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If there is any way, it should be to "break the whole into parts" to disperse to disperse.

However, this tactic was correct but could not be implemented.

The reason is that the radar at this time is still a new thing, any one of them is more than 1,000 kilograms, and such a heavy weight determines that it can only be installed on warships or aircraft carriers, but not on fighters.

In other words, the fighters of this era are actually still looking for targets with their eyes......

If the enemy fighter is a dense group, then it is easy to do, the radar detects the position of the group and tells the other group to fly in by radio.

But if the enemy's aircraft group is "broken into pieces" and all dispersed...... Although the radar can still detect those points, it doesn't know how to command the fighters to fight, and it can't use the radio to inform each fighter which point you should fly to chase which enemy plane!

On the other hand, at this time, the fighter plane and the radar did not have the function of identifying friend or foe, that is, the enemy plane and its own fighter plane were displayed on the radar, which was also one of the reasons why the US military often mistook the Japanese army for its own fighter in the Pacific theater.

Therefore, once this is broken into a melee, the first thing is that the radar loses its effect.

What is even more harmful is that the dispersion of Japanese fighters can also minimize the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and US coalition fighters to the greatest extent possible...... Anyway, the Japanese pilots are all rookies, and the fighters they fly are weak, so they are all beaten by the enemy like a "turkey hunting", so it is better to scatter and let the enemy fight than to concentrate on letting the enemy fight, the more scattered, the enemy will have to spend effort and time to find the next target after shooting down a fighter, and when they are looking for a target, the Japanese fighter may have broken through their defense line and broken into the sky over the Chinese warship.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi could only give an order: "All of them are there, disrupt the formation and look for targets freely!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Junhua responded and immediately forwarded the order.

However, US pilots, including Chinese pilots, are actually very unaccustomed to this tactic of disrupting the free operation of formations...... If it were completely dispersed, it would have been possible to break up the two-plane formation and fight independently, but the Chinese and American pilots were accustomed to the two-plane cooperative operation, which was also forced out by the threat of the Japanese army's previous "zero battle invincibility".

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of Chinese and American fighters can be said to be halved in an instant.

This is not to say that Chinese and American fighters cannot shoot down enemy aircraft, on the contrary...... At the moment when the enemy and our fighters came into contact, the Japanese fighters were shot down by Chinese and American fighters one after another, and the casualty rate of Chinese and American fighters was almost zero. The Japanese fighters could almost be said to be beaten and did not fight back.

However, both Chinese and American pilots have a sense of strength and nowhere to use in this air battle.

Then, more than a dozen Japanese fighters rushed into the sky above the Chinese Navy ship group.

The anti-aircraft guns immediately rang out, and one shell after another went straight into the sky with a sharp whistling sound, and exploded in clouds of black smoke in front of and behind the Japanese fighter planes, and several more fighters were immediately blown into balls of fire.

At this time, some veterans felt that something was wrong, because the fireballs that burst out in the air, and some of the particularly dazzling explosions released the flames were also very large, but the veterans did not know why, and many people thought that it was caused by the explosion of a particularly large number of bombs carried by enemy planes.

It was indeed a martyrdom, but it was not a bomb explosion, but a dynamite explosion...... It was just a bomber full of explosives.

Of course, not all of those planes were filled with explosives, and there were only six of them in the first batch, four of which were shot down on the way to the Chinese Navy ship group...... Two of them were shot down by warplanes, and the other two by anti-aircraft guns.

Two of them also successfully broke through the interception of Chinese and US allied fighters and the blockade of anti-aircraft guns, and swooped down and crashed headlong into the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier.

Thankfully, one of the planes was hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun during the crash, losing its balance in the wings and plunging headlong into the sea next to the carrier, perhaps the only one whose pilot was drowned instead of being blown up.

Another fighter plane crashed into the deck of the "Pinghai" and exploded with a "bang...... The force of the explosion almost shook the entire aircraft carrier violently.

However, it is unbelievable that the aircraft carrier suffered many wounds, although they were all minor, and many people at that time did not understand why such a large explosion did not even blow through the deck of the aircraft carrier.

In retrospect, I realized that this should be the angle at which the Japanese fighter plane hit the aircraft carrier was too small...... This may have been due to the fact that the Japanese pilots were flying at low altitude to avoid anti-aircraft shells, and another problem caused by low-altitude flight was that it had to crash into the aircraft carrier at a very small angle, and as a result, the fighter plane rolled into the sea due to inertia after exploding, so a considerable part of the destructive power of the explosion was actually attracted by the seawater.

It is hard to imagine what kind of destructive power it would have caused if this fighter had crashed into the aircraft carrier's island instead of the deck, and perhaps Zhang Chi would have been wiped out with the aircraft carrier.

But even so, the explosion rendered the deck and elevators of the aircraft carrier "Pinghai" unusable...... Fortunately, the airfield on Iwo Jima is already under the control of the Chinese army, otherwise the fighters that took off would not know where to stop.

The Japanese pilots cheered when they saw this victory, and immediately reported to Shiina Taro.

"Your Excellency, Major General!" The Japanese pilot said: "One of our suicide attack planes has successfully crashed into the 'Shozuru' and exploded, and we have succeeded!" ”

Exaggerating the results of the battle was a common phenomenon for the Japanese at this time, but the Japanese pilot probably did not mean to exaggerate, and he was probably deceived by the huge explosion and the fire and black smoke rising from the deck.

The pilot even tried to confirm the results, but soon a Hellcat swooped down on it...... Then came the sound of machine gun, and the bullets pierced through the weak skin of Zero Combat like popping beans and smashed the Japanese pilots into a sieve.

However, the news of the success reached Shiina Taro, who was overjoyed when he heard this, and then made a decision that he regretted very much...... He recalled the second wave of fighters, because he thought that the strategic goal had been achieved, and the enemy's aircraft carrier had been destroyed and could not fight, so there was no need to waste the fighters that were very valuable to the Japanese army at this time, and they could be kept for the next batch.

Even Taro Shiina thinks that ...... Even if the "Xianghe" has not yet sunk, there is a submarine still in the sea area at this time, and it is enough to send it to sink the seriously damaged aircraft carrier.

(To be continued.) )