December 10, 1939 at 7 a.m.

In the past 30 years, the empire has reclaimed this extremely important island, gradually moving the local Korean residents to the northeast, northern Korea and the Far East, and the island has been under the jurisdiction of the Jeju Military Reclamation Bureau, which is directly responsible for the investment and construction of the Central Military Reclamation Bureau. Of the 23,000 local households, 14,000 militia units can be dispatched, the vast majority of whom are families of retired officers and soldiers of the Central Defense Forces.

The good geographical location has made the local area one of the largest fishing islands in Asia in the past 30 years, with deep processing of fishery products and port business as the main industries, industry, commerce and fishing population accounting for 77% of the local population, Huayuan Fishery Company under the Central Military Reclamation Administration has more than 40 medium and large fishing boats here, and the fishing range can reach the area of the East Ryukyu Islands.

The peaceful and prosperous day was finally completely broken on this day.

The Army's Type 97 Army fighters crossed the strait with hundreds of planes and skimmed the sea at low altitudes to cover the bombing of the northwest coast of Jeju Island by the 96 land attack planes.

In the development of fighters, the attack aircraft was not specially designed to resemble China's G series attack aircraft, and its attack aircraft were actually bombers, and even the J-5 Tiger Shark fighter-bomber lacked combat ability and protection, which was also because of the fact that the aircraft design, materials, metallurgy, aviation power and other fields were defective, and the company even failed to establish an effective and comprehensive hollow system.

Because of the various deficiencies in the foundation, the 96 land attack planes did not possess good ground dive and low-altitude attack capabilities, so after skimming over the sea, the military aircraft group began to raise the distance, tried to avoid the antiaircraft aircraft guns on the front line, penetrated deep into the air force airfield in Jeju, and used the preemptive advantage to attack the airfield and wipe out the Chinese air force before it took off.

This plan will surely fail.

One of the two radar base stations deployed on Jeju Island is a new type of large Doppler ground-based radar updated after the start of the war, with a reconnaissance range of more than 160 kilometers, and three J-5 Tiger Shark fighter formations also patrol the surrounding area 24 hours a day in the Jeju defense area.

The Chinese army took off in the darkness of the early hours of the morning, simply believing that the radar of the Chinese Air Force only had a reconnaissance range of 20 kilometers at most, so it rashly adopted such a one-sided and self-righteous combat plan, but before the arrival of the air force group, more than 270 J-3 and 150 J-4 fighters had already taken off, but in different directions.

After six months of repeated operations and experiments with the Air Force, the front-line commanders and pilots of the Imperial Air Force gradually explored a set of tactical strategies corresponding to the 97 Land Battle, because the J-3's combat surname can be roughly equivalent to the 97 Land Battle, the climb rate is better than the 97 Land Battle, and the plane maneuver surname can be lower than that of the opponent, so the J-3 takes off head-on before the arrival of the enemy aircraft, and the 97 Land Battle is entangled at medium and low altitudes. The J-4 took off from the side, made a big circle, accelerated to a high altitude, and then dived down to attack.

In the case of Jeju Island, the J-4 fighter usually flies westward, and then turns to dive into the 97 land battle over the Jeju Strait at high altitude, while the J-3 is usually responsible for luring the opponent into a suitable position, and then using the acceleration and climb advantage to get rid of the opponent, so that the opponent's 97 land battle is completely ambushed.

In the sky over Jeju, nearly 1,000 fighters were engaged in the air, and four formations of the J-4 group suddenly interjected from high school and dived and strafed the 97 land battle in the air, while the J-4 group of the other formation took advantage of the high speed advantage to tear apart the formation of the 96 bombers of the Japanese army.

The two sides continued to fight frantically in the sky, the J-4 lightning fighter plane's down-and-down attack attack, the J-3 Viper fighter plane's wave-like tumbling climb and get rid of it, and the horizontal maneuver and encircling attack of the 97 land battle, forming a large air combat offensive over the narrow island that surpassed the Incheon air battle.

On the strait, the large-scale landing force of the Yue army has stepped on the sea, the fleet is roaring in front, the main fleet of the Yue army has also arrived in the northwest sea of Jeju Island, more than 100 heavy artillery aimed at the port and the beach to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment, these naval heavy artillery is huge, each more than 14 inches of artillery is an absolutely deadly threat to the land-based fortress, these can sink the super battleship of the giant cannon bombardment on the cement fortress, even the thickest steel city is also broken.

