If Xia Boxun had not specifically ordered before the attack that all Japanese light aircraft should be attacked with machine guns, all cannons should be prepared for ground attacks and Japanese heavy bombers, and all 12.7mm machine guns should 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 the disaster.【.,
The commander of the Japanese air formation, Major General Nobuhide Hashimoto, who was riding on a Type 97 heavy bomber and relying 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 generally dispatch only a few aircraft.
Around thirty or fifty.
But now these fifty-odd aircraft have not even had time to show off their sabers, and they have gone to see Amaterasu in one round. This loss can be said to be an unprecedented event for the Army Air Force. And before this...
The Japanese Army Air Corps Major General reacted in shock. His opponent, who had completed the first wave of attacks, had already completed a U-turn and began the 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 attack, the aircraft performance and tactics were completely backward, and the Japanese aircraft were still in the traditional V-shaped formation. In view of the flexible maneuvers adopted by the opponent,
In front of the two-plane formation, it was more of a one-sided disaster than an air battle.
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 practice, with almost no power to fight back.
Although Yang Zhen's aviation unit, which launched the attack, was somewhat immature in technical and tactical skills in air combat compared with the so-called veterans of the Japanese aviation unit, the excellent performance of the aircraft it flew and the advanced air combat tactics it adopted were effective.
bridge this gap.
The p-39 fighter may be able to deal with the Japanese Zero fighter later. The Type-1 fighter is no match, but when faced with the Type 97 fighter which still adopts a 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-fashioned high-wing, fixed landing gear Polish-made PZL 24 fighter, after being modified with a high-power Soviet-made engine, a new radio system and a large-caliber 12.7mm machine gun, compared with the Type 97 fighter
Not inferior at all. After facing the Japanese army's old-fashioned bi-wing Type 95 fighter jets, after completing the first wave of dive attacks and relaunching, looking at the Japanese formation that had lost a quarter, Xia Boxun sneered and picked up the message.
The aircraft issued an 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 plane without saying a word and followed the tactical requirements, selected their respective targets and attacked them. Although they killed a quarter of the Japanese troops in the first round
Plane, but fortunately there is enough prey left, so there is no need to snatch it.
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 fighter jets with powerful firepower, excellent mid- and low-altitude combat performance, and extremely fast speed. The key is that they are much stronger than themselves.
I was horrified to find that compared with these strange-looking fighter jets, the aircraft I had always been proud of turned out to be nothing at all.
They took more than a dozen bullets from me, but they were still running around in front of me. As long as I took two bullets from them, the fragile body of my plane would be in danger of being exploded. The most important thing is that these people seem to be right.
I am very familiar with Type 97 fighter jets. Often the first shot in a fight is aimed at my 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 or flying armor, as long as this part is hit, no aircraft can withstand even a few bullets. And the aircraft that is hit will definitely
Most of them end up turning into a blazing fireball. Not only the planes, but also the pilots have no chance to parachute.
Compared with fighter jets that can still rely on the combat performance that Japanese aircraft have traditionally valued, but still barely maintain fairly good maneuverability, the remaining twenty-two Type 97 heavy bombers in the first wave of the offensive were miserable.
Many. The pilots of these Type 97 bombers were horrified to find that they were almost helpless against the approaching opponent fighter jets.
Hide, the cumbersome bombers are far less maneuverable than flexible fighter jets. To run, these Japanese pilots found that the speed of the Type 97 heavy bombers they had always been proud of was no match for an old lady with little feet in front of these fighter jets.
Go. As for the opponent's ferocious firepower, as long as you are hit by one shot, there is basically no possibility of escape.
Compared with those frightened Japanese bomber pilots, the feeling of pilots flying P-39 fighter jets at this time is no different from ordinary shooting training. Shooting these heavy bombers is as easy as target shooting. No matter where this kind of fighter is,
What kind of comments do the United States and Britain have, but the Sanqi cannon on the aircraft is almost a nightmare for any aircraft.
Not to mention the thin-skinned 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 37 shot in the middle of the fuselage.
Millimeter shells, the entire rear half of the fuselage was ripped off. The aircraft did not have time to react, and it fell head-first to the ground.
Although there are quite a few Japanese fighter pilots who are so driven by the so-called Bushido spirit that they 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 gun holes without fear of death. But the result is often
What's even more tragic is that two planes were 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, which was avoiding the attack of the PZL fighter jet. The broken wing was
The falling fuselage of the Type 97 heavy bomber hit the Type 98 dive bomber. Half of the fuselage of the unlucky aircraft was cut off.
In fact, this air battle can no longer be said to be a battle, it can even be described as a massacre. In the air battle for less than an hour, there were more than 200 Japanese aircraft, and less than 20 fighter planes were still in the sky.
and reconnaissance aircraft, which are still struggling to support themselves 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 the Japanese bombers were shot down. There were still one or two fish that escaped. After all, there will be one or two lucky ones in every battle, right? Especially when the Japanese aircraft have an advantage in number.
Next, there are one or two dive bombers who take advantage of the gaps in the opponent's attack and look for opportunities to use their skillful driving skills to quickly leave the battlefield at ultra-low altitude. It is not impossible to escape.
However, because their stature is too conspicuous compared to other light aircraft, none of the heavy bombers of Hashimoto Nobuhide's direct line, the Type 97 heavy bomber of the 61st Squadron, escaped. Except for the one Hashimoto Nobuhide was riding at this time.
In addition to being saved by other Japanese fighter planes, many of them were shot down.
In fact, few of the Japanese planes that looked for opportunities and randomly dropped bombs actually escaped. Those guys who were more flexible and left the battlefield as soon as they saw the situation was bad, although they escaped Xia Boxun's massacre, but they were not able to escape.
He did not escape the poisonous hand of Fang Ziyi, who returned from Harbin empty-handed.
Except for one Type 98 dive bomber that 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.
In the face of the excellent performance of the opponent's aircraft, ferocious firepower, excellent speed, excellent mid- and low-altitude performance, and excellent tactical coordination, the Japanese aircraft that were rampant in the past had no power to fight back. They just wanted to run away, and in the face of the opponent's
Even in the face of high speed, you can't run away.
Even if these P-39 fighter jets have had their turbochargers removed and Jiangbei modified them with simple versions of superchargers, they are still more than a hundred times faster than the fastest Type 97 fighter jets on the battlefield.
kilometers. With this huge difference in speed, coupled with the ferocious firepower of the aircraft, those Japanese aircraft that tried to escape from the battlefield, except for a very few lucky ones, were mostly killed before they could fly very far.
Pushed up and 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 newborn calves used the advanced vehicles in their hands to develop tactics and aircraft very conservatively.
The Japanese Army Air Forces received a vivid lesson on what modern air combat is.
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