New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

As soon as Ri's own battleship left, Ron immediately took people to count the losses.After getting on a jeep, several people arrived at the airport quickly.

Although it was still night, the airport was now as bright as day, and the fire caused by the Japanese artillery bombardment illuminated the airport brightly. The shells used by the Japanese army in this bombardment included high-explosive bombs and explosive incendiary bombs.Some wooden buildings at the airport were all on fire, and the air was full of smoke and the smell of burnt things. Some bushes around the airport were also set ablaze, and the scalding heat wave made it impossible to approach.The tower was also hit directly by a giant shell during the shelling and was blown to pieces.The runway was horribly bombed. Fortunately, there was no combustible material on the runway, so Ron and the others could still observe it closely.Guadalcanal Island Airport originally had three runways, one of which was the main runway built by Ri himself, which can be used for bombers to take off and land.After the U.S. military occupied the airport, it expanded it and added two shorter auxiliary runways for fighter jets to take off and land.Ron and Vandergrift recently started work on a new bomber runway a little further afield.But that runway hasn't had time to be fully repaired yet.

When Ron saw the main runway of Guadalcanal Island for the first time, he couldn't help feeling: "God, didn't we cross to the moon again!"

The main runway is full of huge craters, the diameter of these craters is close to 20 meters, and the depth is 4-5 meters.That is to say, a small house is built under this big pit, and the roof is just exposed to the ground.Obviously, even if the U.S. military has construction machinery that the Japanese army does not have, it will not be a matter of overnight to fill these big holes.What's more, this kind of hole can't be counted by just filling it up, and it needs to be compacted to ensure that it can withstand the pressure of aircraft takeoff and landing.

Now, Ron's hopes were on other tracks.One of the two fighter runways was also bombed to pieces, and it will definitely be unusable in the short term.There is another one, a few shells also fell, but fortunately, the shells all fell on the side. Although one of the shells was on the right track and gnawed off a small half of the runway, as long as you are careful, you should still be able to take off and land fighter jets.

In addition to this runway, there is an unfinished bomber runway.Although it is unfinished and cannot take off and land things like b-17, it is still possible to take off and land fighter jets and Avenger dive bombers.In the bombardment just now, two giant shells missed this side, but it couldn't be such a coincidence that they just knocked out the runway?

It's a pity that the weather was not as expected, and Ron rushed to see that a giant bomb fell right in the middle of the runway. Obviously, the runway was temporarily disabled.

"When will this runway be fixed?" asked Ron.

"This runway can be repaired to a state where fighter jets can take off and land in two days." The answer was Major Rice, who was in charge of engineering.

"Then it's all up to you. Whether Guadalcan can persevere depends on this runway."

By daybreak, the losses had already been counted. 5 fighters and 3 bombers (all b-17s) were completely destroyed, and 12 other aircraft were damaged to varying degrees.In addition, various vehicles suffered considerable damage.

But now Ron didn't have time to dwell on these losses.He must take off immediately.He knew that Ri himself would definitely use the opportunity of the airport being attacked to send more supplies to the island.Once the Japanese army on the island gets enough heavy weapons, the situation in Guadalcanal may be completely out of control...

Ron's p-38 took off from the runway with a 250-pound incendiary bomb hanging on it, followed by Captain Foss, the second ace of the fighter force.Then there's Billy and Will, the duo's wingmen.

The four planes flew together and went straight to the beachhead that the Japanese army most often used to receive supplies.As they expected, the beach was full of all kinds of supplies, piled there indiscriminately without any cover.Ron took the lead in swooping down and dropped incendiary bombs, and then other planes also dropped incendiary bombs on their targets.After dropping the bomb, Ron began to sweep the supplies again.Now the Vulcan cannon is equipped with armor-piercing incendiary bombs. Although the power cannot be compared with the 250-pound incendiary bombs, they can still ignite those supplies.

However, there are too many things on the beach, and it cannot be solved by 4 planes at once.It can be seen that the fleet that docked last night was huge.Ron originally planned to call more planes, but from the radio, he got a message: a group of Japanese planes were approaching and would arrive over Guadalcanal Island in two hours.It seems that these goals can only be missed.

"It's really leaking and it rains all night," Ron shook his head and smiled wryly, thinking, "Even the Japanese aviation soldiers who were frightened by the attack a few days ago dared to take advantage of the fire."

Time is victory, and after Ron shot the last shot towards a pile of food, he hurried back to the airport with the fleet.

It has to be said that the timing chosen by Ri himself is also very appropriate.After being hit by naval guns, although the airport was not completely destroyed, its operational efficiency was greatly reduced.Due to the serious damage to the runway, and the huge damage to the logistics systems such as refueling and bombing, the number of aircraft that can be dispatched at the airport at one time has dropped significantly.If it is subjected to a few more precise bombings during the day, I am afraid that the airport will be completely ruined.

