Chapter 1325: 1326The broken spine
Youdao is as separated as a mountain. Liu Zhian does not understand the pain of the Qin Air Force. At this moment, the Qin Air Force is almost unable to fight anymore.
On the one hand, it is because of the psychological disadvantages of pilots: most of the old Qin pilots were personally taught by Tang Army instructors. They know how much they weigh.
These Qin pilots also know very well how good those Tang flight instructors who were ordered to return to China half a year ago are. The two sides were not on the same level at all: the other side's pilots drank more fuel than these Qin pilots drank water.
Even though the pilots of Qin were equally popular in the battle of Shu, they were all gained from the experience of cruelty. When they really face a powerful opponent, they can only retreat.
During World War II, many German ace pilots, including the famous world’s number one ace pilot Hartmann, actually achieved their results by playing the Eastern Front dungeon.
Their level is much higher when facing Soviet pilots, so they can easily shoot down dozens or even hundreds of enemy planes.
When these German fighter ace pilots were transferred to the Western Front to fight against the British and American Air Forces, their records became much more real: many pilots had a record of more than a dozen or twenty aircraft, which is almost a true reflection of their record. their level.
Of course, this is also related to the time of participation in the war, but the terrifying numerical gap also illustrates the problem. The truth is that the air combat on the Western Front is much more cruel than the Eastern Front.
From a professional point of view, the Eastern Front battlefield is mostly a pure air battle. The pilots are more focused on shooting down the opponent's fighter jets. This tests the pilot's flying skills and on-the-spot reaction.
The situation was different on the Western Front battlefield. The British and American combat mode was **** bombing, and German pilots had to focus a lot of their attention on intercepting bomber formations.
Facing British and American bombers with more than a dozen self-defense machine guns, the German fighter force could not guarantee its formation and was obviously at a disadvantage in terms of firepower, so its performance was naturally affected.
To put it bluntly, the air battle on the Western Front is more like a positional battle. Individual bravery and ability are insignificant in front of the iron wall, so the performance cannot explain the problem.
The pilots of the Qin Army were somewhat caught up in this problem: when they participated in the war in Shu, they basically fought against opponents of similar level, which allowed them to quickly find their own rhythm.
Propeller fighter jets fight in the air, tumble and entangle each other, and finally compete to find the winner. This kind of air battle is romantic and exciting, and Qin pilots enjoy it endlessly.
But now that the war is going on with the Tang army, the Tang pilots' fighting style seems too barbaric and domineering. Relying on the performance advantages of their own fighter jets, the Tang Army pilots basically followed the path of wide open and close, coming and going like the wind, which made the Qin pilots very uncomfortable.
With the support of air-to-air missiles, Tang pilots easily tore apart the Qin Air Force. Qin's elite jet fighters suffered heavy losses, and dozens of their precious jet pilots were also killed.
Don't underestimate these dozens of people. These dozens of people are the "family assets" of the Qin Air Force. They are all ace pilots, most of them can even be said to be instructors and seeds.
These people are the backbone of the army. Their experience, ability and even courage are first-rate. Losing these people is equivalent to saying that the troops where these people belong have been stripped of their muscles and bones, and their combat effectiveness has suddenly fallen to the bottom.
To put it more seriously, these troops even lost their hematopoietic ability. After losing their most core pilots, they even had problems training new pilots. The Qin Air Force was temporarily out of service, so the commanders of the Qin Air Force were no longer willing to waste their elite forces on the battlefield.
There is no way. When faced with air-to-air missiles, Qin pilots are often "killed" together with the aircraft without even having a chance to parachute.
These pilots have no way to return to the team, which means that they can no longer continue to play their role. The loss of more than 200 pilots in one month is simply unacceptable to Qin!
Although these losses came from the north, south, southeast, and north directions, they were all Qin Army pilots after all. Their being shot down also meant that the Qin Air Force lost part of its courage to continue taking off to fight.
The second reason why the Qin Air Force was unwilling to take off to participate in the war was that they were severely weakened! Yes, their troops were mobilized in large numbers and dispersed to new battlefields!
There was no other way, because the Tang army's attack was too fast, so the Qin army had more and more fronts, and had no choice but to deploy the air force to support.
The Tang army suddenly broke through in the direction of Shanchong, so that entering Sichuan City was about to become the front line. The Qin army, who was afraid that the Tang army would invade Shu from the direction of entering Shu, had to deploy a huge force in the city of Shu.
In order to cover these forces, the Qin army assembled 100 Type 183 jet fighters, 200 P series fighters, dozens of Stukas and 17 bombers...
Such a large amount of power was naturally not conjured out of thin air, and it was tight in other directions, so they were all transferred southward from the direction of the old capital.
As a result, the Qin Air Force in the northern region was severely weakened compared to when the war began. In addition to the losses in the battle and the aircraft and equipment abandoned during the retreat, the Qin Air Force here is not even half of what it was when the war broke out!
Some of the aircraft of the Northern Air Force were also withdrawn and returned to the Kingdom of Shu, because there was already a full shortage: on the one hand, the 6th Army of the Tang Army entered the Chu Territory, and Zhang Xuan's troops needed air force support; on the other hand, the combined fleet suffered a disastrous defeat , the coastline of Shu needs strength to defend.
These two directions are not small problems, so the Qin army had to solve these problems: in the end, nearly 300 aircraft were taken away to Shu, and the remaining Qin Air Force was unable to fight anymore.
With these two reasons, it is understandable that the troops in the northern region of the Qin Air Force have repeatedly avoided fighting. Yingduo also had to acquiesce to the approach of the air force commanders: he wanted the air force to continue participating in the war, but after the air force generals gave him a reasonable explanation, he also understood the dilemma the air force faced.
For the Air Force, pilots are even more valuable than aircraft. If precious pilots are wasted, subsequent operations will only fail more completely.
Yingduo did not have the courage to fight against the future, and the air force commanders had no way to guarantee that they could defeat Teacher Tang Guo who had air-to-air missiles in the sky.
In order to restore the air force's hematopoietic ability and wait for subsequent advanced fighter jets to be put into frontline operations, the Qin Air Force could only passively avoid the war. However, their "bearing the humiliation and bearing the burden" is viewed by the ground forces as a sign of betraying their teammates.
In the eyes of Qin’s army, the backbone of the air force had been interrupted by the Tang people.
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Today's condition is not good, so I will update twice for the time being, and I will continue to make up for it tomorrow if I need to update.