Chapter 691: Fierce Battle San Diego

The supersonic fighter was even more capable of surpassing the speed of sound and was prone to breakdowns, but it breathed new life into the morale of the already sluggish Axis air forces, and posed a serious threat to the safety of the Wehrmacht's Army Eagle 4B. Although the Axis air command advertised that the only thing that could defeat such an aircraft was its own fault, in reality this weapon did not do enough damage to the Chinese Air Force.

In order to deal with this new type of aircraft of the Axis powers, several missile brigades of the Second Artillery Corps of the Chinese Empire entered the New World for the first time. Being so far from the mainland, it is easy to have all kinds of difficulties, for which they made a lot of preparations in advance. A number of missile vehicles carrying the Hongqi series of anti-aircraft missiles were secretly transported to the San Diego area, and the Boston Air Force was beaten to the ground under the blow of this completely subversive new weapon.

The F104 fighters were only deployed in a group, and relying on these fighters, they maintained an advantage in the battle against the Wehrmacht's Golden Eagle 4B fighters, but this advantage was not long, because there were more powerful fighters in the Imperial Chinese Navy and Air Force.

Soon the Golden Eagle 5 fighters of the Guards and the Navy's Sailfish 2C attack aircraft rushed into the battlefield, and they began to work closely together to launch missiles beyond the range of the opponent's machine guns with the advantage of over-the-horizon air combat. The air-to-air missile, which looked like eyes, flew at Mach 2 towards the smug F104 fighter jet, shooting down eleven of them in a single shot, which made the self-proclaimed elite Boston fighter pilots immediately dumbfounded.

Seeing that they could shoot down their plane at such a distance, these pilots knew that their new plane was no match at all, and they hurriedly turned the nose of the plane and fled into the distance at supersonic speed.

Dozens of F104 fighters quickly fled, supposedly safely towards the rear, unbelieving that they had been locked onto fire control radar from the ground. Soon the Hongqi-3 anti-aircraft missiles on the ground took off into the air and rushed towards the fleeing Boston fleet at three times the speed of sound.

"What's down there?" Out of the corner of his eye, a Boston pilot caught the flames rising from the ground, the tail flames of the missile's rocket engine in flight, and the super-fast missiles crashed into the plane in spite of the opponent's speed of Mach 1.04.

Huge explosions rang out one after another, and in order to insure the missile forces on the ground, three missiles were fired at each aircraft. The three missiles flew in a zigzag pattern, giving these Boston Empire's most advanced jet fighters no chance of escape.

In desperation, a Boston pilot suddenly remembered that the F104 fighter was equipped with the first generation of the Boston Empire's ejection seats. Seeing the missile approaching, he folded his legs together and pressed the switch on the ejection seat. The explosives embedded in the fixing bolts of the canopy were detonated, and the canopy was instantly pushed out by the explosive gas, and then the rocket booster of the seat was activated, shooting the pilot out of the cabin along with the seat.

At this moment, the accident happened, the pilot who had just shot into the air, along with the seat, was torn to pieces by the huge stress of the air, and the pilot did not know what he was wrong until he died. In fact, the ejection seat can protect the pilot of the jet plane from parachuting at high speeds, but there is a limit, and this type of skydiving can only be carried out at a speed of sound, which his plane just surpasses it.

Because the Boston Empire had just developed it and was loaded into the plane before it had time to conduct a full-scale experiment, even the designers did not know about this limitation, and this excellent Boston pilot died in ignorance.

Under the accumulation of the new Hongqi-3 anti-aircraft missiles, a large group of F104 fighters was unlucky, and none of them could escape back, which caused a big headache for the Boston Air Force high-brass. They didn't even know what the actual combat performance of this aircraft was, and they didn't get any scientific research data, which wasted all the hard work of the scientific researchers, and the aircraft factory had to rebuild a batch of fighters to prepare for further testing.

The Guards and Navy carrier-based aircraft, which shot down eleven F104 fighters with missiles in the air battle, did not pursue them, because they had already rushed into the large group of F86 fighters, relying on higher speeds to engage a large number of short-range infrared guided missiles. In the face of the Golden Eagle 5 fighter with a generation advantage, the F86 fighter was powerless, and the Chinese Imperial Air Force severely humiliated the pilots of the Boston Air Force.

Not to be outdone, the Kunpeng 3 bombers were not to be outdone, and they quickly flew over the positions of the Boston Army and opened the terrifying bomb canopy. The bomb bay cover was fully opened, and the bombers threw fifty kilograms of aerial bombs to the ground like beans, blowing up columns of smoke on the positions of the Boston army.

