Chapter 603 Fighting against the Southern Subcontinent
Although the Golden Eagle 4 is inferior in terms of range and firepower density, in terms of flexibility and weapon power, the Golden Eagle 4 has the absolute upper hand. With the help of the optical sight, the Golden Eagle 4 fighter's cannon
The power was fully utilized, and the Boston Air Force, which used mechanical sights, could only use the firepower density of the 12.7mm machine gun to make up for the lack of accuracy.
In the air battle, the situations that Fang Xiaoyu had foreseen appeared. If a jet aircraft is used to fight a propeller aircraft, some problems will not be exposed due to its much higher performance, but it is different in a jet duel.
The air force pilots of the Saint Martin Empire have been training secretly in the Chinese Empire. They have been training in major aviation schools and the First Air Division for two years, and they are well aware of the performance and usage habits of jet fighters.
Those Boston Empire pilots were different. Since the F84 fighter jets had been equipped in large quantities for less than a year, and the Boston Empire Air Force had no experience in using jet aircraft before, they all slowly explored based on their experience in operating propeller aircraft.
In the early days of the F84 fighter jet entering service, many ace pilots flew the aircraft according to their usual habits. As a result, many accidents occurred, many planes crashed, and two ace pilots were killed. This is how they learned their lessons through blood.
After accumulating experience, the Boston Air Force slowly mastered the operation methods of jet aircraft, and this can only master the basic operation methods. The air combat tactics belonging to jet aircraft cannot be created in a short time, so compared with
As far as the Chinese Empire was concerned, the Boston Air Force was still at the level of primary school students.
The Imperial Chinese Air Force, which has many years of experience in using jet aircraft, is different. They have complete jet trainers and ground flight simulators designed by Xiaofeng. It is very easy to complete training.
The Boston Empire spent a lot of effort to select elites from a large number of active pilots and train thousands of qualified jet pilots within a year. However, the Chinese Empire was in the process of mass-produced jets every year.
More than 4,000 people train jet pilots at a speed, and these people can also learn complete air combat tactics and be corrected some bad operational habits. Therefore, the gap in pilot quality between the two sides is actually larger than the gap in fighter performance.
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In general, the gap between pilot technology and aircraft performance evened out the numerical gap between the two sides. The Boston Air Force and the St. Martin Air Force, which had the numerical advantage, fought for a while and it was considered a tie, but those bombers were unlucky.
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Although the B29 fleet quickly increased its flight altitude and left the Lightning fighters below, those dense rockets still caused them a lot of trouble, especially in order to reduce weight and climb quickly, most of the B29 bombers were abandoned in advance.
In the end, only a dozen bombers bombed and dropped their own bombs at high altitudes. The accuracy of high-altitude bombings can be imagined.
This operation greatly angered the Boston Air Force. It lost more than 90 B29 bombers and more than 40 F84 fighter jets but did not complete the mission. This made the military, which had great hopes for the F84 fighter jet, very angry.
The Boston Empire had long known that the Chinese Empire had jet aircraft, but they kept the information strictly confidential in order not to cause panic. Now that they learned that the Saint Martin Empire was equipped with a jet aircraft with slightly better performance than itself, the government naturally
Knowing that this was the kind of jet aircraft that the Chinese Empire had, the government asked the aircraft factory to speed up the final test flight of the new F86 fighter jet, and also asked the Aircraft Research Institute to speed up the design of the new YF104 fighter jet.
The first air contact was a defeat, which made the Boston government very angry. In order to save face, Washington III ordered the Axis Group to go into full-scale war and attack NATO from all directions. The first one to be wanted by the Axis Group was given priority.
The attack was on the southern subcontinent.
The southern subcontinent has always been an area to be developed. Even with the preferential policies of the Chinese Empire, in only more than ten years of development, all occupied areas cannot be fully developed. At most, they can rely on the newly built coastal railway lines, which will use the coast as a basis.
The area extending more than 200 kilometers inland from the center has been developed, and the colonial development of other countries has only scratched the surface. Therefore, in the middle of the entire continent, there are still large areas of virgin forests and undeveloped areas, even for expedition teams to enter.
It is very dangerous and it is simply unrealistic to pass through a large force.
If they want to fight on the southern subcontinent, the Boston Empire has only two directions of attack, one is the Cape Town area in the south, and the other is the Alexandra area in the northernmost part of the continent.
If Washington III preferred, he should attack the Cape Town area first. After all, the Chinese Empire discovered rich gold and diamond minerals there, which he had always coveted. However, considering the overall strategy, the military believed that it should be controlled first.
The entire Mediterranean is the most important, so the Alexandra area has become the main direction of attack.
In order to ensure its military superiority, Boston mobilized more than fifty heavy troops and eleven air wings. Even the Axis Mediterranean Combined Fleet, which had six battleships and one aircraft carrier, was asked to cooperate with the army's actions.
For a time, the pressure on the Southern Military Region increased greatly, and Cai Tingyuan had to mobilize heavy troops to the Alexandra area to prepare for defensive operations. The Mediterranean Military Region commanded by Gao Hong was also ready to support the Southern Military Region at any time.
