At nine o'clock, the escort formation led by Wang Hai greatly shocked the French at Baiyunshan Airport. Only about three hours had passed, and it was they who, in a more direct way, gave the Japanese troops at the front-line airport in Wuhan The Japs of the 2nd Flying Division were greatly shocked.
Coincidentally, when the huge fighter jet group led by Wang Hai flew over the Tongren area, a fighter group and a bomber group under the Japanese 2nd Flying Division were flying to Chongqing to carry out a new round of air raids. Seeing this group of figures on the radar screen of the Sky Fortress, I thought at first that the Japs were coming to intercept them. Then I adjusted my formation, with forty-eight Whiteback Dolphins as the main force, and the twelve Sky Fortresses and thirty Eight I-5s and Hawkers were hidden in the middle of the formation. They immediately adjusted their course and pounced directly towards the "incoming" enemy planes.
After turning and flying for about five minutes, Wang Hai saw that the Japanese fighter jet group had turned to the upper left corner of the radar screen. Wang Hai knew that the target of this Japanese fighter jet group was Chongqing. He realized that there must be a lot of bombers among them. He couldn't help but He thought: "I didn't expect that this escort mission would still catch a fight. Let the little devil have a taste of what it's like to be behind." Then he adjusted his course again, first flying towards Yichang, then turning midway and heading towards the Japanese plane from the east. The cluster went around,
The commander of the Japanese army group was a major named Yanagihara Aosuke. This Japanese soldier had a very bad conscience and wanted to continue to consume Chongqing's aviation power. So after flying over Fuling, he ordered all fighter jets to slow down and let the bombers We took the first step to see if we could lure the Chongqing Air Force to intercept.
The bomber group flew away first. Yanagihara Shusuke habitually wanted to turn the nose of the plane to reconnoiter the nearby airspace. But at this moment, a large group of Baiji dolphins had already rushed into the airspace less than 20 kilometers away from them, so he completed this After maneuvering, he discovered that there were more than a dozen small black dots flying from the east. The little devil was startled. At first he thought that the commander had sent another group of fighter planes to assist in the battle. Then when he took a closer look, his eyes widened and he blurted out curses. Said: "Eight grids."
"Sir, what's wrong?" the deputy captain of the fighter jet asked,
At this time, Yanagihara had discovered a large number of black spots following the twelve Baijis. At this moment, he certainly did not think that these black spots were sent by the commander for support, so he shouted wildly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack, Uehara. A large number of enemy planes appear in the east. Retreat immediately. Once again, a large number of enemy planes appear in the east. Retreat immediately..."
The distance of fifteen kilometers can be broken through by the Baiji Dolphin in two minutes. Although the I-5 and Hawker fighter jets are much slower, they are still enough to project their own images into the eyes of the devils, so when other When the eleven Japanese planes turned around, what they saw was not only the twelve Whitebacks, but also the large force of the Xuebing Army following them.
The Baiji Dolphin and the Sky Fortress left such a deep impression on the Japanese aviation force. Just seeing these two types of fighters, and a large formation of fifty or sixty fighters, the Japanese soldiers couldn't help but be collectively confused.
"Major, what should I do? Do you want to fight?"
"Ba Ge, what kind of battle are you facing? Just run away." Liuyuan replied in a bad tone, and then took the lead in flying the plane to the north.
There was a reason why Yanagihara was so decisive in abandoning the bushido spirit and running away. After the Zero was put into production, Koizumi increasingly felt that the limitation of the empire's development of aviation lay not in the production capacity of fighter planes but in the number of excellent aviation forces, so he proposed to the Japanese Military Ministry that In order to protect the veteran aviation forces to the maximum extent, the aviation forces should be allowed to adopt forbearance tactics against the aviation units of the student army when they clearly do not have an advantage.
Yanagi Yuan, as the captain, ran away first. The other Japanese pilots had set an example, and naturally they would not foolishly keep them to die. So the twelve Japanese planes dispersed and fled in the north and south airspace, hoping to avoid the enemy planes. round up,
Uehara, the captain of the bomber group, was about to fly to Chaotianmen at this time. The kid was quite angry at first, thinking that Yanagihara was making a fuss and that Chongqing's aviation power was only so much. Even with the addition of the Soviets ,Can't even a large group of them insist on completing the bomb delivery?,Thinking like this, the little Jaap pushed the direction stick to the left and turned his head to look back. The next moment, he was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped: "Ba Ge, where is it?" There are so many enemy planes coming, Baiji Dolphins, Sky Fortress, Xuebing Army, Eight Grids, retreat, retreat immediately."
Since the appearance of the white-tip dolphin on the Sino-Japanese air battle battlefield, although the Japanese military leaders have tried their best to relieve the panic caused by the white-tip dolphin in the Japanese aviation forces, the Japanese airmen still popularized the concept after private exchanges: against the white-tip dolphin At that time, the bombers could run as far as they could. As for the fighter jets, if they could not form a two-on-one double-team situation at the beginning of the air battle, then they should escape quickly.
This is not the first time that the Cadet Army Air Force has dispatched such a large fleet to appear in front of the Japanese Air Force since its establishment, such as the original "Sink It" operation, but for Yanagihara, Uehara and others, this is the first time they have seen it. It is natural for them to have various associations and negative emotions as a result.
The Japanese Air Force fled without a fight, and the fighting spirit of the Cadet Air Force became even higher. Seeing that they were approaching Chongqing, Wang Hai also intended to show his face in front of the people in the Central Military Area to promote the Cadet Army, and ordered two The fighter group pursued, then organized the remaining fighters into a beautiful prismatic formation, lowered their flying altitude and flew towards Xiaolongkan Airport.
As early as when the Japanese aircraft cluster appeared over the ghost town of Fengdu, Chongqing sounded the air defense alarm, but even so, there were still many people staying outside the air defense facility in Chaotianmen at this moment. Some of them saw this scene. , they immediately guessed that what appeared overhead was their fighter plane, and immediately cheered with tears in their eyes,
"So many planes."
"Look, our fighter plane."
"Why do we suddenly have so many extra fighter planes?"
"Maybe I just bought them. Look at those big guys, we have never seen them before."
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At this time, Wang Hai had already contacted the ground aviation guidance station. The Chongqing air defense department learned that the Japanese plane had been driven away, and immediately lifted the air defense alert. So when they flew to the Yangjiaping area, the originally deserted streets It became lively when the boarding was launched. People told each other that after learning that the huge group of fighter planes flying above their heads at this moment belonged to the Chinese people, people who had suffered deeply from the Japanese bombings could not suppress their excitement. Many people While muttering: "Our Chinese fighter planes." I shed tears.
Suddenly, there was a violent explosion from the northeast, and everyone was shocked and speechless. Soon, a well-informed person shouted: "The plane that crashed was a Japanese fighter plane. Well done to the Air Force boys."
"Roar." People cheered with thunderous cheers. The sound was so loud that it once drowned out the sound of fighter jet engines in the sky.