Rise from the sword

Chapter 698 Strong Army in the Air!

"Captain."

In Heyuan County, where the old airport is located, a communications soldier reported a message to Huang Quan:
"Head Zhang sent a telegram that we can leave in twelve hours."

"The engineer battalion is so fast?"

Looking at his watch, he frowned unexpectedly, and Huang Quan nodded in response:
"understood."

After the communicator left, he still looked at the old airport in the distance, which was the airport where they first came into contact with their air force when they returned from France.

It was here that the seven of them started the air force for the troops.

But now, the flight regiment has moved to the flight base on the outskirts of Heyuan County, and the airport has been abandoned. The barbed wire fence and bunkers have been dismantled to make room for the surrounding industrial areas.

Only a section of the runway and the command post are left as the Air Force Memorial.

"then."

Beside Huang Quan, the same deputy head said:

"On the day we first arrived, we were still worried about not having enough planes, not enough fuel, and not enough ammunition. In the car, we kept discussing how to save fuel, save bullets, and prepare for a hard life."

As he spoke, the deputy head couldn't help laughing.

"Yes."

Huang Quan couldn't help laughing either.

Recalling it, it seems like a lifetime away.

When it was first established, there were only seven of them as pilots in the entire army, five logistics personnel, and some technicians supported by the headquarters-requires training to maintain the aircraft.

The master counts separately.

And just yesterday, he, the head of the regiment, the head of the body, and everyone at the headquarters celebrated the fact that the number of official pilots in the army exceeded five figures—not counting the [-] student pilots and nearly [-] elite instructors from Xi'an Flying Academy and Heyuan Flying Academy. The number of aircraft pilots serving in the army already has five figures, and they can take off up to [-] aircraft at a time.

Calculate the time.

They formed the Air Force in February last year, and now it is the beginning of May, and it has only been fifteen months since it was fully booked.

Fifteen months, still during the combat period, from seven pilots to 90.00 pilots, in a country where the illiteracy rate exceeds 90.00%, [-]% of the people do not know what an airplane is.

This is a miracle.

But any miracle has a price, and the more incredible the miracle, the greater the price.

The densely packed names on the monument in front of me are the price.

Pilots are not like tankers, drivers.

Tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks, if you make a mistake, overturn the vehicle, hit a wall, if you are lucky, the skin will be scratched, or nothing will happen, get up and continue driving, if you are unlucky, you will break a bone or something, and continue working after two months.Even if you fall off the cliff, it is not easy to cause casualties, especially for tanks and military trucks, the driver's protection is very appropriate.

But the plane.

Death spirals, stalls, overload vertigo, getting lost, and landing without vision in bad weather are all very likely to cause the plane to crash.

The chance of surviving even an elite pilot is no more than one-fifth due to an accidental crash of the plane. As for skydiving, this is not a simple technique that can be mastered, and many times there is no time to skydive, such as the death spiral , overload vertigo, or just a few seconds of opportunity - without rigorous training, it is difficult to grasp the opportunity.

Therefore, pilots not only need to know how to fly an aircraft, but also need profound flight-related knowledge.

As a Fengxinyuan, at the very least, aerodynamics needs to be mastered, the more than 300-page flight manual must be read, and all unexpected situations must be memorized—this requires a considerable level of knowledge.

And here, what is lacking the most is intellectuals.

Although the army has launched a campaign to eradicate illiteracy and set up education, the time is short and the effect is not obvious, and ignorance of a few characters is still a common phenomenon in the base areas.

and.

Intellectuals should give priority to the construction of factory industrial zones. This is the consensus reached by everyone - because of the lack of its own heavy industry, the country has already paid a heavy price. They can't wait any longer, not even a second or a minute. We must start building our own industrial capabilities now and do our best.

So the trainees accepted by their flying unit, those seed pilots, although they are all young lads, eighteen or nineteen years old, their educational level is very low, and they have only received cultural tutoring for more than a year or more than half a year.

Graduation from regular elementary school can be considered a higher education.

Of those who have gone to high school, not one out of twenty can find one.

And they also need to train these young men who are at least eighteen or nineteen years old, and at most 23 or four years old, with a general elementary school education, into pilots—pilots who can participate in combat—as quickly as possible.

Even with absolutely sufficient fuel and a completely sufficient aircraft, the difficulty is still unimaginably high.

