With the strength of nine divisions, the Japanese army launched a full-line attack on the battlefield hundreds of kilometers from the Pinghan Line in the west to the Bohai Bay line in the east. At the same time, with the strength of two divisions, it attacked the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi.
The attack was launched, aiming directly at the surrounding areas of Changzhi. In the Jiaodong Peninsula, the Japanese army also completely completed the blockade of the main force of the Shandong Military Region. The Hebei-Shandong battlefield was only peaceful for more than half a month, and intensive gunfire sounded again.
In order to cover the Japanese offensive of various divisions on the ground, the Japanese Army and Navy aviation forces mobilized around the battlefield were also dispatched. They competed with the Anti-Allied aviation forces for air supremacy and provided air cover for the Japanese troops on the ground. Two Japanese aircraft carriers anchored in the Bohai Bay were also dispatched.
All carrier-based aircraft were mobilized to cooperate with the Texas battlefield to fight for air supremacy.
It's just that compared to the Army Aviation and the Navy's shore-based aviation, the carrier-based aircraft dispatched by these two aircraft carriers have fought miserably since they entered the battlefield. The main fighters they are still equipped with are zero combat, although they have been upgraded. Since then.
The original Type 21 was upgraded to Type 22, but due to the narrow body and engine, the performance was not fundamentally improved or changed.
Although among the P-40K fighters and Yak-9 fighters equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the North China battlefield, the Yak-9 fighter's medium and low-altitude performance is better than that of the Zero Fighter 22. However, it still has to face the Japanese Army Aviation and Navy Coast Guards.
For base aviation operations, it is impossible to invest too many numbers in the direction of the Jinpu Line.
As for the P40K type fighter, although it can be regarded as a new model among the P40 fighters, its performance is no longer the same as that of the B type used in the anti-alliance equipment. However, its performance against the Japanese Zero Fighter Type 22 is still very good.
Barely. But this Zero Fighter 22 carrier-based aircraft dispatched by the Japanese Navy is the first time it has fought against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
But for the Anti-Liandan people, they have already figured out his previous models. The performance of this Zero Fighter Type 22 is not much better than that of the model that originally fell into the hands of the Anti-Lianyan.
Big change. The fatal weaknesses that existed in Type 21 before are still the same fatal weaknesses in Type 22.
However, the few Zero Fighters in the Anti-Japanese Alliance have become exhibits due to lack of spare parts. However, because of their excellent low-altitude combat performance in air combat, this kind of combat aircraft is still used by all Anti-Japanese Alliance fighter pilots for simulations.
The opponent in the first lesson of air combat. Even though most of these zero combat aircraft can no longer be dispatched, the aviation forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance tried their best to use other aircraft to simulate them.
Although this is the first time the Anti-Japanese Alliance Air Force has fought against the current Zero Fighter Type 22. However, this fighter has not fundamentally improved its performance compared to its predecessors that have fought against the Anti-Japanese Alliance before, allowing it to face it in an air battle.
The combination of P-40 and Yak-9 fighter jets makes it almost difficult to gain any advantage.
In addition, during the entire four or three years, the Japanese Navy wasted too much on the Southwest Pacific battlefield, and the operational pilots they painstakingly trained have basically lost their embers. At present, the training standards and time have been greatly reduced, and the quality of the Japanese naval aviation has been greatly reduced.
It's incomparable to what it was back then.
After a half-day air battle, of all the 72 Zero Fighters dispatched by the two Japanese aircraft carriers, only seven were recovered when they returned. The remaining Zero Fighter wreckage was scattered throughout the entire area from the Majia River to the Machang Jian River, Jinpu
On the Bohai Plain east of the line. This price is almost a loss for the two aircraft carriers that the Japanese Navy invested in the Bohai Bay battlefield.
The Zero Fighter 22 fighter jet they thought they had put into the Chinese battlefield had indeed lagged behind in performance against the US military's new F-6F Hellcat and F-4U fighter jets in the Pacific battlefield. But it was once used in the Southwest Pacific battlefield
, to fight the P40 fighter, you still have to hold it in hand.
