852 Fighter First Battle
Lin Fei said with a smile: "Our plane needs a resounding name, we Chinese people have always worshiped dragons, so I decided that the name of the plane will be 'Flying Dragon', but just 'Flying Dragon' is too thin, so I want to add the word 'Jiuxiao' in front of the flying dragon." ”
"The word 'Nine Heavens', the same as 'Flying Dragon', comes from traditional culture, in traditional culture, there are nine heavens, also called 'Nine Heavens', our planes fly in the sky, so it is quite appropriate to use the name of Nine Heavens, so our aircraft is called 'Nine Flying Dragons'."
Many pilots in the audience didn't think the name "Nine Flying Dragons" was so loud, but after all, it was Lin Feiqi's name, so everyone applauded and agreed.
The planes of the Huaxia fleet have a name, and they are about to go on an expedition next, two aircraft carriers, each of which can carry twenty-five aircraft, after all, these aircraft carriers are modified from large merchant ships, plus the fuselage of the Nine Flying Dragon fighters is relatively large, the amount of ammunition consumed and the amount of fuel are relatively large, and a large amount of ammunition and fuel need to be carried, so the number of aircraft carried is not too much.
The two aircraft carriers, called "Aircraft Carrier No. 1" and "Aircraft Carrier No. 2" respectively, did not even have a loud plane, after all, these two aircraft carriers were temporarily refitted, and their status in Lin Fei's mind was low, so Lin Fei did not name them.
Of course, Aircraft Carrier No. 1 and Aircraft Carrier No. 2 are the names within the Navy, and when they were external, the two aircraft carriers were called "Large Carrier No. 1" and "Large Carrier No. 2" respectively, giving the Japanese the illusion that the Chinese Fleet did not have aircraft carriers.
On July 20, 1905, the expedition to Jeju Island fleet finally set sail, this time Lin Fei sent an extremely strong lineup, two aircraft carriers, not to mention, as well as four Dynasty-class battleships and four Emperor-class cruisers, in comparison, the Japanese fleet lineup is much inferior, in addition to four kamikaze-class aircraft carriers, there are only eight small destroyers, and it is difficult for four to sink one Dynasty-class one.
On 30 July, the Huaxia Expeditionary Fleet finally approached Jeju Island, and the final decisive battle was about to break out, and on Jeju Island, Yuki Uizawa suggested to Togo Heihachiro: "We should not hold on to Jeju Island, but disassemble the four aircraft carriers and attack the territory of the Huaxia Fleet separately, the coastline of the main land area of China is extremely long, and our planes can attack and bomb the city anywhere." ”
Togo Heihachiro smiled and nodded, "What you said makes sense, but holding Jeju Island is an order from the superiors, and we must obey it, and more importantly, our aircraft carriers and drunken boy planes are born to sink the Huaxia Fleet, and only by sticking to Jeju Island can we meet the Huaxia Fleet." ”
"But...... We are too passive in doing this, and Lin Fei has always been scheming, what if he comes up with some special way to sink our aircraft carrier? ”
"Don't worry, our aircraft carriers are impossible to sink, because we have powerful planes, and using planes to fight battleships has an overwhelming advantage, haha."
Yuki Uizawa heard Togo Heihachiro say this, and he didn't say much, preparing for the battle, because the Japanese fleet did not have large warships, he was extremely worried about being approached by the warships of the Huaxia fleet, so he sent a drunken boy plane every day to take off to search the sea surface and find the Huaxia Fleet fleet.
On 3 August, a plane discovered the Huaxia Fleet fleet, and the pilot immediately reported to Togo Heihachiro, who immediately led the Japanese fleet and approached the Huaxia Fleet.
When the drunken boy plane discovered the Huaxia fleet, the Huaxia fleet also discovered it, and Liu Daming, commander-in-chief of the Huaxia fleet, immediately issued an order to prepare for battle.
The pilots on the two aircraft carriers were all ready, and their mood was extremely excited, especially Lin Gecheng, who wanted to send out planes to destroy the Japanese aircraft carriers and drunken boy planes a few years ago, Lin Fei had never let the planes go out, and now this day has finally come.
On the Japanese side, Heihachiro Togo and Yuki Uizawa were equally excited, they had long been looking forward to the moment when they would sink the Huaxia fleet with planes, and now this moment has finally arrived.
In the eyes of Heihachiro Togo and Yuki Izawa, the Huaxia fleet did not have aircraft, and sinking them was as easy as probing for something.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, when the distance between the Japanese fleet and the Huaxia fleet was 200 kilometers, Heihachiro Togo ordered the take-off of 60 Jiu Swallow Boy planes to launch the first wave of attacks.
The Huaxia fleet discovered a group of Japanese planes that appeared in the distance, and Liu Daming ordered the Nine Dragons fighters to take off.
