Over the border between Belarus and Poland on June 9.

"Do you really want to do it?"

In response to the question from the wingman on the radio, Joachim replied cheerfully: "Of course we do, it is rare to meet a Russian who can play with us in the air, and of course we cannot be absent from his funeral." ”

"But I'm not sure if that's true, maybe your intelligence friend is mistaken."

"It doesn't matter if I get it wrong, I just want to show my respect for my opponent." Joachim pouted, "As soon as I turned to fly a fighter, he gave me a dismount, without such an opponent, this war would be just a simple slaughter, and I was afraid that I would change from a warrior to a butcher." ”

"Okay," the wingman's voice on the radio was a little helpless, "you said so, I can only sacrifice my life to accompany you, and then I will punish you for the blame." ”

"Charlie," the wingman's voice had barely finished when Joachim's radio call sign came over the radio, "just go down, we'll cover you up there." ”

"Excuse me, Ron."

The Luftwaffe tended to patrol in four-plane formations, with two two-plane formations taking care of each other at different altitudes, and Ron was the radio call sign for the commander of the other two-plane formation.

With that, Joachim pressed the nose of the plane and descended to the ground at a small depression angle, retracting the throttle of the engine as he descended, so that his plane did not increase its speed too much. However, the speed quickly exceeded 600 km/h, so Joachim began to shake the plane, draining the excess energy.

Suddenly, Joachim saw a church, and there seemed to be a crowd of people gathered in the church's cemetery.

He immediately adjusted the direction of the plane's flight, tilted the fuselage to make a rounded arc in the air, and then skimmed over the church.

"Looks like this is it." Joachim said to the wingman, "Let's go around and come back and throw the wreath down." ”

"They're shooting at us, and a bullet hit me in the wing."

"It's just a rifle bullet, and if you can be shot down by a rifle, it means that you must have done something wrong." Joachim said to the wingman with a smile as he swung the joystick to roll the plane and circled to the right, refocusing its nose on the village where the church was located. He then pulled out the wreath that had been prepared long ago from the gap between the pilot's seat and the cockpit wall.

The wreath had a line in Russian written on it, and Joachim couldn't read what it was written - it was privately translated by the owner of a Polish bar who knew Russian, and if the owner hadn't played tricks, it should have read "To the respectable opponent Alexander?" Ivan? Pokryshkin expresses his highest respect and deepest condolences".

Joachim pulled open the hatch, and the strong wind immediately poured into the cockpit, so strong that he could barely open his eyes, and he stuck his hand holding the garland out of the window and threw it out as the plane flew over the church again. At the same time as he confirmed that the wreath had fallen near the gate of the church's cemetery, the Russian rifle bullet hit the edge of his cockpit and was then ricocheted off by the armor that protected the cockpit.

"Alright, it's over. Let's go. Joachim said as he closed the hatch as he pushed the throttle to the top and began to climb high into the air.

As soon as I climbed to three thousand meters, the voice of the ground station came from the earphones: "Charlie, you disappeared from my screen just now, what are you doing?" ”

"Well, I saw a Russian army advancing on the ground, so I went down and shot it, and it's over."

"Your mission is to be on air alert!"

"With all due respect, that's just a waste of fuel, and the Russian Air Force will not fly so close to the border now."

"But your mission is still to be on air alert, and I will report your desertion to the Air Force Headquarters...... Wait a minute. Joachim frowned when the communication was cut off suddenly—although he did find the station annoyed and wanted to cut it off, the station still had a bad feeling about the sudden interruption of the call.

Joachim was guessing what was going on, when the voice from the ground station came again: "I see a few bright spots on the screen, there are no other planes in this airspace in our flight plan except for you. However, the speed of these aircraft is faster than the existing models of the Russian army. ”

"Got it, we'll go see what it is." Joachim came to the spirit, "Please guide us to contact the enemy aircraft." ”

"Please turn due north, you should be met soon, over."

"Understood, over." Joachim waited before he said to his teammates, "Did you hear that?" Flying due north, you may encounter new aircraft of the enemy, ready for battle. Ron goes to six thousand meters, we're at four kilometers, eyes wide, focus, don't die, guys. ”

While giving the command by radio, Joachim maneuvered one disc of the fighter to rotate due north, and then continued to climb steadily at an elevation angle of 20 degrees.

He searched the sky with wide eyes, and soon he saw a black dot in the northern sky, so he hurriedly took out his binoculars and pointed them at the black dot.

"I think I saw it," Joachim said a moment later, "a new machine, and it looked long, unlike the short, stubby and ugly ones we'd fought before." ”

As soon as Joachim's voice fell, the chant of Ron's two-plane formation in the air was heard in the headphones: "Charlie, the second hemisphere!" I see enemy planes diving towards you! ”

Joachim threw down the binoculars and didn't look back, but directly swung the joystick to make the body roll 180 degrees, and then pulled the joystick backwards, so that the body that was originally in level flight immediately plunged headlong to the ground, and when the body was almost vertical, Joachim swung the joystick again to rotate the fuselage and changed to level flight again.

This is one of the air combat tactical maneuvers created (attacked) by Lin Youde: Breaking the S maneuver, the German pilots did not think much of this maneuver at first, but in actual combat they found that this maneuver is really as Lin Youde said that it is particularly suitable for dealing with attacks from the rear and upper hemisphere, as long as this maneuver is done, the fighter will suddenly get out of the enemy's firing line, and even disappear from the enemy's cockpit field of vision.

