Chapter 891 The Frightened Enemy
Looking at the enemy plane in front of them that seemed a bit clumsy because it had reached the maximum speed, our pilots who had already caught up to the machine gun range slowed down.

Hitting such a stupid bird is even easier than shooting at a target.

He adjusted the fighter's attitude, placed the enemy plane firmly in the sight's halo, and began to dive slightly from behind and above the enemy.

He didn't want to open fire too early as the enemy had been completely frightened and posed no threat to him.

He wanted to fire at the most appropriate distance. The trajectory of the shell intersected with his plane at a certain distance in front of it, and he wanted to fire at that point.

He looked at the size of the enemy plane in the aiming halo and judged the distance by the relationship between the enemy plane and the halo. We are familiar with the F-86. We have fought against both the American guys and the rebels on the other side of the strait, and the troops are very experienced.

This is it. The pilot looked at the enemy plane and pressed the firing button of the machine gun in his hand hard.

"Da da da da da..."

From both sides of the wing roots of the Zhan-6, two red lines flew out at high speed, like a flexible snake's tongue, licking the enemy aircraft in front.

Our comrades aimed very accurately. After all, it was a dead target that had given up on maneuvering. The two red lines intersected on the fuselage of the enemy plane, almost blowing up all the way from the tail to the nose.

Our pilot held down the firing button tightly and launched an attack from 600 meters, and continued to fight until 80 meters before disengaging. At this time, the enemy plane exploded and disintegrated in the air with a bunch of flames.

The fragments of the disintegrated enemy plane even punched several holes in our fighter plane.

"Report, I shot down a fleeing enemy plane about 10 kilometers from the border. The enemy plane exploded in mid-air and the wreckage fell into our territory."

After hearing the latest battle report, there was jubilation in the command center, radar station and the air. It would be the best thing to completely annihilate the invading enemy. We won a complete victory, and a victory without any damage!

If we don’t count the last pursuing fighter plane, which had several holes made by the fragments of the enemy plane’s explosion.

The only thing that made me unhappy was the four fighter planes that came from Baiyu Airport to help. What did that mean? They were gone? In such a short time, such a large group of enemies were gone?

At least leave one or two for us.

I had even jettisoned the auxiliary fuel tank, and then I found out that there was no need to fight, so I had jettisoned the fuel tank in vain.

However, they can wait until the plane lands to slowly discuss this matter with their comrades. They flew here and even dropped the auxiliary fuel tanks, so they had no choice but to visit the western airport on the plateau. After deducting the fuel consumed during the patrol, they would be a little short of fuel for the flight back after dropping the auxiliary fuel tanks.

"Search and rescue team, board the plane and set off to location XXXX. There should be 6 enemy pilots parachuting there. Capture them all."

Capturing prisoners was one of the most popular things, and all three search and rescue helicopters were dispatched.

The prisoners were very easy to capture. When our helicopter arrived at the air combat area, we quickly discovered the enemy who had begun to actively fire flares.

If you don't capture prisoners in this place, you will end up freezing to death or starving to death. The pilots of Zangsan are not stupid. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. After all, the people of Dongda treat prisoners well, which is well-known internationally. During the Korean War, many countries enjoyed this treatment.

However, we only caught 5 enemies, and we couldn't find the remaining one. Who was so smart to use a white parachute on the snowy mountain? If the parachute accidentally covered a person, if the person was still unconscious, he would basically be dead, and we couldn't see him.

This enemy was not discovered and dug out until 30 years later, when he was accidentally discovered by comrades engaged in geological and exploration work.

In the capital, the headquarters received an urgent report from the joint land and air command on the western front of the plateau.

"At 3:37 this afternoon, 4 fighters from our unit joined 16 fighters from Baiyu Airport, a total of 21 fighters to fight against 86 F-3 fighters from Sindhu that invaded our airspace. The battle ended at 45:21. A total of 5 enemy planes were shot down, 3 enemy pilots were captured, and all enemy planes crashed within our territory. Except for one fighter that was slightly injured, we suffered no losses. A total of 33 Thunderbolt-30 air-to-air missiles, 329 mm cannon shells, and four sets of auxiliary fuel tanks were consumed."

The words are few, but the matter is significant.

This battle report shocked everyone in the headquarters.

Not surprised by the victory, but surprised by the exchange ratio.

There will be losses and sacrifices in fighting. Everyone of us, from top to bottom, is very clear about this and faces this fact.

However, they won a great victory by shooting down 21 enemy fighter planes, with no losses except one slightly damaged one, and this result was beyond everyone's expectations.

