Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

Confidence... This is the only expression on Gao Zhihang's face.

Seeing this, Li Guosheng was shocked in his heart.

Because, even in the eyes of a reborn Li Guosheng, the current air strike operation of the IDF has almost no possibility of completion.But Gao Zhihang in front of him actually told himself in a firm tone that he had a way to complete the air strike, which made Li Guosheng shocked and surprised.

Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, Li Guosheng managed to calm himself down in a very short time. '

He asked Gao Zhihang expectantly, "Your solution is..."

"Using the cover of night to launch an air attack on the Soviet field airport... As long as it is night and using the night as a cover, we can escape the layers of defenses arranged by the Soviet Red Army along the way and enter the sky above the Soviet field airport. Not only that, but only at night , the air defense of Lao Maozi Field Airport is the weakest, and it is most conducive to our air strikes..."

"Flying at night..." Li Guosheng couldn't help but let out an exclamation...

You know, before fighter planes are equipped with radar, night is taboo and death for planes.Especially on the dark grasslands of Outer Mongolia, because there is no target that can be used to guide the flight direction of the plane, any accident may cause the plane to deviate from the course, and eventually the plane crashes because it cannot find the airport to land.

Therefore, in the current era, even Li Guosheng from later generations rarely orders the air force to fly at night.

Thinking of this, Li Guosheng resolutely refused: "No...Mr. Gao, don't you know that flying at night is suicide for the Air Force... Without any flight coordinates, you can find the Soviet Army Field Airfield. Bombing the target... Of course. Even if you finish the bombing, you can guarantee that the bomber fleet returns to the airport successfully. Landing safely...."

If it was someone else, Li Guosheng would definitely sweat profusely with fright if he asked a tit-for-tat rhetorical question.Because Li Guosheng standing in front of him is not an ordinary person, but the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces who holds the power to kill millions of troops.

However, what surprised Li Guosheng again was that Gao Zhihang still looked at him confidently in front of him, and he didn't back down when pressed by him.

Under such circumstances, Li Guosheng had to change his tone and continued to ask: "Mr. Gao, if you can solve all the dangers faced by the aircraft flying at night, I will agree to your combat request and air strike the Soviet army's field airport..."

Gao Zhihang's confident facial expression finally changed slightly.

A strange smile flashed from the corner of Gao Zhihang's mouth, and he replied to Li Guosheng: "Boss, I really have a way to solve the various dangers that planes face when flying at night..."

After speaking, without waiting for the shocked Li Guosheng to react, he continued: "The first time I saw the radar, I felt that radar would play a very important role in future air force operations. After such a long period of analysis and Research, I found out. With the help of ground radar, we can completely solve a series of dangers of aircraft flying at night...."

"Using the ground radar to guide the night flight aircraft to a specific flight direction... In this way, even at night when there are no flight coordinates. We will not deviate from the flight course and arrive at the destination accurately..."

Li Guosheng's eyes lit up, and he reacted suddenly.

In his later thoughts.Only after the aircraft was equipped with radar did it begin to fly at night.Over time, Li Guosheng gradually formed a fixed thinking in his mind.Only the radar that the troops have just developed is made smaller.After being equipped on the plane, the plane with radar can fly at night.....

Now there is a reminder from Gao Zhihang.Li Guosheng immediately walked out of this fixed thinking.He said excitedly: "You are right, with the radar guiding the ground, the plane can fly safely at night..."

After speaking, Li Guosheng also began to be full of expectations and confidence in this night air strike plan.Facing Gao Zhihang with a hot face, he asked, "Mr. Gao, your specific plan is..."

The action plan was approved by Li Guosheng, and the first thing that showed on Gao Zhihang's face was excitement.After the excitement, he reported directly: "The chief, plus the three fighter brigades from the First Air Division to reinforce Outer Mongolia, our air force in Outer Mongolia has seven fighter brigades and five bomber brigades..."

"My idea is to deploy five fighter brigades and five bomber brigades, with a total of 360 fighters under the guidance of the ground radar force, to launch an air strike on the Soviet field airport... The five fighter brigades dispatched, in addition to carrying their own weapons and ammunition , and each fighter is equipped with two 250 kg aerial bombs...."

"Each fighter plane carries 450 kilograms of aerial bombs, and each fighter plane carries [-] tons of heavy aerial bombs. The total of ten flight groups adds up to [-] tons of aerial bombs. This many aerial bombs are enough to deal a devastating blow to the Soviet army's field airports. "

"Yes..." Li Guosheng affirmed loudly.

After a brief analysis, he continued: "In order to ensure the smooth progress of the entire air strike plan, I will order the ground troops to take the initiative to attack on the night of the air strike to cover the air force's actions..."

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief... With the ground troops covering the attack, our air strike will definitely be a complete success. At that time, we will be able to eliminate at least a thousand aircraft of various types from the Soviet Red Army at one time, at the lowest cost, as much as possible." Weakening the strength of the Soviet Red Army's air force in the Far East will lay the foundation for our army's future counterattack..." Gao Zhihang said confidently.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....boom..." A string of rapid and sharp shells roared over the battlefield. Appear in front of everyone at the right time.

