Chapter 722: Forward
Although it was already morning, the whole land was still gloomy because the dark clouds obscured all the sunlight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Under the large dark clouds that were pressed very low, two light blue P47s swept across the land like eagles looking for prey.
Du Changfeng sat in the cabin, his sharp eyes kept looking at the ground under his feet with a curious look. For Du Changfeng, the land below was unfamiliar to him.
This is a land that has been lost for many years, since the 918 incident, this land has been occupied by another group of invaders from a foreign land, this group of cruel and tyrannical rulers will expell, oppress and even wantonly slaughter and kill the original inhabitants of this land, countless residents have been forced to leave this land that their ancestors have lived here for generations, although during this period many people dream of returning here, but as time goes by, this dream is becoming more and more distant.
Taking a deep breath of the slightly humid fresh air blowing in from the vent behind him, Du Changfeng closed his eyes slightly in intoxication, "Northeast, this is the Northeast of our China!" I finally returned to Huaxia, and even the air smelled of kindness. ”
The most elite and the best group of pilots in the aviation unit under the Third Group Army, Du Changfeng and his comrades-in-arms did not have time to rest after returning to China from Britain, after Huludao was recovered, Du Changfeng and his fourth squadron were directly transferred to the airstrip that was repaired overnight in Huludao, and the boys of the fourth squadron were all spilled out by Su Jin before they even drank saliva.
The voice of wingman Ma Kaihang came from the headset, "Head...... Don't be sour, Commander Hong asked us to search for Japanese planes and cover the ground troops, if the ground troops were bombed by the planes of the Japanese himself, Commander Hong would definitely hang us on the control tower together. ”
"This uneducated fellow!"
Du Changfeng snorted lightly, and by the way, he despised his wingman in his heart, although objectively speaking, compared with Ma Kaihang, a rich and handsome, Du Changfeng, who was born at the grassroots, is the one who really belongs to the uneducated, but since this guy got Catherine, a British girl, into hands, this guy who originally commanded fighting and killing has also begun to like to read books to enrich himself, in his words, in order not to embarrass the Chinese masters.
The two were bickering on the radio channel, but their eyes did not relax their monitoring of the ground, in fact, the reason why the two were unscrupulous in the air was not only because the two had a strong friendship of life and death, but also because they used words to relieve the fatigue of a long flight. You must know that piloting is a high-risk profession, in addition to controlling the aircraft well, you also have to concentrate on observing the movement on the ground, once you doze off in the middle of the way and miss the enemy's situation, then it will be a lot of fun.
As they spoke, a troop had begun to appear on the ground in front of the two, which was an armored unit. The gray livery, the gray vehicles, and the gray military uniforms, combined with the gloomy sky, are almost impossible to spot without careful observation.
When Du Changfeng and the others discovered this unit, the troops on the ground obviously also discovered these two fighters in the sky. At the beginning, the ground force was obviously a little nervous, only to see some vehicles stopped one after another, and then the barrels of a door began to raise their heads, and many soldiers on the vehicles also began to jump out of the car to prepare for evacuation, but soon they saw Du Changfeng and the blue sky and white sun badge they painted under the wings, and immediately a faint cheer sounded on the ground
"Haha, these guys are still quite quick to react." Du Changfeng was very satisfied and shouted into the microphone.
"That's right, this is the most elite armored first division of our group army, and the boys in it are all good." Ma Kaihang's voice came from the headset.
Du Changfeng pouted, his wingman is good at everything, but sometimes he seems old-fashioned, obviously he is only in his twenties, is it okay, he is embarrassed to say that he is a young man, no wonder he is still playing singles. However, Du Changfeng heard that this guy's family had already set up a family affair for him, and the woman was still the eldest lady of a large family in his hometown.
After flying around the ground troops, Du Changfeng pulled the control stick and drove his beloved fighter plane back into the air at an altitude of 6,000 meters and continued to fly forward.
This is, a few small black dots in front of Du Changfeng's eyes.
"Huh!"
Du Changfeng let out a soft snort, and immediately shouted into the microphone: "Kaihang, if you find out about the situation, climb high immediately!" ”
"Understood!"
