Chapter Ninety-Seven: Defending Nanjing 4 - God of War in the Air B
Just when Andlupuf gave the take-off order, the 5th Brigade of Fighters (Destroyers) of the *** Air Force stationed in Yangzhou had already taken off. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
The Fifth Brigade is the ace unit of the Air Force, the pilots are all graduates of the Central Aviation School, and the whole team is equipped with the relatively advanced Type 3 destroyer at that time. It turned out that they were going to be transferred to Nanjing at the end of last month to support, but because the Soviet Volunteer Air Force was about to arrive, they stayed in Yangzhou.
After receiving a secret order from Zhou Zhirou, commander-in-chief of the Air Force's former enemy headquarters, last night, the Fifth Brigade immediately entered a state of first-class combat readiness, and all the pilots were waiting for their fighters, even wearing flight suits when they slept. After receiving the news that the Chinese and Soviet pilots had sunk the Japanese aircraft carrier "Longxiang" in the morning, the entire brigade was ecstatic and at the same time waited for the order from Nanjing: Everyone understood that the Japanese would inevitably launch a frenzied retaliation.
The Fifth Brigade was the first batch of Chinese Air Force units to launch a counterattack against the Japanese invaders during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and stationed in Hangzhou, and under the leadership of Captain Ding Jixu, after secretly making a special special visit from Nanchang to Yangzhou on 4 August, on 14 August according to ******'s order, the first bomb of the Chinese Air Force was dropped on the Japanese ships at Wusongkou. And three days earlier, the planes of the 5th Group had also bombed the Japanese cruiser "Izumo", severely damaging it.
At present, the No. 1 trump card of the Fifth Group is Liu Cuigang, captain of the 24th Destroyer Squadron (squadron) -- one of the "Four King Kongs" of the Chinese Air Force, and so far he has shot down four Japanese planes.
Liu Cuigang is a pilot with excellent flying skills, especially his aerial shooting meter technology is well-known in the Air Force, and the captain of the four brigades, Gao Zhihang, has won the first place in the Chinese Air Force aerial shooting competition, and now with his outstanding performance, he has been called the "Red Warrior" of the Chinese Air Force, and the "God of War" Gao Zhihang is equally famous.
Just after 11 o'clock in the afternoon, Yangzhou Airport received a report from the front-line ground alert troops -- a large number of Japanese planes were moving in the direction of Nanjing, and they were menacing. After the captain Ding Jixu made a brief briefing, the entire Fifth Brigade took off urgently, and a total of 15 War Eagles flew in the direction of Danyang. These fifteen **** Type 3 destroyers are all the belongings of the Fifth Brigade now, and this time they poured out of the nest to make psychological preparations for "stumbling to the death" with the enemy, and the Second Brigade in the Guangde direction also made the same psychological preparations -- a decisive battle with the enemy!
Yangzhou is less than 50 kilometers away from Danyang in a straight line, 15 war eagles climb all the way to seize the height, because the **** three-type destroyer is not equipped with a radio, and they may be the first wave and the Japanese plane encountered the troops, before the departure of the captain Ding Jixu has already issued an order: no matter how many enemy planes, see the enemy and fight! Be sure to hold out until friendly forces arrive.
Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Japanese Special Provisional Air Corps sitting on the "Kaga" aircraft carrier in the East China Sea, learned of the news as soon as the "Ryuka" was bombed, and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, who was furious, urgently ordered the Japanese Navy's shore-based air force in the Songhu area to support the "RyΕ«chΕ" and intercept the Chinese Air Force, and also contacted the fighter unit of the Army Air Force. However, more than an hour later, all the shore-based air units of the Navy that had taken off to intercept them were "missing," but he also received a report from the fighter unit of the Army Air Force: Only one of the units they went to intercept returned wounded, and the remaining four were all "shattered." Second Lieutenant Kawashima Yangwu, an army pilot who returned to the home, introduced: The enemy plane they intercepted was the model they encountered for the first time, and it was very likely to be the Soviet Union's Yi-16 fighter, and the opposing pilot's air combat skills were extremely superb, and at that time, there was only one rendezvous of the competition, and the other 4 Ki-10s of their own side were shot down, and after his plane landed, the mechanic actually found 36 bullet holes in the fuselage! The appearance of Soviet planes in the Songhu area of China made Tokugawa very sensitive to this incident, and while reporting to the base camp, he telegraphed all the combat planes of his troops to prepare for a big attack and prepare for a big reply.
