As a result of the successive attacks, the losses of the bombers skyrocketed, especially the bombers of one squadron on April Fool's Day, which shocked the commander of the German flying unit and finally forced the Germans to stop all daytime bombing. Under these circumstances, the Germans continued to improve the bomber engines, making the Gota bombers fly higher, so that the bombing returned to the earlier drop-and-run situation, but the fiasco of April 1 made the Germans regard the British Isles as a forbidden area, and never sent bombers to bomb indiscriminately.

Then the British were provoked by the Chinese fighters, and they built four large bombers, namely Handley 61 Page O/100, on their own to retaliate. Their planes and construction were desperately kept secret, but the first plane to France, in January 1917, landed untouched at a German airfield. The driver made a mistake in navigation.

By armistice day, more than 50 planes had attacked London, dropping 73 tons of bombs, killing almost 860 people and wounding 2,000. While the British reduced their forces in France to some extent in order to repel the invaders, Germany also received little benefit. The British became more determined to fight to the end, and recognized the need for an air department. Until then, the Air Force had two separate parts, directed by the Air Force Council, which had no executive powers. Air Marshal Sir Douglas 61 Haig opposed the creation of an independent unit, fearing that "the Air Department would run it with unrealistic theories". Aircraft did not play a major role in the First World War, but it introduced decisive three-dimensional warfare in later wars.

Of course, although the British bulls are arrogant but also very pragmatic, they know that there is no way to introduce that kind of advanced fighter (the Chinese side excuses that the technology is immature, just like the excuse that they refused to sell dreadnoughts to the Qing Dynasty), but they still obtained the F2 type that China itself was eliminated by F3 after only one wing: the "Saker" fighter, which is based on the Camel F.1 fighter with a length of 5.72 meters, a wingspan of 8.53 meters, and a height of 2.59 meters. The maximum take-off mass is 659 kg, the empty aircraft mass is 421 kg, the maximum bomb load is 45.5 kg, the maximum level flight speed is 185 km / h, the practical ceiling is 5774 m, the maximum climb rate is 4.8 m / s, the endurance is 2.5 hours, and there is a 7.7 mm air-cooled Makqin aviation machine gun in front of the cockpit, and a 12.7 mm air-cooled aviation machine gun (500 rounds of ammunition).

This fighter, known to the British as the "Mark IV", became the sworn enemy of the German Fokker Dr.I. triplane fighter in the limelight, and it was also the first time that the British had the opportunity to compete with German aircraft in the skies of the Western Front, and even the Red Baron felt troubled by this strong and dexterous British fighter. But what he didn't expect was that it was another air force that really ended the German air superiority.

This was the first batch of standard volunteer air forces to enter France to participate in the war according to the Pyongyang agreement between Britain, China and Japan, and they were organized as the fourth wing of the French Foreign Flying Corps, codenamed the "Air Lord" wing. Soon the French and the British, as well as other unconvinced pilots, understood what it meant to be a man of great fame.

Yin Chengzong has joined the Airlord United, and today is their first time in France. The bomber formation led by Major Kerry of the 11th Air Force of the Germans had already arrived at the Reims airfield, which was still in the hands of the French, and even began to drop bombs.

Due to the strong monsoon, visibility was only about 500 meters, and the damage caused by the bombing of the nine Gota bombers was very minor, with only a few fuel trucks and repair tents destroyed.

However, poor visibility also affected the F-3's search for the enemy. At that time, the clouds were very thick, and Yin Chengzong and Li Min each led a squadron to fly to an altitude of 4,000 meters, and repeated searches did not find any German planes. It was only then that German bombers dropped bombs to indicate their location. Yin Chengzong immediately led 13 planes and pounced from a high altitude!

The number of both sides is 9: 14, the enemy is again a bulky bomber, we are fighters, and the advantage is clearly on our side. The German Gota bomber has 3 7.9mm self-defense machine guns, and because it is a large biplane with a certain defensive capability, it is not easy to shoot him down.