In addition, in the Southwest Pacific battlefield, facing the huge pressure brought by the endless new aircraft from the Americans, the Japanese Navy's poor new fighter production has to be mainly focused on the Pacific battlefield. Therefore, in this Hebei battlefield, not
The Japanese Navy, which was too eager to serve the army, did not put the latest Zero Fighter 52 fighter jets into the Chinese battlefield.
And they are confident that they want to use this 43-year-old model fighter, which has actually withdrawn from front-line combat in the Pacific battlefield and switched to training pilots and equipping second-line troops. They continue to stage their massacre of P in the Southwest Pacific battlefield on the Chinese battlefield.
A scene from the 40 fighter jet.
The ambitious Japanese naval aviation dispatched all 72 Zeros equipped with two aircraft carriers in the first wave. However, they did not expect that the first batch of 72 Zeros put into the battlefield from the two aircraft carriers dispatched.
During the war, only seven aircraft returned, and two of them were actually scrapped due to heavy damage by the time they barely landed.
As for the Type 99 and Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft covered by zero combat, these two more mature attack aircraft suffered greater losses. Basically, all the attack aircraft dispatched never returned. Even if they were lucky enough to break through the Anti-Japanese Alliance,
Fighters intercepted it, but suffered heavy losses in the face of intensive ground and air firepower.
As a result of the first day of air combat, the Japanese Navy's carrier aviation losses far exceeded those of the land-based aviation and army aviation. After the first day of air combat, the two Japanese aircraft carriers could only go home in despair. No.
What should we do if we leave? There are very few carrier-based aircraft left. Not only will staying in the Bohai Bay no longer be effective, but they will also be easily targeted by others.
They also have bombers, although they have never taken care of the Bohai Bay before. But now that their protective layer has been stripped away, how can they not think of taking advantage? Now the aircraft carrier is the most lethal weapon of the Imperial Navy. What if?
If you lose your son on the Chinese battlefield, you will lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds.
After losing most of its carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese Navy did not hesitate at all. In addition to the two old-fashioned armored cruisers Yakumo and Kamote, it also left five destroyers, three coastal defense ships, and seven submarine destroyers.
Staying outside the Bohai Bay, all large ships in the Bohai Sea were immediately withdrawn to Lushun. The two aircraft carriers, under the strict protection of destroyers, were directly withdrawn to the mainland to replenish carrier-based aircraft.
In fact, the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aviation suffered such heavy losses. In addition to underestimating the enemy and not mobilizing new fighter jets to participate in the war, the other main reason is that the performance of their carrier-based attack aircraft is too old. Those two attack aircraft broke out from the Pacific War.
He had been in service before, and now he has fought high-intensity wars for two years, and he is still fighting on the front lines.
These two kinds of old men who have always been used for ambushes can still be used reluctantly when they are covered by fighter jets. When the fighter jets are unable to protect themselves, they can only stare. The zero battles that cover them have been defeated. These two
The results of these attack aircraft, which are already very old, can be imagined.
It’s not that the Japanese Navy is unenterprising, it’s just that the two newly developed attack aircraft are not going well. One was frightened when it crashed when taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, and the other was overweight and had torpedoes or bombs attached to it.
Unable to take off from the aircraft carrier. Both new aircraft failed to live up to expectations. In desperation, the Japanese Navy could only continue to use these two old aircraft and continue to serve as the main force on the front line.
However, compared to the embarrassing situation of the carrier-based aviation force, which was beaten back home in one day, the land-based aviation force invested by the Japanese Navy performed quite well. Its newly equipped Thunder fighter jets had extremely excellent performance. After the air battle,
The Yak-9 fighter jets from China and the Anti-Japanese Alliance were fighting hard to separate each other.