Just as telegrams were being sent from the "Kaga," the destroyers escorting the "Ryuchamp" sent a telegram -- the "Ryuchamp" had abandoned the ship and was about to sink.
This news made Tokugawa Yoshitoshi completely lose his mind, and frantically ordered his troops to step up preparations, and telegraphed to order the Luya Air Force stationed in Taipei to also immediately attack, and continue to bomb the Nanjing Dashochang Airport after the Songhu troops attacked Nanjing. Tokugawa Yoshitoshi wanted to erase the "thorn in the side" of the Nanking Colonel Factory from the map, and his madness was supported by the Army Air Force, which had always been at odds with him: they would also come out of the nest to cooperate with the Navy's revenge efforts.
In the command room of the "Kaga", Tokugawa Yoshitoshi frantically shouted: Let the Shina Air Force pay the price! The glory of the Great Japanese Empire is inviolable! Revenge for "Long Xiang"!
Can Tokugawa Yoshitoshi really avenge "Ryusho"? Fighter groups from both China and the USSR are waiting for them!
After the planes of the Fifth Brigade arrived over Danyang, there was no trace of the Japanese planes, and the group leader Ding Jixu signaled the formation to search in the direction of Changzhou, and just five minutes after changing course, the "2401" plane of Liu Cuigang, the leader of the 24th Squadron, began to shake its wings, and Liu Cuigang poked out his right hand from the semi-open cockpit to make a gesture. Following his gestures, all the pilots found that a huge group of Japanese planes was flying to Nanjing at 1 o'clock in the direction of the front, at a distance of 20 kilometers, at an altitude of 4,000, and the number was estimated at 80 aircraft.
Ding Jixu issued an order to attack with gestures, and 15 Chinese warhawks bravely met them in a formation of three planes.
The Japanese fleet was divided into two large formations, consisting of aircraft from the Army Air Corps and the Navy Air Corps. Liu Cuigang did not know that there would be a group of planes behind this wave of Japanese planes, but that group would combine with the Type 96 medium bombers taking off from Taipei before attacking Nanjing, and the time would be about two hours later. This time, the Japanese pressed all their own capital, as long as it was a front-line combat aircraft, all sorted, and the aircraft models were also varied: fighters include 18 of the 2nd Combined Air Force of the Naval Air Force (the original 24, but the other six have been sent to the East China Sea by Andrupf) The latest 96 ship battles, there are also 21 old Nakajima 95 ship battles, and 12 Ki-10 Kawasaki 95 fighters of the army; The attack planes include 8 Type 92 attack planes and 16 Type 96 attack planes of the Navy, and 15 outdated Type 93 attack planes of the Army.
The planes on board the Kaga will also be poured out, with a total of 15 Type 90 fighters, 20 Type 89 attack planes, and 15 Type 94 carrier-based bombers (the planes equipped with the "Kaga" in September 1937 were just that).
In addition to the 16 96 medium land attacks dispatched from the Taipei base, the total number of planes dispatched by the Japanese army this time will exceed 150 -- Tokugawa Yoshitoshi has made a bloody investment.
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The midday summer sun was in the middle of the sky, and the two groups spotted their opponents almost simultaneously. The 18 Type 96 ships immediately broke away from the formation and accelerated to meet the Chinese fighters, and after a hedge, the two sides became entangled, and the formations on both sides were completely scattered.
The new ability of the Japanese army's Type 96 fighter is superior to the **** Type 3 fighter, and after the formation was broken up, Liu Cuigang was entangled with one of the Japanese planes. Due to the disadvantage in speed and horizontal maneuverability, the enemy aircraft gained the upper hand as soon as they skimmed each other. Liu Ji was in front, the enemy plane was behind, and the Type 96 fighter was pressing behind Liu Cuigang. The enemy-friend posture was extremely unfavorable to Liu Cuigang, and if Liu Ji was the slightest negligent or fearful, he would be shot down immediately.
