This was a fierce and disparate air battle. In this air battle, Pan Rongbao alone shot down three enemy planes.
Despite this, Pan Rongbao, who was on the battlefield, did not feel any sign of the decrease in the number of enemy aircraft around him, and the worst part was that after more than 20 minutes of fierce fighting, the ammunition carried by the P-47 was already running low.
Don’t think that since the P-47 can carry 3,000 pounds of external bombs, it can carry machine gun bullets of the same weight. In fact, the P-47 has a total of eight aviation machine guns and only carries 3,400 rounds of ammunition, and these ammunition can only support
They fire simultaneously for about 30 seconds.
Yes, you read that right, it’s just that short.
Therefore, in real air combat, the time for pilots to fire is usually calculated in seconds.
"Huhu..."
Pan Rongbao gasped for air.
People who have never experienced air combat can never imagine how energy-consuming air combat can be. Unlike infantry combat, in air combat, it often only takes a few seconds to decide a person's life or death, and the person who dies is often just
Because I made a wrong flying move or reacted half a beat slower than my opponent.
The cold wind blew in through the cabin glass, which had been broken into several cracks. Although Pan Rongbao was wearing a mask, he still felt the cold wind entering his body through the leather jacket.
"Can't you hold on? Just give up. You've done a good enough job. Anyway, the ammunition is almost exhausted. There is no point in persisting anymore."
Due to the rapid loss of body temperature, high mental stress, and constant high-intensity rolling movements, Pan Rongbao's consciousness gradually began to blur, and a series of hallucinations began to appear in his mind.
"Pan Rongbao...you have to remember that we are the eagles soaring in the sky. We are the Great Wall of the country. There is no word "give up" in the pilot's dictionary. Fighting without end is our creed. Even if we run out of bullets,
We must also use our bodies and mobile phones as the last bomb to blow up the enemy, just like what Commander Shen Chonghai did back then!"
"We can't give up. We haven't run out of bullets on the plane yet!"
The cold wind that kept pouring in from the broken glass made Pan Rongbao sober up a lot. He turned his head and looked behind him. The three Zeros at the tail were still chasing after him, and bullets kept passing by.
He looked at the instrument panel in front of him again and found that the hydraulic oil gauge of the left engine had dropped by half. It seemed that the hydraulic system had been hit.
"No...if you continue like this, you will die here."
Pan Rongbao understood that he was already surrounded by Japanese planes, and if he wanted to escape, he could only give it a try.
He pushed the joystick down, and the nose of the plane sank down, almost diving downward at an angle of 80 degrees. Soon the speed of the P-47 reached more than 600 kilometers per hour, and the heavy fighter plane was like
Falling down like a weight.
After seeing this, the three Zeros behind them also followed as if conditioned reflex. In just over ten seconds, the altitude of both sides had dropped from more than 3,600 meters to less than 1,000 meters.
In the high-speed dive state, strong winds were blowing in the cockpit of the P-47. If Pan Rongbao hadn't been tied up with a safety belt, Pan Rongbao would have been blown away by the wind.
But even so, he still continued to fly the fighter plane unswervingly because he kept in mind what his instructor once said, "Japanese fighter planes are characterized by dexterous turning, fast speed, and long range. These are their advantages."
But since the engine has always been their weak point, Japanese designers can only work hard on reducing configurations in order to improve the performance of the aircraft. For example, removing the protective steel plate of the cockpit and drilling holes in the wings are all routine operations.
Because of this, Japanese aircraft, like their tanks, have always been known for being big and thin. Therefore, the performance of Japanese aircraft at low altitudes is pretty good, but they are not very useful at altitudes above six thousand meters, especially at altitudes above 6,000 meters.
During a high-speed dive, the fragile body structure can easily disintegrate because it cannot withstand high-intensity maneuvers."
The thick earth was like a huge wall. As the sight grew larger and larger, the fatal sense of suffocation also came. This kind of pressure was not something ordinary people could bear. Pan Rongbao simply stared at the altimeter and watched.
The pointer quickly dropped from three thousand meters to eight hundred meters.
At this time, he did not notice that two of the four Zeros that were originally following him had changed from fast dive to level flight. Only two Zeros were still following him at the risk of disintegrating.
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When the altimeter reached 300 meters, Pan Rongbao used all his strength to pull back the control stick and at the same time pushed the throttle valve to the maximum.
The Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 twin-row radial engine emitted bursts of smoke due to running at full speed, and the P-47 also made a slight creaking sound due to severe overload.
Fortunately, thanks to the abnormal sturdiness of the P-47, the fighter plane still changed to level flight steadily. However, because the height of the plane was too low, its belly almost touched the treetops on the ground before it flew straight again.
Blue sky.
But the Zero that was chasing after them was not so lucky. The Japanese pilot was too obsessed with killing the culprit that had killed three of their fighters and ignored the officer's warning and planned to give it a try.
Finally he tasted the consequences. The fragile body of the Zero fighter he piloted finally could not withstand the violent maneuvers and disintegrated one after another. The entire aircraft broke into five or six pieces in the air, and he also crashed into it at a speed of 20 meters per second.
The earth has become fertilizer for weeds in the wasteland.
Pan Rongbao, who escaped, seized this rare opportunity and turned the plane's nose towards the hills on the left, trying to break out of the Japanese encirclement at low altitude.
Just when he was about to slip away, a large group of black dots suddenly appeared in the southwest sky, flying quickly in this direction.
An anxious voice suddenly sounded in the headset: "Red team three, please pay attention. If you hear it, please answer. If you hear it, please answer it!"
Pan Rongbao, who had not shed a single tear even in the life-and-death air battle just now, suddenly turned red in his eyes and choked up: "I am the third red team, I am the third red team... You are finally here."
"Well done to Red Team 3, we are here to support you. You will return immediately... Do you understand? You will return immediately!"
Captain Xue Shaogong, who led the team to rush for reinforcements, connected the channel of the whole team and said coldly: "Everyone in the first team is here. Now it is our turn to avenge our brothers in the second team! Kill them all!"
"Kill them all!"
A large group of pilots who took off in an emergency and rushed here roared and rushed towards the Japanese planes in the sky. A battle was about to begin again!