"Your Excellency, General! Please come aboard! Wearing snow-white white gloves, a naval lieutenant stood by the gangway, stood upright and saluted, and sang loudly to the army general in front of him.

Yamashita Fengwen carried the command knife on his shoulder, looked back at the generals behind him with a dejected face, sighed helplessly, and stepped on the first step of the gangway.

"Your Excellency, General!" Behind him, Nakasa Shimada of the Army Aviation Corps stretched out his hand, as if trying to hold the commander in front of him.

His face was full of bitterness, with a reluctant twist: "Your Excellency, General! Take care of yourself on the road! We'll do our best here to buy time for Malaya! ”

"Yo Xi!" Yamashita nodded his head solemnly, looking at his subordinates, including the commander of the 6th Division, Kanda Masatan, Yamashita turned around, no longer nostalgic for New Guinea, which was on the verge of collapse, and boarded the destroyer that came to pick him up for his retreat.

Shimada-kun...... General Yamashita has already left, and the war situation in New Guinea seems to have reached the point where it is beyond control. Seeing Yamashita Fengfu walk up the gangway, Iijima Nakasa, who was standing next to Shimada Nakasa, sighed depressedly.

From the day he was transferred to New Guinea, he knew that the situation here was not too rosy. The next day, he flew his ME-109E fighter into the air, but he still couldn't change the situation.

The performance of the American P-40 fighters is also quite passable, and in the face of various fighters piloted by the Japanese Army Air Force, it can still maintain a loss ratio of about 3 to 2.

In other words, the Americans lost an average of three planes, and the Japanese lost two aircraft -- a rate that the Japanese could not afford in any case.

It was for this reason that Japan subsequently brought in reinforcements of almost 100 fighters of various types, but unfortunately this move turned out to be a complete refueling tactic.

The Japanese were most afraid of refueling tactics, so they eventually had to abandon the idea of fighting for air supremacy in New Guinea and concentrate their planes on the decisive battle in Malaya.

As a result of this decision, the Japanese Army Air Corps on the islands of New Guinea had no aircraft to use, and the number of planes could no longer catch up with the United States.

After losing the equal number, their record can no longer be maintained. Every time they went into battle, the Japanese pilots had to face three or even ten times as many American planes as they were encircled and suppressed, and the losses were naturally even greater.

Today, the Japanese Army Air Corps has lost about 300 aircraft, while the American side has lost only 400 aircraft.

In other words, in recent days, the battle loss ratio of the army aviation units of the two sides has reached a very fair ratio of 1 to 1.

Such losses are fully acceptable to the US military, and there is even a tendency to be ecstatic in the war reports. After all, relying on the big tree of American industry and the American population as support, the ratio of 1 to 1 is simply a triumphant song of victory.

Not to mention Japan, which has no industrial foundation at all, even Germany, which has a higher industrial level, will not be able to bear it if it fights a 1-1 war loss ratio with the United States.

"We have less than 50 planes left, and almost all of them have been shot down or diverted...... "Shimada Nakasa also said depressedly.

As the commander of the Japanese land-based aviation on the island, he naturally knew what the situation was.

The Americans had already built airfields on the islands, the main airfields of Japan had been completely destroyed by bombing, and the remaining planes could only rely on hidden field airfields to secretly take off and fight.

And the planes that the Americans are now throwing into New Guinea may have 700 including bombers, while the Japanese have only about 50 of them.

With such a huge disparity in strength, not to mention the Japanese Army Aviation Unit, which is about to run out of elites, even if it is all elite Luftwaffe, it may not be able to support it.

What's more, the difference in performance between the aircraft of the two sides in the Pacific theater is not as huge as the gap in the European theater.

Because Germany has invested in research and development earlier, has relatively strong technical reserves, and has taken many detours, there is a big technical gap between the TA-152 fighters equipped by the front-line air force and the MiG-3 fighters.

If you include the Raven jet fighter jet fighter that Germany is stepping up production, Germany's advantage in the field of aviation can be said to be a generational difference.

However, Japan does not have this technological capability, and its air force has basically been developed by borrowing German technology, and although its technological superiority still exists, it is not obvious.

The P-40 fighters of the Americans, as well as other naval fighters that are about to enter combat, are not too bad, and the gap is not so huge compared to the Zero fighters and the ME-109E fighters exported by Germany.

Because of this, when the technical level of the Japanese pilots decreased due to losses, the battle loss ratio between the two sides could no longer be separated.

"For the failure of this counterattack, General Yamashita Fumimi took part of the responsibility, and I think General Kanda is also responsible, right?"

Kanda Masazen, who was standing not far away, became the highest commander of the Japanese army on the battlefield in New Guinea today, and the 6th Division under his command suffered heavy losses in the counterattack two days ago.

Although the Japanese counterattack caused a large number of casualties among the US troops, and even achieved the dazzling record of annihilating an American infantry battalion for the first time, the defeat was a failure after all, and the Japanese army lost a large area of the mountainous jungle defense line.

This made a hole in the Japanese defense line, and the barrier in the central mountains was finally left behind by the American army.

It is precisely because of this that the Japanese army hurriedly transferred away the fierce general Yamashita Fengwen, and replaced it with Kanda Zhengzhong to carry this black cauldron.

Watching Yamashita Fengfu leave New Guinea lonely, Kanda Masaku's current mood can only be described as "I have a sentence of MMP that I don't know whether to say or not".

He really wanted to scold his mother, because from the beginning to the end of this battle, he just followed Yamashita Fengwen's orders to attack or retreat, but the battle situation was eroded to this point, and Yamashita Fengwen patted his ass and left!

The Air Force can withdraw with a word, the Navy can also be ordered to leave, and everything that is left to the 6th Division and the unlucky 35th Division will be borne!

Even more unfortunate was the 29th Division, which was not considered the main force and was completely revoked because of the heavy losses it had suffered in the counterattack a few days earlier.

The remnants of the 29th Division were replenished to the 6th Division and the 35th Division, which also meant that the Japanese ground forces blocking the front of the 1st and 2nd armies of the US Army were one less division than when the war began!

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