Battle of the Third Reich

Captain Samo Kondo is known as the elite of the Japanese imperial sea buzzard. The 29-year-old navy captain is a graduate of the 60th period of the Eden Island Naval Academy. Before becoming a pilot, he served on light cruisers, warships and even submarines. After service, this qualification can be said to be quite solid and stable in the Japanese navy. If you continue to serve on surface ships, Feihuang Tengda dare not say that it is a matter of time before you get ahead. `

About why he chose to become a pilot, there is an interesting rumor among his companions, because only the pilot can stay long in the Japanese Navy, because the long head can help offset part of the impact on the head, and Kondo Miro is In order to leave a beautiful split, I joined the aviation. Some good people really asked Kondo for this, but the other party admitted without hesitation, and even proudly showed off when he was questioned by the gendarmerie on the streets of Tokyo. As long as he showed the identity of the pilot, the other party would immediately nod and bow. It's like changing someone.

Now the flying elite of the Japanese Imperial Navy is leading twelve men, guarding 28 navy 96-type 6 bombers, and carrying out an attack on Chongqing, the accompaniment of the Chinese government. This is the second large-scale operation of the Twelfth United Air Force of the Imperial Japanese Navy stationed in Hankou this month. The last time this group was dispatched was on September 13th, when the leader of the team was still Kondo. As a result, the Japanese Navy won an overwhelming victory. According to the pilot’s report, the final result was at least two. Seventeen Chinese aircraft, while only two of the Japanese aircraft were slightly damaged, the other one was broken and overturned when landing. At the same time that Twelve Sky has established glorious results, it has also created the first battle loss record for this new fighter.

"Fujiwara, I hope I won't mess it up again this time." Thinking of Kondo's deflection to look at the rear of the landline, as the leader team wingman, Fujiwara Kihei, the second-class air cao, was closely following the long After the side of the machine, the distance between the two sides is so close that Kondo can even see the oxygen mask and goggles on Fujiwara's face. `

"Pay attention to distance! Unit 4!" Kondo was taken aback by the wingman's recklessness, and quickly made a stern gesture to the other party in the cockpit, warning the other party to pay attention to keeping the distance.

In this group of fighters, only the squad leader (squadron leader) Kondo and the three sergeants (squad leader) have retained the original 96-type air number 1 radiotelephone on the landline. Theoretically, it is possible to realize instant radio calls between the aircraft within a range of 90 kilometers, but in fact, because there was no concept of electromagnetic compatibility at the time, this radio performed poorly in actual combat. Due to interference from other electromagnetic signals on the aircraft and motive noise in the cockpit, most of the time, the pilots can't hear what the other party is talking about. Many pilots claim to use this kind of gadget, it is better to open the cockpit cover and directly rush Shouted across.

Because most of the troops performing long-distance operations during this time. Out of the idea that it is good to save a little weight, the pilot asked the ground crew to remove the radio station, because that thing was really not very useful except for increasing the weight in vain. In the end, only the leader and the team commander kept the radio, because they needed to keep in touch with the base. Although there was a problem with the instant communication of this thing, the remote Morse code communication was okay.

The radio equipment of the Japanese Naval Air Force has always been a tragedy. Pilots often can only communicate with gestures and writing boards. Commanders also have to carry signal flags and flares with them, which makes people feel that they have returned to World War I. The Japanese navy also called it to the outside world for radio silence. In fact, it's not because the radio equipment is too bad. If you want to say that the air and sea raids can still pass through, the 6 places bombing your radio is silent.

Seeing the commander's gesture, Fujiwara finally responded. Unit 4 lowered a little and slowly opened the distance from the captain. `

"It's really uncomfortable." Kondo watched the wingman return to its original position, and then turned back from the window.

Usually people will think that all who drive the latest fighters should be the elite in the army, but this is not the case. In the zero fighter unit led by Kondo, apart from a few commanding officers and middle-level backbones. The rest are basically rookies and eggs with no combat experience.

Because the naval aviation teams are not affiliated with each other, the pilots are a radish and a pit. Each veteran is carefully cultivated by the aviation team leaders over the years. Where will you be willing to let you mobilize key veterans to form new troops. So these experimental troops deployed in the initial stage. Pilots are mostly newcomers who have no practical combat experience in the homeland.

