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Not to mention, Ma Zheng's fire filled it with a lot of startled Yamada Otozo. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Originally, he judged that Ma Zheng's headquarters were going to take action against the Kwantung Army, so after receiving a telegram from Higuchi Jiichiro, he immediately ordered the Ninth Division to block Ma Zheng's headquarters west of Tongliao at all costs.

After receiving the telegram, Kiichiro Higuchi did not dare to slack off, and immediately called a senior staff officer of the division and regiment headquarters to discuss countermeasures. The posture of Ma Zheng's department is very amazing, although Lieutenant General Higuchi Jiichiro is not afraid of what he says, and he is arrogant and shouting to eliminate Ma Zheng's department, but he knows better than anyone else that it is tantamount to a fool's dream to do this with a mere 9th Division.

How did he and his Ninth Division come to Tongliao, Higuchi Jiichiro understands better than anyone that the original 12th Division of the defenders in the Tongliao area was completely annihilated by Ma Zheng's department, and the Eighth Division that was transferred later was also defeated, so the Kwantung Army Headquarters transferred him and his Ninth Division here.

The 12th Division is just that, a "field division" that does not have many opportunities for actual combat, and its combat effectiveness is indeed not good. However, the Eighth Division was different, as one of the most powerful field divisions in the Japanese Empire, the Eighth Division's own combat effectiveness and the ability of the commander of the division were not bad, and in overall comparison, it was even higher than his Ninth Division.

Even so, the Eighth Division was finally defeated and almost annihilated. If it weren't for the desperate rescue of various units of the Kwantung Army, I am afraid that the 8th Division would have been wiped out by Ma Zheng's division from the battle sequence of the Great Japanese Empire.

The strength of Ma Zheng's department is shocking, and it can be seen that Ma Zheng's name as a "magic general" is indeed not in vain, so when facing Ma Zheng's department, the pressure of Higuchi Jiichiro can be imagined.

On October 15, Ma Zheng's headquarters took the lead in launching an attack, but this attack did not use infantry, but directly dispatched heavy artillery troops to bombard the Japanese army's outlying fortifications and the Naiman city wall at a distance of more than ten kilometers.

The shelling lasted for most of the day, directly splitting the outer positions of the Japanese puppet army and the fortifications of the city, and it seemed that there was a great tendency to seize Naiman City.

Although the Japanese artillery also counterattacked during this period, they only had one heavy artillery squadron, and the other artillery did not pose any threat to the artillery of the Eighth Route Army more than ten kilometers away, which was a completely fair duel. In the 27th minute of the artillery battle, all four of the Japanese army's only four field heavy guns were destroyed. The heavy artillery units completely lost their combat effectiveness.

Although Ma Zheng's department also lost 2 heavy guns, it was not fundamentally injured, and it still had the strength to fight. The rest of the time became an exclusive show for the heavy artillery units of the Northern Serbian Corps, and a few hours later the walls of Naiman City, where the Japanese were stationed, collapsed many of the walls, the fortifications were destroyed, and the battle had just begun.

Subsequently, a fighter group under Ma Zheng's department attacked again and again and bombed all the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army in the eastern grassland, causing huge losses to the Japanese army.

After receiving the news, the Kwantung Army Command immediately sent the 2nd Air Group to Tongliao for reinforcements, and General Yamada Otozo ordered the 2nd Air Group of the Japanese Army to annihilate the invading Shina Air Force no matter what, and ensure the air reinforcement of the ground forces.

The Kwantung Army deserved to be the most important strategic group in the Japanese base camp, and all the combat planes of the 2nd Air Group were all the latest improved Zero fighters of the Japanese army.

The performance of this kind of aircraft is extremely good, but it caused huge losses to the US and British air forces in the battle two years ago, and even the fighters of the US and British air forces did not dare to take to the air.

Relatively speaking, the P40 fighter now equipped by Ma Zheng's department is indeed inferior to the Japanese Zero fighter in terms of performance, but what is competing on the battlefield is not the advanced nature of weapons and equipment, but the comprehensive survivability.

Although the Zero fighter is indeed very good, it has fatal flaws, and it is precisely this flaw that Ma Zheng is clear.

At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Japanese land-based air force stationed in southern Taiwan launched a large-scale air attack on the Philippines, and 84 A6M2 escorted 54 G4M1 Type 1 land attack and 54 G3M2 Type 96 land attack to attack Clark.

