-Chapter 490: The Cossack Civil War (I) -

Liang Junchao is no longer the novice pilot of the year, after several years of tempering, at this time he has grown into an elite ace pilot with a record of 53 crashes, and he is also an air force flight captain, and he is also the same as the Chinese Imperial Air Force volunteers. When Liang Junchao saw that the opponent's plane was directly rushing towards his own group, he also ordered all his fighters to meet it at full speed.

As soon as Shi engaged, Liang Junchao fired an accurate long point shot and exploded the oncoming Russian plane in the air, and the excited Liang Junchao whistled as if he had been in the World War. The pilots under him all knew that the captain would only whistle when he was very excited, and it seemed that he had not smelled the smell of gunpowder for more than a year, which had made Liang Junchao suffocated.

"Captain, why don't those four planes come up behind you have propellers? What are they here for? Liang Junchao's wingman Zhao Chengdong was startled by the four silver planes that flew past them, and their strange shapes also aroused Zhao Chengdong's curiosity.

Liang Junchao grinned and said: "Who knows, these planes should be the new guys of the China Foundation, and we can use them in the future." The pilots above are all elf pilots of the Iron Army, it is said that they came to the front line to test the new aircraft, don't underestimate them, these elves are the absolute main force of our air force, and they have nothing to say about their skills. ”

Zhao Chengdong, who had just joined the army, had not been on a mission with the elves, but he also knew the power of the elves, because until now, the combat effectiveness of the elf air force has always been a myth in the whole world.

Liang Junchao also didn't know much about the performance of these aircraft, but vaguely knew that they might be the next generation of fighters installed by the Chinese Air Force, and after a while, the performance of these aircraft stunned him.

Four silver warhawks streaked across the sky with a turbulent current, and before the Russian pilots could react, the four planes flew past them.

"Oh my God, what do I see?" "What's that?" There was an exclamation of surprise in the radio communication channels of the Russian pilots.

The pilots, whether on the side of the Russian or Cossack Empire, or on the side of the Chinese Imperial Volunteers, were stunned at that moment, they had never seen a flying machine with such a fast speed.

Although the pilots on both sides were stunned, the result was different, the pilots of the Cossack Empire and the Chinese Empire Volunteer Army were stunned, which did not bring any bad consequences, while the Russian pilots' stunned became their lifeline.

These four planes are the latest Type 10 test machine of the China Foundation, which is very different from the previous aircraft, they no longer rely on the propeller to pull the aircraft forward, but use a new concept of turbojet engine.

Due to Fang Xiaoyu's focus on research and development using the upgraded Xiaofeng, the engines of the Chinese Empire skipped the heyday of methanol water injection technology and two-stage turbocharged propeller aircraft, and directly advanced aircraft technology to the jet age.

The 10 type test machine uses a turbojet engine with a thrust of 2,700 kilograms, which is equivalent to 2,400 horsepower when converted into horsepower, although there is still some difference between the power of the 2,800 horsepower propeller engine in the late stage of World War II on the earth, but the speed can definitely be far exceeded, after all, the maximum speed of the propeller aircraft due to structural problems is 785 kilometers per hour, while the 10 type test machine can reach 1,000 kilometers per hour. This surprised the Russian pilots who flew the P-26 fighter jets, whose speed was only 320 kilometers per hour, less than a third of the others.

Flying the No. 02 test test machine, the elf Ida lightly pulled the operating stick, and the plane quickly turned back with a rising and backward action, and he relied on the visual power that was twenty times higher than that of humans, and instantly locked the tail of a P-26 with an optical sight, and before the pilot of the P-26 could react, the six 12.7 mm machine guns on the plane let out an angry roar, and the dense fire was like a steel whip on the fuselage, instantly hitting the P-26 with a less solid structure and exploding in the air. Several other test machines have also started the same attack.

The Russian pilots only woke up from a dream after being attacked, they hurriedly made evasive maneuvers, and began to turn one after another, they no longer cared about the enemy's two hundred Golden Eagle 2 fighters, and now they only had those silver demons in their eyes.

A P-26 took advantage of Ada's turn and quickly bit the tail of her plane, and through the blister-shaped canopy with good visibility, Ada spotted him immediately. Ada, who was bitten by the tail of the plane, did not panic at all, she gently pulled the joystick into her arms, and the No. 02 verification machine immediately began to climb vertically as soon as the tail of the machine pouted.

