In fact, there is another advantage for taking the third option, directly assaulting the attack aircraft group at the bottom, that is, the A-20 attack aircraft fly at a much higher altitude than the Il-2 commonly used by the Soviets. The Il-2 often flew at an altitude of only about 50 meters, and it was easy to hit his head on the ground when diving to attack them. However, although the Americans' A-20 is called an attack aircraft, it is actually more like a light bomber, flying at an altitude of 1,000 meters, which gives the Americans plenty of room to dive.

Now Ron's fleet flies at an altitude of more than two hundred meters higher than the Soviet fighters at the top. Originally, there was an opportunity to peel the onion layer by layer. But this will give the A-20 the opportunity to attack the ground. Moreover, Ron is now armed with a P-51 fighter jet, which is unmatched in its ability to handle at high speeds.

"Execute Plan A!" Ron gave the order, and with a 180-degree roll and a lever, his P-51 immediately whizzed down.

Behind him, the remaining 15 P-51s also swooped down.

Before going into battle, Ron and the others made two plans to directly attack the underlying targets, which were Plan A and Plan B. The so-called Plan A is actually a wave. The so-called Plan B, also known as the Fishing Plan, in which the 16 P-51s were to be divided into two groups, the first group to attack first, and when they began to climb after the attack and caused a decrease in speed, the Soviets would definitely borrow this [a] [book] [read. The novel YBDU will rush at them, and at this time, the remaining eight P-51s who are still high will swoop down and have a yellow finch behind.

If the attack aircraft at the bottom was the super-thick-skinned IL-2, Ron would definitely choose this plan, because this plan is more stable. But now, the A-20 is below, and it is flying at an altitude of 1000 meters, plus the Soviets have also adopted the tactics of double-height escort, if Plan B is implemented, the F6F that the Soviets put on the highest level will become a slingshot behind the yellow finch.

However, if they chose to carry out Plan A, there would be a problem with the Soviets' design: that is, if the Soviet fighters at the top level wanted to wait for the American fighters to climb down, they would have to let the 16 American fighters attack the A-20 underneath for the first round. Considering that they are all rookies in driving the A-20, and those who attack them are all trump cards. Such an attack could cost the A-20 heavy losses. But if these F6Fs follow the Yankees' P-51s, they will face the problem of being far inferior to their opponents at high speeds. So, at this time, the best solution is a wave of plan A that seems a little unplanned.

With the help of gravity, the speed of the aircraft is constantly rising, even without the traction of the propellers. In order to control the speed, Ron had already received the throttle valve to a minimum, but the speed of the plane still reached about 750 kilometers quickly.

At this speed, the plane began to shake, and at the same time, Ron saw that the Soviets had also pounced.

Ron was rushing in from the direction of 20 o'clock in the A-3 formation, when the sun was behind him. The tail machine gunners of the A-20 were firing frantically, but they were disturbed by sunlight and it was almost impossible for them to shoot effectively.

Ron pressed the shooting halo a little in front of an A-20 and opened fire. Due to the shaking of the aircraft, the dispersion of shells at this time is bound to be much larger than usual. If you want to shoot down the enemy, you need more shells. So Ron changed his habit of only firing at the target, and fired about a third of the shells at the target in one go. This should ensure that it was shot down.

By this time, Ron's fighter had already rushed into the A-20 group, and he made a barrel roll to avoid the fire of several self-defense machine guns that were firing at them, and also completed a turn, and caused his fighter plane to pass through the A-20 group and continue to rush downward.

After getting out of the range of the A-20's firepower, Ron began to pull the plane up with all his might. The huge overload pressed him tightly against his seat, and Ron felt as if an elephant was sitting on top of his belly. At the same time, the tip of his nose began to tingle, and at the same time the scene in front of him began to darken, at first it was just like the sun was suddenly blocked by a dark cloud, but immediately, the darkness turned into darkness, and all around it was dark, only the front was still slightly bright, and a little thing could be faintly seen. At the same time, his mind seemed to become sluggish, as if it were frozen.

Anyone who knows how to fly knows that this state is called black vision, and it is caused by the fact that most of the pilot's blood is pressed to his legs under a large overload, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain. As long as the overload is reduced, it can be restored very quickly.

Just like now, the black fog in front of Ron's eyes was rapidly dissipating. Just as Ron had anticipated before starting this big overload maneuver, the unprotected belly of the A-20 group appeared above him and was getting closer and closer to him.

