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Chapter 1503 [The First Air Combat of the Republic of China (5)]

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    They are all cunning masters, how can they foolishly follow the agreed upon rules?  Before the air battle started, both sides were hiding something. Fortunately, there were a few clouds in the sky, so they could still hide.  If the weather is cloudless, the air force officers who carry out the orders will probably have big heads.  So, the Zhili and Fengjun air forces faced each other in the sky. Both sides had the same number of aircraft, more than 20 aircraft, like two squadrons.  When planes fly in formation, as long as the numbers are not piled up in hundreds or thousands, even people who are not very literate can easily count the approximate number by raising their heads.  Diamond formation, a small formation of four aircraft, a medium-sized triangular formation, twelve aircraft Whether it is the Zhili First Army or the Fengjun's Third Army on the ground, the soldiers all stood stupidly one by one.  In the trenches, some even stood outside the trenches, staring at the sky.  After the two sides had been fighting for more than a month, there was a very rare and brief sign of anger. This was not what officials wanted to see.  Of course, the one who felt most uncomfortable was Guo Songling. He planned to have his troops launch a counterattack before there were signs of victory in the air battle. However, his troops showed signs of being loose and loose, without the dignity before the war.  The atmosphere annoyed him greatly.  "Troublemaker, we have twenty-four planes, and the direct ones are also twenty-four. We can see some of them this time!" "Brigade, I'm afraid we will be evenly matched this time!" "Brothers, wave the flag.  Get up and cheer for the Air Force brothers!¡± ¡°Brothers, shout louder than Zhang Bandit¡¯s army!¡±¡­ Guo Songling¡¯s lips trembled with anger. What kind of counterattack could there be with this posture?  The air force in the sky was fighting fiercely, and every soldier on the ground raised his head like a silly roe deer and was enjoying himself at the festival. He wanted to grab a machine gun and beat these blind men. It was so embarrassing.  .  This is a battlefield, a war, be serious, okay?  Guo Songlin is a very sensitive person, even a little neurotic. His bad temper is basically because he cares about his surroundings beyond the scope of ordinary people.  For example, after Li Jinglin and Jiang Dengxuan gave him a few words, he angrily dismissed the troops of the six regiments assigned to him by Zhang Xueliang, which caused the dilemma of insufficient troops on the Eastern Front battlefield to persist.  Precisely because his heart is as fragile as sugar paintings in winter, he is extremely harsh on his subordinates and even his colleagues.  Guo Songlin has always had a sense of responsibility. The army he leads should be the most powerful elite in the Feng army, an invincible steel sword, and an invincible iron army But the reality is that his subordinates are sometimes mean.  The silly smile on their faces exposed their potential nature as a rabble.  No matter it is the later estimation of Fengjun¡¯s combat effectiveness or the several direct battles between Fengjun and Fengjun, Fengjun¡¯s combat effectiveness is not satisfactory.  Apart from the view of a small number of people that Fengjun is powerful, the combat effectiveness of Fengjun, which is one of the best equipped in the local army, is actually not strong. It can be said that it can only be regarded as average among the local armies.  On the contrary, the Northwest Army, which has the worst equipment, has always been incredibly powerful in combat.  Regardless of the fact that Fengjun used Japanese instructors, the Japanese Army devoted a lot of manpower and material resources to Fengjun's training, but the actual situation is that Fengjun is still a second-rate army.  Fengjun's embarrassing situation is from top to bottom. The soldiers are qualified, but the officers are unqualified. The officers are qualified, but the generals are unqualified. Together with the unreliable commander, Fengjun is destined not to go too far.  The short-term strength is the result of the accumulation of resources, not the real rise of Fengjun.  Whether it¡¯s internally or externally, Fengjun¡¯s record puts its huge troops and first-class equipment to shame.  Let¡¯s not talk about the period of the Anti-Japanese War. The Fengjun army has lost its backbone and has been reduced to a miscellaneous army. The equipment and supplies are of the lowest quality. Even the military pay is severely deducted from the logistics department of the Army Department. It is always disliked on the battlefield.  As cannon fodder and cover troops that dampen the enemy's spirit, they can't get any credit, but the casualties have always been high. This situation is also the result of helplessness and the Fengjun's difficulty in making achievements, which is foreseeable.  But clues to Fengjun¡¯s military strength can be seen in several battles during the period when Fengjun was at its strongest.  It looks huge, but its command is chaotic and its combat effectiveness is low.  Let¡¯s not talk about the battle on the Middle Road. It was a battle based on the young marshal¡¯s wishful thinking, and the ending was so tragic that he didn¡¯t even dare to watch it.  