"We didn't fail!" When Arnold reported to Roosevelt on the air battle on the 18th, he explained, "We lacked enough night fighters and had to withdraw to rest!" ”

Like a homing bird, when the sun sets, many of the Americans' warplanes have to return quickly.

Many of them were entangled in the air by the Chinese fighters and delayed a little more, although they were not unable to return to the airport, but a large number of fighters who did not arrange to take off and land according to the plan gathered in a pile before dark.

During the war, the Americans created the miracle of constantly taking off 40,000 fighters or even more, but when it came time to return, they found that poor logistics could no longer support the landing of such a large number of fighters.

The landing itself is a ghost gate for flight, not to mention the landing of a large number of planes.

If a few fighters land, it's nothing, but if a large number of planes land, there needs to be a sequence, and the airport should make rigorous planning arrangements. But the fierce war disrupted all order.

The returning American pilots suddenly found that they still had to line up in the air to land one by one, and from time to time there were unlucky guys who ran out of fuel or had damaged fighters and fell headlong or burst into flames during the forced landing.

Cursing, shouting, threatening, pleading, all sorts of miscellaneous words filled the airfield command radio, almost drowning out the hoarse roar of rage on the airfield control tower.

Sometimes, without waiting for the conning tower to give a signal, the fighter plane, which could no longer stay in the air, rushed down first.

Some of the fighters were directly damaged on the runway, blocking the take-off and landing runways, and even before the already exhausted ground crew could tow them away, another fighter swooped down and collided with each other, creating a larger pile of obstacles.

The targets of those abandoned whole planes are quite obvious, but the discarded parts on the runway that have no time to clean, even if they are only the size of a fist, can become deadly killers of the aircraft landing behind at any time.

Seeing the columns of smoke rising from the various runways of the airport, many fighters who couldn't wait could only figure out their own way.

Safe places near and around airports, but anywhere you can land fighter planes. There are fighter planes trying to make a forced landing. Even so, the danger is high. The damage to the fighter is great, and maybe it won't be able to be dispatched again tomorrow, but it's better than staying in the air all the time.

Airplanes are not buses, and they can't be parked in the air for long periods of time. After a long journey home, the fuel was no longer enough to continue the flight for a long time. What's more, the group of planes piled up near the airport is also prone to causing plane collisions.

When the Americans realized the problem of landing at the airport. The orderly evacuation of the fighters has already begun.

Therefore, as of dusk, the retreat of the Americans was not a defeat, but more of an active evacuation.

Moreover, although the Americans have dispatched many fighters this time, the number of fighters with night combat functions is not very large. The Americans needed to prepare for a possible counterattack by the Chinese at night after a quick withdrawal.

This time, the Huaxia belonged to passive interception. Although some even some attack planes and light bombers were used, and even many bombers went directly to the airfields of the Allied forces to harass and counterattack, they were all a minority, and they did not match the number of Chinese bombers estimated by the Americans. The Americans had to embankment, and the subsequent bombing counterattack of China.

It's just that they didn't expect the Huaxia people to come so quickly.

When the American fighters withdrew one after another and the various airports fell into landing chaos, many Chinese fighters also clung to follow.

"Be careful, the Huaxia people are coming!" The American fighter planes still hovering in the sky were the first to raise the alarm.

The sky was full of warplanes. The Americans are dazzled on the radar. Without waiting for the air defense sirens to sound, the bombs carried by the Huaxia fighters first created even greater confusion.

At a time when American warplanes are taking off and carrying out attack missions. The counterattack of the Huaxia fighters was limited to harassment.

The Americans rely on more fighters, and they don't care about opening up another air combat battlefield over the airport. In the face of the pursuit of so many fighters and the interception of ground anti-aircraft fire, it is difficult for the bomber group in China to have much chance of counterattack. Moreover, the rear was tight, and even some Huaxia bomber pilots had to temporarily fly the fighters to carry out escort duties.

However, the landing crisis that appeared on the afternoon of the 18th was not only noticed by the Americans, but also by Huaxia.

Meng Xiang's biggest purpose in carrying out the Fledgling Project was not to intercept the Americans. Important targets are guarded by fighter planes, anti-aircraft artillery groups, or even missiles, and the losses will not be very large, while those ordinary targets will not hinder the overall situation even if they are allowed to be attacked and bombed by the Americans.

