Just when the world's attention was drawn to the Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific, a big melee broke out in Pyai, Myanmar. This battle, known in history as the Battle of Pyai, lasted for three weeks. The attacking side: Japanese troops before and after
The "National Independence Army" invested 60,000 Marines and 120,000 Marines, and dispatched more than 130 fighter planes. On the defensive side: the British Army and its retinues invested 110,000 troops, and dispatched more than 80 fighter planes;
The army invested a total of 13,000 trainees and 36,000 "National Liberation and Independence Army". The battle finally came to an end because the British army and its subordinates first withdrew from the southwest defense line of Pyaoi - after experiencing Malaysia
After the defeat, the British army in the Far East suffered another heavy blow. After the situation in Southeast Asia was reversed with the help of the Xuebing Army, it once again tilted towards the Japanese army. It seemed that the Japanese army once again took the initiative in the northwest battlefield of Southeast Asia.
In the three-week war, all three parties suffered heavy casualties. Among them, the Japanese Marine Corps lost more than 30 fighter planes and more than 6,000 casualties, and the "National Independence Army" suffered more than 50,000 casualties. The British Army lost more than 30 fighter planes.
There were more than 60 casualties, including the Australian and Indian servitors, with a total of more than 20,000 casualties and more than 30,000 prisoners. As for the Cadet Army, the 3rd Expeditionary Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties. The "National Liberation and Independence Army"
More than 5,000 casualties——
Just as the Battle of Pyay was getting underway, the Sulu Sea was close to the offshore waters of Negros Island. The U.S. mixed fleet and aviation forces, under the command of Hart and Brereton, finally launched a counterattack against the invading Japanese-Western Expedition Fleet.
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MacArthur's original plan was that this naval battle would break out the next day, the 15th. However, because the Japanese army suddenly divided into two groups and landed on Mindanao and Negros Island at the same time, and the Japanese army launched the so-called "Liberator"
"Flag, MacArthur was too suspicious to act rashly, so it was not until four days later, on the 19th, that he ordered Hatton and Brereton to join forces to launch a counterattack.
The battle started at six in the morning - under the command of Brereton, the US Air Force in the Philippines took off nineteen B-17 bombers from the Cebu frontline airport, escorted by twenty-four P-40 fighter jets.
Launched a surprise attack on the Fengxiang aircraft carrier fleet. The aircraft fleet maintained an ultra-low altitude flying attitude and rushed towards Siaton. They thought they were undetected, but they did not know that they were caught by the early warning radar of the Fengxiang aircraft carrier fleet just after they completed takeoff.
As a result, the sky above Tanhay, about 90 kilometers away from Cebu, was intercepted by a cluster of Japanese aircraft taking off from the aircraft carrier "Ryujo", and the raid suddenly turned into an encounter.
The performance of the P-40 was not as good as the Zero fighter. In addition, it was blocked by the Zero fighter while maintaining ultra-low altitude flight, so it was completely suppressed. The two sides faced each other, and five P-40s and
Nine B-17s were shot down, and there was no suspense in the ensuing battle. Twenty-four zeros were fought with more and fewer, and the Americans had to scatter after losing another seven P-40s and three B-17s.
He escaped, but was pursued by Japanese planes all the way to Cebu's frontline airport, which was also destroyed.
A quarter of an hour after the air battle at Tanhayi, the reconnaissance plane taking off from the "Hosho" aircraft carrier discovered the U.S. mixed fleet approaching from the north before the enemy. With air supremacy in hand, Souma released all his fighter planes and targeted them.
The U.S. mixed fleet carried out indiscriminate bombing. As a result, the U.S. mixed fleet was still thirty nautical miles away from the Fengxiang aircraft carrier fleet, and three battleships were bombed and sunk, as well as eleven other warships of various types. The battle was immediately
There is no way to fight...
