I'm afraid even a proud man like Iwamoto Tetsuzo never thought that one day he would be in such a mess.
To be honest, in the sky above Songhu, he admired the courage of the Chinese Air Force with 300 against nearly 2,000 Imperial Navy and Army fighter planes. However, 4 of such brave Chinese military planes still became his trophies and became the treasures of his military planes.
The unique four gold stars at the tail.
In fact, they are not the opponents they want because their strength is too weak.
But this time, in the sky, where the imperial eagle is unparalleled, he was ambushed by Chinese planes, and twice in a row.
What a shame!
But the Japanese ace pilot could only swallow this shame for the time being.
In the first round of ambush, the Imperial fighter formation suffered more than 7 battle losses. The most terrible thing was that the entire formation was broken up. From 800 meters to 2000 meters in the low altitude, there were fighter planes chasing each other everywhere with their engines screaming.
The specific damage cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye, but Tetsuzo Iwamoto can clearly see it from an altitude of 2,000 to more than 3,000 meters. Except for his own 16 fighter planes that have just made a big turn and entered the battlefield, all the 16 fighters that were previously in this area can be seen clearly with the naked eye.
The battlefield of airspace dogfights is already very brutal.
There will never be more than 10 fighter planes belonging to the empire. Except for two of them, which were smoking and running towards the battlefield without looking back, the other four were missing. You don't need to ask to know the result.
And even for the two planes that were rushing towards the battlefield, looking at the thick black smoke, Tetsuzo Iwamoto knew that even if there were no Chinese pursuit, if they could fly back to the airport more than 200 kilometers away, it would be a disaster.
The illegitimate son of the Great God.
Iwamoto Tetsuzo led 15 fighter planes and ran wildly forward for at least four to five kilometers, then made a big turn and entered from east to west. At least 3 minutes had passed.
For dogfighting air combat, let alone 3 minutes, countless bullets will be fired in 30 seconds, and the fate of many people will be completely changed.
At a medium altitude of about 3,000 meters, the Chinese military aircraft were 12 against 16. The number of aircraft was completely at a disadvantage. The 12 pilots were all students who had just stepped out of the aviation school, commonly known as rookies.
But they have an advantage in aircraft performance. Compared with the Yi-153, the 96-fighter, which only has a 600-horsepower engine, is a notch behind in terms of firepower, maneuverability, and body sturdiness.
The Japanese fighter planes, known for their thin skin, looked extremely fragile in front of the crazy bullets of the four Shikas machine guns of the I-153, like butter meeting a sharp knife.
One aircraft may have been hit by a fuel tank located on the wing. The result of the sudden explosion of the wing was that the aircraft was escaping like a bird with folded wings, spinning randomly in the air for several times, and then falling vertically, like
A blazing fireball fell hundreds of meters without a pilot parachuting.
It is estimated that he was either pressed to the seat by the crazy airflow, or he lost all consciousness in the crazy rotation.
Another one was even more straightforward, and the 30-pound aerial bomb mounted on the wing was hit by a whip.
The Japanese pilot may not have been particularly experienced. In panic, he obeyed the order and dropped several heavy bombs mounted on the plane, but ignored that there were two small 30-pound bombs on the wings.
As a result, the hit aerial bomb exploded on the spot. The 30-pound aerial bomb could almost blow up a tank, let alone a small aircraft. The entire fighter plane disintegrated in the air on the spot and scattered into several burning fireballs toward the ground.
Fall.
The other two planes were even more unlucky. During the hurried lifting process, the two planes slightly collided in the air.
Then, one fighter plane lost its tail and spiraled down, while the other fighter plane looked like a fish with its belly cut open with a sharp kitchen knife, including its cockpit and pilot, and roared forward for more than two thousand meters.
, and then crashed headlong into the mountain.
But the air superiority before Tetsuzo Iwamoto arrived on the battlefield was not with China!
Because, 12 Chinese ‘rookies’ turned into 6!
In just three minutes, 16 Japanese planes at an altitude of about 3,000 meters shot down 6 Chinese fighter planes at the cost of losing 4 and damaging 2!
There were no injuries because the injured Chinese fighter plane did not choose to leave the battlefield until the fighter plane completely lost control.
