However, compared with the Japanese army, which suffered a lot of losses, the loss of 19 planes was less than that of the Japanese army. But it also means that the fighters under the jurisdiction of the aviation cluster transferred to western Hebei have lost one-fifth of the total. Although most of the pilots who were shot down were rescued.

However, for the aviation forces currently in western Hebei, the already limited number of fighters, the losses are definitely not light. In particular, a large part of the fighters lost were the Yak-9 fighters with the best air combat performance and the smallest number of fighters, which undoubtedly made Chen Hanzhang, an old subordinate sitting in western Hebei, very distressed.

Fortunately, this fighter has been able to be produced by the Anti-United Nations. Although the number of production has remained at a very low number, it also means that the number of war losses can be replenished. When replenishing fighter jets, you don't have to beg grandpa and grandmother everywhere to get those second-rate planes.

After the first day of air battles, faced with the first day of air battles. Nearly a third of the fighters were lost, and the following successive defeats in air battles followed. The Japanese abandoned air defenses against Wuhan and Nanjing, Shanghai, and even Taiwan. The last part of the air force of the Chinese dispatch army, as well as some fighter groups from Taiwan and South China, were quickly transferred back to the struggle for air supremacy in the Jizhong battlefield.

Even in order to compete for air supremacy in the Jizhong battlefield, the Japanese army transferred the so-called first ace squadron of the army aviation, the Kato Hayabusa team, from the Burma battlefield. A large number of flight instructors were also transferred from the aviation school to form two aviation squadrons to participate in the war in the Jizhong Plain through Korea and the Shandong Peninsula.

After this group of veteran pilots arrived at the Jizhong battlefield, the Japanese army suffered a loss in the struggle for air supremacy, and the downward trend was completely curbed. Sending aviation school instructors to fight is tantamount to suicide for any air force. The Japanese Army Aviation Corps did not spend a lot of money in doing so.

However, after these flight veterans arrived at the Jizhong battlefield, the decline of the Japanese army in the struggle for air supremacy was barely contained. But in the end, after several hard battles, they still failed to completely defeat their opponents who gradually and truly matured. In the later stage of the battle, the Japanese, who had basically lost their blood, were really powerless to fight, so they could only adopt the tactics of sneak attack and leave after they had a handful.

Similarly, in the face of the increasing strength of the Japanese army, the anti-coalition air force also continued to mobilize reinforcements from Yan'an and outside the customs, and even mobilized two squadrons of Lage-3 fighters to participate in the battle. In the air battle between the two armies, the losses of the Anti-United Nations were not light. But despite the high cost, it has always had the upper hand in air combat. Although the advantage is not much, it basically has air supremacy.

During the entire Jizhong Campaign, from the beginning of this day to the complete final conclusion of the campaign, air combat always ran through it. Together with the planes shot down by ground fire, the wreckage of the downed planes of the two armies spread almost all over the Jizhong Plain. The large number of aviation units invested by both sides suffered extremely heavy losses.

However, in this aerial scuffle between Hebei and China, it is not only the Japanese who are unlucky. In the middle of an air battle in mid-December, six long-range P51B fighters of the US military stationed in Chongqing took off from the Laohekou airfield.

As a result, they had never seen this kind of new US plane, and the anti-United Nations pilots, who had gone crazy in air combat, regarded these six US planes, which had never been seen before, as new Japanese planes. After a three-country air war, the Anti-Japanese Union shot down all six US P51B fighters at the cost of the loss of three Yak-9 fighters.

It wasn't until the prisoner on the ground didn't look right, not a Japanese with lap legs, but a guy with a high nose, deep eyes, blue eyes, and yellow hair, that he realized that he had made the wrong target. But at this time, the Americans can only suffer a loss. Who told you to break into the battlefield without even making a report, and who would you fight if you didn't hit you?

Although this incident ended with the Americans suffering a dumb loss, it also gave Yang Zhen a wake-up call. The Americans are absolutely not reckless in doing so. With the range of the P51B fighter, it is naturally easy to take off from the mouth of the old river in Hubei to the battlefield in central Hebei.

At this time, the Americans sent this kind of latest long-range fighter that they refused to provide to the Anti-United Nations to the battlefield in Jizhong, probably to test the real air combat level of the anti-United Nations aviation force and the real performance of the Soviet-style fighters in disguise. Otherwise, the flight of a fighter can be said to be an unauthorized action, but there will definitely not be a small group of planes formed by a detachment, all of which are so reckless.

What's more, among the prisoners caught on the ground, the youngest of them was also a lieutenant, and the rest were all majors and captains. Not even a single second lieutenant, and most of them looked like veterans of air combat. I am afraid that the Americans have ulterior motives for doing this, and it is definitely not an unintentional move as they say.

However, although Yang Zhen was full of vigilance against the Americans' temptation, he was also quite satisfied with the performance of his pilots. The performance of the Yak-9 fighter is indeed excellent, but compared with the P-51B fighter, there is still a big gap in terms of speed and dive ability.

And since the US military is prepared, it is natural that it will not be unprepared for the chaos that may be caused by its rash appearance on the battlefield. These P-51 fighters were all attacked with real shots. It is still commendable that his own pilots were able to shoot down the most advanced fighter of the US military at a relatively large cost under the condition that there was a big gap in the performance of the fighters.

