Chapter 1066: Preparation
No one would have imagined the sight of tens of thousands of planes flying together in the air without seeing the scene at that time.
The hundreds of warplanes that are constantly flying are already dazzling, and in a single battle, thousands of warplanes thrown into the clouds are almost decided.
At a speed of more than 10 kilometers a minute, the lack of sufficient space for movement is an absolute disaster for the aircraft. In the original Normandy campaign, the Allies invested a total of more than 13,000 planes, and if it were not for the fact that the battlefield was very open and the planes did not fly into the sky together, there would definitely be frequent plane collisions over Normandy.
Like the Allied fighters in some places at this time.
In addition to the 10,000 or so warplanes used to deal with the Axis powers such as the Germans and Italians, the other more than 40,000 were used against China.
About 10,000 of them were laid out on the borders of Soviet Russia.
From the Ural Mountains to the Ural River and the borders of Central Asia in the Caucasus, tens of thousands of warplanes may seem like a lot, but those remote and inhospitable places also have few targets to attack. What's more, the Chinese people have already made some preparations in advance and abandoned some secondary goals in advance. If you really want to go to the barren slopes and wilderness, you will not be able to attract the resistance of the Chinese fighters, nor will you win any achievements, but you may be ridiculed by the world.
However, so many fighters insisted on squeezing into a small number of targets, and it was easy to cause air jams, especially when a large number of Soviet and Russian novice pilots were mixed in, and it was even more likely to cause plane collisions.
In view of the great danger of the contest between propeller planes and jet fighters, the Americans still had in mind the principle of making full use of cannon fodder, and did not forget to pull in the Soviet Russians and the British when they acted.
The British themselves were already in short supply of pilots, and the study of jet fighters did not lag behind the Americans, so they did not fall for this at all. If this were not indeed a good opportunity to defeat China and settle the Axis once and for all, the British would not have been so actively involved.
On the contrary, the Soviet Russians, under the consumption of the war in the past few years, if it were not for the special institutional support, their entire economy would have collapsed long ago.
And before that there were the plundering of China and Germany. Later, there was a situation where the Chinese people constantly harassed the rear. The industry of Soviet Russia, which had been greatly damaged, has not slowed down. Even the tragedy of the battlefield on the Eastern Front made the Russians put a lot of labor into the front, and the factories were under-employed.
Therefore, the support of Britain and the United States is indispensable.
Although Britain and the United States have been the embankment of Soviet Russia, the assistance to Soviet Russia has always made the Soviet Russians starve to death, and it is difficult to take the opportunity to develop greatly. But in the previous life, the Russians were still able to accumulate strength through some means. It made the strong rise of Soviet Russia after the war. It's just that now, he was already looted and dying, and in order to save his life, he put all his family resources into it, where would he dare to stay?
This has increased dependence on British and American aid. Knowing that the Americans are using cannon fodder, they have to jump into a big pit.
This time. Stalin even opened his mouth to ask the Americans for 30,000 fighters.
The Americans, who knew a lot about the Russians, knew the tricks of the Russians as cannon fodder in the air, and knew that the Russians were going to take this opportunity to secretly hide and train their rookie pilots, so they only agreed to arrange the support of 10,000 fighters in the end, and it was not a one-time gift. This time, the Americans provided only 7,000 fighters operating on the border between Soviet Russia and Russia, and the remaining more than 3,000 were Soviet and Russian fighters.
For the Russians, who also needed to solve the great enemy of China, only the remaining 3,000 fighters were enough for them to fight. Not to mention the fact that the Americans also talked about the superior conditions for replacing one war-damaged plane for two.
Although there is no lack of Americans dumping inventory. But as a Soviet Russian, it is to solve the worries.
This time, the Russians piled up more than 10,000 warplanes on the border in one go. It really put a lot of pressure on Huaxia.
Field airfields in Soviet Russia can be found everywhere, and there is no need for regular ground crews, and those rookies in Soviet Russia who have less than 30 hours of flight training can fly fighter planes to take off and fight. In order to meet the requirements of attracting Huaxia's energy, even some flight students took the opportunity to do pilot training, without worrying about Huaxia pilots jumping out to kill rookies.
Almost everyone could see that it was impossible for the Huaxia people to intercept such a huge air force.
This is Chi Guoguo's scheme, and the intention of the Americans has long been spread, that is, they plan to disrupt China's strategic deployment.
This time, even a superpower like the United States deployed it and did its best to deploy it to achieve such a scale. And how can Huaxia, which is one step behind, rely on their weak foundation to fight?
