When Li Yunlong led his troops to attack, they just stood around and did not rush to attack.
Because it was only then that those soldiers pretending to be the "Self-Defense Forces" had a chance to sneak in... It is not difficult to sneak into the "Self-Defense Forces". The "Self-Defense Forces" themselves are guerrillas with inconsistent uniforms, and there are many "Self-Defense Forces"
The members of the "Self-Defense Forces" were transformed from bandits and were very loosely disciplined. The presence of dozens of people did not arouse any suspicion at all.
After making these preparations, Li Yunlong gave the order: "Send signal flares!"
"Tengteng" was heard several times, and three red signal bombs shot straight towards Yunxiao.
This is the signal of the Eighth Route Army's air-ground coordination... Mao Xiong's "La 5" is indeed excellent, but one drawback is that it is not equipped with communication equipment.
The "La 5" used by Mao Xiong himself is equipped with communication equipment, but Mao Xiong does not have enough radio stations and has to import them from Yingjiang... Before Yingjiang sent aid, many of Mao Xiong's fighter planes also relied on signal flares.
convey information.
Therefore, the "La 5" exported to the Eighth Route Army will certainly not have a radio.
There is only one way for air-ground coordination, and that is to use flares or signal boards to send messages to the aviation forces.
The six "La 5" aircraft that had been hovering in the nearby airspace for a long time immediately concentrated towards the location of the signal flare after seeing it.
These six "La 5" were personally led by Yu Ping.
When Yu Ping proposed a battle request to Wang Xuexin, Wang Xuexin initially refused to allow him to fight.
"If it were before, I wouldn't object to you going to war!" Wang Xuexin said: "But now you are the captain of the Second Air Force, and the entire air force needs your command. If you go on a mission, who will command the air force?"
Then Wang Xuexin added: "Comrade Yu Ping, I can understand your desire to fight. But now that you have to change from the role of a pilot, someone will always have to direct the battle! I hope you can adapt to this position as soon as possible!"
"Batalion Commander!" Yu Ping replied: "I did this just to adapt to this position as soon as possible!"
"How do you say that?" Wang Xuexin asked doubtfully.
Yu Ping explained: "I think as a commander, I should first understand my own aircraft and its combat performance. If I don't know these, I will just use some paper data as a reference..."
Then Wang Xuexin understood.
Yu Ping said that he used to fly the "Hawker 81", but now he suddenly changed to the "La 5". It is inevitable that he has no precise positioning of its actual combat performance, which may lead to wrong estimates in future commands.
causing irreparable losses.
Wang Xuexin thought about it and thought it was right. Especially at this time, it was just the first battle. The Japanese were completely unprepared in the direction of the Daqingshan Steel Plant. It was not expected that there would be a large-scale air battle. At this time, it was Yu Ping, the captain, who had the best chance to understand the basic performance of the "La 5".
Real machine.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin nodded in agreement, and the airport was temporarily under the command of Wang Xuexin.
Of the six "La 5"s, only the fighter piloted by Yu Ping was equipped with a radio.
As soon as Yu Ping saw the signal flare, he immediately reported to Wang Xuexin: "We found our army's signal flare, please give instructions!"
Wang Xuexin ordered without thinking: "Bomb the steel plant. Be careful not to bomb the core area. Mainly bomb the walls around the factory!"
"Understood!" Yu Ping responded, then gestured to the fighter planes following on both sides, and took the lead in flying towards the steel plant.
In less than two minutes, the steel factory gradually appeared in front of Yu Ping.
But at this time, two small black spots suddenly appeared in the sky. Yu Ping immediately judged that they were the Japanese's 98 light explosions, although he could not see the details because they were too far away.
This is a pilot's intuition, or it can be said to be experience.
Intuition is a kind of sixth sense. After many battles, you can roughly judge the model of the machine by looking at the shape and size of the black spots.
But it's not entirely intuitive, because although the black spots are black spots, you can roughly judge its flying speed.
If you guess the aircraft model based on its flight speed, you're almost right.
But at this time Yu Ping couldn't help but frown.
Of the six "La 5"s, only one of his has a radio.
If these six "La 5"s were performing the same mission, such as bombing a steel plant, there wouldn't be a big problem.
Other fighter planes only need to follow Yu Ping to approach the target and shoot out the rockets as planned.
But if two missions are carried out, that is, one team bombs the steel plant and the other intercepts the enemy reconnaissance plane... this will be troublesome. The other team will probably be separated from the army and unable to rendezvous.
After thinking for a while, Yu Ping made a decisive gesture to both sides and ordered them to continue bombing the steel plant as originally planned. He left the fleet alone to intercept the enemy planes.
Yu Ping was obviously right to do this, because if other fighters "carried out as planned", they would know what they should do, and he had a comprehensive understanding of the entire battle situation and knew what to do next, so he did his best.
It may reduce command problems caused by insufficient communication equipment.
The "La 5" fighter jet was very fast. Yu Ping was worried about causing trouble, so he flew towards the two black spots at the fastest speed and met the enemy in the blink of an eye.
Yu Ping's estimate was correct. It was indeed the Japanese's 98 light-explosive reconnaissance aircraft.
Being fast also comes with troubles. Yu Ping found that high-speed fighters like the "La 5" were actually not suitable for dealing with low-speed fighters like the 98 Light Explosion.
"La 5" has a top speed of 650 kilometers per hour.
98 has a top speed of 423 kilometers per hour.
The difference between the two is more than 200 kilometers. In addition, the Japs' 98 light explosions are for reconnaissance purposes. They never thought that enemy planes would appear, so they have been flying at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour... I guess the Japs are watching.
After arriving at "La 5", they still didn't know it was an Eighth Route Army fighter plane. They thought it was Mao Xiong's fighter plane that had crossed the line, so they treated it with caution.
As a result, Yu Ping's fighter plane was approaching its target at more than twice its speed.
With a speed difference of more than 300 kilometers, what would happen even if "La 5" bites the opponent's tail?
The distance of 300 meters was only three seconds, which meant that Yu Ping only had three seconds to aim... less than three seconds to be exact, because during this period Yu Ping had to consider whether he would hit an enemy plane.
In such a short period of time, they fought with machine guns instead of machine guns... "La 5" was only equipped with machine guns and not machine guns.
The difference between a machine gun and a machine gun is that a machine gun is powerful but has a slow rate of fire, while a machine gun is less powerful but has a fast rate of fire and dense bullets.
At that moment, Yu Ping immediately understood that the "La 5" used by the Eighth Route Army should use machine guns instead of cannons.
It makes sense for Mao Xiong to use machine guns, because they are facing Hans' fighter planes with strong defense capabilities.
And the Eighth Route Army... faced the enemy's basically defenseless fighter planes.
Well, there is basically no difference between cannons and machine guns for Japanese fighter planes, because they can both easily penetrate them.
But the density of bullets and hit probability are completely different.