Major Yuki Matsuoka is the captain of the 5th Air Force. He has long believed that the 5th Air Force should attack.
The reason is that the Eighth Route Army has very limited air superiority in the direction of Jinzhou... The Eighth Route Army adopts the tactic of advancing all the way and building airports to extend forward.
This is necessary. Mechanized troops must have air superiority, otherwise the Eighth Route Army's half-tracks will be targets for imperial fighter planes.
But the Eighth Route Army's airport is now only built as far as Yingkou, which is still two hundred kilometers away from Jinzhou.
Although the "La 5" has a combat radius of 300 kilometers and can barely provide air cover for Jinzhou, as long as the empire's "Zero War" and "Feiyan" harass it from several directions, its steps will soon be disrupted.
This makes it impossible for the Eighth Route Army aviation to take care of both ends.
However, Shizue Sasaki seemed to be frightened by the last air battle in Duolun County, and he never dared to let the air force attack.
The fact was not what Matsuoka Yuki imagined. The main reason why Sasaki Shizue did not send out an air force to compete with the Eighth Route Army for air supremacy was that he hoped to gather all his forces at the moment of the major counterattack.
There is nothing wrong with this idea.
Because from a strategic point of view, if the counterattack can succeed, all the Eighth Route Army that penetrates deep into the areas controlled by the imperial army will be surrounded and annihilated, even the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" fighter planes will be no exception.
In this regard, Sasaki Shizue even formulated a combat plan to prevent the Eighth Route Army from "pull 5" to escape:
Sasaki Shizue noticed that the Eighth Route Army built an airport every two hundred kilometers or so for the "La 5" to dock.
Then, as long as one or two links are eliminated in the "airport chain" built by the Eighth Route Army, then the "Zero War" and "Feiyan" will be sent to launch a fatal blow at the end of its route... The Eighth Route Army "pull 5
"The whole army will be wiped out due to lack of fuel.
Therefore, since these "La 5" can be easily eliminated during the major counterattack stage, why should the Imperial Air Force pay a huge price to compete with the Eighth Route Army's aviation for air supremacy? Especially the Eighth Route Army's aviation has terrible air-to-air missiles, "Zero War"
" and "Feiyan" are basically no match for it.
Shizue Sasaki was thinking from a strategic direction, while Major Yuki Matsuoka was thinking from a tactical direction, so they didn't want to go together.
However, now because of Wang Xuexin's plan, the Eighth Route Army did not encircle Fengtian as usual, but suddenly turned to Dalian after capturing Yingkou, thus disrupting the Japanese's overall plan.
Major Yuki Matsuoka believed that although the Eighth Route Army had air superiority at this time, the range and speed of the "La 5" were always its shortcomings, and Jinzhou was the limit area of its combat radius.
Therefore, as early as the Eighth Route Army attacked the Jinzhou defense line, all air forces, including the 5th Air Force, would rush to the rescue.
But Yuki Matsuoka also knows that this battle will not be easy.
After taking off, Yuki Matsuoka was able to say to his subordinates over the radio: "We don't need to worry about the enemy's fighter planes, because our speed is faster than them, unless you go straight to them like fools after discovering them!"
The subordinates burst into laughter.
Yuki Matsuoka is right, the BF109 has a speed 60 kilometers per hour faster than the "La 5".
This speed doesn't seem like much, just one kilometer per minute.
But it was enough for the skilled Imperial pilots to bypass the enemy "La 5" coming to intercept it.
Especially the destination is Jinzhou... The "La-5" of the Eighth Route Army that took off from Yingkou has consumed nearly half of its fuel when flying to Jinzhou. They can only chase BF109 for 10 minutes at most, and then have to return, otherwise they will
You have to make an emergency landing on the sea or a road due to lack of fuel.
As pilots, they all understand this and have simulated it in their minds several times.
But Matsuoka Yuki reminded them again: "But don't feel comfortable because of this, think about the Eighth Route Army's air defense system!"
This time the subordinates were silent.
Indeed, the only thing BF109 needs to worry about is the Eighth Route Army's air defense system.
But after a while, the deputy captain said: "Your Majesty, Major, even if the Eighth Route Army solves the field problem of the air defense system, it will still be difficult to shoot us down in such a short period of time!"
The deputy captain was talking about the conclusions reached by superiors and military researchers. They believed that the air defense system was extremely unstable and would have many failures in the field. In addition, its range was only 10 kilometers, making it difficult to destroy the BF109 during its dive.
Therefore, all BF109 needs is to dive at full speed, and then lift up after hitting the target.
However, Matsuoka Yuki had an ominous feeling.
"Do you believe what the researcher said?" Matsuoka Yuki replied: "If you believe it, then what sunk our warship?"
The subordinates fell silent again.
Matsuoka Yuki did not want to disturb the morale of the army before the war, but he believed that he still needed to make this issue clear.
Because, if the Eighth Route Army really upgrades their air defense system, the aviation force will not be unprepared!
"They should send bombers to do some bombing!" Yuki Matsuoka complained: "Or let fighter jets do a few probing attacks, that way we can ensure our safety, but they did nothing!"
Yuki Matsuoka knew that Shizue Sasaki had messed up his position, or he thought that all the fighters would die except BF109 when they took off, so he put all the danger on BF109.
"Enemy plane!" The deputy captain shouted at this time.
Matsuoka Yuki turned around and saw that a group of "Pull 5" figures did appear on the left wing.
However, Matsuoka Yuki didn't take them seriously. He calmly ordered: "Leave them alone! Disband the formation and move towards the destination, Jinzhou!"
"yes!"
The air force dispersed in groups of two and flew towards Jinzhou at full speed.
If the mission is to perform an air combat, then the BF109s must be gathered together so that they will not be defeated individually by the enemy.
But if the mission is to destroy enemy tanks and half-tracks, gathering together is unnecessary and will become an excellent target for enemy air-to-air missiles.
A few minutes later, the fleet flew to its destination. Yuki Matsuoka could see the fierce battlefield from afar... At this time, the ground troops launched another attack on the Eighth Route Army's defense line, and the scale was quite large.
This is actually another way to tell the Air Force the location of the Eighth Route Army tanks and half-tracks, because they are constantly spitting tongues of fire at the charging Imperial army.
Matsuoka Yuki did not rush down immediately. He wanted to verify his guess whether the Eighth Route Army's air defense system had been successfully upgraded!
Then he knew that his guess was correct, because he saw several terrifying anti-aircraft missiles trailing behind a diving BF109 at an alarming speed, and then the BF109 disintegrated in the air with a "boom"
Already.
"Air defense missiles!" The other subordinates shouted in horror: "The Eighth Route Army's air defense system is waiting for us!"
The vice-captain also added in a trembling voice: "Moreover, its range seems to have been increased!"