[54] Rear and Forward Attack

"This is the tower, this is the tower, 1001 received it, please reply." Yang Pei, the guide of the ground tower, frowned tightly and called out urgently.

When the radar found that there were rapidly approaching planes in the southeast, Yang Pei immediately understood that it was the enemy plane that was coming to attack him, and his instinctive first reaction was to quickly notify the leaders to pull the air defense alarm and let the citizens of Nandu evacuate and hide in time. The second reaction was to notify Wang Hai, who was circling and patrolling in the air.

"1001 received, please speak at the tower." Wang Hai already felt that something was wrong on the Jian-Wu, and although the alarm sounded in the city could not be heard in the air, it was obvious that smoke had risen in several places in the city. Wang Hai was a platoon commander of a certain unit of our army before he became a pilot, and based on his many years of combat experience, he judged that this was a smoke lit by our ground troops in order to affect the sight of enemy planes.

"Enemy aircraft air strike, radar shows two targets, the bearing is 37 degrees south-east, about 30 kilometers away from your plane. Repeated, enemy aircraft air strike, radar showed two targets, the azimuth is 37 degrees south-east, about 30 kilometers away from your aircraft. Yang Pei quickly reported the data he had read from the radar.

"1001 received, 1001 is ready to attack, please give the chief an order." Wang Hai replied, he looked down at the fuel gauge, at this moment the fuel in the auxiliary fuel tank has been used up, and the J-5 has begun to use the fuel in the plane. There is still more than half of the fuel in the plane, and after flying 900 kilometers all the way, the J-5 still has fuel for flying almost 600 kilometers.

If you calculate quickly, you will ask, the 700 liters of fuel hanging in the auxiliary fuel tank can fly to Nandu, but the fuel consumption has almost doubled after the auxiliary fuel tank is mounted? Wind resistance and weight have increased.

But you forgot the premise, Wang Hai is a transition flight, not a cruise, all the way to fly in the transition flight of the fuel-saving mode is carried out, basically half of the fuel is less than even 30% of the throttle to maintain the flight mode. Therefore, the fuel consumption of the aircraft in the transition is basically 80% to 90% of the usual one, which is the J-5, and the fuel consumption of some models is only half.

Yang Pei, as the commander of the tower and the supreme commander of Xiaoling Airport, was a little hesitant at the moment, "After the long-distance flight of 1001 and 1002, is there still the ability to fight in the air?" ”

But he blurted out without thinking:

"1001, 1002, you report your remaining fuel."

"Report to the tower, the fuel of the 1001 auxiliary fuel tank has been used up, the onboard fuel is basically full, and there is no problem in fighting for two hours."

"Report to the tower, 1002 and 1001, my onboard fuel is also full."

Wang Hai and his wingman Dong Hongjun both quickly reported their fuel levels.

Yang Pei suddenly made up his mind when he heard their answers, according to his experience, Lao Jiang must have sent bombers over, and the two bombers faced the two fighters, even if they could not win, they could force the opponent back.

"1001, 1002, I am the tower, I order you to attack, try to shoot down enemy planes, pay attention to safety." Yang Pei finally made the first air combat order in his life, and it was also the combat order of the first jet fighter in New China, which will forever be recorded in the annals of the New China Air Force in this time and space.

"1001 Received."

"1002 received."

Wang Hai and Dong Hongjun don't want to mention the excitement in their hearts at this time, but as a fighter pilot, you must always be calm and sharp. The corners of Wang Hai's mouth stretched out calmly, his left foot flattened the originally inclined rudder, straightened the control stick and pushed the throttle slightly, and several tactical actions were completed in one go, and the plane suddenly changed from a high-altitude large circumference to a hovering attitude. The rudder of this Jian-5 is like a horizontal seesaw, and when one foot is forced, the other foot is lifted. The maneuvering is flexible.

The J-5, which was hovering over the airport, was like a chain ball suddenly released by an athlete in a circle, and suddenly cut directly from the rotating circle. At 9 o'clock in the morning in winter, high in the sky of Nandu, under the bright sun, two silver rays of light were reflected from the fuselage to the ground, and the sword of the republic was unsheathed.

