Looking at this rear admiral, who is always known for his unconventional speech and ideas in the navy, and is known as a Shura heretic, and listening to the several orders he issued in succession, the staff officer's face seemed to twitch a little, and he asked the navy It would be fine if the Military Command and the Combined Fleet asked the Tainan Air Force to participate in the war. That was a matter of wrangling between the officers.
But the order to ask the intelligence department to find out what new air defense intelligence sources the enemy has at all costs within these three days made the staff officer stunned. He had to know what new air defense methods the enemy had. It is very difficult for reconnaissance personnel to penetrate into the enemy's rear. The most convenient way is undoubtedly to use reconnaissance aircraft.
And if you send a reconnaissance plane out for reconnaissance in this kind of weather, I'm afraid there won't be much chance of coming back. Although the bad weather for three consecutive days is not necessarily thunderclouds, in the absence of effective ground navigation, when it is full of dark clouds, The sky is dark, and the possibility of the plane returning safely is extremely slim.
If the reconnaissance plane sent out for reconnaissance had no idea or was unlucky and flew into the thunderstorm clouds, there would be no fate waiting for it except becoming a roast chicken. Who would be able to do this at a height of several thousand meters? You can tell from a long distance that the cloud layer is a thunderstorm area, and the cloud layer there is just an ordinary cumulonimbus cloud.
Even the pilots of the naval aviation unit who have been trained by the navy to find stars during the day are not capable of this. What's more, in this battle, the navy's reconnaissance planes did not come, except for being transferred from the attached army aviation. , I'm afraid it can only be used by temporarily deploying fighter jets.
Reconnaissance aircraft, which are an important means of reconnaissance on the battlefield, require a long stay in the air and a wide combat range. To put it bluntly, they need to fly fast, have long legs, and have good ears and eyesight. If fighter jets are deployed to temporarily replace them, then the only aircraft that meet the requirements will be zero combat, because at the moment Among all the navy's fighter jets, only the Zero Fighter has such a long range and meets the required speed, and each one is equipped with an air radio.
And given that his immediate superior clearly did not trust the Army Aviation Corps, it was highly possible that a certain Zero Fighter would be dispatched from the attached team to perform such a mission. As early as in Wuhan, he had This immediate boss had a lot of criticisms of the Army Air Forces' coordinated operations. For general strategic reconnaissance missions, he only trusted the eyes of the Navy reconnaissance aircraft. As for the reconnaissance results of the Army reconnaissance aircraft, he never discounted them.
As a flight officer, this aviation combat staff officer knows very well that bad weather is always the most powerful opponent that the aviation force cannot defeat. If the unlucky guy is chosen to perform a reconnaissance mission in such weather, he can basically give him a chance. This guy held a memorial service.
Although he believed that naval pilots were indeed better than army pilots and that naval reconnaissance aircraft were better than army reconnaissance aircraft, he always felt like he was being cut off by sending his own aircraft for reconnaissance in such horrible weather. Only experienced pilots can perform reconnaissance, and rookies cannot perform such tasks.
The job of a pilot is the same as that of a doctor. It requires more than just skills, but also experience. And all fools know that the longer you fly, the richer your experience will be. In other words, veteran pilots who can perform such tasks are better than rookies. It's more valuable.
Moreover, for the entire naval aviation fleet that is still on the battlefield in Manchuria, the number of such pilots is not very large. Every battle loss is an irreparable loss for the navy. I just want to persuade this stubborn Sir, this time, for the sake of the safety of naval pilots, I would like to trust the Army Aviation Corps.
But this aviation staff officer who had been with Major General Onishi Takijiro as early as when he served as the commander of the Second Combined Air Force that carried out bombing missions on the Chinese battlefield, knew very well that once his commander made up his mind, It was difficult to change my character, so I hesitated for a while, but in the end I didn't say anything to persuade her.
After the staff officer left, although Onishi Takijiro could see what he was thinking about as a staff officer, he did not give any explanation for his decision. For him, who has always been maverick, every action and every determination, He never needed any explanation. He always believed that as a soldier, the last thing he needed was an explanation.
For him, who once publicly said that because the Japanese Army and Navy aviation forces suffered heavy losses on the Chinese battlefield, where would morale be without the death of a few colonel officers, anyone, including those pilots, was just a A pawn for his victory on the battlefield.
As long as he achieves the final victory, let alone a few pilots and a few aircraft, he will not care too much even if the aviation captains are killed. For him, the success of every plan is the best. explanation, and without victory, there is no need for any explanation.
After the staff officer left, he did not go to rest. Instead, he sat alone in this small room that was temporarily used as a war room. Looking at the aviation map in front of him, Onishi Takijiro showed an imperceptible smile on his face. It's just that his smile is quite weird, so weird that if someone is present, no matter how brave he is, his scalp will go numb.
If Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi saw his smile, I am afraid that he would immediately think that this guy did not know what kind of conspiracy he was playing, and he did not know how to figure out how to figure out the Army Air Force. If Seeing his smile, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi would probably not hesitate to immediately tear up the tacit understanding he had just reached with him.
