The fierce air battle soon began in the air.

The Japanese army clearly had a quantitative advantage, but the Sino-US coalition forces had a quality, geographical and strategic advantage.

Needless to mention the quality advantages, a "Hellcat" can match thirteen zero battles... Of course, 13:1 refers to the war loss ratio, and cannot simply equalize them. However, this can also indicate that the "Hellcat" suppresses "zero battles" in air combat, especially the quality of US pilots is significantly higher than that of the Japanese army. Therefore, although the number of US "Hellcats" is not large, it has made Japanese fighter jets continue to fall from the air one after another.

No wonder the Mariana Navy in history was called the "Mariana Turkey Hunting Competition" by the US military. Now only a few "Hellcats" are like this. If it were a group of "Hellcats" facing a group of Japanese fighters behind, what would it look like?!

The advantage of geography refers to the fact that the Sino-US coalition forces seized high places to dive the Japanese army... This is due to the radar equipped by the Sino-US coalition forces, which allows the Sino-US coalition forces to know the accurate position and even degree and altitude of the Japanese army fleet, and set up ambushs calmly based on this information.

The advantage of strategy refers to the fact that the Japanese army still had the first wave of war concerns, that is, the Japanese army knew very well that these US fighters were coming to intercept them and buy time for the main force of the warships, so the Japanese army did not dare to fight and only planned to separate out some of the fighters to drive away or block these Chinese and American fighters. Other fighters continued to advance as planned to carry out bombing missions.

Therefore, although the number of Japanese fighter jets is much larger overall, there are not many enemy aircraft that actually fight against the Sino-US coalition forces.

What's worse is that the Japanese army has never faced the gap between Japanese and American fighter jets... This is a common problem that the Japanese army has committed. Many times they are not unaware of it. For example, the new fighter jet of the US military, which is also the "Hellcat", has actually been put into use in the Battle of the Marshall Islands and has dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese fighter jets.

However, most Japanese generals ignored or even concealed their choices.

To a certain extent, this kind of "ignorance" and "concealment" practice is actually correct.

Because the research of fighter jets is not a matter of one or two days, even a level-level industrial power like the United States uses the fastest degree to develop the "Hellcat" based on the weakness of "zero war"... So with Japan's current industrial level and the extremely poor material conditions at this time, is there any way to develop new fighter jets to fight the "Hellcat"?

The answer is of course no. The machine tools that Japan produces fighter motors are even imported from the United States. This alone determines that the performance of Japanese fighter jets cannot make a big leap.

Therefore, under this premise, if you choose to face up to the gap between Japanese and American fighter jets, it will undoubtedly greatly impact the morale of Japanese pilots, leaving them without the confidence to fight with the US military at all.

There is nothing wrong with this approach. Although the methods are a bit disgraceful, they are for the morale of the army... This is a bit similar to the lie that Cao Cao said in the ancient Chinese "Looking at the plum blossoms to quench his thirst".

But the problem is... While the senior Japanese officer deceived his subordinates, he actually believed it, thinking that the new US fighter jets were nothing great. As long as the Japanese army had enough "Bushido spirit", they could ignore this gap.

This made senior Japanese officers not consider the threat of "Hellcat" when formulating combat plans. Japanese pilots also did not respond to "Hellcat" when performing missions, and they didn't even know how powerful this fighter was... So when they saw six American fighters dive down, they took it for granted that they divided six "Zero" fighters to fight.

The Japanese army's idea was: there was no problem with one "Zero" fighter jet dealing with two American fighters, now there were only six American fighters... It would be very worthy of the US military to split into six "Zero" fights.

But unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the six zero-types were poured down one after another with smoke... Six "Hellcats" dealing with six "zero wars" was not like playing.

This made Sahara Haradanata, the commander of the second Japanese aircraft group, shocked him and quickly divided twelve "zero battles" to fight... Last time there were six, but now it's okay to double it!

But with the sound of "da da da da da" machine guns, these twelve "zero wars" were gone again.

This shocked Harada Nakasa and the Japanese pilots incomparable psychological shock... You should know that "Zero War" has always been an invincible existence in their hearts. Although after the US military showed its weakness in "Zero War" and its air combat against US pilots was not so easy to fight, the status of "Zero War" in the hearts of Japanese pilots has always been ordinary, but now it is ruthlessly suppressed by the opponent so quickly and concisely. That kind of humiliation, helplessness, indignation... all kinds of emotions cannot be expressed in words.

Sahara Harada Nakata had considered to attack the enemy fleet by itself regardless of these "hellcats", but he found that the new US fighter jets were flying around the fleet very easily, and they took several aircraft from time to time. He knew that this would not work... The enemy aircraft could turn around the aircraft so easily, which means that the degree was much faster than the level of the fleet. If you continue like this, you had to wait until the enemy bullets were finished, otherwise the crash would not stop.

This is true. The Hellcat fighter jet is 60 kilometers at its peak, while the Zero War is only 533 kilometers at its peak.

So Harada Nakasa ordered up to thirty orders of "zero war" to encircle and annihilate these new American fighter jets.

But this also happened to Zhang Chi's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

Just when a large number of "Zero War" were transferred out of the host group, there was another strange roar at the height... The formation of seven "Hellcats" and 31 "Wildcats" fighter jets pierced into the bomber formation behind the Japanese army group like a sharp knife.

What made the Japanese army a little helpless was that the Hellcat fighter specifically chose to start "zero battle" and quickly cleared out the "zero battle" that covered bombers, while the "wildcat fighter" specifically chose the "97" ship attack and the "99" ship explosion... The air combat performance of these old torpedoes and bombers cannot be compared with the "wildcats". What's worse is that the degree is not as good as the "wildcats", so they can only wait on the spot like balloons for the enemy to explode them.

Only then did Saha Harada Nakasa realize the seriousness of the problem and continue to fight like this, but I am afraid that there will be few fighter planes left before the enemy fleet.

So Harada Nakasa issued a very wise order: "The whole person is scattered, the attack is scattered!"

(To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!