New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() The four P-4s that flew down from Sasaki's six o'clock direction did not rush straight at Sasaki, but rushed straight at the rookies who were attacking the transport plane.Obviously, preventing Ri himself from continuing to attack the transport plane is their first goal.

Although the rookies below have been reminded by Sasaki's wingman in the radio, the situation of low altitude and slow speed cannot be changed all at once.In front of those P-51s rushing towards them at high speed, they are now dead fish that cannot move on the chopping board.In just one attack by 4 planes, two ki-43s were blown into the air.Another ki-43 actually stalled and crashed because it turned too fast.

After completing this round of attacks, the four P-51s did not stay at low altitude to continue entanglement, but used high speed to quickly distance themselves from the Ki-43s, and then jumped up at a large angle.Prepare for the second round of attack.

At this time, those ki-43s also began to wake up from the panic of being attacked, pushed the throttle to the end one after another, and began to climb hard.So when the four p-51s turned around with a sledgehammer and rushed over again, the performance of the rookies was much better than last time. In this round, only one plane was hit and caught fire, and they were The bullets fired indiscriminately during the counterattack wounded a P-51.This p-51 had a fuel tank leak. In order to ensure that it could fly back, this p-51 could only turn around and fly home immediately, and another p-51 followed him and left.

Now, Ri himself has 9 ki-43s left, and the Americans only have two p-51s.It seems that Ri himself can fight.But Sasaki knew that the situation of his formation had not improved much.Because now that a group of p-51s have discovered themselves, it means that more p-51s will appear soon.Just like when the first vulture appeared above the corpse, the large vulture group that came to dismember the corpse was not far away.

"Yamagashi-kun, it's up to you to bring the newcomers back, and Takeda and I try our best to delay the opponent." Sasaki issued an order to his fleet.

"Sir, we want to stay and fight side by side with you!"

"Sir, how can the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire turn around and run away when facing the enemy!"

The rookies started babbling over the radio.

Sasaki was a little touched when he heard the first sentence, but when the latter sentence came out, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.If it wasn't for saving these pig teammates, how could Sasaki make such a near-suicidal decision?At this time, there are still people who come up with nonsense such as "Imperial warriors should not escape".In fact, Sasaki also really wanted to say something like "Well, after you stay, we will withdraw" to this little rookie.But the old bird's sense of responsibility for the rookie made him unable to make such a decision.Staying by yourself, no matter what, is more likely than these rookies staying and living.And these rookies are now so stupid that Sasaki vomits blood, but as long as they can survive, they always have a chance to grow up. Can't Japan always rely on a few old pilots to fight?

"Shut up and obey the military order!" Sasaki roared angrily.

Now that there are only two planes left, the Americans no longer directly cross the higher Sasaki-Takeda formation to directly attack the lower ki-43.Now their number is too small, if you want to attack, you should attack the most threatening target.This target, undoubtedly, can only be Sasaki and the others who are in the highest position.

The two American fighters began to turn, trying to find a better angle of attack.But Sasaki, staring at them all the time, adjusted the pointing of his nose to ensure that when the Americans rushed over, he could use as simple a movement as possible to avoid the American attack.So a strange situation arises: two p-51s draw circles at a higher altitude, and two ki-43s draw circles at a much lower altitude.

The circling performance of the p-51 is not good, especially compared to the ki-43, which is invincible in circling the world. In such a circling, it is not easy to curse the opponent by drawing circles.If the height of these two ki-43s was higher, it would be easy to deal with, just dive over at a large angle.But now, Sasaki's ki-43, which is the tallest, does not exceed 900 meters in height. If it rushes over at a large angle, it will probably crash itself to death on the earth.Sasaki couldn't help thinking with a bit of pride: "Those beautiful animals must find it very difficult."

But Garfield, who was driving the P-51, was not as embarrassed as Sasaki imagined.Because of this situation, when preparing for the battle, Instructor Ron analyzed it with everyone.Just like Ron had demonstrated at the time, he started to accelerate and distanced himself from his wingman.After a while, he and his wingman separated by half a circle.Now, no matter how Sasaki and Takeda adjust the nose pointing, there will always be a p-51 in a very dangerous position.

Since he couldn't take care of both, of course he could only focus on the most dangerous one first. Sasaki carefully kept Garfield's p-51 at his 10 o'clock position, so that it would be difficult for Garfield to attack him.Of course, the result of doing this must be Garfield's wingman-Phillips will appear at his 5 o'clock direction.

