Chapter 428 One Thousand Planes

"Superiors should be here?" Meng Xiang was also a little anxious. He knew that the third brigade would have suffered a lot of losses with less and more. The loss of each pilot was like a piece of gold. If it weren't for the support of the ground air defense artillery network, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to hold on to the reinforcements.

Before the reinforcements in the air arrived, the air defense artillery troops on the ground gathered more and more. Instead of gathering together, the Japanese planes continued to expand their flight range, so they directly hit the air defense firepower network arranged in various places.

"Akime-kun, it's really unbelievable. I dare say that there are more anti-aircraft artillery here than the entire Chinese Front's air defense artillery. It's so damn!" Kimura was carefully observing the surroundings, while driving a Zero fighter jet passing through a ball of rising smoke. Looking around, the sky was full of smoke balls that burst out slowly, floating away like a dark cloud. But he knew the fatality of that smoke ball. He saw with his own eyes that their squadron captain was wrapped in a ball of smoke, burning directly in the air and scattering into countless fireballs.

"Akime, Akime!..." Kimura heard that his wingman had no response for a long time, and there was no trace of him beside him, but a plane below was planting with black smoke. The number on the side of the plane could still be vaguely visible in the dragged smoke, and it was his wingman.

Before he could be sad, he felt the plane tremble, and a shrapnel pierced the left wing of the plane and broke a big hole.

"Fortunately, I didn't hit the fuselage!" He couldn't help but say fortunately that this new aircraft has great performance, but its protection is a bit poor. Seeing that the silly aircraft of the Pioneer Army was caught with dozens of bullets, he turned from disdain at the beginning to envy. There was only one life. Although he never spared his life for the empire, it was still a blessing to be able to live and see the cherry blossoms in his hometown.

Those 7.7 machine gun bullets can only irritate the Pioneer Army's aircraft, making the Zero-Type 20 cannon pose a threat to them. But even if the 20 cannon is not hit, they can still fly in the air and return to their positions. The new aircraft on this side will easily disintegrate and explode as soon as they are hit. So they only rely on the superb technology that has been flying for five years.

Akime tried hard to balance the fuselage and rushed up quickly to avoid the smoke flashing with black metallic luster that broke out below the plane.

"Finally escape from danger!" He wiped the sweat beads hanging on his forehead. The sweat beads just now rolled into his eyes, and he didn't have time to wipe it off. At this time, he left the anti-aircraft artillery position and entered the area where the two sides fought. There were also vanguard aircraft here, and their anti-aircraft artillery would not fire here, and those aircraft were entangled by more than twice as many Zero fighter jets. Now he could breathe a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, more than a dozen fires flashed through the corners of your eyes.

"No!..." Akime cried unwillingly. At some point, more than twenty vanguard aircraft dived from the sky, and the three planes flying in front opened fire at him at the same time.

"Boom!" Qiu Min Zero's style exploded and disintegrated directly in the air.

"Hurry, the brothers of the Third Team are fighting hard!" Wan Hu drove lightning and quickly passed through the side of the fireball that was rising from the Zero plane and shouted loudly.

More than twenty planes passed through the clouds one after another and rushed towards the group of planes fighting together.

"Our reinforcements have arrived." The pilots of the Third Battalion shouted excitedly.

"The reinforcements from Huaibei have arrived?" Meng Xiang asked again.

"The 172nd Flight Squadron stationed in Linyi has arrived first." Shi Er replied.

"Yeah!" Meng Xiang nodded without saying anything, and his eyebrows were still not stretched. The Linyi squadron had only more than twenty fighter jets, but it was still irreversible. What made him even more worried was that the aerial battle launched by the Japanese was not just Huaibei and Xuzhou. News had already been heard from the Xinzheng defense line, and there were 200 aircraft also launching attacks. At the same time, more than 200 aircraft were attacking in the north direction of Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao.

"This time, the Japanese have made such a big move!" Fan Zhong sighed. In this way, there were already seven or eight hundred aircraft that the Japanese had taken out. Although there were some old-fashioned fighters, there were four or five hundred Zero fighters. There have never been any aircraft combat of such a scale. Even the largest scale of both sides of the Spanish air war was only more than one hundred.

"The Japanese accumulated only 500 Zero aircraft." Meng Xiang affirmed that the intelligence sent back by several spies from the Japanese local area showed that the Japanese Zero aircraft production capacity was limited, and 500 were produced, which was already the limit at this time, whether in terms of materials or engines.

