Chapter 1004 Shocked, dazed and solemn
The 37mm artillery shells began to shuttle among the enemy aircraft groups, and the explosion point was the same as the flight trajectory of the fighter planes, showing a curve.
After the free air battle began, another weakness of the Stormbird was exposed.
The engine life is short and cannot maintain maximum afterburner for a long time.
When the fighter's speed exceeds 850 kilometers per hour, the backward design will increase the jitter of the fighter and may cause the Stormbird to disintegrate in the air.
The Stormbird's jet engines are mounted under the wings, so there is a threat of mid-air disintegration.
Although they both share the name of jet fighters, the differences between the J-2 and the Stormbird are huge.
With neither speed nor maneuverability, the German pilots were unable to get rid of the J-2 fighter planes biting behind them, and gradually became panicked.
Fei Congan clung tightly to a German fighter plane. He did not rush to fire. As a senior air force general, he wanted to master as much information as possible about the enemy fighter planes in the actual air battle.
Especially under locked-in high-intensity pressure, you can not only observe the performance of the fighter aircraft, but also the performance of the enemy pilots.
But Fei Congan soon became disappointed.
The German pilot in front of him was obviously panicked and kept the jet engine with a defective design at the highest afterburner state. After more than ten seconds, the Stormbird's shaking became more and more serious.
Fei Cong'an seemed to have expected it and asked the J-2 fighter jet to make a rolling motion.
At the same time, the Stormbird in front disintegrated itself, and Fei Congan saw the blue-eyed pilot struggling in the cockpit, seemingly trying to climb out.
The air battle took place at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The disintegrated fighter plane was still spinning. The German pilot ultimately failed to escape and disappeared into the thick smoke on the ground.
At least three Stormbirds broke up in air combat.
Some German pilots used their combat experience to throw off the J-2's pursuit. Just after letting the Stormbird's engine cool down for a few seconds, the enemy pounced again.
It has to be said that the German pilots are well trained and have rich combat experience. It is the performance of the Stormbird that limits their performance.
Even the ace pilot Major Nowotny could not change the situation of the air battle.
He made various maneuvers in the air, giving full play to the performance of the Storm Bird while avoiding its shortcomings.
The two Chinese pilots who followed behind were stunned.
But this situation cannot last long.
After a while of showing off his skills, Lonit piloted the Stormbird into a high-speed dive, hoping to fight at ultra-low altitude and use terrain cover to retreat or counterattack.
However, at this time, almost all of the German jet fighter formations were turned into burning wreckage on the ground. No matter how superb Novonit's flying skills were, he could not avoid attacks from all directions.
As soon as the Stormbird got close to the ground, two strings of 37mm shells fired from the air hit its wings and directly knocked out a jet engine.
Without any chance of rescue, Novonit's fighter plane tilted to one side and crashed heavily into the forest.
There was a huge explosion in the forest, and then flames and thick smoke rose.
The German ace pilot and a key figure in perfecting the technical characteristics of jet fighter combat, Colonel Wernit, died in his first air battle with a Chinese jet fighter when he was less than 23 years old.
Many soldiers of the Third Reich witnessed the battle in the sky with their eyes. When they saw fighter planes painted with Nazi symbols crashing one after another, their hearts gradually sank and complex expressions appeared in their eyes.
Paulus in Stalingrad naturally knew what was happening in the sky, and he asked himself to remain calm and not let his emotions show as much as possible.
But the result of 12:1 was still unacceptable, and his face began to look heavy.
The radio became silent, and only the rustling sound of electricity came out.
The senior and middle-ranking German officers in the headquarters were also silent. They did not want to believe what happened in the sky and hoped that it was a dream.
The war has inevitably gone into decline, and many soldiers of the Third Reich regard jet fighters as their trump card.
And I hope that this trump card can save the building from collapse and continue to bring glory to the soldiers of the Third Reich.
Outside Stalingrad, the battle that took place over the town in October gave them a hard blow, forcing them to recognize reality and accept it.
As Paulus's mood darkened, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross around his neck seemed to lose some of its luster.
A year ago, Paulus, who had just been promoted to General of the Armored Forces, surrounded multiple Red Army groups in Kharkov, and finally captured 250,000 Bolsheviks, destroyed and captured more than 2,000 enemy tanks.
He also received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his victory in this battle and officially entered the "Senior Officers' Club" of the Third Reich.
"well………"
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The town of October was located in the center of the battle lines between both sides, so not only soldiers of the Third Reich saw the air battle, but also soldiers of the Red Army and some soldiers of the Western Expedition.
There were endless cheers from the front lines.
Especially when the victorious Chinese Air Force returned and passed over the position, countless people sincerely cheered to the sky while waving red flags.
"Ground troops have been dispatched to search and rescue the parachuting pilot!"
The voice of the ground commander came over the radio, and Fei Congan breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head and looked at the cheering ground troops, smiled and waved.
News of the victory in the air battle quickly spread to the Western Expeditionary Army headquarters and to the Soviet Supreme Command.
The former cheered, the latter solemnly.
Over the town of October, the Chinese Air Force fully demonstrated its strength.
They use their strength to tell their enemies:
"Chinese soldiers are coming!"
They used their strength to question their allies with ulterior motives:
Chapter completed!