What are the Americans sending so many fighters for? This was a question that puzzled the Luftwaffe excess. However, since the Americans dared to come to the door, then the Luftwaffe must not be polite. Just after the radar spotted the target, a poignant siren sounded at almost every German airfield. Fighter units began to make emergency sorties.

The BF-109 pilot, Captain Muller, had just gotten up at this time, and his beard was only half-shaved, when he heard an urgent dispatch notice. So he scraped two random handfuls with a razor, then touched his face with a towel, grabbed his helmet and flight jacket, and ran towards the tarmac.

Along the way, Mueller saw a large crowd of people running towards the tarmac. Many people are like him, running and getting dressed at the same time.

When Mueller approached his BF-109G5 fighter, several mechanics were already refueling the plane. A ground crew handed him a piece of compressed dry food to drink a glass of water. While the plane was still preparing, Mueller hurriedly ate it.

"Report sir, you're ready, you're ready to board." A ground crew said to Mueller.

Mueller hurriedly swallowed the last bite of food, then took a sip of water and climbed into the plane.

At this time, the ground crew added another sentence as usual: "The chief must destroy more Yankees!" ”

Muller knew this ground crew, he also learned to fly back then, and it is said that his greatest wish was to fly + one + book ~ read + novel + ybdu with a blue-painted Stuka to bomb the Russians. to avenge his grandfather. According to him, his grandfather, when he was just five years old, was blown up by the Americans. That's why he and the branch (river crab) don't share the sky!

This nonsense became a well-known joke in the flight school at that time, so much so that everyone gave him the nickname "Ye Wu Die" at that time. However, although the head of the "five dead" often cramps, he still learned to fly well. Unfortunately, later, due to an accident, one of his legs was broken. (Rumor has it that one night, Ye Wusheng drank a little too much, and as a result, the wine was so strong that he actually tried to push his sister.) As a result, his father broke a leg with a stick. Later, although his legs grew, he could no longer fly an airplane. He was even driven out by the army. Later, because of the general mobilization, he returned to the army and became a ground attendant.

At this time, the tower had already given the order to take off, and Mueller started the plane and taxied towards the runway.

Before Müller took off, quite a few planes were already flying. They all pumped up their horsepower and climbed hard. Muller also aimed the nose at the end of the runway, released the brakes, and accelerated to slide.

After Müller flew up, he received a radio report of the enemy situation: there were more than 1,000 enemy fighters in the sky, and the Luftwaffe sent nearly 2,000 BF-109s and FW-190s to intercept them in one go.

The fact that there was no mention of enemy bombers in the enemy briefing surprised Muller. However, this situation also made him a little more relaxed. To be honest, Muller felt that the enemy's bombers in dense formations, full of self-defense machine guns, were much more dangerous than fighters. Fighting with fighters mainly depends on technology, as long as technology can take advantage, you can control risks; But fighting bombers, mainly depends on luck, bad luck, no matter how good the technology is, it is a dead end. Muller has shot down more than a dozen enemy planes, and although it is nothing compared to those who have shot down hundreds of people, he still feels that fighting for skill is always better than fighting for character.

Mueller pushed the throttle to the end, and he had to get the plane up to the air as quickly as possible. His squad also followed him and climbed rapidly. The US planes are approaching, and if their fighters are still at a low altitude when the two sides make contact, they will be extremely passive after the fight starts.

The fighters of the BF-109 family are all good climbers, and at low and medium altitudes, their climb speed is surprisingly high. However, when climbing to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, the engine output has begun to weaken significantly, and the climbing speed has also decreased. The enemy briefing told Muller that the enemy aircraft was at an altitude of 7,500 meters, and they needed to climb higher.

It took another while, and Muller's fleet finally climbed to the predetermined altitude of 8,000 meters. Müller looked around, surrounded by all sorts of German fighter jets: BF-109s, FXSTXTE-262s.

Mueller had made a request to fly the ME-262 in the past, but received no response.

"It's a good plane, 850 speeds, even faster than the Bf-109's dive speed. It would be ...... to be able to fly such a plane."

Just when Muller was envious, a ME-262 not far away suddenly smoked, and then an orange-red flame came out of the engine pod on the left side.

The ME-262 immediately turned into a dive, trying to use the wind from the dive to blow out the flames. (This is a common trick used after an airplane fire, but it doesn't necessarily work.) ）

However, the flames grew bigger and bigger, and finally, the engine exploded, and the whole plane disintegrated, and there were no umbrella flowers in the sky, apparently, the pilot did not have time to parachute.

