A large-scale air decisive battle came to an end for the time being: only 13 of the 90 planes of various types in the first wave of Japanese sorties ran back, the others were either shot down or forced to land, and the troops on the ground also captured 5 Japanese prisoners -- and now they were being escorted to Nanjing, and Zhou Zhirou needed to know from them the latest movements of the Japanese Air Force. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It turned out that there were more than this number of Japanese pilots who parachuted and forced landing, but those guys held on to their "bushido spirit" and resisted stubbornly, and as a result, they were all beaten into a sieve.

The Soviet Air Force only lost one plane, Olepyan, and the two forced landings were still worth repairing, and almost a third of the other forty-four planes were damaged: Vasily told Lin Jun after inspection that it would take up to three days to completely repair it, and if the situation was urgent, nine of them could be lifted off with injuries. The losses of the Chinese fighters were relatively large: a total of 8 were shot down, of which the 5th Group, which made a sortie in the first wave, lost 7 ****.

After the statistics came out, Lin Jun said to the ecstatic Zhou Zhirou: "If it weren't for the brothers of the Fifth Brigade who dragged the Japanese army's 96 ship battle, we wouldn't have had such a huge victory!" When the time comes to officially report the merits, they will be the first to report! ”

Zhou Zhirou didn't express too much opinion on Lin Jun's words, he knew that this was giving credit, but it was also partly true: the Fifth Brigade dragged the most elite fighter group of the Japanese army, and only then did it give Andlupf the opportunity to surprise the formation, which broke the fighting will of the Japanese fighter group in one fell swoop - when Andlupf and the Fifth Brigade eased up to encircle the Japanese formation, victory was already in sight, and at this time, the new force of the second brigade of Guangde arrived to have today's victory!

This time, the Chinese and Soviet fighters were not in force, which gave the Japanese Air Force a surprise: when the opponent did not understand itself, it created a local superiority in the quantity and quality of aircraft. For the time being, it seems that the air forces of China and the Soviet Union have temporarily regained air supremacy in the Songhu area.

Preparations for another sortie were already in place as soon as the first fighter landed, refueling, reloading, everything was carried out in an orderly manner. The pilots' individual results have only been preliminarily counted (that is, you can say how many are numerous), and no further confirmation and comparison of the total number have been made, because Lin Jun still has a hidden worry: the planes of the Japanese aircraft carrier have not yet appeared, and they will not hide in the East China Sea!

As Lin Jun expected, after Vice Admiral Tokugawa Yoshitoshi learned the news of the defeat in this air battle, the embarrassed and angry Tokugawa Yoshitoshi did not recall the flight formation that had already attacked on the "Kaga", but asked them to continue attacking Nanjing according to the predetermined plan, and be sure to destroy the opponent while the opponent's old strength was lacking and the new force was not born. It's just that this self-proclaimed clever Tokugawa Yoshitoshi telegraphed the 16 96 medium-sized land attack planes dispatched from the Taipei base to change course and no longer rendezvous with the "Kaga" carrier-based aircraft group, but to fly over the Taihu Lake and directly into Nanjing after entering the land from Hangzhou Bay alone: He wanted to use these 16 96 medium-sized land attacks as bait to lure the fighters at the Nanjing airfield to the south, so that the Kaga formation could take advantage of the situation.

According to common sense, once the fighters at Nanjing Airport are lured away, the 35 attack planes and bombers on his side will definitely be able to destroy the Dashochang Airport! But the fate of those "decoys" was not on his radar: Anotera could only be counted on to take care of these attack aircraft that served as decoys.

It's a pity that Lin Jun is not interested in their Aunt Amaterasu at all, and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi also ignores two key questions: 1, whether the opponent will be fooled; 2. His aviation knowledge was already a little outdated, and he didn't know that the fighters of the Soviet Air Force aiding China were equipped with radios -- and he could not be blamed for this, because the radio penetration rate of Japanese aircraft at that time was still at the level of the Soviet Air Force in 1935.

