Wang Xuexin reported the matter of the plane to Li Yunlong, but Li Yunlong was so happy that he drooled: "I said 30 planes in Xiaodongbei, just 30 planes. Let's not think about becoming a big fat man in one go. We have to walk step by step."
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What Li Yunlong is thinking about is actually not the number of planes, but his habit of converting them into money...
He continued: "I heard that this plane is worth 45,000 US dollars? Those 30 planes are more than one million US dollars. It's better than nothing, don't you think so?"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin frowned and said, "This is not a matter of taking steps, but a matter of whether there is a way to organize it!"
"How do you say it?" Li Yunlong asked.
Wang Xuexin handed Li Yunlong a document, which was the performance data of Hawk 81 given by Sun Erwei.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang watched together for a long time but didn't see anything interesting.
Zhao Gang raised his head towards the document and asked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, is there any knowledge in this? Tell us about it!"
Wang Xuexin took the pen and paper and said while drawing: "Commissar, look, this is our airport. We don't have a radar yet. In addition, the external highway has been blocked by the Japanese. The radar cannot be transported in for a while.
.This puts our airport in danger because we don’t know when the Japanese planes will come to bomb our airport. The planes parked there are like lice on a bald man’s head. Aren’t they the targets of the Japanese planes?”
Li Yunlong was a little disapproving: "Isn't the airport in your plan a hundred kilometers away from here? How can we know if a Japanese plane is flying over our heads?"
One hundred kilometers is the estimate made by Wang Xuexin. The aircraft is used to protect the air security in the Yuncheng area and cooperate with the tank troops. If the distance is too far, it will not be able to arrive in time, which will affect the combat efficiency. If the distance is too close, it will be unsafe.
Easily attacked by Japanese soldiers.
"Captain, let's do the math." Wang Xuexin said and did the math on the paper: "We definitely know that the Japanese plane flew over our heads, and then sent a telegram to inform the airport. It will take a few minutes anyway.
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Li Yunlong nodded in agreement.
Telegrams need to be encrypted. Although a skilled telegraph operator can generate the telegram code in seconds and send it out immediately, the process of issuing orders, sending, receiving, decoding, etc. is indispensable. It can take at least two or three minutes, and this is still
Under normal conditions for both parties... once one party is bombarded by the Japanese or has any accidents, the time will be extended.
Wang Xuexin continued: "After receiving the information at the airport, the pilot immediately ran to the plane and made an emergency takeoff. It took ten minutes anyway, right?"
Li Yunlong was not very clear about this, but if you think about it, ten minutes would pass by in the blink of an eye, and there are only two, three, or thirty planes flying together at the airport. It would only take ten minutes for the first batch to take off.
Wang Xuexin continued: "If the enemy's plane travels at 500 kilometers per hour, it will be 108 kilometers per hour in 13 minutes! In other words, before our plane has time to take off, the Japanese plane has already flown over the airport and dropped bombs!"
Li Yunlong said "Oh" and suddenly realized, nodded and said: "So that's what happened, damn it, I thought it was a hundred kilometers away, enough for our plane to prepare, but I didn't expect that it only takes ten minutes for the plane
Son!"
Zhao Gang also sighed: "I have no experience in using aircraft, so I really didn't know it was so famous. This is completely different from our usual way of fighting! It is a new knowledge!"
Then Zhao Gang asked again: "So, Comrade Wang Xuexin, how should we solve this problem?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "The first is to move the airport further back, for example to a location two hundred kilometers away from Yuncheng, so that there can be more warning time. But in this way... our military aircraft will not be able to fly over Yuncheng.
It will take twenty minutes. In these twenty minutes, the Japanese will probably have finished their bombing and returned home. Although some tactics can be used to make up for it, the cost is likely to be unbearable by our army."
The tactics are actually very simple, that is, when the Eighth Route Army tanks are about to be dispatched, fighter planes are sent into the air in advance to prepare for the battle.
This requires Yingjiang. Doing this is not a problem at all. Yingjiang should even have air cover at all times, otherwise its combat plan will be considered flawed.
But the Eighth Route Army could not afford it...
The Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army had fighter planes flying in the sky, but they avoided fighting?
Are the fighter planes just spinning aimlessly in the sky?
Not to mention wasting fuel, the life of the engine and the energy of the pilots are also being continuously consumed. Then the Japanese estimate that these fighter jets have almost consumed the fuel. If they attack again at this time, will the Eighth Route Army respond to the battle or return?
Therefore, the long distance and small number will make the fighter planes completely passive in air combat.
This problem can be solved by increasing the number. For example, 100 sorties can be flown into three batches. Several batches will take turns to fly for air cover, and some remaining ones can be used as emergency backup.
After Wang Xuexin explained this, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang also thought that the distance was too far and it didn't mean much.
Zhao Gang asked: "What about another method?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "Another method is to regularly patrol the fighter planes. For example, sending two teams of fighter planes to patrol in different directions every hour or half an hour and remain vigilant at all times. Once intelligence of an enemy attack is received, these fighter planes in the air can immediately
To intercept the Japanese bombers at once, this will not only attack the actual strength of the Japanese aircraft, but also interfere with them, buying time for our main force to take off."
"This method is good!" Zhao Gang nodded and said, "It is more proactive than the previous long-distance combat."
Li Yunlong saw the problem and said to Wang Xuexin: "But in this case, 30 planes will not be enough, right?"
Li Yunlong is worthy of being a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield all year round. He can say this because he really understands this method of combat. On the other hand, Zhao Gang's understanding is more superficial and academic.
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin casually scratched out some data on the document and said: "The Yingjiang supports our fighter planes. Its maximum airborne time is about two hours, but we cannot calculate the patrol time based on the maximum airborne time. Because the fighter planes are half-fuelled.
Patrolling in the air is very dangerous, and even if there is danger, they cannot go into combat. Another reason is that a two-hour patrol is a huge test for the pilot's physical strength and energy. Therefore, we can only calculate it in one hour."
Finally, Wang Xuexin came to the conclusion: "If there are 12 hours during the day, we need to have six batches of patrols, each batch of 4 aircraft, which means that just for patrol missions, 24 or 30 aircraft will be dispatched every day..."
Then Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang understood that it was best for these 30 aircraft not to malfunction or be shot down, otherwise even normal patrols would not be completed.