Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 750 Chapter 750

Tang Mo heard the good news while having lunch. His aircraft carrier had completed the fighter take-off and landing experiment, 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 Devil's Sea, control the world's two largest oceans, and establish a maritime hegemony belonging to the Tang Kingdom.

However, Tang Mo was also very annoyed by the bad news that was sent at the same time. Warships of the Anti-Tang Alliance appeared on the route between Longdao and Dongwan, attacking Tang's transport fleet.

In fact, the naval fleets of these countries have been attacking Tang's fleet for a long time. They used their numerical advantages to sneak attack on the vast sea, and ran away after hitting, which caused considerable trouble for Tang's sea transportation line.

So far, the alliance's sneak attack on Tang's fleet has sunk more than 100 million tons of transport ships, seriously affecting Tang's oil transportation.

If it wasn't for Tang's success on land, directly eating up the southern oil fields of the Dahua Empire and subsidizing his family, Tang's situation might have been even more passive.

Even though Tang Mo's submarine force was constantly sinking the enemy's transport ships, even faster than the alliance's sinking of Tang's transport ships, this mutual destruction still made people uncomfortable.

Most of the alliance warships that appeared on the route from Long Island to East Bay were cruisers and destroyers. These ships were fast and numerous, and their combat effectiveness was also very strong, which caused Tang Jun a great headache.

The battles between the two sides on these routes were small-scale, and sometimes it was even a destroyer fighting a destroyer.

Everyone's scale is very small, and when the number of opponents is too large, they don't fight at all, and just turn around and leave.In the confrontation for more than two months, the Tang army lost [-] or [-] destroyers, and about [-] or [-] warships were lost in various countries.

Although the losses of the fleets of various countries were greater, they did achieve results.The loss of Tang Jun's transport ships is not small, which has seriously affected some industrial production.

However, this passiveness is only temporary. Tang's navy is stepping up its escort efforts, and overall Tang still takes the initiative.

After a few more months, Tang's aircraft carrier will begin to have combat capabilities, and the situation at sea will be skewed towards Tang's army. This is beyond doubt.

What Tang Mo had to wait for was the aircraft carrier joining the navy ranks.

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In the south of Fengjiang City, on a high ground, in a rugged trench, soldiers of the Tang Army were cleaning up the battlefield full of corpses.

The wreckage of a bombed No. 4 assault gun is still steaming, and two soldiers of the Tang Army are counting the tags torn from the corpses of their own soldiers.

Every soldier of the Tang Army has a nameplate to prove his identity, and it is also convenient for statistics after being wounded or killed.

The work of collecting such plaques is brutal, and each one with blood on it represents a young soldier gone forever.

Tang Jun's unique M35 steel helmet looks very conspicuous on the battlefield. Compared with the steel helmets of the soldiers of the Dahua Empire and the steel helmets of Qin Jun, it is easy to identify.

The defensive position here is very ingeniously designed. In fact, it is the first time Tang Jun has seen such a defensive position.

The Qin army buried a Dahua 2 tank in the position, only revealing a turret, and carefully camouflaged it.

The "steel bunker" arranged in this way has reached the ultimate in concealment and defense, and is not easy to find or destroy.

Several times, Tang Jun's No. 4 assault gun shells hit the mound in front of the Dahua tank buried in the soil, and failed to destroy this very threatening target.

Because of the good camouflage, it is not easy to find such a "blockhouse" in the sky. Only when the first-line Tang army launched an attack, the soldiers would find such a damn obstacle on the way to attack.

The machine guns on the tanks can easily suppress the Tang army on the attacking road, and then the soldiers of the Qin army will launch an overturning attack from the preset position, and wipe out the Tang army suppressed by the machine gun one by one.

When the Tang army mobilized enough tanks and armored vehicles to fight over and kill this firepower point, the casualties had already appeared, and it was too late.

In the offensive operation just now, the Tang army lost a total of more than [-] soldiers, which is equivalent to annihilating the entire army of a platoon.

Although the Dahua Army and the Qin Army also lost nearly a hundred people, this exchange ratio has never been reached before.

"The enemy's position is getting stronger and stronger." In the trench of the position, looking at the bloodstains on the wall of the pit that had not completely dried up, a battalion commander said distressedly.