Considering the current relatively complicated relationship with the Americans, Yang Zhen did not feel embarrassed by these captured guys. These guys, along with the body of a US pilot who was killed in battle, were handed over to the US 14th Air Force stationed in China in Yan'an. The Americans, who knew what to do, did not do any entanglement, let alone offer any compensation, and the two sides settled the matter on the basis of misunderstanding.

In fact, in this matter, the Anti-United Nations has taken a great advantage in addition to the air war. The biggest advantage was to get an advanced British Morin aero engine copied by the Americans and the latest American-made aviation instruments from a P-51 fighter that was damaged and forced to land in a nearly intact condition.

At the same time, from the other five P-51 fighters that crashed, an engine was also pulled out without much damage. The two engines, along with all the usable parts in the wreckage, and the largely intact plane, were immediately transferred back to the Northeast.

Got two Morin engines, one near-seemingly complete P-51 fighter. As well as the experience gained in air combat with the P-51 fighters, Yang Zhen thought that although the loss of three Yak-9 fighters, the price was still quite worthwhile. No matter what the Americans really think, but at least in this matter, the Anti-United Nations still has some advantage.

However, the first encounter with the Americans was only an inconspicuous wave among the many air battles in this bloody air battle. The wave lasted only a short time before it was replaced by other, bloodier air battles. Although this air decisive battle paid a great price, it also completely broke the backbone of the Japanese air force invading China.

The biggest loss to the Japanese in this battle was not how many planes they shot down, but the huge losses of those flight instructors and flight veterans who were transferred to the Jizhong battlefield. Compared with the aircraft that can be repaired, the loss of these veteran pilots is what really hurts the Japanese army aviation.

After this air battle, the quality of the entire Japanese army aviation and the rate of decline made the anti-union aviation feel extremely surprised. At the same time, the Japanese army withdrew all the air forces invading China to the south of the Yangtze River, and in the last period of the entire war, they did not dare to take a single step north of the Yangtze River.

Compared with the victory and defeat in the air battle, everyone's losses are not light. In terms of ground support, the Anti-United Nations can occupy an absolute advantage. In particular, the excessive solidity of the Il-2 attack aircraft made the Japanese fighters and ground firepower almost a tiger with nowhere to eat in the face of this guy.

After receiving dozens of 13mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, what should I do if I have nothing to do. Even the 20-millimeter cannon equipped with the fighter jets of the Japanese Army Air Corps is very difficult to shoot down as long as it does not hit the key parts. This aircraft, covered with armor, made the Japanese army almost helpless whether it was ground anti-aircraft fire or fighters.

On the first day that this anti-United Nations attack aircraft appeared on the battlefield, the Japanese army was directly dumbfounded by this flying turtle and fire hedgehog complex. Although the bomb load of this kind of pure tactical aircraft is not much, the flight range is even shorter. However, the requirements for take-off are not high, and a straight dirt road is roughly flattened, which is enough to meet the needs of take-off and landing.

It is equipped with a total of 600 kg of bombs and can carry six 82 mm or 107 mm air-to-surface rockets. Coupled with the 23 mm or 37 mm guns on board, it was almost a nightmare for the Japanese ground forces.

This aircraft could not only attack the artillery positions of the Japanese army, but also field fortification groups on the ground. It can also make a cameo appearance as a fighter and attack Japanese bombers and transport planes. He even once used the advantage of his thick skin to make a cameo appearance as an air superiority fighter, and fought an air battle with the Japanese army in the absence of air cover.

As a result, after an air battle, the two 12-millimeter machine guns of the Falcon Battle, there was no way to take this kind of attack aircraft with thick skin and flesh, but they were bitten more than once. During the entire battle, this attack plane shot down seven Japanese Type C fighters, and as for the Japanese Type 97, Type 100, and Type 99 bombers, there were not a few of them planted in the hands of this type of attack aircraft.

In an air battle, when all the fighters participating in the battle were entangled by Japanese fighters and were unable to intercept the Japanese bomber group that had attacked by surprise. A nearby Japanese artillery position that had just finished attacking was returning home, and the Il-2 Attack Aircraft Squadron, which had been quickly transferred to cover the ground logistics supply center, undertook the task of interception.

After an air battle, the Il-2 attack plane, which made a temporary cameo appearance, used the 23-mm cannon on board and the 12-mm self-defense machine gun on the back seat to shoot down all the six Japanese 100-type bombers that came to sneak attack. It had only one plane of its own, which was seriously injured by the 20-millimeter self-defense guns of the 100-type bombers.

In particular, its excellent anti-tank capabilities brought unforgettable trauma to the Japanese tank cluster participating in the battle. After the Il-2 attack aircraft entered the battle, the ground forces directly took over most of the anti-tank tasks, whether they wanted to or not. Especially in the Baoding battlefield, most of the main force of the 1st Tank Brigade invested by the Japanese army in a single attack was destroyed at the starting position on the south bank of the Cao River. Let Chen Hanzhang painstakingly deploy an ambush circle for the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Tank, and hang it directly on the south bank of the Cao River.

Although the range and bomb load of the Il-2 attack plane, which was put into the Jizhong battlefield by the Anti-Japanese Federation, are not as good as the American-made A-20 attack planes. However, its excellent anti-tank capabilities, as well as the take-off and landing capabilities of airstrips, made the aircraft, along with the Yak-9 fighter and the A-20 attack aircraft, known as the three major air heroes in this battle.