[Anti-Japanese Predator King] Chapter 898: Americans' New Moves (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The fighting on the Nantan position was still going on, and the Japanese North China Front Command was also transporting a large number of troops and materials to the North China Front, and even Okamura Ninji, commander of the North China Front, sent two telegrams in a week asking for support to the higher departments, that is, the Chinese Dispatch Army Command and the Kwantung Army Headquarters, hoping that the Chinese Dispatch Army Command would transfer the air regiments operating in the south to North China to support the North China Front in the operation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most important thing is that Okamura Ninji hopes that the Kwantung Army in the northeast can enter the customs and fight together to completely destroy Ma Zheng's department.

However, at this time, all the attention in Japan turned to the United States, and Okamura Ninji's telegram for help was delayed again and again, and there was no reply for a long time.

In fact, it is no wonder that the Japanese government at this time was indeed very entangled, and not long ago it was ruthlessly given a general by the US government. Soon after China and the United States reached a tacit understanding on strategy, Chiang sent his wife to the United States to conduct secret negotiations with the United States on behalf of the Nationalist Government, and made a considerable breakthrough.

The most important thing is that US President Roosevelt personally called Chiang Lao and agreed that Chennault, a US flight instructor who was serving in the Chinese Air Force at that time, should recruit retired pilots from the United States and form a volunteer army of the US Air Force to aid China.

In fact, as early as early July 1937, retired American flight captain Chennault arrived in China to assist Madame Chiang, then the chief of the Air Force, in inspecting the Air Force.

A few days later, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Chennault accepted Soong Meiling's suggestion to set up an aviation school in the suburbs of Kunming to train the Chinese Kuomintang Air Force to American standards.

However, due to Japanese diplomatic pressure and the intervention of the U.S. government, Chennault's activities gradually turned private.

Not long ago, President Roosevelt telegraphed Chennault, saying that the U.S. government could secretly support him by recruiting American pilots and mechanics as civilians in the name of private organizations to participate in the war as civilians. At the same time, the U.S. government can retire a group of pilots ahead of schedule and go directly to China to participate in the war.

Although it is said that the Nationalist Government, after receiving funding from the Soviet Union, has replenished a number of Iraqi series fighters that have been eliminated by the Soviet Union, the entire Chinese Air Force now has only four fighters although it has four flight groups in name.

In addition, the Japanese army has just launched a more advanced Zero fighter, and this new fighter has reached mass production, and no less than 300 of them have been deployed in central China alone, so every time the Chinese Air Force fights against the Zero fighter, the loss is not small.

Although Gao Zhihang, Le Yiqin, and others deliberately developed a tactic of using Iraq-16 fighters to jointly deal with the Japanese Zero fighters, the Japanese Air Force was still in an absolute position in Central China.

Air supremacy is not a new word for all countries in the world at this time, and the famous Italian military scientist Du Hei has made a detailed exposition on the importance of air supremacy in many of his books.

The core of Duhei's theory is the victory of the air force. He believed that after seizing air supremacy, the air force could attack the enemy's national and economic centers and win the war on its own. Although his theories exaggerated the role of the air force, such as the view that continuous air raids will quickly disintegrate the people's morale and morale, and the idea of partial air supremacy and the theory of the uselessness of air defense, and so on.

However, it was revolutionary and advanced at that time, and was supported by certain military strategists in the West, which had a great impact. It was reflected in the theory of "blitzkrieg" in fascist Germany, in the theory and practice of the combat use of bomber aviation in the United States, Britain and other bourgeois countries.

In particular, it has a great impact on Germany, which is close at hand, and the blitzkrieg used by Germany in World War II has a strong black color in it.

With the recognition of Duhei theory around the world, the importance of air supremacy has also been valued by countries around the world. Although Lao Chiang was not a strategist or a qualified tactical commander, as the leader of a country and the commander of an army, he was still very keenly aware of the importance of air supremacy.

