In addition, it is worth mentioning that Hu Weidong, who personally shot down a number of Japanese planes, was also injured by Japanese bullets, although he was young and strong and only lived in the courtyard for more than ten days, but he still scared the 15th Army a lot, and Zhang Hao, secretary of the Central Plains Bureau, who has always had a very good temper, was even more rarely furious, and from then on Hu Weidong was forbidden to participate in extremely dangerous air defense operations, uh, to be precise, the command is still possible, but it is absolutely impossible to fire the artillery himself, and there is no way, a sharpshooter like Hu Weidong really attracts the hatred of enemy planes, The danger of anti-aircraft artillery is much greater than that of ordinary anti-aircraft artillery, of course, Hu Weidong can release water so as not to become the target of the public, but in that case, he will run to the air defense brigade to fight soy sauce, could it be that his brain is flooded?

In addition to the army, the people in the border areas also suffered certain losses, the vast majority of which were plane wreckage that smashed people's houses or injured pedestrians with shrapnel, stray bullets, and body fragments, and so on, and the total casualties were actually more than those of the army, but fortunately, there were no deaths or serious injuries; Hu Weidong was a little relieved when he learned about it, but this air defense operation was carried out on the outskirts of Luoyang City, and so many civilians were affected, and if the enemy planes flew over the city, the consequences would inevitably be even more serious.

Hu Weidong further realized that although there were many favorable conditions for air defense on the inner line, it would also cause great damage to the economy and people's livelihood in the border areas, so he came up with the idea of burning the flames of war into the enemy-occupied areas; anyway, under the new tactics, as long as the Japanese army has not developed a new model with a high ceiling and a large climb rate, the First Air Force Division will basically not have any casualties, so for the First Air Force Division that adopts the new tactics, there is basically no difference between the internal and external operations, and there is still a chance to directly destroy the Japanese planes parked at the airfield. There are even more opportunities for meritorious service than for defensive operations

Air Force Commander Liu Yalou was also aware of this problem after the war, and was about to come over to ask several leaders of the Central Plains Bureau for instructions (Taizu adopted the principle of "high authority and low rank" for a young general like him; although his authority is equivalent to the length of an army, but in terms of party status and political rank, not to mention that compared with Zhang Hao and Hu Weidong, even the leaders of the four main divisions of the 15 th Army are higher than him. ）。 This coincided, and the "guerrilla warfare in the air" that the great men talked about later began

Time is of the essence, and the next day, the 1st Air Force Pilot Division entered the occupied area as a brigade to seek battle. The Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese Air Force would take the initiative to attack, and naturally suffered a big loss. A regular airport such as Jinan Airport must be equipped with strong air defense units, and the 3rd Fighter Group of the 1st Air Force Division sent to attack and harass did not dare to approach. It was just that some leaflets were scattered over the city of Jinan, on the one hand to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, and on the other hand, to provoke the Japanese planes on the airport. In fact, because of the huge losses suffered just the day before, the Jinan airport became deserted for a while, and at this time it was already doing its best to be able to lift a squadron of fighters, but these 12 devil planes did nothing except give the 3rd Fighter Group of the 1st Air Force Division the results of shooting down four enemy planes

Compared with regular airfields, the air defense of field airfields that the Japanese army hastily repaired (or newly occupied) was much weaker. Moreover, the devil thinks that the location of the field airfield is hidden, and the enemy should not be so easy to find, even if he has suffered the loss of Yangmingbao, there are still many people who are not vigilant enough. As everyone knows, the underground workers of the Red Party are all over the country, and the people in the occupied areas hate the devils to the core. Even though the telecommunications personnel had not yet deciphered the new codes used by the Japanese army, it was not difficult to find those field airfields. As a result, on this day alone, more than 15 devil planes were destroyed at the airport or in the process of lift-off. It is precisely because of this painful lesson that the devils have comprehensively strengthened the air defense and vigilance work of field airfields, and the research and development of radar has also attracted more attention than in the same period in history. …,

However. Although this makes it more difficult for the Air Force to sneak up on airfields, it does not limit the effectiveness of the Air Force's new tactics. In the months that followed, the commanders and fighters of the 1st Air Division shot down as many enemy planes as possible when their own aircraft were clearly superior; When the numerical superiority is not obvious, and even when they are at a disadvantage, safety comes first, and they would rather have a lower hit rate than be allowed to enter the effective range of the enemy's aviation machine guns, so that the Japanese pilots have no skills but cannot give full play to them at all. The Japanese Army Air Force, which had lost its troops, had no choice but to bow its head and ask the Navy for help, but although the pilots of the Navy were superior, they were still unable to increase the altitude limit of the aircraft by one or two thousand meters, and the long-range firing strategy adopted by the Type 95 biplane fighters of the First Air Force Division was originally the idea of planting a wide range of artillery and reaping a thin harvest, and every 100 rounds or even 500 shells hitting an enemy plane was not a failure, and the elements of the shelling were very large, so the skilful flying skills of the Japanese Navy could not improve their survival rate at all. And the same group shot down a number of (0-6) enemy planes in one battle, and it was obviously more valuable to kill the elite pilots of the Japanese Navy than to kill the army air, so the pilots of the 1st Division were all more energetic when they saw the planes of the HNA and their combat results became more and more outstanding

As a result, the Japanese Navy Airlines, which originally hoped to show off in front of the Army Airlines, became a laughing stock instead, which was undoubtedly a great stimulus to the Admiralty, which was full of superiority. Therefore, according to a series of requirements put forward by front-line pilots, the Japanese Navy Zero fighter under development has been put forward higher requirements in terms of ceiling, climb rate and firepower, which makes the light Zero fighter scheme that was finally selected in history directly vetoed, and the heavy Zero fighter with better performance and greater room for improvement and upgrade (Note 1) has become the only choice of the Japanese Navy, and the Japanese Army Aviation has also put forward higher requirements for the performance of the Type 1 fighter under development for the same consideration

Note 1: When reading "The Struggle of Small Citizens", I found that some readers have a misunderstanding of the heavy zero type, in fact, the heavy zero type and the light zero type are not much different in terms of design ideas, but the heavy machine is larger in size. The real impact is that heavy aircraft can be equipped with higher horsepower engines (the advanced aero engines in the middle and late stages of World War II are relatively large in size, and the light zero cannot be installed, so the upgrade potential is small, and it can only be used for a while, and the performance defects cannot be compensated). Therefore, the heavy Zero is better than the light Zero in terms of hard indicators such as speed and ceiling, and its maneuverability will not be inferior, or even better

Historically, the reason why Mitsubishi chose the light aircraft scheme was mainly because the fighters that Japan had previously equipped the troops with were all light aircraft, and if the Zero fighter was a heavy aircraft, the Japanese pilots would definitely be very unaccustomed to it at first, and Mitsubishi was worried that the military would reduce the amount of orders (the nature of capitalists to pursue profits). But in this book, Japan has no other choice, and Mitsubishi naturally has no choice but to choose the heavy-duty Zero solution (your support is my biggest motivation.) )