In fact, it is not to blame the Australian government for thinking so, at this time the second Wuhan battle was indeed very unfavorable to the Nationalist Government, originally the first Wuhan Battle of the Japanese army was about to achieve its strategic goal, because of the sudden disturbance of Chen Feng's department, so that the Nationalist Government had a chance to breathe, even if the Japanese army retreated at the most critical moment, but the entire battlefield situation was still firmly controlled by the Japanese army.

The Japanese army attached great importance to this battle, not only dispatching many arms of the army, navy and air force, but also unprecedented in terms of the strength of the Japanese army. In addition, the Japanese army dispatched a new type of fighter in this battle, which, although small in number, far surpassed all the fighters now equipped by the Nationalist Air Force and the Northern Air Force in terms of performance.

On August 10, the Japanese army dispatched 30 such fighters for the first time in the air raid on Wuhan, and the Japanese air force responded calmly to the interception of the Chinese air force twice its size, but the result was a brilliant result of 44:0. The 4th Destroyer Group of the Nationalist Government Air Force shot down 11 Hawk-3 fighters, and 9 pilots were bloodied. The Northern Air Force shot down thirty-three warplanes, of which 19 pilots were killed and 14 were seriously injured.

In addition, the ensuing Japanese bombers dropped a large number of bombs on the urban area of Wuhan, resulting in a large number of casualties among innocent citizens in Wuhan.

On the army side, the Nationalist Government was also pressed and beaten by the Japanese army, and under the three-dimensional blow of the Japanese army, navy, and air force, the defense line established by the Nationalist Government with more than one million people was like paper, and it was carried out in less than half a month, and the first line of defense was already crumbling, which made Chen Cheng and others extremely shocked.

This is just the beginning. When the follow-up troops of the Japanese army arrived on the battlefield one after another, the situation of the Nationalist Government would certainly be even more difficult, so the international community was generally not optimistic about the Nationalist Government, believing that the Nationalist Government would be completely defeated in this war, and would even be completely defeated by the Japanese army after this battle.

The news of the unprecedented defeat of the Air Force in Wuhan made Chen Feng extremely uneasy, and according to the news from the front, he had reason to believe that the Japanese army had produced the Zero fighter in advance. It seems that his appearance not only changed the course of the war and turned the tide of the war in favor of China, but also changed some things for the Japanese army.

The Zero fighter made the Japanese Air Force the most powerful air force in Asia. The plane, which also made the air forces of China and the United States grit their teeth, was supposed to have been designed in 1937. The first test flight was made on April 1, 1939 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. And it will take more than a year to really make this kind of fighter mass-produced and equipped with the Japanese army invading China.

In addition, the first battle of the Zero fighter did not take place in this year, but on September 13, 1940, 13 Zero fighters encountered a mixed group of 27 I-15 and I-16 aircraft of the Chinese Air Force in the airspace east of Chongqing. All 27 aircraft of the Chinese Air Force were shot down and damaged, while the Zero did not lose a single one. This is the heaviest loss of the Chinese Air Force since the Anti-Japanese War! In the months that followed. A total of 99 Chinese aircraft were shot down and destroyed by the Zero. Only two of the Zeros were burned in a ground accident.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army would apply this new type of fighter to actual combat a year in advance. This change made Chen Feng extremely uneasy. He was well aware of how good this Japanese fighter left a great name in World War II was, and the Japanese army base camp had extremely high expectations for this fighter, not only greatly modifying the appearance of the fighter. At the same time, a huge major breakthrough has been made in the internal structure, and for the first time, fully enclosed retractable landing gear, electric thermal flight suit, machine gun, constant speed propeller, ultra-duralumin load-bearing structure, large vision cockpit and disposable large auxiliary fuel tank and other equipment were adopted.

And the Zero fighter also uses a 950-horsepower Nakajima Sakae 12-star air-cooled engine, with a speed of 533 kilometers per hour, which can fight at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the range is a record of 3,000 kilometers, which is stronger than the range of ordinary bombers and transport aircraft.

