Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 715 Cat and Mouse Game
Du Xianzhao paused, neither agreed nor turned back.

At 10:25, the enemy aircraft group was 110 kilometers away. Du Xianzhao ordered "forty rounds of missiles to be ready for power connection", and then said into the microphone: "Command post, ask the command post for the distance to open the antenna."

"Understood!" Deputy Battalion Commander Chen's voice came out of the microphone.After a while, Deputy Battalion Commander Chen said: "Car No. 3, the headquarters ordered, 'Open the antenna distance, in principle, follow the requirements of the combat meeting'."

"Car No. 3 understands!"

At 10:26, the distance of the enemy aircraft group was 100 kilometers.At this time, Xin Zhongzheng's staff measured with a drawing ruler that the enemy plane's route shortcut was 3 kilometers, and the enemy plane group was flying almost directly at the third battalion.Staff Officer Xin was very happy, and he immediately passed the news to Du Xianzhao in the No. 3 car with a microphone.

"The air route shortcut is 3 kilometers!"

"understand!"

Hearing No. 3 car's quick answer, Staff Officer Xin immediately cheered up again. From what he thought: "The launch conditions are so good, Battalion Commander Du may use close-range combat to attack the Blitz Team. If this is the case, the Third Battalion will It must be a great achievement!" He picked up the microphone and ordered loudly: "The eagle indicates the radar station, and the indication target must be continuous and accurate; pay special attention to the enemy plane's maneuvering and turning, so as not to lose the target!"

"Yes!"

At 10:29, the Blitz team was 75 kilometers away, and Du Xianzhao issued the "synchronization" order.

At 10:30:40, the Blitz team was 61 kilometers away.Du Xianzhao no longer dared to compress the distance of the antenna, and immediately ordered: "Open the antenna!"

As soon as the antenna was turned on, a very smooth target echo signal appeared on the radar display in front of the guidance technician. At the same time, the three commanders reported loudly at the same time: "Target found: azimuth 116, distance 59, altitude 210."

At this moment, the voice of Staff Officer Xin appeared in the microphone: "The target is correct. It is the Lightning Troops we want to eliminate."

After 10 seconds, the enemy plane group began to turn left and flew sideways towards the southwest of the third battalion.Upon seeing this, Du Xianzhao immediately ordered the antenna to be shut down.

At 10:32:05, the enemy aircraft group was 51 kilometers away, and Du Xianzhao ordered to open the antenna. After 20 seconds, seeing the enemy plane continue to fly forward, the third battalion turned off the antenna again.

At 10:33:05, the enemy aircraft group was 60 kilometers away, and Du Xianzhao ordered to open the antenna again. Fifteen seconds later, seeing that the enemy plane was still flying at high altitude, he ordered to close the antenna again.

At 10:35:05, the enemy aircraft group was 48 kilometers away, and Du Xianzhao ordered to open the antenna for the fourth time. After 1 minute, an order was given to turn off the antenna.

In the battalion command post, Staff Officer Xin saw the enemy planes circling cunningly in the air, but refused to drill into the third battalion's position, and his face turned livid. "It's over! Let the enemy planes run away again!" Staff Officer Xin held a drawing ruler in his hand, and said angrily, "I reminded Battalion Commander Du in advance to adopt the close-up combat method, but he was afraid of taking the responsibility. Responsibility! Hundreds of officers and soldiers in the entire battalion have worked hard and sweated for several years, but in the end they only ended up with this result, which is really useless! I quit!" Staff Officer Xin threw the drawing ruler in his hand to the ground. Throw, with tears in his eyes, turned his head and walked out of the battalion command post.

In base command.Mao Bangchu saw that the third battalion opened the antenna four times, but the enemy plane refused to drill into the net, and felt very angry.However, the battle was not over yet, and the hope of annihilating the enemy still existed, so he didn't bother to give orders to the third battalion. Seeing the Lightning Troops flying towards Gangel via Jalna and Akola, he immediately ordered: "Fourth Battalion, I order you to destroy the target!"

"We are determined to complete the task!"

After the third battalion turned on the antenna for the fourth time, the Blitz team corrected its course again, and flew right at the position of the fourth battalion.

At this time, Wei Changan, the newly appointed member of the Fourth Battalion, was staying in the No. 3 car. While learning about the preparations of the Third Battalion through the battalion command post, he carefully observed the movement of the enemy aircraft group. Flying to the camp, Wei Changan went out happily, thinking that the opportunity had come, the Lightning fighter was hailed by them as the unfailing eagle of the British Empire, mother, I will definitely shoot you down this time! "However, at this critical moment, he was a little hesitant whether to adopt the close-in combat method to bring the enemy aircraft group closer to fight. What he was most afraid of was that the third battalion would delay the aircraft.

At 10:41:40, the enemy aircraft group was 63 kilometers away, and Wei Changan issued an order to open the antenna.Unexpectedly, after the Blitz team flew another 4 kilometers, they turned a 30-degree turn in the air and flew towards the first battalion set up in an ambush in Kendwa.

"You british devil, you're so fucking cunning!" Wei Changan punched the car door angrily.

After the troops entered the first level of combat readiness, Deng Youguang, the battalion commander of the first battalion, had been carefully observing the movements of the enemy planes. When he saw the enemy planes escaped from the right side of the third battalion and flew towards the fourth battalion, he immediately shouted annoyedly: "It's over, It's over! The fourth battalion has taken the fighter plane. Our first battalion has lost the battle again." However, when he saw the fourth battalion open the antenna and push the enemy plane group to his side, he immediately became happy again, and quickly picked up the gun in his hand. Microphone, said loudly: "Attention, listen to my order to open the antenna!"

