Chapter 10 The Battle of Lanzhou
Of the three air fortresses left behind to take on the task of interception, the LZ-II piloted by Xue Changkong was the most advanced. The modification not only had an additional radar warning system than the LZ-I in electronics, but also added four rocket launchers to the wings.
The LZ-II was designed to be able to carry out combat missions to the Japanese mainland at some point in the future, which required it to have not only long-range assault capabilities, but also self-protection capabilities. During World War II, because of the needs of the war, aircraft technology developed rapidly, so the Flying Fortress type of fighter, although at this time still maintained a far leading technical advantage, but with the passage of time, it is estimated that it will not be long before there will be needle-type fighters in the world. At this time, the strength of the self-defense ability of the Flying Fortress is very important.
Tie Linfei left a word to take care of his brothers, and then accelerated away with most of the fighters. The three fighters that remained, under the command of Xue Changkong, met the incoming Japanese planes.
"Keep your distance, 127, your height is around 12000 meters, 105, your height is 11000, understand? Xiao Du, fire at the enemy planes, talk about them to attract them! ”
The Aerial Fortress Cluster Penetration is one of the training programs of the Cadet Army Air Force.
The size of the Flying Fortress is so large that compared to the average fighter jet, it is the difference between an elephant and a wolf. Night battles are obviously even more disadvantageous for the huge size of the air fortress. Night battles, for the fighters of the current era, luck is a very important factor. What the Japanese can provide from ground searchlights is actually only to give the pilots a sense of altitude to the ground, and to hit the other side, it is ultimately the pilot's eyes and ears that depend on it.
In order to distinguish friendly and enemy forces, the lights on the fighter plane must be turned on. The difference is that the Japanese aircraft are basically a single light, with a light of little power at the tail of the aircraft, while the Flying Fortress has a light at each end of the wing. Today's weather is cloudy, cloudy, and the clouds in the sky have become another type of weapon in this air battle to a certain extent. As for their position, it depends on their luck.
Among all the fighters, the landline piloted by Xue Changkong is equivalent to a pair of night vision eyes because of the radar display screen, and to a certain extent, he is the only person who can fully grasp the initiative and even change the outcome of this air battle.
The air fortress is large in size, and the range of the cannons it is loaded with is about a kilometer, so how to avoid injuring one's own people in air combat has become a problem. The training of the Flying Fortress Group Penetration is how to avoid this situation in a combat situation and maximize the firepower advantage of the group.
The three air fortresses, each of which maintains an altitude difference of 1,000 meters and a distance of about 1,500 meters, is commanded by a long plane, which avoids accidental injury to the greatest extent.
Xue Changkong's fighter plane maintained an altitude of 13,000 meters, and at this altitude, he was able to firmly grasp the battlefield situation, provide information to the two wingmen, and help them kill the enemy.
The structure of the Flying Fortress is incomparable to the Type 99 fighter. Although the Type 99 is the latest fighter of the Japanese and has high hopes, when Hirota is driving it to chase Xue Changkong's landline, he feels that the distance between this ideal and reality is so large - when the fighter plane climbs to 10,000 meters, it begins to shake violently, and when it climbs to 11,000 meters, not only does it shake, but he even hears the "squeak" sound that can only be made when the steel structure is sheared.
That's it, and what makes him even more unbearable. Type 99 does not have the pressurized cabin function of the Flying Fortress, which leads to its cold protection and heating can only be solved by wearing more clothes. But at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, it's a spring night, what's the use of wearing more? The biting cold almost froze people.
Thinking that they only need to climb to this altitude when they perform tasks occasionally, and the aviation of the enemy's cadet army cruises at this altitude for a long time, how do they keep warm? They must have mastered some new techniques in order to help the aviation units not be afraid to stay in this cold temperate layer for a long time. The more Hirota Youzhi thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became: "Why is this happening? Didn't the scientists of the empire always say that the level of aviation technology of the empire was far ahead of the world? But-"From the passion when he first took off, to the current discouragement, Chen Xiaobing, who realized the huge gap between the two sides, didn't realize that he had made a mistake at this time." The enemy is not only a passive target, but they are the elite aviation soldiers who once bombed and sank the "Akagi" and the "Flying Dragon" aircraft carriers.
The commander of the Little Devil Aviation was still confused even though he was flying his country's most advanced fighter plane, but in contrast, Xue Changkong was full of confidence.
