China, Japanese occupation zone, Shanghai. The two Japanese soldiers looked at the newspaper in front of them with ugly faces. This is a newspaper from China that writes about a battle three days ago, and the content directly draws the red slap in the face of the Japanese army aviation.

3 KI-43 fighters that had just been put into service in Japan were shot down by the Chinese Air Force, which had been silent for a long time and suddenly attacked, and along with the failure of the entire Wuhan operation, this loss was simply a provocation to the powerful Japanese Empire, which was intolerable to all Japanese soldiers. And this defeat also directly led to the shaking of Hideki Tojo's position in the base camp, adding countless troubles to Japan's future operations.

"Ozawa-kun, this offensive operation is really a shame for our great Japanese Empire. Not to mention the decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops, even we, who have been fighting under pressure on the China Air Force, have suffered such heavy ......casualties," a Japanese officer holding a newspaper complained to another officer standing next to him with a displeased face.

The officer standing was the Japanese Air Force Nakasa of the Chinese occupation forces, whose unit had been attacked by the Chinese Air Force a few days earlier, and four new fighters of the KI-43 Hayabusa were dispatched to escort the service, only to be shot down by three ME-109C fighters taking off from China in one go. This aircraft has only been in service with the Army for 39 years as a competitor to the Navy's Zero fighter, and is rarely used in the backward Chinese theater.

In order to support this operation, these planes have just been transferred back from the fierce Pacific theater, and although they use novice pilots, they are still among the most advanced planes in the hands of the Japanese army. However, the battle to attack the Wuhan theater ended with the Japanese army retreating, and even the losses were infinitely magnified.

"I've heard that the ME-109C fighters on the Chinese side are relatively old models, and most of them can't take off because of a lack of spare parts...... But can you tell me, why did our newest fighter plane of the Great Japanese Empire suffer the worst defeat in this situation?" the Japanese general, who was sitting in his seat holding a newspaper, did not see the embarrassment on the face of the army air force who was standing, and continued to ask unrelentingly.

The Japanese officer, Ozawa, who was standing, lowered his head even deeper, but still gritted his teeth and refused to speak. His fighter unit suffered unprecedented losses in the skies over the Chinese, but if it were only the loss of three fighters, it would not have been so vigorously investigated - because of the paralysis of the enemy, only four KI-43 escorted by 30 Tunlong bombers in the Japanese bomber group.

And after the retreat of his fighter unit losses, 6 of the 30 slow-flying Swallowing Dragons were shot down by the Chinese Air Force. If it weren't for the fact that the bomb load of the ME-109C fighters produced in Germany was really small, the Chinese Air Force, which had run out of ammunition, would not have been able to continue to expand its achievements, and perhaps none of the 30 old dragon-swallowing bombers would have flown back.

"Damn, didn't the Germans only export to those dozens of these fighters? With the lost planes, where could they still make up the scale of 10 in one go?" the embarrassed Japanese officer continued to talk to himself, as if to vent his frustration.

In fact, the ME-109C fighter exported by Germany has long become a world fighter, not only Germany can manufacture this aircraft, but even the United States has some supporting production plants for parts. After all, the United States had smuggled such aircraft and used them to design the new P-50 fighter jet, so at the request of the Chinese military, the United States produced some accessories and secretly sent them to China in urgent need of these accessories with submarines.

That's why Chinese fighter jets have regained their vitality after months of silence – except that it's the American-made parts that make these eagles from Germany fly again. Of course, Japan does not know these things now, because they are very sure that it is impossible for China to get spare parts from Germany.

"Tojo-kun's current situation is very bad, and the decisive battle he advocated for going south has had little effect. In the Wuhan area, where the Chinese army is heavily armed, we have not made an effective breakthrough. In recent months, we have consumed a lot of reserves, but there is no way to get all kinds of supplies in the occupied areas as before......" softened his tone, and the sitting general finally stopped being embarrassed by the commander of the army aviation who was standing: "The war has been going on so far, it has been a meaningless insistence, but unfortunately the power to end the war is not in our hands. ”

He said to himself, a little lonely and helpless: "The fighter developed by the Germans two years ago is even more powerful than the fighter we have just put into service, which is really a shame for an empire." Couldn't we, the design experts of the Imperial Japan, come up with an airplane that surpassed our opponents?"

