readx; "I'm a layman, but I know you've done your best!" Looking at the faces full of shame and apology in front of him, Gao Fei said from the bottom of his heart: "The Central Air Force not only has American advisers to directly guide the operation, but also a considerable number of Soviet pilots, who fly the most advanced aircraft of the Soviet Union, but they are still not the opponents of the Chinese army, which is enough to show that the surname of this new fighter can far surpass our fighters, and this huge gap is not something that can be made up by simple flying skills and will!" ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to a young man wearing thick black-rimmed glasses sitting on his right hand and said: "I have specially invited Zhang Yuanhang, director of aircraft research at the Ordnance Research Institute, to discuss with you and see if we can discover the weaknesses of the Japanese army's fighters. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" and motioned to Zhang Yuanhang to say a few words to everyone and get to know each other.

Zhang Yuanhang's age is around thirty years old, with a delicate face and a strong bookish atmosphere, he slowly stood up, smiled at everyone, and then helped the glasses frame on his ear, and introduced in a calm tone as much as possible: "My name is Zhang Yuanhang, please take care of me!" ”

As he spoke, a faint flush appeared on his face: "In the past few days, I have carefully asked the pilots who participated in the air battle that day, obtained some information, and then calculated the surname energy data of this new type of fighter in the Xia Yue Army based on these materials: the cruising speed is about 300 kilometers, and the maximum speed is more than 500 kilometers; The ceiling is more than 10,000 meters; The armament consisted of two 20 mm machine guns and two mm machine guns; The combat radius is more than 800 km. It may be the first time to speak on such an important occasion, and his voice trembled slightly: "Let's see if there is anything that needs to be added?" ”

Liu Xirui then said: "The vertical maneuverability of this fighter is particularly good, when it is grappling, it is difficult to bite it from behind, when you see that it is about to catch up with it, you can even see that its wings are shaking slightly, as if it is about to disintegrate in the air, but it suddenly turns over and bites you from behind!" ”

Then he whispered, "It's so strange, as if it has some mysterious ability." ”

Zhang Yuanhang smiled shyly and explained: "Judging from the wreckage of the two downed planes, I said that I used a large amount of alloy on the plane, which greatly reduced the weight of the aircraft and ensured its maneuverability and endurance. ”

Gao Fei looked at the pilots, smiled and said: "If you don't have anything to add, let's analyze the shortcomings of this fighter, or how to deal with them?" ”

Liu Xirui immediately said: "When I was bitten by an enemy plane from behind, I couldn't get rid of it whether I was accelerating or climbing, and finally I used a rolling action to achieve my goal -- does it mean that it is more difficult for this kind of plane to roll over?" ”

A pilot with a cheeky face shook his head and put forward a different opinion: "I was caught up by the enemy plane after the rolling maneuver, and it seemed that it was very easy, otherwise, how could it have caught up with me!" ”

As soon as his words fell, two pilots stood up and said that they had encountered the same situation as Liu Xirui, and then three more pilots supported the bearded man's view, which made Zhang Yuanhang at a loss.

Gao Fei sat on the chair, carefully analyzed the conversation of the pilots, suddenly felt a light in his eyes, and hurriedly asked Liu Xirui: "Brother Zhihang, do you remember which direction you rolled in at that time?" Left or right? ”

Goofy's voice was not only there, but it immediately quieted down the conference room. The pilots were inspired by his words and began to work hard to understand how they had ridden the plane.

In the end, Zhang Yuanhang found that all the pilots who believed that the enemy plane had no defects in this regard used the method of rolling to the left, while Liu Xirui and others rolled to the right.

At this time, the bearded man said tentatively: "An enemy plane seems to have suddenly stalled when it was following me in a dive, I don't know if it is considered a weak point?" After speaking, he scratched his head and looked at Zhang Yuanhang with expectant eyes.

