The ceiling of the Flying Bear fighter has already exceeded 10,000 meters.

What really made the Japanese aircraft group desperate was the climbing speed of the Flying Bear, which reached 15 meters per second, which really did not look like a heavy fighter.

The Japanese bombers were also very advanced, and they were still newly released "Type 96" land attack aircraft.

The aircraft is a long-range land-based bomber, developed by Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, using an all-metal single-wing shell structure, integrating a lot of advanced technology, and was officially equipped with troops in 1936, with the internal number G3M.

Type 96 land attack, empty weight of 4.8 tons, can be loaded with fuel and ammunition of 2.8 tons, the maximum speed of 350 kilometers, the theoretical range of 4000 kilometers, the ceiling of 7500 meters, the use of 3-blade fixed-speed propellers, equipped with two star engines, the joint output of 1580 horsepower, but there are 7 crew members.

The reason why this Type 96 bomber dares to call out to fighters is because of its thick armor and strong firepower, not only equipped with four 7.7 mm machine guns, but also equipped with a 20 mm rear fire gun behind the fuselage, so in addition to poor maneuverability, it is really not afraid of ordinary light fighters.

When encountering the Flying Bear fighter, the Type 96 land attack was unlucky.

In 1937, the world's fighters were still popular in the era of aviation machine guns, such as the 7.7 mm series of British fighters, the 7.92 mm series of German fighters, and the 12.7 mm series of American fighters.

Take the latest British Spitfire fighter as an example, it is equipped with 8 7.7mm machine guns, although there are also two cannons and 4 machine guns in reserve, but it is a non-mainstream model, so the bomber with rough skin and thick flesh is indeed not very afraid of fighters.

It was not until the Battle of London in 1940 that the era of popularization of aviation artillery was ushered in.

The Flying Bear I fighter, developed in November 1934, is based on the American Hawker III fighter as a template, with the future P51 as the improvement direction, the purpose is to restrain the Japanese army's future Zero fighter, the combat effectiveness is barely passable, and Major General Liu has been tirelessly improving over the years.

Since the German aircraft designer, Willy Messerschmidt arrived in western Sichuan, he has also helped to improve some of them, and it is said that the current performance of the Flying Bear has been slightly better than the German BF110 fighter.

Whether the Flying Bear can restrain the Zero War is still unknown.

However, if you want to restrain the Japanese army's Type 96 land attack, it is still a piece of cake, the power of the Flying Bear fighter is as high as 2400 horsepower, the maximum speed is 722 kilometers, not only equipped with two 12.7 mm machine guns, but also two 22.5 mm machine guns.

The most terrifying thing about the Flying Bear fighter is that it is equipped with two cannons.

Not to mention the thin-skinned Type 96 land attack, even if the Super Flying Fortress B29 saw it, it had to retreat and slip away, basically a big hole in one shot, and no plane could take a few shots without crashing.

How powerful is the 22.5mm cannon?

Just look at how the Germans fought Soviet tanks during World War II.

Using Tiger tanks or Leopard tanks to deal with the T34 tank sea, it is a troublesome matter, it is a sharp weapon against the Soviet infantry, and the best way to deal with the tank sea is a strong attack aircraft group equipped with a large number of cannons, almost a few guns can solve a tank, and the armor thickness of the tank is much stronger than that of a bomber.

This is the real reason why the Soviet army has ten times the number of tanks of the German army, but it is always deflated.

And fighters often have to reduce their own weight as much as possible.

Because once the armor of the fighter is too thick, it means that the speed is reduced, and once it participates in air combat, it is a proper portion.

Therefore, no matter how thick the armor of the fighter is, the thickness of its armor is limited, let alone comparable to the main battle tank, even if the P51 of the US army, once hit by the machine gun, it will either die or explode, so thickening the armor of the fighter is only to increase the survival rate of the pilot.

The more than a dozen Japanese planes in front of him were only the enemy's vanguards.

In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Commander Liu did not dare to fight with enemy planes, but relied on the advantages of aircraft performance, like a cavalry charge, constantly pulling up fighters, and then repeatedly launching dive attacks.

The young Kawanishi Air Force is very unsuitable for this kind of air combat tactics.

Every dive needs to brave the danger of a rain of bullets, no one knows whether their dive this time is the last charge, they prefer to rely on skillful technology, as well as excellent fighter performance, with the enemy aircraft one by one.