Therefore, in November 1928, the Aviation Administration was established within the Military and Political Department of the Nanjing Nationalist Government to take charge of the construction of the Air Force. In 1933, the organization of the Aviation Department was gradually improved. The Aviation Administration has 1 director and 1 deputy director, and the Department has 1 section chief of each office, including the Military Affairs Section, the Aviation Affairs Section, and the Management Section of the Counselor's Office. The Aviation Administration has jurisdiction over the aviation fleet, the air station, the aircraft repair yard and the Central Aviation School.

In 1935, the Aviation Administration was renamed the Aviation Committee, directly under the Military Commission, in charge of the administrative and operational affairs of the Air Force, ****** Zi concurrently served as the chairman, Madame Chiang served as the secretary general, and Zhou Zhirou served as the director of the office. Sub-divisions and sections within the Aviation Commission, and the establishment of a political department.

Subsequently, the Nationalist Government purchased a large number of planes from the United States, and at the same time successively incorporated the original Northeast Air Force and Guangdong Air Force, and strengthened the air force, and determined that the brigade was its basic structure, and the brigade consisted of three teams, each of which had three detachments, and each detachment had three or four pilots; The brigade has 1 captain, 1 team leader, and 1 detachment leader; and equipped with mechanical and clerical staff. Before the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government had established 7 flight brigades.

In order to strengthen the construction and security of the air force airfield, five special service brigades have been set up, each of which has three regiments. Two aviation engineer regiments, an air force communications corps and a motor transport unit were also formed.

Even though the Nationalist Government attaches great importance to the development of the Air Force, the huge gap in the national strength of China and Japan still makes it impossible for the Chinese Air Force to compete with the Japanese Air Force. As of August 14, 1937, the Japanese Army Air Corps had about 1,480 aircraft and the Naval Air Corps had about 1,220 aircraft.

Moreover, Japan's industrial base is relatively solid, and it is capable of producing all kinds of aircraft and technical equipment, which can be replenished in a timely manner after combat losses.

In addition, the strength of the Japanese Air Force is also reflected in the quality of its personnel and weaponry; at the beginning of the war of aggression against China, the air and ground crews of the Japanese Army and Navy Air Force were as well-trained as their land forces, had a clear operational command relationship, and provided effective support in all aspects.

In addition, the Japanese army is equipped with better aircraft performance, among which the Type 96 carrier-based fighter, which was put into production in 1936 and participated in the war of aggression against China in 1937, has a maximum flight speed of 435 km/h and a range of 1,267 km, and later derived a variety of improved models, successively producing 1,094 aircraft.

The Japanese Type 96 bomber, with a maximum flight speed of 372 km / h and a range of 1,300 km, was equipped with 4 machine guns and 1 gun, which could carry 800 kg of bombs, and 1,100 were produced successively. These two types of aircraft were the most heavily equipped aircraft of the Japanese army in the early days of the war of aggression against China.

Before the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Air Force successively unified the air forces of various regions and factions under the leadership of the Central Nationalist Government, but its strength was still very limited, its aircraft were outdated, its models were chaotic, its performance was backward, and its aircraft were out of proportion.

In the early and mid-thirties, China purchased from the United States the ****-2, ****-3, and Boeing-281 fighters, Shelllake A-12 attack planes, and Northrop-2E and Martin-139WC bombers, all of which were very limited in number. Due to the weak industrial base in China, although some combat aircraft have also been copied, their main components are still dependent on imports.

As of August 14, 1937, when the Chinese Air Force officially engaged Japanese aircraft, it was composed of 9 brigades and 5 independent squadrons, equipped with 296 aircraft of various types, less than one-ninth of the Japanese army. Among them, 148 bombers, accounting for 50%; 101 fighters, accounting for 34%; 41 reconnaissance aircraft, accounting for 14%.

In addition, there are only 620 pilots in China, and less than half of them can participate in the war. Moreover, the training of fighter pilots focuses on ground attack, and they have no experience in air combat. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Air Force was in a state of strength and weaponry in which the enemy was strong and weak, and the enemy was superior and inferior.

However, the Chinese Air Force had a good record and had also inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Air Force, but due to the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, the Chinese Air Force lost almost all of its air force after three years of war. If it weren't for the support of the Soviet Union's air force to aid China, I am afraid that China's blue sky would have become the world of the Japanese long ago. (To be continued.) )