Zhang Yuanhang hurriedly asked, "What other actions did you make when you dived?" ”

The bearded man replied: "At that time, the enemy plane bit me from behind, so I made a power dive in the vertical direction and turned on the afterburner. ”

Zhang Yuanhang asked loudly, "Has anyone else encountered a similar situation?" ”

When he found that no one answered, he put a question mark on the question.

A pilot sitting in a corner said: "Although the enemy planes are equipped with cannons, they do not seem to have much ammunition load, and they were all replaced by machine guns in less than five minutes of fighting." ”

Zhang Yuanhang saw that no one stood up to refute, so he wrote in his notebook: The cannon load is insufficient.

At this time, a very young pilot asked: "Director Zhang, since we have summed up the advantages and disadvantages of such enemy aircraft, when will your arsenal be able to produce fighters that can match them?" ”

Zhang Yuanhang shook his head awkwardly, and turned his gaze to Gao Fei for help, and the latter explained: "Our industrial base and technology are still very weak, and it will take quite a long time to catch up with the Yuben fighter, so we can only think of other ways for the time being." ”

Liu Xirui asked: "Then can we buy some more advanced fighters from abroad?" ”

Zhang Yuanhang also shook his head and said, "As far as I know, no country's fighter jets are so advanced. ”

Seeing this scene, Gao Fei casually asked: "Zhang Yuanhang, has there been any significant progress in the development of the aircraft?" ”

Zhang Yuanhang replied: "Some progress has been made in the research of alloy materials, and production verification is underway; The development of aircraft engines is progressing slowly and will take quite some time. ”

Gao Fei had actually learned about these situations from the Arsenal report a long time ago, and the reason why he knowingly asked was to calm the dissatisfaction of the pilots and let them know that the Arsenal was also working hard.

The young pilot who asked the question just now asked dissatisfiedly: "Since we are not yet capable of developing a new type of fighter, what is the use of summing up the advantages and disadvantages of the military fighter?" ”

Gao Fei took over this question: "According to reliable intelligence, these new fighters of the Yue Army have only been put into use for a few months, and it is very likely that they have not yet been finalized, so other countries definitely have no information on this!" It doesn't matter if Germany and Italy are the countries that want to get this information, and we can take this opportunity to participate in the development and production of new fighters and thus accumulate sufficient experience. ”

Zhang Yuanhang added: "Although these shortcomings have been summarized, they are not necessarily correct, and if you want to become valuable first-hand information, you still need a lot of actual combat to verify it!" ”

Liu Xirui immediately said loudly: "This task will be handed over to the Air Force to complete!" ”

"No way!" Gao Fei immediately objected: "The difference between the surname of the plane is so big, isn't taking the initiative to challenge it tantamount to death!" No matter how important information is, it is not as important as human life! With that, he glared fiercely at the nerd beside him.

Liu Xirui did not give up his position because of Gao Fei's opposition, he said in a very sincere tone: "Commander, we have mastered the shortcomings of enemy aircraft, as long as the pilot's skills are good enough and he does not fall in love with war, it is not difficult to get out!" ”

After dispelling Gao Fei's doubts, he said: "The commander's love for our air force, everyone understands it!" However, as long as enemy planes continue to wreak havoc in China's airspace, the lives and safety of the people will be threatened, and only by driving out enemy planes as soon as possible can we minimize losses; besides, our lives are not nobler than ordinary people, and there is no reason for them to be left unarmed to face these problems that should have been faced by our soldiers. ”

Listening to Liu Xirui's eloquent words, Gao Fei nodded helplessly, and said with a shameful face: "Since this is the case, let's do what you want!" Then he said self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect you to remind me, I'm really ashamed!" ”

After the meeting, Liu Xirui selected seven highly skilled pilots, plus just eight of them, to form a small detachment to find their weaknesses by constantly fighting with the "Zero" of the army. Although the fighters did not dare to penetrate deep into the interior of Fujian under the threat of ground air defense fire, the best combination of excellent mobile fighters and high-quality pilots still possessed very powerful lethality, thus making the provocation and temptation of the detachment as dangerous as walking a tightrope.

