The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 620 The Japanese Air Brigade Falls into a Trap
The Ghosts of the Fujiyama Yumi squadron were very clear: this fighter group provoking them on the battlefield was trying to lure them away so the bombers circling at low altitude could ascend.
Although they knew this, they were willing to chase after the fighter group. The reason was simple: as long as they eliminated the fighter group, the bombers would be fish on a chopping board, at their mercy.
Even if they didn't chase the fighter group and instead immediately attacked the low-altitude bombers, the fighters that had just left would turn around and occupy advantageous positions.
The fighters of the Fujiyama Yumi squadron would be in danger. Chasing after and annihilating the fighter group first was the best operational plan.
Some of the Ghost's fighters left, opening up half the sky.
More than two hundred bombers from the Special Operations Brigade rushed out at low altitude. After they rushed out,
the bombers immediately climbed to an altitude of five thousand meters, flying some distance to the flanks, but still heading in the general direction of Saga Prefecture.
More than two bombers arranged a pocket trap, a pocket to catch the Ghosts chasing Guan Guohao's air squadron.
The bomber group was behind and to the left of the Fujiyama Yumi air squadron, and even further to the side and rear of Guan Guohao's squadron.
The bomber group had set up the trap. Guan Guohao, acting as bait, received Mao Wenxing's order: "All, make a large turn to the left, turn back and fly. The bomber group will provide cover along the way."
Guan Guohao was very clear about this. From the moment he led the fighters to voluntarily disengage from the battlefield and lure away this large group of Ghost's fighters, the plan had already begun.
After receiving the order, Guan Guohao led thirty-six fighters in a large arc, and the pursuing Fujiyama Yumi squadron had no choice but to follow.
Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi couldn't watch the imminent victory slip away, so of course he had to follow closely.
Moreover, the previous batch of Special Operations Brigade fighters had been running for more than ten minutes. They were just now reacting that they had run in the wrong direction. It was already too late.
Pilot Yamamoto Taiya said with a smile, "These people are only now realizing it. They must have seen the fuel warning!"
His words immediately caused an uproar of laughter throughout the squadron. In such a tense operational moment, the Ghosts under his command were still able to maintain such a relaxed attitude.
Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi was in an extremely cheerful mood. He also joined in the chatter of these Ghosts: "Maybe they only discovered it during the escape: Why have we been running for so long, and it's still hills and land below?
Where is the sea? Why haven't we seen the familiar sea yet! That's why they turned back."
The squadron leader personally came down to interact with everyone, and all the Ghost pilots echoed with laughter. For them, such times were rare.
Such a thing would only happen when the squadron leader was in a very good mood, and Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi was indeed in a very good mood at the moment.
At this moment, he seemed like a king high above, and the fighters in front were the flock of sheep he was driving, ready to be taken at any time.
Just as this thought was still expanding in Naisui Yohei's mind, he suddenly heard a Ghost's terrified cry in his headset: "I've been hit!"
"Rumble! Rumble!" The sound of explosions kept coming from the headset.
Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
What's going on? They had entered the ambush circle of the Special Operations Brigade's bombers. The bomber group in the high altitude, taking advantage of the cover of the clouds and mist, suddenly rushed down and launched an attack on them.
More than two hundred bombers were divided into four waves to attack. The first wave of attacks was launched by fifty-six bombers.
Fifty-six bombers rushed towards the Ghost's thirty-odd fighters. They were intentionally attacking unintentionally, and the Fujiyama Yumi squadron, completely unaware that they had fallen into an encirclement, was caught off guard.
Although the bombers didn't have cannons, each bomber had four machine guns, and the power of so many machine guns firing wasn't fake.
They immediately shot down nearly half of the Ghost's fighter squadron. Some of the dense machine gun bullets hit the Ghost's fighter's fuel tanks, and some directly hit the pilots in the fighters.
The Ghosts of the Fujiyama Yumi squadron kept exclaiming, "I've been hit! I'm going to parachute!"
Squadron Leader Guan Guohao received the attack order issued by Lin Fan, and they immediately turned around and ascended.
