The Hawker fighters really lagged behind.

The Hawker III fighter, with a maximum speed of 360 kilometers per hour and an altitude of 8,400 meters, is similar to the performance of the Type 96 land attack.

Once the bomber group wanted to run, Hawk didn't withdraw from them.

Hawk III. is not only very weak in firepower, only equipped with 1 12.7 mm caliber machine gun, 1 7.62 mm caliber machine gun, and there are not many bullets, which is like the current Leopard fighter, not to mention the speed thief, the tongue of fire is like a whip.

But what sadds Yoshidasa Ishii the most is the tiger-like flying bear fighter.

It's too hurtful to feel emotional, and it is actually loaded with two machine guns, once it hits, unless it is not hit, it will not die or be disabled, as long as it is hit by three or five shells, it is rarely exploded in the air, fortunately, the number is limited, and it looks like more than ten of them, otherwise the entire Type 96 land attack cluster will really go to Jiudansaka.

In order to survive, Ishii Yoshidasa had to fight.

Mr. Dazuo ran alone for a while, estimating that he had escaped from the enemy's encirclement, and then "timely" issued the order to retreat on the whole line.

Liu Yun, who has the assistance of wisdom and brain, has long been eyeing him.

At the sound of the order, all the Flying Bear fighters, regardless of the enemy planes in the melee, immediately followed Major General Liu and kept a close eye on the fleeing enemy planes, and there was a great posture of "it is advisable to chase after the poor with the remaining bravery."

Even if there were subordinates who helped to shoot the guns, in the sky near Taihu Lake, Ishii Yoshidazuo and others were still caught up by the Flying Bear fighter.

At this time, there were only two or three wingmen around this guy.

In the face of nearly ten flying bears, he also knew that he could not escape, so Ishii Yoshidazuo had no choice but to turn around, muster up the last bit of courage, and wanted to fight with the Huaxia fighters.

But how can this be done?

After Liu Yun surrounded this guy, he first knocked out his wingman one by one, and then broke the engine of the land attack, so that he had to make a forced landing on the edge of Taihu Lake.

Hmph, it's not bad to be able to capture a big Zuo alive.

It may really be fate, Ishii Yoshidasa's bombers had just made a forced landing on the water surface of Taihu Lake, and a group of Type 96 ships flew from the southwest.

Major General Liu did not dare to take the initiative to invite the battle.

Because the battle between the front and back lasted for more than an hour, not only were the pilots exhausted and physically exhausted, but even the ammunition and fuel were exhausted.

The full name of the 96 ship battle is the 96 type carrier-based fighter.

It is the first domestic all-metal monoplane fighter of the Japanese Navy, developed in 1934, designed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Jiro Horikoshi, in order to reduce wind resistance and weight, the whole aircraft is made of smooth aluminum alloy shell.

In 1936, the Type 96 warship became the main fighter on the Japanese aircraft carrier, which can be called the predecessor of the Zero carrier-based fighter, and in 1937 it was a fighter with leading comprehensive performance.

There are many types of 96 ship battles in the early days, but the one used in actual combat is the A5M4 No. 4 fighter, with a wingspan of 11 meters, a total length of 7.55 meters, an engine power of 710 horsepower, a crew of 1 person, an empty weight of 1.2 tons, and a maximum speed of 440 kilometers per hour.

The maximum ceiling of the fighter is 9800 meters, the theoretical range is 1200 kilometers, there are 2 machine guns in the nose, the caliber is 7.7 mm, the climb performance is particularly outstanding, from the flat ground to 3000 meters in the air, as long as 3 minutes and 35 seconds, compared with the Leopard is not inferior.

Commander Liu's decision was right.

This group of Type 96 warships was actually fighters that took off from the "Longxiang" aircraft carrier, and the purpose was to receive the Type 96 land attack group on its return.

Because of the disastrous defeat of Ishii Yoshidasa's air battle in Nanjing, Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Kawatani, commander of the Third Fleet, had already alarmed, and he hurriedly ordered the aircraft carrier formation to sail into Hangzhou Bay at the risk of encountering mines, but there was no intention of a decisive battle.

