On the night after the great air battle, Le Mei's bomber group flew over Osaka again, burning the most prosperous area in Osaka City to ashes. Then, early the next morning, US military fighter jets were again flying over Japan.

appeared on the human air defense radar screen.

This time the Americans behaved like a bachelor. They did not play any tricks like having fighter jets in dense formations to imitate bombers. Now the status of those fighter jets can be clearly read on the radar screen: flying altitude is seven thousand meters, speed is five hundred kilometers per hour.

hours, the quantity is about three hundred.

For these fighter jets, the Japanese really can't afford to take off and intercept them. The American fighter jets have good performance and speed, and they obviously have the power to choose whether to engage in combat. If the battle situation is favorable, it will be difficult for the Japanese to escape. If the battle situation is unfavorable, the United States

If people run away, the Japanese cannot catch up. Therefore, if you win, it will be a small victory at most. Once you lose, it will definitely be a big defeat. Although the Japanese are a bit war-crazy, they are not willing to do something that is obviously unprofitable.

They are just a group of fighter jets anyway, so what if they are just allowed to circle around in the sky? Are they planning to swoop down and shoot down the streets with their cannons?

Therefore, the Japanese naturally did not send out a group of interceptors. They just took off some fighter jets to cruise at low altitudes just to be on the safe side.

However, the intelligence sent back by the radar immediately made the Japanese hesitate again. That is, a group of US bombers appeared.

"Enemy bombers were discovered, with a number of more than 300, a speed of 430 kilometers per hour, and an altitude of 7,000 meters."

The altitude of seven thousand meters is the classic height when the American bomber group attacks Germany. Now, this altitude is just right. Except for a small number of Thunderbolt 21 and the Hayate with a messy completion rate, there are few aircraft that can fly in such a short time.

Climb to this height. If you don't consider that the Japanese will use the strategy of aerial collision, even if there are no escort fighters, the firepower of the B-29 fleet itself is enough to deal with these interceptors.

Now that the bombers are coming, of course the interceptor units have to take off to fight. Otherwise, why would interceptors be needed? So under the escort of some Zero Fighters and Type 1 fighters that had already taken off, some Japanese fighter jets that climbed better

, such as Thunder 21, Zhongkui fighter jets and some Ki-84 Hayate fighter jets began to take off urgently.

But at this time, it was not so easy for these planes to climb up. Just now, those American fighter jets had been divided into many groups and stayed near the Japanese airport. When the fighter jets that were climbing in an emergency began to overtake those that had taken off earlier.

When the Zero Fighter and Type 1 fighter jets were approaching, the American fighter jets, which had a high altitude advantage, began to swoop down towards them.

Shawshank is a semi-rookie with less than 600 flying hours, so he is still serving as a wingman. His lead aircraft is a Marbury with 2,000 flying hours and at least 70 combat operations.

A veteran of the mission. At this time, the commander's order came to his ears: "Follow me and prepare to replenish the gun!"

There are several Thunderbolt 21 fighter jets in the dive direction of Marbury. This fighter jet, which has the same nickname as the P-47, is an outlier among the fighter jets of the Japanese Navy. This type of aircraft is well armored, climbs and dives quickly, but hovers

But it's very average. Once this kind of aircraft has a height advantage, it is still very scary. But when this guy is in a lower position, its situation is not good. Under the enemy's dive attack, there is no such thing as zero combat.

You can still avoid enemy attacks by turning sharply, but with the poor circling performance of j2m3 Thunder, it will be more difficult to avoid dive attacks.

Shawshank followed closely behind the lead aircraft. As it dived, the speed of its P-51 fighter became faster and faster. In a blink of an eye, the speed had exceeded 740 kilometers. At this time, Shawshank saw the lead aircraft begin to fire.

Shawshank could see the flames flashing on the wing of the lead plane 200 meters ahead, and a series of bullet casings were thrown out of the wing. In his ears, the lead plane's cry came: "Roll to the right!"

Shawshank immediately made a roll to the right. At this time, he saw an enemy plane pulling smoke out from under the gun muzzle of the lead plane and flew to his right, and he happened to make a right turn.

Rolling, he only needed to pull the nose of the plane to cut into the opponent's six o'clock direction. Shawshank didn't think too much, pulled up the nose of the plane forcefully, and suddenly cut into the six o'clock position of the J2M3, which was far away from the enemy.

The plane was only about 300 meters away, and the two sides were still approaching at high speed. Shawshank ignored careful aiming and fired a long burst of four-gun fire, then pulled up the fighter plane. Relying on the high speed brought by the dive, he climbed quickly

to a safe height. Then the commander's praise came from his earphones: "Good job!" Shawshank looked down and saw a fighter plane falling to the ground surrounded by thick smoke and flames.

