Chapter Twenty-Five: A Strong Army in the Air!
"Commander."
Heyuan County, the location of the old airport, a communications soldier reported a message to Huang Quan:
"Commander Zhang telegraphed, we can leave in twelve hours."
"The sapper battalion is so fast?"
looked at his watch, his eyebrows were raised in surprise, and Huang Quan nodded in response:
"Got it."
After the signal soldiers left, he still looked at the old airfield in the distance, that is, the airfield where they first came into contact with his home air force when they returned from France.
It was here that the seven of them started the air force for the troops.
Now that the regiment has moved to a flight base on the outskirts of Heyuan County, the airfield has been abandoned, and the barbed wire fence and bunkers have been removed to make room for the surrounding industrial zone.
Only a section of the runway and command post were left as a memorial to the Air Force.
"Back then."
Huang Quan's side, the same deputy head said:
"The day we first arrived, we were worried that there would not be enough planes, not enough fuel, not enough ammunition, and in the car, we were always discussing how to save fuel, save bullets, and prepare for a hard life."
As he spoke, the deputy head couldn't help but laugh.
"yes."
Huang Quan couldn't help laughing.
When I think about it, it's like a lifetime away.
When it was first established, there were only seven pilots in the entire unit, five logistics personnel, and some technical personnel supported by the headquarters - training was needed to repair and maintain the aircraft.
The master is counted separately.
And just yesterday, he, the regiment commander, the commander, and everyone at the headquarters celebrated the fact that the official pilots of the unit exceeded five figures -- not counting the 8,000 flight cadets of the Xi'an Flight Academy and the Heyuan Flight Academy, and nearly 1,000 elite instructors, the number of aircraft pilots serving in the unit now has five figures, and they can take off up to 10,000 planes at a time.
Calculate the time.
They formed the Air Force in February last year, and now it is early May, and it has only been 15 months since they were fully fought.
In 15 months, still during the war, he went from seven pilots to 10,000 pilots, in a country where the illiteracy rate exceeded 93 percent, and 90 percent of the people did not know what an airplane was.
It's a miracle.
But any miracle has a price, and the more incredible the miracle, the greater the cost.
The dense names on the monument in front of me are the price.
The pilot is not like a tankman, a driver.
Tanks, armored cars, trucks, you make a mistake, turn over a car, hit a wall, if you are lucky, you break the skin, or nothing, get up and continue to drive, if you are unlucky, you will break a bone or something, and continue to do it after two months. Even if you fall off a cliff, you are not prone to casualties, especially for tanks and military trucks, and the driver is very well protected.
But airplanes.
Death spirals, stalls, overloads, vertigo, lost flights, and landing without vision in bad weather can all contribute to the fall of an aircraft.
As for skydiving, it is not a simple technique to master, and many times there is no time to even skydive, such as a death spiral, overload vertigo, or just a few seconds of chance - it is difficult to grasp the opportunity without rigorous training.
Therefore, pilots not only need to know how to fly an airplane, but also need to have in-depth knowledge of flying.
As a Feng Xin Yuan, the least is the least, aerodynamics need to be mastered, and the more than 300 pages of flight manuals must be read and memorized how to deal with all unexpected situations - this requires a considerable level of knowledge.
And here, the most lacking are intellectuals.
Although the military has eradicated illiteracy and established education, the time has been short, the results have not yet been obvious, and the inability to read a few large characters is still a common phenomenon in the base areas.
And.
The intellectuals should give priority to the construction of factory-industrial zones, this is the consensus of all - what a terrible price the country has already paid for the lack of its own heavy industry, they cannot wait any longer, not a second or a minute, they must start building their own industrial capacity from now on, with all their strength.
Therefore, the cadets accepted by their flight unit, those pilot seeds, although they are all young men, eighteen or nineteen years old, have a very low level of education, and they have only received more than a year or more than half a year of cultural tutoring.
Graduating from a regular primary school can be regarded as a high degree of education.
If you go to high school, you can't find one out of twenty.
And they also need to train these young men with a general primary school education as young as eighteen or nineteen years old and twenty-three or fourteen years old as quickly as possible to become pilots - pilots who can participate in war.
Even if there is absolutely enough fuel and a completely sufficient aircraft, the difficulty is still unimaginably high.
Especially in the early days.
At that time, including him, they only had seven pilots, and they hadn't even mastered the new planes, and the battle was imminent, and the Devil Air Force was still a big threat at that time.
