July 29, 1918 10:35 Samara Alliance Command

"Commander-in-Chief, according to the situation reported by the Allies, the entire Luftwaffe airplanes are more than three times more than us. Our domestic aircraft production capacity is far from enough. Although the victory in the past two days has boosted morale, the Germans will never give up. Next, if the other party draws the flight wing from the concentrated East Line and then from the Western Line, will our airline team lose too much? I'm afraid that we will damage our vitality."

The person speaking was Jiang Hongyu, the chief of staff of the coalition forces and logistics commander. He was in charge of logistics and knew the domestic scheduling of the armed forces production and transportation. At this moment, there were only three coalition flight regiments on the front line of the Volga Federation. In less than two days, 68 fighter jets and 38 pilots were lost. The losses of both aircraft and pilots were a bit unexpected. This made Jiang Hongyu feel a little worried after the great excitement and excitement of the victory of the first battle.

"Jiang Sang, I don't agree with you about your statement. It is urgent for the Southwest Front to launch the Ukrainian battle. If the coalition air force avoids the war due to great losses, it will hand over the air supremacy over Ukraine. How can the Ukrainian battle be fought? Originally, the German army had more heavy artillery than us. If the other party was allowed to bombard the enemy in the sky, the huge casualties of our ground troops would affect the implementation of the Ukrainian battle?"

On the one hand, the deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, commander of the 1st Japanese Army, and General Tanaka Yoichi, who also serves as the commander of the 8th Army of the Mechanization of the Central Front of the Alliance, was the first to stand up to oppose it. Of course, this guy is right. If the coalition air force cannot control or at least partially control the air supremacy above the Ukrainian war zone, then the advancement of Utsumiya Taro's ground troops will encounter huge trouble. The previous Ufa battle was only defeated by the Soviet Red Army, which has a great relationship with the coalition's complete control of air supremacy.

In the face of air-ground coordinated bombardment, even the strongest troops may not be able to defend the front line. Artillery positions may be subject to air strikes at any time and have to be transferred and hiding. How can artillery fire be used to support the defense or attack of ground troops? Of course, ground anti-aircraft artillery troops can support a certain air defense network, but in this era, it is very difficult for anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot medium and high altitude aircraft. The average firing of small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery may not be able to shoot down an enemy plane.

In 1918, most of the anti-aircraft machine guns in various countries were modified similar to those of Maxim heavy machine guns, while the anti-aircraft guns were basically small-caliber 20mm or 37mm anti-aircraft guns. Although the Germans also had 57mm anti-aircraft guns, it was a daydream to take off high-speed fighters with slow-fire medium-caliber dynamism. The main targets of ground air defense firepower were bombers that flew slowly but not high. Of course, the ground air defense fire network often played a role in interfering with the accuracy of the opponent's ground air strikes.

No matter how brave the bomber pilot is, he will be nervous when facing the fireworks of anti-aircraft shells that are constantly blooming around the fuselage and hopes to get out of the fire net arranged by the other party as soon as possible. The bomb droppers often aim and drop bombs more hasty than usual. The fear of people in the face of danger has always existed objectively and is not diverted by personal will. Of course, good pilots will use maneuvering flights to avoid the most dense range of ground artillery fire as much as possible.

Jiang Fangzhen listened but didn't speak. As the chief who graduated from the third phase of the infantry department of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, he could of course understand Yoshiichi Tanaka as a Japanese general. The Southwest Front Army was formed with the three divisions of the 3rd Japanese Army of Taro Utsumiya as the main body. The mission was to carry out the Ukrainian Battle. The 3rd Japanese Army, which did not get much opportunity to perform in the Ufa Battle, was working hard to show the glory and prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army. At this critical moment, if there was no coalition air force on its head to control air supremacy, how could Japan agree?

"Hisser Tanaka, I'm not saying that I want to avoid war, but we must face the reality. China's industrial foundation cannot even compare with Japan. The foundations of a series of industries such as steel, petrochemicals, armed engineering, automobiles and aviation manufacturing are still very weak. Now the production capacity of China Aircraft Manufacturing Company has been expanding again and again. It is quite difficult to continue to expand in the short term. There are only a few aircraft we can produce in a month. If every air battle is as large as yesterday and today, our air force will only fight fewer and fewer! The problem will be serious at that time!"

Jiang Hongyu was obviously not frightened by Yoshiichi Tanaka. Moreover, this guy has been following Wang Geng for a year and a half, his spirit has risen to a higher level. At this moment, the King of China is behind him and he is the chief of staff of the coalition forces. It is estimated that even the Japanese Prime Minister Uehara Yuzusaki could not scare him. Moreover, the Japanese Army now has less than half of the permanent troops that the Chinese participating troops have. If you really want to turn against others, you will not be able to bear it.

Qian Tianfu, the director of the combat room next to him, muttered to himself, this old boy Tanaka Yoshiichi was not jealous of the strength and record of the coalition forces, so he wanted to consume our newly released ace force, right?

Among the Allied Eastern Front coalition forces, the air force of the Chinese military air force was composed of all Chinese military air force and combat. Unlike the ground forces of the coalition forces, the Chinese Army, Japanese Army and Volga Federation began temporary mixed-assembly combat as early as the Battle of Ufa, not to mention the ongoing coalition Central Front, the six infantry armies and four mechanized armies were completely mixed to the level of the mixed brigade and brigade.

Of course, the Japanese Army Department also wanted to send its pitiful air force to join the coalition air force, which was basically negligible, but Wang Geng didn't let go at all. In the early days of Japan's aviation construction, he often bought a few British, French and Italian planes and took them apart and tried to make it out, and then wanted to create a domestically designed aircraft from Japan. As a result, most of the ones that were tinkering with were four-dimensional, which was not a little worse than the prototypes from Britain, France and Italy.
Chapter completed!