People who have not lived through the era of battleships must not understand what a terrible thing this is, even in land-based fortresses, it is very rare to have huge cannons of more than 14 inches and 355mm caliber, but battleships can have 8 to 10 such cannons.

On the northwest coastline of Jeju Island, which is only 15 kilometers long, the indiscriminate bombardment of more than 100 heavy artillery pieces and hundreds of conventional naval guns makes the entire fortress on the defensive line tremble, and the power of this shelling is very great, and the entire Jeju Island is experiencing a shallow earthquake-like shaking during the shelling, and the huge roar and mushroom-like sparkling light in the air are always terrifying.

In just ten minutes, three rounds of artillery bombardment caused the heavy defensive fortresses on the defensive line to collapse and collapse, but there were still two more solid defensive pillboxes to withstand such a huge shelling.

On the tidal flats, the MG34\37 general-purpose machine gun jointly developed by China and Germany and the Browning twin-mounted 12.7mm heavy machine gun and the CM22 Cross light machine gun continue to strafe wildly on the position, the craziest is the Imperial CM1930 type revolver heavy machine gun, this heavy machine gun has a universal caliber of 14.5mm, and the rate of fire of six rounds can reach 1200 rounds per minute, which is almost the fastest rate of fire in the world at present.

Because of its weight, this heavy machine gun can only be installed on warships and fortresses, but its crazy rate of fire and common surname for air and land make it easy to become the most extreme slaughterer in defensive weapons, because the defensive armor effectiveness of the army's armored vehicles is low, and it cannot even reach the Browning heavy machine gun, and it is even more powerless for this more crazy CM1930 heavy machine gun.

The Type 95 light warfare, which was the main force of the landing, was almost powerless in the face of such heavy machine guns, and was easily beaten into a sieve, and could not resist the 20\45 mm machine guns in the fortress.

Before designing the defense line for Jeju Island in 1929, Zhang Hongkui had presided over many landing operations exercises in the Zhoushan Islands, and had very rich experience and theoretical research on both landing operations and counter-landings.

The theory of firepower balance and rapidity is a very simple and practical military theory, that is, whether it is a landing operation or a defensive operation, the firepower must be balanced, the size and caliber must be complete, and the rate of fire must be fast, and the faster the better.

Because the combat area of a landing operation is relatively narrow, and the operation has a very strong short-term effect, the success or failure is basically determined only by the initial half hour, and within this half hour, the more ammunition fired, the denser the firepower, and the greater the superiority of the defending and attacking sides.

Jeju Island's coastal defense is not very strong on the surface, but its system is very complex, the hidden firepower is extremely fierce, and the range covered by artillery and machine guns is very perfect, and the more than 200 Type 95 water and land light warfare that the Yue army relies on basically did not play any role, and a small number of water and land tanks modified in the 97 land battle are all useless, and they were destroyed by individual rocket launchers and 25\45mm machine guns soon after they landed, and the Yue Ben aviation unit also failed to occupy any preemptive attack advantage. The first wave of the landing attack can be said to have suffered extremely heavy casualties.

A division of more than 20,000 people was quickly lost on the 7.5-kilometer coastline, and there was not much left, because it was a high tide period, and the waves were coming upward, and a large number of corpses were pushed onto the beach by the waves, and the blood stained the entire beach red, like a frightening bloody red tide.

The base camp of the army did not expect the offensive to be so tragic at all, at this time, the carrier-based aircraft on the four aircraft carriers of the combined fleet of the Navy's Navy's combined fleet arrived on the battlefield, and the confidence of the Navy's strength was still very strong, although almost all the aircraft carriers were lost in the Battle of Sanduao, but in the past six months, the Sayben still worked very hard to convert the Chitose and Chiyoda seaplane aircraft carriers into aircraft carriers, and converted another cruise ship into the Condor aircraft carrier, plus the original only remaining Soryu aircraft carrier, Four aircraft carriers were gathered to follow the battleship group to the waters of Jeju to fight.

According to the original plan, these four aircraft carriers were supposed to dispatch carrier-based attack planes to bomb coastal forts, but because the army air force did not have an advantage at all, it could only temporarily replace the new Zero carrier-based aircraft on the field and continue to participate in air battles.

In the process of replacing the aircraft, the deck of the aircraft carrier was also in a mess, but there were still more than 40 Zero fighters that took off and rushed to the battlefield smoothly, and this was also the second time that the Zero War officially participated in the war.