Tukhachevsky, chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army, rushed out of the tent quickly, wanting to know what the sound of the artillery was.

Just when he held up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the fireball.A combat staff officer suddenly rushed out of the tent and reported to him: "Report to the commander-in-chief that the front line was suddenly heavily shelled by the enemy. According to observations, the Chinese used at least one heavy artillery division's artillery, and the firepower was extremely fierce. Very rare in months of engagements..."

"Does the Wehrmacht want to launch a night attack on us..." Tukhachevsky thought subconsciously.

Frowning tightly, he ordered the Chief of Staff of the Far East Army who came later: "Regardless of whether the National Defense Forces really plan to launch a counterattack against us, we must be ready to fight..."

"Order... the front-line troops to retreat immediately... second-line positions, prepare for anti-tank warfare... the artillery group, immediately counterattack the artillery positions of the Wehrmacht and destroy it. At the same time, leave at least five heavy artillery divisions, and the bombardment of the Wehrmacht may appear tank group...."

Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army were preparing in an orderly manner under the order of Tukhachevsky.At a secret field airport about ten kilometers away from the battlefield, nearly half of the fighters and bombers of the Second Air Division were like pacesetters receiving a review. They were arranged very neatly on both sides of the runway, under the illumination of the lights.The silver-white fuselage emits bursts of cold light.

Nearly a thousand fully armed fighter pilots and bomber bombers stood motionless in the middle of the runway, forming a huge infantry phalanx, waiting for the order from Gao Zhihang, the commander of the Second Air Division.

After glancing at the pilots trained by himself in front of him, the proud Gao Zhihang shouted loudly: "Brothers, it's not been a day or two since we joined the National Defense Forces, so I won't say more. I just want to tell you Everyone, tonight's air strike is over, and at least a thousand Soviet fighter planes have been lost in our hands. This means that everyone standing here can get two fighter planes. So, I hope everyone can Fight this battle well, let the Soviets have a good taste of the power of our Chinese Air Force, and teach the Soviet Air Force an unprecedented lesson..."

"Now I give an order. All combatants, board the plane immediately... I, Gao Zhihang, will personally direct the air attack tonight..."

A sharp whistle sounded in the middle of the phalanx.The more than 1000 pilots and bombardiers who formed the phalanx quickly dispersed and ran towards their cars. Less than 2 minutes.The roar of fighter jet engines sounded at the airport one after another...

"Woooo..." When a rapid and sharp whistling sound rang out at the airport, a silver-white fighter jet rushed out of the runway first.Rush into the dark night sky.

The moment the first fighter plane took off, roars sounded from several other runways, and the four fighter planes rushed into the sky from four different directions.

In less than an hour, more than [-] fighters were all lifted into the sky...

Taking the flying brigade as the unit, it becomes a small team.Then use three small formations as a unit, spaced one kilometer apart, to form a large formation in the shape of a zigzag... As for the five formations of fighter jets with aerial bombs, they are scattered in the shape of a herringbone on both wings of the bomber formation...

After the formation of the mighty aircraft group, under the guidance of the ground radar, they bypassed the battlefield and approached the Soviet field airport quietly under the cover of night.

With a straight-line distance of [-] kilometers, even though the Second Air Division took a lot of detours, it took only an hour to approach the Soviet Army Field Airport.When the lights of the Soviet army's field airport shining towards the sky loomed in front of Gao Zhihang, a smile from the heart quickly appeared on Gao Zhihang's face...

Facing the earphones on his head, he ordered in a fiery tone: "The target is ten kilometers in front of us, and all formations are ready to fight immediately... The five fighter brigades first launched the attack. After dropping the aerial bombs, the bombers The formation provided cover to ensure the smooth progress of the entire bombing operation...."

"All fighters, lower the flying altitude immediately, and use the flying brigade as a unit to start free attacks..."

In Nuoda's field airport, the brightly lit control tower is undoubtedly the most obvious target of the airport.After quickly lowering the flying altitude, Gao Zhihang unsurprisingly set the first attack target as the control tower of the field airport.

After the power of the fighter plane was increased to the maximum state, a noisier roar of the engine directly penetrated the earmuffs and reached Gao Zhihang's ears.The silver-white fighter that weighed several tons also began to tremble violently due to the sudden increase in the speed of the fighter, as if it would suddenly disintegrate in the air, which was very scary.

However, this process is obviously very short-lived.The moment the silver-white fuselage quickly adapted to this flying speed, the attack target was only one kilometer away from the fighter plane.

At this moment, Gao Zhihang, who was sitting in the fighter plane, could clearly see that he was facing a sudden attack.The entire Soviet field airport fell into chaos because there was no preparation.At least so far.Except for the rifle and light machine gun bullets that are constantly being shot into the sky, there is no threat to him.Not even a single flak shell.