Especially in the beginning.

At that time, including him, they only had seven pilots, and they hadn't even mastered the newly acquired aircraft, and the battle was imminent, and the Devil Air Force was still a big threat at that time.

There is no time to test who is talented in flying, and there is no time to gradually train from simulator, glider, and biplane-although these training facilities are available and very complete.

That's it.

Train directly together.

Learn flight knowledge at night, read flight manuals, and fly real planes during the day.

This group of elderly people, as well as the pilots who returned from abroad and the pilots recruited by the headquarters, flew directly on the real plane and mastered the performance of the plane in a high-dose and high-intensity flight—a minimum of six hours a day and a maximum of twelve hours.

The rookie is in the back seat, following the dive and rolling—flying him for more than half a month, and after flying 100 to [-] hours, he will know whether the sense of space is strong or not, and whether he has pilot talent.

Sitting in the bubble cockpit in the back seat, feel the dive, the spinning between the rolls, the position is disordered, you can’t vomit, and you can follow the perspective to observe, then enter the next link-flying the plane on the ground, getting familiar with the control, and gradually starting to move on the runway in the later stage Take off some distance from the ground.

If you keep throwing up, keep flying.

During the night, I continued to study flight knowledge, gnawed at the flight manual, reduced the follow-up time during the day, and switched to ground real aircraft control-after [-] flight hours, I started to fly the aircraft alone after passing the most basic assessment of flight knowledge.

And of course, learning to skydive.

Fortunately, those boys who participated in the pilot, although young, but strong-willed, all of them are men of iron.

Even though I was spit out by the violent maneuver and my calves trembled, I gritted my teeth and continued to board the plane the next day. For the first time, I parachuted directly from a height of several thousand meters without any hesitation.

But a novice driving an attack aircraft with more than 1 horsepower directly is like a rookie trying to tame the most intense bullfighting. It is more vivid, similar to a C17 player who just got a low score in a driving school and got a license. It's time to pull the goods.

Two-thirds of the names of the first batch of flight student seedlings were engraved on the stone tablet in front of them—either parachute errors or operational errors, and the battle losses were actually very small.

By the beginning of this year, two flight academies had been established, and a large number of old pilots had transferred to the academies to become instructors of the flight academies. Before the formal training of new pilots, more than 6000 pilots were lost just because of training.

That's the price of this miracle.

Four of the first seven pilots who came with him that year are already on this monument.

"Shall we go together today?"

The teammates around said suddenly.

"of course."

Huang Quan smiled slightly.

How could he miss such an important battle against the Devils United Fleet?

As for danger.

In the past, Captain Li also personally slashed devils with a machete. Would he be afraid of danger?As for the air force, even if he sacrificed, the army's large air force strategy would not have the slightest impact, or even stop.

The air force in the current base area is already full of talents, and there are a lot of top pilots who have flown more than [-] hours.

It is estimated that by this time next year, there will be [-] official pilots in the army.

Those instructors who train newcomers in the academy don't just train newcomers. Almost all of them learn aerodynamics and other aircraft-related subjects from the masters who teach.

They are still young.

They are also very capable of learning.

They are the seeds of the future national aviation.

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Twelve hours later.

150 four-engine transport planes, carrying [-] pilots, [-] air crew commanders, and mechanical logistics personnel set off from Heyuan County, refueled in Naha, and flew directly to Guam.

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"How many people did you bring?"

Six hours later, Huang Quan arrived in Guam, and Zhang Dabiao came to greet him.

Although there was no notice in advance, Zhang Dabiao knew without thinking that Huang Quan, the head of the flight regiment, would definitely come back—how could the members of the independent regiment miss such a crucial battle?

"Fifteen hundred."

Huang Quan answered.

He knew that Zhang Dabiao was asking about the pilot.

"One thousand five!"

Zhang Dabiao's eyes twitched, and then he laughed loudly:

"That's enough for a little devil to drink a pot hard."

Counting the 250 pilots who drive the water transport aircraft, there are currently 750 pilots in Guam.

So far, the engineer battalion has leveled the entire northern part of Guam, paved [-] runways, and [-] aprons. After a while, it will be enough to take off and land [-] bomb trucks at the same time.

The single-engine attack aircraft is much smaller than the four-engine transport aircraft, and has relatively low terrain requirements.

