Unlike Luo Dong, who accelerated and pounced after discovering the enemy plane, the Japanese pilots immediately made a 180-degree turn like a seaplane, so that the tail of the plane was aimed at Luo Dong's fighter plane, so that the machine gunner in the back seat could shoot.

However, no sooner had the Japanese pilot maneuvered the seaplane to make a turn than Rodon's Fokker DR.1 fighter opened fire.

Dada-da-da

A barrage of bullets swept through the fuselage of the Japanese seaplane, and the heavy gunner in the back seat was killed by several shots. At the moment of death, the Heavy still had a huge question.

Why?

Why is it that the plane of the Chinese people can shoot from the nose, and they are not afraid of breaking the propellers?

Killing the machine gunner on the Japanese plane, Luo Dong did not stop there, but manipulated the fighter to follow the Japanese plane all the way, shooting all the way.

Dada-da-da

The continuous strafing almost destroyed the cabin of the Japanese plane, and the Japanese pilots naturally had no reason to survive, and the seaplane, which had lost the pilot's control, immediately fell to the surface of the sea.

The biggest lethality in aerial combat in this era is not the strafing of aircraft, but the wounding and killing of pilots. The kind of scenario of blowing up the entire plane in the air requires very good luck to hit and detonate the fuel tank of the aircraft, so the most effective way to shoot down enemy aircraft in this era is to strafe the enemy pilot.

The Japanese seaplane fell from the sky and plunged headlong into the sea, which immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese troops, and the Japanese planes that were on alert and reconnaissance in all directions immediately turned around and rushed towards Luo Dong's location.

"Your Excellency General, the plane of the people of China is here!" The captain of the flagship Tsuyoshi, Eitaro Shimohira, reminded Kato Dingyoshimichi, and then handed over a pair of binoculars.

Naturally, Kato Dingyoshi also noticed the downed seaplane, took the binoculars with an unhappy face, and raised his head to look at the airspace where the battle was about to be engaged.

While Luo Dong was maneuvering the plane, he looked around, good guy. At least nearly 20 Japanese seaplanes surrounded the combat formation of only five fighters led by him.

However, this situation obviously did not scare Luo Dong, a fanatic who advocated aerial killing, but made him more and more excited.

"Come on, Oriental radish heads! Start today. Chinese planes will forever be your nightmare! ”

Luo Dong maneuvered the plane to glide to the right, and then a fighter plane behind him followed him and glided to the right, so that the formation of five fighters was divided into two combat formations.

Luo Dong took only one wingman, and the other three fighters formed a battle formation and took the initiative to pounce on the 10 Japanese seaplanes on the right flank.

I have to say. It was extremely inconvenient for the machine gun to be mounted in the tail.

Seeing that Luo Dong and other five fighters were approaching, the Japanese pilots controlled the seaplanes to divide into two teams and make a big turn left and right, trying to glide past the wings of Luo Dong and others, and then let the machine gunners in the back seat open fire.

At this time, looking at the past from a distance, the 10 seaplanes of the Japanese army flew in two teams in a figure-eight trajectory, quickly approaching Luo Dong and others.

Of course, Luo Dong knew the intentions of the Japanese, and naturally he would not let them succeed, so he manipulated the plane and shook the fuselage, signaled to the other small formation of 3 fighters, and then the wings tilted to the right and glided.

Luo Dong's 5 fighters were also divided into two teams. Flying left and right respectively, they flew out of two semi-circles on the left and right, and once again formed a state opposite the nose of the Japanese seaplane, and then pounced head-on.

"What are the people of China doing, do they want to collide with our planes of the Great Japanese Empire?" Kato Dingyoshi said very puzzled.

Shimohira Eitaro seemed to agree with the speculation of "ending up together", nodded and said: "Presumably, the pilot of Shina saw that there were too many planes of our Great Japanese Empire and felt that there was no possibility of defeat, so he wanted to launch a decisive collision plane to weaken the strength of the Imperial Naval Air Force with casualties. ”

Kato Dingyoshi thought about it, and it seemed that only this explanation was in line with the current flight action of the Shina plane. As soon as the war began, the Chinese plane was forced to adopt a suicidal collision combat method. This made him very satisfied with the strength of his own naval aviation.

"Yo Xi!" Kato Dingyoshi smiled and nodded, "I didn't expect that there are such brave samurai among the Shina soldiers, and they are opponents worthy of respect." Later, try to recover their bodies as much as possible. Returning it to the Yimeng Autonomous Coalition Army, this is the respect that our Great Japanese Empire has for the warriors. ”

Between the words, Kato Dingji already regarded Luo Dong and the others as dead people. In his opinion, there was nothing to worry about at all about the five Chinese planes, and the difference in the final result of the battle was not whether the five Chinese planes could be shot down, but how many aircraft casualties the Imperial Naval Air Force would pay.

It seems like a long time to say. In fact, in just a few tens of seconds, the fighter piloted by Luo Dong and others came face to face with the Japanese seaplane at close range.