The reason why he took the initiative to stay was to kill. "His grandmother's, what did the little devil do you think of our Cadet Army Air Force? Any cat or dog dares to come and grin, Lao Tzu is going to teach you a painful lesson today! He thought to himself, his eyes narrowing and staring at the monitor. Suddenly, he shouted: "105, there is an enemy plane behind you and you are on par, shoot!" ”
"127, salvo on all sides! Yes, that's right, good, sink well. 105, who fired the gun, pig, so close that you can't hit? ”
"127, pull back to its original height. You all press the speed, I'm going to launch a rocket here, yes, backwards! ”
The twelve latest Type 99 fighters were selected to fly the elite of the devil's aviation.
Because the goal set before departure was to intercept all the enemy planes and fight as many as possible, they began to chase after Tie Linfei's plane almost in unison, however, what they didn't expect was that because of the gap in technology, they actually jumped off as soon as they accelerated.
It didn't matter if the first one ran away, there were a lot of them, but just before they were ready to go head-on, three enemy planes took the initiative to send them to the door, and one of them actually took the lead in firing at them.
"Hachiga, arrogant Shina people, today, I want you to see the power of the Imperial Japanese Air Force-" shouted this sentence by virtue of a clever turn, dashing to dodge the first round of shooting by Xiao Du The devil pilot Kazuo Taisa piloted the 1934 Japanese plane.
Kazuo Taisa is so arrogant, he has his capital, because he once shot down two Chinese fighters in the air battle of Hongqiao in Shanghai, and was promoted to ace pilot.
Xiao Du is the shooter of Xue Changkong's landline and belly cannon pod. Xiao Du was completely carrying out the captain's order just now, and he didn't realize that this gave Kazuo Taisa a chance to swell his self-confidence.
Xue Changkong squinted and stared at the display screen, while calculating the three possible fighters of the Flying Fortress at the same time, while feeling sorry for his current identity. As a fighter pilot, because he was accustomed to shooting down enemy planes by himself, he was very uncomfortable with this "new" profession of being a pure pilot who could only sit in the cockpit.
In the dark night sky, floating clouds drift by, which will annihilate the identification lights on the fighters, which is undoubtedly quite beneficial to Xue Changkong and them, because of the existence of radar eyes, those lights are just an aid for them to judge the location of enemy planes.
Xue Changkong flew at the forefront, and naturally became the first target of many devil fighters.
The appearance of this fighter plane made them lose the opportunity to intercept the entire fleet, and there were originally more than a dozen fighters that could have been their merits, but now they have become three at once, and the head plane, which has destroyed their good deeds, has naturally become the main target of their anger.
"The little devil's fighter is not good, the climb speed is too slow!" Xue Changkong shook his head, and suddenly, he grabbed the words of the local contact channel and shouted excitedly: "Xiao Wang, get ready, two stupid birds are flying towards your gun position!" ”
Xiao Wang controls the cannon on the left wing, as well as two rocket pods, one in front and one in the rear. When he heard this, he leaned his head closer to the observation port and looked at it, only to see the thick floating clouds outside, and couldn't help grinning, and said in his heart: When will I install a radar display screen in front of me, this smear ** feels very unpleasant.
The two stupid birds in Xue Changkong's mouth, one of them was the one piloted by Kazuo Taisa. Kazuo Taisa was smart and found that it was impossible to catch up with the plane on his head by climbing vertically, and he might be reimbursed by the belly cannon pod first, so after dodging a round of shots, he immediately jumped forward, then calculated the distance, climbed up from the front, and then approached the target.
The squeaking of the fuselage of the fighter was really bad, and he pulled the height to about 12,005, and he didn't dare to pull it anymore. The biggest difference between the Type 99 fighter and other series of fighters of the Japanese army is that its armament has been replaced with a cannon, and there are three.
Kazuo Taisa thought about it, first used the two cannons on the left and right wings to hit the Shina fighter head-on, and then turned around, and continued to bombard the cannon in the tail of the plane while fleeing.
"Heroes see the same thing", and Kazuo Taisa has the same idea, as well as Hirota Yushi. Hirota Youzhi judged that the one piloted by Xue Changkong was a long plane based on the formation of the three enemy planes, and he wanted to capture the thief and capture the king first. Of course, if he knew that Xue Changkong was still worried that he might not have a chance to reap the results because he flew too high, he believed that he would make a new choice.
Interestingly, as an aircraft enthusiast whose hobby is to study the warplanes of various countries, Hirota has conducted in-depth research on the Flying Fortress since its inception, and through his research, he has come to the conclusion that the most advanced thing about the Flying Fortress lies in the rocket pods attached to its wings. The existence of the rocket pod allows it to fish in troubled waters when facing superior enemy aircraft, and may be able to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.
He had also carefully recorded this conclusion, but at this moment, he seemed to have forgotten-