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Chapter 361 Aerial Competition

Faced with dense ground battles, even though Zhang Dabiao's 100th Division advanced smoothly, it was still far less fast than an encounter battle.

Faced with the crisscrossing trenches, there was no way to rush, and the troops could only advance forward one line at a time.

Fortunately, Zhang Dabiao and his men had already made a plan and were not in a hurry to achieve success. They continued to advance deeper into the Rogue Eagle Coalition's positions according to the established plan.

Since Anzhou was not far from Pingcheng, the reinforcements of Rogue Eagle arrived at the position about 3 hours after the battle started, and the heavy tank units of the new st Cavalry Division also launched a counterattack!
An M3 tank company of Zhang Dabiao's vanguard was destroyed.

If they had not been equipped with vehicle-mounted recoilless guns this time, and had not taken advantage of the Rogue Eagle tanks' unprepared attack to rush in front of the recoilless guns, the vanguard's recoilless guns would have counterattacked and destroyed more than a dozen Rogue Eagle's M46/M26 heavy tanks. This counterattack by the 100st Cavalry Division almost wiped out a charging Type A regiment of the th Division!
However, after the recoilless gun exposed the target, it was quickly exchanged with a heavy tank company of the Rogue Eagle Cavalry 1st Division. Zhang Dabiao took the opportunity to take back the vanguard regiment and consolidate the several kilometers of positions that had been broken through.

The troops, which had been fighting fiercely for almost a night, were gathered together to rest, treat the wounded, and replenish ammunition.

The coalition forces were in an even more miserable situation. They had more casualties and their positions were riddled with holes. With the arrival of the main force of the 1st Cavalry Division, they began to rebuild a new round of defense lines under the frantic digging of engineering vehicles such as excavators and bulldozers.

Anzhou is a key strategic point in the north, and the coalition forces led by Rogue Eagle will naturally not give it up easily.

The arrival of the 1st Cavalry Division gave a shot in the arm to the coalition forces led by Rogue Eagle.

More importantly, it’s daybreak!
The sky gradually brightened, and the impatient Rogue Eagle carrier-based aircraft squadron began to take off one after another. They were closest to the battlefield, and were basically close to the battlefield after taking off.

But this time, just as the Rogue Eagle's carrier-based aircraft took off, the Zhisi radar unit captured the shadow of the Rogue Eagle's taking-off fighter!
The First Air Regiment took off upon hearing the alarm. Although the airport was a little far away, its speed was much faster than the Rogue Hawk F4U carrier-based aircraft. After taking off and forming a formation, it flew at full speed. The First Air Regiment could arrive at the battlefield earlier than the Rogue Hawk's carrier-based aircraft.

As soon as the air mass moved, the Rogue Eagle ground radar and the radar of the naval fleet responded immediately.

Beep beep beep started ringing the alarm like crazy.

Aboard the USS Antietam.

"Report to the commander, our radar has detected a large number of enemy planes taking off!" Faced with the beeping radar, the radar soldier was busy drawing drawings. The current display screen could not accurately show the target location detected by the radar, but could only roughly show its area.

Since the computers were still very basic first-generation transistor computers, the radar of the Antietam aircraft carrier could only roughly detect targets moving in the air, but could not accurately locate the distance.

Compared with the new embedded computer board that Longguo has obtained through cheating, its computing power is several orders of magnitude lower.

Not to mention that there is also a big gap in the display area. Longguo has completed the research work on the new CRT, and the display size has exceeded 15 inches.

In addition, Longguo was the first to apply new materials to radar, which allowed it to take the lead in radar in the world of Bright Sword.

"Don't worry. Our carrier-based F4U squadron is composed of elite fighters. Tell the guys who take off to work harder and beat down more of the rookies from Dragon Country!" Faced with the reaction of the Dragon Country Air Force, the task force commander, Major General Smith, was somewhat disapproving.

The Longguo Air Force has only two types of fighter jets as its main force, and the rest are miscellaneous goods confiscated from the Japanese devils, which can now basically only be used as training aircraft.