In the Sanduao belligerent, the sudden appearance of the Zero War gained a great advantage in the battle record, which made the base camp of the army and the navy have extremely high expectations for the Zero War, and the Mitsubishi Corporation made every effort to build more than 100 planes, trying to achieve an unprecedented air victory in the Battle of Jeju.

About 340 J-303 Sea Serpent fighters and 72 J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft, which had departed from the Second Air Combined Fleet, were roaring in the sea southeast of Jeju Island.

Before the Jeju landing battle began, the army modernized and modified the two Kongo-class battleships Kongo and Kirishima and installed a radar each, and the two battleships did not directly participate in the Jeju landing battle, but entered the East China Sea side by side, cruising between Jeju Island and the Shandong Peninsula, trying to use radar to detect the Central Combined Fleet at night cruise.

In fact, the Second Combined Fleet and the patrol planes of Jeju Island have also been guarding and searching the surrounding waters to prevent the Navy from sending naval ships to search for the Second Combined Fleet, but there is no boundless ...... In fact, however, in a very narrow sea area, the two battleships actually passed by Chinese carrier-based reconnaissance planes and air force patrol planes on many occasions.

A lot of this is due to the luck and chance of the two armies, but it can also generally show that China's radar level is not particularly high and still needs to be improved, and the first-generation radar is simply dispensable.

It's a pity that both sides didn't find each other, and they were lucky not to be discovered by the other party.

After the J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft was officially put into service in October, it was also the first time to join the air combat, which means that the navy has also formed a situation in which two aircraft cooperate in combat, and the combination of high-altitude and high-speed and medium-low altitude combat of J3 \4 series fighters is a very unsolvable problem for the army that only fights lightly, whether it is the 97 land battle, or the 95 and 96 carrier-based aircraft, or the zero carrier-based aircraft, the fighters of the army are light warfare, focusing on the horizontal swing combat at medium and low altitudes.

On the one hand, the Chinese army is unusually rigid and conservative in the field of air warfare, and places too much emphasis on technical roundabout combat while ignoring simple high-speed and high-altitude combat, regarding it as a stupid and timid combat technology; on the other hand, it really lacks the engine technology needed to develop high-altitude and high-speed fighters.

When the 2nd Combined Fleet arrived in the southeast sea area of Jeju Island, the outcome of the Jeju naval battle was already doomed, and even if the 2nd Combined Fleet wanted to withdraw from the battlefield now, the distance between the two sides would be enough to ensure that the 2nd Combined Fleet could launch more than three waves of attacks on the 2nd Combined Fleet against the Naval Fleet.

The carrier-based aircraft group of the J-303\402 series of the Second Fleet of the Central Air Combined Fleet joined the operation, which made the situation of the entire air battle suddenly clear, and the pure light fighter group of the Yue army could not block the dive attack of the J-4 aircraft group at all, and in the dogfight, except for the zero battle, the rest could not confront the medium and low altitude surnames of the J-303, and the fighters of the Yue army were caught off guard and suffered great heavy losses in a short instant.

After seizing air supremacy, the carrier-based fighter group of the air fleet did not return to the aircraft carrier, but continued to cover the subsequent flying G-2\3 series of torpedo dive bombers to attack the main fleet group of the Chinese army in the northeast sea.

After discovering the carrier-based aircraft group of the other side's aircraft carrier, at about 8:40 a.m., the main fleet of the Japanese Navy immediately chose to withdraw from the theater of operations, while the aircraft groups of Jeju Island and the Second Combined Fleet pursued and carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the main fleet of the Japanese Navy.

The first wave of the Zero War achieved certain results, but it was soon crushed by more than 70 J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft that dived down from a high altitude, and the aircraft group was scattered, and it was constantly entangled by J-3 Viper fighters in the air, and the vicious fighting between the two sides caused serious damage to the Zero War.

The two sides are fiercely entangled in the air, and the whole air battle will last for a long time, but at this time, it is not the zero battle and the only remaining dozens of 97 land battles that do not want to retreat, but they are no longer able to retreat, and they cannot be the opponent of the lightning fighter in terms of speed, and once they return, they will only be shot down more.

In the case of the basic loss of air supremacy, the narrow Jeju Strait has become the best area for carrier-based aircraft to frantically attack the main fleet of the Yuben Navy, and the Yuben Navy has relied on the intensive defense of anti-aircraft artillery, and planes have been shot down, but the arrival of more J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft and G-3 torpedo dive bombers has made the Yuben Navy already in an extremely passive situation, and the subsequent addition of the J-5 Tiger Shark fighter-bomber group rushing from the Shingawa Air Base has pushed this unprecedented scale of naval warfare into the **.

