At the northernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago, a night of strife and slaughter finally ended at dawn, and countless fragments of airplanes floated on the icy waters, and it was impossible to distinguish whether they were silvery-white, dark green, or silver-gray under the night. Several small ships swooped down on the calm sea, leaning over as soon as they saw something white that resembled a giant jellyfish, either rescuing people or collecting corpses.

After a noisy second half of the night, Sakhalin was tired, the military airfields on the island were tired, and the more than 20,000 German officers and men guarding the island were also tired. After the battle at medium and low altitudes was over, the heavy bombers with huge bodies were able to return to the ground without danger, and if the Japanese air force attacked again at this time, I am afraid that the losses of the Luftwaffe would have increased a lot. Despite this, the 35 Dornier III bombers that landed early due to fuel and mechanical problems were still attacked by Japanese planes in the air or on the ground, of which 3 crashed in a hurry to land, and 12 were seriously damaged, and most of the rest suffered some minor injuries.

After a rough calculation, the German Far East sent the joint command of the three armies on Sakhalin Island to Qingdao and Berlin to report the first results of the battle, and the Luftwaffe and ground air defense forces shot down more than 270 Japanese planes and 17 airships in Sakhalin and the surrounding airspace, and damaged more than 100 Japanese planes and 2 airships, while the side lost a total of 47 fighters and 86 pilots, including bombers, and two coastal radar stations were bombed. Another 22 soldiers of the ground-based air defense forces were killed in the fighting.

Berlin, Germany, the Supreme Command of the Three Armies of the Reich.

"Your Majesty, the results of the battle are outstanding! This alert radar has really played a tremendous role, and the establishment of a direct line between the radar, the combat command center, the fighter planes, and the ground air defense units has greatly improved the efficiency of our air defense operations! Originally, based on the performance of our fighters and the level of pilots against the Japanese, the battle loss ratio was between 1 to 2 to 1 to 3, but now it has reached 1 to 9! ”

General Walter Wivre, Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force and Technical Director of the Air Force, said with great interest that it was 10 p.m. Berlin time. However, most of the important generals of the navy, land and air force are still in the supreme command, and of course, His Majesty the Kaiser, who is the supreme commander of the three armies, has not yet returned to the palace and become the crown prince. William Andres served in the Army, and Princess Sasha traveled in the East, and there was not much difference between staying in the High Command and staying in the Imperial Palace, and in the same way, important generals like Ollie, Ludendorff, Hoffmann, and Raeder were also prepared to stay in the High Command, which was the greatest benefit. It is to be able to receive the battle report from the front line at the first time.

"1 to 9......" Chen Tian raised his head, "The phenomenon is a good phenomenon, but our pilots can't relax like this!" As far as the overall strength of aviation technology is concerned, Japan is far stronger than Russia and the United States! Bombing, we will continue to increase the intensity of the bombing of their homeland until the Japanese archipelago is completely bombed back to its original state! ”

"Pristine state? Your Majesty ......" Ollie on the side couldn't help but laugh, this kind of saying will be popular after more than half a century, but it is probably still a very creative way of saying in this era.

Chen Tian occasionally joked with these generals who had close personal friends, so he patiently explained: "There is no industry, no technology, people live a life of farming, fishing and hunting. Isn't that the original state? ”

The generals laughed unrestrainedly. Only Feng on the side. Zekett said with a serious face:

"Your Majesty, although this proposal is indeed very popular, I am afraid that it will be very difficult to actually implement it! At present, we can use only three bases to bomb the Japanese archipelago: Qingdao, Vladivostok, and Sakhalin.

Vladivostok is already facing a heavy attack by the Japanese army, and the distance between Sakhalin and Hokkaido is also a big hidden danger, and if only Qingdao can be used as an air base in the Far East, the number of bombers we can use is very limited! ”

"It is indeed unknown how long Vladivostok will be able to hold out, especially in the face of Japanese land and sea attacks! If the Navy can defeat the Japanese Combined Fleet in a World War, the hope of holding Vladivostok will be greatly increased! With that, Ludendorff turned his expectant gaze to the 66-year-old Admiralty Marshal Boer, hoping to get some favorable answer from the admiralty.