For example, with the superior performance of the fighter plane, as well as the pilot's own flying skills, plus the loose hand of the "Lost Trace Fist" in the air, he will bite the butt of the enemy plane and beat it hard with one turn or two turns, and often a long point shot can solve an enemy plane, and the entire tactical process is like a dog playing with each other.

But Liu Yun's tactics were more brutal and effective.

Because the speed of the enemy planes is relatively slow, in the face of high-speed dive attacks, they can only blindly scream and fight, and there is no accuracy at all.

And the queues and formations between the enemy aircraft groups have all become a joke.

In the face of the Flying Bear fighters, which were superior in armor, speed, and firepower, the Type 96 land attack did not have the slightest power to fight back, and the advantages of the heavy fighters were greatly brought into play, making up for the shortcomings of the pilots in western Sichuan who had almost zero actual combat experience.

It turns out that someone's style of play is relatively successful.

In less than three rounds of dive attacks, the western Sichuan squadron had absolute air superiority, and only three or five of the more than 10 Type 96 land attack enemy planes remained, and they were even frightened and fled in an embarrassed direction to the northwest.

At this time, the sky over Nanjing was filled with gunsmoke, aircraft debris and parachutes.

The citizens began to cheer for the victory in the air battle, while the military police in the city blew the bronze whistle and went around arresting the Japanese pilots, and many foreigners wanted to see the majesty of the Chinese air force despite the drifting rain.

At one time, thousands of people gathered, and the pride of the Chinese people was self-sufficient.

Commander Liu originally wanted to make persistent efforts to completely annihilate this group of Type 96 land attack planes, but at this time, from the direction of Hangzhou in the southeast, a large group of enemy planes flew in, and their number exceeded 30.

The number of enemy planes was somewhat larger, about 40, but unfortunately it was still a Type 96 land attack, and there was still no fighter escort.

What's even more unfortunate is that because of the continuous drizzle, the visual conditions are not very good, and the communication between them is also intermittent, and the battle situation ahead is not very clear, and most of the more than 800 kilograms of aerial bombs have not had time to throw away, and they are suddenly attacked by flying bear fighters.

After one dive, seven or eight enemy aircraft were shot down.

The remaining enemy planes scattered one after another, and in the public communication channel in the air, a burst of birds chirping sounded.

Some of the enemy planes did not even have time to drop their bombs before they prepared to return directly, but the heavy planes in western Sichuan were only slightly damaged; on the surface, only one fighter plane was emitting black smoke and slanted into the field, and four or five others were slightly damaged.

Major General Liu also didn't care about commanding the operation, so he hurriedly called the crashed pilot.

"Raccoon 13, please answer when you hear it."

"In the name of the Supreme Commander, I order you to abandon the fighter immediately."

"Fighters, we have never lacked fighters in western Sichuan, but we lack pilots, I order you to abandon the planes immediately."

I don't know if the No. 13 pilot was too seriously injured, and a weak voice came from the middle of the ring.

"The order has been received on the 13th, the fighter has been seriously damaged, and the 13th will be abandoned immediately."

In the sky over Nanjing, where the wind and rain were slightly reduced, a new umbrella flower fell.

Liu Yuncai breathed a sigh of relief, and after counting the damage in a timely manner, he immediately ordered all fighters that were in poor condition or whose fuselage was seriously damaged to return to Wuhu Airport immediately.

Nearby air reinforcements have arrived in the skies over Nanjing.

It is actually a good thing that these damaged western Sichuan fighters can return to the base as soon as possible, but if they can't get out of the line of fire, it will be a miserable record for the Japanese army.

"Reason, absolute reason".

This is the motto of the West Sichuan Air Force Academy, and it is said that it is the "wonderful theory of air combat" that a certain unscrupulous principal came up with with a pat on his head.

However, in the current situation, it is the most appropriate, because the actual damaged fighters are far more than four or five, and even more than half are injured, and only seven or eight are intact, including Commander Liu himself, but only five or six are willing to return.

Seeing the few Chinese fighters, the Japanese army's fleet seemed to have regained confidence.

They began to reorganize their flight formations, preparing to annihilate the remaining Flying Bear fighters in one fell swoop, especially the leader of the bomber group, Yoshidasa Nagaishii, who was already a little annoyed and angry in the face of the previous defeat.

This guy is currently the captain of the Luya Aviation Wing, with the rank of Navy Captain, and is about to be promoted to rear admiral, but he was knocked on the stick by Liu Yun and others.

