Under the firepower of the two groups shooting wildly, Nobita Takeyama was not the only unlucky one who made a mistake.
The 96 dive bomber formations, which threw away all their weight and climbed up to meet the enemy, had no time to lament that their top commander was dead. Only when they climbed madly to an altitude of 1,000 meters did they realize that they had lost more than 5 fighter planes.
Three unlucky ones were hit and lost control and crashed into the ground, while two others were swaying through thick smoke and escaped into the distance through the ground fire network. But judging from their appearance, they would definitely not be able to return and they were still two hundred kilometers away.
on the mothership. Parachuting may be the only way to survive, but the ground is still dominated by the Chinese. Even the Jinshan Guards are still fighting in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Their tragic fate is almost doomed.
The estimate of the Japanese naval aviation elite was correct. The tragic fate of the two Japanese pilots could not be avoided. The roaring formations of the two aircraft groups in the sky had already attracted the attention of countless people on the ground. The Japanese aircraft, which had struggled for only 20 kilometers, stalled completely.
In the end, the two Japanese pilots had no choice but to parachute. If possible, they would rather fall to the ground alive and be captured by the Chinese soldiers and civilians on the ground. Maybe there is still a way to survive. After all, at the beginning of the war, the government issued a prisoner day.
Aircraft pilots will be rewarded with hundreds of ocean rewards.
In the eyes of those big shots, living Japanese prisoners are always more useful than corpses, far unlike soldiers, and dead Japanese prisoners are the good ones.
Unfortunately, the name Jiangnan Water Town is not for nothing. The rich water resources represent the various rivers and ponds that cross this land. If you wear a heavy flight suit and carry a parachute and fall into a pond or river,
Even national first-class swimmers can only drink water in frustration. There is no other way except drinking up all the water and causing the river pond to dry up to survive.
Therefore, the two Japanese pilots were already potbellied when the Chinese people arrived. Obviously, they could not drink up the whole river, so they had to drink too much and strangled themselves to death.
The air battle had already broken out. While the 96 dive bomber formation was still trying to climb.
Two squadrons of 24 Type 96 fighter jets had already joined in the long sky with 21 Chinese fighter jets that had pounced from high altitude.
What jumped down from high altitude were a formation of 12 modified "Thunder" fighter jets led by Zhou Dapeng and a formation of 9 Hawker III fighter jets led by Le Yiqing. The remaining 12 were missing.
24vs21, in terms of quantity, the Japanese aircraft still have a certain advantage. But the parties involved on both sides never think so, whether they are Chinese or Japanese.
First of all, the Chinese fighter jets have the advantage of position. They pounce from a higher altitude. For the fighter jets located in the low altitude, it is like a duel between two cavalry. One side is still waiting, while the other side has already
Acceleration. Needless to say, the cavalry that maximizes its speed early will have a great advantage.
It is impossible for fighter jets located in the low altitude to stupidly pull up their noses and shoot at the enemy planes that rush from the sky. The only thing they can do is to hide first, and then wait for an opportunity to rely on their own skills and the excellent fighter planes.
ability to fight back. But obviously, the fighter plane that could only hide from the beginning was at a disadvantage at the beginning of this air battle.
Of course, this is still secondary. More importantly, Japanese naval aviation pilots are no strangers to the modified "Thunderbolt". This aircraft not only has excellent performance and is no worse than the Type 96, but is also extremely durable. How can I put it?
They were wearing light armor, but the other party was heavily armored. He couldn't kill others with one strike, but the other party could kill them with one strike. The most annoying thing was that his flexibility was not much worse than theirs.
This is definitely helping ruthless people.
Therefore, from the beginning of the fight, there were at least 4 teams and 12 fighter jets heading towards the formation of modified "Thunderbolt" fighter jets. The remaining 3 teams naturally faced off against the Hawker III led by Le Yiqing.
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Compared with the modified "Thunderbolt", the Hawker III is much worse. Whether it is climbing, turning or top speed, the bi-wing version of the Hawker III is much worse than the 96 fighter jet. However, the fuselage has 8 printed on it.
The red-star Le Yiqing fighter also made Japanese HNA pilots a little scared.
As pilots, they all know what that means. It means that this person has shot down 8 opponents, which is the symbol of an ace pilot. At this point, no one will lie, it is the same all over the world. Unless it is that
The country's air force has given up the honor of flying war eagles.
Le Yiqing showed his ability as an ace pilot from the beginning. He was able to shoot down 4 enemy planes in an air battle. The "Steel Helmet of Jiangnan Earth" was definitely not obtained by his courage to die with the enemy. That was far away
Skills beyond ordinary pilots.
The plane dives downward from an altitude of 3,000 meters. Don't think that you should press the accelerator to the bottom to fly with maximum afterburner. The faster the speed, the more awesome it is. The dive speed is also limited. If the dive speed is too high, it will cause stalling in one case and secondly.
As a result, the aircraft body was overloaded and disintegrated in the air. To put it bluntly, diving is not only a technical task, but also related to the design of the aircraft itself.
But from an altitude of 3,000 meters, China's ace pilot pointed straight down at a moth that was stubbornly fluttering towards the fire. This attitude was gone forever, and even Zhou Dapeng couldn't help but marvel. The all-metal vehicle under his seat
The single-wing version of the fighter was much stronger than the double-wing Hawker III, but he did not dare to play with it like this. He was afraid that he would overdo it and plunge into the ground.
