"Nakajima-kun, the Soviet fighters in the Far East are still outdated I-16s, and the United States is assisting them with fewer and fewer P-40s, and it seems that the rumors about that incident are true. In the Far East, in a field airfield on the Japanese front, a Japanese fighter pilot said triumphantly to his wingman pilot.

The recent operations of the Japanese Army Air Force in the Far East have been very successful, as most of the American fighter planes that came to aid the Soviet Union have been consumed in the war, and the new American weapons aid does not seem to have reached the Soviet Far East at all.

Judging from this situation, the rumor that General Chuikov was seeking independence in the Far East and had lost American aid seems to be true. This is undoubtedly a very good news worth celebrating for Ishihara Waner, who fought extremely hard in the Far East, and for the hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army troops under his command.

Without the loss of the heavy industrial areas in the west, the Soviet troops in the Far East will not be able to receive any decent replenishment, and if the Americans turn a blind eye to this Far Eastern regime, which is no longer an ally, then this new Far East region, which has lost its supplies, will not immediately fall into the hands of the Great Japanese Empire?

Thinking of this, Ishihara and his men were excited, and he argued with reason, mobilizing all the bombers and fighters that could be drawn from the Chinese theater of operations, intending to open up the situation in the Far East. Once you control the Far East before the other powers, you can at least gain a very large buffer zone for the rear of the empire.

"Ozawa-kun, I heard that you are the real trump card from the Pacific Theater, this time I will pull you out of the tight battlefield, it seems that the victory of our Great Japanese Empire in the Far East is just around the corner. Nakajima, a Japanese air force pilot who was one of the best in the Kwantung Army's army aviation, had achieved an astonishing 11 Soviet fighters in the Far East, and his rank was higher than Ozawa's, who had been relegated from the Wuhan air battle.

In yesterday's battle, the two men achieved the record of shooting down one Soviet fighter and damaging one, which can be regarded as a heart-to-heart sympathy for each other. Then they became very good friends, and they also had a drink with each other and got in touch with each other.

Compared with the battles in the Pacific theater, the quality of Soviet fighter pilots in the Far East was obviously inferior to that of American pilots who became more and more courageous in the war, so the experience of fighting in the Far East made Ozawa, a man who had experienced real war, feel relieved for a while. If the Soviet fighter pilots were all at this level, maybe 40 KI-43 or 30 Zero fighters would be able to dominate the skies of the entire Far East.

"As long as the two of us are partners, to be honest, there may still be people in the United States who can threaten us in the Pacific theater, but in the Far East theater, we are invincible. While putting on his parachute, Ozawa confidently said to Nakajima, who was also well-dressed: "We can shoot down 100 Soviet planes, so that they will never dare to take to the air to fight us again!"

"His Majesty the Emperor will receive us! The people of the Great Japanese Empire will remember the two of us! The twin stars of the Far East Air Force, the invincible Ozawa and Nakajima...... Hahahaha. Nakajima laughed out loud with the same excitement, this Ozawa is a long machine to his liking, and they will not be a drag on each other when they are together, which is especially important in air combat.

At this time, a ground crew member walked into the house, saluted the two pilots, and reminded: "Sir, the bomber unit has taken off, and the command has informed us that it is now time to take off in formation!"

Nakashima nodded, then waved his hand to show that he understood. The other party hurriedly stood up again, bent down and used the honorific: "Hey, it's rude." After finishing speaking, he respectfully retreated, because the two pilots he had come to inform were the two "downfall kings" with the best records of the Japanese army in the Far East, that is, the pilots with the best records in the army aviation of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

"Take off!" Although Nakajima is a wingman, but after all, his own military rank is higher than Ozawa, although the records of the two of them are very good, and they are not divided between top and bottom, but in the Japanese army, after all, there is only one upper and lower superior, so the orders on the ground are still issued by Nakajima, and Ozawa generally does not express any opinions.

So the two of them walked one after the other to the army Ki-43 fighter jet parked on the runway of the airport outside. These planes have been modernized and modified in the light of the experience of the war, and the original 7.7 mm machine gun, which resembles a toy water gun, has been modified by the Japanese Army -- at this time, the contradictions between the Japanese army and navy have arisen again for no reason, and they have added trouble to the Japanese army.

