The A214 Spitfire dived downwards, and the muzzle under the nose glowed purple in the sun, which was even more suffocating than the yellow nose of the arrogant Messerschmitt.
The boy from the East who piloted the A214 Spitfire became famous during Dunkirk. Many German ace pilots fell under his command. He was also the person that all German pilots wanted to shoot down the most. At this time, he used the astonishing dive+lift+ The large deflection angle shooting method broke through the Lu's defense formation that no one had ever been able to break. In the eyes of the remaining 15 German pilots, he was completely a monster-level existence.
While the 15 German pilots were resolutely executing the tactics, they looked at the sky with their peripheral vision. Everyone was filled with fear. They didn't know in which direction the big monster A214 Spitfire would pull up the nose after diving downwards. Whose abdomen to attack.
At this time, the nose of the A214 Spitfire looked very ferocious in the eyes of the 5012 May pilot. His mouth was dry and his tongue was bitter. He looked up at the sky. The fear in his heart reached the extreme. He mechanically executed the Lu's defense formation. I really can't figure out why this big devil would choose to dive towards me again and again. However, he was fortunate that the big devil's way of breaking through Lu's defensive formation was to dive, then pull up the nose of the plane and raise its head to attack.
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Just when all the British and German pilots and even the 5012 Meiji pilot firmly believed that the A214 Spitfire would continue to dive downwards, the A214 Spitfire slightly raised its nose during the dive and opened fire at the same time, blasting an up and down Shooting at a large deflection angle in an arc, a wide barrage was placed in front of the nose of No. 5012 Messerschmitt. Zhou Zhihan pushed forward in the lightning flash, and the A214 Spitfire hit No. 5012 on the barrage. Messerschmitt swooped down five meters away from him. When he reached an altitude of 5,200 meters and started to raise the nose of the aircraft, the explosion of No. 5012 Messerschmitt came from behind him.
This change caught the pilots of both sides by surprise, including allied pilots. They were all shocked. The A214 Spitfire had too many killing moves. It completely subverted aerodynamics, flight principles, and everything else. People's understanding of air combat makes all pilots who see him in air combat involuntarily think that fighter jets can fly like this, machine guns can shoot at arc angles like this, and they can maneuver like this or that at will...
But what makes you helpless is that you are clearly watching the opponent fly the same fighter plane as yourself, make all kinds of incredible maneuvers, and shoot freely from various angles, but you just can't do it.
All Allied pilots are thankful that the Chinese flying the A214 Spitfire represent justice.
Even the No. 5012 May pilot, who firmly believed that the A214 Spitfire would not attack him, did not expect that he did not even have a chance to parachute and was torn apart in the huge explosion.
The A214 Spitfire fired another shot at a large deflection angle while it was ascending. A Messerschmitt inevitably collided with it. Feeling a terrible tremor coming from the fuselage, the pilot immediately chose Parachuting, they all know that none of the fighter jets shot by this big devil can escape from the battlefield with injuries. They either fall apart or burst into flames that cannot be extinguished.
The A214 Spitfire shot down two Messerschmitts in a row, and the remaining 13 Messerschmitts no longer had the confidence to hold on. They abandoned the Luce defensive formation and spread out, instead of continuing to execute the Luce defensive formation and waiting to be attacked. The A214 Spitfires were dealt with one by one. It was better to fight to the death while they still had the strength to break through the encirclement.
Seeing the Mei Shi scattered in all directions, the Spitfires, which were already ready to attack, immediately formed a double-attack formation with the old and the new to pursue the Mei Shi who was unwilling to fight and wanted to break out.
In the panic, two more Messerschmitts were hit. One burned on the spot and fell, and the pilot bailed out. The other one swooped and speeded up with billowing black smoke to get away from the battlefield. One of its old and one was hit. The new Spitfire pilot immediately pushed the stick to follow. With such a good opportunity, I would be sorry if I let my prey run away.
Seven or eight minutes ago, the two Messerschmitt squadrons that were still arrogant collapsed in an instant, including Captain Johannes Seifert. He was no longer interested in fighting. He was experienced and knew that in this situation, no matter what he did, No matter how hard we try, we can't save anything. If we retreat with the fleet, we still have a chance to survive. If we stay, we can only be surrounded and annihilated.
Fights between fighter jets are the fastest among all military services. The battle can often be resolved in a few seconds, ten seconds, minutes, or at most ten minutes.
