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But after thinking about it, Ozawa Jisaburo felt that this was normal.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army was no longer what it used to be. They actually produced a fighter jet with a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour... You must know that the empire tried its best to only produce a fighter jet with a speed of 640 kilometers per hour, and there was still water at this speed.

It was the Eighth Route Army fighter jet that made the chief of staff lose confidence in himself.

"Obayashi-kun!" Ozawa Jisaburo slowed down and said to the chief of staff: "You should know why we attacked Manchukuo with all our strength and tried to repel the Eighth Route Army! The oil in Ping'an Village is our hope, do you understand? Otherwise , on the main island where there is no oil, our army is surrounded by the Eagle Fleet... How can we fight against Eagle Fleet? Are we going to fight their planes with rifle bayonets?"

"Yes!" The chief of staff responded.

However, he still raised the question tactfully: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, do you have any tactics to defeat the Eighth Route Army?"

"Even if it doesn't happen, we still have to give it a try!" Ozawa Jisaburo said: "This may be the last chance for our army, or it can also be said to be the last chance for the combined fleet!"

Ozawa Jisaburo is different from other Japs. He is a commander with quite strategic vision, which is one of the reasons why he was able to take over the Japs United Fleet later.

It's a pity that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet is ranked based on seniority, otherwise Ozawa Jizaburo should have replaced Toyota's deputy deputy Takeshi and took charge of the crisis.

The chief of staff didn't understand what Ozawa said at first, but after thinking for a moment, he understood:

The imperial fleet can no longer defeat Yingjiang. If it can no longer defeat the Eighth Route Army, there will be no need to exist.

What's more, if we fail to capture Ping'an Village and control the oil, the first to be eliminated will definitely be the aircraft carrier that consumes fuel and has no carrier-based aircraft available.

Especially when defending the main island, fighter planes can take off from land, and aircraft carriers are no different than scrap metal.

Therefore, this seems to be just an inconspicuous small battle, but in fact it is a battle that determines the life and death of the combined fleet!
After thinking about this, the chief of staff stood up and said: "Yes, follow the orders of the Lieutenant General!"

Ozawa Jisaburo nodded, then walked to the map and said: "Obayashi-kun, in the Battle of Huludao, the Eighth Route Army did not attack our fleet with anti-ship missiles but targeted the landing ship. What did you think of?"

"That's because the landing ship is carrying a lot of ground troops!" The chief of staff replied without thinking: "As long as those ground forces are destroyed, the Eighth Route Army can only hold Huludao and we will not be able to win!"

"This is just one of them!" Ozawa Jisaburo analyzed: "If the Eighth Route Army wants to attack our fleet, what do you think they will do?"

The chief of staff thought for a moment and replied: "I will first use fighter planes to seize air supremacy, or use fighter planes to cover anti-ship missiles to launch attacks, so that our fighter planes cannot intercept anti-ship missiles!"

Ozawa Jisaburo nodded and asked: "So, the Eighth Route Army has both new fighters that can fly 1000 kilometers and anti-ship missiles. Why don't they do this? Is it just to destroy the army? If the aircraft carrier is completely undefended, What do you think the Eighth Route Army will choose?"

The chief of staff had not considered this issue. When asked by Ozawa Jisaburo, he nodded and said: "If the aircraft carrier is completely undefended, the Eighth Route Army will probably choose to attack the aircraft carrier! Because as long as our aircraft carrier is destroyed, their coastal defense regiment will Reinforcements will be dispatched, and no matter how many army landing ships there are, it will be useless!"

Ozawa Jisaburo nodded and emphasized his question again: "Why didn't the Eighth Route Army attack the aircraft carrier?"

"Because...there is anti-aircraft firepower to protect the aircraft carrier?"

"Yes!" Ozawa Jisaburo said: "The Eighth Route Army's new fighter jets are afraid of our army's anti-aircraft firepower. This is very important!" The chief of staff suddenly realized: "What Lieutenant General means is...the Eighth Route Army's new fighter jet production has not kept up. They There are only a limited number of them, so you don’t dare to use these new fighters to risk a head-on confrontation with our army’s air defense firepower?”

"You can say that!" Ozawa Jisaburo looked regretful: "So, our army actually still has a chance in the Huludao Battle. If we continue to fight and cooperate with the Army's Hayate..."

The chief of staff was convinced.

If this is the case, when the "Haste" encounters the Eighth Route Army's new fighter jets and is defeated, they should not fight or escape without any method. They should gather above the fleet warships.

At that time, the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower can provide fire cover for them.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army's new fighter aircraft is embarrassed:

If they pursue the air defense area, they will face the risk of being shot down by anti-aircraft fire.

If you don't chase, you will wait until the fuel runs out and return without success.

However this is impossible!

How could the Army seek protection from and coordinate with the Navy?
Although this battle was indeed a coordinated battle between the imperial navy and army, it could only be regarded as a joint battle, and the coordination was limited to artillery fire and carrier-based aircraft bombing.

If you want the "Hast" to cooperate with warships, you have to replace the "Hast" fighter pilots with HNA pilots.

Therefore, this battle can also be said to be the fault of the Japanese Navy and Army fighting separately: normal troops should have thought of this on the battlefield, but the long-term conflicts between the Japanese Navy and Army made them not consider this issue until a few days after the battle. .

"If that's the case!" Ozawa Jisaburo said: "Our 'Gale' fighter plane has great potential. Its performance is not much different from that of the 'Hayate', but the number is smaller, only ten!"

After a pause, Ozawa Jisaburo continued: "But it doesn't matter if the number is small. When the Eighth Route Army's new fighter planes go into battle, our army's 'Gale Wind' will not go out to fight or deal with them in the air defense area! We can rely on air defense firepower to shoot them down without fighter planes." ! When the Eighth Route Army's Coastal Defense Regiment's 'Wildcats' go into battle, our army will dispatch the 'Gale Wind'!"

The chief of staff understood that this was the Chinese "Tian Ji Horse Racing" tactic: use bad horses to deal with the enemy's good horses, and use good horses to deal with the enemy's bad horses.

"So, what about the enemy's 'La 5' fighter plane?" the chief of staff asked again: "Its performance is comparable to that of our army's Gale, but our army's Gale is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers!"

"We don't need to worry about 'Pull 5'!" Ozawa Jisaburo replied: "As long as we fight at a distance of two hundred kilometers from the coastline, the Eighth Route Army's 'Pull 5' will not even dare to confront our army's 'Zero War'!"

The chief of staff immediately understood that this was because of the range problem of "La 5".

In addition, the "Zero War" can return to the vicinity of the fleet at any time to rely on the anti-aircraft firepower of warships. At that time, the Eighth Route Army's "Pull 5" may not be able to gain favor.

Ozawa Jisaburo added: "What's more, if we choose a location where there is no Eighth Route Army airport nearby to attack... the Eighth Route Army's 'La 5' won't even be able to fly near our fleet!"