In the Air Force headquarters, Xiao Yun listened to his subordinates reporting on various strike results with his hands behind his back. During the three-day attack, his troops achieved brilliant results.
"The communication nodes of the Qin Army have been almost completely silent. Electronic warfare aircraft suppressed a large number of communication channels. The opponent's equipment is too low-end and there is no means of counterattack." The commander of the electronic warfare aircraft is responsible for suppressing communications and interfering with radar beams. He said confidently: "Anti-radiation missiles are really easy to use."
"Perhaps due to the range, the 183 fighter jets did not appear on the battlefield. Our patrolling J-7 fighter jets failed to find a suitable interception target." Another air force general followed and said.
During this period, there were almost no decent air battles between the two sides. The Tang Empire's jet fighters had a very short range, and the opponent's jet fighters had an even shorter range. The main forces of both sides had no contact at all, and the dozens of propeller-driven fighter jets that were shot down were just appetizers.
"The J-6 has shot down those guys who came to die, but the large-scale air battle between the two sides has not yet begun, and our main force is also recharging its strength..." The general in charge of commanding the fighter jets said with his chin high.
Xiao Yun nodded and then ordered: "Continue according to the previous plan. There is no need to modify anything... Everything about the other party is within our estimate, so there are no surprises."
"They have given us a lot of surprises. From the beginning of the war to now, the situation is exactly the same as the expected situation sent by the staff department... This is the biggest surprise, isn't it?" the adjutant joked relaxedly.
Everyone laughed. They had rehearsed this war countless times. However, after the real war began, everyone discovered that they had thought too much of their opponents.
All the opponent's reactions were exactly the same as the most idiotic response method in the exercise. Even after the opponent was paralyzed and the command system was paralyzed, the reactions of the grassroots officers and soldiers were the same.
In such a situation with no surprises or accidents, the commanders of the Tang Empire Air Force even felt that they were just conducting an exercise, the most boring exercise with a script.
"Okay, gentlemen! We don't have many advanced aircraft, so let's leave the rest to the H-6 and J-6 districts." After Xiao Yun stopped laughing, he issued the order for a full-scale attack : "Deploy the main force and tell the Qin troops who are standing there stupidly to stop watching the fun and quickly surrender their guns!"
For the Tang Empire, the number of advanced A6-E electronic warfare aircraft, as well as professional A6 attack aircraft and A10 attack aircraft are actually not that many.
More than a year of preparation time was actually too hasty. If the Tang Empire was given more time, they might have turned this war into a different world version of the Gulf War.
But the war still came as scheduled, and the number of advanced aircraft in the Tang Empire's air force only met the basic requirements. They still retain a large number of J-6, H-6 and other aircraft, and even the main force is still such aircraft.
So after using A6 and A10 to paralyze the Qin army's frontline troops, the Tang Empire's air force was ready to attack.
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The Qin army wasted another day in Qili Village, still digging trenches out of boredom. The order they received yesterday told them to build fortifications and stay in place to wait for new orders.
Everyone started to take action. They used engineering shovels to dig out the prototypes of trenches, then dug deeper bit by bit, and then compacted the soil on both sides.
The weather is actually very cold, and it is very common for it to snow at this time, but the weather has been very good recently, with only a few clouds dotting the sky.
The soldiers of the Qin Army who had been busy all morning once again used the reserve cans they carried with them. The recruits ate happily and did not think this was a sign of danger at all.
The veterans were actually a little worried. They knew that if they used the food they carried, it would mean that their logistical supplies had indeed been cut off. But they still didn't want to believe that they had been surrounded by the Tang army.
It is impossible for the war to be fought like this. This is not consistent with common sense: How could we be surrounded by the enemy so quickly? Most of the time they couldn't even hear the sound of artillery. How could they lose the battle like this?
But this time, when they were about to open the heated cans, they heard the sound of gunfire very close to them in the open space next door.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!" The 40mm-caliber anti-aircraft gun was installed on a truck chassis. This was an anti-aircraft vehicle developed by the Great Qin Empire itself.
The Bofors 40mm caliber single-barreled anti-aircraft gun sold to them by the Tang Empire was welded onto a truck and was euphemistically called a "self-propelled anti-aircraft gun."
This type of anti-aircraft vehicle needs to open the jack structure supporting the vehicle body before firing to prevent the vehicle from shaking due to the recoil of the artillery, so it does not have the ability to fire while moving.
However, there had been an order to put all ground air defense forces into combat status, and the air defense battalion next door deployed all the weapons they had.
The Qin army's combat effectiveness is still very high. They used air defense camouflage nets and built professional air defense positions, which are much better than the troops of other countries.
It's just that this time, the enemy they face doesn't seem to be something they can defeat with their experience and rigor...
In the sky, there was no professional attack aircraft, but the J-6, which had to play a guest role as an attack aircraft, was still as fast as lightning even when it was set to the slowest speed.
In just a moment, it swooped down from high altitude, and then used the rocket nest hanging under the wing to fire a salvo at the Qin army's position that was vaguely visible.
No way, this tactic is really not suitable for the J-6, because it is not designed to be an aircraft that can be used for ground attack.
But there was no way. The Tang Empire's A10 was really not enough, and I felt that it was too backward to use the Stuka, so I pulled the J-6 to make up the number.
Anyway, it's not that it can't be used, it's just inappropriate. The attack accuracy is a bit impressive. At the worst, wouldn't it be enough to fly a few more times and use rockets to wash the ground a few more times?
Didn’t you see, the beautiful man in the air is so fast and is still shooting with rockets attached to him in the exercise? Why can’t the J-6 lick the ground?
Soon enough, the Tang Army's pilots did not even see the basic situation on the ground clearly, and had already passed by the Qin Army's unestablished position.
The Qin army on that position also saw such a rapid ground attack for the first time... Their anti-aircraft guns fired a series of shells, and the tracer bullets and the plane even flew in different directions...
