044 Hawks Soar in the Vast Sky????? Gao Zhihang and his wingman Dong Mingde managed to get their hands on two Fiat CR.32s. All the manual chapters are in the house.xs555. No choice, these were obtained through great personal connections. This type of aircraft was produced by the Spanish government, its maneuverability far inferior to the I-15 flown by Soviet pilots. The tasks assigned to the two of them were also unglamorous, responsible for tracking the direction of Japanese and Soviet fighter planes after they clashed, no choice who made the Soviet army the main force?

  The two men discovered the Japanese fighter planes and Soviet bombers entangled in a dogfight at the designated time and location, but they didn't leave. After disengaging from the battle, they continued to tail the bomber formation heading towards Wuhan. The two men took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and low-altitude flight, as well as the military green color of the planes, and managed to remain undetected by the Japanese aircraft.

  Using the intelligence of the two, the Soviet commander made a temporary decision to use his forces to fight. He decided to call up fighter planes to take advantage of the gap between enemy bombers and fighters and make a wave of attacks first, then regroup and engage in an aerial battle with the Japanese fighter group.

  The Soviet commander ordered Gao Zhihang to continue monitoring the enemy from low altitude and report the enemy's movements to the command at any time.

  After the Japanese bomber formation encountered Soviet fighter planes, the speed of the Japanese fighter plane formation increased significantly.

  After the first wave of attacks, most of the thirty bombers were damaged but only two were shot down and the bombers no longer cared whether it was a city below them as they dropped their bombs.

  This also means that the enemy has realized it's a trap and is trying to retreat. The heavy bombers are at low altitude, and when the Soviet army attacks, they have to go down to low altitude as well. However, the Japanese fighter planes are at high altitude, so the Japanese have an advantage in terms of height and can carry out dive bombing attacks.

  The Soviet commanders immediately adjusted their formation and ordered the slower I-15s to actively move up from low altitude, while the I-16 quickly climbed to occupy a commanding height.

  The Japanese commander apparently also understood the intention of the Soviet commander and ordered to separate into two routes to meet the enemy. He also ordered the bomber formation to pull up high and drop bombs, putting the bomber formation across the middle of the two Soviet formations.

  Gao Zhihang knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the Japanese bombers climbing, and while notifying the Soviet commander, Old Wang ordered himself and his wingman to charge at the bomber formation.

  The Japanese commander found two enemy planes under his own plane and immediately ordered two planes to intercept the enemy planes. In the view of the Japanese commander, these two green-hulled planes should be easy to deal with. It wasn't until his pilots cried out in distress that he realized things were going terribly wrong. The 95th fighter's horizontal and vertical maneuverability had reached a new level, and its speed was extremely fast. Just as the two Japanese pilots got the Chinese plane into their sights, they found themselves flying past it. When they pulled back, the same thing happened again, which infuriated the Japanese pilots.

  Gao Zhihang is secretly rejoicing in the cockpit! Sometimes falling behind isn't a bad thing. When Chinese planes charged into the Japanese bomber formation, this advantage was revealed. The slow speed of Chinese planes allowed them to dodge back and forth comfortably among the bombers. But the Japanese planes were too fast and hard to control, so they could only circle around the bomber group. Now Gao Zhihang only faced the machine guns of the bombers.

  "Only an idiot would get shot by a bomber's machine gun!" The two of them shook their sleeves and left.

  The Japanese commander intended to disperse the bomber formations, but that would have meant giving up the tactic of dividing them. However, the Japanese commanders didn't have time to think about it anymore. The fighter plane formations had already become entangled with those of the Soviet army.

  Old Wang didn't idle on the ground either. Watching Soviet planes chasing Japanese planes, Old Wang suddenly thought of a question: Would Japanese pilots jump parachutes? Capturing them alive would be a great achievement! Old Wang looked up to see the specific location of the air battle in the suburbs, turned around and got into his car. Xiaoyu saw Old Wang leaving and grabbed him, asking: "Where are you going?"

  "Capture the devils."

  Xiao Yatou heard such an exciting thing and couldn't help but say: "I also want to go."

  Old Wang was too lazy to bother with him and stretched out his hand to pull Xiaoyao into the car as well.

  Dong Mingde had relatively little experience and was hit by the dense firepower of the bomber. Gao Zhihang ordered him to parachute out. Dong Mingde was just about to jump when he suddenly discovered that the Japanese plane, which had been trying to shoot him down earlier, had come from behind again. Still unable to catch up, it ran directly in front of Dong Mingde. However, this Japanese plane happened to fall right into Dong Mingde's machine gun sights. Dong Mingde thought to himself: "The devils have come to give me a gift, I shouldn't refuse" and sat back down, firing his machine guns and shooting the Japanese plane down, which crashed with black smoke billowing out. Dong Mingde then parachuted out again. During the parachute jump, Dong Mingde discovered that the Japanese pilot had also jumped out. Dong Mingde thought to himself: "Brother, although you are our enemy, I still admire you. If I were shot down over Japan's mainland, I would choose a valuable target and crash into it. This is Wuhan, choosing to parachute really takes a lot of courage."

  Just like Dong Mingde thought, Old Wang was holding a handgun and organizing fellow villagers to catch devils!

