Chapter 233: Northern Air Force (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

According to the spirit of bushido in the island country, if you can't develop it yourself, you will rob it, and the robbers will never be reasonable, so the Japanese army base camp issued an order to the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army to annihilate the 40th Group Army and seize the penicillin prescription and production equipment.

But the order was given, but it could not be carried out at all. The North China Front is now suffering from a great loss of vitality and scattered forces, so it is impossible to concentrate its forces in a short period of time. The Kwantung Army has already transferred the two master regiments to the southern front, and there are only three divisions and several independent brigades left in the North Manchurian region, not to mention monitoring the Soviet Union, and the rebels in Lian Manchu are almost unable to suppress it, so Binshan Yuan and General Ueda jointly sent a report to the base camp, hoping to postpone the task of attacking the 40th Group Army, which is really not a good chance of victory.

However, the Japanese army did not wait for Chen Feng's headquarters to grow, and decided to jointly attack all the aviation units of the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army to bomb Chen Feng's defense area with all their might.

The Japanese army now has more than 1,500 fighters at its disposal, of which 300 are deployed in Japan, and the remaining 1,200 are all transferred to China. The specific distribution is 400 aircraft of the Kwantung Army, 350 aircraft of the North China Front, and 450 aircraft of the Central China Front.

Beginning in mid-September, Japanese planes flew from Shenyang Airport, Jinzhou Airport, Nanyuan Airport, Dongjuzi Airport, and Baoding Airport to Chahar like locusts, and the main task of the 40 th Group Army changed from training to air defense.

The Japanese bombardment inflicted huge losses on the 40th Army. In just half a month, 16 cities and towns were bombed, including Zhangjiakou, Datong, Jining and other big cities, fortunately, Baotou was far away from the Japanese airfield, and the combat radius of the Japanese bombers could not reach there, otherwise Chen Feng's losses would have been great.

Despite this, more than 300,000 houses were damaged, more than 8,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and injured, and many other farmlands were damaged. What angered Chen Feng the most was that the Japanese army actually dropped incendiary bombs on the grassland, and many grasslands in the Saibei grassland were burned. The lives of herders on the steppes are in dire straits.

In light of this. Chen Feng decided to fight back. He had always felt that the aviation forces under the 40th Army had not yet formed combat effectiveness, so he did not plan to let them confront the elite of the Japanese Air Force so early, but now it seems that it will not be possible to fight.

But even if you really want to fight the Japanese air force, you have to plan carefully. Wars are fought by stratagem. And not courage. The head is a hot decision. In the end, it will only increase the casualties of the troops.

Guisui Airport. The Northern Air Force Command of China.

Ivanovich, with the rank of major general, deputy commander of the 1st Division of the USSR Air Force. Not long ago, he was personally appointed by the great leader Stalin as the commander-in-chief of the air force to aid China, under the command of Lieutenant General Chen Feng, a great warlord in northern China.

To tell the truth, Ivanovich was very disdainful of the young and somewhat excessive lieutenant general, as far as he knew, the lieutenant general was a military idiot, a layman, and had not even received the most basic military education. He knew very well the origin of these fighters and their pilots, although he said that they were volunteers and that the planes were all in tatters eliminated by the great Soviet Union, but he knew that these planes were all drawn from the chief doctor of the Soviet Air Force in active service, including of course the more than 300 pilots.

During this time, I received telegrams from the bombing of the Japanese air force every day, and every day there were cities and towns bombed, and people were killed and injured every day, but that bastard actually forbade them to take to the air to fight, what an idiot.

However, it was not long before Major General Ivanovich discovered that the young Chinese general seemed to have some skills. At least their army is not bad, although it is still a little worse than the great Soviet Red Army.

Although those short bastards sent planes to bomb every day, the army under that Chinese bastard was not vegetarian, and he could receive telegrams every day about how many Japanese fighters the army had shot down, and even killed 38 fighters at one point.

Originally, Ivan thought that the Chinese themselves put gold on his face, but when he rushed to the city called Zhangjiakou with the group of planes, and saw the wreckage of Japanese fighters remaining outside the city, he was completely convinced. It's not that the army can't fight the air force, but the probability of being able to shoot down the air force is not very high. However, the fact that this Chinese army was able to shoot down more than 30 planes in a single air raid shows how strong its combat effectiveness is.

Ivanovich would never have thought that for the sake of this battle, Chen Feng deliberately transferred the air defense division to Zhangjiakou regardless of the safety of Guisui, which led to such a brilliant record.

After this period of understanding, Ivanovich also has a certain understanding of the 40th Army, and he feels that the armament and other infrastructure of the army led by the Chinese general are very good, and even a little luxurious.

Take the airport in front of him, for example, he has been shocked by this huge airport for a week. Originally, he had always thought that that guy was so stupid that he had built the airfield in the forest, and the birds flying around in the forest alone would be enough to cause huge trouble to the Air Force, and even kill people.

But as practice turned out, the Chinese general was very thoughtful, and every day at the airport there would be a huge chirping of a giant eagle from time to time, and the sound was extremely loud, and after a few days there were no more birds in the whole forest.

