The biggest change during the First Sino-Japanese War was the popularity of Hanyang rifle, but the Japanese Army also replaced the new semi-automatic rifle, which is called the Type 99 rifle.

The semi-automatic rifle was originally just a manual rifle, because during the East African War, the semi-automatic rifle of the Imperial Army caused great fire rate trauma to the Italian army. Japan temporarily adjusted it in 1937 and required the use of semi-automatic bolts to switch to semi-automatic bolts.

At this time, semi-automatic rifles were already relatively common among the world's major powers. China, Britain, the United States, France, Germany and the Soviet Union basically strengthened the development of semi-automatic rifles after the end of the Sino-Soviet War. At this stage, China's Hanyang rifles are still the most famous, and their production volume is also

The largest, while French and German semi-automatic rifles fully absorb the bolt design of Hanyang rifles.

Japan and Italy actually started the research on semi-automatic rifles at the latest. At the same time, countries such as Poland, Sweden, and Finland have replaced newly designed semi-automatic rifles.

The Imperial Army's MP30\33 submachine guns are all equipped with special grenade launchers. Therefore, the Imperial Army does not emphasize the use of rifle grenades in the infantry division, but only considers the various factors that exist in the war. Army soldiers will still carry two rifle grenades each.

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At the platoon level, the Imperial Army has begun to match the bazooka, and the number of mortars has not decreased.

Judging from the combat power assessment at the first level of the infantry company, the Imperial Army has improved compared with the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, but this increase is not large and is not enough to have an absolute advantage to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese Army still has a relatively obvious conservative side. Its emphasis on light machine guns is much more important than submachine guns, because it has been seriously inferior to the navy in military expenditure for a long time. The top leaders of the army are blindly conservative and rigid, even though they eat a lot in the Xinhai War

It is a loss, after adding a large number of light machine guns, it is believed that the effect of the submachine gun is far less than that of the machine gun.

In fact, this is a bad problem caused by the large population of Japan and insufficient funds and resources, and people are always cheaper than guns.

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History has repeatedly proved that the process of war is often not necessarily shifted by human will.

All Chinese military operations in Incheon and Seoul were for evacuating overseas Chinese, but Japan misunderstood this strategy, thinking that China's goal was Incheon and Seoul, and sent troops to attack. Under the restrictions of the treaty, the army and air forces on both sides were

The Korean Peninsula was not large in size. In the first few days after the war started, the scale of the battle was just a confrontation between two infantry divisions.

One surprising thing is that the 23rd Infantry Division actually tore open the defense line of the Japanese 8th Division in Seoul with a small number of heavy tanks TK15 and infantry fighting vehicles, causing the 8th Division to fall in Seoul.

At this time, the North Korean Lee family royal family was still in Seoul. Because the incident suddenly occurred, in order to cover the retreat of the Lee family royal family, the Japanese army sent air force into the whole province on a large scale, resulting in the rapid expansion of the scale of air force operations between both sides.

In the history of Asian wars, the first largest air battle, Incheon Air Battle, broke out.

Incheon Air Battle is a very special air battle, which lasts for 20 days, from the initial dozens of battles to the final competition of nearly a thousand fighters. Due to the complete damage to the Japanese aircraft carrier, the Empire's Southern Fleet and

The Northern Fleet was quickly merged into the Central United Airlines Fleet, concentrating the main aircraft carriers together, with the Jinzhou and Lushun Naval Joint Bases as the main home port, and officially deployed four naval bases in Nanpu, Weihai, Jinzhou, Lushun and Qingdao.

Intervene in the Incheon air battle.

The Incheon air battle was also a large-scale air battle that broke out early. In fact, neither the war commanders of both sides arrived, nor did they expect that the scale of this air battle would reach a level that determines the life and death of both sides.

The fundamental reason is that Japan misjudged China's military strategy. Because the second Sino-Japanese War left too deep a shadow on Japan, with the sudden attack on Seoul by the 22nd Infantry Division of the Empire, the Japanese army mistakenly thought that China would still be in harmony.

The last time I fought quickly, I directly occupied Seoul and Incheon, and transported troops and materials to the Korean Peninsula on a large scale through the navy and the army.

Given the conditions of Incheon Port, Japan must not allow this port to be occupied by China.

For China, there are nearly 200,000 expatriates in Seoul and Incheon, and it is impossible to sit idly by and watch Japan completely occupy the two places, which eventually led to the early outbreak of the decisive battle in Incheon.

China's strategy is actually to slow victory. After the large-scale defeat of the navy, the Japanese army once hoped to curb the Chinese army's occupation of the entire South Korea through layers of defense and strive for the best negotiation conditions. As a result, war was officially declared on August 1, 1939.

By August 7, both sides had already launched their backup airports in North and South Korea on a large scale. Although the Japanese Air Force was reinforcing faster, with the arrival of the Imperial Central Air Fleet, both sides were basically close to two in terms of fighter jets.

