At the same time, the Japanese aviation department had just introduced the latest Merlin engine production line from the United Kingdom, and tried to install the Merlin engine on the German version of the Mustang, and the result was also successful. The Japanese named the German-designed, British-powered aircraft the Feiyan.

However, due to the low level of production of Japanese technicians, the quality of the first batch of 1560 horsepower Merlin engines produced in Japan was very problematic, and the military was very dissatisfied. The Japanese had to use foreign exchange to import hundreds of engines from Britain and Germany instead of domestic ones.

During the Philippine Campaign, half of the Feiyan fighters used Mercedes-Benz engines produced in Germany, and half of them were Merlin engines made in Britain.

Whether it is the Feiyan using the Mercedes-Benz engine or the Feiyan using the Merlin engine, it uses a two-stage supercharger to set up, and the combat performance at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters is very good. And the American planes of the same period were tragic.

In June 1942, the U.S. Army had three P38 Lightning, P39 Flying Serpent, and P40 Warhawk fighters in service.

All three aircraft have the same problem: in order to save money, the booster package is cut, so that at altitudes above 5,000 meters, the performance is severely reduced.

On the Philippine battlefield, the airworthiness of the American B17 bomber is between 7,000 and 8,000 meters, and this altitude is also the best combat altitude for the famous Mustang fighter in history. So much so that the B17 heavy bomber, which has excellent performance, is not escorted by supporting fighters in air combat at all.

When American bombers were dispatched, these three fighters simply could not climb to a combat altitude suitable for bombers to escort the aircraft. And in terms of combat performance, none of these three fighters are opponents of the "Japanese Mustang" (Feiyan), which uses either the German heart or the British heart. Before the war, the Germans were more interested in sending the P39 and P40 captured in the European war to the Japanese for testing, and the Japanese side knew the performance of the American fighters well.

As for the P38, this fighter, which can only rely on HHR tactics, can only bully the Zero in history with such a slow speed. A fighter with poor dive acceleration died an extremely ugly death when he encountered a Feiyan who was faster than him.

And in order to better bleed the Americans, and find an effective way to deal with B17 with the help of actual combat to prevent future troubles,

The German side has long regarded the Philippine campaign as a testing ground for testing new weapons.

During the Philippine campaign, the Germans also provided Japan with 60 BF110 interceptors equipped with two-stage supercharged engines to deal with B17 bombers.

Ordinary fighter and BF17 when fighting. It takes dozens of 20mm shells to effectively shoot down the B17, and for the BF17, the specially developed and improved BF110, two powerful MK104 cannons or a 40mm cannon are installed on the plane, and only a few or even one shot can shoot down the BF17, at the end of the Philippine campaign, the forty B17s that the Americans arranged here before the war were also all wiped out, most of them were shot down, and a few were captured who stopped at the airport for maintenance. After the war, the Japanese side handed over a captured B17 to the Germans.

War. In the Philippine Campaign, the U.S. Army had stronger combat power than in history, but it lost more than the same period in history, whether it was in the air or on the ground, it lost miserably.

During the Philippine campaign. The US Army passed the reports of front-line soldiers, as well as examining the wreckage of downed enemy aircraft. A large amount of evidence of "Yingde" acting as the mastermind behind the scenes has been found.

Before MacArthur escaped from the Philippines in a submarine wolf, he repeatedly complained to Washington by telegram: "This is a war that is not open, and the United States of America is at war with the three rogue states of Japan, Great Britain, and Germany!" ”

What MacArthur didn't know was that the fact that he was able to escape safely from the Philippines by submarine was entirely the result of Hannah's intention to let him go.

After the start of the Philippine campaign, Hannah's cruiser "Izumo" was used as an anti-submarine early warning ship. Cruising off the coast of the Philippines for a long time, under her guidance, during the more than two months of war, the Japanese Navy successively sank and captured 11 US submarines, and the underwater submarines arranged by the US Navy in the Philippines were almost swept away by her.

MacArthur was able to escape safely from the Philippines. That's because the German code-breaking team, with the help of transistor computers, has finished deciphering the communication code of the Americans, knowing when and where he will escape in a submarine, Hannah will let him go at a critical moment, otherwise, this general, who likes to put on a show with a corn pipe all day long, would have eaten a few deep-water bomb bows with the submarine, and then went to the house of the Sea Dragon King.

In the process of the fall of the Philippines, some maddening things happened to the Americans.

After the outbreak of the war, because the entire Pacific line had been completely controlled by the Japanese Navy, a large number of American merchant ships stranded in Asia did not dare to return to their homeland through the Pacific Ocean, and they could only return home from the other side of the world through the Malacca Gap.

As a result, shortly after entering the Bay of Bengal through the Strait of Malacca, these American cargo ships encountered armed sabotage ships that had been arranged by the Japanese in advance.

Although these shipwrecks were converted from cargo ships, they were more than enough to deal with unarmed cargo ships. And some American freighters doing business with India, while sailing in the Indian Ocean, also encountered a shipwreck organized by the Japanese and was captured.

Between June and August, the Americans lost 16 cargo ships in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, and countless cargo ships.

Some of the five ocean-going ships were also sold by the Germans to the Japanese, and they were all old items from the European war. At that time, these six shipwrecks were deployed in Asia to cause trouble everywhere, and the plundering of British cargo ships was miserable. During the 1940 war, the Japanese secretly supplied the German ships with supplies, while the Germans resold the captured ships and supplies to China and Japan at low prices in exchange for support.

After the end of the war, the Germans did not want to sail these ships back to Germany halfway around the world, so they sold them to China and Japan nearby. China received the best-performing one as a naval training ship, while the Japanese paid for the remaining five under Li Huamei's Jianyi.

The Japanese were still a little unhappy when they bought the ship, but after two months of breaking diplomatic relations, the Japanese, who had made a lot of money when they saw the American cargo ship that had captured the tiger and a large amount of supplies on board, turned around and began to regret not buying the last ship. (To be continued......)