The Chinese Empire's Mediterranean Fleet, which only had eight cruisers and 21 destroyers, decided to cooperate with the army in defensive operations. Even so, Cai Tingyuan could only deploy ten desert light armored corps, three mountain infantry corps, five mechanized corps and two heavy armored corps.
In terms of military strength, the Air Force has three fighter wings and two bomber wings, and these are Wehrmacht units, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the Guards.
Although Fang Ruijun wanted to mobilize some troops from other regions to support the Southern Military Region, the Axis powers were launching a total war. The pressure on each military region was very high, and there was nothing he could do. And he could not use the Guards at will. Because
Fang Ruijun knew very well that once the Axis army's attack began to weaken, the Guards would be the best weapon for him to launch a counterattack. Before that, the sword had to be hidden in the box, so as to give the enemy the greatest deterrent and allow him to
The other party has concerns, which is more beneficial than putting the strategic force of the Guards on the table.
Although the number of troops in his hand was less than half of the opponent's, Cai Tingyuan was not worried because he had always been a person who succeeded unexpectedly. When he attacked the Lena River defense line, he used two armies to attack the 100,000 Cossack regular army with geographical advantages.
, and also defeated the opponent with a surprise night crossing, so he became famous in one battle.
Facing the powerful Axis forces, what he thought of was not pressure, but an opportunity to defeat the opponent. If he could achieve a victory at the beginning of the war, the boost to the morale of the people would be immeasurable.
The Boston Empire had just changed its military rank system, and this time the commander of the Axis Powers' Southern Army was none other than Mike, who had made a splash during the Amphibious Battle of The Hague. Of course, he was now a four-star general.
The high-spirited four-star general Mike did not pay attention to the Southern Army of the Chinese Empire at all. According to his logic, the combat effectiveness and equipment of the army serving in the colonies should be the worst, and they were simply vulnerable. Therefore, he sent the troops to
Divide into two arrows, attack Alexandra Port along the way, and attack Cairo City along the way.
Seeing that the opponent's troops were divided, Cai Tingyuan decided to eliminate one of the troops first to destroy the opponent's morale. Therefore, Cai Tingyuan ordered the Second Desert Light Army and the First Mountain Infantry Army to hold on to Alexandra Port to provide conditions for the main force to encircle and annihilate the troops on the southern route. The brutal battle
The battle to defend the Port of Alexandra began.
It was impossible to build a solid enough position on the endless desert, not to mention that the defenders did not have the advantage in artillery, air force or even navy. Therefore, Commander Cheng Guangling, who was in charge of the defense, decided to shrink all the troops into the city, relying on buildings and
The enemy engages in street fighting.
The high-spirited Axis Army Commander-in-Chief Mike was greedy. In order to get more credit, he decided to command the battle to capture Alexandra Port first, and then command the battle to attack Cairo.
For this reason, the Axis Northern Route Army at this time was personally commanded by four-star General Mike. He led a powerful attack force of 23 heavy armored corps and relied on the high-speed advancement of mechanized troops to arrive in just two days.
On the outskirts of Port Alexandra, just when he thought the opponent was caught off guard, the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army ambushed in the city gave him a lesson.
Although it is a lightly-armed army, the Second Desert Light-Armored Army also possesses a large number of various types of self-propelled artillery. Among them, the Boluma 2b 240mm self-propelled howitzer and the 103mm 40-barrel Boluma 2e self-propelled rocket launcher are definitely
killer weapon.
A dense rain of bullets struck the unprepared vanguard of the Boston Army, shrouding an entire armored division in the barrage. By the time the Chinese Army's shelling ended, the place had been bombed into a mess.
Because of the existence of artillery sighting radar, the accuracy of the artillery units of the Chinese Empire is quite high. The relatively concentrated falling artillery shells greatly increase the lethality. Under the same number of artillery attacks, the artillery attack efficiency of the Chinese Empire can be doubled.
The ground on the outskirts of the city is relatively flat, and there is no place to shield the damage. In this case, how can the relatively thin armor of those M4 heavy tanks and Hellcat tank destroyers be the opponents of large-caliber artillery? It only takes a few minutes.
At that time, an armored division could have announced the cancellation of its designation. Fortunately, the large-caliber artillery in the Axis forces were towed and escaped this disaster because of their slow movement.
Angry and angry, Mike immediately ordered the Air Force to bomb the Port of Alexandra. Soon a large number of B29 bombers came into the air, bombing in series and turning the whole city into a sea of flames. However, various anti-aircraft fires on the ground also gave them a final blow.
A solid blow, the highly maneuverable vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft gun was quite flexible, and under the operation of the soldiers, it shot down more than thirty Axis bombers.
The infantry soldiers of the Chinese Army were fully prepared for aircraft bombings. They relied on underground waterways and subway systems to cleverly avoid air attacks and minimize casualties. As for self-propelled artillery, they were also driven into subway stations to take shelter.