Chapter 742: A one-sided air battle

After Britain, France, and the United States withdrew from the war, the Chinese Empire and the five countries of Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey confronted each other on the front line of the Ural Mountains for more than a month.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of April 25, 1909, the artillery and air force of the five-nation coalition first attacked the defense line established by the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains, and then the artillery of the Royal Chinese Army immediately launched a counterattack, and hundreds of improved Yellow Bird fighters of the Royal Chinese Air Force also met the fighters of the five-nation coalition in the air.

Many artillery positions of the coalition forces are several kilometers away from the first fortifications of the Imperial Chinese Army, and the artillery shelling is more than 75 mm in caliber, and the five-nation coalition forces have invested tens of thousands of artillery pieces at once, including more than 3,000 guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm.

The Royal Army of the Chinese Empire has 180 155 mm heavy howitzers and 324 105 mm howitzers, and after the artillery of the coalition forces launched an artillery bombardment, the Royal Army of the Chinese Imperial Army guarded the 3rd Guards, 3rd Field Army, 4th Field Army, 9th Field Army and 10th Field Army guarding the first line of fortifications in the Ural Mountains, and immediately let the howitzer group of the five main forces behind the first fortification launch a counterattack, and launched a fierce artillery attack on the coalition artillery at a distance of about 10 kilometers.

Immediately, more than 2,500 howitzers of the five main armies of the Imperial Chinese Army and more than 3,000 large-caliber guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm began to be bombarded by the allied artillery.

When the large-caliber artillery of the two sides on the ground engaged in an artillery battle, thousands of fighters from both sides combined in the sky also launched a large-scale air battle.

The artillery battle on the ground between the two sides temporarily hit an even match. However, in the fierce battle in the sky, there was a one-sided situation.

Pilot piloted the Yellow Sparrow fighter with the number 0121 Modified Yellow Bird in the early winter sea. From the radio station in the cockpit of the fighter's plane, he heard the captain of the 4th Destroyer Group to which he belonged said: "The main task of our 4th Destroyer Group is to destroy the fighters of the coalition forces. As for those bombers of the coalition forces, there are fighters from the brother brigade to deal with! Pay attention to cooperate with each other, don't be careless! ”

According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the Luftwaffe was equipped with a new type of fighter jet, although there were still some gaps in performance compared with the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter, but it was already a full threat to the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter.

Chu Donghai shouted to his wingman with a wireless walkie-talkie: "Brother Liu, there are a lot of fighters in the coalition this time, if we are lucky." Maybe you can become the first two ace pilots of the Royal Air Force! ”

Liu Chang, the pilot piloting the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter with the number 0122, shouted on the wireless walkie-talkie: "Haizi, be careful this time, there are too many coalition fighters, don't rush forward, we cooperate, seize the opportunity to shoot down one is counted as one, now you and Chen Tao are the same as shooting down 7 enemy planes, don't you be shot down before you become an ace pilot!" ”

Since the outbreak of this war. The main task of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force was to bomb targets on the ground of the enemy, and the opponent's air force was too far apart from the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force in the previous major battles, and air battles did not break out a few times. And the scale is relatively small, so that the fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire can shoot down not many enemy fighters. It is very difficult to become an ace pilot, and the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire clearly stipulates it. An ace pilot is a pilot who shoots down 10 enemy fighters in an air battle.

Chu Donghai and Liu Chang were lucky, in the Battle of Chelyabinsk. When the two of them flew an improved Yellow Sparrow fighter to reconnoiter the enemy, they encountered an ambush by the Allied and Allied air forces, but in the end this ambush became a joke, allowing Chu Donghai and Liu Chang to take the opportunity to shoot down 5 and 4 Allied fighters respectively.

Chu Donghai and Liu Chang shot down 2 and 1 coalition fighters in the Battle of Ufa City, and Chu Donghai and Chen Tao, another pilot of the Second Fighter Group, became the pilots who shot down the most enemy fighters in the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, but Chu Donghai and Chen Tao were still not ace pilots, they only shot down 7 coalition fighters, and they were 3 short of the regulation of 10 ace pilots.

