my bright sword career

Chapter 326 Add a little pressure

"Regiment, the second bomber group has sent a telegram. They have successfully completed the bombing mission and are now returning."

"Ok!"

Gao Hongming, who was watching Guojialing's battle from a hidden observation post, responded without looking back.

Chi Yaohui on the side asked, "How about the casualties of the second bomber group?"

"The second bomber group was intercepted by Japanese planes during the bombing. One B-25 was injured and rushed to the Japanese position. The crew did not survive. Another five B-5s were damaged to varying degrees. Two of them were damaged. The damage is severe and requires major repairs."

After a while, Gao Hongming put down the binoculars and said to Chi Yaohui, "What do you think of this bombing?"

Chi Yaohui thought for a while: "In general, the effect of this bombing is pretty good. Except for the third and fourth bomber fleets, there is no news yet. The first and second bomber fleets have completed their bombing missions. The first fleet is lucky. Yes, they were able to return as a whole, but the luck of the second fleet was not so good. They were intercepted by the Japanese army and suffered considerable losses.

I think that in the future, bombers must be escorted by fighter jets when performing missions, otherwise it will be too dangerous. You must know that we only have four squadrons of bombers in total, and it is distressing to lose one. "

"I don't know this truth."

Gao Hongming sighed softly, "But don't look at the size of our flying brigade, which seems to be quite large, with fifty bombers and seventy to eighty fighters, but what we are facing now is a hundred thousand devils.

Air support is needed everywhere, and we have too few aircraft.Take this operation as an example, we can only let the Stuka and B-25 carry out the most important bombing missions, and the rest of the fighters have to bomb the No. It's because they can't even get an escort plane out. "

Chi Yaohui also sighed, how could he not understand this truth, for this bombing, even P47 had to be a cameo to bomb the ground, what else could he say?

But when it comes to the P-47 fleet, he is not only a little worried: "I just don't know how those boys are doing now?"

Although the P-47 is an air superiority fighter, due to its high-horsepower Pratt Whitney R-2800-59 double-row radial engine, it can also carry 1134 kg of bombs when necessary (external ), cameo bomber.

This is also the reason why the Stuka and B-25 bombers involved in the bombing this time did not have fighter escorts. The number of aircraft was really insufficient, and Gao Hongming had already sent out all the aircraft that could be dispatched.

Chi Yaohui persuaded: "Tuan, after this battle is over, our second batch of pilot students must expand the scale, otherwise with the increasingly fierce battle, we will need more and more aircraft. Once this happens again, you will be caught blind.”

"I don't need you to tell me this."

Gao Hongming greeted Chi Yaohui to sit down, handed him a cigarette, lit it, and said: "I have asked Huang Huaimin to make arrangements, and I plan to expand the number of students in the second phase to 600, according to the pass rate of [-]% Come to think of it, I will be satisfied with one hundred and eighty to two hundred fighter pilots tomorrow."

"One year."

Chi Yaohui puffed out a puff of smoke, stared at Guojialing in the distance, and murmured: "I don't know if our flying team can last until that day."

Fighter pilot is a profession with a very high mortality rate. After a fierce battle, it is common for dozens of aircraft and pilots to be killed or injured by bad luck. Otherwise, the war would not start. Almost lost everything, completely lost China's air supremacy.

"Don't worry, we'll make it through."

Gao Hongming patted him on the shoulder, but he didn't care about Chi Yaohui's worry.

It wasn't that he was drifting away, but that he understood that the reason why the central air force was completely lost within half a year after the start of the war was that apart from the weak industrial capabilities of Huaxia, the most important thing was that the performance of the aircraft was too backward.

By the time of the July 1937th Incident in 3, the air forces of most countries in the world had been replaced with more advanced monoplanes, and only Huaxia was still using the biplane Hawker [-] fighters.

To put it bluntly, this thing is a fighter plane specially designed by the Americans for export in 1932. It was already behind when it was produced. The pressure from Japan did not dare to sell fighters to China, and at that time the Chinese government was in urgent need of fighters, so it sold this fighter to the Chinese government.

Moreover, the Hawker 3 fighter is not only extremely expensive, but its performance is seriously inferior to that of the Japanese Army Aviation's Type 300 fighter. This has caused the Chinese Air Force to exhaust more than [-] fighters in less than half a year.

But this situation was reversed after Chennault established the Flying Tigers. The Flying Tigers of China and the United States flew second-rate fighters like the P-40, and they still beat the Japanese Zero Type to the ground.

It can be seen from this that as long as the weapons of the two sides are not too different, the Huaxia Air Force is not afraid of the Japanese army at all.

However, due to the appearance of Gao Hongming in this time and space, the national government has already owned 50 P-40 fighters in advance, so the situation should have improved, right?
Unknowingly, Gao Hongming couldn't help being fascinated. He didn't even notice that the cigarette butt was burning in his hand. He didn't throw the cigarette butt away until his fingers felt hot.

"Hey, you have to be careful, don't get burned." Chi Yaohui, who was on the side, saw Gao Hongming being burned, and thought he was worried about the third and fourth bomber groups that had not yet received news, so he hurried He comforted: "Don't think too much, the third bomber group is all P-47s, it's good that these guys don't bully the little devils, whoever is not open-eyed dares to ambush them."

"Who knows what's going on in the world?" Gao Hongming chuckled, pointing at Guo Jialing and said, "Zijie, have you seen that the little devil launched a fierce attack on Guo Jialing early this morning, it's almost noon yet Stop, what do you think is going on here?"

Chi Yaohui pondered for a while, "This is not certain. It stands to reason that after the Third Army has received a batch of weapons and ammunition from our reinforcements, they no longer have to worry about weapons and ammunition in the short term. In addition, they also occupy a favorable location. The 37th Division It is not realistic for the regiment to take down Guojialing in a short period of time, unless they want to fight for consumption."

"Fighting consumption?"

Gao Hongming was not only dumbfounded when he heard the words, if this is the case, the Japanese made a wrong calculation, and the little devil is not that stupid.

He thought for a while, "Zijie, do you think we should let the armored battalion attack to put more pressure on the little devil?"

(End of this chapter)