"Other directions should not be the focus of the Japanese attack. But we must be careful. Maybe the Japanese are playing tricks and their hidden strength has not been revealed. However, more than 200 fighter jets are enough to be threatening." Fan Zhong finished speaking, looked at Meng Xiang and said, "I really want to be empty and let them come over?"

"Yes!" Meng Xiang nodded and said solemnly, "Only in this way can we gain greater initiative."

The air battle is still ongoing, and the huge air battle with more than a thousand fighter jets invested by both sides shocked the world. All countries are paying attention to this air battle, especially the battle in the sky in Huaibei and Xuzhou.

The battle has been going on. Three or four hours have passed. Planes are constantly flying back to replenish fuel and ammunition, and planes are constantly joining.

The reinforcements of the Pioneer Army continued to join, and the number of combat aircraft gradually increased to 200. With the cover of anti-aircraft artillery and home operations, they resisted the attack of Japanese aircraft.

The troops on the ground seemed to be attracted by the battle in the air and did not move. Only the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons from the Pioneer Army chased the screams that passed by from time to time on their heads.

The smoke of gunpowder became thicker and covered the sky and the people below could hardly see the air battle above their heads. Even the sound of machine guns and cannons on the planes were blocked by the curtain of gunpowder. Only the sound of engines of countless planes could float down from time to time. Some planes dragged a black smoke from time to time and whimpered and carried it down.

In addition to the lightning aircraft, the Pioneer Army also came to support the F6f-5 Hellcat.

Because of the confidentiality, the f6f-5 rocket was not installed, but at this time two 20mm cannons and 4 12.7mm machine guns were enough to smash the opposite Zero. Originally, Hellcat was produced based on the characteristics of Zero. Unlike the high-altitude killing of lightning, the f6f-5 can play the cat and mouse death game with the Zero aircraft at a low altitude.

Its cockpit armor and self-sealed fuel tank can withstand Zero's 7.7 machine gun bullets, and only a 20mm cannon can pose a threat to it. However, its firepower and speed are stronger than Zero, and its flexibility is not bad as Zero, which directly suppresses Zero fighter jets.

According to the simulated battle with Zero in the Pioneer Army training, over 5,000 meters, the Hellcats have an absolute advantage in the Zero, which has a stiff movement. Below 3,000 meters, the 5 and Zero are comparable. So in order to pursue the greatest victory, the Hellcats all ran to a high altitude, and below were the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 20mm anti-aircraft guns in the upper space. Even those large-caliber anti-aircraft guns lowered the air explosion height and drove the Zero aircraft to a high place.

Thunder and Hellcats took the opportunity to rush up and group Zero in the sky. They were like dumplings, carrying planes from time to time. There were Pioneer Army, but more were Japanese. Most of the more than 200 aircraft of the Pioneer Army were composed of skilled pilots. Although the Japanese were also elite pilots, the differences in aircraft performance and the Pioneer Army had long targeted Zero training made the Pioneer Army begin to gain the upper hand. The war losses of both sides have also transitioned from 1 to 1 to 2 at the beginning.

The pilots on both sides were extremely tired. They often flew back and filled the ammunition after adding oil and loading it, and then rushed into the sky after a while. The Japanese even had spare pilots to replace them in turn. The Pioneer Army gave the pilot a chance to breathe through intensive anti-aircraft artillery.

The Pioneer Army and a group of qualified flight novices also flew fighter planes beside them, shaking flags and shouting to deal with the old-fashioned planes.

They cannot grow without experiencing the war. Although many of them were shot down, they grew up quickly.

There were no umbrella flowers blooming in the sky, but this was the territory of the Pioneer Army. The pilots of the Pioneer Army were protected by the best, while the Japanese pilots were unfortunately surrounded and committed suicide.

With the arrival of reinforcements from the vanguard army, Jinan and Qidu, Weifang, the battle came to an end. There has never been an air battle that lasted for so long, and there was a flight that lasted for several hours, but that was not a battle. The battle required full concentration, and it would be exhausted in one or two hours. Both sides were tired and needed to rest. When the air planes were at least at a time, there were less than a hundred. But the battle continued until the Japanese issued the order to retreat, and the air battle that lasted for more than five hours ended.

46 to 95.

This is the final outcome of this long-term battle. This is also the air battle with the most casualties between the two sides. The Pioneer Army lost 46 aircraft and twelve pilots killed. The Japanese army died 89 people, and the losses of personnel on the bomber were particularly serious.

With the arrival of dusk, air battles in other directions also ended.

