Yang Zhen's gradual weakening of air strikes against Japan does not mean that the strategic air force will be completely abolished. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he reduced his investment in air strikes against Japan at this time, in addition to preparing for his next strategic arrangement. Another important reason was that he was going to start saving money for the post-war period.

Moreover, weakening does not mean that it will be completely stopped, but that the targets of the bombing of Japan are more targeted. As for the bombing of Japanese cities, Yang Zhen handed it all over to the Americans. In the selection of targets, it was more about the bombing of the Japanese troops on the Japanese mainland.

In April, the last 260 Stirling bombers were dispatched to carry out a large-scale bombing of the station of the 1st Japanese Guards Division in Tokyo. With the cooperation of the intelligence services, the last sortie of Stirling bombers razed the entire garrison of the 1st Guards Division to the ground.

The 1st Guards Division was caught off guard in its sleep, suffering nearly two-thirds of the casualties in the bombardment. At the end of May, the Anti-Japanese Federation dispatched 120 bombers to blow up a small Japanese oil field in Hokkaido, completely ending the pitiful oil production in Japan.

On 3 June, the day when the Jianghuai Campaign officially ended, 180 bombers were dispatched to bomb a series of Japanese targets in Taiwan. It was only after the bombing of Japanese targets in Taiwan was completed that half of the bomber group landed directly at the Yancheng and Xuzhou airfields in northern Jiangsu, which had already been renovated, and the remaining half landed at the Jinan and Cangzhou airfields in Shandong and Hebei.

Instead of returning to the northeast, these bomber groups were stationed in two places to carry out strategic deterrence in the east. The bombers were transferred out of the group, and all the Stirling bombers were mothballed. In addition to the aircraft damaged in recent battles, as well as the aircraft lost due to breakdowns. The bombers that remained in the northeast to carry out bombing missions against Japan were only a little more than a quarter of the original.

In addition to the 140 spare planes, only 400 B24 bombers were actually engaged in the front-line air raids against Japan. However, in May, except for the aluminum used by the United States, all the remaining parts and components were the first B24 bomber produced by the United States, and all the project test flights have been completed, and they can be put into production.

At the same time, the B24 bomber, which uses its own production of aviation Radu aluminum, is also in full trial production. If all goes well, the test flight can be completed in a few months. However, according to Yang Zhen's deployment, it is only for trial production, and it is not ready to be put into production.

According to Yang Zhen's ideas, the trial production of the B24 bomber is just to pave the way for the next step in the production of the B29 bomber and accumulate experience in the production and manufacture of large aircraft. And to test the quality of Radu aluminum produced in Northeast China, whether it can meet the needs of manufacturing large aircraft. and train skilled workers for the manufacture of large aircraft, especially qualified riveters and blacksmiths.

However, although Yang Zhen gradually began to reduce the intensity of air raids against Japan, in late May and early June, he suddenly increased his investment in the Korean battlefield. Although he did not personally take over the command, he gave the commander of the DPRK cluster, Du Kaishan, an order to mobilize all the living forces stationed in the DPRK.

Compared with the final liquidation of the Japanese army in the encirclement by June 3, the army under the command of General Lin entered the north bank of the Yangtze River as the end point, and the battlefield in Guannai calmed down again after the Jianghuai Campaign was completed. and the Okinawa battlefield, which officially started on May 9 and is currently in full swing.

It turned out that the intensity of the war was not large, and compared with the previous battles launched by the Anti-Japanese Union in 42 years, even if it was a medium-sized Korean battlefield, it was unusually lively. However, on the Korean battlefield, the offensive of the Anti-Japanese Union appeared to be huge, but it was a combination of steady and steady fighting and bluffing, and the Japanese and Korean forces were steadily compressed to the south.

However, although on the Korean battlefield, Yang Zhen always controlled the rhythm of the attack. However, Yang Zhen mobilized a part of the tactical bombers and formed a tactical attack group with the A-20 attack aircraft as the core to tightly block the North Korean seafood. Every ship in the Korean Strait has become a target for the anti-coalition attack planes.

In the face of the blockade tactics of the Anti-Japanese Union, in order to ensure the connection between the mainland and the southern part of Korea, the Japanese base camp risked weakening the air defense of the homeland, and tried by all means to dispatch an air force composed of four Hurricane fighters to escort ships between the Korean Peninsula and the mainland.

Several large-scale air battles broke out in succession over the Korean Strait between the fighter group escorted by the Anti-Japanese Union and the Japanese fighter group that took off from the Japanese mainland. The La-7 and Yak-9 fighter groups of the Anti-Japanese Union and the Japanese Army's Kakaze fighter group were constantly engaged in fierce battles over the Korean Strait.

Compared with the only remaining fighter group of the Japanese Navy on the east coast of Japan, there was a continuous air battle with the overwhelming US carrier-based aircraft and the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier formation transferred by the British from the European theater. Although both the Anti-Japanese Union and the Japanese Army have invested a considerable part of their vital forces. But it is not as eye-catching as the air battle on the east coast of Japan.

However, in the continuous outbreak of air battles, although the fighter units of the anti-coalition air forces that participated in the war suffered heavy losses, the fighter groups of the Japanese Army stationed on the mainland also suffered heavy losses. Several large-scale air battles in a row came down, and in addition to the losses on the battlefield of Okinawa. After more than 300 fighters were defeated, the fighter units of the Japanese Army that remained on the mainland were completely demoralized.