The disadvantage of bombers fighting air battles with fighters is obvious. Although the first wave of ambush organized by Lin Fan shot down or damaged more than ten Ghost's fighters in one go,
the remaining twenty-odd fighters could still pose a threat to the entire bomber group. Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi kept ordering, "Fight! Fight!"
Just as he was organizing the remaining fighters to struggle, the second attack of the bomber group arrived.
This was Lin Fan's tactic: the bomber group was divided into four waves of attacks to hold back the Ghost's fighters, so they couldn't chase after and attack the other bombers.
The entire bomber group had to hold back the Ghost's fighters until the fighter group led by Squadron Leader Guan Guohao flew back to join the battle.
In fact, when the Special Operations Brigade's bomber squadron launched the second wave of attacks, the destruction of the Fujiyama Yumi squadron was already irreversible.
The second round of attacks immediately suppressed the enemy planes that had just recovered from the attacks and were preparing to climb to high altitude.
Yamamoto Taiya was lucky enough to escape the first wave of attacks. His fighter had also taken a lot of bullets, but none of them had hit vital parts.
The fighter could still struggle to fight, so Yamamoto Taiya tried to pull up the nose of the plane. He wanted to occupy a high position to facilitate attacks on the bombers in the high altitude.
Just as he was struggling to climb, another team of bombers swooped down from high altitude, and two bombers perfectly suppressed his path to climb.
The tongues of fire spewing out from the eight machine guns were like eight red chains, tightly binding his fighter. Yamamoto Taiya couldn't continue to climb. He only wanted to change course and avoid these fierce bomber groups.
This time, he no longer had any luck. The fighter was constantly shaking, and soon the engine stalled. Yamamoto Taiya was still struggling to ignite it again, when a long string of machine gun bullets hit his body.
Now he finally didn't have to struggle anymore!
Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi, operating the fighter, was also unable to break through to high altitude. Their climb was suppressed to death.
In the first round of attacks, the entire squadron was killed or wounded by more than ten fighters. In the second round of attacks, his squadron had even more planes damaged or killed.
There was nothing strange about this situation: after all, they had thirty-six fighters in the first round of attacks, but in the second round of attacks, only twenty-odd fighters were bearing the firepower of more than fifty bombers.
After the Ghost's fighter group had endured two rounds of attacks, it was basically crippled. The last nine remaining fighters didn't dare to continue climbing to high altitude. They didn't want to fight the bomber group anymore.
The order issued by Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yumi was: "Retreat! Retreat!"
They began to dive, diving towards low altitude. Just now, they wanted to climb to high altitude to attack the bomber group.
Guan Guohao and the others had been chased and killed by the Ghosts for nearly half an hour during this time, and they had already been holding back a bellyful of anger.
It was truly a case of enemies meeting, especially jealous! Thirty-six fighters had already assigned their respective tasks, strictly following the standard of four fighters dealing with one enemy plane to allocate tasks.
Jin Tieyu led Fu Ye, Liu Wei, Zhao Chuan, and the others, staring at the enemy plane opposite. The Ghost's fighter opened fire while still a thousand meters away.
The muzzle flash of the machine gun firing was particularly conspicuous in the air. Liu Wei's fighters also opened fire on the Ghost's plane.
Liu Wei's fighter was on the same course as the enemy plane, and the two sides were shooting at each other head-on. Liu Wei still had a trump card that he hadn't used yet at this time.
The two sides were moving towards each other, and the distance between them decreased rapidly, eight hundred meters, five hundred meters.
When they were only three hundred meters apart, Liu Wei opened fire.
The other three fighters above Liu Wei's head also opened fire. Four cannons bombarded the enemy plane, giving it no chance to struggle at all.
Seeing the enemy plane being blown to pieces in the air, Jin Tieyu ordered, "Assemble the team and advance towards Saga Airport."
His group of four attacking one was easy, and the other comrades were also attacking one with four, which was also very easy.
Lin Fan and the others saw this scene in the air, and Lin Fan ordered, "Fighter squadron, clean up the battlefield!"
