Chapter 311: Japanese Army Tian Ji’s Horse Racing Tactics
Speaking of the food issue, Wang Guangyu looked at his watch and said: "On the 1st, it's already past 16 o'clock. Don't leave in a hurry. Eat at my place and then rush back. You can rush back from Rehe and arrive there." Nowadays, I have never had a serious meal. No matter what plots the Kwantung Army plays, there is still time for a meal. Otherwise, I don’t know when it will be until the plane lands."
Regarding Wang Guangyu's request that he could stay and finish the meal before leaving, Yang Zhen smiled and nodded and agreed. Wang Guangyu was right. He hadn't eaten seriously all day. Yang Zhen now I really felt a little hungry.
Seeing Yang Zhen nodding in agreement, Wang Guangyu immediately asked people to prepare. The conditions were difficult and the troops were in a situation where there was no rear area to fight. Even Wang Guangyu, the commander of the column, had very simple food. Linxi is located in the nomadic area of Mongolia, so there is plenty of beef and mutton, but a little more meat.
A large bowl of stewed pulpy fungus beef, a plate of salted mutton, and a plate of Sichuan kimchi that Yang Zhen specially left for Wang Guangyu when he gave the two handsome men, are all the dishes for this dinner. Fa Linxi is located in a Mongolian pastoral area. There is plenty of beef and mutton, but fresh vegetables are in short supply.
Those fungus are dried vegetables with a large yield in the base area, and are grown all over the Greater and Lesser Hinggan Mountains, Wanda Mountain, Laoye Mountain and Zhangguangcai Mountains. They are produced in almost all mountainous areas. At first, considering that most of the outflanking troops fought in nomadic areas and there was a shortage of fresh vegetables, in order to provide cadres with , vitamin supplements for soldiers, specially allocated by the logistics department to the outflanking troops. After all, mushrooms and fungus are produced in large quantities in the Northeast.
It is dried vegetables again. Although the volume is not small to meet the needs of the entire army, it does not account for much weight in general. After a few kilograms of dried fungus, it is enough for one person to eat. The taste is also good. The most important thing is that it is rich in nutrients and can be eaten. Ensure some necessary nutritional supplements for the cadres and soldiers of the roundabout troops.
In addition, the entire Linxi County is in dilapidated condition. Except for a few dried vegetables and a small plate of pickles, there is no place to get a few eggs for Yang Zhen. As for the staple food, there is only a plate of flatbread, but Just these things, maybe Yang Zhen was really hungry, but Yang Zhen ate very deliciously.
However, the rapid changes in the war situation were destined to make Yang Zhen unable to finish the meal. Just when Yang Zhen tore the flatbread into the beef soup, picked up the bowl and was about to eat, an urgent telegram was sent from the headquarters. , so that he could only put down the large bowl with Mongolian characteristics in his hand.
This telegram was sent by Guo Bingxun from the Harbin headquarters. Although it did not explain the mobilization of Japanese ground troops, it reported in detail the huge changes in the activities of the Japanese aviation forces. In the telegram, Guo Bingxun reported that starting at 13:00 noon today, the Kwantung Army aviation forces Changing from the previous trend of very few dispatches, or only dispatching in small batches, a large number of fighter jets were dispatched in the skies of Fuyu, Shuangcheng, Wuchang, and the former Gorros and the rear flags, looking for the decisive battle of the Anti-Allied aviation forces.
The total number of fighter jets dispatched by the Japanese army is more than 300. In this battle, the Japanese army not only dispatched a joint formation of the army and navy, but also what is extremely rare is that each batch of fighter jets dispatched is at least 60. These Japanese fighter jets adopted the tactics of multiple batches and large formations, taking turns to attack Jiangbei.
Among them, the Type 96 fighter jets of the Naval Air Force accounted for a large part, accounting for one-third of the Japanese fighter jets dispatched. On the contrary, the number of Zero fighter jets was not large. Only thirty-six were dispatched in total. The remaining combat aircraft
, which are the Japanese Army's Type 97 fighter jets, the German-made Mei fighter jets, and twelve new fighter jets.
