The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 873

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“Baka!”

The second air raid did not last long. From the time the Japanese discovered the German planes to the time the last German fighter plane withdrew from the battlefield, the battle lasted less than fifteen minutes.

However, although the battle did not last long, the second air raid still caused heavy losses to the Japanese!

“In just fifteen minutes, we lost three cruisers, two destroyers, and five fighters, and our victory was only four enemy planes. How did you fight this battle? Did you use all your strength?”

Nanyun Chuichi’s face looked very bad!

Looking at the soldiers of the aviation brigade under his command, he got angry in public.

In this air battle, the Japanese army had the advantage in manpower, and it was also a home battle. They not only dispatched air forces, but also had their own fleet on the sea to cooperate!

In this case, shouldn’t the ideal script be that their fighter planes rushed to the battlefield, and then rescued the friendly warships from the tiger’s mouth, and then, with the cooperation of the friendly forces, all the invading enemy planes would be killed without missing a single one? Why is the current result so different from what they imagined?

This time, a total of 36 enemy planes attacked, but they only shot down four enemy planes, and they themselves paid the price of five fighter planes being shot down!

Judging from the number alone, their losses are even greater!

However, if these four enemy planes were all shot down by their fighter planes in the air battle, then this result would not be unacceptable to them.

It’s just that two of these four enemy planes were shot down by the fleet’s defense. One was shot down by air firepower, and the other two were lost in air combat.

How many fighter planes did they dispatch?

A full 48!

The enemy had only 12 fighter planes, and they had a four-fold advantage in manpower, but they only shot down two fighter planes. Instead, they lost five fighter planes to the enemy. That’s not all. The fleet they were supposed to protect also lost several cruisers and destroyers!

This battle was really embarrassing, and even Chuichi Nanyun couldn’t stand it!

After the battle, the Japanese side exposed a lot of problems.

The first problem is that the quality of their pilots is much worse than that of the Germans!

This is actually easy to understand. Most of the Germans are veteran pilots with actual combat experience. On the battlefield in Europe, they defeated Gaul and the British Empire successively, and had fought against the air forces of these two countries.

Therefore, most of the German pilots have been on the battlefield, experienced actual combat, and have very rich combat experience. This is obviously not something that young pilots can compare to.

The second problem is that the fighter jets of Jiaoben do not seem to be as advanced as they thought!

When they were designing this fighter, they were originally comparing it to the German BF109 fighter. After completing the design, Jiaoben people had high hopes for their new fighter. They once regarded this fighter as their trump card and would not easily announce it until the critical moment! Because this fighter was not originally prepared for the German army, but for the Eagle Sauce.

Unexpectedly, the first battle of this fighter was not in the battle against the Eagle Sauce, but was used in the battle against the German army.

Moreover. , this fighter plane was actually at a disadvantage after encountering the German ace plane, and did not take advantage at all!

The senior Japanese generals who were watching the battle at sea saw with their own eyes that many German fighter planes were hit by bullets from Japanese fighter planes, but the opponent’s fighter planes were only injured, and at most a string of black smoke was emitted, but they did not explode in the air or crash out of control.

On the other hand, if their fighter planes were not hit by the enemy, they were indeed smart and elegant, and looked like elves flying in the air, which made the generals of the Combined Fleet deeply impressed by the empire’s exquisite design level and craftsmanship!

However, once their fighter planes were hit by the enemy, they would instantly turn into a ball of fire, and then either explode in the air or plunge into the sea with billowing smoke!

Even after a fighter plane was shot down, it lost control of the flight, so it smashed into a warship of its own sailing on the sea, and almost sank the warship!

If this battleship was really sunk, the Japanese would think of their invincible Kamikaze special attack tactics in advance! After all, bombing is not as fun as flying a plane directly into the enemy’s face!

As long as they hold the steering wheel firmly and have a little luck, their planes can be transformed into artificially guided missiles, chasing the enemy, leaving them nowhere to hide and forced to accept the fate of mutual destruction!

The failure of the air battle, coupled with the considerable losses suffered by the navy, made Nanyun Chuichi lose face in front of his colleagues. Moreover, Yamamoto Isoroku, who watched the battle throughout, looked very bad. Although he hadn’t lost his temper, Nanyun Chuichi could see through his iron-blue face that his immediate superior was in a very bad mood!

In this case, Nanyun Chuichi naturally had to reflect on himself and see if he could find out what he did not do well or where he had defects.

If they can find it, it would be the best. Before the enemy’s third wave of offensive arrives, if they can find the shortcomings and make up for them, then they will still have the strength to fight in the next battle!

However, Nanyun Chuichi summed up and found that the problems they exposed in this battle seemed to be impossible to make up for!

The pilots have poor combat experience and are not as good as the German ace pilots. What can he do about this? The huge experience gap between the two sides is not suitable to be made up in a short time, unless their pilots have such a long period of combat accumulation!

But this is obviously unrealistic. After all, compared with the German opponents, their enemies in the Far East are very weak. These enemies do not even have complete equipment for the army, so how can they have an air force?

Although the Celestial Empire’s army received some support from the Third Reich a few months ago, some of these volunteers were fighters captured by the German army from the British and French armies, but the number of fighters in the Celestial Empire was too small after all.

Principal Jiang was very precious to the air force in his hands, and rarely sent them out to perform missions, which did not give the Japanese army a good opportunity to practice.

Moreover, even if there is an opportunity to practice, most of the people who get the training are the Army’s aviation troops, which has little to do with the Navy’s carrier-based aircraft pilots. After all, given the current relationship between the Navy and the Army, it is unrealistic to expect the Army to contribute their outstanding pilots! It’s good that the