After entering the visual distance, Toshio Ota felt something was wrong! As an elite who had participated in the Mariana Naval Battle and more than ten small-scale air battles in the latter part, he felt extremely uncomfortable when he almost saw the opponent's formation.

Why? Because the formation on the opposite side is very strange!

Air combat is not free to fly. Since the first large-scale air combat in the European war, countries have been studying formations and tactics to maximize the effectiveness of fighter jets. Among them, the Sino-German Air Force was the most representative in the early stage of the war. Both sides used four-machine organization, mostly diving, and using speed to defeat the enemy with one blow. Japan is the worst in this regard. Because it is too obsessed with air combat tactics, both Zero and Land Aerial Falcon fighters pay attention to hovering and fighting capabilities. Moreover, due to the body structure and engine technology, Zero and Falcon and Falcon cannot perform high-speed diving at high angles, so even if the air strike tactics are gradually improved, the effect will be minimal. But no matter what, as the number of fights increases, Toshio Ota and everyone have summarized some ways to avoid diving. For example, when the opponent's dive is approaching, use Zero Warfare's excellent rolling ability to quickly roll and avoid the attack line.

But this time, the formations set up by the opposite side this time were actually stacked!

How to say it? From his position, the "lightning" group on the opposite side is like a huge transfer cake. As we all know, even if there is a height difference between the fighter jet formation, it is generally not very large. However, the "lightning" on the opposite side actually has a very large drop, with four as a group, layer by layer. Even if the four in the group maintain an extraordinary height difference.

Toshio Ota quickly simulated the scene of his attack in his mind, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this strange formation was extremely dangerous!

At this time, their height is exactly at the bottom of the opponent. That is to say, as soon as it enters the attack range, the "lightning" on the upper level can directly launch a dive attack without climbing. At this time, the "lightning" in the middle level can use the dive attack time difference of the upper level to quickly climb into the dive position. When they avoid the first wave, they can launch the second dive. When the second dive comes, no matter what maneuver you do, the lower level aircraft group can climb to the dive height and continue to dive... Even if you can avoid the third dive, then the first batch of dive aircraft group on the upper level has now used the violent climbing ability of the "lightning" to return to the height and continue to launch a new round of dive attack!

He really couldn't think of how to avoid it. Unless he turned around, no matter how he maneuvered up and down, he would enter the opponent's dive attack range, and it would continue to continue.

Who invented this attack formation? It’s too vicious!

The more he thought about it, the more he felt chilled, and time was not allowed to be carefully considered. After the group of aircraft facing the attack at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour entered the visual distance, it would enter the attack range at most three or four minutes. So he could only grit his teeth and issue an order: "Be careful of diving! The wingman should pay attention to protection." He tried to find a solution after the other party launched an attack.

The zero-fighter fleet quickly expanded to the two wings, but they still underestimated the newly emerged multi-layer 44 system tactics in one domain. This tactics was built by the navy and air force for several years of experience and a year of fierce battle. Whether it is really the same as the tactics used in the "MiG Corridor" in the parallel world, which made the US military frightened, at least one thing is common. That is, to maximize the dive attack tactics and initially establish the energy maneuverable air combat theory!

As expected, when Toshio Ota led 64 aircraft into the attack area, he immediately realized the power of the new tactics.

"Occurrence! Take the long aircraft as the movement arrow. Don't fall behind!" Before the Zero War completely dispersed, the 16 "lightning" in front of the top suddenly launched a dive attack under the leadership of Zhang Peng. As mentioned earlier, the Air Force "Thunder" and the Navy "Lightning" were developed from the very beginning according to the famous F8F fighter. After many improvements, the actual performance is no longer worse than the original F8F. Whether it is speed, flexibility, mid- and low-altitude climb, rolling and dive ability, the zero war can be suppressed! Even Germany's latest FW190 fighter has no advantage in front of the aid British flight regiment, so the UK named it and wanted to buy it. Moreover, as pilots become more familiar with their planes and opponents, more new tactics have emerged, and "Lightning" has established a dominant ability of 6,000 meters.

