The Americans, who had been stationed in the Philippines, were transferred from first-tier to second-tier airfields before Pearl Harbor, and survived the Japanese attack. However, in the face of a large number of Japanese troops fighting in the Philippine battlefield, in the absence of escort, the B17 bomber group, which could barely survive in the air, flew to northeast China and handed over to the Anti-Japanese Union.

At the same time, after transferring to the documentary of the first air raid on Japan by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which Pearson quickly sent back to China, faced with the actual situation that the Dutch East Indies could no longer hold on to the war situation that had taken a sharp turn for the worse. The U.S. government had to choose between withdrawing to India or Australia, and in the end it transferred all the more than 100 bombers that the U.S. Air Force had transferred there to the Anti-Japanese Union.

At the beginning, the Americans hoped that these American-made bombers would be organized into a separate American bomber group, and that the Americans would bomb Japan on their own. However, under the strong opposition of Yang Zhen and the urgent need for a large number of mature pilots in the United States, these bombers were finally handed over to the Anti-United Nations.

What the Americans lack now is not airplanes, but qualified pilots and aircrew. With the production capacity of the Americans, these bombers handed over to the Anti-Japanese Union can be produced within a month as long as they are running at full power. But the long-term detention of these pilots in China was reluctant of the Americans.

After all, with the loss of Southeast Asia, the spearhead of the Japanese attack in the Pacific Ocean has been directed at Australia. The Americans can accept the loss of the Philippines for the time being, but they cannot accept the loss of Australia anyway. Airplanes where the Americans were lacking, only for a short time. But qualified aircrews take time to develop.

Constrained by domestic policies and laws, as well as a unique geographical environment, the Americans did not have strong air power before the Pearl Harbor incident. Despite having the most powerful aviation industry in the world, the scale of the Americans' air power is far from large.

Even though civilian air sports are popular in the United States, air sports and air combat are two different things. On a not strong foundation, rapid expansion requires a certain amount of time and effort. Although by the time these planes were handed over to the Anti-Japanese Union, the Americans had been being beaten in the Pacific theater. However, the bomber unit that the US military formed to participate in the war was the Eighth Air Force, which was scheduled to be transferred to Europe.

But as the war situation in the Pacific continues to deteriorate, the Americans also urgently need to cheer up their allies. The U.S. Army is still expanding, and at the moment it is impossible to do anything at all, mobilizing a group of bombers is the best choice. Coupled with the resolute opposition of the Anti-United Nations, the Americans finally handed over all these bombers to the Anti-United Nations.

As for the air crew, they were transferred directly back to their home countries to receive new aircraft at the first time. The arrival of these hundreds of US-made heavy bombers gave the Anti-Japanese Union a real strategic air force for the first time. But the arrival of this group of bombers also gave Pearson the confidence to be very inward-looking.

As soon as the bombers were handed over to the Anti-United Nations, the Pearson brother ignored the fact that the Anti-United Nations troops were being trained to convert and that the Anti-United Nations could withstand fuel and bomb consumption. After the arrival of these American bombers, they insisted that the Anti-Union immediately dispatch bomber groups to bomb naval bases, shipyards, naval aircraft production plants, and naval fuel reserves on the Japanese mainland.

He was quite shrewd in his calculations, and all the targets he proposed were the Japanese naval facilities and equipment manufacturers that the US Navy would encounter in the Pacific theater in the future. As for the goals of the Army, he did not mention any of them. It's just that he is not a fool, and Yang Zhen, who is not stupid, didn't pay attention to Pearson jumping up and down at all.

Sue sù own bomber unit, complete the conversion training step by step, and train as many bomber pilots as possible. As for the continuous bombing of Japan, it is not a routine affair to go to the door every day. Before the logistics are not able to support large-scale bombing, it is enough to visit the door from time to time.

And the target should not only be locked in Tokyo, but also Osaka and Nagoya, which are important military production bases in Japan. As long as it is a large city in Japan, it can be used as a bombing target. However, naval bases and naval shipyards are not to be used as targets for bombing.

Steel mills in mainland Japan, as well as naval combat aircraft production plants, were also not targeted for bombing. The priority targets for bombing are mainly the army arsenal, and he has no problem with even using the Japanese Imperial Palace as a bombing target. The Anti-Japanese Union did not have a navy, let alone a naval war with Japan, and could not afford to carry too much burden for the Americans. Everything related to the Navy has nothing to do with the Anti-United Nations.

The first batch of thirty-six B-17 bombers given by the Americans, although they arrived in mid-December. At the end of January, all conversion flight training was completed. However, because of aviation fuel, the first time he participated in an air raid on Japan was in February.

This kind of heavy bomber with advanced performance has a long range, a large bomb load, and self-defense firepower is far from being comparable to that of the Il-4 bomber. The unusually strong fuselage also made it difficult for Japanese fighters to shoot it down. However, the fuel consumed by this kind of four-engine bomber for one flight is really a considerable burden for the Anti-United Nations.

Even because the fuel consumption of this bomber is too huge, after the offensive launched by the Anti-United Nations, this group of bombers spent most of the time training. Because of the limited fuel, it is necessary to ensure the use of the battle. If an all-out air attack on Japan is carried out, coupled with the B24, which consumes more fuel, then the aviation fuel reserves of the Anti-United Nations will not last too long.

Moreover, for a long period of time, these bombers were used by Yang Zhen to carry out airdrops to the internal team of Guanxi because of their strong self-defense firepower and long range. As for the first few batches of semi-finished bombs aided by the Americans, 80 percent of them were used in the battle after the final production of the anti-United Nations base areas was completed.