Not every group of American aircraft that launched an attack achieved results. In fact, the pilots who had the opportunity to fly fighter jets such as the Thunderbolt 21 and Hayate were the few "relatively experienced" pilots left in Japan.

.So it is indeed unrealistic to achieve many results with just one round of attacks. However, these attacks are not ineffective. Not to mention other effects, at least such attacks prevent the Japanese interceptors from climbing.

It is interesting to compare the similarities and differences between the Japanese situation and the German situation when facing the US bomber group. Compared with the Germans, most of the Japanese fighter jets have good range, so you

We can't expect that Japanese fighter jets will have problems like the Germans, where they run out of fuel after fighting with escort fighters and need to land. Of course, we can't expect to use bombers that "just arrive" when they are landing.

It's a good thing to clear the ground for the airport. However, due to the restrictions of the island's terrain, the warning time the Japanese can get is far less than that of Germany. Therefore, when the Japanese conduct air defense interceptions, they face a huge problem of leaving it to the fighter jets.

There was too little time to climb, and most of the Japanese fighters had no chance to climb to an altitude high enough to intercept the bombers before they completed dropping their bombs. This problem almost offset the advantage of the longer range of the Japanese fighters, because most of the long-range fighters climbed

, especially climbing at high altitudes is terrible.

When facing the Allied bomber group, the German army can use an escort group + assault group to fight. The BF-109 series fighters, which are lighter, more agile, and have better climbing and high-altitude performance, act as escort aircraft to carry out attacks on the bombers.

Assault missions are escorted by assault aircraft such as the FW-190A8. They are responsible for entangling the US military escort fighters, covering the climb of aircraft such as the FW-190A8 or BF-110, and launching attacks on the Allied bomber groups.

But the Japanese cannot adopt such tactics. Because most of the maneuverable and flexible fighters in the hands of the Japanese are bad at climbing at high altitudes, and they do not have enough warning time to slowly climb to the appropriate altitude. Therefore, these aircraft cannot give those fighters

Fighters that have climbed well provide protection. When performing interception missions, they can only rely on those fighters that have climbed well to fight against the escort fighters of the US military alone. In this way, in fact, the vast majority of Japan's fighter jets are in this kind of battle.

They all become soy sauce.

As for the so-called fighter jets that can climb well, such as the J2M3, the total number is less than 500, and they have to be stationed in various places. When it is the turn of an area, the number that can be dispatched is very limited. Another example is the Ki-84 Hayate fighter, although there are three in total.

There are more than 1,400 aircraft, but they are scattered throughout the Pacific-China Theater. Coupled with the ki-84's ridiculous integrity rate of less than a quarter, at any time, the total number of ki-84 that can take off for combat.

There were never less than 900 aircraft. Then they were divided into various regions. As a result, in a certain interception, the number that could be used was even pitifully small.

In this way, in fact, when facing the Allied bombers, the Japanese were in a much more difficult situation than the Germans. For example, right now, the number of fighter jets that can climb to a sufficient altitude on time is greater than that of the U.S. military.

There were a lot less escort fighters. They immediately fell into the siege of US fighter jets, and were forced to constantly dodge left and right, constantly consuming energy to avoid the attacks of enemy planes. Under such circumstances, maintaining the existing

It’s not easy to reach a high altitude, let alone continue to climb.

All in all, even the Japanese interceptors were suppressed at an altitude of less than 6,000 meters and could not pose any decent threat to the bomber group. They could only watch those bombers dragging long silvery white trails.

, like a big river, flowing unstoppably through his head.

This time, the target of the bomber group was still Tokyo, and the bombing method was almost the same as that of the night attack, except that the bombing height was a little higher, and the time changed from night to brazen daytime.

Outside, they still followed the same pattern. They first used napalm bombs to draw an extra-large circle of death, and then other bombers randomly threw napalm bombs into the circle.

Although it was daytime, and although the Japanese had certain preparations, in fact, when facing a fire of this scale, any firefighting force was of no use. Soon, the fire that reached the sky burned again...

After completing the incendiary bombing of this area, the bomber group began to return. However, some of them, about a dozen B-29 bombers, actually flew over the area that had not been engulfed in flames, and dropped another batch of

Bombs. When these bombs fell to a height of six or seven hundred meters above the ground, they suddenly exploded, and then a large number of leaflets were scattered all over the sky. The contents of these leaflets were very simple: In two days, we will
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