Six hundred and one cornered
Wildcat No. 214 gradually showed its defeat under the attack of two peerless masters, Hiroyo Nishizawa and Tokizo Iwamoto.
Compared with the lightness and sharpness of Zero fighters, Wildcats can be regarded as heavy fighters of this era, so when fighting at low altitude and low speed, they are as strong as Zhou Zhihan, and they inevitably fall into a disadvantage.
Wildcats and Zero are pure battles of extraordinary aircraft.
Relatively speaking, wildcats are high-thrust-weight fighters. They need to turn quickly with the thrust-weight ratio to reduce the entry angle of the fighter and always leave the enemy plane in the side-slip corner. This is in line with the first element of air combat - always keeping the enemy in the field of vision.
Zero fighter is the most typical low-wing load fighter at the moment. It has unparalleled sensitivity advantages, especially when fighting at low altitudes, and can maintain an overwhelming turn advantage over any fighter.
Due to the continuous rescue of the [Niosau] oil tanker and the [Utah] battleship, the speed of the No. 214 Wildcat dropped too fast and was bitten by two Zero. Because there were too many enemy aircraft in the air, it was easy to collide, which caused Zhou Zhihan to be unable to get rid of the speed increase and gradually narrowly defeated Huansheng, and was about to be bitten to death.
Now, it is equivalent to using the Wild Cats' disadvantages to the Zero Battle's advantage. This change of one rises and the other is very unfavorable for Zhou Zhihan.
After comparison, you can imagine how difficult it is when the No. 214 Wildcat loses its speed and height ratio, it is under the attack of two great Japanese masters.
The Japanese fighter jets in the air were like black vampire bats, with their wings covering the sky and bomb tracks flying in a row. Every Japanese pilot wanted to shoot down the thorn in his eyes, the thorn in his eyes, as long as he had the chance.
Zhou Zhihan was oppressed and had he been shot down long ago if he had not relied on his superb skills and unparalleled experience. Even so, there were many traces of bullets burning on the body of the No. 214 Wildcat fuselage. Fortunately, they were slightly injured and had no major impact on the flight posture of the fighter.
Seeing that our own fighter jets were less and less under the siege of Japanese aircraft groups, the American sailors on the warships breaking out of the port were anxious, especially when they saw that the No. 214 wildcat was forced by two Japanese fighter jets to defend at low altitude and could only be shot down at any time. The sailors only said that if they continued to fight, Zhou Zhihan was just in vain. Many people shouted: "Col. Zhou, break through quickly, we will always be grateful to you... Go quickly... Go..."
When the war reached this point, the Americans completely regarded Zhou Zhihan as their own. They were unwilling to watch it. The Wild Cat No. 214, which had just made the Japanese complain, was shot down by the Japanese.
Because the Wildcat No. 214 and the two Zero-types were too tightly wrapped, the sailors were afraid of hurting their own people by chance and did not dare to use machine guns to block the Zero-War pursuit.
Several officers took out their pistols and aimed at the route of the No. 214 wild cat flying over, hoping to wait for Zhou Zhihan to pass and use his pistol to block the two Zero fighters chasing, but the power of the pistol was not very lethal for even the Zero matchbox.
"Go to die!"
Hiroyi Nishizawa found an opportunity, pressed the attack button on the throttle with his left thumb, and banged towards the tail of the No. 214 Wildcat at close range.
At the same time, when Hiroyo Nishizawa opened fire, Takazo Iwamoto, who formed a dual-machine double attack, took the opportunity to stretch and jump and put the rod, and pointed the nose slightly to block the No. 214 Wildcat pulling up or rolling left and right to get rid of the attack route.
While still in Japan, Mitsuo Fujita specially found Hiroyo Nishizawa and Tomoto Iwamoto to ensure that when Zhou Zhihan appeared over Pearl Harbor, he had to shoot him down.
