Chapter 228: Guerrilla Warfare in the Air (Part II)
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For this reason, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters has also come up with an emergency solution; since the enemy is taking advantage of the advantages of the Type 95 biplane fighter in terms of high ceiling and fast climbing, as long as the Japanese army also uses the same plane, there will be no problem. As a result, the Type 95 biplane fighter, which had already begun to be quickly retired from active service, was picked up by the Japanese army as a treasure, but the effect of actual combat disappointed them
First of all, the new tactics of the 1st Air Force Division have three prerequisites -- the ceiling, the rate of climb, and the firing range, and the first two performances of the original Japanese Type 95 biplane fighter are also excellent, but in terms of range, how can the 7.7mm aviation machine gun be compared with the 37mm or the 30mm aircraft gun that was later replaced? Therefore, the Type 95 fighters of the 1st Division could completely fire first, and turn around and retreat before the Japanese planes could close the distance to the point where they could shoot
What's more, although both sides are also Type 95 biplane fighters, the 88 planes of the first division of the Air Force are equipped with turbocharging devices, so the power is more powerful, and the improvement of high-altitude performance is especially obvious (the improvement of high-altitude performance by the pressurization device is greater than that of the low-pressure device, and if it is a mechanical pressurization device that needs to consume additional power, the low-altitude performance will even decline to varying degrees.) )。 Although due to the congenital limitations of the biplane, the Chinese Air Force's Type 95 biplane fighter is a few percent stronger than the original in terms of speed and ceiling, but this is enough to make the original Type 95 of the devil unable to catch up with our improved version, so the Japanese staff officer's plan was impossible to succeed from the beginning
After many battles, the Japanese soon discovered that China's Type 95 biplane fighter was faster than the original, and the Japanese aviation experts immediately realized that the border area must have mastered a way to improve the performance of the engine, so they were eager to get a Chinese Air Force Type 95 aircraft for research, but the Japanese planes could hardly damage the enemy planes, and it was naturally more difficult to capture. On the contrary, the Air Force Command sensed that the Japanese army was anxious for war, and deliberately set up a bureau to attract a large number of the enemy's Type 95 biplane fighters, and then dispatched the I16 fighters of the Soviet aid air force to strangle them, and the weakness of the biplanes was completely demonstrated in this battle, and more than 180 of them were shot down by the Soviet aid air force in many battles, while the Soviet aid air force lost less than 30 planes, of course, such a brilliant victory was also possible because Pokryshkin and other Soviet pilots made rapid progress in these months of fighting, No less than ten of them are already worthy of the name of ace pilots
By the end of June 1938, the Border Region Air Corps had shot down a total of 398 Japanese planes (including the initial battle), of which 161 were shot down by the First Division and 237 were shot down by the Second Division, but the losses of the First Division (including irreparable serious injuries) were only 8 (2 were shot down or destroyed by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery, 3 were naturally scrapped due to the aging of the airframe, 2 were wrecked and crashed during the mission, and 1 was shot down by Japanese fighters because the pilot rushed too close). It is far less than the 54 planes of the Soviet-aided air force, and only three pilots were sacrificed, which is even more incomparable to the Soviet-aided air force with a permanent attrition of 27 people. However, both Hu Weidong, the founder of the Air Force, and Liu Yalou, the current commander, both know that pilots still grow faster in hard-fought battles, but in China, where the literacy rate is less than 20 percent, those who can fly planes are all cutting-edge talents, so where are they willing to let them "natural selection" in hard battles like the Soviets?
In fact, only by the end of June 1938, eight pilots in the Soviet Aid Air Force shot down more than 10 enemy planes, which was already a "double trump card" if calculated according to the standards of the US military. Moreover, such excellent results were achieved under the premise that the performance of the aircraft was slightly inferior to that of the Japanese aircraft. However, to Hu Weidong's surprise, most of the Chinese pilots did not feel that they were inferior to others, in addition to the natural self-confidence of being pilots, but also because so far, the Air Force has shot down the most enemy planes not by the Soviets, but by our own Chinese pilots...,
It wasn't until much later that the instructors of the year thought it was incredible that Zhong Ming, who was not an outstanding flying guy until he retired, actually became a fellow of the Soviet pilot Grigory. Andreevich. Rechkalov (Note 1) and German pilot Erich. Hartmann is one of the three aces of air combat in World War II
Although Zhong Ming, who was born in the field unit of the army, had received training as early as the formation of the 15 th Army Flying Regiment and quickly participated in the war a few months later, he had never been able to achieve a good record in air combat. If the first division used conventional tactics, with his average flying jishu in the division, it was likely that he would have been shot down by the devil without achieving many great results, but the disguised "one-hit detachment" tactics invented by Hu Weidong and Gao Zhihang and others made him fly jishu and his weakness was avoided, and his rare shooting talent stood out among many pilots because of the attack method of long-range artillery bombardment.
Note 1: Pokryshkin as a rare air force commander in the world, after coming to China, not only did he shoot down dozens of enemy planes, but also showed outstanding command skills, plus at this time there were many vacancies in the Soviet Red Army because of the Great Purge, so his promotion was frighteningly fast, and he was already a lieutenant general when the Soviet-German war broke out (promoted to general before the Battle of Moscow, and became the supreme commander of the newly independent Soviet Air Force in the middle of 42. As a result, the opportunity to directly fly the plane to the war was gone early, and he was a part-time instructor at the Luoyang Aviation School very early and reduced the frequency of his battles, and Zuihou only ranked fifth among the Soviet ace pilots. And the number one ace of the Soviet Union in history, Kozhdub, later joined the Soviet aid anti-Japanese air force, but Grigory. Andreevich. Rechkalov, the third ace in history, has already had more than 20 enemy planes shot down at this time, and with the fact that there is not much difference in strength between the two, it is really difficult for Kozh Dub to surpass (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the mobile network (.), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )……,