In the early morning of June 28, the northwest waters of the island were transferred.

It's almost 2 hours before dawn, and the air service staff are already busy.

It was not bombers and attack aircraft that were preparing to take off, but several reconnaissance aircraft.

The reason is that there is no exact news about the transfer island so far!

If you want to say, this is also the most troublesome thing for Bai Zhizhan.

Because the distance is too far, the patrol planes deployed in the volcanic islands cannot fly over and cannot conduct air reconnaissance on the transit island.

Of course, even if you can fly over, it doesn't make much sense.

The Newland Navy has long been equipped with radar and will definitely keep several fighter jets patrolling the air at any time, so as to intercept the flying reconnaissance planes in time.

Previously, the reconnaissance operations on the transit island were undertaken by submarines.

In the past few days, the submarines heading to the transit island did not send any messages, and perhaps they were unable to approach the transit island.

Of course, this is nothing strange.

In the past, as long as the main special-mix fleet of the Imperial Navy left the port, the Newland Navy would immediately strengthen its defense, not only let the main warships leave the port and standby, but also strengthen patrol efforts near the main islands to avoid sudden attacks and create psychological burdens on the Imperial Navy.

Before the Naval Battle of the Northwest and East, when the Newland Navy launched a large-scale move, the Imperial Navy would also strengthen its defense.

Then, after the two special mixed fleets left the anchorage, the Newland Navy will inevitably strengthen the anti-submarine power near the transit island.

If there are enemy ships nearby, then the submarines performing reconnaissance missions will definitely not dare to float up, let alone get close to the transit island.

When formulating the plan, Bai Zhizhan did not expect to obtain a submarine's reconnaissance report.

According to the arrangement, on the day of the attack, the reconnaissance plane must be dispatched first, and after determining the situation on the transit island, especially at the airport, a strike will be launched.

Here, two very important tactics are involved.

The first is to enter at a very low altitude.

After exploring for several months, experiencing several practical tests, and suffering a lot of losses, what can be determined in the end is that ultra-low altitude penetration can effectively shorten the detection distance of the enemy's air defense radar, compress the enemy's air defense combat time, and thus improve the penetration efficiency of the aircraft group.

Obviously, it is not only useful for attacks, but also for reconnaissance.

The second is coordinated combat.

In fact, the connection between reconnaissance and attack has always existed, and it is very prominent.

The reason is also very simple. After the reconnaissance plane arrives, the enemy will definitely strengthen air defense, and air defense fighters can generally patrol the air for several hours.

In other words, if the attack aircraft group is too late, it will inevitably face group of air defense fighters.

In previous battles, the increase in escort fighter jets was generally used, and the escort fighter jets were allowed to come out in front of the escort fighter jets to solve this problem, that is, the escort fighter jets seize air supremacy, and after gaining absolute advantage, the bomber group that performs attack missions entered.

Obviously, this is not a good idea either.

At some point, there is no way to send enough escort fighters.

Fighting near enemy bases or fleets is not effective in obtaining effective command, so the combat efficiency of escort fighters is definitely not as good as that of air defense fighters.

This tactic worked in the past, and there was another very critical factor. The Imperial Navy's fighter jets surpassed the Newland Navy's fighter jets in performance and surpassed the Newland Army Air Force fighter jets. The key is that the Imperial Navy's fighter pilots have more experience.

In other words, the Imperial Navy is using the performance of fighter jets and the personal capabilities of the pilot to make up for other shortcomings.

In the early stages of the war, the most obvious advantage of the Imperial Navy was the personal qualities of the officers and soldiers.

Unfortunately, this advantage cannot be maintained forever.

After the Battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, the Sixth Bureau issued a warning that the Newland Navy had expanded its pilot ranks and trained a group of pilots with rich practical experience, many of which came from the Western Continental battlefield, which were volunteer pilots sent to the Kingdom of Bran.

In addition, the Newland Navy is likely to obtain new carrier-based fighters with advanced performance within one year.

It can be seen that to maintain an advantage, we have to make a tact.

It is precisely because Zhou Yongtao proposed to divide the first wave of attack into two aircraft groups, and the forward aircraft group followed the reconnaissance aircraft. After the reconnaissance aircraft determined the target situation, the forward aircraft group immediately entered the attack and focused on bombing the airport, radar and command center.

After paralyzing the enemy's airport, the follow-up aircraft fleet arrives to bomb other military targets, or supplementary bombing of major targets such as the airport.

The key is to paralyze the enemy's airport after the first wave of attacks and not give the enemy's air defense fighter jets time to take off for combat.

Of course, this requires close connection between the reconnaissance aircraft and the attack aircraft group, so personnel must be sent to command ahead.

To put it another way, the commander needs to perform reconnaissance missions!

After completing the reconnaissance mission, we must stay and command the aircraft group to launch an attack, identify the attack results, and determine whether to replenish bombing.

It can be seen that this requires very high standards for the commander.

Fortunately, the most inexperienced commanders of the Imperial Navy Air Force are the most inseparable.

Until now, the pilots who had served before the war all became officers, and many pilots who joined the army during the battle with the Nayi Empire also became officers.

After several battles and dozens of combat missions, almost all of them can command battles.

In the words of old-school pilots such as Samp, this is how the ace is trained.

If you want to say, the Imperial Navy can win every battle, and the number one hero is these experienced carrier-based aircraft pilots.

Without them, the Imperial Navy would never be able to win so many fleet decisive battles.

Of course, the credit of staff like Zhou Yongtao is indispensable.

Many tactics that ordinary people could not imagine were designed by these staff members, and through training and combat, they were eventually promoted and applied across the entire army.

Sometimes, the role played by a wonderful tactic is comparable to a special mixed fleet!

For example, during the Battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, seaplanes were allowed to fly to the sea areas where the enemy fleet might appear at night and land on the sea surface, which played a decisive role.

This time, the "follow attack tactic" was adopted.

According to Zhou Yongtao's arrangement, the carrier-based aircraft carrying out attack missions will be launched after the reconnaissance aircraft, and they will carry ammunition mainly for destroying the airport, such as mother-child bombs used to paralyze the runway, aviation armor-piercing bombs in reinforced concrete chassis, and time bombs to prevent emergency repairs.

No matter how many combat aircraft there are on the airport, the airport must be paralyzed first.

Because of many uncertainties, the scale of the first wave of attacks was relatively small, with only 80 carrier-based aircraft in total, of which 24 were escort fighters.

Although there are not many, they are all ace crew, and each pilot has rich practical experience.

As long as the raid is successful, the aircraft group may be able to paralyze the airport, and then the aircraft group will follow up and completely destroy the airport.

After the first wave of attack is over, the bombing will be identified before the second wave of attack will be launched.

If you want to say, the second wave of attack is to go all out.

As for whether to conduct a third wave of attack, it depends on the effect of the second wave of bombing.
Chapter completed!