The Japanese Army Aviation Corps is organized: Aviation Group-Second-Ranking-Squadron. Each team consists of 2-3 squadrons according to the type of equipment and the time they are in. The standard quota for each squadron is 12 aircraft.
The standard quota for such a flight team is 24-36 aircraft.
The aircraft group led by Shin-kyu Nakamoto was composed of his Independent Flight Team 10 and Independent Flight Team 83, light bombers, heavy bombers and fighters, a total of 60 aircraft.
The reason for sixty rather than seventy is because of the lack of pilots.
The First Flight Regiment is a veteran Japanese aviation force, with many ace pilots, and has always played the role of vanguard in the war of aggression against China. However, at this time, the First Flight Regiment was no longer the first Flight Regiment at the beginning of the war, and the Eighth Route Army was also
It was the aircraft's sneak attack and bombing, and it was special operations, which forced the First Flight Regiment to change from pilot to aircraft a few years ago. Many notorious ace pilots in history either died in the Eighth Route Army bomber sneak attack or the Eighth Route Army's special forces team.
In the special operations, the Japanese army had to expand the enrollment scale of aviation school students on the one hand, shorten the course time of aviation school, and constantly replenish pilots for each flight unit. This could not meet the need to make up for combat losses.
Zhongyuan Shengxiao was able to survive until now, except for being thick-skinned and not having a caesarean section, that was purely a miracle.
However, after all, the Japanese aircraft are becoming more and more advanced, while the quality of pilots is getting worse and worse. Look, the Italian Fiat br-20 bomber equipped by the Japanese army is gone now. This Fiat br-20 bomber
, known as an all-metal bomber, has beautiful shape, strong endurance and large ammunition load, but the aluminum material used is extremely poor in quality, especially the material on the rear fuselage is just a layer of aluminum foil attached to it, hail
It can be broken, and it is easy to be destroyed after going to the battlefield. If it is replaced by the Japanese army's own Type 97 heavy bomber, the battlefield survival rate will be greatly improved after the light bomber. The Type 95 fighter is gone, and it is replaced by a new mass production
Type 97 fighter.
Advanced fighter jets must also be used by high-level people. If a pilot who is just leaving the aviation school gate wants to truly understand the fighter jets he is flying, it will take a long time to get in. This is like a tank was born in a battle.
During this period, it was not until the Germans launched the Armored Group Blitzkrieg that people truly realized how to use tanks correctly.
In the ground-to-air combat this morning, the reason why Japanese planes suffered such heavy losses was of course because the Eighth Route Army was flexible in tactics, strong firepower, and ambushing, but it was also related to the poor quality of Japanese pilots.
The time for both the air-to-ground attack and the earth-to-air attack is very short, and life and death can be determined between breathing.
When Zhongyuan Shengxiao's aircraft group ventured through the smoke to conduct a low-altitude search attack, it encountered an aerial mine array composed of kites and balloons, and lost five fighter jets; when Japanese aircraft discovered Weicheng, they carried out dive attacks, they were hit by an air defense regiment head-on.
Fifteen fighter jets; when the formation flew past Weicheng, it was covered by the firepower grid of the heavy machine gun regiment, the artillery brigade infantry regiment, the first brigade supplementary regiment and the second brigade of the special operations formation 3, and lost five fighter jets; Liu Yimin single-fire
Welcoming the enemy, two bullets killed two enemy planes; when the Japanese aircraft fled to the west gate of Weicheng, they collided with the firepower net of the Second Air Defense Regiment, and dropped twelve fighter planes; when they rushed through the firepower net of the Second Air Defense Regiment, they ran away again
I encountered a kite and balloon that was swaying in the southeast wind. I once again sucked the kite by the propeller, which caused the engine to lose power and crashed five planes.
Now, there are only sixteen fighter jets left in Zhongyuan Shengxiao's fleet, and they are basically fighter jets with fast speed and low fuel capacity. The bombers, with their sinful crew members, obediently went to see the King of Hell.
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Zhongyuan Shengxiao's heart is cooler than the air current at a height of 5,000 meters! You must know that no matter how developed the aircraft manufacturing industry in the Great Japanese Empire and how fast the production speed is, it cannot withstand his destruction like this! If His Majesty the Emperor knows this
, I don’t know how to reward him!
Zhongyuan Shengxiao had the desire to die at this time, and wanted to fight with the Eighth Route Army to die together. But he did not dare because the ground firepower of the Eighth Route Army was too strong. Judging from the situation just now, the ground firepower of the Eighth Route Army included anti-aircraft cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns.
