Chapter 665: Five-Star Medal
readx; A week ago, the director of the Ordnance Department of the Air Force had just left, and a week later, Lieutenant General Li Tunyang, deputy chief of operations of the Air Force Department, also arrived at the Chuzhou Aircraft Company. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Looking at the F3 fighters being assembled in rows in the huge assembly plant of the Chuzhou Aircraft Company, Li Tunyang said to the designers of the F3 fighter research and development team of the Chuzhou Aircraft Company beside him: "The performance of the F3 fighter in the airspace over North Korea is very good, and its surname ability is superior to that of the enemy's aircraft in all aspects, and it has played a major role in our army's acquisition of air supremacy over North Korea!" ”
However, he then asked the air force personnel who followed him to come up with a report: "However, in several air battles, the F3 fighter still suffered a certain loss, and the pilots who participated in the battle reported that although our F3 fighter had an excellent climb rate and instantaneous surname, but during a rapid dive, the aircraft's control surname could be limited to a certain extent, and I hope you can come up with a proper solution!" ”
No combat aircraft can be perfect, the F2 fighter is the same, the same is true of my Type 91 fighter, and the same is true of the F3 fighter, which is the most advanced fighter in China. Due to technical limitations, in order to achieve a better top speed, to achieve excellent climbing ability, then certain compromises will definitely be made in other aspects.
The F3 fighter was excellent in other aspects, but in air combat, the aircraft turned to deteriorate when it made a rapid downward dive, which was not detected in the previous test flight stage. Because during the test flight, whether it is the test flight in the early stage of research and development or the test flight training when the Air Force is just equipped, it is actually limited to a limit, but in actual combat, the pilot can ignore those restrictions in the case of life and death, whether it is chasing the enemy or getting rid of the enemy, they often use the tactic of dive steering, and the speed of the fighter at this time often exceeds the limit of the combat manual.
The designer next to him said: "We have noticed this problem in the development stage, but the problem is not serious, and the priority of top speed and climbing ability has been postponed." In the next step, our team will solve various problems exposed by the F3 fighter in actual combat, and strive to solve the problem as soon as possible and launch an improved model! ”
Although Li Tunyang is a lieutenant general of the Air Force, he is not a technician, and he does not know how the Chuzhou Aircraft Company intends to solve this problem, and he does not care; as the deputy chief of operations of the Air Force, what he needs is the best fighter in the Air Force. As for how to solve the problem, that is a matter for defense contractors such as Chuzhou Aircraft Company.
Walking through the F3 fighter plant, Li Tunyang also said: "Now the air force not only has an urgent demand for fighter jets, but also has a very large demand for bombers. ”
Chuzhou Aircraft Company, as China's largest aircraft R&D, design and manufacturing enterprises, in addition to F3 fighters, there are B4 bombers, B6 carrier-based dive bombers, B7 army dive bombers and a series of military aircraft.
In the current war period, not only are fighters urgently needed to gain air supremacy, but also a large number of bombers are needed to carry out bombing missions. The task of the Air Force is not just to gain air supremacy, but to carry out bombing.
In fact, the main goal of the Air Force is bombing, and gaining air supremacy is only a prerequisite for bombing.
Except for a short period in the middle when it was suppressed by the Type 91 fighters, most of the time the Chinese Air Force controlled air supremacy and launched a steady stream of bombing against the Korean army. In addition to using B4 bombers for high-altitude horizontal bombing, B7 dive bombers were also used to provide the most direct dive bombing support to the front-line troops, which can be said to be advantageous support for army operations.
The war officially broke out on December 1, 1930, and by early January 1931, the two countries had been fighting for more than a month.
In the Battle of the Qingchuan River, the Chinese Army concentrated more than 200,000 troops, including troops of the First Panzer Army, the Seventeenth Army, the Fourteenth Army, and the Eighth Army. More than 1,000 field artillery pieces of 75 mm caliber or more, nearly 300 tanks, more than 1,000 mortars of various calibers, and more than 10,000 light and heavy machine guns took part in the battle.
Such a large number of troops and firepower hit this small area of the Qingchuan River, causing this small area to be hit by the most fierce firepower in history.
