Rise From Eight Hundred

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

.......

With the roar of Cheng Tieshou and other ground commanders at all levels.

On the ground, the long-dormant flames suddenly erupted, covering the sky above the position.

Visible to the naked eye, sparks flew from the speeding Hawk III fuselage.

Like a petrel soaring in the hail of bullets, he was still desperately flying forward.

Although the shooters at various firepower points had tried their best to avoid him and aimed their guns at the Japanese planes following closely behind, bullets from anti-aircraft machine guns continued to fall on Le Yiqing's fighter plane.

The only thing to be thankful for was that all anti-aircraft guns deliberately placed their shooting airspace behind the Hawk III fighter, so no 20mm machine gun shells hit the Hawk III. Otherwise, no matter how bulletproof the cockpit of the Hawk III fighter was, it was estimated that it would not escape the fate of the aircraft being destroyed and the people being killed.

Yes, the Chinese ace pilot dared to enter the low altitude and request ground firepower to fire like this, not only because of his courage at the cost of his life, but also because of his reliance.

The Hawk III fighter has a lower top speed than the Type 96 carrier fighter, a lower take-off speed, and a larger turning radius than the Type 96 carrier fighter. To put it bluntly, except for the fact that it is equipped with a 12.7mm machine gun, its firepower is stronger than that of the Type 96 carrier fighter, and all other data are inferior to the main fighters equipped by the Japanese Navy.

But why did the Chinese Air Force not lose but have a slight advantage in the several air battles between Chinese fighters and the Japanese Navy and Army in the early stage of the Battle of Shanghai? That is not just because of the courage to sacrifice one's life.

The engine power of the Hawk III is almost the same as that of the Type 96 carrier fighter. The reason why the maneuverability is much worse is not just because it is an old biplane structure. Its empty weight of 1,480 kg is more than 200 kg higher than the empty weight of 1,210 kg of the Type 96 carrier fighter.

Heavy weight may not mean a stronger fuselage, but it is definitely thicker. Most importantly, American designers installed bulletproof plates on the cockpit and engine of Hawk III. The total weight of the 10 mm thick steel plates is more than 100 kg.

The Japanese military experts voted with their feet and omitted these "useless" steel plates.

The reason is also very simple and crude. The extra 100 kg of useless weight reduces the maneuverability of the fighter. How can it be better than China's main fighter Hawk III?

Even half a year before the outbreak of the war, the extremely stingy military experts dismantled the wireless intercom on their own, causing the Japanese pilots to communicate in the air by flapping the wings of the aircraft or the gestures of the pilots.

In this regard, the pilots of the Japanese Navy and Army can only use the two words "Baga" to express their dissatisfaction.

Are they afraid of inconvenience? Absolutely not.

In order to make the pilots accept this primitive communication method, the Japanese military experts who voted with their feet did not design the cockpit canopy at all.

That is, like the motorcycles of the future, it only has a windshield to block the face, but no top cover.

There is a windshield to block the whistling cold wind, and you are wearing windproof glasses, what else do you want? Japanese military experts have taken their stinginess to the extreme.

Damn... The Japanese Navy was angry!

So, the Navy spent half a year to install wireless communication devices on the aircraft.

Damn... The Japanese Army was not willing to do it either.

So, the Army Air Force had to rely on their hands.

The reason is that the Japanese Navy has sufficient funds, while the Army Bitch, what can you say if you have no money?

So, at this time, the Japanese Navy Air Force can at least use wireless communication devices to communicate, but the miserable Japanese Army Air Force still has to rely on shaking the wing tips.

But they have one thing in common, that is, the cockpit of the aircraft, that is, the cockpit of the aircraft, has nothing to do with bulletproof.

The Chinese ace pilots bet that they can be hit by heavy machine gun bullets and use the bulletproof plate to survive this wave, while the Japanese, as long as the cockpit is shot into by heavy machine gun bullets, they can only be cold.

As for Kotaro Koizumi, who was almost blinded by the countless flames that suddenly burst out from the ground, he found that he really thought too much.

The Chinese anti-aircraft guns, because of the consideration of the Chinese fighters still flying in front, placed the trajectory behind the Chinese fighters, which was not a big threat to the three Type 96 carrier fighters that were almost close to the Chinese fighters.

But the fatal thing was that the Chinese shooters who realized this were more likely to block them than to hit them.

Block the high altitude.

His previous idea that once the Chinese opened fire, he would lead his two colleagues to pull up and run away was shattered.

