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The enemy plane swayed back and forth in its sights, as if trying to get rid of its pursuit.
The aerial contest is a long contest that tests the technical and tactical level of both sides, and it is difficult to shoot down the opponent when the opponent is evenly matched.
On the slightly vibrating plane, the German pilot had not felt such an annoying entanglement for a long time.
The last time I trembled with the enemy was in the skies over British Britain. At that time, his opponent was a Spitfire, and the performance was comparable to that of the ME-109.
He pushed the gear lever of the engine to allow the plane to fly faster. The engine in the nose made a moving sound, allowing his plane to move faster.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer, and the machine guns of the other side were constantly strafing, driving away the approaching German planes.
"I pull up the height, and you fire at the tail to interfere with their aiming!" After assigning a mission to the wingman, the pilot finally decided to try a more robust attack.
The ME-109 fighter began to climb, and in this performance it was almost invincible.
With the engine roaring, the ME-109 fighter gained an altitude advantage and entered the dive phase.
In this phase, the ME-109 fighter is faster and can approach speeds of up to 600 kilometers per hour.
Such a speed was very scary in 1941, because with this speed the German pilot could quickly approach the vast majority of targets that he wanted to approach.
Except that this tactic is a little inadequate against the Spitfire......
The two German fighters opened fire at the same time, and the tracer bullets cast a graceful curve in the sky because of the change in flight trajectory.
As the direction of the fighter's nose changed, the two curves began to change, and then little by little they approached the Soviet plane, which was dodging the other curve.
"Now is it!" The German pilot realized that the opportunity had come, and decisively pressed the fire button of the machine gun when the machine gun trajectory approached the enemy plane.
The shaft cannon of the ME-109 fighter began to spew tongues of fire, and the ferocious fire strafed the Soviet planes in the distance with one muffled sound after another.
"Die!" With this blessed word silently in his heart, the German pilot saw his shell with his own eyes, dragging a dazzling trajectory into the wing and fuselage of the Soviet plane.
"Uh......h Airplanes! He pulled his joystick and allowed the plane to roll nimbly, dodging the bullets fired by enemy planes.
A thrilling hand-to-hand encounter was completed in such a short time that the German pilots did not even have time to take a look at their own results.
"You hit him! You've hit him! The wingman pilot's voice came over the radio.
The wingman who doesn't need to do evasive maneuvers can see it clearly at this time. The shells fired by his own long plane hit the wings and fuselage of the opponent's plane, destroying the structure of the opponent's plane.
The opponent's aircraft had already begun to smoke, and the 7.92 mm caliber bullets did not play a role, and the effect was obviously different when replaced by a 20 mm caliber cannon.
"Woo ......" But what is surprising is that the Soviet plane that was hit did not explode in the air like other planes, but began to fall with thick smoke.
This performance made the wingman's pilot a little dumbfounded, because he had shot down a Soviet I-16 fighter before, but after the opponent was hit by the cannon, it instantly shattered in the air.
As a result, there is now such an enemy plane, which can still remain intact and fall after being swept by a 20 mm caliber cannon......
"Oh my God, you can't believe it! The Soviet plane that you hit did not disintegrate, it just fell! The wingman said in disbelief.
His words also made the pilot of the long plane who was breaking away feel a little surprised-although he did not see the results with his own eyes, experience told him that he had hit at least three 20 mm cannon shells of the opponent just now.
Counting the 7.92 mm caliber machine gun bullets that strafed the opponent before, it is really surprising that the opponent was hit in multiple parts and was able to keep falling intact.
"Another enemy plane is strafing you! Change course! Change course! Before the pilot of the long plane could figure out why the enemy plane did not disintegrate, he heard the anxious voice of the wingman in the headset.
The enemy also had two planes, one of which was shot down and the other was still intact. The opponent's self-defense machine gun fired, and the tracer bullet was about to sweep to the wing of the long plane.
"Buzz!" The pilot of the long plane subconsciously began to roll, allowing his plane to shake off the tracer bullets that came from him.
At this time, there was already sweat in his palms, and this was the first time he felt the threat from his opponent when he was fighting on the Eastern Front.
Facing a tough enemy is a good opportunity to train yourself. But the sudden arrival of such an opportunity will still catch people off guard.
Finally getting rid of the bullets strafed by the other party, the long machine finally saw the results he had just achieved.
The downed Soviet plane was slowly gaining altitude, dragging black smoke and leaning towards the ground little by little.
"Oh my God, the pilot is all right......," the Luftwaffe pilot cursed, and continued to pursue the intact enemy plane in front of him.
Anyway, the place under your feet is already the German occupation zone. Seeing an enemy plane falling, a German patrol will inevitably rush to the crash site to search for and capture the Soviet pilots who may have escaped.
As for whether the Soviet plane would fly back into Soviet-controlled territory, the German pilots did not believe that such a thing would happen.
"Bow left and right! I'll get the other person's attention, and you will attack! Bombard him with machine guns! Don't hesitate! After adjusting the formation of the escort flight, the pilot of the long plane said to his wingman.
With one enemy aircraft left, the battle was much simpler - the enemy lost cover, and a single self-defense machine gun was not enough to drive out two German fighters.
As a result, two German fighters dispersed behind this Soviet plane, one on the left and one on the right, occupying the attack positions on both sides.
Just behind the area where the three planes were flying rapidly, near a bush, the Soviet plane that had been hit finally hit the ground and exploded violently.
The bomb mounted on the Soviet plane collided and was naturally detonated, and the wings, which were not broken by the cannon, flew far away in the explosion.
And with this sharp explosion, the battle of the three planes in the distance suddenly began, and tracer bullets were once again sprayed in the sky like raindrops.