Chapter 1: Air Combat in the Game
The sky is clear and cloudless.
A large fleet of three aircraft carriers, one battleship, six cruisers, and sixteen destroyers sailed the waters of the South Pacific. It was a fleet of support and escort missions, led by Vice Admiral Fletcher of the U.S. Navy, to protect the South Pacific landing fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Turner from attacking Guadalcanala.
In 1942, after the disastrous defeat at Midway, the Japanese army turned its offensive to the South Pacific, planning to seize Moresby and the Solomon Islands in New Guinea, and wanted to build Guadalcana Island into an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the South Pacific to expand the Japanese Navy's operational area in the South Pacific.
The Americans also took a fancy to Guadalcana Island and planned to send a force to land on the island, making it a battlefield to contain the Japanese invasion of the south and a starting point for counterattacking the Japanese mainland. To this end, the US military formulated a counteroffensive plan in the South Pacific, codenamed "Lookout," with the goal of seizing New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and other regions.
On the deck of the USS Enterprise, officers and men of the air force are preparing for takeoff. Next to an F4F Wildcat fighter, a black-haired, black-eyed Oriental is talking to an American captain.
The Oriental man's name is Chen Hao, an ordinary player in the game "War", who has been playing for nearly eleven years, and the game time is forty-three years.
The story of War begins in 1900, when it was already World War II. When he first entered the game of "War", Chen Hao, like most players, wanted to be a political figure. But the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and after hitting the wall many times, he had to lower his goal and prepare to become a general with tens of thousands of troops.
After failing again, Chen Hao tried to be a warlord, diplomat, industrialist, and a hooligan leader, but each time he failed.
After ten years of the game, Chen Hao was a complete failure, and after the ideal of becoming a big man like Du Yuesheng was shattered, he summarized himself, feeling that he was still a genius with a smart mind, and failed because he did not find the right way. He believes that the career he has chosen requires leadership skills, and he lacks this aspect to keep failing.
In the tenth year of the game, Chen Hao decided to take the individual route to become a powerful soldier. The game "War" has been running for several years, and it is impossible for players to stand out in ordinary troops, so he chose the most difficult air force.
After completing the Air Force transfer mission, Chen Hao trained at Tonggu Air Base in Myanmar for three months and became a pilot of the Flying Tigers. After the training, under the leadership of Flying Tigers Captain Chennault, his first squadron was stationed in Kunming.
Game timeIn 1942, the air defense station detected a group of Japanese planes flying towards Yunnan, and all the fighters of the Flying Tigers took to the air to meet the enemy. Chen Hao participated in the Flying Tigers' first air battle in China, and it was also his first battle after becoming an air force. In the face of the Japanese planes that came to bomb, he behaved extremely bravely, piloted the P-40 fighter to shoot down 3 Japanese planes, and won the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal, and his prestige attribute increased by 5 points.
Later, Chen Hao fought Japanese planes in Burma and Yunnan many times, and each time he exceeded the mission issued by Colonel Chennault, triggering the hidden mission "Invitation of the United States Navy", and Colonel Chennault recommended him to become a naval aviation officer on the USS Enterprise. This time, the U.S. military attacked the aircraft carrier formation on Guadalcana Island, and there were 237 fighters that could take off, of which only six were piloted by players, and Chen Hao was one of them.
When the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier formation approached Guadalcana Island, Chen Hao received a system prompt: "Player Chen Hao, your commander Saudland has issued you the mission 'Ace of Air Combat'. Mission Completion Conditions: Fly the F4F Wildcat fighter as the wingman of 'Big Brother' Saudland, and cooperate with him to shoot down the Zero fighter of the Japanese air combat ace Saburo Sakai. Reward: Unknown. ”
Saburo Sakai and Saudland, both famous aces of World War II air combat, met on Guadalcana but failed to shoot each other down. Chen Hao received the task of cooperating with Sauderland to shoot down Saburo Sakai's wingman, and this kind of task to change the local plot can be rewarded handsomely after completion.
It's just that the difficulty of this mission is very large, Saburo Sakai shot down a total of 64 fighters during World War II, and is Japan's top fighter pilot. The Mitsubishi Zero he piloted was the most important fighter of the Japanese Naval Air Force during World War II, and was used from the Chinese battlefield until the end of World War II.
In the early stage of the Pacific War, the Zero fighter was the hegemon in the Pacific Ocean, and compared with the U.S. F4F Wildcat, the Zero had an overall advantage in speed, climb rate and maneuverability. Saburo Sakai had fought in the Chinese theater of operations and had accumulated rich experience in air combat, which was also incomparable to the "overlord" Schoderland at this stage.
The same type of equipment in the "War" game can be divided into Normal, Standard, Premium, Deluxe and Ultimate Editions. An air combat boss like Saburo Sakai pilots at least a premium version of the Zero fighter. The fighter that Chen Hao spent all his savings to build was just a standard version of the F4F Wildcat, which was far inferior to the opponent in terms of performance.
