Time goes back to morning.

Hankou Airport.

Large war room at the airport.

General Yamaguchi Toshita, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Aviation Forces, sat in the main seat of the oval long table, with a gloomy face, causing the air in the room to almost condense. On both sides of the table were dozens of HNA and Land Aviation officers and pilots.

At this meeting, almost all the Japanese ace pilots from China were here.

Among them are Colonel Kikuji Oda, known as the "King of Bombers", Colonel Kamori Takashi, "King of Destroyers", Major Chiyoji Mori, "King of Reconnaissance Planes", Major Naosaburo Hosokawa, Major Kato of "King of Torpedoes", "King of Air Force", Major Kato of the "Air Battle Ace Squadron", Captain Kondo, and the injured Saburo Hiroi also stood on the side with a cane. There were also several pilots of the Type 97 land war that returned from Kunlun Pass last night. Everyone bowed their heads and did not dare to breathe.

Among them, Nakasaki Moritao, Hosokawa Naosakiro, and Mori Chiyoji participated in the Battle of Songhu and witnessed the air battle between Zhou Zhihan and Yamashita Shiro, the war god, and the war god. At that time, they had just made their mark and were now famous.

The atmosphere in the combat room was condensed for two or three minutes. Yamaguchi Daowen slowly stood up, with a dark cloud on his face, turned around and reached out to take off the silver-inlaid knife hanging horizontally on the knife holder, holding the handle of the knife in his right hand and the scabbard with his left hand slowly pulling it back, flashing the cold light of the knife, which scared several pilots who returned from Kunlun Pass last night and their legs were trembling and their faces were pale.

Yamaguchi Daowen slowly wiped the knife, and after more than ten seconds, he spoke:

"A total of 213 various fighter jets were destroyed or damaged. The news reached the country. The entire Tokyo Supreme Command was shocked, and the emperor was even more furious when he found out.

To make matters worse, General Nakamura Masao was killed in Kunlun Pass, and his body was obtained by the Chinese army. This is the first time since the Imperial Army entered China that the body could not return to Japan after the general was killed.

During the war, the cabinet ordered that General Nakamura's body should be taken back at all costs and returned to the country for burial.

These two consecutive failures have brought shame to the empire, especially the losses at Nanning Airport. The cabinet ordered all the commanders who were dereliction of duty to be taken back to Tokyo for trial. Major Masaki Morimoto, the commander of the air defense position at Nanning Airport, committed suicide on the spot. This is a bargain."

The pilots of the Type 97 Land Warfare who returned to defense stared at their toes and sweat dripped from their noses. They attacked the Imperial Air Defense Position outside Nanning Airport last night while returning to defense. They made a big mistake. After landing at the airport elsewhere, they were isolated and guarded. Not long after, they received the order and took a military plane to fly directly to Hankou Airport.

During the flight, several people were separated and there was a dedicated person to keep them from saying a word.

After arriving at Hankou Airport, a captain asked in detail about their return to defense one by one, and then waited for General Yamaguchi Tomoto to decide their fate.

"Sit down!" Yamaguchi Tatsume finally spoke, stretching out his palms to press it.

Except for those pilots who returned to defense who had no seats, everyone sat down.

Now, the pilots who returned to defense almost pissed their pants.

Yamaguchi Tatsumeshi said to the pilots: "You guys have worked hard too. I didn't blame you last night. It was the air defense force who opened the fire first. You can sit down and ask you something later."

Immediately, an orderly man brought the bench next to him.

"Hayi!"

If those pilots were amnesty, they found that their shirts were already wet with sweat.

Yamaguchi Daowen looked around him like an eagle: "This time, Nanning's major failure, let's put it aside, and then discuss it later. To summarize, let you come today, mainly to study how to defeat the Chinese Air Force ace pilot, so as to boost the morale of our army."

Major Kato stood up and said, "General! After the Battle of Biyama, I asked someone to draw the appearance of the Messerchmitt piloted by the Chinese pilot based on the intuitive description of Takashi Yamaguchi and Ono, and show it to our ally German Air Force. They confirmed that this was a Bf        109F0 fighter, which belongs to the most advanced fighter of the Messerchmit family. The Germans were skeptical about this. They did not believe that the Chinese could get such a fighter.

According to information given by the Germans, this Messerchmitt has amazing performance and is slightly faster than our Zero fighter. The only disadvantage is that its range is far inferior to the Zero fighter.

After comparing these two fighter jets in various aspects, the overall performance should be equal. The final victory depends on the skills and luck of the pilots on both sides."