After seven consecutive skirmishes, the Fujian Air Force lost eleven more fighters, and three pilots spilled blood in the sky!

At the cost of their lives, the Fujian Air Force finally found out the weak underbelly of the "Zero" fighter plane: First, this kind of aircraft has excellent operating ability and a very small turning radius only at a low speed, and when the speed exceeds 370 kilometers, it will become very clumsy, and it will be very difficult to control rolling, and at this time, it must pay great physical strength to pull the longitudinal rod. Second, it's much easier to roll and turn to the left than to the right. Thirdly, in conditions of negative acceleration, the engine is extremely prone to stalling.

Based on this, Zhang Yuanhang speculated that the "Zero" fighter was likely to use a floating carburetor.

The Fujian side immediately informed the United States and Britain of this valuable information, hoping that they would be able to heighten their vigilance, use the "Zero" fighter as an imaginary enemy, develop a new type of fighter that can suppress it as soon as possible, and then sell it to China.

However, the United States, which was rife with isolationism, and Britain, which pursued a policy of appeasement, did not take the warnings of the Fujian side seriously at all, and the information that had been exchanged for blood and lives was treated on the shelf, and was soon covered with dust and disappeared from people's memory.

Relying on the excellent ability of the "Zero" fighters, the naval aviation quickly gained an overwhelming superiority in air combat, and then, as this fighter was formally finalized, more and more "Zero" fighters were equipped with troops, and soon the last bit of strength of the Chinese Air Force was completely wiped out, and only fighters and bombers could be seen in the entire southwestern sky.

Although Fujian has a good ground air defense system, it can only barely protect itself, and its fighters and bombers are all parked in solid aircraft shelters, and they do not dare to take off easily, and even if they take off, they only maintain a cruising altitude of two or three thousand meters, and they are always within the protection range of the ground air defense fire network. In this way, the navy easily took control of the Taiwan Strait, and the Taiwan Corps not only lost air support, but also lost the channel for material supply, and fell into an extremely difficult situation.

At the end of 1940, Emperor Samoto convened an imperial council at the Imperial Palace to plan new measures for the war against China with the senior staff of the Tokyo High Command, and the participants, including Emperor Hirohito, unanimously agreed that the Chinese Nationalist Axe headed by Chiang Kai-shek, with the assistance of the American and British camps, was even more confident in the victory of the war, and therefore would certainly ignore the peace conditions proposed by Tokyo through separate negotiations.

In response to this situation, the Imperial Council decided on the "Outline for Handling the Chinese Incident." Its policy is threefold: first, continue to strike at China by force; The second is to blockade sea, land and air routes, and strictly put an end to the United States and Britain aiding China in the war of resistance; The third is to adjust the diplomatic relations between the two countries and use all political and military means to weaken the will of the Yucheng regime to resist the war and make it quickly submit.

Hideki Tojo, the newly appointed Minister of Army, and Sugiyama Moto, chief of staff of the War Department at the base camp, held that the army and navy must carry out a complete blockade of China, cut off China's ties with the United States, Britain, and other Western powers by land, sea, and air, cut off the French Indo-China route, sabotage the Yunnan-Burma highway, and at the same time blockade the sea surface with the navy and the seaport blockade by the army, so as to intensify economic oppression against China.

Prior to this, the newly formed Indochina Dispatch Army Command and Naval Aviation Unit were stationed in Hanoi, Vietnam, a French colony, cutting off the international route through Hanoi to China's Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, and serving as an aviation base for the Yueben Navy to bomb Chinese mainland. Four days after the army was stationed in Hanoi, the naval aviation unit took off and bombed Kunming City, the "backyard" of Yucheng's political axe.

