Chapter 809 Air Combat Hero

It must be said that under the planning of the Chinese Supreme Command, the more than 800 aircraft of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Force had a very bumpy and tragic journey.

Before they could reinforce Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, they were effectively intercepted by the Chinese ground air defense forces halfway.

Because of this, the Japanese lost dozens of aircraft.

Then, when they were about to reach the designated battlefield, the Japanese pilots were depressed to find that the expected enemy had disappeared.

Naturally, they were caught off guard and beaten by the lurking Chinese Air Force, and they lost more than 200 aircraft.

What made the Japanese pilots crazy the most was that because the formation was broken up, more than 50 aircraft actually collided and killed each other!

After experiencing these things, naturally, the number of aircraft on both sides came to the same starting line.

After turning the nose and quickly stabilizing the formation, the remaining Japanese pilots finally had time and space to fight back.

Because of this, Ye Tian also witnessed the large-scale air battle.

What Ye Tian was happy to see was that the Chinese bombers did not participate in this kind of dogfight.

At this time, the Chinese bombers did not continue to be spectators, but continued to fly to the Jinshanwei waters of Hangzhou Bay.

The purpose of these nearly 100 bombers is very obvious, that is, to continue bombing the ships of the Tenth Army.

Yes, the bombers are too big, and their main task is to bomb land and sea targets.

Close combat is not the specialty of bombers.

In fact, when performing bombing missions, in order to prevent enemy fighters from causing trouble, bombers need fighter escorts.

Therefore, the Chinese fighters continued to fight with the Japanese planes.

And, in order to prevent the Japanese planes from chasing the Chinese bombers, the Chinese fighters kept biting the other side tightly, leaving them unable to free their hands.

Turning his head and looking at the sea not far away, Ye Tian suddenly discovered something.

After a period of silence, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the Japanese ships began to perform again.

Obviously, facing the bombing of the Chinese bombers, they did not want to sit and wait for death.

Unfortunately, the ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny.

In order to prevent being hit by the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, the Chinese bomber fleet paid attention to the flight altitude.

In other words, they tried to fly outside the range of the Japanese anti-aircraft weapons and did not forget to drop aerial bombs.

Naturally, a scene that Ye Tian was happy to see appeared.

Unable to hit the Chinese bombers, because they were blocked by large mines and could not escape from the battlefield, these Japanese warships had to endure the tragedy of being passively beaten.

Of course, because the flying altitude of the Chinese bombers was too high, the hit rate was very average.

However, this was also unbearable for the Japanese who regarded ships as their lives.

Seeing this scene, Ye Tian couldn't help but be ecstatic again and again.

However, when Ye Tian turned his head to look at the Chinese fighters in the fight, his brows were frowned and his face was unhappy.

It turned out that hundreds of planes were fighting, and planes were shot down or injured at any time.

These situations occurred not only for the Japanese planes, but also for Chinese planes.

Thinking of these planes, which were almost equivalent to China's entire assets, Ye Tian felt very heavy.

Losing one plane means one less!

If you want to replenish them, you can only buy them from abroad.

However, China's national strength is weak and the treasury is empty, so the cost of buying planes is too high.

Otherwise, if you find that the island country intends to invade China, you can just buy thousands or even tens of thousands of planes from abroad!

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

In Ye Tian's solemn face, a Chinese fighter was hit by the Japanese.

A lot of black smoke came out of his tail.

However, soon, a scene that made Ye Tian's eyes bright appeared.

At the critical moment of life and death, the fighter began a vigorous performance with a premonition that it could not return smoothly.

He tried hard to adjust the nose of the plane, and then automatically ignored the pursuit of the Japanese fighter behind him, and rushed straight to the Japanese warship on the sea without hesitation!

If this is not a suicide attack, what is it? !

Seeing this scene, Ye Tian's eyes widened.

In fact, Ye Tian also discovered something.

Feeling that his comrades were going to perish together with a certain Japanese ship, the other two fighters entered the role.

It was very simple. They all aimed at the Japanese fighter that was chasing his comrades.

"Good!"

Three minutes later, seeing that the two fighters successfully shot down the target, Ye Tian couldn't help but shout.

Then, Ye Tian followed the flight direction of the Chinese fighter and looked forward.

His target was a Japanese heavy cruiser.

"Boom boom boom..."

"Da da da..."

After discovering the crisis, the Japanese on the heavy cruiser did not dare to neglect it, and aimed the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns at the fighter.

Unfortunately, facing this desperate attack, the Japanese's efforts did not work.

"Boom!!"

After a huge explosion, the fighter was installed on the heavy cruiser.

The heavy cruiser was hit hard, and a big hole was knocked out.

At the same time, the heavy cruiser, like a severely injured prehistoric monster, trembled violently.

Because the impact site was near the waterline, naturally, a large amount of seawater rushed into the heavy cruiser crazily.

If nothing unexpected happens, this heavy cruiser will soon sink.

What makes Ye Tian depressed is that during this process, the fighter plane disintegrated.

However, these aircraft fragments caused damage to the Japanese on the deck.

"Alas..."

Although this fighter plane has made meritorious service, Ye Tian sighed.

Ye Tian knew that in the real history of the War of Resistance, the patriotic enthusiasm of Chinese pilots was very high.

Before each battle, they would write a suicide note to their families!

What makes Ye Tian sigh is that the flying life of Chinese pilots is mostly very short, that is, one or two years.

Obviously, after making great contributions of varying numbers, they were shot down by Japanese planes and embarked on the road of heroic sacrifice!

After a long sigh, Ye Tian continued to stare at the scene of the big fight.

Ye Tian found that in terms of combat effectiveness, the two sides were actually similar.

In other words, both sides were evenly matched and suffered losses.

Before anything happened, both sides lost nearly a hundred aircraft.

What Ye Tian admired was that the Chinese fighter set an example for other Chinese fighters.

Whenever they were injured and felt that they could not return successfully, or even make an emergency landing, all Chinese fighters would choose to die with the Japanese ships.

Of course, because when doing this, they were being chased by Japanese fighters from behind and intercepted by ship-borne anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns from the front, some Chinese fighters did not achieve their tactical goals.

However, Ye Tian gave the same respect to these Chinese pilots.

They are definitely air combat heroes!

Staring at the scene of the big fight again, Ye Tian frowned, with a head full of question marks.