The combat effectiveness of the Qin army is quite high. They will plant booby traps on their positions, and even pretend to be dead and die with the approaching Tang army.

A position often requires repeated competition, and both sides have to pay a heavy price to determine the winner.Although Tang Jun can always seize the positions he wants to seize, the price he pays is indeed getting higher and higher.

Because the defense system near Fengjiang is getting thicker and the number of troops is increasing, the effect of Tang Jun's armored assault tactics is becoming more and more general.

This is like the Battle of Kursk. The thickness of the Soviet defense line was there. The German armored troops advanced more than ten kilometers a day but found that they were still deeply trapped in the enemy's defense line and were beaten. It was impossible to achieve the breakthrough effect.

The same is true for the Tang army now. After fighting for a whole day, they found that they had to retreat to give up the positions they had seized during the day after nightfall, because they were still stuck between the enemies and could not bear the loss of being counterattacked at night.

"It's not easy to fight. The opponent's defense line is more and more like that kind of permanent fortification. We lost several assault guns and tanks and couldn't occupy those damn trenches." Another officer cautiously poked his head out and looked into the distance. In the quiet enemy position, he sighed helplessly.

"Let the troops pay attention to concealment, and the enemy's artillery fire will soon cover them." The battalion commander glanced at the corpse of a Qin army lying at his feet. The face of the corpse was hit by bullets, and it had already changed beyond recognition.

"You said these damned Qin people, why did they come here to play with us..." The officer also glanced at the Qin soldiers who had died miserably, and complained depressingly.

Everyone has heard of the toughness of the Qin people in the northwest of the country. After fighting frequently recently, the commanders of the Tang army finally learned the toughness of the soldiers of the Qin State.

Compared with the Dahua troops, they are more fierce and tenacious, and they learn tactics very quickly.The opponent belongs to the kind of person who is born to fight with his brain, and the more he fights, the more he looks like Tang Jun.

They learned tactics from Tang Jun and absorbed experience and lessons. After being attacked by Tang Jun 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 the Qin State 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 Kingdom.

He only knew that these enemies were coming. As the backbone of the defense force, they helped the already passive Dahua Empire stabilize its position.

The newspaper said that the people of Qin State were very poor and had always been rescued by the Great Hua Empire, so this time they came to repay their kindness.Some people also said that the people of Qin State felt that their lips were dead and their teeth were cold. They didn't want to see the Tang army destroy Dahua, so they joined the war.

Anyway, what everyone said is reasonable, and I don't know who is right... Maybe they are all right, and the reasons are very complicated.

"The First Armored Division has come over. I heard that it will be tested again before winter. I don't know if it will work." The officer followed the battalion commander and walked along the rugged trenches to the other end of the highland.

The trench built by the opponent looks very professional. The zigzag pattern combined with the cat's ear holes for hiding can minimize the impact of the Tang army's shelling.

While they were talking, two Stuka dive bombers were carefully circling in the distance.The sound of their engines was low, and their trajectories hovering in the air were erratic.

The recent ground attack missions have become more and more dangerous. Professional ground licking machine Stuka pilots have begun to complain, complaining that their opponents are becoming more and more like hedgehogs.

The opponent began to equip a large number of large-caliber machine guns in the ground troops on the front line. Some of these machine guns have a caliber of 13mm and some are 14mm, and they are very powerful.

On weekdays, these machine guns can also shoot flat against the Tang Army's Type 113 armored vehicles, and a sweep of bullets in an emergency can also be quite threatening.

In addition to the Leopard tank, the remaining armored vehicles of the Tang Army may actually be destroyed by these anti-aircraft guns, especially the 76mm anti-aircraft guns of the Dahua Army, which are hidden for a sneak attack. Even the side armor of the Leopard tank has been destroyed. risk of breakdown.

A large number of anti-aircraft guns made Tang Jun's planes have to observe carefully before diving, avoiding possible ground firepower and ensuring their own safety.

Compared with the unscrupulous dive attack before, such a complicated attack procedure has reduced the bombing efficiency of the Tang army.

Relatively improved, there is also the air defense experience of the Dahua Army: the Dahua Army has been sick for a long time, and it can almost be said that it is the army with the deepest understanding of air defense operations.

Although the weapons and equipment were still not very suitable, in order not to be beaten, the soldiers still played their own initiative and quickly improved their fighting skills.