About a thousand aircraft.

The Incheon air battle officially broke out.

The background of this air battle is the large-scale evacuation of Chinese navy. Since Japanese fighter jets are not as good as China, the Japanese Army aviation forces chose to use low-altitude strafing docks and large-scale bombing to try to blow up and sink a large number of ships in the port, forcing China to force China to

The Navy gave up evacuating overseas Chinese, and at the same time gave up sending troops to land in Incheon and transporting war materials in Incheon.

Therefore, the Incheon air battle is not an air battle that bursts out at a certain moment, but an extremely long long air battle, and also a tug-of-war in the air.

Japan still lacks experience in air combat, while the Chinese Air Force has experienced the baptism of World War I and Sino-Soviet Wars. The overall system is more complete, the tactical experience is richer, and the aircraft types are better. The two sides quickly started air combat.

The gap.

In particular, the large-scale addition of the J-5 Tiger Shark fighter and the J-4 Blitzf. The former is known for its outstanding capabilities in large ranges, high-speed and night combat. It is a typical fighter bomber that can bomb Japanese airports in large-scale clusters at night.

The J-4 Blitzf is responsible for expelling enemy aircraft during the day.

During this period, there was already zero warfare in Japan, but zero warfare is a carrier-based aircraft. Moreover, Japan does not have the industrial strength to produce zero warfare on a large scale, so it can only rely on the 97 fighter as its main force and the empire's J-3\4\3033.

A variety of fighter jets.

As a light fighter, the 97 fighter has stronger maneuverability and good slewing performance. It is very practical in air combat. It obviously has the advantage when facing the slightly bulky and heavy J-4\5, but in the Navy

After the J-303 carrier-based aircraft joined the battlefield, this situation was quickly changed.

The pilots of the Imperial Air Force generally have richer experience. After a few days of continuous air battle in Incheon, they quickly found targeted tactics. Usually, after the 97 fighter revolved, the J-4 blitzkrieg immediately rolled over.

Avoid the strafing of the 97 fighter from the air behind, and then rely on the higher horsepower and speed advantages of the lightning fighter to leave the battlefield, return to the battlefield at a higher altitude, relying on the powerful body to adopt high-load high-speed dive strafing to shoot the sunset aircraft,

Or induce the 97 fighter to raise the combat altitude and use maneuverability to pursue when its high-altitude performance drops significantly.

Overall, the J-4 Blitzf has stronger comprehensive performance and high-altitude combat advantages, but the shortcomings of lack of sensitivity in medium and low altitudes are still obvious. This requires the cooperation of the J-3\303 series fighter jets, especially the Navy.

The J-303 Sea Snake fighter has better maneuverability and sensitivity in the medium and low altitude fields that the 97 fighter is good at, making it completely difficult for the 97 fighter to compete.

Incheon.

The death grave of the plane.

Due to the huge number of aircraft fighting and the long period of time, planes fall from the sky of Incheon almost every day. There are always countless planes buzzing and whistling by, and there are more than 40 ships sunk by the Japanese army.

Ship.

It was not until August 20, 1939 that 200,000 expatriates in Incheon and Seoul areas were generally retreated, and the Incheon air combat was completely stopped. The Imperial Navy Central Air Fleet retreated back to the Jinzhou Yaowan Naval Base to be repaired. The Army and Air Force also followed the Northeast Defense Forces.

The commander-in-chief General Cai E was ordered to withdraw the northern part of North Korea for renovation.

In this half month, the three engineering brigades of the Imperial Central Army were first stationed in northern Korea to expand airports in Shincheon, Jaining, Xinmu, Nanpu, Pyongyang, Anju, Taichuan, Yizhou and other places.

The Imperial Air Force also began to transfer these spare military airports on a large scale, and the number of air force divisions arriving in northern North Korea increased to 11. Each division was rapidly launching reserve pilots, increasing the number of military aircraft, and expanding the two air combat regiments to three.

One, even four.

Incheon air combat proved one thing, that is, the military theory that the Empire has continuously used the Air Force as a new strategic center for the past thirty years is correct, although the Empire did not have obvious mobilization and secret preparations before the war, so that Incheon air combat

In the early stages of the outbreak, the Imperial Air Force was still at a certain disadvantage in air combat, but with the large-scale transfer of the air force, the result of the Incheon air combat quickly turned to the Empire.

Times have changed.

The Air Force is gradually becoming the leader of modern military wars. The Air Force's large maneuver speed is incomparable to both the army and the navy. As long as the airport conditions are sufficient, an air force division can complete the relocation in just two weeks and be fully transferred to thousands.

It only takes a few days for thousands of fighters to be transferred to northern North Korea, which is difficult for both the army and the navy to do. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy for the novel, and update it better.
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