If someone asked Xu Jie who he would be more optimistic about if the German High Seas Fleet and the Luftwaffe were to engage in a direct battle between a permanent aviation force and a land-based air force. Reading the novel, Xu Jie will be in the Air Force. This point is based on historical experience, first of all, historically, under the same technical conditions. There are too many restrictions on sea-based aviation. If the opposing land-based air force is located on scattered islands, then it can be broken individually, and even then it will be a long process, for example, when the American imperialists swept the Japanese-controlled islands in the war, it took nearly a year for a huge fleet of nearly one aircraft carrier to gradually approach the Mariana after Santa Cruz. And if the other side is deployed on the mainland, then the situation will definitely be more tragic.

What's more, who in the German Navy in this plane can use good aviation Xu Jie doesn't know, but in history Richthofen (a relative of the Red Baron, who was once the commander of the Eighth Air Army in history, want to ask this guy who participated in that battle?) The offensive and defensive battles of the Sevastopol fortress were commanded by him. Kesselring, these are demonic beings. The former, in particular, is almost at the highest level in Germany at the tactical level. And the latter is also the commander of the air and land of the Ming Dynasty. So Xu Jie is more optimistic about the Luftwaffe.

However, in this sword-wielding exercise, codenamed Ibilisi, what Xu Jie did not expect was that the German sea-based aviation began to occupy a certain advantage in the confrontation with the air force. And the reason for this is also to make people laugh and cry, and even to some extent, the German Navy has a much better grasp of the Ibilis Peninsula than the Luftwaffe on land!

You must know that the German Navy has already deployed submarine bases in Spain as early as the 1st World War. Subsequently, the then Allied Mediterranean Fleet was also stationed in Spain. Although the Luftwaffe also entered Spain, it is a pity that after the war they were all withdrawn to the mainland, while the German Navy remained, especially the important coastal military ports of Spain and Portugal, which were more or less involved in the German Navy. The Germans wanted to simulate a real confrontation on land and sea in the Atlantic. However, it turned out that the number of aircraft that Spain and Portugal could provide was a drop in the bucket compared to the huge Luftwaffe regiments! So, after Germany coordinated from the General Staff. A considerable part of the Luftwaffe entered the airfields of the Luftwaffe, and you don't know, these large planes, which were originally intended for four long-range patrol aircraft, were really useful.

And one of the advantages that this brings to the Navy is: The Navy knows better about these airfields than the Air Force, where anti-aircraft artillery is deployed. From there, access was possible to take advantage of the terrain to the fullest extent possible, and the location of hangars, ammunition depots, pilots' quarters and oil depots, as well as important runways, was clearly known to the Luftwaffe. If that's all there is to it, then forget it. But the key point is that the Luftwaffe and the navy have very different cipher systems and command and dispatch mechanisms, the former is better, for the Luftwaffe can be solved with a new dumb puzzle cipher machine and wired telephone. As for the latter, it will be the life of the Luftwaffe.

First of all, the former does not have a so-called landmark to determine the direction, and the RAF night bomber unit even has a terrain scanning radar to assist navigation during the war. What do you do at sea? Secondly, the target at sea will move. Even if the reconnaissance aircraft bites the opposing fleet, and the opposing fleet is constantly moving, then the attack aircraft group needs to constantly change course. On paper, if the voyage is 4 km, in actual terms, the sea attack aircraft group follows a broken line. In the case of a land attack, if the necessary tactical elements are not taken into account, then it will be a straight line. The voyage is actually different. The German Navy has been studying this thing for a long time, but the Luftwaffe is almost a smear. And considering the confrontation between the two sides and the conflict that has just erupted, it seems that the German Navy will not be able to do such a thing as directing the air force to attack its own fleet anyway, right? And so. The Luftwaffe decisively fell into the pit. …

On the first day of the fight, German sea-based aviation unleashed a massive swarm of three planes to take off at dawn and then easily bypassed the porous radar network along the coast and appeared next to an air base. After a short simulated attack, two squadrons of fighters and a squadron of bombers were destroyed in the airfield, and in just half an hour, a Luftwaffe group was crippled. Another fleet destroyed a material transfer station, with tonnes of spare parts, fuel and other munitions judged destroyed.

The Luftwaffe, which had been beaten with a stick at the beginning, naturally expressed its unacceptability. After a concentrated maneuver, three squadrons of long-range reconnaissance aircraft searched the fleet at sea from different directions. Thanks to the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft, which had a relatively close range, the Luftwaffe reconnaissance plane decisively found the position of the opponent, but then Kesselring and others discovered a problem, the opponent had run out of the range of fighter cover. And simply sending bombers is tantamount to sending them to death. As a result, the Luftwaffe could only watch the other side retreat to the open sea. The first day of fighting ended.

