What are the criteria for selecting pilots?
Fits the size and weight, is brave and not stupid!
other?
Gone!
Those who are too tall and fat will definitely not be able to become pilots, and neither will cowards or stupid pigs.
It seems that this standard is still very reasonable, and the incentives are also very reasonable.
Every time you complete a flight mission, you can get a reward of five hundred silver coins!
This reward standard has made countless young men who are short of money to play with women enthusiastically sign up, and even uncles are eager to try...
The senior Air Force officials who formulated the rules knew very well that "mission" does not mean taking off and turning around in the air.
But to implement the plan to attack the yellow-skinned monkeys, whether it is ground troops or their fighter planes.
They also know that the training time of their own pilots is simply not enough, and it is very likely that they will not be able to return after landing.
That's why a one-time reward amount of five hundred silver coins was set. As long as it can't be returned, the money can be saved!
The first time fifty fighter planes flew a mission, the result was that no pilot could get the money.
But this does not affect the enthusiasm of young Rao, who is eager to make quick money, to participate in the exhibition. After all, he can earn 500 silver coins at a time.
Even the casino owner would not dare to make a bet without any capital!
This can be regarded as a gambling game, and there are loopholes to exploit.
Some people had planned to walk around the area after takeoff and come back when the time was almost up.
As a result, before performing the mission, I was told that the recorded content of the camera must be recorded before the mission was confirmed and the bonus of 500 silver coins could be obtained.
This means that if you cannot provide your own combat footage, not only will you not get money, but you will also be considered to be timid and may be shot directly...
For senior air force officials, the number of fighter planes is limited, and the number of prospective pilots who can sign up is unlimited, so they must strictly require their pilots to be qualified.
To this end, they developed very scientific and reasonable tactics for pilots.
That is to first use Roman airspace to fly to the seaside, and then fly to the school along the coastline.
Doing so can not only avoid being attacked by yellow-skinned monkeys before one's own attack is launched, but can also reduce the difficulty of flying and reduce the probability of hitting a mountain.
After the pilots understood the combat plan, they also recognized the plan. Everyone was willing to fight hard to earn the money that was approximately equal to their own pockets...
"Attention everyone! The fat sheep are coming! Direction of eleven o'clock! About a hundred of them!"
Pan Fei, captain of the 17th Fighter Group, had spotted the target with his naked eyes and hurriedly contacted his nearby men via radio.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If I hadn't gone up to the sky to take a spin today, I would have almost missed this great dish.
"received!"
"Bao Yuan! Bao Yuan!"
"Don't let them get away!"
The team members immediately became excited. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought that the captain was fooling them.
It has been almost a month since the war started, and this time, everyone has only had an opportunity to fight in the air.
Last time, the guys from the 36th Brigade got lucky, and they didn't even catch anything.
According to the cognitive philosophy of the pilots of the 17th Fighter Group, although we are at a quantitative disadvantage, we are also at a qualitative advantage, so you are surrounded!
Although there are navy fighter planes nearby, and they should have found their prey, the Air Force can only guarantee that they will try not to hit you during air combat, that's all!
Navy pilots have no objection to the truth, because they think so too...
Dare to eat alone?
Why don't you ask me first if I agree?
Fifty-six fighter planes from the navy and air force pounced on nearly a hundred enemy planes in unison. The tactics of both sides were very simple, it was a wall-mounted hedging!
To deal with rookie enemies whose skills are much inferior to their own, Ming pilots have many ways to play, but today is different from the past. If you have to do it yourself, I am afraid that all the fat sheep will be eaten by others.
The hedging attack mode is the shortest and most exciting tactic.
In particular, our own machine guns have a long range, fast rate of fire, high accuracy, and are not easy to jam. They have great advantages in cross-fire. If we don't make good use of them, we will be unable to use this weapon.
When the Ming army pilots are hedging, they will not accelerate wildly. Instead, they will reduce the speed of the fighter planes as much as possible, so as to extend the firing time as much as possible.
Originally, the Neapolitans wanted to sneak attack on the yellow-skinned monkeys, but they did not expect that before they could go south along the coastline in search of prey, there were already yellow-skinned monkeys blocking their way.
