As soon as Valia said this, the faces of the people around him darkened, and Boyynton said that he couldn't stand anything. You know, it's not easy to get a rookie in 20 seconds, and now a woman actually says that she can get Boynton in 20 seconds, which is nothing more than despising Boynton as a rookie, and even a very rookie. Such contempt was absolutely unbearable for Boyington, who had always been quite proud of his flying skills and quite machismo.

"Hmph," Boynton was tempted to scold, but years of machismo had made him very reluctant to quarrel with a woman. In Boyynton's view, as a man, to quarrel with a woman, no matter why the quarrel, no matter how the quarrel is won or lost, is a shameful thing! Therefore, although Boynton was so angry that his eyes were on fire, in the end, he only squeezed out this sentence:

"I'll try it in two days."

However, Valia didn't seem willing to stop there. She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to add two more words.

"Valya, you're going too far!" Cotin spoke, his face almost uglier than that of Boynton.

Valia turned her head and glanced at Kotin, then raised her chin haughtily and whispered from her straight nose, "Humph! ”

"Valya!" Another voice rang out softly, this time it was Kovzan who spoke.

Seeing that it was Kovzan who saw - one - read - little - said - it was Kovzan, and then Valia lowered her head and said no more.

Seeing that Valia was no longer silent, Kotin hurriedly said to Ron, "General Cohen, I apologize to you for Valia's words. ”

Now that the Soviets have apologized, Ron doesn't plan to dig deeper. After all, it is not necessarily a pleasant thing to pursue a lady, especially a rather beautiful one. Besides, Ron also felt that it was not incomprehensible to Valia's eccentric character.

Maybe it's a woman living in this patriarchal society who has to be extra tough if she wants to get ahead, especially in the field of traditional male dominance. Not to mention politicians such as Wu Zetian in ancient China, and later the Iron Lady Thatcher in Britain who won the national celebration after his death, as far as Go players are concerned, they have always been only positional male chess players, and there are no situational female chess players. As long as it is a female chess player, it is also nine out of ten, and the style of chess is murderous. And as a female fighter pilot, if you don't have this extremely aggressive character, you can't think of such an achievement.

As soon as the two sides met, something like this happened, and the atmosphere behind it was naturally not very harmonious. After taking the Soviets around in a fancy way, someone in charge of reception took these old hairy people to rest.

……

The sun had already sunk below the western horizon, and sparse stars had begun to appear in the sky. The lights were also lit up in the war room of the "reverse cross".

"According to the arrangement, our first joint training with the Soviets will start in four days, and the first project is a mixed formation, which is not a big problem, and there should be no chaos. Of course, that woman may be a nuisance. However, if she makes a provocative gesture in the air, everyone just ignores her. Speaking of which, today's conflict is really funny -- a foreigner clashed with an American in order to protect the reputation of American fighter jets. That's a ......."

"Hahahaha." Thinking about this, everyone in the audience laughed out loud.

"If you want me to say, I really want to ...... like that"

"If this conflict were to be written in the newspapers, it is estimated that nine out of ten readers would think of Daddy as Russian!"

"Alright, no jokes. Now let's talk about the main issues, and in three weeks' time, we're going to have a confrontation drill with the Russians. We have to be prepared first, so that we don't really get it done in 20 seconds. Seeing that everyone's discussion was completely off, Ron, who was the first to deviate from the topic, had to stand up and try to pull the topic back. At the same time, while complaining psychologically:

"If you don't go out of the fifth floor to discuss problems, you will definitely have a crooked building, this is the case with the Northern Dynasties, this is the case with the Longkong, and even the same is true for the US Army Airlines.

"Boss, that is absolutely bragging. There's something to worry about. ”

"That's it, those downed records of that are made up by the Soviets, and the Soviets will lie!"

"If you're Soviet," Ron asked, "would you send someone who is a complete braggadocio knowing that there will be a confrontational drill ahead?" Isn't that making a fool of yourself? I don't know if that woman's record is 100% unadulterated, but I think that none of the people who can come here are easy to deal with. Therefore, we must first correct our mentality, otherwise we don't know how to die! ”

"I agree with Ron." "Although, I hate that now, but I don't believe it to say that is completely blown out." ”

"Okay, then we must find out the details of them before the confrontation drill. I don't think we're ......."

"That's great, we can also rehearse ...... first"

……

A few days later, the "Reverse Cross" flight team on the airfield.

"The item of today's joint exercise is aerial shooting."

Before takeoff, Ron began to explain the mission to the American and Soviet pilots.