In this battle, the U.S. forces suffered a crushing defeat, shooting down 15 planes and destroying another 50 planes on the ground, and the Japanese army basically wiped out the U.S. air power in the Philippines in one day.

In this surprise attack, the Zero adopted a low-speed and fuel-efficient flight mode and flew directly to the Philippines, and the US military did not expect that Japan already had a fighter with such a powerful endurance, and was greatly shocked. In just 3 days, Zero mastered the skies of the Philippines.

At the beginning of the Pacific War, Japan's Zero outperformed all Allied aircraft, especially in terms of maneuverability and endurance. At that time, the American F-2A Buffalo, F-4F Wildcat, P-40 Kitty Hawk and other aircraft were at a loss in the face of the Zero.

In Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, the East Indies and even the Indian Ocean, due to the outstanding performance of the Zero, coupled with experienced Japanese pilots, the Zero fighter dominated the entire sky, laying a good foundation for the Japanese landing operation, and the bomb-carrying Zero can also be used as a fighter-bomber, known as the "universal fighter".

The Japanese pilots even boasted: "Any pilot with a little experience in the Zero can easily shoot down the P-39!" So the British and American Air Forces, in a fit of rage, swept the P-39 out of the house and threw it to the Soviet Air Force for use as a ground attack aircraft. ”

However, this situation did not last long, and the U.S. captured a Zero fighter at the Battle of Midway. Subsequently, the US military immediately packed the plane and transported it back to the United States, repaired it, and conducted a test flight, through which it found a way to deal with the Zero and designed a new fighter according to the characteristics of the Zero.

After several test flights, the U.S. military came to the conclusion that the Zero had an excellent climb rate and turning radius and could easily surpass the F4F Wildcat and P-40, and that it would be tantamount to suicide to engage in a grappling with the Zero at low altitudes. However, at high altitude, the Zero's excellent vertical maneuverability begins to deteriorate because the aileron's movements are sluggish and the reaction is slow.

In addition, the Dive Speed of the Zero fighter is not fast, and if it is bitten by the Zero in battle, it should immediately dive at high speed and roll, which can usually be shaken off. The bitten Zero can be easily escaped by making a small radius turn, so Allied pilots must maintain high speed to avoid getting entangled at low speeds.

But remember not to use climbing methods to get out, and do not chase the sharp climb of the Zero, otherwise it will be a dead end.

Due to the floating carburetor design of the Nakajima Sakae 12-star air-cooled engine used in the Zero type, it is easy to cause the engine to stall during high-speed diving. In addition, the Zero wing structure has serious flaws, the dive speed is limited, and if the speed is too fast, the aircraft can easily disintegrate.

After the Zero's performance was decrypted, the US pilots took advantage of the Zero's poor dive capability to adopt a hit-and-run assault method against the Japanese bombers escorted by the Zero, which could avoid the Zero's interception, greatly reducing the Zero's escort effect, and avoiding being shot down by the Zero by means of diving and escaping.

The application of this tactic enabled the U.S. military to escape under the guns of the Zero before the F6F and P47/51 were put into service, and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese bomber force, effectively reversing the unfavorable situation in the air.

Ma Zheng has a very good understanding of the gap between the equipment of the Chinese and Japanese air forces, so at the beginning of the formation of the aviation brigade, he has been training to deal with the tactics of zero fighters, according to the conclusion given by Wang Zhengyang and others, now the aviation brigade of the Saibei Corps can already compete with the Japanese army's zero team, so Ma Zheng will send valuable aviation troops in this battle.

The Japanese side obviously did not know about this, especially the Second Air Group, which was tasked with air strikes in the South Manchurian region. After receiving an order from the General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army, the 2nd Air Group made the decision to lure and annihilate the Northern Air Force.

And they think that Ma Zheng's department has no capital to compete with them, because the news that came back before said that Ma Zheng's aviation unit is only equipped with outdated P-40 fighters from the United States, and this kind of fighter is scum in front of the powerful Zero fighter, and it is not worth mentioning at all. The reason why the tactics of decoy and annihilation were adopted was just because he was worried that Ma Zheng's troops would become a turtle with a shrunken head after seeing the Zero fighter.