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The P-51 group appeared in front of the Japanese fighter group at a time when the Japanese group was in a panic after being attacked twice by the P-81. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoNow the altitude of the P-51 has reached 9000 meters, which is no lower than the height of the Japanese fleet, and after observing that the Japanese aircraft group is in a state of chaos, the P-51s simply chose a direct impact.

When the P-81 was attacked by the dive just now, the Japanese made the formation very flat in order to reduce the efficiency of the P-81 fighter when they dive, so that the US military did not have much opportunity to attack multiple targets in one dive, but such a formation was very disadvantageous when firing at the P-51 group. Because the flat formation means that when the two sides encounter, although the Japanese fighter force has a numerical advantage, the number of aircraft that can fire at the same time in the frontal direction will be less than that of the American aircraft. And the aircraft in front will also block the fire and sight of the aircraft behind.

The P-51 fighters threw away their auxiliary fuel tanks one after another, increased their horsepower and rushed straight towards the enemy aircraft. At a distance of about 1,000 meters, the P-51s began firing at the enemy. The advantage of the long range of the US 20-mm guns was fully displayed at this moment, and when it came to a head-on fire, it gave the US fighters the opportunity to fire first when the Japanese fighters could not open fire. At this time, the Japanese fighters will fall into passivity. If you continue to fly, you will be smashed by the Americans' 20mm shells before you can reach a distance where you can fire, and if you dodge, this will interfere with your own shooting. Theoretically, the side with a closer range of the cannon can take a downward push to let its aircraft quickly settle into the blind spot of the opponent's vision due to the obstruction of its own nose, and then pull up the nose to shoot deadly shells at the opponent.

But this skill is definitely a super advanced skill in air combat. It required a surprisingly high command of the speed of the planes, the speed of the shells, and the timing of the aircraft, a skill that was too far for most Japanese pilots who flew less than 30 hours. They are still at the bottom of the skill tree, and this skill is at the top of the skill tree, a skill that only the legendary aces can master.

What's more, in the current situation, this skill may not be useful. Because of the difference in formation between the two sides, each Japanese fighter had to face the fire threat of about two or so American fighters. You can use a ramrod to hide yourself in the blind spot of an American fighter jet, but you can't also hide in the blind spot of another enemy aircraft. And to dodge the fire of two P-51s, even those legendary aces, at most, they can only dodge safely, and it is difficult to find any opportunities to counterattack.

Under the dual effect of range and formation advantages, as well as technical and experience advantages, this round of counter-shooting achieved very amazing results. At the cost of 8 of the 500 P-51s shot down and 10 damaged, more than 200 enemy planes were shot down in one go, and more than 10 enemy planes were damaged. This exchange was not particularly good at this time, and in a conventional confrontation, the exchange was even more beautiful than this when the American pilots faced the Japanese pilots who had only flown for 20 to 30 hours. But the terrible thing is that this number of shootdowns was achieved almost instantaneously. Of the 2,000 Japanese fighters, more than 60 have already been lost in the two rounds of attacks by the P-81 just now, and with this guy, the losses are more than one-tenth of the fleet. And such losses actually appeared in such a short period of time, which naturally brought a huge shock to the Japanese pilots. Coupled with the fact that there was no attack that could disrupt the opponent's formation more than a head-on hedge, many Japanese fighter pilots who barely escaped under the attack of the P-51 found that they could not find their own captain or wingman, or even their own squadron, and the entire fleet was plunged into complete chaos.

And at this time, the P-81 swooped down from the sky again...... As a result, another number of Japanese fighters were shot down, and the huge group of planes had been divided into many small groups, and these small groups were still lacking in organization, and many of the planes in them naturally formed a group when evading attacks, and the planes were often not the same unit before. This will inevitably further reduce their combat effectiveness.

After the P-81 washed a round, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese to dodge the attack of the P-81, the P-51s, who had completed the climb and turn, also swooped over, then the P-81, and then the P-51, and the Japanese fighter unit struggled coolly in this cycle. At this time, the F4U fighter group of the US Navy that arrived became the last straw that completely overwhelmed the big camel of the Japanese fighter group.