"Oriental boy, you don't have to be nervous at all, look at how strong our wild cat is, and it is much safer to fight with it than the Japanese Zero." In the game "War", NPCs are highly intelligent, and the task NPC Schodran took the initiative to talk to Chen Hao.
Chen Hao smiled and said, "Captain, I'm not nervous at all, I'm just curious why you chose me to pilot the Wildcat as your wingman." ”
Schotland laughed exaggeratedly, "Boy, I have some doubts that it was a mistake to choose you as my wingman, don't you understand such a simple question?" The Zero outperformed our Wildcats, but Major Thatch invented the Thatch scissors tactic at the Battle of Midway, and you're the only Inhuman pilot to master it. ”
Only then did Chen Hao understand why the task fell on his head, he opened the attribute panel, and the skill bar showed the Saatchi scissor skill.
Thatch Scissors: (Intermediate 568/1000) When your fighters fly in pairs, once a plane is pursued by an enemy fighter, the two parallel planes can fly inward to each other so that the enemy plane cannot fire easily, and when the plane flies in a curve, the friendly plane can wait for the opportunity to fire at the enemy plane. Skill Effect: When fighting the Zero Fighter, all attributes of the F4F Wildcat are increased by 8%.
After the Battle of Midway, Chen Hao was lucky enough to learn the Thatch Scissors and spent a lot of time practicing this skill, and his proficiency was intermediate. In addition to the ordinary skill of Thatch Scissors, he also has a single stunt Split, which can instantly increase the speed of the fighter by 15% and increase the weapon hit rate by 30% for three minutes.
In the game "War", the player's basic attributes are divided into two parts: political and military, and they can have two types of stunts. Chen Hao's previous military stunt was not to split the sky, and after becoming a pilot, he took a lot of effort to get the stunt of splitting the sky, which was the biggest basis for him to participate in air battles.
The fighters on the USS Enterprise began to take off, and Chen Hao entered the F4F Wildcat, and flew to Guadalcana Island in a parallel formation with the fighters of the Bago Saudland. After flying for about ten minutes, four Zero fighters appeared in front of him, and Saudrand issued the battle order, and Chen Hao immediately used the Thatch scissors skill to turn inward with Schoudland's fighters and fly.
A Zero fighter quickly followed behind the Saudland F4F Wildcat, and Chen Hao bit the tail of the Zero as he turned inward. He concentrated on pressing the launch button, and the F4F Wildcat's six fifty-caliber machine guns opened fire at the same time, firing at the Zero that was chasing Saudland.
The Zero, which was chasing Saudland, was just an ordinary pilot pilot, and it was a regular version of the Zero, which was quickly hit by a machine-gun bullet and fell down from the fuel tank. Chen Hao, who had started victoriously, let out an excited roar, and at this moment he suddenly had a sense of crisis. Looking back, he saw a Zero appear behind the Wildcat he was driving.
This Zero was much more agile than the Zero he was chasing, and it was the Japanese ace Saburo Sakai who was piloting the fighter.
Chen Hao's last unwanted situation happened, his task was to fight with Saudland, so the situation he most hoped for was that Saburo Sakai drove the Zero to chase Saudland, and he followed Saburo Sakai to use the Sky Splitting stunt to sneak attack.
Now the situation is reversed, Saburo Sakai chases the wildcat he drives, and Saudrand becomes the yellow finch following behind.
Chen Hao dodged the fire fired by the Zero 20-mm machine gun for two consecutive rolls, and operated the wildcat to climb up. Saburo Sakai is very experienced, and he uses the agility of the Zero Style to bite the tail of the wild cat, making Chen Hao embarrassed.
Ba Ge Sauderland piloted the Premium Wildcat to follow the Zero and fire fiercely, but because the performance of the fighter was not as good as that of the Zero, and the Zero operated by Saburo Sakai was very sensitive, Ba Ge did not achieve any results.
At the critical moment, Chen Hao launched a stunt to split the sky, and the speed of the fighter instantly increased by 15%.
Sky Splitting is a top-level air combat stunt, and Chen Hao has no problem escaping Saburo Sakai's pursuit after launching the stunt, but Chen Hao hesitates. The task he accepted was to cooperate with Saudrand to shoot down Saburo Sakai, if he used the rift to escape, the mission could not be completed, not to mention, if Saudran was shot down by Saburo Sakai, he would definitely be punished by the system, and the punishment for disobeying military orders was quite heavy.
In an instant, Chen Hao made a decision, he did not continue to escape, but turned the fighter plane and rushed towards the Zero piloted by Saburo Sakai. While the Sky Splitting stunt continues, the Wildcat he pilots is faster than the Zero, and he won't lose any time fighting the Zero within three minutes......
Saburo Sakai's Zero dodges back and forth in a hail of bullets like a ghost, and he uses his superb combat skills to dodge Chen Hao and Schodran's flanking attacks. The Wildcat piloted by Chen Hao is getting closer and closer to Saburo Sakai's Zero, and his heart is also sinking, Wildcats and Zeros generally take a dive attack when fighting, and the hand-to-hand grappling Wildcat is 100% not the opponent of Zero.;