Chapter 292: The Temptation of the Battleship

It must be explained that the reason why Pokryshkin has suddenly become so powerful (he has never shot down more than 5 enemy planes in a single battle before) is that in addition to the continuous progress of his personal strength and rare good luck, the latest modification of the i16 fighter that he recently transferred to China with the second batch of Soviet aid air forces is also an important reason that cannot be ignored.

Although the Soviet aid air force had a good record before, there was always a certain gap between the performance of their fighter i16 and the main fighters of the Devil Army Navigation and Hainan Airlines. After continuous improvement, the performance of more than 100 of the latest i16 fighters has been comprehensively improved

First of all, its maximum speed exceeded 500 km / h, and the current Japanese fastest fighter is only 460 km / h maximum speed, what is even more rare is that its maneuverability and other parameters are not inferior to Japanese fighters, a fighter that was not as good as the enemy aircraft in almost every performance is now not inferior to the enemy plane, or even stronger than the enemy plane, this is undoubtedly a qualitative leap, and with Pokryshkin, the ace of the ace piloting, it is naturally even more powerful

It is worth mentioning that during these days of fighting, the First War Zone also captured no less than 800 devil pilots and crew members who parachuted to escape. Due to the influence of those Japanese pilots who went back, there were fewer and fewer devil pilots who chose to die together after being shot down, and the Japanese military top brass also adopted a tacit attitude towards this because of the great losses of experienced pilots since the beginning of the war of aggression against China, and Hu Weidong also demanded that the pilots who parachuted out of the devils should be caught alive as much as possible, so it was far less difficult to catch the devil pilots alive than it was at the beginning.

At present, although there are no Chinese pilots who have been captured and need to be exchanged, Hu Weidong still attaches great importance to these Japanese prisoners, even if he does not consider the transformation and transformation of this layer, with the importance of the devil to the pilots, it is entirely possible to exchange them for special talents such as captured Chinese soldiers, captured underground parties, and scientists who are trapped in the occupied areas and cannot get out. Moreover, because the education level of the liberation fighters is relatively high (with the development of the literacy work in the Central Plains border region, the gap in this area is rapidly narrowing; if the Shandong base area is not counted, the average education level of the officers and men is only stronger than that of most of the national army units, judging from the relatively new Shandong base area, only from the perspective of the 15 th Army, which started by Hu Weidong. ), but it is better to use

Soon after, Hu Weidong also publicly announced that the Japanese army could exchange Chinese prisoners of war for their prisoners of war, including pilots, thus somewhat curbing the bad habit of some Japanese soldiers to torture and killing Chinese prisoners of war, and successively saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers

After repeated setbacks in the air raids, the devils also tried to send pocket submarines to sneak attack, but the exit of Jiaozhou Bay is only a few kilometers wide, and the water depth is only 10-15 meters, and the submarine cannot mix in during the day, and at night, Hu Weidong asked several destroyers to rotate every day and drive sonar to guard the exit of Jiaozhou Bay, and several submarines of the devils have become good targets for the Chinese Navy to practice anti-submarine warfare. So it didn't take long for the Japanese Admiralty to stop sending submarines over to send them to death

After experiencing heavy setbacks again and again, finally realizing that this refueling tactic was only a waste of the elite pilots that the empire had cultivated with great difficulty, the Japanese army headquarters suspended the air raid on Qingdao in the face of the boiling public opinion in the country. After calming down from the rage, the Japanese military department suddenly realized that the loss of Qingdao and the capture of many ships was not necessarily a bad thing in a sense. If the Chinese wanted to keep those warships, Qingdao must not be lost, which meant that they had to devote a large number of troops to prevent the Japanese landing in Shandong. Everyone in the world knows that the Red Party army relies on movement warfare to eat, and once it fails to move, the threat to the Japanese army will naturally be greatly reduced.

After realizing this, the Japanese army base headquarters decided to take advantage of the great opportunity of the main force of the Chinese 15th Army being pinned down, first make breakthroughs in several other battlefields, and then concentrate the superior military strength of the two major fronts in North and Central China to wipe out the Chinese 15th Army Group Army, which they feared the most, in one fell swoop. But while these old devils were daydreaming, the Soviets unexpectedly intervened

Stalin had always been a fanatical "giant ship artilleryist", but the Soviet Union's national strength was limited, and he could only hide his love for battleships in the bottom of his heart. After the completion of the Soviet Union's two five-year years, it became the second largest industrial country in Shijie, and Stalin's long-suppressed ambition finally could not be suppressed, and he was a complete layman for building ships, and he actually proposed to build a grand jihua of fifteen battleships and fifteen battlecruisers (but it was much more realistic than Chen Shaokuan's aircraft carrier Jihua

Today's Soviet Union is shrouded in the shadow of the Great Purge, and no one in the country dares to question Stalin, but now although the total industrial volume of the Soviet Union has jumped to the second place, there is still a large gap between the average scientific and technological level and the Western powers, and there is a serious lack of experience in the design and construction of modern large warships. And took out a large amount of real money saved by the Soviet people tightening their belts, and few Western powers were willing to provide jishu support, and even if they helped, none of them could do it all, causing the Soviet Union to learn from the United States for a while, Italy for a while, and Germany for a while, and as a result, the design plan was changed and changed, and I don't know when it will be finalized

Therefore, as early as when the 15th Army accidentally captured the battleship Haruna, Stalin immediately moved his mind: if this battleship could be brought over, on the one hand, it could directly enhance the strength of the Red Navy, and on the other hand, it could be used as a template for imitation, so that the Soviet warship designers could get inspiration and inspiration from the advanced products of Japan, a naval power. However, at that time, the strength of the Japanese Navy was still very strong, and the Red Navy of the Soviet Union could not compete with it at all, so Stalin wanted to think about it, but after all, he did not dare to completely turn his face with the devil for this, but now the situation is very different

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