Fierce air battles soon unfolded in the air. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Japanese had a clear numerical advantage, but the Sino-American coalition had a qualitative, geographical, and strategic advantage.

Needless to say, the quality advantage is that one "Hellcat" can withstand thirteen Zero-Fight...... Of course, 13:1 refers to the battle loss ratio, and it cannot be simply equated between them, but this can also show that the "Hellcat" crushed the "Zero Battle" in the air battle, especially the quality of the US pilots is significantly higher than that of the Japanese army, so although the number of "Hellcats" in the US army is small, the Japanese fighters continue to fall from the sky one after another.

It is no wonder that the Mariana Sea Battle in history will be called the "Mariana Turkey Hunting Competition" by the US military, and now it is just a few "Hellcats", so if it is a group of "Hellcats" against a group of backward Japanese fighters, what will it look like?!

The geographical advantage refers to the fact that the Chinese and American forces seized high ground to dive the Japanese army...... This is thanks to the radar equipped by the Chinese and American coalition forces, which allows the Chinese and US coalition forces to know the exact location and even the speed and altitude of the Japanese aircraft group in advance, and calmly set up an ambush based on this information.

The strategic advantage refers to the fact that the Japanese aircraft group still has scruples in the first wave of operations, that is, the Japanese army knows very well that these US fighters are here to intercept them and buy time for the main force of the warships, so the Japanese army does not dare to fight, and only plans to divide some fighters to drive away or block these Chinese and American fighters, and the other fighters continue to carry out bombing missions as originally planned.

Therefore, although the number of Japanese fighters was much larger on the whole, in fact, there were not many enemy planes that actually fought against the Sino-American coalition.

To make matters worse, the Japanese army never faced up to the gap between Japanese and American fighters...... This is a common mistake of the Japanese army, and many times they are not unaware, for example, the new fighter of the US military, which is also known as the "Hellcat", has actually been put into use in the Battle of the Marshall Islands and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese fighters.

However, most of the generals of the Japanese army chose to ignore or even hide it.

To some extent, this practice of "ignoring" and "concealing" is actually correct.

Because the development of fighters is not a matter of one or two days, even a super industrial power like the United States used the fastest speed to develop the "Hellcat" according to the weaknesses of the "zero war", it took 14 months...... So with the current level of industry in Japan and the extreme lack of materials at this time, is there still a way to develop a new fighter against the "Hellcat"?

The answer, of course, is no, and the machine tools used by Japan to produce fighter engines are even imported from the United States, and this alone determines that the performance of Japanese fighters cannot make a big leap.

Therefore, under such a premise, if we choose to face up to the gap between Japanese and US fighters, it will undoubtedly hit the morale of Japanese pilots to a great extent, so that they will not have the confidence to fight with the US forces at all.

There is nothing wrong with this, although the means are somewhat disgraceful, but it is for the morale of the troops...... This is a bit similar to the lie told by Cao Cao in the ancient Chinese "Wangmei Quenching Thirst".

But here's the problem...... While deceiving their subordinates, the senior officers of the Japanese army even believed it, believing that there was nothing remarkable about the new US fighter planes, and that as long as the Japanese army had enough "bushido spirit," they could ignore this gap.

As a result, senior Japanese officers did not consider the threat of the "Hellcat" when formulating their battle plans, and the Japanese pilots also did not take measures to deal with the "Hellcat" when they carried out their missions, and they did not even know how powerful this fighter was...... As soon as he saw six American fighters swooping down, he assumed that six "Zero" fighters were dispatched to meet them.

The Japanese had the idea that one "Zero" fighter would have no problem dealing with two American fighters, and now there are only six American fighters...... Dividing six "Zeros" to meet the battle is already very face-saving for the US military.

But I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, the six Zeros were planted one by one with smoke and ...... Six "Hellcats" against six "Zero Battles" is not just playing.

This couldn't help but surprise the commander of the second group of the Japanese army, Harada Nakasa, and hurriedly divided another twelve "Zero Battles" to meet the battle...... Last time it was six, but now it's doubled, so it's no problem!

But with a burst of "da-da-da" machine gun sounds, the twelve "Zeros" were gone.

This gave Harada Nakasa and the Japanese pilots an incomparable psychological shock...... You must know that "Zero War" has always been an invincible existence in their hearts, although after the US military discovered the weakness of "Zero War", the air battle against US pilots is no longer so easy to fight, but "Zero War" has always been extraordinary in the hearts of Japanese pilots, but now it is ruthlessly crushed by the opponent so quickly and concisely, that kind of humiliation, helplessness, and indignation...... Emotions cannot be expressed in words.

Harada Sayu considered attacking the enemy fleet without regard for these "hellcats", but he found that those new American fighters flew around the group very easily, and from time to time he shot down a few planes, so he knew that this would not work...... The fact that enemy planes can spin around around their own planes so easily means that their speed is much faster than the speed of their own fleet, and if they continue like this, they can only wait for the enemy's bullets to run out, otherwise their crashes will not stop.

Indeed, the maximum speed of the "Hellcat" fighter is 600 kilometers per hour, while the maximum speed of the "Zero Battle" is only 533 kilometers per hour.

As a result, Harada Nakasa ordered as many as 30 sorties of "Zero Battles" to encircle and annihilate these new American fighters.

But this is also exactly the plan of Zhang Chi to turn the tiger away from the mountain.

Just when a large number of "Zero Battles" were transferred out of the host group, there was another strange roar in the high places...... The formation of seven "Hellcats" and 31 "Wildcat" fighters pierced the bomber formation behind the Japanese aircraft group like a sharp knife.

What made the Japanese army a little helpless was that the "Hellcat" fighters picked on the "Zero Battle" and quickly eliminated the "Zero Battle" covering bombers one after another, while the "Wildcat" fighters specifically picked on the "97" ship attack and the "99" ship explosion...... These old torpedo planes and bombers could not compare with the "Wildcat" in air combat performance, and even worse, they could not match the speed of the "Wildcat", so they could only wait for the enemy to explode like a balloon.

Harada Nakasa realized the seriousness of the problem at this time, and continued to fight like this, but he was afraid that there would be no fighters left in the sky above the enemy fleet.

So Harada Nakasa gave a very wise order: "Disperse all of them, disperse the attack!" ”

(To be continued.) )