There was no time to test who had the talent to fly, and there was no time to start with simulators, gliders, and biplanes – although all of these training facilities were available and very well equipped.
That's it.
Train directly together.
Learn flight knowledge at night, gnaw on flight manuals, and fly during the day.
This group of old people, as well as the pilots who returned from abroad and the pilots recruited by the headquarters, flew directly and mastered the performance of the aircraft in high-dose and high-intensity flights - a minimum of six hours a day and a maximum of twelve hours.
The newcomer is in the back seat, following the dive, rolling - fly him for more than half a month, fly for 1,200 hours to know whether the sense of space is strong, whether there is a pilot talent.
Sitting in the bubble cockpit in the back seat, feeling the dive, rolling between the whirlwind, the position is out of order, don't vomit, you can follow the perspective to observe, then enter the next link - fly the plane on the ground, be familiar with the control, and gradually start to take off from the ground on the runway for a distance in the later stage.
If you keep throwing up, keep flying.
During this period, I continued to learn flight knowledge at night, gnawed flight manuals, reduced the flight time during the day, and switched to ground actual aircraft control - after 300 flight hours, I began to fly the aircraft alone after passing the most basic assessment of flight knowledge.
And, of course, learning to skydive.
Fortunately, the young men who participated in the pilots, although they were young, were strong-willed, and they were all iron-clad men.
Even if he was spit out by the violent maneuver, his legs and stomach trembled, he gritted his teeth and continued to get on the plane the next day, and the first parachute jump was directly plunged from a height of several thousand meters without the slightest hesitation.
But a novice directly pilots an attack aircraft with more than 3,000 horsepower, just like a rookie to tame the most fierce bullfight, more vividly, similar to a C1 player who has just obtained a license with a low score in a driving school and engaged in a 17.5-meter-high semi-trailer to pull goods on the road.
Two-thirds of the names of the first batch of flight cadets were engraved on the stone tablet in front of them - either parachuting mistakes or operational errors, and the combat losses were actually very small.
By the beginning of this year, two flight academies were established, a large number of veteran pilots transferred to the academies to become flight academy instructors, and before the training of new pilots entered the official stage, more than 6,000 pilots were lost just because of training.
That's the price of this miracle.
Of the first seven pilots who came with him that year, four were already on this monument.
"Are you going with us today?"
The teammate next to him said suddenly.
"Of course."
Huang Quan smiled slightly.
The decisive battle of the Devil's Combined Fleet, such an important battle, how could he miss it?
As for the danger.
Back then, Commander Li also personally carried a machete to cut devils, would he be afraid of danger? As for the air force units, even if he dies, the large air force strategy of the troops will not have the slightest impact, and there will not even be any pause.
At present, the air force in the base area is already full of talents, and the top pilots who have flown more than 5,000 hours have grabbed a large number of them.
It is expected that by this time next year, there will be 30,000 full-fledged pilots in the entire army.
Those who train new instructors at the academy are not only training new people, almost all of them follow the masters who teach to study aerodynamics and other aircraft-related subjects.
They are still young.
They are still very good learners.
They are the seeds of the future national aviation.
······
Twelve hours later.
One hundred and fifty four-engine transport planes, carrying 1,500 pilots, 10,000 air crew commanders, and mechanical logistics personnel, set off from Heyuan Prefecture, refueled in Naha, and flew non-stop to Guam.
······
"How many people did you bring?"
Six hours later, Huang Quan arrived in Guam, and Zhang Dabiao came to greet him.
Although there was no notice in advance, Zhang Dabiao didn't need to think about it to know that Huang Quan, the head of the flying regiment, would definitely come back - how could the people of the independent regiment miss such a crucial battle?
"Fifteen hundred."
Huang Quan replied.
He knew that Zhang Dabiao was asking about the pilot.
"One thousand and five!"
The corners of Zhang Dabiao's eyes jumped, and then he laughed:
"That's enough for the little devil to drink a pot."
Including the 250 pilots who flew the water transport planes, Guam is currently home to 1,750 pilots.
So far, the engineer battalion has leveled the entire northern part of Guam, paved 30 runways, 1,500 tarmacs, and in a few more time, enough to take off and land 2,000 bomb trucks at the same time.
The size of a single-engine attack aircraft is much smaller than that of a four-engine transport aircraft, and the terrain requirements are relatively low.
