"Long live!"
More than fifty Zeros and twenty bombers were flying towards Guadalcanal Airport and were about to launch a thunderous attack. At this moment, with his keen intuition, Shima Shengzo felt that danger was approaching, and he subconsciously looked up. Look, it turned out that there were faint traces of US military aircraft above the clouds.
"There is an ambush of US military aircraft in the sky. All aircraft will climb immediately. Repeat this, all aircraft will climb immediately!"
Shima Katsuzo immediately adjusted the fuselage and quickly climbed.
At this time, Langya piloted the fighter plane from a high position and began to fire continuously at the Zeros below. After a while, he had shot down more than a dozen Zeros. At this time, Han Feng led the fighters of the first detachment and had circled around the Japanese fighter planes. Behind them, the Japanese bombers directly attacked the larger targets. After a while, more than a dozen bombers were shot down. These bombers fell to the ground fully loaded with aerial bombs, causing a series of explosions.
Shima Shengzo could no longer take care of these bombers. He led more than 40 Japanese Zero fighters to climb continuously, three thousand meters, four thousand meters, five thousand meters...
As the plane continued to rise, at the same time, Shima Shengzo was surprised to find that these American Mustang fighters were also climbing upwards, trying to occupy the commanding heights in the air.
Of course, Shima Katsuzo understood the role of occupying the commanding heights in the air, and he still went all out to climb upward until he reached an altitude of 5,500 meters. Shima Katsuzo was surprised to find that his plane started to shake, and its operation was not as good as before. So sensitive, very laggy.
Shima Shengzo was shocked, and at this moment, Xu Rui led more than 60 Mustang fighters to appear above the Zero fleet led by Shima Shengzo, and launched an attack on the Japanese Zero fighters.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
Xu Rui controlled the machine gun and fired continuously at a Zero below. The Zero immediately rolled sideways. However, the Zero's movements at high altitudes, which were extremely flexible at low altitudes, appeared to be very stagnant and slow. Get up, completely unable to avoid the wild horse's shooting.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
As Xu Rui's aircraft continued to fire, a Zero was directly blown up and fell downwards.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
Langya's fighter planes kept firing from a high position, blowing up the Japanese fighter planes one after another.
Xu Rui chuckled. He had already expected this situation. The advantage of the Zero is that it is maneuverable and flexible, stronger than low-altitude combat, and has a relatively strong endurance. However, because Japan's aerospace engines are immature and the oxygen content in high altitudes is low, The Zero's engine cannot fully function, and its high-altitude performance is extremely poor. Moreover, the Zero's fuselage adopts a lightweight design. The fuselage is not strong enough and has no protective measures. As long as it is hit, it will basically be destroyed. result.
The P51 Mustang was the most powerful fighter in World War II and the most powerful propeller aircraft in the world. Although it was slower, it had advantages in ground attack compared to jet aircraft, and its defensive strength completely surpassed the wooden Zero. Structural fuselage.
Therefore, Xu Rui believes that as long as he does not fight with the Zero at low altitude and speed, and does not pursue the climbing Zero, the Zero will basically only be beaten.
Sure enough, Xu Rui's strategy had a miraculous effect. In the high-altitude and high-speed air battle, all the advantages of the Zero became disadvantages, and it was completely abused by the P51 Mustang.
At this time, Xu Rui had already set his sights on Shimo Shengzo's plane. He had recognized from the paint on Shimo Shengsan's fuselage that this plane was Shimo Shengsan's plane. Of course, Xu Rui, for this old rival, Not polite, a series of machine gun bullets were fired at Shima Shengzo's plane.
The performance of Shima Katsuzo's fighter plane was greatly reduced at high altitudes. Although it managed to do a barrel roll and avoid the shooting of Xu Rui's plane, it was unable to follow up, and the engine even stopped mid-air.
"idiot!"
Shimo Shengzo cursed angrily, and at this moment, Xu Rui's fighter plane once again dived and attacked Shimo Shengzo's plane from high altitude. Shimo Shengzo had no way to avoid it, and he shouted in despair: "Baga Yalu…”
"boom!"
The next moment, Shima Katsuzo's plane was turned into a burning fireball. Shima Katsuzo did not even have the chance to parachute, so he directly used his plane to serve the emperor.
Xu Rui let out a breath. At this moment, he knew that he had found the lifeblood of the Zero. As long as he used his tactics properly and continued to promote them, the future Japanese Zero fighters would only become suicide aircraft.
"Fire!"
Xu Rui shouted through the airborne communication equipment. Dozens of P51s continuously launched dive attacks on the Zero aircraft from the sky. Under the attack of the P51s, the Zero aircraft were continuously shot down. Most of the Japanese pilots were killed in the aircraft. Although a small number of them successfully parachuted, because Guadalcanal below was under the control of the US military, a few of the Japanese pilots who parachuted were killed, and most of them became American prisoners of war...