There may be other calculations in the navy, because the old pilots have the habits developed in the previous aircraft, and may have some limitations in exploring the tactics and tactics of the new aircraft. On the contrary, like a rookie on a white paper With the performance of this new type of machine, it is easier to sum up valuable practical experience from it. In this regard, the air forces of all countries are mostly the same. The troops equipped with new aircraft are often selected for some newly formed troops. After waiting for the maturity of the various technologies, we started to change the old-fashioned elite.

The eleven type zero fighter piloted by Captain Kondo was just finalized in July. This year is the 26th year of the imperial kingdom used in Japan. Only the last two digits are taken. The Japanese navy named it as the zero type fighter. From this The number shows that the Navy has great expectations for it.

Before the aircraft was finalized, even with the addition of prototypes, the total of Japan produced a total of less than 70 zero battles. The Navy had earlier transferred 15 of them to the Chinese battlefield. This can be seen more How eager to promote the Japanese navy into service.

The number of the zero type eleven type is a6m2a, which is not far from the famous zero war twenty one type in history. Compared with the improved a6m2b based on it, although the motives used by the two are the same, because of the thinner body structure of the eleventh type, both the maximum navigation and the dive degree are greatly restricted. And because the wingtips cannot be folded yet, the width of the aircraft carrier lift is out. This so-called shipboard fighter cannot be equipped with an aircraft carrier at this time, and can only perform 6 missions.

Kondo is not the only commander of this Zero War Force, because there is also a captain of the same level as the captain Yokoyama Bao of the same level. Now in the twelve Zero Wars he leads, half of the men are under the Hengshan Team. . Both Kondo and Yokoyama were contemporaries of the 26th period of the Flying Student Soldiers, and they had a deep friendship. Therefore, since they were transferred to the Twelve Airways, the two sides have cooperated a little, because Yokoyama was a period earlier than Kondo in the Naval Academy. Therefore, in most transactions, the opinions of Hengshan are often followed. These two flight squad leaders used to lead the troops alternately. Until the air battle on September 13, Kondo began to suppress Hengshan secretly. After all, the navy also pays attention to military merit in addition to its qualifications.

This operation was regarded as a continuation of the last battle by the aviation team. The Japanese insider lurking in the Chongqing government reported that although the Chinese air force had hurt some of its vitality, it still retained considerable strength. Therefore, the commander of the Twelfth United Air Force, Daisuke Hasegawa, after instructing Major General Nishi Takijiro, Chief of Staff of the First United Air Force, obtained a permission to implement an operation aimed at annihilating the remaining forces of the Chinese Air Force. Zero-type fighters as the main force of combat are authorized to be deployed in full.

But at the moment when the plan was implemented, the Japanese had only 13 fighters available, because one was scrapped after the last operation, and one was awaiting replacement due to damage to the wings during training. Parts, I can't count on it for a while.

Out of a superstitious idea, the list of personnel dispatched this time is still those on September 13. The Japanese Navy is actually more so-called martial arts than the 6th Army. These pilots who have achieved records are regarded as sheltered by the military gods. This time, it will definitely be as successful as the last one.

For this battle, the Zero War Force deliberately relocated to the Japanese advance airport set up in Yichang. The distance from Chongqing is less than 500 kilometers. Zero war can get more time to stay in the air. In order to have enough time to hunt and pursue the enemy forces they might encounter, the naval aviation still carried the auxiliary fuel tank under the fuselage, so that the longest range of the aircraft was increased to 3,000 kilometers, enough to allow them to fly between Chongqing and Yichang. Run three times back and forth.

In order to attract fighters from the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese army also specially formulated a decoy plan. The 13th Air Force of the Second United Air Force will send 28 Navy 96-type bombers to cooperate with this operation. These bombers will carry out Chongqing. Indiscriminate bombing, in order to lure the Chinese Air Force to dispatch, and then solve the battle by ambushing at high altitude, wipe out the remaining part of the Chinese Air Force elite over Chongqing.

The plan seemed perfect, and even Captain Kondo, who was actually executing it, felt that he had a great grasp of success.

At noon on September 21, the Japanese naval air fleet led by Kondo flew to Chongqing, the weather was good on that day, only part of the cloud was high above the sky, and the huge mountain city below was seen from the cockpit. The bomber fleet is lowering its altitude and entering the bombing route. Now everything is ready, just waiting for the Chinese Air Force to appear.

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