In fact, when the Americans deployed in various places, Huaxia had already begun to act. Bombing and sabotage operations have already begun, and air battles between the two sides have long been waged in the back and forth of reconnaissance planes, bombers, and fighters.
It's just that the air defense of the Americans is not comparable to that of Japan and the Russians, and the GIs at the end of World War II have long been sharpened in the flames of war, not comparable to the rookies in the early stage. Airports everywhere have heightened their vigilance, not daring to be sloppy at all, and although the surprise attacks of Huaxia bombers and special forces have also achieved a lot of results, they still have not shaken the implementation of the entire plan.
After Huaxia destroyed more than 8,000 fighters at airports and other places, the Americans took out more than 50,000 fighters at one time, which almost covered the total number of fighters in this allied operation.
In the face of the war reports of the frequent attacks and shooting down of various places by the Chinese, the Americans did not hide the number of sorties this time, and even mixed with a lot of exaggeration. There are already rumors that the United States has dispatched 100,000 planes, and although even with the number of fighters in reserve, it is only a little more than 60,000, but such a public opinion offensive has obviously had some effect.
Few people are optimistic about China. Not only did the Soviet Russians have the intention of training their troops through this, but other countries have also made similar moves, and even some rookies among the American pilots have taken the opportunity to practice and gild.
The interceptor fighters of the Chinese people naturally have elite and ace pilots to confront them, and the purpose of their existence is only to disperse the air defense forces of the Chinese people, whether it is to test or harass them, in short, let the Chinese people take care of their heads and tails.
But when the Allied fighter planes appeared near those strategic targets in China one by one, they were also greeted by dark clouds.
In the operations of the air force, because of various factors such as airfields, ground support, combat range, distance, and so on, it is impossible to prepare as many planes as there are in a single battle and fly as many planes in one go.
A sortie by a fighter may quickly run out of ammunition and even fuel, and it is normal for a fighter to fly two or three times if the pilot's physical strength and energy allow, or if there is some emergency. Therefore, when determining the combat effectiveness of aircraft, many times it is based on the number of sorties, not the total number of aircraft.
Although the battle line in China is now very long, many areas are not suitable for direct attacks by fighters.
For example, on the Australian mainland, if the Americans want to attack China from the air in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands, unless they have prepared the airfields and supplies in those places, they also need to consider the range of their fighters.
On the African continent, fighter planes attacking the Chinese army in Tunisia and East Africa in all directions have to consider issues such as airfields and supplies.
Not to mention the limited number of fighters that can be accommodated in temporary field airfields, the arrangement of those ground crews and command personnel alone is enough to make the Americans have a big head.
This is also one reason why the Americans' offensive is slow, that is, the full implementation of a superpower like the United States, otherwise these arrangements alone would have been enough to drag on for several years in ordinary countries.
It is precisely the strength of the Americans that can send more than 7,000 warplanes after nearly 3,000 warplanes have been destroyed in the Philippines, and various related facilities have been built, so that they can simultaneously attack Kalimantan Island, Taiwan, Guangdong and other coastal areas of China.
In order to implement these plans, the Americans unceremoniously intensified their attacks on the indigenous Filipinos who had been making trouble and had borne the sin of destroying 3,000 warplanes, and used the killing of Chi Guoguo to ensure the final smooth progress of the plan.
The Americans made full use of any area and conditions that could strike the Chinese region from the air, and even the desolate place of Alaska was garrisoned with more than 3,000 warplanes, which could directly attack the mainland of China in the Far East. That may be a bit of a record, but the Americans desperately need a victory to boost their morale, so they can't care about it. In other words, under the light of final victory, any dark place can finally be purified.
This time, for the sake of the final victory, the Americans even pulled Spain, Saudi Arabia and other regions into the list. Even the remnants of the Allied forces in Indonesia and Turkey, the European part of Indonesia and Turkey, who were still defending themselves, were free to fight with all their might. After all, under the pressure of such strength, no one thought of failure, and even felt that only 20,000 fighters needed to be dispatched to crush Huaxia.
Therefore, the Allies also followed the plan at the beginning, only dispatching less than 20,000 fighters to press, and the other 20,000 launched the next attack, and even some were only used as preparations.
But who knew that when nearly 10,000 Chinese fighters from all over the country met fiercely, the allies found that even if they fought 2 to 1, they would not be able to occupy the advantage.
As a result, when no one expected that the battle would be so fierce at the beginning, more and more fighters continued to get involved. Both sides gradually pressed the reserves on hand, and when almost all airports were running at full capacity, the miracle of 80,000 fighter engines resonating together was created. (To be continued.) )
PS: This chapter is a long-winded explanation, sorry!