my bright sword career

Chapter 324 Drowning

"I don't know how long it will take to reach the target?" Han Xiaohu, sitting in the spherical turret on the belly of the aircraft, looked at the fields, green mountains and rivers on the ground, and kept moving his frozen hands, imagining the scene of bombing the Japanese army.

Some people may feel that it is a very pleasant thing to sit in this position and look down on the whole land from a high altitude.

But in fact, the spherical turret is the most uncomfortable, lonely and frightening combat position on the entire aircraft. As the gunner, Han Xiaohu climbed into the spherical turret, closed the hatch, and then went down to enter the position, and was hanged. From under the plane, gaze at the ground from between your knees.

As usual, Han Xiaohu didn't feel any pride because of flying in the sky, instead he kept trembling.

Although the spherical turret shooters are not big, no one can carry a parachute in such a small space. If they parachute, they need to rely on the shooter in the middle of the fuselage. The latter uses the hydraulic system to raise the turret to help them climb out and attach the parachute. It is the so-called trust between comrades in arms.

"Brothers, the reconnaissance plane ahead reports that we will reach the sky over the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army in 33 minutes!" The voice of the bombing aiming and navigator came from the headset.

After 3 minutes, upon hearing the news, Han Xiaohu suddenly regained his energy and rubbed his hands vigorously. In a few minutes, it will be his turn to show his skills...

Pan Dingguo in the cockpit set the plane to autopilot, patted his frozen hands vigorously, then took off his gloves, took out a thermos cup from under the seat, and after unscrewing the lid, a strong coffee smell wafted in the air immediately. in the cockpit.

He poured the coffee on the lid and took a sip, a bitterness with a creamy sweetness reverberated in his mouth, and soon after drinking a warm cup of coffee, his whole body became warm.

He poured another cup and handed it to the navigator and electromechanical engineer on the side. The navigator took the coffee and drank it down, let out a comfortable hiccup, and couldn't help but said to Pan Dingguo: "I've already prepared it to endure hardship." I didn’t expect the conditions here to be much better than those of the Central Air Force, which made me not want to go back.”

Both Pan Dingguo and the navigator were recruited by Huang Huaimin from the bomber unit of the Central Air Force, especially Pan Dingguo is the treasure of the Central Air Force.

The Cantonese former captain of the Bomber Squadron of the Central Air Force graduated from the Cundisley Aeronautical Engineering School in the United States in 1938, and graduated from the Santa Maria Flight School in 1939.

He is also one of the few aviation talents in China who has mastered solid aeromechanical engineering theory and superb flying skills in this era.

And how good is he?

When he was studying in the United States, the old man was spotted by the boss of the American Ford Company and invited him to do a flight advertisement for the Ford V-8 engine.

When he received the invitation, he drove the plane first to draw arcs in the air, then dived, turned somersaults, slipped and turned, rolled slowly, and made a dangerous "crazy flight" action at a low altitude of 30 meters.When he pulled the nose up vertically again, the plane entered a "dead spiral" state, and the whole plane began to fall rapidly.

At this moment, Pan Guoding grabbed a handful of red powder with his left hand and a handful of black powder with his right hand, stretched out the cockpit and sprinkled it into the air, pulled out two ribbons, and used his feet to get the plane out of the "dead spiral" state. The superb acrobatics and thrilling flight performances captivated all the Americans present.

As we all know, when the plane enters the spiral state, it is almost irreversible, and it is only a matter of time before death, but this old man changed the plane out of the "death spiral" state with only his feet.

How can it be that talent is so simple, this girl is simply a genius.

At that time, the boss of the Ford company repeatedly urged him to stay and offered him a sky-high salary, but he refused all of them, and insisted on returning to the war-torn China to serve the country.

It's a pity that there are not many planes in the Central Air Force at this time, which makes the hero useless. His superior readily agreed to transfer him to the Liantai Flying Brigade.

