The Weilong jet also encountered a reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, and the Chinese pilots immediately shot down the Japanese carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft. The Japanese did not know how to disappear a reconnaissance plane, and the fleet commander thought that the reconnaissance plane had crashed into the sea due to a malfunction, and at this time the Japanese did not know that they were about to face a catastrophe.

After getting these reports, Jiang was also overjoyed, the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet! Just a hundred nautical miles off the coast of Qingdao, if these two sea giants can be blown up and sunk, won't that be able to severely blow down the morale of the Japanese army? Therefore, the Military Council held an emergency meeting, and this time it was going to launch a sneak attack on the two Japanese fleets off the coast of Tianjin and Qingdao. If these two Japanese fleets can be severely damaged, especially if they can blow up and sink the Japanese aircraft carriers, then it will be of great significance. The meeting ended with a decision to send two aerial bombing groups to bomb the Japanese fleet.

At 4:30 a.m. the next morning, the two bomber groups of the Chinese Air Force set off almost at the same time, and the fleet of planes that went to bomb the Japanese aircraft carrier formation was the largest, because it was not easy to blow up and sink the aircraft carrier, especially the Akagi, which had a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, and it was difficult to blow up and sink because there were no torpedoes and just using bombs.

The intention of the sneak attack was not realized, because the Japanese aircraft carrier group lost a reconnaissance plane for no reason, so the Japanese strengthened their vigilance, and when the bomber group was still twenty nautical miles away from the Japanese aircraft carrier, it was discovered by the Japanese aircraft carrier-based reconnaissance plane.

Soon the Japanese aircraft carriers took off a group of carrier-based fighters to protect the fleet. Of course, at this time, the carrier-based aircraft on the Japanese aircraft carriers were mainly some Type 90 biplane fighters, Type 95 biplane fighters, and Type 96 shipboard attack aircraft.

The Type 90 shipboard fighter was adopted by the U.S. Army Air Force in 1928 when the Boeing Company launched the P-12 fighter, and the U.S. Navy also changed this kind of fighter to a carrier-based aircraft and called it F4B.

The Japanese Navy also took a fancy to the F4B and bought two copies of the Nakajima flying plane. The designer is Takao Yoshida, and this is where the Type 90 shipboard fighter comes from. However, the Type 90 is not simply a copy of the F4B, its internal structure adopts the design of the British Bulldog, and Takao Yoshida's work is how to combine these two American and British fighters into one, and the engine follows the existing Type 3 ship fighter Shou-2 engine, which has a power of 450 horsepower. In 1930, the Type 90 failed to perform well due to engine problems, and in 1932, the Type 90 was adopted by the military as a Type 90 ship fighter after switching to a 580 hp Shou II modified engine. It has a maximum take-off weight of 1,550 kilograms and a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour, which is much worse than the first Jiaoyi produced by the Dragon Soul Aircraft Company for the Chinese Air Force. After all, this is an old-fashioned biplane.

The Type 95 carrier-based fighter is an improved version of the Type 90 carrier-based fighter developed by Nakajima Aircraft, and the most important thing is to change to the 730-horsepower light engine of Nakajima, which has a higher horsepower, so the appearance of the two is very similar, but the engine cover of the Type 95 is larger, and the Type 95 shipboard fighter is the last biplane fighter of the Japanese Navy and the last carrier-based fighter produced by Nakajima Heavy Industries. Its maximum speed was increased to 352 km / h. The ceiling was raised to 7,740 meters, but the performance improvement was not huge. The performance is a little worse than that of the Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft.

The Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft, it is not a specialized fighter, but an attack aircraft. The fighter has a crew of three, a maximum take-off weight of 3,600 kilograms, a maximum speed of 280 kilometers per hour, a ceiling of 6,000 meters, and uses an 840 hp Nakajima Ko-2 engine. The main armament was a 7.7 mm machine gun. There are also 800 kg of bombs or torpedoes.

Compared with the luxurious lineup of the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft is simply weak. So it's a battle without suspense. In the bombing formation of the Chinese Air Force, in addition to the 24 Weilong jet fighters, there are also 64 Chujiaoyi planes. These fighters completely crushed the Japanese carrier-based aircraft in terms of performance. Not to mention the Weilong jet fighter, which is more than two generations ahead of the Japanese carrier-based fighter, is a first-class aircraft, and it is also much more advanced than the Japanese carrier-based aircraft. Not to mention the Weilong jet fighter of the Chinese Air Force. It's also equipped with a Vulcan cannon!

Colonel Gao Ge, commander of the bombing formation of the Chinese Air Force, immediately ordered: "All fighters climb and accelerate and prepare for air combat." "At the same time, the bomber units were ordered to lag slightly behind and be ready for an attack.

The Japanese aircraft carrier, while accelerating the take-off of carrier-based aircraft, prepared air defense. The commander of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft formation Noda Nakasa, who took to the air, also led the Japanese carrier-based aircraft to climb quickly. It is always advantageous to occupy a higher position in air combat. But he immediately found himself facing a problem, and all the Chinese Air Force fighters rushed in front of him. Where are the bombers? If there are bombers behind the enemy, or torpedo planes, climb too high on their own, and the enemy's torpedo planes suddenly appear at low altitudes, then it will be troublesome.

The dive performance of both the Type 90 fighter and the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft is very poor, and once they get entangled with others at a high place, and when they find the enemy bomber, they want to get rid of the enemy's entanglement and dive down to attack the enemy's bomber, which is not ordinarily difficult. Because it means that you need to turn your ass towards the enemy, and automatically make the enemy kick your ass. Even if his skills are as good as Noda's own, he doesn't dare to say that he will be able to dodge so many attacks.

But Noda Nakasa made a decision right away, because time did not allow them to hesitate. He continued to climb with the most experienced 20 fighters, and the other fighters that took off one after another stayed to protect the low altitude.

However, when it comes to climbing, the altitude has now exceeded 5,000 meters, and the Japanese carrier-based aircraft without a supercharger at this altitude want to climb compared with the Chinese Air Force's Chujiaoyi and Weilong jet fighters, even if it is Noda Nakasa. There is no way for him to climb faster than the Chinese Air Force fighters. Moreover, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force already had an altitude advantage, and it was not until the Japanese fighters climbed to an altitude of more than 5,000 meters that the Japanese pilots realized that the enemy was simply playing with them.

The Chinese air force group, which had the upper hand in height, began to dive towards the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and the Japanese pilots were already familiar with this kind of attack, and they wanted to avoid the enemy planes rushing at them with a slight turn, and he knew that he could not be in a hurry, and he had to be very calm. Now the speed of the enemy planes is very high, and it is difficult to find an opportunity to attack them, but according to the custom, after this round of attacks, the enemy will take advantage of the high speed to pull up at high speed, and then do it again. If you can induce the enemy plane to make a big overload action when attacking, you may be able to find an opportunity when he pulls up again.

But this time, the speed of the enemy plane was beyond the expectations of the Japanese pilots, and the speed of the enemy planes was so fast that the Japanese pilots could not react, until the nose of the enemy plane could be clearly seen, and the Japanese pilots found out that it was broken, because those fighters were clearly jet fighters, which were only available in Europe?! (To be continued.) )