Nomura Yoshizaburo scolded for a while, and he was tired of scolding. Then he looked at Yoshichi Hoji with a pair of bull's eyes and asked: "Tell me, what is going on, what is the reason for you to fly?"
The alliance achieved such little results after making such great sacrifices?"
Yoshichi Hoji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the commander's anger had passed and the next thing would be easier to handle. He quickly stepped forward and said: "I'm reporting to you, Commander, unless our warriors don't work hard.
But the Chinese are by no means as incompetent as those idiots in the Army said, and their flying skills and tactical maneuvers are not so useless. On the contrary, if we hadn't caught them off guard at the beginning, maybe we would have suffered this time.
The gains and losses will be even greater."
"idiot!"
Nomura Yoshizaburo was furious. He reached out and slapped Yoshichi Mineji and cursed angrily, "Do you know what you are talking about? You mean to say that the aerial samurai of our Empire of Japan are not as good as the Chinese pilots."
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"Your Excellency, no!" Yoshichi Hoji saw that the commander was angry and quickly explained: "Although the flying skills of those Chinese pilots are not bad, they are still inferior to those of our samurai of the Empire of Japan."
Nomura Kichizaburo is a relatively extreme nationalist. In his concept, he has always believed that the best race in the world is the Yamato race, and other races are second-class races. Now someone actually told him that he has always despised people.
The flying skills of the Chinese pilots were actually on par with the Japanese pilots, and even the difference was only a little bit worse. This made him extremely uncomfortable, and he still cursed.
"You idiot, since the flying skills of Chinese pilots are not as good as those of our samurai from the Empire of Japan, why did you lose so miserably?"
Yoshichi Hoji said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, Commander. In fact, this is not a question of the pilot's flying skills, but that the performance of China's aircraft is much higher than that of our Type 96 carrier-based aircraft. Our warriors
We had to expend a lot of effort to destroy one of their fighter planes, so we suffered a defeat."
"Nani? Is there such a thing?"
Nomura Koshizaburo frowned and said with some disbelief: "We know that the Chinese are equipped with American Wildcat fighters. Is there such a big difference in performance between the Wildcat fighters and our Type 96?"
As soon as this was mentioned, a trace of anger suddenly appeared on Yoshichi Hoji's face, "Humph, some time ago, the Ministry of War notified us that China's 300th Army was equipped with American Wildcat fighters. For this reason, we also detailed
I have studied the performance of the Wildcat fighter and found that although the performance data of this fighter is better than our Type 96, it is not much better. But as soon as we fought yesterday, we found that the Chinese were equipped with another model.
A fighter jet we have never seen before. The performance of this fried chicken is beyond our imagination. Not only is it a very fast dive, but it is also extremely strong and has fierce firepower. We managed to hit them, but we found ourselves
They can only make a few bullet holes in the opponent's fuselage, unless they hit his engine room, fuel tank and other vital parts. A few dozen bullet holes will have little effect on them, while they only need to hit us with a dozen bullets.
The Nine-Sixth Form will be seriously injured or even destroyed, please tell us what benefits we can get from this!"
"Is there such a thing?" Nomura Yoshizaburo said in disbelief: "But the Army people didn't inform us that the Chinese are equipped with this new type of fighter plane? Yoshichi-kun, can you tell what kind of fighter plane this is?
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Yoshichi Hoji shook his head and said in frustration: "Unfortunately, Commander, I also think that I have some knowledge of fighter aircraft from various countries. But I have never seen such a fighter aircraft. The only thing I can be sure of is that this one
A new type of fighter jet we’ve never seen before.”
"That's right!" Nomura Kichizaburo whispered. He fell silent for a long time and then said: "It seems that these guys in the 21st Army have indeed concealed something from us."
Yoshichi Hoji snorted in a low voice: "Your Excellency Commander, our navy accepted the invitation of their army to help, but they still kept secrets from us. They didn't even tell us that the Chinese had a new type of fighter jet.
, which caused such huge losses to our navy, we can accuse them to the base camp based on this alone. And...and..."
Having said this, Yoshichi Hoji gritted his teeth and said: "The newly developed Zero fighter jets of our navy were not given priority to equip our navy. Instead, they were equipped to the army. I don't understand. The army's brains are so stupid.
Can these guys make good use of these aircraft? If our navy could also equip these new fighters, today's battle situation would never be so miserable!"
When it came to the new fighter jets, Nomura Yoshizaburo also had some complaints in his heart, but as the commander of the fleet, he naturally could not complain casually like Yoshichi Mineji. He just waved his hand and said: "Okay, don't worry about the new fighter jets.
Admiral Yamamoto has assured me that our navy will begin to equip this Zero fighter in two months, and I promise you that your wing will be given priority at that time."
