Naturally, Wang Xuexin does not need to worry about training issues. Wu Guozhi is fully responsible for this aspect.
In fact, even if Wang Xuexin wanted to worry about it, he couldn't help it. He only knew about strategic direction and equipment application, flight tactics and training. He just knew nothing about it.
To Wu Guozhi, these are just trivial matters.
To be precise, it's not Wu Guozhi, but these training subjects are relatively simple.
For example, tail biting, or the enemy and our aircraft meeting each other head-on... These are the most basic combat skills of pilots.
If there is any difference, it is that after biting the tail, an evasive action is added. In addition, the distance to the target must be roughly calculated to determine whether it exceeds the farthest range or the shortest range of x1.
The head-on encounter is even simpler, you just need to judge the distance and fire x1.
Wu Guozhi divided the troops into two teams for training: those who originally flew prototype fighter planes, that is, the "Hawk 81" that engaged in air combat with the enemy, concentrated on tail-biting training. And those who originally flew rocket fighters, that is, carried rockets to attack the enemy on the ground
If the target is attacked, focus on training to face it head-on.
Needless to say why this arrangement was made.
Not everyone can bite the tail. It requires considerable skills and even the ability to predict. Only in this way can it be possible to bite the "zero combat" which is famous for its maneuverability in actual combat. Therefore, these pilots need to be skilled
of pilot.
Encounter combat is much simpler, especially when the Japanese don't know that the Eighth Route Army has x1.
The fact that the Japanese do not know this means that the Japanese will confidently and boldly enter the range of 600 meters, which is x1, when they meet head-on, so the Eighth Route Army pilots can confidently and boldly aim...
But this "aiming confidently and boldly" is actually wrong.
Wu Guozhi analyzed this situation with the pilots:
"Japanese enemies usually fire at a distance of 300 to 200 meters when meeting head-on. In other words, we actually only have a thinking distance of 300 meters."
"Three hundred meters, two fighter jets with a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour are heading towards each other. It only takes less than a second. Can you say that you can take aim with confidence?"
"What's more, the X1 we use can correct its trajectory. Does it need to be aimed with confidence?"
These last words can be said to be the words that awaken the dreamer.
The ballistic trajectory and even the flight direction can be corrected, which means there is still a chance to aim after launching, so why do you need to aim before launching?
What's more, X1 can correct the trajectory, so what's the point of firing after aiming?
Therefore, what the pilot needs to do is to calculate the distance and launch the x1 when it enters 600 meters or even before it enters 600 meters. The reason is that the target will break into the range of the x1 at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour.
This head-on encounter tactic is relatively simple, but at the same time the risk is high... If the x1 fails to destroy the enemy plane, with the level of the Eighth Route Army's original rocket fighter pilots, it is very likely that they will not be able to escape the Japanese attack.
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This is Wu Guozhi's analysis, but Wang Xuexin does not agree with it.
Wang Xuexin analyzed:
"The Japs usually attack from a distance of about three hundred meters. This distance also gives the Japs only one second to react."
"If it were normal times, I believe the Japanese pilot would have the ability to make correct judgments and even adjust the angle in this second."
"But what if they were hit by a bomb with a range of more than 600 meters? Especially if this bomb can turn, can he react correctly in one second?"
Wu Guozhi couldn't help but be convinced. He thought about the enemy from an ideal perspective, but did not analyze it from the actual combat and enemy psychology.
Obviously, Wang Xuexin is talking about a highly probable situation.
Therefore, Wu Guozhi immediately adjusted the training subjects for head-on encounters: Originally, Wu Guozhi considered the flexibility of the fighter aircraft and planned to dismantle the two machine guns. After all, the weight of the two X1s plus the weight of the control system was not light, which would make "
The Hawk 81" seems awkward.
But as soon as Wang Xuexin said this... machine guns became indispensable.
Because when the pilot fires the x1, he can immediately aim the machine gun at the target and shoot, so the Eighth Route Army pilots have two opportunities to shoot down the enemy plane: the x1 and the machine gun.
The Japs only had machine guns, and even at that second they were easily distracted and lost the opportunity.
So, what if the Japs had a "zero fight"? So what if the Japs' pilots were highly skilled? In such a fight, the poorly trained pilots of the Eighth Route Army could still defeat the Japs with heavy casualties.
Now that the training problem is solved, the transformation of x1 on the other side is no longer a problem.
Because the transformation of x1 is just like He Zhimin said, the so-called increase in range is actually a matter of increasing the length of the wire.
However, the seemingly simple problem of increasing the length of the wire almost stumped He Zhimin.
The reason is that the copper wire used by the Eighth Route Army is commercial copper wire purchased from the Japs-controlled areas. Although it is not thick, it is more than 600 meters long... so the weight and volume have far exceeded the range that aircraft and missiles can bear. (Note:
In this era, rubber was still used as outer insulation.
Fortunately, Professor Su came up with a way to peel off the insulator wrapped around the copper wire, take out the thin copper wire and carefully paint it with a layer of paint to insulate it, so the volume and weight are much less.
The work on both sides will be completed in about the same time... In fact, it is based on the improvement time of x1. The pilot's training will not be said to be "completed" no matter how long it takes.
Then Wang Xuexin's headquarters received the message: "Batalion Commander, Wangxing Airport is ready!"
Chen Songyong geared up and asked: "Batalion Commander, how do you plan to fight?"
Wang Xuexin shook his head: "It's not how I plan to fight, but how Okamura Neji plans to fight!"
Before Chen Songyong could continue to ask, Wang Xuexin ordered: "Release the news about the independence of the Eighth Route Army Air Force!"
Chen Songyong was stunned for a moment, then understood, and immediately stood up and responded: "Yes!"
Wang Xuexin learned the lesson this time and only released half of the news instead of all of it.
Last time Wang Xuexin sent fake "high fire" troops to the front line to confuse the enemy, but the trap was too obvious and made the enemy suspicious.
This time, Wang Xuexin only released the air force split and said nothing else, which made the intelligence very real.
For example, if Okamura Neiji had received information about the split of the Eighth Route Army Air Force at the same time and also learned that the newly established Eighth Route Army Air Force was at Wangxing Airport...then the suspicious Okamura Neiji would have wondered why the information was so timely and accurate.
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Therefore, Wang Xuexin left the information about "Wangxing Airport" to Neji Okamura for investigation.
If Neji Okamura, who has a background in intelligence, cannot even find out this, then he is not worthy of being Wang Xuexin's opponent.