High-altitude "Tianquan" and medium-low-altitude "double electric", an aviation combat and equipment model that combines high and low has been established.

The fighter jet that needed to concentrate on control during high-speed dive seemed to come alive in Zhang Peng's hand. When he saw his target rolling to the left to try to dodge, his wrist was soft, and the "lightning" in the dive quickly reacted and put the zero battle into the halo of the reflective sight. "Dada..." Under the wings, four flames spit out a short spurt, and the 1.27mm and a half armor-piercing incendiary bombs bit the target wing. Without armor and self-closing the fuel tank, the weakness will be magnified countless times under the dive attack, and one end will fall into the sea.

The newly released multi-layer 44 tactics of the first domain have received miraculous effects. As soon as they fought, the zero battle that they didn't understand was shot down by 23 consecutive dives. What's worse is that before the Japanese plane got rid of it, the third dive followed one after another. "Scatter, all disperse! Each of them will fight!" Toshio Ota's eyes were bloodshot. He never expected that this monster formation was even more powerful than he imagined! But "lightning" was not kind, nor would it be ruthless. After the new tactics received miraculous effects, the new flying on the Guangxi and Guangdong were

The craftsmen worked harder and abandoned the last fighting idea in their minds. Their eyes followed the long aircraft deliberately painted the wings into red, using the long aircraft as an arrow, and maintained a multi-layer attack lineup at all times. If you want to describe it, then the "lightning" aircraft group at this moment is like a huge roller full of knife tips. After the top layer dives, the middle layer pulls up and enters the position. When the middle layer dives, the bottom layer pulls up and enters the position. Then the upper layer that ends the dives rapidly turns will continue to lift and return to the dive position to complete the cycle.

Repeatedly, continuous and unsolvable, like a roller, constantly rolling forward in a crushing manner!

"Scatter, disperse!" Toshio Ota kept shouting and dispersing wildly on the radio station. Under his reminder, the remaining Zero Wars scattered around. But what made the Japanese pilots desperate was that even if they were dispersed, they could not get rid of their opponents, because the "lightning" also spread out quickly, with four teams as a team, continuing to maintain a multi-layer formation. After catching up with the speed easily, they continued to take turns to dive attacks.

This is a death-taking!

"Baga! How can I fight this!"

"Captain, what should I do? What should I do?"

There was a scream of horror on the radio.

The Japanese pilot was in tears!

This is not a Knight air battle, it is just a **m!

Dozens of elite Japanese HNA pilots were killed in a row, and they could not even find a way to turn against each other!

"Despicable! So despicable! There is a kind of single-handed challenge! Don't you Chinese people pay the most attention to the spirit of martial arts? Come on one-on-one!" Toshio Ota was already cold all over. After cursing with the most poisonous words, he began to talk about the spirit of martial arts again. Unfortunately, Zhang Peng and his comrades couldn't hear him at this time, and probably only had two words to answer.

Idiot!

48 "lightning" were dancing wildly, using the long aircraft as the arrow, constantly diving - pulling up - diving - pulling up... In this simple, primitive but effective attack action, Zero Warfare, which was already slow, can only be passively beaten blindly. Before the falcon fighter jets could join the battle circle, 64 Zero Warfare were shot down by continuous diving and more than half. The most atrocious thing is that no matter how high your level is and the aircraft performance is completely suppressed, you cannot continuously avoid diving, so almost every Zero Warfare shot down was killed in several ravage dives!

Toshio Ota could no longer command the cluster. His wingman was hit by air after two waves of diving. After losing cover, he bit his four "lightning bolts" and immediately launched a series of attacks. "Baga!" Faced with a situation where he had almost no power to fight back, he no longer cared about his friend's plane and stared at the "lightning bolt" that was swooping towards him. He secretly calculated the time for the opponent to arrive and was ready to roll and avoid it at any time. When the pilot of the "lightning bolt" just pulled the trigger, he slashed the operating rod, and Zero Zhan quickly rolled the fire in a series of turns. But before he could be glad, he turned his head and looked at it, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea... The second wave was already here.