Lin Gecheng piloted the Nine Flying Dragon fighter, the first to take off, the sound of the engine roared, the fuselage gradually accelerated, the aircraft carrier deck and command platform disappeared behind him, and the endless blue sea rushed towards him, Lin Gecheng pulled the steering stick, the nose of the plane was raised, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighter rushed into the sky.
After Lin Gecheng flew into the sky, he did not hover in the sky, waiting for other planes to come up and form with him, because that would waste a lot of fuel, after Lin Gecheng flew into the sky, he kept flying in the direction of the Japanese fleet, and a plane flew over behind him and formed a two-plane formation with him.
In air combat, the two-plane formation is actually the most commonly used and practical, no matter how many planes there are, the pilots can't take care of them, and their own planes may also collide, and the Japanese just don't understand this, their planes are all ten formations, once the battle is engaged, the planes must be scattered, but it is not as convenient as forming a two-plane formation.
The Chinese fleet's tactics this time were to use the Nine Flying Dragon fighters to shoot down all the Japanese planes, and then attack the Japanese aircraft carriers, and finally sink all the Japanese fleets.
On the Japanese side, all the pilots had already decided that the Huaxia Fleet had no planes, and this battle was like a sneak attack on Vladivostok, a one-sided massacre, but they never dreamed that two planes would appear in front of them.
The appearance of those two planes was very strange, only single-layer wings, most of the planes of this era were double-winged, and the single-wing Nine Wyvern fighters made the Japanese pilots laugh greatly for a while.
However, the Japanese pilots soon stopped laughing, because they clearly felt that the plane on the opposite side was much larger and faster than themselves.
When Lin Gecheng saw the Japanese aircraft group, he immediately gave an order to the wingman, raise the altitude, seize the advantageous position, and launch a dive attack on the Japanese aircraft group.
The two Nine Wyvern fighters immediately pulled up the nose of the plane and raised the altitude, and the maneuverability of the Nine Wyvern fighters far exceeded that of the Wine Swallowing Boy Plane, and the nose of the plane was raised, and it quickly rushed to the top of the Wine Swallowing Boy Plane.
The pilot of the drunken boy plane saw the two planes "whoosh" into the sky at once, as dexterous as two swifts, and broke out in a cold sweat on the spot, because their plane could not do such a move at all.
Lin Gecheng and his wingman flew over the Japanese plane like lightning, Lin Gecheng observed the Japanese army cluster, and then gave an order to the wingman: "You are responsible for the vigilance, I will dive and attack." After Lin Gecheng gave the order, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he went down to eat a big meal by himself, but let the wingman be on guard in the sky, it was too cruel......
Lin Gecheng pressed the rod and pedaled the rudder, dived into the Japanese aircraft group, and quickly cut into the tail of a drunken boy plane, in front of Lin Gecheng was the air combat sight, the sight is a large circular glass plate, there are four concentric rings on it, the center of the circle is a cross, marked with various scales, using this sight, you can calculate the distance and speed of the enemy aircraft.
Because Lu Li provided the standard fuselage size data of the Jiu Swallow Boy Aircraft before the war, Lin Gecheng can easily calculate the distance by using sights, whether it is aerial shooting or ground shooting, measuring the distance is the key to shooting, and the probability of hitting the target will be high if the distance is calculated.
Lin Gecheng quickly completed the aiming, pulled the cannon launch button, and under the left and right wings, four twenty-millimeter cannons roared at the same time, and a slight vibration was transmitted along the wings to the cockpit, which made Lin Gecheng inexplicably excited.
In order to make it easier for the pilot to correct the trajectory, the shells loaded by the Nine Flying Dragon fighters were all tracer shells, and the shells drew four red lines in the sky, shooting directly at the drunken boy plane.
The cannonball easily penetrated the fuselage of the wine swallowing boy plane and shot into the fuselage, one of the shells hit the fuel tank, and the fuel tank was full of gasoline was detonated, and with a "boom", the wine swallowing boy plane exploded in volley, turning into a fireball, and the parts of the body fell downward.
Yuki Izawa was in this batch of planes, and was shocked to see a drunken boy plane shot down, he hurriedly grabbed the radio communicator, and ordered in a loud voice: "Disperse, quickly, disperse." ”
The drunken boy planes scattered like a flock of frightened birds, and two of them were closest to Lin Gecheng, turning their fuselages to attack Lin Gecheng, and they circled in the sky, trying to cut into the tail of Lin Gecheng and attack.
In the air combat of the cannon era, because there is no guided weapon, it is necessary to cut into the tail of the opponent, Lin Fei also wrote this when compiling the air combat manual, circling in the sky is one of the best ways to cut into the tail of the opponent, but after all, the performance of the Nine Flying Dragon fighter is far more than that of the drunken boy plane, so there is no need to use that conventional circle combat method. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch, if you have any comments, you can also leave a message directly on the public platform.) )