If they knew that there were only 12 fighters actually involved in the battle, and that the one that was slightly injured was destroyed by the enemy aircraft fragments because it fired too hard, they would probably not know how to react. "A beautiful battle, a beautiful battle, I never expected it, I never expected it."

"Not a single plane was lost? This..."

"A great contribution has been made. The Western Front Airport and the Northern Xinjiang fighter unit have made a great contribution!" They knew very well that this exchange would scare the enemy's bladder to death, and subsequent battles would be easier.

There are many examples of armies being frightened by a battle and never daring to attack again. After the Navy of the Crying Country had its cruiser, the General Belgrano, stolen by the John Bull nuclear submarine, it never dared to attack again and stayed in the port, watching the army on the Falkland Islands be defeated and surrender.

"Have they verified that there is really no loss?"

"There shouldn't be any problem. Comrades are responsible."

"Those who have made great contributions are not only the troops on the front line, but also the comrades who support us in the rear."

A big victory may not be surprising, but in the air combat, the leaders were very clear that the 21:0 victory was beyond the scope of technical and tactical decisions. This was the result that could only be achieved by leading the enemy in all aspects, just like the exchange ratio of more than 1:20 in the first phase of the battle in Shannan area.

"Fight well! All the enemy's plots will be thwarted by the efforts of our heroic army! Let's make it public so that the enemies, whether they are the enemies we are fighting or potential enemies, can see that we are invincible with the support of the masses. All the conspiracies and delusions of the monsters and demons are in vain!"

That evening, the news was announced by international and domestic radio stations.

In addition to introducing the battle situation, we also strongly condemned the enemy's irresponsible behavior of brazenly sending its air force to invade our airspace, arbitrarily escalating the situation, and expanding the scope and intensity of the conflict. We also pointed out that this was the enemy seeking its own destruction and we would resolutely defeat and strike it.

To be honest, most people can hardly understand the second half, but the first half of the battle, which is clear in facts and can be understood by just knowing mathematics, is enough to scare many people.

For Zang San, this was a bolt from the blue. Although they knew something was wrong when none of the 21 fighter planes returned, they still held out a glimmer of hope. Perhaps even though they suffered heavy losses, they had completed the mission of destroying the enemy's air force on the western front of the plateau.

Perhaps after completing the mission, they parachuted or made an emergency landing in the mountains, at some small field airport or on open ground due to combat radius issues.

Even after they completed their mission, they were forced to make an emergency landing at their western neighbor.

Even if the neighbor to the west fought with them and blood flew everywhere, as long as they could make an emergency landing there, at least they could look good. Decades later, Xiao Yi and Da Yi fought for 8 years. When Xiao Yi was attacked by multinational forces, their planes also flew to Da Yi and hid. Da Yi did not shoot them down directly.

However, with our battle report and statement, Zang San knew that this air operation was a complete failure.

"This is impossible! Dongda people can't have this ability. It's impossible for them to not suffer any losses! They are bragging! They are lying!" Zang San's air force commander roared at an emergency joint combat meeting of multiple arms.

"Whether they suffered losses or not, none of our 21 F-86s returned, that's a fact."

"The F-86 is our newest fighter jet, and it is unbelievable that it would suffer such heavy losses."

"What do we do next?"

"Send a call for help to the Citigroups and the White Bears, asking them to support us at all costs. We need planes, artillery, tanks, we need all weapons and resources."

"Their support cannot be unlimited. What should we do ourselves? This is the most important thing." This person is one who can see things clearly.

"We have launched international condemnation and asked the international community to support us and not recognize the other side's accusations. None of our air forces appeared in the other side's airspace. They are slandering us."

The smarter Zang San scoffed at this: "Condemn, ask for help, accuse... Can't we do something real ourselves? It's useless to deny this matter. They have the wreckage of 21 of our planes and 5 pilots!"

If it is relatively easy to get the wreckage of one plane to slander someone, then getting the wreckage of 21 planes to slander someone at once seems like a fantasy, and the five pilots are a hurdle they cannot get around.

The pilots were all high castes, and their relatives who stayed in the country were not easy to fool. Moreover, the widows, orphans and elderly people of the other 16 dead or missing pilots were not as easy to deal with as the "untouchables".

"Continue mobilization, destroy all unnecessary documents, and prepare to move the country's main administrative agencies to the south."

"Compared to the administrative agencies, our air force should be relocated to the south now! If we continue to gather in the north, once the enemy launches a retaliation, our vulnerable air force will be almost gone. It's bad enough that we are powerless against the East Masters. If they are eliminated, we will be powerless against the enemy in the west."

(End of this chapter)