"What? Refuel our plane quickly! Hurry!"
After hearing the news, Lu Jichun didn't know that it was Li Hang and others from the rear who were entangled by the Japanese army.
He immediately ordered the ground staff at Hefei Airport to speed up refueling. Even the pilots were anxious to board the plane and prepare to take off once the fuel was refueled.
"What are you doing standing still? Come on!"
The lieutenant realized the seriousness of the problem and yelled at the people around him. Only then did they react and continue to be busy there.
"Stop it, get out of the way!"
Thinking of the danger that Li Hang and others might encounter, Lu Jichun looked at the fighter planes that were slow to refuel and directly ordered the ground crew to evacuate.
"Sir, your plane is less than half full of fuel."
"That's enough! Get out of the way, I want to take off and fight."
At Lu Jichun's insistence, the ground crew had no choice but to move all the refueling items away.
Not only him, but the people below also followed suit. Although only 30 to 40% of the oil was added, it was just to reinforce Li Hang and others, so the oil was enough.
Seeing planes taking off one after another, the ground staff were a little helpless.
"What are you still doing? Report the situation to the security headquarters immediately."
Just as Lu Jichun and others flew their planes into the air for reinforcements, the air battle that originally started on the east side of Chao Lake was transferred directly to the sky above Chao Lake.
Over the vast Chao Lake, more than a dozen planes were fighting. The fishermen and other people below looked up at this spectacle in the sky.
At the beginning of the air battle, Li Hang and other four aircraft fought together against 12 enemy planes. However, as the formation was broken up, they turned into separate formations to fight against the enemy planes.
In general, the situation of Li Hang's third detachment was much better, because at the beginning of the war, Li Hang was the first to shoot down a Japanese Type 95 fighter jet.
Then another Japanese plane was damaged and had to withdraw from the battle and return to Nanjing.
"careful!"
On Liang Tiancheng's side, he had just shot down a Japanese plane when he saw two Japanese planes firing at his wingman.
boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, thick black smoke suddenly appeared from the wingman, and then the plane began to fall towards Chao Lake.
Seeing this scene, Liang Tiancheng became very angry and rushed towards the nearest enemy plane.
On the third team, Zhou Zhikai had just achieved his first victory in his life with the help of Li Hang. Although he only had half a victory, it was of great significance to him.
But before they could be happy, they saw Liang Tiancheng's wingman fall.
"Go help him!"
Li Hang made a gesture to Zhou Zhikai, asking him to help Liang Tiancheng.
Zhou Zhikai was still in joy, but when he saw Li Hang's gesture command, he immediately turned around and killed him.
And Li Hang will fight one against three.
The Japanese army obviously did not know Li Hang, especially his landline number 2305.
If the Japanese naval aviation were here, they would know him.
Because in the air battle on New Year's Day, the Type 96 carrier-based fighter piloted by Li Hang had this number.
In that air battle, he alone achieved 7.5 results, 4 of which were Type 96 carrier-based combat aircraft. The latter was more powerful than the Type 95 fighter in front of him.
In the eyes of the Japanese army aviation pilots, Li Hang was the turtle in the urn, but Li Hang thought it was a flower in the middle.
Facing the pursuit of Japanese planes, he got rid of the pursuit of three Japanese planes through a series of actions, and rushed straight towards a single Japanese plane. He fired a short burst from a distance of more than 200 meters, but because he was a little anxious, , the ballistic shot was in front of the enemy plane.
The Japanese pilot thought that Li Hang's marksmanship was not good, so he pressed the nose of the plane and prepared to roll away. Unexpectedly, Li Hang suddenly reached a distance of 100 meters and fired four shots, directly hitting the Japanese plane and exploding on the spot.
The I-16 fighter jet driven by Li Hang belongs to the I-16-10 type.
This model was designed to improve the shortcomings of the closed canopy of the I-16-6 fighter jet and poor visibility. The new model was changed to an open type, equipped with a 750-horsepower M-25V engine, and equipped with four 7.62 mm machine guns.
At the same time, a new optical machine gun sight was added, and shock absorption equipment was installed on the engine mount to improve the shooting hit rate.
There is no doubt that this fighter has stronger performance, not to mention twice the firepower, and its maximum speed has reached 476 kilometers per hour.
So when he destroyed this Japanese plane, the remaining two Japanese planes also panicked.
Li Hang directly broke up the two Japanese planes clustered together at high speed, then quickly pulled up, found one of the Japanese planes that was out of shape, and dived directly over.
Aiming at the Japanese plane was a salvo, and then it exploded on the spot.
The remaining Japanese plane fled.
Li Hang originally wanted to chase, but saw that the plane's fuel capacity was a little low, so he gave up the pursuit and instead cooperated with Liang Tiancheng and Zhou Zhikai.
Li Hang fought one against three and shot down two of them, while the remaining one escaped. This undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on the other three Japanese planes on the battlefield.
The reason why there were three was because Liang Tiancheng and Zhou Zhikai cooperated to shoot down one.
This way it's three versus three.
The Japanese army was already losing confidence and was thinking of retreating. However, due to the amount of fuel in the plane, Li Hang and the three of them might not have enough fuel to fly to the Hefei airport if they continued to fight.
At this moment, six planes flew in from the northwest of Chaohu Lake. After seeing that they were six Yi-16-10 fighters, Li Hang and the other three breathed a sigh of relief, and then handed over the remaining Japanese planes to Lu Jichun and the six others, and then The three of them drove the plane towards Hefei.
Lu Jichun and other six pilots saw that there were only three Japanese aircraft left, and they were still 95 fighter jets. Although they were puzzled, they pounced directly, fearing that they would not be able to grab them.
"Quick! Quick! Quick! A plane is landing!"
At Hefei Airport, the major in charge of the airport got out at some point. You must know that when Lu Jichun and others landed, the person who docked with them was a lieutenant.
But he was accompanied by a major general.
This major general is none other than Song Shike, the Hefei garrison commander.
This is not a person without reputation, he is the cousin of the old guard among the "Five Tiger Generals", and he himself also served in the security corps of the Grand Marshal's Mansion.
At this time, the pot-bellied security commander came to Hefei Airport in a panic. He was puzzled when he saw a plane landing in the sky not far away.
"What's going on? Why is there an air battle with planes over Chaohu? And what's going on with these planes?"
Don't blame him for asking, because he, the security commander, didn't know about this matter. You should know that Hefei Airport is within his jurisdiction.
"Commander Song, I don't know the specific position. I just received an order last night that some planes will land at Hefei Airport to refuel this morning. As for the reason for the air battle, I don't know even more."
The major didn't pay much attention to the refueling. He stayed in the city last night and didn't spend the night at the airport at all.