"It's so amazing." Toshio Ota, who was secretly crying in his heart, knew that unless there was a fighter with a performance comparable to "lightning", there were only two paths now. One was to climb, and the other was to actively dive before being caught up, and use the speed to get maneuvering space.

He gave up the idea of ​​climbing as soon as he appeared. Although Zero War can gain an absolute climbing advantage in front of p-40 and f4f, it is really a big mistake compared to "lightning". When the vertical climb rate is not as good as the opponent, if this tactic is adopted, the three lightnings who are eyeing each other will definitely have a chance to kill themselves several times! So he could only push the operating rod hard. "Baga! Quick, fast! Quick... Ah!" As the beast-like howl, Ota Toshio's Zero War rushed towards the sea at a 70-degree angle. As the speed became faster and faster, the high-speed airflow caused the wings to tremble irregularly, and the engine also made a series of abnormal noises. But he couldn't care. If he couldn't keep the distance, he would be killed by the endless dive attack like his companions.

The altimeter dropped rapidly, and his eyes wandered back and forth between the instrument and the aircraft chasing behind him. As the distance gradually widened, a joy of life from death climbed up rapidly with adrenaline. But before he could be glad, the fighter jet that was swiftly dived was finally unable to bear it. The engine's tremor caused a large amount of gasoline to leak, and the moment he crossed the limit, it was ignited by Mars overflowing from the oil cylinder. In an instant, the nose of Zero War became a big fireball. Although the operating rod had issued instructions, the plane struggled a few times and hit the sea hard at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour.

The death of Toshio Ota means that the Zero fighter fleet has become in chaos. Before we could think of how to crack the multi-layer 44 tactics in one domain, the 36 "lightning" on the left wing had already rushed into the battle circle and blocked the falcon aircraft fleet. The same tactics and the same endless dive attack made the worse experience turn the world-Air Falcon aircraft fleet turn upside down. The entire sky was covered with white tracks pulled by fighters, and countless densely packed. One fighter aircraft chased with one tail, and a dive tumbling cycle. The dense rain of bullets drew clear attack marks on the blue sky. In just a few rounds, Japanese fighters either exploded in the air or pulled long black smoke into the sea. In this water area with a depth of thousands of meters, unless someone came to rescue them in a short time, there would be no way out!

When the Falcon was blocked, the third wave of 46 "lightning" came from the west and rushed into the Japanese attack aircraft group without any cover. Compared with the Zero War and the Falcon, the 99th ship explosion and 97th ship attack with heavy torpedoes and bombs were even more unbearable in the face of the multi-layered 44 tactics in one domain. Finally, the "lightning" aircraft led by the team simply disbanded the formation and allowed the pilot to hunt on its own. No one expected that even Pan Duheng was stunned when he learned Zhang Peng's initial battle report. He was originally mentally prepared to lose several warships, but he did not expect that the new tactics activated for the first time would make the aviation army so powerful and irresistible!

Even if several Japanese attack aircraft break through and intercept the fleet, they will be escorted by the fleet with itchy hands and chased them everywhere. Every time a breakout comes, a bunch of "lightning" will rush forward, like chasing a dog. Regardless of the sprint, they will be beaten up.

The happiest one is the sailors on the outpost ship, who even forgot to hide and rushed to the deck to watch this super air battle with their own eyes. Whenever a Japanese plane fell from the sky, the entire warship would burst out with uniform cheers. If the fighter plane fell, they would be furious and want to catch the enemy with old fists. Afterwards, a captain described the scene of the Truk air battle he saw as a game of hunting ganese when he was writing a report. Because in his eyes, the Japanese fighter plane, which was known for its flexibility, had turned into a stupid ganese at this time. Facing the hunter's rifle, there was no power to fight back! Later, I don't know how it spread, the term "Truk's Hunting ganese" became synonymous with this big air battle.

130 Lightning fighters blocked the Japanese fleet. The 120 Yaksha dive bombers following behind and the last 110 Osprey torpedo bombers immediately dispersed, broke through the few anti-aircraft guns deployed on the atoll, entered the lagoon and began to fight against the Japanese troops on the Truk Islands.

Facts have proved that the Japanese army's air defense firepower has a big problem. Once there is no fighter protection, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground are completely unable to deal with the "Yasha" that dives rapidly. Bombs are thrown on the target like eyes. In order to achieve the maximum damage effect, half of the "Yasha" carry napalm bombs "snatched" from the Air Force! After the 500 kilograms of napalm bombs exploded, the glue-loaded oil mist will spread rapidly and attach to buildings, trees and human bodies, and last for a long time.

The Japanese soldiers who vowed to rely on special terrain to kill the Chinese navy and fight a lasting island battle to relieve pressure on the local area were completely unaware of the power of napalm bombs. Each bomb exploded and could cover a 400 square meters of area. The splashing Mars quickly ignited everything on the surface, clothes, hair, skin and even buildings on the surface began to burn! From a high altitude, countless Japanese soldiers ran and howled in the sea of ​​fire, and some people jumped directly from the cliffs and docks into the sea to avoid the flames. Then they disappeared without a trace in the back and forth of the "Yasha" and "lightning" that had dropped the bomb.

The terrible bombs kept falling, and the entire Truk was filled with thick smoke. The carefully prepared anti-aircraft firepower did not play any role at all, and was shattered by the bombs coming in front of him, and then covered by the unextinguishable sea of ​​fire. The building collapsed, the thick coconut trees were cut off, and the coral sand was rolled in the air, the black smoke was thick, the sand and rocks flew, and the closed archipelago completely became hell on earth! The sea was also a miserable scene, ten

Several torpedo boats, destroyers, special cruisers and supply ships left here were also attacked by the Osprey torpedo aircraft that arrived later. Especially those supply ships without air defense fire were constantly rushing left and right like stray dogs, but no matter how fast they were, they were not as fast as torpedoes. Torpedoes were as simple as training, sending them into the seabed thousands of meters deep. The rolled whirlpools and explosive water columns were unbearable to witness them.

In just two hours of attack, the 300 aircraft left in Truk were wiped out, and the xn21 battle group lost only 37 aircraft. Such brilliant results made the pilots who rushed from Guam who thought they could get a chance to fight a big air force vent all their anger on the Japanese army. When they fired all their ammunition, 122 H-7 entered the lagoon again. The 488 tons of napalm bombs completely "washed" Truk, and even the mangroves that were not easy to ignite began to burn.

At 2:00 p.m. and the next morning, Pan Duheng took advantage of the victory to pursue and launched two waves of attacks to destroy the sea and air facilities of the Truk Islands! He also sent a frigate formation to escort three transport ships, occupying 300 kilometers southeast of Truk and only a few hundred Japanese troops stationed, and began to build a field airport and continue to blockade Truk. According to the description of the Japanese captured afterwards, in the two days of bombing, in addition to 300 aircraft and 11 ships, two thousand Japanese army soldiers were killed and more than 3,000 injured, most of whom were burned and choked to death by smoke. All supplies and reserves were burned. Later, when the Chinese Marines landed on the island, less than 9,000 Japanese troops on the completely blocked islands were killed, and the rest were all killed by starvation and disease.

On March 3, Japan, who was dragged into the island war of attrition, was suddenly hit again. The 212th aircraft carrier battle group of the Chinese Navy appeared in the Eniwitok Atoll. Before the 1,000 Japanese troops on the island were bombarded by 150 fighter jets. Then two leased French Dunkirk-class ships and four cruisers also joined the battle. In just three hours, two thousand and seven hundred shells of various types were poured into the island less than four square kilometers.

The result of such fierce firepower against an atoll that lacks depth can be imagined. By the afternoon of the next day, the two thousand Marines who landed on the island completely controlled the atoll and the airport. Almost at the same time, the 211th and 213th aircraft carrier battle groups also occupied Wake Island in the same way, not only opening the door to the Marshall Islands, but also blocking the United States' road to the Southwest Pacific.

After learning that the Chinese Navy had attacked Truke, US Ambassador to China, Jansen, formally submitted a note, demanding that the Chinese Navy hand over it to the US government after recapturing Wake Island. However, the US Navy had not received any rejection news, and was again bad news.

The Enterprise aircraft carrier that participated in the torch operation... was sunk! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!