Chapter 750: 750 A battle between you and me
Chapter 750 Chapter 750 The battle between you and me
Tang Mo heard the good news while having lunch. His aircraft carrier had completed the take-off and landing experiments of fighter jets, and he saw that a modern fleet with the aircraft carrier as the core of the fleet was about to be born.
As long as this fleet exists, Tang Mo can control the Endless Sea, and even extend his hand to the Demon Sea, control the two largest oceans in the world, and establish a maritime hegemony belonging to the Tang State.
However, Tang Mo was also very annoyed by a not-so-good news that was sent at the same time. Warships from the Anti-Tang Alliance appeared on the route between Longdao and Dongwan and attacked the Tang Dynasty's transport fleet.
In fact, the naval fleets of these countries have been sneaking attacks on the Tang Dynasty's fleet. They used their numerical advantage to sneak attack on the vast sea, hit and run, and caused considerable trouble for Tang's maritime transportation lines.
So far, the alliance's sneak attack on Tang's fleet has sunk more than 1 million tons of transport ships, seriously affecting Tang's oil transportation.
If the Tang State had not been so successful on land and directly occupied the southern oil fields of the Dahua Empire to supplement the family income, the situation of the Tang State might have been even more passive.
Although Tang Mo's submarine force is also constantly sinking enemy transport ships, even faster than the alliance sinking Tang transport ships, this situation of mutual destruction still makes people uncomfortable.
Most of the Alliance warships that appeared on the route from Longdao to Dongwan were cruisers and destroyers. These ships were fast, large in number, and had strong combat effectiveness, which gave the Tang Army a huge headache.
The battles carried out by both sides on these routes were small-scale, and sometimes it was even a destroyer fighting a destroyer.
Everyone is very small in scale. Once the opponent's number increases, they won't fight at all and just turn around and leave. In more than two months of fighting, the Tang army lost seventeen or eight destroyers, and various countries lost about twenty or thirty warships.
Although the fleets of various countries suffered greater losses, they did achieve results. The Tang Army's transport ships suffered considerable losses, which had seriously affected some industrial production.
However, this passivity is only temporary. Tang's navy is increasing its **** efforts. Overall, Tang still takes the initiative.
In a few more months, Tang's aircraft carriers will begin to have combat capabilities, and the situation at sea will tilt towards the Tang army. This is unquestionable.
All Tang Mo has to wait for is for the aircraft carrier to join the navy.
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At the south of Fengjiang City, on a high ground, in a rugged trench, soldiers of the Tang Army were clearing a battlefield filled with corpses.
The wreckage of a blown-up No. 4 assault gun was still steaming, and two Tang Army soldiers were counting the tags torn from the corpses of their own soldiers.
Each Tang Army soldier has a nameplate to prove his identity and to facilitate statistics after being injured or killed.
The work of collecting such nameplates is very cruel. Each nameplate with blood represents a young soldier who has left forever.
The unique M35 helmet of the Tang Army looks very conspicuous on the battlefield. It is easier to identify than the helmets of the soldiers of the Dahua Empire and the helmets of the Qin Army.
The defensive positions here were designed very cleverly. In fact, it was the first time that the Tang Army had seen such a defensive position.
The Qin Army buried a Dahua 2 tank on the position, with only one turret exposed, and it was carefully camouflaged.
The "steel bunker" arranged in this way has reached the ultimate in concealment and defense, making it difficult to discover and destroy.
Several times, the shells of the Tang Army's No. 4 assault gun hit the mound in front of the Dahua tank buried in the soil, failing to destroy this very threatening target.
Because of the good camouflage, it is not easy to find such a "bunker" in the sky. Only when the front-line Tang Army troops launch an attack, the soldiers will find such a **** obstacle on the way to the attack.
The machine guns on the tanks can easily suppress the Tang army on the offensive road, and then the Qin army soldiers will launch an overturn attack from the preset positions, wiping out the Tang troops suppressed by the machine guns one by one.
By the time the Tang Army mobilized enough tanks and armored vehicles to rescue the siege and eliminate this firepower point, the casualties had already occurred and it was already too late.
In the offensive operation just now, the Tang army lost a total of more than thirty soldiers, which is equivalent to the entire platoon being wiped out.
Although the Dahua Army and the Qin Army also lost nearly a hundred people, such an exchange ratio has never been achieved before.
"The enemy's position is getting stronger and stronger." In the trench of the position, a battalion commander said distressedly as he looked at the blood stains on the wall that had not completely dried up.
The Qin army's combat effectiveness is quite high. They will lay booby traps on their own positions, and even pretend to be dead to die with the approaching Tang army.
