In April 1942, the Allied High Command in Burma decided to concentrate three whole armies on the Chinese side (the Fifth, Sixth, and Sixty-sixth Armies) and five whole divisions on the British side, with a total of 250,000 superior troops, to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

The grand idea of the Battle of Mandalay first came from Chairman Chiang's judgment of the current situation. Chairman Chiang was not unwilling to fight, but he had to fight a decisive battle with the enemy on the premise of preserving his strength and certainty. There is a well-known military principle in China called "avoid the real and make up for the false, and wait for work at leisure". It has now been ascertained that the Japanese army invading Burma has four divisions and nearly 100,000 men, and has been driving straight into the country from the east and west roads. If one of them were to storm one of them with the superior forces of the Allies, a complete victory would be assured.

Mandalay is condescending, backed by the Yunnan-Burma Highway, which can be attacked when entering and defended on the spot when retreating. The chairman of the committee chose Mandalay as the ideal battlefield for the battle, and he really took advantage of the right time and place, and he was not afraid of what the British would do.

The plan for the Battle of Mandalay was similarly quickly approved by the British Allies. In the eyes of the British, Burma would sooner or later be lost to the Japanese, and as long as the Chinese were willing to fight and attract the attention of the Japanese, they would approve of any strategy, plan, program, or policy. They had only one aim, which was to retreat their troops safely and calmly to India.

Although a lot of things have happened in this, the original battle of Mandalay was about to be aborted, but now that Wei Lihuang has taken over the authority of the expeditionary force, he must ensure the safety of northern Burma, consume the devils in Burma, drag them to live in Burma, China, Britain and the United States are also willing to do this after many rounds of consultations, for Britain, part of Myanmar is controlled in China's hands, then Japan and China will fight, Britain is recuperating in India, and when both sides are defeated, they will come out to clean up the mess, and the Americans are also willing to do this, Because they only need to produce some weapons and ammunition, they don't have to fight on their own land, they don't have to fight with their own soldiers, there are no losses, the United States and Japan have already declared war, and they have fought several times, and they can't fight anymore, there is no possibility of peace talks, only one of the two sides will be beaten down by the other, there is no other possibility, if these Japanese wait for the US military to wipe out, not only will a large number of people die, but also consume more weapons and ammunition.

On May 10, the war officially began, and the devil's plane first bombed the Mandalay Line, although the expeditionary force also had planes, but now the best American planes are also very far from the zero planes, not to mention that the Chinese are not the best, so the air force can not bring any role to the expeditionary force, they can only look for opportunities to ambush the devils.

However, the battle of Mandalay has been prepared for a long time, and the fortifications have been prepared for dozens of days, which is very strong, so the devil's plane did not cause any damage, and then more than 60,000 people from the three divisions of the devil attacked Mandalay.

The devil's heavy artillery wing bombarded the position of the expeditionary force, and then the devil's small force launched a tentative attack on the position of the expeditionary force to test the firepower configuration of the expeditionary force, but the expeditionary force was the elite of the elite of the squadron, and the 100,000 troops concentrated in China fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

The war was fought again and again until the 15th, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the squadron suffered a lot of losses, but the war lasted for five days, and the squadron still firmly controlled the position.

However, during this time, the Japanese army did not attack with all their might, although the intensity of their attack has been increasing, but they still have some scruples, because the haze of the 200th Division has been hanging over their heads with a strategy to encircle and annihilate the 56th Division, the reason why the 56th Division will be annihilated so easily is because of the rash advance and imprudentness, so the river side is very careful, although after the 56th Division was surrounded and annihilated, the Battle of the Coral Sea did not achieve a complete victory for the first time, but the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean is still obvious, Especially for the squadron, if China is not too big and needs to divide the troops, and the Japanese population is too small, then China would have been Japanese a long time ago, so a delay of a few days is nothing for Shozo Kawabe, and the Japanese military department is not urging the destruction of the 56th Division, but letting the Burmese Front make its own decisions according to the battlefield.

On May 16, Wei Lihuang already knew that the plan to encircle and annihilate the 56th Division came from Wang Hanzhang, so he strongly asked Wang Hanzhang to come to Mandalay to see if he could find any way, and also come up with a big conspiracy to defeat the troops of the devil in this battle at once, Wang Hanzhang was naturally very happy, so he arrived in Mandalay on the 16th.

On May 17, the Devil Plane came to bomb the Expeditionary Force's position, and on this day, the Chinese Air Force also came to help, so that Wang Hanzhang had the honor to witness the power of the Zero fighter.

At this time, he remembered that he could summarize the shortcomings of the Zero fighter that he saw on the Internet in later generations and hand them over to the Chinese Air Force, which would help the Chinese Air Force minimize its own losses and accumulate experience when the performance of the aircraft was not as good as that of the Zero fighter.