He was beaten black and blue by Lao Maozi, but he didn't reflect at all.  Of course, the opponent is too powerful, and the gap in strength is not much, but the commander of the Soviet army is Marshal Gallen. The previous record is that with a division of troops, he swept away more than 200,000 White Guards That was the Soviet God of War, one of the five marshals.  one.  To be honest, it is not a shame for Zhang Xueliang to lose to Marshal Gallen. The two are not commanders of the same level.  But during the Great War in the Central Plains, 50,000 elite soldiers besieged Fu Zuoyi's division.With the absolute superiority of military power and the indiscriminate bombing of the Air Force, it is unjustifiable that the battle lasted for three months and was not defeated.  What made Zhang Xueliang even more embarrassed was that Fu Zuoyi was trapped in Zhuozhou in a rush operation. In other words, Fu Zuoyi marched hundreds of miles from Shanxi and then suddenly launched an attack to knock down Zhuozhou in the hinterland of Fengjun.  It was like pulling out a tooth from a tiger's mouth and stuffing a stone into Fengjun's mouth.  Zhuozhou is also the gateway for Yanjing to enter the Central Plains. It is an important station on the Lu-Han Railway, which means that the logistics supply line has been cut off by Fu Zuoyi.  Fengjun had to mobilize heavy troops to conquer Zhuozhou and ensure the safety of his retreat. Zhang Xueliang gathered the elites he could use to launch a fierce attack on Zhuozhou, killing more than 10,000 people. The casualties were more than the defenders who trapped Fu Zuoyi, which lasted more than 3 months.  Yue, I didn't beat it down.  After this battle, Fengjun was even more humiliated and was thrown into his grandma's house, but Fu Zuoyi gained a reputation as "good at attacking and good at defending".  Guo Songling has always believed that the Third Army under his command was able to drive the main force of the Zhili Clique to exhaustion, indicating that Fengjun had surpassed the Zhili Clique in terms of combat effectiveness.  But in fact, this is just an illusion.  Part of it is the equipment gap between the two sides. Fengjun's equipment is better and more dominant than that of Zhili.  But the other part was also the result of Wu Peifu's deliberate indulgence, but Guo Songling took it seriously.  The battle in the sky has still begun, and there is no time to take care of the chaos on the ground.  The Fengjun Air Force in the triangular formation forcefully inserted into the formation of the Zhili Air Force. However, what surprised Feng Jun was that the Zhili Air Force did not seem to want to fight. The flying formation actually collapsed in the first wave of surprise attacks.  The direct planes formed pairs of two and began to spread out.  Fengjun's attack seemed like a ferocious hound pounced on a group of sparrows, and then the scene suddenly changed. The messy sparrows, which seemed to be fleeing in disorder, suddenly fled in all directions, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.  There was no trace, and the hound stood stupidly in the open space in a daze, not even catching a single bird feather in its beak.  For army operations, fighter planes are fleeting, but army operations, even in Europe, require infantry to fill the gap with their lives and two legs to charge.  But air force combat is another matter entirely. During the European War, fighter jets have reached speeds of more than 230 kilometers per hour. After the aircraft avoids possible risks in the sky, they will find a suitable altitude to dive and attack, and then dive again, and then  Attack The original speed, coupled with the acceleration of gravity, has already exceeded the speed limit.  If it weren't for the influence of materials and power, a battle of this intensity would be even more intense.  After Zhili aircraft took the lead in finding a backlight air combat field that suited them and took some of the initiative on the battlefield, the air combat began to change.  A Fengjun fighter jet that was the first to suffer losses started to smoke after catching fire in the air.  This scene was like heart-wrenching pain in the eyes of Zhang Xueliang, who was holding up his binoculars and not daring to slack off for a moment.  This batch of aircraft is hard-won. Although Fengjun can receive a large amount of foreign exchange every year, the budget for purchasing aircraft with this money is not large, and can only be a small part.  In addition, it is difficult for Fengjun to purchase aircraft from an air force power like the United Kingdom, so it can only settle for the next best thing and look for opportunities from France.  Because it is no longer realistic to continue to import aircraft from the Japanese, and the little Japanese are also very poor. It is enough to pretend to be generous. If you really want to treat the little Japanese as a scapegoat, the other party will not be stupid enough to be deceived.  The reason why the Kwantung Army has been so nice to Zhang Zuolin in the past two years is that they almost gave him whatever he asked for.  On the one hand, the profits of the South Manchuria Railway suddenly exceeded 50 million yen per year.  This money is undoubtedly a timely help for the Japanese government, which is almost dying of military expenditure; on the other hand, the Kwantung Army is seeking to extend the lease period of Lushun and Dalian and the Kanto Prefecture surrounding the South Manchuria Railway, but this treaty Zhang Zuolin  They didn't dare to sign it at all, and could only use the excuse that leasing territory could only be done with the intervention of the central government.  