Chapter 570: Decisions at a Disadvantage

Chen Haihua didn't expect that the Japanese would use a new type of fighter, if he knew, he would definitely not let Gao Zhihang and them fly the P-26 to kill them!

At this moment, his tears of regret almost fell, Gao Zhihang's group of people is the seed he values the most! The entire Air Force is still counting on them to carry it forward! If you lose in this battle, it will be a big loss!

"Let Liu Cuigang and them go up!" Chen Haihua gritted his teeth and yelled at the adjutant behind him: "Tiger shark is open to them!" Tell them that they can't let these little Japanese chops take advantage! ”

"Yes!!" The adjutant roared, then rushed down to deliver the order.

With more than a dozen new Tiger Shark fighters taking to the air, the battle in the sky has also entered the white heat! The fighters supported by the Japanese army also gradually arrived, but after all, the Japanese army did not have many Type 97 fighters, so almost all of them came over with old-fashioned biplane fighters.

Although the Air Force Warhawks piloting the Tiger Shark are the first brothers on the battlefield, they can win with solid basic flight training and advanced aircraft performance! So as soon as he went into battle, he achieved fruitful results!

In the roar of the cannon of the "Sudden ......", the Japanese fighters were constantly hit, dragging black smoke and falling miserably from the sky.

At this time, Chen Haihua's heart was relaxed. Gao Zhihang and others are worthy of being pilots who were trained by the department back then, and they are very skilled! Even when the aircraft was lagging behind, it still managed to shoot down four fighters!

After experiencing the initial tension, the Northeast War Eagles who came over gradually adapted to this battlefield! Keep chasing and slaughtering those old-fashioned Japanese fighters!

This piece of sky has completely dominated the Northeast Air Force! Gao Zhihang and the others took the opportunity to leave the battlefield, directly turned to the airport, replaced with a new Tiger Shark fighter, and then went back to continue fighting!

In order to ensure that the position was not lost, the current commander-in-chief of the Korean garrison and the newly promoted Japanese army general Koiso Kuniaki had no choice but to forcibly order all the fighters of the flying division and regiment to take off immediately to stop the attack of the Wehrmacht Air Force!

However, there were less than 50 Type 97 fighters, and the fighters just now had already been lost. How are you attacking now?! But Koiso Kuniaki said directly: I don't care! I just have to see the results. Don't ask about the process!

Major General Saburo Ando gritted his teeth in desperation, and sent out all the remaining less than a hundred planes in his hand!

Chen Haihua also showed no weakness, didn't there be more than 500 qualified pilots who had been supplemented? ! It's all for Lao Tzu! Fuck the fuck!

Time. The roar of the engine of "woo~woo......" continued to sound at the base! Less than 150 Tiger Sharks, the only equipment of the Wehrmacht, took off, and the remaining nearly 200 P-26s were all lifted into the air! The goal is to kill the Japanese fighters who have entered the battlefield!

The P-26 fighter was already self-produced in the three eastern provinces as early as the time of its introduction, and then the cost gradually decreased with the improvement of the process. Until 1933, when it was discontinued. The cost of each aircraft was kept to less than $10,000.

That's a full $6,000 less than its original price of 16,000! The current Tiger Shark, which is a fighter designed with reference to the BF-109, costs about 12,000 US dollars (historically, the cost of the BF-109 was 42,900 Reichsmarks).

Under overtime, the production capacity of the three eastern provinces can produce 100 tiger sharks per month! Don't think that's a lot, in fact it's very low compared to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union could produce 40,000 aircraft per year in 1944 with full firepower!

And the United States is even more perverted, in the same year the United States produced more than 90,000 fighters! Even now, producing more than 1,000 fighters a month is just a piece of cake for the United States.

The three eastern provinces are not successful, and the maximum monthly output of 100 aircraft is already the limit. Anything more, the quality is hard to guarantee.

And now Japan. If they enter a state of war, they will be able to produce about 20,000 aircraft per year! There is a historical basis for this, as at the peak of Japan's production in 1944, their annual production of aircraft reached more than 28,000 units!

