The relaxed mood has not lasted for ten minutes. The Chinese interceptor unit, which followed the German bomber force, unnerved the remaining German bombers. The fighters of the two sides kept fighting, although the later battles were not as fierce and bloody as they began. But both sides still suffered heavy losses, and if we talk about the number of aircraft that withdrew from the battlefield, then Germany was a little more, for the simple reason that it was more numerous. The range of the BF109 is too small. Quite a few fighters had to think about the fuel for their return as soon as possible. The huge battle losses and the retreat caused by various reasons caused the number of Luftwaffe fighters in this airspace to drop sharply, and the Luftwaffe fighter units, which had a slight advantage in numbers, gradually fell at a disadvantage. Although the Huaxia Air Force also suffered heavy losses, it was fighting at home after all, and sporadic fighter units were constantly put into the battlefield. Grim's retreat will not be easy!

"I like this belligerent environment!" At an altitude of 6,500 meters, several black figures quickly flew over the battlefield. Several pilots of the German Scimitar squadron looked at the evacuated bomber units below and the trailing Foxbat heavy interceptors and began to develop a combat plan. In the initial stage of the battle, they had scattered to prepare to fight the Huaxia fighters on the periphery, and the lucky ones had some achievements, while the unlucky ones collided with the elite troops of Huaxia, but fortunately, after some entanglement, they were able to retreat. In the ensuing large-scale engagement, the scimitars did not join the battle. The elite of the Empire are not interested in such simple and crude engagements. And when the two sides fought half-dead, the regrouped scimitar squadron began to join the battle.

All FW190 fighters were divided into two groups, the first group was on attack and the second group was on alert. The first group then climbs after finishing the attack, and the second group starts attacking. The Germans always had half their strength ready for any sudden situation that might arise, and what happened to Liola made the Germans feel a little uneasy. Let the German elite, who had just acquired the new fighter jet, realize that the other side did not sleep much. In order to avoid stumbling, they were a little more cautious than when they started the war.

If the continuous assault of the Huaxia Air Force at the beginning almost collapsed the Luftwaffe strategic bomber force, at this time, after the battle reached the endgame, those FW190s that suddenly killed made the Huaxia heavy interceptors pay a heavy price. At this time, the escort system of the Huaxia Air Force was also fragmented, and the heavy flying fox fighters responsible for the assault did not get the cover of many fighters, and at this time, a unit with quite strong combat effectiveness suddenly appeared, and the situation could naturally be imagined.

The first four FW190 fighters to dive down shot down three Foxbat reloaded interceptors in the first round of engagement. The FW190's internal cannon has up to 250 rounds of ammunition in reserve, allowing these killers armed to the teeth to rain bullets to their heart's content. Caught off guard, several Foxbat fighters clumsily dodged the opponent's attack in the dense barrage, although there were armored cockpits and armored engine compartments, but the other parts could not block the shells, in the continuous pursuit of the Germans, these rough skin but lack of cover heavy aircraft also had to hate the battlefield. Observing, diving, attacking, disengage, climbing, and elite German pilots fully grasped the essence of one-hit disengagement tactics, and the whole attack process appeared very smooth.

Fortunately, though, the killing of the FW190 fighters of the Scimitar Force did not last long. After trying to stop it unsuccessfully, the Huaxia Air Force finally realized that it had hit a hard stubble. All the fighters began to fold together in defensive formation. They did not immediately withdraw from the battlefield, nor did they continue their costly attacks, but waited far behind for the right moment, licking their wounds like wolves while looking for a breakthrough in the next attack. As time passed minute by minute, the German strategic bomber unit gradually flew out of the home field of the Huaxia Air Force, and at this moment, the Huaxia aircraft group, which had been holding back, launched its last attack!

Colonel Hohenstaufen, the commander of the Scimitar Unit, was the first to realize the subtle changes that had taken place on the battlefield. Although the number of the opponent's fleet has not increased significantly, and the way of attack is the same as before, he still noticed some of the inappropriateness with his keen sense of smell, the first wave of the opponent's attack was that the number of heavy interceptors was less, and the number of fighters seemed to be more. If you rush into the field at this time, I am afraid that you will have to be entangled with the fighter first, and if you consider the opponent that the Liao La crew encountered before. Hohenstauffen could feel that the other party's elite was coming, and they were using the first wave of attacks as bait, just waiting for themselves!