The purpose of releasing these chicks is more to drag down the Americans and aggravate the chaos of the Americans' landing. While arranging for the chicks to go up to disrupt the situation, various other counterattack methods also began.

First of all, those fighters that flew near American airfields with speed were just spoilers.

Although the anti-aircraft artillery around the American airfield was a little afraid to worry about being injured by mistake in the face of the US fighters in the sky, those fighters still in the air were a big threat, so at the beginning, only a few Chinese fighters came to stir up the situation, and the bombs they carried could also coldly add to the burden on the US airfield.

Huaxia's airports are also facing the problem of difficulty in landing, but they can take advantage of the advantage of fighting at home and hold on longer. Although they are not strong enough to attack American airfields over long distances, they can give way and time for fighters on such missions.

Huaxia has enough reserve fighters, and many pilots who have been holding back their bellies prefer to continue fighting by relying on their strong will, and what is even more advantageous is that Huaxia is more adequately prepared.

When more and more Chinese fighters appeared over the airfields of the Allied forces, the Americans were a little panicked.

At first, a small number of Huaxia fighters harassed, and they didn't care. There are still so many American fighters in the sky, and those Chinese fighters can't make big waves at all. Seeing that it was getting late, they might have made a fuss for a while and then withdrew.

But more and more Chinese fighters appeared, especially as night fell, when a large number of Chinese bombers appeared, the Americans had to panic.

It wasn't until night came, and there were still a large number of American fighters in the air, that they flew back in embarrassment under the entanglement of the Chinese, and there was no time to guide the landing.

Don't look at these fighters too much, but there are not many of them with night combat functions, even if the Chinese bombers are whistling overhead, they can't fight in the dark. However, the fighters with night combat functions are limited by the runway and cannot take off on a large scale.

Searchlight lampposts continued to cross the figure of the Chinese bombers in the air, but the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground also did not dare to attack rashly, and there were many of their own people wandering around overhead, and the chance of accidental injury was too great.

"Boom, boom!" Perhaps it only takes a moment of hesitation to be enough for the Chinese bombers to make a move and drop a hail of bombs.

"Shoot!" Seeing that the danger is so urgent, many airports have stopped paying attention to the swearing on the radio and have begun to intensify their counterattacks. There are also orders from above.

Once the ground airfield is finished, not only will it be difficult to carry out future operations, but the warplanes and personnel parked on the airfield will also suffer.

At this time, the US fighters in the air had no intention of fighting again, and they were looking for ways to escape.

Far from the airport, umbrella flowers bloomed, and below were clusters of flames from falling planes.

Undoubtedly, parachuting out is the pilot's last resort, at least at this time, it is much safer than a forced landing at night. And even if the forced landing is successful, it will be mixed into the muddy waters of the bombing of the airport, and who will be so idiotic among the American pilots who have just been hurt by the heartless mistake of the airport?

Americans had no rest all night.

Even on the second day, although the air battle continued, the number of fighters fighting each other was significantly reduced.

Only about 14,000 warplanes flew from all over the Allied forces.

Huaxia also has more than 7,000 planes, but they can already deal with this attack by the allies, and they don't want to be as passive as yesterday.

It was all thanks to a counterattack last night.

If during the day on the 18th, it was the Americans who had the upper hand, and at night, the scales of victory tipped in favor of China.

The Allies lost nearly 10,000 warplanes throughout the 18th, and more than half in the night alone.

The number of accidental injuries, self-falling, and overturning on the airport tarmac even exceeds the total number of Chinese jet fighters, anti-aircraft artillery and missiles shot down during the day.

The rough battle damage report of four or five thousand planes obtained during the day, although it hurt the Americans, was also said to be in the past for the total offensive of 40,000 fighters. But add to that the losses at night, more than 20% in one day, and such a total is enough for Americans to feel distressed.

It's just a day! On this crazy day, everyone was like crazy, breaking the air combat records in human history.

More fireworks exploded in the sky than ever before.

Of course, most of this glory belongs to the Chinese people.

The Americans' record of attacking the ground targets in the occupied areas of China and on the mainland was the record of the Chinese fighters that fell one after another.

At the same time that a large number of aces sprung up among the Huaxia fighter pilots, the Huaxia bomber formation also completed the destruction of important facilities such as Allied airfields at night.

This led to the weakening of the continued air attacks of the Americans the next day. (To be continued.) )