Just half an hour after Prokofiev landed, the command room of the Daxiaochang airfield received an early warning from the ground: A Japanese twin-engine bomber formation was flying from the direction of Taihu Lake to Nanjing, and a total of four fighters of the Second Brigade stationed in Changxing had already gone to intercept it, but the number of enemy planes was close to 20, and it was menacing, and our fighters might not be able to defeat it.

As soon as she heard this report, Zhou Zhirou was a little overhead: The Fourth Brigade in Hangzhou was not in a hurry to catch up with these enemy planes, and the planes at Guangde Airport, which was on the best interception route, were returning -- after they landed, they would have no time to catch up with them, just like the Fourth Brigade.

"General Zhou, don't worry, we have at least 40 minutes left, since they are coming to die, then we don't have to be polite."

Lin Jun said a little lightly, he was not nervous at all: these 20 or so 96 attacks are not enough for his own troops!

The twin-engine Type 96 medium attack aircraft was the most advanced long-range bomber of the Japanese army at that time, and it was a relatively difficult opponent for the Chinese Air Force to shoot down, because it had relatively strong self-defense firepower, and its size was relatively huge, although it was shot down three times in the air battle of Hangzhou on August 14, but its ability to resist strikes still caused some headaches for the Chinese Air Force. But this "powerful firepower and damage resistance" is relative, because all the fighters of the Chinese Air Force are only armed with machine guns, and for the Yi-16, which is equipped with a powerful 20-mm gun, these Japanese bombers are a flock of lambs!

Compared with the "Aunt Juncker" encountered in Spain, these Type 96 medium attack planes are not as good as the "Aunt Juncker" in other aspects except that they are faster, and their biggest feature is that they are just a little bit closer.

While Lin Jun asked the ground crew to step up preparations for taking off again, he also gathered his subordinates together in the pilot's lounge: "I think this Japanese air raid is not over except for those medium bombers, we have stabbed the hornet's nest, and those planes on the Japanese aircraft carrier have not yet appeared." This time, I personally led the team and took off 18 I-16 planes to intercept enemy planes in the south, and Andlupuf sat in the headquarters to guard against the threat from the east. ”

"Andrey, you can't take off, let me go!" As soon as Andlupf heard that Lin Jun was going to take to the air in person, he was anxious.

"Brother, do you know how I feel today?! Don't say more, this time it's fighting on your own people's territory, and nothing will happen! The planes of Little Japan are no more powerful than the "Condor", besides, they are all bombers. That's an order! ”

Lin Jun looked at the officers on the side and still had an opinion, "I said, this is an order, do you want to disobey my order?!" ”

In the eyes of all the Soviet officers present, Lin Jun was the god of war of the Air Force, and his orders could not be violated! Moreover, Lin Jun is not only the god of war in their hearts, but the nickname of "Executioner II" is not an ornament.

Feeling that his words were a little too heavy, Lin Jun sighed and said, "Comrades, you should be able to understand, if you don't let me participate in the battle again, I will be abolished!" ”

"Everyone obeys my orders, Captain Kurchumov is at the airport, Prokofiev is going to assemble 18 I-16s that are ready to take off again, and I will take off with Andrey!"

As Lin Jun's brother in life and death, Andrupf understands his thoughts, and only he knows best here: once Andrei makes a decision, it will not change it.

"Andre, needless to say, I'm still your wingman, and I'm not at ease with the others."

Andlupf's words reminded Lin Jun of the scene on the "Neva": "We are brothers, of course you can't let you go on adventures alone as a big brother, and I don't feel at ease when others are your wingmen." ”

Now that the two leaders have made a decision, the people below only need to obey no matter how much they have an opinion. And although Lin Jun's "entourage" is concerned about the safety of the chief, Lin Jun's will cannot be disobeyed, and Lin Jun is indeed the "God of War in the Air" in their eyes, he is invincible.

Three minutes later, Lin Jun changed into a flight suit sent by Vukinskaya.

"Kaya, I'll be back in a minute."