A position often requires repeated battles, and both sides have to pay a heavy price to determine the winner. Although the Tang army was always able to seize the positions it wanted to seize, the price it paid was indeed getting higher and higher.
Because the defense system near Fengjiang is getting thicker and the number of troops is increasing, the Tang Army's armored assault tactics are becoming more and more ineffective.
This is just like the Battle of Kursk. The thickness of the Soviet defense line was there. The German armored forces advanced more than ten kilometers a day but found that they were still deeply trapped in the enemy's defense line and were beaten, and they could not achieve a breakthrough effect at all.
The Tang army was in the same situation now. After fighting for a whole day, they found that they had to retreat after nightfall to give up the positions they had captured during the day, because they were still stuck between the enemies and could not bear the losses of counterattacks at night.
"It's not easy to fight. The opponent's defense line is becoming more and more like a permanent fortification. We lost several assault guns and tanks and were unable to occupy those **** trenches." Another officer cautiously stuck his head out and looked into the distance. The enemy's position was quiet, and he sighed helplessly.
"Let the troops pay attention to their concealment. The enemy's artillery fire will soon cover them." The battalion commander glanced at the corpse of a Qin soldier lying at his feet. The corpse's face was hit by a bullet, and it was already beyond recognition.
"Why do you think these **** Qin people are here to play with us..." The officer also glanced at the Qin soldiers who died miserably, and complained depressedly.
Everyone has heard of the fierceness of the Qin people in the northwest of the country. After frequent battles recently, the commanders of the Tang Army finally learned how tough the Qin soldiers were.
Compared to the Dahua troops, they are more ferocious and tenacious, and they learn tactics very quickly. The opponent is the kind of person who is born to fight with his brain. The more he fights, the more he looks like Tang Jun.
They learned tactics from the Tang Army and absorbed experience and lessons. After being attacked by the Tang Army several times, they immediately changed their tactics and began to make up for their own shortcomings.
"I don't know. I heard that the Dahua Empire gave Qin a lot of money...who knows." The battalion commander didn't know why these lunatics would cross the Dahua Empire and come over to fight with their Tang country.
He only knew that these enemies were coming, and as the backbone of the defense force, they helped the already quite passive Dahua Empire to stabilize its position.
The newspaper said that the people of Qin were very poor and had always been helped by the Great China Empire, so this time they came to repay their kindness. Some people also said that the people of Qin felt that they were dying. They did not want to see the Tang army destroy Great China, so they joined the war.
Anyway, what everyone said makes sense, and I don’t know who is right... maybe they are all right, and the reasons are very complicated.
“The 1st Armored Division has already moved closer. I heard that we will conduct another experiment before winter. I don’t know if it is possible.” The officer followed the battalion commander and walked along the rugged trench to the other end of the high ground.
The trench built by the opponent looks very professional. The zigzag shape and the hidden cat-ear holes can minimize the impact of the Tang army's shelling.
While they were talking, two Stuka dive bombers were circling cautiously in the distance. The sound of their engines was low, and their trajectory through the air was erratic.
Ground attack missions have become increasingly dangerous recently, and professional ground-licking Stuka pilots have begun to complain that their opponents are becoming more and more like hedgehogs.
The other side began to equip its ground troops on the front line with a large number of large-caliber machine guns. Some of these machine guns have calibers of 13 mm and some 14 mm, and they are very powerful.
On weekdays, these machine guns can also fire the 113 -type armored vehicle to deal with the Tang army. It can be threatened to sweep a shuttle bullet during emergency.
In addition to the Leopard tanks, the remaining armored vehicles of the Tang Army may actually be destroyed by these anti-aircraft guns, especially the 76mm caliber anti-aircraft guns of the Dahua Army. Even the side armor of the Leopard tanks was destroyed by a sneak attack. Risk of breakdown.
The large number of anti-aircraft guns required the Tang Army's aircraft to observe carefully before diving to avoid possible ground fire and ensure their own safety.
Compared with the previous unscrupulous dive attack, such a complex attack program has reduced the Tang Army's bombing efficiency.
What is relatively improved is the air defense experience of Dahua troops: Dahua troops have been ill for a long time and can be said to be the troops with the deepest understanding of air defense operations.
Although the weapons and equipment were still not very suitable, in order to avoid being beaten, the soldiers still showed their subjective initiative and quickly improved their combat skills.
The air defense force of the Dahua Force usually chooses an open place and arranges several fake positions to distract the Tang Army pilots. Occasionally, an anti-aircraft machine gun will be deployed on these fake positions to make it look like the real thing.
The real main attack firepower is deployed independently: they wander around the edge of the false position, choose a small high ground with a wide field of vision, and build a very good anti-aircraft machine gun position on it.
They will cover the main position with a camouflage net, camouflage it as much as possible, and wait for the Tang Army's dive bombers to take the bait. This tactic achieved certain results at the beginning. Some inexperienced Tang Army pilots were deceived and shot down.
However, as time went by, the Tang Army's aircraft began to become more vigilant. Under normal circumstances, they would choose the tactics of two-plane cover bombing, or multiple aircraft circling and alternating cover bombing tactics to avoid the risk of being attacked by a sneak attack.
In other words, the Tang Army's enemy attack aircraft pilots will keep the aircraft hovering in the air, carefully identify the target, and not give the opponent a chance to use false positions to deceive people.
After finding the real position, the Tang Army's planes would often be two or even several planes diving together to cover each other.
Once a real anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery position is discovered, the higher-altitude cover group will immediately swoop down to suppress these anti-aircraft firepower and help friendly aircraft escape from danger.
The frontline troops of the Tang Army are also making some minor modifications to their aircraft: they have installed protective steel plates on vulnerable parts of the aircraft to focus on protecting the pilots and navigators.
As a result, the weight of the Stuka dive bomber is higher and the range is also affected, so the buzzer is often canceled in the modified Stuka.
In other words, most of the Stuka dive bombers of the Tang Kingdom no longer have the device that makes a harsh sound when diving.
However, because of the inherent impression, the enemy is still very disgusted with Stuka dive bombers. When they see an aircraft swooping down, they will subconsciously hide.
The Tang Air Force discovered during a long battle summary that they actually lacked a medium bomber to perform the task of bombing enemy positions.
Stuka dive bombers actually had no problem with their hit accuracy, but the problem was that they carried too few bombs. When it was designed, it was not used to bomb enemy front-line positions.
As a dive bomber, the best mission of the Stuka is to accompany the troops' continuous advancement, destroy the enemy's strongholds, nodes and traffic arteries, paralyze the opponent's movement, and prevent the enemy from gathering for counterattack.
To put it bluntly, it is necessary to move: if the defense lines of both sides begin to be fixed, the problem of Stuka dive bombers' low efficiency in performing single sorties will become apparent.
After dropping a bomb, you have to return home, and then dive and straf a few times at most - this kind of attack is gradually unable to meet the combat needs in the face of the increasingly experienced Dahua air defense force.
If you use a flying fortress to carry bombs for bombing, it will be too big. This kind of high-altitude bomber is more suitable for strategic bombing, and it is too overqualified to attack enemy positions.
The Flying Fortress is not cheap to take off once, it consumes a lot of fuel, and the bombing accuracy is not high, so it is not a good choice.
Therefore, many troops have submitted their own reports, hoping to add an aircraft model, increase the number of bombs they can carry, and make their flight attitude more flexible.
In Tang Mo's opinion, the frontline troops probably lacked a support aircraft like the B-25 or JU-88.
As for which one to choose, Tang Mo hasn't decided yet. Both types of aircraft have their own advantages and both can be used.
Choosing a weapon and equipment for the troops is a very complicated matter, so it still takes time to think about it: there is a high probability that the pilots of the Tang Army will not be able to use their new aircraft in this war. Let’s look forward to the next war.
Even in the Tang State, with the technical support of the Datang Group, it was not easy to come up with new equipment and quickly equip the troops.
This requires the frontline troops to provide various demand reports, and then discuss them together to decide the choice. Because what the troops want is often not so accurate, the pursuit of performance is often unreasonable.
If all the things these pilots want are built, it is estimated that the Tang Air Force will be equipped with J-20 fighter jets...
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Feng Kezhi stood in front of the map. Behind him stood the air force commanders who had been criticized countless times by the ground forces recently.
Everyone has seen how the Dahua Empire's air force performed on the battlefield. The air force, which was established at a huge cost, was so abused by the Tang Air Force that it did not even dare to take off to fight. This is a fact and an unquestionable fact.
But it would be a bit too insulting to say that the Dahua Air Force is all weaklings and idiots. The Dahua Air Force has always hoped to have a fair chance to compete with its enemies.
They are unwilling to use the two-winged Camel fighter jets to fight to the death with the Butcher fighter jets of the Tang Dynasty, because that is to die.
In their opinion, at least all the troops should be equipped with Dahua 1 fighter jets to be qualified to fight the opponent head-on.
As the battle continued, the number of modern fighter jets in the Dahua Empire Air Force also increased. They finally accumulated some wealth, so they wanted to compete with the Tang Army.
But how to compare and how to catch people by surprise became a question that Feng Kezhi thought about: If precious fighter jets were put into the battlefield to fight against the Tang Army’s butcher fighter jets, and consumed bit by bit, it would actually have no impact on the battle situation.
In his heart, Feng Kezhi still doesn’t trust his own air force. He doesn’t think that replacing a fighter with a slightly higher performance can determine the outcome of an air battle.
So, he discussed with the air force commanders and formulated a combat plan that seemed more reasonable: a sneak attack on the southern oil fields.
The previous plan of the Dahua Empire was to blow up all the southern oil fields, but the fact is that their local garrison did not implement this plan and handed over the southern oil fields to the Tang army.
This allowed the Tang Army to replenish its blood through the southern oil fields and continue to maintain its offensive on the front line, which put huge pressure on the frontal battlefield of the Dahua Empire.
Feng Kezhi has always been worried about the southern oil fields. He believes that sending out the air force to blow up the southern oil fields is a very good option.
In his view, as long as the southern oil fields are destroyed, the Tang army's offensive will be paralyzed, and the pressure on the frontal battlefield will become very small.
A well-planned sneak attack can quickly reverse the battlefield situation. Feng Kezhi believes that this is the meaning of the existence of the air force.
So he called in the air force commanders to discuss the feasibility of this plan. And he also got a satisfactory answer from the Air Force commander: The other party said that this plan was completely feasible.
First of all, oil fields are very fragile targets and are very easy to attack. The opponent had just occupied it not long ago, and it was not easy to establish a complete air defense defense system.
Secondly, the air force of Dahua Force has been strengthened, especially the bomber force, which has not suffered much losses and can mobilize troops to form a large-scale bomber force to perform missions in a short period of time.
Finally, even the Dahua Force’s **** fighter units are sufficient in number, and daytime bombing is also highly maneuverable.
"We have four-engine bombers produced by Cyric. Although the speed is very slow, the bomb load is still sufficient. As long as we take off a few more, the destructive power on the oil fields can still be guaranteed." A commander of the Dahua Air Force He promised emphatically.
Although the performance of the bombers under his command has lagged very far behind, there are still quite a lot of them. Before, I had not been involved in actual combat because I was afraid of losses, and the overall organization was kept very intact.
Now, after hearing that Feng Kezhi wanted them to fight back, he immediately became energetic and prepared to let his bomber force fight.
Although the bomb load of one plane is not much, he does have a lot of planes in his hand, so he raised **** generously: "If necessary, it is not a problem to gather two hundred planes."
“I think two hundred bombers are still too few. We should gather three hundred bombers and destroy the southern oil fields at all costs.” Another commander felt that a big deal should be done.
The size of the Dahua Air Force has always been very large, with tens of thousands of aircraft before the war began. Although most were biplanes and triplanes, they were indeed huge.
Just when everyone began to discuss how to destroy the southern oil fields and how many aircraft to deploy, an officer looked at Feng Kezhi worriedly and asked a rather pointed question: "But, I have a question, we If the southern oil fields are completely destroyed, don’t you plan to take them back?”
“…” For a moment, everyone present was silent. They never seemed to have considered this issue, and never seemed to realize that the place called the Southern Oil Field was actually a part of the Dahua Empire.
Even Feng Kezhi was avoiding this issue in his bones. He actually knew that he or the Dahua Empire was not capable of retaking the southern oil fields, but he did not dare to admit this problem.
Finally, someone spoke awkwardly and explained his point of view: "I think it is unlikely to take it back."
Hearing someone say this, others quickly nodded and agreed with their companions: "Yes, the possibility of recapturing it is very low. And no matter whether we can recapture it or not, we will blow it up! Even if we It can be reoccupied and it should be destroyed!"
There were endless voices like this, and one person even directly increased the number of aircraft: "That makes sense, then I think we can gather more than 500 aircraft to attack the southern oil fields!"
Three hundred bombers and two hundred escorting Dahua 1 fighter jets... Such a huge number can almost guarantee the destruction of the distant southern oil field.
At the same time, Loew opened the door of Tang Mo's office and handed a document to Tang Mo who was busy: "Your Majesty! This is a plan to increase the air defense force of the southern oil fields. In view of the threat of the southern oil fields to our army, Due to the importance of the operation, the staff believes that it is necessary to dispatch more aircraft and deploy more anti-aircraft guns to ensure that the oil fields will not be attacked by enemy aircraft.”
"Okay! I also think...the southern oil fields should strengthen their defenses!" Tang Mo picked up the report and lowered his head to see the text on the first page of the report, which proposed deploying 88mm anti-aircraft cannons to the southern oil fields.
(End of this chapter)