The arrival of the Tiger Shark has a certain extremely strong symbolic meaning of the victors, that is, the Chinese Air Force and Navy have firmly occupied air supremacy, and as many as 400 Tiger Shark fighter-bombers have come from many nearby airfields to suppress strafing and drop bombs on the Navy by means of low-altitude diving.

Ozawa Jizaburo's mood at this moment is extremely tragic, perhaps as tragic and painful as when Deng Shichang drove the cruiser Zhiyuan to the Yoshino, he witnessed a Tiger Shark fighter being hit by a 40 times diameter twin 127mm anti-aircraft gun, and exploded into fragments and billowing smoke over the battleship Nagato in the distance, but more and more Tiger Shark fighters are like meteor showers falling in the vast sky, and aerial bombs are pouring down like rain. After throwing away the four bombs it carried, the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber continued to transform into a heavily armored attack aircraft, firing wildly at low altitudes on the bridge deck, and the catharsis of the four 20mm Browning belly cannons made people feel desperate and depressed.

Tiger shark.

The Tiger Shark represents an empire's powerful aviation manufacturing industry and a country's aviation science and technology strength.

How Ozawa Jizaburo wished that the Daishomoto Empire, which he loved infinitely, would also have such a powerful warplane, if that was the case, the Daishoben Empire would definitely be able to conquer the whole of Asia, trample the country of China under his feet, conquer everything, and expand the infinite territory for the future of the Daisaimoto Empire.

In the eyes of the army, the surname of the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber can be unimaginably strong, it can not only work as a bomber and fighter at high altitude, but also dive bombing at medium and low altitudes, which requires how powerful the surname can be, the strong and hard armor guarantees the super vitality of the Tiger Shark, if it is not directly hit by the 127mm anti-aircraft gun, it will almost have to be hit four or five times before it may crash.

Its long range and its high speed are all achievements that people can look up to.

In front of Yueben, the Tiger Shark is an invincible fighter that has never been seen before, which makes the officers and men of Yueben both frightened and confused, and they don't want Yueben to have such a fighter one day.

In the face of the Tiger Shark, which did not have any heavy high-altitude fighters at all, the Yue army did not have any effective means of dealing with it except for anti-aircraft guns.

On the bay where the wolf smoke is billowing, the fleet group of the navy is evacuating at high speed, two aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships have been destroyed and are slowly sinking, there are many small boats on the sea, and there are constantly sailors jumping into the sea from the ships that are about to be sunk, and hundreds of warplanes in the sky are frantically strafing and attacking, the speed is like a whistling meteor, and the anti-aircraft guns of all ships are constantly bursting out, and the sound of thumping and thumping is stirring over the entire sea surface.

The once invincible navy of the world's third-largest empire was on the verge of collapse, and many battleships were hit by heavy bombs dropped by Tiger Shark fighter-bombers in a dive, and the fire on the deck of the ships was blazing, and black smoke was billowing on the vast sea, obscuring half of the sky.

The aircraft carrier Soryu, which had lost more than half of its carrier-based aircraft, was once again lucky, and until this time it had not suffered a serious attack, and it was quickly trying to get out of the battlefield in front, and the nearest military port from here was the port of Busan, but it was also 110 nautical miles away, and it took three hours to move at full speed.

The high-speed battleship Michinoku, which was not far from the aircraft carrier Soryu, was suddenly hit and made a shocking explosion, and the huge battleship shook as if it were about to be torn apart in the waves, and began to tip to the port side, apparently under torpedo attack.

The commander-in-chief of the aircraft carrier, Jizaburo Ozawa, realized early on that the Jeju Strait was ambushing the submarine forces of the China country, and the number was still unknown, and the crew was frantically throwing depth charges downward, as if to force those submarines out, but in this noisy battlefield, everything seemed so useless.

In the eyes of Jizaburo Ozawa, it seems that the sky is full of Tiger Shark fighter-bombers of the China country, the huge black fuselage roars past in the roaring roar, constantly throwing bombs, hiding in the offensive of the Tiger Shark cluster, the G-3B torpedo dive bomber is forcing the sea to sweep over, and four or five formations of low-altitude torpedoes are fired at the fleet, they only need to approach the distance of 50 meters to 80 meters around the ship, and basically each formation can hit once, no matter how the anti-aircraft guns and the ship's secondary guns strafe, There are always ships that are constantly torpedoed, and the J3\4\5 series fighters and fighter-bombers are covering the attack aircraft and dive bombers of the G-2\3 series.