When the Japanese pilots saw the oncoming Fokker DR.1 fighters, they were immediately shocked and hurriedly maneuvered the planes to make an emergency turn left or right.

The Japanese seaplane's emergency turn was obviously a little too late, and Rodon and his wingman were already within the effective range of the machine guns.

"Oriental little radish heads, remember your Grandpa Luo's chic and heroic appearance now, and then go to hell!"

Luo Dong shouted excitedly, then jerked the trigger.

Dada-da-da

Two terrifying tongues of fire suddenly erupted, sweeping head-on into the cabins of two Japanese seaplanes. The Japanese pilot was immediately swept away by numerous machine-gun bullets, and his body was covered in blood and convulsed, and then he collapsed in the cabin and died.

After the pilot was killed, the two Japanese seaplanes fell headlong into the sea like kites with broken strings.

At the same time as shooting down the two Japanese seaplanes, Luo Dong and his wingman simultaneously pulled up and climbed high, whistling over the Japanese planes.

On the other side, a combat formation composed of 3 Fokker DR.1 fighters also shot down two Japanese seaplanes in a single face, but did not give the Japanese planes a chance to shoot at themselves.

Standing on the bridge, Kato Dingyoshi and Shimohira Eihachiro were stunned for a moment when they saw such a scene in the air.

"No way, it's absolutely impossible! How could the plane of the China people shoot from the nose and not break the propeller? Kato Dingyoshi shouted in disbelief.

This is really a complete reversal of the perception of all Japanese people who saw this scene, and they are basically dumbfounded.

Although Kato Dingyoshi is not an officer who is proficient in aircraft, he thinks that he still knows the basic knowledge of aircraft very well. Previously, the four seaplanes of the Naval Air Force, the German "Pigeon" reconnaissance plane, had fought in the air many times, and the personnel sitting in the back seat of the cabin had exchanged fire with pistols, rifles, and machine guns.

Could it be that the people of China have used some strange sorcery so that their machine guns will not break the propellers when they fire from the nose?

This is certainly not some spooky witchcraft, but simply the function of a small widget called the "Machine Gun Firing Coordinator".

In another time and space, the firing coordinator of this cam was not developed until 1915 by the German aircraft designer Anthony Brown. Falk and his companions invented. This device relies on the rotation of the propeller to control the machine-gun fire, and the bullet is fired when the muzzle is pointed at the gap between the blades, and the shooting stops when the muzzle is aimed at the blades.

Although this small "machine gun firing coordinator" looks inconspicuous, it has created a brand-new air combat mode, so that fighters can easily attack targets in the direction of the nose of the aircraft, and have left a strong mark in the history of military aviation in the world.

This may be a bit abstract, but in other words, it may be more intuitive to reflect the importance of the "machine gun fire coordinator".

After Germany designed and produced the Fokker E with a "machine gun fire coordinator", the Luftwaffe was invincible, damaging and shooting down a large number of Allied aircraft. Later, according to statistics, since the appearance of the Fokker E fighter, the Allied pilots did not live an average of six weeks on the battlefield.

For a time, the Germans took full control of the sky, and history called this section the "Fokker disaster".

This shows how amazing the power of this little "machine gun firing coordinator" is.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Mo will have the confidence to let the Blue Eagle Flying Group have only 15 Fokker DR.1 fighters to meet dozens of seaplanes of the Japanese Naval Air Force.

Relying on the ability to shoot at the target in the direction of the nose of the aircraft, Luo Dong and others rushed left and right in the air, killing and wounding Japanese seaplanes one after another, and from time to time Japanese seaplanes crashed or were injured and forced to land.

One of the Japanese seaplanes was even more unlucky, being hit by Luo Dong and detonating the fuel tank, which exploded in the air at that time, falling with billowing smoke, and finally plunged headlong into the sea.

This scene made Kato Dingji look dumbfounded, and roared angrily: "Yaga, what are those red deer in the air force doing, immediately surround them and completely tear the people apart!" ”

Although the Japanese pilots in the air could not hear Kato's words, they were not stupid, and after experiencing the panic of the Fokker DR.1 fighter who could shoot from the nose for the first time, they quickly adjusted and besieged Luo Dong and others from all directions.

Although the performance of the Fokker DR.1 fighter was far superior to that of the Japanese seaplanes, the good tigers could not withstand the wolves.

Luo Dong's fighter was even shot several times, but fortunately it did not hit the vital point, but only slightly affected the performance of the aircraft, and did not lose its combat capability.

Of course, Luo Dong and the others would not stupidly stay where they were and let the Japanese aircraft group besiege them, but turned the nose of the aircraft and ran wildly in the direction they came, followed by a large number of Japanese aircraft groups in hot pursuit.

Seeing that Luo Dong and the others wanted to escape, another group of Japanese planes rushed over from the right flank and tried to block the front of Luo Dong and the others.

Just when Luo Dong and the others were about to fall into a desperate situation, another batch of Fokker DR.1 fighters appeared not far ahead.

The group of 10 Fokker DR.1 fighters led by Wei Xu finally arrived in time! (To be continued.) )