On the night of the end of the Great Air Battle, Li Mei's bomber group went to Osaka again, burning the most prosperous area of Osaka City to the ground. Then, early the next morning, the US fighter jets appeared again on the air defense radar screen of Rì himself.

This time, the Americans behaved quite innocently, and did not play any tricks to make the fighters imitate the bombers in dense formation, and now the state of those fighters can be clearly read on the radar screen: the flight altitude is 7,000 meters, the speed is 500 kilometers per hour, and the number is about 300.

For these fighters, Rì himself really can't afford to take off and intercept. The American fighter is good, fast, and obviously has the right to choose whether to engage or not, if the battle situation is favorable, it is not easy for Rì himself to run, and if the war situation is unfavorable, the Americans will run away, and Rì himself will not be able to catch up. So if you win, it will be a small victory at most, and once you lose, it will definitely be a big defeat. Although Rì himself is a bit of a war fanatic, they are not willing to do such an obviously unworthy thing. Anyway, it's just a bunch of fighters, so what if they go around in the sky? Are they still planning to swoop down and sweep the shè streets with their cannons?

So, as a matter of course, Rì himself did not send a group of interceptors, but just took off some fighters to cruise at low altitudes out of insurance.

However, the information sent back by the radar immediately made Rì himself hesitate again. That is, the bomber swarm of the US military appeared.

"Enemy bombers were discovered, more than three hundred, at a speed of four hundred and thirty kilometers per hour, and at an altitude of seven thousand meters."

Seven thousand meters is the classic altitude of the American bomber group when attacking Germany, and it is just enough to allow few planes to climb to this altitude in such a short time, except for a few Thunderbolt-21 and a squirrel with a terrible rate. If you don't take into account the strategy that Rì himself will use an air ramming, even if there are no escort fighters, the firepower of the B-29 group itself is enough to deal with this little interceptor.

Since the bombers are coming, then of course the interceptor unit will have to take to the air to fight, otherwise, what else will the interceptor do? As a result, under the escort of some Zero and Type 1 fighters that had already taken to the air, some Rì fighters with a relatively high climb, such as the Thunderbolt 21, Zhong Kui fighters, and some Ki-84 Hurricane fighters, began to take off urgently.

However, at this time, it is not so easy for these planes to get up. Just now, those American fighters had already divided into many groups and stayed near the military airfield. When the fighters who were struggling to climb began to overtake the Zero and Type 1 fighters that had taken off in advance, the American fighters, who had the advantage of altitude, began to dive down towards them.

Shawshank is a semi-rookie who has only flown less than 600 hours, so he is still honestly acting as a wingman. His long plane was an old bird named Marbury, with 2,000 flight hours and at least 70 combat missions. At this time, the order of the long machine came from his ears: "Follow me, prepare to replenish the gun!" ”

In the direction of Marbury's dive there were several Thunderbolt-21 fighters. This fighter, which bears the same nickname as the P-47, is an outlier among the fighters of the Rìmoto Navy. This aircraft is well armored, climbs and dives quickly, but hovering is very average. Once this kind of aircraft has an altitude advantage, it is still very scary. But when this guy is in a lower position, it's not in a good place. Under the enemy's dive attack, things like Zero Battle can also dodge the enemy's attack by turning in a hurry, but the J2M3 thunderbolt that hovers xìng is not good, and it is more difficult to dodge the dive attack of others.

Shawshank followed closely behind the long plane, and its P-51 fighter became faster and faster as it dived. In the blink of an eye, the speed has exceeded 740 kilometers. At this time, Shawshank saw that the long plane began to fire, and Shawshank could see the fire flashing on the wing of the long plane 200 meters ahead, and a series of bullet casings were thrown out of the wing, and the shout of the long plane was also heard in his ears: "Roll to the right!" ”

Shawshank immediately made a roll to the right, and at this time he saw an enemy plane rushing out from under the gun of the long plane with smoke and flying towards his right, and he just did a roll to the right, and he only needed to pull the nose of the aircraft to cut into the opponent's six o'clock direction. Shawshank didn't think much about it, pulled up the nose of the plane hard, and suddenly cut into the J2M3 at six o'clock, only about 300 meters away from the enemy plane, and the two sides were still approaching at high speed. Shawshank didn't care about careful aiming, so he fired a long shè with four guns in unison, and then pulled up the fighter. Relying on the high speed brought by the dive, it quickly climbed to a safe height. Then his headphones came a long compliment: "Well done!" Shawshank looked down and saw a warplane crashing towards the ground surrounded by smoke and flames.