As soon as this kind of fighter, which far surpassed the performance of contemporaneous fighters, appeared on the battlefield, it was simply a disaster for the Chinese Air Force. Not only is the Chinese Air Force no opponent, but even the US Air Force or the Soviet Air Force cannot defeat the Japanese Air Force, which is equipped with Zero fighters. In fact, it was the Japanese Zero fighters that attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, and there were 81 Zero fighters participating in the battle at that time, although there were only 81 fighters, but they completely controlled the air supremacy over Oahu and suppressed any US planes that forcibly took off. The Zero fighter adopts a low-speed and fuel-efficient flight mode of multiple training to provide long-range escort for a land attack. The U.S. military couldn't help but be shocked in the face of Japanese fighters with such a strong endurance! The Japanese army wiped out 70 percent of the Allied fighter forces in the Pacific in just a few months after the start of the war, and when the Allied pilots took off to meet the Zero, both the pilots and the commanders understood that eighty percent of the fighters would not come back after they flew out.

After receiving the battle report sent by Liu Nijia, Chen Feng's first thought was to withdraw all the Northern Air Force, but this kind of thought also thought about it, if the Northern Air Force was really withdrawn to the Nationalist Government, it would really be over, and Wuhan would definitely be occupied by the Japanese in a very short period of time. At that time, Chen Feng will definitely be spurned by thousands of people, and he will be uneasy in his own heart.

The Northern Air Force not only could not withdraw, but also increased its troops, otherwise Liu Nijia and their existing fighters alone would not be able to deal with the Japanese Zero Force. Although he did not know how many Zero fighters the Japanese army had produced at this time, 30 were sent to fight in the first battle, and the total number should not be less than 50.

For this reason, Chen Feng immediately ordered the 1st and 2nd regiments of Victor's air defense division to assemble immediately and go to Wuhan with all the weapons and equipment and ammunition enough for half a month's operation. At the same time, Chen Feng transferred a total of 400 fighters from one fighter regiment and one transport regiment from the Northern Air Force to Wuhan, so that the number of fighters sent to Wuhan by the Eighth Theater reached 962, and there were less than 400 fighters left in the north.

Chen Feng's act of sending charcoal in the snow made Lao Jiang extremely moved, and after the Eighth Theater completely annihilated the 12th Division of the Japanese Army some time ago, the Nationalist Government did not have any actual expression. Therefore, soon a telegram of commendation signed by Lao Chiang himself was sent to Saibei, promoting Chen Feng to the second-class general of the National Revolutionary Army, and Lao Chiang also asked Kang Ze to send him a message that as long as Chen Feng was willing to join the Kuomintang, he would immediately appoint Chen Feng as vice president of the Kuomintang and vice chairman of the Military Commission, becoming the second person in the Nationalist Government after Lao Chiang.

But before thinking of this position, it was the big traitor Wang Zhaomin, Chen Feng thought about it and dispelled this idea, that position is not easy to sit, whoever has the ability to let someone sit, he won't join in the fun!

It's not enough. Chen Feng knew that this could only temporarily curb the superiority of the Japanese Air Force. By the time their Zero fighters are mass-produced and equipped with troops, no matter how many fighters go to death. At present, although the Japanese army has some Zero fighters, the main force is still the Type 95, Type 97 and 96 ship battles. Therefore, he wants to take this opportunity to quickly produce new fighters, and he wants to make the J-5 and J-6 appear as soon as possible. And then blow up little Japan.

In the following ten days, Chen Feng got into a secret base in Baotou. That secret base was built not so long ago. The main purpose is to produce J-5, J-6 and Wuzhi 9.Chen Feng tossed for more than ten days, when the first J-5, J-6 and the first Wuzhi 9 rolled off the assembly line, he returned to Guisui, and at this time it was August 26, 1939. The date of the German blitzkrieg on Poland is less than a week away.

