"Quantity can change the outcome!" Meng Xiang had to admire this.

In the previous life, China relied on the numerical advantage of a large number of people and a wide area, so that little Japan could not swallow it, and it was difficult to drag it out to the final moment of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Sometimes, as long as you are willing to pay the price, quantity can also redeem the advantage of quality.

When the Americans, who had been repeatedly frustrated, were ruthless and relaxed the shackles of the casualty rate, the numerical superiority of the Americans' powerful industry was quickly manifested.

The United States and China have fought so many wars, counting from the beginning of the conflict in Australia, to now the losses of various types of aircraft on the battlefield against China alone have exceeded 7,000. But this is nothing for the huge number of more than 210,000 aircraft produced by the United States in World War II. They are even more afraid of the loss of more than 5,000 pilots and flight crews.

Even though there were no machine-gun pilots in Huaxia, the increasingly fierce firepower made the Americans' once proud body of Japan no longer solid, and the casualty rate also soared. And the catapult devices of that era were still somewhat backward, and under the heavy fire of close combat, many times, there was no chance to even parachute.

Sometimes, even if you parachute, you can easily be captured by the Chinese, or become a member of the missing group, and you are also on the loss list.

Of course, this figure is not very conspicuous compared to the total number of 100,000 pilots in the United States. However, compared with the data of more than 600 Chinese fighters shot down by the United States, the Americans always feel that it is a little uneconomical, so they have not adopted the tactics of relying on numbers, and are more inclined to develop better aircraft development.

However, after working hard for a long time, the Americans suddenly found that they wanted to break through the supersonic barrier and catch up with the newly emerged J-6 and MiG fighters in China, and there were many problems, and it might take a long time to overcome.

The front line was rushing with smoke, and the Americans could not afford to delay time at all. Even the Chinese fighters can fly to the mainland of the United States, and the Americans cannot wait leisurely for a year or two, praying every day that the Chinese bombers will not come again.

As a result, different voices began to emerge within the United States. Using the existing numerical superiority to overwhelm the performance superiority of the Chinese weapons has become a plan that more and more people agree with.

The U.S. Navy has taken advantage of its dual advantages in numbers and performance to jump out of Hawaii and other confined areas and expand into a wider space around the world for strategic deployment. is one of them. This makes it easier to bring out the maneuverability of the Navy. It avoided the disadvantage of fighting with the Chinese in Hawaii for giant artillery and land aviation. opened up the gap in Huaxia's defense, and it was easier to find Huaxia's weaknesses.

And the plan of the Americans to fight for the number of fighters should have been put forward earlier.

The Americans themselves understand that China's superiority over the United States is basically based on air superiority. Air supremacy is the focus of contention between the United States and China. Hawaii is an example, and under the constraints of the Chinese Army Aviation, it is difficult to compete for air supremacy, and the US Navy can only stare dryly. Even in the US Navy's probing to Australia and other places, it has suffered from the lack of air supremacy.

Even Americans are self-aware. It is impossible to compete with Huaxia in land warfare, but in the case of gaining air supremacy, the numerical advantage of Huaxia in land warfare will also be reduced.

In the final analysis, air superiority is where the Americans' hopes for victory lie.

But there has always been an embarrassment in the command of the American air power.

The Americans were about the same as the Japanese, and in World War II all air power was attributed either to the Navy or to the Army. Operationally, it is subordinate to the actual operational needs of the navy and the army. However, large-scale air operations involve a wide range of issues, and it is not easy for various forces to coordinate. So the air power of the Americans also put forward the request for the creation of the US Air Force very early.

In the previous life, the success of the Americans on the battlefield of World War II made the plan for the Air Force to become a separate army until 47 years after the war.

Now, however, the Americans are suffering from deflating in front of the Chinese Air Force, which has made the Americans' call for air force reform to become louder and louder. In particular, when the US mainland was bombed and the Hawaiian campaign was repeatedly defeated, the Americans began to learn from the air force system of the so-called Army Aviation in China, and they wanted to list such a branch of the military separately to meet the operational needs of modern air warfare.

Just like in later generations, the US Air Force was mainly stripped from the Army Aviation. There must be a reason why the rapidly expanding Army is causing concern to some. The emergence of a brand-new branch of the armed forces is indispensable for the struggle of interests of various forces. This struggle of interests has also delayed the US Army Air Force's long-term plan to explore and attack in all directions in the air.