, and there are also infantry squads using machine guns and rifles. Together, it is a dense firepower network. As long as the fighter jet is stuck in this net, it will be difficult to escape. If all their fighter jet formations are broken in this tiny
In Weicheng, the vast North China, there are only the same incomplete third flight regiment and several independent flight regiments left, and the Eighth Route Army will completely control Shandong's air supremacy.
Thinking that the number of the First Flight Regiment could not be cancelled in his hands, Major General Nakamoto Shengxiao, the commander of the First Flight Regiment of the North China Front Army Aviation Group, ordered the remaining fighter planes to return with a lot of grief.
This is also impossible. Fighters do not load air bombs and cannot drop bombs at high altitudes. The danger of diving downward is too high, which is equivalent to suicide. It is impossible for Zhongyuan Shengxiao to return to the air.
It is naturally a good thing to retreat and return to the voyage, but the question is whether the Eighth Route Army agreed or not.
Feng Dafei has been in a very good mood recently. When he went to Zhengzhou, he not only stopped the Japanese offensive, but also sneaked into the airports of Kaifeng, Shangqiu and Anyang. He transferred to Wuhan and assisted Hu Zongnan's 17th Army in the first battle to fight at Xinluo battlefield.
A beautiful counterattack battle, the arrogant Japanese Third Division fled in a panic. The battle further destroyed the Japanese Navy's Longxiang aircraft carrier formation in one fell swoop, achieving the first land-based aircraft defeating the aircraft carrier fleet in human war history. Return to Shandong
Later, not only were there 30 overseas Chinese pilots who obtained American flight licenses, but they also brought back 60 various aircraft and a large number of aviation ammunition from Xuzhou Luotuoshan Airport and Matoushan Airport, and twenty of them could be assembled into aircraft.
Fighter accessories made the Eighth Route Army's aviation team suddenly restore to the level before the Japanese attack on Shaanxi airport.
Feng Dafei was in a good mood and retreated from Xuzhou Airport to Zhujiazhuangzi Airport. He did not stop for a moment. He urgently formed the first aviation brigade and organized all 30 returned overseas Chinese pilots including Xue Junmin into the aviation team. One of them had
Based on the basis of eight heavy bombers' heavy bombers' heavy bombers and two light bombers with eight light bombers, two heavy bombers with ten heavy bombers were formed, and three light bombers with ten light bombers with ten light bombers.
Squadron. There is no way, there are many aircraft, pilots and navigators, and there are not enough bomb droppers, so they can only form a group to fight first. In this way, Feng Dafei still compressed the four crew members of the original heavy bomber to two, and the navigator also served as bomb droppers and fired.
He asked several overseas Chinese pilots who had no flight mission to act temporarily as pilots, and found some ground technicians brought back from Ni Hua from the United States to find some people with flight experience and shooting. Only then could he barely guarantee that the personnel with bomb drop experience could he do the pilots.
The need for combat.
Feng Dafei had already thought about it. After completing the combat mission, he would draw another group of students from Shaanxi to come here to learn and train so that he could board the plane for combat as soon as possible.
After completing the marshalling, the excess aircraft were camouflaged and hidden. Feng Dafei led five bomber squadrons to take off urgently and headed between Weixian and Pingdu to participate in the battle to annihilate the 33rd Division.
This battle was so exciting. Fighting planes hovered over the Japanese invaders and dived, bombs exploded above the Japanese invaders' heads, machine guns and machine guns ruthlessly harvested the lives of the Japanese invaders until all the fighter planes drained all the airborne ammunition
, defeated the 33rd Division and laid it to the ground, Feng Dafei led the first brigade of the aviation back.
After returning to the Zhujiazhuangzi Airport in Dadian, Feng Dafei received an order from Liu Yimin to form a fighter squadron and prepare to destroy the remaining Japanese aircraft.
From last night to now, Feng Dafei and his comrades have not slept. They are extremely tired and should have a good sleep to restore their strength. But the Japanese came to the door, and from the commander's orders, they
It can be seen that the air defense brigade and other ground troops must have been prepared to severely damage the Japanese army fleet. Once it is started, the Japanese army fleet will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. The remaining Japanese aircraft must be panicked. When will it take for them to beat the dogs in the water to be beaten?
The combat mission is tense, but the ground service at Zhujiazhuangzi Airport is really good. After the pilots got off the plane, they could immediately eat hot meals. Although the meals were simple, each person stewed with radish, cabbage, and vermicelli to seize the Japanese army.
