The Australian battlefield is very different from other Pacific theaters, and it is not only the navy and air force that are needed in the Australian theater. In the vast Australian battlefield, not on those islands with an area of only a few dozen, at most a few hundred square kilometers, more land forces are needed. On the one hand, the Japanese army, which has experienced the glory of Southeast Asia, thinks that it has a greater advantage for those Mi Ying ghost animals.

In either case, as long as the Battle of Midway was won, Australia would be the first target in the next step of the Japanese army's battle plan. The Japanese are now swollen to the extreme, and they don't think about how much they can fit in their limited belly. Therefore, Yang Zhen firmly believed that after the Japanese army won the Battle of Midway, it would definitely attack Australia.

And the greedy Japanese army has always had the habit of never letting go as long as they bite something. Australia, in particular, is so important to the entire South Pacific situation. Either the Japanese will not attack, and once they attack Australia, they can only desperately increase their troops, and they will definitely not give up easily.

What he wants is the current situation, so that the United States and Britain can also have a good chance of what is called the real elite of the Japanese army. Otherwise, it is necessary to avoid the heavy and light, and adopt the tactic of island jumping to avoid the key deployment areas of the Japanese army. Attacking only those areas where the Japanese deployment has been repeatedly reduced, and most of the elite and heavy weapons are transferred out of the shelf divisions, where the Americans will suffer real hardship.

Wouldn't he hesitate to use the only chess piece lurking within the Japanese Navy and now trusted and relied on by the commander of the Combined Fleet? You must know that this is the only chess piece planted in the Japanese Navy by the Anti-Japanese Federation, and in order to be able to insert this person into it, Yang Zhen and Chen Long can be said to have spent a lot of effort.

Unless the most critical moment, Yang Zhen will definitely not use it easily. At this time, he was activated to encourage the admiral who was the commander of the Combined Fleet to replace Nagumo Tadaichi, who was indecisive and always suffering from gains and losses. Instead, Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, who had recently made a name for himself in the Indian Ocean, commanded the Japanese Navy's Midway Air Fleet.

It's just that Yang Zhen didn't expect that the Japanese army not only changed its commander in this battle, but even the participating fleets also changed. The Japanese Navy that participated in the war was the Third Air Fleet, which had been reorganized in strength, not the original First Air Fleet. The strength of the Japanese army in the war has changed so much that at first Yang Zhen thought that his plan had failed.

However, after the war, a careful study of the strength of the Japanese army in the war turned out to be a change of soup rather than a change of medicine. It's just that the two air fleets that originally participated in the war changed their affiliation, from the First Air Fleet to the Third Air Fleet. At the same time, the Third Air Fleet was changed from the Southern Fleet to the Combined Fleet, which was originally subordinate to it, and was upgraded to the same status as the First Air Fleet.

Yang Zhen did not expect that in order to replace a commander, the Japanese Navy Command Department and the Combined Fleet were really painstaking. After a circle, nothing has changed except that the fleet commander has been changed from Nagumo Tadaichi to Ozawa Jizaburo, and the number has been changed from the First Air Fleet to the Third Fleet. Even the staff officers of the fleet have not changed, who should do what or do what.

There is no way, this Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, although he is the best commander of the air fleet in the Japanese Navy. However, although this old man's ability is excellent, he is only a graduate of the 37th class of the Naval Academy, and there is no way to compare with the qualifications of Vice Admiral Nagumo Zhongyi in the 36th class.

And on the hammock, which decided the fate of Japanese naval officers, Nagumo Tadaichi was seventh, and Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa was forty-fifth. According to the rigid personnel system of the Japanese army and navy, no matter how strong your ability is, when choosing a commander, as long as there is a senior who is more senior than you, you are ahead of you. Even if he was a tactical idiot, he had to be the one who had to be in charge.

If Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, to serve as the commander of this 1st Air Fleet. There is only one way, either he has been in previous classes, and the hammock number in this class is in front of him, and all the admirals in active duty die or retire from active service, and this is his turn to take over as the commander of the Navy's First Air Fleet.

The Japanese Navy fleet has come up with such a strange personnel system, although it ensures the promotion path of officers of civilian origin and ability. But it has also caused some officers who can only study and take exams, but their actual ability is mediocre, to occupy high positions. Blocking the promotion channel for those who can't take exams, but have excellent ability.

In the case that the qualifications were not as good as those of Nagumo Tadaichi, the First Air Fleet, the main force of the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aviation, could only be served by Nagumo Tadaichi, who was more interested in battleships. As the most suitable candidate, he can only command the Third Fleet, which is at the same level as the First Air Fleet, and the Third Air Fleet, to cover the land forces of the Southeast Asian landing war.

In order to ensure the victory of the Battle of Midway, the commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, at the instigation of a certain naval aviation officer, made a great determination. The First Air Fleet and the Third Air Fleet were transferred to subordinate air fleets. The 1st and 2nd Air Fleets were integrated into the 3rd Air Fleet.

In the case that it is impossible to raise the rank of the Third Air Fleet, lest the unconventional practice of promoting Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa to the 37th term because the general of the 36th term is still in office, and the navy will cause too much fluctuation in personnel aspects. It was simply separated from the Third Fleet and placed under the direct command of the Combined Fleet.

As a result of this move, the Japanese Navy's carrier-based air force had changed from the First Air Fleet to the Third Air Fleet by the time of the Midway operation. Although this change of generals made the commander of the Combined Fleet painstaking, this painstaking effort was also rewarded.