Tan Ziwen, the pilot who attacked first, fired at the Gota bombers at a long distance. The German machine gunners were very skilled, and they fired a large barrage of bullets that made Tan Ziwen's Hawk 3 inaccessible. The 12.7 mm bullet has a large recoil force, while the 7.62 mm bullet has a large spread over long distances and cannot effectively hit the vital points of large bombers. The two planes fought for a long time, but Tan Ziwen was never able to shoot down the enemy plane. Yin Chengzong, the captain who arrived later, was different, he was very experienced.

Since graduating from Zaolin Aviation School in the 34th year of Guangxu, Yin Chengzong has 10 years of experience in flying aircraft, which is not comparable to ordinary pilots. Yin Chengzong was very clever, and after spotting a Gota bomber dropping bombs, he quietly approached the enemy plane 500 meters. At this time, the enemy's machine gunners suddenly spotted him and immediately fired a large number of bullets. Yin Chengzong was very able to calm his breath, continued to approach 200 meters, and fired a salvo of two machine guns at a distance of 300 meters, killing the German machine gunner in the rear cabin on the spot.

In this way, the Gota bomber will have no rear defense. Yin Chengzong calmly approached the plane only 20 meters away, and he clearly saw several frightened faces on the enemy plane that turned their heads to look at him. Yin Chengzong fired again, easily blowing up the left engine of the enemy plane. The bomber crashed and detonated the bomb it was carrying, tearing itself apart.

Here, Squadron Leader Li Min led a total of 4 F-3s to besiege a Gota bomber. The machine gunners of this bomber were also not willing to wait for death and fired desperately. But Li Min was very smart, both of them attacked one side of the rear hemisphere at the same time, and the other two planes attacked from the other side of the rear hemisphere, and 1 machine gun in the German military district could not cope at all, and they did not know who to shoot at. The plane was hit by dozens of bullets in front and back, and the plane's fuel tank caught fire, crashing instantly.

Two enemy planes were shot down one after the other, but the air battle continued.

Several other eagles on this side besieged several Gota planes, and by this time the enemy planes had already dropped their bombs in a hurry and fled backwards. Yin Chengzong found a damaged German bomber and was staggering back, but there was no F-3 in pursuit. At this time, Yin Chengzong's fuel gauge showed that there was only 10 minutes of fuel, and if he caught up, it was likely to cause the plane to stop in the air and kill the plane. However, Yin Chengzong was unwilling to give up the great opportunity, so he gritted his teeth and chased after him. After several attacks, Yin Chengzong fired more than 70 rounds, hitting one of the Gota's engines and burning.

At this time, the fuel of Yin Chengzong's landline was already displayed as 0, and he hurriedly drove the plane back, but before he could fly over Reims Airport, the fuel ran out and the propeller stopped. Yin Chengzong struggled to control the plane, barely taxied and landed on the runway, and almost died!

This Gota, which was seriously injured by Yin Chengzong, was able to barely fly back to the temporary military airfield of the German army. However, during landing, the damage was too severe to be controlled, resulting in the landing gear being broken, and the plane was completely destroyed and scrapped.

In this way, six of the nine Gota bombers attacking the Reims airfield were shot down, and the rest fled at high speed. Due to the impact of monsoon weather and limited fuel, it was difficult for the Standard Aviation pair to catch up with them, so the three damaged planes were allowed to fly back to the airport without repeating the total annihilation.

The first batch to assist the Entente was the entire 11th Air Superiority Wing, which was adapted from the earliest experimental team created by the Air Force, and although the original pilots had been promoted or left the aviation post, the pilots of this wing had always been the best among the various wings. The reason why Wu Chenxuan and Wei Yu chose them as the first troops to participate in the war this time was that they hoped to use their technology to adapt to the rhythm of the European war as soon as possible at the minimum cost, and to pave a way for the various wings participating in the round war in the future.

The main force of the 11th Air Superiority Wing is three fighter groups, each of which has five fighter squadrons and 50 twin aircraft groups. In addition, it is also separately attached to 1 air defense regiment (3 anti-aircraft artillery companies, 1 air defense searchlight company, 4 station defense companies, 1 armed gendarmerie company, 1,600 people), 1 ground service regiment (1 station engineer company, 1 anti-chemical company, 7 aircraft maintenance companies, 1 division headquarters company, 3,100 people), all of which have about 5,200 people, and 335 Eagle fighters (with some backup aircraft). With 36 50 mm anti-aircraft guns and 72 twin 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, their anti-aircraft firepower was even higher than that of the city of Paris. Three field airfields throughout the Reims region became the headquarters of the Air Domination Wing, and more than 100 kilometers south from Laon to the outskirts of Verdun became the defense area of the wing, and a year later, the Germans used the lives of thousands of planes and pilots to annotate the so-called "Chinese Corridor".