Because once he signs such a traitorous treaty, he will be known as a traitor. The sensitivity of territorial issues is what any politician attaches most importance to.  But if the Kwantung Army discovers that Zhang Zuolin is just a delaying tactic, and they will never be able to get the Kwantung State extension treaty from Zhang Zuolin, no matter how confident Zhang Zuolin is, he will have to consider the consequences of fighting the Japanese.  Coupled with Zhang Zuolin¡¯s original extreme distrust of the Russians, a large part of the main force of Fengjun needed to guard against the Russian troops in the Far East.  Be careful if the Russians attack at any time, you can resist them for a while.  Fengjun appears to be glorious on the surface, but actually he is in an embarrassing situation of living in the cracks. Only by entering the customs can this unfavorable situation in the geographical environment be completely alleviated.  Zhang Xueliang is the person who has the greatest sense of crisis, at least among the senior generals in the army, but he is not a particularly decisive person, and his response to crises is much worse than Zhang Zuolin.  So the result is a dilemma and suffering.    The air battle continued, and Zhang Xueliang never relaxed.  He even thought of another person, Wang Xueqian who was far away on the bank of the Yangtze River.  Did he also feel anxious at this time when he ordered an air strike against the British fleet?  He never lowered his solemn brows for a moment. Even though the Japanese pilots were very tough-talking, they almost said that I was the best in the world.  "Han Qing, how is the situation?" Guo Songling has a blank eye on air combat. He is quite familiar with air strikes and is very useful on the battlefield.  But air combat was unknown territory for him.  The only thing that can be seen is that Fengjun's plane seems to have been lost.  But it can¡¯t be seen clearly. Even through the perspective of a telescope, the progress of the air battle cannot be completely tracked.  Zhang Xueliang did not take off his binoculars at all, while staring nervously at the battlefield, explaining in a multi-faceted manner: "The situation is still unclear now. Our army has lost three aircraft, but Fengjun only has one aircraft." This kind of number  It was meaningless to Guo Songling and Zhang Xueliang, but Zhang Xueliang continued: "If the other party's pilot is a pilot of the Zhejiang Army, it would be difficult to say. The direct pilots are not as familiar with the use of Camel fighters as our pilots."  "Camel fighter?" Guo Songling was a little puzzled. Isn't this a British fighter?  Of course, Fengjun also had this type of fighter jet, a second-hand one obtained from the Japanese.  But a second-hand one is always better than nothing. Not only is it better than nothing, but in previous battles, Fengjun's aircraft were more powerful in attack power than those of the Zhili Air Force.  Zhang Xueliang continued: "The Zhejiang Army began to improve this kind of aircraft a year ago. According to the information obtained from Japan, the Zhejiang Army has mastered the manufacturing of this kind of fighter, especially the improvement technology of the aircraft structure that even the British coveted.  "You mean the plane Wu Peifu got is more advanced than ours?" Guo Songling felt nervous for a while. He always felt that he could knock Wu Peifu to the ground with just a tremor.  But this tremor always seemed to be only half a step away from me, just missing an opportunity.  The Air Force may be his last chance, but what he didn't expect was that the news he got from Zhang Xueliang was that Fengjun's Air Force might not be as good as the direct Air Force in terms of equipment.  What Zhang Xueliang did not say was that according to intelligence information, the Zhili Air Force had mobilized sixty or seventy Camel fighter jets, while Fengjun only had about forty.  Now that the losses are greater than the opponent's, how can this battle continue?  If it is compared with consumption, I am afraid that the direct air force will have the last laugh in the end.  On the battlefield, Fengjun's fighter jets took advantage of a wave of attacks from Zhili planes. Finally, they took a breath and the planes began to assemble towards the pre-arranged ambush location.  The direct planes were in hot pursuit, and the sporadic fighting did not stop.  Seeing that the opportunity was good, Zhang Xueliang felt more at ease. If the Fengjun Air Force collapsed in one battle and the Fengjun Air Force never recovered, his prestige would be shaken as never before.  Fortunately, the loss was a little bigger, but the initiative on the battlefield was still in his own hands.  Seeing that the Zhili aircraft was clinging on, a formation of fighter jets suddenly appeared on its flanks. Although the number was not large, the air combat position was so good. The Zhili aircraft happened to be facing the blind spot, facing the direction of the sun.  The ambush fighter jets of the army have entered the range and started the attack.  In the direct command post, Wu Peifu opened his eyes angrily and shouted angrily: "This old boy Zhang Zuolin is too insidious!"
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