Only two pilots successfully parachuted! But even then, there was still no guarantee whether they would survive.
The Chinese soldiers on the ground could completely see that a pilot was hanging on the slowly descending parachute, motionless, like an out-of-control puppet!
When the search and rescue team organized by the Si Xing Regiment found him on a hillside half an hour later, he had already died.
No, to be more precise, he may have died the moment he left his beloved fighter plane.
The chest of a young man who must not have been more than 23 years old was beaten into a hornet's nest. He probably did not jump out on his own, but was thrown out after the fighter plane completely lost control and the cockpit was damaged by Japanese 7mm machine gun bullets.
However, God failed to save this young Chinese pilot with his belated luck. He and his beloved fighter plane died together in the gorgeous clouds of the Taihang Mountains.
The Chinese infantrymen who were crawling in various bunkers on the battlefield and planned to attack after the artillery fire ended looked at the tragic scene in front of them with tears in their eyes. But for the Chinese 'rookies' who were still fighting hard at an altitude of 3,000 meters, it was hard to fight.
They are already very satisfied with this achievement.
At least, they were outnumbered, using the new against the old, and still had a draw! They did not give away a few enemy lives in vain, nor did they allow the enemy aircraft to further increase their numerical advantage.
They must persist until the low altitude to determine the winner!
The two aviation captains who swooped down from high altitude looked at this scene in front of them, how could they not be heartbroken?
Because, that was myself and my classmates more than a year ago, and now, they have become them!
Nothing more than a fight to the death!
"Kill!" the hoarse voice of the leading air force captain sounded on the public channel.
"Kill!" the young pilots responded loudly with tears in their eyes.
His fingers were clasped on the firing handle of the machine gun, as if he wanted to turn all the sadness into lightning and strike it at the Japanese planes.
Although the Chinese soldiers on the ground could not hear their roars, they could feel the fearlessness of the Chinese Air Force through the 12 fighter planes diving without hesitation, like a vengeful sword slashing at the enemy's determination.
Tetsuzo Iwamoto's 16-fighter formation lost two more!
But as the Japanese aircraft formation broke up and turned, the formations of both sides staggered past each other, and the height advantage no longer existed. Both sides reorganized their formations, just like the cavalry in the medieval century, circling in the air and waiting for the next round of fighting.
But the Chinese Air Force won another city!
At a medium altitude of 3,000 meters, the Japanese aircraft lost a total of 9 fighters, 2 fled with losses, and 21 remaining fighters, while the two Chinese air fleets had 24 fighters and 18 remaining!
As the fighter planes reported their numbers at an altitude of 3,000 meters, Iwamoto Tetsuzo's face turned blood red!
There were as many as 32 fighter planes following him up to the sky! They were two and a half aviation squadrons. In the end, in just a few minutes, both aviation squadrons were unable to gather together.
The squadron leader of the provisional 9th Squadron was finished in the first round of fierce fighting, and the plane that crashed into the mountain belonged to him.
Now, he, the Army Aviation Captain, is the supreme commander of 21 fighter planes at an altitude of 3,000 meters.
The heavy losses are not the most painful thing for the Japanese ace pilot. The most painful thing is that he has not yet received a record of destroying a Chinese aircraft. In order to escape the offensive of enemy planes, he has not even fired a shot.
"Baga, for the honor of the Imperial Army Aviation, warriors, please sacrifice your lives!" Tetsuzo Iwamoto, who regrouped all the remaining fighters and drew an arc on the battlefield to prepare to enter the battlefield again, looked at Masaru in the distance.
The little black dot that was approaching here issued a death order.
It's not that Tetsuzo Iwamoto is so brave, that he wants to devote himself to the empire, or that he wants to play mahjong with Amaterasu, but that he can't escape.
Yes, if they escape like this, the news that an unprecedented huge formation of 74 fighters on the North China battlefield was defeated by the weak Chinese Air Force will firmly nail the Provisional Aviation Corps and even the North China Front to the pillar of shame.
By that time, not only will the supreme commander of the fleet commit suicide by caesarean section to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, but this so-called ace pilot will also fall into the dust from the clouds. In the future, let alone completely overpowering the legendary Sasaki, he just wants to chase him.