Other words. With Japan's industrial capacity, it is able to ship more than 2,000 aircraft in a month!

Compared to these countries with a complete industrial base. The IDF still has a long way to go......

The victory and defeat of the battle in the air of the "Sudden Sudden ......" had already been decided, and the Wehrmacht warhawks, who were gradually familiar with the battlefield, had no doubt bombed out most of the more than 300 Japanese fighters that came to attack under the condition that they had an advantage in quality, quantity, and firepower!

Most of the rest fled in a panic with black smoke. Only a small number of them are able to get out of it all in their entirety.

By the time the winner was decided in the air, the battle on the ground had already entered a white-hot state! The newly deployed divisions had not experienced the brutal fighting of the previous two divisions.

Therefore, the morale is still quite high, and even if it is weak, it roars and kills the soldiers who rush up with the Wehrmacht! Unfortunately, their resistance was in vain when they were not superior in numbers, equipment, and firepower.

"Sudden ......" A Japanese bunker that was not destroyed constantly spewed out tongues of fire, and the roar of heavy machine guns blocked the way of the soldiers of the Fourth Army with flying bullets!

But these fighters did not rush directly, but then hid themselves in various craters and tunnels!

"40 fire! Fast!! The platoon commander roared without hesitation, but saw a few soldiers following the troops quickly pull out 40 fire crows from behind them, load the warhead and push away the sighting frame!

"Whoosh~Boom!!" In a few moments, a rocket erupted! Crashed directly into the bunker and overturned the bunker entirely! The platoon leader laughed, grabbed Thomson in his hand and rushed forward!

Such good dramas are constantly being staged everywhere, and some of the firepower points are facing the cutting and encirclement of the typical three-three attack method of the Wehrmacht soldiers!

The company and platoon levels continued to divide the Japanese positions with light and heavy firepower! Hand-to-hand combat took place on both sides and even in many places -- in hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army undoubtedly suffered another loss!

The Wehrmacht soldiers have undoubtedly inherited their commander's skill of using sapper shovels, and folding sapper shovels have always been on their backs! Pulled out the "Bang! "It's open with a flick!

Shoot and slash at the Japanese army, and cut with shovels! There is no duplicate one, it is better than a big knife! The Japanese were horrified to find that their vaunted bayonet tactics could not be used in these enemy forces at all!

The soldiers on the other side were even stronger than them - the Wehrmacht had good food and intensive training! And the tactics are skillful, a stab passes, and the opposite backhand is slapped away with that shovel!

Then came a shovel. The Japanese were either cut off their heads or their hands and feet cut off. He screamed and fell to the ground. Some of the more ruthless ones cut off the fingers and palms of the Japanese soldiers directly along the rifle!

Chopped off the head of a Japanese soldier with a backhand knife! The brutal white-knuckle battle did not last long, and after losing more than 30 percent of its men, the Japanese finally began to retreat.

And the Wehrmacht fighters did not pursue directly, but stopped to secure their positions. After retreating for a while, the retreating Japanese troops were subjected to extended artillery bombardment by the Wehrmacht! The people who were bombed along the way turned on their backs!

More than 20,000 troops of a multi-division regiment were gathered on this position. After several positions collapsed, the Japanese in the remaining positions had to choose to retreat.

At this time, the forces of the two divisions on the second-line positions that the Japanese army had already built were gathered! They entered the trenches and bunkers and awaited an attack by the Wehrmacht.

"I need a plane!! Lots of planes!! Koiso Kuniaki, who was in charge of all the troops stationed in Korea, yelled at his adjutant, "Send a report to the military headquarters!" What I need is Nakajima Kushichi-style! Don't want those vintage fighters! ”

"Tell those old men! If there is no Nakajima nine-seven. Just watch the 100,000 warriors of the empire shatter on the Korean Peninsula for the sake of the empire! As he spoke, Koiso Kuniaki tried his best to calm down and said to the adjutant, "Tell them that our flight division is over!" If there is no more support, our 100,000 army will be doomed! ”

"Hail!!" The lieutenant did not dare to slack off, and after recording the contents, he hurried out and sent a telegram to Tokyo.

