Chapter 1112: For the sake of their own perseverance

This is an ultra-low-altitude chase battle, only more than 400 meters above the ground.

Sitting in the cockpit of the plane and looking down, not to mention the peaks and rocks on the ground, you can clearly see the faces of the Chinese and Japanese soldiers on the battlefield.

From being far away from the Qiqian Village Mountains to turning around in a big circle and returning here, Zhou Dapeng and his wingman Chen Buping have been chasing and fighting with the Japanese plane belonging to Masao Suzuki for more than 4 minutes and 30 kilometers.

Both sides turned on the afterburner, and if there were a camera, you could see that the faces of the pilots on both sides in the cockpit were as cold as iron.

The extremely ugly face of Masao Suzuki is not only because his current position is at a disadvantage, he is being chased and locked by the Chinese fighters in the tail, but even worse is that the 96 land attack under his seat has reached the limit of the aircraft engine even began to shake violently, the maximum speed of 450 kilometers per hour 96 land attack was rushed by him at a speed of nearly 500 kilometers, as long as another minute, there is no need for the Chinese machine gun to break him to pieces, his plane has to disintegrate on its own.

According to common sense, the most important thing he should do now is not to continue to be chased by the Chinese plane at low altitude, but to quickly pull up the nose of the plane, slow down at a suitable altitude, climb out of the cockpit and parachute before the machine-gun bullets of the Chinese plane hit his plane.

No matter where the umbrella landed, the chance of his life was more than 80 percent, and a living Japanese pilot prisoner was naturally far more useful to Chinese than a corpse.

But will he be able to escape? Or is he still qualified to escape? Before the chase battle, only 7 of the 24 fighters of the two squadrons he led had left, while the Chinese did not lose a single fighter. The 0-17 battle loss ratio would set a record for the Japanese Army and even the HNA Army.

This record created an even greater shame than the death of more than 20,000 people in the battle of the Eighth Division at the Great Wall and Rehe four years ago, and according to Chinese statistics after the war, more than 7,000 people of the three regiments of the Chinese military participated in the war, and more than 5,000 people were killed or wounded, and the battle loss ratio was 1 to 4.

What made Masao Suzuki even more difficult to accept was that under the stimulus of the humiliating battle loss ratio, he did not escape, and led 6 fighters back to the battlefield, wanting to change the humiliating ending with the determination to die, but what he gained was more humiliation.

After the chase took place, in just a few minutes, the radio intercom continued to hear the farewell of the pilots before they died or before parachuting, from one to two, and then to five or six, until there was silence in the intercom and there were no more companions, but the lieutenant of the Japanese Army Aviation still did not receive a single report of the destruction of the enemy plane.

Including himself, no, still surviving under the pursuit of the Chinese.

By now, the battle loss ratio has become 0 to 23, a number that makes Masao Suzuki completely desperate. This number, for Masao Suzuki, the lieutenant squadron leader, he is alive and even more painful than death. His family will not only lose his glory as a lieutenant of the Army Aviation, but also fall into the abyss because of the shameful record he has created, and he has even seen through the void in front of him his parents, wives and children struggling to survive the ridicule and ridicule of countless people.

Death, although terrifying, but, everyone, has their own loved ones! They are more important than life.

Masao Suzuki, whose face became more and more cold, showed a trace of madness on his face, continued to lower the nose of the plane, continued to step on the accelerator deeply, regardless of the increasing shaking of the aero engine, and even began to emit a faint smoke.

In fact, as Suzuki Masao's opponent, Zhou Dapeng's magic P40 that has not yet reached the limit value is not much better, his engine has not reached the maximum load no problem, but his fuel can not be compared with the Japanese plane that only flew from more than 100 kilometers away, he can only helplessly watch the fuel quickly consumed, if he can't shoot down the cunning and tenacious enemy plane in the field of vision within 30 seconds, his fuel will drop to a terrible stock, He was no longer sure to fly back to Yan'an airfield, 630 kilometers away.

He was also not afraid of death, but he was even more reluctant to abandon the fighters, which were more valuable than secondary, and the most important thing was that now that the Japanese had blocked the coastal transportation routes, the whole of China was no longer imported from abroad and transported back to China.

At the beginning of the war, the Chinese in the United States again donated money to buy 40 fighter plane parts, which were still in the port of Honolulu and could not be shipped to China. At present, the planes of the "Aviation Volunteers" are one less than one damaged in battle, and they cannot be replaced.

The war ahead is still long, and he must leave enough weapons for the "Aviation Volunteers" to fight the Japanese invaders.

He had to shoot down the enemy plane in 30 seconds.

In the field of vision, Chen Buping's wingman, who was in charge of luring the enemy, had already relied on skillful technology to turn sideways and decelerate at a low altitude to get out of the lock of the Japanese plane. The Japanese aircraft gave up chasing Chen Buping with the same sideways roll and exposed its fragile belly, but continued to lower the nose of the plane and dived to a low altitude of 300 meters or even lower.

Zhou Dapeng, who showed a trace of regret on his face, let go of his hand from the machine gun trigger, the Japanese machine is really cunning enough, as long as he rolls on his side, he has already locked the scope of the enemy plane's possible flip position in advance to completely lock him, and two 12.7mm machine guns can blow it up through the fragile belly of the enemy plane.

