Alexander Mironenko piloted a two-winged Il-15 fighter to escort his own Il-4 bomber.

If you want to attack the enemy's aircraft carrier formation, in addition to bombers, you must have escort fighters, otherwise the losses will be considerable, and the naval aviation originally had some monoplanes similar to the I-16, but unfortunately they were all destroyed in the first wave of bombing by the Germans.

Now, more than 20 Il-4s and five Il-15s are all that is left of the aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, and they are flying towards the German fleet with a fearless spirit, and everyone knows that it will be difficult to return here, but they are fearless.

It's a pity that when they were still far away from the enemy's fleet, they were discovered by the German patrol fighters!

The two F190s pounced fiercely, and after discovering the German fighters, the escorted I-15 fighters immediately met them.

Although some flying veterans are very fond of biplanes and think that monoplanes are not safe, but the development of aviation technology has confirmed that monoplanes are completely correct, and now biplanes have fallen behind, and there is almost no chance of winning in the fight with German fighters, but they have no choice and must face it!

Alexander pushed the throttle all the way, and the ASh-62 nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine in front of him burst out with 700 horsepower, pushing the fighter to continue to accelerate.

Although they are all I-15, they are different from one batch to another, and the Soviet Union is constantly improving, such as the current batch, which is already the latest I-153, which has developed a lot.

It's a pity that the congenital insufficiency left it with little chance at all in front of the German fighters.

Of course, Ancruz also saw those Soviet fighters who came to meet him, but he was not interested in fighting with these fighters at all, biplanes, which could not fly at a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per hour, what to compare with himself?

In the face of those Soviet fighters who came to meet them, Ancruz and Christie didn't pay attention to them at all, pulling the control stick, the two F190 planes began to climb rapidly, and the engine in front burst out with a surging thrust of 1800 horsepower, pulling the fighters upward, and there was only envy on the other side.

Yes, the advantage of the biplane is that at most it is good to hover horizontally, if you chase the opponent and fly horizontally, you will be stunned, and maybe you will be ambushed by the other party.

But the climb of the biplane is extremely weak, the resistance of the biplane is large, and their aircraft engines are too bad, and now this ratio is immediately shown.

The Soviet pilots could only look up and watch the German fighters climb, and soon, they had to look up, and the German fighters had already flown over their heads!

"Protect our bombers!" Alexander shouted, and he flicked his wings and motioned for the other planes to follow him.

Yes, their planes are not equipped with radios yet, but fortunately they are used to communicating like this.

Just as they were about to turn around and return home, the two F190s had already made a dashing turn in the air, and then swooped down towards the bomber group!

The layout of the Il-4 bomber was very similar to that of the Sb-2, with the navigator at the bottom of the front, the pilot at the top, and a rear turret behind which a machine gunner sits.

At this time, the machine gunners behind them were quite nervous, and they almost tilted their heads to look at the German fighter that jumped out of the sky.

Their angles are quite tricky, just outside of their own firepower!

Although there is a rear-firing machine gun, the angles are limited, for example, it is impossible for it to perfectly cover the rear hemisphere, and it is even more impossible to directly above, so should the shooter squat in it?

And now the German fighters were diving down almost ninety degrees from angles out of their reach.

The overload from the dive made Ancrus's body flutter a little, and he gently pushed the lever to put the movable ring of his sight on a bomber, and the target grew larger and larger in his field of vision, and then he pulled the trigger.

"Tom tom." In the shaft gun of the propeller in front of the F190, a tongue of fire emerged, and three 20-mm shells accurately hit the fuselage of this bomber.

The first one hit the middle of the fuselage, and the wooden fuselage instantly exploded a large hole, revealing the skeleton of the steel pipe, and then, the explosion of the second one, the skeleton was also torn apart, and in the fire, the hit of the third shell made it become two sections, burning and falling downward.

A victorious start!

For fighters, the shaft gun is the easiest to hit, and the 20 mm shaft gun is actually not the largest, but it has a full amount of ammunition, and it is used to fight bombers, and the power is enough.

For ground attack, a 40mm Bofors cannon is required.

Ancruz hit accurately, but his friend Christie, was slightly off, and at the last moment, the other party actually made an emergency turn, and the bullet missed.

The two F190s swooped down from the air, passed through the opposing group, and pulled up again from below, at which point the I-15 fighters found an opportunity, and they hurriedly fired a shuttle of machine-gun bullets at the German fighters, only to see the other side climb up again without loss, and they could only stare dryly below.

The action of these two F190s is quite simple, that is, climb up, dive down to attack, and then climb again, and when the second dive down, Christie shot down an Il-4.

The Soviet bomber groups finally ceased to remain in dense formation, and they immediately dispersed, hoping to reduce the possibility of attack, and it was much safer to disperse than to gather together.

At this time, on the aircraft carrier Hitler in the rear, carrier-based aircraft were also taking off rapidly.

Just after receiving the news of the discovery of the Soviet bomber group, the aircraft carrier Hitler began to take off carrier-based aircraft on the bow deck at the same time as recovering the carrier-based aircraft.

The throttle was pushed to the maximum, the supercharger of the engine whistled like a whistle, and the two F190s left the take-off line one after another and quickly rushed to the airspace of the battlefield, while in the parking area behind, the two new F190s were quickly dragged to the parking position.

The landing of the aircraft continued, and the take-off was not affected in the slightest, and in just five minutes, six F190s left the aircraft carrier, and these spare carrier-based aircraft were used at critical times.

After the HS129 fleet landed, the F190 carrier-based aircraft also began to land, compared to the HS129 that were pulled into the hangar, the F190 carrier-based aircraft did not enter the hangar, after they landed, they pulled to the bow area, refueled, hung bombs, and then they could take off again.

Germany's maritime formations are the most efficient fighting machines! It is impossible for a mere 20 or so Soviet bombers to pose a threat to their own side.