"Go ahead, I know, it's worse to not let you fly than to kill you, don't worry about me. My Andrei is the god of war, the unbeatable King Kong. ”

kissed goodbye to his wife, Lin Jun ran to his "Shenlong" fighter without hesitation.

"Captain, everything is ready to take off at any time." Vasily reported to Lin Jun.

"Okay, military chief, clear the obstacles and get ready to take off!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Lin Jun started the engine and increased the throttle, "Listen to my order, all the planes will take off!" I do pilots, trapezoidal formations. ”

Eighteen I-16s took off into the air and climbed all the way to the southeast.

At this time, Zhou Zhirou, who was in the command room, felt some signs of strangeness, because he found that Lin Jun was missing, and hurriedly asked where he was.

Kurchumov, who entered the command room, told him: Comrade Andrei had personally taken the plane into the air.

Zhou Zhirou was a little panicked when she heard it, Lao Jiang said that nothing must happen to this General Andre, "What can I do?!" ”

"General Zhou, don't worry, Comrade Andrei is invincible! Moreover, except for Comrade Stalin, no one could make Comrade Andrei change his mind. Kurchumov told Zhou Zhirou.

This next week, Zhirou can only hope that this Andre can be auspicious and will not have any problems: he doesn't dare to report this situation to Lao Jiang now, everything can only wait for Andre to come back.

、、、、、

18 Yi-16 planes climbed slowly all the way, at an altitude of 4,500 meters, and when approaching the Lishui County side of the Lishui-Jintan line, Lin Jun found a Japanese aircraft formation heading to the direction of 12 o'clock, with an altitude of 4,000, and three biplane fighters on the side harassing the Japanese aircraft formation, but this group of Japanese planes was like an iron heart, maintaining a dense formation and not moving.

"All listen to my orders, each find a target to attack, be sure to break up the opponent's formation, and then use double-click as a unit, bracket tactics to solve the enemy bombers! Note that the Japanese did not have fighter escorts, and those three fighters were supposed to be friendly fighters. Try to only use the cannon when attacking, and it is useful to keep bullets! Do you understand it all?! ”

There was a "understood" sound from the headphones, "All attention, climb the height, follow me, and dive at a 30-degree angle to attack!" ”

Before Lin Jun and the others discovered the Japanese plane, the four fighters of the second group that had been flying for more than ten minutes had harassed the opponent, launched two attacks, shot down a Type 96 land attack plane, and lost one of them, but they still could not break up the Japanese aircraft formation.

Eighteen I-16s climbed several hundred meters and slaughtered the Japanese swarm like a pack of tigers.

Lin Jun's eyes widened, and he firmly put the pilot plane of the Japanese aircraft firmly at the 6 o'clock position of the sight, and pressed the cannon firing button at a distance of 300 meters.

This was the first shot Lin Jun fired at the Japanese invaders, and the ШВКА machine gun smashed the revenge shells at the Japanese bombers, and in two seconds of continuous fire, more than 10 of the more than 50 shells fired hit the cockpit of the enemy planes - Lin Jun considered the amount of advance, but he did not expect the effect to be so good.

More than 10 rounds of 20-mm armor-piercing incendiary and anti-personnel shells smashed the bomber's cockpit to pieces, and the shrapnel and aircraft fragments from the shell explosion sent the two pilots inside to meet their Aunt Amaterasu in a hundredth of a second!

The sky was riddled with bullet marks, but the effect of the two sides was completely different: the Type 96 land attack only had 3 7.7mm machine guns, and for the fighter that dived down from above, only a rotating machine gun tower on its back could do an effective defense, but the Yi 16 fired at a distance of 300 meters, and the back shooters on the Japanese planes were beyond the reach of the whip! Moreover, they have received a strict order to maintain a dense formation in all circumstances, which should have been correct in the past (can constitute relatively dense self-defense firepower against a small number of fighters), but now they are the best targets for the I-16.

The bomber that was hit by Lin Jun immediately became a "drone", and although its engine was still running normally, it had begun to slowly deviate from its course and fall downward.

