In the vast snow and snow, over the South Barents Sea, four piston monoplane aircraft with red five-star wings painted with fuselages and wings flew towards the northwest in loose formations. In the cockpit, Colonel Alexei Tiglev, the commander of the 14th Air Regiment of the Soviet Navy and the winner of the Soviet Flight Medal, opened his eyes wide and observed the surroundings. The weather was already terrible, and the radio communicator, which had always been working, actually went on strike. Depressed and irritable emotions were quietly growing.

When the radio equipment cannot use natural references to guess the orientation and the radio equipment is not working normally, Tiglev has to use the most primitive orientation, degree and time to calculate his position. Under the influence of wind, the error of this three-element positioning method is often large. Even for an experienced old pilot like him, the range of two or three hundred kilometers may reach thirty or forty kilometers. However, the target of this attack is moving surface ships. They are different from fixed or slow-moving 6-top targets. The hourly displacement can reach 20 nautical miles, that is, more than 38 kilometers. The deviation of the flight route may make the pilots farther away from their targets, or they may make them find the target by accident. Everything depends on luck!

A strong cross wind blew, and Tiglev had to hold the joystick tightly, so that the Jacques-7 he was flying was in the preset direction. After the sensation passed, he looked back and suddenly found that the three wingmen were farther away from him.

"Seahawk 1 calls the young eagle, please answer when you hear it!"

Tiglev tried to contact the wingman via radio, but all the sounds of the headphones came from the monotonous, endless sizzling sounds.

He cursed quietly, Tiglev looked around again, and the unchanging snow scene made his eyes fall into a state of fatigue. For many years, he had only encountered similar situations in the cold winter of the Caucasus in his memory.

"If our planes were also equipped with radar, it would not be too difficult to search for enemy aircraft and enemy ships in such weather!" Tiglev said to himself in his heart. During the Japanese-Soviet War, the Western Allies, which were Germany as the ones, secretly dispatched aviation troops to support the Soviet Union, including special reconnaissance aircraft and long-range bombers equipped with advanced radar equipment. They not only provided an effective early warning to the Soviet Air Force, but also detected the strategic deployment of the Japanese army on the local area. The Soviet army was able to reverse the adverse situation several times in the war, and ultimately forced Japan to give up the Northeast China region, which was regarded as a treasure house. It can be said that it has benefited a lot from it. Tiglev, who was on the front line at that time, led a team to escort many times, and got the opportunity to get close contact with Western Allied fighter jets and had a more intuitive understanding of their advanced performance, so he had such helpless and envious feelings.

Soon, Tiglev suddenly felt restless and suddenly had a bad premonition. In a blink of an eye, a light gray painted plane suddenly emerged from the snow curtain directly in front of it, and passed by Tiglev's landline with a loud roar, leaving the Soviet Navy's ace pilot sitting there in a stunned state.

Is this just accident?

A moment later, when the second light gray-painted fighter plane flew past his scalp in the exact same way, the only trace of luck in Tiglev's heart disappeared.

This is the reflection of the technical gap!

Tiglev turned his head and looked back, and saw that the enemy plane during the exercise abused his wingman with his head-shaved flight. As a flying ace with hundreds of practical experiences and repeated blood licking at the knife, he knew very well what the performance of both sides meant in actual combat. The opponent could easily shoot down all the planes on his side!

Give up? Go back? Or do you bite the bullet and continue searching for the enemy's fleet just to pull a fig leaf for the Soviet Navy?

Tiglev was extremely conflicted. At this time, he could not contact the base or the wingman. What he could do was all in his thoughts.

Just as he was hesitating and hesitating, a familiar roar came from above. He looked up and saw that the clover logo on the light gray wings was so eye-catching and dazzling.

Tiglev smiled a little sourly on the corner of his mouth: he was shot down again, and he had no power to break free!

Almost subconsciously, Tiglev pushed the joystick to dive the plane to sea level, which was the most commonly used and effective move when he encountered enemy aircraft rear-end on the battlefield. He flew over the biplane I-15 and the monoplane I-16. These two fighters had no technical advantage when facing German Fokkerxi, Fokkerg-51 or the Japanese 97 fighter jets, but Tiglev maintained a winning rate that made him proud in his combat career, thanks to the great spiritual power of faith, his personal outstanding flying skills and ability to seize the opportunity.

