However, Chen Songyong immediately raised a series of questions after thinking about it.
"Captain, is this too dangerous?" Chen Songyong said: "First of all, it is not easy for our army to quickly and completely occupy the steel plant and airport. Secondly, even if it is successfully occupied, the steel plant and airport are at the forefront, and the Japanese can
It is used as an airport because our army does not have large-scale long-range artillery. But the Japanese have a large number of artillery. Then their artillery can blast directly to the airport, and there is no need to use 'human fire'!"
Wang Xuexin was quite satisfied with the questions raised by Chen Songyong. The fact that he could ask these questions proved that he had already inserted himself into this battle and would change roles.
Although fighting is not simple, it is not as difficult as imagined.
One of the most important points is to be able to immerse yourself in the battle. Sometimes you even have to imagine yourself as a Japs and use the Japs' equipment to "attack and defend" yourself.
Chen Songyong has obviously learned this.
But of course Wang Xuexin also considered what Chen Songyong thought of.
"First of all!" Wang Xuexin replied: "The Japs have indeed increased their troops and strengthened their defense around the steel plant. This is even a key defensive location for the Japs. There are at least two brigades of Japs stationed near it. It is not easy to capture it quickly.
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At this point, Wang Xuexin changed the topic and said: "But if our army has air superiority and adds two sharp knife battalions equipped with repeating rifles, do you think this is still a problem?"
Chen Songyong said nothing, because Wang Xuexin's plan is indeed feasible. The characteristic of a repeating rifle is that its short-term explosive power is very terrifying. Especially since the Japanese have never seen this kind of rifle, facing this kind of equipment for the first time is likely to cause panic.
Therefore, the two battalions led other troops to quickly break through the Japanese defense line and penetrate into the steel plant, and then occupied it before the Japanese could react... It was not impossible.
Once the steel plant is occupied, the "La-5" fighters will immediately have an airport to take off and land, so the "La-5" fighters can also be dispatched at the same time to compete with the Japanese for air supremacy over the steel plant.
At this time, the "La 5" fighter's combat radius and airborne time may have doubled in an instant.
Because "Pull 5" does not need to consider the fuel for return, it can consume the last bit of fuel and then directly land and replenish it at the steel plant airport, and then it can take off for combat again.
The problem is...
Chen Songyong said: "So, what about the problem of Japanese artillery and 'human-controlled high fire'? Once our military fighter planes take off and land at the steel factory airport, they will immediately be bombarded by the Japanese!"
Wang Xuexin replied: "At that time, the Japanese artillery and 'people with high fire' should not be to the east of the steel plant, but should have crossed the steel plant to the west!"
Chen Songyong was stunned for a moment, and then said "Oh": "The leader is talking about the Japanese attack after the spring begins!"
"That's right!" Wang Xuexin said: "At this time, the Japanese are stepping up their attacks on China, and the battle with the stubborn army is also in full swing. Because the Japanese are worried that their logistics supplies will be harassed by our army, they will definitely seize the opportunity to launch an attack on our army.
In the early stages of the battle, our army adopted the tactic of luring the enemy deeper and first moved the front line thirty to fifty kilometers to the west."
Chen Songyong's eyes lit up, and he added: "If our army's front line moves thirty or fifty kilometers to the west, the Japanese will move the artillery and 'people with high fire' ten or twenty kilometers to the west, and then they will cross the steel
factory!"
Zhang Zongping interjected at this time: "After crossing the steel plant, isn't it still near the steel plant?"
Chen Songyong explained on his behalf: "This is very different. First of all, the Japanese artillery is exposed to our army's intelligence unit, and our army can attack with purpose and targets. Secondly, 'people use high fire' is
There is a launch direction. If the Japs launcher is pointing to the west, then for a while and a half
It will be difficult to change to the east, that is, launch in the opposite direction! Even if it can be launched reluctantly, the Japanese's "Human High Fire" must be launched to the west. After the acceleration is stable, it will make a big turn in the air and return to the steel plant.
Bombing, this will give our fighter planes sufficient warning time and interception time!"
What Chen Songyong said is what Wang Xuexin considered.
If the "man-made high fire" is in the east, that is, the launcher is pointed at the steel plant, then this thing can hit the steel plant airport almost as soon as it is launched, and there will be no time to stop it.
But if you cross the steel plant, it's different.
Even if the Japanese changed the direction of the launcher, it would only be a few hours later. By then, the Eighth Route Army's ground troops would have already reached their base.
Only then did Zhang Zongping understand Wang Xuexin's considerations, and he sighed in admiration: "Captain, after much thought, we never thought that we would directly use the Japanese airport. You did a good job of occupying it with the Nestle Dove!"
"What Nestlé Jiuzhan?" Wang Xuexin replied without thinking: "This is our territory originally!"
"Yes!" Zhang Zongping immediately realized that there was something wrong with his words.
However, Zhang Zongping also thought of a question: "Commander, even if our army can occupy the steel factory airport and seize the Japanese fuel and ammunition...but the ammunition used by the Japanese is different from the ammunition of our fighter planes, right?"
Wang Xuexin nodded and said: "It's indeed different. We use machine guns, and the Japanese use 7.7MM aviation machine guns!"
But this is not a problem.
Wang Xuexin then said: "Captain Yu has reacted before, our 'La 5' should be more suitable for using machine guns instead of cannons, so we just changed the cannons at this time!"
This is the conclusion Yu Ping came to in actual combat before.
The reason is that although the cannon is powerful, it has a slow rate of fire, so it is suitable for dealing with armored targets... It is powerful enough to penetrate armor and cause as much damage to the target as possible. It is very suitable for Mao Xiong to use against Hans' BF109.
But the goal of the Eighth Route Army is a "zero battle" with almost no armor. The lethality of machine guns is no different from that of machine guns. It can even be said that machine guns are more lethal because they can penetrate it anyway, and machine guns can penetrate it at the same time.
More bullets can be fired to cause greater damage to the target.
Previously, I didn’t have much time to replace it because of the need for combat, and I was also worried that the pilots would not adapt, so I didn’t replace it. Now I just have this time to complete it.
But Zhang Zongping was surprised again: "Commander, are the aviation machine guns used by the Japanese different from the ones we use?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "The Japs use the Type 97 aviation machine gun. We can also use this machine gun temporarily. Then there will be no problem in ammunition supply!"
At this moment, Chen and Zhang were stunned.
The Type 97 machine gun may have been captured, but the Type 97 aviation machine gun... where could the Eighth Route Army find it?
Wang Xuexin was not worried about this at all, because he knew that the Japanese aviation machine guns were all imitations of British ones.