New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() This defeat actually did not deal a big blow to the morale of the "Reverse Cross". After all, due to the influence of clouds in this battle, there are too many uncertain factors, and there is a lot of luck in the victory or defeat.But Poington, who was "shot down", was unlucky. Now, almost all the instructors will make fun of him by "not even holding on for 15 seconds" after seeing him.

"You guys, in that situation, if it were you, would you be able to support it?" Boynton blushed, and his beards, which hadn't been trimmed for several days, stood up one by one.

Those who make fun of him certainly dare not say that they can last longer in that situation.In fact, in that situation, being shot down is almost a certainty.But they still have their own arguments:

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

This almost shameless answer made Boyington even more angry.But he knows that those boring guys just want to see him rage, and he knows those bastards too well, because he is such a person himself.So, Boynton calmed down instead, and then smiled.

"Have you idiots heard of the 'limited luck' law?" He looked around pretendingly, "A person's luck is limited, if you use too much in one place, you won't be enough in other places Only fools are willing to waste their luck in meaningless mock battles."

Then, he proudly raised his head and walked away swaggeringly.

……

In the last small team contest, the weather didn't help anyone anymore. As a result, relying on the superiority of the aircraft's performance, coupled with the innate skill "Aerial Bumper Car" of Soviet ace Kovzan, he was unconditionally banned from using it . "Reverse Cross" scored another victory.In this way, in the initial skirmish, the Americans won.This made the Soviets very unhappy. Some Soviets said that if they brought the La-5fn over, they would definitely beat the Yankees to the ground.Although the Yankees expressed their "letter cut", they admitted in their hearts that in this confrontation, because the difference in the performance of the aircraft used by the two sides is obvious, it is indeed a bit invincible.However, because of Ron's order, those guys put on a smug look in front of the Soviets. They would all raise their noses high, and then throw out a sentence: "The winner is not to be blamed."

Ron had a reason for doing this, because the next rehearsal program was a scaled-up confrontation exercise with a tactical background.In order to save face, the Soviets will definitely play more seriously in this more familiar project, so that the Americans can learn more.

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

The blue team's armored force launched an attack on the red team's defense line in a certain area.The red team sent an attack aircraft group to try to attack the blue team's armored forces, and sent a fighter group to escort them.The blue fighters were ordered to protect the armored forces and repel the attacking aircraft.According to the agreement of the two parties, if more than 4% of the armored vehicles of the armored force survive within 50.00 hours, it will be regarded as the victory of the blue team, otherwise it will be regarded as the victory of the red team.

Such missions are the norm on the Eastern Front.More than half of the combat missions flown by most Soviet pilots were in this category.

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

In this drill, the "Reverse Cross" and the Soviets will play the red and blue sides successively according to the drawing of lots. The instructors in the "Reverse Cross" establishment are more fighter pilots.This makes there really not many top pilots in terms of ground attack.Well, there are quite a few good bombers in the navy, but since they belong to the navy, most of them 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’s defense The army is tighter than anti-Japanese spies.Second, these naval elites are more familiar with attacking warships rather than tanks and other targets.So in the end, "Inverse Cross" decided to simply bring in the rookie bomber pilots who were being trained to fly the 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 like a light bomber in terms of shape and structure.This is just right for those rookie bomber pilots to drive.

The Soviets didn't bring many attack aircraft pilots, so Ron proposed that the Soviets also use A-20 attack aircraft piloted by American rookie pilots as their attack aircraft force when they played the role of the red team. People also agreed.It was only after they practiced together with those rookies a few times that they vaguely revealed such a meaning: Yankee's ground attack skills are really a problem!

So Ron simply suggested that they transfer a few more authentic attack aircraft pilots from the Soviet Union.In this regard, the Soviets said that it was too troublesome, so forget it.It seems that the Soviets still have reservations about the skills of ground attack.

While the two sides practiced with each other and the a-20 troops assigned to them, they joined forces and began to arrange the exercise site.

Although the "Reverse Cross" is an army team, there is absolutely no armored unit in the assigned troops.Don't talk about high-end products like armored troops, even ordinary ground combat troops don't have them.At most, but with a little garrison.What about the "armored forces" in the exercise?

Ron remembered that when the Germans were studying the "Blitzkrieg", there were no tanks, but they used Volkswagen trucks to wrap wooden boards to simulate tanks.Anyway, there are a lot of "reverse cross" cars, so it's not impossible to pretend to be a car.It's just that they still lack talents who have a better understanding of ground offense and ground air defense.

Ron reported this issue to General Arnold, hoping that the general could send them an expert in this area.Unexpectedly, the next day, he got a reply from the general.General Arnold actually transferred him a real armored force!

However, the performance of this so-called "real armored force" still made the Soviets shake their heads.In Valia's words, that is, if this army goes to the battlefield like this, whether it is us or the Germans, whether it is air strikes or ground troops, they will be able to beat them to the north.

Ron knew that Valia wasn't bragging when he said that, at least not yet.In history, when the U.S. Army first landed in North Africa, it was repaired by the Germans.Then he was nicknamed "Our Italians" by the British who watched the excitement.

Fortunately, the Soviets did not complain in vain, and they would also propose improvements.Of course, the bastards don't say "what will our Soviet Red Army do", but they will tell the Yankees "the Fritzes are like this...such...such."

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

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"Although we don't have much experience in escorting attack aircraft clusters that perform close support missions, there are commonalities among various air combat experiences. We have performed many missions to escort bombers. These missions are actually In principle, it's pretty much the same..."

"According to the situation of the drill a few days ago, if the A-20 wants to hit the target accurately, it must lower its altitude, so as to ensure the precision of the machine gun, machine gun and rocket attack. If the flying altitude of the A-20 drops, Then the flying altitude of our escort fighter jets must also be lowered accordingly. But in this way, the altitude advantage may be handed over to the Soviets."

"Well, in this way, the Russians will have the opportunity to defeat our escort formation first, and then go to slaughter 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 from the Soviet Union, I'd choose a p-47—you dare not choose a p-47 to escort low-altitude targets? Then I'll just pounce on it and wipe out those rookies. "

"How about we divide the escort team into two layers..." Ron said.Here again, Ron shamelessly plagiarized someone else's idea.The practice of dividing the escort cluster into upper and lower layers is a typical formation of the Soviet Air Force.If this time they can successfully treat their own body in their own way, it is estimated that the Soviets will really cry.

"Well, what if..."

"I have another suggestion, how about we go to attack their airport early in the morning?"

"Father, your trick is dark enough. I think..."

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

"In the first round, it was the Americans who had escort missions. Let's talk about it, how should we deal with it?" Ke Jing knew that he was not from a serious combat force.On this issue, it is still necessary to listen to the opinions of the aces.

"First of all, the most important thing is forewarning. The American airport is not far from the exercise site. Both their fighter jets and A-20 attack aircraft have a good range, which is enough to detour from different routes to the sky over the target area. If we have to When it comes to effective air crew pre-warning, it will be very passive."

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

"Is it worth such trouble?" Valia stood up, and picked up a wooden stick used to point to the sand table.

"Look, this is the American airport, and this is ours. The exercise will start after 6:5 tomorrow morning. Our armored units will attack under our command, and we can take off around [-]:[-]. , Before the armored forces launch an attack, immediately conduct a counter-fire preparation on the American airport..."

"Is this the right thing to do?" Kotin asked.

"Why is it inappropriate? When we fly over the U.S. airport, the exercise has already begun! The exercise is not an act, but a preparation for war! Even if you don't understand this, do you need me to teach you?"