After listening to Wang Xuexin's tactics, Major Doug no longer objected to the Yingjiang pilots participating in the war.
On the one hand, this is because using this tactic to participate in the war has made a turn for the Hawk 81.
One of the reasons why Major Doug refused to participate in the war was that he believed that such fighting was no different from suicide and that he was being stupid.
Now, although Wang Xuexin's tactics have not yet been verified, there is at least hope of victory.
If there is hope of victory and you don't try, it would be cowardice instead of caring for your subordinates. Therefore, Major Doug's reasons in this regard are untenable.
On the other hand, it was Major Doug who believed that if this tactic proved to be correct, it would also be of great benefit to Yingjiang's country.
Although this tactic is of little use to Yingjiang at this stage... Yingjiang fought against the "Zero War" in the Pacific battlefield with the "Wildcat" fighter. The top speed of the "Wildcat" fighter was slightly lower than the "Zero War" and had no speed.
The advantage is that this tactic cannot be used.
But in the future, if Yingjiang develops a faster fighter, will it be able to use this tactic to suppress the enemy's "Zero"? (Note: The Hellcat fighter entered service in 1943, with a top speed of 612 kilometers per hour)
What's more, there are many islands in the Pacific battlefield. With this tactic, it means that as long as fast fighters take off from the island's land base, they will have a great advantage in "zero combat" against the enemy.
Therefore, Major Doug immediately reported Wang Xuexin's tactics to General Doolittle.
General Doolittle was stunned when he heard this tactic. The first thing he said was: "God, this Chinese battalion commander, he may very well change the situation of the entire war!"
The next second, General Doolittle called back: "Pay close attention to the application of this tactic. I will send the remaining fighters to China as soon as possible. In addition, I will add thirty front-line pilots!"
When Wang Xuexin heard the news, he was so happy that he almost broke the table.
What I never dared to think about has now become a reality... Thirty pilots, and pilots who can actually fight in the air, this is a big fortune.
However, after careful analysis, Wang Xuexin felt that this was normal, and Yingjiang also wanted to know whether this tactic was useful.
Thirty pilots are indeed valuable, but they are insignificant compared to the tactics that can deal with "zero war".
Before the planes were transferred, Wang Xuexin started organizing training for fighter planes.
The training personnel were divided into ten people from Yingjiang pilots and ten people from Huaxia pilots, forming a team of twenty people.
Wang Xuexin’s plan is as follows:
Now there are twenty people who can form ten combat groups... Each combat group has two aircraft, covering each other to deal with the enemy's target in order to achieve a quick victory.
When another batch of aircraft arrives, the thirty Yingjiang pilots can form fifteen combat groups, bringing the total to twenty-five combat groups.
Twelve combat groups are used to participate in the war, and thirteen combat groups are used as reserves and to protect the security of the airport airspace, which is just enough.
Two days later, Wang Xuexin organized a training session.
This training is actually a battle... Aviation fuel is expensive. Although the Eighth Route Army has two oil fields that are not short of oil for the time being, the Eighth Route Army's industrial capabilities are not good enough. The refining of aviation fuel must be repeatedly refined to barely meet the requirements.
These are what Principal Tang is doing. Wang Xuexin only heard from him that Yingjiang said that there are more than 20 basic indicators, such as total acid value, density, sulfur content, flash point, freezing point, kinematic viscosity, etc.
Principal Tang said: "Our chemical factory has never heard of these things before, but in order for our planes to fly into the sky, we got various testing methods from Yingjiang and tested them over and over again, and finally they can be used!"
In fact, the index is still a bit off. After all, it is refined manually and is not as accurate as the mechanized hawk sauce.
But a slight difference does not mean that the fighter plane cannot fly, it just consumes a little bit of the engine.
This would be unacceptable in peacetime.
Because aircraft engines are much more expensive than fuel anyway, fuel should be strictly controlled.
But in times of war, especially on the front lines, there is actually no need to pay too much attention to this.
Because just like Mao Xiong's development ideas in the direction of engines, they believe that it is almost impossible for a fighter jet to take off for more than a thousand hours. Therefore, there is actually no need to pursue the service life of the aviation engine one-sidedly.
But this is only during wartime.
In peacetime, Mao Xiong suffered a lot because of this... Other people's fighter planes can fly for two or three thousand hours, but Mao Xiong's can only fly for a thousand hours, and one of others is worth two of Mao Xiong's.
Wang Xuexin was in a war period at this time, so it would not hurt to lower the fuel standards.
But because fuel is very labor-intensive, Wang Xuexin must make full use of it.
For example, if the plan is to hide the fighter planes in rocket-mounted fighters, do they need to fly in formation? Or rehearse enemy engagement?
For the sake of saving fuel, Wang Xuexin mixed operations and drills.
That is to say, the mixed flight of the two fighter planes was initially a drill, and then the fighter planes practiced their own, and the ground attack aircraft went straight to the target to bomb.
Major Doug raised a question at this time. He said to Wang Xuexin: "Wang, if we can use this tactic to gain air supremacy, or partial air supremacy, then we can bomb the enemy during the day. We also need to
Flying bombing missions at night?”
There is some truth to this. At this time, the propellant and fuses from Yingjiang have not yet been delivered, so we have to save the rockets.
In this case, it is obviously not cost-effective to bomb at night. On the one hand, it is not safe for fighter planes to fly over the Luliang Mountains at night. On the other hand, the accuracy is not easy to control. Many times they bomb indiscriminately... When bombing the airport before, I still chose to do it at dawn.
At that moment, the pilot could at least see Linfen Airport.
If you can't even see the target and rely solely on firelight guidance, coupled with the poor accuracy of rockets, it's really just luck.
Wang Xuexin just smiled and replied: "Major, our bombing is not just to blow up the target!"
Major Doug asked doubtfully: "It's not to blow up the target? That's..."
Wang Xuexin replied: "It's to make the enemy feel underestimated, but I don't know if an old fox like Okamura Neji will be fooled!"
Major Doug thought for a moment, then opened his mouth and nodded slightly.
He figured out that if the Eighth Route Army chose to bomb at night, and it was bombing without precision, in the eyes of the enemy, this would be a helpless choice.
Therefore, the enemy would most likely think that the Eighth Route Army had no other option but to bomb randomly at night.
As Wang Xuexin said before, before implementing his plan, he usually makes some small moves to give the enemy some "psychological hints."
If the enemy believes it, it will have the effect of underestimating the enemy.
If you don't believe it, you will lose a few rockets.