Before the explosion shock wave came, Zhou Zhihan pressed the right stick and adjusted the direction of the aircraft's nose. Driven by the shock wave, the No. 214 warship instantly flew at full speed and continued to fly towards Xiaomaoshan, leaving two Type 93 light bombers behind to explode. Two fireballs shot out, disintegrated and fell to the ground.
The four crew members of the two Type 93 light bombers did not even have time to issue an early warning sound, so they died in confusion. From the launch of the attack to the end of the attack, the two bombers were hit in just ten seconds. The fuel tanks and bombs were completely destroyed, and the crew didn't even know how they were hit.
At this time, artillery boomed in the direction of Nanjing, and the explosions of the two bombers would not attract the attention of enemy aircraft elsewhere.
Being able to make a surprise attack will never give the opponent a chance to get ready for a fight. This is a skill that every pilot pursues tirelessly.
If you want to form a surprise attack, you must first have superb tracking skills so that you can avoid being discovered, track, approach covertly, hit with one hit, and escape quickly.
Ship Battle No. 214 continued to fly at full speed at an altitude of 2,600 meters. This altitude is an altitude capable of both offense and defense for the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, the best fighter in the world at the moment.
The sky under the dark clouds was still overcast, and the visibility was not far away. Just as he was approaching Xiaomaoshan, Zhou Zhihan discovered three more Japanese bombers.
It was three Type 98 naval attack aircraft, flying in the direction of Nanjing in a "pin" formation, and was about to enter the sky above Xiaomaoshan.
Distance, three kilometers.
The sky above Xiaomao Mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist, bordering the clouds above. From a distance, it looks like a fairyland.
It is now certain that the Japanese bombers take off in batches. The advantage of this is that they can launch continuous attacks on attack targets, but the premise is that there must be a large number of fighter jets to escort them, and they must also have air superiority with a numerical advantage. The fighter jets first kicked off the artillery defense network of China's ground forces and entangled the interceptors of the Chinese Air Force.
The Japanese fighter planes stationed in Shanghai were indeed dispatched in full force, taking off in batches to carry out sneak attacks and bombings of Nanjing.
After Zhou Zhihan discovered the enemy bomber, he quickly pulled up, entered the clouds, and then pulled up again. The fighter plane jumped out of the clouds and suddenly pressed the stick. The fighter plane sank like a stagnation, flying on the top of the clouds, and most of the fuselage was buried in the clouds. inside.
Sure enough, 400 meters ahead above the clouds, there were two escorting Type 95 warships flying in a two-finger formation.
Therefore, upon seeing an escorting enemy aircraft ahead, Ship Battle No. 214 immediately pressed its lever and disappeared into the clouds to avoid being discovered.
If you are too close to the enemy plane and cannot be handled well, you will be discovered at any time. Fighter pilots are not as easy to fool as bomber gunners.
No. 214, the moment the battleship was pressed, the rod disappeared into the clouds. This is the top tracking method (1).
Unlike the mountains, rivers, woods, ravines, and village houses on the ground that can provide cover for the tracker, and the vast expanse in the sky, tracking between fighter planes is more difficult and can only rely on the cover of clouds and the refraction angle of the sun to influence the tracked person. Visual impact,to form tracking.
Ship Battle No. 214 was almost hiding in the clouds, quickly approaching the two-plane formation escorting the Japanese aircraft.
The two Type 95 warplanes were about 130 meters apart from each other. Strangely, the wingman's flying height was about 20 meters lower than the lead aircraft.
Zhou Zhihan immediately understood that the pilots of these two Japanese planes were veterans. The reason why the wingman flew at a lower altitude than the lead plane was because the wingman wanted to fly under the clouds and conceal the fuselage. If there were Chinese fighter jets tracking far behind, , because it could not find the wingman, it was counter-detected by the wingman, so the lead aircraft continued to fly forward, and the wingman descended into the clouds and stayed in the air. After the tracking Chinese fighter plane flew by, the wingman quietly appeared from the clouds, forming counter-tracking and suddenly shot down.