At this time, most of Japan's domestic aviation industry was destroyed by bombers. Coupled with the damage caused by the Tokai earthquake at the end of 44 and the loss of the largest source of aluminum for aviation, Japan's domestic aircraft production capacity has dropped to a point where it is non-existent. Ten planes were knocked out, and it would be nice to be able to replenish one.

Corresponding to the rapid decline in aircraft production, the replenishment of pilots is becoming more and more difficult. Batches of veterans of air warfare were either killed in the Chinese battlefield or lost in the Pacific theater. The local air defense operation, also lost a significant part of the pilots. Those young soldiers who were trained in a hurry, whether in terms of technical level or air combat ability, were far from being able to compare with their predecessors.

The Japanese base camp gritted its teeth and took out more than 300 of the latest Hurricane fighters, but its pilots who participated in the battle failed to bring into full play the excellent performance of this fighter. In the face of the same excellent performance of the fighter group under the command of the AWACS aircraft of the Anti-Japanese Union, it suffered unusually heavy losses in the air battle.

It's just that after this battle, although the bones of the Japanese army aviation were knocked out, there were not many anti-alliances, and after continuous hard fighting, the smaller number of surviving La-5 FN and La-7 fighters could only withdraw from the front line. In particular, La Qi, which is known as the fighter with the best combat performance in World War II, withdrew from the establishment of the Anti-Japanese Federation after this war.

The rescued pilot was transferred to the rear to prepare to take over the German-made fighters. In addition, the La-5 FN fighters all withdrew from the front-line combat sequence due to the life of the airframe. Before the completion of the flight conversion, although the number of planes involved was not large, the gap that appeared, and the strength of the fighter unit of the Anti-United Nations also decreased significantly.

All the pull-type fighters withdrew from the front line, plus the Lag-3 fighter group that withdrew from the equipment sequence earlier, and the gap together is very large. In order to make up for the gap in combat effectiveness, the aviation forces can only speed up the conversion training of the German-made fighters that have already arrived.

However, after these German-made planes arrive in Northeast China, it will take some time for them to overhaul and modify some equipment to form combat effectiveness. Although the ground staff and the workers of various aviation overhaul factories have been working at full speed, they are still unable to meet the needs.

Yang Zhen didn't know what the Germans thought, and it was normal for fighters to be constantly improved with the battle situation. But under each large model, there are a lot of small models. These models are very different, from the engine to a lot of things. Even if these fighters arrive in the northeast, even if they are brand new, they will have to be partially adjusted according to the situation of the Chinese battlefield itself.

In the later stage of the war, the FW 190 fighter was more used as a fighter-bomber, and the fuselage was filled with bombing equipment, which restricted the performance of this fighter. And these devices are of no use to the Anti-United Nations at all. Most of the bomb pylons, as well as the large-caliber cannons installed for the anti-tank needs of the Germans, had to be removed.

Reinstall the altimeter that was not installed, and remove part of the armor that was added by ground attack. Although after this improvement, the performance of the FW-190 fighter, which became a pure air superiority fighter, has been greatly improved compared with the original. In the confrontation exercise with the Soviet-made La-7 fighters, as well as the Yak-9 fighters, and several P51B, C, and D fighters in the anti-Japanese alliance, they performed exceptionally well.

In simulated air combat, the P-51 fighter was shot down repeatedly. In particular, the already excellent tumbling performance has been modified to be even better. The original poor climbing performance has also been improved after dismantling some things that do not meet the needs of the Chinese battlefield.

However, while this improvement has greatly improved performance, it has taken time and has led to slow changeovers. In addition, some of the original damaged aircraft also need a lot of time to repair. Despite the fact that the number of German-made fighters obtained from Europe is not small, the rate of rearmament is slow.

Only some of the new factories have not yet been used, and the ME-109 fighters that were preserved by Germany after surrendering were reequipped relatively quickly. As for the FW-190 fighter, which was pinned on by the fighter unit and could confront the P-51 fighter, the speed of refitting has always been quite slow.

All of a sudden, the only fighters left in the front-line fighter force of the Anti-United Nations were the Yak-9 fighters drawn from escort operations and suppression operations on the Japanese mainland, as well as some German-made FW 190 fighter groups that arrived in 44 years. Even if you add that there is no need for modification, the number of German-made ME-109G fighters in service in the first batch is less than a thousand.

These fighters were not only responsible for air defense in Northeast China and North China, but also for bombing and escorting Japan and air suppression, and in addition to air defense tasks on the Korean battlefield, they were somewhat overstretched. The air defense tasks in many areas can only be temporarily replaced by P-40 fighters of the attack aircraft unit.

By the beginning of July 1945, before a large number of German-made fighters were transferred to the front line, the anti-Japanese coalition's air defense force in the northeastern interior even consisted of only five German-made ME-109G fighter squadrons, which served as the air defense burden of the two major industrial zones in North Manchuria and South Manchuria, as well as the port of Dalian. And the pilots waiting for the plane in the rear amounted to a thousand people.

However, these pilots on standby are not completely idle. In addition to being organized to go to Wudalianchi or Xingkai Lake for recuperation, they were also organized to the Blue Army base in batches to implement a series of new tactical drills according to the overall operational needs of the next step.

Fortunately, the small number of remaining air forces of the Japanese army on the Kannai battlefield were basically unable to bring any harassment to the Kannai battlefield, which undoubtedly relieved a large part of the pressure. The harassment in some quarters has subsided a lot after being beaten fatly, and the air defense pressure on the Kannai battlefield is not great.