The Chinese people who were unaware of the situation on the ground didn't know what they were feeling at that moment, but in terms of their faces, they were extremely panic.

However, the faces of the think tank surnamed Chen and several other spirit-squeezing officials who were almost scared to urinate.

They knew that those planes that rushed down from higher air were definitely not Japanese planes, but six wildcat fighters who came to Yiling with special guards.

No wonder Tang Dao was so calm and breathing so much. Before entering the city, he had arranged for the six new American fighter jets to be alerted at high altitude, waiting for the Japanese planes to come from the trap.

Just from this tactical deployment, choosing to let him be the security person in charge of this Spirit Protection Return Operation proves that the person is not wrong.

That's right, combined with the actions of the Japanese in time and space and the current determination of the Japanese army to take Yiling, Tang Dao judged that the Japanese army would never miss this great opportunity to use the general's coffin to enter the city to hit the morale of the Chinese military and civilians. Therefore, before entering the city, he ordered six wildcat fighters headed by Shen Chonghai to take off by radio and patrol and guard at high altitudes above 6,000 meters.

This is also the reason why Chinese people cannot hear the roar of the aircraft engine. The altitude of 6,000 meters is considered low for future fighter jets, but it is already extremely high for current fighter jets.

Take the Zero fighter currently equipped by the Japanese army for example. Perhaps its maneuverability and flexible performance and super high range are already considered to be the top fighter performance of this era in 1940, but its biggest shortcoming is that its ceiling is insufficient. When combating at an altitude of more than 4,200 meters, its maneuverability will drop sharply.

"Don't panic, that's our fighter plane!" The think tank surnamed Chen, who had recovered some courage, looked at the people around him with obvious restlessness, and quickly shouted to comfort him.

Is that our fighter plane? Looking at the few small black dots rushing down from a high altitude, it was hard for the people to believe it.

They have seen fighter jets. Since the Battle of Zaoyi, the Japanese army has attacked Yiling wildly. The fighter jets of both sides have had air battles over Yiling at least twice, but Chinese aircraft are basically biplane models.

Although this fighter jet that is becoming clearer in its field of vision still cannot see its specific appearance, it can basically see clearly whether it is a single wing or a double wing.

Compared with the Chinese military and civilians who were incredible on the ground, Captain Jinteng Saburo, who was located in the air, finally found something was wrong after the Chinese fighter plane entered a dive state for more than ten seconds and the altitude dropped to 4,000 meters.

When I looked up, I saw that there were several huge dark gray fighter jets less than 2,000 meters away from his fighter jet.

In terms of size, the Zero fighter has a length of 9 meters and a wingspan of 12 meters, which is actually a Wildcat fighter with a wingspan of 8.7 meters in length of 11.6 meters. However, because the Wildcat fighter carries 6 12.7 mm machine guns, and the cockpit and fuel tank are armored. The weight of the entire aircraft is nearly one ton heavier than the Zero aircraft, which looks very strong.

This is also the main reason why the engine of the Wildcat fighter is 20% higher than that of the Zero fighter, but it is still at its maximum speed, hovering speed, range, and climbing rate far inferior to the latter.

But just from the intuitive appearance, the Wildcat fighter is much more awesome than the lightweight Zero fighter.

Especially before departure yesterday, in order not to anger the Japanese too much, all six wildcat fighters were painted. At the nose, a shark with bloody mouth was painted. The fuselage was painted with dark gray paint to remove the original white five-pointed star, but it was not painted with blue sky and white sun flags, but sprayed with the aircraft number.

Because this batch of fighter jets was only equivalent to the Americans who rented them to the Chinese Air Force, and they had not yet been officially enrolled and could not give them official aircraft numbers, the six Chinese pilots each chose a number as the number of their landline aircraft.

Shen Chonghai chose 9035, which was his mother's birthday. He believed that his mother would bless his son, and it also meant that if he died in battle, he would definitely remember his mother.

Zhang Dafei thought about it and wrote down the number 3816. Perhaps only Tang Dao knew that it was the time and age when he and Ms. Qi Bangyuan met at Nankai Middle School.

Standing from the perspective of the Japanese pilot, I looked at the six ferocious sharks rushing over with their bloody mouths, even if they were not afraid, they would definitely feel nervous.

"Yoxi! It's Chinese, lords, let's teach them a lesson and show a brilliant fireworks show for the Chinese generals who have already died in battle! Use the blood and fighter planes of the Chinese!" Captain Saburo Shinto was not surprised but was delighted, pulled up the rudder and pushed the accelerator lever sharply.

Today, it is the first time that the Zero fighter has been put into actual combat, but Captain Saburo, who has flew over the Type 96 and Type 97, also over the American Hawk-class fighter jets, clearly knows that the performance of the landline he controls completely beats any national fighter jet he knows. The weak Chinese Air Force is even more intimidating, even if their planes are painted with hideous but ridiculous patterns.

The four Zero fighter engines that were diving into the sky above Yiling City made a huge roar, deafening sound.

