Chapter 137, Joint Enforcement Operations (2)

Six 20 guns weaved a net of fire, and a BA349 crashed headlong into this large net and was immediately torn to pieces by artillery fire. But not every pilot's shot was as accurate as Ron's, and in this round of interceptions, some BA349s were shot down, but many more managed to pass through the net of fire and continue to pounce on the bombers below.

Ron rolled across, then pulled the lever hard into the dive, continuing to bite down on the back of the ba349s. However, it is clear that his speed is not as fast as the BA349 that dives down from a high altitude, so the distance between the two sides is increasing significantly. Fortunately, when firing from top to bottom, the range of the 20 guns increased significantly. So Ron still had time to shoot a point shot at the enemy from a distance.

It's just a pity that the P-81 is not like the P-38, its cannon is mounted on the wing, not on the nose. This made it significantly inferior to the P-38 in terms of accuracy when firing at long-range targets. This long burst shot was like that, the tracer bullet whizzed past the target, but it didn't really hit a single shot.

However, this kind of shooting is not useless, rookies will always subconsciously do some big overload actions when they are shot, and this kind of action will reduce the speed of his plane. In this way, the distance between Ron and him, which had been growing wider, began to stabilize, and even began to get closer.

However, at this time, the BA349 is already very close to the bomber group, and the novel XSTXT is about to enter the best attack distance. To interfere with the Germans' shooting, Ron fired another short shot.

Perhaps because the distance was a little closer, one or two of the shells fired from this short point hit the enemy plane. However, shells hit from the direction of 6 o'clock are always the least powerful. BA349 has run out of fuel again, and the engine in the rear half of the fuselage plays the role of bulletproof armor at this time, and these two shells actually have quite limited damage to BA349.

However, the sound of the cannonball hitting frightened the rookie, so much so that he made a big overload action very irrationally. And then, well, tragically, the short completely wooden wing of his BA349 could not withstand such a force, and one wing broke in two in an instant. Then the one tumbled and fell.

Although Ron shot down not a lot of fighters, there were quite a few, but it was the first time he wanted to scare down enemy planes like this.

Of course, not every BA349 will be so frightened by the pursuing P-81 that it will break its own wing. But they must have all felt the pressure from the direction of 6 o'clock. In addition, the BA349's backward vision has a bad B, and when attacked, it is basically impossible for the pilot to see the position of the opponent behind him relative to his own, which adds to the fear of rookies when attacked. And this fear also directly affects their effectiveness when launching an attack on bombers. In addition, the rookies are not so good in the first place, so in the end, their attack efficiency can be imagined. (Of course, even an old bird biting a powerful enemy fighter at 6 o'clock will not be too effective when attacking a target in front.) The indiscriminate rockets they fired hit only one, and only in a non-lethal position - blowing up a section of the wingtip of a B-24.

The next was the slaughter, the unpowered BA349 could not get rid of the P-81's pursuit, and in the end all twenty-four BA349s were shot down, the P-81 suffered no losses, and Ron added two more numbers to his own shot down record.

After climbing back to an altitude of 8,000 meters, Ron and Harry continued to fly towards Russia.

This transition of Ron and his fighter went unnoticed by the Germans. In fact, it is also very understandable, when it is in the skies over Western Europe, there are thousands of heavy bombers and other fighters in the sky, who cares too much about the fighters of a squadron? And in the skies over Eastern Europe, although there are fewer planes, there are also fewer ground-based radars, so no one notices them.

After a four-hour flight, Ron and the others were approaching the destination of the flight, Tula.

Ron turns on the radio, adjusts the channel to the frequency band agreed with the Soviets, and begins to contact the Soviets. At the same time, they also began to lower the height.

About ten minutes later, eight LA-5FNs appeared in Ron at 12 o'clock. Ron saw that the plane flying in front was painted with red five-pointed stars. The plane that followed him was also special, with a big number drawn on its fuselage - 13.

The La-5FN was one of the most outstanding fighters of its time for the Soviets. This fighter with M-82 air-cooled engine was quite strong at low altitudes, both in speed and climb, surpassing the BF-109G and FW-190A of the Germans at that time, making the fighters of the Soviet Air Force have a performance advantage in air combat for the first time. At low altitudes, the LA-5FN is excellent in circling, rolling, and climbing, and as a wooden aircraft, this light fighter actually has very good ballistic performance (bulletproof steel seats to protect pilots, self-sealing fuel tanks to protect fuel tanks) If there are any flaws in this aircraft, the dive performance is probably not good enough is probably the most obvious problem. In addition, because there is no supercharger, this kind of aircraft is very good below 5000 meters, but as soon as it is high in the air, it immediately has a cup.

