Chapter 686: Wonsan Air Battle
readx; In order to cover the retreat, the army aviation dispatched almost all its fighters to the Wonsan area to conduct air defense operations, and the navy also sent some capital ships to escort the transport fleet. In addition www.biquge.info he said, "The main force of the Chinese Navy is closely monitoring the main force of the Chinese Navy, so as not to accidentally let the main force of the Chinese Navy slip through the Tsushima Strait."
When Li Lianyang learned that he was about to flee from Yuanshan Port, he immediately intensified his offensive and at the same time asked the navy and air force to cooperate vigorously.
The air force has dispatched a large number of troops to provide the most direct support to the Wonsan area, while the navy has been unable to send additional warships to the Honhae, so it can only send the navy's land-based aviation to reinforce Wonsan Port, and even not only a large number of land-based air units, but also a carrier-based aviation wing to the DPRK for reinforcements. The air forces of the Air Force and the Navy also conducted joint operations in this operation, and the Army's B7 bombers also learned from the Navy's B7 dive bombers to attack the transport fleet, while the Navy's carrier-based F2 fighters also hung up small bombs to bombard the ground troops, and even directly strafed them with machine guns. This situation is very difficult to occur in the more serious antagonism of the Chinese [***] species.
Although on the surface China's antagonism between the armed services is not as serious as that of the United States or the United States, in fact, the antagonism between the three branches of the armed forces is not weaker than that of other countries, and the three major branches of the armed forces are all at odds with each other. Specifically, the Navy has not only carrier-based aviation units on aircraft carriers, but also land-based aviation units deployed in coastal bases, and the Navy may also have two Marine Brigades. Even in order to train pilots and commanders of land operations, the Navy has specialized flight academies and land warfare academies.
The same is true of the army, which, in addition to the army units, also has several river and lake garrisons, equipped not with machine guns and artillery, but with gunboats. In addition, in recent years, the army has also been thinking about building an army aviation unit, but this act has been vigorously opposed by the navy and air force, and Wu Shizhong in the air force directly threatened: "If the army dares to equip aircraft, the air force will dare to take them down!" ”
Although the Air Force is the younger brother of the three armed forces, its ambitions are not small, and it has a very special Air Force Mobile Regiment, which is a serious mixed regiment of land warfare. However, this regiment was not a general infantry regiment, but a unit designed to parachute directly to the rear of enemy troops with air force transport aircraft. Well, that is, paratroopers.
However, Chen Jingyun has always had no good impression of paratroopers, in this era, the paratroopers parachuted into the rear of the enemy, the role played is actually very limited, and it will inevitably suffer large-scale losses, the failure of the paratroopers in World War II has proved this, Chen Jingyun naturally has little interest in paratroopers, but there is no interest in large-scale development, but it is still feasible to get a small-scale elite paratroop unit to carry out special operations, so there is no way to block the air force's paratroop plan.
Because of the important surname of the First Battle of Wonsan, the army, navy and air force temporarily put aside the contradictions between the branches of the army and turned their attention to the enemy army in Wonsan.
With the passage of time day by day, the southern land of China has no such severe cold as winter after the beginning of spring, but in the Korean region is still freezing people, in the fierce offensive and defensive battles, there are not a few soldiers who are frostbitten, and the severe cold weather has brought great trouble to the military operations of both sides.
Fierce battles were taking place on the ground, and the air battle in the Wonsan area was fierce, with the Chinese air and naval air forces investing a large number of troops in the area, and the combined number of aircraft was already more than 500 or more.
In order to ensure air supremacy in the Wonsan area and prevent troops and ports from being bombed by China's large-scale bombers, almost all of the air forces were also deployed to Wonsan, and the vast majority of these planes deployed in the Wonsan area were fighters.
In Korea, China's bombers occupy the majority, and only about 200 fighters are used to seize air supremacy and cover bomber operations.
He said: "The air force of the army and navy suffered great losses in the war, but the naval air force was fine, and the number of planes lost before and after was only 60 or 70, and the navy was able to maintain a limited air force in the west coast of the mainland." However, it is said that the losses of the army air force are very large, and it is said that most of the bombers equipped by the army air force before the outbreak of the war have been lost, and the fighters have also suffered huge losses in the battle with the Chinese air force.
The latest Type 91 fighter in service with this army air force alone has lost more than 50 planes. Last year, the Army Air Force began to dispatch Type 91 fighters to the Korean battlefield, and in the subsequent operations in January and February, the Type 91 fighters in the Army Air Force became the main force of the Army Air Force. And became almost all the tasks of air defense.
However, when China also threw a large number of F3 fighters into the skies over North Korea, the Type 91 fighters were pressed and beaten by the F3 battle, and although there was no one-sided situation, the ratio of combat losses between the two sides was also relatively large.
At present, Yuanshan, the army aviation unit has concentrated almost all the Type 91 fighters, and these more than 60 Type 91 fighters are the main air defense forces in the distant mountain area, and there are dozens of old-fashioned fighters left, but these old-fashioned fighters, let alone the F3 fighters against the Chinese Air Force, have no chance of winning against a large number of F2 fighters in China.
There is probably such a relationship here, the Chinese F2 fighter suppressed the other old fighters called Ben, and the Type 91 fighter suppressed the Chinese F2 fighter, but the Chinese F3 fighter suppressed the Type 91 fighter of the Ben.