What was more fatal was not the anti-aircraft guns equipped with high-explosive warheads, but the anti-aircraft machine guns with limited firing height that he looked down on.

The firing height of 800 meters was not good, but it was enough to threaten the fighters flying at an altitude of 700 meters.

Especially when there are enough machine guns, more than 20 anti-aircraft machine guns and dozens of light machine guns can fire nearly a thousand bullets into the air in one second, and the steel torrent ejected is like the future close-in defense guns of the Phalanx.

It does not rely on accuracy, but on the probability increased to the limit.

As long as one percent of the bullets hit, the Type 96 carrier battleship will have a few more bullet holes. And in the narrow cockpit, as long as one bullet hits...

There is a lot of fat on the butt, but it is not a bulletproof plate.

Watching the Hawk III, which was shining with sparks, continue to soar in the rain of bullets, Kotaro Koizumi finally figured out why the Chinese ace pilot made such a "stupid" tactic, because he was even more stupid!

Although he thought he understood, he still had to bite the bullet and rush forward in such a terrible rain of bullets.

The bombs under the belly and wings were thrown into the wilderness by three Type 96 carrier fighters a few minutes ago in order to catch up with the Chinese ace fighters. They lost the best weapon for ground attack.

So now the fate is also not in his hands, but in the hands of Amaterasu. It will take 10 seconds for him and his colleagues to rush out of the rain of bullets.

But obviously, under the Chinese sky, the lucky halo of Amaterasu thrown from the Japanese mainland was suppressed.

The three Japanese planes without bulletproof plates were unlucky.

The first to bear the brunt was Captain Kotaro Koizumi, who was awarded a medal even though he was still alive after two big holes were punched in his face.

Ten seconds later, his plane was still speeding in the air.

However, the fuselage was hit by at least thirty anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, and the belly and wings were full of bullet holes. That was not the most fatal. The most fatal was that an anti-aircraft machine gun bullet penetrated from the bottom of the cockpit. Because of the rolling, it miraculously missed the fat and fleshy buttocks of the second commander of the Japanese aircraft formation, but hit his lower jaw, commonly known as the chin.

This time, it did not break his gums, which had few teeth, again, but tore off the skin of his entire face, even covering his goggles.

The poor Japanese naval aviation captain howled and reached out to take the flesh from the goggles, but it was already pitch black in front of him. He did not even realize that he had pushed the rudder down in the excruciating pain. The Type 96 carrier fighter, which was still intact, suddenly went down and rushed to the ground like a sharp arrow.

The awesome maneuverability was fully displayed at this moment. Only five seconds later, a ball of fire flashed on the ground.

The second commander of the Japanese attacking aircraft group died.

The pilot of the Type 96 carrier fighter, the only one that broke out of the fire net, looked back and burst into tears.

Captain Kotaro Koizumi died, and his other companion was hit by several anti-aircraft shells on the tail wing earlier because of fear and desperate pull-up. The fighter plane that lost its tail wing completely stalled and spiraled down in the air. Before it fell to the ground, it was chased and strafed by more than a dozen machine guns and hit the fuel tank, which caught fire and exploded.

And various indicator lights on his dashboard were flashing wildly, reminding him that he was not intact, and it was unknown whether he could fly back to the mother ship.

Including the two planes in the air, there were only three of them left.

This battle was lost!

It was a complete defeat!

"Retreat!" The Japanese naval pilots who escaped by chance no longer had the will to fight.

The Type 96 carrier fighter head, dragging white smoke, flew forward without any nostalgia and fled the battlefield.

The other two also fled at high speed.

If they waited until the Chinese ace pilots at low altitude jumped into the sky, they would be dead.

Yes, although Hawk III was hit by machine gun bullets in many places at low altitude, he was still alive and strong.

At this time, it had begun to turn forward and was about to return to the sky above the ground infantry position.

"We won!" Looking at the "Eight Star" fighter plane that was not seriously damaged, Tang Dao breathed a sigh of relief and waved his fist vigorously.

"We won?"

"Yes, we won!"

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The army on the ground was unbelievable at first, and finally confirmed this conclusion after watching the last three Japanese planes escape far away.

Carrying a gun, rushing out of the woods, waving wildly at the sky.

The cheers of thousands of people were like a tsunami!

This is a victory for Chinese soldiers, the army, and the air force!

In this battle, the Chinese Air Force lost 7 fighter planes, 5 pilots were killed, and the Chinese Army lost 102 people.

The Japanese invaders lost 15 fighter planes, and none of the pilots survived!