However, on the Eastern Front, the high-altitude performance of fighters is really not important. Because whether it is the Il-2 attack aircraft of the Soviets, or the Stuka of the Germans, and the HS-129, which is known as the "tank opener", are all aircraft operating at low altitudes, and the fighters fly high to intercept whom, or who to escort? At the beginning of the war, the Soviets had the MiG-3, the most advanced high-altitude fighter in the world at that time, but this aircraft did not continue to develop, and even because it used the same engine as the IL-2, which affected the production of the IL-2, it was unlucky and was ordered to stop production by Stalin.

The Soviets also equipped the LA-5FN with a supercharger at one time, and as a result, the high-altitude performance of the La-5FN has improved considerably, but because the supercharger has increased its weight, it has led to a decrease in low-altitude performance. This improvement was also identified as a "change" that added more than enough to the draw, and the gains outweighed the losses.

The LA-5FN began shaking its wings at Ron from afar, and Ron shook his wings in response. At this time, a voice came over the radio.

"General Ron, we have been ordered to meet you."

"Thank you, comrades, for your hard work!" Ron didn't know how to come up with that. It is a pity that the Soviets did not answer with "for the people". They simply responded, "Now, please follow us." ”

Then the fighters turned around and flew in front of Ron to lead the way.

A few minutes later, an airport appeared in front of Ron.

……

The plane had already fallen. Now American and Soviet pilots are chatting in the pilots' lounge. They will fight side by side in the future, and it is very necessary to get to know each other now.

The Soviets sent a rather luxurious lineup for this unit. Its Soviet commander was the great king of the P-39, the father of Soviet air combat tactics - Alexander ?? He?? Pokryshkin. The basic tactics of the fighters of the Soviet Air Force were almost single-handedly studied. In the original history, he shot down a total of 59 fascist German planes and was awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" three times. In terms of the number of shots down, he is the third ace of the Allied forces. But what is even more terrifying is that of the 59 planes he shot down, there were 23 trump cards. This guy is definitely an ace killer. And the pilot of the group of planes that was sent out to welcome Ron just now had a big 13 fighter drawn on him was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he was called-Ivan?? Nikitovich?? Kozhdub. He did not officially enter the war until 43, but in the original history, he shot down a total of 62 German planes, and was the number one ace of the Allies in the entire World War II.

However, the meeting of the aces is not like the one in the martial arts novel after those peerless masters meet together, a look, a movement, are all splashed around. After getting off the plane, the gods blew up, and everyone was mortal.

For example, the pilot, Comrade Gulaev, was on a par with the Yankees over whether the American or the Soviet Union was a good drinker.

"Compared to our vodka, brandy is a bird! Have you ever seen a vodka at 95 degrees? That's the wine men drink! ”

Ron knew that this Comrade Gulayev was also a super ace in history, he shot down a total of 57 enemy aircraft. It is said that the Soviets originally planned to give him the third gold star (the Order of the Hero of the Soviet Union), but before the award, he drank too much vodka and drank too much, causing trouble, and as a result, the third gold star was lost.

At this point, lunch was delivered (postponed to about two o'clock in the afternoon because of Ron's sake), typical Russian tastes: black bread, bacon, chunks of butter.

Gulayev lamented: "Why am I not an infantryman!" Damn, as soon as the infantry comrades arrived in the troops, there was public vodka. And as soon as I arrived in the troops, my own vodka was confiscated! ”

"Not confiscation, Comrade Gulaev. It will be handed back to you after victory, and your vodka will be old by then. ”

"Comrade Pokryshkin, I know all this. But without vodka, how can people eat these black breads? ”

In fact, brown bread is very nutritious, but it does not taste as good as white bread.

"Fortunately, it's still Russian brown bread." Gulayev continued to whine, "Much better than German black bread." The taste of German brown bread is really unpalatable! Or how could people say, 'The cooks in hell are all Germans'? ”

"Is German brown bread that bad?" Ron asked.

"Of course, it tastes like shit, I've eaten it." Gulayev replied solemnly.