880 [Air Force Victory]
With the establishment of Chongqing as a wartime capital, the institutional facilities here are also being upgraded.
For example, Jiulongpo Baishiyi Airport only started construction at the end of last year. Although some of the buildings are still unfinished, they have already been put into use ahead of schedule and have opened long-distance flights from Chongqing to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.
If Wang Zhaoming delays his defection for half a year, then he doesn't need to take advantage of the trouble of Yunnan, he can fly directly from Baishiyi Airport to Hanoi.
Early in the morning, Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong boarded the plane, and before they took off, they heard the air defense sirens in the main city.
Feng Yong said with a smile: "Little Japan is going to suffer a loss this time!" ”
"I hope the Air Force athletes will show their courage." Zhou Hexuan nodded.
When Chang Kaishen first moved to Chongqing, Chongqing's air defense force was quite good, and several daytime attacks by Japanese planes were repulsed, and they were forced to switch to night bombing. But as the number of Chinese fighters continued to dwindle, the Japanese became emboldened and now switched back to daytime bombing.
Just when Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong flew to Guizhou, little Japan came again. 54 Japanese fighters, covering 28 bombers, flew arrogantly from the east.
This time, the leaders were Hatsuhiko Watanabe and Kameyoshiyuki, the former was the leader of the Nanchang air battle, and the latter was the murderer of the bombing of the Zhongshan ship. Their target this time was directly aimed at Guangyangba Airport, because the news that Zhou Hexuan had returned home with a plane had leaked, and the Japanese wanted to destroy Chongqing's air force again.
Before the air raid sirens sounded in the main city, the air defense observation post on the shore downstream had already detected the enemy's traces and immediately sent an urgent message to the military airfield. After receiving the alarm, the Chinese Air Force quickly dispatched dozens of fighters of various types.
Hatsuhiko Watanabe was taken aback when he saw the huge fleet of Chinese planes. He knew that China had bought new planes, but he didn't expect them to be so large that the sneak attack plan had been shattered, so he could only bite the bullet.
Due to the limited runway, the Chinese side has just managed to lift 31 planes, and Japanese bombers have already flown over the airfield - it is clear that it is time for the airport to be expanded.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
More than a dozen heavy aerial bombs were smashed down, knocking over two Chinese planes and damaging one runway.
At the same time, the Chinese fighters that had already taken off also fought with the Japanese fighters.
It was not Dong Mingde and Liang Tiancheng, the two aces, who opened the record, nor the pilots brought back by Feng Yong from the United States, but Zhou Zhikai, who was not yet 20 years old.
Zhou Zhikai was born in a famous family, his father was a judge, and his mother was the daughter of a rich family. He was extremely handsome, his former dream was to be a movie star, and he applied for the aviation school without finishing middle school without telling his family, and was assigned to the Fourth Brigade as a trainee pilot in February last year.
Due to the small number of planes, Zhou Zhikai could only watch every air battle, standing on the ground anxiously to cheer for his teammates. Historically, it would take more than half a year for him to fly an airplane to participate in the war, shooting down two enemy planes in his debut, and later became the captain of the fourth brigade, and was only 24 years old when he died.
Although Zhou Hexuan brought back 58 fighters this time, Feng Yong brought back more pilots, and it stands to reason that trainee pilots like Zhou Zhikai have no chance to participate in the war. However, more than half of the 58 fighters were Soviet planes, and the pilots who came back from the United States had not yet figured out the performance, so Zhou Zhikai, who was familiar with the situation of Soviet planes, had the fighting opportunity of his dreams.
Zhou Zhikai drove a YT-1, which was gradually eliminated by the Soviet Union, and even if it was not sold to China, it would be retired soon. He seized the gap between the captain Dong Mingde and the Japanese plane, and hit the cockpit of the enemy plane from the side in one fell swoop, and the unlucky Watanabe Hatsuhiko was directly shot in the head.
Before Zhou Zhikai could be happy, his plane was also hit in the tail, and there were a few more bullet holes in the middle of the fuselage.
"Guns kill devils! Exercise! Zhou Zhikai scolded in his hometown dialect and prepared to leave the battlefield for a forced landing, because he felt that he had broken his engine.
Fortunately, the Japanese devil didn't have the time to care about him, Zhou Zhikai forced the plane to land on the river very smoothly, and there was only one thought left in his heart: next time Lao Tzu must drive Yi-15, and the performance of YT-1 is too bad!
The one who opened the record again was the person brought back by Feng Yong, He Xiaohan, a former law student of Feng Yong University. Don't look at his name is very feminine, but he is a grumpy Northeast gentleman, and he also had a fight with Kong Lingwei when he was in the aviation club, and beat the second miss of the Kong family to cry.
By the way, after Kong Lingwei was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, he actually wanted to take out a gun to retaliate, and was directly kicked out of the club by Feng Yong, and returned to China last year to continue to be a gentleman.
He Xiaohan flew a P-26, which was eliminated before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and was powerless to resist the Japanese Zero. But He Xiaohan is not facing the Zero fighter, but the A5M4, which is also an aircraft that will be eliminated in 1940.
When Dong Mingde led the team to entangle with the Japanese fighters, He Xiaohan climbed with the temporary squad leader and dived towards the enemy's bomber group - the other side could no longer be allowed to bomb, and there were still more than 30 Chinese fighters on the ground that had not taken off.
He Xiaohan hit an enemy bomber with a shuttle and hit an enemy bomber very accurately. The Japanese plane was crumbling, and it didn't run away, but wanted to throw all the bombs, but most of them blew up on the edge of Jiangxin Island, and then He Xiaohan made up a shuttle and planted it in the river.
The Japanese panicked directly when they were rushed into the bomber group by Chinese fighters, and the bombing leader Kameshiyuki hurriedly sent a radio signal to order the evacuation.
The Japanese fighters wanted to come to the rescue, but they were entangled by Dong Mingde and his people, and several planes on each side were shot down.
As more and more Chinese fighters took to the skies, the situation soon turned into a pursuit battle. Dong Mingde had completely killed the red eye, and led people to chase him straight out of Kuimen before ordering to return, he killed the three opposite planes alone, and the king Liang Tiancheng also perfectly killed two planes.
In this air battle, the Chinese Air Force was shot down 6 planes, 3 were blown up, 4 people were killed, and 2 people were wounded. The Japanese plane was shot down 17 aircraft, 18 killed and 3 captured.
The Chinese Air Force won a big victory.
When the news of the victory reached the main city of Chongqing, the people of the city were filled with joy. The students and the masses spontaneously organized a condolence procession and brought chickens, ducks, fish and meat to the labor army, and Lao Jiang also issued a commendation order at the first time.
Before the Zero fighters were put into the battlefield, the Japanese Air Force was really not good, and it bullied China purely by relying on the strength of the crowd. As long as it encounters a situation of equal strength, the Chinese Air Force has basically never lost, and there have been several cases of winning more with less.
In 1941, the American aviation magazine "AVIATION" commented: "Japanese pilots have the highest accident rate in the world, both military and civilian. In the four-year Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Air Force could not even defeat the old and insignificant Chinese Air Force, and the Japanese Air Force pilots were significantly inferior in combat power to the Chinese pilots......"