The problem with anti-aircraft guns is that they are too few in number or too passive.
Aircraft are high-speed moving objects and can choose the battlefield at will, but anti-aircraft guns are very difficult to maneuver. This determines that aircraft are the main attack and anti-aircraft guns are the main defense.
According to the principle of "offense is greater than defense" mentioned before, the defending side needs ten times or even a hundred times the force if it wants to defend the enemy.
For example, the Eighth Route Army deployed anti-aircraft guns in Yuncheng, but Japanese tanks penetrated from the flanks...
At that time, the Eighth Route Army tanks will immediately rush to the flanks to fight, so the Japanese fighter planes will appear over the flanks to bomb the Eighth Route Army instead of over Yuncheng, so the anti-aircraft gun positions in Yuncheng will become useless decorations.
If you really want to defend it, you must have anti-aircraft guns all along the Yuncheng front line. No matter where the Japanese break through, the Eighth Route Army tanks will be covered by anti-aircraft guns.
However, in this case, even thousands of anti-aircraft guns would not be enough, and the Eighth Route Army only had a pitiful ten.
Another problem with anti-aircraft guns is that they have a low probability of shooting down enemy aircraft.
In this era, there is a problem of height determination when using anti-aircraft guns...
This aspect is very easy for anti-surface artillery, because the anti-surface artillery will fall to the ground no matter what, so you only need to install the impact fuse, and the fuse will explode as soon as it hits the ground.
The shells fired by anti-aircraft guns basically do not directly hit the enemy aircraft. They explode near the enemy aircraft, injure them with shrapnel or shock waves, and shoot down the enemy aircraft.
This raises a question: Enemy planes sometimes fly high and sometimes low. At what height should the anti-aircraft gun shells explode?
It cannot damage the target if it is too low or too high, and it is only possible to destroy it if it is at a similar height to the target.
Therefore, anti-aircraft gun shells are actually equipped with delay fuzes. The explosion time is temporarily adjusted before launch, and then fired as quickly as possible.
Obviously, the efficiency of this is very low. Unless the target aircraft always maintains a certain flying altitude, hitting the target basically depends on saturation attack or luck. This can only be achieved if the gunner has considerable combat experience.
The reason why the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft artillery was able to successfully shoot down several 98 light explosions in the past was largely because the Japanese thought that the Eighth Route Army had no anti-aircraft firepower and did not even consider changing the flight altitude during the flight.
Anti-aircraft machine guns are even more powerless. If the enemy aircraft does not carry out low-altitude bombing, it will not pose a threat to it at all.
After thinking about it, Wang Xuexin used the radio to contact Skinner, who was still in the third store.
"Perhaps I should tell Sun Erwei this!" Wang Xuexin said: "But I think it is more appropriate for you to tell me that we need more anti-aircraft firepower..."
Wang Xuexin's first consideration was anti-aircraft firepower rather than aircraft, because without a certain number of aircraft flying into the air to fight the Japanese, it would basically be courting death.
However, Skinner immediately interrupted Wang Xuexin: "Sorry, Wang, I just received an order. Except for rocket launchers, we can no longer have any technical exchanges or equipment transactions with you!"
"What?" Wang Xuexin asked, "Why?"
"I don't know the specific situation!" Skinner said helplessly: "But this is an order from a superior, I can only obey it!"
After a pause, Skinner added: "Wang, maybe you can contact Sun Erwei, he may know more!"
In fact, Wang Xuexin understands the reason.
Sun Erwei had reminded him before that Yingjiang did not want to anger the Japanese, which was why Wang Xuexin contacted Skinner instead of Sun Erwei.
In desperation, Wang Xuexin could only ask someone to contact Sun Erwei.
As expected, Sun Erwei soon gave a reply: "Wang, one of the conditions for the Japanese to reach an 'understanding' is that we can no longer have any transactions with the Eighth Route Army! We withstood a lot of pressure not to
The team in Chennai withdraws!”
Wang Xuexin was speechless. It seemed that the Japanese had taken the initiative in diplomacy.
This move of the Japs was very clever. He was using some kind of "peace" that was taken for granted to threaten Yingjiang, and the same was true for Sun Never Set.
For example, the enemy threatens naked people until the sun sets:
1. Close the Burma Highway.
Second, close Hong Kong.
3. The Sun Never Sets army retreated from the Chinese Concession.
The Japanese must respect the demands of the Japanese until the sun sets, otherwise the Japanese will be forced to take action against the colonies in Southeast Asia...
In order to avoid the outbreak of war, the sun never set, so they followed all the measures one by one. The most important one was to close the Burma Highway.
Yingjiang's behavior at this time was similar to that of the sun never setting. In order to prevent the Japanese from pointing the finger at Yingjiang, he made various compromises.
From the perspective of national interests, what Yingjiang and the Sun Never Set seems to be correct. They are sacrificing China's interests to protect their own interests... The problem is that they openly say they are against aggression, war, etc., but secretly they are
Supporting the invaders in various ways and finding various excuses for this.
On the other hand, they did not realize that they were seeking skin from a tiger. It was impossible for the Japanese to really stop attacking as they imagined because they had made a compromise.
In fact, in the final analysis, it was the Japanese who were unwilling to fight an equal war with the Chinese army.
So what if there is an oil embargo?
The Chinese army was under a more severe blockade, and its equipment was far different from that of the Japanese.
Even if there is an oil embargo, the Japanese equipment still has an absolute advantage.
What's more, the oil embargo in Eagle Sauce was only official, and private companies were still transporting oil to the Japanese until the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wang Xuexin didn't say anything else, but just replied: "You will change this nonsense policy soon!"
After ending the call, Wang Xuexin looked at the date and found that it had just entered August.
Wang Xuexin was a little frustrated.
Because he remembered that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was in early December, which meant that there were still four months before the Japanese and Yingjiang broke up.
These four months seemed to be enough time for the Japanese to capture Yuncheng and then surround Zhongtiao Mountain.
By then, even if Yingjiang realizes that the war is inevitable and fully supports the Eighth Route Army, will Zhongtiao Mountain be unable to recover?
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw Wang Songyong staring at a telegram with his mouth open, and then reported: "Batalion Commander, the fight... is about to start!"
"What started a fight?" Wang Xuexin was a little surprised.
If the Japanese had begun to attack Yuncheng, they would have heard the sound of gunshots and cannons in Luotuoling, but now it was quiet.
"Ghost... Japs!" Wang Songyong's face turned red with excitement and he even stuttered a little: "The Japs... and Yingjiang are fighting!"
"What?" Everyone in the command center unanimously cast doubtful glances at Wang Songyong. They all suspected that they heard wrongly.