The battles on the ground continued to be brutal and bloody, and the battles in the sky were equally surging with a tragic aura in grace. www.biquge.info The bomber units of the Ming Empire quickly pounced on their targets at an altitude of about 7,000 meters, and the Japanese fighter units had already taken off and began to intercept and counterattack the Ming army, which had an absolute superiority in numbers.

These bomber units formed a dense formation, covering each other with machine guns mounted on their fuselages. Because of the sheer number of pilots, the pilots were confident that their planes could cope with the provocative Japanese troops.

But when the Japanese planes appeared in the clouds and directly below their routes, their equally dense numbers startled the Ming pilots. The radio was filled with the sound of mutual reminders, and the jumbled shouts filled the headphones, and many recruits were nervous.

"Japanese planes spotted! Japanese planes spotted! The threat is greatest near the clouds! Be careful! Be careful! On one of the bombers leading the pilot, the commander of the entire flight formation reminded loudly over the radio: "All machine gun shooters steady!" Steady! ”

"Steady!" On almost all the planes of the Ming army, such a prompt is also repeated. After all, pilots are relatively invaluable, so most of the shooters on the bombers are recruits from the ground forces. This was their first large-scale battle in the sky, and many of them had no experience in it.

"Watch your shooting angles! Gentlemen! Do not have your own plane to fire in the direction! Do you understand? Skilled pilots began to teach their rookies not to accidentally injure their own planes as much as possible, and repeatedly stressed the need to read the signs on the wings before firing.

Just when the bomber forces of the entire Ming Empire were extremely nervous, in the sky, a black Ming Empire Sky Breaking 2 fighter roared down with the roar of the engine, and rushed towards those dense Japanese Shenlong 1 fighters.

"2, 4, 6, 8 attack to the right! 3, 5, 7, 9 attack to the left! Zhou Yuxin, who was sitting in the cockpit, assigned the task of launching an attack through the throat intercom, and then piloted his fighter jet and aimed the nose at an unlucky guy in the Japanese aircraft formation.

The Sky Breaker 2 fighter can fly at a very high speed when diving. The strong fuselage that bears the power of the engine also provides a strong enough fuselage structure for this aircraft, at least in Zhou Yuxin's opinion, the aircraft in his hand is definitely the most perfect flying machine in this era.

He had stroked the airplane's streamlined fuselage and wings countless times, feeling the shock it brought him. After countless engineers and designers, this aircraft can be said to have been absolutely designed to fight in the sky.

Use the firing sight directly in front of your hatch to cover the fuselage of the Japanese Shenryu 1 fighter who is trying to turn to avoid the Ming fighters, and gently push the pedals under your feet and the joystick in your hand to keep the nose of your plane facing the enemy. Zhou Yu's undistracted concentration is like an eagle staring at his prey.

As the distance between the two sides continued to approach, the Ming fighters who dived down from an altitude of 8,400 meters finally opened fire at the distance they thought was appropriate. The tracer bullet made a dazzling trajectory in the clear blue sky, and also marked the beginning of the first real large-scale air battle on the Korean battlefield.

The Japanese planes began to evade and flip, and at the same time, the fighters of the Ming Empire began to turn and pull up, and the formations of the two sides began to become chaotic after a large-scale cross-flight. And this time in a short period of time, many planes dragged thick black smoke and fell to the ground under their feet.

It was not only the Japanese planes that were shot down, but also the planes of the Ming Empire. After all, in this kind of big fight between dozens of planes, there will always be people who will be hit because of too dense firepower. However, it is obvious that more Japanese fighters crashed, and only a few planes crashed by the Ming army.

After all, the fighters of the Ming Empire had a stronger body, and at the same time had more terrifying firepower - four 13 mm machine guns, compared to the two Japanese 8 mm machine guns, the firepower was not as strong as the one. Seeing that the Japanese fighters were suppressed by the Ming army, the Japanese pilots were also anxious.

Although the Japanese army seemed to have a great advantage in the number of fighters, most of this numerical advantage was due to the fact that the Japanese army took off a lot of biplanes. These planes were of little help in high-altitude battles, and could only fly at low altitudes to stop the destruction of the Ming dive bombers.

However, as the dive bombers of the Ming Empire began to attack targets near Guicheng, the pilots on the old Japanese biplane fighters sadly found that even in the face of the dive bombers of the Ming Empire, they were no match at all.