At this time, in the sky of Wonsan, more than 40 F3 fighters flew steadily in the air, and behind them were up to hundreds of bomber groups, including B4 horizontal bombers, B7 dive bombers, and more than 30 F2 fighters, but these F2 fighters also had small 50-kilogram bombs hanging on their bodies. In less than three months, the F2 fighter has withdrawn from the first line of the struggle for air supremacy in the war sequence of the Chinese Air Force, and has slowly turned into a support mission for the enemy and air supremacy on the secondary front.
For the bombing operation of Wonsan Port, the Chinese Air Force will dispatch a large-scale fleet of aircraft almost every day, and this sortie is not a one-time surname, but a continuous surname, the bombing almost lasted from morning to evening, and during the bombing, a considerable number of F3 and F2 fighters were maintained over Wonsan at all times.
After the large-scale group of planes arrived over Wonsan Port, the anti-aircraft guns of the Wonsan Harbor were already firing one after another, and dense explosions of smoke began to appear in the clear sky over the Wonsan Port, and the shells of the anti-aircraft guns exploded in the air, leaving one smoke ball after another, and with the opening of the anti-aircraft guns, on a field airfield in the Wonsan Port, the fighters who were always ready for air defense operations quickly rose into the air, and when they were waiting for them to climb, the Chinese bomber units had already begun to drop bombs, and a large number of B4 bombers did not reduce their altitude, except for those dive bombersInstead, a series of bombs were dropped one after another at an altitude of several thousand meters, and this level of bombardment naturally did not count on any accuracy, but attempted to rely on the cover bombing to destroy the numerous military supplies that were supposed to be in the port.
The B7 dive bombers, on the other hand, targeted warships and transport ships inside and outside the harbor, and they dropped 250 kg and 50 kg aerial bombs on these ships.
For a time, explosions were everywhere in the port area!
When the bombers were bombing, dozens of F3 fighters of the Chinese Air Force were already rushing towards the 91 fighters of the Yue Army, and within a few minutes, dozens of fighters from both sides were engaged together, saying, "Ben's 91 fighters wanted to break through the interception of the Chinese F3 fighters, so as to attack those Chinese bombers." The Chinese F3 fighter jets wanted to stop them and protect the bombers behind them.
Rapid tumbling, diving, pulling, the fighters of both sides performed the most thrilling air combat in this era, and the air battle between the two sides directly reflects how rapid the industrial development of mankind is, 20 years ago the plane was still a dispensable thing, at that time the speed of the aircraft was only about 100 kilometers per hour, the range was only more than 100 kilometers 200 kilometers, but today, the speed of fighters in various countries has generally exceeded 300 kilometers.
China's F3 fighter is equipped with the S600 star-type air-cooled engine jointly developed by Shanghai Power Company and Fule Electric, with a power output of up to 630 horsepower, which can provide a top speed of 350 kilometers for F3 combat. The Type 91 fighter is equipped with a 520 hp engine, which is slightly less powerful, and the optimized design of the fuselage is similar to that of the F3 fighter, so it can only have a top speed of 320 kilometers. And the maximum cruising speed of both is about the same, around 300 kilometers. In terms of range, the F3 fighter has a greater advantage of 1,100 kilometers and a slightly higher ceiling of 10,000 meters, while the Type 91 fighter has an altitude of 9,000 meters and a range of 700 kilometers.
The speed gap between the two is relatively large, but the time of research and development of these two is about the same, both are in the mid-to-late 20s, so some surnames can be comparable, whether a fighter is excellent, but also have to integrate many aspects, in general, it is said that 'although the 91 fighter is not as good as China's F3 fighter, it will not show a one-sided slaughter situation. After this fight, it depends on the quality of the pilots on both sides, and if one is not careful, it is also possible that the F3 fighter will be shot down by the Type 91 fighter.
However, this advantage of flying surname energy in group combat, especially in large-scale air battles in which dozens of aircraft participate in the battle like today, the advantage of flying surname energy is enough to affect the overall situation.
In just five minutes of air combat between the two sides, three 91 fighters had already been shot down, and at the same time, one F3 fighter of the Chinese Air Force had been shot down.
The air battle continued, the planes of both sides continued to shoot bullets, chasing, from time to time there were planes falling to the ground with black smoke, after half an hour, seeing that the bomber force had completed the bomb dropping, the Chinese F3 fighters were separated one after another, and then covered the bomber retreat.
The same thing happened again an hour later, when hundreds of planes of the Chinese Air Force and Navy took turns to go into battle, and the dozens of Type 91 fighters of the Army Air Force also put up stubborn resistance, but after all, they could not withstand China's large-scale aerial bombardment, and after losing more than 30 Type 91 fighters in the fierce air battle, only a dozen Type 91 fighters remained, and the Army Air Force had no choice but to avoid the battle in the face of China's large-scale bombardment. Only when the Chinese Air Force dispatches small formations will they take to the skies to fight.
A few days later, the plane over Wonsan was completely wiped out, and it was not that the air force had wiped out all the planes, but that the army units of the First Army had advanced to the periphery of Wonsan Port and captured the field airfield of Wonsan, and captured the last five or six Type 91 fighters left by the army air force, and although four of these Type 91 fighters had been blown up, they had managed to snatch two intact Type 91 fighters.
After the capture of the Wonsan airfield, for the Chinese Army, the Wonsan Port is within reach!