Chapter 460: Air Combat

"Command!" Fu Liufan ordered: "Immediately let the fighters from the nearby airports concentrate on the two airports of Taipei and Hsinchu!" ”

"Yes!" Staff Officer Fukuhara responded, but was quickly stunned: "Your Excellency Lieutenant General means ......"

You must know that the scattered use of fighters is the unchanging law of the Japanese Second Air Fleet at this time, and the reason is very simple: the Japanese air force can no longer match the US fighters, so the Japanese fighters can only be dispersed to various airfields, a few here and a few there, and try to deal with the US forces in the form of guerrilla warfare. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now...... Fukurushi actually wanted to gather all the fighters, and it was no wonder that Fukuhara Staff would be surprised.

"We know the combat effectiveness of the 'Xianghe', don't we?" "To be exact, we should be well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese fleet!" ”

Staff Officer Fukuhara nodded.

This is true, the Chinese fleet used the Japanese aircraft carrier "Xianghe", so it only survived more than 80 fighters. On the other hand, the Chinese fleet had fought another battle on Iwo Jima not long ago, so the Japanese knew that the "Xianghe" used by the Chinese was only equipped with "Wildcat" fighters.

(Note: The Japanese submarine did not find the escort carrier "Solomon" in the dark)

"In other words......" Fu Liufan continued, "the Chinese army has only about eighty warplanes, while we can collect more than two hundred...... What's more important is that the enemy's fighters are all 'Wildcat' fighters, and it is not difficult for us to win this battle when we have an absolute advantage in numbers and performance is not weak! ”

Hearing this, Staff Officer Fukuhara couldn't help but nodded, and then Staff Officer Fukuhara hesitated and said, "Your Excellency Lieutenant General...... Our battle in the Mariana Sea ......"

Speaking of this, Staff Officer Fukuhara did not dare to go on, and it was not allowed to talk about these failed examples in the Japanese army, because it would be regarded as a punishment for calling the commander to call in for discouragement and affecting the morale of the troops.

However, Furushi understood the meaning of Fukuhara's staff officer's words, that is, the Chinese fleet shot down more than 100 Japanese fighters in one go in the Battle of the Marianas, so will it be the same fate this time? !

Fu Liufan shook his head slightly and said, "In that battle, we were defeated by the enemy's anti-aircraft fire...... New shells were used by the enemy's anti-aircraft guns, and most of our fighters were destroyed by their anti-aircraft guns! And at that time we were mostly bombers, so ...... This time our goal is not to blow up their warships, but to destroy their warplanes! ”

"Yes!" Staff Officer Fukuhara no longer had any doubts at this point.

As a result, the Japanese army transferred all Taiwan's fighters to Taipei and Hsinchu overnight, and prepared for battle.

The only thing that worries Fukurushi is that the quality of the Japanese pilots is not as good as before, and some of them are even urgently transferred from the training camp.

"But......" Fu Liufan said to himself, "more than 200 fighters against the enemy's more than 80 planes, almost three fights against one, should be able to win!" ”

Therefore, this matter should be said to be a blessing in disguise for the Chinese fleet...... If the Japanese army scattered its fighters at various airfields, even if the Chinese fighters could easily gain air supremacy, it would not be easy to annihilate all the planes flying around various airfields in Taiwan.

Because he was full of expectations for this battle, Fu Liufan also drove to the suburbs to observe the air battle.

At first, everything was as Fu Liufan expected, and the Chinese fighters were indeed divided into two and flew to Taipei and Hsinchu airports respectively...... At this time, Fuliufan's hanging heart was half relaxed, and the enemy's fighter plane was divided into two parts, which meant that the original disparity between the enemy and us would be more obvious.

On the other hand, Furushi also calculated...... The goal of the enemy group is to bomb the airfield, so bombers are indispensable among their fighters, while most of the Japanese fighters are fighters.

Most of the reasons for this are that the Japanese army did not have enough fighters, so some of the "Comets" were also sent to participate in the battle......

"So!" Holding the binoculars, Fu Rushi said to himself, "You should be able to win!" ”

Then, the fighters of the two armies soon met and started a fierce battle, but seeing one fighter after another in the hundred planes in the big battle of black smoke planted on the ground, Furufan and the Japanese officers around him applauded, but Furufan took a closer look with a telescope...... I couldn't help but be speechless with my mouth half-open, because the Japanese fighters that fell were basically Japanese fighters with the sun flag logo.

Looking at the enemy fighters in the air again, several "Hellcat" fighters were impressively visible, and Furufan's face couldn't help but look like earth, and after a long while, he said weakly: "Chinese is also equipped with a new type of fighter......

Friyu is right, of course, the Chinese army's aircraft fleet is indispensable to the "Hellcat" fighters, and because its speed is much faster than that of the "Wildcat" and other fighters (the maximum speed is 100 kilometers per hour), they will rush into the Japanese aircraft group after discovering the enemy...... That scene can be described by the idiom "tiger into the flock", the Japanese fighters with backward performance are not the opponent of the "Hellcat" at all, although the Chinese army does not have many "Hellcats" in each group, respectively, eight, but these eight aircraft disrupted the formation of the Japanese aircraft group at the first time.

Worse still...... There were too many Japanese fighters, and some of them were not of sufficient quality, and when they saw the enemy's "Hellcat" fighters breaking in, they would shoot desperately...... As a result, most of these bullets hit their own fighters.

Then, the "Wildcat" fighters of the Chinese army swooped down again, wantonly slaughtering the Japanese fighters who had fallen into chaos, so just as Fuliufan saw, one after another Japanese fighters fell to the ground with black smoke.

The bombers of the Chinese army retreated...... After all, bombers were not used for air combat, and it was clearly not a wise choice for them to fight enemy fighters, so they retreated to the protection of the anti-aircraft fire of the Chinese fleet.

The outcome of the battle is predictable, the Chinese army shot down more than 90 Japanese fighters at the cost of only seven fighters.

And this is not the end, when the Japanese plane group returned to the airport in a disarray, the Chinese bomber group flew over the Japanese airfield under the cover of fighter planes.

As a result, amid the whistling of machine guns and bombs, the Japanese lost more than 30 fighters. If it weren't for Furushi's order to let the Japanese fighters scatter and flee, I am afraid that the Japanese fighters would have been completely annihilated in this battle.

(To be continued.) )