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    If Xia Boxun had not specifically ordered before the attack to use machine guns when attacking Japanese light aircraft, all machine guns were prepared to attack the ground and hit Japanese heavy bombers, and all 12.7mm machine guns would be used in the first wave of attacks, the Japanese army's anti-strike capability would have been greatly reduced.  I'm afraid not many of the slightly stronger Type 97 heavy bombers can escape.  ¡¾.,

    The commander of the Japanese air formation, Major General Nobuhide Hashimoto, who was riding on a Type 97 heavy bomber and relied on the pilot's quick reaction to escape the disaster, was stunned by what he saw and almost didn't dare.  Believe that what you see with your eyes is real.

    More than fifty aircraft. According to Japanese military standards, this number of aircraft is enough to support a medium-sized battle.  You must know that in China Pass, to support a medium-sized ground combat operation, unless necessary, the Japanese army will usually dispatch only about thirty or fifty aircraft.

    But now these fifty-odd aircraft haven't even had time to show off their sabers, and they have gone to see Amaterasu after one round.  This loss was unprecedented for the Army Aviation Corps.  Before the Japanese army aviation major general could react from his shock, his opponent who had completed the first wave of attacks had already completed a U-turn and began a second wave of attacks.

    This attack was completely a competition between the aircraft performance and pilot skills of both sides. Compared with the previous surprise, the aircraft performance and tactics were completely backward, and the Japanese aircraft were still adopting the traditional V-shaped formation.  In the face of the opponent's flexible two-plane formation, it is not so much an air battle as a one-sided disaster.

    The Japanese fighters and bombers, which are still using the old-fashioned three-plane or five-plane formations to fight. Except for the leader plane, the rest of the planes do not have radio equipment. Once dispersed, it is difficult to regroup. Xia Boxun  In front of the flexible two-plane formation of his subordinates, they were shot down one after another like target shooting, with almost no power to fight back.

    Although the aviation force of Yang Zhen who launched the attack was somewhat immature in terms of technical and tactical skills compared with the so-called veterans of the Japanese aviation force in air combat.  However, the excellent performance of the aircraft they flew and the advanced air combat tactics they adopted effectively made up for this gap.

    The p-39 fighter may not be a match against the Japanese Zero fighter and Type 1 fighter, but when faced with the Type 97 fighter, which still uses fixed landing gear and only has two 77mm machine guns, its performance has lagged behind the world's advanced level.  No problem.

    Even the old Polish-made PZL 24 fighter with a high single wing and fixed landing gear has been modified with a high-power Soviet engine, a new radio system and a large-caliber 12.7mm machine gun. Compared with the Type 97 fighter  No less impressive.  Facing the Japanese army's old-fashioned bi-wing Type 95 fighter jets, after completing the first dive attack, Xia Boxun looked at the Japanese formation that had lost a quarter, and then picked up the transmitter and gave the order: "  Each fleet carried out free hunting in a two-plane formation. The Viper fighter jets attacked Japanese fighter jets and heavy bombers, and the PZL fighter jets attacked the Japanese Type 97 dive bombers."

    "Remember not to let go of a Japanese aircraft, let alone let a bomb fall on the head of the army's brother troops. Each formation should pay attention to maintaining tactics and two-plane formation when attacking. Each wingman is not allowed to attack, and must protect his own  Captain. Now I order the attack to begin."

    "After receiving Xia Boxun's order, his pilots, who were not afraid of tigers at first sight, pulled the nose of the aircraft without saying a word and followed the tactical requirements, selected their respective targets and attacked them.  Although a quarter of the Japanese aircraft were killed in the first round, fortunately there were enough prey left and there was no need to snatch them.

    Those Type 97 fighter jets and Type 95 biplane fighters that are only equipped with two 77-caliber machine guns are facing these flying snake fighters with powerful firepower, excellent mid- and low-altitude combat performance, not to mention extremely fast speed, and the key point is that they are much stronger than themselves.  He was horrified to find that compared with these strange-looking fighter jets, the aircraft he had always been proud of turned out to be nothing at all.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:????????? He was shot by more than a dozen bullets from me, but he was still running around in front of me alive and kicking.  As long as he takes two bullets, the fragile body of his plane is in danger of being blown up.  The most important thing is that these people seem to be very familiar with their Type 97 fighter jets. Often the first shot in a fight is towards their own fuel tank or directly towards the cockpit.

    For the Japanese army, which pursues mobility too much and is basically not equipped with self-sealing fuel tanks and flying armor, no aircraft can withstand even a few bullets as long as it is hit in this part.  Most of the planes that were hit ended up turning into a blazing fireball.  Not only airplanes, but also few pilots have the opportunity to parachute.

    "Compared to those who can still rely on the traditional emphasis on Japanese aircraft,Although the fighter jets had poor combat performance and still had fairly good maneuverability, the remaining twenty-two Type 97 heavy bombers in the first wave of offensive were much worse.  The pilots of these Type 97 bombers were horrified to find that they were almost helpless against the approaching opponent fighter jets.