In order to prevent the Japanese radar from observing the approach of the F4U group, the Japanese immediately let the fighter group scatter away (of course, this will cause the Japanese fighters to suffer great losses, but in any case it is better than letting more than a thousand F4U pounce on them and beat them again), so after these F4U approached the detection area of the Japanese radar, they immediately adopted a dense formation method, again imitating the appearance of heavy bombers. As a result, Japanese radar did detect them, but again judged them to be heavy bombers. It is not surprising that the Japanese will be fooled again, because the Japanese fighter group responsible for intercepting it has already fought with the American fighter group escorting the escort, and the fighter group should naturally be bombers next to it. You can see this on your toes.

So the Japanese plan to hold out for a little longer, wait for the bombers to come, and desperately knock out those bombers, and the battle will be worth it. However, what they didn't expect was that there was actually a large group of fighters in front of them.

The appearance of F4U finally made the Japanese determined to retreat, otherwise, if they continue to fight, they are afraid that the exchange ratio will become more and more ugly, and the remaining pilots in Japan will be hunted down.

But it is not easy to retreat now, the American fighters have the upper hand in numbers, and they have always had an advantage in speed, as soon as the Japanese retreated, the American planes chased after them, and those who could safely withdraw in such a situation probably do not know how many grandmothers who fell to the ground in previous lives in order to save such a character.

But fortunately, the combat area is very close to the land, and you only need to trot for a while to get over the land, and then you can parachute to protect the pilot.

After the collapse of the Japanese fighter group, the bomber group finally appeared. The bombers ravaged Tokyo again, and then Shi Shiran left, leaving only a sea of fire.

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The same day after Tokyo was burning again, Osaka once again flew leaflets from the Americans to bomb them. This time, no amount of police force could control the situation, and on this night, countless Osaka people, including some public servants and their families, ran out of the city, and by the next morning, the entire city of Osaka was almost empty. All sorts of factories and workshops had to shut down due to a lack of workers. In fact, it was impossible for American bombers to wipe out the whole of Osaka in another bombing, but now the whole of Osaka has come to a halt. Soon production in Japan will come to a halt like this.

The Japanese might have thought of moving factories to the countryside, to the mountains, or even to caves in the ground. However, such an evacuation will inevitably greatly reduce the efficiency of production and greatly increase costs. Japan's war was no longer sustainable. Of course, not every Japanese thinks so.

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Tokyo, Fujita Arms Research Institute.

"Yanagi-kun, this is the latest anti-tank bayonet we have developed for the tanks we have developed to fight the Americans." A lean, lean man in a researcher's uniform presents their findings to Skua who has been transferred to the institute due to injury.

The so-called anti-tank bayonet was actually a hollow charge warhead tied to the top of a large bamboo pole, and then three trigger fuses were installed in front of this warhead.

"When fighting, the soldier holds this weapon in his hand, squats in the trench, and when the enemy's tank passes, he suddenly rushes out and stabs the enemy's tank with this, and the power of the explosion is enough to destroy the enemy's tank!" The researcher continued. As for what would happen to the warrior who attacked, the researcher didn't say, and the skuas didn't ask—wasn't that obvious, it must have been blown into several pieces, and besides, the skuas weren't concerned about that.

"Then why make this warhead so big? I remember that the warheads of anti-tank bazookas of the Americans and Germans did not have such a large diameter. Isn't that a waste of supplies? ”。 After being transferred to the Fujita Weapons Research Institute, the Thief Gull also carefully studied a little weapon knowledge, and when he saw the warhead with a caliber of more than 203 mm on this anti-tank bayonet, he couldn't help but wonder a little.

"There's no way, do it according to their method, you have to use red copper as a medicine cover, where can we find so much red copper? And they use TNT explosives in it, which can only be produced in factories, and how many factories can still be opened? There will only be fewer to start work in the future. So we can only replace TNT with black powder and red copper with iron, so that if we don't make it so big, we won't be able to penetrate the tank at all. Even if it is so large, it can only penetrate American tanks from the side. If it weren't for the carrying capacity of the bamboo pole and the arm strength of the soldiers, we would have wanted to enlarge it a little more. That's how it can be insured......