Chapter 137: A Sudden Air Battle

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At the same time, in Europe, the Alps of western Austria are covered with white snow, and occasionally an edelweiss blooms in the sun next to the bare rocks in the snow!

In this mountainous area where the sea waves reach thousands of meters, there are many soldiers wearing brown and green military uniforms, and these military faces are not Caucasian, but yellow people, which are extremely rare in Europe.

The yellow-skinned army that can appear in the European Alps is naturally the unit of the Chinese Ninth Army.

Austria is a typical country with a large area and a small west, the eastern part of Austria is not only a large area, but also a plain area, from an industrial and economic point of view, the eastern part of Austria is its essence, and the west is a narrow east-west corridor with the Alps above, and it is this narrow corridor that separates Italy and Germany proper.

In order to prevent the Allies from breaking through Austria from the direction of Italy and directly attacking the German hinterland, the Chinese Ninth Army had already stationed in the whole of Austria, but because the west of Austria is the Alps, the heavy mechanized troops that the Chinese Army is proud of are unexpectedly unable to perform, and when the Ninth Army urgently accepted Austria, the German troops in northern Italy have retreated, in order to stop the Allies outside the Alps, the Chinese Army asked for the assistance of the Air Force, A regiment of the 25th Mountain Infantry Division deployed in northern Iran was urgently airlifted to Austria and directly deployed to western Austria, while other units of the 25th Mountain Infantry Division were also urgently rushed to Austria by train, and it took less than a week for the Chinese Army to transfer the 25th Mountain Division, which was originally stationed in northern Iran, thousands of miles away, to Austria.

After the 25th Mountain Division arrived in Austria, it also assumed the main defense of the Alpine region in western Austria, of course, it was unrealistic to rely on them alone for such a large defense area, in addition to the 67th Mountain Brigade sent by Turkey, and the two mountain battalions of the newly formed Austrian Wehrmacht.

As mentioned earlier, because the terrain of the Alps is not suitable for heavy mechanized troops, and the key point is that there are not many motorized infantry units in the troops that China has invested in Europe, basically all of them are mechanized troops, and even this 25th Mountain Division is urgently drawn from northern Iran.

Don't carry out mountain operations in the high sea wave area, you need professional mountain troops, mechanized troops can't play, and ordinary infantry can't do it. However, China attaches great importance to the development of mechanized troops and despises the development of light infantry, resulting in not many mountain troops in the Chinese Army, and now there are only three mountain divisions, namely the 48th Mountain Division stationed in southern Tibet, the 31st Mountain Division stationed in Tajikistan in Central Asia, the 25th Mountain Division previously stationed in northern Iran and now stationed in western Austria, in addition to several reading mountain battalions.

Generally speaking, such a small number of mountain troops is disproportionate to the size of the huge Chinese army, and the reason for this is naturally that the armored factions within the Chinese army are too strong, and these armored factions are eager to not even want motorized troops, and they are all mechanized units. Some of China's professional troops have never been many, for example, the amphibious force is only three divisions, as for the paratroop troops, there is not a division-level unit, the army just got an experimental paratrooper battalion, and it is not the concept of field troops, it is the concept of special forces such as infiltration, intelligence gathering, and sabotage, and this unit called the 464th Airborne Battalion of the Army has actually abandoned the parachute mode since last year, and is already preparing to replace the helicopter as a ride. The game is a quick raid. At the beginning of the year, on the basis of these four regiments, the regimental level was abolished, and a total of 12 paratrooper battalions were divided into two paratrooper brigades, which were respectively equipped with light artillery battalions, light armored battalions, and other light equipment that could be parachuted down, and the first and second parachute brigades of the air force were formed.

It can be said that in terms of division-level troops, China's unconventional troops are very few, so it is necessary to carefully arrange them in the use of a force, such as mountain troops, a total of three divisions and a few reading mountain battalions, and China needs to use mountain troops in a lot of areas, so this limited mountain troops are almost transferred back and forth, such as the 25th mountain division, which served in Korea in the second Sino-Chinese war, and was transferred to Yunnan in the mid-thirties after the war, and Sino-Soviet relations were tense in 1940. The 25th Mountain Division was again transferred to Siberia to prepare for combat in the Ural Mountains. With the end of the Sino-Soviet conflict and the annexation of the Russian Republic by China, China extended its influence to Iran, and after the Chinese region had the right to garrison troops in Iran, the 25th Mountain Division was deployed to northern Iran as a vanguard. However, less than two years after its deployment here, after 1943, the Chinese high-level had already decided to declare war on the Hon, and the 25th Mountain Division was transferred back to Korea, and in 1944, during the Third Sino-Chinese War, it was logged on the Honben and fought briefly on the mainland.

At the end of last year, just after the end of the Third Sino-Chinese War, the 25th Mountain Division was transferred back to northern Iran for rest and preparation, and not long ago it was urgently transferred to Austria.

