Chapter 660: The Battle of Fighters

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The First Army has the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 8th Divisions, as well as a number of field artillery brigades and wings, and a number of antitank gun brigades and mortar brigades. It is the most powerful unit in the army, with a total strength of nearly 150,000 troops. It is mainly deployed on the defense line of the Qingchuan River, including Anju and Yuanchuan.

The Second Army has the 6th Division, the 12th Division, and a number of artillery units, and the main units are in the northeastern part of Korea, including Wonsan, Hamhung, Sinpo and other coastal areas in northeastern Korea. However, this area is somewhat and inaccessible, so whether it is the Sino-Chinese War in 1923 or the Sino-Chinese War this time, the northeastern region of Korea is not the main area where China and China are fighting, and the scattered deployment area of the three divisions of the Second Army is far greater than that of the western part of Korea, and most of the battles between the two sides are limited to the scale of the battalion and regiment level.

The last corps was the Third Army, which had the 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th Divisions, and a number of attached field artillery units, which were slightly inferior in number to the First Army, and the artillery was relatively weak. It is mainly deployed in the Pyongyang region.

The Chinese army also has three or four divisions in the southern part of Korea, and these units are mainly used for the control of the southern region, imitating the Chinese army to log in from the south of Korea.

In addition, the Chinese army has also successively sent troops from the mainland to Korea, but due to the limited sea transportation capacity, it is far more difficult for the Syrian army to continue to increase troops in Korea on a large scale than it is for China to increase troops in Korea.

Another very important reason is that although the army has set up some arsenals in Korea to produce ammunition, the scale is very small, and most of the supplies of the army need to be transported from the country, and this has also caused great pressure on the logistics supply of the army.

In contrast, although the supply pressure of the Chinese army is also great, the problem of transportation by rail and road transportation is not large, and even when the railway transportation capacity is insufficient, China's logistics department can even directly organize people to carry out transportation on foot. From this point of view, the logistical supply situation of the Chinese army is much better than that of the Chinese army.

He said that he was not stupid, and naturally he also knew his own supply disadvantages, so in recent years, a large number of military supply warehouses have been built in southern Korea, especially in Pusan, and other important areas, and a large number of materials have been hoarded.

However, due to the establishment of the Korean demilitarized zone, the Japanese army was not allowed to deploy troops in Pyongyang and other areas, and it was also impossible to set up a military material reserve warehouse.

Pyongyang's important surname is certain, otherwise the army would not have begun to build a large number of fortifications around Pyongyang when there was a fierce battle on the Anju front, and at the same time deployed the main force of the Third Army here, in order to prevent the Central [***] team from bypassing the Anju defense line and directly attacking Pyongyang as in the past, thus causing the troops in the Cheongchon River area to collapse.

Therefore, when the Chinese armored forces broke through the defensive depth of the Anju front line of the Yue army, and broke through more than 30 kilometers to the south in one go, they met the Pyongyang defense line of the Yue army.

After all, there were so many Chinese Air Force planes flying around over the DPRK, and a large amount of information on the military deployment of the Syrian army was obtained through aerial reconnaissance. At the beginning of the war, the Chinese Air Force put more than 300 planes into the Korean War, and then successively reinforced it to as many as 500 planes. However, on the Korean battlefield, there were only more than 100 combat planes of the Army Air Force at the beginning, and these planes were all products of the mid-20s, and they were far inferior to the improved F2 models in the Chinese Air Force, and they were inferior in numbers, so they were quickly repulsed and could only do passive defensive operations in important areas.

However, the army soon dispatched the latest Type 91 fighter jets to the Korean theater in an attempt to rely on this latest aircraft to regain air supremacy.

In addition to the Chinese Air Force often organizing large-scale aircraft groups to bomb the Yue troops in the Anzhou area, they also sent planes from time to time to bomb the Pyongyang area, which is the hinterland of the Syrian army.

In order to provide aerial reconnaissance and support to the enemy for the armored units, the air force has frequently dispatched combat planes to the Pyongyang area in the past few days.

In the skies over Pyongyang, a large-scale air battle is taking place at this moment, and dozens of planes are flying in the sky, of which more than 30 are Chinese bomber groups that have come to bomb Pyongyang, and 7 or 8 are fighters that the army air force is fighting against.

Of the more than 30 Chinese aircraft, more than 20 are B4 bombers and B7 dive bombers of the Air Force, while the rest are escort F2 fighters.

When the two sides had not yet made contact, the Chinese air force pilots escorting the escort found that there was something different about the fighter planes on the opposite side, and it was obvious that the fighters facing the plane were not the old fighters they had encountered before, and the planes in front of them were single-winged and small.