"I don't believe I can't get rid of you!"
Pulling the elevator with both hands, the plane made a fish-leaping movement, making a straight "8" figure up, but Liu Cuigang observed the reflector through the afterglow (the **** at that time had a play) and found that the Japanese aircraft behind him was still close behind him, and the opponent's machine gun was still spraying tongues of fire, Liu Cuigang felt that his plane had been hit in several places.
Liu Cuigang, who was out of the way, made a "8" rise again, and risked closing the small throttle, putting down the speed brake, the speed of the **** fighter jet dropped sharply, and the 96 ship battle that was chasing after him was caught off guard and rushed straight to the front of Liu Cuigang.
The opportunity was rare, Liu Cui just pressed the machine gun firing button, and the four 7.62mm machine guns roared, and dozens of bullets hit the Japanese machine in front of him in an instant. Liu Cuigang saw smoke coming out of the engines of the 96 battle, and the plane lost control and fell to the ground -- its engines had been destroyed, and the machine-gun bullets fired from the rear had turned the Japanese pilots into a hornet's nest.
Liu Cuigang, who turned the nose of the plane, quickly observed the situation in the air, and the plane on his side had been entangled by the Japanese fighter detachment, and it was still in a disadvantageous position. I didn't have time to think about it, so I pushed the accelerator and rushed towards a 96 ship that was chasing his own plane.
Lieutenant Hanyanagi Hideda was staring at the Chinese fighter in front of him with his eyes wide open, "China pig, go die!" Unfortunately, Lieutenant Hanyanagi Hideta would never be able to fulfill his ambition, and he suddenly felt his plane shake violently.
"Hit!" As soon as this thought appeared in Hua Liu Shoutian's mind, he felt as if he had been hit hard by something in his chest, and his eyes turned black.
Just when Liu Cuigang and others were fighting fiercely with the 18 96 ships of the 2nd Combined Air Force, the most elite of the Japanese army, two aircraft groups appeared in the west of the battlefield: the Nanjing fighter group led by Andrupf and the Jurong aircraft group led by Kurchumov arrived!
"All note, I am the commander-in-chief Andrupf, Kurchumov's troops and Prokofiev's fighters blocking the Japanese bombers, and the other planes are coming with me to support the Chinese brothers!"
Andropf and 11 other I-16s ignored the Japanese group and sped into the airspace where the melee was fighting. Behind him, 11 I-16s led by Prokofiev and 8 I-16s and 16 I-15s of Kurchumov, a total of 35 fighters, killed a huge formation of 72 Japanese planes.
"Fight quickly, form two planes, and break up the opponent!"
Liu Cuigang was fighting with his third opponent when suddenly he saw two monoplane fighters diving down from a high altitude and bombarding the 96 ship in front of him. Liu Cuigang subconsciously swung to catch up, because the Japanese plane in front of him exploded in the air!
At this time, he found that there were more than a dozen single-wing Soviet Yi-16 fighters attacking Japanese fighters at an extremely high speed, and the Yi-16, which had dived down from a high altitude, had eliminated four Japanese planes in the first attack.
Andlupf's formation dived down at a 30-degree intersection from a height of 5,000 meters, and he fired a four-pronged salvo at a Japanese plane that was engaged with Chinese fighters, and only one short shot exploded in a volley of Japanese planes in front of him, while the other planes in the formation also shot down several opponents.
By the time Andlupf's formation arrived, the 5th Brigade had already lost 5 ****, and only 12 of the 96 ships of the Japanese army had left. After Andlupf's formation joined the melee, it immediately gained a local advantage: 22 to 8, the Japanese 96 ships could not resist, and several planes turned around and flew in the direction of Shanghai.
"I'm Andlupf, don't fall in love with the battle, return to attack the enemy's large formation!"
Having seen the current state of affairs, Andlupuf made a decisive decision - to attack the Japanese bomber formation first.
"The Japanese aircraft are inferior to us in performance, knock them all down, which one is more than 5, and Lao Tzu will apply for the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for him! Andrupf, who turned the nose of the plane, shouted over the intercom.
