The patrol force of the Chinese Navy has only a dozen aircraft...... This is almost the maximum number of patrol formations that the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier can send out. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info So they couldn't stop the Japanese army's first wave of 69 sorties, and in order to buy the fleet a little more time, these twelve Wildcat fighters also reversed the previous tactic of withdrawing after the dive attack, and chose to fight with the Japanese group.

As we all know, this is very dangerous, because the "Wildcat" fighter has a big gap with the Japanese Zero fighter in terms of maneuverability, and it is difficult for even highly skilled US pilots to fly this tactic to fight with the Zero.

However, what is surprising is that the patrol force of the Chinese Navy has also achieved quite good results, and while they have gained valuable time for the naval warships, they have also shot down eight Japanese Tianshan torpedo planes and two Zero fighters at the cost of losing two fighters, almost knocking out one-seventh of the Japanese fighters, which obviously has greatly reduced the pressure on the Chinese army.

On the one hand, the reason for this situation was that the quality of the Japanese pilots had seriously declined, and many of the fighters piloted at this time were prospective pilots who had not yet completed their training and had been urgently transferred from China.

On the other hand, it is the Chinese army that uses tactics appropriately.

The commander of this batch of only 12 "Wildcat" fighters was a major named Li Jianyang, who immediately led the patrol formation to the designated airspace after receiving the combat mission, and at the same time calculated the time and ordered the group to maintain an altitude...... This is the basic criterion for the "Wildcat" fighters to fight against the Japanese army, the "Wildcat" fighters have good dive performance, while the Japanese fighters are the opposite, so the "Wildcat" always strives to occupy a high position when fighting.

According to the thinking of ordinary people, the interception should catch up head-on and then get into a ball with the Japanese planes, but Li Jianyang saw several familiar figures in the Japanese planes below from a distance...... In fact, Li Jianyang was very familiar with all the Japanese fighter models, thanks to the fact that the Chinese army captured a batch of Japanese fighters at Rabaul, and among these fighters were new Japanese fighters.

Li Jianyang recognized 10 Tianshan-type torpedo planes in the Japanese fleet...... According to the Japanese army, this was a naval attack on the Tianshan Mountains.

Then Li Jianyang's mind quickly flashed the shortcomings of the Tianshan naval attack: the speed was slow, and the fastest speed was only 481 kilometers per hour.

This is not entirely a design failure of the Japanese army, but as mentioned before, the torpedo machine must reduce its speed before dropping the torpedo, and drop the torpedo within a certain speed range for the torpedo to work properly. Therefore, the Japanese army thought...... Anyway, if you have to slow down before attacking, then it is not necessary to ask for too much speed.

This weakness was grasped by Li Jianyang, and then he adopted an unexpected style of play...... This style of play came to be known as fighter infiltration warfare.

The so-called fighter infiltration warfare is actually very easy to understand, that is, using the advantage of its own speed to break into the enemy aircraft group so that the enemy aircraft cannot get rid of it, which makes the enemy planes dare not fire at will, while the own fighters can let go of the fight.

As soon as he gave the order, the 12 fighters of the Luo Patrol Force plunged headlong into the attack plane group of the Japanese Tianshan warship, and the maximum speed of ......the "Wildcat" fighters was 515 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed of the "Wildcat" fighters reached 515 kilometers per hour.

The speed and maneuverability of the Zero fighter are better than those of the "Wildcat", but at this time, they are watching the "Tianshan" and the "Wildcat" entangled from the sidelines, and there is no way to start...... From time to time, a few bullets will be fired coldly.

In addition, the Japanese army was unwilling to entangle with the Chinese patrol and was eager to attack the enemy's navy, and they were anxious to end the battle quickly, but they made mistakes in their busyness, so there was an unexpected result...... 2 "Wildcats" were replaced by 8 "Tien Shan" plus 2 "Zero Battles".

This can be said to be a disadvantage for the Japanese fighters.

In fact, this kind of result can be said to be unexpected or normal...... The competition in air combat is not only about the performance of fighters, but also about the training, experience, and psychological quality of pilots, and the pilots of the Chinese military have a great advantage in this regard.

However, the victory of the Chinese patrol formation only caused the Japanese aircraft group to pause slightly, and then continued to pounce on the 7th Sino-American detachment under the command of the commander Kobayashi Quanyu Shaosa.

Kobayashi Quanyou knew that the most important thing at this time was to rush in front of the Sino-US coalition forces before they were ready and then bomb them indiscriminately.

But soon Kobayashi Quanyou was disappointed, because when the fighter plane swooped down through the clouds, the destroyer that appeared in front of him had already deployed a defensive formation, and almost at the same time that Kobayashi Quanyou found the target ...... the "Shozuru" aircraft carrier as quickly as possible, the enemy destroyer emitted clouds of black smoke, and then a shell exploded around the Japanese aircraft group.

"Gentlemen!" Kobayashi Quanyou gave an order into the radio with a beastly cry: "The target 'Xianghe' must be sunk!" ”

"Yes!" The Japanese pilots responded and immediately drove the fighter plane toward the "Xianghe......

It should be said that the Japanese army at this time made another mistake.

According to the Japanese army's thinking, they thought that the "Xianghe" was the main aircraft carrier of the Seventh Detachment of China and the United States, and that the "Xianghe" was still the main target of the Japanese army's attack.

This may sound right at first glance, but if you think about it...... The defensive power and anti-aircraft firepower of the main aircraft carrier are not comparable to ordinary aircraft carriers, for example, the "Xianghe" is also the "Pinghai" in the hands of the Chinese army, and the anti-aircraft machine guns are not counted, and there are 83 anti-aircraft guns alone...... Originally, the "Xianghe" had only 67 anti-aircraft guns, and the other 16 were the main guns of the opposite shore and the ship, but the Chinese army has replaced all of them with high-level dual-purpose guns, that is, the main guns can also be used as anti-aircraft guns.

Plus there are many destroyers around the aircraft carrier...... The Chinese Navy is armed with Clemson-class destroyers, which were originally armed with four 4-inch single-barreled guns, two 3-inch and one one-pounder anti-aircraft guns.

However, the destroyers were quickly converted into the hands of the Chinese forces, replacing the four 4-inch main guns with six 3-inch high-level dual-purpose guns.

Needless to say, Zhang Chi knows very well that the era of "cannon giant ships" in naval warfare has passed, and of course there is a direct confrontation between warships and warships, so the main gun is still needed, but the more important thing is the snatching of air supremacy, so there is no doubt that the main gun should be replaced with a high-level dual-purpose gun. (To be continued.) )