The pilots who attacked with Lin Jun this time were all the elite of the air force to aid China -- Prokofiev put all the best pilots in the group into the sortie detachment, which is not to say that the other pilots were not skilled: all the pilots who came to China this time were veterans, but these more than 10 were the elite of the elite! The first shock of the 18 I-16s hit 9 96 land attacks with smoke and falling, and a few more were also full of holes - if it weren't for the fact that several Soviet pilots had chosen the same target, this first wave of impact would have knocked all the Japanese planes into a sieve!

In an instant, Lin Jun's plane rushed to the bottom of the Japanese aircraft formation, pulled the control stick, and turned over in an S-shape, and saw that the original relatively large Japanese aircraft formation had been shattered, several planes were falling, and there were less than 10 Japanese bombers still flying in level.

"Brother, solve the last one!" Andlupf was 150 to the right behind him, and just now he had also hit a 96 ground attack engine on fire, and now it had fallen.

If the two-machine bracket attack tactics launched by Andlupf and Lin Jun considered themselves second in the Soviet Union, absolutely no one would dare to say that they were the first, which was a tacit understanding they had cultivated in Spain.

Lin Jun to the left, Andlupf to the right, when approaching the distance of 150, Lin Jun pressed the cannon firing button, and another two-second burst of fire, this time because it was a pursuit shot, the left fuselage and wing of the Japanese plane in front of him were hit with holes everywhere, and the engine also emitted black smoke. By the time Lin Jun pulled up the plane, Andlupf, who was attacking on the right, had also finished shooting: his shot was more effective, directly tearing a section of the plane's wing.

When Lin Jun was at peace again, all the 96 land attacks either fell in smoke or were "unmanned", and the three Chinese **** fighters that were originally "harassing" the Japanese aircraft next to them also rushed over and shot at a single smoking Japanese plane, at least hundreds of bullets hit the fuselage of the Type 96 land attack aircraft, and now it couldn't hold on and fall.

Lin Jun opened the cockpit and waved to the Chinese fighter jet, and then the Chinese leader also waved to him: they are going back.

"I'm Andre, and each machine reports if there is any damage."

The report of the team members came from the headset, except for a few Yi-16 that were grazed by the opponent's bullets, and they were basically unscathed - 18 Yi-16 with heavy firepower plus three ****, for 15 96 land attacks without fighter escort, it could only be a one-sided massacre.

"I'm Daxiao Factory, I'm Daxiao Factory, call Shenlong, call Shenlong!"

Lin Jun knew that there was a situation as soon as he heard it, because in the headphones was the voice of his confidential secretary Fekochinov.

"Received, I'm Shenlong, what's the situation?"

"Shenlong, Shenlong, a large formation of Japanese aircraft appeared in the sky over Jiangyin, it is estimated that it is the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese aircraft carrier, the number is more than 40, and the captain Kurchumov has led 21 fighters to intercept it."

"Shenlong received that the Japanese bomber formation has been shot down by our side and the Chinese Air Force, and we still have sufficient ammunition and fuel, so we will immediately go to support."

"The colonel plant understands, the colonel plant understands, we immediately inform Captain Kurchumov."

An aerial map immediately appeared in Lin Jun's mind: the Japanese plane was discovered in Jiangyin, and it must have encountered Kurchumov's formation in the sky over Danyang.

"Aircraft report on ammunition and fuel."

The reports of each plane are that there is sufficient fuel, and at least it can fly more than 650 kilometers, and the shells have not yet been fired, and many of them are like Andlupf, whose planes still have about 200 rounds, and the few have hundreds of rounds, and the machine guns have not fired a single shot.

"All obey my orders, support the Kurchumov formation, the target is over Danyang, the altitude is 4500."

、、、、、、

Just when Lin Jun discovered the attack on the Japanese Type 96 land attack plane, the Daxiaochang airfield received a report from the forward air defense post that a large number of Japanese planes had appeared over Jiangyin, targeting Nanjing.