While the two were chatting, the transport plane had already begun to carry the wounded on its return journey, and all the pilots of the transport plane who had left had some regrets that they could not participate in this battle.
But there is really a big difference between a transport aircraft pilot and an attack aircraft pilot.
At present, not counting the old elites who have returned to the furnace and upgraded, there are only about 5,500 people who can fly attack planes, and about one-third of them have come this time, and some of them are fighter pilots.
The devils also have a few aircraft carriers, and the naval pilots are all elite.
After the transport planes had left, 35 hours after taking Guam, the ground crew pushed an 'AWACS plane' out of the warehouse, refueled, overhauled, and then slowly lifted it into the air.
Afterwards.
Bomb trucks were also withdrawn from the warehouse and entered the tarmac, where pilots and ground crews rushed to the tarmac to overhaul, refuel, and load bombs in preparation for the upcoming battle.
The soldiers of the infantry battalion, who had nothing to do, also went to help.
Among the huge contingent of 'bomb trucks' that flowed out of the warehouse, more than 50 planes stood out in particular attention.
She has no propellers, a large hole in the nose with a wing swept back slightly, and a huge hole in the tail with obvious cannon holes visible in the nose and wing roots.
If there is a military fan of later generations, you can see at a glance that this product is very similar to the famous MiG-15.
Of course, there are a lot of improvements.
The engine thrust is more fuel-efficient, the internal structure is more perfect, the wing is thinner, and with the high-thrust engine, coupled with advanced materials, the wing knife to prevent wingtip stalling has been changed to leading edge flaps.
In terms of armament, it was also replaced with three 25mm cannons.
"The little devil has four aircraft carriers, right?"
Seeing these 'latest fighters', Huang Quan's eyes flashed.
The new jet fighter is extremely powerful, far surpassing the propeller fighter, and similarly, the danger and difficulty of operation are much higher than the propeller, and it will stall if you are not careful.
At present, there are no more than a hundred pilots in the base area, including him, capable of flying such fighters into battle.
Of course, this has something to do with the fact that there is no need for the troops, and there are enough propeller fighters.
And this time, he will personally lead the team and fly the latest jet fighter to defeat the naval pilots on the devil's aircraft carrier and eliminate the devil's so-called real 'elite'!
"Yes."
Zhang Dabiao replied:
"Four aircraft carriers, Zuizuru, Chiyoda, Ruifeng, Chitose, this time the devil will definitely be dispatched in the whole army."
"However, only the Zuihe is the real main aircraft carrier, and the other three are all light aircraft carriers, adding up to only two hundred carrier-based aircraft."
"Two hundred."
Huang Quan didn't speak, but Cai Jiheng on the side sighed, a little dissatisfied - this elite pilot from the preserved fruit, he was also one of the fifty pilots who flew jets.
Just 200 planes.
A little less.
While the Guam fighters were in full swing to prepare, a few hours later, the AWACS aircraft also came back with the message:
"Enemy ships were found, three, currently two hundred and fifty kilometers from Guam."
In the command room, Zhang Dabiao and Huang Quan raised their heads at the same time and glanced at each other - it was finally here.
"It's the vanguard fleet of the little devils."
Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly:
"Order the missile attack aircraft to take off and launch an attack on the Devil Forward fleet."
Because of the restrictions of the airport, there are now only three missile attack aircraft.
The real combat workhorse is 1,500 'bomb trucks'.
It can carry bombs for dive bombing, and can also carry torpedoes to carry out torpedo bombing, and after carrying two large and two small auxiliary fuel tanks, the combat radius is as high as 800 kilometers.
But this battle is a war of annihilation.
The goal is to annihilate the combined fleet of devils.
Although Guam is very important, once it is occupied, it means that the external blood transfusion channel of the devils will be completely cut off, and the devils will inevitably recapture Guam at all costs.
But it's also hard to say whether the Devil's Combined Fleet knows that there are 1,500 planes waiting here, and whether they will be so frightened that they will run away.
So, you have to give the devil a little courage first.
For the devils, there is nothing more than a missile that has been successfully jammed to see the hope of victory, and for this reason, some of the missiles in the three missile attack planes have deliberately removed the ability to carry radar jamming - some even set a timed radar shutdown function.