"Let the other squadrons go up, and we'll take care of them from above." The colonel did not give the order to attack in the end, not that he did not dare to fight, but the possible consequences that he could not bear, if Huaxia obtained a relatively complete FW190 fighter, the colonel dared to guarantee that it would not take them a few months to study the advantages and disadvantages of this aircraft. The BMW 801 engine is excellent (at least for now. But it wasn't so unattainable for the Entente. Moreover, in the colonel's opinion, the new aircraft of Huaxia's mentor fighter squadron already has the ability to compete with the FW190.

Under the coercion of the same elite opponents, Hohenstaufen finally failed to enter the battlefield, and at this time, whoever went down first was passive. The biggest advantage of the FW190 fighter is roll and high speed, but the opponent is not slow, and the horizontal maneuverability is stronger than its own. It is obviously not a good choice to play against the opponent in such a situation where there is no advantage. As a result, the scimitar group and the mentor group confronted each other like the wolf kings of two wolf packs. The real engagement is still in the hands of the other troops!

After many actual battles, it has been proved that the combination of the Germans' BF109 fighter and BF110 fighter is still very disadvantageous against the Chinese air zoo, and the air combat capability of the Shicha falcon and flying fox is not worse than that of the BF109, and the actual confrontation performance is even better. Compared with BF110, the latter was thrown out two streets. As a result, the German strategic bomber unit, which saw that it was going home, bleed again and again on the final journey!

"They're so tenacious!" A German rear-seat machine gunner who had just pushed back an attack by a Foxbat fighter said secretly in his heart. From the beginning of the meeting between the two sides to the present, it has been fighting desperately for more than 3 hours. During these three hellish hours, many people experienced the darkest period of their lives, and most of them realized for the first time how fragile life is, and how vulnerable those seemingly powerful planes are in the context of this great war, and can make a bomber and its crew disappear from this world at the blink of a finger. Although Huaxia's attack was already at the end of the crossbow, the opponent's persistence and the ruthlessness revealed in the attack still made the Germans tremble.

"Half of the tail of that Foxbat fighter has been sieveed. The fuselage was riddled with bullet holes, and even I could hear the sound of the metal of the body as the plane climbed. His engine wasn't running so smoothly anymore, but he still managed to climb the rest of the climb. And then smash the tail of one of the HE177s next to me to pieces at a distance of less than 60 meters! And then countless fragments were thrown out of the rear, hitting the fuselage, the engine compartment and the bulletproof glass on the front of the cab! In the end, both planes fell from the sky at the same time. They're desperate! Some of them don't care if they survive the battle, they care more about whether they can take down more enemies! Grim said with a sigh of relief afterwards. The Foxbat fighter that dared to use large-caliber artillery at a distance of 60 meters was the nightmare of my life, and I met this plane and his pilot more than once in my dreams. ”

The final battle was not fierce, but it left an extremely deep impact on both sides. As the sun gradually set, the curtain finally came down on what was arguably the fiercest air battle ever. The Germans concentrated thousands of sorties of aircraft to attack, and Huaxia did not show weakness by concentrating nearly 1,000 sorties of fighters to intercept. In this large-scale air battle, both sides paid an extremely heavy price, and even the German Strategic Air Force, which was the last to enter the army, completely lost 65 bombers of all kinds in this engagement, and the battle loss rate reached almost a quarter! If you count those damaged aircraft, about 6 percent of the bombers of the German Strategic Air Force have to be repaired, and at least 4 percent of them need to be overhauled! After the battle, Kessellin personally rushed to the airport to inspect it, and the dense bullet holes in the huge fuselage and the various equipment inside the fuselage that had been beaten beyond recognition were shocking, and the blood stains and corpses in the cockpit and gunner's seat that had not yet been cleaned up were terrifying. Pieces of metal skin were torn apart, the skeleton of the fuselage was also shattered, and many planes, even if they flew back, lost their value for maintenance and could only be thrown aside. Even the value of recycled parts is small!