Chu Donghai smiled and said on the wireless walkie-talkie: "Hehe, Brother Liu, you can rest assured!" Let's catch up, today is enough for a few of our expulsion brigades to kill for a while. ”

In order to bomb the defensive line built by the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains and cover the attack of the Russian Army, the air force of the German, Russian, Italian, Austrian, and Turkish forces dispatched more than 600 fighters and more than 500 bombers at once.

The Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese saw from the radar a large number of allied fighters flying towards the defense line of the Ural Mountains, and at once let four expulsion groups rise into the air to meet them.

The largest formation of fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire is called the Destroyer Group, each destroyer group has 5 destroyer squadrons, each destroyer squadron has 24 improved Yellow Bird fighters, a destroyer group has 120 improved Yellow Bird fighters, and 4 destroyer groups are 480 improved Yellow Bird fighters.

Among the various temporary airfields east of the Ural Mountains, the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire has deployed 10 destroyer groups and 2 destroyer squadrons, with 1,248 improved Yellow Bird fighters, although it was found that a large number of fighters of the coalition forces flew over, but the Royal Air Force did not let all the improved Yellow Bird fighters rise into the air, if the fighters over the Ural Mountains defense line are too dense, it is easy to be injured by mistake, and there are 4 destroyer groups that are enough to deal with the fighters of the 5-nation coalition forces.

It's not that the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force is too confident, but in fact, the performance of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force is much more advanced than the fighters of the air forces of the five countries, including the latest fighters of the Luftwaffe.

Chu Donghai and Liu Chang piloted an improved Yellow Sparrow fighter, after encountering the fighters of the 5-nation coalition. Immediately aimed at a new Luftwaffe fighter plane, and adopted the tactics of two-plane two-way flanking attack.

A two-plane two-way flanking attack means that the attacking side's two-plane formation will separate the target at an appropriate distance after discovering the target head-on. The wingman enters from the left side of the target to carry out the attack, while the long plane enters from the right side of the target. The height is slightly higher to carry out an attack on the target. Of course, the attack methods of the two can also be interchanged, if the target is found behind the tail, the two planes can also turn their heads to attack each other, and vice versa, forming a mutual cover posture.

The new Luftwaffe fighter that was targeted did not allow Chu Donghai and Liu Chang to make more technical moves, and after the two improved Yellow Sparrow fighters launched a flank attack, the 14.5 mm cannon of the No. 0121 improved Yellow Sparrow fighter. It hit the new Luftwaffe fighter that had not yet made any evasive moves, and in an instant, a fireball appeared in the sky, and then quickly fell to the ground.

"Haha, Brother Liu, I have another one more record!" Chu Donghai shouted happily on the wireless walkie-talkie, this is a good start, counting this new fighter of the Luftwaffe, Chu Donghai has shot down 8 enemy planes, and it is a big step closer to the ace pilot.

"Be careful. Haizi, there is an enemy plane behind you, coming at you! Before Liu Chang could congratulate Chu Donghai, he found another new fighter of the Luftwaffe. Fiercely pounced from behind the 0121 Improved Yellow Sparrow and fired heavily at the 0121 Improved Yellow Sparrow.

Chu Donghai didn't need Liu Chang to remind him, he had already found it from behind his fighter. There are enemy planes firing at their own fighters, and in early winter, Haima controls the levers in the cab of the fighters. Let the No. 0121 Improved Yellow Sparrow Fighter start to fold and roll, that is, let the No. 0121 Improved Yellow Sparrow Fighter make gyroscopic motion on the axis formed by the nose and tail. Immediately, it avoided the range of fire of the new Luftwaffe fighter behind it.

Under the control of Liu Chang, the wingman of No. 0121 and the No. 0122 improved Yellow Sparrow fighter quickly climbed to a position parallel to the new Luftwaffe fighter, and then faced the German fighter and aimed at it with the 14.5 mm machine gun of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter and fired at it continuously.

