Compared with "pull 5", zero battle actually has two advantages.
One is the long voyage, there is no doubt about this.
The second is maneuvering speed...Maneuvering speed is not the flight speed, but the reaction speed for various tactical actions such as large-angle maneuvers.
Because of its light body and small weight, the "Zero Fighter" maneuvers much faster than other fighters, even the "La 5".
Simply put, "zero war" is more flexible.
In addition, all Japanese pilots are well-trained veterans, so in this kind of air battle between "pull 5" and "zero battle", it is difficult for both sides to form a crushing advantage:
Although the "La 5" has slow maneuvering speed and poor pilot quality, its advantage is that it is fast. The pilot only needs to keep flying at high speed without thinking, and the Japanese pilots have almost no time to aim... If they want to catch up with the "La 5" or aim, "
Pull 5" and it will fly out of the effective range of the machine gun.
Although the "Zero Fighter" is slow, thanks to its maneuvering speed and the quality of the pilot, it can perform various difficult maneuvers in the air. "La 5" wanted to target them, but found that the "Zero Fighter" in front of it looked like a
The nimble rabbit swung left and right, rolled in the air and plummeted rapidly, leaving the poorly trained Eighth Route Army pilots at a loss.
In particular, the "Pull 5" uses the "dive shooting" tactic to maintain speed, so the reaction time for aiming is also not long, and as a result, it is difficult to hit the "zero fight".
If the fight continues like this, neither side will be able to do anything about it and neither will achieve much.
However, in the end, the "zero battle" should win, because they have a long range, and just by taking advantage of this, it is possible to drag down the "La 5" to death.
But that is only "possible". Wang Xuexin is actually prepared in this regard.
But things are different now...
Lei Jinsong ordered to attack the Japanese missiles, but the Japanese had to protect the missiles.
The battlefield situation has since changed.
The "Zero War", which could fly freely in the air, once it carries out the task of "protecting missiles" is like having its hands and feet tied and having to circle around the "missiles".
Therefore, the "Zero War" has no flexibility at all, and at the same time, it does not have much room to maneuver if it moves around the "missiles"... When the "Zero War" maneuvers, it must consider whether it will interact with the densely flying "missiles"
Collision problem.
Looking back at the Eighth Route Army's "Pull 5", the advantage was reflected at this time.
In fact, it should not be said that it is an advantage, but that "zero combat" loses flexibility and is easier to target. At the same time, enemy planes and "missiles" are densely packed together. If "pull 5" bullets are dropped, the probability of "a blind cat hitting a dead mouse" is very high.
Much larger.
A "La 5" dived down from the sky. It was aiming at a missile. But just as it fired a bullet towards the target, a "Zero War" suddenly broke into the shooting range of the machine gun. The pilot made a slight adjustment without thinking.
The angle changed the shooting direction to "Zero War", just listen to
There was a crisp sound of "ta-ta-ta-ta", and the aluminum alloy wings of the "Zero War" were immediately hit with bullet holes everywhere. It did not crash at that time, but continued to fly precariously in the air for a while, and suddenly half
A wing broke along the bullet hole and then lost balance and fell from the sky...
The wing structure of the "Zero War" has serious flaws, and it uses ultra-light aluminum alloy material. This material is hard and brittle, and it is easy to disintegrate when flying at low altitude and high speed (the air density at low altitude is higher and the resistance is greater)
), let alone after the wing was damaged.
The "Pull 5" pilot was still a little confused when he pulled the fighter back up. He didn't understand how a well-trained Japanese pilot could fly the plane under his gun.
After thinking about it, the pilot thought that this was because the "Pull 5" was fast, and because it was diving at the time, the Japanese were completely unaware of the danger in this position and had no time to react at such a fast speed.
On the other hand, the Japs' "zero battle" should be an evasive maneuver, that is, the Japs pilot accidentally jumped into another pit while avoiding the attack of another "La 5"...
A "La 5" pulls up from a low position and shoots Japanese missiles upwards.
This was a mistake made by the pilot due to lack of training. He failed to stop in time during the dive and the altitude was too low. At this time, he had to catch the Japanese missiles while climbing... In fact, he could also choose to continue climbing and then dive after reaching a certain altitude.
shooting.
But the Eighth Route Army soldiers are often impatient, and they are not willing to waste precious time and opportunities to climb repeatedly.
This is a taboo in the battle against the "Zero War". As we all know, the "Zero War" has excellent climbing performance. When climbing, the "La5" slows down on the one hand and maintains a regular route on the other. It is easy to be defeated by the "Zero War".
"War" bites the tail.
Sure enough, after a while, there was a "Zero War" biting his tail.
The pilot looked back and saw that the enemy plane was getting closer and closer. Then he looked at the missiles above his head. He gritted his teeth and decided to kill the target in front of him first... This was a relatively greedy pilot, and he was not willing to take the duck in his mouth.
It just flew away.
"Da da da", almost at the same time as "La 5" fired at the missiles, the Japanese "Zero War" also fired.
Perhaps due to nervousness, the "La 5" failed to hit the missile, but the bullets fired from the rear "Zero War" caused the wooden fuselage of the "La 5" to fly into pieces.
The pilot hurriedly maneuvered at a large angle and turned into a dive... This was the basic tactical maneuver to escape from the "zero battle" tail bite. The huge overload made the pilot almost faint.
At this time, a miracle happened. The missile above his head exploded with a "boom", and shrapnel flew in the air with a "boom". The "Zero War" that was biting his tail couldn't avoid it, and instantly disintegrated in the air...
Until this moment, the pilot didn't know what happened. He only knew that what he hoped for was accomplished, and it exceeded expectations: he not only shot down the missile, but also killed a "Zero Fighter".
Thinking about it later, the pilot gradually understood what was going on: "Zero War" chased behind and fired, and at the moment he maneuvered to avoid it, "Zero War" fired another round of bullets...
Therefore, it was not "La 5" that shot down the missile, but "Zero War".
"Zero War" accidentally damaged its own missile. Perhaps the bullet hit the warhead in front of the missile and detonated the explosive immediately.
The Japs' explosives were high-quality high explosives and weighed more than two hundred kilograms. The power of the explosion was not something that an unprotected "zero war" could withstand.
So there was this incredible result: "Zero War" and the missiles perished together.
It can be seen from this that "zero warfare" has another disadvantageous factor when protecting missiles: combat with missiles as the background is easy for the Japanese to accidentally damage.