And Huang Huaimin, who knows the goods, immediately appointed him as the captain of the 2nd Bombing Squadron, and also the commander of the air fleet of the 33rd Division of the air raid.

Hearing the navigator's words, Pan Dingguo smiled slightly and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a cloud flashing past a black shadow from the corner of his eye, and he immediately shivered.

"The right wing found an enemy plane...at three o'clock!" Suddenly, the voice of the captain Pan Dingguo sounded in everyone's headsets. The Japanese planes that fell from the sky had already injured the B-25. If they encountered a large number of Japanese planes again, it would be troublesome.

"Attention, wait until the Japanese plane is in range before shooting, don't waste bullets!" Accompanied by Pan Dingguo's voice, the machine gunner on the right quickly stopped warming up, picked up the Browning M2 heavy machine gun, and aimed more and more through the aiming ring. Nearby enemy aircraft.

"Closer! Get closer! Get closer..." Han Xiaohu, who manipulated the spherical turret, kept adjusting the turret to aim at the approaching fighter plane.

"An enemy plane was found at nine o'clock..."

"An enemy plane was found at 12 o'clock..."

"An enemy plane was found at 7 o'clock..." Reports from various crews continued to come from the headset, which made Pan Dingguo and others nervous.Although they had been psychologically prepared, and everyone had confidence in the B-25's firepower and solid structure, no one with any sense could relax in the face of enemy planes encircling them from all directions.

At this time, the Japanese planes that came to stop them took off from SJZ Airport. The [-]th Flying Squadron of the Japanese Third Aviation Group was led by Major Fujikawa Kosuke, the captain of the Zero Fighter Squadron that attacked the Rentai Airport last time.

When Fujikawa Kosuke saw the fleet composed of "huge" bomber fleets, his heart immediately became tense.

Originally, Kosuke Fujikawa thought that what he wanted to stop was just a group of slow, slow and clumsy dive bombers like the Stuka, but he didn't expect it to be such a big guy.

Fujikawa Kosuke said he hated this kind of bomber group composed of large bombers in a dense formation.

If there are just one or two of these slow-moving big guys, it’s nothing. With the excellent performance of the Zero fighters, they can definitely be abused. But once dozens of bombers are lined up, it will be different. This thing Just like a hedgehog, it is very difficult to chew.

But when things come to an end, no matter how difficult it is, you have to bite the bullet.

Fujikawa Kosuke took a deep breath, and said into the microphone: "Everyone listen to my order. The first squadron will attack from the left flank, and the second squadron will follow me to attack from the right flank. These Chinese bombers must not be allowed to fly over the 33rd division. Everyone listens to me. do you understand?"

"understand!"

The neat answers of the pilots came from the ears.

Due to the heavy losses in the attack on Rentai Airport last time, only 36 of the 21 Zero fighters that were just assigned to them were left, so this time Kosuke Fujikawa brought only so many, and the rest of the planes and pilots had to wait until It will be replenished next month.

As the most advanced aircraft in Japan at present, the Zero fighters have brought the performance of the aircraft to the extreme at this moment. When more than 20 Zero fighters began to attack the bomber group from all directions, flames shot towards the bomber group, and The bomber fleet also unceremoniously launched a counterattack.

It is worth mentioning that the B-25 bomber equipped by Gao Hongming for the bomber squadron is an H type.

Compared with the earlier models, the H-type is not only equipped with 14 heavy machine guns, but also frantically equipped with a 75mm cannon on the nose.

When the Zero fighters surrounded them, the bombers were like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, and a heavy machine gun began to roar.

24 * 14 = 336
Yes, you read that right, when Fujikawa Kosuke led 21 Zero fighters like hungry wolves towards the bomber group, what greeted them was a rain of bullets from 336 machine guns like splashing water.

In the first wave of attack alone, four Zero fighters were overwhelmed by this splashing rain of bullets.

This scene also shocked all the zero-type fleets participating in the attack, and they all pulled their levers to avoid the rain of death bullets in front of them.

(End of this chapter)