After receiving the report of the fighter group that had been reconnoitred in advance, the US fighter group began to climb rapidly. At this time, they were already on the radar display of Rì himself. Rì's own radar kept an eye on them, reporting their every move to Rì's own air defense command.

"Enemy aircraft began to climb, the speed of climb was fast, and now the altitude has reached 8000 meters." An officer reported this information to the group of generals in the command room.

"The enemy's vanguard fighter has already sent the signal, now what should we do?" An officer said that it was clear that if the enemy was unwilling to act according to the script written by Rì himself, Rì's first reaction was to be shocked and caught off guard.

"These American ghost beasts are so cunning! How could they ...... like that," the other officer grumbled angrily, as most of the rì himself did. It's as if Americans have an innate obligation to act according to their will.

"Shut up!" An officer who looked older and had a higher rank shouted, "If the curse had been able to shoot down the enemy plane, we would have won a long time ago!" Then he turned to an operations staff officer and asked, "If our fighters take the initiative to approach the enemy planes, can they continue to maintain an altitude advantage when they come into contact with the enemy planes?" ”

"General, this needs to be calculated." So a group of staff officers immediately got busy, and in the end, they gave this answer: "If the enemy aircraft is a P-51, and they do not change course, we take the initiative to attack, and our side may continue to maintain an altitude advantage of 100-200 meters when the two sides come into contact." ”

"If there is such an advantage, then let the fighter unit act immediately!"

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If the U.S. fighter planes were all P-51s, and if the pilots of the Rì fighters were all normal pilots, it would indeed be slightly higher than the height of the two sides when the large groups of planes of the two sides met. However, there are P-81s in the US fleet that have better high-altitude climbs, and with the climb rate of these aircraft, by the time they meet, their altitude will definitely be a lot higher than that of the Rì Ben fighter group. Moreover, those fighter pilots in Rìben were not normal fighter pilots. Their flight hours are so few that in their hands, the real xìng energy of a fighter is difficult to bring to life. In this way, it is even more difficult to say whether it can occupy a height advantage.

On the radar screen of the Rì Army, the US fighter group began to split into two parts, and one part climbed rapidly. Their rate of climb is amazingly high, gaining a height of more than 9000 meters in a short time. Other fighters continued to climb at a more normal pace.

"Some enemy aircraft have already surpassed us in altitude, and their altitude is increasing." An officer reported.

"So fast? How is this possible? "Some people are not calm about this unexpected situation.

"How many planes are in this segment?" Someone asked.

"There are about 300-400 of them."

So everyone fell silent. Obviously, this fighter that climbs especially fast is certainly the P-81 fighter that appeared over Rìben only recently. The Germans had provided information about the fighter to Rì himself a few months earlier, but Rì himself did not pay much attention to the aircraft at the time (because he had never encountered it) and sent it for storage. It wasn't until recently that it was re-opened.

After this information was found, Rì himself was stunned by a series of estimated perverted figures in terms of climb, roll, speed, firepower, etc., but after careful research, they still discovered a "fatal" flaw in the plane's ability - hovering too badly. In the words of Rì himself, what hovers and rots to such an extent is not qualified to serve in Rì at all. As a result, countless Rì himself happily relieved themselves and felt that the P-81 was not too difficult to deal with. But Americans don't necessarily agree with that.

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Dmikri continued to climb in his P-81, a pilot who had just returned from training at the Reverse Cross, and although the flight time was not long, he had a good record, having just shot down his fourth shot down near Iwo Jima a day earlier, a Rìben Navy Rainbow reconnaissance plane. Today he only needs one more result to become an ace pilot.

Now Dmikri's fighter has climbed to an altitude of 10,000 meters. At such altitudes, even the climb of the P-81 with two twin wasp engines with exhaust gas turbocharging was not as sharp as it had just been. However, the P-81 can continue to climb, and it can climb to an altitude of 13,500 meters, which is overwhelming any kind of Rìben fighter in one go.

However, Dmikri didn't need to climb that high, because he had already seen Rì's own fighter group. A large group of fighters with a long trail was coming from an altitude about 1,000 meters below themselves.

At this time, the squadron leader's voice also came from his headphones: "This is Peregrine Falcon No. 1, the enemy plane has been discovered, and it is ready to attack according to the No. 3 plan!" ”

The so-called attack method in Plan 3 is that the P-81 group continues to maintain a shallow climb, and after the fighters of both sides have staggered, they will dive down and attack the enemy aircraft. This is also one of the most common ways to launch an attack, and it is a fairly useful attack method when the altitude difference with enemy aircraft is relatively large.

Fighters from both sides staggered, and the squadron leader took the lead in diving down. Dmicri also hurriedly called the wingman, "Peregrine 8, follow me!" "Just a roll, and the lever swooped down. Nearly 400 P-81s swooped down from a height of 10,000 meters, pulling a silver-white track, towards the Rìben fighters below, like a flock of seagulls rushing towards a school of sardines.