However, the cunning Japanese pilots did not fall for it, but instead dived to a lower altitude.

It's just, can you escape in this way? Zhou Dapeng pushed the afterburner rod hard, also stepped on the accelerator deeply, and continued to chase the extremely tenacious Japanese machine regardless of the low-altitude stall.

It only takes 10 seconds for him to have the confidence to catch up with the enemy plane and blow it up, whether it's his pull up or his maneuver to try to dodge.

If you maneuver at such a low altitude, you may be able to hit the ground yourself.

The two planes swept over the sky less than 300 meters above the position of Qiqian Village at a lightning speed, and the strong air currents formed a violent wind on the ground, blowing people's eyes so that they could not open their eyes.

But many people, Chinese and Japanese, are reluctant to close their eyes. Even, no one fired at the positions of the MG42 heavy machine guns that had been prepared for the concentration of fire on the positions of the Independent Regiment, and he just lay on the ground and watched two planes painted with the sun but different colors chasing wildly above his head.

It was a battle that belonged to the sky.

Although he hated the Japanese invaders very much, the tenacity of this lone Japanese pilot, who was still fighting, was difficult to make people feel bad. From the perspective of human nature, every act that knows that it will die but still chooses to fight is a kind of spirit, which even exceeds the great enmity between life and death between nations.

If you don't go through the battlefield, you can't understand the wonderful emotions that belong to soldiers.

The Chinese soldiers on the ground did not shoot, but just waited, waiting for their own fighter painted with seven red stars to blow up the Japanese plane, which also represented tenacity, and waited for the final victory to come.

For the Chinese soldiers, the excitement is suppressed, and the victory in the air battle is almost doomed to the end of the ground war.

And for the Japanese on the ground, it was almost a heartbreaking wait. The eagles of the Great Japanese Empire snapped their wings in the Chinese skies, and one after another imperial eagles fell in the terrible formation charges of Chinese planes again and again.

Until now, only one of them is still fighting and fighting, although it is at an absolute disadvantage.

It's just that the vast majority of Japanese don't know what they are waiting for, are they waiting for the last imperial eagle to fall? Or are they waiting for the Imperial Eagle to fight back and shoot down a Chinese plane to give them a boost?

The probability of the former is as high as ninety percent, and the probability of the latter is more like a fairy tale.

But in any case, the morale of the Japanese infantry, which was already extremely low, was on the rise because of the unyielding of Masao Suzuki.

The mountains of Taihang Mountain are steep and rugged, with cliffs and cliffs all around, and there are especially many valleys.

Masao Suzuki suddenly drove the plane into a valley no more than 100 meters wide and more than 300 meters on both sides of the peaks, and disappeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Zhou Dapeng plunged into it without hesitation, biting the Japanese machine hundreds of meters away. But, he, had to be forced to slow down.

Although the predecessor of the Zero fighter, the 96 Land Attack, is inferior to the Magic P40 in most of its performance, it is stronger than the Magic P40 in terms of flexibility.

The valley is not long, only five miles and 2,500 meters long, which is only a matter of ten seconds for an aircraft that has reached a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour.

At the end of the valley is a majestic and wide mountain, and Masao Suzuki's 96 land attack circles the mountain like a fish in a rapid, and it is dangerous and dangerous to stick to the right side of the mountain and bypass it at high speed.

Zhou Dapeng, who was hundreds of meters away, had to slow down again. The Magic P40 doesn't have the radius turning performance of the 96 land attack, and if he doesn't slow down, his plane will crash into the mountain like a sharp arrow, and there will be no luck.

It's just that in this way, the cunning Japanese machine took advantage of the mountain peak to break away from his locked pursuit, and it was not so easy to occupy a favorable position again.

Zhou Dapeng's eyes were clear, and he did not choose the right side of the mountain peak to be bypassed, but chose to pass from the left side.

Two fighters, one in front of one in front of the other, one in the back, one on the left and one on the right, jumped out of the valley and reappeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Only this time, the Japanese troops on the ground began to cheer.

The Imperial Eagle they were expecting took advantage of the cover of the valley and the mountain peaks to get rid of the pursuit of the Chinese fighters, and in a frantic pull-up with a beautiful small turn, it drew a beautiful arc in the sky around the mountain peaks, and at an altitude of 800 meters, charged at the Chinese fighters who also jumped high in the air from the other side of the mountain.

In order to save time, Zhou Dapeng had to give up the plan that he could basically guarantee 100% that he could shoot down the Japanese plane if he continued the pursuit, and he chose a more dangerous strategy.

He was going to intercept him in front of the Japanese plane's flight.

For Masao Suzuki, it was unattainable.

When he saw the damn Chinese plane coming around the other side of the mountain from the cockpit, he couldn't believe his eyes, and his face showed a smile for the first time since the start of the war.

The shame of 0 to 23 may turn into 1 to 24.

Although he did not understand why the Chinese would make such an unwise choice, you know, his 96 land attack engine has begun to smoke, almost no longer fighting, he will lose all combat effectiveness after a minute or 30 seconds, but this is the last chance that Amaterasu gave himself, and it is also the last chance belonging to the 38th Air Wing.

The two fighters, in front of the eyes of tens of thousands of people, staged a scene like an ancient cavalry-style duel, facing each other's bayonets and spears, charging.