The Vietnamese MiG-25 was not surprised to find that the enemy bombers turned around and fled. This was a routine operation during this period.
But this time they received orders from their superiors to ensure victory.
Originally, in order to avoid the possibility of being hit by anti-aircraft missiles, they all avoided entering the shooting range of anti-aircraft missiles. This time, they wanted to break this taboo and use the high altitude and high speed of the MiG-25 to defeat the opponent's bombers.
In an instant, all six MiG fighters turned on afterburners.
The powerful R-15 engine instantly bursts out more violent airflow, instantly making the flight speed exceed the speed of sound.
Thunderous sonic booms erupted continuously, and the six MiG fighters were like arrows leaving the string.
They did not pay attention to those escorting J-8s. In previous battles, these improved fighter jets derived from the MiG-21 had limited performance and could hardly pose a real threat to the MiG-25.
However, what they did not expect this time was that the F-1 ambushing at high altitude decisively launched a long-range air-to-air missile.
When the missile was launched, the distance between the two sides was about 60 kilometers and they were flying towards each other. The F-1 did not use afterburner and the speed was about Mach 1. The MiG-25 was about Mach 5. The speed of the air-to-air missile after launch was also close to Mach 5.
That is to say, the speed of the MiG-25 relative to the air-to-air missile has reached 4 times the speed of sound, and the missile will encounter the MiG-25 about thirty to forty seconds after launch.
At this time, the Vietnamese MiG-25s were not aware of the danger. The J-8s had never fired air-to-air missiles at this distance before.
The maximum range of the J-8 modified air-to-air missile is about 30 kilometers, and to pose an actual threat, it must be within 20 kilometers.
Even so, at the speed of the MiG-25, it can turn around and turn on afterburner at any time to get rid of it.
On the other hand, the MiG-25 air-to-air missile has a longer range, especially for large targets such as bombers, which can reach 60 to 80 kilometers.
This time they wanted to take advantage of this range difference and launch air-to-air missiles to directly hit the bombers before encountering the J-8.
Unexpectedly, before the target was locked, he received an alert that he was locked.
In an instant, the pilots of the Vietnamese army were startled and confused for a moment.
However, they are also one of the elites who reacted immediately, gave up their previous operations, and took evasive measures.
At the same time, we realized that it could never be the original J-8 modified to lock and launch missiles at such a distance.
"All attention!" the commander of the MiG fighter shouted on the channel.
The MiG-25 immediately divided into three groups, spread out in three directions, and made avoidance movements...
Behind the battle lines, inside the coalition headquarters.
Lin Tiansheng glanced at the clock from time to time. After the three F-1 fighters set off, every second seemed to slow down.
The outcome of this air battle will change a lot of things.
If successful, the balance of air power on the battlefield will be changed next. Before the Vietnamese army can react, bombers and gunships will be dispatched to use aerial firepower to win victory on the ground.
If it fails, a second plan will have to be adopted.
At this time, the signal corps suddenly shouted: "Report, Kong 1st Division reports..."
Although there are currently only four fighter jets, the organization level is quite high.
Lin Tiansheng's heart shivered: "Nian!"
The signal corpsman immediately said: "I found the target at 10:23:15 in the morning as planned. There were six MiG-25 fighter jets in total. I locked the target and launched 18 long-range air-to-air missiles in three batches... The results were confirmed and one was shot down.
, injured one..."
After hearing this, Lin Tiansheng couldn't help but breathe a little sigh of relief.
Shooting down one aircraft and damaging another were considered good results, indicating that the coalition forces have the ability to destroy the MiG-25 in air combat.
It broke the performance myth of MiG fighter jets. If the opponent uses the MiG-25 next, it will be at a loss.
This is what Lin Tiansheng wants. He clenched his fist and hit his palm: "Okay! Send out the gunships!"
As for the bombers, when the MiG fighters were shot down and the other MiGs retreated, they had already turned around and flown towards the enemy positions...
At the other end, the Kingdom Council Building in Kuching.
Half an hour after Lin Tiansheng received the report, the news finally came back.
Suddenly, when I heard that a MiG-25 had been shot down, everyone present cheered.
Although there is only one, it is a victory worth celebrating.
More importantly, the MiG-25 was shot down, and the air superiority that had been in the hands of Yue Guo would change hands again.
The scale of victory began to tilt toward Nanyang Weihe's troops.
Almost at the same time, the news that the Sailian MiG-25 was shot down by an F-1 seemed to have wings and spread rapidly.
