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Despite this, Okamura Neiji still made careful arrangements for this air battle.
This time, in order to quickly defeat the stubborn army and achieve complete conquest of China, the empire deployed a total of more than two hundred "Zero Fighters" into the battle.
Okamura Neiji did not use them against the stubborn army because he knew that the air power of the stubborn army was vulnerable.
Even if the stubborn army has Yingjiang's "Flying Tigers", this air force is used by Chongqing as a knife guard to protect Chongqing's safety, so it is not a concern.
For other tasks, the Empire's old models can easily handle it.
On the contrary, for the Eighth Route Army, its two newly formed air forces became a serious problem for the empire.
Okamura Neiji was not sure how many "La 5"s the Eighth Route Army had left...Okamura Neiji thought he had successfully used V1 missiles to blow up the Eighth Route Army's Toishipo Airport last time, and by the way, it destroyed many fighter planes.
However, Okamura Neiji believes that as long as the Eighth Route Army still has one aircraft, it cannot be taken lightly.
What's more, the Eighth Route Army and the entire First Air Force were not affected.
This is how Neji Okamura assigned the task:
He divided more than 200 Zero Fighters into eight flying squadrons, each with about thirty aircraft.
Three of the main flying squadrons are used for direct combat with the Eighth Route Army's aviation fleet, and three flying squadrons serve as reserves.
The remaining two flying squadrons were used to cover the bombers' bombing of the Eighth Route Army's airports.
At the same time, Okamura Neiji also prepared fifty V1 missiles, ready to cooperate with bombers to bomb enemy airport targets at any time.
Okamura Neiji didn't have high hopes for the S1, but he pinned his hopes on the empire's newly developed equipment... the "Sakura Bomb".
This is the secret weapon of the empire. Not only is it cheap and has a high hit rate, it also prevents bombers from risking flying into enemy airports.
Okamura Neiji believed that the "Sakura Bomb" could easily block the Eighth Route Army's temporary airports one by one, or directly blow up their runways so that fighter planes could not take off and land for a short period of time.
If the Eighth Route Army loses these temporary airports, they will be in a passive position to be beaten.
Therefore, Okamura Neiji's order to the main aviation team is: "Don't get too entangled with enemy aircraft, pay attention to preserving your strength, your task is to attract their attention!"
"Yes!" Air Force Commander Hashimoto Shozuo replied, and then he immediately led his men to quickly run towards the plane and take off.
However, one thing neither Okamura Neiji nor Hashimoto Shaozuo considered was...the "La-5" fighter plane used by the Eighth Route Army at this time was faster than the "Zero Fighter", and much faster.
Then, during the battle, it is basically impossible for the Japanese fighter planes to achieve the strategic goal of "not entangled with the enemy" and thus "preserve strength".
Because the initiative in combat always lies with the side with the fastest speed, whether to fight or retreat is decided by "Pull 5".
It’s not that Hashimoto Shaozuo didn’t expect this.
In fact, as an air force commander, if you fail to consider the speed of enemy fighters, you are obviously unqualified.
The problem is that the empire at this time did not know the speed of the "La 5" at all... They could judge that the "La 5" was flying faster, and that was only based on the reports of the 98 light-explosive pilots who had been shot down before.
Compared to the fast flying speed of the 98 Light Explosion, how fast is it?
"Zero War" is equally fast against 98!
Therefore, Hashimoto Shaozuo could only make some guesses about the future battle situation based on his own combat experience.
After the plane took off, he told his subordinates via radio:
"Everyone, our opponent is Mao Xiong's fighter plane!" Hashimoto Shaozuo said: "This is a fighter plane that we have never seen or fought with. As far as I know, Hans has not seen this fighter plane either.
A fighter jet!”
At this time, the subordinate interjected: "Did Mao Xiong put the remaining parts together?"
Then the pilots laughed arrogantly.
No wonder the Japanese pilots thought so, because Hans was still attacking at this time... Although Hans defeated the Battle of Moscow, Mao Xiong thought that after winning this battle, Hans could be driven out of the country, so he pursued him.
Too hasty.
The result was another tragedy in which the establishment was surrounded and eaten by Hans.
As a result, Hans has stabilized his position and is even planning a counterattack.
As an ally of Hans, the Empire certainly knew that Hans had control of the air from the beginning to the end on the battlefield of Mao Xiong, so they did not take Mao Xiong's fighter planes seriously.
Hashimoto Shaozuo did not smile, he said with a serious face: "Everyone, we can think about it this way: if this fighter was developed by Mao Xiong to deal with Hans, then it is likely to be able to fight Hans's BF109
.Then, I can make a bold guess that its speed is probably faster than ours!"
Hashimoto's analysis is reasonable, because Mao Xiong is also a major industrial country, and at this time of tense war situation, Mao Xiong cannot waste its production capacity to produce a bunch of useless fighter planes.
Thinking this way, they should not underestimate the batch of Wooly Bear fighters they are about to face.
But Squadron Leader Sakata didn't think so.
"Your Excellency Shaozuo!" Bantian said: "Our intelligence department has already inquired about the situation of the Eighth Route Army pilots, right?"
Hashimoto said "Yeah": "You are right, Mr. Sakata, the Eighth Route Army recruited a large number of pilots, and they only trained for a few months!"
"How many months?" The pilots laughed lightly again.
"That's what I want to say!" Sakata continued: "No matter how good the fighter plane is, it must be piloted. Unless the Bear pilot personally flies the fighter plane to fight with us, otherwise... I don't think we will be in any danger! What do you think?
"
Hashimoto was speechless.
There is nothing wrong with Sakata's analysis. Pilots who have been trained for several months and used in air combat are simply a joke. They may not have learned any tactics!
As for the furry bear pilot personally participating in the battle...
This is unlikely. The Empire and the Bear have signed a non-aggression treaty. It is impossible for the Bear to blatantly be an enemy of the Empire at such a tense time.
but……
Is it really as safe as Sakata said?
Hashimoto isn't sure.
In the end, he could only confess: "Everyone, as you all know, the biggest advantage of our 'Zero' is that the fuselage has a small turning radius. Therefore, if any unexpected situation occurs, you must remember to make frequent turns and maneuvers!
"
"Yes!" All the pilots responded.
However, most of them did not agree with Hashimoto's order. They thought Hashimoto was worrying too much.
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In the past, the "Zero War" could not defeat the Eighth Route Army because it suffered the disadvantage of not having air-to-air missiles.