  "Fellow villagers, a Japanese pilot has parachuted down, don't be afraid. When the Japanese pilot just lands, he can't fire his gun, all of you who have grievances with the Japanese come on! Even if this group of fellow villagers doesn't have personal vendettas against the Japanese, they still have national hatred. Hearing that they can beat up a Japanese pilot with their own hands is exciting."

  Some held plows, some held red-tasseled spears, and a few-year-old kid wore a copper chamber pot on his head, probably because he had seen too many National Army soldiers wearing steel helmets!

  The Japanese parachute was still white, and this guy had several villages nearby with thousands of strong men rushing from several directions. The devil pilot understood it in the sky. Just as there was wind, he operated the parachute to fly into the forest.

  Old Wang thought to himself: With today's momentum, even if you were buried three feet underground, I could still dig you out.

  The Japanese bomber formation dispersed to avoid the high-flying Soviet planes. As soon as a gap opened up, the Soviet commander ordered the high-altitude fighter group to dive-bomb through the Japanese bomber formation and then pass through the gaps near the bombers. They attacked the low-flying Japanese planes instead. This was equivalent to abandoning the enemy in front of them to attack others. The enemy in front of them would not agree to this, and they tried to bite onto the Soviet planes, but just as they did, they found that the Soviets had dived into their own bomber formation and could not be shot at, so they also passed through the middle. When they came back, they saw that their targets were already gone, and it would take some time to catch up again. The Japanese commander was furious and shouted loudly.

  At this time his wingman informed him that fuel was running low and they had to return to base.

  The Japanese commander ordered the fighter group not to pull out directly from low altitude after this dive. Since Soviet planes did not have a tight formation, pursuit was apparently unwise. The Soviet commander had no choice but to order his own troops to leave the Japanese bombers to their own bomber formations and shoot them all down.

  The fate of bombers without fighter escort was very tragic, and many planes were shot down and forced to make emergency landings with thick black smoke.

  This made Old Wang's goal of capturing the devils increase by several more. The lone devil flyer was hanging from a tree, and before he could even use his paratrooper knife to cut through the rope, Old Wang arrived at the base of the tree with his men. He tried to resist with his handgun but a child skilled at climbing trees climbed up from the other side and cut off the parachute cord, causing him to fall to the ground where he was beaten until he was bloody and unrecognizable.

  The devils who made an emergency landing in the bomber were more troublesome, they were surrounded but the devils had machine guns and a group of old farmers was not enough to deal with them. As a result, Old Wang adopted a farmer's suggestion to set fire to corn stalks upwind. In the end, the devils were choked to the point of being unable to cope, most committed suicide, and a few surrendered. Old Wang left a few alive to report back to headquarters.

  Xiao Yatou was very interested in the Japanese prisoners of war, and this guy chatted with the Japanese soldiers in a stammering manner using the half-baked Japanese he learned from Mr. Guo.

  This Japanese soldier is from Osaka, Japan. He was an orphan since childhood and that's why he surrendered. Those Japanese soldiers who committed suicide were the ones with families in Japan. If they were captured on the battlefield, their families would have a hard time at home.

  Old Wang thinks that the rulers of the whole world are just those few tricks, and the Japanese are not made of iron either, they also fear death. During World War II, the Japanese relied on this trick to make their own troops' combat effectiveness so abnormal.

  Old Wang brought the captive back to the air force command only to find out the results of this battle, shooting down five Japanese fighter planes and annihilating the bomber squadron. They lost three fighter planes with all pilots parachuting to safety. The captured devils were relatively rare, only one was caught.

  Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed when he read the battle report at his villa in Huangshan. He said to Soong Mei-ling, "Your air force is quite good! They had a big fight with the Japanese in the skies above Wuhan and many people saw it. This battle has had a great impact on our international standing; those friendly nations have seen how strong our military's fighting power is."

  "Soong Mei-ling smiled and said: 'The only thing lacking is that this time the main force was Soviet.'"

  Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, we have many excellent pilots. The main thing is that we lack planes, but I believe after this battle, we will soon have planes."

  Soong Mei-ling herself was in control of the air force, so she wasn't as optimistic as Old Chiang. She didn't bother to argue with him and changed the subject: "I heard that this time there's an intelligence officer who made great contributions. His name is Wang Xiangjun."

  Chiang Kai-shek said: "I know this man, under Dai Li's command, has some ability, especially in predicting the trend of war, often with a touch of genius."

  "So I heard he's still a lieutenant colonel!" said Soong Mei-ling.

  Chiang Kai-shek replied: "Those who engage in intelligence work are too showy and not good. Moreover, it is said that this person has a better relationship with the Guangxi clique and has some communist tendencies."

  Soong Mei-ling said: Your old habit of being suspicious has recurred again.

  The last few days of the Anti-Japanese Propaganda Week were completely overwhelmed by the aerial warfare propaganda, and no one mentioned Xuzhou again. If you asked about Taierzhuang, some people would say: "What's Taierzhuang?"

  Old Wang thought his purpose had basically been achieved and it was time to retreat back to the Fifth Station District with Li Zongren.

  However, on the last day of the promotional week, Mr. Guo specially called Old Wang to participate in the fundraising event. Anyway, Old Wang's wallet is now bulging, and he's not afraid to donate some money.