Beiyang 1917

() In the first wave of air strikes that morning, the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing only dispatched a dh4 reconnaissance bomber brigade and an escorted se5 fighter brigade. In addition, Major General Huang Jingbo, the commander of the coalition frontline air force, personally represented a squadron The FR18 Excellence fighter-bomber commanded bombing operations over the theater, which was also to guard against the sudden appearance of a German fighter wing.

In 1918, this space-time radar was not invented at all, and the ground in western Ukraine and southern Ukraine was still in the hands of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces. No matter how aggressive the reconnaissance planes of the Allied forces on the offensive side...we must also beware of reinforcements on the Ukrainian battlefield. Will the German Air Force come out of any corner of the world.....

In fact, the FR2 Excellence Brigade of the 18nd Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Allied Air Force undertook reconnaissance and escort missions in the airspace of the Ukrainian battlefield. Each sent a team of 2 FR4 Eximus fighter-bombers to perform patrol and reconnaissance missions.

After the first wave of air strikes, the coalition's DH4 bomber brigade and SE5 escort fighter brigade returned to Relsk and Belgorod field airports one after another. Some of the Chinese FR18 fighter-bombers returned to Voronjeri, and some temporarily landed in Belgorod. Refuel at the German airport.

The take-off and landing of a large aircraft fleet takes time, and the air formation also takes time. After landing, many aircraft still need to be overhauled and maintained. At the same time, the pilots also need a certain period of rest. The physical and mental strength of the first-line pilots of the air force is inevitably on a downward curve, although the coalition air force mainly engaged in contact battles and large-scale air battles with the German 7.28st Fighter Wing on July 7.29 and July 1. ..

On 7.30ri and today, when the German 1st Fighter Wing withdraws from the skies above the Eastern Ukraine battlefield, the coalition front-line air force mainly performs ground attack and bombing missions, but the ground bombing is in the densely forested Kharkov and beyond. To the east, flying over the Kharkov city defenses, where the enemy's machine guns are densely fired, is no easier than air combat with the German 1st Fighter Wing...

The power and accuracy of horizontal bombing are of course much worse than dive sweeps and bombing, but the anti-aircraft firepower network compiled by the German 20mm small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and hundreds of mg08 heavy machine guns of the Kharkov defenders is not What kind of decoration... It is not a legend that the coalition fighters were injured and shot down... This makes the Chinese pilots of the coalition air force who are a little arrogant after defeating the German 1st Fighter Wing are a little impetuous like cat's paws...

Obviously, the anti-air firepower and fighting spirit of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces on the ground are quite different from the Soviet-Russian Red Army, which was often defeated at the first touch in the Battle of Ufa...It was their fault that the ace pilots of the German 1st Fighter Wing flew Fokkerviii to shoot down What is the face of the coalition pilot who was shot down by the Ukrainian machine gunner who is not long-sighted on the ground?

As long as it is a battle, there may be battle damage. During the two consecutive days of air strikes and ground attack operations, the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Allied Forces lost 2 SE3 biplane fighters and 5 DH2 reconnaissance bombers, and were injured by ground firepower. The SE4 has as many as 5, and the DH5 also has 4. It can be said that although the results of the air-to-ground battle between the two sides are one-sided, the process is by no means simple and easy...

Fortunately, the logistical support work of the Eastern Allied Forces of the Allied Powers was in place. The 1nd Fighter-Bomber Wing, which took over the combat mission of the 2st Fighter-Bomber Wing, was able to replenish the damaged aircraft and pilots in time. The Germans shot down more than 1 fighter planes and damaged more than 7.29 fighter planes, so in fact they were withdrawn by the headquarters to Saratov for rest and replenishment. Fortunately, there were more backup pilots than backup planes. The first battle It shouldn't take too long for the bomber wing to recover its combat power...

The King of China hopes that every flying wing under his command can maintain its own tradition and glory, which is why he does not intend to easily merge the heavily damaged 1st Fighter-Bomber Wing into the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing... Every alliance should pass on its own fire... Otherwise, the continuous merger and split will make it difficult for the troops to form an inseparable unity and friendship, and there will be competition among the troops, and healthy competition has always been built by the King of China China strongly advocated and encouraged it when it joined the war.

In the 7.29 air battle over Ukraine, which attracted the attention of the world, the coalition frontline air force suffered quite a lot of casualties. In the air battle on the morning of 7.29 two days ago, the coalition air force lost 68 fighter planes, and 38 pilots were killed or missing. Including 4 Chinese FR18s. Fortunately, they all crashed in the Volga Federation. The Southwest Front Army sent a ground search force to search and rescue the pilots and wreckage. In addition, the pilot who parachuted in Ukraine the night before had been found and rescued by the special operations team infiltrated by the coalition forces.

So far, the coalition frontline air force has only appeared in the sky over Ukraine for less than three days, but the combat intensity of air combat and ground attack can be called the highest on the Eastern Front, especially when the ground attack was dispatched in the early morning of 7.30ri. The 3st Handley Petty O1 Bomber Battalion of the 400rd Heavy Bomber Wing of Mensk Shakhtinsky and Tsaritsin played a huge role in the air strikes on the first trench defense line deployed by the Ukrainians near the border power……

It is also because of this that during the two days of air strikes on the Kharkov city defenses and the forests in the northeast, Samara's coalition command did not agree to continue to invest in the Handley Pej O3 bombers of the 400rd Heavy Bomber Wing. The air strikes on the ground also caused confusion among many coalition generals, especially Utsunomiya Taro and Oba Jiro, who commanded the Southwest Front Army Central Route Army in the Ukrainian Campaign. The Sixth Major General Hata Jun tentatively guessed that the Commander-in-Chief is afraid that we will blow up the other party, give up guarding Kharkov and retreat directly...

In fact, Wang Geng’s considerations are more than that. At the beginning, Tanaka Yoshiichi and Jiang Fangzhen had the same question at the headquarters meeting. The Chinese king’s answer was that although the Handley Peggy O400 and V1500 carry more bombs than the DH4 reconnaissance bomber and FR18 fighter bomber Much bigger, but slower to fly...