During the Zero War, they were able to take advantage of the P40K fighter jets due to their corresponding tactics. Facing this new Japanese fighter jet equipped with a high-power bomber engine, they were basically powerless to fight back. The entire Eastern Front battlefield resisted the alliance.
Actually, two-thirds of aviation losses were caused by this new Japanese fighter jet.
As for this kind of fighter, the Japanese army only invested more than 40 in the North China battlefield. Not only did the Japanese Navy's shore-based aviation fighter jets perform very well, but the Comet dive bombers that the Japanese Navy invested in the North China battlefield also performed far better than the ship-based fighter jets.
It is much better to carry aviation troops.
Although this kind of aircraft crashed on the aircraft carrier and the Japanese navy was almost confused, it performed very well on land. Its extremely fast flying speed made it difficult for the anti-alliance fighter groups to effectively intercept. Just because
The intensive anti-aircraft firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance prevented this bomber from causing much trouble to the Anti-Union forces.
Compared with the extremely fierce ground battlefield, the Bohai Bay in the easternmost part of the entire battlefield is quite calm at the moment. In addition to dispatching a large number of naval ships to carry out large-scale artillery bombardments from Tianjin to Qikou, the Japanese land forces
The navy's operations in the Bohai Bay, except for dispatching a large number of aircraft to compete for air supremacy, or to provide support for the Japanese offensive in Texas, were as quiet as before, without any actual action.
The Japanese army, eager to re-open the Jinpu Line and restore ground contact with the Kwantung Army outside the Pass, immediately mobilized and deployed heavy troops to launch a full-line attack on northern Shandong, northwest Shandong, and northern Henan. In the face of a full-line counterattack launched by the Japanese army, Yang Zhen immediately gave instructions
Participate in various ministries and act according to the predetermined plan.
Two brigades and three independent regiments in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region in northwest Shandong gave way to the front of Xiajin and used the main force to defend the area east of the Linqing Canal. Along the Linqing-Qinghe Highway and the Linqing-Guantao Highway
Fight and make every effort to ensure the flank security of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region fighting in southern Hebei. And contain the 118th Division attacking in this direction to ensure the implementation of Chen Hanzhang's battle plan.
On the front of Xiajin, a brigade from Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei moved south to strengthen the two anti-alliance regiments. With the cooperation of the troops from the five divisions in southern Hebei, they fought steadily along the road from Xiajin to Wucheng. They defeated a Japanese division that was attacking directly.
The regiment's attack direction was to be contained along the Zaonan and Zaobei highways.
At the same time, on both wings of the Xiajin battlefield, the artillery and anti-aircraft artillery groups secretly mobilized by Chen Hanzhang were moving rapidly. A division Yang Zhenxin added to him was waiting in hiding in the area between Zaobei and Nangong. Chen Hanzhang's intention was to wait for
The main force of the 72nd Division that launched the attack on the Xiajin battlefield crossed the Zaonan front line and attacked the leader first.
As long as the 72nd Division is destroyed, there will be a gap that is difficult to fill between the Japanese Army on the Eastern Front and the Japanese Army in Northwestern Shandong, and you can make a big fuss in it. Use one force to strengthen all the tanks in your hand, or
Either go east to encircle the Dezhou battlefield, or go west to cooperate with the First Department of the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region to encircle the 118th Division in Linqing.
After the Japanese army launched a full-front counterattack, Chen Hanzhang keenly discovered a major weakness in the Japanese army's entire strategy. The Japanese army, which was too eager to restore the battlefield situation in North China, launched an all-out attack. Except for the two divisions in eastern Henan that could hardly move,
As well as a division deep in Yanzhou on the Jinpu Line, and a division deployed in northeastern Shandong.
Almost all the troops at hand were invested in the front-line attack. This left two quite large gaps between the Dezhou battlefield and Yanzhou, and between the Dezhou and Linqing battlefields, and basically no troops were available to fill them.
That is to say, the Japanese army's current front-line push tactics look extremely fierce, but the entire depth is quite empty.