After all, there are too many things to prepare to test in all directions. Without a unified command, it is definitely the worst. If the action is not unified, not to mention what is being tried, it is even possible to be broken by Huaxia in turn.

This unity of command ultimately fell to the soon-to-be-formed U.S. Air Force. It's a pity that the establishment of the US Air Force was stumped by the Americans themselves.

Even the U.S. Navy's tentative operations in Australia, the Philippines and other regions have chosen to temporarily stagnate because of the affairs of the Army and Air Force. It was not until the Japanese side had an eyebrow and the navy was about to exert its strength that the establishment of the air force was accelerated, and the preparations for the all-round air test attack plan were also accelerated.

It is also thanks to the previous delay of the Americans that Huaxia has more time to react.

"We're almost in a situation from which we can't recover!" After learning about part of the plan of the United States for an air attack on China, Fan Chong was already amazed.

Even with the advance prediction of clone spies and radar and even satellites, it is difficult for Huaxia to deal with it.

With the strong support of Meng Xiang, the number of pilots trained by Huaxia over the years has exceeded 30,000. However, among them, there are many novice rookies and various students, and the qualified pilots are just in their early 20,000s.

Among them, the HNA accounted for 4,000 people, and only more than 1,000 aircraft carrier pilots could get on the aircraft carrier.

There are also more than 6,000 qualified pilots in the army and air force who cooperate with the army, and the number of qualified pilots in the air force is also hovering around 10,000. Among them, less than half of them can fly jet fighters, and they are mainly J-5s.

Under normal operations, relying on those qualified pilots is enough to deal with the battles on all fronts. You can even support one battlefield after another.

But this time the Americans resorted to full-fledged repression.

So they don't worry about the leakage of parts of the plan at all. This time, they adopted Chiguoguo's yang strategy, using their own strengths to target Huaxia's short feet, which had only recently developed, using space deployment to offset Huaxia's fighter performance advantage, and relying on strength to have a tough confrontation with Huaxia.

Although China has also focused on the development of air power over the years, and with the help of the advantages of fighters, it has also created more than 1,500 aces in the traditional sense, which is more than the number of more than 1,300 aces in the history of the Americans, but the total number of more than 20,000 is still much worse than the base ratio of more than 100,000 pilots in the United States.

When the U.S. Air Force was established ahead of schedule on 6 August, only three days later, the Americans' air counterattack plan began to be implemented. A week later, on 16 August, US warplanes, which had been prepared in advance, flew in groups around the world and simultaneously launched a general air attack on various fronts in China.

Not only the Americans themselves attacked, but with the lobbying and support of the Americans, the British, the Russians, and many Allied countries participated in this air offensive against China.

They also knew that in addition to this method, it would be difficult to deal with Huaxia's fighter superiority. This time, it also spared no effort to put in it, intending to make Huaxia's air defense force bigger, so that Huaxia's air defense force would eventually collapse.

From Australia and the Philippines, all the way to Alaska and the Ural Mountains, from the Hawaiian front to the Turkish and Tunisian fronts, from the aircraft carriers on the ocean, all the way to the mainland of China, the Allied forces directly invested more than 40,000 warplanes to press all over China.

If it weren't for the airport and ground handling, as well as the distance limitations, the Americans, who have been carefully preparing for this for a long time, would probably have invested more, but this number is already unprecedented.

Compared to a later era when jet fighter sorties were calculated in single digits and ten digits, tens of thousands of sorties were definitely a miracle.

Many years later, this day was also known as World War II Air Battle Day.

Because on this day, it was not only the United States and China that dispatched a huge group of fighters.

The intentions of the Americans were not concealed at all, and Huaxia quickly joined forces with Germany and mobilized the forces of the entire Axis to relieve the pressure from the side.

Therefore, when 17,000 fighters were dispatched to China, the Germans and other Axis powers also dispatched more than 10,000 fighters of various types to help in various places. Correspondingly, the Allied forces, which had been prepared for a long time, also sent more than 10,000 warplanes to fight.

All sides understood the significance of this air decisive battle, and began to prepare for it very early, and as soon as the signal for the Americans to attack sounded, they immediately launched a series of sorties.

So on August 18, nearly 80,000 warplanes appeared in the sky of the earth for an unprecedented time, vibrating their wings together and disrupting the world. (To be continued.) )