In the temporarily set up command center, Ron learned about the specific enemy situation: there are a total of 52 enemy planes, including 30 Type Zero fighters and 12 Type I land attack planes.With the current capacity of the airport, there may be only 10 fighters that Ron can take off.And these planes must take off one after another.Unlike before, not only the main runway can allow two fighter jets to take off at the same time, but each auxiliary runway can also allow two aircraft to take off at the same time.In this way, six planes can take off at one time.But now the remaining fighter strips can take off only one plane at a time.And because of the damage to supporting facilities, the take-off time between each plane was also extended by a terrible 6 minutes.

Every second is precious right now. The p-38 fighter jets began to take off one by one.Ron and Captain Foss were the last to take off because the plane had just completed its mission.

Originally, in the past, when I only wanted such a mission, the p-38 only needed to load about 40.00% of the fuel.This can greatly improve the maneuverability of the aircraft, especially climb and hover.But now, due to the reduced dispatch rate, the fighters that took off at the beginning had to be filled with 70.00% of the fuel so that he could wait for his teammates in the air for a long time in the seven games.The later the plane takes off, the less fuel is added.When Ron was the last to take off, he only had 40.00% fuel in his tank.

When Ron and his wingmen climbed to an altitude of 5500 meters, the Japanese military aircraft group appeared.It's still an uninspired double-layer structure, with fighter jets above the front of the bomber fleet.It is about 500 meters higher than the bomber.But their position is still much lower than the p-38.The ceiling of the Zero War is 10000 meters, but because there is no secondary pressurization, once the altitude exceeds 6000 meters, the performance of the engine will drop rapidly. (In fact, 5000 meters is no longer enough.) So in the air battle on Guadalcanal, they will always be seized by American aircraft to occupy a favorable altitude.

If it's just that, it's not the most terrible thing.Zero War is very flexible, and the enemy's dive may not be able to hit it. After several dives, the energy gap between the two sides will gradually narrow.But another weakness of the Zero War is really fatal: its dive performance is abysmal.Now all American pilots know: Zero Fighter is super sensitive at low speeds, but once the speed exceeds 550 kilometers, the efficiency of its ailerons will seriously drop. At this time, Zero Fighter is as stupid as a slate flying in the sky.And this speed will be exceeded with a little dive.Therefore, the response of the zero battle in the dive is surprisingly slow.There was even an example where Zero War followed the Dreadnought dive bomber and dived. Finally, near the surface of the sea, Fearless pulled up, but Zero War fell headfirst.In addition, its dive speed is very low, and its dive acceleration is also very slow.This makes it face an unsolvable dilemma when performing escort missions.Once the enemy aircraft does not fight with it and directly launches a dive attack on the bomber, Zero War will be helpless.Because even if it follows someone else's six o'clock, it will not pose a threat to the enemy. The enemy is much faster than him. He can only watch the enemy plane become smaller and smaller in his windshield, but there is nothing he can do.But when it was about to attack the enemy's bombers, it never dared to place the enemy's fighter jets in its own six o'clock direction-it's courting death!As a result, Zero War has now become a very embarrassing aircraft.On the one hand, in the hands of experienced pilots, it is very powerful to fight with enemy fighter jets.In real history, there are even perverts who shot down hundreds of enemy planes without taking a single shot.But on the other hand, whether it is used to protect its own bombers or attack the enemy's bombers, it has shown powerlessness.

Of course Ron knew this weakness.He immediately ordered: "Don't get entangled with the enemy's fighter jets, and attack the enemy's bombers!"

Ten P-10s roared down from high altitude, and the escorting 38 Zero Fighters tried to stop them, but the speed gap between the two sides was too large, and the Zero Fighters had not yet reached the corresponding position, and the P-30s had already roared past.

"Baga!" Hiroyoshi Nishizawa roared angrily, and at the same time, this terrible ace also realized sadly: the universal fighter Zero War is out of date.

Caesar hadn't blindly dived after enemy fighters, which would have been useless.Instead, he pulled the plane a little higher, ready to wait for the enemy plane to climb up before giving them a dick.As for the bombers, there was nothing he could do.

A Type [-] Land Attack appeared in Ron's front windshield. Since it was attacking head-on, Ron opened fire from a long distance away.Although the Type [-] Land Attack is famous for its flexibility among similar bombers, the reaction speed of the Type [-] bomber is still not comparable to that of the fighter jets. Facing the attack of the Vulcan Cannon, it cannot dodge at all.Then a spectacular scene appeared, a huge peony flower made of orange-red flames suddenly bloomed in the air.Huge flowers filled Ron's front windshield.

