Imperial Overlord

An Army-built transport ship is piled high with parts for fighter jets: the fighter jets are disassembled, and the wings and fuselage are loaded separately.

This is not a Japanese Zero fighter, nor a Japanese KI-43 Hayabusa, but an ME-109E fighter from Germany.

Although from the perspective of October 1941, this type of fighter is not so advanced, but its main opponent, the Spitfire, has no follow-up, so it can continue to be used in a grand manner.

Of course, this kind of fighter is not produced by Germany itself now. It is completely supplied as a foreign trade fighter model to all countries in the world.

The main consumers are Japan and Romania, the United Kingdom and France and Italy also have the intention to buy. Currently Japan buys the most, followed by Romania.

If you count the two autonomous regions of Ukraine and Belarus, which were newly included in the Third Reich, the export volume of such "international fighter jets" has almost exceeded 1,000.

Naturally, Messerschmitt was reluctant to give up this profitable production line. It brought in a large group of female workers and second-rate skilled workers, and even inherited this production line with great success.

Although there is no later improvement and development, it can still be produced in sufficient quantities to meet the use and consumption of Japan and other countries.

"The German supplies have arrived!" On the dock, the officer who saw the arrival of the Army's transport ship said with a sigh of relief.

Finally caught up, and the weapons and equipment from Germany finally arrived in the New Guinea battlefield before the U.S. Army captured New Guinea.

In almost 10 days of fighting, the Japanese Army Air Forces lost more than 300 aircraft of various types, which also made Japan's fighter replenishment work difficult.

On the one hand, the Japanese army wanted to accumulate its own strength a little bit in the American offensive, but on the other hand, these accumulated strengths were completely consumed in the battle.

The United States is the one that can withstand the pressure and accumulate strength with strong production capacity; the production of the Japanese army cannot even make up for the most basic losses.

"I hope these planes can make up for our previous losses..." Looking at the improvised dock, the temporarily constructed crane unloaded the plane from the ship, another officer of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps sighed.

The number of aircraft sold by the Germans is really not much, and it seems that the production capacity of the Germans is also very limited.

No one knows whether these scattered planes can help the Great Japanese Empire change its fate against the sky.

However, the Japanese executives still named the ME-109E fighter jet from the German Air Force as "Back to the Light", hoping that this fighter jet could allow Japan to regain its initiative on the battlefield.

"Now these Huiguang fighter jets are not as useful as when they were put in before." Hearing the other party's sigh, another commander of the Japanese Army Air Force looked at the unloaded plane in front of him and sighed.

The previously invested Huiguang fighter, that is, the ME-109E fighter, caught American fighter pilots by surprise, so they achieved some results.

However, as time went on, the Japanese Messerschmitt fighters fought less and less, while the combat experience of American fighter pilots was more and more.

Just from the performance analysis, in fact, the ME-109E fighter is not much more advanced than the Zero fighter used by Japan itself. Both of them are completely products of the same era, and neither of them completely surpasses the other.

The Zero has more range and better horizontal performance, and the ME-109E has some advantages in speed and vertical maneuverability.

It is a pity that the Germans no longer use the ME-109E fighter, and the Japanese can only bite the bullet and use the Zero and ME-109E fighters.

"The Germans played with reductions. They replaced the metal with wooden tail rudders, and replaced some of the original metal parts with engineering plastics." The Japanese major with an officer's epaulette on his shoulder said with a frown.

Although the Germans made some reductions, they gave Japan a discount on the original basis. For the same amount of purchase money, the Germans gave dozens more planes.

On the German side, it is called production improvement, and the production speed of the new aircraft has indeed increased a lot. Otherwise, it is impossible for Japan to get this batch of aircraft so quickly.

"There are also a lot of Zero fighter jets produced by the Navy. We have also supplemented 40 KI-43 Falcon fighter jets... Now we have 300 aircraft that can be mobilized!"

The U.S. military tried to build airfields on the islands of New Guinea, and Japanese battleships would bombard them at night to knock out U.S. airfields on these plains.

The fighting was so fierce that the U.S. military has never been able to control the air superiority over New Guinea, and the Japanese airport in New Guinea~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has always been a big worry for Americans.

On this side of the mountain, the Japanese had three major field airfields, all of which were concealed, only one of which was spotted by American reconnaissance planes.

300 Japanese fighter jets were deployed in the three field airfields, and most of the American planes took off from the airfields on the Cape York Peninsula to compete for air supremacy over New Guinea.

The two sides have come and gone, and nearly 600 planes have crashed in the vicinity. The Japanese lost about 250 and the U.S. lost about 350.

This loss is not huge for Americans, because their replenishment capacity is far greater than this number.

But for the Japanese army, this loss was a bit overwhelming. 250 planes were shot down, roughly equivalent to the loss of 250 pilots skilled in combat.

Although Japanese executives have been emphasizing that pilots can abandon the plane to parachute to escape, few Japanese pilots are still willing to leave their planes.

They have a tradition of perishing with their own planes or warships, and they have such courage. And their Bushido education encouraged them to do so.

Therefore, the loss of Japanese pilots has always been high, which also brought them a serious problem of insufficient pilots.

Because of this, the biggest problem for the Japanese now is not that there is no way to replenish the planes, but that they have a serious shortage of pilots.

"We have a lot of planes, but we really don't have many pilots who can fly these planes!" The commander who commanded the Japanese Army Air Force on the island of New Guinea said helplessly.

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