For the first time, countless people in the Guo family learned that there was a fighter jet like the F-1, which was jointly developed by Nanyang and America.
Probably the only ones who are unhappy are the SpeedLink people.
Yue Guo was caught off guard. The only thing that was certain was that Nanyang Weihe troops had obtained advanced fighter jets that could compete with the MiG-25.
The only advantage in technical equipment on the battlefield was lost.
In the Vietnamese army headquarters, Huang Wen's face turned extremely ugly when he learned about it. His many years of military experience made him instinctively feel that he was going to suffer.
But he had no idea how to deal with such a large-scale battlefield.
This is the ability to grasp the overall situation.
Although Huang Wen has been fighting for decades, he has not had many opportunities to command large-scale corps in combat, and his own ability and understanding can only be considered average.
Under normal circumstances, there is really no big problem if you make a plan and follow the steps step by step, but once you face such an unexpected situation, you will be a little timid.
But before he could think calmly, he received bad news.
"Report! The forward position was attacked by enemy air fire..." The news from the telecommunications office quickly reached Huang Wen.
When encountering this kind of situation, it is usually not difficult to deal with it. All it takes is for the soldiers to come and cover it up with water and earth.
But the problem now is that a MiG-25 has just been shot down, and another one was injured. He only has eight MiG fighters left on hand. If he sends them out, there will be more damage... Huang Wen hesitated.
Compared with the losses caused by gunships and bombers on the front line, he subconsciously believed that the MiG-25 fighter jets were more important.
In the past few years, they have been fighting with America, and they have been under fire suppression from the air.
In the end, Huang Wen decided that the safety of the fighter plane must be ensured.
At the same time, with the firepower output of twenty gunships and H-7 bombers on the front, the Vietnamese army on the front line suffered heavy losses in a short period of time.
Huang Wen only remembered that they could withstand America's air attack, but he forgot that time had changed. This time it was a group operation, and the density of their troop deployment was much greater than when they faced America.
The losses caused by a sudden air attack will naturally be greater.
And when it comes to serious fighting, if we put aside the industrial base and logistical supplies, America has never been Huaguo's opponent.
Since the Second World War, they had been fully prepared to join the war. After landing in Faguo, they were not beaten by the Dusan whose logistics had almost collapsed.
As for facing the East, the island-hopping campaign that MacArthur was so proud of was an exaggeration.
Truman mentioned in his memoirs that MacArthur continued to brag and exaggerate his achievements in the Pacific in order to build momentum for a positive transition.
Until Truman couldn't stand it anymore and threatened him to release the original letters between him and Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt, as well as related historical materials.
As a result, the arrogant MacArthur shut up instantly.
Later, in the Korean War and the South Vietnam War, America never fought a truly "beautiful" war.
Their strength lies in their industrial capabilities and their strength in logistical supplies.
Huang Wen quickly learned the lesson of ‘empiricism’.
As the firepower of gunships and bombers created a gap, the follow-up Nanyang intimidation force immediately followed up, broke through the gap in the battle line, and launched a segmentation and encirclement...
In just a dozen hours, Huang Wen received bad news one after another.
His face turned pale. When he first discovered that the front line had been breached, he tried to block it with reserves, but it was full of holes and loopholes. The few reserves he had on hand were not enough!
At this time, he looked at the map and realized with horror that the problem was serious.
The originally complete front line was now in pieces, forming multiple complicated front lines with added teeth and teeth.
Generally speaking, they were divided and surrounded, but the encirclement on Lin Tiansheng's side was not stable. If they could find a weak position to break through at this time, there might not be any hope of turning defeat into victory.
Huang Wen's forehead was covered with big beads of sweat. He was staring at the map but couldn't decide where to put the last chip in his hand.
At this moment, the communications soldier next to him shouted again: "Report!"
Huang Wen was startled, suddenly came to his senses, frowned and said, "What?"
The signal soldier said: "Hanoi telegram, three hours ago, Laoguo reported that an unidentified troop was found near the border with Chenla..."
Huang Wen's heart froze, and a bad thought suddenly rushed into his head.
He immediately rushed to the big map, holding a red and blue pencil in his hand and drew a blue arrow in the south of Lao Guo.
"Damn it! I was fooled!" Huang Wen gritted his teeth and said angrily, and the pencil in his hand was broken by him with a click.
Originally, he thought that this time Lin Tiansheng would still use the firepower of the two cruisers to advance along the southern coast to complete the flanking detour, and took precautions in advance.
