Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 1062 Air Force Attack

  “…”

   "It sounds so unreliable to expect the Army Air Corps to break the deadlock?" Major General Han Haiping asked in surprise.

Lieutenant General Wu Shixun glared. At this time, Major General Han Haiping realized that he had said the wrong thing in a hurry. He patted his forehead with his right hand with a wry smile, and blamed himself; If you care about it, you will be confused. If you lend me two more courage, I don’t dare to question the decision of the Marshal. It’s just that this Army Air Force has never shown much performance, and it suddenly shoulders a heavy responsibility. No matter how you look at it, it is a bit mysterious!”

   "The Expeditionary Force Command has decided that the Army Air Corps has begun to compete for air supremacy over the Somme River. How effective is it, I have no idea?" Lieutenant General Wu Shixun raised his head and looked east.

   His eyes seemed to cross the channel and over the Somme...

   Somme Battlefield

   In the clear blue sky, Lieutenant Colonel Hou Shude led the fighter group of his brigade roaring past the positions of the confronting two sides.

   Looking down from an aerial perspective

  There are long ravines everywhere in a radius of 20 to 30 kilometers, like unsightly scars, laying out between the vast land, one after another, most of which are trenches dug by the Germans.

Whenever a trench was broken by the British and French allied forces, another trench was dug in the back. The trench was cut along the valley, and the river cut the earth. There were countless charred bomb craters, barbed wire fences, military camps and dopings everywhere. The artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions mixed in between reveal a **** hellish smell.

   It is on this land of more than 200 square kilometers that Britain, France, Germany and other countries paid a heavy price of nearly 2 million casualties of officers and soldiers, almost tens of thousands of officers and soldiers per square kilometer, and blood has soaked this land.

   Lieutenant Colonel Hou Shude looked down from time to time. Behind the trenches of the British and French allied forces, there were landmarks from the flag soldiers of the Royal Army Air Force of the Ocean Empire. There was one every 2 kilometers.

   These flag soldiers are in squad units and spread across the entire Roma front line. Within a 50-kilometer-wide attack area, there are a total of 26 flag squads, with 7 people in each squad.

   Their task was to immediately unfold a flag with two sheets as large as the imperial plane was flying overhead, marked "Yiqi" in large red characters, and an arrow symbol was added on it.

   Through these flags, the pilots can quickly know which airspace they are in and which direction the Germans are in? Important information such as the specific location of the German artillery positions.

   After their own planes passed, the flag soldiers immediately closed the flag to avoid being discovered by the Germans.

   Hou Shude drove the fighter jet over the battlefield. He pulled the joystick to raise the fighter jet. According to the news from the front, there were German aircraft in the airspace.

   The 23 fighter jets that followed followed also climbed higher to get a better view.

   Searching for a while

   Lieutenant Colonel Hou Shude saw dozens of black dots in the distance. He regained his spirits and controlled the plane to shake his wings a few times.

   Dozens of silver fighter planes whizzed by in the air, chasing and killing in the air, the roar of the engine resounded through the sky and the ground, constantly shooting down the German planes one by one.

   This caused the excited shouts of the British and French troops on the position, cheering for the warriors in the air.

  These nasty German planes are like flies, they always put dozens of grenades in the airfield, and drop them one by one as they skim over the trenches.

   Although not many people were injured, it always caused great fear among the soldiers.

  Ocean Empire's fighter planes rolled over the German army with their skilled combat skills and advanced fighter plane performance as soon as they appeared, and beat the opponent down from the sky like a turkey, which made people feel very happy.

  Consecutive week

  The German planes on the Somme front were destroyed 477, and the silver planes depicting the tricolor battle flag of the Ocean Empire ruled the sky, which made the German army feel a great crisis.

  Perona

   Here is the headquarters of the German 2nd Army on the Somme Front. The whole town is full of strong defense facilities and German soldiers passing by. On the artillery positions on the outskirts of the town, the dark and high artillery barrels are as dense as forests.

   Inside the Wehrmacht headquarters

Admiral Fritz von Billow, commander of the 1st Army, stood in front of the map with a dignified expression, and Admiral Galwitz, commander of the 2nd Army, stood beside him. The two were listening to Chief of Staff Edgar von Billow. Manstein introduces the situation on the front line.

   "Dear Commander;

The situation we are facing now is extremely severe. The aircraft sent by Ocean Empire this time is code-named "Lightning". Just like its name, this is a very advanced aircraft that we have never seen before. It is fast, powerful and far superior in performance. Our aircraft.

  As a first-class industrial country with advanced technology, it is not surprising that the Ocean Empire hides some new weapons, but the aircraft that appeared over the Somme was more than a generation ahead, which put us in a great dilemma.

  We have 672 fighter jets, 477 of them have been shot down in just one week, and hundreds of heroic German pilots have died. Lifting into the air has almost become a mortal task, which also led to the remaining pilots refusing to fight.

  Without aircraft, we have no way of knowing the enemy's troop movements and offensive preparations, nor the position of the enemy's artillery positions, and we cannot take targeted measures to defend.

   This will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of our army and cast a shadow on the overall battle.

  The technical department is currently taking emergency measures, but according to the information from the rear aircraft manufacturers, the advantage of the Ocean Empire lies in the advanced high-horsepower aero-engines, and this is the defect that we do not have and cannot be overcome in a short time. "

"A short period of time is a very interesting word. To be honest, I don't like it. Your Excellency Chief of Staff, can you please tell me exactly how long it is? Three months or four months?" Admiral Fritz, maintaining With the usual rigorous attitude of Germans, he frowned and asked.

The issue was so important that Lieutenant-General Edgar von Manstein, Chief of Staff, could not ignore this issue, he replied; "After repeatedly questioning Mr. Fokker, chief designer of Fokker Aircraft Company, his answer was high-power aviation The engine needs to be built on the basis of the overall aviation technology progress, and a strong technical team should be established to invest heavily in research and development.

  Fake oil, the cream of mushroom soup has cooled down for so long.

   Admiral Fritz von Bilo looked at Admiral Galwitz in disappointment, and suddenly felt a headache.

  The Ocean Empire army has not yet appeared, and it has given them a big problem. According to reports from the United Kingdom, the armored tank force of the Ocean Empire is also equipped with a heavy tank, which has never appeared on the European battlefield before.

   Compared with the huge, bloated and slow cruise tanks developed by Britain, France, Germany and other countries, this new type of heavy tank has very good mobility, and the heavy armor looks good in defense, which is another big headache.

   (end of this chapter)