The Second Battalion of Nanyuan and HNA were protected by the Second Battalion in Shanhaiguan. More than 200 aircraft there did not pose much threat. Moreover, there were only more than 50 Zero aircraft there and more than 100 old aircraft carrying out restraining missions.

On the contrary, in the air battles in Xinzheng area, the Japanese army seemed to have an advantage. There were 100 Type Zero and more than 100 old-fashioned aircraft there, while there were only more than 70 lightning and lightning on the other side. There were no reinforcements.

After only two hours of support, the vanguard's plane retreated. The Japanese planes in the rear were chasing them. After a while, they were forced to retreat by dense air defense artillery on the ground.

"The number of aircraft of the Pioneer Army is limited, and there are not many pilots. According to the imperial intelligence, they still have some aircraft in Suiyuan and some aircraft in Beijing and Tianjin. Most of their southern line is concentrated in Huaibei, which leads to the empty defense line of Zhengzhou." Seishiro Itagaki said hesitantly. He always felt that something was wrong. But after analyzing for most of the day, he felt that the strength of the Pioneer Army's air force was already terrifying and it was impossible to have more.

Aircraft are not so easy to build, and pilots are not so easy to train. The Japanese intelligence department holds almost all the pilot lists in China, and even if they find a way to get the list of some excellent flight students. In a short period of time, it is impossible for them to train so many pilots.

The Soviets were helping the Central Army fight. The Japanese had known this for a long time. But in the Pioneer Army, except for a mercenary flying team composed of international people named the Flying Tigers, there seemed to be no extra foreign pilots.

Besides, how many advanced aircraft can they buy? Even if someone is willing to sell it, they may not have more money to buy it.

With limited aircraft and pilots, the air supremacy above the Central Plains will be transferred to our own hands.

"It seems that we can counterattack Zhengzhou." Jun Tada nodded and agreed.

"There may be a breakthrough in Zhengzhou. The most important thing is to open the channel with Shanxi first." Seishiro Itagaki was not so sure that he could capture Zhengzhou, but the most important thing is to use this internal and external cooperation to open the channel in Shanxi to prevent the Japanese army from being trapped in Shanxi.

Shanxi's military industry and logistics supply were constantly bombarded by the vanguard army, making Shanxi's ammunition and weapons even more tense. If it weren't for the exceptionally strong fortress built by Yan Xishan in Taiyuan, Taiyuan would have fallen long ago.

However, the bombers there also occupied a lot of pilots, so Seishiro Itagaki was a little sure that Zhengzhou's air force was insufficient. While restraining other directions, he could launch a large-scale attack in the direction of Zhengzhou to open up a channel to Shanxi. No one could bear the responsibility if the 100,000 Japanese troops in Shanxi were besieged and annihilated.

"This plan needs to be reported to the base camp. Besides, we have insufficient staff, so we need to increase the staff." Seishiro Itagaki said again. Since the Japanese army was repeatedly defeated by the Pioneer Army, he has been particularly careful about the Pioneer Army. At this time, this small number of troops in Henan could not deal with the Pioneer Army, and it would need to be doubled at least, so he felt confident of attacking the Yellow River.

"Okay!" Tada Jun nodded in recognition. This was the result of their repeated consideration. Although they were unwilling to admit it, it would be difficult for them to beat the vanguard army on the opposite side if they were based on a one-to-one ratio.

Soon, information was also heard from the base camp, acknowledging this way of combat. At the same time, it also recognized the way of concentrating aircraft to seize air supremacy. Although the Japanese army suffered a lot of losses, the vanguard army also suffered a lot of losses. Moreover, by focusing on attacks, one place can take the opportunity to tear open the airspace in other directions. The empty defense of Zhengzhou sky in front of us is a good opportunity.

"It's not that fast, they need at least a little time." Meng Xiang said tiredly as he looked at the battle report for the day.

"Yes, this is enough for us to prepare. But during this period, I'm afraid the direction of Huaibei will be in trouble for a while." Fan Zhong said with a smile. Although the Japanese Air Force in Zhengzhou has the dominance, the Japanese will not destroy more before launching a large-scale battle. They are also worried that the Pioneer Army will mobilize personnel from other places to fill the hole.

This large-scale air battle on June 6 caused a sensation among the world.

"More than a thousand planes? The Japanese and one thousand planes were dispatched together?" Although summer has already arrived, the shadows near Red Square are still lurking the coldness of winter. Even the person sitting in the dark corner exudes the coldness of winter.

"They only dispatched more than 840 aircraft. Not even more than a thousand aircraft later." A person in front of him said respectfully. If Meng Xiang heard this, he would be a little surprised. Although the numbers were accurate to the single digits, it was not easy to detect the number of Japanese aircraft in such a fast time.

