A sneeze reminded Zhou Zhihan of the end of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. During the Sihang Warehouse, he drove the Type 96 ship battle against Japan's Colonel Shiro Yamashita. At that time, there was a blonde boy in the Western Military Observation Group, who was the German pilot who had just passed by him and had a sunny and smiling face.

Four years have passed, and the blonde boy back then has grown into a pilot.

Erich Hartman has always regarded Zhou Zhihan as his idol since the several air battles in Sihang Warehouse. The scene of the No. 214 Type 96 battle in Sihang Warehouse showing its power and fighting against the major Japanese kings alone often appears in the minds of the young Hartman.

After returning to Germany and reaching the age of joining the army, Hartmann joined the Luftwaffe without hesitation. When the Eastern Front War broke out, he followed the JG52 United to the Soviet Union.

When the Imperial Marshal was furious because of the poor record of the JG52 United, he sent a sarcastic telegram in anger, as a rookie, Hartmann followed his long plane every day to patrol the Black Sea coast.

In fact, this is the day when every day is just a sporadic battle, laying a solid foundation for Erich Hartman to become the king of the world in the future.

As soon as the German Air Force entered the Eastern Front, many pilots became trump cards overnight, and reputation, money and status immediately came, which breeded pride in their hearts and laid the root of disaster for their future fall.

On the Western Front, Hartmann was still a complete rookie. Before he graduated from the Fighter Flight School, he followed the instructors of the school to Dunkirk with his students to watch the high-rise German pilots fighting the British Spitfire and Hurricanes.

At that time, as the ace pilot of World War I, Imperial Marshal Gorene believed that his fighter troops would soon surrender the British, and then rush their troops eastward to defeat the Soviet Union.

In order to allow more pilots to grow rapidly, Gorein ordered rookies pilots who are about to enter the front line to arrive in Dunkirk in batches and experience the atmosphere of air combat up close.

During that period, Erich Hartman's idol Zhou Zhihan continued to show his strong dominance over Dunkirk, which made Hartman, who was about to fly solo, make up his mind to become a super ace who can dominate the sky in the future.

After staying in Dunkirk for a while, Erich Hartmann had a unique insight into air combat.

He believes that if you want to defeat your opponent in air combat, you must first discover the enemy, judge a reasonable attack position, seize the fleeting opportunity to fire, and ensure that you leave the battlefield before danger comes.

That is, during the period of patrolling the Black Sea coast, Erich Hartman incorporated the theoretical knowledge he created into practice.

When patrolling every day, he carefully observed which clouds in the air are suitable for ambushing fighters and which are not suitable, which laid a solid foundation for him to discover the enemy one step ahead of time in air combat in the future.

Those sporadic air battles allowed him to feel the atmosphere of war in advance before contacting the cruel war and safely spend the most dangerous rookie period.

It was not until the meeting that Erich Hartman realized that the person who drove the No. 214 Spitfire vs. Messmit was his idol.

At that moment, he forgot that this was at the air battle scene and his eyes showed joy.

Now, as the interim commander Major Dietrich Hrabach's wingman, he is about to attack No. 214's Spitfire at the same time with two other fighter jets, which makes Erich Hartmann feel complicated for a while.

On one side is his idol and on the other side is his motherland. After a brief smile, he fell into inner struggle.

In the German fighter troops, many rookies enter the front-line troops to fight, and often serve as the squirt of experienced old birds to grow rapidly.

This tradition of leading the new with the old became the basic standard for fighter jet troops in various countries during World War II.

Just when Erich Hartman was having difficulty making a choice, Zhou Zhihan also fell into a brief entanglement.

Erich Hartman regarded Zhou Zhihan as his idol, but in fact Erich Hartman has always been Zhou Zhihan's idol.

Zhou Zhihan did not expect that the battle with Erich Hartman was finally coming.

This is an air duel that he is unwilling to face and is afraid to face.

Zhou Zhihan neither wants to face Hartman nor hurt Hartman. He knew that Hartman was definitely not his opponent at this time, but he could not take action to end this future king of air with his own hands.

Although leaving Erich Hartman is equivalent to adding two fighter wings to the Allies.

To be slow, Zhou Zhihan's inner activities are only one or two seconds.

When he rolled sideways while rushing toward Red Star 9, he saw Hartmann chasing four Messerschmitts behind him, he decided to shoot down Erich Hartmann.

As for whether to kill or shoot down, it depends on the attack position he was in when he opened fire, and it depends on the fate of Erich Hartman.

The air combat scene is changing rapidly, and the local battles are explained one by one, which feels very slow. In fact, these local battles are carried out at the same time, and the process is only a few minutes, or even shorter.

Just a few minutes ago, Hongxing 9 left the group and walked separately, breaking through to the weak defense between JG52 and JG51 wing. Since it was inserted diagonally, Hongxing 9 was at the rear of Hongxing 1. Zhou Zhihan flew in advance, which saved some of the pursuit distance.

Seeing that Red Star 9 was in crisis, Zhou Zhihan opened the 30% accelerator, and the speed of No. 214's fire was increased to the extreme, so that Messer Schmitt, who was famous for his speed, chased farther and farther.

At this time, both sides were flying in battle, and the German pilot could not recognize the naked eye how fast the No. 214 fire was.

"Damn, why did Spitfire No. 214 fly so fast? The Spitfire is slightly less speed than us, but why do I feel it is getting farther and farther away from us?"

Major Dietrich Hrabach pushed the throttle to the end, and still felt that the tail of the fire-breathing machine in the Revi C/12D sight was getting smaller and smaller.

"Is this the latest fire spitting out?"

Lieutenant Edmund Rossman was also puzzled that this fire was much faster than all the fires I had encountered before. Yes, it was definitely a new type of fighter.

Seeing the 214th fire spitting out, Major Dietrich Hrabach had no choice but to sneer: "He can't run away. With Red Star 1 and 9 here, all the Soviet fighters would not leave. We wiped them one by one, and finally forced two bombers to land at our airport."

"clear!"

Three pilots answered.

Major Herabach: "When you catch up with the No. 214 Spitfire, he will definitely protect the bomber with all his strength. Lieutenant Rossman and I attack his tail. Hartman and Schmidt do not have to defend the rear half of the formation. You detour from both sides and feint attacking his sides, so that he will not have the opportunity to make a big swing. Let's shoot him down together."

Just now, the No. 214 fire shot down two Messerschmitts in two consecutive large rounds, which made all German pilots secretly shocked.

Major Herabach believes that although Hartman and Smit are both rookies, they don’t know about the No. 214 Spitfire, and the rookie is also an organic gun, right?

There are no rookies in the bullet, and whoever bites it will die.
Chapter completed!