As he said that, Major Kato took out a copy of the Bf from the folder in front of him.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   �

Yamaguchi Tatsumeshi reached out to take the information and looked through it carefully.

Major Kato took a step back and knocked his heel: "The advice from the Luftwaffe is that if the Chinese pilot is really Zhou Zhihan, then we must be extremely careful!

The Luftwaffe had suffered a great loss in the Chinese pilot before, so he set up a team to study this person. Later, it was said that this person died in battle and the information was shelved.

They promised to organize this technology that the person likes to use in air combat into a detailed information and send it to us."

Yamaguchi Tatsuki nodded and expressed his appreciation.

Colonel Shengxiao of Zhongzhe stood up and said, "General! I have sent someone to inquire and get reliable information. This pilot is indeed Zhou Zhihan, who came back from the UK. This is also the one who bombed my Qinzhou Bay aircraft carrier last time.

We said in the inside of Guilin Airport that this man drove a fighter plane he had never seen before and led eight bombers back in the middle of the night, and then the Guilin Airport celebrated happily all night. Yesterday, after dark, it was very likely that he was leading the team."

Yamaguchi Tatsume put down the documents in his hand, and murderous intent flashed on his cold face: "Is this Chinese named Zhou Zhihan? He has three heads and six arms, so he is so rampant? Kondo, you must shoot him down this time, and it is ashamed that the pilot of the Imperial Empire was defeated by him repeatedly!"

"Hayi!"

Captain Kondo stood up, bent down and said.

Zhongsa Shengxiao picked up a report, stood up and turned to the pilots returning from Kunlun Pass and said, "This information says, you saw that last night, that Chinese fighter jet made three lifts and jumps in a row?"

"Hayi!"

Several pilots stood up and answered at the same time.

Zhongsu Shengxiao frowned, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face: "Three consecutive jumps and jumps? Are you reading it wrong?"

"Yes!" One of the pilots bent down and said, "It's true. I saw with my own eyes that at the moment when the oil depot exploded at our airport, the Chinese fighter made three lifts and jumps in a row and disappeared from above the explosion. None of our army's Type 97 land battles in the explosion area were spared."

Zhongsu Shengxiao continued to ask: "This report says that none of you could see the shape of the Chinese fighter jet clearly at that time?"

Another pilot said: "At that time, we were still far from the explosion point and could not see the shape of the fighter plane, but he escaped from the sky with three consecutive pulling and jumping on the shock wave tips generated by the explosion. We could see clearly and we would never be wrong!"

Hijiji Okuda, who had not spoken, stood up and said, "Judging from the capacity of the airport oil tank, the shock wave generated by the explosion at that time was very amazing. It is not terrible for the fighter to do three pull-up jumps in a row under the shock wave lift, but if he could do three pull-up jumps in a row under normal circumstances, it would be terrible. At the moment, no one among the Imperial Pilots can do it."

After Colonel Okuda Kikuji finished speaking, a dead silence appeared in the entire conference room.

After a while, Nakasa Moritao said: "Takashi Yamaguchi and Ono said intuitively that the pilot named Zhou Zhihan can do two consecutive pull-up and jump maneuvers." He said and looked at Kondo, "Kondo, can you do it?"

Kondo stood up and was silent for three seconds: "I can't do it, Lord Colonel! But we all know that an excellent pilot must be comprehensive, and there are many factors for victory, including the performance of the fighter, the courage of the pilot, shooting skills, luck and style, and the one that has the greatest impact on victory is courage.

I believe that no one has more courage than my Japanese soldier. So, I can definitely defeat this Chinese pilot."

"Yeah!" Yamaguchi Tatsume nodded. Kondo's answer made him very satisfied. An excellent ace pilot must have extraordinary courage and a belief in winning. He believes Captain Kondo has both.

"General!" said Colonel Shimotoko Nakamori, the king of the expulsion aircraft. "In order to win this ace against ace, I will play the new fighter of the Empire as Messer Schmitt, and simulate air combat with Captain Kondo based on the characteristics of Messer Schmitt."

Yamaguchi Taoshi nodded: "This is the best way to know yourself and your enemy, and you can never win a hundred battles! I will be in trouble for Sheng Xiaojun!"

Nakasa Mori Taku's heels knocked: "Hay! The new fighter will arrive at noon today. At that time, please invite the general to watch the battle and guide me on the simulated air battle with Kondo."

Yamaguchi Tatsuki nodded: "The empire's new fighter jet came to China for a day late for some reason, and was lucky enough to escape the disaster at Nanning Airport. This is God bless me to the great Japanese Empire!"