Even in order to give the Americans an account of the several sorties, the number of planes dispatched for each air raid was limited to 30. In addition to ensuring the amount of fuel reserves, but also because after the two bombers arrived at the Anti-Union, Yang Zhen took one from each of them and handed it over to the industrial department to disassemble into parts for study.

Among the rest of the aircraft, some B-17G bombers were transferred and converted into special operations aircraft. This four-engine, with a maximum range of more than 3,000 kilometers, an exceptionally strong fuselage, and a maximum bomb load of eight tons. It is used to modify special aircraft, both the bearing capacity of the fuselage and the maximum ceiling are much better than those of the C47 transport aircraft. On average, the total number of bombers left to participate in the war is not too much.

It's just that although they have been ignoring the jumping up and down of these two, these two ignored the reality of the Anti-United Nations and asked the Anti-United Nations to do their best to launch a counterattack, which really gave Yang Zhen, who was concentrating on preparing for the second phase of the battle, a headache and annoyance. Who wants to go to Yan'an to report and follow two scoundrels all day long behind their buttocks? You must know a lot of things about the Anti-Japanese Federation, which you can't let these two know.

Yang Zhen, who was really useless with two guys who had become hob meat in the Northeast, simply took the method of scare. When the Anti-Japanese Union launched its third air raid on Japan, the two were stuffed into an Il-4 bomber and let them go to Osaka, which had become almost like a fire hedgehog, and had almost become a fire hedgehog.

When the bomber group returned from the bombing of Japan, Pearson and Ross, who were deceived by Yang Zhen into the bomber, turned pale as if they had returned from hell, and got off the Il-4 bomber that was ridden with many wounds and almost failed to return.

Although his somewhat childish behavior was severely criticized by the central government, fortunately, Yang Zhen's ears were quieter. First of all, Pearson stopped urging the Anti-League to carry out air raids on the Japanese mainland all day long, and that Ross ran to the headquarters of the Anti-Union much less often. I was afraid that as soon as Yang Zhen started a fire, he would send them to Japan for a day trip.

Although killing the enemy on the battlefield as a soldier is what they should do the most, these two are pure military backgrounds. One is a semi-civilian general who was a military attache stationed abroad, and the other is engaged in intelligence. Letting them go through this kind of life and death is naturally beyond the limits of what their hearts can bear.

But Yang Zhen's ears really calmed down in the end, and it was only after the offensive of the Anti-Union was launched in March that the two guys completely stopped clamoring. Yang Zhen, who finally sent them away at this moment, had the heart to think about what these two guys were thinking, which would bring so much trouble to himself in the next three months. If he had known by now, he would have stuffed these two into bombers a long time ago, so that they would have traveled to Japan often without any problems.

At present, his main mind is still on the preparation for the second phase of the battle. The storage of supplies, the hoarding of ammunition, the training of new recruits, the formation of new troops, and the adjustment of weapons and equipment, all of which involved a thousand things before a big war, made him very busy. There was also a telegram from the central government asking for help, which also kept him busy.

Even during the Chinese New Year, Yang Zhen did not have a day off. Just took the time to accompany his parents and his younger siblings in Harbin to have a reunion dinner, and left Yuan Zhiruo to accompany his parents for Chinese New Year's Eve, and then returned to the headquarters to hold consecutive meetings. At the moment, for Yang Zhen, the supply of the internal team of Guan has even replaced the preparations for the battle.

In addition to the things that he had to decide, and according to the changes in the enemy's situation, Chen Hanzhang came up with an adjustment to the battle plan. The rest of the things were basically handed over to Guo Bingxun by him. And he put most of his energy on airdropping supplies to the troops in the Guannai.

There is no way, time and solar terms wait for no one. The central government's telegrams for help were almost one after another, and Yang Zhen could not but hurry up to carry them out. The grim situation faced by the North China troops also made Yang Zhen very worried. In the next stage of the operation, the North China unit is an important link in his entire operational plan.

Once the North China troops collapsed, then relying solely on the Anti-Japanese Union would not only increase the price paid several times, but also the combat units that went south and west would also lose important support. At that time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance, facing the two strategic blocs of the Japanese North China Front and the Kwantung Army, was really lonely.

In order to better supply, Yang Zhen divided labor with the Northeast Bureau. The preparation of cotton clothes and the allocation of food were transferred to the Northeast Bureau, and other materials needed for the airdrop, including the allocation of supplementary ammunition and weapons, as well as the routes for carrying out the airdrop, were all managed by the army. In order to ensure the airdrop of the required aircraft, Yang Zhen even roughly stopped the bombing campaign against Japan, which was not strong.

Except for a few planes that occasionally went around the Japanese mainland and southern Korea as if they were on an errand, dropping some bombs and pretending to be shown to the Americans. All planes capable of carrying grain and cotton clothing were dispatched and urgently airdropped to various base areas behind enemy lines in the Guannai in order to solve the plight of the troops in the Guannai to the greatest extent.

Even if the airdrop of the Anti-Japanese Federation cannot completely change the plight of the more than 100,000 troops in the Guannai, at the very least, it is necessary to ensure that the troops in the Guannai are in the most difficult moment can support themselves and not be frozen and starved in the winter of 41 to 42. Although doing so would put a lot of pressure on the logistics of the Confrontation Federation, Yang Zhen had no choice.