Koiso Kuniaki pulled open his collar and said to Saburo Ando, who was standing silently in front of him, "Ando! I know you're sad right now! The 2nd Flying Division is your brainchild, but they have to fight for the sake of the Empire! ”

"Don't worry! We will avenge these warriors! Saburo Ando listened to Koiso Kuniaki's words, snapped and said loudly: "Your Excellency General! These warriors were originally prepared to fight for the Empire, so it is understandable that the jade shatters above the blue sky! ”

"But! The lower official thinks. Their jade is too worthless!! Saburo Ando looked at Kuniaki Koiso, and there was a blood-red thread in his eyes!

"We're not losing in skill! It's not about losing in experience! It's all about losing in the amount of equipment! Saburo Ando said loudly to Koiso Kuniaki: "According to the descriptions of the soldiers who came back, our Type 97 fighter can completely suppress the enemy plane!" ”

"But we are seriously undernumerous. So in the case of using the old fighter to face the enemy's new fighter! Our warriors are shattered! Saburo Ando looked at Kuniaki Koiso. Stand tall!

"Your Excellency! I ask the Empire to equip us with new fighters! Otherwise, fight again. I can't guarantee the interests of the empire under this sky......"

Koiso Kuniaki heard Saburo Ando's words and couldn't help but fall into silence.

The Type 97 fighter was the first fighter under the monoplane structure equipped by the Japanese Army, and the development of this fighter is inseparable from the good results achieved by the Wehrmacht in the last campaign with the P-26.

In fact, according to the plan of the Japanese military department, the Type 97 fighter should have been equipped with troops in 1938. But now, because of the urgency of the war, less than 100 new fighters have been equipped in two batches in Japan and North Korea.

Even Taiwan's 3rd Flying Division was not equipped with a few Type 97 fighters. At first, Saburo Ando was confident that he would be able to withstand the Wehrmacht's attack.

At least under the attack of the P-26, fifty Type 97 plus more than two hundred old fighters will always be able to withstand it. But he did not expect that the Wehrmacht would also develop a new fighter!

Although at first the Wehrmacht sent P-26s, but then they let the new fighters take off! This kind of fighter coated with shark teeth is obviously much stronger than the ninety-seven type in various maneuvers!

However, in the first encounter, the nine-seven style, which showed strong performance against the P-26, suddenly fell into disadvantage! Under the siege of the new Wehrmacht fighters, the curtain came to a gloomy end.

"According to the pilots' returns, the performance of their new fighter is comparable to that of the Type 97. It's just a large number of people who defeated me......" Saburo Ando said in a deep voice to Koiso Kuniaki: "General! Actual combat has proved that the ninety-seven style of thinking is right! But we now need more Ninety-Seven to safeguard the Empire's interests in Korea......"

Koiso Kuniaki understands that the implication of Saburo Ando's words is that the current ninety-seven style is enough! If it is not standard production. Then we can't even maintain our current advantage!

Kuniaki Koiso also understands. The reason why the military department wanted to give him so many Type 97 fighters was not because of how high his ability was. It's because North Korea is so close to the Japanese mainland!

If North Korea loses, then the direct threat is Japan itself! With the range of the plane, once the Wehrmacht occupies Korea, they can directly choose to bomb the Japanese mainland!

This is absolutely not allowed! Yes. The military department will equip him with the Type 97 fighter that has just been developed! This is to hope that he can hold the tiger in North Korea, but now it seems that the military department has obviously made a mistake.

Just when Koiso Kuni Showa and Saburo Ando had a headache, the Japanese military department also fell into a quarrel! Just received a division that has landed in Fujian. Moreover, there was no news of resistance from the regular army, and the commanders of these officers cheered!

As for Chiang Zhongzheng's so-called diplomatic protests, they have long been ignored by these unification factions. I found an excuse at random and threw it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with. But what they didn't expect was that the tiger would give them a backhand slap!

