Chapter 453: Air Defense in Important Areas

Although the aerial bomb is not very expensive, it weighs at least a few tens of kilograms, and more importantly, the bomber has to consume a large amount of precious high-octane aviation gasoline every time it performs a mission, which is undoubtedly a great burden for Japan, which relies on imports for most of its crude oil and has exhausted the hard currency in its treasury. Even though the Americans secretly gave loans to Japan many times, they were loans after all, and they would have to be repaid in the future, not to mention that the United States had put forward some harsh conditions that were intolerable to the Japanese authorities but had to endure

In this case, the Japanese army continued to be economical in all kinds of military supplies such as ammunition and fuel, and if an aerial bomb blew up a tank or even just a truck, then it was worth the money, but if an aerial bomb could only kill one or two ordinary infantrymen, it would be too unworthy. Moreover, even if Japan's army and navy are desperate to attack with all their might, it will be difficult to achieve great results in dealing with light infantry like anti-aircraft guns fighting mosquitoes, and with the financial resources that the Japanese government is now struggling with, even if it does not hesitate to completely bankrupt the domestic economy and even break out a large-scale uprising because of this, at best it will be able to kill and injure tens of thousands of Chinese light infantry, which is like tickling for the Northeast People's Liberation Army, which has a total strength of more than one million, and the PLA's ground air defense capability is constantly increasing. In particular, there must have been a lot of losses on the pilots, and this is undoubtedly something that the Japanese army, navy, and navy have suffered so much loss from the invasion of China, and as long as the high-ranking officers of the Japanese air force have not been flooded, it is impossible for the Japanese army's elite air force to be consumed in such a worthless way

Therefore, Hu Weidong believes that if the light infantry is the main force. Although the Japanese army has air superiority, it is difficult to give full play to it, and if the devil's air force bombs desperately, it will only be Japan that will not be able to hold it first. In addition, taking into account China's national conditions, no matter how fast the development of industry and science and technology is, it is impossible for the army to achieve full mechanization in the next two or three decades. Therefore, for the sake of the future, Hu Weidong also believes that the second method is better. It's just that the casualties of light infantry combat must be greater than that of heavy armored troops. As a general with troops, after all, he still hopes to sacrifice fewer soldiers, so he put forward the first plan first.

However, as the leader of the party and the army, the great man mainly considered it from the perspective of the overall situation. It all depends on a few elite heavy armies to fight. Perhaps the casualties of the troops will be fewer. However, the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will inevitably be postponed, and the people in the occupied areas will inevitably suffer even more. Moreover, the industrial base was recovered earlier than haode northeast. It also had huge benefits for China's post-war economic recovery and further industrialization.

Therefore, the great man immediately ordered the North China Field Army to temporarily leave the two heavy divisions in Jinzhou, and not to move lightly until our army regained air supremacy or had an excellent opportunity to annihilate the enemy, so as not to be attacked by the concentrated air attack of the Japanese aircraft group. Although Jinzhou was also within the combat radius of the Japanese aircraft, the combat efficiency of the aircraft decreased by one point for every time the attack distance was farther away.

And more importantly, as the gateway to the northeast, Jinzhou's position was originally very important, and the three most elite heavy divisions in China (after the main force of the North China Field Army entered the northeast, the heavy artillery brigade directly under it was upgraded to China's first artillery division, and for this reason, some heavy artillery was also transferred from the Central Plains Field Army, which had no offensive combat mission. After being stationed, its value was further enhanced, which allowed the great man to concentrate all the air defense units that could be drawn out to Jinzhou in accordance with Hu Weidong's tactical idea of "air defense in important areas", so that after the first anti-aircraft artillery division of the People's Liberation Army in Shanghai (the reason why it was placed in Shanghai instead of Qingdao was because Qingdao had a large number of anti-aircraft guns on naval ships to assist in defense. The second anti-aircraft artillery division was also formed, which was fully responsible for the defense of the skies over Jinzhou. The division has a total of no less than 70 antiaircraft guns of various calibers, and has its own radar and searchlight units, and its air defense capability is very strong.

Even so, Taizu was afraid that he would not be able to take enough insurance, and sent a whole regiment of I-16 fighters to Jinzhou Airport, although this type of aircraft was increasingly exposed in performance disadvantages in the face of the new fighters of the Japanese Army Aviation, but with the powerful ground air defense Liliang, the Chinese pilots were still confident that the incoming enemy would not be able to eat and walk around.

It has to be said that it was a clever move for the great man to concentrate the North China air defense Liliang and the fighters of an entire flight regiment in Jinzhou, although with the range of the new Japanese aircraft, it was completely possible to cross Jinzhou to bomb the two big cities of Jinzhou and Pingjin in the west as before, but the devils soon discovered that they were often intercepted by the Jinzhou Flying Regiment when they returned home (there were reports from radar and civil air defense personnel from various places, and the movements of the devil's aircraft group could not be concealed from the Jinzhou air defense headquarters at all). At this time, there must not be much fuel in the Japanese machine, so how dare you fall in love?

As a result, the Japanese fighters had an advantage in performance, but they were beaten again and again by the Jinzhou Flying Regiment, and what was even worse was that the design idea of the Japanese fighters was to give priority to mobility, so even if the Japanese Army Aviation Type 99 fighters that appeared in advance were a generation more advanced than the I-16 fighters, they did not have much advantage in speed, and the Chinese fighter pilots only needed to press the water jet afterburner switch to increase the engine power for a short time, and the speed of the I-16 fighter could even surpass the opponent in a short period of time. Therefore, even if the devil doesn't want to fight, it's not easy to escape

In fact, Japan also mastered the water jet afterburner after receiving the support of the United States (this jishu is an idea, there are not many high requirements for scientific research strength and industrial base, there is no support from the United States in history, and the devil later studied it himself and applied it in the later models. But the problem is that although this method can increase the output power of the aircraft engine in a short time, it will also significantly shorten its life, if it is used frequently, an engine can only be used for dozens of hours before it has to be scrapped, so the Japanese aviation unit requires pilots not to use this switch unless necessary, so that many pilots do not think of this function at the first time, and when they react, they are often entangled by the enemy and difficult to get rid of.

Hu Weidong has clearly told them that the I-16 fighter will be fully replaced by our own new model in the near future, and not long ago it was temporarily decided to purchase 600 of the latest bf109 fighter jets from Germany for emergency, although this aircraft has a lot of defects, but it is still a lot stronger than the I-16, so everyone presses the water jet afterburner switch without any psychological obstacles (to be continued. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )