Chapter 916: 917 Fengjiang’s air supremacy

Chapter 916: 917 Fengjiang’s air supremacy

Chapter 916 Chapter 917 Fengjiang’s air supremacy

 In terms of integrity, the Tang Empire has always been very good. Tang Mo decided not to send troops to join the war, and the Tang Empire maintained the most basic restraint.

When the Chu State's Butcher fighter jets aiding Fengjiang arrived at Fengjiang, the pilots were all elves from the Yangmu Empire.

These elves were originally trained in the flight school of Chu State. After learning that they could personally fly the world's "most advanced" fighter jets in actual combat, they cheered for joy.

This is definitely a unique opportunity: they got the supreme VIP experience card and experienced the happiness of the pilots of the Tang Empire when they were abusing food.

 It is absolutely a blessing to be able to fly a Butcher fighter jet to wreak havoc in the sky. This kind of fighter jet crushes the previous generation aircraft of other countries in every aspect.

Even though many countries now have fighter jets with slightly inferior performance, the Butcher fighter still has an absolute advantage in many aspects of performance.

Only after these elven flying apprentices actually touched the Butcher fighter jet in the Chu Kingdom, did these elves know how powerful this aircraft really is.

 It can fly at a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour under extreme circumstances, while the speed of fighter jets from other countries is generally below 500 kilometers per hour.

This kind of aircraft can climb to an altitude of more than 12,000 meters. At this altitude, the engines of fighter jets from other countries begin to wheeze.

When controlling this kind of aircraft to swoop in the sky, everyone will have the illusion that they are invincible. Its control is extremely arrogant and clumsy, because it can tear everything in front of it into pieces.

“The pilots who fly this kind of plane are happy, they don’t even know what failure means.” This is the evaluation of the Elf pilot after he got this kind of plane in Chu State.

They like this aircraft so much that even after flying this aircraft a few times, they understand their country’s behavior of spending a lot of money to buy this aircraft.

It’s all worth the money spent... This is the view of the elf pilots. They fly in the sky with this kind of aircraft and run arrogantly on the front line.

Now they know how comfortable the pilots of the Tang Empire really are: all idiots who dare to challenge are prey, and they are like gods overlooking the entire earth.

 With the addition of these butcher fighter jets, the Dahua army in the Hezhe direction had to suspend its offensive and began to pile up as many anti-aircraft artillery pieces as possible around the fragile supply lines.

Obtaining air supremacy and being able to use air supremacy are completely different things: what really makes the Imperial Army of the Great China fearful are the thousands of ground attack aircraft of the Great Tang Empire, not those who just hang two fist-sized bombs under the wings and pretend to attack. aircraft fighter.

 Although the Butcher fighter has the ability to attack the ground, this ability is very limited. In other words, the Butcher fighter's ground attack capability was actually given to it by the pilots of the Tang Empire.

  Air Force fighter pilots generally do not conduct ground attack training. Using fighter jets to lick the ground is actually a waste of air combat pilots - unless one's own air supremacy can be ensured, fighter pilots are "overkill" for ground attack.

This is not to belittle the pilots of ground attack aircraft. What I am talking about here is that there is a specialization in the art: it is like asking the pilots of ground attack aircraft to engage in air combat. It is not that they are not good at it, but that they are not professional enough.

Most of the pilots of Toyie's ground attack aircraft are Toyie's own pilots, and there are also some "mercenaries" of Elf pilots.

These pilots are obviously amateurs, so the 100 IL attack aircraft donated free of charge by Chu State actually did not perform very well. Two were shot down in the first battle, and then two more malfunctioned and crashed, making outsiders laugh.

Frankly speaking, the more professional ground attack is something that elf fighter pilots cannot understand. They can’t even learn air combat in school, so how can they possibly take care of ground attack at the same time?

The ideas for training fighter pilots in various countries are similar: you just learn air combat honestly and that’s it, and leave ground attack to the civilian pilots who are transferred to make do with it.

 Because the air combat theories of various countries are formulated based on their own actual conditions: everyone's air force is unprofessional, and if they can maintain air supremacy without losing it, the mission has been completed.

To put it bluntly, the air forces of various countries are essentially dependent on the army, and their primary task is to ensure the normal operations of their own ground forces. It was far from launching a campaign-level air offensive like the Tang State did.

This can be seen from the types of aircraft purchased by various countries: almost all countries have only purchased two types of aircraft: one is a fighter with acceptable performance, and the other is a medium bomber with not advanced performance.

Here you can clearly see the positioning of the air force of these countries: fighter jets are used to guard homes and maintain air supremacy in theaters; bombers are used to bomb cities, which is equivalent to a deep deterrence.

Their use of air force aircraft is far from that of the Tang Dynasty, and there are naturally no details on the aircraft model - a dedicated ground attack aircraft? Isn't that thing similar to a bomber?

Although the IL attack aircraft lacked professional pilots, these attack aircraft still caused some troubles to the ground operations of the Dahua Army: more than a dozen IL attack aircraft crashed into the armored forces of the Dahua Army in a battle, and seven The Dahua tank was destroyed during the battle and five others were injured. The entire ground offensive operation ended in failure before it even started.

What Zhao Chen was most worried about happened: after gaining air superiority, the ground defenders of Fengjiang stabilized their position in the rout, and then stopped less than 20 kilometers away from Fengjiang. The steps of retreat. This place is close enough to Fengjiang, and it is even less than 60 kilometers away from the two field airports to the south and north of Fengjiang.

Seeing that the ground troops of the Great China Empire seemed to be able to rush into Fengjiang City as long as they worked harder - but just because the air force equipment of the Great Tang Empire joined the battlefield, the situation suddenly became different.

Follow-up supplies could only be divided into parts and operated at night due to the fear of attacks by IL attack aircraft, which directly affected the total amount of supplies.

 The Army of the Dahua Empire had no choice but to stop and wait for the follow-up troops to follow up. Even Zhao Chen didn't expect that the wait... would last for five days.

It was not without reason that the Fengjiang defenders retreated and stopped here. Luo Xiao was worried about problems with the defense line on the west, so he mobilized Fengjiang civilians in advance to build a simple defense line on the west side.

The mirage mercenaries, dwarf mercenaries, and elf mercenaries that passed by later were all reinforced here.

By the time the Fengjiang defenders retreated here, it was already a small-scale serious defense line.

What's more, this line of defense is backed by Fengjiang. In fact, the Fengjiang defenders have no retreat: so here the Fengjiang defenders regrouped and once again opened up their posture to block the Dahua troops whose attack was obviously starting to weaken.

As for how much of this was due to the Fengjiang defenders blocking the Dahua troops, and how much of it was due to the Dahua troops stopping on their own due to supply difficulties, only God knows.

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"What? Got beaten back?" When Zhao Yu heard that his troops had been defeated on the front line and were actually getting further and further away from He Zhe, he was completely frightened.

He has always thought that his main force is on the west side. If the west side is defeated, doesn't it mean that he has lost the battle?

But Luo Xiao, Qian Jinhang, and Zhao Feng comforted him, and after explaining some of the situation, Zhao Yu calmed down.

"We actually still have hundreds of thousands of troops on the western front. Although we were forced to retreat, we were still able to defend the outer defense line of Fengjiang." Luo Xiao explained.

 Qian Jinhang also assured: "I went to see the defense line before, and there should be no problem in supporting it for more than ten days."

"Ten days?" Hearing this time, Zhao Yu felt that he was not calm again - it was only ten days, how could it be enough?

"Don't worry, Your Highness! A large number of international reinforcements will arrive in more than ten days. We are not alone!" Zhao Feng also persuaded at this time.

"About 5 divisions of troops are already gathering here. They are all very powerful and are first-class main forces. So, your highness, don't worry." Xu Guo, the counselor sitting next to Zhao Yu, also spoke at this time. .

Hearing that everyone was very confident, Zhao Yu felt a lot more at ease, but he still didn't want the battle line to be too close to where he was: "Sir... you said... me, how about I go to Dongfengjiang to live for a few days? "

"Your Highness, if you leave Xifengjiang without permission at this time, what will the soldiers think?" Xu Guo certainly couldn't let Zhao Yu leave Fengjiang and immediately refused.

"The air force's assistance has arrived, and we have stabilized the defense line! Everything is still within control. Your Highness can rest assured." Luo Xiao said another word of comfort.

What he said is indeed the truth. The reinforcements are faster than the Dahua army. The defenders of the Mirage Kingdom and the Ice Empire still have a few days to arrive, and Fengjiang can obviously defend for a long time.

“Furthermore, our offensive on the southern front has gone very smoothly, and we have now reached the outskirts of Shanping.” Luo Xiao then told another piece of good news.

"Very good, very good..." Although Zhao Yu wanted to shout, "Why are you fighting so far to the south? Hurry up and get those troops back to guard Fengjiang", but he still had the self-discipline not to say this out loud.

 On the one hand, it was because he did not dare to question the "advisors" of the Tang Dynasty like Luo Xiao, and on the other hand, it was also because he really had a little fantasy: Shanping! To the south is Guiguang, and to the south of Guiguang is Jiange...the land of Longxing.

It was indeed a good sign to capture that place... In the blink of an eye, Zhao Yu had already thought of a complete victory in the south from the defeat in the west of Fengjiang.

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