Kurchumov, who remained behind, immediately led 21 fighters that could still attack to intercept it, and Fekochinov, who was qualified as a pilot and the highest-ranking military officer among the personnel left behind, became the commander of the Soviet Air Force at the colonel's plant. Kurchumov knew that the 20 or so Japanese medium attack planes were not enough for Lin Jun to stuff his teeth, so he asked Fekochinov to inform Lin Jun after he took off: Andrei will definitely come to support after solving the opponent.

Fekochinov's notification was also at the right time, Lin Jun's formation and Kurchumov's formation encountered Japanese planes at the same time in the sky near Danyang!

Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's "wishful thinking" failed: 15 Type 90 fighters, 20 Type 89 attack planes, and 15 Type 94 carrier-based bombers collided headlong with 39 of the most modern fighters of the Soviet Army, of which 28 were I-16.

The carrier-based aircraft wing of the "Kaga" aircraft carrier was originally scheduled to return to the Japanese mainland in July this year to replace it with new fighters, but the outbreak of the war of aggression against China postponed its plan to change its equipment -- and in this way, it sailed to the East China Sea with a group of planes that were already behind the times.

In front of the fierce I-16 and the nimble I-15, the 15 Type 90 fighters on the "Kaga" are like a group of monkeys that can only jump up and down in front of the tigers, and these monkeys are not as agile as the I-15, and the maximum speed is only a pitiful 293 kilometers, and the firepower is only equipped with two 7.7 mm machine guns. The maximum speed of those Type 89 attack planes and Type 94 carrier-based bombers is less than 250 kilometers per hour, and the oldest Type 89 attack planes can only fly 228 kilometers at the fastest -- even if they want to, they cannot leave.

"All note, I'm Andrey, a two-plane formation, the opponents are all old-fashioned biplanes, and I strive not to let go of one! Remember, if they were all reimbursed, Lao Tzu and your commander-in-chief would jointly apply for the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for the person who shot down the most enemy planes among you! Don't capsize in the gutter, and don't lose the face of the Soviets! Got it?! ”

"Understood, understood, understood!"

"Okay, all of them come with me!"

The process of this air battle once again became a one-sided massacre, and the Soviet pilots were stimulated by Lin Jun's words, and launched a "bayonet fight in the air" with the Japanese planes, fearing that they would have no chance to fight later. After breaking up the formation of Japanese planes, the air was full of Soviet fighters chasing Japanese planes, and Japanese biplanes continued to fall, and after 10 minutes, the murderous Soviet pilots discovered that there was not a single Japanese plane in the air except for their own planes.

Just now, Lin Jun relied on himself to be the pilot plane, and the first impact hit a three-seater Type 89 attack plane and exploded in the air, and when he rushed through the Japanese aircraft formation and turned the nose, he found that it was already a standard melee: there was no cooperation between the two planes, and all the Soviet fighters were chasing after the Japanese planes.

"It seems that in the future, the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" can no longer be used to stimulate these pilots, it is too dangerous! This thought flashed through Lin Jun's mind. Now only Andlupf behind him is still faithfully fulfilling his duties as a wingman - he is already a "Hero of the Soviet Union".

Lin Jun is also not good at competing with his own subordinates for war merits, and the situation in front of him is often two or three Soviet fighters chasing a Japanese plane to shoot, and the advantage of aircraft performance is clearly reflected. Lin Jun hovered in the air, guarding against any fish that had slipped through the net.

The air battle began quickly and ended quickly, ending in less than ten minutes.

"Attention all, I am Andrey, I order, all return!" He swung the nose of the plane and flew in the direction of Nanjing first.

"Call the colonel, call the colonel, I'm Andre."

"Received by the colonel plant, hello, Comrade Andrei."

"Fekochinov, tell General Zhou that today's Japanese aircraft carrier will be an empty shell, and all the more than 50 Japanese aircraft carriers and planes that attacked were shot down by our side, and none of them escaped, and our side suffered no losses. He was asked to inform the ground personnel to count the wreckage of the enemy plane and capture the prisoners as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Comrade Andrey!"

、、、、、、

That night, an orderly on board the "Kaga" found the body of Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, who had committed suicide by seppuku, in the chief's office.

(To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the WWW.CMFU.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )