After 3 rounds of BZ, the energy advantage gained by the "Reverse Cross" side has been exhausted, so the two sides enter the melee. But at this time, the rookies no longer have the strength to fight. First, the stormy blow just now completely stunned them, and it was also because in the blow just now, many long planes lost their wingmen, or the wingmen lost their long planes, and there was chaos in the system. In terms of mutual cooperation, there is a big gap compared with the "reverse cross". So though, according to the setting, the P-47 has a clear advantage in strike resistance and firepower, and these two properties, according to Ron, are the most important in group fighting. But at this time, it was still the aircraft of the "reverse cross" that occupied an overwhelming advantage.

And at this time, the assault formations also began to launch a full-scale attack on the bomber group. Not only did they not achieve much in the battle with the escort formation, but they also failed to prevent the enemy from attacking the bombers, not to mention stopping, not even jamming!

"It can't go on like this! If it goes on like this, it won't be long before it's all over! Henry thought silently after dodging a round of blows.

"Who's going to help me! They bit me! "Someone's cry for help came out of the headphones.

"Dive!" Someone answered.

"That's right, dive!" Henry thought. He immediately made a call over the radio:

"Brothers, listen to me, dive down and break away immediately, our target is the assault cluster below!" Said *a* Ben * read *little* said ybdu After Henry took the lead and was the first to dive down.

The rookies are in a state of being at a loss, and suddenly someone stands up to lead them at such a critical time, giving them instructions, and whether the instructions are correct or not, at least this gives the rookies a new direction. So one by one, the rookies turned into diving.

"That's a good response." Several pilots of the "reverse cross" made such exclamations from their cockpits.

"The single plane will find other lone planes as soon as possible to form a temporary formation!" While diving, Henry continued to call the shots.

At this time, Daddy Poynmp and his assault formation had just come out of the box formation of bombers, and was adjusting the formation to launch a second round of assault. At this time, Ron's voice came from his headphones:

"Daddy, they're coming at you, be careful!"

"Got it, thanks." Daddy then gave the order, "The assault formation is ready for air combat." ”

Henry roared down with the rookies, and Ron followed closely with the "Reverse Cross" escort formation. The difference in altitude from the height of their engagement to the height at which the assault formation was located was not enough for Henry to free them from the opponent's attack, but the sturdy body of the P-47 showed its power at this time. Neither the 13-mm machine gun shells nor the 20-mm shells fired from the direction of fire were powerful enough to inflict too lethal damage on such a big guy as the P-47, at least, a single shot would never achieve such an effect. And the 6 20mm rifled guns on the P-47 are completely different, with a rate of fire of 1300 rounds per minute each, and a high muzzle velocity of 1000 meters per second, even if it is a specially armored FW190, next to a volley of this guy, even if you can get away with it, there will definitely not be a few breaths left.

So Henry continued to give orders: "Concentrate your forces, attack the leading enemy planes, and break up their ranks!" You can also shoot when you have the opportunity, remember the instructor's words, the rookie did not save the cost of shells! ”

"05, 07, and 08 follow me in turn to attack enemy planes!"

The roaring P-47 group came straight to the assault formation. At this time, the assault formation also spread out a bit to facilitate dodging. Originally, Daddy thought that it was not too difficult to dodge the attacks of these rookies, but he immediately found that things did not seem to be as simple as he imagined, and the skills of those rookies who were learning and selling were really good, and several P-47s pounced on him in a row, at first, Dad also wanted to avoid it through a small turn, but he immediately realized that he had made a mistake. There is a huge difference between dodging enemy attacks in exercises and dodging enemy attacks in actual combat, that is, the opponent only uses empty shells, and there are no traces left by shells across the sky to help him decide how to dodge, of course, the enemy cannot use this to correct his own shots. However, at this moment, when Dad saw that the wings of the enemy plane began to spit flames, he found a problem: he did not know how many meters the meeting point set by the opposite plane was, which made him unable to accurately judge the trajectory of the opponent. Small-scale dodges become very unsafe, and a larger move is essential to dodge safely first.

So, Daddy had to do a dodge move with a larger g-value, but then several enemy planes took turns to pounce on him. Of course, Daddy wouldn't make the mistake of stalling in a turn dodge, but as a last resort, he had no choice but to dive away.

A similar situation happened to several other unlucky pilots, this round of counterattack led by Henry, although it is difficult to say what the result was, but at least they succeeded in disrupting the assault formation this time.

Of course, this is irrelevant, although in the later battles, Henry showed a lot of wit, such as passing through the bomber formation to get rid of the tail-biting "reverse cross" and the like, but they are no longer superior in numbers, and they are really powerless in the face of more skilled opponents. However, in the end, Henry managed to escape with his wingman through a long dive.

The specific results of this battle did not come out until the next day, and in general, the "reverse cross" of course still won, the rookies did not protect the bombers well, 12 bombers lost 5, and 43 P-47 lost 22. However, the rookies did not gain nothing, 5 "Reverse Crosses" were judged to be damaged, and 4 were judged to be shot down. And that includes Daddy. After this result came out, my father was depressed for a while.

However, Ron is still very satisfied with the result this time, on the one hand, let the rookies realize their gap, and on the other hand, let them see the hope of catching up. And some rookies, especially Henry, did a great job in this drill. It shows that these rookies are growing up very well. According to Ron, in another year, maybe this guy will be our "reverse cross" person.

The promotion effect of failure on the rookies is quite obvious, especially the passivity after the chaos of the establishment left a deep impression on the rookies. So the discussion of remedies for this weakness also began vigorously among rookies.

"Every group should have a backup leader, and every combination of captain and wingman should know who to organize with in the event of a break!"

"In the face of the entanglement of the enemy's escort formation, you should make less trouble with them, directly attack the enemy's assault formation, and don't be afraid to chase after the bf109!"

……

A month later, when this batch of rookies graduated, they were able to score 1.5 to 1 with "Reverse Cross".

It was at this point that Ron was given a new assignment.