Although he had reason to believe that the enemy was not equipped with radar... after all, the Eighth Route Army had never had planes before, and the recalcitrant aviation force had been beaten to the point of losing their temper. It seemed like a redundant move for the Japanese to equip radar.
But Major Doug, who came from World War I, knows one thing: Never place your hopes on the enemy's stupidity on the battlefield, otherwise you will be the one who suffers.
For example, this time, what if the Japanese are equipped with radar?
What if the enemy commander urgently transfers radar from other places in order to deal with the newly equipped Hawk 81 of the Eighth Route Army?
Then it will be another situation:
As soon as the Hawker 81 takes off from the airport, it is likely to be detected by the enemy's radar, and then the enemy's patrol fighter planes will immediately rush to fight. At the same time, batch after batch of fighter planes scramble to intercept.
At other times, Major Doug wouldn't be too worried.
Because although the performance of the Hawker 81 is not outstanding, the opponent is also using the Type 97 ship warfare with backward performance instead of the "Zero" type, so the Hawker 81 has a chance to win.
But if each Hawker 81 carries dozens of rockets, and these rockets are still hung on thick slide rails, then the situation will be different. Fighting such an air battle is simply suicide.
Wang Xuexin did not answer directly, but took the two of them to Principal Tang's wooden desk, took out the crumpled handwritten map from his pocket and spread it on the table.
Major Doug glanced at the map and frowned. He immediately took out a map from his pocket and spread it out: "Use mine!"
Wang Xuexin took a look and realized what a damn good thing. The printed characters and location names were even more detailed than those used by Wang Xuexin. They were also made of waterproof kraft paper (the kraft paper itself was not waterproof, but Yingjiang was worried about the map getting damp on the battlefield, so he would spray paint on the kraft paper.
Silicone oil, gel, etc. make it waterproof).
Yingjiang is so generous that he can make a map like this. Wang Xuexin smiled "hehe" and put away his almost torn map in embarrassment.
After calming down, Wang Xuexin pointed to Linfen Airport and said: "Our military airport is about two hundred kilometers away from the target. We can assume that the enemy has radar, and the radar is deployed near Linfen rather than in the mountains!"
As he spoke, Wang Xuexin turned his attention to Major Doug.
Major Doug nodded in agreement.
This assumption is very reasonable. Even if there are radars, there are not many Japs. In addition, the mountainous area is under the control of the Eighth Route Army. The possibility of the Japs deploying radars high in the mountainous areas is very slim.
The next second, Major Doug understood what Wang Xuexin meant: "You mean, we use the cover of the Luliang Mountains to avoid enemy radar?"
Wang Xuexin nodded and asked: "If we keep flying at a low altitude after taking off, then go north along the Luliang Mountains to approach Linfen, and then suddenly climb higher than the Luliang Mountains... can we avoid radar detection? Or, in other words, when we arrive, we can avoid radar detection.
By the time the enemy discovered us, it was already too late to react!"
Major Doug looked at Wang Xuexin unexpectedly. He couldn't believe that the Chinese battalion commander in front of him was an infantryman who knew nothing about air combat. You must know that radar is a high technology, and ordinary people don't even know how it works. And this
The Chinese battalion commander can reasonably formulate tactics to avoid radar.
However, he was confused, so Major Doug nodded and said, "Yes, but...it is impossible for the enemy to monitor our airport with only radar!"
With that, Major Doug pointed to the location of Wanxian Airport and said: "If I were an enemy and knew that the radar would be blocked by Luliang Mountain, I would arrange a reconnaissance plane to monitor Wanxian Airport to the west of Luliang Mountain. I even believe it.
, there are several reconnaissance planes above us at this time! Once our fighter planes take off, the enemy will know the situation immediately!"
This analysis was reasonable and reasonable. Wang Xuexin secretly thought that there was indeed something in this guy's stomach. He was worthy of coming off the battlefield.
But Wang Xuexin also considered this, and he continued: "You are right, Major! But... do you think these reconnaissance opportunities can be used for reconnaissance at night?"
"What do you mean?" Major Doug asked back: "Although they cannot conduct reconnaissance at night, our aircraft are also unable to fight at night!"
To be precise, night reconnaissance can be done.
There was no problem for aircrafts in this era to fly at night. For example, on the hump route established by Yingjiang, most of its fighter jets and transport aircraft flew at night (flying during the day would be intercepted by Japanese fighter jets).
However, this situation is a bit special. The white snow on Mount Everest reflects the moonlight and has a certain degree of visibility. It is just enough to fly but it is difficult to carry out high-speed air combat and shoot down the target... If the Japanese fighter jets are forced to fight in this environment, it will easily be because of
The fighter plane was too fast and had poor visibility, so it crashed into a mountain.
The Japanese reconnaissance planes do not have this problem. They only need to maintain a certain altitude and hover over Wanxian Airport.
The problem is that at night it's pitch dark below and the Japanese pilots can't see anything, so there's not much reconnaissance significance.
However, this situation also exists for Hawker 81: Hawker 81 can take off, fly to Linfen Airport, and even complete the action of advancing along Luliang Mountain, although this is a bit risky.
but……
They could not detect the target, that is, they could not see Linfen Airport at night.
If they can't even see the target, where should they fire the rockets?
Wang Xuexin explained calmly: "We only need to do one thing, and that is to grasp the time and take off before dawn. When you fly over the Luliang Mountains, the sun will just come out from the east to illuminate Linfen Airport. What do you think of this plan?
So, Major, can you do it?"
Major Doug's mouth was half open for a while and he didn't close it.
First of all, he had to admit that this was a great plan. He used the dividing time between darkness and dawn in the early morning to take off and avoid the enemy's surveillance to complete the sneak attack. At that time, the enemy might not even have taken off the reconnaissance plane, or they had just planned to
Take off the reconnaissance plane... So there will be at least a few reconnaissance planes on the airport, and these reconnaissance planes are probably still refueling and loading bombs. (Major Doug knows that the 98 light explosion can carry bombs)
If you bring them a napalm bomb at this time, the effect may be doubled.
The problem is...
Although the pilots led by Major Doug were instructors, they were actually second-tier pilots. For example, Li Yueying had never participated in a battle or flown at low altitude at night, especially over the Luliang Mountains.
Therefore, Major Doug unconsciously turned his attention to Li Yueying.
Li Yueying understood what Major Doug was worried about, and immediately stood up and responded confidently: "We can do it, Major!"