In addition, this airport is extremely powerful, in addition to the conventional runway, hangars and oil depots and other facilities, there are also underground command centers and dormitories, and the defense measures here are even more powerful, in addition to the arrangement of 36 strange anti-aircraft machine guns, there is also a battalion of field troops, the strength is extremely strong.

Today is Ivan's first day as Chief Instructor of China's Northern Air Force, and he will welcome its first Chinese cadets in this powerful and mysterious airfield.

For the Chinese pilot Ivanovich did not dare to underestimate at all, although the quality of the pilots of the Soviet Air Force was also good. However, according to the news from the first batch of volunteer pilots who came to China's aid, although China's air force has only a short history of five or six years, it has achieved brilliant results in the battle against those dwarves.

Although the Japanese air force was much stronger than the Chinese air force in terms of the number and quality of its fighters, the Chinese air force did not suffer a big loss at the hands of the Japanese air force in the more than a year since the war began, but instead caused the Japanese air force to retreat one after another, and for a time even gained air supremacy on the battlefield. To say that the army wins a battle is like drawing a lottery, it is a small probability event.

However, the Air Force was different, and the Chinese Air Force won the first major air battle between China and Japan, and the Japanese Kaya Air Force, which claimed to "have no opponent in the world," was also beaten to the ground. Even a few "flying aces" have only the power to parry. Flee in a hurry. In the first battle, the Chinese Air Force achieved a brilliant record of 6-0. Victory over the Japanese Air Force.

Then the Chinese Air Force again won a big victory in the direction of Hangzhou, shooting down 17 Japanese planes. And in the following battles, the Chinese Air Force never fell behind. Of course, with the gradual depletion of Chinese fighters. However, the Japanese fighters and pilots could be replenished in a steady stream. The current Chinese Air Force has completely fallen behind. But nevertheless. The reputation of the pilots of the Chinese Air Force was not bad, and it was recognized by the Soviet Air Force.

I don't know much about the air force of the 40th Group Army, Ivan, but I know that this weak air force, which has only more than 80 aircraft and fighters, has been established less than half a year ago. And there was almost no head-to-head confrontation with the Japanese air forces.

But when he saw the commander-in-chief of the Air Force of the 40th Army, Ivanovich was still stunned by the 22-year-old Air Force Major General. 22 years old - major general? Such an age and such a rank would not have appeared in the Soviet Union in any case, and he was already young enough in the Soviet Union as a major general, but this year he is 37 years old, a full 15 years older than the Chinese major general in front of him.

"Hello General Ivan, I am Liu Nijia, commander-in-chief of the Northern Air Force of China, and I am under the order of Commander-in-Chief Chen Feng to hand over the first batch of pilots of the Northern Air Force to your Excellency for training."

"Hello Liu, I'm Ivan, please tell me how many pilots there are in this batch?" Ivanovich spoke Chinese well, which was one of the reasons why he was chosen by Stalin.

"According to the order of the General Headquarters, my aviation division has a total of 312 regular pilots and 2,765 cadets, and it is the cadets who are handed over to you for training, a total of 500 people." Liu Nijia replied.

"Liu, is what you said true? Your air force has so many pilots, and as far as I know, you have less than a hundred planes in total, is it useful to train so many planes? ”

"General Ivan, our commander-in-chief attaches great importance to the development of the Air Force, the Air Force of our 40th Army is independent, although there are only more than eighty aircraft, but our aviation division has more than fifteen thousand people. As for the training of so many pilots, it also makes sense, now we do not have aircraft, does not mean that we will not have in the future, with your support, I believe that it will not be long before we will be able to have a powerful air force. Liu Jiani said loudly.

According to the order of the General Headquarters of the 40 th Group Army, led by Liu Nijia and Ivanovich, the General Command of China's Northern Air Force was established, with Liu Nijia as commander-in-chief, Ivanovich as deputy commander-in-chief, chief of general staff, and chief adviser, under the jurisdiction of three destroyer groups and one light bomber group, with a total of 227 fighters of various types.

The 1st Destroyer Group was led by Major Zatsev of the Soviet Air Force, and Major Yang Chengang was the deputy leader, and the 1st Group was equipped with 75 I-15 destroyers.

The second destroyer group was led by Lieutenant Colonel Ma Yun, and Soviet Air Force Major Vasily served as deputy group leader, and the second group was equipped with 75 I-16 destroyers.

The Third Group of Destroyers was led by Major Ostov of the Soviet Air Force and Major Xue Chenglong was the deputy leader, and the Third Group was equipped with 32 Japanese-made Type 95 fighters, 15 Type 96 fighters, and 27 Type 97 fighters.

The light bomber group was led by Major Novsky of the Soviet Air Force and Captain Li Haibin was the deputy captain, and since the 40th Army now had only three light bombers, this bomber group was still just a shell, and it could only be formed after the arrival of the second batch of Soviet air forces to aid China.

Since the Air Force was first established, Chen Feng's task for the Air Force was to train and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and then he would be reused. He was eager to carry out the great plan he had formulated, as long as the Air Force gave it. (To be continued......)