The soldiers of the Boston Army used anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot desperately in the air, but the anti-aircraft machine guns with limited altitude could not threaten the Kunpeng 3 bombers that carried out high-altitude horizontal bombing, and under the attack of a large number of aerial bombs, the Boston Army suffered heavy casualties. The Boston army, which has no anti-aircraft missiles, although it has a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, how can these weapons, which have a maximum firing altitude of only 8,000 meters, be able to attack the Kunpeng 3 bombers flying at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, they can only silently endure the bombing and pray that their air force will appear soon.

With the support of a large number of new weapons, especially the air force and missiles, the Chinese Marine Corps and the landed Wehrmacht officers and men resisted the attack of more than eight million troops with only two million troops. However, due to the high intensity of the battle, the rate of ammunition consumption was too terrifying, which made the very efficient Imperial logistics department also scramble.

Fortunately, the Chinese Empire made full preparations before the attack, and with a large amount of supplies in the Oahu Islands and St. Martin Empire directions, and enough merchant fleets and transport aircraft, the Chinese Imperial Army was still able to withstand it. After gaining a firm foothold, Feng Ju was no longer satisfied with passive defense, and he ordered his troops to take advantage of the interlude in the opponent's attack to launch a powerful counter-charge, completely driving the Boston army out of the vast area near the port of San Diego.

Marshal Pershing suddenly found that after a month of fierce attack, his own side had been advanced by the other side for more than 20 kilometers with more than one million casualties, which made him furious, and what made him even more anxious was that the large amount of medicine purchased and hoarded from the Chinese Empire before the war had been exhausted after such a long period of high-intensity consumption.

The Chinese Empire had already imposed a total blockade on the Axis powers at the time of the war, and the Boston Empire was unable to produce these drugs on its own. After the reserves were exhausted, their wounded soldiers could only endure the severe pain from their wounds, and died silently in the pain caused by the infection of the wounds. And without the help of imported anesthetics, even the success rate of the operation will drop by eighty percent, which will greatly damage the morale of the troops, but Marshal Pershing has nothing to do about it.

Field Marshal Pershing was troubled, and the Secretary of the Air Department, Field Marshal Curtis, was equally troubled, and after much deliberation, he submitted a report to Prime Minister Bauer and Washington III. After receiving this report, Emperor Washington III and Prime Minister Bauer were so shocked that they immediately summoned Field Marshal Curtis together.

Washington III took Marshal Curtis's report, frowned, and said, "Marshal Curtis, what does your report mean that the Boston Air Force is about to collapse." ”

Marshal Curtis said: "In the fierce air battle with the Chinese Empire for such a long time, due to the technical inferiority of our aircraft, our country lost a large number of elite pilots, these pilots are veterans who have participated in the war against the Allies, and they have rich combat experience. However, the large losses of these veterans have filled the air force with a large number of newcomers who have just left the aviation school, and they have all participated in the war after a short period of training, and there is no guarantee at all in the operation of the aircraft, and they do not even have any air combat skills, so they can only reluctantly take off and land. ”

Prime Minister Bauer also knew about this situation, and he continued to ask: "But the performance of our new aircraft has been greatly improved, and it has basically surpassed the two types of fighters of the opponent's Golden Eagle 4, isn't this enough?" ”

Washington III also nodded: "Yes, our fighters are already very advanced, and the latest F104 fighters have also begun to be produced in small batches, I believe that it will soon be popularized to equip the troops, isn't this enough?" What's more, we have lost a lot of pilots, and the Chinese Empire should have lost a lot, and our losses are about the same. ”

Washington III just extrapolated according to common sense, but he didn't know that the Chinese Air Force had very complete life-saving measures, and even if the pilot was shot down, the probability of his survival was much higher than that of the Boston pilot, after all, there were very few ejection seats among the Boston pilots, not to mention that in terms of the number of shots down, there was a gap of nearly three times between the two sides.

Marshal Curtis was very aware of these circumstances, but this time he did not come to calculate the proportion of pilots killed and wounded, and he did not care about the mistakes in Washington III's mouth, he just sighed and said: "But I recently found out that the Golden Eagle 4 fighter is just a low-end aircraft in the high and low combination of the Chinese Imperial Fighters, that is, it is specially prepared for the National Defense Forces, and the newly participated Chinese Navy Sailfish series fighters, as well as the Golden Eagle 5 fighters of the Guards, still have great advantages compared to our fighters. As for the personnel, we can't compare. ”