"Here's how the design is today. After the combined fighter formation will enter the exercise area from an altitude of 5,000 meters, the transport planes will release the latest remotely controlled air target at an altitude of 4,000 meters. These remotely controlled aerial targets are equipped with booster rockets and can fly at speeds of up to 600 kilometres in a short time. Although these targets do not return fire, they are much smaller than real warplanes, and with limited flight time, it is not easy to find and eliminate them in such a short period of time......

After explaining the mission, the pilots began to board the plane. Ron and the others flew the F4U, while the Soviets flew the P-39 and F6F, which were more familiar to them.

With the roar of the engines, 12 fighters took off in turn and flew to the predetermined airspace.

From the very beginning, the US-Soviet joint exercise had a special feature, that is, the two sides were in mixed formations, that is, in the most basic two-plane crew, the long plane was the American pilot, and the wingman was the Soviet pilot, and vice versa.

The advantage of this is that both sides can get acquainted with each other in the previous flight practice and understand the opponent's tactical thinking and flying habits. This will help build mutual trust between the pilots of the two countries and help the two countries jointly fight the great cause of fascism. But in fact, both the Americans and the Soviets understood that there was a small purpose for this arrangement, that is, to prepare for the confrontation drills that followed.

In the previous joint exercises, both sides have a certain understanding of each other. First, both sides let go of their contempt for the other, and the Americans found that their Soviet teammates were bold, precise in their movements, sharp in their attacks, and daring to take risks. And the Soviets also found the Yankees to be delicate in technology and indecent in style, which was extremely difficult to deal with.

But on the other hand, after finding that the other party was not easy to deal with, the fighting spirit of both sides was aroused. The aces of the "Reverse Cross" met almost every day to study how to deal with the Soviets, and the Soviets' conference room was lit every night.

In this exercise, Valia served as the lead plane and McGaia served as her wingman.

"Target spotted at two o'clock! Two! This time, it was McGaia, who was the wingman, who was the first to spot the target.

Valia looked ahead to the right, and after about a second, she spotted her target as well. Now the two targets were flying from her lower right to her lower left.

"This Yankee has such a good look!" Valya couldn't help but think, "It would be nice to be able to find the target so long before me, if he were a Soviet soldier." It will be difficult for the fascists to sneak up on us. ”

"Follow me and attack!" Valia rolled 180 degrees, then pulled the lever and rushed towards the two targets.

Valia did not choose the most commonly used way of cutting into the enemy plane at 6 o'clock, just now McGay preemptively found a variety of targets made Valya feel a kind of pressure, so Valia planned to use a difficult attack to deter this guy with super good eyes. So, she chose to attack from the 9 o'clock direction of the target aircraft.

At this angle, the movement of both sides makes the shooting window very small and the difficulty of shooting will be very large. In addition, Valia was piloting a P-39 fighter, and its 37 gun was amazingly powerful, but the rate of fire was slow and the trajectory was curved. In the eyes of most pilots, the use of this cannon to attack small targets of the fighter type is like shooting a fly with a rifle. And the .50 machine gun on its wing is limited, and in such a short firing window, it is difficult to shoot down the target aircraft at once.

"What does this woman want to do?" McGay was surprised, but as a wingman, he followed suit.

More than 400 meters away from the target, Valia fired the first shot, and the strong recoil of the 37mm gun made her fighter shake violently. Then, a target plane that was passing in front of her nose was directly shattered.

"Oh my God, so far away, such a way of shooting, how did she get this shot! It's like hitting a three-pointer from your baseline in a basketball game at the last second! McGaia was stunned by the cannon.

However, Valya's attack did not end, she immediately took a sharp turn with a large overload, bit the back of the second target aircraft, and then fired a second shell, which once again tore the remaining target aircraft about 100 meters away from her to pieces!

"This ...... Is that okay too? When will humans be able to hit 100% with the P-39's 37 guns! It's no wonder that "this efficient, clean-cut offense almost ruined McGuya's three views," ...... Poor Boynton, and even more poor Germans. ”

McGaia had flown together several times with Valya, and he had always found the female pilot's flying habits weird. , because this woman always likes to make some difficult big overload maneuvers in flight, which in McGaa's opinion, although they seem to help her get a shooting opportunity that is barely a chance, but it costs her too fast to lose energy, and it is completely worth the loss. But now, after seeing Valya's two cannons, McGaia realizes that her strange flying habits suddenly make sense - if your plane has such a terrible cannon, and you yourself can be guaranteed a one-hit kill, then losing some energy to fight for a chance to fire is definitely the right choice.