Jizaburo Ozawa was decisive in command and thoughtful, and he has always been known for his calm and composure in the Japanese Navy. Although the course of the battle has not changed, the outcome has changed greatly. The Japanese Navy not only did not suffer a crushing defeat, but won a real naval and air battle. Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack, and the victory in the Battle of Midway was the real hard hit.

In the Battle of Midway, the US Pacific Fleet, which had not yet recovered from the Pearl Harbor incident, suffered another heavy loss. Even the gateway to Hawaii, Midway, was lost, and there was a rather strong backlash because of the outcome of the battle. The most important thing is to let the Japanese base camp, which was so overwhelmed that it was originally a plan, but never implemented the plan to attack the Australian mainland, advance.

In fact, Yang Zhen first wanted to replace Nagumo Tadaichi with Lieutenant General Kakura Kakuharu Tsunoda, because Kakuharu Kakuda had a stronger desire to attack. And he is a veteran in commanding naval aviation operations. However, Kakuharu Tsunoda is a member of the 39th Naval Academy, and his qualifications are even more shallow than that of Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa.

There is basically no possibility that he should take over the post of commander of the First Air Fleet. Even if it is the same as the transfer of Jizaburo Ozawa, it is impossible to find a way to adjust. After all, his current position is only equivalent to the commander of an army division. After thinking about it, under the circumstance of limited options, Yang Zhen finally chose Lieutenant General Jizaburo Ozawa, who was relatively senior.

Yang Zhen, who was quite satisfied with the results he took to plan the Midway Battle and directly beat the U.S. Pacific Fleet back to its original position. Naturally, he would not tell the two US and British military chiefs in Northeast China, who were disturbed by the constant deterioration of the current situation in the entire Pacific war, that the current situation was created by his painstaking efforts.

But these two kept making such and such requests, which made Yang Zhen quite a headache. In desperation, Yang Zhen directly took these two guys to the aviation force for a walk. When they saw the empty warehouses of materials, fuel, and ammunition of the Anti-United Nations Air Force, which could only be used as an airplane on the ground because of the lack of necessary parts, the two guys finally closed their annoying mouths.

After this inspection, the pace of assistance from the United States and Britain has increased significantly. Less than a month and a half later, 5,000 tons of aviation fuel, plus a large number of American-made aircraft parts and spare engines, and 50 A-20 attack planes arrived in Northeast China.

It also dispatched a group of aeronautical engineers and technicians to assist the Anti-United Nations in replacing American-made engines for the Il-4 bombers, so as to extend the service life of these planes as much as possible. However, with a stroke of the pen, the Americans also transferred the 30 American-made B-25 bombers that were originally intended for the Anti-Japanese Union to the Australian battlefield.

The first batch of 120 Hurricane fighters provided by the British, and 45 Blenheim light bombers were even faster, flying from the Soviet Union to the northeast before American aid arrived. In the second half of the year, although the number of American aid planes did not increase, the number of planes given by the British increased significantly.

However, for the United States and Britain aid planes, Yang Zhen was quite annoyed. The A-20 attack aircraft is just that, this is the standard tactical support aircraft of the Anti-United Nations. But looking at the 120 tropical hurricane fighters given by the British, which were obviously drawn from the North African battlefield, Yang Zhen was quite annoyed, although he did not show too much anger.

This kind of aircraft was defeated by the Zero and Hayabusa fighters of the Japanese Navy and Army in the Australian and Southeast Asian theaters. But it was used to aid the Anti-Japanese Federation, which really annoyed him. Isn't this kind of aircraft, which is basically already at the point of obsolescence, prevaricating itself?

What is even more infuriating is that most of these planes have been used as front-line fighter-bombers in the British army, and are no longer used by front-line air combat units, and now their technical level has been second-rate aircraft. It's not even the latest improved Type IV, but the Type II with even more backward performance.

For Yang Zhen, who had a rather unsightly face after seeing this batch of planes. Pearson and Ross could only be cheeky and constantly praise the benefits of such an aircraft. For example, the fuselage is sturdy, easy to maintain, and the take-off and landing requirements for the airport are not high, which is very suitable for the use of anti-coupling in the lack of qualified airports.

Of course, because the airborne weapons are only 7.7mm machine guns, the firepower is indeed a little weaker, but fortunately, there are a lot of them. The density of fire of twelve machine guns is still quite high. Think about what would be the result of twelve machine guns hitting the fragile fuselage of a Japanese aircraft?

Although the range of only 740 kilometers is a little shorter, the requirements for take-off and landing airports are low, and they can be deployed close to the battlefield. Moreover, the maintenance is simple, and most of the maintenance work can be carried out at the field airfield, which is very suitable for the actual situation of weak anti-United Nations technology.

The maximum speed of 510 kilometers per hour is somewhat inferior to the latest Japanese fighters, but it is not too bad, and this level flight speed still exceeds most Japanese aircraft. Although the maneuverability is a little worse, the good thing is that the body is strong and resistant to beating.

Generally speaking, it is relatively qualified to deal with the opponent on the Chinese battlefield, mainly the Japanese army aviation. The most important thing is that this kind of aircraft is equipped with turbocharging equipment that is not installed on American-made P40 fighters, and its high-altitude performance is still quite excellent.