After controlling the 0121 improved Yellow Sparrow to avoid the firepower fired at him, Chu Donghai immediately turned the nose of the fighter in one direction, just facing the side of the new Luftwaffe fighter that was about to sneak attack him from behind, so what else is polite, Chu Donghai pressed the button of the machine gun without hesitation.

With a "boom-" sound, the new Luftwaffe fighter plane, which was sandwiched by two improved Yellow Sparrow fighters No. 0121 and 0122, also turned into a ball of fireball and fell to the ground.

"Aren't you kid robbing me of my business! This coalition fighter has been locked by my machine guns, so you can get rid of it first! Liu Chang complained on the wireless walkie-talkie.

"Hehe, Brother Liu, I'm not afraid that you are in danger, Brother Liu, you are facing the coalition fighter, and besides, the coalition fighter has an old nose today, which is enough for you to play to your heart's content, Brother Liu!" In the early winter, Haihai was in a very good mood, he had just engaged with the fighters of the 5-nation coalition forces, and he had 2 records, and he was only 1 enemy plane away from the ace pilot, as long as he shot down 1 more coalition fighter, he could become the ace pilot of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, and maybe the first ace pilot.

In fact, Liu Chang didn't care about the record of Chu Donghai snatching 1 enemy plane, just talking about it, with the friendship that 2 people can block bullets from each other, the record of shooting down 1 enemy plane is really nothing, and then Chu Donghai and Liu Chang piloted 2 improved Yellow Bird fighters and aimed at the next target.

In addition to the superior performance of the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Five Nations Air Force, the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force also had many experienced and well-rounded fighter pilots like Chu Donghai and Liu Chang, which made the air battle quickly become a one-sided situation after it began.

The fighters of the air forces of Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey were completely inferior in the air fighting with the improved Yellow Sparrow fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and a series of skillful technical actions of the pilots of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighters really made the fighter pilots of the air forces of the five countries very devastated, and one after another the fighters of the five allied forces were shot down, but the downed Chinese Imperial fighters were very few.

The bombers of the air forces of the five countries were even more miserable, because the fighters of the air forces of the five countries were completely suppressed by the improved Yellow Bird fighters of the three destroyer groups of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, so the remaining 120 improved Yellow Bird fighters of the one destroyer group aimed at the bomber groups of the five air forces.

Bombers were originally clumsier than fighters in the air, and coupled with the excellent performance of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, the bombers of the air forces of the five countries were saddened, and very few bombers of the air forces of the five countries threw aerial bombs on the positions of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, and most of them were destroyed before they flew over the positions of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

From 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., in just 30 minutes, less than 300 of the 600 fighters and more than 500 bombers dispatched by the air forces of the five countries added up, and all the remaining fighters of the air forces of the five countries fell to the ground.

At this time, most of the remaining pilots of the air force of the five countries had collapsed mentally, and when some coalition fighters fled, without the orders of their superiors, the other remnants of the coalition fighters fled to the airfield west of the Ural Mountains, so that this large-scale air battle ended with the complete victory of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire.

In the end, the air forces of Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey lost 465 fighters and 372 bombers, and only 141 fighters and 120 bombers of the air forces of the five countries managed to escape, but their escape was only temporary, and the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire was already preparing to launch air raids on various Russian airfields west of the Ural Mountains.

With such great results, only 12 improved Yellow Sparrow fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force were destroyed, most of them were shot down by new Luftwaffe fighters, and only 5 pilots were killed, and 7 pilots successfully parachuted and landed on the positions of the Royal Chinese Army.

It is definitely a brilliant victory to be able to exchange the loss of half of the expulsion squadron for more than 800 fighters of the air forces of five countries, and in this air battle, the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire gave birth to 6 ace pilots at once, and Chu Donghai and Liu Chang, who piloted the 0121 and 0122 improved Yellow Bird fighters, also became an ace pilot in this air battle. (To be continued.) )

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