The air defense unit of the Dahua Army usually chooses an open place and arranges a few false positions to distract the Tang Army pilots. Occasionally, an anti-aircraft machine gun is actually deployed on these false positions to create a fake effect.

The real main attacking firepower is arranged independently: they wander around the edge of the false position, choose a small high ground with a wide view, 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 Tang Jun's dive bombers to take the bait.

This tactic achieved certain results at the beginning, and some inexperienced Tang Army pilots would be deceived and shot down.

However, with the passage of time, Tang Jun's planes also began to become vigilant. Under normal circumstances, they would choose dual-plane cover bombing, or multiple planes circling and alternately covering bombing tactics to avoid the risk of being attacked.

That is to say, the pilots of Tang Jun's enemy attack aircraft will fly the aircraft to circle in the air continuously, carefully distinguish the target, and do not give the opponent the opportunity to deceive people with false positions.

After finding the real position, Tang Jun's planes are often two, or even several planes dive together to cover each other.

Once a real anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery position is found, the higher-level cover team will immediately swoop down to suppress these anti-aircraft firepower and help friendly aircraft out of danger.

The frontline troops of the Tang Army are also making some small modifications to their aircraft: they have added protective steel plates to the vulnerable parts of the aircraft, focusing 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 modified Stuka often cancels the buzzer.

In other words, most of the current Stuka dive bombers in the Tang Kingdom no longer have the device that makes harsh noises when diving.

However, because of the inherent impression, the enemy army still dislikes the Stuka dive bombers very much. When they see a plane swooping down, they will subconsciously hide.

The Tang State Air Force discovered in a long-term combat summary that they actually lacked a medium-sized bomber to carry out the mission of bombing the enemy's positions.

The hit accuracy of Stuka dive bombers is actually no problem, the problem is that they carry too few bombs.When it was designed, it was not used to bomb the enemy's first-line positions.

As a dive bomber, the best mission status of the Stuka is to accompany the troops to advance continuously, destroy the enemy's stronghold node traffic arteries, paralyze the opponent's mobilization, and prevent the enemy from gathering to counterattack.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to move: if the defense lines of both sides start to be fixed, the problem of the low efficiency of the Stuka dive bombers in performing missions in a single sortie will be highlighted.

After dropping a bomb, it is necessary to return to the voyage, and at most it will dive and shoot a few more times-this kind of attack is gradually unable to meet the combat needs in the face of the more and more experienced Dahua air defense forces.

If you use a flying fortress to carry bombs to bomb, it will be too big.This kind of high-altitude bomber is more suitable for strategic bombing, and it is too talented to attack enemy positions.

The price of a flying fortress to take off once is not cheap, it needs to consume 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 type, increase the number of bombs carried, and make the flight attitude more flexible.

In Tang Mo's view, the frontline troops probably lacked a support aircraft like B-25 or JU-88.

As for which one to choose, Tang Mo hasn't made up his mind yet. The two types of aircraft have their own advantages and can be used.

It is very complicated to choose a weapon and equipment for the troops, so it takes time to ponder: there is a high probability that the pilots of the Tang Army will not be able to use their new aircraft in this war, and look forward to the next war.

Even in the country of Tang, with the technical support of the Datang Group, it is not an easy task to come up with a new kind of equipment and quickly equip the troops.

This requires the front-line troops to give various demand reports, and then discuss them together to decide on the trade-offs.Because what the army wants is often not so accurate, the pursuit of performance is often unavoidable.

If all the things these pilots want are manufactured, then it is estimated that the Tang State Air Force will be equipped with J-20 fighter jets...

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Feng Kezhi was standing in front of the map, and standing behind him were the air force commanders who had been criticized countless times by the ground troops recently.

Everyone has seen the performance of the air force of the Great China Empire on the battlefield. The air force formed at a huge expense was so abused by the Datang Air Force that it dared not even take off to fight. This is a fact, an undeniable fact.

But it would be a bit too insulting to say that the Dahua Air Force is all softies and idiots.The Dahua Air Force has always hoped to have a chance to compete fairly with the enemy.

They are not willing to use the double-winged camel fighter jets to fight to the death with the butcher fighter jets of the Tang Kingdom, because that is death.