As for what he is thinking in his mind at the moment, whether he is plotting against his colleagues in the Army or against his opponent, I am afraid no one knows except himself, the one who fought beside him during his stay in Wuhan. The staff officer couldn't guess what he, a commander who had always been blind to, was thinking in his mind.
As for Harbin, which is hundreds of kilometers away at the moment, Yang Zhen, who has been very busy as soon as he got off the plane, has no time or thought to guess this guy who has always been known for being vicious and vicious at all costs in the Japanese Navy. , what kind of conspiracy is playing in my heart?
In fact, Onishi Takijiro knew very well at this moment that these three days were enough to bring about some changes in the strength of both the enemy and ourselves. However, in his opinion, the changes in these three days were more beneficial to his own side. First of all, each of the current Almost all of the aviation team's bases are located outside the rain zone, so troop movements will not be affected at all.
The rainfall area between the enemy-controlled area and the enemy-controlled area unintentionally served as a cover. Although this rainfall area will also have a certain impact on the actions of the ground troops, it is far less important than the impact on the aviation forces.
This rainy area made it impossible for aviation troops to dispatch.
However, although this rainy area prevents our own aviation forces from entering the battlefield, it serves as a very good cover for all airports outside its range, and enemy reconnaissance aircraft cannot detect our own airports.
At the exact location, it is impossible to mobilize your own troops or conduct any reconnaissance.
At the same time, its bombers cannot carry out any combat operations against their own airports. They can also use these three days to mobilize all combat aircraft as far forward as possible, such as several airports between Xinjing and Siping.
The airport, even Xinjing, is also in the rain zone, but who said that planes can only fly on their own when changing airports.
It is not possible to transfer planes through railway transportation. If the three days of rain pass and the weather clears up, it will be a very interesting thing for your plane to suddenly appear at the airport south of Xinjing. So
Onishi Takijiro believes that the rainfall in these three days will indeed have a certain impact on his plans.
But everything has advantages and disadvantages. It may rain for three consecutive days starting tomorrow. While it affects his plan, it also plays a certain role in covering up his new deployment and deployment. In Onishi Takijiro's view, this
Three days of rain is not necessarily a bad thing.
The situation is different on the Anti-Japanese Alliance side. Their airports are all within the rainfall area. If you want to mobilize an aircraft, you have to take great risks. Moreover, their various anti-aircraft artillery positions are not affected by such large-scale rainfall.
In front of you, even if you are not overwhelmed, you will suffer a lot of losses.
Three days is enough time for him to perfect the entire battle plan, and the deployment and mobilization of troops will be more convenient and unscrupulous. Therefore, this rain that may last for three days is not a good thing for him.
I think it is a rare and favorable opportunity for me to adjust my deployment, at least I won't do it too hastily.
Although in these three days, it is conceivable that the constant urging of the Navy's senior officials who are eager to transfer back to the aviation team will bring considerable pressure to him, but in Onishi Takijiro's view, three days are enough for him to communicate with the Navy headquarters.
Fight for something to come back and feel more confident.
But will the development of the entire war situation be as imagined by Onishi Takijiro? At this moment, the navy, which believes that Manchuria has nothing to do with his own interests and is fully preparing to fight south, will satisfy his greedy appetite and allocate part of it to him.
Only God and himself know about the new aviation team.
In fact, Onishi Takijiro also knows in his heart that he is currently trying to get new teams to come to Korea or Manchuria to participate in the war. The hope of success is not high, because the navy currently only equips a total of 360 zero combat aircraft, except for the aircraft carriers that have been prioritized for replacement.
In addition, the remaining shore-based aviation fleets equipped with Zero fighter fleets are currently not large in number.
Most of them are converting aircraft or training new pilots in some training units, and only a few have formed combat effectiveness. At this moment, among the various shore-based aviation teams that have completed the conversion, except for two, the rest
All have been allocated to him.
The road-based aviation team currently being transferred to Tainan to form a new aviation team and training for a long-distance attack on the Philippines is one of the few shore-based aviation teams in the navy, apart from the flight teams on aircraft carriers, that has completely completed the zero-warfare change. One of the base aviation teams, and the only aviation team that has completed full training and has not been placed under his command.
As for the other flying team that has completed the re-equipment in Hainan Island, it currently serves more of a training role than a combat unit. To put it bluntly, the Hainan flying team located on Hainan Island is one that prepares for the Japanese troops going south. Tropical adaptive training training units are not considered combat units.
In fact, the reason why Onishi Takijiro wants to transfer the Tainan Air Force is not because he is interested in the more than 30 Zero Fighters. For him who currently has more than 100 Zero Fighters in his hands, he still stares at those three Zero Fighters. More than a dozen aircraft were not released. The reason why he proposed to mobilize the Tainan Air Force to participate in the war was because he took a fancy to the navy's most elite shore-based pilots concentrated there.