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April 6, 254 (1913).

At eight o'clock in the morning today, China submitted a declaration of war to Japan. This year is the year of the Lunar Calendar, so in China this war is often called the "Sino-Japanese Ugly War."

According to the style of the PLA, this war, like previous wars, began with air strikes. Half an hour after the declaration of war, the northeastern cluster of the Chinese Air Force carried out air strikes on military targets in the Kwantung Prefecture and the Korean region.

At 3 o'clock in B, the 2B planes of the three wings arrived over the Qingshui River defense line and began to bomb this defense line indiscriminately.

Because of the increasingly strict threat from China, Japan's defense of the Liaodong Peninsula has been strengthened day by day, and after more than three years of operation, the entire Luda area has been fortified. The Qingshui River defense line was built from 191o, located in the south of the Qingshui River, from Pulandian to Tongzi City and Wanghai Temple, running through the entire Liaodong Peninsula.

The Qingshuihe defense line was only the first line of defense, and the second line of defense -- the Jinzhou defense line -- was also built on the relatively narrow line from Phoenix Mountain to Dayaowan. These two lines of defense are mainly made of rocks and reinforced concrete, and some key areas are reinforced with steel plates. The firepower configuration of the two lines of defense is also quite powerful, with machine gun bunkers, batteries, bunkers, barbed wire, and minefields.

The Lushun Fortress, which had been built since the time of the Russian occupation, was the last line of defense, and Japan also invested a lot of effort in renovating and strengthening it here. After the Japanese learned of the plan to build the Fuxi-class dreadnoughts, they added 3 mm heavy fortress guns to focus on sea defense.

However, the flaw in these lines lies in the air defense, especially the Qingshuihe line, which was designed almost completely with air defense in mind. At the same time, in order to save costs, many of the top forts on this defense line are very miserable, and many of them are even open-air forts, and there are no roofs. Later, although Japan also strengthened its anti-aircraft weapons, they did not have the money to make major changes, so it was better than nothing.

As a result, as soon as they encountered a real air attack, the Japanese troops on the Qingshui River defense line were dumbfounded. Yes, they did add a lot of anti-aircraft fire later, among them there were even anti-aircraft guns imported from the British, but the effect was not at all ideal.

As mentioned earlier, because this line of defense was not designed with air defense in mind, many positions suitable for air defense fire points are occupied by other facilities, and it is not good to change the location of the fire line to air defense fire points. In addition, the anti-aircraft artillery of this era was not very useful, so they were powerless in the face of Chinese air raids

However, the Japanese did not only have anti-aircraft artillery and aircraft, but also fighters. Although the strategic literacy of the Japanese has always been known for being the brain-dead of the middle and the second, their tactical literacy is still good, and as a great power, they also realized the importance of air power very early. After China shocked the world with its powerful air force, the various powers accelerated the construction of air power, and the air power of various countries at this time was much stronger than the same period in the original time and space, and Japan was of course no exception, and they formally formed the air force in 1911, the 6th Army Aviation and the Naval Aviation.

At this time, there were two main types of Japanese fighters, one was the "Newport-11" biplane fighter developed by the French Newport Co., Ltd., and the other was the British Vickers B6 biplane fighter. The former is equipped with 6 voyages, and the latter is equipped with HNA Airlines. The main forces stationed in Kanto Prefecture are the 2nd Flight Regiment of the 6th Air Force (O) and the 3rd Air Force of the Hainan Airlines (O).

After the ultimatum was issued on April 1, the Japanese military began to enter a state of combat readiness, sending planes to patrol the skies over Kanto Prefecture as long as it was daytime. Before the Chinese fleet of planes taking off from Shenyang, Liaoyang, and other places reached the defense line of the Qingshui River, the target, they were spotted by Japanese patrol planes. China didn't plan to sneak attack, it just came here with such a swagger.

However, at the same time that they were now from the northeast, three airships and two bombers that took off from the Shandong Peninsula were escorted by 22 fighters and also reached the airspace above Lushun Airport. Obviously, this was an oversight on the part of the Japanese, and their air patrol tasks were divided into two parts, with the 6th Air Squadron mainly responsible for patrolling the northeast region, and the HNA being responsible for patrolling the sea. Because according to their expectations, it was normal for the Chinese to attack the Qingshui River defense line first, not further Lushun. Although the Chinese navy also had the possibility of attacking, it had to pass through the Bohai Strait, so their navy patrol planes ran to the Yellow Sea outside the strait. No way, this is the result of the lack of experience in air combat.

So in the midst of the sharp sirens, the first bombs of the Sino-Japanese war fell.

Air raids on Arthur began

At this time, Japanese fighters at Arthur airfield were taking off in 6 consecutive days, preparing to intercept the large northeast group of planes. When they arrived at the group in the direction of Shandong, it was too late.