The large group of Japanese planes in front of him did not perform very well, which reminded him of the big air battle with the "Condor": last time it was 8-76, this time it was a better chance!
As soon as Ding Jixu here saw the Soviet planes turn their noses and pounce in the direction of the large formation of Japanese planes, he immediately understood what the Soviet commander meant: Blocking the bombers is the key! He signaled the remaining **** to also fly in the direction of Nanjing and join the large formation in the air battle.
Ding Jixu observed the plane formation on his side left and right, and lost 5 planes, wondering if those brothers had parachuted safely.
As the Andlupuv formation climbed in altitude, 35 Soviet fighters led by Kurchumov and Prokofiev rushed towards the Japanese formation from the left and right directions, entangled with the opponent.
Prokofiev's headphones were full of noise, all the "swearing" of Soviet pilots. He slashed straight through the right flank of the enemy aircraft group, just in time to meet the Type 93 attack aircraft formation located on the right flank of the Japanese aircraft group. The air was full of bullet marks fired from the backseat machine gun of the Japanese attack plane, and at a distance of 150 meters, Prokofiev pressed the machine gun fire button, and the Type 93 attack plane facing him immediately emitted black smoke and fell to the ground. Prokofiev did not adjust the course, but rushed straight forward, because the air in front of him was full of Japanese planes, and before he could pass through the Japanese formation, he aimed at a Japanese biplane fighter and fired a point from the cannon, and the Japanese Ki-10 Kawasaki 95 fighter was hit and exploded in the air.
The first shock made the Japanese pilots understand a truth: the planes in their hands were outdated!
Turning the nose of the plane, Prokofiev escaped the pursuit of a Japanese fighter behind him at a superior speed, ignoring the threat from behind, because the Japanese planes simply could not keep up with his rhythm. Now a Type 95 ship battle in front of him is trying to get rid of him, how could Prokofiev let him succeed, bite hard, and get close to the distance of less than 50 meters before pressing the gun launch button, just a short burst of one second, more than half of the more than 20 shells fired hit this Japanese plane, the shells of the Π¨ΠΠΠ cannon tore the wings of the Japanese plane, and the 95 ship battle fell like a short-line kite.
"Three!" Prokofiev roared angrily and threw himself at an escaping Japanese attack plane with a swing of his joystick.
The shooter in the back seat of the Type 93 attack attacked the monoplane fighter who was chasing at high speed behind him and shot wildly, but he was desperate to find that the speed of the monoplane fighter behind him was too fast, and his plane could not escape her pursuit at a top speed of less than 250 kilometers per hour!
Prokofiev dodged the fire of the bombers in front of him and fixed it firmly in the center of the sight, 200 meters, with a salvo of machine guns and cannons, watching the Japanese planes in front of him be beaten into a hornet's nest. Once you lift the nose to get rid of it, continue to look for the next target.
"Damn, the Japanese pig plane sucks too!" As soon as this thought flashed through Prokofiev's mind, he coldly heard the shouts of Commander Andrupf in the headphones: "Which one has more than 5 planes, Lao Tzu will apply for the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for him!" β
As soon as he heard the words of the commander, Prokofiev, who was already very excited, felt that his blood was boiling, "For the sake of" Hero of the Soviet Union ", Lao Tzu fought hard! β
In fact, Prokofiev doesn't have to "fight" yet, because he now has enough fuel, and the most important thing is that most of the ammunition is still there!
The formation of the Japanese large formation had been disrupted after being flanked by Soviet fighters, and after five minutes of melee, more than 20 of the original 72 planes had been shot down: it was not that the Japanese pilots were not skilled, but that their planes were too bad, and the opponent was the most elite Soviet Air Force.
The attack planes dropped their bombs indiscriminately and fled in all directions. At this time, the Andlupf formation and Ding Jixu's fighter formation, which were chasing from the rear, joined the battle group again! The Japanese planes fleeing to the south collided with 12 Chinese fighters that had rushed to support them from Guangde.