It was very dangerous to climb vertically when bitten, such a maneuver would expose the largest area of the aircraft, giving the opponent a very large target, making it easy to be shot, but before the Russian pilot could begin to rejoice, the extremely fast Demonstrator 02 had lost a trace in his sights.

The Russian pilot gritted his teeth and began to climb as well, to catch up and see what this terrible silver demon was. Ida didn't drive at top speed, he just teased the Russian plane to continue climbing

When they climbed to nearly 7,000 meters, the nose of the Russian pilot's fighter plane sank, and the altitude began to fall instantly, the limit altitude of the P-26 had been reached, and it had no ability to climb, but at this time, the Russian pilot was surprised to find that the silver demon was still continuing to climb, and the speed was getting faster and faster, its altitude soon exceeded 10,000 meters, and it continued to climb at an unabated speed.

The Russian pilot scolded: "Damn, what are these things, don't they have a ceiling?" ”

Of course, it is impossible to have a ceiling, any kind of aircraft has a maximum ceiling, Ida has been climbing the plane to an altitude of 15,500 meters, which is also the limit altitude of the Type 10 test machine, and then she was satisfied with a break of the joystick, the plane dived at a large angle, rushing towards the Russian aircraft group below.

With a screeching sound that pierced the air, the six machine guns roared again, and Ida blew up another P-26 with precision, and then she grazed the wings of the two enemy planes, and dived until low altitude before lowering the speed brake. The plane slowed down, then pulled up again at low altitude and continued into the air fight.

With the help of four ultra-high-speed Type 10 demonstrators, the Cossack Air Force easily defeated the Russian Air Force, destroying nearly 200 P-26 fighters and losing less than 30 of its own, and the P-26 became a veritable toy gun.

After the air battle, the Russian pilots submitted a report on the Silver Demon to their superiors, but the Russian Air Force brass was not convinced, believing that the strange aircraft had been invented by the pilots to disguise their incompetence, but the report aroused the interest of the Boston military attache who came to Russia to deliver the latest batch of P-26 fighters, and he brought the report back home.

The Imperial Government of Boston took this report very seriously, but it was a pity that the demonstrator had obtained sufficient test data after participating in the first few air battles. When the Boston Empire sent personnel to Russia to investigate, they had already returned to the Savage Continent, and the Savage Continent was so tightly sealed that spies from all countries could not approach it. After a period of fruitless investigation, the mysterious craft was given the name UFO, and the report was sealed by the Boston Intelligence Agency, and it was not until years later, when the Imperial Air Force of China publicly displayed the jet fighter, that they woke up from a dream.

The victory or defeat of the air battle does not affect the trend of the entire campaign, still less can it replace the land war; at least in this era, the air force is still in the early stage of development and has not yet been able to replace the army.

Just after the first round of bombardment by the bomber group on the Russian ground targets, the Cossack artillery, with the same firepower as the Imperial Chinese Wehrmacht, began to shell the ground, and the dense raindrops of shells exploded on the ground, causing the Russian front-line infantry, who had just been glad that they had not been hit by the planes, to face head-on. After the shelling, a large number of Cossack soldiers with semi-automatic rifles charged the Russian positions under the cover of Grizzly 1 combat vehicles.

Combat vehicles have appeared on the battlefield for several years, and countries have been developing anti-tank weapons, at this time there are many anti-tank weapons in the hands of Russian soldiers, first of all, the long-barreled large-caliber combat anti-aircraft guns in the hands of individual soldiers, but the armor-piercing ability of these anti-aircraft guns is insufficient, and they can only be effective against thinly armored targets such as armored vehicles, or aiming at the rear armor and tracks of tanks.

The real countermeasures are the 37 mm anti-tank guns they are equipped with, these 37 mm guns are enough to penetrate the homogeneous steel armor below 40 mm, although they still can't penetrate the 70 mm thick front armor of the Grizzly 1 tank, but it poses a great threat to its side armor, as several Grizzlies are destroyed in the way, the charioteers soon discover this, and the batteries of each tank began to turn frequently, aiming at one cannon after another, and bombarding them all into the sky.

The chariots driven by the Cossacks turned frequently, so that the battle defense guns in the hands of the Russian army had an opportunity, and the tracks and rear armor of the Grizzly 1 tank also began to be frequently succeeded by the war defense guns, although the Russian troops on the battlefield lacked enough heavy weapons, but they had a selfless enthusiasm for fighting, and for a time they fought with the Cossack army with superior equipment, and they did not fall behind at all.