As for the promotion and award, we have to wait until the next life.

At this time, the Type 96 land attack, which had been frightened before, flew back, so the number of Japanese bombers reached nearly 40.

Ishii Yoshidasa's confidence was greatly increased, so he turned his heart sideways, and after annihilating the enemy in front of him, he immediately turned into the runaway, because the group of deserters came with bad news, the air force at Wuhu Airport had risen into the air, and it was expected to arrive in the airspace of the battle in more than ten hours.

"More than ten minutes is enough".

Ishii Yoshidai snorted and thought angrily, and immediately ordered all the Type 96 land attack aircraft groups, "Warriors of the Empire, we will wait for the crit across the ocean, like the desolation of the sea and the long drive across the sea, and the allegiance to the emperor is in this day, everyone will see you at Kudanzaka (shrine), Yazhi will give it, and it will be loaded."

A great spectacle appeared in the sky over Nanjing, where more than 30 Type 96 land attack planes actually learned from the army red deer they despised the most, launched the Air Force's version of the "pig rush" tactic, divided the entire aircraft group into three teams, and took turns to launch a decisive charge against the 11 Flying Bear fighters.

For a while, it covered the sky and the sun, and it was menacing.

Major General Liu's life, but the gold is expensive, how can he fight to the death with the "pig burst".

He immediately issued a new combat order on the public channel, divided the group into three or four small groups, and took advantage of the flying bears to constantly dive at high speed, giving full play to the hooligan tactics of "hit and run."

As for the results of the battle, don't worry about it, as long as you can wait for the friendly aircraft group to encircle, it will be the biggest victory.

At this time, Ishii Yoshidasa was also dumbfounded.

The Japanese bomber group had a numerical advantage, but the problem was that their flight speed was too slow, with a maximum speed of only 350 kilometers per hour.

The maximum speed of the Flying Bear fighter is 720 kilometers per hour, and it continues to use its own performance advantages to constantly launch dive attacks, and even with the help of gravity acceleration, the speed exceeds 850 kilometers per hour, and this battle cannot be fought.

Before Ishii Yoshidasa gave the order to retreat, more than 100 Leopard fighters surrounded him.

It is said that in a routine air force exercise, the fighter is dexterous and ferocious, very similar to some rare animal - clouded leopard, so it was named the clouded leopard fighter by the old Jiang and others present, and was referred to as the leopard fighter.

Clouded leopard, slightly larger than the golden cat, weighing 16~23 kilograms, about 1 meter long, slightly smaller than the leopard, inhabiting the mountain evergreen broad-leaved forest, climbing the tree is extremely high, the body side is connected into a cloud block by several narrow black spots, and the coat color is close to the surrounding environment, can form a good concealment effect, distributed in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and Shaanxi, Gansu, Taiwan and other places.

Clouded leopards appear slim and skinny, and even have the nickname "Big Cat".

But when it comes to explosiveness, and its skull and teeth and the like, it is completely at the level of the leopard, and its temperament is secretive, fierce, flexible, likes to roar loudly, likes to eat orangutans, wild boars, as well as birds and fish, and is also a jungle overlord in nature, compared with the western Sichuan annihilator, it is extremely similar.

Leopard fighter (Jer), wingspan of 10.8 meters, total length of 8 meters, using constant speed propeller, engine power output of 750 horsepower, crew 1 ~ 2 people, empty weight of 1.5 tons, maximum speed of 450 kilometers per hour, economic cruising speed of 180 kilometers per hour, practical ceiling of 8000 meters, theoretical range of 1300 kilometers, equipped with 2 12.7 mm caliber machine guns, and 2 60 kg bombs.

Compared with the performance of the Type 96 land attack, the Leopard fighter is indeed limited in strength.

However, this model is a light fighter, and once the performance is close, it is simply a disaster for the bomber, not to mention the maximum speed of the Type 96 land attack, which is more than one grade lower.

What's even worse is that in order to deal with the Flying Bear fighters, the entire fleet formation has been completely dispersed, and now it is difficult to run.

Seeing the Leopard fighter coming at high speed, Ishii Yoshidasa also regretted it.

He didn't want to die now, and after returning to the Songshan base in Taiwan, he immediately complained to the base camp of the intelligence department, and the failure of the Nanjing crit attack was all due to the wrong information provided by these red deer, didn't it mean that Huaxia was full of some Hawker III. fighters.