In their view, at least all 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 of the Dahua Imperial Air Force also increased. They managed to accumulate some wealth, so they wanted to compete with Tang Jun.

But how to compare and how to surprise have become Feng Kezhi's thinking problems: if you put precious fighter jets on the battlefield and fight with Tang Jun's butcher fighter jets, and consume them little by little, it will actually have no effect on the battle situation.

Deep down, Feng Kezhi still doesn't trust his own air force. He doesn't think that changing to a fighter with slightly higher performance will be able to determine the outcome of the air battle.

So, he discussed with the Air Force commanders and came up with a plan that seemed more reasonable: a surprise attack on the southern oil fields.

In the previous plan of the Dahua Empire, all the southern oil fields were to be blown up, 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 led to the fact that the Tang army could replenish blood through the southern oil fields and continue to maintain the offensive on the front line, which brought tremendous pressure to the frontal battlefield of the Dahua Empire.

Feng Kezhi has always been worried about the southern oil fields. He thinks it is a very good option to dispatch the air force to blow up the southern oil fields.

In his opinion, 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 surprise attack can quickly reverse the situation on the battlefield. Feng Kezhi believes that this is the meaning of the existence of the Air Force.

So he found the commanders of the Air Force 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 is completely feasible.

First of all, oil fields are very fragile targets and are very easy to strike.The opponent had just occupied there not long ago, and it was not easy to establish a complete air defense system.

Secondly, the air force of the Dahua Army has been strengthened, especially the bomber unit, which has not suffered much loss so far, and can deploy troops to form a large-scale bomber unit to carry out missions in a short period of time.

Finally, the number of escort fighter units of the Dahua Army is sufficient, and daytime bombing is also very operable.

"We have a four-engine bomber produced by Cyric. Although the speed is very slow, the ammunition load is still acceptable. As long as a few more take off, the destructive power to the oil field can still be guaranteed." A commander of the Dahua Air Force Sworn promise said.

Although the performance of the bombers under his command is very backward, there are still quite a lot of them.Previously, because of fear of loss, they had not been engaged in actual combat, and the overall establishment remained very intact.

Now, hearing that Feng Kezhi wanted them to fight back, he immediately regained his spirits and prepared to let his bomber troops do a big job.

Although a plane does not carry a lot of ammunition, he does have a lot of planes in his hand, so he generously raised two fingers: "If there is a need, it is not a problem to gather two hundred planes."

"I think [-] bombers are still too few, and [-] should be assembled to destroy the southern oil fields at all costs." Another commander felt that a big deal should be made.

The size of the Dahua Air Force has always been very large, with tens of thousands of aircraft before the war.Although most were biplanes and triplanes, they were indeed massive.

Just when everyone started discussing how to destroy the southern oil fields and how many planes to deploy, an officer looked at Feng Kezhi worriedly, and asked a rather sharp question: "But, I have a question, we If the southern oil field is completely destroyed, don't you plan to take it back?"

"..." For a while, everyone present was silent.They seem to have never considered this issue, and they seem to have never realized that the place called the Southern Oil Field was actually part of the Dahua Empire.

Even Feng Kezhi evaded this question in his bones. In fact, he already knew that he or the Dahua Empire was incapable of retaking the southern oil fields, but he dared not admit this question.

In the end, someone still spoke awkwardly and clarified his point of view: "I think the possibility of taking it back is not great."

Hearing someone say this, others quickly nodded and agreed with their companions: "Yes, the possibility of taking it back is very low. And no matter whether we can take it back, we will blow it up! Even if we It can be reoccupied and it should be destroyed!"

Such voices kept coming, and one person even directly increased the number of planes: "It makes sense, then I think we can gather more than 500 planes to attack the southern oil fields!"

Three hundred bombers, and two hundred escorting Dahua Type 1 fighter jets... Such a huge number can almost guarantee the destruction of that distant southern oil field.

At the same time, Loew pushed open 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 field. The importance of the operation, the staff believes that it is necessary to send more aircraft and deploy more anti-aircraft guns to ensure that the oil fields will not be harassed by enemy aircraft."

"Yes! I also think...the southern oilfield should strengthen its defense!" Tang Mo picked up the report, and looked down to see the text on the first page of the report, which suggested deploying 88mm anti-aircraft cannons to the southern oilfield.

(End of this chapter)