Devil's Army

Although the reinforcements were constantly bombarded by the devil's mortars, the lieutenant still forced them to go up to the city wall to reinforce. If they were not reinforced, the gate of Suizhong Town would soon be breached.

Under the cover of mortars and machine guns, the guards finally rushed to the city gate.

A guard pulled the fuse of a bundle of grenades, bumped them together and piled them under the city gate.

"Boom..." A series of explosions sounded, and one side of the city gate of Suizhong Town was blown down.

The guards rushed into Suizhou Town shouting.

Although the lieutenant urged the Japanese and puppet troops to fight desperately from behind, they were still unable to withstand the fierce and continuous attack of the escort team.

In the end, the lieutenant retreated from the north gate with dozens of remaining Japanese troops.

Just as the lieutenant was about to retreat in frustration, fierce gunfire rang out in the grass on both sides of the path at the north gate.

The first company of the first battalion, which had been waiting for a long time, launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army, having no intention of resisting, wanted to withdraw to Suizhong Town, but unfortunately Suizhong Town had already been occupied by the guards.

Captain Guo and his guard team were in a commanding position, firing desperately at the Japanese troops who were retreating towards Suizhou Town.

More than half an hour later, this Japanese army was completely wiped out under the siege from all sides by the First Battalion of the Guard and the First Company of the First Battalion.

As Suizhong County and its surrounding towns were all recaptured by the First Anti-Japanese Army, the jurisdiction of the Tangshan base area expanded to Xinglong County, Kuancheng County, Qinglong County in Rehe Province and Suizhong County in Liaoning Province.

The jurisdictions of the First Anti-Japanese Army and the Second Anti-Japanese Army were more closely connected.

Next, the 3rd Regiment of the 12th Brigade and the 5th Brigade stepped up their efforts to consolidate the security of the defense zones bordering the Japanese-occupied areas to prevent surprise attacks by the Japanese army.

The troops of the Jidong Military Region made use of their expertise and the good military-civilian relations in the base area to vigorously develop joint defense and control and production development.

The new base area was flourishing.

Commander Michijiro Umezu attributed the rapid fall of the three counties in Rehe Province to the inaction of the Kwantung Army's 4th Division and their lack of air superiority.

For this reason, General Yamashita Tomoyuki, commander of the 4th Division of the Kwantung Army, was suspended for investigation.

Commander Michijiro Umezu also urged the Army Headquarters to replenish the newly produced Zero fighters in an attempt to regain the gradually lost air superiority.

Soon, the Japanese Army Headquarters replied to Commander Umezu Michijiro: The first batch of newly produced Zero fighters played an obvious role in the Central China Expeditionary Army's attack on the southern government forces. Immediately increase production and prepare to equip the Kwantung Army and the Central China Expeditionary Army.

In fact, at this time, the air force of the southern government army had suffered heavy casualties in the years of anti-Japanese war.

Even if the Japanese army deployed the early and outdated Type 95 fighter jets, they were still able to play a significant role.

Leng Feng soon learned from Commander He of the Independent Division fighting in Guangxi that the Japanese army had a new type of fighter jet that was participating in the air strikes against the Nanjing government forces and their forces.

Leng Feng collected some information and soon learned that the new fighter plane of the Japanese army was the famous Zero fighter plane at that time.

The Zero fighter used more advanced design concepts and manufacturing processes. The Nakajima Ei 12 air-cooled engine it carried was more powerful, and its maximum level flight speed could reach 533.4 kilometers per hour (the maximum speed of the Type 370 fighter was 2222 kilometers per hour. In addition, the Zero fighter had an extremely long range of kilometers.

The Zero fighter has a light structure, small wing load, and retractable landing gear. These designs make it extremely maneuverable at medium and low altitudes, allowing it to perform many difficult flying maneuvers and gain an advantage in close-range air combat.

零式战斗机装备有2门99式1型20毫米机炮和2挺97式7.7毫米机枪，而九五式战斗机主要装备7.7毫米机枪，火力强度远不如零式战斗机。

Leng Feng handed the collected information to Wen Lang, who submitted it to the research department for discussion.

After discussion, it was believed that our Hua Xia II supersonic fighter had a generation gap in speed (1300 thousand meters per hour) compared to the Japanese Zero fighter, and had a considerable advantage.

Even in terms of weapons and equipment, with three 20mm machine guns, it is not inferior to the Zero fighter.

However, in terms of flexibility at medium and low altitudes, both sides are competing with each other.

At this time, the production technology of aircraft for the First Anti-Japanese Army had become increasingly mature.

Wen Lang, Professor Hong, and Professor Xu held a meeting to discuss with everyone based on the information provided by Leng Feng, and made some improvements to the Hua Xia II fighter to increase its flexibility in medium and low altitude combat.

And this new supersonic fighter was named China Three Fighter.