"Your Excellency General, in fact, the KI-43 fighter is not inferior to its opponent in terms of performance! The main reason for our defeat is because the fighter pilots assigned to me are all novices who can't fly fighter jets at all...... "Nakasa, the army aviation officer who had been keeping his head down, finally spoke, and he had to say a fair word for his fighters and troops, even though this fair word was something that everyone did not want to hear.

Japan lost a large number of newly replenished pilots in the Pacific, and most of the novice pilots that had been trained with great difficulty were once again lost in the Battle of the Bismarck Islands.

"Shut up! Admiral Koga Mineichi has been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, Admiral Kurita Keno has also been removed from his post, and Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku has taken over the Combined Fleet...... Things in the Pacific theater, don't mention it. The general, apparently fed up with the army and navy attacking each other, interrupted his men's complaints.

However, after he said half of it, he seemed to think of something, so he turned his head, looked at his subordinates and asked, "I will send a few ace pilots, lure the Chinese pilots to attack, and then bring back the losses...... How?"

Hearing this proposal, the Nakazuo's eyes immediately lit up: if he could have some better pilots, then he would still be very confident in inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese Air Force, as he did in the initial Battle of Songhu, and on the other hand, if the counterattack was successful, then his guilt would be reduced.

"If Your Excellency the General is willing to give me this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, my subordinates will definitely do their best to eliminate this damn Chinese Air Force!" Thinking of this, the Air Force Lieutenant quickly bowed and bent down, promising loudly.

"Yo, I'll write you a secondment order right away, and we're going to do our best to turn the tide of the current war, for His Majesty the Emperor!" for the Japanese Empire!" the Japanese general said as he stood up, looked at the bright and clear sky outside the window, and finally stood up: "Ozawa-kun!

"Hey!" Ozawa Nakasa hurriedly bent down and said, "I will personally fly the plane to attack!

At this time, in China's secret field airfield on the front line, Wang Guangfu, who had just obtained his qualification as an ace pilot, was inspecting his fighter jets. The ME-109C fighter has been in service with China for many years, and as the pilot of this aircraft, Wang Guangfu knows his aircraft as well as the technicians.

He can even repair all parts except the engine, replacing expensive imports with some locally produced parts. He shot down three Japanese planes during the Battle of Songhu, and this time, he flew a freshly repaired ME-109C fighter and shot down a Japanese fighter and a Japanese bomber, becoming a veritable ace pilot.

At this moment, he was stroking his favorite German fighter, and with a happy expression he was facing the battle mark painted with the Japanese flag under the cockpit of his fighter. In the distance, a ground crew member quickly ran to the tail of his plane and shouted to the new ace pilot with a smile: "Captain! With these parts shipped from Burma, we have just repaired another ME-109C fighter that cannot fly! Now we have seven fighters that can fly! Counting the American P-40s, we can now take off at least 20 planes to meet those Japanese invaders!"

20 aircraft...... It may be a tiny amount for Japan, but it is a very exciting number for China. Although the number is much smaller than in the Battle of Songhu, it is already a great achievement for the Chinese theater of war in adversity.

"Next time! The next time the Japanese attack! We will take off! We will not let these brutes continue to wreak havoc in the skies over our motherland!" Wang Guangfu said firmly as he touched the cold window in the cockpit of his fighter jet with his hand.

In this magical land of China, there are countless observation posts and ancient beacons for early air warning without radar, and large-caliber machine guns are used instead of anti-aircraft artillery. No matter how hard and poor they were, the Chinese soldiers were still using all the methods they could think of to resist the Japanese attack.

The good news is that they succeeded. In the Wuhan Defensive Battle, China's 1.1 million troops fought hard for 40 days, lost a full 300,000 people, and finally achieved the brilliant results of stopping the advance of the Japanese army for the first time, protecting the precarious Wuhan Industrial Zone. In the 40 days of fighting, more than 90,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and a full 100,000 wounded were added to the Japanese army, but the Japanese army did not gain a new occupied area.

"Let the little devils come! We will wait for them here! Even if we lose, we will still have our sons and grandsons! One day, we will drive them out of China!" Wang Guangfu jumped off the plane and said word by word.

I'm sorry, after Long Ling finished writing a chapter, he forgot to upload it regularly, so everyone waited for a long time...... The two watches are served together!