"Height 7000, speed 400, direction due south at 6 o'clock. There are still two minutes to enter the airspace of the Japanese Philippines, so everyone is ready for battle! "In the cabin of an FW-200H bomber that served as a command aircraft. Lieutenant General Sun Yang gave the latest order to the entire group through the airborne radio. Then, through the glass cover of the cockpit, he began to admire the huge fleet of planes under his command.

The Chinese Air Force has made a bloody effort to bomb the Japanese airfield and the Japanese fleet in the Philippines! A total of 1,452 combat aircraft were dispatched, including 960 HE-111 medium bombers, JU-88 medium bombers and FW-200H heavy bombers from 8 bombing regiments; 480 FW-190 fighters and 110 heavy fighters in 4 combat flight regiments; In addition, there are 12 FW-200F reconnaissance aircraft equipped with high-performance radars.

The huge group of planes divided into four huge formations and rushed to the airspace of the Japanese Philippines. Each formation consisted of 240 bombers, 120 fighters and 3 FW-200F reconnaissance aircraft. At the forefront was the formation of the 7th Bomber Aviation Division commanded by Lieutenant General Sun Yang, which was the elite of the Wehrmacht Air Force bomber unit that had participated in the Anti-Soviet War and the bombing of Moscow! All pilots in the division have more than 1,000 hours of flying experience, and they have also been specially trained to bomb surface ships. According to the order of the commander of the Second Air Army, Admiral Liu Yongyao, this aviation division was to be responsible for air strikes on the Japanese air fleet in the Verde waterway.

"Divisional seats, reconnaissance planes reported that Japanese planes were spotted 150 kilometers ahead, numbering about 100 units, and were flying westward." Lieutenant Tian Long, the telegraph operator sitting behind Sun Yang, suddenly reported loudly.

"Flying west?" Sun Yang sneered and shook his head slightly. It seems that these Japanese fighter planes did not have radar to guide their targets, so they simply did not find themselves in the huge flight formations under their command. He quickly turned on the radio. The three reconnaissance planes were contacted. "Black Hawk, Black Hawk, I'm the Eagle King, please report the specific situation of the Japanese aircraft formation."

"Eagle King. I'm Black Hawk 18, and it's up to me to report. The voice of Lu Zhifei, the captain of Black Hawk 18, came from the radio. His Black Hawk 18 flew in front of the entire fleet, and naturally it was the first to detect the Japanese fleet with radar. He told Sun Yang on the radio that the number of Japanese planes in this group was about 30. Height 4000 meters. Speed 350, direction northwest.

"If my estimate is correct, they should have gone to attack the Japanese suicide planes in the Zhanjiang military port!" Sun Yang thought for a moment, then reversed his previous judgment, he frowned, and was silent for a moment. The order said: "Eagle King 18, report the location of the Japanese suicide group to the base." ”

He had just finished speaking. The voice of the captain of the Black Hawk 17 sounded on the radio again: "I am the Black Hawk 17, and two Japanese planes have been found in the southeast of my fleet!" The distance is 140, the height is 6000, the speed is 320, the direction is northwest, and it is flying towards us! It is estimated that it was a reconnaissance plane of the Japanese. ”

"Got it." Sun Yang took a deep breath and adjusted the communication band to the frequency that the entire group could receive, "I am Lieutenant General Sun Yang, commander of the 7th Bombing Aviation Division, we have now entered the airspace of the Japanese Philippines, and it is expected that there will be enemy planes to intercept it soon, all the bombers will maintain their formation, reduce the altitude to 6000, and be ready for battle; All fighters continued to maintain an altitude of 7000, waiting for orders; The reconnaissance aircraft maintained an altitude of 8000, paying attention to the search for targets. ”

At the sound of the order, except for the three FW-200F reconnaissance planes that pulled up their noses and hid in the clouds high in the sky, the entire group of planes was immediately divided into two formations, high and low. The bomber formation was below, maintaining a tight battle formation, and the fighter formation was on top, ready to dive and attack at any time.

This is the unique bombing and escort mode of the Chinese National Defense Forces, and it is said that it was proposed by a certain Marshal of the National Defense Forces who "does not understand air combat" (it seems to be Luo Yaoguo). In this mode, the bomber group had to face the attack of enemy aircraft "alone", relying on close formations and on-board weapons to cover each other. Fighters, on the other hand, do not have to escort the bomber group to embolden the bomber pilots, and their mission is to take the initiative to attack the attacking enemy planes under the guidance of reconnaissance planes equipped with high-performance radars (similar to early warning aircraft) and destroy the enemy interceptor groups.

And this special escort mode played an unexpected effect in its first actual combat. Perhaps because the clouds over Luzon Island were a little thicker today, the lookouts on the two Japanese reconnaissance planes actually did not spot the formation of fighters hiding over the clouds!

