The battle almost started when the Japanese fighter planes were climbing.
Most of the Japanese fighter planes choose to shoot with machine guns at the first time... This may be a habitual action of Japanese pilots.
They usually use machine guns to fight the enemy. When they are nervous, they naturally use machine guns instead of S1.
The Japanese pilots never considered that the gun could hardly hit the target if the distance was too far.
The Eighth Route Army's "La 5" launched a batch of X2.
There was only a whistling sound, and the X2 flew straight towards the target, dragging a long trail, and then exploded among the Japanese aircraft with a "boom".
The fuselage and wings of the "Zero Fighter" are quite fragile. Many X2s did not actually hit the target, but they were able to shatter the wings of the "Zero Fighter" and then lose their balance and run around.
If it is a direct hit, it will directly blow the fuselage into two pieces and burst into flames in the air. When these exploding fighter planes fall, they will hit the Japanese fighter planes that follow... So the Japanese fighter planes immediately went into chaos.
A ball.
The two teams of fighter planes passed each other, and it only took a few seconds to decide the outcome: more than ten Japanese fighter planes had been shot down, while only one "La 5" was shot down, and another one was injured.
Hashimoto looked around and breathed a sigh of relief.
Because this result was still within the acceptable range, he thought that his side would lose at least half of its fighters in the contact just now, but he didn't expect that it would only be a dozen or so.
This was due to the insufficient training of Eighth Route Army pilots.
More than half of the Eighth Route Army are new students who have been training for several months. They have not yet mastered their flying skills, and it is their first time to participate in combat... Most of these new students are students. They have never seen such a scene before. They fired continuously.
I have never touched it, let alone flying a plane in an air combat.
Therefore, everyone on the battlefield was so nervous that they sweated.
As for the X2, it requires the pilot to have a good psychological quality.
Because the X2 is controlled by the pilot while driving the fighter, that means the nose of the aircraft must always be aimed at the target.
This is quite difficult for new students, especially when two planes are driving towards each other... it's like two cars colliding. Only by pulling away at the last moment can the plane avoid colliding with the enemy plane.
Therefore, many fighters, or most of the pilots, pulled the fighters away too early, and the X2 lost its accuracy.
But it doesn't matter much, because "Pull 5" still has a chance, while "Zero War" seems to be in a passive state of being beaten.
This is what Hashimoto did not realize. When the respective fighters were involved in a melee, Hashimoto suddenly discovered that the enemy's fighter planes were more lethal than when attacking head-on...
Mainly because the "La 5" fighter jet is much faster than the "Zero", plus Wang Xuexin's tactics for training new trainees, which is to fly away from the battlefield again and again and then intersperse, always maintaining the highest level during this period.
hour speed, so "La 5" can always bite the tail of "Zero War".
Once you bite the tail of "Zero War", launching X2 will be much easier than attacking head-on.
The Japanese fighter jet seemed to remember that it also had air-to-air missiles at this time, so it circled left and right and used its S1 to engage in a melee with the enemy aircraft.
Hashimoto is an experienced pilot with ten years of flying experience, but he found it very difficult to shoot down enemy planes with the S1.
One reason is that the target is fast and it is difficult to track its whereabouts, and the other is that S1 needs to be detonated manually.
Especially the latter...
The former can still be solved.
For example, Hashimoto used his refined flying skills to frequently maneuver at large angles.
Before the war started, Hashimoto gave this order to his subordinates.
Facts have proved that Hashimoto is correct. The "Zero Fighter" has a much smaller turning radius than the enemy aircraft when maneuvering at a large angle. Therefore, the "Zero Fighter" can take less time and take a shorter path to "catch up" with the enemy aircraft.
(Note: "Zero War" has an empty weight of more than 1,600 kilograms, and "La 5" has an empty weight of 2,600 kilograms. Although "La 5" is made of wood, it is still more than a thousand kilograms heavier than Zero War, which has been reduced to an abnormal weight.
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Hashimoto used this tactic to catch up with an enemy plane.
But there was not much time left for Hashimoto, because if Hashimoto did not fire S1 at the moment of catching up, it would mean that the enemy plane would soon escape his range.
It is for this reason that Hashimoto missed several opportunities to shoot down enemy planes.
The artificial detonation of S1 is almost impossible to solve...
Because it is detonated manually, the pilot must control the aircraft while visually calculating the distance between S1 and the target. Only when S1 is close enough to the target can it be possible to blow up the target by detonating S1.
And this depends on luck.
What's more, although Mao Xiong's fighter plane is made of wood, it is stronger than the "Zero War".
Therefore, even if one S1 explodes around the "La 5", it is very rare to be able to knock it down.
The battle became intense after a few minutes. Hashimoto finally found a trick. He knew that this required advance... Just like a sniper shooting an irregularly moving target, you must estimate the target's position and then move the fighter ahead of time.
Point and fire S1.
Sure enough, a "La 5" fighter plane, under the control of Hashimoto, was hit by S1 and burst into flames.
Hashimoto was overjoyed and shouted on the radio: "Everyone, estimate the target position and shoot in advance..."
But before he finished speaking, Hashimoto suddenly discovered that an enemy plane was following closely behind him.
Hashimoto quickly put down the microphone and controlled the fighter plane to maneuver at a wide angle, but just as he turned, he found an X2 with white smoke waiting for him at the corner...
At that moment Hashimoto was stunned: The Eighth Route Army also learned to be proactive?!
Hashimoto underestimated the Eighth Route Army pilots. Although most of the Eighth Route Army pilots were new trainees, there were also veteran pilots who were transferred from the First Air Force along with Yu Ping.
Although these veteran pilots have little experience in flying the "La 5", they have flown various types of aircraft when they were in the Shanxi-Sui Army.
As the saying goes, "one pass, one hundred solutions", the principle of flying a fighter aircraft in combat is the same, but different types of aircraft require a process of adaptation.
Because veteran pilots have flown many types of aircraft, they quickly adapted to "pull 5".
Among them was a man named Wang Mengde, who was the deputy captain of the Second Air Force and Yu Ping's right-hand man.
If Yu Ping hadn't said it, Wang Xuexin wouldn't have believed that this guy was actually myopic... Wang Mengde's parents were both scholars, and both of them were short-sighted, so they inherited it from Wang Mengde, and he was born with more than 400 degrees of myopia.
But there is a saying that "practice makes perfect". Wang Mengde relied on diligent study and practice to eventually grow into a qualified pilot and even become one of the best.
Moreover, precisely because Wang Mengde is short-sighted, he often relies on his feelings in air combat.
He was the one chasing Hashimoto's fighter plane. He found that the fighter plane driven by Hashimoto was very flexible and always made large-angle turns with its "zero combat" maneuverability, so he gave it a "zero-fight" maneuverability, so he gave it a "zero-fight" maneuverability.