The Army, which was supposed to use a 20-mm cannon with the Zero fighter, resolutely disagreed with the use of naval stuff and gritted its teeth to imitate the development of new aviation weapons. In the end, the army imitated a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, and after some efforts, finally succeeded in using its own aviation weapon caliber with the American enemy......

However, in all fairness, this chaotic imitation allowed Japan to finally get a good weapon, at least to give the Japanese Army's Ki-43 fighter a higher combat effectiveness. In the face of the I-16 fighter and the American P-40 fighter, it is more or less possible to take advantage of it.

"Ground control tower, I'm Ozawa, please take off!" After bringing his own intercom and testing the radio, Ozawa had already let the nose of the fighter plane, which was turning the propeller and the engine was running smoothly, aim at the runway, and he pressed the intercom and took off very easily...... This is unimaginable in the war-torn Pacific.

To hell with that idiot Yamamoto Isoroku, let the navy go to hell! In the end, you will find out that it was the most important army that saved the Japanese Empire, and it was us army pilots! With this in mind, Ozawa pulled up his plane, and then skillfully retracted the landing gear under his plane.

He was followed by another KI-43 fighter piloted by Nakajima, and the two planes, one after the other, joined the fighter formation and began to fly level at an altitude of more than 8,500 meters, joining the escort formation, accompanied by the bomber unit flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters, towards the Komsomolsk area of the Far East.

The Japanese Army Aviation's bomber, that is, the Swallowing Dragon bomber, has a practical ceiling of 9,300 meters, while the Japanese Army Aviation's own fighter KI-43 fighter can fight at a maximum altitude of about 10,000 meters - this value should have been a good figure at the beginning of the war, but now it seems that these figures are very average or even slightly outdated.

The fastest flight altitude of the KI-43 fighter is about 6,000 meters, and when the bomber flies at high altitude, it cannot give full play to the strength of the fighter itself. This is another subtle reason why Japanese fighters lost to the Chinese Air Force -- fighting at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, the performance of Japanese fighters cannot be brought into play.

However, the planes of Ozawa and Nakajima are special models piloted by ace pilots, and the Japanese have improved the performance of some engines, so that this kind of aircraft can be somewhat adapted to an altitude of about 8,000 meters. However, this improvement is nothing more than a slight improvement in performance, which is a palliative rather than a cure.

Looking at such a huge aircraft force around them, both of them couldn't help but feel pride in their hearts, and 40 Dragon-Swallowing bombers, under the protection of 25 KI-43 and KI-27 fighters, rushed to their target. An air raid of this magnitude is already quite spectacular in the Asian theater, after all, the forces of both sides participating in the war are not the same as those in the European theater.

With the white clouds and the air currents, in the slightly trembling and cramped cabin, Ozawa's mind was full of the battle that ruined him in Wuhan, China, and the inner scars that those damned Chinese pilots had left on him with German planes that had not yet fully healed. Even though he shot down an American plane in the Pacific theater, and even though he damaged a Soviet P-40 fighter yesterday, it still didn't make him happy.

"Nakajima-kun, take a closer look at the airspace on the right...... Yesterday the Soviets' planes came closer from that side...... Keep the bomber forces on alert, we're already in the skies over Soviet-controlled territory. Ozawa recorded a time in a notebook, then pressed the short-range radio intercom and said to Nakajima, who was following him.

"I was looking in that direction, the Air Force of the Soviets was not found, everything was normal. Nakajima looked in the direction of his right, and then pressed the intercom and said to Ozawa: "We are still using a backward fighter like the KI-27, which is really criticized for the factory in the rear." ”

Those KI-27 fighters flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters at the foot of Nakajima have completely lagged behind this era, but because of the lack of materials, Japan still does not dare to eliminate these aircraft with good performance, and take them to the Far East, against the Soviet I-16 fighters with similar performance but a large number, they still have achieved a lot of results.

However, what is outdated is still obsolete after all, and although it is barely equipped with a fully enclosed cockpit, this aircraft really cannot cope with the most advanced American P-40 engine enhancements, nor can it challenge the German export ME-109C fighter jet. These Ki-27 fighters are all used to make up the numbers, and they belong to the kind of thing that is used to maintain the number of air forces in the theater and show off the presence of their own air forces.