Starting at 13:35 this afternoon, the aviation forces of both sides launched a large-scale air battle on both sides of the Songhua River. During this two-hour air battle this afternoon, with the cooperation of ground anti-aircraft artillery,
Multiple batches of aircraft took off to meet the enemy and the Anti-Allied Air Force shot down 109 Japanese fighter jets.
Among them, 27 Japanese Navy Type 96 fighter jets, 11 Japanese Zero fighter jets, 34 German Army German-made Mei fighter jets, and 33 Type 97 fighter jets were shot down. Another new model of unknown type was shot down.
Appearing on the battlefield for the first time, there are four fighter jets that look very similar to the Zero.
Among all the 109 Japanese fighter jets that were shot down, except for 97 that were shot down in air combat, the rest were recorded by the 37th anti-aircraft artillery and 57th anti-aircraft artillery of the ground aviation force. Nine of the Japanese army dispatched this time
Almost all the Type 7 fighter jets were shot down, and two-thirds of the German fighter jets were lost.
The sixty-seven Type 96 fighter jets dispatched by the Navy, although they cooperated tacitly with Zero Fighter and used the characteristics of their own fighter jets to interact with each other, due to the large performance gap, more than half were lost in the air battle. In this air battle, in addition to aerial shootdowns
In addition to the Japanese fighter planes, the anti-aircraft artillery unit also achieved twelve combat results. Among the twelve combat results achieved by the anti-aircraft artillery unit, there were three German-made Meiji fighter jets, and two Type 96 and Type 97 fighter jets.
Three, and one Zero fighter.
Although the results were not small, the Anti-Japanese Alliance itself also lost nineteen P-39 fighter jets and thirteen P-40 fighter jets in the air battle. Especially since it was the first time to participate in the war and the first contact with Japanese fighter jets.
Coupled with its own performance flaws, the Soviet-made MiG-3 fighter suffered the heaviest losses.
After several consecutive air battles, this Soviet-made fighter jet, which first appeared in the Sino-Japanese air battle, was obviously not suitable for the performance of Japanese fighter jets. In the air battle, a total of twenty-three aircraft were lost, and its combat radius was too large.
Being short has also become a huge shortcoming in air combat.
Among the lost MiG-3 fighter jets, a considerable part was due to excessive fuel consumption during air combat and was overtaken and shot down by the Japanese during a zero-fight refueling trip back. Some were lost on the way back because the fuel consumption was clean.
And those that had to make an emergency landing were destroyed, and some simply crashed on their way back because they ran out of fuel.
Among all the fighter jets lost, forty-three were shot down and 12 were seriously injured. Among the 12 seriously injured fighter jets, five were repairable, and they were all American-made fighter jets. Although the rest barely returned to the airport,
, but there were seven fighter jets that could not be repaired and had to be scrapped.
Among the lost Soviet-made MiG-3 fighter jets, even the few that returned to the airport could not be repaired. The few MiG-3 fighter jets that barely returned to the airport had to make forced landings because their landing gear could not be lowered or their engines failed.
All have been scrapped.
Except for two MiG-3 fighter jets, two P-40 fighter jets, and one P-39 fighter jet shot down by a May fighter jet, and three MiG-3 fighter jets shot down by a Japanese Type 96 fighter jet, all these losses were zero to the Japanese army.
fighter jets and the results of that new type of fighter jet.
Especially the new type of Japanese aircraft, which were unable to be tempered and defended, caused considerable losses to the fighter forces fighting against the Anti-Japanese Alliance. This type of appearance is similar to the Zero, but its hovering performance is still higher than that of the Zero. , although its body's large overload endurance is almost the same as that of the Zero, but compared with the fragile Zero, this fighter's protective power is still somewhat limited.
