554 Gao Zhihang's Counterattack
Confidence... This is the only expression on Gao Zhihang's face.
Seeing this, Li Guosheng was shocked and shocked.
Because, even in the eyes of Li Guosheng, the rebirth of the reborn, there is almost no possibility of completing the current equipment of the National Defense Force Air Force. Gao Zhihang, in front of him, told himself firmly that he had a way to complete the air strike, which made Li Guosheng shocked and surprised.
Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, Li Guosheng still restored his guilt to calm down in a very short period of time.
He asked Gao Zhihang with anticipation, "Your solution is..."
"Using night cover to launch air strikes on the Soviet field airport... As long as we use night cover to cover, we can escape the layers of defense arranged by the Soviet Red Army along the way and enter the airplane over the Soviet field airport. Not only that, only at night, the air defense of the Russian field airport is the weakest, which is most conducive to our launching air strikes..."
"Flying at night..." Li Guosheng couldn't help but exclaim...
You should know that before the fighter jets are equipped with radar, night is a taboo and death for the aircraft. Especially on the dark outer Mongolia grassland, because there is no target that can be used to guide the plane's flight direction, any accident may cause the plane to deviate from its course and eventually the plane is destroyed and the people are killed because they cannot find the airport to land.
Therefore, in this current era, Li Guosheng, who came from later generations, rarely ordered the Air Force to fly and fight at night.
Thinking of this, Li Guosheng refused firmly and said, "No... Commander Gao, don't you know that night flight is suicide for the Air Force... Without any flight coordinates, can you find the bombing target of the Soviet field airport... Of course, even if you complete the bombing, you can ensure that the bomber group successfully returns to the airport and land safely..."
If it were someone else, Li Guosheng asked a question in front of him and would definitely be frightened and sweating. Because Li Guosheng, who was standing in front of him, was not an ordinary person, but the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces who held the power of millions of troops to kill.
However, what surprised Li Guosheng to arrive again was that Gao Zhihang was still looking at him with a confident look on his face, and did not retreat at all after he asked him.
Under such circumstances, Li Guosheng had to change his tone and continued to ask back: "Teacher Gao. If you can solve all the dangers faced by the plane for night flight, I will agree to your combat request and air strike on the Soviet field airport..."
Gao Zhihang's confident facial expression finally changed slightly.
A strange smile flashed through Gao Zhihang's mouth and replied to Li Guosheng: "Master, I really have a way to solve the various dangers faced by the plane for night flight..."
After saying that, without waiting for the shocked Li Guosheng to react, he continued: "The first time I saw the radar, I felt that the radar would play a very huge role in future air force operations. After such a long period of analysis and research, I found that with the help of ground radar, we can completely solve a series of dangers of aircraft during night flight..."
"Through ground radar, we will guide the specific flight direction of the night flight aircraft... In this way, even at night without any flight coordinates, we will not deviate from the flight direction and accurately reach our destination..."
Li Guosheng's eyes lit up and he suddenly reacted.
In his later ideas, the aircraft only started to fly at night after being equipped with radar. Over time, Li Guosheng's mind slowly formed a fixed mindset. Only after reducing the radar just developed by the army and equipting it onto the aircraft can the aircraft with radar fly at night...
Now that Gao Zhihang reminded him, Li Guosheng immediately came out of this fixed mindset. He said excitedly: "You are right. With the radar guiding the ground, the plane can fly safely at night..."
After saying that, Li Guosheng also began to look forward to and confidence in this night air raid plan. He asked Gao Zhihang with a hot face: "Teacher Gao, your specific plan is..."
The action plan was approved by Li Guosheng, and the first thing Gao Zhihang showed was excitement on his face. After the excitement, he directly reported: "The chief rank, plus the first Air Division reinforced the three fighter brigades of Outer Mongolia. Our Air Force in Outer Mongolia has a total of seven fighter brigades and five bomber brigades..."
"My idea is to draw five fighter brigades and five bomber brigades from them. A total of 360 fighter jets launched air strikes at Soviet field airports under the guidance of ground radar troops... The five fighter jet brigades dispatched, in addition to carrying their own weapons and ammunition, each fighter was equipped with two 250 kilograms of aviation bombs...."
"Each fighter carries 500 kilograms of aviation bombs, each fighter carries two tons of aviation bombs, and all ten flight brigades are 450 tons of aviation bombs. So many aviation bombs are enough to give Soviet field airports a devastating blow."
"Yes..." Li Guosheng affirmed loudly.
After a brief analysis, he continued: "In order to ensure the smooth progress of the entire air strike plan, I will order the ground troops to take the initiative to attack and cover the air force operations that night..."
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief... With ground troops covering the attack, our air strike will definitely be successful. At that time, we can eliminate at least 1,000 various aircraft of the Soviet Red Army at one time at a minimum cost, weaken the strength of the Soviet Far East Red Army Air Force as much as possible, and lay the foundation for our army's future counterattack..." Gao Zhihang said confidently.