Hearing that the commander lowered his attitude and assured himself, Yoshichi Hoji could no longer dwell on this issue. He thought for a while and asked: "Your Excellency, commander, let's continue bombing Enpin."
What?"
Nomura Kichizaburo shook his head and sighed: "The reason why I ordered the flying wing to attack Enping was because I wanted to tell the people in the military department that the flying samurai in our navy are much better than those in the army, even if they don't have any new weapons.
Fighters can also defeat the Army, but now it seems that I still underestimated the 300 Chinese Army. Forget it, we still don’t join in the fun. The blood of our Navy cannot be shed in vain. Let the Army fight first.
Let the Chinese people fight to the death!"
"Hai!"
Yoshichi Hoji understood what Nomura Kichizaburo meant, lowered his head and bowed to him before retreating...
The news that the navy's carrier-based air wing and the 300th Army had fought a lose-lose battle quickly spread to the 21st Army. The captain of the 50th Flying Group, Yasuo Makino, and the deputy captain, Souichi Ishii, did not act like Nomura after hearing this.
Koshizaburo was so gloating about his misfortune that he actually became a little worried.
"The navy's carrier-based air wing actually fought with the Chinese and both sides suffered losses?" Souichi Ishii shouted in disbelief, "Don't those guys in the navy always brag that one of them can defeat the two of us?
?How can we fight with the Chinese and both sides suffer?"
Makino Yasuo said with a cold face: "Ishii-kun, don't underestimate the China Three Hundred Army. Haven't we eaten enough of their food? Although we are now equipped with new fighter planes, we cannot underestimate them because of this, let alone
The scale of the new fighter aircraft is still too small, so we must not be careless."
"Then let's..." Ishii Souichi looked at Makino Yasuo, with a questioning look on his face.
"What else can we do?" Makino Yasuo sneered: "Since the navy has helped us make a start and fought with the Chinese to the detriment of both sides, we naturally cannot let down their good intentions. Starting tomorrow, we will also start bombing Enping.
, it’s okay if China’s air force doesn’t come out, if they dare to attack, we will let them know how powerful the Japanese Empire is!”
Early the next morning, the radar soldier at the radar station in Enping saw a large group of bright spots on the screen. He roughly counted more than a hundred Japanese planes flying towards Enping.
, the surprised radar soldier quickly grabbed the phone next to him...
"Woooooooo..."
The piercing siren sounded again in the sky above Lingbei Airport. Feng Xiaoming and the others who were having breakfast quickly dropped their bowls and chopsticks and ran towards the runway.
However, the arrival of the Japanese planes was sudden and strange. They did not attack Enping's city, but the 400th Division's positions at the front.
"You bastards, set up the anti-aircraft guns quickly!"
The sleepy-eyed Bai Jingran and Chief of Staff Li Jinling also rushed out of the headquarters. Seeing the Japanese planes in the sky bombing their headquarters unscrupulously, they became furious and ordered the surrounding air defense troops to start entering their positions.
However, since it was still morning, the anti-aircraft troops had not yet entered their positions, and many anti-aircraft artillery pieces were still empty.
Before Bai Jingran could speak, he pulled Li Jinling and jumped into the bunker of an anti-aircraft gun position.
He looked around the anti-aircraft gun position and saw a semi-open bunker. On the open side was a four-barreled 20-millimeter Bofors anti-aircraft gun, and on the top was a ten-mm-caliber Bofors anti-aircraft gun.
"Old Li, come and load bullets for me!" Because the Japanese plane's surprise attack was too sudden and the air defense troops at the anti-aircraft artillery position had not arrived yet, it was impossible to use four-barreled anti-aircraft guns in a hurry, but it was impossible to use anti-aircraft machine guns.
Question. Bai Jingran picked up a few boxes of machine gun bullets placed on the bunker and walked towards the anti-aircraft machine gun. Li Jinling also quickly picked up a few boxes of bullets and followed.
Bai Jingran pulled out rows of machine gun bullets from the bullet box and pressed the bullets into the magazine of the anti-aircraft machine gun. After setting up the anti-aircraft machine gun, he held the firing armrest with both hands. Large anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft machine guns like this use a grip.
Fitted trigger, not mouth trigger.
He looked toward the sky ahead from the shooting hole in the bunker. Just as Bai Jingran was looking left and right, a Japanese Type 97 attack aircraft suddenly appeared from the lower right corner of the shooting hole, climbing rapidly. It was probably
After diving and dropping bombs, prepare to return and leave.
Bai Jingran immediately swung the machine gun, and the semicircular T-shaped sight on the machine gun quickly closed on the moving aircraft.
"Dong dong dong..."
A heavy machine gun sounded, and two long tongues of flame spurted out from the muzzle, shooting towards the Japanese aircraft in the sky!
ps: Thank you jerryw1975, for the reward of blowing the tube on a cold night in the wind and rain!