In terms of firepower, light and heavy machine guns and rifles in light weapons are almost the same, and China has a clear advantage in mortars. In terms of divisional artillery, the army still uses a large number of 75-millimeter calibers, of which the Type 38 75-millimeter field artillery and the Type 41 mountain artillery are still the main force in the army; in contrast, the Chinese troops rushing to Korea have been equipped with a large number of 105-mm howitzers, and the divisional artillery of the armored units is all 105-mm howitzers. Therefore, in terms of divisional artillery, the Chinese side is superior to the army, whether it is in terms of range or power, of course, the number of the two is about the same.
In addition to the divisional artillery, other large-caliber reading artillery is similar to the two, the Chinese Army's reading artillery units are generally equipped with 105 mm field cannons, 155 mm field howitzers, 155 field cannons, of which 155 mm field howitzers are the largest number. Most of the equipment of the army on the other side is the same, but it is slightly inferior in quantity, mainly because it is said that "the Chinese army has been unable to transport a large number of large-caliber artillery from the country to the Korean front in a short period of time due to transportation restrictions, while the Chinese army has successively drawn a large number of heavy artillery from other parts of the country by rail transportation after the outbreak of war."
As a result, the large-caliber artillery of the Yue army was relatively small in number, and the inferiority of the divisional artillery put the Yue army in a disadvantageous position in terms of artillery in the battle of the Qingchuan River.
And when the training of soldiers on both sides and the command level of officers are about the same, it is the difference in equipment between the two sides that determines the outcome of the war. The so-called surprise attack, winning more with less, and winning advantage with disadvantage have always been said by novelists, and in the hearts of traditional leaders, they are all evil and crooked. Concentrate your own superior forces and firepower to attack the enemy's inferior forces, this is the royal way to victory.
For example, the rapid advance of the armored forces that are currently being vigorously unfolded, if according to the concept of ordinary people, this should be a tactic of the sword to go sideways, after all, tens of thousands of armored troops have gone all the way to the depth of hundreds of thousands of troops of the army, which looks very dangerous.
However, in order to cover the attack of the First Panzer Army, the other three infantry corps of the First Army also launched a large-scale attack, and the infantry of the 14th Army, the 17th Army and the 8th Army were not idle, and the battle on the Anju front was much more fierce than the battle outside Pyongyang.
The large-caliber artillery of both sides continued to shell almost the whole day, and the infantry charged every day, either the Chinese army charged or the army launched a counteroffensive, and every day in the sky there were countless planes engaged in battles, such as their own fighters for air defense, a large number of Chinese bomber units, and then sporadic reconnaissance planes.
The Anju front line was far more tragic than in other regions, but if fighting of this magnitude had not broken out on the Anju side, it would have been said that "I would have sent troops to reinforce Pyongyang or directly cut off the supply lines of the Chinese armored forces."
In the field hospital of the 47th Division on the Anzhou front, Captain Li got up from the hospital bed, and he ignored the obstruction of the nurse next to him with his right hand still tied with a strap, and walked out of the ward.
Although it was not the first time he had seen this situation, Captain Li was still a little uncomfortable, although he did not know how many people were injured in this war, but he knew that the people he saw in front of him alone were at least hundreds, and this was only the wounded in the front-line field hospital, and more wounded were transferred to the military hospital in Dandong in the rear, and even transferred to other public hospitals in the northeast.
Captain Li was wounded in a battle three days ago, and it can be regarded as unlucky, this has already conquered a position of his own, and when he led the team to clean up the position, he did not know that he was hit in the right hand by a stray bullet flying there, although he did not hurt his bones, but it was also bloody.
After being taken to the field hospital, Captain Lee received his first five-star medal.
The Five-Star Medal, which is a kind of medal that the Chinese side only began to set up in 1928, is made of bronze with a five-colored star on it. It is used to award to soldiers who are wounded in battle, and accidental injuries in peacetime are not counted, death in battle is not counted, and injuries in the rear during the war are not counted, and only soldiers are injured in battle against the enemy. It is intended to be used to recognize the brave combat behavior of military personnel.
For example, in the mid-1923 war, there were only more than 20 winners of the Silver Double Sword Medal in the army, and about 7 or 800 winners of the Bronze Double Sword Medal. However, there were hundreds of thousands of troops who participated in the war. Many soldiers, including mid-level officers, are unlikely to receive the Order of the Double Swords in their lifetime, and even those generals who are high-ranking generals have not been able to obtain the Order of the Double Swords, and most of them only have a few battle commemorative medals.