Wang Hanzhang took the binoculars and his entourage to hide in the jungle and watched the air battle, don't think he really understands, in fact, Wang Hanzhang just watched the circus play monkey mentality, because he couldn't understand it at all, and at the same time he deliberately looked very carefully, because he wanted to cover up.

In the half-hour air battle, more than a dozen Chinese Air Force planes were shot down, but not a single plane of the devil was shot, and Wang Hanzhang only saw one plane running away with smoke. But it doesn't matter anymore, the important thing is that he remembers the shortcomings of the Zero.

After the air battle, Wang Hanzhang immediately wrote down the shortcomings of the Zero fighter and asked the dispatcher to send it to the Chinese Air Force Headquarters and to Wei Lihuang with a copy.

Soon the Chinese Air Force received a telegram from Wang Hanzhang, who first said in his own tone what he had observed in the Mandalay air battle on the 16th, and the situation in which the Devil's plane was flying, and then pointed out the shortcomings of the Devil's new fighter in combination with the Devil's lack of resources.

The first point is that the rate of climb and the radius of turning are excellent, and it is tantamount to suicide to engage in a grappling with these two aircraft and the Zero at low altitudes. However, if at high altitude, the excellent vertical maneuverability of the Zero begins to deteriorate, because the movement of the ailerons is sluggish, and the reaction slows down the second point.

The dive speed of the Zero is not fast, if you are bitten by the Zero in battle, you should immediately dive at a high speed and roll, you can usually get rid of it, but remember not to use the climbing means to get rid of it, and do not chase the Zero that climbs sharply, otherwise you will end up dead.

The third point is that the Zero does not have any armor to protect the pilot and the fuel tank, and the fuel tank does not have a self-sealing device and fire extinguishing equipment, which can easily be hit and catch fire.

At the end, Wang Hanzhang once again proposed that Japan is an island country, lack of resources, limited industrial development after all, and at the same time, Japan's steel and other resources are giving priority to the development of the navy, so their new fighter (Note: At this time, the official name of the Japanese aircraft has not been announced, and everyone does not know that he is called the Zero fighter. Wang Hanzhang asked the Chinese Air Force to familiarize themselves with it first, and then they will compete with the devils, and then find an opportunity to try to see if they have any of the above defects.

Chennault, who was in charge of the plenipotentiary affairs of the Chinese Air Force, looked at this telegram and didn't pay much attention to it at first, but then looked at Wang Hanzhang's name and looked at it seriously.

After studying for a night in a hurry, Chennault decided to send the air force to try it on the 17th, and the more Wang Hanzhang said that the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became, maybe after the trial, the Allied air forces would have more ways to deal with the Japanese air beasts.

On the 17th, Chennault sent the best pilots of the Chinese Air Force to fly the best planes, and this time they did not want to carry out any combat missions, but to test the devil's planes and see the performance, among the 12 planes, only 2 were Americans, and the other 10 were Chinese pilots.

Everyone knows the danger of this operation, so the Americans are unwilling, they feel that it is a death, but for the Chinese Air Force, they have to do it, because this is to encircle their own country, and they have no way out.

On the afternoon of the 17th, the 12 planes were divided into six formations, each with two planes.

When they arrived again, the devil's plane was still bombing the position of the expeditionary force, they immediately pounced, the devil's plane did not panic, the devil's air force knew that their plane had no opponent, so they calmly adjusted their formation to meet the Chinese air force.

The Chinese Air Force soon made contact with the Devil plane, and the bullets were fired at the Devil plane like tongues of fire, and the Devil's plane also fired bullets at the Chinese Air Force.

The troops on both sides on the ground were watching, and within half an hour of fighting with the devils, five planes of the Chinese Air Force were shot down, two planes of the devils were shot down, and the other plane seemed to fall apart by itself when it dived with the planes of the Chinese Air Force, and then crashed directly, and finally the devils lost their planes. Although the casualties this time were greater than those of the devils, the pilots exchanged their sacrifices for powerful intelligence, and what Wang Hanzhang said was right, the devil's plane was indeed not good for diving, and it was not good for private service in high-altitude combat performance.

After the pilots went back, they immediately summed up the situation of the battle, and indeed as Wang Hanzhang said, the devil's plane was not without shortcomings, and after Chennault got the information, he first asked the pilots to do targeted training, and at the same time he sent the information to the US military and the US government, hoping that the United States would study targeted planes and study tactics to deal with devil planes.

And Wang Hanzhang became famous again, everyone didn't expect that Wang Hanzhang actually knew the Air Force, and the devil naturally knew the shortcomings of his plane, so he hated Wang Hanzhang even more, and Wang Hanzhang's head suddenly rose to 500,000 oceans.