In the skies over the Danyang-Jurong-Jintan triangle, from an altitude of 5,000 or 6,000 meters to a low altitude of several hundred meters, hundreds of planes chased and shot at each other, and planes continued to fall with black smoke, and there were no white umbrella flowers in the sky.
The people on the ground in this area ignored the danger, watched the battle in the air, and cheered for their war eagles! The local garrison and armed forces are not as easy as the local people, as soon as there are downed planes and parachutes in the air, troops will immediately rush to them: rescuing the pilots on their side is the first priority, and they must also capture the prisoners.
Kong Ermao is a new recruit this year, and now he is running with his squad leader Zheng Yong and several other brothers chasing a parachute in the air.
"Brothers, if we are pilots, we will immediately send them to the headquarters of the company, and it says that we will be rewarded with 50 oceans for saving one of our own people! If it's a devil, try to catch it alive! The living will be rewarded with 20 oceans, and only 10 will die! Zheng Yong was running and yelling.
"Devil!" One of his soldiers yelled.
The whole class of 13 people immediately fell to the ground -- the company commander said that this little Japanese is not bad at fighting black guns!
"Damn, that bastard just said it was a devil! It's your own people! I don't see what he's wearing! Zheng Yong scolded and ran towards the man.
Zheng Yong was taken aback by the person in front of him, because there was a foreign devil with a hooked nose and blue eyes who was smiling at himself: this foreign devil was still pointing to the "blue sky and white sun" on his clothes, and he kept saying "China" and "China" in a strange foreign tone.
"Ermaozi, hurry, it's your own person!"
Zheng Yong had studied private school for a few years and recognized the words on the foreign devil's clothes: "Come to China to help the foreigners, and the army and the people will unanimously protect it." "And this foreign devil is also injured, and his right leg is bleeding. And the recruit in the class, Ermaozi, is a herbalist at home, and he has learned first aid methods for bruises, so the class asked him to act as a "medical soldier".
Lieutenant Olepyan was not very lucky today, after he launched a flank attack on the Japanese plane with Prokofiev, he shot down a Japanese attack plane in the first impact, and when he was about to look for the next target, a string of machine-gun bullets came out of nowhere, which not only caused his own aircraft engine to smoke, but also pierced a hole in his right leg, so he had to choose to parachute.
As soon as he reached the ground, he was surrounded by a group of Chinese soldiers, and Olepyan had to stand up straight to identify himself with the severe pain of his leg injury. Seeing that the Chinese soldiers who surrounded him put down the guns in their hands, they ran over more friendly, but they couldn't understand their own words, but fortunately, the soldier on the other side who looked like a head was very kind to him, and saw that his thigh was bleeding, and he roared loudly there, probably looking for a hygienist.
Kong Ermao pulled out the bayonet on his waist, cut through the leather flight pants stained with blood on Olepiyang's legs, and tore open two first-aid kits, and tied them up. At this time, the soldiers behind had already cut down two small trees, made a simple bullet rack with straps, and carried the foreign devil away.
Olepyon didn't know that those Chinese soldiers had been talking about themselves: "Brother, it's okay, just let the bullet bite, don't hurt the muscles and bones, just rest for a few months!" This is the "Medic". And the "head" roared: "This is a foreigner who came to help us fight the Japanese devils, what are you guys looking at the excitement, damn it, why don't you go get a stretcher!" β
"Quick, carry it to the company, this foreigner has a lot of blood, be quick!" Along the way, Zheng Yong kept urging his brothers, "Go back and receive the reward, and the brothers will divide it equally!" Zhang Dabiao, you give me a steady lift! β
Olepiyang's leg was injured by a penetrating injury, Kong Ermao knew at a glance that he did not hurt his muscles and arteries, but this blood did not flow less, looking at the white face of this foreign devil was terrifying, fortunately, he would never die. And the two first-aid kits also stopped the bleeding for the time being, as long as they were sent to the big hospital in the city, they would be fine.
"Squad leader, why does this foreign devil look so scary, like a ghost."
"Don't call foreign devils, foreign devils, he is here to help us fight Japanese devils, and he is his own brother."
"Yes, squad leader, it's a foreign devil brother!"
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