Unexpectedly, the plank road was built openly and secretly visited Chen Cang!
On the surface, the south was making a big show, but in fact, the north secretly sent an elite force to bypass the Vietnamese army's northern defense line by taking advantage of Lao Guo.
Just at this moment, there was a burst of chaotic and dense footsteps outside.
Immediately afterwards, the door suddenly opened, and five or six people, headed by Wu Ting, barged in.
Huang Wen was stunned.
Wu Ting walked over and reached out his hand: "Old Huang~"
Huang Wen reacted, showed a wry smile, and had already reacted when shaking hands.
He sighed and said, "I'm very sorry, I...I betrayed the trust the organization placed in me."
Wu Ting shook his head: "This is not your problem. We all underestimated the strength of the enemy opposite."
Huang Wen was silent, but felt a little disapproval in his heart.
He had never been careless and underestimated his enemies. After several battles, and he never had any contempt for Lin Tiansheng because of his youth, he still ended up like this.
If we really want to say it, it can only be that the enemy is stronger than imagined.
Therefore, when Wu Ting suddenly came over, he did not resist much, but breathed a sigh of relief.
Because he really didn't know what to do next.
Moreover, when Wu Ting appeared here, he was definitely not acting on his own initiative and must have obtained Hanoi's consent.
Wu Ting quickly entered the state and quickly issued a series of orders.
The order is long and complex, but it boils down to a very simple meaning: cut off the tail to survive, admit defeat, and retreat quickly.
Huang Wen opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.
Because he knew that it was useless to say anything. Based on the current situation, Wu Ting's order was undoubtedly the most appropriate.
Able to preserve vitality as much as possible.
But in this way, the cost of abandonment would be too high. Not only would the surrounded troops on the front line be destroyed, but they would also have to stay behind to block the rear.
In the end, probably no more than two-thirds of them could be taken out of the battlefield, or even less.
This means that after this battle, they are likely to lose 100,000 people at once.
Thinking of this possibility, Huang Wen's heart bleeds.
Wu Ting, who issued the order, also felt uncomfortable. The last time he had gathered 500,000 troops was three years ago, and he launched an attack on the South Vietnamese and American coalition forces. He suffered an unprecedented failure and suffered a one-time loss of 100,000 people.
He did not expect that he would encounter it again in his lifetime.
Although this result was caused by Huang Wen, Wu Ting was also watching the battlefield developments throughout the whole process, thinking that if it were him, he might not be any better than Huang Wen.
As the order ended, Wu Ting recalled his recent meeting with Du Fei in the capital.
At that time, he hoped to ease the relationship, but failed to achieve his goal.
This made him quite helpless.
After encountering another huge failure this time, he could think of the huge difficulties that would follow.
After finally getting rid of America, I thought the clouds were clearing and the moon was clear, but unexpectedly... South Vietnam was annihilated militarily. They seemed to be unstoppable all the way, but in fact they had accumulated many hidden dangers.
The biggest problem is that there is no clear and feasible economic development plan. After the excitement of victory, people always have to return to life.
Wealth, rice, oil, salt, food, clothing, housing and transportation, these people's livelihood items have not improved at all one year after victory.
Due to the war expenditure in Chenla, there was greater financial pressure.
Coupled with the recent reduction in aid from SLA, this part of the expenditure cannot be fully covered.
Although some loans were obtained through negotiation, loans and aid are two different things. One does not need to be repaid, but the other carries high interest.
Of course, these loans may not be repaid, but they need to be exchanged for other more important 'things'.
With thoughts in his mind, Wu Ting pursed his lips to stop himself from thinking so much, and instead focused on the present.
…
"What did you say? One hundred thousand people!"
In the Kremlin Palace, Polezhny loudly repeated the news he had just received with a look of disbelief on his face.
He knew that the two sides had launched a major battle involving nearly 400,000 participants.
But it’s only been a few days and it’s already been like this?
He wouldn't be surprised if Huaguo took action himself, but what kind of level was that Nanyang Weihe army? The Vietnamese army actually fought like this.
The confidential secretary in charge of intelligence said solemnly: "After confirmation, Vietnam has urgently sent Wu Ting to the front line to take over command."
Polezhny frowned. He knew very well about the dispute between Li and Wu. If there was no other way, Wu Ting would never have the chance to gain military power again.
However, with his many years of struggle experience, he vaguely felt that there seemed to be an unusual atmosphere of conspiracy here.