Since the appearance of this type of fighter is almost exactly the same as the Japanese Zero Fighter, when the war started, the aviation forces thought that this fighter, which was smaller and more exquisite than the Zero Fighter, was also a Zero Fighter. They used tactics to deal with this type of Zero Fighter. The fighter jets suffered a lot.
Although there were only a dozen of these fighter jets, they shot down four P-39 fighter jets and six MiG-3 fighter jets. Thanks to this new Japanese fighter jet, it was only equipped with two 7.7 mm caliber machine guns. , it poses little threat to the thick-skinned American fighter jets, otherwise the losses to the troops would be even greater.
Fortunately, in the air battle in the afternoon, the American fighter jets had the advantages of thick armor, sturdy body and strong survivability. In addition, most of the Japanese aircraft only had two 77-caliber machine guns, which had insufficient firepower, and the range of the air battle was basically limited. A series of reasons including being in the Jiangbei Anti-League Base Area.
In addition to two MiG-3 fighter jets that were directly hit by the Japanese Zero fighter's 20mm cannon on their fuel tanks, causing fire and explosion in the air, and a MiG-3 fighter pilot who failed to open the canopy, two P-39 fighter jets also caught fire and exploded in the air. In addition to the pilots who died in action because their parachutes were cut off by the tail fins, the vast majority of pilots whose planes were shot down parachuted back safely.
Because in this air battle, the number of Japanese aircraft shot down was far greater than that of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Perhaps they were worried about suffering equal retaliation, or perhaps they were worried about being captured after being shot down, so in this air battle the Japanese fighter jets did not do what they had done in the past. The shooting of the parachuting anti-Union pilot.
Most of the pilots returned safely, which was a blessing among misfortunes. If Yang Zhen was not distressed by the loss of fighter jets, the loss of those pilots who had been painstakingly trained and whose numbers were always insufficient was what he felt most distressed about. The safety of these pilots Returning is the most fortunate thing for Yang Zhen. The loss of fighter jets can be made up by using inventory, but once the pilots are lost, it is not so easy to make up for it.
After receiving the telegram from Guo Bingxun, Yang Zhen knocked on the table, pondered for a moment, and soon understood the Japanese army's tactical intentions. The Japanese army was playing a game of Tian Ji horse racing. The inferior fighters such as the Type 6 and Type 97 fighters, as well as the German-made Messerschmitt fighters whose performance the Anti-League obviously knew very well, gradually weakened the number of fighters in the Anti-League.
After the Anti-Alliance fighter force was weakened to a level they recognized, the new Zero fighter, which they regarded as a Maxima, was dispatched to completely annihilate the Anti-Alliance fighter force in one fell swoop, creating convenient conditions for its bombers to bomb. And from this afternoon's battle situation Judging from the results, it has been proved that the Japanese army's Tian Ji horse racing tactic is quite effective.
In just one afternoon, the fighter force deployed by the Anti-Japanese Federation to serve as the first-line air defense of the Songhua River lost one-third of its strength, and the MiG-3 fighter jets used to undertake the air defense mission at altitudes above 5,000 meters because of During the air battle, a series of tactical mistakes occurred.
Coupled with its own performance limitations, the losses were even more severe. More than fifty fighter jets that took off in three batches to participate in the war lost nearly half of their strength in the air battle. MiG-3 fighter jets, among the anti-alliance organizations, Because of its short range and excellent high-altitude performance, it has been used for air defense in important areas.
If the losses are too large, it will be very detrimental to the next attack on Japanese bombers. Although this fighter has this and that problem, its low-altitude combat performance can be described as poor, but its excellent high-altitude performance can effectively make up for the American-made The problem of insufficient high-altitude performance of fighter jets.
In Yang Zhen's plan, it is an important weapon to deal with the Japanese high-altitude bombing. If the losses continue in this amount, it will have a very negative impact on the next high-altitude defense operation. Who can guarantee that the Japanese army will fight against the Allied forces? The bombing of base areas will adopt the mode of low-altitude bombing.