Chapter 581: Aggrieved Crawford
The **** encountered by the Japanese aircraft formation led by Su Yuanhui is two squads under the Fourth Flight Group, and they are equipped with the P40C fighter provided by Su Jin, which belongs to the early model of the P40, with two 12.7mm machine guns in the nose and four 7.62mm machine guns in the wings, equipped with self-sealing fuel tanks, and thick skin, which is a typical anti-attack and resistant type. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As soon as the two sides came into contact, the bullets of the P40 group hit the head and brain, although the Zero fighter dodged the bullet rain with its flexible maneuverability, but the Type 97 heavy explosion aircraft behind them was not good, after hanging the heavy bomb, the Type 97 heavy explosion aircraft had no way to dodge the sudden surprise attack, although they tried to avoid the attack of the P40, but there were still three heavy explosion planes falling to the ground with black smoke.
Looking at the few white parachutes that opened below, Awahara Hui was so angry that his teeth were about to crush, and the three heavy explosive planes were shot down without even dropping a bomb, which was simply slapping him in the face of the formation commander, I saw him yelling at the microphone.
"Everyone has an idea, immediately catch up and kill this group of damned Shina people!"
As Su Yuanhui's words fell, six Zero fighters rushed towards more than a dozen P40s, and they firmly believed that with the flexibility of the Zero, they would be able to abuse those seemingly bulky Huaxia fighters as dogs. But what made Su Yuanhui vomit blood was that after the other party's fighters shot down three Type 97 heavy explosive planes, they did not immediately turn their heads to fight with them, but threw their butts and smeared oil on the soles of their feet, and the nose of the plane desperately increased the throttle and slipped away.
The angry Awahara Teru led five Zero fighters to chase after them desperately, but the final result was desperate, with the Zero 533 kilometers per hour speed could not catch up with the other party, they could only watch these fighters slip away in front of their eyes.
"Bagayalu, are these timid people all rats who can only shoot cold guns?"
Although Su Yuanhui scolded and ordered to regroup, the six Zeros were divided into two layers, and the remaining five Type 97 heavy explosive planes were firmly protected and continued to move towards the goal. However, Su Yuanhui knew in his heart that those fighters would come again just now, and sure enough, they had just finished regrouping and had not flown far, and the Zero pilot who was in charge of guarding the back reported loudly, "Your Excellency Shaozuo, those fighters are here again!" ā
Su Yuan Hui turned his head, and sure enough, more than a dozen black shadows swooped down on them from a high altitude in the rear. Su Yuanhui hurriedly took the Zero fighter to meet it, and the distance of more than 1,000 meters was a blink of an eye for a fighter with a speed of five or six hundred kilometers per hour, and soon in a fierce burst of gunfire, two Zeros were shot down, and the other side also had a P40 emitting black smoke.
After World War II, with the continuous enhancement of aircraft performance, the cruelty of air combat also increased, often only a dozen seconds or even a few seconds can decide a person's life and death, after two waves of fighting, the Japanese army lost four aircraft.
"Yaga, these damn Shina planes!" Su Yuanhui scolded while firing, in the firefight just started, he obviously hit a fighter plane that was bitten by him, he was sure that the other party was hit by at least more than ten bullets by himself, but the other party still swaggered past him as if no one was there.
The letter Su Jin handed to Zhou Zhirou detailed how to use the P40 to deal with the Japanese Zero fighter, which is also a valuable experience summed up by the young men of the American Flying Tigers who led the United States to aid China in another time and space.
First of all, the P40 fighter is a water-cooled fighter, and the characteristics of the water-cooled fighter can be summed up as thin, fast and powerful. Although the P40 looks mediocre, in another time and space, the P40 piloted by the Yankees was beaten by the Japanese Zero and the German BF-109 to the ground, and the Yankees, who suffered a big loss, were angry and threw these rags to the Chinese Air Force, but this fighter that was looked down upon by the Americans shined on the Chinese battlefield, after all, the poor Huaxia Air Force is good to have a plane to drive, where is there still the qualification to pick fat and thin.
The P40's full nickname is the Indian Tomahawk, and its firepower also inherits the tradition of the American imperialists, with two Browning M2 heavy machine guns (12.7mm) and two Browning M1919 machine guns (7.62mm) on the left and right wings to easily crush all Japanese fighters. Some people may have asked for a long time, why did the Japanese not strengthen the firepower of their own fighters, and also installed large-caliber machine guns in the wings and other places? Actually, it's not that the Japanese don't want to, but they can't. The Japanese fighter plane is known for its thin skin and large stuffing, and the strength of the wing can support the whole aircraft to do high-speed movement, and if a large-caliber machine gun is installed, several machine guns will fire at the same time during air combat, and the fragile wing will immediately fall apart, so although the Japanese designers also know the shortcomings of their own aircraft, they can only let their pilots use two measurable 7.7 mm machine guns to meet the ferocious 12.7 mm machine guns of the US imperialists.