Although the flight speed of the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber is not as fast as that of the Piercing 2 fighter, it is more than enough to deal with the old biplane fighter. In addition, the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber has a rear-firing machine gun, which is often more advantageous in dogfight. The superior low-altitude performance of the old biplane also had little advantage over the hovering bomber......

As a result, about 20 minutes after the air battle began, the Japanese army took off to intercept the fighter units of the Ming Imperial Air Force, and they could not bear the losses and began to withdraw from the battlefield. Of course, another reason for the Japanese pilots to abandon their combat mission was that the important transportation hubs such as Guicheng Dingzhou, which they had to defend to the death, had actually been drowned in a cloud of black smoke.

Zhou Yuxin piloted his fighter jet to get rid of the Japanese Shenlong fighter that bit his tail, and then used the faster climb to regain his altitude. In the course of the two battles, the more flexible four-plane formation of the Ming Imperial Air Force gained an advantage on the battlefield, and after shooting down 21 Japanese Shenlong 1 fighters, it only paid the price of 8 Breaking Air 2 fighters.

"Get in shape! Get in shape! Cover your teammates' tails! "The order of the front-line commander of the fighter unit came from the headset. So Zhou Yuxin could only let go of the Japanese plane that tried to attack him and began to assemble in the designated high-altitude area. His aircraft was very agile at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and was lighter than the Japanese aircraft.

After several attempts to entangle with the Ming planes at an altitude of about 8,000 meters, the Japanese planes knew that their own planes were no match for the enemy's planes at this altitude, so they gave up the idea of continuing the entanglement. Often, when the Ming fighters climbed up, the Japanese would give up the pursuit and change the flight attitude of their own planes and leave.

Those unwilling Japanese planes have long been shot down, and now the remaining Japanese pilots are veterans with a lot of flying experience, and like their counterparts in the Ming Empire, they know the performance of their planes, and they are twice as cunning as the larks.

Taking advantage of some of the maneuverability of the Shenlong 1 fighters, these Japanese pilots had managed to shoot down several of the Ming fighters that had been fooled. Their performance also made the Ming army's fighter units jealous, and they began to no longer let their planes entangle and fight without scruples.

However, in terms of the absolute number of aircraft, the Japanese army is still too few and too few, although the Japanese pilots here are brave and tenacious, but the bombing of the Ming army over there is still going on. The Japanese army, which lacked enough fighters to disrupt the Ming bomber force, found that it could only entangle with the Ming fighter force and could not achieve any decent results at all.

This kind of confrontation is obviously the situation that the Ming army is most willing to see, after all, the Japanese Shenlong fighters do not have the huge number of new fighters of the Ming army. On the other hand, the Japanese pilots also found that even if they were only entangled with the Ming fighter units, they gradually became a little unbearable.

After all, they have losses in the battle with the opponent's aircraft, and the proportion of losses is quite high. The loss of dozens of planes is already unbearable, not to mention that they have not been able to stop the bombing of the Ming army, and in terms of the purpose of the battle, they are already losing.

After a period of fierce attack and discovery that the bomber units of the Ming army were completely invulnerable under the cover of the fighters, the Japanese fighter units that had taken off for combat could only break away in a huff and gave up the idea of continuing the battle. More than 50 planes have been shot down and crashed themselves, and it is clear that this exchange is very uneconomical for the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation.

Under the bombing of the Ming Empire, Guicheng and Dingzhou have become a sea of fire, and the dive bombers focused on taking care of the railway stations and railway and highway lines in these two cities, and almost completely destroyed these facilities before calmly returning and leaving.

With the departure of the Japanese planes, the bomber units of the Ming Empire were like no one, and they did not return and leave until the fuel they carried began to run out. Some units even used their cannons to strafe the Japanese troops on the ground when they were returning home.

The anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground was like a groan in front of such a large number of Ming Empire aircraft, and only four Lei Gong 1 dive bombers and one Djinshen 1 bomber were shot down from beginning to end.

However, when the bomber unit of the Ming army took off for the second time and launched a delayed bombing of the Japanese front-line troops, the Japanese aviation unit no longer had the ability to take off to meet the battle. Four of the main lines of communication of the Japanese army were completely paralyzed, and most of the railways were unusable.

At the same time, the Japanese lost about 100 planes and 60 pilots on that day -- more than half of the Shenlong fighter unit was lost, and it basically lost the ability to continue fighting. (To be continued.) )