sjar Chapter 886 The Rakshasa Looking for Trouble
Chapter 886 The Rakshasa Looking for Trouble
Northern Xiongnu Steppes
The fighting in Tianjin was intense, and the north was also not idle. From the beginning of the fighting in Tianjin to now, the northern border has been in a second-level combat readiness state. Today, like the past, the pilots came out of the cockpit tiredly.
"When is this going to end? If you're going to fight, just do it now. You're chasing us in the air every day, and now you're giving in at the border."
A pilot said somewhat depressedly that he had taken off three times in a day from morning till now. Except for coming down to refuel, he had been in the sky most of the time. The Rakshasa pilots from the north kept giving alarms to our radar. When we arrived near the border, these guys disappeared again.
When our plane landed, these guys came out from the dark again. They just play tricks on you every day. At the beginning, the pilots still had a calm mentality, but now some of them have become a little impetuous. The fighting in Tianjin is fierce and they are short of pilots, but we in the north have no way to go there to support them.
"Back when we were in the north, we held our own against the two great empires. Everyone was naturally happy when we won. Now the drawbacks are becoming apparent. Our commander-in-chief is a capable man, but no matter how capable he is, the actual development situation is here. The debts we owed in the early years must be repaid now."
A ground crew officer said somewhat helplessly, and the people around him nodded. Originally, when they won the battle in the north, many people began to become arrogant and wanted to follow the Marshal to conquer Russia and take over the whole of Siberia.
Some people were even planning to march eastwards at the same time to recapture the Northeast, but now these people have shut up. We simply don't have that ability. When the Marshal rejected their offensive strategy, some people thought that the Marshal had long lost his former courage. Now they understand that we are still far behind them. If the Marshal was like us and prepared to march north and east at the same time in a fit of rage, and there was a slight mistake, we would be in trouble.
Take the Tianjin battlefield for example. We have only just begun a war of attrition, but we seem to be unable to hold on. To put it bluntly, our foundation is too weak.
"You said the same thing about these Russians. They were already clashing with the Japanese, wishing to drive them into the sea. Now we've become their main source of conflict. The Japanese are busy with their own affairs in Tianjin, while they're tying down our main air force in the north, preventing us from taking it. This is a good combination."
The pilots were also very depressed. Originally, Russia and Japan had been secretly fighting each other fiercely over the issue of Northeast China, but now they were standing in the same trench.
"Enemy numbers vary. In the eyes of the Russians, Japan is their inherent enemy, but Japan has not invaded their homeland or undermined their rule over the Xiongnu Steppes. Our commander-in-chief has reclaimed the Xiongnu Steppes, and the Russians have no way of driving us away. Do you think their northern armies aren't taking action because it's winter? That's not the case at all. It's because they can't defeat us, but even if they can't, they still have the ability to find something to do off the battlefield."
The ground crew officers saw clearly that the Russians also wanted to take back the Xiongnu grasslands, but they did not have the ability to do so. Li Shaoyi had stationed nearly 200,000 regular troops on the entire Xiongnu grassland, not including the second-line troops in various places. If the Russians wanted to take back the Xiongnu grasslands, they would have to mobilize the forces of at least two military regions.
If there were no tension in Europe, the two military regions would have a strength of only 600,000 to 700,000 troops, and the Russians could afford it. But the problem is that Europe is now on the verge of a war, and no one knows what the Junkers will do next, so the main force of the Russians is still in Europe.
After all, for Luosha, preserving Europe means preserving the entire country, and they have always been moving closer to Europe. Although the Far East is important, it is far inferior to mainland Europe.
The lack of ability to launch ground attacks does not mean that the lack of ability to carry out air harassment. The Japanese do not know how much benefit they have given to the Russians, but it should be more than the fuel cost of two or three hundred planes flying in the sky every day.
From the beginning of the Battle of Tianjin to the present, there are two to three hundred planes flying around every day. Every time our radar sounds an alarm, the pilots have to rush over quickly. After all, you can't turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.
Nine out of ten alarm calls may be false alarms, but if that one call is real and we don't respond accordingly, the losses to the airports in the border areas will be huge. Our current financial situation cannot withstand such a play.
"Ultimately, it's because our air force is too weak. When I saw we had over a thousand planes, I thought we were already a powerful air force nation. Now it seems we're far from it. It would be much better if we had 5,000 combat aircraft and the corresponding pilots."
The pilot took off his equipment and slowly walked towards the jeep next to him. Today's mission was over. He went back to bed to eat. Maybe he would fall asleep before finishing his meal. He was too tired today, both physically and mentally. He really couldn't rest.
Five thousand combat aircraft?
The ground crew smiled and shook their heads. If there were 5,000 combat aircraft and corresponding pilots, the current troubles could indeed be solved, but the problem was that among the world's superpowers, how many countries had such a scale?
Without the Russians' hindrance, we only need to retain a portion of our combat aircraft in the north, and send 60% of the aircraft south to gain air superiority over Tianjin. If the Japanese want to cause trouble in Tianjin, they can just wait to be blown into pieces by us.
But now we can only tie with them, all thanks to Rakshasa.
The pilots were dissatisfied. At this moment, Liu Xiaoshan and Tang Guoping were also frowning at the northern garrison headquarters. Currently, the Russian army on the northern border had reached 650,000 people, all within a range of 35 to 70 kilometers near the border. The pressure from the north was also increasing.
"Chahar does have some newly trained soldiers. Given our situation here, if we ask them for assistance, we should be able to get a group of them."
Two hundred thousand troops stationed on the entire Xiongnu steppe may sound like a lot, but the Xiongnu steppe is so vast that throwing these two hundred thousand soldiers in there would be inconspicuous...