Canned beef, plus two steamed buns and a bowl of seaweed soup. But the pilots all knew that this was the best meal in the Eighth Route Army. Hot white flour steamed buns, big pot dishes for stewed canned beef, Liu Yimin, and Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan were reluctant to leave.
What to eat!
While the pilots were having dinner, Feng Dafei had ordered ground crews and guards to push the heavy bombers into the hangar, push all the light bombers away from the airport to disguise themselves in concealment, and push all the twenty Japanese fighters seized from the Tuoshan Airport and Matoushan Airport.
, Come on, load up.
After the pilots finished their meal, Feng Dafei gathered everyone together and made a simple mobilization.
What a Feng Dafei, who followed Liu Yimin, from Zunyi to Chengdu and Xi'an, learned Liu Yimin's skills well. Listen to his mobilization speech: "Comrades: I know everyone is very tired and needs a rest urgently. However,
We were full of physical strength, but the Japanese were bleeding from their hearts. Everyone said, was the fight against the ground just now so satisfying?"
These pilots are all young men in their twenties, full of energy and are most suitable for inciting combat mobilization. I heard the young men shouting: "Excited"! "Excited!"
Feng Dafei then shouted: "Do it again, do you want it?"
Those old pilots were selected from the backbone of the Red Army. The fighting will is like steel and iron, needless to say. Even those overseas Chinese pilots are heroes who are determined to serve the country and bravely go to the national crisis. What they can return to China to participate in the war is to
With the strengths I have learned, I fly an eagle to fly in the blue sky, slaughter the Japanese plane, and avenge those compatriots who were massacred by the Japanese army. In today's battle, most of them were the first actual battle, and it was also the first time
Killing the Japanese, killing them as if they were slaughtering pigs and sheep, and they were so happy. After first trying their skills, they achieved such impressive results.
I heard that it could also attack the Japanese army again with pigs and sheep. The pilots' strength suddenly bulged up. Everyone stared at their blood-covered eyes, waved their fists and shouted: "You must."
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Feng Dafei said that there were only 20 fighter jets, and he needed to select 20 pilots with high flight skills and strong air combat capabilities to perform combat missions. The goal was to bombard Japanese bombers and fighter fleets in Pingdu, Weixian and Pingdu.
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The first brigade of the Eighth Route Army Aviation originally had 24 bomber pilots, plus 30 overseas Chinese pilots, a total of 54 pilots. Among these pilots, 24 bomber pilots won because of their relatively rich combat experience, while 30 overseas Chinese pilots won because of their superb flight skills.
When he actively signed up to participate in the war, Feng Dafei asked the overseas Chinese pilot to recommend 14 pilots on his own. He selected 5 soldiers who were originally fighter pilots from the 24 bomber pilots. He also added himself to a total of 20 people, forming him and
Xue Junmin led two fighter squadrons respectively.
The 20 Japanese fighter jets seized were Nakajima-made ki-27 fighter jets, commonly known as Type 97 fighter jets. This aircraft has just entered service this year and is a standard fighter jet equipped by the Japanese Army. The aircraft has a fixed landing gear and is equipped with a 740-horsepower
Air-cooled engine, with a length of 24.7 feet, a wingspan of 37.1 feet, a climb rate of 3000 feet per minute, a speed of 460 kilometers per hour at a height of 5000 meters, a maximum ceiling of 10000 meters, a range of 390 miles, and a secondary fuel tank can be added
At 1,060 miles, it is equipped with 2 7.7mm machine guns, each equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition. It carries 220 kilograms of bombing missions. It is especially suitable for hovering and fighting, and is much more advanced than the Type 95 biplane fighter originally equipped by the Japanese army.
After the plane took off, the formation headed straight over Weixian at a 500-meter-high straight flight attitude, just in time to watch the Japanese plane dancing in the Eighth Route Army's ground air defense firepower.
Feng Dafei had no time to appreciate it, so he ordered the formation to immediately seize the advantageous position and prepare to launch an attack on Japanese aircraft.
Major General Shengxiao, Zhongyuan, could not even dream of it. At this moment, the God of Killing was ready to go.
Just when Zhongyuan Shengxiao ordered his return, Feng Dafei issued an attack order, two of the twenty war eagles in groups rushed down from an altitude of 5,000 meters and opened fire on the back of the Japanese plane.