When the air raid began, only 6 or so Japanese planes took off. The Chinese escort fleet had already seen them, and before they reached the airport, more than half of the escort fighters rushed down, basically a two-on-one flanking attack, and the airships and bombers continued with their own business as if they didn't see them.

Although the Japanese pilots tried their best to resist, both the Newport-11 and the B6 were too vulnerable to the J-2 of the Chinese Air Force, and they were not at all opponents of the same level.

In the history of the original plane, fighter planes appeared only a year after the start of World War I, and the weapons used in the planes before that were very strange, it can be said that they were varied, completely by the imagination and preferences of the pilots, with bricks, darts, fishing nets, hooks, javelins, pistols, rifles, machine guns, and so on. Of course, the combat effectiveness of these brain-opening equipment is extremely limited.

And on this plane, because of the birth of the Chinese Air Force, this very strange stage was directly omitted. The machine gun was used directly to replace the "brain weapons" of the early airplanes. However, the rotating surface of the propeller became a heavy obstacle for machine-gun fire. Although such a thing as a "shooting coordinator" is not complicated, it is difficult to think of it if you do not pierce this layer of window paper.

Although China sells planes to foreign countries, it does not sell fighter planes, but all of them are unarmed reconnaissance planes or seaplanes, as well as the "Y-1" and "Dayan" transport planes (An-2 magic revisions) that were launched last year. The technology of the "Shooting Coordinator" was simply sold to the United States and Germany. The Entente could not think of this for a while, and in order to solve the problem of machine gun shooting, they thought of two ways.

The first is to mount the machine gun above the wing to avoid the propeller rotating propeller surface, such as the French "Newport-11" biplane fighter with a longitudinal fixed arrangement of machine guns on the upper wing surface; The other is a pusher propeller layout, such as the British Vickers B6 biplane fighter. However, the first measure is not conducive to the pilot's aiming and shooting, and the second is due to the inherent defects of the layout, which severely affects the performance of the aircraft. Therefore, these aircraft, although armed with machine guns and can be used in air combat, are not really fighters.

Coupled with their low motor power, not to mention the aerodynamic shape, all aspects of their performance have been completely destroyed by Chinese fighters. Now even the numbers are completely inferior, and the outcome of this air battle can be imagined to be one-sided.

"Hahaha, I'm going to drop another one" Wei Dabao shouted excitedly on the wing radio, and then skillfully made a half-somersault turn, leaving the exploding fireball, and preparing to bite another B

"Dabao, get out of here, this one is mine, you are not allowed to rob ......" The angry scolding of his teammates came from the radio.

The J-1 on the opposite side saw the micro treasure flying over to grab the monster, and immediately panicked, and didn't care about the best shooting position in the order, so it opened fire directly.

"Da Da Da" shot two chains of fire from the nose of the plane. This J-1 was lucky, I saw that the B6 in front of me trembled, and the motive smoked, and then the Japanese plane fell headlong.

"Hua Gai Mu, you kid this is ......" Seeing this, Wei Dabao had to pull the nose of the machine and go to find other prey.

"Hahahaha, Dabao, tell you to grab it with me," Hua Gaimu smiled proudly.

"Oh no, it's gone" Hua Gaimu spun around in the air a few times, and now there were no Japanese planes in the sky, and he couldn't help but shout in disappointment. "Damn, this little devil is really, and I don't have much to prepare for planes, I only have a record. ”

Hua Gaimu's classmate is not bad, but there is still a result. More than half of my comrades-in-arms are hungry and thirsty. There are two micro treasures in the account, which is not the most, and there is also a classmate with a strong personality who has already entered the account with three.

While the fighters were in the air, the airfield on the ground was already in flames. Antiaircraft artillery positions, hangars, oil depots, maintenance workshops, command towers, and pilots' quarters were all washed away by numerous bombs and rockets.

At B point 6, 196 planes of two wings crossed the Yalu River and entered North Korea. The 3rd Flying Regiment of the Japanese 6th Air Force in Seoul immediately took off all its fighters to meet the front after receiving the report from the front. There was no suspense in this air battle, and after half an hour of air battle, only 6 UU planes of the 3rd Flying Regiment ran back, and the rest all became the results of the Chinese Air Force.

Subsequently, the 1st Pei Regiment, which was stationed in Pyongyang, was subjected to an air attack and suffered heavy losses.

At 1o o'clock in the morning, China's Pacific task force appeared on the north side of the Taiwan Strait, in the sea near Taipei.

"Sure enough, it was the Air Force that made the first move...... Gao Yujie looked at the black-pressed group of planes over Taipei, and couldn't help sighing.

Liu Haifeng smiled: "Lao Gao, don't worry. The Taipei fortress is very strong, and it can't be destroyed by these small planes alone, and it has to rely on our 3O giant cannons......

Gao Yujie put down the binoculars and said, "The fortresses are all secondary issues, and what I am concerned about now is when the Japanese Combined Fleet will come over......

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