Major Moriya's decision was correct. If they did not leave the battlefield, they would be completely wiped out soon.
But even that was enough. When BF109 climbed to a certain height, he saw that there were only eight fighters left around him, including only nine of his own fighters.
"What should I do, what should I do?" Major Moriya asked himself over and over again in his mind.
He had never fought a battle where he was so helpless as he was today. He couldn't fight at a distance and couldn't fight at close range. It seemed like he could only be pinned to the ground and crushed by the enemy.
Then Major Moriya quickly thought of a danger, and he quickly ordered: "Don't leave too far, and always keep a distance from the enemy!"
But it was too late, only a few "boom-boom" explosions were heard, and two more fighter planes plumped black smoke and crept to the ground.
If the Eighth Route Army's air-to-air missiles are aimed at long distances, the Imperial fighter planes should not be too far away from them, otherwise they will only be their targets.
Then Major Moriya had a thought in his mind and ordered: "Follow me!"
With that said, Major Moriya turned the plane's nose, made a beautiful spin in the air, and dived into the "La 5" battle group again.
This time, Major Moriya chose another tactic. Instead of pursuing a rear-end attack, he shuttled back and forth between several groups of Eighth Route Army "La 5" fighter planes, using the maneuverability of the BF109 to flexibly attack the side of the "La 5".
This tactic really works...
Although "Pull 5" can be divided into groups to increase the distance so that air-to-air missiles can be used again, if the enemy passes between the groups, all the air-to-air missiles launched by our army will be blocked by our own fighters.
Just like now, several air-to-air missiles were detonated before they could catch up with the Japanese fighter planes because there was a "La 5" nearby.
However, Major Moriya shot down two "La 5"s one after another, and other BF109s followed suit. Three "La 5"s were shot down by the Japanese under a burst of machine gunfire.
When Yu Ping saw something was wrong, he immediately ordered: "Each group will fight freely, repeat, break up the formation and fight freely!"
The battle suddenly became chaotic, with "La 5" and BF109 chasing each other like dragonflies in the air.
Objectively speaking, "pull 5" does not have the upper hand in such a battle, and the performance cannot be changed by human power.
But Yu Ping had no choice. He didn't expect that the Japanese pilots could find a way to crack the formation battle in such an emergency.
It can also be seen from this that his opponent is not an ordinary person.
Two more "La 5"s were shot down by the Japanese, and Yu Ping felt a little anxious... The situation suddenly took a turn for the worse and turned against the "La 5"s.
If the war situation continues to develop like this, it is very likely that the "La 5" army will be wiped out while there are still 7 BF109s left.
But Yu Ping was not simple either, he immediately found a new tactic.
He ordered: "Lure the enemy into rear-end pursuit and use air-to-air missiles!"
Although the two simple sentences were not very detailed, the soldiers of the aviation team understood them.
What this means is that it is impossible to defeat the BF109 in single combat. Fighters must cooperate with each other.
For example, if the enemy plane is chasing A, fighter B will launch air-to-air missiles to shoot down the enemy plane.
After realizing this, the pilots immediately took on their own roles spontaneously: some took the initiative to lure enemy aircraft, while others observed whether there were suitable targets in the air.
At this time, Major Moriya had shot down four Eighth Route Army fighter planes in a row. He was so excited that his face flushed with excitement. As he continued to drive the fighter plane to find the target, he muttered to himself: "Come on, you bastards! Let's all die!"
At this moment, he caught a glimpse of an enemy plane from the corner of his eye, and immediately used his skillful skills to fly the fighter plane and chase after it...
When the enemy planes are not flying in formation but are fighting freely, it is difficult to have the same opportunity to attack the enemy planes from the side as before. It usually takes a period of rear-end pursuit to shoot down the enemy planes.
As expected, "Pull 5" couldn't escape Major Moriya's pursuit. After a while, the flight trajectory was completely controlled by Major Moriya and he was holding it tightly. Just when Major Moriya was about to fire a bullet at the target and shoot it down... suddenly there was an explosion behind him.
Major Moriya realized immediately that he had been tricked.
He just wanted to fly the fighter plane away but it was too late. After a violent vibration, the fighter plane spun out of control.
Major Moriya looked back and saw that the tail part of the plane had become a hollow...the entire tail had been cut off.
Major Moriya knew that it was too late to parachute in this situation, so he gave up the idea of survival.
"So that's it!" What Major Moriya was thinking at the last moment was: "The Eighth Route Army used cooperative tactics, and it was indeed quite good. It seems that BF109...can't change it either..."
Before he could finish his thoughts, his fighter plane had already made a hard landing and hit the ground hard.
This air-to-air missile was fired by Yu Ping.
To be precise, not one but two.
Yu Ping noticed this fighter plane numbered "01" very early. This fighter plane maneuvered at large angles several times to avoid air-to-air missile attacks, and also led other fighters to fight back from high altitudes and used new tactics to fight "La 5"
"Caught off guard.
Yu Ping believed that the fighter plane numbered "01" was the commander of this group of fighters, and it was also the method he came up with to deal with formation operations.
Yu Ping's thought at the time was: "We can't keep such a Japs alive. If we keep him alive, some new tactics may be devised someday to cause heavy casualties to the Eighth Route Army!"
Therefore, without Major Moriya paying attention, Yu Ping had already set his sights on this BF109.
This is the advantage of "Pull 5", or to be precise, the advantage of air-to-air missiles.
The air-to-air missile has a range of three kilometers. Yu Ping locked onto Major Moriya from a long distance and followed his trajectory in a targeted manner, but Major Moriya was not aware of it at all...
It can be said that the defense major has experience in success and failure.
Major Moriya's combat experience allows him to find new tactics in a short period of time, find the enemy's weaknesses, seize opportunities, and even turn defeat into victory.
But it was precisely Major Moriya's combat experience that made him think that it would be fine if there were no enemy planes tracking him a few hundred meters behind...
He forgot that the enemy's air-to-air missiles had a range of three kilometers, and enemy planes could track him at a distance of one kilometer, two kilometers or even further.
This made Major Moriya completely unaware that he had been "targeted", so he pursued his target with confidence and focused all his attention on the front.
Then, Yu Ping fired two air-to-air missiles.
He believed that dealing with such an opponent should ensure that he could be shot down, so he shot out all the air-to-air missiles on the fighter plane.
If there were more missiles at that time, Yu Ping would have fired more.
Then, Yu Ping watched as the tail of the fighter plane was cut off amidst the explosion and plunged straight into the ground.
Then, Yu Ping thought...
You should not let any BF109 in front of you go back, otherwise they may bring back the flaws in the formation combat and let other Japanese know about it.