With the expansion of the scale of Japanese aggression, the struggle for air supremacy between China and Japan has become more and more intense, and both sides have accumulated valuable experience in bloody aerial strangulations, and have trained a large number of excellent commanders and pilots. But then the problem arose, this growth was expensive, and the Chinese Air Force, which lacked stamina support, soon exposed its shortcomings.

Years of warlord warfare have slowed the development of China's basic industries, and it has lagged far behind its neighbor to the east, Japan. In China, where the aviation industry base is extremely weak, the Chinese Air Force is actually a rootless tree, and the losses incurred in the war cannot be compensated by relying on its own industrial strength.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force can be said to be an air force bought with money, all fighters are foreign products purchased at high prices, and the air force has become a big fat in the eyes of some families, they don't care at all about what they buy, whether the performance is excellent, they only pay attention to this purchase of weapons imports, and how many kickbacks can be obtained from it after the matter is completed.

At that time, several aircraft factories in China, because of their weak technical level and backward production equipment, could only manufacture some light civil aircraft with backward performance and outdated design, and even if they were used to spread pesticides, it might be a little difficult, let alone equipped to participate in the battle. At this time, there were actually many outstanding aviation scientists and technicians who had received Western education, but because of the lack of financial support from the higher authorities for technology research and development projects, aviation engineers were eventually reduced to ordinary mechanics.

Some people may say that it was recorded in a document that China could build its own engines and planes at that time, yes, are you afraid of an 80-horsepower engine, and an aircraft with a speed of 280 kilometers per hour...... Anyway, the Japanese are definitely not afraid. As for putting together a bunch of imported engines and parts to make an airplane, shouting that the imitation was successful, this should be called whether the assembly is good or not, even the steel pipes of the skeleton are imported from abroad, and the only domestic thing on the body is the outer layer of cloth.

The army's aircraft repair shops have made a mess of even the most basic tasks of making their own parts for repair. After the randomly purchased spare parts ran out, the new parts did not know where they were, and in the end they had to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall to ensure that the combat-ready aircraft could go to the sky to fight. As a result, fewer and fewer planes are being dismantled in good condition, and the planes waiting for repair are parked on the tarmac and warehouses.

As the war situation worsened, the Chinese Air Force's fighter losses became larger and larger, and on the contrary, the Japanese side of the opponent could continuously obtain a steady stream of aircraft and personnel from the country. Under the trade-off of one another, the Japanese air force units on the Chinese battlefield soon occupied an absolute dominant position in terms of size and equipment.

The training mechanism of Chinese pilots is not complete, the training conditions for the cadets are poor, and the situation of the war is critical, and the experienced pilots in the early stage are gradually lost, and the four great kings of the famous Chinese Air Force have been martyred one after another, and many novice pilots who hastily completed the formation training have only relied on a bloody courage to fly into the sky to fight, and then become the achievements of the old birds of the Japanese army in vain. At the same time, a valuable aircraft was lost. However, the war will not wait for anyone, and the more manpower is lacking, the more anxious it is to send Xinding up, so a vicious circle is formed, and finally the vitality is completely injured.

Although at one time the Chinese government received a batch of aircraft from the Soviet side. The performance may not be among the best in the world, but it can also be on par with the Japanese military models at that time. However, these additions can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket compared with the losses in the previous stage, and at the same time, the quality of the flight personnel is far less than that of the beginning of the war, and the quality of the combat personnel is uneven. Moreover, military discipline has gradually weakened, and although morale is still high, the upper echelons can see it clearly. The overall decline has been undoubtedly revealed, and the air force has basically lost the ability to regain air supremacy in enemy-occupied areas from the Japanese army.

At the same time, in order to preserve its strength, the top level of the government also issued a strict order, requiring pilots to passively avoid the enemy in the air, and not allowing fighter planes to attack at will unless it was determined that they had a quantitative and qualitative advantage.

Since then, the fighter brigade stationed in Chongqing in most cases can only choose to organize troops to launch a pursuit when the Japanese bombing is over, because if it is a frontal interception of bombers who come to drop bombs, the morale of the Japanese army that sees the target in sight is at its peak, and all of them are like being full of chicken blood.

But if the Japanese bombing is completed and the return flight, then the situation is very different, at this time the Japanese plane has not much fuel left, the adrenaline full of blood vessels has gradually subsided, the fatigue after the physical exertion of the long-distance flight has also begun to appear, and because the mission has been completed, the psychological basis for playing with the Chinese no longer exists. Moreover, it is very important that the Japanese planes are in a retreating position, and the Chinese Air Force can directly seize the six-point position of the Japanese planes, and it is very convenient to surprise and sneak attack. If the Japanese army wants to turn around and resist, once the two sides get into a fight, whether they are injured or consume too much fuel, they will probably not be able to fly back, and most of the area on the bombing route is still under the control of China, and once the plane falls, the crew members will be captured alive after parachuting, and if they are unlucky, they will have to be chopped alive, and the psychological pressure on the Japanese pilots is not ordinary.

This eventually led to the bombing of the Japanese air force in Chongqing, whether it was the bombers of the army or the navy, when they encountered the rear-end collision of the Chinese Air Force, they were basically unwilling to cooperate with the counterattack or maneuver and struggle, but opened up with full horsepower and scattered the formation and fled separately.