Usually, after a medium and short-distance dive, Tiglev will drive the fighter to spiral off or climb up sharply. What he is best at is the "Yinmaimann flip" action created by the Germans, that is, the vertical maneuver tactic of half-string head flip. It can be called a dragging knife trick in air combat, and is very effective against enemy aircraft chasing behind. However, in this bad weather with bad sight, even the traces of enemy aircraft cannot be determined. How can he use his air combat skills?

The panic of emotions distracted Tiglev's attention, but even so, the habit he had developed for a long time still made him stare at the flight altitude meter and stare at the scene under the right wing. The abnormalities on either side would arouse his alertness. When he realized that the rolling waves seemed to be close to the wing, Tiglev quickly pulled up the joystick. At this moment, the altimeter still read 20 meters, but after the plane leveled, the measured height was no more than fifty meters. In other words, he hesitated for a while, and he and this Jacques-7, which was much higher than the cost of I-16, would fall into the sea. Thinking of this terrible consequence, Tiglev immediately sweated coldly and felt so nervous that it was even better than his first flight.

Damn, it must be the cold and humid environment that affected the accuracy of the instrument. After returning, you must conduct a comprehensive and thorough inspection of the entire fleet's flight instrument! Tiglev muttered in his heart, and when he realized that he had been distracted, the deadly roar came clearly in his ears!

Was it shot down for the third time?

Tiglev looked in the direction of the sound. This time, the light gray fighter did not whistle by like the two times before. He saw a single-seat fighter with a thick and round nose, narrow tail, and a spherical profile on the side was like an alien spindle, and flew from the oblique rear to a position flush with him. In the bubble cockpit standing on the back of the aircraft, the new United Kingdom Navy pilot with an oxygen mask turned his head and looked at him for a few seconds, with indifference in his eyes. Before Tiglev made any statement, he turned his gaze back to the front. To the surprise of the Russian pilot, the rocket under the ir-44t wing actually smoked and sprayed, and four slender empty rockets flew out and fell into the sea a few kilometers away.

Is this... a warning to myself?

The Russian Navy ace pilot was wondering, and the roar in his ears suddenly increased the volume. The ir-44t, known as the "top three in the world" in the field of carrier-based fighter jets, suddenly moved forward. After showing excellent horizontal performance, it suddenly pulled up the nose and came a "dry-land pulling green onions". Its powerful vertical ability surprised Tiglev, which was not counted. After climbing about 20 meters higher, the new United Kingdom naval pilot came a "Yinmaiman Flip" that he was very familiar with, to be precise, an air combat maneuver tactic derived from the "Yinmaiman Flip". Through continuous horizontal rolling and vertical twisting, it once again came to the rear of Tiglev. Then, a series of tracer bombs burst out from the wing roots of the wings on the left and right sides of its wings, stirring a series of water columns below.

The power of the 4 2omm machine guns is enough to tear the wings or tail of a Jacques-7 into pieces in an instant, and the bulletproof armor in the cockpit is not enough to withstand the attack of the 2omm armor-piercing projectile...

After completing the entire process of getting rid of the attack - turning into the attack - completing the attack, the ir-44t returned to the position flush with Tigrev's Jacques-7. The new United Kingdom Navy pilot wearing an oxygen mask put his left fingers together, upward, forward and upward, as if signaling "It's your turn."

Tiglev took a deep breath. He was not sure whether the other party had his own technical information and understood his operating habits. But since he had reached this point, he had no choice but to do his best to defend the honor of the Soviet Navy aviation force. So he waved his fist at the other party, turned his head, pushed the accelerator, added a level flight, reduced the accelerator, pulled the joystick, adjusted the flap, and displayed the "Yinmaiman Flip" that he was best at. With his deep flying skills, he forced the Jacques-7's technical performance to an almost extreme level in such a bad environment. But even so, when he completed the entire set of technical movements, there was no enemy aircraft in his sight. Tiglev's heart sank and looked through the rearview mirror: The guy followed him closely!

The fourth shot down...

Tiglev suddenly fell into endless despair. He fought against the best German pilots in the Caucasus and finally escaped with one against two. He shot down fighter planes flying by European volunteer pilots on the Persian Plateau, forcing Western allies to make diplomatic concessions. However, the honor and pride of the past were smashed into pieces by cruel reality at this moment. "Belief overwhelms all enemies", the idea that once made him believe in is as if frozen by the wind and snow in front of him. Looking at history,
Chapter completed!