Otherwise, with the chaff jamming bomb that the devil has just researched, and there is no noise amplitude modulation jammer to cooperate, I am afraid that it will not even be able to do the impact - the Styx missiles equipped by the troops at this time have mechanical frequency conversion technology that has reached the second level, and anti-jamming technologies such as moving target display.
Improving radar performance is no joke for more than ten years advanced.
The chaff jamming bomb is not just as simple as sprinkling it into the sky, it has very strict requirements for the length and density of the chaff, otherwise it will be directly filtered out as clutter and go straight to the target.
······
An hour later.
"Enemy aircraft."
In the Devil's Forward Fleet, a lookout spotted several propeller planes hovering ten kilometers away - modified from bomb trucks and carrying optical observation equipment for reconnaissance and monitoring.
"It should be a reconnaissance plane."
The devil quickly made a judgment.
At such a distance, anti-aircraft guns could not reach.
The forward fleet also had no fighters, only a few water reconnaissance planes, so the devils were nervous for a while and then calmed down, just staring and strengthening their vigilance.
At the same time.
"Launch."
Three missile attack aircraft in the sky, aircraft No. 1 fired four air-launched anti-ship missiles.
"Missiles."
Even though it was daytime, the devil still spotted the tail flame in the sky for the first time.
The Devil's Forward Fleet is a light cruiser, an old-fashioned heavy cruiser, and a destroyer, equipped with chaff jamming bombs, for the purpose of probing the defensive strength of Guam, although Vice Commander Toyoda is very sure, in just two days, the enemy will not be able to gather the strength that can compete with the combined fleet.
But he still cautiously sent a wave of tentative troops.
"Maneuver evasion."
"Jamming bomb launch."
Seeing the missile, the devil commander immediately ordered the launch of jamming bombs, and at the same time ordered the fleet to maneuver to avoid it.
Although it has been proven that the maneuvering evasion of large warships has no effect on missiles, they generally do something.
In the first wave of missiles, three missiles that were deducted from the frequency conversion function and the ability to display moving targets, faced with the overwhelming chaff, these three suddenly lost their direction and went straight to the sea.
And the remaining complete missile, the last one, launched with a delay of one second, pierced directly into the bow of the heavy cruiser.
"The interference works."
Despite the fact that one of the ships was hit, the bow of the ship suffered heavy losses, and one of the main guns could not continue the battle, the devil commander still jumped up happily.
The hit rate was only a quarter, three of the missiles went straight to the sea, and only one diverted direction, which shows that the Reich's jamming missiles worked.
Immediately after that, the second wave of missiles hit, this wave also had only one normal missile, and at the same time, the third wave was also launched, and the last wave was not a single normal one.
At the same time, thirty-seven 'bomb trucks' also appeared in the sky, rushing towards the devil fleet.
······
"General."
Ten minutes later, the Devil Combined Fleet Command, Vice Takeshi Toyoda, received a piece of good news:
"General, the forward fleet was attacked by enemy missiles, the enemy launched a total of twelve missiles, two hits, chaff jamming shells are effective, the greater the launch density, the stronger the jamming effect."
"Subsequent encounters with a joint attack by enemy torpedoes and dive bombers, the ships of the fleet were seriously damaged, and the heavy cruise... Sunk. ”
"Yo Si."
Toyota's vice-president Daiki.
Although an old heavy cruiser sank, he was still happy.
There are two pieces of good news for him.
The jamming bomb is effective against the enemy's missiles, and the effect is very good, he finally does not have to worry about the enemy's missiles, the cost of chaff jamming bombs is very low, and in the future transport ships can also be equipped, and then transport supplies to the subcontinent.
Secondly, the enemy could not wait to launch an attack on the forward fleet, and immediately after the missile attack failed, it launched a torpedo attack and dive bombing.
This shows that the enemy does not want him to see the situation on Guam, and he does not want the Combined Fleet to come near Guam.
"Full speed ahead."
Toyota's vice-martial tone has been raised three degrees.
····
The other side.
Inside the Guam command room.
"The devil's chaff jamming bomb is very primitive, and the jamming effect on our active missiles is extremely low."
The twelve-missile offensive allowed the staff of the flight regiment to come to such a conclusion.
This missile attack also has two meanings: one is to let the devils relax their vigilance and continue the attack, and the other is to test the effect of the devils' jamming bombs.
"Trash."
Hearing this news, Zhang Dabiao and Huang Quan scolded with disdain.
。 The fastest update URL of the vertex mobile version: