Chapter 834: The Decisive Battle in the Sea of Japan (1)

Liu Cuigang, who was returning to Jinan Airport at full speed, had just gotten off the plane when he saw the division commander Tang Qiuli at the end of the runway.

Tang Qiuli looked at him with a smile and said, "Cui Gang, you played well, forty-eight to zero, has the follow-up formation arrived?" Liu Cuigang replied: "Division commander, Commander Le's formation has arrived over the fleet, and there is another important situation, when I was returning home, I received a report from the airport command post that the Japanese army's large aircraft group was divided into two routes, north and south, rushing to attack our fleet, and the escort formation and the fleet will inevitably face a fierce battle. ”

Tang Qiu's face was full of sè, the thing he was most worried about still appeared, the fleet attracted all the attention of the Japanese Navy, and it was expected that it would be desperately pursued and killed, but after this vicious battle, how much would the fleet lose? If most of the main warships of the Pacific Fleet were to be blown up and sunk by Japanese planes, the result of this carefully planned and painstaking action would be greatly reduced, and this was not the outcome he wanted. “

Tang Qiuli then asked, "Cui Gang, according to your judgment, is this all the forces that the Japanese Navy can mobilize at present?" Liu Cuigang immediately grasped the true intention of the division commander, he pondered sharply for a while, and replied affirmatively: "Division commander, judging from the data of Japanese naval aircraft accumulated by the radar stations in various parts of our air force, the more than 320 planes should be all the air forces of the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula. ”

"Oh" Tang Qiu raised his eyebrows, thoughtful, and then asked, "Cuigang, what do you think?" Liu Cuigang gritted his teeth, with a fierce light in his eyes, and replied: "Division commander, my plan is to dispatch all the fighters to do a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy's land-based air force and completely defeat the air threat to our fleet." ”

Tang Qiuli's eyes flashed, and he said: "Cui Gang, you mean to press it all, it will inevitably be an obvious break in the time of the fleet escort, if the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy fleet launch an attack on our fleet at this time, how should we respond?" ”

Liu Cuigang replied firmly: "Division commander, according to the position of several main fleets of the Japanese Navy, their carrier-based aircraft cannot reach the sea area where our fleet is located, and the closer they are to the cruising radius of our land-based aviation, the safer they are, and the more effective the air cover we will provide." ”

The exchange of answers between Tang Qiuli and Liu Cuigang seemed ordinary, but in fact it changed the established operational deployment of continuous escort in multiple formations, and a decisive battle with the Japanese naval aviation in the Korean Strait, which was actually a gamble, betting that the fleet would not be attacked by the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese naval fleet during the period when there was no escort fighter group.

Liu Cuigang's judgment gave Tang Qiuli confidence, he nodded towards Liu Cuigang, and said, "Okay, Cuigang, just do it according to what we agreed, and you go and organize the implementation," Liu Cuigang knew the weight of this decision, he didn't say anything, just a solemn military salute, turned around and ran towards the tarmac.

The scene of more than 600 fighter planes taking off is spectacular, Jinan Airport is boiling, batch after batch of fighters, soaring into the sky, straight into the blue sky, Tang Qiu saw the group disappear into the sky, did not leave for a long time, the airport seems unusually empty, just like his current mood, all his belongings have been used, for another long-thinking belongings, as the stall gets bigger and bigger, there are more things that can't be put down.

While all the fighters of the Independent Division's air force at Jinan Airport were rushing to the Jiāo battle area, the return fleet and escort aircraft group in the Japanese Sea were facing an unprecedented fierce battle.

Ten minutes ahead of the Japanese Navy's aircraft group, Leyiqin, who arrived over the fleet, only had five minutes of deployment and combat time, and five minutes, for a fighter flying at high speed, was just a blink of an eye, "Order, the first, second, and third groups to immediately meet the Japanese planes coming from the direction of the Korean Peninsula, the fourth, fifth, and sixth groups to immediately meet the Japanese planes from the direction of the Japanese mainland, and the other groups to be on alert over the fleet to block the attack of the fleet by Japanese bombers and dive torpedo planes." ”

Divide the troops to face the battle, that direction is at a disadvantage, this is the only tactic that Le Yiqin can use, if more than 320 Japanese planes break into the ship formation, for the fleet, it is tantamount to a catastrophe, the aircraft group is divided into two, rushing towards various targets.

"Commander Le, I'm Tang Qiuquan, one hundred and sixteen fighters in the aircraft carrier carrier-based aircraft formation, ready to take off, under your command," this is Qiuquan calling him, Le Yiqin was overjoyed, at the most critical moment, with the addition of these fighters, compared with the number of Japanese aircraft, the disadvantage has narrowed sharply.

"Good Tang detachment leader, thank you to the fleet aviation," Le Yiqin shouted, and then ordered: "Attention to the carrier-based aircraft formation, your formation is responsible for protecting the safety of the fleet, and the other brigades will immediately rush to the two air combat areas," Le Yiqin's order, translated through guò, was conveyed to the ears of every Soviet carrier-based aircraft pilot.

