Bright Sword Military System

At this time, the Japanese were indeed trapped in a vicious cycle of "having to believe".

Umezu Yoshijiro believed that the speed of this Eighth Route Army fighter plane was only more than 500 kilometers per hour.

When he first heard that the Eighth Route Army had a new type of fighter plane coming out of the factory, and it was a jet fighter, Umezu Yoshijiro was shocked and thought to himself: "Is the Eighth Route Army already so much more advanced than the Empire? The Empire's jet fighters are still being imitated, while the Eighth Route Army's The jet fighter has already taken off?"

The Imperial Jet Fighter project is a first-class military secret, and people at the level of Umezu Yoshijiro have only heard a little bit about it.

This was in 1943. The empire sent a submarine to transport more than 200 tons of Hans' scarce tin, tungsten and other refined ores, plus Type 93 pure oxygen torpedoes, in exchange for the Hans me262 jet A complete set of information on the fighter jets was even provided with two jet engine samples for them to dismantle and imitate.

But now it's almost a year, and the empire's jet fighters are still missing.

Compared with the ups and downs of the Japanese on this road, the Eighth Route Army can be said to be smooth sailing... It directly obtained the production line from Sun Bu Luo to have production capacity, and then used the "Mig 15" drawings given by the system to produce it.

Since the "Mig 15" is a mature product, the Eighth Route Army does not need any intermediate steps such as design, wind tunnel, and experiments, and can just produce it directly.

Therefore, He Zhimin and other researchers could not even believe that this plane could fly.

But it happened to fly into the sky. Not only did it fly into the sky, its performance was beyond imagination.

Even the Eighth Route Army's own researchers didn't believe this, and Umezu Yoshijiro certainly couldn't imagine it.

However, the Eighth Route Army's jet fighters still flew earlier than the Empire, which made Umezu Yoshijiro very unhappy.

At this time, the correspondent reported with a telegram: "Your Excellency, General, we have received information from intelligence personnel that the speed of the Eighth Route Army's new fighter aircraft should be more than 500 kilometers!"

This is roughly calculated by the Japanese intelligence personnel based on observations with high-powered telescopes... It is difficult to measure the speed of a fighter plane flying in the sky, but if you use a telescope with a scale to record the length of the plane at all times, and combine it with its actual length, you can The flight distance and speed can be roughly calculated.

"In addition!" said the communications soldier: "The Eighth Route Army's own newspaper also said that the design was too advanced and resulted in poor results!"

Umezu Meijiro's face looked better after hearing this. After a while, he laughed and said: "The Eighth Route Army really overestimated its capabilities and actually dared to try to use swept wings... This is not something they can do!"

Because me262 also uses swept wings, Umezu Yoshijiro has some understanding of this.

Hashimoto Toranosuke was quite worried. This was not because he had discovered anything, but because the Eighth Route Army had been fighting the Kwantung Army for nearly a year. During this time, the Eighth Route Army had given the Kwantung Army too many "surprises."

From anti-ship missiles to aircraft carriers, to anti-jamming equipment... Which of the Eighth Route Army is not suppressing the empire?

In the past, Hashimoto Toranosuke would have denied the Eighth Route Army project without even thinking about it, but now he no longer has that confidence.

"General!" Hashimoto Toranosuke said: "Don't you find it strange? Why did the Eighth Route Army announce this project at this time? They could have said nothing..."

"Hashimoto-kun, you mean that this is a conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army?"

"It's very possible!" Hashimoto Toranosuke nodded: "It's just that I don't know what the Eighth Route Army is hiding. Could it be that... this Eighth Route Army fighter plane is not as they said, it can only reach a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour and cannot be used in actual combat?"

Hashimoto Toranosuke used the method of proof by contradiction: if the enemy is hiding something, then the truth is opposite to what it seems on the surface.

Umezu Meijiro was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed:

"Hashimoto-kun, you are worrying too much! You don't know how difficult it is to develop a jet fighter!"

"Even fighter jets produced by old industrial countries like the sun never set have little practical significance, let alone the level of the Eighth Route Army!"

"The Eighth Route Army even uses engines on which the sun never sets!"

"Even if they can outshine others and keep the sun going, the 'Meteor' that never sets can only reach a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour!"

"How far can this Eighth Route Army fighter jet surpass it?"

"More than 700 kilometers?"

"This is so ridiculous!"

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This is indeed unimaginable, because the speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour is the world record of this era, and it is like a ceiling. There is no news or any rumors that any aircraft exceeds this speed.

Could it be that the Eighth Route Army could be more powerful than those European and American powers?

What a joke!

Hearing Umezu Yoshijiro's analysis, Hashimoto Toranosuke became silent because he did not believe that any country on earth could surpass the Western powers, especially China, which was looked down upon by the empire.

This is a kind of mental inertia. The Japanese have always marveled at the power and advancement of the West, so they put them on the altar as a kind of belief, even though the Japanese were still at war with Europe and the United States at this time.

Now some people say that the Eighth Route Army has surpassed them... Of course they don't believe it, otherwise the psychological belief they have built will collapse.

What the Japanese didn't know was that at this time, the Eighth Route Army already had many things that surpassed those of the great powers, especially transistors, which had stuck in the necks of the two powerful powers, Yingjiang and Mao Xiong.

Seeing that Hashimoto Toranosuke could not convince Umezu Meijiro, he said nothing more.

However, he still believed that there was something hidden in it and planned to arrange for intelligence personnel to conduct detailed reconnaissance.

But when I thought about it again, I felt that there was no point in doing so.

What will be the result of continuing the investigation?

If the situation is as we know now, and the Eighth Route Army's new fighter planes are not successful, then he is doing useless work.

If there is a new discovery, that is, the Eighth Route Army's new fighter planes have very good performance and can be used in actual combat, they will pose a threat to the empire...

what's next?

Could it be that the empire would not attack Heping Village and seize oil?

Therefore, the key point is that this battle is like an arrow on the string and must be launched, and it will not change due to different reconnaissance results.

On the contrary, if the battle plan continues according to the current situation, the imperial army will still have high morale and high morale, because more than [-] "Hasts" will be put into the battlefield and they will immediately seize air supremacy!

But if you know that the Eighth Route Army has fighter planes that are more powerful than the "Wind"...

The only thing that has an impact is the morale of the troops!

Thinking of this, Hashimoto Toranosuke sighed helplessly: "I hope I am wrong!"