"What the hell, you kid wants to compete with me for promotion?"
Zhou Zhi smiled coldly, pulled the lever continuously, and Wildcat No. 214 jumped three times in succession. In a few breaths, he trampled the Zero Fighter group under his feet, then turned on the rudder, completed a quick drift U-turn, pushed the throttle to dive to increase speed, and pounced Japanese bombers entering Pearl Harbor.
Zhou Zhihan had no time to fight with the Zero, he wanted to kill the bombers.
No. 214 Wildcat jumped three times in a row. Saburo Makino was dumbfounded. His team members all looked up at the eagle-like Wildcat, dumbfounded. The attack formation they had painstakingly polished and trained was in front of this Wildcat. It was actually worthless and was defeated by three lifting jumps made by the Chinese in an understatement.
What made them even more frustrated was that Wildcat No. 214 made a subtle drift and turned around after the jump. In just a few breaths, they were far behind.
The Japanese pilots who attacked Pearl Harbor this time were all Japanese elites, especially the Zero Fighter pilots, who were the elites among the elites. Each of them was a master of drift turns. Naturally, they knew the drift turn of Wildcat No. 214, which was their lifetime. Difficulty beyond reach.
Wildcat No. 214's murderous three consecutive jumps + drift turns frustrated many Japanese pilots.
No matter how powerful the Chinese are, this battle must continue. Saburo Makino was frightened and angry, and led the fleet to chase forward at full speed.
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Taylor led the Flying Tigers, and 11 Zeros led by Kimura Keiichi started a dogfight in the air near the Tantras Mountains. They always abided by the tactics formulated by Zhou Zhihan, and used dive-increasing tactics to suppress the Zeros. Unparalleled circling ability and tight radius turning.
Taylor and the others knew that the top priority was to catch the Japanese bombers first, but their actual combat capabilities were limited and they could not escape the interception of the Zero. On several occasions, they finally used dive speed increase to break through the entanglement of the Zero and went to expel the enemy bombers, but they were met with The opponent counterattacked, and he was in trouble. He could only use dive speed to escape again. After a few times, he had no choice but to give up and concentrate on fighting the Zero, preventing the Japanese from suppressing the anti-aircraft fire in the harbor.
"Baga...when did the Wildcat fighter become so fast?"
Saburo Makino led his squadron in hot pursuit of Wildcat No. 214, but was thrown far away. He watched the Wildcat fly into the smoke and disappear. This made him very angry. Didn't the military say that the Zero was faster than the Wildcat? Why did he chase it further and further away? ?
When Zhou Zhihan entered the sky over Pearl Harbor, the Japanese aircraft fleet had just launched an attack. Among them, seven or eight bombers surrounded the battleship USS Nevada and bombarded it wildly.
Among all the battleships that had been severely damaged, the USS Nevada, which wanted to break through, was undoubtedly a tempting target.
Seeing that the USS Nevada was breaking out of the harbor, it was in danger under the attack of Japanese planes. With the cold pressure on the pole, No. 214 Wildcat pounced on the Japanese bombers over the USS Nevada.
In this attack by the Japanese, the U.S. military showed strong counterattack power.
At this time, the most exciting and attractive action of the U.S. military was the heroic breakout of the battleship USS Nevada, which brought incomparable spiritual encouragement to the U.S. officers and soldiers who were heroically fighting back the Japanese attack.
Although the USS Nevada was severely damaged in the first wave of Japanese air attacks, fortunately it did not sink and could barely move. The commander, Colonel Francis Thomas, knew that the battleship was on the verge of crisis.
At this time, the Nevada was passing through the narrow waterway in front of the shipyard and was captured by a squadron taking off from the aircraft carrier Kaga. Immediately, a dive bomber led by Lieutenant Kato Hiroshi swooped down on the Nevada.
Kato knew that as long as the USS Nevada was sunk, it could stay in the waterway at the entrance of Pearl Harbor. In this way, the entire outlet of Pearl Harbor would be completely blocked, and other ships would no longer be able to break through. Imperial warplanes can be a trap for catching a turtle in a urn.