Although this fighter has never been seen before, but the escort of the Chinese Air Force F2 fighter has swooped over, and quickly entangled with it, in the time of the fighter struggle, the B4 bomber also began to drop a series of bombs, and the B7 dive bomber also began to dive to drop bombs, for a time, several important areas in Pyongyang City are the sound of explosions, at the same time, the ground air defense guns of the army, anti-aircraft machine guns are also firing one after another, and there are explosions of shells in the sky.

While the bombers were carrying out the bombing operation, the escorting Chinese F2 fighters were also fighting with their new fighters, but the Chinese F2 pilots soon discovered that the name of the fighter in front of them was better than they thought, and the speed seemed to be faster than their own F2 fighters.

Although the Air Force is unwilling, it has to admit that the Army Air Force has already entered service with a fighter whose surname can surpass that of the F2 fighter.

As a result of this air battle, the Chinese group that came to bomb suffered rare losses, two B4 bombers and one B7 dive bomber were shot down, and three F2 fighters were shot down by the Type 91 fighters in the air battle. So much so that before the whole bombing campaign was over, the Chinese bomber unit hurriedly finished throwing bombs and retreated.

He said: "The information that the army air force has newly commissioned a new type of aircraft will soon be sent to Wu Shizhong, chief of the Air Force."

"The speed exceeds that of the F2 D-type fighter, and its climb rate is also higher than that of the F2 fighter. During the battle, our F2 fighters were able to break away from the pursuit of the enemy's Type 91 fighters only by quickly diving into the instantaneous disk! An Air Force Major General handed Wu Shizhong the thick stack of reports in his hand.

"In addition, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, this new aircraft of this army aviation unit is a Type 91 fighter, and it began its first flight two years ago, and it has only begun to serve in small batches this year!"

Wu Shizhong nodded after hearing this: "It seems that 'I haven't been idle in the past few years!'" ”

Then he said: "So how does their Type 91 fighter compare to our F3 fighter?" ”

The major general of the Air Force standing in front of him said: "Although there is no specific data on the surname of the enemy's Type 91 fighters, according to the two air battles over Pyongyang, the maximum speed of the enemy's Type 91 fighters will not exceed 320 kilometers, and it is estimated that it will be between 300 and 320 kilometers, and its climb rate will be relatively good." But there is still a certain gap compared with our F3 fighters! ”

"Commander-in-chief, now that our F3 fighter unit has almost completed its training, see if it will be sent to the North Korean side!"

Wu Shizhong said: "Now that the enemy has a new type of aircraft, I am afraid it will be very difficult to rely on F2 fighters alone, and the Operations Department is looking at the arrangements and sending the two newly established F3 fighter squadrons to North Korea!" ”

Although the F3 fighters of the Chinese Air Force have been in service, the number of them in service before the war is not large, only a few dozen, and training was still carried out until the outbreak of the war. Originally, I thought that I would be able to obtain air supremacy in North Korea with F2 fighters, but now it seems that I still underestimate it.

Now is also the time to send F3 fighters to the Korean battlefield, after sending off the people from the Operations Division, Wu Shizhong has met with the people of the Ordnance Department of the Air Force several times, asking the Air Force to increase the speed of procurement of F3 fighters, and because the F2 fighters have fallen behind, the F2 fighters have officially stopped production and stopped the improvement plan for the F2 fighters.

The Air Force Department wants to increase the number of F3 fighter jets, which has also put great pressure on the production capacity of the Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and now the Chuzhou Aircraft Company has suspended the production of civil aircraft, and even the production of some bombers has been suspended, and these production plans have been transferred to several other domestic aircraft manufacturing companies, so as to fully produce F3 fighters. According to the current output of the Chuzhou Aircraft Company, it can produce about 30 F3 fighters a month under normal production, but now it is a wartime state, and domestic defense enterprises, including the Chuzhou Aircraft Company, are working overtime, and it is not a big problem to increase the output to 50 planes per month.

At this rate, it will be possible to replenish the Air Force with more than a hundred F3 fighters in three months.

When the F3 fighter officially landed on the battlefield in North Korea, it quickly relied on its advantage to suppress the 91 fighter of the Yue Army, and regained air supremacy over North Korea, and said that after the 91 type fighter was suppressed, the army urgently put into service the Type 92 fighter and accelerated the research and development of new aircraft, but this takes time, even in wartime, it takes half a year to a year for the development of a new aircraft to enter service. So in a short period of time, the Chinese Air Force will still be able to gain an advantage.

The confrontation between the two air forces did not affect the battle between the two armies, and as the Chinese armored forces moved closer to Pyongyang, and the 17th Army came up with the armored forces, a large-scale battle between the armies was about to officially begin.