You must know that in this battle, the fighter unit of the Anti-Japanese Union will not only face the Kwantung Army Flying Group, but also face the Japanese North China Aviation Corps in China. While ensuring air supremacy, it also has to undertake ground support operations, and on many occasions it has to deal with the pressure of the Americans, and from time to time it is necessary to patronize the Japanese mainland.

Although the main force of the Air Corps stationed in China has been transferred south, the small number of combat planes remaining in North China and the Japanese Army Air Force urgently transferred from Central China still cause a lot of trouble to the Anti-Japanese Union. As a matter of fact, the fighter units of the Anti-United Nations still have not extricated themselves from the situation of fighting on two fronts.

It is precisely because of the dilemma of not having enough tactical support aircraft. Therefore, in the original battle plan of the Anti-Japanese Union, this batch of British-made light bombers, which should have arrived at the end of 41, was in a very important position. However, because of the small calculations of the British, the actual situation that all of them were in place before the battle was about to start almost did not disrupt Yang Zhen's entire combat deployment.

Moreover, this batch of British-made light bombers, although they were put into front-line operations in batches in the later stages of the campaign. However, the air force was also very dissatisfied with the performance of this light bomber, which suffered great losses under the sneak attack of a small number of Japanese air forces and the attack of artillery fire on the ground.

It is believed that this aircraft is almost useless except for the range and bomb load. Not only can it not be compared with the American-made A-20 attack aircraft, but even compared with the Su-2 light bomber, it does not have any advantages. Not to mention anti-aircraft artillery and fighter jets, even the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns, they can be shot down lightly.

At the beginning, the air force was still in urgent need of tactical support aircraft for the front line, but these light bombers transported by the British could only be busy in the rear for conversion training and temporary modifications, and could not participate in the war at the first time.

But when this batch of planes was put into the battlefield, the aviation troops discovered that this kind of aircraft, which they had pinned great hopes on before, brought where there was hope, and this batch of planes was simply a pile of waste. The arrival time was too late, and the machine guns had to be temporarily replaced, and a lot of time was delayed, and for the air force that suffered a big loss, it could even be described as a loss of horses.

Although this British-made light bomber was put into the battlefield only in the second half of the campaign. However, the first batch of planes put into the battlefield was only 70 percent, and the battle loss rate was as high as 90 percent, and the total loss of more than 60 planes in just a few days was unacceptable to the air force in any way.

As a matter of fact, not long after this kind of plane was put into the battlefield, the air force did not dare to allow this kind of plane to enter the depth of the Japanese army and bomb it without escort. It can only be allowed to operate in the forward positions or in the skies above the guerrilla zone of our army in North China. Even if they occasionally went out to bomb the Japanese army in depth, the air force had to send fighter planes to escort it, and at the same time, the area of activity did not dare to stay far from the base areas of our army in North China.

Even before a ground attack, fighter jets must be used to clear the anti-aircraft fire around the target before daring to put such aircraft into a ground attack. There is no way to use it in the forward positions or in the guerrilla zone of the North China troops, and once the plane is shot down, the pilot may still be rescued.

But once the bombing missions were carried out in the occupied areas fortified by the Japanese army, the pilots were basically lost. The loss of aircraft is not unacceptable to the aviation. But if the loss of pilots is too large, this price is something that the developing anti-coalition aviation cannot afford in any case.

Although this aircraft has the longest range among all the tactical support aircraft of the Anti-United Nations. However, the fragile protection capability and inferior flight performance of this kind of aircraft in battle made the air force dare not let it carry out bombing missions against the Japanese-occupied areas in South Manchuria, where the Japanese army was most tightly controlled, and the Pingjin area in North China.

After completing the conversion, this type of plane made its first sortie to coordinate with the troops of the Taiyue Military Region to bomb the Tongpu Line, a key blockade area in Shanxi. Of the 18 planes dispatched, 17 were intercepted by ground fire, and the battle loss rate was as high as 99 percent.

One of them was even wounded by a rifle salvo from a Japanese army on the ground when the bomb was dropped, and it barely struggled to break away from the Japanese-controlled area on the ground and crashed. The plane was knocked down by a salvo of three rifles. And this bullet that pierced what was supposed to be the strongest unit of the aircraft was fired by the Type 38 rifle.

In the subsequent blockade mission, because of the relatively long range, the first batch of 70 aircraft was specially used to blockade the Tongpu Railway and the Jinpu Line. After only five days of fighting, there were only three aircraft left that could barely be dispatched. The rest were either shot down or scrapped after barely returning home due to their injuries. Its high rate of battle losses has set a record for the anti-United Nations air force since its establishment.

Fortunately, most of the air crew members who were shot down were rescued by the Taiyue Military Region, which was responsible for the ground blockade mission, and the losses were not very large. Otherwise, this result will be even more difficult to accept for the anti-United Nations air forces. The 99 percent battle loss rate in a sortie is the first time since the formation of the Anti-United Nations Air Force.

Not only could this kind of aircraft not be put into use on a large scale on its own, but it even involved considerable energy on the fighter plane. Because there is no escort, such aircraft have almost no survivability. Not to mention the Japanese Army's latest fighter, even the old Type 97 fighter, it can be shot down lightly.