A G-2 attack aircraft was hit by multiple anti-aircraft guns of the high-speed battleship Mutsu that was about to sink in a low-altitude strafing fire, and crashed directly into the bridge before exploding, exploding, and the resulting impact made the entire ship shine brightly, and the flames were blazing, and some of the crew had jumped from the deck of the Mutsu into the sea in embarrassment, giving up on saving the giant ship.

It is said that the navy is evacuating at a high speed, but the speed of the navy is always like a stationary sculpture in front of the air force.

After the aircraft carrier aircraft group released all the bombs and torpedoes, more than 40 G-3A torpedo dive bombers that took off from Jeju Island also joined the battle, divided into 12 formations, and continued to carry out a strong attack on the Japanese army under the cover of other fighters, while the carrier-based aircraft group smoothly withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the aircraft carrier group to replenish again.

It's all over.

Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, the commander-in-chief of the main fleet, has completely lost all faith in the empire and the navy, as well as in himself, and he has no way to deal with the crazy situation in front of him, and all he can do is keep telegraphing the base camp and asking for support.

If the army aviation unit could not come to the rescue, it was said that at least half of the main fleet of the Imperial Navy would be sunk, or even all of them would be sunk here.

The rescue of the army seems to be out of reach, but the offensive of the Chinese Navy's combined air fleet and the offensive of the air force's Jeju base are still pouring like rain, and the two sides are attacking in turn, cooperating with each other and covering each other, and the total number of Tiger Shark fighter-bomber groups has been increasing since they joined the battle, from the initial 100 to 700, even if more than 100 planes have been destroyed one after another.

For Jizaburo Ozawa, he was lucky after all.

After three successive waves of attacks, at 10:40 a.m. on December 10, 1939, Vice Admiral Jiang Yu, commander of the Second Fleet of the Central Navy's aircraft carrier combined fleet, issued an order to stop the attack.

Under the light of the midday sun, the First Battlefleet of the Great Empire, which had originally consisted of 7 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, and 11 cruisers, withdrew from the battlefield with only 3 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier, and 4 cruisers left, and only 1 of the 4 destroyers left with the army.

Hit hard.

Worse than this was the loss of naval aviation, and 133 new Zero carrier-based aircraft, which were used as a secret weapon before the war, were also shot down by 92.

In this era of the great era, the navy of the Great Imperial Empire was completely eliminated, and the self-righteous heroism and might that were once unbeatable in Asia as the world's third naval power have forever become a memory.

The main naval force that had been built up over the past 30 years had been lost in two naval battles, and there was very little left.

Some people may say that if the battleship Yamato was also involved in this naval battle, the ending would have been rewritten, some people may say that if there were more Zero battles, the ending would have been rewritten, and some people may say that if the army had chosen Mitsubishi's heavy fighters, the ending would have been rewritten.

That's just their own fantasy, just like the myth of the zero war that they are so proud of, and the black five minutes of Midway that they take as a warning, in fact, they do not exist, and where can the surname of the zero war qualify as a zero war myth, as long as the United States begins to strengthen the development of fighters, the zero war will not even be qualified to sweep the streets for the United States.

The same is carefully prepared for 30 years, the zero war in the J-3 \ 4 \ 5 composed of mixed aircraft in front of the only embarrassed part, even if it is a one-on-one competition, the zero war in the face of the J-303 Sea Snake carrier-based fighter has no advantage at all, with 1350 horsepower liquid-cooled engine and excellent aerodynamic design, the latter is 40% more than the zero war's own weight, has better defense and security, in the middle and low altitude of the combat surname is not much different, and at high altitudes, The latter, with a turbocharged device, can directly ravage the Zero Battle, which has only one level of supercharging.

If only in terms of the cost of the fighter and the scientific and technological and industrial standards it represents, the J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bomber is definitely the pinnacle of the propeller engine fighter, this class of fighters is equipped with the first generation of electrocrystalline Doppler radar and the SeLM-2800-14 double-row 18-cylinder air-cooled star engine of the Dawn Company, coupled with unique aerodynamic and fuselage design, as well as high-strength duralumin alloy, which finally makes the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber the hegemon of the entire Pacific Ocean, and they thoroughly represent the strongest fighters of this era.

Perhaps in air combat, the J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bomber is far from being the opponent of the J-4 Lightning fighter, but the number and multi-faceted use of the Tiger Shark, as well as the strength of the sea and land attacks, determine that it is a well-deserved king of the sky in this era.

(To be continued)