"My plane was bitten!"
"Be careful, the Japanese plane is behind!"
"Tiancheng, dive away from the battlefield quickly!"
"Where's Li Hang? Why hasn't Li Hang come to support us yet?"
"Split some of them to deal with the Japanese bombers."
"Brothers, I can only withdraw first!"
As the ground air defense sirens continued to sound, the air battle in the sky also began.
Of the six Japanese Type 96 carrier-based fighters, four were used to deal with the nine Soviet fighters, and the other two were used to deal with the five Hawker IIIs.
Not two minutes after the battle started, a Soviet I-15 fighter jet was shot down.
There is no way. The performance of this early model of the Soviet fighter is not strong. It is located between the Hawker II and the Hawker III. It has obvious shortcomings when facing the Japanese Type 96 carrier-based fighter.
After the first I-15 fighter jet was shot down, a Hawker III was also shot down soon, but fortunately the pilot successfully parachuted out.
14 versus 6, but two fighters were lost in the first round. How could we fight?
You must know that there are still three Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets behind them that have not been dispatched.
After a while, Liang Tiancheng's plane was also bitten by a Japanese fighter plane. He thought about quickly pulling up and hiding in the clouds.
But the Japanese aircraft climbed faster, and he had no choice but to think of what Li Hang had said before, and started to dive instead.
Although it is possible to avoid the pursuit of Japanese aircraft by diving, the aircraft itself may also disintegrate, because many parts of the Hawker 3 are made of wood. This is mainly because the Yankees reduced the configuration when exporting, including the dismantling of the radio.
Seeing the Japanese plane chasing Liang Tiancheng's plane, Lu Jichun was not idle and bit him. He had to find a way to kill the opponent.
In his spare time, he was also observing the clouds above.
What about Li Hang?
Is the other party really lying to me?
Thinking of this, he suddenly regretted letting the other party fly the Japanese fighter plane. If the other party really ran away, it would be a slap in the face to the Nationalist Government.
Just as he was thinking wildly, an explosion suddenly came from the eastern sky.
He quickly looked around and saw that a Japanese fighter plane in front of the Japanese bomber formation exploded in the air and then fell directly to the ground.
Just when he thought it was a Soviet pilot, he saw a Japanese plane painted with the Chinese flag swooping down from the sky.
It's Li Hang!
Lu Jichun breathed a sigh of relief.
But what puzzled him was that Li Hang did not run away, but flew towards the Japanese bombers.
Although the bombers are inconvenient to move, each of the 96 Land Attackers has three revolving machine guns, one on each side of the fuselage and one on the back.
If you are not careful, you can easily be hit by the bomber's aircraft machine gun.
However, Lu Jichun couldn't take care of Li Hang at the moment, because after seeing Liang Tiancheng's plane dive away, the Japanese fighter plane he was chasing changed its target and headed towards Lu Jichun.
So, the offense and defense change positions.
Li Hang's sudden appearance also caused chaos in the Japanese fleet.
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"Baga, what's going on? Can't you see that the idiot on the plane is one of our own?"
On top of a 96 Land Attack, Dalin, who was commanding, saw that the escorting fighter plane in front was actually destroyed by other fighters of his own, and he immediately cursed.
"Captain Dalin, that's not one of our people, it's our target." The second lieutenant of the signal corps and observer on the side saw the Chinese flag sign on Li Hang's plane and immediately explained anxiously.
"Nani?"
Dalin Law Man quickly went to the window and looked around, and soon saw his own plane flying among the machine guns, but the Chinese military flag on the plane was very conspicuous.
"Baga, destroy it for me."
Before he could give the order, the other two escorting Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets had already caught up.
So when many Japanese pilots in the 96th Land Attack saw this scene, they were very confused, why were they fighting?
But after hearing the order on the radio, they realized that one of the three fighting planes was their target.
However, the three fighters had already flown far away, and their bombers were not agile enough, so they could only watch.
"Send the order, take advantage of this destruction and bomb the Hankou Airport." Although their first target of this trip is in the sky, the bombers cannot participate in the fight, so they can only complete the bombing mission first.
Hankou Airport is one of their targets.
However, within a few dozen seconds, after seeing that the bomber had lost its escort fighter planes, three Yi-15 fighter planes from the Chinese Air Force that had been waiting at high altitude for a long time came over.
Upon seeing this, Dalin Company was not worried. After all, they had 12 bombers and had certain self-defense capabilities.
But before they could approach Hankou Airport, a huge fleet of aircraft suddenly appeared in the north-west direction.
"Captain Dalin, a Chinese aircraft group was discovered in the northwest!"
"Dalin-kun..."
"Don't make any noise, I'm not blind." Captain Dalin yelled at the radio, looking at the fleet of aircraft in the northwest with an ugly expression.
At this time, he didn't know that this was a conspiracy.
The Chinese Air Force had been waiting for him for a long time, otherwise a Chinese Air Force fleet of nearly twenty fighters would not have appeared in just ten minutes.
But he wouldn't immediately lose his mind.
"Give the order, use three 96 Land Attackers as a unit, and start to resist after dropping the bombs. Regardless of whether they can hit the Chinese airport or useful targets, the bombs must be dropped for me."
"Hi!"
Under his order, the twelve Japanese bombers were divided into four teams, then quickly searched for targets to drop bombs, and then began to return.
Although their bombers have certain self-defense capabilities, they will not engage in combat with enemy fighter jets foolishly.
Moreover, their bombers are not slow. As long as they drop the bombs, they can speed back home, and the enemy planes may not be able to catch up.
The sudden appearance of the Chinese aircraft fleet directly made the pilots of the remaining eight Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets in the Japanese escort formation a little anxious.
Even if their planes have good performance, they can't face a group fight, not to mention they still need to protect their bombers.
Therefore, two of the four Japanese fighter planes that had exchanged fire with the China Air Force earlier cooperated in chasing the two Japanese planes of the 23rd Squadron of the Chinese Air Force, and a total of four went to protect the bombing.
Even the two Japanese planes chasing Li Hang returned one.
With one less enemy plane, Li Hang's pressure dropped sharply. When he saw the Japanese fighter planes clinging to him, he suddenly had an idea.
The two planes were actually very close, but Li Hang had been maneuvering quickly to avoid bullets from the Japanese plane behind him. He saw that the Japanese aircraft were biting hard, and several consecutive barrel rolls came directly.
In this case, his aircraft speed will slow down.
But the Japanese army was confused. He had never seen this tactic before, and he quickly followed up. However, he failed to control the speed and suddenly flew in front of Li Hang's plane. The Japanese pilot's face suddenly changed.
Li Hang smiled. It was time for him to fight back.