The Chinese air combat commander whom he had never met before, had absolutely correct tactical arrangements, and the threat posed by the Japanese "Zero" fighters to surface ships was negligible, and the greatest threat was those bombers carrying heavy aerial bombs and the dive torpedo planes that were the most threatening to ships.

There are all carrier-based planes to deal with the Japanese killer weapons, escort aircraft groups to intercept Japanese fighters, no one does a better job than him, if all the planes are pulled to the air combat area to intercept the Japanese fighters, it will leave the bombers and dive torpedo planes with the opportunity to attack the ships.

Le Yiqin gave an order, so that these arrogant Soviet carrier-based aircraft pilots obediently obeyed the command, no matter who they were, they admired the strong.

The number of aircraft in the escort formation, plus carrier-based aircraft, is already about the same as the incoming Japanese planes, and Le Yiqin's confidence has greatly increased, this is a hard-fought air battle, and it will not stop until the other side is knocked down to the bottom of the sea, and the Japanese Navy's land-based combat aircraft formation has received a dead order from the Minister of the Navy Mitsumasa Yonechi, and the independent division escort fighter formation has collectively made a guarantee to the division commander Tang Qiuli.

The independent division aviation formations that met the Japanese planes in the north and south were in a desperate posture, blocking the way of the Japanese aircraft group outside the warning circle of the fleet, and the air entered a white-hot range as soon as the air began, and the commander of the Japanese fighter formation, seeing the Chinese fighters, all threw themselves into the air battle with their own aircraft group.

Overjoyed, stupid Chinese, this is an opportunity to create a zào for the bombers and torpedo planes of the Imperial Navy, and immediately give an order: "Empire air warriors, fight, entangled Chinese fighters is victory"

Le Yiqin piloted the fighter plane into a dive and put a Japanese fighter into the sight, and this Japanese fighter plane unknowingly secretly bit the tail of a Chinese fighter, the nose of the plane trembled slightly, shining a little fire, and the 18.8 mm caliber machine gun shell came out of the chamber and fiercely drilled into the fuselage of the Japanese plane.

With a loud "boom", the Japanese plane exploded into a black cloud of smoke in the air, and Le Yiqin's fighter plane roared over the smoke cloud, nodded with satisfaction, and opened the record.

In the sky, there was a scream of fighter jets everywhere, strings of bullets in the air to create a chain of fire, fighters on both sides chased each other, flying up and down, hún fought together, this is a contest of will, technology and tactics, although the number of fighters of the independent division air force is less than that of the Japanese planes, but it can maintain a local advantage, and suddenly the Japanese fighter formation rushed into formation.

The commander of the Japanese fighter formation, adopting the cunning tactic of fighting and retreating, gradually lured the Chinese fighters away from the vicinity of the fleet, and the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes got the opportunity to swoop towards the seemingly defenseless fleet like a hornet.

The commander of the Japanese fighter formation, lù smiled proudly, and even if the inferior Shina people could fly the planes into the sky, they would not fight this kind of air battle to escort the fleet, as long as they used a little trick, they would put the Shina planes to the area where they could not be rescued, and after the bombers and torpedo planes had achieved brilliant results, they would ruthlessly clean up these Shina men and turn them into a pile of scrap metal at the bottom of the Sea of Japan.

This guy did not participate in the air battle, but hid in the distance to command, but put most of the jīng force on the attack fleet group, he knew very well that this was the focus of the attack, as long as the fleeing Russian fleet was sunk, it would be a great credit.

Tang Yunfei, squadron leader of the first squadron of the Ninth Brigade of the Independent Division's aviation force, took the squadron's five fighters and adopted the combat mode of a two-plane formation, and the entire squadron had already shot down two Japanese fighters, but he himself had not personally killed the little devil's plane.

Compared with the air battle with the Soviets in the sky over Saiyin Sanda in the ancient area of Méng, the scale of this time was obviously much larger, and there were Japanese fighters in front of and behind him, this was Tang Yunfei's second time participating in the air battle, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous, he and his wingman drove away the two Japanese fighters that threatened their teammates, turned the nose of the plane, and first had to rejoin the battle circle.

A thin cloud drifted by, a Japanese fighter lù out of a sneaky figure, a little farther away, there were two Japanese fighter planes, hovering behind like a guard, Tang Yunfei's mind turned, "Don't participate in air battles, there is fighter protection, this guy is the commander of the Japanese fighter formation?" Leave him alone, let's kill him. ”

"The wingman will follow me to attack," Tang Yunfei gave a short order, and with a push of oil, the Soviet-style fighter plane flew towards the three Japanese planes that looked strange, and the wingman followed closely behind.

Tang Yunfei guessed correctly, the target he wanted to attack was precisely the supreme commander of the Japanese aircraft squadron, Rear Admiral Oshima Yuo, a commander at the rank of general, who personally flew the plane into the air to direct the operation, which is extremely rare in the history of the Japanese naval aviation.