During the dive, Dmikri bit a Zero, perhaps a Type 1 fighter, but the two fighters were so similar that most American pilots could not distinguish between the two planes in a single shot in a fierce air battle. At a distance of about 500 meters, Dmicri made a long shè, and the plane immediately turned into a large fireball. Obviously, the pilot who flew the plane was a rookie, and under the attack of Dmikri, he made almost no decent resistance.

The entire group of Rìben fighters was in a mess, although they were more numerous, but in the face of the American fighters who adopted the tactics of high-speed dive and one-hit disengagement, they had no effective means of counterattack, and could only passively dodge. And the large fleet makes it easy for them to accidentally hide from the guns of one American plane to the guns of another when they dodge.

The chances of a shè strike were greatly increased, and Dmikri had just shot down a rìben fighter when another fighter was turning sharply in front of him. Dmikri shot a cannonball over, and he saw flames suddenly erupt from the rìben fighter, and it seemed that his hand was very smooth today.

The P-81 group rushed through the formation of the Rì fighters, then split into two and flew to the left and right from below the Rì fighter group. Behind them, dozens of rìben fighters were left on fire. Rì himself is not thinking about counterattacking, but at this time, the P-81 fleet is already close to 800 kilometers per hour by diving, and even the best Rì fighters in the dive will not be able to keep up with them.

Dmikri followed his squadron farther away, jumping to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters, and then the group turned around again and closed in on Rìben's group of fighters.

At this time, the altitude of the fighter group dropped slightly, and when they were dodging the attack just now, some fighters lost energy due to their actions, and some of the high-altitude fighters were already poor, and the altitude of fighters such as Zero Combat even fell to about 8,000 meters. Of course, there are also some fighters that have not been attacked and have struggled to climb up a little, such as some J2M3 have also climbed to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters.

However, the number of these J2M3 is too small, and the Americans do not intend to pay attention to them at all. The P-81s, who had climbed back up, smashed down like sledgehammers on the group of Rì fighters. This time Dmikri didn't get any good chances. There was an enemy plane that he had already targeted that was killed by his own comrades, and another, well, he wanted to grab someone else's, but he didn't get it. But just as he was about to calm down, he suddenly shouted from the earphones: "Peregrine Falcon No. 7, pay attention above 6 o'clock." ”

Dmicri turned his head to look behind him, and he saw two J2M3s biting into his back. He looked down at his speedometer, which was already 491 miles per hour, and when converted into kilometers, his speed was now 790 kilometers per hour. And these two J2M3s are still biting behind him.

"Are they dying?" Thinking so, Dmikri gave up on pulling up and continued to dive. The speed of the plane soon exceeded 497 miles, that is, 800 kilometers. At this time, the two J2M3, which were not afraid of death, were still following behind. Dmicri slammed the rudder and made a bucket roll to the right. When the plane is doing this, it's like going around a big barrel. In this way, because there is an angle between the direction of flight of the aircraft and the actual direction of travel, the actual forward speed will be much slower than the flight speed of the aircraft. If this move is done well in defensive combat, it will often cause an enemy guy to rush ahead of you. What's more, it makes you lose much less energy than tricks like lowering the flaps or even the landing gear.

If it is now in level flight, just in terms of the distance between the two sides, Dmikri's barrel roll is a bit early. The enemy plane can completely pull up and watch him waste energy. However, now he and the enemy aircraft were in the middle of a dive, and the speed of both sides was very high. At this time, whether it is barrel rolling or steering action, the requirements for the structural strength of the aircraft are very high. Dmikri believed that no one except the P-81 himself or the P-47 would dare to do such a barrel rolling operation at such a high speed, which would have disintegrated his plane in the air! So he decided that the two planes would definitely rush ahead of him.

However, only one J2M3 rushed to the front of Dmikri, and at the same time, a shout from his teammates was heard in his headphones: "Peregrine Falcon 7, good job!" That guy disintegrated in the air! Obviously, there was a red-eyed little rìben who followed him and made a barrel roll, but at such a flight speed, the structural strength of his plane was no longer enough to support him to do such a maneuver.

Dmicri rolled out the barrel and bit down tightly on the back of the J2M3 that had rushed over his head. The speed of this aircraft is already too high, it has exceeded the allowable dive limit speed a lot, it must now slow down immediately, and to slow down must change the flight state, continue to maintain such a dive attitude only one way to destroy the plane and kill people, but changing the flight state is likely to disintegrate the plane immediately. So the J2M3 first tried to drop a flap. Then, well, the lowered flaps were stripped from the wing by the oncoming air current, and almost hit Dmikri's fighter. When Dmikri dodged for a while, and was about to re-aim the enemy plane to fire, the plane suddenly broke its wings and then exploded directly. The pressure from the excessive speed finally crushed the plane.

Dmikri slowly pulled up the plane, and compared to the P-81 fighter's 1,000 km/h dive limit, now such a speed of less than 860 km/h is not a problem. He slowly leveled the plane and began to turn to the jump, at which point he saw that the P-51s they had left behind were also approaching the battlefield.