The entire body was like a dexterous swallow, which flew past less than 2,000 meters in the sight of the 100,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians. Then the nose of the machine was thrust upward, and quickly climbed to 3,000 meters with a cold and straight climbing speed.

The entire climbing process took only one minute!

The Chinese military and civilians on the ground probably don’t understand this concept, but Shen Chonghai and others in the sky were covered in cold sweat.

They are all elite pilots of the Chinese Air Force and know what it means to climb nearly 1,000 meters per minute.

The climbing speed of the I15, the main equipment of the Chinese flight brigade, is 13.7 per second, which is about 820 meters per minute, while the climbing speed of the Hawk III fighter is even slower, about 650 meters per minute.

Even the Wildcat fighter they are driving now with a 1,200 horsepower engine that pushes the throttle rod to the bottom, the climbing speed will not exceed 700 meters per minute.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! That also means that all the models of fighter jets currently owned by the Chinese Air Force will be beaten by the Japanese aircraft in terms of climbing speed.

The climbing rate not only means faster occupancy at high altitude, but also means that the Japanese aircraft in front of us have extremely strong maneuverability...

"Dafei and I, one of them, bit a Japanese plane and fought with him. The other four, in a two-plane formation, fucked the Japanese to death according to the scissor tactics formulated by the commander. Everyone remembers that these 6 fighter jets may be the only capital of our Air Force to fight against the new Japanese fighter jets, and must not be easily damaged." Shen Chonghai calmly issued an order on the radio channel.

Shen Chonghai, who has participated in more than ten air battles of all sizes, is no longer the young young man who has just begun to emerge. The Air Force Lieutenant, who has been promoted to squadron leader, is very clear about what he wants to do now, and is more considering the battlefield in the future.

Although the Wildcat fighter has a difference in maneuverability with the unknown Japanese aircraft in front of him, the Wildcat, which has fierce firepower, thick skin and strong horsepower, is still far ahead of all the current fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force in terms of performance, which is the largest capital of the Chinese Air Force.

Life is not to be cherished, but the fighter plane is precious. He must not let his brothers easily commit the act of dying with the enemy plane, and deliberately remind them before the war begins.

"Get it!" five other pilots answered on the wireless channel.

The tactics deployed before the war were naturally not formulated before boarding the plane, but were simply formulated temporarily based on the number of enemy planes.

Yesterday, since Tang Dao punched Lieutenant Scott and drove a wildcat fighter into the sky as an army colonel, completely shocking a group of arrogant American pilots. The American pilots who were willing to be instructors spent a full six hours teaching the skills of flying wildcat fighters.

He and Zhang Dafei, who had just returned to China for a year and a half and had been trained in the United States, were praised by Lieutenant Scott, believing that they were the most talented pilots in China and would have the opportunity to join the ranks of ace pilots.

Then the two best pilots would entangle the Japanese aircraft so that they could not rescue their teammates. The other four needed to use the scissor tactics formulated for them at supper to shoot down the Japanese aircraft with the advantage of large numbers of people.

Shen Chonghai still clearly remembered every word Tang Dao said when he disassembled this flight tactic on the small blackboard for the six of them.

"I don't know if you believe it or not, I am actually a thorough layman in the air combat tactics. If I encounter the Japanese Type 96 Type 97 fighter jet, what would you do?"

"We will bite them and shoot them down with the strong firepower and excellent protection of the Wildcat fighter. Even the slower Hawk II fighter, we are not afraid of them." Zhang Dafei answered very confidently.

"Then let me ask you, what would you do if the Japanese army sent a new fighter with a maneuverability that was significantly higher than that of the Type 96 Type 97 or even the Wildcat fighter?"

"Then you can only fight with him. If you can't fight one, then use two, three or even more. In short, you can't let the Japanese devils scatter in front of us, unless one day the Chinese Air Force dies." A pilot named Lin Heng replied with a fearless look on his face.

Tang Dao felt familiar when he heard Lin Heng's name, but he didn't talk about it in detail because the American pilot wanted to find a slap. He got familiar with it at dinner. Tang Dao finally knew who this person was.

He is a famous Lin family. In the time and space, he became famous because of his sacrifice too early, but his sister and brother-in-law are famous architects in China in the future. Because of the sacrifice of his younger brother and eight classmates in the aviation school, he wrote the famous "Crying Third Brother Heng".

"This cold and simple heroic spirit is the poem of the times

This silent glory is you

I fully understand why I still cry at you

Just because you are a child but you don't have anything left to yourself

After a young age, I hope for your happiness and your safety during war

Today you have no children to worry about and need pensions and comfort

And the people of thousands of countries have forgotten, who are you dying for!"

Tang Dao didn't know about this young pilot who died at the age of 23, but he had heard of his sister who also died at a young age. In order to protect the ancient buildings in Yanjing City, she asked her a senior deputy ministerial official, 'What are you?' and sharply fight back: "My Lin family has been loyal and wise, and my third brother has been killed for the country. What are you?" It was really shocking.

Now it seems that the siblings are equally strong.