, will be ruthlessly mocked by everyone, which is definitely unacceptable to Tetsuzo Iwamoto.
Fighting to the death in the sky is his best choice.
If he can shoot down a few Chinese planes in the next battle, his reputation as an ace pilot will never fall!
The proud Japanese Army Airlines ace pilot values honor far beyond his life!
Without his command as the commander, the other Japanese pilots would not dare to escape even if they wanted to. Military discipline would be enforced if they did, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and enter the battlefield again.
Moreover, for Iwamoto Tetsuzo, there are more than 20 fighter planes fighting the Chinese in the low altitude. Even if they cannot win, they can still entangle the Chinese. As long as their 21 fighters can kill their opponents or defeat them.
If they are beaten back, they have every chance of winning this battle.
Even if the Chinese use despicable air raids, even if they are equipped with Mao Xiong's excellent fighter planes!
Perhaps Iwamoto Tetsuzo did not realize that at this time, he had completely lost the arrogant pride of the Imperial Eagle before. Instead, he placed his opponents on the same level or even at a higher level. Even winning this air battle was just a matter of time.
There is a certain chance.
This is what the Japanese call aloof. After being knocked unconscious by a big stick, aloofness turns into a mature woman!
If he could know that the Chinese participating in this air battle were just a dozen real pilots and a group of 'rookie' pilots who had just stepped out of school, he might have jumped out of the cockpit without even using a parachute.
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This wave of humiliation of the Chinese people is really enough!
The Japanese, who have only learned the superficial aspects of Chinese culture but never learned the essence, cannot understand the teacher's classic saying: What determines the victory of a war can always be people, not equipment!
On the ice sheet in the north, the real reason why the Chinese army was able to fight a draw with the coalition forces of dozens of countries was because there was nothing but sacrifice!
In the sky at that time, not to mention novice pilots who had only flown for 300 hours, and even aviation school students who had not flown for 100 hours, were already sitting in the cabin holding the rudder, fighting in the air with veteran American pilots who had participated in World War II.
Bayonet in the air!
The courage to sacrifice is enough to change the world!
And this is exactly what the Chinese young people in this sky do not lack!
Tetsuzo Iwamoto and others, who were already frightened, adjusted their angles to meet nearly ten Chinese fighter planes that were about to fly levelly over, while twisting their heads and observing their surroundings.
There are 18 Chinese planes in total, but there are definitely no more than ten in front of us. Where are the other half? Where will they come from? What if they come from the six o'clock direction?
What is six o'clock? It means drawing the sky into a circle from top to bottom. The east is 9 o'clock, the west is 3 o'clock, the top is 12 o'clock, and the bottom is 6 o'clock.
And if it is attacked by an enemy plane from the 6 o'clock direction, their machine guns threaten the most vulnerable belly of the plane, which is really fatal.
But, I am really afraid of what will happen.
............
One minute ago!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A strange sound that overwhelmed the roar of the aircraft engine echoed across the battlefield.
The air defense company of the Fourth Army Regiment has joined the battle!
"Fight, fight me!" Cheng Tieshou, who had long been seated on the Sulotong twin-mounted machine gun seat, was like an angry bull. He threw off his helmet and took the lead in firing five minutes after the air battle began.
In the past, the air defense company could not fire because there were chasing fighter planes everywhere in the low altitude. The closest distance was even less than 200 meters. Machine gun and heavy machine gun fire were very likely to accidentally damage one's own fighter planes.
The officers and soldiers of the air defense company could only watch helplessly as their own fighter planes were damaged and shot down in the crossfire, and then fell one after another before their eyes.
For the people being protected, the inner pain is no less painful than that of the Chinese Air Force pilots in the sky.
Finally, at the moment when the Chinese fighter planes and the Japanese planes distanced themselves and planned to compete with each other again, Cheng Tietshou found the fighter plane.
Within five seconds, 24 machine guns and 48 anti-aircraft machine guns fired at a formation of 15 Japanese aircraft that was gradually accelerating at an altitude of 1,300 meters.
The Japanese planes in a formation of three were instantly in chaos. They may never have imagined that there was such strong anti-aircraft firepower on the ground, even though they had done all kinds of psychological preparation before arriving.