The Battle of Negros Island was rarely mentioned in later history books, and when it was mentioned, it was mostly related to Japan's Zero fighter. It was in this battle that the Zero stole the show and attracted the attention of the United States and its allies.
After receiving enough attention, he became famous all over the world and began his glorious "Pacific Journey".
The air force was greatly weakened, the mixed fleet was defeated, and the ground forces were even more useless. Faced with the cruel reality, MacArthur finally lowered his posture and sent a message to Washington with a more pragmatic attitude, hoping that his ally, the Xuebing Army, could assume greater responsibilities.
——On the 21st, when Ouyang Yun marched from Guangzhou to Liuzhou, Guangxi with a large force composed of the Langya and Niangziyun Guards, the Third Xuexi Division, the Xuebing R&D Institute Aircraft Carrier Research Group, etc., he
Received a secret telegram from Ji Xing. The secret telegram stated that the Americans agreed to "defend territory" and hoped that the Xuebing Army could stop the Japanese offensive in Mindanao. At the same time, they invited Ouyang Yun to visit the United States to discuss matters related to strengthening cooperation and so on.
"I don't have time to go to the United States now. The Japanese are attacking fiercely, and it seems that the Americans can't hold on anymore. Tell Mr. Ji and ask him to send electricity to the representative office in the United States to discuss strengthening cooperation. This will allow Gu Lianyun and Guo Muyi to communicate with
Americans talk. Isn’t Gu Lianyun going to accompany Mrs. Chiang to visit the United States? If possible, we can talk about it together. The Americans are far stronger economically than we are. This kind of advantage cannot be taken advantage of..." Jiang Huangyong
When asking Ouyang Yun how to call Ji Xing back, Ouyang Yun said this.
The Japanese successfully attacked Pearl Harbor and annihilated the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which suddenly changed the war situation in the entire Pacific region. Thinking of the German offensive in the Soviet Union, which went very smoothly, the Soviet army was retreating steadily, and its territory in Europe had been lost.
After all, Ouyang Yun couldn't help but feel a serious sense of crisis. In this way, the hypothetical issue of the Pacific Fleet suddenly became important. Since leaving Guangzhou, all his attention has flown to Karachi, and he has done so in the past two days.
The most important thing is to discuss issues related to the development direction and manufacturing process of aircraft carriers with the members of the aircraft carrier research team of the Xuebang R&D Institute headed by Hou Debang and with French Navy veterans such as Degou. It can be said that this is all he has been dreaming about these days.
How can things related to aircraft carriers go to the United States?
In the United States, after the Pacific Fleet suffered a devastating blow and the Philippine Islands were severely attacked by the Japanese Expeditionary Fleet, the voice of its domestic war faction finally became the main theme. However, Washington did not feel happy because of the harsher reality.
In front of them, they suddenly discovered that the military technology they were originally proud of no longer had a decisive advantage. Take fighter jets as an example, the huge battle loss ratio of four to twenty-four in the Tanhay air battle is enough to illustrate that p-
40 was much inferior to Japan's Zero War. As a result, the Xuexue-1 fighter jet, which had been included in the US Army's fighter purchase list, began to receive unprecedented attention. This was the original intention of Washington to invite Ouyang Yun to visit the United States.
When the Xuebing-1 fighter jet, the Baiji, was put into production, the Xuebing Army once ordered these parts in the United States because it did not have the processing capabilities to process some high-precision parts. Therefore, the U.S. intelligence agency had relevant information and knew that the Xuebing Army was developing it.
and produce a new type of fighter aircraft. This information once aroused strong interest from the United States, but because the cost of a single Baiji Dolphin is too high, one is worth three P-40s. From the perspective of protecting the national military industry
, the Americans still decided to equip P-40 in large quantities. Objectively speaking, the P-40 can already be called a classic fighter in terms of performance. However, Japan’s zero combat performance at this time was lower than that of that time and space because of the white-tip dolphin.
The one was one level higher, so as soon as the two sides competed, the p-40 was not enough.