In the past ten years, the 25th Mountain Division has deployed in many places, and the distance is very large, from Ben to Austria, the distance is not only a few hundred or thousands of miles, but tens of thousands of miles.

As one of the only three mountain troops in China, the 25th Mountain Division has its own pride! As can be seen from its number, this army was established at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China and has always been one of the standing forces. In its more than 30-year history, due to the lack of Chinese mountain troops, the 25th Division has participated in almost every foreign war and almost every foreign war in China.

At this time, a small group of officers and soldiers of the 2534th Battalion of the 25th Mountain Division was climbing on the Alps, and one of them had just picked an edelweiss from a crack in the rock, and his face was full of excitement with an edelweiss in his hand. It is used to show their bravery.

But before he could get excited, suddenly there was a huge roar in the sky, it was an airplane, and listening to this huge roar, it was a jet plane.

They looked up and saw two planes painted with gray air superiority paint in the sky, and there were obvious five-colored stars on the tail, and the obvious signs of the single wing, swept wing, and stubby shape, and nose air intake added up, which is the F12 fighter of the Chinese Air Force, which has often appeared in major newspapers and periodicals at home and abroad in the past six months, and according to the changes in its wing and tail part, it should belong to the third air superiority modification of the F12 series, that is, F12C, which is the most advanced air superiority fighter in the world for the Chinese Air Force and the world.

However, looking at the two F12C fighters in the sky, they seem to be flying to the southwest, and if you look closely, you will find that in the southwest sky, there is a small black dot flying at high speed from south to north.

High in the sky, in one of the F12C fighters, the pilot, Lieutenant Mei Fuhu, looked at the small black dot in the distant sky, and as the distance got closer, he already recognized the plane, and immediately turned on the radio communication and sent a communication to the air force command in the rear: "The Falcon team has found the target, and it is visually judged to be the American P51, the target speed is 600, the altitude is 7500, and the course is 190!" ”

At the same time, the plane across from them was painted in the U.S. Air Force livery, the one the Falcon team called the P51. In fact, this aircraft is not the P51D fighter that the US military has put into the war in large quantities, but the F6D reconnaissance aircraft modified from the P51. In this era, the US Air Force and aircraft codes were not the same, the Air Force's fighters used P, reconnaissance planes used F, while the US Navy used F for fighter fighters, and China's fighters and fighter-bombers, and even trainer planes and reconnaissance planes modified based on fighters all used F as the prefix.

For example, the U.S. Army Air Corps' F6D refers to a reconnaissance aircraft modified from the P51D, but in the Chinese Air Force, the F6D is a fighter-bomber modified from the F6 heavy fighter.

The code names of American aircraft in these years were rather confusing, otherwise the Americans would not have carried out the reform of aircraft numbers in the future.

The F6D flew all the way north, and it was clear that it had already crossed the Italian border and was close to the skies over Austria.

At this time, Lieutenant Mei Fuhu had already received an order from the base to intercept the American plane!

Immediately afterwards, as the long plane, Lieutenant Mei Fuhu was already in a position to intercept the fighter, with the high speed and maneuverability of the F12C, he easily caught up with the F6D on the left, and then Mei Fuhu turned on the public radio channel and tried to make contact, but at this time, the wingman was an urgent voice: "Four enemy planes have been found in the upper right!" ”

Mei Fuhu also turned his head through the glass seat window, and he could already see four high-speed planes approaching above the back, and looking at the speed and the appearance of the nose, it was not an old-fashioned propeller aircraft, but an American P80 jet fighter.

The F12C's ability to outperform many older propeller aircraft and other jet fighters is largely due to his ability to climb, driven by powerful jet engines, which are difficult to reach by any other aircraft. So when fighting, if you are rear-ended, other fighters will often use dive steering to get out, but in addition to using this method, F12C can also directly climb at high speed, if the opponent climbs, then the F12C's climb surname can be thrown off after a while, if the opponent does not follow the climb, then it will naturally be thrown off, but it will not take long for F12C to be able to use the energy advantage of height and enter the rear to attack you.

As Mei Fuhu climbed, the wingman in the rear also began to climb and turn, but when the wingman just began to climb, he opened fire, no one knew whether he fired because he was nervous, or because of other reasons, in short, he fired, and the unlucky F6D in front was so good that it was hit, and the twenty-millimeter aviation shell almost shredded the F6D reconnaissance plane.

The four F80 fighters in the rear naturally thought that the battle had broken out, so they all accelerated to catch up, and the roar of jet engines and the sudden sound of machine guns cut through the sky over the entire Alps.

In less than half a minute, the first air battle between China and the United States over Europe broke out over the Alps!

And on the ground, the second lieutenant who had just picked an edelweiss flower tilted his head and exclaimed with a face full of exclamation: "Why did you fight?" ”