Chapter 1559 Okabe missed the opportunity to fight
Author: Expeditionary Soldier
It takes time for pilots to train and adapt. After all, they will enter another air combat mode from now on, including captain Yu Ping.
However, Wang Xuexin believes that all this is worthwhile. The revolution in equipment and tactics can never be easily successful. The process will be full of difficulties and controversies, but once it succeeds, it is likely to achieve huge results.
With the air-to-air missiles all arranged, Wang Xuexin dared to turn his attention to anti-ship missiles.
Compared with air-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles are much simpler, especially TV-guided anti-ship missiles.
This is mainly because the "High Fire" thing is large in size and has a lot of room for improvement... This thing is just a small plane, and more than half of the space is used to hold explosives and fuel. It's no problem to stuff anything into it, at most.
Just reduce the gunpowder a bit.
Therefore, the camera imported from Yingjiang can be directly installed without modification. It only needs to add an antenna for wireless data transmission.
On the other hand, a TV for receiving signals is added to the fighter plane, as well as a set of control devices that can control the flight of the missile.
Both of these things are not big. Although the space in the cabin is limited, it can still be used with ease after removing the nose machine gun.
The problem is that the definition of TVs in this era is not very good. They are black and white and full of snowflakes, and there are interference ripples from time to time... This is inevitable. The reason why modern TVs can achieve such high definition is because they use cables to transmit signals.
, the signal is not lost and is not subject to external interference, so wireless transmission signals will inevitably have clarity problems.
However, this does not seem to be a big problem, because the target is a warship, and it is still parked on the sea. Even if the image is blurred and there are ripples, it is not difficult to hit such a big thing.
Although TV guidance technology has many shortcomings, it still exists even in modern times.
The reason is that there are some special situations on the battlefield that require someone to direct the missile to hit the target.
For example, a mission of Eagle Sauce is as follows: it first needs to blast a hole in the target fortress, and then the missile will immediately penetrate through the hole to bomb its interior.
At this time, TV guidance has to be used, because the hole was not there a second ago, and the missile in flight cannot target this hole at all.
The TV guidance entered the test phase in the third week and achieved complete success: two "high-fire" missiles, controlled by fighter planes, successfully hit a fishing boat that was used as a target boat in the river.
But of course, the reason why it was able to hit the target so smoothly was because the pilot had done countless simulation trainings before.
At this time, Wang Xuexin was half relieved: with anti-ship missiles, it would be possible to attack Fengtian.
Laser-guided anti-ship missiles will be more complicated, but you can take it slow and there is no rush for the time being.
Just when Wang Xuexin was pleased with the progress, Zhang Zongping stepped forward and reported: "Captain, according to the telegram from the headquarters, the Japanese have secretly flown the first batch of at least thirty BF109s to Chengde Airport!"
These Japanese fighter jets flew from North Korea to Chengde at night... Although the BF109 is fast, it also has the shortcoming of short range like the "La 5". Its maximum range is only 900 kilometers.
If it is a "Zero Fighter" or "Feiyan" fighter, it can reach its destination directly from the Japanese mainland, but the BF109 needs to refuel midway.
Wang Xuexin frowned, although this was an accident...if the Japanese had a trump card, they would certainly not give the Eighth Route Army too much time to prepare.
But now that the air-to-air missiles have not yet taken shape, the Eighth Route Army is still unable to fight against the Japanese!
In addition, why is BF109 flying to Chengde?
Wang Xuexin turned his attention to the map and quickly understood...the Japanese wanted to block the supply lines of the Eighth Route Army and surround the Eighth Route Army in Duolun County and Chifeng.
Wang Xuexin felt a little lucky when he thought of this.
Wang Xuexin is happy for two things:
First, discuss with Mao Xiong in advance to let them provide supplies, otherwise the supply line will be completely cut off by the Japanese.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army had gathered more than 70,000 people in Duolun County and the Chifeng area. The supplies needed for such a large force were not small.
Once the supply line is cut off, the Eighth Route Army will once again face the dilemma of starvation and even have to withdraw its troops... It is impossible for the troops to starve to death if the supplies cannot keep up. The best way is to withdraw the troops to reduce the supply pressure.
But now, supplies come from the wooly bears to the west.
Moreover, Mao Xiong and the Japanese had a non-aggression contract, and the Japanese could not bomb Mao Xiong, so at most they could only implement a blockade in the areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army, but the strength of the blockade would obviously be much smaller.
Another good thing was that the Japanese planned to use BF109 to block the Eighth Route Army's supply lines instead of attacking Chifeng directly.
There is still a difference between the two.
If fighter planes are used to block the supply line, the fighter planes are not used to compete for air supremacy, and the Eighth Route Army can still slow down.
There is a problem: the Japanese may attack the Eighth Route Army's airport and wipe out the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes on the ground.
But the Eighth Route Army has an air defense system, which can protect the security of the airport.
Wang Xuexin believed that Naosaburo Okabe thought the same way: the Eighth Route Army had an air defense system, so it could not directly attack Chifeng and Duolun County.
To be precise, it's not "can't", but it's difficult to directly attack the city.
The reason why Okabe Naosaburo was confident was because he had some experience in dealing with the stubborn army's air defense system.
Naosaburo Okabe believed that he could repeat the same trick, that is, first use a few fighter planes to lure out the location of the enemy's air defense system, and then use the main force to launch a surprise attack on the air defense system.
But of course, Naosaburo Okabe also knew very well that the Eighth Route Army's air defense system was probably different from that of the recalcitrant army... The Eighth Route Army was the inventor of the air defense system, and the air defense system they had was probably more advanced and had more anti-aircraft missiles.
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Therefore, this tactic will be very difficult to implement and will result in considerable casualties.
After comprehensive consideration, Naosaburo Okabe believed that it was best to avoid the air defense system in the city and draw the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes out of the air defense range of the air defense system.
This is also the reason why Naosaburo Okabe planned to blockade the Eighth Route Army instead of going to war directly.
What Naosaburo Okabe didn't know was that his idea gave the Eighth Route Army time to develop air-to-air missiles.
If Naosaburo Okabe directly attacks Chifeng or Duolun County after possessing BF109, maybe the Eighth Route Army will be defeated by it.
After all, the Japs' tactics are indeed effective. Although the air defense system can use missiles to defeat enemies outside the range, it itself is very fragile. Once the Japs know the location and bombard it with fighter planes or artillery fire, it will fail due to malfunctions in a few hits.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army Air Force will have to face the full-scale attack of BF109.
But now... Wang Xuexin believes that the Eighth Route Army still has at least two weeks!