() This defeat actually did not have a big impact on the morale of the "Reverse Cross". After all, due to the influence of clouds in this battle, there were too many uncertain factors, and there was a lot of luck involved in the outcome. However,

Boyington, who was "shot down", was unlucky. Now, after seeing him, almost all the instructors would make fun of him by saying "he couldn't even hold on for 15 seconds."

"You guys, if it were you, how could you withstand this situation?" Boynton's face turned red, and his beard that had not been trimmed for several days stood up one by one.

Of course, those who made fun of him did not dare to say that they could last longer in such a situation. In fact, if they fell into that situation, being shot down was almost a certainty. But they still had their own explanations:

"We are not like you, who can carry luck like this. You know, luck is also a part of strength."

This almost shameless answer made Boyington even more angry. But he knew that those boring guys wanted to see him furious. He knew those bastards too well, because he himself was such a person. So,

Boyington calmed down instead, and then smiled.

"Have you idiots ever heard of the law of 'limited luck'?" He looked around pretending to be proud, "A person's luck is limited. If you use too much in one place, there won't be enough in other places.

.Only a fool is willing to waste all his luck in a meaningless simulated battle."

Then, he held his head up proudly and walked away swaggeringly.

…

In the last small formation competition, the weather could no longer help anyone. As a result, relying on the superiority of aircraft performance and Soviet ace Kovzan's talent skill "Air Bumper Car", he was unconditionally prohibited from using it.

.The "Reverse Cross" achieved another victory. In this way, in the initial small-scale confrontation, the Americans won. This made the Soviets very unhappy. Some Soviets said that if they brought the La-5fn over,

, it will definitely beat the Yankees to the ground. Although the Yankees expressed their "letters to kill", they admitted in their hearts that in this competition, because the performance difference between the aircraft used by the two sides was very obvious, there was indeed some

Victory is not possible with force. But because of Ron's order, those guys put on a proud look in front of the Soviets. They would raise their noses high and say: "The winner is not blamed."

."

Ron did this for a reason, because the next exercise project is an expanded confrontation exercise with a tactical background. In order to save face, the Soviets will definitely play more seriously in this project that they are more familiar with. In this way, the United States

People can also learn more things.

The reason why the so-called expanded confrontation drill with a tactical background is more familiar to the Soviets is because the project is set up like this:

The blue side's armored forces launched an attack on the red side's defense line in a certain area. The red side sent a group of attack aircraft to try to attack the blue side's armored units, and sent a group of fighter jets to escort them. The blue side's fighter jets were ordered to protect the armored units and repel the attacking group of aircraft.

According to the agreement between the two sides, if more than 50% of the armored vehicles of the armored force survive within 4 hours, it will be regarded as the victory of the blue side, otherwise it will be regarded as the victory of the red side.

Such missions were common on the Eastern Front battlefield. More than half of the combat missions performed by most Soviet pilots were of this type.

Close-range ground fire support is also a subject that the Americans have less experience and urgently need to make up for. Ron hopes that the previous victory will stimulate the Soviets to show more real skills.

In this exercise, the "Reverse Cross" and the Soviets will draw lots and play the roles of the red and blue sides. The instructors in the "Reverse Cross" establishment are mostly fighter pilots. This makes the top pilots still more capable in ground attack.

Not many really. Well, there are quite a few good bombers in the Navy, but since they are from the Navy, they probably won’t be able to do it (

I heard that the navy is also preparing to develop its own set of similar things). To be honest, sometimes the navy is more strict against the army than against Japanese spies. Secondly, these navy elites are more familiar with attacking warships rather than tanks and other targets.

.So in the end, "Reverse Cross" decided to simply bring in the rookie bomber pilots who were undergoing training to fly attack aircraft.

The Americans do not have an attack aircraft similar to the IL-2, so one role can only be replaced by the A-20 attack aircraft. Although the A-20 is branded as an attack aircraft, it is more similar in shape and structure to

It is a light bomber. It is suitable for those rookie bomber pilots to fly.

The Soviets did not bring many attack aircraft pilots, so Ron proposed that the Soviet side also use A-20 attack aircraft flown by American rookie pilots to serve as their own attack aircraft force when playing the red side.

The people also agreed. It was only after they practiced together with the rookies a few times that they vaguely revealed this meaning: The Yankees' ground attack skills are really problematic!