Secondly, although the US imperialist fighters have always been known for their thick skin and thick flesh, the sturdy body gives the pilots the greatest protection, so those pilots who fly the US imperialist fighters often dare to shoot at the Japanese when they are at war with the Japanese. In just two years, the Flying Tigers relied on this second-rate fighter to shoot down 286 Japanese planes, while losing only 12 pilots.
In this time and space, the Kuomintang Air Force, which had obtained this fighter and the method of dealing with the Zero fighter in advance, achieved good fighters in the first air battle, shooting down four enemy planes in just two waves of attacks.
After losing four fighters, Su Yuanhui also came from the anger, he immediately realized that it was impossible to use the remaining Zero fighters to deal with the more than ten Huaxia fighters like locusts, so he immediately issued an order to retreat, and the remaining five Type 97 heavy explosive planes quickly threw away the bombs they carried and ran back under the cover of the Zero, but where would the pilots of the National Army, who had already been on fire for the past two years, let go of such a good opportunity. In the ensuing melee, all eight Type 97 heavy explosive planes were beaten into a ball of torches, and Su Yuanhui finally had to take the remaining Zero fighters to escape from a low altitude by taking advantage of their excellent and flexible characteristics, and the pilots of the Nationalist Army, who had won a great victory, returned to the base happily.
At 10:0, Chairman Jiang received the good news, Long Yan Dayue, so this great victory was quickly reported by the major newspapers in the Kuomintang region, and the **** air force pilots also became famous in China again.
Chairman Chiang was happy, but the Yankees were unhappy. Lieutenant Colonel Crawford immediately approached Commander Su and asked him why he had copied American fighter planes without the permission of the US government and sent them to the Nationalist Government.
"Lieutenant Colonel Crawford, in fact, you know, this is a decision made by our company, as for why we will copy your country's P40 without authorization, it is because the company's technology was not mature before, so we had to copy some, in line with the principle of waste utilization, we sent them to the national government to resist the invasion of fascist Japan, presumably your country does not care about these small things, right? But don't worry, now that we're no longer copying, didn't you see that we've replaced all of our fighters with shrews and thunderbolts now? ā
"You ......"
Lieutenant Colonel Crawford is so angry in his heart, Nima's is coaxing ghosts. Your shrew fighter is an upgraded version of our American Wildcat carrier-based aircraft at a glance, and your B-25 bomber and Stuka dive bomber are directly copied from our Americans and Germans.
Looking at Crawford's pale little face and crumbling body, Su Jin was also worried that he would suddenly collapse in his office with a myocardial infarction under too much excitement, and he would not be able to tell if he was full of mouths, but the lessons of Mrs. Xu in Nanjing in later generations had affected a whole generation, Su Jin didn't want to be relied on by the Yankees, so he hurriedly comforted: "Lieutenant Colonel Crawford, in fact, you don't have to mind too much, the Chongqing government has strengthened the air force, which is also a good thing for your country, as for patents or something, it's just a minutiae, what do you say?" Of course, if you don't mind, I can write to your Government and President Roosevelt to explain this issue and apologize sincerely. ā
Su Jin was not comforted, but when he comforted Crawford, his body trembled even more. I've seen shameless, I've never seen such shameless, if an apology is useful, why do you need the police to do it? On the one hand, you are holding an imitation of a US fighter plane to give away people as a favor, but on the other hand, you are not willing to give the US government a dime in patent fees, and you only think about ending this matter with a fluttering letter of apology, how can there be such a good thing in the world? Crawford, who was afraid that he would not be able to help but duel with the guy in front of him if he continued to say more, left the headquarters very wisely without saying a word, and hurriedly wrote a letter to Roosevelt on this issue, accusing Su Jin of the crime, but Crawford waited for two weeks before he received a telegram from the White House, which only had a simple sentence on the telegram: "These are extraordinary times, and the overall situation is important!" ā
That's it. It made Crawford lose his spirit like a deflated ball, and it felt like the whole world was full of malice. In fact, what he didn't know was that the patents of the two fighters were just trivial compared with the country's general environment, and Roosevelt was more concerned about the laboratory and forces standing behind Su Jin, where did Su Jin's endless stream of advanced weapons and materials come from, and what channels they used to enter China, this is what Roosevelt and his staff paid the most attention to. (To be continued.) )