The next day, the Luftwaffe tended to a conservative defense. The radars were all turned on, and the fighters took to the air early to prepare to meet the enemy, and originally thought that there was no problem in defense, but as a result, the Luftwaffe's rapid attack aircraft group decisively caught the air force by surprise after first defeating the German navy itself. The German navy launched an attack at a very close distance, generally choosing about 3 km. Just imagine, all the rearmament and battle planning can be done at night. When the sun has just risen, they can send a group of planes to attack, and they attack the immobile airfield, not the fleet cruising around, and they don't need to reconnoiter at all, and hundreds of planes directly sweep over. Under such circumstances, the only advantage of sea-based aviation -- the concentration of troops -- was brought into full play! If idealized a little, then the Luftwaffe could even catch up with the average person's breakfast time from the beginning of the dawn to the end of the attack! How can you defend against such a fast strike speed? What's more, some of the Luftwaffe bases use the Navy's radar stations, and the blind spots are clearly grasped. There really isn't much difference between having and not having it! So the Luftwaffe, which had been beaten on the first day, was beaten away again on the second day. Two aviation bases were raided, although the fighters that rose into the air in advance had a certain impact on the German Navy, but unfortunately they were outnumbered, a maximum of three squadrons of fighters were deployed at one airfield, and the enemy they had to face was a large group of up to 3 aircraft! After a period of resistance, at least two more brigades were in vain.

As the saying goes, there is a repeat, there is no repeat, there is no repeat, there is a A person can't always fall in a pit, right? But it turns out that at times this is nothing more than wishful thinking. Because before some key issues are solved. It was difficult for the Luftwaffe to inflict a fatal blow on a massive fleet roaming the seas. And the hastily established command and coordination mechanism also seems to be difficult to deal with the opponent's point-like rapid strike method. The German Navy was not greedy at all, attacking once or twice a day, and the German Navy wanted victory. And not to completely eat all the troops of the Luftwaffe exercises, because the latter is not realistic. In terms of total strength, the number of the latter is about 1.0 times that of the former. The German military top brass had already taken the actual situation into account when designing this confrontation, because in future battlefield engagements, the German Navy would definitely face superior land-based aviation, so it was normal to give the air force a little more aircraft during the exercise. Even after several rounds of attrition, the Luftwaffe still had an advantage in total strength, as for the exchange ratio? Well, it's kind of miserable.

But Kesselring is not a mediocre either. They are also adapting to the situation of the war, and have made appropriate adjustments according to the situation in the previous period. First of all, the deployment of the air force began to retreat, if you fight along the coast, the opponent can easily reach your own airport, and the efficiency of hitting birds and ending bird's nests is clear at a glance, and in order to place your own airfield is continued to be cut off by the other party, Kesselring rationally chose to retreat, you can't reach it, there is always no way. After all, everyone uses the BF19, and the short legs of this cargo are also famous in the Navy and Air Force. …

Second, the establishment of more field backup airfields. Some airfields that had been abandoned because of not very good conditions were used, and these airfields in poor conditions were mainly used for fighter takeoffs. Because there are too many of these similar airports. The Navy also does not know the deployment of the other side. So after these two actions by the Luftwaffe, the strike efficiency of the Navy also plummeted. Because the airfield where the Navy thought it was supposed to be deployed was empty, and the group of planes that had gone out to attack was attacked by Luftwaffe fighters who came out of nowhere. The situation on the battlefield is developing in the direction of stalemate.

But that's not enough. It is a soldier who knows that shrinking the direction of the turtle is a palliative but not a cure. What's more, in the early stage the German Navy was already too far ahead. The result of such a drag was the victory of the German Navy, which was no less intolerable for the Air Force. Just as the plan was being implemented, Kesselring received instructions from Richthofen. The Air Marshal was very dissatisfied with the results of the exercises, quite dissatisfied! It was even revealed that the General Staff Department has plans to readjust the aircraft allocation targets that were set not long ago. As soon as he heard this information, Kesselring suddenly became anxious. The difference between winning or losing an exercise is nothing, and if the hard-won share is gone, the marshal will certainly have a dull face, and the Luftwaffe may not be able to fight in the future Iranian campaign.

As for his own future. Then I am afraid that most of it was also destroyed, although the air force suffered much greater losses than the other side during the Italian Civil War. But in the end, it won, and there are some bright spots. And this time, it seems that there have been all kinds of sorrows from the beginning to the present. So for the sake of his own future, Kesselring also needs to fight.

