Just in time, let’s verify Zhang Yong’s night flying ability. See if it’s really as magical as others say.

"Someone is coming!"

"arrive!"

"Report to the tower, due east, north of Tongling, an enemy aircraft has appeared. Heading 270, altitude 1800, speed 260."

"yes."

The staff officer hurried to convey the message.

Soon, the airport became busy. People of all kinds entered the fighting position one after another.

Although there is only one enemy plane that has appeared for the time being, no one can guarantee whether there will be more.

What if the Japanese invaders also mastered the ability to fly at night and wanted to make a sneak attack in the middle of the night?

The lively party is of course over.

All Soviet pilots returned to the team and internal arrangements began.

Zhang Yong himself is quite leisurely.

The Japanese fighter planes flew relatively slowly, with a speed of only about 260.

The height is also very low, only 1800 meters.

It means that the other party is probably out for reconnaissance. The purpose should be to become familiar with the dark night routes.

At that time, it was not impossible to fly at night. The main reason was that it was risky and prone to accidents. Therefore, the commander would not easily approve it.

If you go out, get lost, and can't come back, you'll end up in trouble. The commander will lose his head.

However, war has always been cruel. Once dispatching during the day cannot achieve the effect, it is possible to take risks by flying at night.

The Japanese invaders bombed Lanzhou Airport before, even using suicide bombings. Risky night flights seemed to be no longer a problem.

No matter how cruel it is, can it be more cruel than hitting the ground directly?

Send experts out to familiarize themselves with the route. In the future, if the experts lead the team, the success rate will be much higher.

Ready to go.

Over there, the Soviet pilots are also ready.

They decided to dispatch three Yi-15 fighter jets to follow Zhang Yong into the sky to find the Japanese fighter jets.

One of the pilots was Polainin. The other was Bugo.

And the big guy who lost in an arm-wrestling fight. I don’t know his name. I don’t care to know. I’m not very familiar with him either.

"Why not fly the I-16 fighter jet?" Zhang Yong wondered.

The I-15 is too slow. The biplane cannot catch up with the target at all.

The I-16 can barely compete with the Japanese Type 97 fighter jets.

"Danger……"

"I strongly recommend that you switch to the I-16 fighter jet. Because I can fly the BA-65 into the air. The speed is above 450 kilometers per hour."

"All right……"

Polenin and others then went back to discuss.

Finally, I switched to the I-16 fighter jet. Otherwise, it would not be able to keep up with the BA-65.

Negotiate communication frequency.

Also have their own code names.

Confirmed.

Continuous liftoff.

"Course 095, speed 400, altitude 4200!"

Zhang Yong took him flying.

Push the accelerator to the bottom and fly across the night sky at high speed.

The airborne map showed that the three I-16s behind were barely catching up.

There is indeed moonlight tonight. If you are an expert, you can indeed rely on the moonlight to identify reference objects on the ground.

In addition to instrument parameters, ground reference objects are very important navigation tools.

The technology of land aviation is often inferior to that of sea aviation.

Why?

It’s just that HNA is really difficult.

The sea is vast and there is no reference at all. We can only rely on instrument parameters.

At the same time, the area of ​​an aircraft carrier is really too small. Compared with a land airport, there is simply a difference between heaven and earth.

Land airports often have runways of more than 800 meters. However, the runways on aircraft carriers can be up to 180 meters.

"Zhang, don't we fly along the river?"

"No."

Zhang Yong replied.

If I have a free finger map, what reference objects are needed?

Doesn't exist.

In fact, for pilots, the Yangtze River is a good ground reference.

Basically, as long as you fly along the Yangtze River, you won't get lost. Perhaps this is why the Japanese fighter planes dared to fly out at night.

The air traffic control map showed that the route of the Japanese fighter planes was indeed flying along the Yangtze River.

The altitude of the Japanese fighter planes also continued to decrease. Finally, it even dropped to 300 meters.

Obviously, in some sections of the road, the Japanese fighter planes were unable to distinguish ground reference objects. Therefore, they needed to significantly reduce their altitude.

At this moment, the Japanese pilot may be taking notes in a notebook.

Record various route parameters.

After returning home, determine the route information by studying and judging various parameters.

Once mastered, the Japanese invaders' large fleet of aircraft can be dispatched at night to attack Hankou Airport or Nanchang Airport.

Flying in opposite directions. Extremely fast.

The distance between the two sides continues to shorten.

"Attention, attention, we are now about thirty kilometers away from the target!"

"receive!"

"Course adjustment 060, altitude 2500, speed 350!"

"receive."

Keep flying.

Japanese fighter planes approached from the north.

Large circle to the right.

near.

Lower the height.

The distance is getting closer.

6000 meters…

3000 meters…

"The target is in front of you to the right, at an altitude of about 700. Do you see it?"

"Saw it!"

"Saw it!"

"Saw it!"

Three Soviet pilots answered one after another.

Their doubts and doubts were all gone now.

Instead, there was deep admiration and a hint of envy.

There really were Japanese fighter planes.

Zhang Yong can really find targets in the dark.

It's amazing.
To be continued...