Ron pulled the stick suddenly, and the plane quickly jumped up to avoid the danger of colliding with the wreckage of the first type of land attack.If his fighter is still equipped with old-fashioned weapons, this attack will probably only set the enemy plane on fire, and then if you have leisure, you can see how the enemy plane slowly loses control and how the enemy parachutes one by one.Don't worry about such problems-it seems that sometimes too much firepower is not necessarily a good thing.

As Ron fired, other fighters also fired.Under the waving of the dense flame whip of the Vulcan Cannon, one flame peony after another bloomed continuously in the sky.In just one assault, seven of the twelve First-Type Land Attackers were shot down, and one was injured and caught fire—basically, it could not be saved.Of course, Ron's fleet also suffered unexpected losses - a p-38 was hit by the wreckage of an enemy plane and exploded in the air, the pilot must have been lost; another was damaged by the wreckage and had to leave the battlefield at high speed.

Ron climbed up with the remaining 8 P-38s, then turned back with a half somersault, and dived from the six o'clock direction of the first land attack.The tail gunners of the Type 6 Land Attack fired desperately at Ron and the others, but Ron and the others did not approach directly from above [-] o'clock, but continued to dive under the belly of the Type [-] Land Attack—there was a blind spot for self-defense firepower, and then Then pull it up at a large angle, and start to shoot the target with the Vulcan cannon.

This time Ron was more careful, he only fired a short shot, and stopped firing when he saw orange flames coming out of the right engine of the enemy plane.Anyway, with Lu Gong's body in one style, this was already a fatal blow.

But just as Ron was about to pass by the enemy plane, another string of shells hit the plane.As a result, the plane immediately exploded into a fireball.And before he could react, Ron got into the fireball.

There was a crackling sound in Ron's ears. It was the sound of fragments from the enemy plane hitting his plane.When he rushed out of the fireball, he found that his left engine was making strange clicking noises—obviously, the engine was injured, and it might not last long.

At this moment, Ron suddenly felt a great sense of fear.It was like a mouse being stared at by an owl, and at the same time, a wingman shouted in his ears: "Pay attention to the direction of 10 o'clock!"

With a deliberate push, a series of 20mm shells flew over Ron's plane with a whistling sound.Then Ron saw a Zero Fighter killing him.

It was the Japanese pilot Hiroyoshi Nishizawa who opened fire. Before that, he had been silently enduring the pain of witnessing the bomber being slaughtered but being powerless, waiting for an opportunity.Now Ron's plane has lost a lot of speed after two dives and pull-ups, giving Caesar, who has already occupied a higher position, a long-awaited opportunity.Unfortunately, still missed.

As soon as Caesar pulled the bar, he bit Ron's six points with one and a half somersaults.Ron began to roll to the left, trying to turn into a dive.If his engine is okay, he can still climb straight up, Zero War can't keep up with him.But now the engine is injured, continuing to climb is courting death.Scuba diving is the most reasonable way for him to get rid of the pursuit now.However, the low-speed roll of the p-38 was too tragic. Ron had just completed the roll and before he had time to pull the lever to dive, Caesar had already firmly set him in the scope.

"You're dead!" Caesar thought silently, while preparing to shoot.But out of instinct, he still looked in other directions.

Billy was now seven or eight hundred meters away from Caesar, but he also saw Ron's danger.So Billy started firing at Caesar.

"When rescuing your comrades, you don't need to approach and shoot. On the contrary, you should fire as far as possible in advance. Your goal is not to shoot down the enemy plane, but to interfere with the enemy, so that he can't concentrate on shooting your comrades. "That's what Ron taught Billy before.

Billy's shooting still interfered with Caesar. During the observation of the massacre just now, Caesar had already noticed the enemy's artillery with an astonishing range.If he kept firing, he would surely have shot Ron down, but he could have shot down Billy just as well.So he kicked the rudder and ducked.

With this little time, Ron turned into a dive. Due to Zero War's poor dive ability, now Caesar has no chance to catch him again.

Caesar pulled up the plane, and he saw that all the bombers are now lost, and the enemy planes have begun to retreat at a high speed.It is impossible for Zero Fighter, which has a top speed of only 530 kilometers, to catch up with these obviously much faster enemy planes.And he was low on fuel, he had to turn back. "What a failure!" Caesar thought.

What Caesar didn't know was that their "failure" wasn't meaningless.They bought the island's army time to move supplies that had been exposed on the beach to safety.These materials include not only food and ammunition, but also five 5mm heavy guns.