Especially when using BF109, the 109 of this time and space pays special attention to rolling at the request of Lin Youde, so once the S maneuver is carried out, the fighters of the air forces of various countries fighting with the Luftwaffe cannot keep up with the action of 109 at all, and it is almost inevitable that the target will be lost.

Unlike many people's imagination, the field of vision of fighter jets has a large blind spot: almost all fighters are blind spots in the rear hemisphere, and pilots in this area basically can't see things, and some fighters have a protrusion behind the cockpit, so the vision of the entire rear hemisphere is not very good, and at the same time, because of the influence of the protruding nose, the vision of the fighter in front of the fighter is generally very bad. Most fighters only have a good downward view on both sides, so pilots generally turn the fuselage over when looking underneath the fuselage, so that they can have a better field of view.

Therefore, in air combat tactics, it is a very important principle to grasp the blind spot of the opponent's vision, enter from the enemy's blind spot when attacking, and use maneuver to insert into the blind spot of the attacker when defending, so that they lose the target.

And the Broken S maneuver is simply not too easy to use when inserting into the blind zone. What's even better is that even if the enemy is diving at a large angle and has a good field of vision, the Broken S can quickly insert into the area where it is difficult for the enemy to attack, and the enemy aircraft must carry out more complex and overloaded maneuvers to keep up with the movements of our aircraft - but in actual operation, such a response is very difficult, so it is generally to pull up the nose to end the attack and re-occupy the position, looking for opportunities again.

The German pilots were very strange, no one had ever heard of Lin Youde's experience of flying planes into the sky, and it stands to reason that it was impossible for him to come up with such a highly practical air combat maneuver plan -- not to mention that he also proposed more than one air combat maneuver plan with a high degree of practicality, and the Luftwaffe air combat textbook was completely compiled under the leadership of Lin Youde, and Lin Youde single-handedly formulated everything from the principles of air combat to the specific tactical movements.

Because of this, as the war progressed, the Luftwaffe gradually became more fanatical than the army armored chasseur unit brought out by Lin Youde himself, and called him the godfather of air combat who could not be seen.

Now, Joachim and his wingman escaped from the danger of being attacked with a skillful maneuver, and as he began to maneuver, the light from the Russian tracer barrage illuminated his canopy.

The barrage revealed the position of the Russians, and Joachim turned his head to observe the enemy plane as soon as he dodged the attack and re-entered level flight - he found the enemy plane climbing without much effort.

The fuselage looked a lot like the 109, except that the fuselage was slightly shorter and thicker than the 109, and it had a sleeker nose, and the wing shape was not the angular polygonal shape of the 109.

"I confirmed the new Russian aircraft." Joachim had just finished speaking.

His wingman shouted: "Russians! At 8 o'clock, one kilometer above is close to the medium! ”

Joachim turned his head to look at the Russian fighter planes that were coming towards him.

"We use scissors against them." Joachim decisively ordered, "I'll go to the left." ”

"Understood!"

As the wingman answers, Joachim rolls and circles to the left. He looked back, and the wingman was in his blind spot so he couldn't see it, but he knew his partner would work perfectly with him.

He turned around to confirm whether the Russians were biting themselves or their partners.

Two new planes were following Joachim's buttocks.

"Come on!" Joachim shouted loudly, rolled at the same time, and cut the body into the right circle, at the same time the anxious Russians opened fire, and the tracer bullet barrage almost flew past Joachim's landline, but at this time the two sides still had a distance of more than 500 meters, and it was actually quite difficult to hit.

Joachim saw his wingman, which was turning around in the direction of Joachim's head.

Joachim saw the wingman fire, and the barrage of tracer bullets swept towards Joachim's rear.

"I got into a fight!" The wingman's voice came through the headphones, "There's another one that's still following you!" Let's do it again! ”

"I don't need to!" Joachim suddenly shouted loudly as he stepped on the pedal and pulled the lever. The landline, which was still hovering, cut into the barrel roll, and Joachim retracted the throttle with his free left hand and opened the flaps at the same time.

The readings on the speedometer are drastically reduced.

Joachim, who was rolling in the barrel, saw the unresponsive enemy plane rushing to the front, so he quickly retracted his flaps and pushed the accelerator, cut into a shallow dive from the barrel roll, and bit the tail of the enemy plane.

Joachim did not like to use tracer bullets, and he was extremely confident in his shooting skills, believing that tracer bullets were not needed to help with calibration.

Joachim opened fire, and the invisible barrage shattered the tail of the enemy plane, causing it to spin and plant downward.

"Oooh!" Joachim shouted triumph as he looked up to see what was going on above.

"Charlie, are you alright? We took the enemy planes down. ”

"We shot down two too, over." Joachim took out a map and began to check the location of the enemy plane's fall against landmarks, "Go back and report to headquarters, maybe they can send a team of paratroopers here to steal the secrets of the new Russian plane." ”

At this time, the Russian army on the ground began to launch a barrage into the air, and Joachim also stayed for a short time, put down the map and pulled the elevation angle to more than thirty, and at the same time pushed the engine to the afterburner state, and climbed to the sky with all his might.