While concentrating bombers to continuously and indiscriminately bomb the rear of China's political axe and Fujian and other places, the army made every effort to consolidate the areas controlled in North China, and then began to draw troops to prepare for a counterattack.

Since the offensive of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has been temporarily stalled, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have caused friction in many places, and both sides have suffered casualties on both sides, so that the anti-Japanese national united front is in danger of breaking down at any time. In the face of accusations at home and abroad, especially the accusations of overseas Chinese who had increased their huge financial support for the war of resistance, the Nationalist Political Axe headed by Chiang Kai-shek had to make a gesture of boiling openly, and decided to convene the first meeting of the Second National Political Suffrage Conference in early 1941, and the venue of the meeting was in the capital of Chongqing.

The National Council for Political Participation is the highest advisory body in the country, which is established by the National People's Political Initiative and includes representatives of the Kuomintang, [***] and other anti-party parties and non-party personages. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the contradiction between China and the Chinese nationalities became the main contradiction in Chinese society. Under the banner of patriotism, the Kuomintang, other anti-Japanese parties and the whole people began the nationwide war of resistance.

In August 1937, the "Senate of the Supreme Council of National Defense" was established, and the chairman of the Supreme Council of National Defense hired [***], the Al-Shabaab, the National Salvation Congress and people from all walks of life as political participants as the advisory body of the Supreme Council of National Defense, which was the basis for the establishment of the National Council for Political Participation.

On March 1, 1938, China [***] officially put forward the idea of "establishing an organ of public opinion". In view of the critical military situation and diplomatic isolation, the National People's Political Axe decided to accept [***]'s proposal, put an end to the National Defense Council, and "organize the organs of national participation in politics, unite the forces of the whole country, and concentrate the thoughts and opinions of the whole country for the purpose of deciding and implementing national policies." Subsequently, the "Regulations on the Organization of the National Participation Council" were enacted, and the first National Participation Committee was selected.

In July 1938, the National Suffrage Council was formally established in Wuhan and held the first meeting of the first session, and in the following years, a total of five meetings were held. Although the National Political Axe claimed that the National Political Participation Council was a representative organ that reflected the will of the people and decided the major policies of the country, the political participants were all selected by the Central Political Axe and could not fully represent the will of the people of the whole country, and were criticized by the middle forces, including [***], but compared with the previous policies of the Kuomintang, they still made great progress, so they all participated very actively.

After the decision was made to convene the first National Council for Political Participation in the Second Session, the Kuomintang Political Axe immediately stuffed a large number of Kuomintang members into the country on the pretext that the statute of limitations for the first session of political participation had expired and that it was necessary to re-select them. Unexpectedly, Gao Fei, Cai Yuyan, and Mike Rosen were all selected and asked to rush to Yucheng immediately to participate in the political meeting.

"Gao Fei, the national political axe has not realized the sincerity of Ming Cook at all, there is no need for us to participate in this political participation meeting and whitewash their peace! Now, his planes and warships are circling along the coast all day long, causing panic among the people, and if you, the military and political leader of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, leave for more than a month, will not it make matters worse? The best way is to ignore it and concentrate on solving our own affairs, only on the battlefield is a good way to save the country and save the people, everything else is false, ignore it at all! ”

After receiving the notice of the national political axe, Gao Fei invited Cai Yuyan, Mike Rosen and Chen Yingying to listen to their views on the political participation meeting.

As soon as Cai Yu's words fell, Michael Rosen added: "At present, our economic development momentum is very good, coupled with so many excellent seaports and the vast market in the mainland, the prospects are also good, and the fourth theater relies on a solid economic foundation and can continue to develop and grow, so as to gain an advantage on the battlefield." If we go to this meeting, the national political axe and the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee will inevitably want the two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong to maintain the unity of government decrees with the central government, and hand over the tax revenue to the state treasury. ”

Then he added: "The vast majority of merchants and factory owners in Fujian Province have basically the same view as me!" ”

(To be continued)