Chapter 1564: 1565 strikes again
Chapter 15641565 Attacks Again
Climbing up the ladder to his own fighter jet, Fried got into the cockpit and nervously rechecked his personal equipment.
His aircraft was a standard F-86 Sabre, with the only modifications being a better ejection seat and a radar warning device.
The entire system is actually a copy of the improved package sold by the Tang Dynasty. It is technically very mature. The only flaw is that it does not have the ability to warn of incoming missiles.
So in order to avoid the Tang Army's missiles, pilots have to use their own experience to judge whether they must parachute... Unfortunately, most pilots do not have similar experience.
Fried is a pilot from Dorne. His skills are pretty good, at least he is not a rookie who has only learned to take off and land.
He is familiar with his own fighter jets and has hundreds of hours of flying experience, which is already an average level in countries other than Tang.
"The aircraft is in good condition, and we have checked the ammunition." The ground crew said to him: "The instruments are all normal, and the communication device has been tested..."
“Thank you!” He briefly looked at the instruments on the control panel, took the inspection form from the ground staff, and signed his name on it.
He has no reason to distrust these ground crews. These people are all colleagues who have flown all the way from Dorne to the Ice Empire. Everyone has been working together for a long time, and their cooperation is already very tacit.
His mission this time after taking off was to patrol northwest along the coastline, engage in combat with the Tang Army's aircraft, and cover the Ice Empire's ground attack aircraft units in their bombing missions.
The Ice Empire began to prepare for a large-scale air counterattack after receiving reinforcements from Dorne. Because the Tang Army was allowed to continue to use air superiority to suppress the ground, the Army had begun to suffer.
This battle is divided into four parts. The first part is the battle where the main force of the Ice Empire intercepts Tang's carrier-based aircraft. The second part is the battle where aircraft take off to try to attack the Tang's aircraft carrier formation. The third part is when Dorn fighter jets go north to compete. The fourth part of the battle for air supremacy involves the Ice Empire's bomber force bombing the Tang Army's ground troops.
The entire combat plan is expected to take off 430 aircraft, which can be said to be truly generous at this time.
According to the plan, the air force commanders of the Ice Empire and Dorne hope to achieve certain results through this operation and at least solve part of the problem: if they can severely damage the Tang Army's fleet, or bomb some of the Tang Army's ground targets, the combat plan will be considered a success. .
In order to solve the problem of the inability to coordinate between the air forces of Dorne and the Ice Empire, this time the ground and sea attack missions were all carried out by the Air Force of the Ice Empire. The four flight formations were relatively independent and did not interfere with each other.
So, when Fried pushed the accelerator and let his plane rush out of the runway and fly into the sky, a large number of Frozen Empire J-6 fighter jets from another airport had also taken off.
They can be said to have gone out in full force this time: the dwarves assembled 110 J-6 fighters, 70 J-6 fighters, more than 200 Saab bombers and IL attack aircraft.
The air force supported by the Dorne Empire also dispatched nearly 50 Sabers to participate in the battle. Their mission was to go north to fight the Tang Air Force. In fact, they were facing only the Tang Empire's naval aviation at this time, because as the Tang ground troops advanced southward and the battlefield airport had not been repaired, the Tang army had gradually left the protection range of the Tang Air Force based on Beidao.
On the other hand, the carrier-based aircraft force of the Tang Navy was also exhausted: after more than ten days of continuous combat, many of their aircraft were in a state of maintenance, the size of the Yinglong fighter force was severely reduced, and the pilots were also quite tired.
So, the Tang Army can only dispatch about 150 fighter jets this time, but the performance of these fighter jets... is really much better than that of the Ice Empire.
Because there were early warning aircraft patrolling, the air force formation on the Ice Empire's side was detected by the Tang Empire shortly after it was dispatched. Then the Tang Army took off its plane and began the interception operation.
Fried didn't know that his plane had already turned into a light spot and appeared on the radar screen of the Tang Army's early warning aircraft. At this moment, he was flying the plane, following his own flight formation, entering the battlefield and preparing to give the Tang Army a little help. of shock.
The roar of the engine attracted the attention of the Tang Army troops on the ground. Liu Guozhu raised his head and looked at the sky. He had not seen so many enemy planes in the sky for a long time.
As if given a shot of blood, the Ice Empire, which had received support from Dorne, dispatched a large number of aircraft to participate in the battle, and the sky that had been silent for a long time soon became extremely lively.
"Hey! Be careful! A unit was attacked by an Il-2 attack plane! Damn it, I heard two people died!" The commander's reminder suddenly came from the earphones, and Liu Guozhu also saw a propeller plane. Swooping down in the distance, shooting wildly at something unknown.
He got back into the turret of his tank and closed the hatch: "Find a safe place to park! There seem to be a lot of enemy planes."
Soon, a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun advancing with the Tang Army's tank troops began to fire. The tracer bullets it shoots can be seen clearly in the daytime.
As the cannon roared, the shell casings also tilted down from both sides of the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, clanking into the soil on both sides. Then, an IL-2 attack plane shattered into pieces in the sky and turned into a ball of burning flames.
It hit an iron plate. The Tang Army's ground anti-aircraft firepower was still very intensive. There were many self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles that could be put into the battlefield at any time.
Soon the infantry was also prepared for air defense. A shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missile soared into the sky and directly hit a MiG-3 fighter jet that had avoided ground anti-aircraft fire.
Saab bombers were too slow due to their backward technology and began to be shot down by some Tang Army patrol fighters before they entered the battlefield. Tang's fighter jets used their speed advantage to enter the battle circle from all directions on the battlefield, as if they were trying to surround the incoming enemy planes.
Fried didn't know that the ground attack aircraft group they were covering had actually begun to suffer a lot of losses, because he was pulling up frantically, trying to avoid the incoming Tang Army missiles with his lead aircraft.
Their radar sirens were screaming all the time, which made him a little upset. He kept controlling his plane to dodge, and he couldn't even find where the lead plane he was following was.
(End of this chapter)