But obviously, the 24 anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns and 48 7mm heavy machine guns were still far beyond their expectations, not to mention the fact that they were overwhelmed by Chinese fighter jets at this time.
The altitude below 1,500 meters is not only the range of the 20mm anti-aircraft gun, but also the range of the 7mm heavy machine gun. Dozens of streams of metal bullets are sprayed from 9 air defense positions distributed on the battlefield, carrying the officers and soldiers of the air defense company.
With such fury, it took less than 30 seconds to hit at least six Japanese aircraft that were caught off guard!
The 96 fighter plane without belly armor cannot stop the two almost violent metal warheads of the anti-aircraft company. Even Maxim's machine gun bullets can easily penetrate the fragile wings and belly.
In the air defense state, the machine guns are equipped with explosive shells, while the Browning 7mm heavy machine gun is equipped with armor-piercing incendiary bombs.
Incendiary bombs with a tracer effect form a trajectory visible to the naked eye in the air. If they miss, they can quickly give friendly forces time to correct their trajectory.
After all, anti-aircraft machine guns are not fired individually, but in groups of three!
In the past, tracer bullets, a double-edged sword that could easily reveal the position of one's own position, would be used cautiously by an anti-aircraft company, but now, the Air Force has become like this, and there are so many on the ground.
Come on! Brothers in the Air Force, you are not alone in this air battle. If you really want to die, let us all die together!
At that time, we can also go to the Lord of Hell’s place to chat together about how we each played idle games in our childhood!
The Chinese air defense company, which was putting out all its power without any defense, was driven crazy by the fall of the Air Force fighter plane!
A wave of injured Japanese machines is really painful!
On the spot, four Japanese pilots were killed in the fragments caused by the crazy shells and bullets below. The out-of-control fighter plane once again acted as a cruise missile.
There was also a large hole visible to the naked eye in the wing skin of a Type 96 fighter, and the tail rudder of a Type 96 fighter was smashed. Under the pilot's strenuous control, the two fighters were like drunken men, swaying in the air.
When dancing in the air, it all depends on the mood of Amaterasu and his elders.
Not to mention participating in the war, maybe as the height continues to decrease, Chinese soldiers on the ground can smash it down with a stone.
Huang Xinrui's mind is so sharp. After concentrating all his energy to shoot down two enemy planes personally, he still controlled the entire situation through the radio.
An aviation squadron at the top desperately clings to 14 Japanese planes to prevent them from rushing into low altitude to support the battlefield below. However, a quarter of the 24 fighters at an altitude of 3,000 meters have been damaged in the battle, and they are already facing Japanese planes that outnumber them.
It's in danger.
However, the two aviation squadrons he led also lost 4 aircraft in the battle, leaving 18 aircraft capable of fighting, while the Japanese aircraft still had 15 aircraft. The battle could not be resolved within ten minutes.
Even if he can finally lead his team to kill or drive away these Japanese planes in the low altitude, it will be a blessing if only one-third of the 18 fighters at an altitude of 3,000 meters are left.
Even though he was already prepared for sacrifice, Huang Xinrui was filled with grief and anger when he saw those outstanding young people entering their graves as soon as they stepped out of school!
As a result, huge joy came over me.
The ground air defense showed its power! The Japanese plane, which was still trembling just after getting out of the distance, was beaten to the point where it could no longer take care of itself.
So, make a decision immediately!
"First Air Force, follow me! Second Air Force continues to stay at low altitudes to fight Japanese planes! Pay attention to your own safety!" Huang Xinrui decisively raised the nose of the plane, and together with his own 4-star fighter planes, a total of 8 aircraft, flew at high speed.
Lift.
Therefore, just a few kilometers away from the Chinese fighter jets that were also rushing over without fear, and about to enter combat mode, Iwamoto Tetsuzo, who had been vigilant about the six o'clock position under the belly of the aircraft, was almost in tears at that time.
Damn Chinese, here they come.
Coming from damn six o'clock.
"Each formation will fight on its own!" Tetsuzo Iwamoto roared with a livid face.
The eight fighters led by Huang Xinrui raised their heads upward from a low altitude of about 1,500 meters in a two-plane formation at a speed of 40 meters per second.
From the ground, it looks like eight sharp arrows piercing the heart of the Japanese aircraft formation.
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