In order to shoot down Zhou Zhihan, Hiroyo Nishizawa and Tomoto Iwamoto visited many Japanese pilots who had watched Zhou Zhihan's air battle, and collected any information about Zhou Zhihan's air battle from their ally Germany, and then studied it day and night, so the formation just appeared - dual-machine double attack.
This dual-machine double-attack tactic was tailored toward Zhou Zhihan by Tomoto and Hiroichi Nishizawa. It can be said that the combination of two swords has increased its power several times, and it will never leave any opportunity for Zhou Zhihan to take advantage of.
There was a private agreement between Iwamoto Takazo and Hiroyi Nishizawa that when they met Zhou Zhihan, Hiroyi Nishizawa would first avenge a single arrow. If the latter could not shoot down the Chinese alone, the two would immediately form a two-machine formation and work together to kill Zhou Zhihan.
Moreover, after the two agreed, they should always maintain a uniform and flawless dual-machine dual-attack tactic. They must not make arbitrary advance by greed for merit and find an opportunity to take advantage of the Chinese.
Therefore, when the Wildcat No. 214 was severely slowed down due to the rescue of the [Utah] and the oil tanker, the two immediately seized the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and worked together to force Zhou Zhihan into a dead end.
Just as Zhou Zhihan was forced to fall into a desperate situation by Hiroyo Nishizawa and Toshizo Iwamoto, another secret battle was quietly beginning on the water surface of Pearl Harbor.
A small Japanese submarine quietly sneaked into Pearl Harbor before the war started, while the US warship was focusing on the air and had no time to take care of the water, it quietly exposed its periscope and circled around the northwest of Ford Island in a clockwise direction, preparing to attack the [Pennsylvania] anchored in the dock. However, before it could enter the attack position, it was discovered by Major William Beaufort's [Monahan] destroyer, and the two sides immediately started a fight.
Major William Beaufort gave up the opportunity to lead the Monahan to the deep waters and immediately directed the destroyer to turn around and pursue the Japanese pocket submarine at the risk of being sunk by bombers.
At this time, the two sides fought in a melee, and the United States suffered heavy losses. Except for the [Monahan] destroyer, other warships were all defending air, and no one noticed this Japanese submarine.
Although this submarine is small, it can paralyze the two battleships with two heavyweight torpedoes.
Seeing a US destroyer quickly turn around and fire at it, Captain Qingji of Inaga, who was commanding the submarine, immediately ordered the launch of a torpedo, trying to sink the [Monahan] destroyer first, but was dodged by the destroyer and the torpedo hit the shallows.
Since almost all of Pearl Harbor are our own warships, the [Monahan] dare not release torpedoes or deep-water bombs, and can only attack the submarine with a small angle of anti-aircraft guns, with little effect. So Major William Beaufort ordered that the small submarine be sunk with a destroyer would never give the Japanese a chance to attack any American ship.
The officers and soldiers on the destroyer saw that Pearl Harbor was inhumanely bombed by Japanese planes and suffered heavy losses. They were full of anger and drove the destroyer and crashed into the Japanese submarine without hesitation.
But at this moment, a torpedo plane among the Japanese planes covering the clouds over Pearl Harbor discovered that the [Monahan] destroyer was chasing their small submarine, so the torpedo plane immediately lowered its altitude and prepared to sink the [Monahan] with torpedoes.
Before this, four of their five small submarine suicide squads had been sunk by the Americans, so the Japanese wanted to save the only remaining fruit.
The small submarine entered Pearl Harbor in advance, re-confirmed the parking positions of all American warships in the port and reported to the joint fleet, and immediately launched a precise strike after the bomber group arrived at Pearl Harbor, making great contributions.
The Type 97 torpedo made a drift turn 900 meters away from the water surface and descended to a height of 600 meters. The nose pointed directly to the port side of the destroyer [Monahan] and continued to descend.
At this time, the [Monahan] destroyer was fully focused and chased the small submarine and did not notice at all. The God of Death was approaching them.
The Type 97 torpedo continues to descend.
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Chapter completed!