It has to be said that in the early days of the invasion of China, the Japanese pilots were experienced and all were veterans in the air.
Sure enough, the Japanese wingman flying against the clouds suddenly made a small 90-degree roll from left to right, swinging the wings, and used the rearview mirror to check whether he was being followed behind him.
As a wingman, this is a rear inspection at least every ten minutes. Many wingmen's rear inspection time is not fixed, sometimes three to five minutes, sometimes seven or eight minutes. The length of the inspection depends on the flight speed and the surrounding environment.
When flying in two-finger formation, the lead aircraft is responsible for detecting the enemy situation and providing the correct flight route, while the wingman is responsible for the safety of himself and the wingman behind and to the left and right. Once the lead aircraft in front discovers the enemy situation, the wingman immediately makes a decision based on the actual combat situation. Offensive and defensive reactions.
Before the Japanese wingman made a small 90-degree roll, the No. 214 warship disappeared into the clouds in advance. When the nose of the aircraft emerged from the clouds again, the distance between it and the enemy wingman was reduced to 200 meters.
Get closer.
We can get a little closer...
Zhou Zhihan accurately calculated the enemy's flight speed, shooting curve, projectile dispersion and range of lethality, as well as the relative geometric position when firing, and then pulled the lever. Ship Battle No. 214 suddenly jumped out of the clouds and appeared five miles behind and above the tail of the Japanese wingman. Ten meters away, without using sights, you can see the huge back of the machine sliding forward before your eyes.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
Zhou Zhihan presses the attack button on the joystick, fires, and fires in one second.
No. 214 did not need to make a "bounce" to break away and dived directly to overtake the Japanese wingman. He watched the tracer bombs combined with high-explosive incendiary bombs jump, splashing sparks, tearing open the back of the Type 95 Ship Battle and drilling into the body, drilling all the way forward. Entering the pilot's body, when the fire and shock wave caused by the explosion appeared behind him, the fuselage of the No. 214 Battleship shook again for a second. The combination of tracer bombs and high-explosive incendiary bombs once again tore open the fuselage of the Japanese aircraft. Watching The pilot's body exploded in the cockpit, then he pulled the lever and "bounced" away.
"What a perfect "blocking" attack, oh ho ho..." From the corner of his eye, Zhou Zhihan saw two huge fires exploding behind him, and he let out a long and satisfying roar + strange screams...
Pressing the lever, No. 214 lowered its head into the clouds, and then slowly pressed the lever downward to ensure that it would not collide with the Japanese bombers.
Only a fool would swoop down from the clouds.
The nose of the No. 214 Warship Battle slowly emerged from the bottom of the clouds. The three bombers in front were about to fly into the clouds and fog above Xiaomao Mountain. The three bombers had begun to deliberately distance themselves and maintained speed, preparing to pass through the foggy mountain area with blurred vision. .
The three leisurely Type 98 naval attacks apparently didn't notice that their escorting fighter planes had been wiped out unknowingly. The closer they got to Nanjing, the clearer the sound of anti-aircraft guns, the shrill sounds of bombers' dives, and the sound of fighter jets' cannons. , which greatly affected the attention of the Sanming bomber crew.
Just in the clouds and mist, these three Type 98 naval attackers were destroyed. Zhou Zhihan pulled the lever, and the No. 214 naval battleship jumped out of the clouds. The sun instantly swayed, and the fighter planes moved forward at full speed. They could not let the three Type 98 naval attackers fly out of the cloud and fog area. Then they formed a defensive flight formation with the word "pin", and the cloud and mist area above Xiaomao Mountain was their terminal station.
"Little devil, you have to thank me for finding you a place where you can save the souls of the dead." Zhou Zhihan did a sideways roll of 90 degrees to confirm the safety behind him again, with a trace of cruelty on his lips, "Your burial place I helped you choose Xiaomaoshan, but I don’t know if there are ghost hunters on Xiaomaoshan.”
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(1) How to use the refraction tracking method of clouds and light will not be described in detail here. The author spent a lot of time reading and researching, and it cannot be expressed clearly in one or two sentences. We’ll talk about that later.