So Ron simply suggested that they transfer a few authentic attack aircraft pilots from the Soviet Union. In response, the Soviets said that it was too troublesome, so they had to forget it. It seemed that the Soviets still had reservations about their ground attack skills.

of.

While the two sides were practicing together with their respective A-20 units assigned to them, they jointly began to set up the exercise site.

Although the "Reverse Cross" is a team of the Army, there are absolutely no armored units in the attached units. Not to mention high-end products like armored units, there are also ordinary ground combat units. At most, they are only attached to a few garrison units.

What to do with the "armored troops" in the exercise?

Ron remembered that when the Germans were studying the "Blitzkrieg", they didn't have tanks yet, but they used Volkswagen trucks covered with wooden boards to simulate tanks. Anyway, there are so many "reverse cross" cars, so it's not like just pretending to be a car.

No. It's just that they still lack talents who know more about ground offense and ground air defense.

Ron reported this problem to General Arnold, hoping that the general could send them an expert in this field. Unexpectedly, the next day, he got a reply from the general. General Arnold actually sent him a real army

Armored troops!

However, the performance of this so-called "real armored force" still made the Soviets shake their heads. In Varya's words, that is, if this force goes to the battlefield like this, whether it is us or the Germans, regardless of whether it is us or the Germans,

Whether they use air strikes or ground troops, they can be defeated until they can't find their way north.

Ron knew that Varya was not bragging when he said this, at least not now. Historically, when the U.S. Army first landed in North Africa, it was badly repaired by the Germans. Then it was given a nickname by the British who were watching the fun.

, called “Our Side of the Italians.”

Fortunately, the Soviets' complaints are not in vain. They will also put forward suggestions for improvement. Of course, the idiots will not say "What will our Soviet Red Army do", but they will tell the Americans "Fritz and others are like this...

...like this.”

In this way, a week later, all preparations are completed, and according to the draw, the "Reverse Cross" will play the red side in the first round three days later.

…

"Although we don't have much experience in escorting groups of attack aircraft performing close support missions, there are similarities between various air combat experiences. We have performed many missions to escort bombers. In fact, these missions

The principle is similar..."

"Based on the drills of the past few days, if the A-20 wants to hit the target accurately, it must lower its altitude, so as to ensure the accuracy of the machine gun and rocket attacks. If the A-20's flight altitude drops,

Then the flying altitude of our escort fighters must also be lowered. But in this case, it is possible to give up the altitude advantage to the Soviets."

"Well, in this way, the Russians will have the opportunity to defeat our escort formation first, and then massacre those rookie A-20s."

"Then why don't we simply increase the height difference between the escort formation and the attack formation?"

"That's even worse. If I were a Soviet, I would choose a P-47 - you don't dare to choose a P-47 to escort low-altitude targets? Then I would just pounce on them and wipe out all those rookies.

"

"How about we divide the escort team into two layers..." Ron said. Here, Ron shamelessly plagiarized other people's ideas again. The method of dividing the escort group into two layers, high and low, is a typical formation of the Soviet Air Force.

.If we can successfully treat others with the same kind of treatment this time, I think the Soviets will really cry.

"That's it, what if..."

"I have another suggestion. How about we sneak attack their airport early in the morning?"

"Dad, your move is quite dark. I think..."

…

In the Soviet conference room, the Soviets were also meeting to discuss tactics.

"In the first round, the escort missions are from the Americans. Tell us, how should we respond?" Kogin knows that he is not from a serious combat force. On this kind of issue, you still have to listen to the aces.

of opinions.

"First of all, the most important thing is to predict. The American airport is not far from the exercise site. Their fighter jets and A-20 attack aircraft have good ranges, enough to detour to the target area from different routes. If we have to

If we don’t have effective air crew forecasting, we will be very passive.”

"How about we arrange a reconnaissance plane to keep an eye on the Americans?"

"Do you need to go to such trouble?" Varya stood up and picked up a wooden stick used to point at the sand table.

"Look, this is the American airport, and this is ours. The exercise will start after 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. Our armored forces will launch an attack under our instructions, and we can take off around 5 o'clock.

, before the armored forces launch an attack, immediately conduct a counter-fire preparation for the American airport..."

"Is this appropriate?" Kogin asked.
Chapter completed!