Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

After a quick glance, the opponent had eight three-plane formations with 24 406s; and they had ten two-plane formations with 20 BF-109Fs. They seemed to be at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but Garland believed that the performance of his own fighters was far superior to the French 406, not to mention that they had already occupied the high ground first.

As the attack order was issued, 20 BF-109Fs began to dive in batches, and the speed soon exceeded 600 kilometers per hour.

In later generations, one of the important indicators to measure the performance of a fighter jet is the thrust-to-weight ratio. Unfortunately, the thrust-to-weight ratio of fighter jets was always appallingly low until the 1950s and 1960s, let alone the propeller-driven fighters of today's World War II era.

Therefore, "height + speed + firepower" was the only method in air combat in World War II. Those pilots who became fighter aces were almost all masters of using this tactic.

As we all know, engines generate energy, and energy is reflected in air combat in the form of speed. With speed, you can freely choose whether to engage in combat, how to engage in combat, etc. But you can't superimpose the speed infinitely, nor can you quickly increase the speed at will by relying on the engine alone.

But by gaining altitude and accumulating gravitational potential energy, you can convert it into kinetic energy when necessary. Altitude, for fighters, especially early fighters, is equivalent to an energy bank. Engine production capacity is deposited in the bank in the form of altitude, and when needed, it is taken out in the form of speed and used to buy enemy aircraft.

Therefore, both warring parties have to gain altitude. Although the French have also begun to increase their altitude, the performance of their aircraft is not as good as others, so they can only accept the disadvantage.

However, they did not sit still. Watching the German fighter jets swooping down from a high place, they immediately dispersed their formation and circled down. They tried to use dogfights to drag the German fighter jets to low altitude, and used low-altitude and low-speed combat to make up for the speed of their own fighter jets. shortcomings.

Upon seeing this, Garland sneered contemptuously. "These French guys can also do these tricks. It seems they are better than the Poles."

This French tactic is one of the few reasonable tactics that the slower side in a dogfight can employ. It's just that these French pilots don't know that their opponent BF-109 has been upgraded to 109F, and 109F is precisely the most maneuverable model in the 109 series, and can be said to have reached the pinnacle of the 109.

It's just that although Garland is confident that he will not suffer a loss in a low-altitude dog fight, he can't guarantee that for others. Because after the Battle of Poland, the German Air Force nearly doubled the number of fighter jets in one breath, and now most of its pilots are novices with little combat experience!

He couldn't let these chicks run down and fight with other people's dogs at low altitude, so he could only use the usual training methods. "Attention everyone, do a standard BZ; don't fight with them at low altitude!" The so-called BZ, the full name is BOOM ZOOM, is simply a high-altitude dive attack. Regardless of whether it hits or not, it will climb again to gain a height advantage and wait for the next opportunity. . Of course, this is just a general explanation, and there can be millions of changes in specific implementation.

At this time, the speed of the fighter jet exceeded 650 kilometers per hour. Garland enjoyed this unparalleled sense of speed and aimed at a 406 and pulled the trigger.

"Thud, tug, tug." Four 7mm machine guns sprayed out hot bullets, forming a dense firepower net that covered the French fighter plane. The hard warhead crashed into the fuselage, penetrated the fuselage, shattered the keel inside, destroyed the oil circuit, destroyed the equipment inside, and then continued to wreak havoc with the remaining energy until it crashed through the fuselage on the other side, proudly showing off. And go.

Watching the plane plummeting with thick black smoke, he immediately pulled up the control stick and pressed his back against his seat.

Back high in the sky, he pressed the communicator. "Each formation reports the situation."

The remaining nine formations reported the situation one after another. Several fighter planes had a few holes punched in their fuselages, but they were all hit by 5mm machine guns, so there was nothing serious. Although it has 4 machine guns, this thing not only has a slow rate of fire, but also has poor performance. Unless someone is unlucky, they will be hit by it.

Garland found that this attack shot down at least 11 enemy aircraft, which was a good result for a group of novices.

"Okay, let's do it again and try to shoot them all down!"

After circling in a circle, the BF-109 formation began to dive again, and the French, who had lost nearly half of their fighters at once, seemed to have lost the courage to continue fighting, and suddenly scattered and ran for their lives.

It's a pity that the performance of 406 is not as good as BF-109F. How can it outrun the swooping BF-109F.

Garland was lucky enough to catch up with the two 406s that were escaping together. They didn't even take the evasive action necessary to kill Ben, and just focused on escaping forward.

This allowed Garland to catch up to a close enough distance with great ease, and calmly pulled the trigger. The 7mm bullet sprayed out again, easily hitting the wing of a 406, and saw that the wing was directly hit. It became a sieve and broke instantly. Birds that have lost their wings will fall to the ground, and airplanes that have lost their wings will also return to the embrace of Mother Earth.

"Wingman, come and try!" Garland left another prey to his wingman.

"Roger!" The wingman's tone was full of excitement, but at this moment, the remaining 406 seemed to finally remember that there was such a thing as evasive maneuvers, and began to make various evasive maneuvers crazily, trying to get away from the two of them. pursuit.

"Calm down, the other party is already nervous and scared. Once people are scared, they will reveal many flaws." Seeing that the wingman could not find a chance to fire, Garland comforted him.

Sure enough, after a while, the wingman seized an opportunity and fired a series of bullets. One of the bullets hit the rear of the opponent's fuselage, and the other penetrated the cabin cover.

"What a lucky guy!" Garland couldn't help but sigh. If the ballistic trajectory of this round had been any lower, it would have definitely lifted the skull of the pilot inside.

This bullet seemed to frighten the French pilot. The 406 first raised its nose to the upper left, then turned over with its belly facing up. After maintaining the original height for half a second, it pressed the nose and entered. dived.

"Keep chasing! I'll cover you from behind."

Garland and his wingman also swooped down, and the speed of both parties became faster and faster.

The French pilot found that as the speed increased, the aircraft control column became heavier and heavier, making it difficult to make flexible evasive maneuvers.

Just when he secretly thought something was wrong and was about to leave the dive state, he heard a continuous dull thumping sound in his ears, and then he felt the fuselage shaking violently, and then several scorching streams of heat penetrated his waist and back.

"Yeah!!" Watching the 406 spinning and falling like a fallen leaf, the wingman cheered with great excitement.

"Well done, keep up the good work, and you will become an ace sooner or later." Garland gave a thumbs up to the wingman in the cockpit, and then returned to the formation with the wingman. "Each formation reports the situation."

They shot down all the French fighter planes, a voice said with some frustration. "The wingman of Group 3 was shot down, but I saw him bail out."

Garland smacked his lips, but the battlefield was like this, especially for novices, being shot down was a common occurrence. And they did it in 1:24, which is already a big victory. "Hopefully he can hold on until the ground troops arrive."