Chapter 415: Air Battle Outside Zhanjiang City
As soon as the 32 fighters belonging to the Second Air Wing of the 21st Army in Guangzhou arrived outside Zhanjiang, they were intercepted by 20 fighters sprayed with the Hainan Air Force logo.
As the commander-in-chief of the Japanese aircraft formation, Wada Daisa, when he was leading the planes of the four flying groups to prepare to support the war in Guangxi, he happened to receive a distress radio from Major General Saki of the Zhanjiang First Air Wing.
When Wada Dazuo learned that the Chinese air force dared to bomb the Nanning airport, he was shocked: "Hasn't the air force in southern China been wiped out?" Why is Zhanjiang still being bombed? Could it be that it was sent by Chongqing?
However, Guangdong was also surrounded by Japanese positions, and it was impossible for the planes from Chongqing to silently go south to Guangdong through the Japanese air defense positions to bomb them. ”
Just when Wada Dazuo was puzzled, he heard that the garrison of the three wings of the Japanese Army in Zhanjiang City had also been bombed by the Chinese Air Force, and it was at this time that he got the exact news that this so-called Chinese Air Force was originally from Hainan.
At the same time, we have also received definite information about the specific number of the Chinese Air Force, and the Hainan Air Force has dispatched a total of 48 planes this time, including 24 fighters and 24 bombers.
The twenty-four bombers were all the latest heavy bombers, and there was not a single person in the 1st Wing of their Air Force who knew about such aircraft.
And Wada Osa also received orders from Major General Saki, ordering them to destroy the invading Hainan bombers, because it was these giant bombers that caused immeasurable losses to the Japanese in Zhanjiang.
Wada Dazuo didn't expect that in Hainan, a small land, there would be so many Chinese fighters, but no matter who they were, this time they had to be let have no return.
Soon, the Hotan aircraft formation got in touch with the Guangzhou Second Air Wing, canceled the original reinforcement mission, and replaced it with reinforcement of the Zhanjiang First Air Wing.
As a result, Hotan also led 32 fighters to immediately change their course and swoop southward, and as soon as the planes of the Hotan formation appeared outside Zhanjiang City, Hainan's radar had already discovered them.
That's when Qiao Zhengwei and they were returning home, they received a report about the discovery of Japanese fighters outside Zhanjiang City. As soon as the Hotan formation left the outside of Zhanjiang City, they found that a group of about 20 planes in front of them had come to meet them.
Wada Daisa immediately guessed the Chinese's thoughts, and the Chinese wanted these twenty fighters to drag their flight formation in order to buy the clumsy bombers enough time to escape.
The Chinese were too cunning, but the Japanese were not stupid, and Wada Daisa immediately ordered to leave two groups of sixteen planes to meet the Chinese fighters.
The Japanese fighters of the two groups immediately pounced on the Chinese fighters in the air, and as soon as the two sides came into contact, it was hand-to-hand combat, and the Japanese pilots were all veteran pilots with rich combat experience.
Although the pilots in Hainan have little actual combat experience, they do not lack training, and under Li Tie's training regardless of the cost, every pilot of a fighter in Hainan has enough flight time.
What's more, the Hainan Air Force is now using the latest P40 Mustang fighter from the United States, although this kind of aircraft is not as good as the Zero fighter that Japan is about to produce.
However, in today's Republic of China, the Mustang fighter is indeed the best fighter, and its performance is superior to that of the Type 97 fighter being used by the Japanese army.
However, the Japanese pilots cooperated very well with each other, although their planes were already seriously behind the Hainan Mustang fighters, and their number was four fewer than the Hainan fighters.
However, when the fighters of the two sides fought in the air, most of the time it was the Japanese planes that pressed the Hainan planes.
Fortunately, the Type 97 aircraft did not have aerial guns, and their machine guns were not powerful enough, so although most of the planes of the Hainan Air Force were hit by the Japanese first, few Mustang fighters were shot down.
After a brief panic at the beginning, the rookie pilots of the Hainan Air Force gradually stabilized their positions and began to fight to the death with the Japanese army outside Zhanjiang City.
I saw a Japanese plane clinging to a Hainan fighter, and the Hainan fighter, which was being pursued by the Japanese army, swayed from side to side and did all kinds of evasive actions, and from time to time pressed down or rose in an attempt to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese plane.
However, because the Japanese planes were generally lighter, even if the Mustang fighters were rough and thick-skinned, once they were bitten by experienced Japanese pilots, most of the Mustang fighters could not get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese planes.
Seeing that the Hainan fighter plane, which was tightly bitten by the Japanese plane, was hit by dozens of bullets in a burst of dense machine gun fire, the Mustang fighter fell outside Zhanjiang City with thick black smoke.
The Japanese pilot, who had just shot down a Hainan fighter, had not yet had time to celebrate, when he suddenly found himself also diving behind him with a Hainan fighter.
Just as he was making evasive moves, his own Japanese fighter was hit by dozens of machine gun bullets, and because the Japanese planes were generally weak in protection, the Japanese fighters that had been hit by dozens of bullets directly disintegrated in the air.
The Japanese pilot parachuted immediately before the plane disintegrated. As soon as he successfully parachuted out, he saw his plane explode in the air.
The Japanese pilot couldn't help but feel lucky, fortunately he saw the opportunity early, otherwise he would have to go to see Amaterasu. However, these Chinese pilots were really admirable opponents, and the plane they shot down did not parachute until it crashed into a field outside Zhanjiang City, and their spirit of not being afraid of death was indeed worthy of the respect of the Japanese army.
The parachute was not falling fast, and during the descent, he still had time to watch the battle in the air.
As the ace pilot of the second wing, the Japanese planes piloted by the captain of the squadron spun left and right, and repeatedly evaded the siege of three Chinese fighters.
Not only that, but the ace captain even used his skillful climbing skills to take the opportunity to kill a Hainan fighter, and at the moment when the other two Hainan pilots were surprised, they approached another Mustang fighter and directly attacked and landed this fighter.
However, just when the ace captain had just shot down the second Hainan fighter, the Hainan fighter, which had been following closely and was still wounded, directly swung its nose and crashed into the Japanese plane in the air.
The image of the two fighters crashing in the air in an instant deeply shocked the Japanese pilot who was landing.
What kind of air force is this, seeing that it misses with a machine gun, and actually uses an airplane to hit an enemy plane, which is also too fierce to die.
The Japanese pilot, thinking that he should land safely as soon as possible and remain useful to continue serving the Empire, unfortunately his observation of the battle ended there, because he suddenly found another seriously injured Hainan fighter jet puffing towards him in thick black smoke.
The Japanese pilot's eyes widened in fright, and even though he knew that the Chinese pilots could not hear his shouts, he still shouted loudly:
"We are knights in the air, we have lost our combat effectiveness, we should shake hands and make peace, we can no longer attack each other."
In his frightened screams, the falling Chinese fighter kept crashing into him, and with a "Peng" sound, the Hainan fighter was full of the blood of this Japanese pilot, and then another Hainan fighter umbrella flower fell from the sky.
Outside Zhanjiang, the Hainan Air Force and the fighters of the Second Air Wing of the Japanese Army were engaged in a fierce battle. Wada Daisa led two other groups of sixteen planes to continue flying.
The Chinese bombers they pursued all the way were about to catch up, and Wada Dazuo believed that the Hainan bombers must have fled to the Qiongzhou Strait, because on the other side of the strait there was not only dense anti-aircraft fire from the Chinese army, but also a huge airfield just outside Haikou.
Perhaps at this time, the planes in Haikou had already taken to the air to meet the bombers, so he ordered all the fighters to move forward with all their might, regardless of the problem of overheating the engines.
As Wada Daisa pursued with all his might regardless of the damage of the planes, they soon saw that in the high altitude ahead, twenty-four huge bombers were flying slowly in the air in the direction of Hainan.
"Report to Wada Daisa, a target has been found ahead, the enemy's bombers are very strange, we don't know each other, please instruct." The voice of a Japanese fighter pilot came over the plane's radio.
Wada Dazuo smiled slightly: "Caught them." Then Wada Dazuo took a closer look at the bomber group in front of him, and found that this bomber group was actually divided into three layers, upper, middle and lower, with eight planes flying in two columns on each floor.
"Is this a military parade? These Chinese bombers are really incorrigible that they are not busy running away after carrying out the bombing mission, and they are still in the mood to form a formation here.
However, these bombers are very large and strangely long, not only with four engines on the wings. There seemed to be machine-gun firing bays at the front and rear ends of these aircraft.
Do the Chinese have money and nowhere to spend? Installing a machine gun on a bomber is simply useless. Oh, by the way, I understand, it must be the warlords in Hainan who bullied the warlords in Chinese mainland that they don't have an air force, so they installed so many machine guns on the bombers, I believe they wanted to use the bombers as fighters to strafe soldiers on land.
However, no matter how many machine guns they installed, the clumsy appearance of the bomber could not be an match for the fighter. He wants to take advantage of the light and agile fighter to pounce on the enemy's shooting blind spots and deal with these bombers that are mixed with thorns.
It's a pity that these materials for making bombers are made of good steel at first glance, and if you don't have these machine guns, you can make a forced landing on these bombers.
However, for the safety of his own flight formation, he had to reluctantly give up these bombers that could be captured.
"All the fighters immediately pulled up into the air, let us dive down, attack with our machine guns, and tear them apart." Wada Daisa issued the order to attack.
The 16 Japanese fighters, who had long been eager to increase their combat exploits, quickly rose to a high altitude, and then looked at the entire three layers of bombers below, and they scrambled to pounce on the Hainan bomber group.