Chapter 571: Large-scale air battle
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The appearance of Chinese planes has made Japan nervous, and China's frequent surge in power has made Japan like a fish in the throat. If China and Japan compete for national strength now, Japan will still have the absolute upper hand. However, Feng Yong, the ruler of China, is a time-traveler from later generations, with a vision far beyond this era, and even more aware of the general trend of weapons development, which has allowed China to avoid many crises. Although the Chinese government's finances are inferior to Japan's, it can concentrate on developing strategic undertakings with strong development and great development potential, and Feng Yong's instructions in many respects have also saved the defense army's military industry from many detours. In addition, the world's technological blockade is not as serious as that of later generations, and China took advantage of the opportunity of the Paris Peace Conference to loot in the West and obtain complete technical basic information. China's basic industries are developing in an orderly manner, and the industrial pattern in the coastal areas has taken shape. Some strategic-level military industrial systems are also relatively complete. Now China has the power to protect itself.
On the border between China and Burma, after defeating the field airfield outside the town of Wonan, Chinese planes flew frequently in the following days, covering the entire northern part of Myanmar within the itinerary of Chinese planes. A large number of British military positions in Burma were bombed by IDF aircraft, and some factories established in northern Myanmar were bombed. It can be said that the opium industry in northern Myanmar has suffered enormous losses.
Although Myanmar is not rich, it is a world-famous drug producer, and its annual wealth to the British government is quite abundant. What's more, Britain is now in a critical period of national recovery, and the black income from Myanmar is very beneficial to the development of Britain, which is also an important reason why the British army will send planes here.
Faced with this passive bombing situation, the British command in Yangon had to make adjustments and transfer six planes from another field airfield in Burma. This time, Britain sent a total of 36 planes to the Far East, four of which were sent to the Sino-Indian border to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. The remaining thirty-two entered the territory of Myanmar and were evenly distributed among the two airfields. The last time the Wonan airfield was ambushed, sixteen planes were destroyed and fifteen were destroyed, and only one fled back to Yangon in disarray. This time with the transfer of aircraft from another field airfield, the British air force threat in Burma dropped considerably. The original new tactics are no longer to be feared.
The town of Wo Nan has undergone several bombings, and basically all the buildings have been blown up, and the entire town of Wo Nan in northern Myanmar is almost in ruins. The British 9th Brigade, having suffered heavy losses, had to withdraw from Wonan and retreat the defensive line. The British army is now depressed, and it was supposed that when reinforcements arrived, the British Empire's army would launch a full-scale attack. Let the Chinese army know the power of the world's most powerful army. Who knew that the plane, which was originally used as the army's hole card, suffered heavy losses as soon as it entered the war, and its combat effectiveness was reduced by half. Even with the large participation of Chinese aircraft in the war, Britain could not even control air supremacy. Because in the primeval jungle, large troops did not dare to cross, and could only advance along the official road, which made it much easier for Chinese aircraft to detect.
China is not waging a war of aggression, but a counterattack in self-defense. As a result, the troops are not aggressive in large terms. The Chinese government is very clear-headed, and now it can fight the British, but it must not fight to the death. China's development time is too short, and perhaps with its current military superiority, China can gain the upper hand, but if it really wants to fight a protracted war, China definitely does not have the strength that Germany has supported for several years. Therefore, for the Sino-British war, both sides used the most advanced weapons to compete in cutting-edge fields. For the basic army strength, on the contrary, there are not many troops. The southwestern border of the National Defense Forces is vast, and although the Southwestern Military Region has already entered a state of first-class combat readiness, the number of troops assembled is limited. There are less than 200,000 troops on the entire China-Myanmar border, and the strength of the troops is not great due to the fact that they are scattered across such a vast border. The same was true of the British, who, though frantically sending troops to the Far East, concentrated a large part of them in India to suppress the rebellion there. There are not many troops on the Sino-Indian border. Moreover, although there was a confrontation on the Sino-Indian border, there was no misfire, and both sides were very restrained. The war on the Sino-Burmese border is also controlled within a certain range, and the number of troops participating in the war is no more than brigade level. ..., China needs time to develop, and naturally does not want to get into a full-scale war with the world's first power, because the Chinese government knows that once Britain and China start a national war, Britain will rely on the influence of the empire on which the sun never sets, and China will immediately be isolated by the world. Even China's enemies will change from one Britain to a few dozen countries, which is equivalent to China confronting the whole world with the strength of a newly unified country. Although Feng Yong is arrogant, he is not an idiot, and he naturally knows how to choose. Therefore, the Sino-British conflict is destined to be only a local conflict, and it is unlikely that a full-scale war will be launched.
Over the primeval jungle, an area suspected to be a British military assembly area had just been blown up, and eight Chinese planes on their way back were ambushed by British planes. Defenseless, the two Chinese bombers disintegrated directly in the air. One pilot successfully parachuted, and the other plane that exploded was left with no bones. The four combat planes that served as escorts immediately took a stand and engaged in a dogfight with the enemy's six aircraft.
After this period of high-intensity flight, China's flying cloud has become more experienced in combat, and the combat effectiveness it has displayed is no longer the first time it has been on the battlefield a few days ago. Therefore, even though the Chinese aircraft were inferior to the British in terms of the number of fighters, the Chinese fighter pilots were still fearless in attacking. 】
Whoosh!
The high-altitude planes shuttle back and forth, seemingly nimble and maneuverable, but they are full of danger, and the slightest carelessness is the result of the plane crash and death.
Although the airspace of the battle is in Burma, it is similar to the Chinese and British armies in terms of distance. The 7th Brigade of the Wehrmacht and the 9th Brigade of the British Army responded with elite infantry as soon as they received the news. Naturally, they can't do much about high-altitude aircraft, but it is the biggest guarantee for those pilots who parachute. And no matter which country, it is extremely hard to train a qualified pilot, so every pilot is an irreplaceable treasure for the country. Moreover, most of the British pilots also participated in the First World War and were the heroes of the First World War. Both China and Britain wanted to protect their pilots as soon as possible, and then take the opportunity to kill or capture the enemy's pilots. In this way, even if the enemy brings a large number of advanced aircraft, there are no qualified pilots and they are wild.
Bang Bang Bang!
Fierce gunfire rang out in the jungle. The two responding troops arrived on the battlefield at about the same time. By this time, the number of high-altitude combat aircraft had been sharply reduced to five, including two Chinese fighters and three British fighters. In this bombing operation, China attacked and dispatched eight planes, including four fighters and four bombers, except for two bombers who were shot down by British planes because they were not prepared at the beginning, the remaining two bombers have withdrawn from the battlefield. Fly back to the territory of China. The remaining four fighters, because they had to cover the evacuation of the bombers, naturally had to bite the enemy.
The Chinese pilots were sharp and fearless in flying, while the British pilots were experienced and extremely agile in flying. Both sides have their own advantages and develop air combat as an art. The performance of the aircraft of the two sides is also different, the Chinese aircraft is slightly inferior to the British aircraft in terms of power, but in terms of exterior design, the Chinese aircraft has a good advantage. After all, there is still a certain gap between China's domestic engines and those that have been developed in the UK for decades. If China had not obtained some advanced engine technology from Germany, I am afraid that the gap between Chinese engines and British engines would be even greater, and there would not even be a possibility of catching up.
By the time the battle had been fighting, both sides had run out of weapons, ammunition and fuel. After a little entanglement, the Chinese fighters, which had lower fuel levels, were the first to withdraw from the battlefield. The British plane pursued for a while and flew back. After circling several times over the ground fighting troops, they reluctantly flew back into Burma after firing hundreds of rounds of ammunition at Chinese positions from high altitudes. …,
Buzz!
There was a buzzing sound in the sky, and after a while, some dark shadows appeared in the sky, and reinforcements from Chinese planes arrived. A whole eight fighters. Almost all the Wehrmacht fighters in this area have arrived.
The British planes did not hesitate and flew frantically towards the depths of Burma.
Naturally, Chinese fighters will not easily let go of this opportunity, and for opponents who dare to ambush Chinese aircraft, Chinese aircraft reinforcements are full of strength. Eight combat units formed a line and rushed into the hinterland of Burma.
Without the deterrence of the air, the war on the ground has become more and more brutal. Both sides are the elite units of the respective armies. This time, he was on a mission to search for his pilot. Once it fails, it indicates that the pilots who fall within a radius of ten miles may fall into the hands of the enemy. In order to ensure the safety of the pilot, both sides are desperately racing against time.
Boom Boom!
There was a burst of explosions from the makeshift positions of the British troops, accompanied by screams of explosions. British dramas did not expect that they would be shelled. From the exchange of fire between the two sides to the present, none of the elite small units of the British army have used heavy weapons. After all, they will most likely have to go deep into the primeval jungle to find the pilots who have fallen. Heavy weapons are really not suitable for carrying. Therefore, the fire weapons of both sides are basically light machine guns. A weapon of warfare, such as a submachine gun, which is more suitable for small forces to fight, has not yet come out with a real and mature weapon in various countries.
"It's our reinforcements, brothers, kill me!" The spirits of the IDF soldiers were lifted. Rushing straight out of the trenches, brandishing bayonets, rushed to the positions of the British search troops.
It turned out that after Li Qin sent out the search team, he was really not worried about their safety. After all, the airspace of the battle was in Burma, and the British Ninth Brigade was stationed around the town of Wonan, and the reinforcement rate was much faster than that of the Wehrmacht. Therefore, after the first search team set off, Li Qin organized his own guard battalion to lead a mortar company to support. Mortars were not very good in this era of heavy artillery, and it was in World War II that the mortars produced in Japan were all over China. Those were all seized by the government army, after all, it was too dangerous for that thing to stay in the civilian population.
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