At this time, air combat is all about visual combat. Generally, when the weather is good, pilots can generally find opponents at a distance of 8,000 meters. The weather is good today, but the sky above Weixian was filled with smoke arrays arranged by the Eighth Route Army. It is visibility
Low. In this case, not to mention 8,000 meters, enemy aircraft are not easy to detect within 5,000 meters.
Feng Dafei is the veritable commander of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Team. This person is not only an air combat talent, but also a land combat talent. After meeting Liu Yimin, he was inspired by Liu Yimin and had a very active mind and was particularly good at learning from his strengths and weaknesses. Under his leadership, the Eighth Route Army Aviation Team's tactics are not only integrated.
The Soviet and US military air combat tactics also absorbed the Eighth Route Army's ideas of fighting ambush, attacks, guerrillas and concentrating superior forces to annihilate the enemy. Just from the tactical level of the Eighth Route Army's aviation team, it is already relatively advanced. The disadvantage lies in the Eighth Route Army's
The fighter jets, aviation ammunition and oil materials are all captured. There is no systematic research and development, production, fighter aircraft maintenance, and logistics support systems. Moreover, this team is too young, and most pilots have very short training time and are a little tender.
After Feng Dafei led a fleet of fighter jets in the air to arrive at the battlefield, he seized an altitude of 5,000 meters. He caught the Japanese plane in panic and was almost ready to escape. He suddenly came out. This was to concentrate superior forces to launch a surprise attack. When the Japanese reacted, they could react.
At that time, the New Year has passed.
Xue Junmin rushed down from a height of 5,000 meters with his wingman and aimed directly at a Japanese Type 97 fighter. This young man saw that the Japanese plane had arrived at this time and realized that something was wrong. He started to lift it up, and his eyes were filled with sarcastic smiles.
, shouted "Go to die", and the machine gun sprayed out a string of bullets and hit the Japanese aircraft's back.
Seeing that the Japanese plane was beaten to disintegrate in the air, Xue Junmin's smile flashed and quickly accelerated, and began to cooperate with the wingman to attack another enemy plane.
Just as the enemy plane was shot down, Xue Junmin heard the reminder of the wingman. Xue Junmin knew that he must have been bitten by a Japanese plane. He quickly pulled the nose of the plane, jumped up to 90 degrees perpendicularly, then flew backwards, half-rolled, and finally
Pingfei, a standard "Yin Suman Flip", got rid of the enemy plane. Unfortunately, the quality of the aircraft in this era is not good, otherwise Xue Junmin might not have to fight "Yin Suman Flip".
The old tactics of the period invented a new aerial fighting tactic, such as the famous "Cobra Flip" in later generations.
The poor tactical level of Japanese pilots does not mean that the poor tactical level of Zhongyuan Shengxiao is. After the old Japanese attacked, they immediately made tactical actions to get rid of the pursuit of Eighth Route Army fighter jets, pulled the plane up, and then began to fight the Eighth Route Army fighter jets in the air.
Xue Junmin and his wingman were targeted by Major General Zhongyuan Shengxiao.
Xue Junmin finally got rid of the enemy plane, but his wingman was not so lucky. He was hit by Zhongyuan Shengxiao and fell south on the black line.
Seeing that the wingman was hit by a Japanese plane, Xue Junmin immediately realized that this was the Japanese ace pilot, otherwise it would not have been possible to quickly strike back and shoot down a fighter plane after being attacked.
Xue Junmin's competitive spirit was aroused. As soon as he pushed the nose, he rushed towards Major General Zhongyuan Shengxiao's landline.
Zhongyuan Shengxiao is worthy of being the leader of the first flight regiment. He was not panicked when he was shocked and also made a "Yin Suman flip" action, not only getting rid of Xue Junmin's pursuit, but also seizing the height.
If Zhongyuan Shengxiao was relieved, Xue Junmin would probably be in danger. Soon after, two Eighth Route Army fighter jets rushed out from the upper left of Zhongyuan Shengxiao, and the machine guns shot fire tongues and headed straight towards Zhongyuan Shengxiao's plane
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Zhongyuan Shengxiao was completely awakened. The Eighth Route Army took the lead and the number of aircraft was also the best. If you continue to get entangled, you will probably die here. This old Japanese man no longer has the intention to fight and do tactical actions immediately.
, avoiding the attack of the Eighth Route Army fighter jets. After the plane was lifted, he would no longer dare to get entangled and fled to the north of Tianjin with his tail. He knew that there was a group of Kanto military aircraft that had just completed the transition and could take off and save him.