Now that he had the opportunity to attack, Phillips immediately rolled 180 degrees, then lightly pulled the control lever, and rushed towards Sasaki.

In fact, Sasaki has been focusing on staring at Phillips who is in a more dangerous position.So when Phillips rushed over, Sasaki was prepared.Just when the distance between the two sides shortened to the distance that Phillips could fire immediately.Sasaki made a sharp turn, and the shell fired by Phillips passed by Sasaki's ki-43.

The first shot missed, Phillips didn't chase after it, but calmly pulled up the plane and returned to a higher position.In fact, his attack was not ineffective. In order to avoid his attack, Sasaki had to make a sharp turn, and Garfield, who was originally at his 10 o'clock direction, also got the opportunity to attack.

Garfield also swooped over, and at this moment Sasaki, who was spinning sharply, appeared in the aperture of his scope.Garfield quickly closed the distance and started shooting.

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Koga's 7 Ki-44s had already climbed to get rid of the P-51s that were entangled behind them. When they climbed to 7000 meters, the Americans, who had a numerical advantage, did not dare to catch up because of the serious decline in performance.At this height, p-51a is really not enough to see.For the sake of safety, his formation has been maintaining such an altitude on the way back. Seven ki-7s flew by at high altitude, and the water droplets condensed on the tiny particles emitted by the aircraft engines pulled out a long flight path behind the fuselage.

While flying, Koga was thinking about the outcome of this battle. Although the Americans fell into a trap, the losses of the Americans were not too great after all.The key is that this loss, compared with the strength in the hands of the Americans, is simply a drop in the bucket.Thinking of this, Kohe couldn't help but become quite worried about the future of the empire.

But Koga's worry didn't last long, because someone suddenly shouted: "Enemy plane found!"

What appeared in front of Koga were a total of 16 P-38s with ferocious shark mouths painted on them!These planes were approaching them at high speed from the direction of 9 o'clock. Obviously, they had been spotted.

Kohe felt a chill in his heart. Although the ki-44 "Zhong Kui" was developed to deal with the "twin demon" p-38 (for which it was named after the demon), except for rolling and diving, it There is hardly any kind of performance that can be compared with p-38. The high-altitude performance of the ki-44 is very good, but the high-altitude performance of the p-38 with two-stage supercharging is even more powerful.

"If you can't run away, then fight. As for the result, leave it to fate!" Koga thought this way, and issued an order to the formation: "Destroy the American ghosts! Emperor Banzai!"

Ron has mentioned to others more than once the importance of a fighter jet with a solid body and powerful firepower.These two requirements will cause the aircraft to suffer a great loss in maneuverability.In heads-up, such an aircraft will always be difficult against lighter opponents.But large fleet operations are completely different.Thick skin is king, because in melee, your chances of attacking your opponent and your opponent's attacking you are greatly increased.If your opponent needs to hit you ten times to bring you down, you only need to hit him once.Then even if your opponent is far more flexible than you, you will have an overwhelming advantage in the final exchange ratio in a large-scale melee.

The current situation is like this. Koga saw a ki-44 bite the 38 points of a p-6, and shot for a long time. As a result, it just dropped some skin fragments. When the ki-44she was working hard, a p-38 appeared out of nowhere, and then a short she shot the ki-44 into fireworks.

p-38的数量是ki-44的两倍多，这使得每架ki-44后面都会跟着一架p-38。短短几分钟，七架ki-44就全部被击落。其中得以成功跳伞的飞行员也仅有两人。

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Koga's total annihilation dealt a heavy blow to Kato.For Kato, even if all the sixteen Ki-43s sent out this time were dead, the blow would not be as great as the loss of all the Ki-44s.Because, the losses in this battle were all the most elite pilots of the 64th team.But it's not all bad news. Two minutes later, news of Sasaki's skydiving came out again on the radio.

"Hey, those rookies are fine. There are too many veterans going to Kuduanzaka this time." The sudden turn of the battle made Kato feel even more painful.

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"Okay, that's it! Don't let the family run away." When the news came that the p-14 of the No.38 Air Force shot down all the ki-44 in one fell swoop at the cost of three aircraft being injured. Ron, who directed the air battle in the team's combat center, almost jumped up for joy.

However, General Bissel was not very happy:

"Isn't there still a group of ki-43s? Have you caught up with them? We can't compete with the No.14 Air Force!"

It seems that the old man's competitiveness is really not ordinary.