Since you can't avoid it, let's just get started and try to end the battle as soon as possible so that you can go back and redeem the bonus of 500 silver coins.
When the indigenous pilot saw the yellow-skinned monkey directly opposite him taking the lead in firing, he immediately excitedly pressed the button.
However, their French 22mm cannon not only has a short range, but is also particularly prone to jamming.
Generally, if you keep pressing the button for about three seconds, the cannon will automatically misfire...
This cannot be blamed on profiteers in Venice, because everyone knows that French original products are like this.
French arms dealers even dared to trick the French Air Force, and the Holy Roman Empire Air Force suffered greatly.
This machine gun is actually an imitation of the Ming Empire's machine gun, but His Majesty the European Emperor was reluctant to spend money to import it.
French arsenals can only carry out reverse imitation, and in general, the finished products are so-so.
The power of a machine gun is definitely stronger than that of a machine gun, but its firepower sustainability is far inferior to that of the latter.
The most fatal shortcoming is that it is easy to jam. The French Air Force can only make do with it because there is no better choice.
Later, the arsenal developed a 30mm cannon, but at a distance of 500 meters, the trajectory began to drop significantly.
What a fart?
The French Air Force refused to purchase this junk product with seriously substandard performance. They thought it was better to continue to make do with the original 22mm cannon.
This is just like the people in Naples not buying the "Albatross" fighter jet. The performance of this fighter jet is already very lagging behind, and it will be beaten by high-performance new fighter jets.
Spending less money will also lose pilots and fuel. Rather than doing this, it is better to spend more money to purchase French "Falcon" fighter jets.
It was not convenient for Louis XIV to blatantly support his predecessor, even though they had been very disobedient during his administration.
But Louis XIV was particularly happy to see them causing trouble for his old friends and consuming their strength.
With the Venetians responsible for matchmaking, French arms dealers can profit from it.
The first batch is considered a test of the waters, and one hundred "Falcon" fighter jets is not a lot.
And they are all brand new, totally worthy of the price.
Louis XIV disdained to sell second-hand goods at high prices and harm the next family.
Maybe he has done it many times before, but he will never admit it...
"Damn yellow-skinned monkey!"
These are the most common words spoken by many indigenous pilots after being shot.
It seemed that he did not reach the opponent, but the opponent easily hit him and even shot down his car.
Because the incident happened suddenly and everything happened too fast, many people were forced to parachute before they realized what happened.
If the parachute cannot open, then you can only try to fly into the sea...
This is the biggest benefit of air combat at the seaside. As long as the altitude is not very high, within a hundred meters, the probability of surviving a jump into the sea is still relatively high.
But the Naples people still couldn't swallow this breath. Hedging fighting is the fairest way to fight in the air.
They don't believe that they can't defeat the yellow-skinned monkey on the opposite side, and they will fight to the death!
The two sides exchanged fire from a distance of two kilometers until the Pitts fighter jet passed by.
After the first exchange of fire, sixty-two of the eighty-seven "Falcon" fighter jets participating in the battle were shot down.
Only twenty-five remained, and eight of the supported fighters were already smoking.
But they were not without success. According to visual inspection, they shot down at least ten enemy planes.
This is considered an extremely rare achievement and will definitely go down in history!
But that's it, the Ming army pilots will not give the fat sheep another chance to bite back.
The time required for Ming fighter planes to turn around was significantly shorter than that of their opponents, and the pilots knew the approximate location of their prey.
By turning sideways, you can complete the steps of entering the attack position again, and then you can immediately fire at the target.
In the second round, all the remaining enemy planes that were escaping were shot down, and none of them escaped.
The specific battle loss ratio was 87-11, nearly eight times the ratio, and only two pilots were killed.
The senior officials of the Tenth Air Force and the Navy were basically satisfied with the result of this air battle. The only drawback was that one pilot was killed.
This is a matter of choice of blocking tactics. Intercepting the enemy aircraft group head-on is the shortest and most costly way.
To put it bluntly, one has to trade oneself for the safety of friendly forces, so sacrifice is inevitable.
If you don't do this, you can slowly deal with the enemy, but the battlefield situation will be completely uncontrollable.
Every additional enemy plane destroyed will provide an extra point of safety and blessing to both the navy's warships and the army's infantry.