It's a pity that Marshal Pol's calm expression is telling everyone that the best time for a decisive battle may not have come yet. Admiral who served as commander of the North Sea Fleet. Wilhelm Zuxiong walked up to Ludendorff's side, "General, although our Pacific Fleet has become more powerful than ever, and there are battleships 'Kaiser Wilhelm II', 'Albert', 'Bavaria', heavy aircraft carriers 'Georg' and 'Alsace', but the number of ships assembled by the Japanese Combined Fleet in the home sea is several times that of ours, so even if we can win the naval battle very, very lucky, I am afraid that the losses will be amazing!" ”

Ludendorff turned his head and looked at the dark-skinned, sturdy "old sailor" who had served as commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, commander of the Baltic Fleet, commander of the Kiel Naval Base and commander of the North Sea Fleet. A veteran of the German Navy, he would soon be commander of the Allied fleet of Germany, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, tasked with defeating Japan's maritime power in Oceania and helping the Allied forces recover Australia and New Zealand.

"More importantly, only the battleship 'Caesar William II' and two heavy aircraft carriers in our Pacific Fleet are equipped with Hawkeye II radars, and the rest of the ships have not yet had time to be refitted. As island nations, Japan and Great Britain share many similarities, and we just need to strangle their sea lines......" Admiral Benck, commander of the German Atlantic Fleet, said wryly, his last words leaving people in a reverie. In fact, the mighty German Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Expeditionary Force, consisting of seven Marine divisions, were massing in Puerto Montt in Chile and Salina Cruz in Mexico, with the Hawaiian and Polynesian Islands as their primary targets, and the Japanese Army and Navy stationed in both locations would be formidable opponents.

Ollie took over the topic and said: "However, the Japanese also saw this very clearly, instead of conducting passive anti-submarine warfare, it is better to capture our three bases in the Far East, without these home ports." Our submarines can only travel thousands of miles from Sri Lanka or the Americas! ”

"Indeed!" Chen Tian gently closed his eyes that were a little tired, "I think when we wake up tomorrow, the report from Vladivostok must be filled with the breath of death!" The stronger the Vladivostok fortress's defenses, the more lives will disappear there! Well, let's get some rest! ”

Although everyone was silent, they all agreed with Chentian's opinion.

An hour later, Vladivostok in the Far East ushered in a new day's sunrise, but in that soft sun. Brutal battles and relentless killings are ongoing. Dark green Japanese land-based fighters, silver-white Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and silver-gray German fighters sometimes shuttled between the hills and treetops at low altitudes, and sometimes climbed or dived rapidly at medium and high altitudes, and strings of bullets were like the light and shadow of a sharp sword swing, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground also joined this battle of courage, wisdom and endurance from time to time.

On the ground, the Japanese infantry, with its yellowish accents, had advanced to the front of the first German main defensive position, but there they were blocked by heavy German artillery fire, and the small-caliber field guns were helpless against a strong defensive line made of reinforced concrete with underground bunkers and concealments. The heavy artillery could not be transported all at once. The Japanese could only rely on bombers flying in from time to time for fire cover, but despite the best efforts of the Japanese fighters, it was still difficult to ensure the safety of their own bombers around the German positions. The piles of burning wreckage were mostly Japanese bombers and fighter jets, some of which had been burned beyond recognition, and some of which could still be roughly outlined. Although there are many advanced monoplanes, there are also many biplane and single-engine bombers, and after being identified by senior German officers and veterans, there are actually quite a number of German-made Sky series military planes and their imitation models. These fighters and fighter-bombers were mass-produced during the Great War of 1914-1915, some of them were converted to civilian use after the war, and many more were exported to Allied and friendly countries in the years after the war, with Japan being one of the main importers.