Of course, if the Flying Bear fighter has to come forward to invite the battle, it will not want to achieve any results in a short period of time.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the 96 warship battle is indeed slightly worse, but the 96 warship battle is a dexterous light fighter, even if it cannot escape or win, it can entangle the clumsy Flying Bear fighter, and after a long time, it is not uncommon for the Flying Bear fighter to be shot down when the fuel of the Flying Bear fighter is exhausted, or the pilot himself is negligent.

However, Commander Liu did not dare to retreat.

Once these more than 10 carrier-based planes fly over the airspace of Taihu Lake, there will be great changes in the air battle in Nanjing.

And the 96 warships also played a little drum when they saw the flying bear, and an animal intuition told them that these unaware triangular fighters were definitely not easy to mess with.

All of a sudden, a group of enemy and enemy fighters formed a stalemate over Taihu Lake.

Soon, scattered land attack fighters fled from the direction of Nanjing.

As long as the Flying Bear fighters see suitable targets, they will divide one or two from the queue and give them a special ride, and the flight speed of the heavy fighters is extremely fast, and when attacking, they do not drag the mud and water, and often a long point shot can cause the enemy plane to explode in the air.

Such a powerful fighter made the Type 96 warships, who wanted to come to the rescue, were frightened and retreated.

Fortunately, the long plane issued a strict order in time, so it did not disperse in a hurry, but it still retreated collectively, for fear of being attacked by the Flying Bear fighters.

However, with the emergence of scattered Type 96 land attacks, it also means that the remnants of enemy planes over Nanjing have been gradually wiped out by Leopard fighters, and there is basically no one in ten who can really successfully escape to the vicinity of the aircraft carrier.

The Japanese army's "transoceanic crit" operation was almost completely annihilated.

About 10 minutes later, the Leopard fighters around Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing gradually converged over Taihu Lake, and the Type 96 warships had to retreat, because the aircraft carriers in Hangzhou Bay were themselves afraid, and there were already traces of enemy planes in its vicinity, and if they did not run away, they would probably be too late.

As soon as the Type 96 ship retreated, the Flying Bear fighters also began to return.

Commander Liu didn't bother to ask about the results of the battle at all, but was concerned about the casualties of the pilots in western Sichuan and the battle damage in this operation, but almost none of the 17 Flying Bear fighters who participated in the battle were spared, and they were all more or less injured.

Even Liu Yun's own landline plane was blown up by the fragments of the enemy plane, cutting countless holes.

In this air battle, three Flying Bear fighters crashed, two of them had to abandon the plane to escape due to heavy damage during the air battle in Nanjing, and one was damaged during the forced landing on the return flight.

There are also six pilots seriously injured, and it will be up to luck to fight again.

When Liu Yun and the others returned to Wuhu Airport, they were greeted by heroes, and not only the commanders of the base led their troops to greet them, but even Zhou Zhirou, commander of the Air Force, He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, and other bigwigs personally came here to wait for the plane to receive them.

It is said that Chiang is also about to come from the secret base of the small camp and take a speedboat to visit the air combat heroes.

Although the detailed results of the air battle have not yet been counted, everyone knows that "the August 14 air battle was a great victory."

The Flying Bear Squadron in western Sichuan was the first unit to rush into the sky over Nanjing, and naturally won the first credit, even if He Yingqin had a prejudice against someone, he had to pretend to be a smile at this time, but when Liu Yun shook hands with him, he always felt that this guy's smile was a little hypocritical.

After some perfunctory politeness, Liu Yun returned to the western Sichuan military camp.

Before he could comfort the wounded one by one, he immediately ordered the special forces led by Wolf Liuqin to go to the vicinity of Taihu Lake to arrest the Japanese pilots, especially the forced landing place of Ishii Yoshidasa, in the name of assisting Lieutenant Colonel Yu Zitian in installing the radar system.

Commander Liu had an intuition that there should be a big fish here, because many air combat orders were issued by the plane.

The pilots are all Commander Liu's sweethearts.

The pilots who accompanied him on the expedition to the Songhu battlefield this time were all ace students, and the loss of any one of them would make him heartache for a long time, but fortunately, there were still primary therapeutic agents available, and he couldn't take care of many for a while.