Two dumbfounded Japanese lookouts and telegraph operators actually reported to the base that there were no fighter escorts from the Chinese bomber group......

And the commander of the 21st Air Force of the Japanese Navy, Vice Admiral Kusaka, also believed such a report. Without saying a word, the ecstatic Lieutenant General Kusaka changed his original plan to intercept the Chinese bomber group on the front line in Manila. He dispatched 27 Zero fighters at his disposal, and ordered the 45 Zero fighters belonging to the 10th Air Fleet, which was already cruising in the air, to immediately rush to the airspace where the Chinese bomber group was discovered, and it was necessary to annihilate this group of bold Chinese bombers!

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At 4:20 p.m. on October 17, the first aerial battle in the Sino-Japanese Philippine campaign was fought in the air about 50 kilometers northwest of the city of Baguio in the northern part of the Japanese Philippines. The Japanese side dispatched a total of 72 Zero fighters with excellent performance. On the Chinese side, 80 FW-190A8 fighters entered the war. Another 40 BF-110G heavy fighters were ordered to continue to escort the bomber group south at an altitude of 7,000 meters and did not participate in the battle.

The performance of this Spacetime Zero is slightly different from the previous one, but overall it is still a pretty good fighter, and it also takes the light route. At present, the Japanese Navy and Army (the Japanese Army is also equipped with the Zero Combat in advance) are all A6M1 Zero Combat 13 types. The aircraft is equipped with an improved version of the Rong-12 engine, with 1,000 horsepower, which can give the Zero Combat a maximum take-off weight of only 2,320 kg to a maximum speed of 512 kilometers per hour, and the firepower is four 7.7mm aviation machine guns.

The opponent of the Zero Battle, the f,,m cannons of the Chinese Air Force. Two 7.62mm aviation machine guns. If it is used for close combat, you can also hang a 500-kilogram bomb!

Comparing the performance data of these two aircraft, even a complete air combat layman knows that the Zero is completely at a disadvantage. However, this Japanese aircraft is not without a little advantage, at least the turning performance of the Zero is quite good. You should have a good performance in aerial grappling.

So, having mastered the data on the FW-190 family of fighters. The Japanese Naval Aviation Department asked all Zero pilots to use aerial dogfights to eliminate their opponents as much as possible. But the question is......

"I am Colonel Chen Ruitian, commander of the 14th Combat Flying Regiment. Now all obey my commands. Twin aircraft formed and dived to attack the Japanese aircraft group in front. Remember, our tactics are to dive, attack, and climb again. Cycle. Don't fight with the same day! ”

This tactic was used by American planes in the previous life to deal with the Zero fighter that was quite superior at that time, of course Luo Yaoguo knew, so the first actual battle of the Zero War in this time and space was destined to be a great tragedy!

In the violent whistling of the engines, 80 F, M cannons and 7.62mm aviation machine guns began to roar and spit out tongues of fire! Beat the defenseless Zeros into a volley explosion, and the pilots who flew them didn't even have a chance to parachute out! After completing the first wave of near-perfect killings. The 80 FW-190A8 planes did not consider fighting with the remaining 50 or so Zeros to have a fight with more and more bullying less, but directly dived downward, relying on high speed to shake off the opponent, and then suddenly pulled up, and once again soared into the air in a nearly vertical attitude, and then began another dive attack in a two-plane formation.

"Retreat! Attention all, now spread out and retreat!! At this time, Minoru Genda's voice rang in the headphones of all the Zero War pilots who were still alive.

Thanks to the Führer, these zero-type airborne radios were all gifted by Germany, otherwise Genda would have to dance and use gestures to order the group of planes under his command to escape. The captain of Japan's earliest kamikaze special attack brigade seemed to have a rather calm mind, and when the Chinese FW-190 swooped down, he knew that this battle could not be fought! These Chinese obviously did not have the courage to play any aerial dogfights with the skilled Japanese pilots, so Genda simply ordered a retreat...... However, will more than 30 low-speed fighters be able to escape from high-speed fighters who are 100 kilometers per hour higher than them?

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October 17, 1939, 5:30 p.m. Japanese Philippines, Visayas. On board the aircraft carrier USS Akagi, the flagship of Japan's 10th Air Fleet.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, our radar station deployed on Panay Island reports the discovery of an unidentified aircraft." The loud shouts of the communications staff officers suddenly broke the silence in the operational command center.

"Could it be our seaplane?" Nagumo Zhong frowned, turned his head, and asked his chief of staff, Kuroshima. The 10th Air Fleet is now on its way back. Almost all of the planes on their six aircraft carriers had already been sent out to carry out missions, and according to the pre-war deployment, those kamikaze planes naturally had no return, and the Zero Battle, which had a chance to return, would also land on the airfield on Luzon, and the air fleet would run away as soon as the planes were released. However, while running away, Nagumo still ordered the seaplanes carried by the cruiser to go out to find the enemy.

