Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 821 Dead End

The first thing Wang Xuexin thought of was to bomb with modified ground attack aircraft, that is, rocket fighters, because the only thing the Eighth Route Army could hit and pose a threat to was rocket fighters.

Otherwise, what other equipment can hit this thing?
tank?

The firepower is sufficient but the speed is insufficient. The maximum speed of the T34 is only 55 kilometers per hour, and this is the maximum speed of the road. If you want to chase the armored train next to the railway, you have to calculate it with a cross-country speed of 25 kilometers per hour.

Chasing a 25-kilometer armored train at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour?
It's like chasing a Jeep on a bicycle.

bazooka?
The rocket launcher might be able to, but because of its particularity, the range of activities of the armored train is within the area controlled by the devils or even in the hinterland. The probability of the rocket launcher getting in and hitting it accurately is so low that Wang Xuexin has no confidence to try it.

On the other hand, if it can be achieved with a rocket launcher, it can also be achieved with a rocket launcher fighter.

Therefore, Wang Xuexin thinks more about rocket launchers and fighter jets.

In fact, it's not just Wang Xuexin who thinks this way, the chief and the chief of staff also think of rocket launchers.

The chief and the chief of staff will know this because Zhang Zongping promptly fed back the information that there is also an armored train on the southern line to the headquarters... This is for the purpose of unifying the command, so that there will be no chaos where the two command headquarters are not unified and fighting separately Condition.

Then Wang Xuexin received a telegram.

The telegram was handed over by Zhang Zongping. He said: "The chief suggested that we dispatch fighter planes to blow it up!"

Wang Xuexin was silent for a while, then slowly shook his head.

Because he wanted to reply to the chief, Wang Xuexin listed his concerns one by one:

"First of all!" Wang Xuexin pointed to the map on the desktop and said, "The range of activities of the devil's armored train is in the area controlled by the devil. Most of these areas are close to the devil's airport and far from Wanxian airport. The devil has reconnaissance planes and radars. , Our military fighter planes fly together and the devils are prepared, and then take off at night with fighter planes to intercept..."

Needless to say, the rocket fighter plane may have suffered heavy losses on the way to the target area before finding the armored train.

"Secondly!" Wang Xuexin continued: "Even if some of our fighter planes can escape the interception of enemy planes, how can we find the armored train on the ground in the dark? As long as the armored train turns off the lights... the pilot wants to find it. Finding a needle in a haystack."

Zhang Zongping was speechless, neither he nor the chief and others had thought of this question.

"Again!" Wang Xuexin said again: "Even if the armored train can be found, it must be bombed at low altitude in the dark, but the armored train has two anti-aircraft guns with a range of 12 kilometers and ten heavy machine guns. Can our fighter planes approach at low altitude? "

This is a big problem for ground attack aircraft. Ground attack aircraft usually face ground firepower when bombing at low altitudes, so ground attack aircraft often strengthen their lower armor.

However, the rocket fighters of the Eighth Route Army were directly refitted from the Hawker 81, an air-controlling fighter. The lower part did not have reinforced armor and could not face the powerful firepower of the armored train.

So, at that time, let alone the rocket fighters hunting down the armored trains, it will be a matter of one of them going up and being destroyed by the devils.

After Zhang Zongping fed back the information to the headquarters, the chief and the chief of staff nodded in unison.

"We keep things simple!" The chief frowned and said, "Before, our fighter planes were able to bomb at night, we thought it had night combat capability, but in fact it didn't have night combat capability!"

The chief of staff agreed: "Yes, our fighters do not have any night combat equipment, not even a searchlight. Before fighting at night, on the one hand, we relied on pilot experience and the spirit of not fearing death to fly at night. A lot of preliminary preparations by the ground forces, such as measurement, fire instructions, etc., are actually not night combat capabilities, or can only be called limited night combat capabilities!"

The chief held a cigarette butt between his fingers, and the ash had been burning for a long time without noticing it. He analyzed: "This kind of night combat ability and this kind of tactics are no problem for fixed targets that don't move, but for moving ones Ironclad trains won’t work! We can’t measure every section of the track and set fires on every section, can we?”

In the end, the chief came to a conclusion: "Xiao Dongbei is right. Aircraft bombing is not feasible. It will only cause heavy losses to the aircraft, and on this basis, it may not be possible to blow up the target. Even if the target is blown up, it may not be able to complete our mission. s plan!"

The last sentence has a deep meaning, which Wang Xuexin did not expect.

Blowing up the armored train actually has no meaning to the Eighth Route Army. For example, the Eighth Route Army dispatched fighter planes to blow up the armored train on the road... But there is only one track. If the armored train is blown up and paralyzed, does that mean the railway is blocked?
Once the railway is blocked, does it mean that the trains in the hands of the Eighth Route Army cannot pass through?

This also means that Wang Xuexin's plan will fail completely, unless the devils can move the bombed armored train away within a few hours.

After hesitating for a while, the chief of staff said worriedly: "Chief, so our plan is hanging in the balance!"

The chief nodded slightly, thought for a while, and then said helplessly: "It's really not possible, we can use cars to transport as much as the original plan, as much as we can transport, and we will give priority to transporting textile machines! We will receive many disaster victims in the future, and we need clothes!"

"Yes!" The chief of staff immediately sent Wang Xuexin the meaning of the chief.

But Wang Xuexin didn't want to do that.

Because the difficulty of transporting by car will only be more difficult than transporting by train... The car is on the road, should a road line be opened?Otherwise how to ship it out?
Coupled with the slow speed of the car, it is easy to be intercepted by landmines, artillery, and even intercepted by devil fighters after dawn tomorrow.

Therefore, Wang Xuexin's thinking on this point is different from that of the chief.

He thinks that either it will not be transported, and if it is transported, it must be transported by train.

As for the armored train, Wang Xuexin believes that the Eighth Route Army is not completely without chance.

Wang Xuexin thought about it for a while, and then sent a telegram to Ding Wei: "Regimental Commander Ding, ask Monk and Shi Sha to take command, there is a new mission!"

At this time, the monk and Shi Sha were burying the sacrificed soldiers on the spot.

This is one of the characteristics of the reconnaissance company.

Reconnaissance companies often have to go deep behind enemy lines to complete dangerous tasks, and casualties are inevitable.

In the case of fighting behind enemy lines, if the remains of the martyrs are brought back, it will bring a heavy burden to the reconnaissance company and affect the combat effectiveness of the reconnaissance company.

Therefore, the reconnaissance company stipulated that at any time of combat, the remains of martyrs should not be brought back. They should be buried on the spot and marked, and other troops would find a way to bring them back after the war.

The monk felt ashamed, so he stood in front of the grave for a while.

At this moment, a correspondent came on horseback and shouted: "Wei Dayong, commander of the reconnaissance company, and Shi Sha, deputy commander of the reconnaissance company, report to the regiment headquarters immediately!"

(End of this chapter)