"Woooooooooooooo... boom... boom..." A series of rapid and sharp artillery shells whistling sounded over the battlefield, and violent explosions of artillery shells immediately reached everyone's ears. Dozens of orange-red fireballs that soared into the sky also appeared in front of everyone at the right time.
Tukhachevsky, chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, rushed out of the tent, wanting to know what the sound of cannons was.
Just as he held up his telescope and looked in the direction of the fireball, a combat staff officer suddenly rushed out of the tent and reported to him: "Report to the commander-in-chief, the front line was suddenly bombarded by the enemy. According to observations, the Chinese used at least one heavy artillery artillery artillery artillery, and the firepower was extremely fierce, which was very rare in the battle for half a month..."
"Does the National Defense Force want to launch a night attack on us..." Tukhachevsky thought subconsciously.
Frowning frowned, he ordered the Chief of Staff of the Far East Army who arrived later: "Whether the National Defense Forces really intend to launch a counterattack on us, we must be ready for battle..."
"Order.... Frontline troops retreat immediately... Second-line positions, prepare for anti-tank warfare... Artillery clusters. Immediately counterattack the Wehrmacht artillery positions and destroy it. At the same time, at least five heavy artillery divisions were left to shell out the tank clusters that might appear in the Wehrmacht..."
When hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army prepared in an orderly manner under the order of Tukhachevsky, a secret field airport about ten kilometers away from the battlefield, nearly half of the fighter jets and bombers of the Second Air Division were like model soldiers receiving inspections, arranged very neatly on both sides of the runway, under the lights, the silver-white fuselage emitted a burst of cold light.
Nearly a thousand fully armed fighter pilots and bomber bombers stood motionless in the center of the flight runway, forming a huge infantry phalanx, waiting for the commander of the Second Air Division Gao Zhihang to issue an order.
After glanced at the pilot trained by himself in front of him, Gao Zhihang, with a proud face, shouted loudly: "Brothers, it has been a day or two for us to participate in the National Defense Forces. I won't say much more about the extra words. I just want to tell you that if this air strike was done tonight, there were at least a thousand Soviet fighter jets in our hands, which means that everyone standing here can get two fighter jets. Therefore, I hope everyone can fight this battle well, let the Soviets taste the power of our Chinese Air Force, and give the Soviet Air Force an unprecedented lesson..."
"Now I order. All participants will board the plane immediately... The night air attack in the air will be personally directed by my Gao Zhihang..."
A sharp whistle sounded in the middle of the square formation, and more than a thousand pilots and bomb throwers who formed the square formation quickly scattered and ran towards their car. In less than two minutes, the roar of the fighter engine sounded at the airport one after another...
"Woooooooo..." When a rapid and sharp whistling sounded at the airport shells, a silver-white fighter first rushed out of the runway and rushed into the dark night sky.
The moment the first fighter jet took off, several other flight runways also whistled, and the four fighter jets rushed to the sky from four different directions.
In less than an hour, more than 500 fighter jets were all launched...
Taking the flight brigade as a unit, it becomes a small formation. Then, using three small formations as a unit, one kilometer apart from each other, it becomes a large formation in a font shape... As for the five fighter formations with aviation bombs, they are scattered in a herringbone shape on both wings of the bomber formation...
After the huge group of aircraft were marshaled, under the guidance of ground radar, bypassed the battlefield and quietly approached the Soviet field airport under the cover of night.
A straight line distance of 200 kilometers. Even though the Second Air Division took a lot of roads, it took only an hour to approach the Soviet field airport. When the lights shining towards the sky at the Soviet field airport appeared in front of Gao Zhihang, a smile from the heart quickly appeared on Gao Zhihang's face...
He ordered in a hot tone to the headphones wearing his head: "The target is ten kilometers ahead of us, and each formation is ready for combat immediately... The five fighter brigades launched the attack first. After throwing the aviation bomb, they covered the bomber formation to ensure the smooth progress of the entire bombing operation..."
"All fighter jets, immediately lower their flight altitude, start free attacks based on the flight brigade..."
In the huge field airport, the well-lit command tower is undoubtedly the most obvious attack target at the airport. After rapidly reducing the flight altitude, Gao Zhihang without accident designated the first attack target as the field airport command tower.
After adding the fighter's power to the maximum state, a more noisy engine roar directly penetrated the earmuffs and reached Gao Zhihang's ears. The silver-white fighter weighing several tons also began to tremble violently because of the sudden increase in the speed of the fighter's aircraft, as if it suddenly disintegrated in the air, which was very scary.
However, this process was obviously very short. The silver-white fuselage quickly adapted to the moment of this flight speed, and the attack target was only one last kilometer away from the fighter.
At this moment, Gao Zhihang, who was sitting in the fighter plane, could clearly see that in the face of the sudden attack, the entire Soviet field airport was directly in chaos because it was not prepared. At least so far, except for the continuous fireworks of rifles and light machine gun bullets that did not threaten him, there was not even a single anti-aircraft artillery shell.
