Chapter 265 All-Out Counteroffensive 6
In the early morning of February 8, 1941, Wuhan
Why do they fight more and more, naturally there is a curve to save the puppet army to defect before the battle, in fact, the senior officers of the puppet army in this period are more or less eye-to-eye with the mountain city, not to mention the two ends of the first rat, there is also room for leeway, and there are really not many real diehards.
In the past few days, the large-scale counteroffensive of the national army has been huge, and it is completely a situation of Mount Tai pressing the top, which makes many people's minds lively, and they have staged the drama of the uprising before the battle, otherwise, the advance speed of the Ninth War Zone will not be so fast, or the devil is really bitter, and he is always attacked by the puppet army just after the battle.
In addition, today's supreme authorities came to Wuhan to supervise the war, so that many puppet army officers in Wuhan feel that their future is even more bleak.
Unexpectedly, the troops of the national army came in that night, and they were armored troops, so without the help of the 58th Division, there were puppet army units that disarmed the Japanese troops who "assisted in the battle", so that when Zhang Zhonglin hit the Yangtze River, he only lost less than 20 people, not only he was shocked, but even the highest authorities on the warship were blinded, what's the matter? This is the rhythm of our recovery of Wuhan.
The troops of the Ninth Theater closest to Hankou have exhausted almost all their fuel reserves and ammunition reserves, and before they are replenished, they can only defend in place, and the air force is also exhausted, and can only maintain a low-intensity night bombing attack, if it is forced to attack, the role it can play at night is also limited, as for the navy, after tossing and turning for a day during the day, the ammunition reserves of each ship are somewhat insufficient, and they can only occasionally hit coastal targets under the guidance of the military commander.
We can't provide actual support, but we have something else in our hands. As a result, in just a few hours, the highest authorities appointed eight major generals and more than 20 colonels, and they were stunned to help Zhang Zhonglin pull up a team of more than 4,000 people, plus the 58th Division commando and the dock workers mobilized by the uprising of the Green Gang and the underground party.
In the midst of the chaos, Zhang Zhonglin actually controlled one-third of the urban area of Hankou, which was still completely controlled within the urban area, and on both sides of the Yangtze River, in other areas of the three towns of Wuhan, there were still thousands of rebel troops fighting with the Japanese puppet army troops.
From beginning to end, the Japanese Eleventh Army's deployment in the south of Hankou did not move, until the 8th when the sky was bright, they began to slowly move north, the full division actually dispatched two infantry brigades, marching in unison, echoing each other to advance to the city, and in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Japanese Chinese fleet organized a small fleet to go north to support, although this fleet was somewhat cold, but it was enough for the mountain city fleet in the Wuhan River section, The devil's army aviation also got rid of the air raids and entanglement in other theaters, and concentrated more than 200 fighter planes to pounce on Wuhan in an attempt to regain Wuhan's air supremacy.
Therefore, before the devil's reinforcements entered the city of Hankou, an increasingly fierce air battle had begun, at the beginning of the mountain city air force still occupied the dominant position on the battlefield, completely pressing the devil's fighter jets, the devils only played a 3:1 exchange ratio with all their might, and the one that was shot down was still Il-15, Il-16, the really advanced Devatina D520 fighter was not shot down.
Just when everyone thought that the devil was going to flee this time, an accident happened, a group of 36 fighters of the Japanese naval aviation suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and in just one photo, 7 Dwatina D520 fighters were shot down, and four were hit and caught fire, and had to withdraw from the battle group and retreat westward.
It turned out that the devil sent the latest Zero fighter in his hand to reinforce it, and these planes took off from the aircraft carrier east of the magic capital, and after flying over, they went directly into battle, and the Yamashiro Air Force was caught off guard.
According to the recollection of the rescued crash pilot, his Devatina D520 fighter bit the tail of the Zero fighter, and he could even see clearly that due to the rapid flight of the Zero fighter, the end of the wing shook slightly, and he felt that it was about to disintegrate in the air in the next second.
Then, in this case, it is often possible to blow up the Zero fighter as long as he locks on to the Zero fighter and then gives him a few shuttle bullets. But as a result, the Zero fighter made a somersault action, not only throwing off the fighter that bit him, but also appearing behind the fighter biting its tail, and then being knocked down by the Zero fighter.
For a time, the entire formation of the Yamashiro Air Force was in chaos, and several old Hawker-3 fighters even took the initiative to withdraw from the battle group and widen the distance between them and the enemy planes.
"Don't be afraid, lads, let's come!" At this moment, a man's excited voice suddenly sounded in the communication channel, and immediately, twenty somewhat strange fighters pounced on the Zero fighter who was preparing for such an attack.
This is precisely the flight team of the 68th Division led by Chen Zhigang, and from the day he took over this latest P-39 fighter, he was asked to be ready to deal with the latest fighter of the devil, and the intelligence department even brought in models, photos, and drawings of this latest fighter, and even summarized and analyzed the performance of this aircraft.
They did a lot of drills in order to fight with the Zero fighter, and even specially designed a lot of tactics, but the devil's production capacity is limited, they have never encountered this kind of high-end goods at all, today I finally saw this thing, how can Chen Zhigang and the boys not be excited.
It's also very simple to say, the excellent combat performance of the Zero fighter must be in a big melee in the air and continue to have a relatively small turning radius. As long as the speed exceeds 371 kilometers per hour, the fighter's movements will become clumsy, and it will be particularly difficult to do a roll control. Then there is the fact that the Zero is more difficult to roll to the right and turn than to the left.
Then, in view of this characteristic, the tactics are targeted, and after being bitten, it will accelerate immediately, and when the speed soars to 370 kilometers per hour, it will suddenly make a horizontal roll to the right, and it will break away from the pursuit of the Zero fighter.