While the two were chatting, the transport plane had already begun to carry the wounded back. All the pilots of the transport plane who left felt a little regretful, and it was a pity that they could not participate in this battle.

But there is really a big difference between transport aircraft pilots and attack aircraft pilots.

At present, in the army, excluding those veterans who have been upgraded, there are only about 500 people who can fly attack aircraft. This time about one-third of them came, and some of them were fighter pilots.

The devil also has several aircraft carriers, and the naval pilots are also elite.

After the transport planes left, it had been 35 hours since Guam was taken. The ground crew pushed an 'Early Warning Aircraft' out of the warehouse, refueled, checked and then slowly lifted off.

after that.

A number of 'bomb trucks' were also withdrawn from the warehouse and entered the apron. Pilots and ground crews went to the apron one after another to overhaul, refuel, mount bombs, and prepare for the upcoming battle.

Soldiers from the infantry battalion who had nothing to do also went to help.

Among the huge 'bomb trucks' coming out of the warehouse, more than 50 aircraft are particularly eye-catching.

She has no propellers, the nose is a large hollow, the wings are slightly swept back, and the tail also has a huge hollow. The nose and wing roots can see obvious cannon holes.

If there is a military fan of later generations, one can tell at a glance that this product is very similar to the famous MiG-15.

Of course, there have been many improvements.

The engine thrust is greater, more fuel-efficient, the internal structure is more complete, and the wings are thinner. With the high-thrust engine and advanced materials, the wing blades that prevent wingtip stalls are changed to leading edge flaps. .

In terms of weapons, it was also replaced with three 25mm cannons.

"The little devil has four aircraft carriers, right?"

Huang Quan's eyes lit up when he saw these 'latest fighters'.

The performance of the new jet fighter is extremely strong, far surpassing that of the propeller fighter. Similarly, the danger and difficulty of operation are much higher than that of the propeller, and it will stall if you are not careful.

At present, in the base area, including him, there are no more than one hundred pilots who are capable of flying this fighter into battle.

Of course, this has something to do with the lack of demand from the troops, and propeller fighter jets are enough.

But this time, he will personally lead the team, drive the latest jet fighter, defeat the navy pilots on the devil's aircraft carrier, and eliminate the so-called real "elite" of the devil!
"Correct."

Zhang Dabiao replied:
"Four aircraft carriers, Zuikaku, Chiyoda, Ruifeng, Chitose, this time the devil will definitely dispatch the whole army."

"However, only Ruihe is the real main aircraft carrier, and the other three are light aircraft carriers. There are only two hundred carrier-based aircraft in total."

"Two hundred."

Huang Quan didn't speak, but Cai Jiheng, who was on the side, clicked his tongue, a little dissatisfied-this elite pilot who came from Guokui, and he was also one of the fifty jet pilots.

A mere two hundred.

a bit less.

While the Guam soldiers were preparing in full swing, a few hours later, the early warning aircraft also sent back news:

"Found three enemy ships, currently 250 kilometers away from Guam."

In the command room, Zhang Dabiao and Huang Quan raised their heads and looked at each other at the same time - they finally came.

"It's the little devil's vanguard fleet."

Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly:
"Order the missile attack plane to take off and launch an attack on the Devil's vanguard fleet."

Due to the limitation of the airport, there are only three missile attack aircraft.

The real combat force is [-] 'bomb trucks'.

It can carry bombs for dive bombing, and can also carry torpedoes for torpedo bombing. After mounting two large auxiliary fuel tanks and two small auxiliary fuel tanks, the combat radius is as high as [-] kilometers.

But this battle is a battle of annihilation.

The purpose is to annihilate the Devils Combined Fleet.

Although Guam is very important, once it is occupied, it means that the devil's external blood transfusion channels will be completely cut off, and the devil will definitely take back Guam at all costs.

But it's also hard to say, knowing that there are [-] planes waiting here, the Devils United Fleet will be scared and run away.

Therefore, you have to give the devil a little courage first.

For the devils, there is nothing better than a missile that has been successfully jammed to see the hope of victory. For this reason, some of the missiles in the three missile attack aircraft have deliberately removed the radar anti-jamming capability-some even set timing radars Disable function.