Less than ten minutes after leading the Zero Fighter Group to follow the 96th Army Attack Group at high altitude, Shinto knew that the plan of his superiors had succeeded, and on the side of the bomber group, a huge group of fighters appeared, which was charging towards the bomber group at an altitude slightly lower than that of the Zero Battle.

"Roaring, it's finally out." Seeing the Chinese fleet that appeared, Shinto finally breathed a sigh of relief. According to the plan drawn up at first, he swung the wing three times. He immediately led three squads with a total of 10 zeros, and swooped in the direction of the Chinese aircraft group with full horsepower, while the remaining three-plane squad stayed at high altitude, and their task was to act as a guard and intercept the enemy planes that escaped through the net, which was also the experience that the Japanese army summed up from the last operation.

The battle on September 13 was actually an outbreak after the Chinese Air Force had been suppressed for a long time, and it originally wanted to re-establish the confidence of the Chinese people in the war of resistance, but it did not expect to run headlong into a new aircraft developed by the Japanese army. Even if the pilots of the Japanese army are a group of rookies, they are also rookies who have undergone rigorous training, and at the same time, they are still flying egg battles that completely crush the Chinese fighters in terms of performance. In the end, the battle resulted in the blood of more than a dozen Chinese air athletes, many of whom were elite pilots who had been fighting on the front line since the beginning of the war.

The outcome of this battle was a great shock to the Chinese leadership, especially the extremely good-looking chairman, which he regarded as an insult to the country and his personal, and the top brass of the Air Force was severely rebuked by him.

The air force actually held its breath in their hearts, and the battle was a melee from beginning to end, and in their opinion, the performance of the Japanese fighters was excellent. But it's not invulnerable. At that time, the Chinese Air Force's aircraft fleet was suddenly attacked, and the various aircraft groups were not subordinate to each other, and there was confusion in command and coordination, and as a result, continuous support was played into a refueling tactic. The Japanese planes always held the initiative on the battlefield, but the pilots of the Chinese Air Force, without knowing anything about the battle situation, broke into the battlefield one after another, and were immediately defeated by the enemy forces that had the advantage in performance.

Now go back and look at that battle. In fact, the number of Japanese fighters is much smaller than that of the Chinese Air Force, and from the analysis of past eyewitness intelligence, this new type of aircraft has appeared so far. The number of the day has never been exceeded, and it can be seen that the Japanese army only has a small number of this latest model in their hands. The Supreme Leader believes that if the Air Force can organize a sufficient number of planes to carry out a targeted siege attack on such Japanese planes, as long as they make good use of the excellent air mobility capability of the planes in their hands, they will certainly be able to teach the Japanese an unforgettable lesson.

The leader's orders must be obeyed, so when the early warning report of the Japanese bomber group came this time, the air force had once again concentrated the only remaining 40 fighters at the Taiping Temple in Chongqing. However, the commanders of the Air Force were not very optimistic about Shangfeng's plan, and they had already learned from the survivors of the battle about the performance of the enemy aircraft, and the result was very frustrating, the Japanese had already built such an advanced aircraft, while they were still using the model designed ten years ago, and the performance difference between the two sides was so great that it could no longer be compensated for by flight technology.

However, when they learned the news of the attack of the Japanese bomber group, the pilots still enthusiastically asked their superiors for battle, and there was no trace of the enemy's cutting-edge fighters in the early warning report, and they estimated that they could at least take down this group of 96 land attacks that were not afraid of death, and used them to pay tribute to the heroic souls who died in the previous battle. So the last group of the three elite fighter groups of the Chinese Air Force were all dispatched on the same day, but what they did not expect was that this was a trap set by the Japanese army against the Chinese Air Force.

Then a fierce aerial melee broke out. In just two minutes, the formation of the Chinese aircraft group was dismembered alive, and the squadrons completely lost their command, the long planes could not find their wingmen, and the superiors could not find their own units, and the pilots could only blindly rely on their instincts to fight to the death, and for a time the air was covered with the wreckage of the burning and falling planes. The Zero Squad's light climb and flip on the battlefield was like an elegant air show, with machine guns and cannons spewing out wisps of flame from time to time, followed by a Chinese plane despairingly dragging the flames down.

Just as Shinto led his subordinates to hunt down the Chinese fighters, the Takatsuka team that stayed at high altitude was already a little impatient, watching their colleagues create one record after another, while they could only watch from the sidelines, which was really a kind of punishment-like torment.

Takatsuka Yin and the other air Cao kept spinning in circles with two wingmen, staring at the battlefield below, hoping to find a few escaped Chinese fighters so that they could open their doors. Just when Takatsuka was scratching his heart and lungs and struggling to endure it, suddenly his wingman and the landline of the second class of the second class appeared on his side, which immediately startled Takatsuka. Takatsuka looked at the wingman with a dissatisfied face, but found that the other party was desperately gesturing to him, constantly pointing his finger in the direction of his diagonal upwards.

"Nanda coolie." Takatsuka looked suspiciously in the direction of the wingman's finger. I saw that in the west at the same altitude as myself, there were several slow-moving black spots, and there were no other Japanese planes in the vicinity, so the identity of these planes undoubtedly belonged to the Chinese Air Force.

"Yanxi, it seems that it is a reinforcement from the Chinese Air Force!" Takatsuka was immediately happy, and he gave the wingman a thumbs up, then made a gesture to follow his actions.

Takatsuka's Zero turned the nose lightly and led his two wingmen to launch a surprise attack on these unexpected visitors. (To be continued.) )