Seeing this, Gao Zhihang was more confident about the air strike.
In order to ensure the accuracy of bomb drops, Gao Zhihang, who had a sneer on his face, urgently needed to lower the aircraft's flight altitude.
Seeing that the fighter plane being driven by Gao Zhihang was about to hit the tower, two black aviation bombs quickly broke away from the constraints of the plane and smashed towards the ground tower with a harsh whistling sound of breaking through the air.
Just as the two aviation bombs left the plane, the weight of the fighter fuselage suddenly decreased, under the powerful force, it was like a rocket that had accumulated a lot of energy rushed into the sky.
"Boom..." When two distance explosions sounded on the ground, Gao Zhihang's fighter plane had already flown to a height of more than a thousand meters. Looking back at the ground, the wooden tower of the airport, which was just brightly lit, was now covered by two orange-red fireballs that had risen from the air.
The moment Gao Zhihang launched the attack, the 35 fighter jets behind him also rushed to the targets they thought were the most valuable and might threaten them.
So, all kinds of explosions sounded like firecrackers, and they rang out at the Soviet field airport.
The field airport, which had only lights for lighting just now, was illuminated by the flames suddenly rising from the ground. Every fighter plane, every air defense position, and even the Soviet soldiers who were panicking on the ground... The pilots at a height of 1,000 meters could see clearly.
It was not until this moment that the air defense positions deployed by the Soviet army around the field airport gradually showed signs of counterattack.
However, in the dark night sky, the Soviet air defense forces could not find the shooting target at all, and could only use the anti-aircraft artillery to shoot blindly over the airport, intending to form an unbreakable air defense net over the airport through the fire density.
However, in the first round of attack led by Gao Zhihang, several air defense positions were attacked and turned into a sea of fire. Although the Soviet army launched a dense air defense fire network, there were always several loopholes placed in front of the Second Air Division.
The Second Fighter Brigade of the Second Air Division, 36 fighters quickly broke through several breakthrough points. With the light fuselage of the fighter, they dodged back and forth in the air defense fire network and rushed straight to the Soviet army's air defense position just exposed.
In the dense air defense firepower network, although a fighter jet exploded in the air due to insufficient dodging. However, these losses did not scare away the remaining fighter jets.
After losing five fighter jets in a row, the whistling fighter jets finally locked in the attack target.
Dozens of aviation bombs quickly hit the ground with a whistling sound, and exploded amid the terrifying cry of the Soviet air defense forces, turning into balls of orange-red fireballs and soaring from the ground.
Several air defense positions that were just like a fire hedgehog have turned into a sea of fire at this moment.
Six air defense positions were lost again. The remaining air defense firepower of the Soviet army was even weaker, and it could be called a loophole everywhere.
The 36 fighter jets of the Third Fighter Brigade of the Second Air Division were like an eagle that discovered its prey, rushing towards the target without moving forward...
The final result was unsurprisingly attacked by five fighter brigades in succession. The largest field airport located behind the Soviet army was completely destroyed because the surrounding air defense positions were completely destroyed and completely turned into an unfortified airport. Five bomber brigades under the Second Division were ravaged...
At the Soviet General Command, the artillery cluster began to counterattack, and tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers entered the state of combat... After a series of preparations were completed, Tukhachevsky returned to his position, waiting for the latest battle report on the front line with a calm expression.
As the sound of artillery on the battlefield became more and more sparse, Tukhachevsky felt that the defense force on the opposite side had a loud thunder and little rain, and he didn't dare to launch a counterattack on him at this time.
A combatant rushed to Tukhachevsky in horror and reported loudly: "Comrade Chief... Airport, we were attacked at the field airport in the rear. The National Wehrmacht dispatched at least hundreds of fighter jets to attack us..."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible... It's night now, how could the National Defense Forces plane fly at night? You are lying about military information..." Tukhachevsky said with a firm denial.
The combat staff loudly affirmed: "Chief, I don't believe this is the fact... But whether it is the airport garrison or the air force commander-in-chief sent a telegram to the command center for help... Please send troops to reinforce the airport immediately..."
Tukhachevsky grabbed the telegram and started browsing.
The expression of suspicion, which was just now full of doubt, was instantly replaced by surprise. He murmured to himself with a telegram: "How is it possible? How did the National Defense Forces do it? How could their planes fly at night? Aren't they worried about the destruction of the plane? "
The Chief of Staff of the Far East Military Region, who had already learned about the general situation, suddenly spoke: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I think this is the desperate attack of the National Defense Forces before they learn that they are about to fail. They want to weaken the strength of our air force through this desperate fight."
"Although night flight is full of danger, it is not impossible. For the National Defense Forces, which have suffered great losses, it is better to fight to the death if it is consumed by us in the daytime air battle."
Chapter completed!