Major Kato said: "The Chinese Air Force received our challenge letter two days ago. We chose the location in Yun'an Town, and the time will be chosen by them. I guess they will finalize the time for the decisive battle in the past few days."

Yamaguchi Daoshi looked introverted and sat down slowly: "They are not in a hurry, and we don't urge you, so let Mori Kojun and Kondo Jun practice for a few more days."

Major Kato: "Hay! General!"

After the meeting, Yamaguchi Daowen called the intelligence officer alone and said sinisterly: "Order us to be in the inside of Guilin Airport and wait for the Chinese to decide the time, and try every means to make the Messerchmitt mechanical accident in the air battle."

At noon, the new Japanese fighter jet that took off from Japan, refueled through Taiwan, arrived at Hankou Airport.

In the afternoon, Nakamoto Moritao, who was known as the king of the deportation aircraft by the Japanese army, personally drove the new fighter aircraft, and used the characteristics of Mercedes-Schmidt to engage in a fierce simulated air battle with Captain Kondo.

After two hours of rest, the ace pilot, Madame Kato, also played a new fighter as Messer Schmidt, using another technique and tactic to fight the Zero fighter piloted by Captain Kondo.

In this way, the Japanese ace pilots took turns to fly new fighter planes to play Messer Schmidt, using various tactics to feed Captain Kondo.

That night, these ace pilots gathered together to study and discuss every possible situation in the coming air battle…

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noon.

Guilin Airport.

After returning from the Guilin camp and having lunch, Zhou Zhirou summoned relevant Air Force personnel to a meeting in a large war room.

With Zhou Zhihan's approval, the meeting decided that the ace battle between Zhou Zhihan and Kondo was arranged three days later, and this move was to continue to sprinkle salt on the Japanese's wounds.

Whether the recipient's signature is written directly by Zhou Zhihan needs to be discussed.

Zhou Zhirou believes that there is no need to hide it anymore. The Japanese should already know Zhou Zhihan’s true identity. He wants to hear everyone’s thoughts.

Xu Jianghua, the captain of the Fourth Bombing Brigade, also believed: "After fighting with the Japanese for so many years, everyone knows that the intelligence of the Japanese is never inferior to that of us Chinese. I guess the Japanese have known Colonel Zhou's true identity long ago, because the reality is here. After the consumption of war, there are fewer and fewer outstanding pilots in our Chinese Air Force, and people like Colonel Zhou are even rarer. After several battles, the Japanese can guess no matter how stupid they are."

Everyone agreed with Xu Jianghua's opinion. Since we accepted the Japanese challenge, we would let the Japanese know that the one who defeated them was Colonel Zhou.

As for what the British side would think when they knew Zhou Zhihan was still alive, they would leave it to diplomats to deal with it. This matter cannot be kept forever hidden.

After the day of the decisive battle was confirmed, Zhou Zhirou said to Zhou Zhihan: "Zhihan, you have been back to China for so long and have not brought Karen home yet. During this period, you should be very tired when you bombed the Qinzhou Bay Japanese aircraft carrier and fought against Kunlun Pass. You should be very tired. How many days off will you take Karen back to see your parents, stay at home for two days, relax and relax, and then come back to defeat the Japanese."

Zhou Zhihan believes that he should take this opportunity to study the Zero fighter. After all, Zero Warfare will become the main opponent of the Chinese Air Force in the next few years. He must fully master all its performance in these few days.

"Commander-in-Chief Xie. I want to take Karen home after the battle of this ace. During this period, the Japanese will definitely study me thoroughly. We cannot take it lightly, and we must also know ourselves and our enemy."

Zhou Zhirou nodded, Zhou Zhihan said something reasonable, and said with a smile: "It's good, then wait until this ace battle is over and return home in glory!"

Zhou Zhihan also smiled: "I need a big house that is independent and has no disturbances. Let's have a good time, sort out all the battle process with the German ace pilot during my time in the UK, summarize more experiences, learn from others' strengths, and share them with our Chinese Air Force."

Zhou Zhirou: "Okay! I'll have someone organize a big house, and you and Karen will move in, so that no one can disturb you."

"No." Zhou Zhihan said, "I live by myself."

Zhou Zhirou was stunned at first, then smiled and said, "Okay! These days, I have let Qin Shu stay with Karen, so you can study hard alone."

That night, Zhou Zhirou asked someone to organize a large house near the airport for Zhou Zhihan, and sent two trusted guards to guard the door. No one was allowed to enter without Zhou Zhihan's permission.
Chapter completed!