Many pilots immediately regained their combat effectiveness.

As for the maintenance of the Flying Bear fighter, it was handed over to the ground staff in western Sichuan, these are the trump cards in the ground service, and the maintenance is naturally not a problem, not to mention the secret assistance of the ant robot, it is estimated that it will be restored as new tomorrow.

In addition to the three that have already crashed, there should be fourteen more available.

However, what worries Commander Liu is the wreckage of the three crashed fighters, he is most afraid that these wrecks will be found by Japanese spies, once they are transported back to the mainland by the devils, whether it is used for the improvement of Japanese fighters after research, or used to deal with tactical research, it will be a big disaster.

In desperation, he had to order the special forces again to either bring back the wreckage or destroy it on the spot.

There were more than 30 special forces, a group of people followed Yu Zitian to install radar, a group of people went to Taihu Lake with Wolf Six to catch devil pilots, and a group of people went to find the wreckage of the Flying Bear fighter.

In the end, Commander Liu's own side, only the pilots and ground staff in western Sichuan were left, and the safety of Wuhu Airport was really worrying.

I hope that the Japanese devils have not yet targeted Wuhu Airport.

In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was just dawning, and Commander Liu was about to gather his subordinates to prepare for a new round of duty tasks, Lao Jiang and others arrived at the Wuhu airport, ready to award medals to the meritorious personnel of the "August 14 Air Battle." It was a busy scene inside the base.

Major General Liu personally led the team to participate in the battle, and naturally awarded the Baoding Medal.

However, what really excites everyone is not the award of the medal by Lao Chiang, but the results of the "August 14 Air Battle".

A total of 52 Type 96 land attack planes were attacking Nanjing, and except for four or five enemy planes that escaped, the rest were basically wiped out, allowing the Nanjing Zhugong to celebrate with their bombs.

On the day of the Battle of Nanjing, Gao Zhihang's Brigade, which was fighting in the skies over Hangzhou, defeated the enemy aircraft group escorting the land attack with a score of 6 to 11, plus the results of other fraternal units, such as the Japanese seaplanes.

On that day, the Huaxia Air Force captured a total of 63 enemy planes and suffered very little losses of its own.

With the approval of the Nanjing Military Commission, on August 15, 1937, the world's major newspapers and news agencies reported in detail on the situation of the air battle at an astonishing speed, with the headline "The First Great Victory of the Chinese Air Force."

The world has to take a fresh look at this weak Chinese Air Force.

Even the Japanese pilots, who were known for their arrogance, had to admit that the "flying generals" in China were "first-class warriors," and even broke out in a boycott fever and refused to take to the air again to fight.

With the publication of newspapers and telecommunications, China quickly set off an "air force fever".

Whenever there was news of the Air Force's operations, the newspaper boys did not have to run all over the streets, as long as they stood on the street and shouted, the newspapers were quickly robbed, and it was recognized as the supreme honor that boys could become air force and girls could marry pilots.

With the celebration of the whole country in China, the Japanese army was gloomy and miserable.

Their radio still boasted of their exploits, "This transoceanic crit attack was so successful that the whole of Nanjing was in ruins, women and children were crying in the ruins, and the Huaxia Air Force suffered heavy losses, shooting down more than 100 fighters."

In fact, on the contrary, the air raid scheduled for August 15 has been quietly canceled.

Airfields such as Songshan in Taiwan, Jeju Island in Korea, and Kyushu in Japan have all suspended their attack missions one after another, and even the aircraft carrier formations hovering off the coast of Songhu have quickly retreated more than 100 nautical miles.

The Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai were scolded, but they were helpless.

On 14 August, as soon as the land attack crew that survived the air battle in Nanjing returned to Taiwan's Songshan Airport, they were immediately taken away by the gendarmerie and examined in isolation under the pretext of assisting in the investigation.

The trial lasted three days.

In the course of the brutal interrogation, these pale, trembling crew members revealed an important news, "The main force of the Huaxia Air Force is not the Hawker III fighter at all, but two very terrifying new fighters."