Just as Ron was about to fire again, a warning from the wingman suddenly sounded in his ears: "01, 3 o'clock!" ”

Ron didn't have time to fire at the A-20 again, or even look at 3 o'clock, so he immediately made a barrel roll. Then, he saw a P-39 pass in front of him at a very high speed.

The pilot sitting in the cockpit of this P-39 was none other than Valia. Just now she spotted an enemy fighter preparing to attack the A-20 formation. She lunged down from the diagonal side, intending to give the guy a hard blow. It was only because of the high speed brought by the dive all the way down that her plane shook violently. This makes her best precision shooting extremely difficult. She had to get close enough to be sure of destroying her opponent with a single shot.

It's just that the opponent is too cunning, and just as Valya was about to open fire, the guy suddenly made a barrel roll. As a result, Valya's attack failed, and because of the proximity, she had no chance to attack again, so she could only pass by.

But Walya's attack was not pointless either. Because of her attack, Ron also had to give up the opportunity to continue attacking those A-20s.

By this time, the American P-51s had basically completed an attack on the A-20, and then they were all entangled with the P-39s and F6Fs that were swooping down behind them.

At this time, the situation began to turn against the Americans, and in the process of completing the first round of attacks just now, and then quickly pulling up for the second round of attacks, the American P-51 lost a lot of energy, and at this time the Soviets who swooped down had already occupied the energy advantage.

These Soviets were veterans, and with their energy advantage, the battle below became difficult. The Soviets skillfully used the skills of high and low Youyou, and attacked the Yankees over and over again. Of course, the Yankees will not rest on their laurels, they also have a not low speed now, and with their unparalleled override at high speeds, the Yankees are not without a chance to fight back. However, at this time, the first goal in the minds of the Yankees was not the Soviet fighters, their first goal was still those A-20s, and the first goal of the Soviets was not to shoot down the Yankees, but to keep those A-20s.

So a strange situation arose: sometimes, the Soviets made mistakes, and they, in a hurry, gave the Americans the opportunity to strike back. However, instead of immediately taking advantage of this opportunity to counterattack, the Americans seized the time to attack the A-20s that had not yet dropped their counterweights. There were times when the Soviets would have had a great opportunity, but in order to prevent American planes from firing at the A-20, they had to attack in advance. As a result, the Yankees narrowly escaped death.

Due to the chaos of the scene, when the battle was over, both sides did not know what the outcome of the battle would be, and the specific result could not be determined until all the photos of the camera guns had been washed out and then carefully studied.

The staff was busy until a week later, when the results were finally revealed. In this round of confrontation, the Americans managed to shoot down all 12 A-20 attack aircraft, of which 9 A-20s were shot down in the first round alone. In addition, the Americans shot down three Soviet fighters in subsequent air battles with the Soviets. As for the Soviets, they shot down 11 of the 18 American fighters, of which Valia alone shot down 4 and almost became a one-day ace.

But such a result did not mean much for Valia, because according to the rules of the game, the Americans won an undisputed victory.

However, the Soviets did not bask in the sorrow of defeat, at least, Kotin did not. In his opinion, Valia made another empirical mistake this time, copying the domestic experience, and the defeat in the confrontation was not necessarily a bad thing for him. Although this achievement may make his superiors a little dissatisfied, during this time, through the communication with American personnel, he systematically sorted out a set of process architecture for building a simulated enemy army. With this alone, it is impossible for the superiors not to appreciate him. What's more, in the past few days, he has finalized one more thing with the Yankees, that is, Soviet pilots can participate in high-altitude interception and anti-interception training.

High-altitude large-scale operations have always been a weakness of the Soviet Air Force, (who called that both the Soviet and German sides did not have good high-altitude bombers?). To be able to participate in this training and learn the details of U.S. strategic bombing, Kotin believes that this will be of great significance for the future air defense of the Soviet Union.

In Ron's opinion, the tactics of box-shaped formations and fighters following the escort are actually not good tactics, and he already has much better tactics than this. So to show the Soviets a little bit what is about to become obsolete, in fact, it is nothing. After all, everyone is an ally, isn't it? Besides, it is not necessarily a bad thing to show the Soviets a powerful strategic air force and deter their opponents.

And Ron didn't really plan to stay in the U.S. Army Air Force or the future Air Force for long. What if it's time to resist US aggression and aid Korea? You can't bring the U.S. Air Force to fight the Volunteer Army, right? Perhaps, like General Doolittle, it seems not bad to retire as soon as the war is over, and then run wherever you want to make a fortune.