But Le Yiqing did just that, making a crazy dive towards a Japanese plane. The Japanese pilot was obviously a little confused. This was not to shoot him with a machine gun at all, but to hit him to death! Under the sun, the Chinese ace pilot's plane
The eight red stars on your body are very dazzling, but, Baga, do you always knock down your opponents like this?
Faced with such a situation, the only thing the Japanese plane could do was not to run forward wildly, because when it was close to 500 meters, the Chinese ace pilot would shoot, shooting from top to bottom, and he would end up being shot into a honeycomb.
He can only dive downward, wait until he is in a suitable position, and then roll out to recover. That depends on the courage and skill of both parties as well as the performance of the aircraft and other comprehensive factors, not just madness.
Unfortunately, the Japanese pilot was wrong. In addition to inferior aircraft performance, the Chinese ace pilot he faced was far superior to him in terms of courage and skill.
At a low altitude of 400 meters, the Japanese pilot slammed the already extremely heavy rudder and lowered the ailerons. The 96 fighter rolled out of the dive state. This was already the limit of what he could bear. With the fragile body of the Hawker III, he should have changed it long ago.
Otherwise, he would never have the chance to recover from the increasingly faster dive. Even with that technology, the terrifying aircraft would tear the Hawk III to pieces.
But Le Yiqing, who was hundreds of meters above the ground, was still diving, much faster than the Japanese plane that had changed from a dive to level flight. It wasn't until it descended another 200 meters that he opened fire and volleyed the Japanese plane, which had greatly reduced its speed, into the air.
Explode.
Then, almost contrary to common sense, it began to roll at a low altitude of 500 meters, just like the truck that rolled in the violent explosion just now. It rolled as if it had lost all control in front of the two regiments of infantry who had stopped shooting.
Everyone's hearts suddenly twitched, and the little reporter who had been looking up to the sky even snapped the pen in her hand. As a reporter, of course she knew what the eight stars represented, which was China.
The iconic figure of the Air Force. One of the "Four King Kongs" has been lost, and the Chinese Air Force cannot afford to lose another one.
But a miracle happened. The fighter jet, which was rolling continuously and seemed to have completely stalled, miraculously changed to level flight. After its wingman swooped over to protect his flank, the two fighters raised their heads and soared into the blue sky again.
On the ground, there was thunderous cheers.
This was the situation at the beginning of the battle. The ground fire nets of the two regiments shot down and injured six Japanese planes. The swooping fleet shot down three at the beginning. The 36 Japanese planes in the three squadrons here instantly became
27, and China also has 21 fighters.
The battle in the air was fierce. In terms of numbers, the Japanese planes still had the advantage, but the Chinese also lost their initial air superiority after the fight. A total of more than 40 fighters from both sides flew in the vast airspace from an altitude of 2,000 meters to 500 meters.
Meters low in the air, chasing each other and shooting.
From time to time, fighter planes with smoke billowing out of the battlefield, and some even exploded on the spot, including Chinese and Japanese. The soldiers on the ground could do nothing but anxiously rub their hands and wait. They could not even shoot in the air.
Cover your comrades in the air.
The fighter planes from both sides roared at each other and pursued each other at high speed, making it very possible for them to fire accidentally.
There were more and more white flowers blooming in the sky. Because there were Chinese troops on the ground, when the Chinese fighter planes were shot and started to smoke and catch fire, Zhou Dapeng and Le Yiqing both ordered the pilots to parachute immediately. However, their orders were often rejected.
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If you skydive, your chance of survival is higher than 70%. If you don't jump, your chance of death is higher than 90%. This is an obvious truth.
But young pilots know better.
China now not only lacks pilots, but also lacks more aircraft. Although everyone knows that training a pilot is not easy, it takes at least one and a half years from entering an aviation school to becoming a combat-ready rookie pilot.
However, no matter how difficult it is to train, China still has pilots after all, but there are really no airplanes. The Japanese have blocked the southeast and northern seaports, and even if they have money, they can't buy airplanes. After losing the concentration of Chinese
After the three northeastern provinces, which account for 70% of heavy industry, China's fragile heavy industry cannot even produce gun steel, so how can it manufacture aircraft?
Without the plane, what's the point of leaving the pilot?
Even if the cabin is already on fire, even if smoke is billowing from the tail of the plane, few Chinese pilots parachute. They either desperately insist on driving the plane towards the capital, or fly to low altitude, precariously preparing to fly on the highway.
Make an emergency landing.
It can be said that at this moment, they proved to the Chinese infantry who boasted that they dared to hold explosive packs to blow up tanks with a bravery that was not inferior to that of infantry. The Chinese Air Force had never been stingy with sacrifices in the Great Patriotic War.
This Patriotic War, from the beginning, belongs to everyone and the entire nation.
Even before that, the soldiers on the ground, under the command of officers from various departments, were running wildly, weeping and moving away the car wreckage that was destroyed in the Japanese bombing on the road more than a thousand meters away, and carrying the remains of their comrades.
Remains, they must clear this road in the shortest possible time for their own fighter planes to make an emergency landing.
This was the first military order issued by Liu Lang since the battle began.
He had no hope of retrieving any surviving soldiers from the burning and twisted car wreckage, even one or two!