This air battle over Guadalcanal was a landmark air battle. This battle ended the myth of the Zero's invincibility, and also successfully found the lifeblood of the Zero fighter. In the future, the Allied forces and the Japanese devils In the air battle, the Allies had an absolute psychological advantage.
At this time, Vandegrift and many US troops were constantly watching the fighting in the air on the ground. When they saw the Zero fighters being shot down one after another, they were all shocked. You know, in In previous battles between the US and Japanese air forces, Japanese fighter planes often had the upper hand, but today's air battle was completely reversed. Xu Rui and his Wolf Fang completely had the upper hand in the air battle.
A group of rookies who had just taken to the sky could actually kill the very experienced Japanese carrier-based aircraft. This was simply crazy. Many people couldn't believe their eyes.
"God, they did it, they really did it!" Vandergrift kept shouting, with an expression of excitement on his face.
The remaining dozen or so Japanese fighter planes fled in disgrace, and four more were shot down in the process of escaping. At this point, the more than 60 Japanese fighter planes and 20 bombers that attacked were almost completely wiped out, with less than ten. The Zero escaped back to its aircraft carrier. In the air battle over Guadalcanal, the Allies achieved a brilliant victory.
The battle finally ended. Xu Rui landed at the airport on Guadalcanal with his Wolf Fang. When he saw Xu Rui getting off the plane, Vandergrift, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately ran over and gave him Xu Rui gave him a warm bear hug.
Vandergrift said: "Xu, you did it so beautifully. How you did it is incredible, incredible!"
Xu Rui said: "General Vandegrift, do you see this? This is the power of us Chinese."
"The Chinese are amazing!" Vandergrift gave a thumbs up.
The battle over Guadalcanal not only shocked the United States, but also shocked Japan. The Japanese simply could not believe the results of this air battle. How could the Japanese pilots, who had always been invincible, lose so miserably? Even the most powerful ace pilot in Japan, Shima Katsuzō, died in the battle. Why did the American fighter planes suddenly become so powerful
Especially Nobutake Kondo refused to believe the facts. He organized a second attack on Guadalcanal the next day. However, the second attack was even worse than the first. Under the attack of Wolf Fang, Almost all of the more than fifty attacking Japanese fighter planes were wiped out.
Faced with such results, everyone was stunned. They finally recognized the fact that the performance of American fighter planes and the quality of pilots had completely surpassed Japan. If Japan did not produce new fighter planes, air supremacy in the Pacific in the future would definitely belong to the United States. U.S.-led allied forces.
On Guadalcanal, Xu Rui made a bold suggestion to Vandergrift, which was to organize land-based aircraft and aircraft carrier-based aircraft across Guadalcanal to carry out a devastating blow to Kondo Nobutake's aircraft carrier fleet. If If this attack is successful, then the United States will gain the initiative in the entire Pacific War and shift to a comprehensive counterattack.
After careful consideration, Vandergrift agreed to Xu Rui's request. At the same time, he invited Xu Rui to participate in the formulation of the combat plan.
Xu Rui immediately took out the battle plan that he had prepared long ago. Vandergrift was overjoyed when he saw it and said: "Xu, you are really our lucky star. With you, we will definitely win this war."
Xu Rui said: "General Vandegrift, I request cooperation in commanding this operation."
Vandergrift said: "You made the plan. I will give you a good explanation after contacting General Fletcher."
Vandergrift immediately communicated with Fletcher, but what he didn't expect was that Fletcher heard that a Chinese was going to participate in commanding the operation and immediately rejected Vandergrift's idea.
He said to Vandergrift: "General, the Americans are the real protagonists in this war. Let those Easterners go to hell."
Seeing that Fletcher had made up his mind, Vandergrift had no choice but to sigh, put down the radio communication equipment, and returned to the office to communicate with Xu Rui.
Vandergrift said: "Xu, I'm sorry, for some reason, you can't participate in commanding this operation."
Xu Rui said: "It doesn't matter. I request that the bomber formation not move with the fighter formation during the first wave of attack."
"What?" Vandergrift was shocked and said, "Why do you do this?"
Xu Rui said: "If naval aviation attacks the Japanese fleet, what will happen to the Japanese fleet?"
"They will definitely send carrier aviation to intercept, and an air battle is inevitable." Vandergrift said.
Xu Rui continued: "With the amount of fuel the Japanese carrier-based aircraft can carry, they will return to the battleship in about an hour. At this time, our bomber group suddenly flew over the Japanese aircraft carrier. You said, there will be what's the situation?"
Vandergrift's eyes lit up and he said: "You mean that the naval aviation is just a bait to consume the Japanese, and our real killers are these bombers..."