Captain Eberhard Henrich, the leader of the 1st German Squadron, saw that this good situation was reversed in an instant. He was unwilling but could do nothing. He watched the 2nd Squadron and the 3rd Squadron being defeated in the collapse. He knew that once more than 20 Spitfires turned back, his squadron would be in dire straits, so he ordered his team members to retreat towards the Bf 110 fighter group while fighting, and told the bomber group on the bombing mission to quickly Drop bombs and prepare to retreat.
Today's opportunity is great. The large British CW 9 fleet on the sea was trapped by mines, and the scene was chaotic. It was the time for the bombers to show their prowess, but because the escort formation was dispersed, the bomber group did not dare to stay for a long time. What a waste of this great opportunity.
Seeing the escort of the second and third squadrons, the Meiji aircraft group of the squadron was broken up. The Bf 110 fighter group had no intention of fighting for a long time. It also moved closer to the first squadron, preparing to fight as a group and retreat at the same time. If it weren't for their iron will and strength. With super strong execution ability, he has already escaped.
On the battlefield, the winning side often fights more and more smoothly, while the losing side is defeated like a mountain. Half of the escort fighter group has been lost, and the remaining ones have shown that they are not interested in fighting. The bomber group can't stand still and looks at the water. No matter how fat you are, it is not as important as saving your own life, so the bombers do not care whether there is a target below, they just throw the bombs into the sea, take out all the weight in their stomachs, and escape quickly.
At this time, bombers were not equipped with cameras to prevent pilots from slacking off, so sometimes the mission was completed once the bombers dropped their bombs.
What's more, feeling that the battlefield they are going to is full of dangers, they unload the bombs halfway, circle in the air a few times to delay, and then return on time.
In the middle of World War II, bombers were only equipped with bomb-drop cameras. After returning, if the photos automatically taken when dropping bombs were different from the locations ordered to drop bombs, the bombing crews would be punished.
Zhou Zhihan knew that time was running out and he had to quickly drive away the German bombers, and the two Spitfire squadrons could not pursue them too far. If he was greedy for military exploits and encountered enemy planes coming to the rescue during the pursuit, he would lose his fuel advantage and use up most of his ammunition. The Fire Squadron will be in crisis.
Therefore, Zhou Zhihan ordered the Spitfire squadron to return immediately within one minute, and not to pursue the enemy in order to avoid encountering the second batch of German aircraft flying in for bombing.
Giving one minute is to give those Spitfires that have already bitten the enemy planes a chance, and those Spitfires that are still chasing and trying to bite the enemy planes will immediately return to drive away the Death Stukas on the sea.
The large CW 9 fleet on the sea has become a mess.
The Luftwaffe is now on the offensive with all its strength. Due to the short escort range of Messerschmitt, the Luftwaffe will dispatch a fleet of aircraft every half hour to strike first at the British coastline and military facilities on the seaside.
In other words, after waiting for at most ten minutes, the second batch of German air raid groups will arrive. Therefore, we must drive away the bombers as soon as possible to give the fleet on the sea some breathing time, and try to get there before the second group of German bombers arrive. Clear the minefields on the sea.
On the blue sky, there were messy white condensed contrails. The German bombers were shot down by the Allies while escaping. Some fell to the sea, and some dragged thick smoke, relying on their rough skin and flesh. Thick, under the protection of the remaining fighter jets, left the battlefield.
The air battle in the distance was still going on. It was another squadron intercepting a group of German fighter-bombers. The battle was very fierce. From a distance, bullets were raining down, and fighter planes were constantly smoking, catching fire, exploding, and falling.
Now it is a large-scale battle, and bombers are the main means of attack. The power of the bombs is too great, so there are no longer any civilians watching the battle on the seaside.
Seeing that the German bomber group was driven away, the Royal Navy finally freed up its hands to clear the mines in the water ahead. The merchant ship that had just been hit at high speed burned on the water, and a large amount of supplies on the ship were ignited, sending out thick smoke. This is a A very bad signal, which was equivalent to pointing the direction to the German fighter-bomber group coming from a distance.
In this battle, more than a dozen German aircraft were shot down, and the Allied forces also lost several fighter jets. Fortunately, it was close to the airport, and the injured fighter jets could make an emergency landing.
The Royal Navy rescue team first rescued several British pilots. They handed over clean clothes to change into and poured out steaming coffee. The German pilots who parachuted were in misery. They were deliberately thrown into the water and suffered a lot. Finally, he was brutally rescued by the Royal Navy rescue team and became a prisoner.
After the last incident that prevented a German rescue aircraft from entering the English Channel, there has never been a He59 water rescue aircraft in this area.
Zhou Zhihan ordered all fighter units to hover in the air. Since they were fighting close to the English Channel, they had more fuel left and could protect the large fleet in the air through the narrow waters of Dover as soon as possible.