"Sacrifice is a necessary condition for victory, but not the only condition. Good tactics may make up for this shortcoming. This is the tactic of our army. I wonder if it is practical or not in your Air Force. No matter how mobile he is, he still has to face the swords and guns? I just said one thing that I agree with. If one aircraft doesn't work, we will have to go on two aircraft!

Look, this is the inspiration I got from an old pilot…”

The old pilot Tang Dao mentioned was Major John Sach from the United States. After several failures in combat with Japanese Zero fighters, he invented an air tactic called "Sach Sach".

Because the Wildcat fighter is thick in skin and flesh, the entire fuselage, including the engine, is strong and resistant to hits. Although the speed is slow, as long as the Wildcat fighter fighter and the Zero fighter fighter fighter fighter is in close combat, it will definitely gain the upper hand.

The core idea of ​​the "Sachie Scissor" tactic is to let two wildcat fighters fight Zero fighters.

These two wildcat fighters can fly cross-flying, cover each other, and fly back and forth from 6 o'clock, which can offset the Zero fighter's super maneuverability advantages.

Even if these two Wildcat fighters are hit by the 7.7mm machine guns equipped by the Zero fighter, it is not a problem to shoot down the Zero fighter as long as it can encircle the Zero fighter, it is no problem to shoot down it.

Therefore, the tactic of "Sachs" is to use the strong and heavy firepower advantages of the Wildcat fighter, and to narrow the encirclement, and win the Zero fighter with 2-to-1.

This set of tactics, after verification by the Coral Island naval battle, completely made up for the innate disadvantage of insufficient maneuverability of the Wildcat fighter jets and was used until the end of World War II. The Japanese Zero fighter jets no longer formed an advantage over the American Wildcat fighter jets in the early stages of the war. When Hellcat and P51 series fighter jets were put into service, the Zero became the target of being beaten.

To put it bluntly, as the saying goes, "the world's martial arts are only fast and not broken." In the early stages of the war, the Japanese played the advantage of Zero fighter being good at diving and its super maneuverability. In contrast, the F4F fighter has slow climbing speed and poor maneuverability. It has 6 large-caliber heavy firepower machine guns, but it is difficult to aim at the opponent.

The Zero fighter is like a cheetah that goes without a trace, while the F4F is like a big rhino with thick skin and slow speed. As a result, the rhino is constantly bitten by the cheetah and loses blood and eventually dies.

But the US Navy and Air Force, which summarized this tactical theory, constantly compressed the cheetah's movement space with two rhinos. No matter how many bites you bite me, you can't kill me, as long as you don't bite your throat and balls, but as long as you hit your horns, you will be finished.

Shen Chonghai was wise enough that after seeing the Japanese plane showing an incredible climbing speed, he immediately chose the "scissors" tactic explained by Tang Dao without hesitation.

Major Sarkozy, who had to leave his name in history, could only find out tragically that his tactic, which he had been beaten to the point of summarizing how many beats he had actually appeared over the Chinese river two years in advance.

Captain Saburo Mushito was bitten by a Chinese fighter jet that was swooping down. A total of four large-caliber machine guns deployed at the nose and wings were firing wildly. Four bright tongues of flames were clearly visible against the backdrop of a dark cloud.

That was Lieutenant Shen Chonghai, the best flight skills among the six Chinese pilots. Under his control, the seemingly bulky wildcat fighter was like a fierce eagle, constantly shuttled between the clouds, chasing the Zero fighter that had just risen to a height of 3,300 meters and shooting wildly.

"Kill him!"

"Kill the Japanese!"

The Chinese military and civilians who were watching the battle at the bottom were cheering.

"It's ridiculous!" Sanro Mutou hit the rudder hard, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The Zero fighter was like a swift, drawing a very small arc in the air with an incredible turning radius, avoiding the crazy shooting of the Wildcat fighter.

Although the Wildcat fighter, which was less than 1,000 meters behind, was also ruddering, it could be seen from the naked eye that the bends it turned in the air was much larger than those of the Japanese plane.

As the orientation of the two fighter jets changes in the air, even those who know nothing about air combat know that the offense and defense are about to change positions.

The crowd that was originally cheering was silent in an instant.

"Yoxi! The bold Chinese, it's time to bear the anger of the Imperial Navy!" Looking at the Chinese fighter plane that was accelerating 1,000 meters ahead, Captain Saburo Shinobu put his hand on the button of the onboard machine gun.

But unexpectedly, the Chinese fighter jet that was about to be targeted and locked actually swooped downwards and frantically towards the ground.

"Damn it!" Saburo Shinto pushed the accelerator lever sharply, and the Zero fighter also dived down at high speed.

Standing at the ground angle, the two fighters dive almost vertically, and their height dropped from about 3,000 meters to about 1,000 meters in one breath.

The patterns on the bodies of the two fighter jets are clearly visible.

But the worst thing is that the speeds of the two fighters are almost the same. Even if they turn on the afterburner dive, the fighter number 9035 did not escape the pursuit of Japanese planes.
To be continued...