Originally, Chen Feng thought that the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact two months in advance, and Hitler would start World War II in advance, but he didn't expect that the mustache to be quite bearable, so he didn't do anything. However, Chen Feng also knew that Hitler couldn't help but make a move in the end, because the amount of penicillin drugs purchased by Germany suddenly increased more than tenfold during this time. Although the number of penicillin drugs purchased by Germany has increased month by month for more than a year, from $15 million per month at the beginning to $100 million two months ago, a full $2.5 billion in goods has been requested in the past two months, which makes Chen Feng smell something unusual.

The German tanks have already begun to warm up, and in another week, the German blitzkrieg will shock the world, and the prelude to the great war is about to begin.

At this time, Chen Feng couldn't tell what kind of mood he was, and he didn't hate Chen Feng for Germany, but he still had a faint gratitude. In fact, when the United States and Britain connived at or even supported Japan's aggression against China, Germany had been helping China until the Soviet Union did not extend a helping hand to China.

In 1933, Adolf. Hitler won the German election and became Chancellor. In the field of Sino-German military cooperation, Adolf. Hitler saw that Chiang Kai-shek's government expelled Soviet advisers, made enemies with the Soviet Union, launched the April 12 Incident, and encircled and suppressed the Communists. At the same time, China's abundant natural resources (especially strategic resources such as tungsten and antimony) and the vast market for industrial products are also important convenient conditions for Germany's revival, and as a neighbor of the Soviet Union, it can be used as an effective deterrent and a common anti-Soviet political ally. What was once a private nature that was obscured has gradually turned into public official aid.

Under the joint promotion of the Sino-German military Hitler and Lao Chiang, it gradually reached a climax, not only did the two sides sign the "Five-Year Military Industry Development Plan", Germany began to help China establish a military industry, and provided military equipment to China before the Chinese military industry was completed, and the fourth German military general adviser, the former commander-in-chief of the German Wehrmacht, Hans. Feng. In assisting China in reorganizing and building up its army, Admiral Seckert submitted a "Proposal for Army Reform," proposing that with limited material and financial resources, first establish a well-equipped and well-trained small core demonstration armed force, and then complete the reorganization of the country's 60 divisions in batches and phases; he believed that China's elite standing army with 60 divisions would be sufficient to cope with various situations, and this was the source of the 60 divisions program of the national army in the 30s.

It is a great pity that the German armor division was originally used to train officers, and then use those officers to train the entire army. However, in the Battle of Songhu and later the Battle of Nanjing, these elite units trained by the Germans were almost completely lost. Therefore, during the long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it failed to play the role of promoting the improvement of the quality of the entire army.

More importantly, after General Seckert returned home from a serious illness, General Falkenhausen became the head of the fifth advisory group, and after he took office, he continued to strengthen the construction of mechanized troops and form a mechanized fifth army, while vigorously developing the defense industry. At the same time, in view of the Japanese army's increasingly imminent invasion of China, the "Proposal on Countermeasures to Deal with the Current Situation" was compiled, which accurately predicted and guided the all-out war of resistance in the near future.

After the "77 Incident", the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, and Japan continued to exert pressure on Germany to terminate Sino-German military cooperation. Under pressure, Germany announced the end of the work of the advisory group, but at the same time stated that the German government would not interfere with the activities of the former members of the advisory group in China in their private capacities. As a result, Falkenhausen and his colleagues collectively took off their German uniforms and changed into civilian clothes to continue their consulting work. Arms sales to China were still going on, and they became the only source for the Chinese government to obtain foreign weapons and equipment at that time.

Of all the countries in the world, perhaps only the Germans want China to become strong the most, and they are also one of the countries that help China the most. For such a country, Chen Feng really can't hold the slightest hatred. But Chen Feng also knew that with the establishment of the Three Kingdoms Axis, there must be a hostile relationship between them, maybe this is called creation and making people! (To be continued......)