Huaxia also suffered heavy losses. Nearly 700 fighters put into battle completely lost more than 200 in one day! There are more than 100 that need to be repaired! In the end, the number of available fighters in Huaxia was directly reduced to half of what it was before the war! Taking into account the destruction of the airfield and the loss of ground facilities everywhere, the interception capability of the Huaxia Air Force in Iran has dropped by at least half compared with before the war! Qin Yue was also trembling when he saw the battle damage table, and then the first call was to Peng Yi, telling him that in the next two weeks, the number of fighters dispatched by Huaxia every day would not exceed 200! The number of racks will not exceed 350. You can do the rest of the buddies yourself!

The two sides originally thought that they could fight for 300 rounds no matter how hard they had saved up their forces, but the first day of fighting caused huge losses to the air forces of both sides. But even so, both sides still did not give up. After some investigation, Kessellin resolutely realized that the strategic air force, on which he had high hopes, had been crippled in this day's battle, and that he could no longer continue to launch air strikes against targets in depth.

The German Army gave Kesselring only a week, and after a week, regardless of whether the Air Force had achieved its set goals or not, it was to transfer the main forces to front-line support. But the problem now is that not only is it difficult for Kessellin to completely wipe out the Huaxia Air Force in Iran within a week, but also the support forces that were originally planned to be provided by the Army after the start of the attack are not enough, and the loss ratio of the air group on the northern front is even higher than that of the strategic air force. If the remaining planes are used to support 6 divisions, it will definitely not be enough!

As a result, Kessellin made some adjustments to the air force, the first was to temporarily remove all damaged and poor strategic bombers from the battle sequence, and concentrate 80 strategic bombers in good condition to form a separate bomber wing for bombing the shallow and deep communication lines and transportation hubs in the forward fortifications of China. In these areas, bomber units can get more fighter force cover, and the battle damage rate will be lower. The second was to transfer part of the air force of the Southern Front to the Northern Front, which, in the eyes of the Germans, was the easiest to succeed and therefore enjoyed the highest replenishment priority. And it seems that Huaxia is not so confident in the defense of the northern front, so it concentrated its forces at the beginning and was attacked by the northern front air group. Third, some elite fighter detachments were dispatched to form a safari unit in an effort to suppress the front-line fighter units of the Huaxia Air Force. The biggest result of this air raid was that it destroyed the network of ground bases in China to a certain extent. As a result, the huge fighter group of the Huaxia Air Force was forced to split in two. This allowed the Luftwaffe fighter units to gain some advantage on the front line, and what Kesselring had to do was to use this advantage to suppress the opposing fighter forces for a period of time.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Kesselin's arrangement was tantamount to giving up the strategic bombing of the Huaxia troops, and the entire plan originally included all-round strikes on the Huaxia air base, communication lines, material transit stations, and even certain cities and ports. However, because of the excessive losses, the Luftwaffe simply did not have the ability and idea to continue attacking these targets in depth. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Kesselline, who has always firmly believed that the Air Force will dominate everything.

And this was just the beginning, as the Luftwaffe top brass studied and summarized the performance of the Air Force throughout the Iranian war. The strategic goals of the Luftwaffe itself also shifted. At best, it is more pragmatic and more in line with Germany's national strength and war aims. At worst, the Luftwaffe abandoned the strategy of relying on a single branch of arms to force a powerful country to submit, and the Luftwaffe still launched a large-scale air offensive in later wars, and the powerful griffin is still an eternal shadow in the hearts of many Allied officers and soldiers.

Even in some key battles, the Luftwaffe was larger than the total number of aircraft invested in the two large-scale battles of Operation Hanging Garden and Monsoon in the Iranian War, but the purpose of such large-scale attacks has shifted to achieving the objectives of the campaign, rather than to carry out protracted strategic bombing to completely destroy the war and economic foundations of the Reich, as was the case with the strategic bomber forces of China and the Entente.

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