Youdao is as separated as a mountain. Liu Zhian does not understand the pain of the Qin Air Force. At this moment, the Qin Air Force is almost unable to fight anymore.
On the one hand, it is because of the psychological disadvantages of pilots: most of the old Qin pilots were personally taught by Tang Army instructors, and they know very well how many pounds they have.
These Qin pilots also knew very well how good the Tang flight instructors who were ordered to return to China were after half a year. The two sides were not on the same level at all: the other side's pilots drank more fuel than these Qin pilots drank water.
Regardless of the fact that the Qin pilots were in the limelight during the Battle of Shu, they were all gained from the experience of abuse. When they really faced a powerful opponent, they had no choice but to retreat.
During World War II, many German ace pilots, including the famous world's number one ace pilot Hartmann, actually gained their records by completing dungeons on the Eastern Front.
Their level was much higher than that of Soviet pilots, so they could easily shoot down dozens or even hundreds of enemy planes.
When these German fighter ace pilots were transferred to the Western Front to fight against the British and American Air Forces, their records became much more real: many pilots had a record of more than a dozen or twenty aircraft, which is almost a true reflection of their record.
their level.
Of course, this also has something to do with the time of participation in the war, but the terrifying numerical gap also illustrates the problem. The truth is that the air combat on the Western Front is much more cruel than the Eastern Front.
From a professional point of view, the Eastern Front battlefield is mostly a pure air battle, and pilots are more focused on shooting down the opponent's fighter jets. This tests the pilot's flying skills and on-the-spot reactions.
The situation was different on the Western Front battlefield. The British and American combat mode was escort bombing, and German pilots had to focus a lot of their attention on intercepting bomber formations.
Facing British and American bombers with more than a dozen self-defense machine guns, the German fighter force could not guarantee its formation and was obviously at a disadvantage in terms of firepower, so its performance was naturally affected.
To put it bluntly, the air combat on the Western Front was more like a positional battle. Individual bravery and ability were insignificant in the face of an iron wall, so the results could not explain the problem.
The pilots of the Qin Army were somewhat caught up in this problem: when they participated in the war in Shu, they basically fought against opponents of similar level, which allowed them to quickly find their own rhythm.
Propeller fighter jets fight in the air, tumbling and entangled with each other in dog fights, and finally compete to find the winner - this kind of air battle is romantic and exciting, and Qin pilots never tire of it.
But now that they are at war with the Tang Army, the Tang Army's pilots' fighting style seems too barbaric and domineering. Relying on the performance advantages of their own fighter jets, the Tang Army pilots basically follow the path of wide open and close, coming and going like the wind, which makes Qin
The Chinese pilots were very uncomfortable with it.
With the support of air-to-air missiles, Tang pilots easily tore apart the Qin Air Force. Qin's elite jet fighters suffered heavy losses, and dozens of precious jet pilots were also killed.
Don't underestimate these dozens of people. These dozens of people are the "family assets" of the Qin Air Force. They are all ace pilots, and most of them can even be said to be instructors and seeds.
These people are the backbone of the army, and their experience, ability and even courage are first-rate. Losing these people is equivalent to saying that the army where these people belong has been stripped of its muscles and bones, and its combat effectiveness has suddenly fallen to the bottom.
To put it more seriously, these troops even lost their hematopoietic ability. After losing their most core pilots, they even had problems training new pilots.
The Qin Air Force was temporarily out of service, so the commanders of the Qin Air Force were no longer willing to waste their elite forces on the battlefield.
There is no way, when faced with air-to-air missiles, Qin pilots are often "killed" along with the aircraft without even having a chance to parachute.
These pilots have no way to return to the team, which means that they can no longer continue to play their role. The loss of more than 200 pilots in a month is simply unacceptable to Qin!
Although these losses came from the north, south, south, and south, they were all Qin Army pilots after all. Their being shot down also meant that the Qin Air Force lost part of its courage to continue taking off to fight.
The second reason why the Qin Air Force was unwilling to take off to join the war was that they had been severely weakened! Yes, a large number of their troops were mobilized and dispersed to new battlefields!
There was no way, because the Tang army's attack was too fast, so the Qin army had more and more fronts, and had no choice but to deploy the air force to support.
The Tang army suddenly broke through from the direction of Shanchong, so that entering Shu city was about to become the front line. The Qin army was afraid that the Tang army would attack Shu from the direction of entering Shu, so it had to deploy a huge force in the city of Shu.
In order to cover these forces, the Qin army assembled 100 Type 183 jet fighters, 200 P series fighters, dozens of Stukas and 17 bombers...
Naturally, so much power cannot be conjured out of thin air, and there is a shortage in other directions, so they are all transferred south from the direction of the old capital.
As a result, the Qin Air Force in the northern region was severely weakened compared to when the war began. Coupled with the losses in the battle and the aircraft and equipment abandoned during the retreat, the Qin Air Force here was not even what it was when the war broke out.
half!
Some of the aircraft of the Northern Air Force were withdrawn and returned to the Kingdom of Shu, because there was already a full shortage: on the one hand, the 6th Army of the Tang Army entered the Chu Territory, and Zhang Xuan's troops needed air force support; on the other hand, the combined fleet suffered a disastrous defeat
, the coastline of Shu needs strength to defend.
These two directions are not small problems, so the Qin army had to solve these problems: in the end, nearly 300 aircraft were taken away to Shu, and the remaining Qin Air Force was unable to fight anymore.
With these two reasons, it is understandable that the troops in the northern region of the Qin Air Force have repeatedly avoided fighting. Ying Duo also had to acquiesce to the approach of the air force commanders: he wanted the air force to continue to participate in the war.
But after the Air Force general gave him a reasonable explanation, he also understood the dilemma faced by the Air Force.
For the Air Force, pilots are even more valuable than aircraft. If precious pilots are wasted, subsequent operations will only fail more completely.
Ying Duo did not have the courage to fight against the future, and the air force commanders had no way to guarantee that they could defeat Mr. Tang Guo who had air-to-air missiles in the sky.
In order to restore the air force's hematopoietic ability and wait for the subsequent advanced fighter jets to join the frontline operations, the Qin Air Force could only passively avoid the war. However, their "endurance and humiliation" were viewed by the ground forces as a sign of betraying their teammates.
In the eyes of Qin's army, the backbone of the air force had been interrupted by the Tang people.
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I'm not in good condition today, so I'll do two updates for the time being, and I'll continue to make up for the remaining updates tomorrow.