A few are the so-called J-5 jet fighters they developed themselves. Although they are fast, their maneuverability is obviously average. Compared with the P51 and F4U, the Longguo Air Force dare not use them in head-on combat and can only bully bombers. In the subsequent mixed collision process, they did not suffer too much loss.

As for another fighter plane with a larger number in Longguo, it is the P51D Mustang fighter that Smith is very familiar with. The P51D fighter is indeed excellent, but compared with its own F4U Corsair fighter, the performance is different. They are both propeller fighters at the top level.

As the commander of the aircraft carrier task force, Major General Smith was naturally very familiar with the Mustang fighters. Facing the P51D Mustang, the F4U pilots had rich experience in defeating them.

After all, when the hardware levels of fighter jets are almost the same, it is the experienced pilots who play a key role.

Although in the previous collision with the Longguo Air Force, the Rogue Eagle's naval aviation and air force did not gain any advantage, they were defeated on equal terms by the Longguo Air Force's close-range bayonet tactics.

However, this was not a contest of the true pilot levels of the two sides. The Longguo Air Force used their incomparably tenacious will and spirit of sacrifice to achieve a balance from the asymmetry.

Now Smith's carrier-based aircraft pilots have practiced several methods and tactics to escape the close dogfight with the Dragon Air Force!

Instead, he kept his distance and used his own skills to launch long-range attacks!
Just like flying a kite, they consume the opponents whose numbers are far less than theirs!

More than 60 F4Us rushed into the sky first. Facing the oncoming 44 Dragon Air Force fighters, the Rogue Eagle's naval aviation squadron was now limited in their vision by the clouds in the sky.

Today is a cloudy day with thick clouds in the sky. For the Air Force First Group, this is perfect weather conditions. After all, now that they have the fire control radar, they can completely ignore the obstruction of the clouds.

But for fighters that rely on visual combat, this was extremely bad weather, so after most of the Rogue Hawk's carrier-based F4U fighters took off, they found that everything was white and they couldn't see clearly what was a hundred meters ahead.

In this way, some F4Us had to descend to below 3000 meters below the cloud layer, and based on the radar information sent from the aircraft carrier command, they constantly searched for traces of the enemy through their eyes.

At present, the F4U has not yet evolved to have an airborne radar that can accurately lock onto the opponent's distance.

In the thick clouds, they were like blind people.

"Enemy targets appear 10 kilometers ahead. All squadrons must disperse. We are still using the two-on-one tactic."

In the clouds, Wei Yongguo and his fighter planes detected the location of the Rogue Eagle fighter plane clearly. Although their current fighter planes have theoretically very accurate air-to-air missiles (compared to the machine guns of this era, a hit rate of more than 30% is a product of a completely different era.)
However, Wei Yongguo and his men did not have any baggage from being masters and did not have any idea of ​​a fair fight. Without truly understanding the power of the new fighters, they still adopted a local two-on-one insurance tactic. Even though their fighters were now more capable than the enemy's, two-on-one was a safer way to deal with the opponent, so they did it without hesitation.

The 5st Air Regiment began to disperse in groups of two. They each took hold of a target, prepared to lock onto an enemy aircraft, and then rush within kilometers and attack with two fighter planes at the same time.

Now with missiles, dual-plane tactics are more flexible. There is no need to get close to enemy aircraft to deliver close attacks, and there is no need to worry too much about the missiles hitting one's own aircraft.

The fighters that Rogue Eagle has deployed to the peninsula are almost all propeller-driven, with the engine placed at the nose. Therefore, for the infrared-guided PL-1 air-to-air missile, face-to-face attack is the most efficient. At this moment, the Rogue Eagle fighter took off from the sea and did not head straight for Anzhou.

Instead, they flew towards the direction of Kong Yituan. Although they didn't know why the opponent did this, Wei Yongguo and his men would definitely not let down such a great opportunity!

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