"Fight! But! After gritting his teeth for a long time, Kesselring finally decided to put in the Air Force's own ocean-going reconnaissance planes, thanks to the Air Force's relatively sufficient military expenditures, and these ocean-going reconnaissance planes converted from HE177 four-engine heavy bombers were equipped with anti-air and sea-to-sea search radars! Moreover, the 4 JUMO engines also provide it with more sufficient power, and the larger fuel load capacity makes it have an ultra-long range, which is much stronger than the F-type ocean-going reconnaissance aircraft currently used by the Navy! These aircraft can even be released in the second half of the night and then patrol the pre-allocated sea area. Although the early anti-sea radar can only be described as sad, the size of the German Navy's fleet was simply too large. More importantly, the German Navy did not have the ability to fight at night. Even if the Air Force told the Navy that there was a HE177 meters above their heads, the latter would not have a choice.

Of course, this alone will not work, after all, this is at most a solution to the problem of reconnaissance. The Luftwaffe also needed to solve the problem of attack. With the withdrawal of the air force, it is certainly more difficult for the German Navy to hit the air base, but in the same way, it is not easy to hit the other side! Thinking about the range, the Luftwaffe found that single-engine aircraft had to be equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks to barely guarantee escort for twin-engine bombers. If it is wartime, it will naturally take the initiative. But this is an exercise after all, and if a bunch of planes fall into the sea because of lack of fuel or drown a few more pilots during the exercise, it will be a failure. The Navy's attack on the Air Force's aircraft is to hit ground targets. If you run out of fuel, you can make a forced landing on land. However, when the Air Force attacks sea targets, it is difficult to track them. It is more difficult to estimate the amount of oil. What if something happens? Moreover, as a high-ranking member of the Air Force, Kesselring also knows that the Air Force's ability to attack ships is really limited, and it is no problem for you to let them blow up merchant ships, and it is okay to fight a single warship. But if you want to storm the super fleet covered by hundreds of aircraft, forget it. The Air Force has never practiced this. On the one hand, there is no urgency, and in fact, where is the Air Force looking for fleet training! This exercise is the first time! …

Therefore, the historical Luftwaffe Field Marshal formulated two battle plans, concentrating some advanced twin-engine fast bombers and long-range twin-engine fighters as attack forces, and this force actually held the idea of fighting if it could fight or not. And according to the advice of Grim and others, the attack aircraft group will abandon the attack on such capital ships as aircraft carriers and battleships. Because the heavy bombs carried by the aircraft group are of the kg class, according to the regulations of the exercise, it is difficult for bombs of this level to penetrate the armor of aircraft carriers, and if they carry 8kg bombs, they will either reduce the range or reduce the number of bombs carried. And diving with such a heavy bomb is a technical job in itself, and there are too few people who can do it well. Although these bombs will not actually be dropped on the aircraft carrier, as long as the aircraft makes a dive action, it is precisely because of this problem that the pilot must control the overload and speed of the aircraft when pulling it up. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will lose control, after all, the bomb will not be dropped, but the counterweight used as a bomb is real!

I thought about my own capital. Kesselring still decided to form this strike fleet with the attitude of giving it a try, and if he could achieve the best results, forget it if he couldn't get it, anyway, he didn't expect them to fight for food. Although he didn't have much expectation of defeating the High Seas Fleet itself, this Air Force genius had a lot of ideas about breaking the sword of the High Seas Fleet! As long as it can inflict heavy damage on the sea-based aviation of the German High Seas Fleet, then at least it will be an undefeated ending, and if it actually engages, then it will be the air force that will be earned. Because the training of sea-based aviation itself is much more difficult than that of land-based pilots, not to mention anything else. Taking off and landing on a battleship is a big problem.

Everyone uses the same planes, although the air force is not as strong as the navy in terms of sea attack. However, when it comes to air combat, the air force is stronger than the navy, and the air force with ground support has more advantages than the navy in terms of tactical dispatch and the convenience of tactical selection. Not to mention, the air force fighting at home can use the ground tower and the air force's own radar to better understand the opponent's movements. As the deployment of the air force shrinks, the other side needs to go deeper and more dangerous if it wants to hit the airfield. This not only means more distance and more opponents, but also more opportunities for the Air Force to use its own tactics.

"There's no need for us to fight to the death with each other's fleet at the beginning, which is inefficient. We should be like wolves and let our opponents run first. The range of the opponent's fighters is almost close to the limit, if we first make the opponent abandon the auxiliary fuel tank prematurely through continuous harassment after the opponent enters the battlefield, then it is obvious that these aircraft that have lost the auxiliary fuel tank will not be able to continue to escort after intercepting a wave, then they can only evacuate. After a few harassments and attrition, their fighters will be reduced to a very low level, and when the time comes, we will be able to completely solve the problem by concentrating only one fighter wing. In the end, Kesselring developed a plan specifically for the characteristics of sea-based aviation, and of course, these fighters who prematurely cut off the auxiliary fuel tanks could not be spared, and the air force would concentrate ace pilots to intercept those who were in a hurry to go home.