Even with the exception of the first few sorties, such aircraft sent fighter escorts to each sortie of aviation. If there is no air threat, it will first clear the ground anti-aircraft fire, but it still has not been able to significantly reduce the battle loss rate. In the short period of time in the war, almost 100 percent of the first 70 aircraft put into battle were lost.

In this battle, this kind of aircraft not only participated in the battle the latest, not to mention the least results, but also suffered the greatest losses among the several types of aircraft equipped by the Anti-United Nations. Even fighters who are tasked with fighting for air supremacy and have to take time off for ground suppression and fire support will not suffer as much as it.

By the end of the campaign, except for two squadrons, they were transferred to the Yan'an side. In addition to demonstrating in certain quarters and taking the time to fly to Xi'an and the Houtao area to suppress some of their imminent thoughts and boost the morale of the people in the rear, they have basically stopped their activities on the front line.

Even while the campaign was still underway, the air force, which had barely had any survivability on the battlefield and could no longer bear it, made a report demanding that all such planes be withdrawn from active service. The aircraft, which had not yet completed the replacement of equipment, also stopped improving for a while.

There is no way to afford such high losses, the aviation simply cannot afford it. It's better to leave these planes in the rear and let them slowly rust on their own. The aviation units no longer dared to risk the high battle losses and continued to put these planes into front-line combat use.

Yang Zhen, who didn't expect the British to provide such a batch of super garbage to the Anti-Japanese Federation, couldn't suppress the anger in his heart after receiving the report. In front of Pearson and Rose, with a gloomy face, he signed the word "agreement" without hesitation, and slapped the report in front of these two guys and walked away.

Originally, Yang Zhen had always wondered how the British's bomber, which seemed to be okay on paper, had been unknown in the history he knew. Even if I am a "well-informed" person, I have never heard of it.

Why did the British, who have always been stingy, come up with so many planes in one go to support the Anti-United Nations when they also need a large number of tactical support aircraft in the North African theater and Southeast Asia? Why did the Soviets, who were almost destitute and insane, prefer to continue to use the old SB bombers rather than deduct any of them according to their so-called agreement. Even if the Anti-Union took the initiative to mention it, it did everything possible to find an excuse not to.

It wasn't until he received the report from the air force that Yang Zhen realized that the so-called latest light bombers in the British population were simply a bunch of garbage that they couldn't stand even if they were trying to take advantage everywhere. The British are fooling themselves and thinking that they really don't know how to fly. Take a bunch of junk, come to fool and prevaricate yourself, plus gag the Americans.

Although it is now a given fact, even anger cannot change anything. But Yang Zhen also knew that he had to take measures to avoid similar things from happening in the future. Yang Zhen can accept the equipment transferred by the United States and Britain, which is second-rate in performance compared to the equipment they use themselves.

Because he knows that neither the Americans nor the British will hand over their most advanced things to the Anti-Japanese Union. The art of checks and balances, Westerners play no worse than Chinese. But he could not accept third-rate, or even fourth-rate equipment. Just like a combat aircraft, Yang Zhen can accept a fighter with mediocre performance like the P-40, but he can't accept the more backward P-35 fighter.

This incident made Yang Zhen so angry, this is not only a matter of blindness, but also the danger of the battle situation, as well as irresponsibility for the strictness of his own troops, and ruthlessness to the blood and lives of the soldiers. Although Yang Zhen also knew that there were not many ways he could take for the Americans and the British.

Unlike against the Soviets, they had a lot of means themselves. But the action that needs to be taken, must be taken. This kind of thing of the British fooling themselves with rags must not happen again. The plane is not a tank, and it is really impossible to withdraw the crew. Once the plane is in the sky, if it doesn't work, there is very little chance of escape.

Yang Zhen directly told Brigadier General Sù Ross that either the British would choose to stop providing all aid, and the Anti-Japanese League would not give them any strategic cooperation. Although the Anti-Japanese League could not have completely driven the Japanese out of China without the assistance of the United States and Britain. However, sticking to the current control area, there is still the ability to do so.

At that time, the Japanese army, which has lost the containment of the Anti-United Nations, wants to continue to increase its troops in Southeast Asia and Australia, so it has nothing to do with the Anti-United Nations. All the consequences will be borne by the British themselves. Either the British assure that similar incidents will not happen again, and that the Anti-Union and the British are still allies who can cooperate strategically.

If the British don't respond, or if something like that happens again. Then he will make a public announcement of this matter directly to the media around the world, so that the whole world knows the so-called true face of the British. Although he also knows that the Americans will not allow these news to appear in the American media.

But Yang Zhen believes that the Americans cannot control the mouths of the rest of the world, nor can they control the media of neutral countries, let alone the mouths of their enemies. When the time comes, the whole world will know the true face of the British in trapping their allies, and see how you Britons can still win the trust of your other allies now.

Regarding Yang Zhen's protest, Brigadier General Ross, who had been blinded for a whole month, was not ambiguous. The content of this protest was reported to London word for word. Pearson also forwarded Yang Zhen's briefing to the United States at the same time back to Washington.