Dong Hongjun followed Wang Hai, and the two planes swept away one after the other. Dong Hongjun is one of the pilots with the highest level of training in Wang Hai's brigade, and he has had an extraordinary awareness and courage since he first learned to fly. All training movements, as long as Wang Hai makes his first flight, he will tell you the essentials. Then as soon as he got on the plane, he immediately passed by. There is no timidity, no hesitation, grasp the severity, and grasp it just right, if there is a kind of person who is born to fly, Dong Hongjun is one of them. The difference between him and Wang Hai is only in the flight time and the ability and experience to deal with new problems independently. After Wang Hai became the deputy head of the regiment, he replaced him as the captain of the first brigade of the first air regiment.

Although Wang Hai served as the deputy commander of the regiment, the Air Force and the Army are different, and the deputy commander of the air assault regiment is an extremely heavy task, which can be described as "use me for the first flight and use me for the first battle!" Fight bayonets in the air, cadres take the lead! "So for Wang Hai, this battle is what it is!

30 kilometers for the cruising speed of 800 kilometers per hour of the Jian-5, is only a distance of 136 seconds, and there is no need to open afterburner, Wang Hai and Dong Hongjun lowered the altitude to 2500 meters, more than a minute later, according to the tower guidance, from the blue sky background, the two vaguely found that they were also at an altitude of 3000 meters, front and back arranged in a 45-degree diagonal flight of two B-24, obviously the opponent has not yet noticed, the steel knife of the Blade Runner has been on their necks.

Visibility at this time was very high, and with the large size of the four-round bomber, it was normal for the fighter to spot the opponent first. The visual distance between the two sides is about 6 kilometers, as a "semi-radar", the J-5 standard radar can only be used for distance measurement, only the J-5A model, equipped with interception radar, the maximum search distance is 6 km, and the interception distance is 1 km. At this moment, although the two piloted the Jian-Wujia, although the enemy plane had been detected with the naked eye, the radar had not yet found the target.

Wang Hai ordered Dong Hongjun: "1002 pay attention, we go around the rear, pull on them and slide down, I will go down from the outside and copy diagonally, you chase the tail and slide down to attack, pay attention to judging the opponent's route, find the front attack point on the route, and concentrate firepower to knock out the one behind first." Try to chase to a distance of 300 meters before firing the gun, and pay attention to the machine guns on the tail and back of the enemy aircraft.

Dong Hongjun replied succinctly: "1002 received." ”

The two planes quickly maneuvered, pulled up to about 3,500 meters and cut into the B-24 route in an arc at the same time, and the cannon ranging radar showed that the distance between the two sides was only 3 kilometers at this time. And at this moment, B-24 has not yet found these two King Kongs who are asking for their lives.

Wang Hai gave an order: "Accelerate into the front attack point." The two fire-breathing steel knives suddenly flew and slashed from the two directions diagonally behind Xiangxia.

You must say that the B-24 is also sluggish enough, in fact, it is no wonder that the B-24 has no advantages except for flying farther, this kind of 4-engine aircraft is difficult to control, exhausting, and there is no electric or hydraulic auxiliary control except for the pilot's physical strength. TEN 12.7MM CALIBER MACHINE GUNS ARE DIVIDED INTO SIX SIDES, WITH THE NOSE, TAIL, BACK, BELLY, AND FUSELAGE LEFT AND RIGHT, BUT THEY ARE ALL-ROUND PROTECTION. It doesn't have wipers, and when it rains, pilots can only stick their heads to the portholes to observe. At an altitude of 3,000 meters, he could only breathe with the help of an oxygen mask, which was cold and sticky*wet, accompanied by a pungent smell of rubber and sweat. At altitudes of 6,000 meters or more, the temperature can be as low as minus 40 degrees or even minus 50 degrees, but there is no heating on the plane. The wind blew into the plane, especially from the firing hole in the belly, and if the person on the belly touched the machine gun with his bare hands, the skin would freeze to the metal. There were no toilets on board, only two convenient pipes for urinating, one in the front and one in the back, but they could barely be used to pee because these pilots were too thickly dressed to pull out the chick*chicken .......

Therefore, although the B-24 can fly at an altitude of up to 8,500 meters, the low temperature of minus forty or fifty degrees is too tormenting, and the 10 crew members on board, who wants to suffer that crime? Basically, the B-24 in Stay Bay chose to fly at an altitude of 3000 meters. And these situations have long been informed to my air force through the pilots on the B-24s who surrendered.

B-24 failed to use radar to find the Jian-5 when face-to-face, which doomed them to be even more unlikely to find it during the sneak attack after the Jian-5, because at this time, the airborne radar at this time in addition to poor basic performance and poor anti-ground clutter ability, it also only has a detection range of 60 degrees on the left and right sides of the nose hemisphere.