, an Air Force HE177 ocean-going patrol plane spotted this huge formation at an altitude of 6,500 meters. To take into account the bombers, the German naval aviation flew at an altitude of about 4500 meters. Coupled with the light, the Air Force patrol aircraft was not found more than 2,000 meters above their heads. At this time, the straight-line distance between the two sides is only about 30 kilometers. When a swarm of photoelectric light appeared on the radar display screen, the German pilots were also taken aback. Soon, though. The captain who commanded the plane found that the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune had come! At such a distance, it is difficult for the other party to visually find the direction of the backlight of the HE177. The plane, equipped with a long-range radar, could see the huge fleet. Although there will definitely be a large error in distance and direction angle, there is no problem at all in tracking the direction of movement of the other party. Thus, the Ibilisi massacre officially began.

Kesselring, having received the news, did not immediately intercept these targets in the open sea. There are probably about 150 fighters out of 400 aircraft. The number of this wave is larger than the original, and it seems that the other side intends to end with this victory. In order to surprise the other party, Kesselring also adjusted his plan slightly, and did not launch harassment and interception prematurely, but waited for the other party to enter the land airspace, and first took off a batch of twin-engine planes under the guidance of the radar, far behind the target group. The rearview field of BF109 was already tragic, so that the fighters of the two groups successfully avoided the field of vision of the HNA with the help of the terrain and the cover of clouds.

Subsequently, the first fighters, who entered from 8 o'clock, began to attack the HNA group from the flanks and rear. The fighters located in the rear were forced to drop their auxiliary fuel tanks and prepare to meet the enemy. After some entanglement, the other side withdrew, and as Kesselring had estimated, the Navy fighters who had lost their auxiliary fuel tanks and had gone through an air battle were running out of fuel. The commander in charge of leading the team was also unambiguous and decisively agreed to the group's request to return home. After several rounds of harassment, not many HNA fighters were shot down, but as many as 50 or so withdrew from the battle. Generally speaking, it should be over at this point. But just as the planes were returning, a large formation was vacated in the rear line of defense, which was right under the muzzles of the two twin-engine fighters attached behind. These bomber killers, who entered almost from the rear at 6 o'clock, scattered the entire right flank of the group at the first time. These guys, who were supposed to deal with heavy bombers, have terrible firepower and armor, and they can't beat the fighters in a dogfight. But when the target is a single or twin bomber, it can be described as a tiger into the flock.

Caught off guard, HNA fighters missed the first wave of interceptions. Then, when their fighters regrouped to intercept them, the rest of the German fighter wings went into battle. After some time of attrition, the Luftwaffe already had an absolute advantage. Bomber carrier bombs naturally do not escape fighters. And if the bomber does not leave, the fighter must defend itself against the attack of the other side. And in the chaos of the battlefield, even if the group received an order. I'm afraid it's only a part of it, after all, the entire fleet has already fallen under the attack of superior opponents. The formation was all out of order. Even many fighters can only defend themselves.

Not only was the Shanghai Airlines suppressed on the battlefield, but even the fighters who returned early were constantly intercepted by the radar-guided fighters. Kesselring used the tactic of intercepting with both single and twin engines. Twin-engine aircraft has a lot of fuel and can maintain high-speed cruising for a long time, while Hainan Airlines' BF109 must also maintain high-speed cruising in order to get rid of its opponents, so the fuel consumption is relatively large. Coupled with the fact that the fighters did not emerge from the front, these aircraft also required constant combat.

"We are like a herd of deer stalked by wolves, attacking and tempting in turn, consuming our bodies. Until it finally dragged us down. Many comrades-in-arms were not judged to have been shot down, but were forced to admit defeat because they ran out of fuel. The other side made full use of their advantages, and I have to admit that it is difficult for HNA and Army to have the advantage in a head-on confrontation. A German fighter squadron leader said of the engagement.

The Luftwaffe adheres to the principle that if you can't beat it, you will be killed, the bombers will definitely not be able to run away, and they will be shot to death, and the fighters will be consumed alive. In the end, no more than 120 planes could go back to the huge fleet! Well, in addition to these reasons, there is an important reason that Kesselring, while intercepting the HNA group, also sent a sea attack formation. Let's not talk about how it is, but at least the momentum is enough. The German navy was forced to retreat about 40 nautical miles. And it was this distance that made some planes that could have gone back finally judged to fall into the sea.

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