As a result, the bombers on the aircraft carrier "Kaga" swooped down like a swarm of flies following Kato Koichi, and launched a revolving door of bombings on the "Nevada".
In order to quickly sink the "Nevada", Kato Koichi ordered the fleet to attack separately. He personally led four bombers to cut into the wind from the southwest and attack the bow and port side of the "Nevada". The other four bombers, led by the squad leader, Cutting into the wind from the southeast to attack the stern and starboard side of the ship has the advantage of distracting the anti-aircraft fire intercepted by the US military and preventing them from forming a dense defensive fire.
Seeing that the USS Nevada was under fierce attack, the battleship USS Utah in the waters outside Pearl Harbor tried to get closer to the USS Nevada. It used fierce artillery fire to contain the Japanese bomber group in the air and cover the USS Nevada's breakout. .
This scene made all the American troops in Pearl Harbor excited. They cheered loudly for the Nevada and launched a fierce and tenacious counterattack against the Japanese bombers that swooped down from the sky like flies.
Encouraged by the joint breakout battle of the USS Nevada and the USS Utah, the morale of the American sailors who had been continuously attacked by the Japanese quickly recovered.
During the fierce battle, a Type 99 dive bomber dived to drop a bomb. The bomb made a harsh whistling sound and hit the bow of the USS Nevada.
"boom!"
Amidst the violent explosion, the USS Nevada was hit hard again. A large hole was blown out of the bow of the ship. Sea water poured in crazily, and the ship's bow gradually sank.
Colonel Francis Thomas ordered the water injection valve to be closed to prevent seawater from entering the cabin and draining water outwards. The sinking trend of the ship's bow was controlled, and the battleship continued to break forward.
The soldiers on the ship used all their air defense forces to launch a fierce counterattack against the enemies in the air. Now everyone in Pearl Harbor was watching their breakout. The sound of gunfire was deafening in their ears. The sailors could still feel that everyone was cheering for them.
As if out of anger, the bombers taking off from the aircraft carrier "Kaga" vowed to suppress the "Nevada". Ignoring the intensive interception fire, they dived forward one after another and dropped the bombs like a hailstorm.
The sailors on the USS Nevada looked death in the face. Faced with the crazy dive bombings of the Japanese planes, they were not afraid. They drove the battleship to the left and right to avoid the bombs that kept falling. They showed the most exciting and exciting battle since the beginning of sea and air combat. The most ups and downs of the offensive and defensive battle of breakout and interception.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Three bombs hit the USS Nevada again. Fire and smoke rose from the deck, and the stern began to sink. The sailors used the courage to risk their lives to rescue the battleship, blocking the incoming water again and again. , allowing the battleship to continue moving forward amid gunfire.
The Japanese are going crazy and must sink the USS Nevada and at the same time destroy the morale of the Americans!
"Four more bombers are coming towards the port side, the machine gunners are ready." The soldier holding the loudspeaker in his hand shouted, his throat almost bleeding.
"Load!"
The machine gunner shouted desperately while quickly turning his gun and pointing directly at the group of bombers attacking from the sky.
They went into battle in a hurry, and the loading hands did not wear gloves. Their hands were blistered and bruised by the hot magazine, and they were dripping with blood. However, their movements were still calm and agile: "Loading is complete!"
The machine gunner shouted: "The machine gunner is ready!"
At this time, there were only two anti-aircraft machine guns left on the port side of the "Nevada", and the battleship "Utah" was slightly farther away and could not defend the port side of the "Nevada".
Several loaders took off their shirts, wrapped their bloody hands, picked up the rifles dropped by their fallen comrades on the ground, pulled the bolt with a bang, checked the bullets, and stood beside the anti-aircraft machine guns, ready to fight!
Seeing that the USS Nevada had been hit hard one after another and still remained unyielding, the morale of the American troops was completely detonated.