Otherwise, with the chaff jamming bomb just researched by the devil, without the cooperation of the noise and AM jamming machine, I am afraid that it will not even be able to achieve the impact-the Styx missile equipped by the army at this time has mechanical frequency conversion technology that reaches the second level. Target display and other anti-jamming technologies.

It is not a joke to improve the radar performance and be advanced for more than ten years.

The chaff jamming bombs are not as simple as just sprinkling them into the sky. There are strict requirements on the length and density of the chaff, otherwise they will be filtered out as clutter and go straight to the target.

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after an hour.

"Enemy plane."

In the Devil's vanguard fleet, a lookout spotted several propeller planes circling ten kilometers away—modified from bomb trucks, carrying optical observation equipment for detection and monitoring.

"It should be a reconnaissance plane."

The devil quickly made a judgment.

At such a distance, anti-aircraft guns are out of reach.

The vanguard fleet did not have fighter jets, only a few water reconnaissance planes, so the devils calmed down after being nervous for a while, just staring at them and strengthening their vigilance.

at the same time.

"emission."

Of the three missile attack aircraft in the sky, aircraft No. [-] launched four air-launched anti-ship missiles.

"missile."

Even though it was daytime, the devil still noticed the tail flame in the sky immediately.

The Devil's vanguard fleet is a light cruiser, an old-fashioned heavy cruiser, and a destroyer, equipped with chaff jamming bombs, the purpose is to inquire about Guam's defensive strength. Although Deputy Takeshi Toyoda is very sure, it is impossible for the enemy to gather in just two days. Together they can counter the strength of the United Fleet.

But he still cautiously sent a wave of probing troops.

"Maneuver and evade."

"Disruptor fired."

Seeing the missile, the devil commander immediately ordered the launch of a jamming bomb, and at the same time ordered the fleet to maneuver to avoid it.

Although the facts have proved that the maneuvering and evasion of large warships has no effect on missiles, but in general, do something.

In the first wave of missiles, three missiles with frequency conversion function and dynamic target display capability were removed. Facing the overwhelming chaff, these three missiles immediately lost their direction and went straight to the sea.

And the remaining complete missile, that is, the last one, launched with a delay of one second, directly pierced the bow of the heavy cruiser.

"Interference works."

Although one ship was hit, the bow of the ship suffered heavy losses, and one of the main guns could not continue to fight, but the devil commander still jumped up happily.

The hit rate was only a quarter, and three of the missiles went straight to the sea, and only one changed direction, which showed that the imperial jamming bombs were effective.

Immediately afterwards, the second wave of missiles struck, and this wave also had only one normal missile. At the same time, the third wave was also launched, and this last wave had no normal missiles.

At the same time, 37 'bomb trucks' also appeared in the sky, rushing towards the devil fleet.

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"General."

10 minutes later, Deputy Takeshi Toyoda received good news at the Devils United Fleet Headquarters:

"General, the vanguard fleet was attacked by enemy missiles. The enemy launched a total of twelve missiles and hit two. The chaff jamming bombs are effective. The greater the launch density, the stronger the jamming effect."

"Subsequent encounters with enemy torpedoes and dive bombers combined attack, all ships in the fleet were severely damaged, and the heavy cruiser... sank."

"Yo Xi."

Vice President of Toyota was overjoyed.

Although an old heavy cruiser sank, he was still very happy.

For him, there are two pieces of good news.

The chaff jammer is effective against enemy missiles, and the effect is very good. He finally doesn't have to worry about the enemy's missiles. The cost of the chaff jammer is very low. In the future, the transport ship can also be equipped with it, and then transport supplies to the subcontinent.

Secondly, the enemy couldn't wait to launch an attack on the vanguard fleet. After the missile attack failed, it immediately launched a torpedo attack and dive bombing.

This shows that the enemy does not want him to see the situation in Guam. According to the United Fleet outside Guam, the enemy does not want him to approach Guam.

"Full speed ahead."

Toyota's assistant Wu raised his tone by three degrees.

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the other side.

Guam Command Room.

"The devil's chaff jamming bomb is very primitive, and its jamming effect on our active missiles is extremely low."

The attack of twelve missiles led the staff of the flying regiment to come to such a conclusion.

This missile attack also has two meanings. One is to let the devils relax their vigilance and continue to attack, and the other is to test the effect of the devils' jamming bombs.

"Trash."

Hearing this news, Zhang Dabiao and Huang Quanqiqi scolded disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)