It was full of its own people, there was absolutely no sneak attack by enemy planes, and the plane only climbed at an honest shallow angle and did not make any other big moves. But suddenly he fell headlong and killed a top pilot (the one who flew the ME-262 was the ace). Mueller also heard from a comrade who had been transferred to fly the ME-262 about the shortcomings of the jet. That buddy said that the reliability of the ME-262, especially the reliability of the engine, is extremely cheating, and often goes wrong for no reason. At the time, he thought that his buddy might be exaggerating a little. But now it seems, this thing is really ......

In fact, all high-tech technologies will have reliability problems when they are just put into operation. Epoch-making high technology often comes with epoch-making low reliability.

The loss of this ME-262 cast a shadow over Mueller's heart. This kind of thing happens before the official war is not a good sign.

"Heading 024, keep altitude." Guidance from the ground command center continued in the headset. Muller adjusted his course while carefully maintaining his altitude. At this altitude, the engine of the BF-109 was already struggling.

Fighting at high altitudes, it is relatively easy to detect enemy aircraft. Because the track is too obvious. After a few minutes of keeping course, a group of fighters appeared in Mueller's field of vision.

These enemy planes are now about 100 meters lower than Müller's BF-500, but Müller knows that the high-altitude performance of those planes of the Americans is far superior to his own. If you can't rely on the current altitude advantage to shoot down the enemy plane in a short time, after a long time, the enemy can use the engine advantage to turn the tide of the battle.

In the case of a small team fight, with his back to the sun, Muller has a considerable degree of certainty to take down the enemy with a classic sneak attack. But under the premise of a large group of aircraft, it is unlikely that there will be such an opportunity. Because of the huge track pulled out by the large fleet, as long as it is not blind, who else will not see it?

However, even if there is no chance of a sneak attack, the air battle will still be fought.

"Attack!" The captain's instructions came from the headset.

"Follow me, attack!" Mueller gave the order and took three of his fighters to dive towards the enemy aircraft. At the same time, other squads also quickly rushed towards the enemy.

The enemy planes had already spotted Muller and them, and now they were still far away, and the enemy planes did not rush straight at them as they had done when they had escorted bombers before, but quickly completed a turn, as if intending to escape.

Muller knew that the enemy's fighter was faster than his own, and although he now had the gravitational acceleration bonus brought by the height advantage, the distance between the two sides was still far away, and he might not be able to catch up.

"What are these guys doing? Running from afar, and not fighting when you meet us? ”

Sure enough, as Muller had predicted, the distance between the two sides could not be reduced after successfully closing the distance to about two kilometres.

Fortunately, there is still such an artifact as the ME-262 in the German camp, although one was inexplicably dropped just now, but now, in this group of more than 90 aircraft composed of various fighters, there are still 3 of these things. That group on the side of the Americans probably had more than sixty fighters, and the Germans had a numerical advantage. If you can use these fast ME-262s to catch up and interfere with them, maybe the main fleet will be able to catch up with them.

Sure enough, the three ME-262s began to overtake the other fighters and began to quickly approach the Americans.

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"German fighters have the weakness of insufficient range, don't look at us as we have to fly half of Europe, they take off on the spot. Even so, they can spend much less time in heaven than we do. So, after encountering them, don't rush into battle. Drag them in the air for two laps with a big throttle. Their engines do not have good performance at high altitudes, and when they drive high horsepower at high altitudes, the fuel consumption is even worse, as if a big hole has been opened in the fuel tank. It won't be long before they run out of fuel. Then we go back and slowly bully these Germans who are in a hurry to go home and drink milk! ”

This was one of the tactical contents that Brigadier General Ron, who was directly in charge of the fighter air combat in this operation, explained to the pilots participating in the operation before this operation.

Ron was definitely a celebrity among the pilots, and many of the pilots who carried out the project had been trained at the Reverse Cross. Therefore, the stories of the ace instructors in "Reverse Cross" often become the talk of this guy when they brag. When it comes to Ron, most students will have this to say:

"Well, Lord Ron, he may not be the most skilled, nor the bravest, but he is certainly the most obscene...... I'm not talking about his looks, I'm talking about the way he fights in the air. Sometimes he can make you sick several times before he knocks you down, and once ......"

But the guys who haven't been trained by him are always a little skeptical about it. However, as soon as Ron laid out his tactics, everyone's doubts immediately disappeared, and everyone immediately reached a consensus: Ron is definitely the most obscene pilot since he had a fighter!

"But if the Germans have that kind of jet, then be especially careful. They can easily catch up with you. However, the plane's hovering and rolling are super bad, be careful, it's not difficult to dodge their attacks. If you're going to fall behind because of the interference, dive first, gather enough speed, and then catch up. Anyway, there are not many Germans in this thing. You're going to encounter it, and you can come back and buy lottery tickets. ”

Now, these Rodriguez and the American fighters of his brigade are meticulously executing this tactic. Rodriguez believes that now, the Germans may not have much fuel left in their tanks.