The next day a squadron of red-winged Dr. Fokker planes had come to look for a scene, but unfortunately one squadron of eagles had already been stationed at the Tyna airfield south of Reims the previous afternoon. By the time the air defense post on the front line informed the airfield by telephone, the fighters of this squadron were already ready to go.

The 22nd Squadron of the 2nd Brigade was the last to arrive! Due to the worse weather they encountered, they did not have enough fuel to reach Reims the day before yesterday, so they had to land at Tours airport to refuel. When they arrived at Reims, it happened that Li Min's 23 Squadron had already completed the operation of shooting down 9 bombers of the opposing side, and the 22 Squadron, which had not even fished a single hair, had to land at the airport in Diyena. The pilot, who got up early this morning, was not disappointed, and the other party was twelve Fokker planes who arrived early in the morning to deliver the cake.

The process of the battle lasted only ten minutes, and there was no thrilling dog fight, and there was no heart-wrenching two-plane head-to-head attack. The whole battle was tedious for both sides, and the Chinese fighter pilots obtained the results in the process of diving, attacking, pulling up, climbing, and diving, except for Captain Zhou Xin and another pilot of the long plane, Zhang Jianqiang, who won two downed results, most of the long planes had only one result in the account, and only one guy in the wingman had nothing to gain from the volley explosion of a Fokker plane that had fallen in smoke. And for the German squadron, I am afraid it is a disaster-like experience, when they found the opponent, the opponent was at an altitude of more than 6000 meters higher than their ceiling, and the speed of the dive was even more than twice their limit speed, and there was no chance to dodge at all, if it were not for the opponent's poor archery, they should all be removed from the list in the first round, but even the best technical squadron leader did not hold out until the moment of return, after the opponent's four rounds of attacks, they were all shot down, In addition to dodging and circling, all the bullets hit the air, and they didn't even wipe each other's skins, and most of the time they were jumping and falling rapidly, circling and dodging, and the only surviving German pilot later recalled:

"There were no knightly duels in the sky, just Cossacks riding Donhippopotamus with shiny scimitars slaughtering a group of helpless peasants. …… their speed, their ceiling, Even their loud large-caliber guns (12.7 caliber machine guns) are something we can't compete with Fokker planes, we were first inexplicably awakened by a string of fire snakes, and we didn't even have a chance to raise the nose to fire head-on at the other side, and then we were surprised to find that the compatriots on the left and right were all over the body with smoke and fire, and then the other party had become a small dot in our sight, and soon disappeared, and a minute or two later they appeared on our side or behind us, and the same nightmare came again, our plane was hit with sawdust, but we couldn't see each other's figuresBy the time they pass by, we're usually already falling. God knows how lucky I was, I didn't even get hit by a large-caliber shell, but the engine was knocked out, smoking but not burning, otherwise I would have died, and I didn't realize I was alive until I desperately stabilized the plane and glided into a bush. But looking at the two machine guns and the slow chain of bullets in front of me, I was ashamed to realize that I hadn't even had time to fire at the other side, and of course the people who fired were now ashes in the fireworks. The French infantry had arrived, and my battle was over, but the most comforting thing was that I never had to encounter those silver-gray demons in the sky again. God, are they Satan's messengers? ”

Yes, the 22 squadron fought against all 20 fighters against 12 fighters of the enemy, although it was outnumbered by the many, even so, it was a 12:0 result, which is quite remarkable! The French ground crew was so excited about this achievement that it even appeared in the Paris Times the next day, but after a month, they found that such double-digit results had become commonplace, and there was no desire to report on it.

And across the Channel, in London, the cattle who broke free from the shadow of the bombers are keenly aware that the Chinese's superiority in aviation has even surpassed the Royal Navy's domination of the ocean. In their war reports published in The Times, there was a sentence that was later proved by countless facts: "We may still rule the sea, but the Chinese have undoubtedly ruled the sky." ”