According to the statistics of the German Ministry of Industry, Japan has imported more than 120 fighter-bomber aircraft such as Sky III, Sky IV and Sky X. The warlords of the Feng system in northeast China also imported about 40 aircraft, these aircraft were the main air power in the Far East for a long time, and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nakajima aircraft before 1920 also imitated German aircraft, until 1921 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries developed the first real domestic fighter - the army Bayi fighter, which is a biplane single-engine single-seat fighter, Armed with two 7.7mm machine guns and a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour, it was considered a first-class military aircraft in the Far East and the entire Asia and Pacific at that time, but by this time the German all-metal monoplane fighter had already been put into service; The Nakajima Aircraft Company also developed the Army's Type 82 light bomber, which is a two-wing, single-engine, two-seat structure, which can carry three 100-kilogram aerial bombs or one 250-kilogram bomb, and has a maximum range of 780 kilometers, which is comparable to the performance of the best American bomber at that time, but it is quite a gap compared with the German Dornier 101 bomber.

After the 1 August Land Battle and the 82 Army Bombardment, the Mitsubishi and Nakajima companies successively developed several naval carrier-based models, but what really made the Japanese military decide to speed up the development of military aircraft was the German-American War that broke out in 1924; although the war lasted less than half a year, it gave the world a clearer understanding of the powerful and advanced Luftwaffe. However, the Japanese Navy's Type 85 fighter, Navy Type 85 water fighter, Navy Type 86 bomber, Army Type 86 fighter, Army Type 87 bomber, Navy Type 87 water reconnaissance plane, and other domestically produced military aircraft were developed one after another in the following years, and these fighters all caught up with the Japanese invasion of Australia and New Zealand in 1927. Therefore, the actual combat test effect of this war is not very obvious.

Soon after, the German-Russian war broke out and the Japanese military once again opened their eyes, and this time they even transported several main fighters, including Type 86 fighters, to the Russian battlefield for actual combat tests, not only gaining a lot of valuable experience in fighting the German front-line air force, but also training a group of Japanese "ace pilots." The Japanese military quickly transferred the relevant data and data to the experts of Mitsubishi, Nakajima, and the Air Force Technical Factory, in order to build a Japanese fighter that could truly compete with the German front-line military aircraft as soon as possible, but the Germans did not give them time, and only four months after the end of the German-Russian war, the German-Japanese war broke out.

At the end of 1928, the main fighters of the Japanese land-based aviation were the Army Type 86 and Army Type 86 that performed well on the Russian battlefield, and the main bomber was the Army Type 87 bomber with a single wing and twin engines, which had a maximum speed of 240 kilometers per hour, a range of 800 kilometers, a maximum bomb load of 750 kg, and was equipped with two 77 mm machine guns as self-defense weapons. On the morning of the Battle of Vladivostok, the Japanese Kwantung Army threw in 82 Type 86 and 24 Type 86 fighters, 72 Type 87 bombers, in addition to nearly 200 old fighters, to counter the three German air wings stationed in Vladivostok.

At this time, the Kwantung Army had air power second only to the mainland, but the Luftwaffe units stationed in Vladivostok - the 4th Fighter Wing, the 27th Mixed Wing, and the 126th Bomber Wing were also elite divisions. The Wing Commander of the 4th Fighter Wing was the well-known Ernst Wing. Lieutenant Colonel Udet, the super-ace who ranked third overall among active German pilots, shot down a total of 51 enemy aircraft in official air combat, ranking only behind Max. After Immelmann and v., Richthofen.

The wing is one of the earliest fighter units formed in the Luftwaffe, in the British and French battlefields and the United States battlefield have outstanding performance, in the German-Russian war was incorporated into the central aircraft group, for the Luftwaffe to quickly seize air supremacy made a great contribution, in this bloody early morning, they took to the air for the first time to meet the enemy, the Japanese aircraft flew in, including Lieutenant Colonel Oudet and other German fighter pilots did not care about rest and continuous combat, in a large number of kills and wounds of the enemy at the same time also suffered a lot of losses, Within three hours, hundreds of warplanes were shot down on both sides, and more importantly, a large number of Japanese warplanes were rushing from China's three eastern provinces and North Korea to the nearest front-line airfield to Vladivostok......