Not every group of American planes that launched the attack was successful, and in fact, the pilots who had the opportunity to fly fighters such as the Thunderbolt 21 and the Hurricane were the few remaining "more experienced" pilots. Therefore, it is indeed unrealistic to expect to get a lot of results with just one round of attacks. But these attacks are not without effect. Not to mention other effects, at least, such an attack prevented the climb of the rìben interceptor.

It will be interesting to compare the similarities and differences between Rì's own situation and that of the Germans when facing a group of American bombers. Compared to the Germans, most of Rì's fighters have a decent range, so you can't expect the Rì fighter to have the same problems as the Germans and the escort fighters run out of fuel and need to land. Of course, we can't expect to say that when they are landing, they will wash the airfield with bombers that "just in time" will wash the floor. However, due to the limitations of the island's topography, the amount of pre-jǐng time that Rì himself could obtain was much smaller than that of Germany. Therefore, when the rì himself was intercepted by the air defense, he faced a huge problem that there was too little time left for the fighters to climb, and most of the rì fighters simply did not have the opportunity to climb to a high enough height to intercept the bombers before they finished dropping bombs. This problem almost negates the advantage of the longer range of the rìben fighters, because those fighters with a long range mostly climb, especially the high-altitude climb, are terrible.

In the face of Allied bomber groups, the Germans can use escort aircraft groups + assault aircraft groups to fight. Lighter, more dexterous, climb and high-altitude fighters of the BF-109 series served as escort aircraft, escorting assault aircraft such as the FW-190A8 on assault missions against bombers. They were responsible for entanglement of U.S. escort fighters, covering the climb of aircraft such as the FW-190A8 or BF-110, and launching attacks on Allied bomber groups.

But Rì himself was not able to adopt such tactics. Because most of the maneuverable and nimble fighters in Rì's own hands were terrible at high altitudes, and they didn't have enough time to slowly climb to a suitable height. So these planes cannot provide protection to those fighters who climb well. When carrying out interception missions, they could only rely on those fighters who had climbed to fight the US escort fighters alone. In this way, in fact, the vast majority of fighters in this kind of battle have become soy sauce fighters.

And those so-called good fighters, such as J2M3, have a total of less than 500 planes, and they have to be stationed in various places, and when it is the turn of an area, the number of sorties that can be dispatched is very limited. Another example is the Ki-84 Hurricane fighter, although there are more than 3,400 of them, but they are scattered throughout the Pacific-China theater, and the Ki-84 has a good rate of less than a quarter, and the total number of Ki-84s that can be lifted into the air for combat at any one time has never been less than 900. Then it was divided into various regions, and the result was that in a certain interception, the number that could be used was even more pitiful.

In this way, in fact, Rì himself was in a much more difficult situation than the Germans when facing the Allied bomber group. For example, at present, the number of fighters that can climb to a sufficient height on time is much smaller than that of the US escort fighters. They immediately fell under siege by US fighters, and were forced to constantly dodge left and right, constantly consuming energy to avoid enemy aircraft attacks. In such a situation, it is not easy to maintain the current altitude, let alone continue to climb.

All in all, even Rì's own interceptors were suppressed at an altitude below 6000 meters, and could not pose any decent threat to the bomber group at all. They could only watch as the bombers dragged their long silver-white tracks, like a great river, flowing unstoppably over their heads.

This time, the target of the bomber group was still Tokyo, and the bombing method was almost the same as the night attack, except that the bomb was dropped a little higher, and the time changed from night to bold daytime.

Although it was daytime, and although Rì himself had some preparations, in fact, in the face of a fire of this scale, any firefighting force would be useless. Soon, the sky-high fire burned again......

After completing the incendiary bombardment of this area, the bomber group began to return. But part of it, about a dozen or so B-29 bombers, actually flew over the area that had not yet been engulfed in flames, dropping another batch of bombs. When these bombs fell to a height of six or seven hundred meters above the ground, they suddenly exploded, and then a large number of leaflets were scattered all over the sky. The content of these leaflets is very simple: in two days, we will attack Tokyo again with incendiary bombs from ten to eleven o'clock in the morning, hereby announced.