Seeing this, Gao Zhihang's confidence in this air strike became even stronger.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the sneering Gao Zhihang urgently needed to lower the flying altitude of the plane.

Seeing that the fighter plane Gao Zhihang was driving was about to hit the control tower, two dark aerial bombs quickly broke away from the aircraft and smashed towards the ground tower with a piercing roar.

And at the moment when the two aerial bombs left the plane, because the weight of the fighter jet's fuselage suddenly lightened, driven by its own strong power, it rushed into the sky like a rocket that had accumulated a lot of energy.

"Boom..." The moment two distant explosions sounded on the ground.Gao Zhihang's fighter plane has already flown to an altitude of more than 1000 meters.Looking back at the ground, the wooden airport tower was brightly lit just now, but at this moment, it has been enveloped by two orange-red fireballs rising into the sky.

The moment Gao Zhihang launched the attack, the 35 fighter jets behind him rushed towards the target they thought was the most valuable and might pose a threat to them.

As a result, all kinds of explosions sounded like setting off firecrackers in the Soviet field field airport.

At this moment, there was only a field airport illuminated by lights just now.It has been illuminated by the fire that suddenly rose from the ground.Every fighter plane in the ground field airport, every air defense position, and even the panicked Soviet soldiers on the ground... the pilots at an altitude of one thousand meters can see it clearly.

And until this moment, the air defense positions deployed by the Soviet army around the field airport gradually showed signs of counterattack.

but.In the dark night sky, the Soviet air defense forces couldn't find the target at all, so they could only manipulate the anti-aircraft artillery to shoot blindly over the airport.It is planned to form an unbreakable air defense network over the airport through the density of firepower.

However.In the first round of attacks led by Gao Zhihang, several air defense positions had already been attacked and turned into a sea of ​​flames.Although the anti-aircraft firepower network fired by the Soviet army is dense.However, there are always a few loopholes in front of the Second Air Division.

The 36 fighters of the Second Fighter Battalion of the Second Air Division quickly broke in from several breakthroughs. With the light weight of the fighters, they dodged back and forth in the air defense firepower net, and went straight to the Soviet air defense positions that had just been exposed.

In the dense air defense firepower network, although from time to time a fighter plane exploded in the air because it could not dodge in time.However, these losses did not deter the remaining fighters.

After losing five fighters in a row, the roaring fighters finally locked on to the attack target.

Dozens of aerial bombs smashed into the ground quickly with a whistling sound, and exploded amidst the terrified cries of the Soviet air defense forces, turning into orange-red fireballs that soared from the ground.

The air defense positions that were just like fire hedgehogs have turned into a sea of ​​flames at this moment.

Losing six air defense positions again, the remaining air defense firepower of the Soviet army will be even weaker, which can be called loopholes everywhere.

The 36 fighters of the [-]rd Fighter Battalion of the [-]nd Air Division are like eagles that have spotted their prey, rushing towards the target without hesitation...

The final result was no surprise. It was attacked by five fighter brigades in a row. The largest field airport located behind the Soviet army, because the surrounding air defense positions were all destroyed, it completely became an undefended airport. A bomber battalion ravages...

The Soviet Army General Headquarters, the artillery group began to counterattack, and tens of thousands of Red Army entered the fighting state... After a series of preparations were completed, Tukhachevsky returned to his position, calmly waiting for the latest battle report from the front.

When the sound of artillery on the battlefield became more and more sparse, Tukhachevsky felt more and more that the Wehrmacht on the opposite side was thunderous and rainy, and did not dare to launch a counterattack against him at this time.

A combat staff officer rushed in front of Tukhachevsky in horror and reported loudly: "Comrade Chief...the airport, we were attacked at the field airport in the rear, and the National Defense Forces dispatched at least hundreds of fighter planes to attack us... .”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible... It is night now, how could the planes of the National Defense Forces fly at night, you are lying about the military situation..." Tukhachevsky denied firmly.

The combat staff officer affirmed loudly: "Chief, I don't believe this is true either... However, both the airport garrison and the air force commander have sent telegrams to the headquarters asking for help... Please send troops to reinforce the airport immediately... ..”

Tukhachevsky grabbed the telegram and began to browse.

The skeptical expression just now was replaced by astonishment in an instant, and he murmured to himself with the telegram: "How is it possible, how did the National Defense Forces do it, how could their planes fly at night, don't they worry about the destruction of the plane?" Are people dead..."

The chief of staff of the Far Eastern Military Region, who had already learned about the general situation, suddenly said: "Comrade chief of staff, I think this is a desperate blow by the National Defense Forces before they know that they are about to fail. They want to weaken our army through this desperate attack. air power."

"Flying at night is full of dangers, but it is not impossible. For the National Defense Forces, whose strength has been greatly damaged, it is better to fight to the death because it is consumed by us in the air battle during the day."

"As long as there is a 1000% chance of success, the Air Force of the National Defense Forces will seize this opportunity. You know, we have parked more than [-] fighters at the airport at the rear. Lost more than one-third of air power.” (To be continued..)