From the headset came Ma Kaihang's voice that had become serious again.
Pushing the throttle valve to the maximum, Pratt. The Whitney R-2800-77 engine let out an almost roaring roar, and with 2,800 horsepower, the bottle-shaped P-47 climbed straight into the sky, and soon climbed to the height of the meter.
At this time, the black spot in front of them also found Du Changfeng and the two, and they also accelerated their speed and rushed towards the two, but it was too late, Du Changfeng and the two had already occupied the height and speed and began to attack.
In the propeller era, the three elements of air combat are altitude, speed and firepower, as long as you have an advantage in these three points, then the balance of victory has tilted in your favor for most of the time.
The P-47 piloted by Du Changfeng and the others belonged to the last improved model in another time and space, that is, the N-type, and this model of the P-47 was replaced by the more powerful Pratt. The Whitney R-2800-77 engine has 500 horsepower more than the original R-2800-21W engine, and the stronger horsepower naturally brings faster speed, so the maximum speed of this N-type P-47 aircraft has reached 752 km / h, which is simply unimaginable now.
The four enemy planes that had just appeared were patrol detachments belonging to the 18th Regiment of the 5th Air Force of the Japanese Kwantung Army, led by the squad leader, Second Lieutenant Akutagawa Yoshino.
Yoshino Akutagawa was an experienced pilot, and when he saw the two fighters in front of him, he immediately realized that there was a good chance that these were the planes of the Huaxia people, but as soon as he started to warn, he saw that the other party had begun to climb. As soon as Yoshino Akutagawa issued a warning, he saw that the other party had already rushed down towards him.
"Be careful!"
At the same time as Yoshino Akutagawa issued a warning, he saw that the other party had rushed towards him at an outrageously fast speed, and the flames flashed during the dive, and he saw more than a dozen flames shooting down towards them.
"Get out of the way!"
In the yell, Yoshino Akutagawa pulled the lever to the right without thinking, pushed the throttle valve with his left hand, and kicked the rudder with his right foot, and the Zero fighter under the seat turned over on the spot as if it had been pushed violently, and then the nose of the plane flew to the right and dived down, and in the dodge, he could see two tongues of fire grazing his side with the corner of his eye.
Yoshino Akutagawa's rich experience saved his life, but the rest of the Japanese were not so lucky, and a Japanese plane that could not dodge was knocked off half of its wings by a tongue of fire, and soon fell to the ground in smoke.
Looking at the parachute that opened below, Yoshino Akutagawa gasped, just now these two Huaxia fighters from the discovery of the target to the attack, before and after less than two minutes. Their movements were simple and clean, fierce and vicious, and the pilots of these two fighters were definitely elite pilots in China.
"Second Lieutenant Yoshino, those two fighter planes are coming at you again!"
The roar of a wingman sounded in the headset, and without thinking, Akutagawa Yoshino was pulling another fighter, only the 2.674-ton Zero made a deft backflip, and then rushed towards the sky at an almost vertical angle. Although the Zero's Wing 12 engine made only 950 hp, it was so light that it could climb vertically at speeds of up to 800 meters per minute, which was quite impressive for its time.
I have to say that Yoshino Akutagawa's subconscious reflection saved him, although the P-47 has thick skin and thick meat, and the horsepower of the engine is several times stronger than that of the Zero, but this big guy is too heavy, especially the N-type aircraft piloted by Du Changfeng and them, the weight of the fully loaded aircraft has reached 9387 kg, and the speed of the plane of such a weight is naturally amazing if it is a dive, but if you want to play with the Zero type to climb and circle, it is undoubtedly the length of attacking the enemy with your own shortcomings, so Du Changfeng They immediately gave up the chase after seeing Yoshino Akutagawa climbing, Instead, an attack was launched on two other Japanese aircraft.
In the air battle, I saw the fighters flying up and down, and the dense rain of bullets kept flying in the air. In the face of the siege of the three Japanese planes, Du Changfeng and Ma Kaihang were not afraid, the two fighters played the Feiyan tail biting tactics to cover each other, and the other was like butterflies to attack separately, the air battle lasted less than three minutes, Yoshino Akutagawa's three Zero fighters not only failed to take advantage, but were shot down by two people to shoot down a Zero fighter.