And the final battle really did not exceed Kesselring's predictions. Two days before the end of the exercises, German naval aviation finally suffered the only crushing defeat of this exercise. As in the past, as many as 4 various planes took to the skies, perhaps due to the fact that the previous victory had exhausted the character. Just ten minutes after the departure of the group, an Air Force HE177 ocean-going patrol plane spotted this huge formation at an altitude of 6 meters. In order to take into account the bombers, the German naval aviation flew at an altitude of about 4 meters, and because of the light, it did not find the air force patrol aircraft that was more than two meters above their heads. At this time, the straight-line distance between the two sides is only about 3 kilometers, when the swarm-like photoelectric light appears on the radar display screen. The German pilots were also taken aback. But soon, the captain who commanded the plane found that the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune had come! At such a distance, it is difficult for the other party to visually find the HE177 in the direction of the backlight. The plane, equipped with a long-range radar, could see the huge fleet. Although there will definitely be a large error in distance and direction angle, there is no problem at all in tracking the direction of movement of the other party. And so. The Ibilisi massacre officially began. …

Kesselring, having received the news, did not immediately intercept these targets in the open sea. There were probably about 1 fighter in 4 aircraft. The number of this wave is larger than the original, and it seems that the other side intends to end with this victory. In order to surprise each other. Kesselring also adjusted his plan slightly, and did not launch harassment and interception prematurely, but waited for the other side to enter the land airspace, and then took off a group of twin-engine planes and under the guidance of radar, they were far behind the target group. The rearview of the BF19 was already tragic, so much so that a large group of fighters successfully avoided the HNA field of vision with the help of terrain and the cover of clouds.

Subsequently, the first fighters who entered from 8 o'clock began to attack the HNA group from the flanks and rear, and the fighters located in the rear were forced to drop their auxiliary fuel tanks to prepare to meet the enemy. After a bit of entanglement, the other side withdrew, just as Kesselring had estimated. The naval fighters, who lost their auxiliary fuel tanks and went through a lot of air battles, ran out of fuel. The commander in charge of leading the team was also unambiguous and decisively agreed to the group's request to return home. After several rounds of harassment, not many HNA fighters were shot down, but as many as many withdrew from the battle. Generally speaking, it should be over at this point. But just as the planes were returning, a large formation was vacated in the rear line of defense, which was right under the muzzles of the two twin-engine fighters attached behind. These bomber killers, who entered almost from the rear at 6 o'clock, scattered the entire right flank of the group at the first time. These guys, who were supposed to deal with heavy bombers, had terrible firepower and armor, and they couldn't beat the fighters in a dogfight, but when the target was a single or twin bomber, it was a flock.

Caught off guard, HNA fighters missed the first wave of interceptions. Then, when their fighters regrouped to intercept them, the rest of the German fighter wings went into battle. After some time of attrition, the Luftwaffe already had an absolute advantage. Bomber carrier bombs naturally do not escape fighters. And if the bomber does not leave, the fighter must defend itself against the attack of the other side. And in the chaos of the battlefield, even if the group received an order. I'm afraid it's only a part of it, after all, the entire group has fallen into the attack of the superior opponent, and the formation is all out of order. Even many fighters can only defend themselves.

Not only was the Shanghai Airlines suppressed on the battlefield, but even the fighters who returned early were constantly intercepted by the radar-guided fighters. Kesselring used the tactics of intercepting single and twin engines together, and the twin-engine aircraft has more fuel and can maintain high-speed cruise for a long time, while Hainan Airlines' BF19 must also maintain high-speed cruise in order to get rid of opponents, so that the fuel consumption is relatively large. Coupled with the fact that the fighters did not emerge from the front, these aircraft also required constant combat.

"We are like a pack of deer being stalked by wolves. They take turns attacking and tempting, draining our physical strength. Until it finally dragged us down. There are quite a few comrades-in-arms who were not judged to have been shot down. Rather, it was because he ran out of fuel and was forced to admit defeat. The other side took full advantage of them. I have to admit that it is very difficult for the HNA and the Army to have an advantage in a head-on confrontation. A German fighter squadron leader said of the engagement.

The Luftwaffe adheres to the principle that if you can't beat it, you will be killed, the bombers will definitely not be able to run away, and they will be shot to death, and the fighters will be consumed alive. In the end, no more than 1 aircraft can go back to the huge fleet! Well, in addition to these reasons, there is an important reason that Kesselring, while intercepting the HNA group, also sent a sea attack formation. Let's not talk about the quality, but at least the momentum is enough. The German Navy was forced to retreat about 4 nautical miles. And it was this distance that made some planes that could have gone back finally judged to fall into the sea.

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