"The Japanese air force is also very strong. Their new fighter jets are not bad either. Why haven't they defeated the young general in China?" The man in the corner murmured to himself.

The man standing in front of him just bent and dared not speak.

"The Chinese general doesn't seem to want to cooperate with us either. However, with him entangled the Japanese, our east can be much more stable. The rest we only need to deal with the Germans in the west."

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"One thousand? Where did the Japanese come from so many materials to produce a thousand new aircraft? You should know that it is a new type of aluminum alloy! But don't worry, they lack sufficient resources, and we have better aircraft. Besides, no matter how many aircraft they have, they can't cross the Pacific."

"I'm not talking about this. Old George, what I'm worried about is the Chinese general. He quickly gathered a huge army through arms. At this time, they could actually withstand the attacks of nearly a thousand Japanese planes. Their strength should not be underestimated. China's political situation will change in the future."

"Don't worry. You can't buy a powerful army by buying arms, and they don't have any threats to us. I just don't know who is supporting them? Is it the only one that copycat company that buys and sells arms just to fill in the pit of the Pioneer Army?"

"This is also what I worry about. It's really uneasy to have a huge organization hidden behind them, but it doesn't show any signs of dew."

With the strong rise of the Pioneer Army, more and more people are paying attention to the supporters behind them. Although there are transactions of copycat companies, so many weapons and equipment can already drag down a country's finances. Where does this money come from? People are more inclined to remove copycat companies, there are other organizations that provide financial resources to the Pioneer Army.

"The Japanese are also a little worried. Our country only produced 1,800 fighter jets last year, and it seems that production will be expanded." George said.

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"One thousand planes? Our empire has more planes." Goring said disdainfully, but he was still surprised. Although the Germans produced about 5,235 fighter jets in 38 years, the produced planes are not equal to planes flying into the sky. Each plane flying into the air needs to involve more manpower and material resources to serve it. The scale of the battle of this thousand planes is also amazing.

"It seems that the strength of those Japanese dwarves needs to be reconsidered, but it is surprising that the Chinese general was able to hold on. He still has good things in his hands, and it seems that someone needs to communicate with him." He thought to himself.

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"We can promise that Chinese general's loan!"

"But the loan is a bit too large."

"Don't worry, that Chinese general has the ability to protect himself. At the same time, the strength of the Japanese is also shocking. If they break free from the quagmire of China, our colonial areas such as Malaya will be in danger. We need that Chinese general to hold back the Japanese. We can do our best to deal with European affairs."

"But the powerful China is more terrifying than the Japanese!"

"Chi, when will China become stronger? They cannot rise. The Chinese general is just a puppet, and there is no benefit. Who will spend a lot of money to support them? The powerful sold is not strong. Besides, there is the Chiang regime, and they must fight to decide the future path to China. How powerful is China after the civil war? Haha!"

People all tell this air battle. This air battle not only shocked the world, but also made Meng Xiang feel a crisis. The Japanese were not slow to produce aircraft. What’s more important is that they have many skilled pilots and can send out more than a thousand people in one go. Although the skilled pilots of the Pioneer Army have also increased, they are weak everywhere when they are scattered everywhere.

The Pioneer Army needs to defend too many places. The jurisdiction is large, and even if the planes fly, it is not possible to arrive in a short while. This is why the brigades were divided. It is okay to deal with ordinary battles, but the Japanese used this trick to fight hard, which was really difficult to crack.

"If it really doesn't work, I will use anti-aircraft guns to build a firepower wall in the air!" Meng Xiang thought for a long time and finally decided. More than 30 of the aircraft lost by the Japanese this time were bombarded by anti-aircraft guns. With the help of a dense group of anti-aircraft guns, one area of ​​the sky can be blocked. Even if the Japanese come, they can't make much cheaper.

As for the missile, it was ignored by Meng Xiang. The thing is not accurate and expensive, so it can be used for research, but it is a little worse in actual combat.

"But it is good to deploy in some special areas to deal with bombers." A thought flashed through Meng Xiang's mind.

But at the end of the day, these are all on defense, not offense.

"The essence of the Air Force is attack!" Meng Xiang muttered a sentence that Hu Wen said when he wrote a letter, but he was a little worried about the pilot's shortage.

"Bangbang!" A light knock on the door, the second mouse walked in.

He walked straight to Meng Xiang and handed over two red blood books.

"Commander, the students from the two aviation schools jointly handed in the letter of request!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation from ***(***.***). ***. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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