After the Battle of Songhu in 1937, just when the Chinese Air Force was almost wiped out, the Soviet Union extended a helping hand. Since then, Zhou Zhihan has forged a deep friendship with the Soviet people. He also learned his fluent Russian language at that time.

Zhou Zhihan's words "we" immediately brought the Soviets close together.

A pilot stood up and asked, "Comrade Colonel, can you tell me the pros and cons of the battle formation between us and the German army?"

"At present, each squadron of the Soviet Air Force has nine fighter jets. Large aircraft fleets use dense flight formations when fighting, and small aircraft fleets continue to operate the three-finger formation tactics. Compared with the Germans, our tactics are relatively backward.

Currently, Germany uses four-finger formations. After actual combat in Dunkirk and London, the four-finger formation is the best combat formation at present, with balanced offense and defense. During the British support of the war, I once taught the four-finger formations to British pilots."

Zhou Zhihan is not humble at all, so there is no need, especially in this current era of heroes and force, low-key will not be able to do anything.

Especially in front of these Soviet pilots who always believe that they are the big brothers of Chinese pilots, they should not be humble and low-key.

Many pilots were cognitive. When Zhou Zhihan talked about the four-finger formation, they immediately listened quietly.

After several months of battle, everyone knows that their battle formation is behind their opponents, but they just don’t dare to say it out.

A pilot immediately stood up and asked, "Comrade Colonel! Then can we learn and use the four-finger formation now?"

"Pilots who have entered the front line now should not use the four-finger formation instead. The four-finger formation cannot be learned overnight. Human habits are not so easy to change. If you suddenly change them, you will become a dog instead of becoming a tiger. From now on, our students can learn the four-finger formation."

Just talk but not practice fake moves.

As he said that, Zhou Zhihan took out chalk and drew a sketch of the four-finger formation on the blackboard, as well as the turning angles that the four fighters needed to perform when turning.

"The four-finger formation is divided into the chief aircraft, the secondary aircraft, the wingman and the secondary wingman.

When the four fighter planes move forward in a straight line, they are like four human fingers. The middle finger is protruding in front of the long plane, the ring finger is the secondary plane, the index finger is the wingman, and the little finger is the secondary plane.

Its difficulty lies in the fact that the four fighter jets perform different turning angles when turning, and always maintain the four-finger formation formation. The main commander aircraft and the secondary commander aircraft are responsible for the offense. The main task of the wingman and the secondary wingman is to defend the rear half-door position of the two aircraft..."

There are either flight instructors or excellent pilots, with strong comprehension. Zhou Zhihan drew a sketch of the four-finger formation, as well as the angles that each aircraft needs to execute when turning, and gave simple and easy-to-understand explanations, which soon made the pilots in the room make a tactical leap.

Zhou Zhihan disassembled the cumbersome and difficult four-finger formations and explained them one by one from shallow to deep, which made the audience feel enlightened and immediately turned to awe of those who had despised him.

This lesson is very good.

Everyone admired that such a profound four-finger formation flying method was easy to understand and learn with Zhou Zhihan's explanation. This is the strength and understanding that only top aces and top instructors can have!

“Woo…”

At this moment, all the alarm rings in the entire airport suddenly rang.

A correspondent soldier ran in and reported to Major Pisanko: "The ground outpost sent an alarm. 100 kilometers away, two German high-altitude high-speed reconnaissance planes were flying towards my secret airport. The pilot on duty asked to take off and intercept them and beat them down."

At this time, Germany was preparing to attack Moscow. Goring knew that a large number of fighter jets would definitely be arranged around Moscow to guard the death. Therefore, the German army would send a large number of reconnaissance planes every day to detect the secret airports of the Soviet army along Moscow. Once discovered, they would send night combat bombers troops to bomb at night.

At this time, the Soviet Union's night fighter jet unit had just formed like a baby toddler, and had no ability to intercept, fight against, and fight against the German night fighter jet group on the battlefield for a long time.

"The Germans' sense of smell is really sensitive." Major Pisanko said for three seconds. "The German Air Force's reconnaissance planes are extremely fast, and they are all high-altitude reconnaissance. Our fighter planes cannot fly so high or catch up. All fighter planes in the airport are quickly hidden and camouflaged the runway. At present, this secret airport must not be known to the German army."

The correspondent soldier said: "But Comrade Major, there are many fighter planes in the airport at this time, most of which are under maintenance, and it is difficult to hide them all in a short period of time."

Major Pisanko frowned. Yesterday, Kiev air battle, almost all of his regiment's fighters were damaged. In order to cope with the subsequent battles, all the injured fighters were repaired at the airport today. He never expected that German reconnaissance planes would have such a sensitive sense of smell and would have come so quickly.

what to do?

If this airport is discovered by the German army, it will be difficult to achieve a surprise victory in the Battle of Moscow, and the Germans will soon send bombers to bomb at night.

Major Pisanko's face looked very ugly. This was his mistake. If the entire Sixth Fighter unit was discovered by the Germans because his regiment's fighter jets were not concealed in time, he would bear the responsibility.

Thinking of this, Major Pisanko's back was instantly wet, and a sense of fear arose from the heart.

Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, there have been too many Soviet soldiers shot because of dereliction of duty.

Commander-in-chief Pavlov was shot dead for dereliction of duty, not to mention he was a small major.

He is not willing to die, but because of him, he puts the Moscow defense war into a passive position, and then he will become a sinner for the ages.

Once the airport is discovered by the Germans, not only him, but many people in the 34th Regiment may not escape the blame. If the above blames it, the number of the group may be cancelled.

This is by no means alarmist. When the war reaches a critical moment, it is very necessary that military discipline is so strict that it is harsh.

what to do?

It's slow to say that, in fact, it's only been more than ten seconds since the communications troop came in and reported that it was discovered by German reconnaissance planes.

suddenly.

Zhou Zhihan said: "Comrade Major, please allow me to take off and shoot down two invading reconnaissance planes!"

Major Pisanko turned his face, looked at Zhou Zhihan, and paused for a moment and asked directly: "Comrade Colonel, are you sure?"

Zhou Zhihan: "I will do my best!"

Major Pisanko gritted his teeth and nodded: "I'll be your wingman!" He had no choice. Even if Zhou Zhihan was not here, under the current situation, he had to send fighter planes to take off and intercept Bo. With Zhou Zhihan taking off, the chance of successful interception can be increased exponentially.

Zhou Zhihan said as he turned around and walked out the door: "No, I'll go up alone."

At this critical moment, all pilots' equipment will not leave their bodies except when they sleep.

Major Pisanko and everyone in the room were stunned.

Go up alone?

Don't have wingman?

Two German reconnaissance aircraft were dispatched together at each other at a distance of several kilometers, looking at each other. As long as one of them was shot down, the other would turn around and flee, and Soviet fighters could not catch up.

"Don't have a wingman?"

Major Pisanko chased after him and finally couldn't help asking.

"Yes. There are too many people and it is easy to be discovered by the Germans." Zhou Zhihan didn't have time to explain so much. As he said that, he ran to the hangar where the No. 214 Spitfire is located not far away. The speed was so fast that all the pilots had never seen it.

After the No. 214 fire took off quickly, it climbed at full speed at a high elevation angle, entered a height of one thousand meters, and made continuous lifting and jumping, and disappeared from everyone's eyes into the clouds.

Everyone looked at each other!

God.
Chapter completed!