The sudden arrival of Chinese planes surprised the formation commander. This commander was none other than Colonel Shigeharu Fujino, captain of the 21st Team stationed in Shanxi.
Fujino Shigeharu shouted while sending out a signal through the radio for the escort formation to rush to meet the enemy and protect the bombers, but it was obviously too late at this time. The Chinese fighters approaching at high speed dived with bullets to prevent their attempts to disperse, except for a few who slipped through the net.
In addition to the fish, the Japanese aircraft still maintained a dense flight formation at this time.
As usual during training, Lu Dayou, who flew the aircraft from a relatively high altitude and dived towards the Japanese aircraft group, aimed at a Zero fighter with the aiming collar, and immediately pressed the launch button from a few hundred meters away.
Six fire dragons immediately sprayed out from the wings of the F6F-5 fighter. The trajectory drawn by the tracer bullets in the air flew straight towards the Zero fighter. The aircraft immediately soared with fireworks, dragging a line of black smoke and spinning sideways as it fell to the ground.
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Yes, you read that right.
After going through the initial cautious development stage, Gao Hongming believes that the current Liantai Flying Corps has initially possessed the capital to compete with the Japanese. After the initial cautious stage, the flying corps can equip new fighters.
Gao Hongming didn't have too much entanglement in the selection of new fighters, and without hesitation chose the F6F fighter, known as the Zero's nemesis.
This is a carrier-based fighter aircraft. Its appearance is very similar to the original F4 Wildcat carrier-based aircraft, so it is also called an enlarged version of the Wildcat, but its most famous nickname is... Hellcat.
The performance of this fighter is superior to the Japanese Zero in all aspects. Even the climbing and hovering performance that the Zero is most proud of are completely crushed by the Hellcat, and even set a record of 1:13 against the Zero.
Loss ratio: During the entire World War II, F6F fighters shot down a total of 5,155 enemy aircraft, accounting for 80% of the 6,477 enemy aircraft shot down by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps!
The Hellcat is so good that Gao Hongming will not let it go.
After the hit, Lu Dayou screamed excitedly, but his movements were not slow at all, and he quickly climbed away at high speed. Although the Liantai Flying Corps, like the Western Air Force, regarded circling combat as the main tactic of air combat, under Gao Hongming's indoctrination
Next, the pilots of the Liantai Flying Corps believe more in the tactics of "occupying a relative altitude, diving to attack, and quickly escaping". Especially for the two high-altitude and high-speed fighters currently equipped, the P-47 and F6F, this tactic is more effective.
Their speed advantage is revealed, and the tactics are relatively simple, especially when attacking such dense formations.
"Baga... what kind of fighter plane is this? Why is it never mentioned in the intelligence?"
Fujino Shigeharu, who relied on his proficient flying skills to avoid multiple dogfight attacks by Chinese aircraft, yelled loudly. While avoiding the attack, he looked at the Chinese fighter jets in the sky in groups of two, attacking like hyenas skillfully.
Those few scattered aircraft of the 21st Flying Squadron were lucky enough to be separated, but immediately fell into another danger.
What made him most desperate was that in previous contests with the Liantai Flying Corps, although the P-47 Thunder fighters of the Liantai Flying Corps always used high speed to swoop down from high altitudes to attack the enemy, excellent Zero fighter pilots could also use zero
The P-47 fighter jet has excellent hovering performance at low altitudes and has a good climbing speed to avoid attacks from Thunderbolt fighters, but today's fighter jet is completely different from the P-47.
Generally speaking, the P-47 is limited by its weight and maneuverability. It never dares to engage in a hovering fight with the Zero at low altitudes. It always flees away immediately after missing a hit.
Not only is this new fighter jet extremely fast, but the most terrible thing is that they can actually engage in a circling fight with the Zero for the first time.
Fujino Shigeharu saw with his own eyes a Zero fighter of his own and an opponent's fighter jet from high altitude to low altitude. Then the Zero fighter tried to get rid of the opponent with its excellent climbing performance. Unexpectedly, the opponent was not afraid to rush down and follow the Zero fighter.
Fighting took place at low altitude.
But something happened that shocked Shigeharu Fujino. Although the Zero fighter relied on its excellent low-altitude performance to move left and right and then climbed quickly, this was also the specialty of the Zero pilot. With the excellent climbing performance of the Zero fighter, it quickly circled the enemy aircraft.
behind and shoot it down.
But this tactic that had been tried and tested in the past no longer worked today. During the hovering process, the Zero fighter was easily chased by the opponent. After bursts of fire, the Zero fighter was turned into a ball of torches in mid-air.
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Not only this Zero, but also the Zero fighters in the escort formation were now caught in the wolf-like bite of the Chinese aircraft. Almost as soon as they got rid of the attack, they would immediately meet the other two fighter jets in the formation.
The Chinese fighter jets were like shepherd boys herding sheep. As long as the Japanese planes tried to disperse, they would drive them back into formation with fierce firepower, and then concentrate their firepower to shoot at the dense formation of Japanese bombers. Under the powerful firepower of the Hellcat, the Japanese planes
He was repeatedly shot and fell to the ground dragging black smoke, and there was even a spectacular scene where several planes caught fire and crashed at the same time.
Some planes were also blown up in the air. The planes that exploded in the air brought burning debris and trailed flame tails toward the ground.
"Whizzing……"
Just when Fujino Shigeharu was busy directing the Japanese planes to fight back, the Zero fighter he was flying with three chrysanthemums painted on the tail was also discovered by Lu Dayou.
At one glance, Mainland China knew that the one flying this Zero was definitely the ace pilot of the Japanese army. The habit of Japanese Army aviation was the same as that of other countries, that is, every time it shot down an enemy plane, a mark would be painted on the fuselage.
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When Lu Dayou saw the Zero fighter, he immediately rushed toward it without thinking, but failed after several attacks. Then he unconsciously increased the accelerator, and the Pratt & Whitney R2800-10 "Hornet" engine began to roar.
At the same time, his body seemed to be pressed tightly on the seat. Seeing the Japanese plane, the pilot's plane, suddenly pulled up and jumped up suddenly, followed by a violent roll, Lu Dayou watched helplessly.
The opponent passed overhead, but he rushed to the front in an instant!
"Oops!" As soon as he saw him rushing to the front, Lu Dayou immediately realized that he had lost the chance to win. The Zero used its skillful skills to get rid of his attacks many times before. Lu Dayou immediately understood that he was fighting with him.
It was undoubtedly an unwise move, so he immediately pulled up the plane without thinking at all, hoping to use the Hellcat's high-speed advantage to speed away.
At this time, Fujino Shigeharu had restored the plane to a horizontal state. Seeing that the opponent had surpassed him as expected, Fujino Shigeharu pressed the joystick with his right hand. At this time, the Chinese fighter plane was pulled up and the side of the plane was exposed to him. Fujino Shigeharu showed a ferocious smile.
, and pressed the launch button at the same time.
"Da da……"
The two Type 99 Type 1 20mm machine guns equipped in the wings of the Zero fighter and the two Type 97 7.7mm machine guns equipped in the nose spit out tongues of flame at the same time. Although the muzzle flash affected the line of sight, Fujino Shigeharu
But he firmly believed that he would never miss at such a close distance.