The more he fought, the more frightened Yoshino Akutagawa also looked at the two fighters of the other side during the battle, and his heart immediately cooled after seeing it, because he saw that the fuselage of these two Huaxia fighters was painted with several medals of the Blue Sky and White Sun, which meant that as a senior pilot, he really knew too well.
Since the introduction of airplanes into war, since the First World War, the air forces of various countries have invariably had an established rule. That is, the pilots of any country will paint a mark on their own plane after shooting down an enemy plane. Although this mark will vary from country to country and from flight unit to unit, one thing is the same, and that is that the number of marks is the same as the number of enemy aircraft shot down.
And Yoshino Akutagawa saw that even the fighter with the fewest badges had six Blue Sky and White Sun medals on the fuselage, and the fighter with the most badges had more than ten medals. What this means Yoshino Akutagawa is really too clear, and he immediately realized that he will definitely not be able to please today, and the other party is the trump card among the aces in the Huaxia Air Force.
"Kawasaki-kun, let's go!"
Yoshino Akutagawa was circling the opposing fighter planes while informing his wingman by radio. Then he pushed the joystick and flew off into the distance as he circled with the other man.
When an experienced pilot was determined to escape, the energy he burst out was huge, although Du Changfeng and Ma Kaihang bit each other desperately and wanted to make persistent efforts to kill the remaining two Zeros, but the other party was too cunning, he made full use of the advantages of the Zero's good circling and fast climbing speed while doing a serpentine movement while lowering the altitude and trying to slip away. The P-47 piloted by Du Changfeng and the others is a typical high-altitude command fighter, but its performance at low altitude is not as good as that of the Zero type specially created for air supremacy, because the two subsequent attacks they launched were dodged by the other party.
Just when Du Changfeng was a little annoyed, Ma Kaihang's voice sounded in the headset, "Head, seeing that the sky is about to rain heavily, we have to rush back immediately, otherwise it will be troublesome later!" ”
"Alright, we'll be back soon!"
Du Changfeng's heart was also tight when he heard this, you must know that their runway in Huludao is now not paved with PSP perforated steel runway, once it rains heavily, it is certain that the runway must be full of stagnant water, and landing on such a runway is simply suicide.
Soon, the two warhawks also ended the battle and flew quickly towards the east......
"Boom ......"
Just half an hour after Du Changfeng and the others left, with the sound of a muffled thunder, a scorching flash finally lit up in the increasingly dark sky, illuminating the entire sky.
"Boom la la ......"
As the lightning pierced the sky, the bean-sized raindrops finally fell from the sky, and soon a downpour was sprinkled from the sky.
The intensive heavy rain soon turned the whole land into a muddy swamp, and after the occupation of the northeast, the Japanese themselves did not carry out infrastructure construction at all because they only cared about looting wealth and plundering resources, because they were generally dirt roads, and once they encountered heavy rain, the situation of this road could be imagined, but even in this case, the 1st Armored Division, which was originally advancing towards Jinzhou with all its might, still advanced with difficulty against the storm.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The roar of the struggling engine slowly came from a distance, but most of the sound was drowned out by the sound of the torrential rain.
A No. 4 tank stopped in the mud, and with a "clang", the lid of the turret opened, and a cold wind mixed with rain immediately poured into the turret. Soon a head in a raincoat emerged from the turret, and he looked around, but could only see a vast expanse in either direction.
After watching it for a while, Yu Haowei, who couldn't see anything, had to close the hatch cover again and sit back in his place, but even after a while, his seat was already wet from the rain.
Yu Haowei took out a dry cloth from the box next to him, and scolded angrily while wiping it: "Xiao Sichuan, how the hell did you drive the tank, where did you take us?" ”
The driver sitting in front turned his head and showed a baby face, only to see him say with some grievances: "Company commander, you can't blame me, didn't you command me to drive this way just now, why are you blaming me now?" ”
(To be continued.) )