There is no victory without sacrifice, this is the wise saying of Emperor Haojing!
Allied ground forces are following this motto and fighting desperately for the San Germano area with the Naples natives.
There is a town in the plain area near Mount Cairo, originally founded by the Volscians in the fourth century BC, called Cassinum.
The village was expanded during the Roman period, and in 494 AD the Goths defeated the Roman garrison and changed the town's name to San Germano.
Of course, that’s not what this town is famous for.
The real reason is that in 529 AD, Saint Benedict established a monastery on Mount San Germano.
Saint Benedict is the founder of the Western monastic model. Since the development of the monastic model, there has been an endless stream of people coming to ask for advice.
But there were many people with ulterior motives, who eventually tried to murder St. Benedict with poisoned wine.
But St. Benedict had miracles to protect his body, such as the cup containing the poisonous wine actually breaking...
There is no video record of this content, so the authenticity cannot be verified.
After this, Saint Benedict founded this monastery on Mount San Germano.
Not only did it later become the headquarters of the Priory, it was also the cemetery of the brothers and sisters of St. Benedict.
Its location is in the cellar below the monastery hall, and can be seen by ordinary people who come for pilgrimage.
The Kingdom of Naples's First Army, Third Army, Fifth Army, and Seventh Army are all entrenched in the surrounding mountainous areas with Mount San Germano as the core.
In their opinion, the terrain here is not only conducive to their own defense, but also the blessing of St. Benedict...
Jiexuan has sent people to inform the warlocks in the monastery that as long as the local armed forces do not use the monastery as a stronghold, the coalition forces will definitely not attack the monastery, and vice versa.
However, even if the monastery was really destroyed during the war, the Ming Dynasty was willing to fully fund the reconstruction of the monastery after the war, and its scale and facilities would exceed pre-war standards.
The warlocks were against the war, but they were unable to stop it, and the monastery was really occupied by local armed forces, so they were forced to go to live in the towns down the mountain.
After occupying the monastery, the Third Army of Naples gained an excellent view and position. From the monastery, they could overlook the entire plain area below the mountain.
And can use artillery fire to cut off the road through the plains under the mountains, thereby achieving the purpose of blocking the yellow-skinned monkeys from continuing to advance northward.
After trying to persuade them to surrender and failing to do so, the coalition ground forces could only destroy the Yanura Castle on the mountain near the town, which had also become an indigenous observation post.
Thanks to the monastery, the town of San Germano is not considered small in size. There are tens of thousands of local residents, and there are people who come here for pilgrimage or tourism throughout the year.
But after the area turned into a battlefield, the magicians became homeless and had to embark on a journey to Rome...
After destroying the Jenura Castle, the coalition's second goal was the town of San Germano, which has become the main activity site of indigenous armed forces.
How to do it?
How kind!
How depressing life is in the mountains!
Soldiers are not sorcerers, and they have not yet completely separated themselves from women's lives.
So whenever there is a chance, they will go down the mountain to have fun. Anyway, they don't know how long they can live.
As long as they can give money or bring some wine, meat, or bread, the women at the foot of the mountain especially welcome customers.
With both sides getting what they need, the town has turned into a large service place...
But as the coalition forces began bombarding the town, the women became so frightened that they immediately stopped serving and began following the magicians as they fled to Rome.
There were also some women who were plundered by the soldiers and went to the mountains to continue serving everyone.
The war will eventually end, but as long as everyone is alive, the service of women will not end!
The coalition soldiers heard the cries of the abducted female companions and unanimously agreed that the women in the convent should be rescued.
What specific method is used?
That is to let the special forces take a helicopter, land directly at the monastery, and then...
As long as the other party doesn't use women as bulletproof shields, the chance of successful rescue is still very high.
On April 4th, which was probably not Tomb Sweeping Day, two hundred special forces aboard fifty "Vulture" utility helicopters and under the cover of twenty-four "Black Hawk" armed helicopters raided the monastery.
More than two thousand indigenous soldiers have gathered in this place. The opponent has almost ten times the strength advantage, and has turned every window in the monastery that has no access to the outside world into a shooting hole.
They were prepared for the surprise attack from the air, but they were still unable to defend against it.