    Hide, bulky bombers are far less maneuverable than flexible fighter jets.  Running away, these Japanese pilots discovered that the speed of the Type 97 heavy bombers, which they had always been proud of, was no match for an old lady with little feet in front of these fighters.  As for the opponent's ferocious firepower, as long as it is hit by one shot, there is basically no possibility of escape.

    ¡°Compared with those frightened Japanese bomber pilots, the pilots flying P-39 fighter jets felt no different from ordinary shooting training.  Shooting these heavy bombers is as easy as target practice.  No matter what kind of evaluation this fighter has in the United States and Britain, the Sanqi cannon on the aircraft is almost a nightmare for any aircraft.

    Not to mention the thin-skinned and thinner fighter jets of the Japanese army, even if the bombers with slightly better protection were hit by a shot, they would not survive.  During the battle, a Type 97 heavy bomber was hit by a 37mm artillery shell in the middle of the fuselage, and the entire rear half of the fuselage was ripped off.  The plane didn't even have time to react before it plunged headfirst into the ground.

    Although there are quite a few Japanese fighter pilots who are driven by the so-called Bushido spirit and don¡¯t take death seriously, when they see their bombers in danger, they often ignore the fighters they are fighting with and come to block the holes of their guns without fear of death.  But the results are often more tragic, and there are even cases where two aircraft are destroyed by one shell at the same time.

    A P-39 fighter that encountered a similar situation used an airborne 37mm artillery shell to tear the Type 95 fighter that blocked the gun hole into pieces. It still maintained huge penetrating power and hit the person behind him by the way.  Most of the wings of the Type 97 bomber were blown off.

    Not only were the two planes blown up together, the large amount of debris scattered by the explosion also implicated the Type 98 dive bomber below them that was avoiding the attack of the PZL fighter jet.  The fallen fuselage of the Type 97 heavy bomber with its broken wing hit the Type 98 dive bomber.  Half of the fuselage of the unlucky plane was cut off.

    In fact, this aerial battle can no longer be said to be a battle, it can even be described as a massacre.  In the air battle that lasted less than an hour, there were more than 200 Japanese aircraft, and less than 20 fighter jets and reconnaissance aircraft were still in the sky. They were still struggling to survive relying on their own performance.

    As for those bulky Type 97 heavy bombers, Type 97, and Type 98 light bombers, except for one Type 97 heavy bomber, they survived by relying on the protection of other Japanese aircraft, especially fighter jets, regardless of life and death.  Outside, there was no longer one visible in the sky at this time.

    Of course, this does not mean that all Japanese bombers were shot down. There were still one or two fish that slipped through the net and escaped.  After all, every battle has one or two lucky ones, right?  Especially when the Japanese aircraft had an advantage in number, one or two dive bombers took advantage of the enemy's attacks and looked for opportunities to use their skilled driving skills to quickly leave the battlefield at ultra-low altitudes. It was not impossible to escape.  .

    However, because their stature is too conspicuous compared to other light aircraft, none of the Type 97 heavy bombers of the 61st Heavy Bomber Squadron, a direct descendant of Hashimoto Nobuhide, escaped.  Except for the one Hashimoto Nobuhide was riding in at this time, which was protected by other Japanese fighter jets and survived, all of them were shot down.

    ¡°In fact, few of the Japanese planes that looked for opportunities to drop bombs indiscriminately actually escaped.  Those guys who were more flexible and could leave the battlefield as soon as they saw the situation was going badly. Although they escaped Xia Boxun's massacre, they did not escape the vicious hands of Fang Ziyi who returned from Harbin empty-handed.

    Except for one Type 98 dive bomber, which dragged its damaged fuselage and managed to fly back to Harbin, none of the other lucky ones managed to escape, and were all shot down at the junction of Fangzheng and Yanshou.

    Faced with the excellent performance, ferocious firepower, excellent speed, excellent mid- and low-altitude performance of the opponent's aircraft, as well as excellent tactical coordination, the Japanese aircraft that were rampant in the past simply had no power to fight back.  Even if he wants to run, he can't escape in front of his opponent's high speed.

    Even if these P-39 fighter jets had their turbochargers removed and Jiangbei modified them with simple versions of superchargers, they were still more than a hundred times faster than the fastest Type 97 fighter jets on the battlefield.  kilometer.  With this huge difference in speed, coupled with the ferocious firepower on the plane.  Except for a very few lucky ones, the vast majority of Japanese aircraft trying to escape from the battlefield have not yet been able to escape.No matter how far it flew, it was shot down.

    In this air battle, Xia Boxun fully utilized the altitude, speed, maneuverability and firepower that Yang Zhen proposed when he was in Jiangbei. These major air combat elements were brought into full play.  These newborn calves used the advanced vehicles in their hands to give the Japanese Army Aviation, which was extremely conservative in tactics and aircraft development, a vivid lesson in modern air combat.

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