"Contact all seaplanes on mission and ask where they are." Less than 10 minutes after the order of the Black Island Turtle Man was given, the communications staff officer reported in a somewhat trembling voice: "Sir, that plane is not ours!" ”

"Baga! It's the Chinese's Black Hawk reconnaissance aircraft! Nanyun Zhong took a breath, and his face suddenly became gloomy. Kuroshima-kun, where is their bomber fleet now? ”

Fifty minutes ago, the 21st Air Corps reported that about 240 Chinese bombers had reached about 50 kilometers directly from Manila...... "Kuroshima seems to have found something." Beads of sweat the size of soybeans suddenly appeared on his forehead. He looked at Nanyun Zhong and muttered:

"But Manila doesn't seem to have been hit by air strikes yet! They must be coming at us! At a speed of 400 per hour, it should be able to fly to the Xiyanbu Sea in 50 minutes. Your Excellency the Commander. We're probably not going to be able to get out of it. Give the order to fight! ”

"Herald. Pull the battle alarm, arrange the air defense formation! Nagumo Zhongyi gritted his teeth, raised his eyes to look at the empty aviation deck, and couldn't help but curse his top boss Yamamoto Fifty-six in his heart. It's too thorough. Put all the chips up, so that the entire air fleet doesn't even have a single self-defending Zero fighter! But it's okay. According to the intelligence of the 21st Air Force, this attack was carried out by some medium and large bombers of the Chinese Air Force, and there were no those terrible A-4 dive bombers. Those Chinese are still afraid of death in the end. Otherwise, with the A-4 with a range of up to 1,700 kilometers, its 10th Air Fleet will definitely have no way out!

By this time, the terrible battle alarm had broken the calm in the Sea of Visayas, and the 10th Air Fleet, consisting of six aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, ten destroyers, one tanker, and one transport, was indeed well-trained, and 28 ships of various types were formed in less than 15 minutes. 20 cruisers and destroyers surrounded 6 valuable aircraft carriers and 2 transport ships (tankers), and the officers and men rushed to their posts. There was not a hint of panic. Countless anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns raised their black holes and pointed their muzzles straight into the sky.

It didn't take long for the bomber group that covered the sky and the sun to roar and pounce under the glow, and thousands of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the entire Japanese 10th Air Fleet also opened fire at the same time, and thousands of fire streams weaved a network of fire in the air.

The Chinese bomber fleet quickly split into six teams, each consisting of 40 HE-111, Ju-88 or FW-200 bombers. Pounce on 6 Japanese aircraft carriers that are making evasive maneuvers at sea! Since none of these planes were professional dive bombers, they did not have the ability to strike with precision, so they could only fly over the Japanese aircraft carriers in formation, dropping bombs at the same time, relying on the number of bombs to try their luck.

Lieutenant General Sun Yang, commander of the 7th Bombing Aviation Division, piloted an FW-200H bomber operating with the 13th Bomber Aviation Regiment, which consisted of 40 FW-200H heavy bombers, each of which carried 16 250kg armor-piercing bombs in its bomb bay! The 40 planes had a total of 640 armor-piercing bombs weighing 250 kg, and as long as one of them was lucky enough to hit the Japanese aircraft carrier, the trip would not have been in vain!

"Altitude 4000, target aircraft carrier Akagi, rush with me!" Sun Yang's gaze was fixed on the flagship of the 10th Air Fleet not far away, and he gave the order to attack loudly. 40 heavy bombers formed a tight bombing formation, and rushed over to meet the dense anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese ships.

"Steady! Steady! Keeping in formation, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery could not hit us. Sun Yang's shouts were out of reach from every F and M anti-aircraft guns, and the remaining more than 300 anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of more than 40mm had to deal with six bomber formations, and there were only more than 50 bomber formations spread out to each bomber formation, so this kind of firepower density was not dense at all. Moreover, it is difficult for these F and M anti-aircraft artillery fragments to inflict fatal damage on them, and the 105mm and 127mm anti-aircraft guns are too few in actual combat.

The entire formation quickly approached the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, and suddenly the airborne radio heard "Ready! Put! ". At the moment when these 40 heavy bombers swept over the aircraft carrier, all the bomb bay doors opened at the same time, and 640 armor-piercing bombs of 250 kg fell like raindrops, and the sea around the Akagi aircraft carrier seemed to boil all at once, and water columns continued to rise. Seeing such a scene from the scope, Sun Yang's heart seemed to be in his throat, God forbid, there must be a bomb hit!

Suddenly, a fireball rose from the aircraft carrier below! Then another flash of fire flashed! "Hooray! We've hit it! Sun Yang's headphones were suddenly filled with cheers.

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