It is precisely because of the lessons of the last large-scale air battle that the Japanese military top brass has realized a relatively serious problem, that is, although the Zero fighters they have high hopes for are more powerful than the Hawker 2 and Hawker 3 fighters and the Yi 15 and 16 fighters that the Chinese Air Force was equipped with before, they are much worse than the new fighters of the Northern Air Force in China.

Not long ago, Jiro Horikoshi finally handed over a satisfactory answer to the base camp, the Zero Type 52 improved, the wingspan was shortened to 11 meters, and the speed was increased to 560 kilometers per hour. Although the flexibility decreased due to the increase in machine weight, the survivability of the Type 52 "Zero" was greatly increased.

After the test flight, the Japanese army base camp was very satisfied with the improved version of this Zero aircraft, and at the same time, the Japanese army base camp should have given high hopes to this new type of aircraft, and regarded it as the only magic weapon to restrain China's new fighters.

Because it was an improved version of the Zero fighter, it only needed to make some minor modifications and adjustments to the production line of the original Zero fighter, so the new fighter of the Japanese army was quickly mass-produced, and priority was given to equipping the North China Front.

However, when Lieutenant General Kinoshita, commander-in-chief of the North China Front Flying Group, watched the flight show of the new fighters, his heart was half cold. The last big air battle is still vivid, the figure of the new fighter equipped by the Zhi Na people at that time is still in his mind, the new fighter is too powerful, especially the extremely high flight ceiling and extremely fast speed, he has never seen such a fast plane after joining the army for decades.

Although this new fighter produced by the empire is also very good, it can be called a relatively advanced fighter in the world. It was much more advanced than the Soviet fighters in the Battle of Nomenkan, but Lieutenant General Kinoshita did not think that this new fighter could restrain the new fighters of the Zhina, so he ignored the advice of his subordinates and reported his judgment to the front command.

Although he had not yet taken up his post in the North China Front at that time, he still knew the specific situation, because that air force fiasco attracted great attention from the top of the empire. And the base camp's attitude towards this matter is to ask for a thorough investigation of this matter, no matter what the reason is, it must be investigated, so many insiders Tada Jun is still very clear.

The more he knew about it, the more cautious Tada became. He didn't think his luck would be better than that of His Excellency Binshan Yuan. Since it was possible to defeat these new fighters because the Shina could inflict irreparable heavy losses on the Imperial Army aviation at that time, Tada agreed to send air forces to the war, but he forbade bombers with extremely poor protection to accompany him. He had to determine whether the new fighters could restrain the air force of the China.

November 15th. The first major air battle since the start of the war between the two sides began began in the skies over Gaoyi County in Hebei Province. The Japanese did not know that the staggered peak was equipped with early warning radar, so they did not know that their so-called raid was nothing more than a joke in the eyes of the staggered peak work, when the more than 100 new Japanese fighters had just taken off from Nanyuan Airport in Beiping. The Northern Air Force Command, which received the report from the radar troops, quickly responded, and one fighter group quickly took off from Datong Airport and rushed to the sky over Gaoyi to intercept the Japanese air force.

At nine o'clock in the morning, when the ground battle was in full swing, there was a sudden loud hum of the aircraft engines in the sky, and then a group of Japanese fighters swooped down towards the battlefield. What the Japanese pilots who were full of desire to fight a surprise attack did not expect was that although the Chinese troops on the ground showed a certain amount of panic, they seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and one anti-aircraft gun and anti-aircraft machine gun after another quickly removed the camouflage net covering their bodies, and then the ground air defense units opened fire quickly, and when they were caught off guard, the Japanese air force suffered a loss, two new fighters were shot down, and three others were wounded.

The pilots of the Japanese air force did not dare to slack off, and immediately raised the nose of the aircraft and quickly allowed the car to climb so as not to be shot down by the air force of China.

However, to the horror of the Japanese pilots, just as they quickly raised the nose of the plane, they found that just above them, a group of neatly arranged Shina fighters were rushing towards them, and the cannons installed under the wings of the Shina fighters were exposed to the black holes.

"Boom, boom!"

The Japanese pilots were tragic, and more than 30 fighters were destroyed in the first round of attacks, and the right thing was to destroy them, not shoot them down. For the pilots, being shot down is not terrible, as long as the reaction is good enough and the luck is not too bad, they can at least survive, and even if they are lucky, they can even escape back to the base camp without being captured by the enemy.

But the destruction is different, it is naked destruction, it is a volley at an altitude of several thousand meters or even tens of thousands of meters, the fighter plane directly disintegrates, the pilots do not even have the least time to react, the final result is death, burned or from a height of tens of thousands of meters as a free fall to death.

I'm sorry, although the Japanese army has improved the Zero fighter to greatly enhance its battlefield survivability, but the biggest problem of the Zero is that it did not leave enough room for upgrading when it was originally designed, the aircraft was designed too small to install a larger engine, and the small size of the engine to increase the power is technically very difficult, and the power increase is limited, so the improved Zero, although the smaller engine with greater power has been replaced, the unit power has not been improved, and the fighting performance can not continue to improve due to the improvement but has declined.

In comparison, the performance of Chen Feng's J-5 fighter and J-6 fighter is much stronger, and the flight speed close to the speed of sound is the nemesis of the Japanese Zero fighter and its improved version.

After arriving at the battlefield from Chen Feng's fighter brigade, the Japanese air force completely became a green leaf with red flowers, and completely became a supporting role, and this big air battle lasted for 45 minutes, 69 of the 108 fighters were shot down, 19 were damaged, and less than 20 returned safely, while the Northern Air Force of the Eighth Theater had only two combat records because they were hit by Japanese fighters and exploded due to being hit by Japanese fighters, and one pilot was killed and one was wounded.

The great victory of the air force directly stimulated the morale of the ground army, while the morale of the Japanese defenders on the ground was extremely low. Xu Fufu was also an extremely good commander, he immediately noticed the subtle changes on the battlefield, and immediately took advantage of the prestige of the air force to order the troops to increase the intensity of the attack, and it was necessary to capture the county seat of Gaoyi.

At 12:12 o'clock in the afternoon, the defenders of Gaoyi County completely collapsed, and under the command of the commander Yamada Hara Ichisa, they quickly broke through to the south and urgently withdrew to Xingtai. (To be continued......)

PS: There's something going on at home today, so the second chapter is a bit less, forgive me!