At 10:43:03, the enemy aircraft group was 65 kilometers away, and Deng Youguang issued an order to open the antenna. Ten seconds later, the enemy planes turned a 10-degree turn and flew towards the left side of the Fourth Battalion again.

In the base headquarters, Mao Bang was very angry when he saw that the battalion commanders did not dare to put the enemy planes closer to fight. Seeing that the enemy planes were about to escape, the group deployment would end in failure, so he ruthlessly Concentrating on it, he issued a death order to the first battalion to adopt a close-up combat method to annihilate the enemy planes.

"First Battalion, I order you to open the antenna within 45 kilometers, and use close-in combat to eliminate enemy planes!"

Deng Youguang was afraid of taking responsibility, so he immediately expressed his unwillingness to accept the order, and Mao Bangchu was furious.However, because the base headquarters could not communicate with Deng Youguang directly due to line problems, Mao Bangchu had to issue an order to the deputy battalion commander of the first battalion.But just after the order was issued, the cunning Lightning Squad didn't give the Flame Troop any chance, and quietly flew away from the outside of the Fourth Battalion.

The defeat this time made Mao Bangchu very annoyed, and he called the three battalion commanders together and scolded him.In the afternoon of this day, there was no news of the dispatch of the enemy aircraft group. Mao Bangchu thought that the Flame Troops had gone, and Bangalore was no longer an ideal hiding place, so he ordered the Flame Troops to pack up and march towards the important city of Jalna in the direction of Mumbai. Already under the control of the ground troops of the Dragon Army, Mao Bangchu believed that the traces of the enemy aircraft group would be captured there again.

Three days later, at 9:[-] p.m., the weapons train of the second echelon of the second battalion arrived in Jalna. The weapons of the third company unloaded the train, and the vehicles loaded with long swords arrived at the scheduled camp for assembly, and immediately began to prepare missiles overnight.

The gunpowder column loaded in the first-stage rocket motor of the missile is all packed in a wooden packing box; the box is lined with flannelette, so there will be no collision and friction during transportation.However, when the personnel in three rows opened the packing box of the gunpowder column, they suddenly found that there was a large area of ​​sweating on the gunpowder column, that is, a white powder like sweat stains appeared on the surface, which indicated that it might have expired.The Second Battalion quickly reported the matter to the headquarters.Mao Bangchu ordered the Second Battalion to say: "The higher-ups have discovered that there is a problem with this batch of gunpowder columns, and are now organizing airlifts. Before the new gunpowder columns arrive, the troops are still using these scrapped powder columns to prepare missiles."

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the second battalion and the third company finally prepared four missiles.This morning, Battalion Commander Yao Xijiu received a notice from the headquarters as soon as he got up: at 8:[-] am, a combat meeting was held in the headquarters on time.After a simple meal, Yao Xijiu and his staff officer Li immediately went to the headquarters for a meeting.

The headquarters is temporarily located in a private villa on the outskirts of Jalna. Of course, the owner of this villa has long since fled abroad to escape the flames of war.When Yao Xijiu arrived here, he saw that there were many sentries in front of the building, and the guards were heavily guarded.The conference room is located on the first floor.The meeting room is covered with red carpets, red velvet cloths are covered on the tables, the portrait of the emperor is hung on the wall behind the front seats, and the five-clawed golden dragon flag is hung below. The atmosphere inside is particularly solemn.

Early this morning, just after breakfast, Mao Bangchu received information from the Imperial Security Bureau: "The enemy aircraft group will come out for activities today."

Mao Bangchu didn't care about shaving anymore, and hurried to the meeting room on the first floor. At this time, the five staff officers from the headquarters and the four members of the air force combat leadership team had already arrived.Staff Officer Guo, who served as the duty commander of the headquarters, stepped forward and reported: "Reporting to the commander, after the headquarters received information from the Security Bureau at 7:01, we immediately issued a notice to the troops to 'ready for battle'. Now, The enemy aircraft group has been dispatched, and it is reported that the scale is even larger than last time. They have just flown out of Mumbai at an altitude of about 4500 meters. Their target this time may be our army’s artillery position in Jalna.”

"Oh, it's dispatched so soon." Mao Bangchu immediately sat in front of the combat drawing board, frowning and thinking: "Right now, the troops are not fully prepared for combat, and it seems that the enemy aircraft group will not be able to enter for a while. The firepower circle of the troops, how should we fight this battle?"

At this moment, Staff Officer Cai couldn't wait any longer and said, "Commander, according to the route map, it can be judged that the enemy aircraft group will not be able to enter the firepower circle of the troops for the time being. Do we have to prepare a camouflage in advance? Don't end up being bombed by them instead of being able to strike lightning." .”

Mao Bangchu's eyes lit up, and he said, "Order Lie Yan's ministries to camouflage the long sword immediately."

"Yes!"

Several people discussed for a while, and the battalion commanders of the four missile battalions came to the meeting room one after another.In order to shorten the meeting time, after the combat meeting officially started, Mao Bangchu said solemnly: "The lightning plane is here again. Everyone knows that Mumbai is where almost all the main fighter planes of the enemy army are concentrated. It's just that our missiles currently have insufficient range to attack the enemy in Mumbai." The air force base is conducting a straight-line strike, but there is an opportunity in front of us. This wave of enemy aircraft is very large. I think the enemy has spent a lot of money this time and is bound to destroy the artillery stationed in Jalna. We must not miss it this time We have to accept the lesson of the defeat in the battle on September 9th, and we must adopt close-in combat to defend against the enemy. Therefore, the headquarters decided to compress the antenna opening distance to 25 kilometers, and launch the missile 3638 seconds after the antenna is open. Below , you all need to make a statement; you can’t say nothing, you have to speak up whether you agree or disagree, and each battalion must express its attitude! Time is running out, hurry up!”

(End of this chapter)