Air combat also requires cleaning up the battlefield. The soldiers of Guan Guohao's squadron were of course clear that many of the Ghost's fighters shot down by the bomber squadron just now had Ghost pilots who had parachuted.
Now they needed to clean up the battlefield and give those parachuting Ghost pilots a shot.
This is how the Special Operations Brigade operates: Leave no survivors!
Pilot Omori Takeshi had parachuted during the first round of bomber attacks. He had landed safely in the sea, leisurely floating on the surface, his body drifting towards the land.
His eyes were always fixed on the battle in the air. Although he had landed safely, he was still concerned about the battle in the air.
As far as the eye could see, all he saw were Ghost planes crashing one after another: "It's completely over! The entire Fujiyama Air Squadron is finished."
Omori Takeshi was mourning in his heart, but he was also rejoicing: Fortunately, he survived! He had already remembered this hatred and was preparing to avenge it in the future.
What he didn't know was that the Special Operations Brigade would never give the Ghosts any chance.
Just as Omori Takeshi was making up his mind, he was surprised to see the parachute floating in the air. A fighter actually flew over and used a machine gun to fire at the Ghosts coming down in the parachute.
Omori Takeshi even saw the blood gushing out from the Ghosts in the air splashing out, drop by drop, all falling into the sea.
He simply couldn't believe his eyes: What were the fighter pilots of the Special Operations Brigade thinking?
They had come from afar, and their fuel must be insufficient. Instead of seizing the time to fly back quickly, they were still chasing and killing Ghosts in the air?
Just as he was thinking this, the sound of machine gun fire, "Da da da! Da da da!" came over.
Omori Takeshi felt bullets whizzing past his ears, scaring him into diving quickly. Hiding in the seawater, he looked at the sky in horror.
A fighter was passing through the air. It didn't go far, but instead made a turn in front and flew back again.
Omori Takeshi tried hard to hold his breath, waiting until the fighter in the air passed over his head before surfacing, taking a big gulp of fresh air.
At this time, he heard a louder sound coming from the distance. Looking over, Omori Takeshi simply couldn't believe what he was seeing.
He saw three Special Operations Brigade seaplanes actually appearing in the air. One of the seaplanes had already landed on the sea and was rushing towards him.
Omori Takeshi looked at the Fat Tiger painted on those planes and suddenly felt that this cute, chubby tiger was much more ferocious than those baring its fangs and claws.
He was already destined to not be able to escape. Omori Takeshi no longer dived, but just floated on the water as if resigning himself to fate, hoping to be rescued onto the plane.
Obviously, he was overthinking it!
The Ghosts' fighters were completely annihilated in this sea area, the battlefield was cleaned up, and the seaplanes and transport planes merged with the bomber and fighter groups.
So many planes flew together in a mighty formation towards Saga Airport. This time, the fighters were still leading the way.
Tan Haodang led six fighters to Saga Airport first, circling at low altitude. He saw that there were still Ghosts active at the airport.
But there wasn't a single plane parked! He first ordered an attack on the Ghosts and at the same time reported the situation at the airport to Lin Fan.
Lin Fan ordered the fighter squadron to send a squadron to clear the Ghosts around the airport, and according to the group that had just attacked the Ghost's clicks, he sent a group of fifty-six bombers to assist in occupying the airport.
As soon as the order was issued, the entire fleet began to execute the mission. The Ghosts never thought that Saga Airport would attract an attack from the Special Operations Brigade.
Even more, they didn't expect the attack to be so fierce. In less than five minutes, looking down from the air, the entire airport could no longer see a single Ghost figure, and there were no weapons firing at the planes in the air.
At this time, it was time for the transport planes to take the stage. With more than sixty planes circling at low altitude to protect them, twelve transport planes slowly landed.
The astonished Mitsuo Taku ran out of the office, looked at the sky, and clearly saw that none of the planes in the air had taken off from here today.
These were enemy planes! Mitsuo Taku's reaction was the fastest.
After discovering this fact, he immediately ordered: "Hide! Hide!"
In his view: these enemy planes came here just to wreak havoc for a while and then fly away. As long as these Ghosts hid well, hid deep, and were not discovered by the planes in the air, that would be good.