Didn't you say you came to Fujian to suppress bandits?! That's it, I'll go to North Korea to catch thieves! This backhand slap made the commanders of the military department angry, but after a while, this anger and corruption immediately turned into fear!

This tiger is as fierce as ever, swallowing the flight group left in North Korea in one go! The front-line positions were broken through, and the battle losses exceeded 7,000 people!

This made the control faction who had been arguing just now swallow a mouthful of spit, they originally thought that as long as they resisted this tiger for a few days, then they would mobilize troops to clean up the tiger after Fujian was completely occupied!

But what they didn't expect was that even a few days would be difficult to stop! This tiger is so fierce! It was only three or two strokes to break the first line of defense. Smash their confident flying divisions!

Without the Flying Division, how should the next battle be fought?!

"Ishihara, what do you think?!" The Chief of Staff, the Japanese Army General Prince Zaihito Miyaji, said in a deep voice to Ishihara Wan'er in the conference room: "Battle! It's already played like this. What do you think?! ”

This meeting room. Ishihara had the smallest official position. And in front of him are the current Minister of War, Senior General Kotaro Nakamura, and the newly appointed Director of Education and Military Staff Officer Motosugiyama!

And these three positions are known as the "three commanders of the army"! Now the top commanders of the three armies directly inquired about Ishihara. This can't help but make Ishihara a little fluttery!

"Your Majesty is very concerned about this matter!" Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace looked at Ishihara Wan'er and said in a deep voice: "Once North Korea is lost, then the direct threat is the empire itself!" This is absolutely not allowed! Yes, we would like to know what you think about this matter if you have worked in Manchuria. ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen was all ambushed, and he didn't put too much pressure on the army. In fact, Hirohito summoned him to the Imperial Front not once or twice, for fear that if the tiger took over Korea, it would pose a threat to the Japanese mainland!

North Korea is too close to Japan, and air strikes are undoubtedly a good option. Hirohito didn't want to be threatened by bombing, so he had to let the Kanin Palace settle the matter.

Xianyuan Palace is also helpless, as long as Hirohito doesn't threaten his status, he basically doesn't care. But as long as there is a threat, even the slightest bit of it, he will try his best to kill it!

This is reflected in the handling of the problem of 226 and the later final war book. This was the only two times he was determined, according to himself, the first because it threatened his right to rule.

The second time, the atomic bomb directly threatened his life.

Now, the Wehrmacht could occupy the DPRK at any time! Hirohito is likely to be in danger of air raids, and there is no radar right now! If the planes were to bomb them, no one would dare to say that they would be safe and sound. Hirohito was naturally worried.

"Your Royal Highness, my suggestion is to ask Britain and the United States to mediate and negotiate first." Ishihara Wan'er said directly to Xianyuan Palace: "As far as the current situation is concerned, there is very little hope for the Air Force Empire to win victory in Korea......

Ishihara's words made the Minister of War, Senior General Kotaro Nakamura, and the Director of Education and Military Senator Sugiyama Moto, frown. They didn't want to watch the fighting in Fujian, which had been easily advantageous, just stop.

"But, we can stop the fire first!" Ishihara continued with a smile: "Let the two division commanders speed up the attack, seize Fuzhou, announce that they have captured Fujian, and then ask for a ceasefire......"

Ishihara's words made the eyes of the people in the temple shine! That's right! First, they mediated, and anyway, they didn't tell you that they wanted a ceasefire. And according to Hirose Shousuke's report, Fujian simply did not have decent troops to stop them.

It can be said that now the Japanese army is almost on a rampage in Fujian! Of course, Hirose Shousuke and the others would not tell the military department that they still lost a multi-wing and were trapped in the Nagarku area. This is all the result of the guerrilla warfare between Red and Huo Qingyun.

"Hmm...... Let the Prime Minister contact Britain and the United States! Kanyuan Gong nodded, and said to the Minister of War Nakamura Kotaro beside him: "Just say, we are willing to negotiate......"