During the day-to-day training, Leonardo and Liu Ye were strangers from the beginning, gradually became tacit understanding, and even became each other's best comrades.

At this time, the Japanese army continued to invade southwest China, and the Flying Tigers took off and fought more and more times. The scenes of air combat in the film were portrayed in very well. The computer special effects used were even for those who were more than ten years ahead of the aesthetic standards, even if they saw them, they would still feel extremely realistic and could hardly find any problems.

In fact, for a long time, computer CG special effects have been innovating in technical means. For example, in the past, computer special effects had to be produced little by little. Later, computer special effects were directly modeled using 3D, and combined with human motion collection equipment and green screen, saving time and effort.

Although there are no such excellent technical means as in later generations, the most original ones are used to create special effects, and the effects are no less than those of later generations.

The reason why many movies in later generations were criticized for the 50-cent special effects was not that they were not at a good level, but that they simply wanted to save money.

"Titanic" released in 1998, "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" released in 2001 are outstanding representatives of today's computer special effects, with high budget support. The level of these movie special effects can still crush a large number of films produced in low- and medium-cost costs even after more than a decade.

The Flying Tigers, which has an investment of 200 million US dollars and has an extremely low casting cost, has invested a lot of budgets in real scene construction and computer special effects, and basically adhered to one view: those who can build real scenes will never use special effects. If you need special effects, you will definitely do the best regardless of cost. Even if you use them as graphics software, you must make the visual effect to the extreme.

Therefore, the visual effect it presents is almost the top of today's film industry. The pictures alone are enough to call it an epic blockbuster. The scenes of multiple consecutive air battles are definitely the best among all air battle movies so far.

If you have to pick out any faults from it, in Li Mu's opinion, there is only one fault: not 3d.

There is really no way to do this. 3D technology has not yet matured. From shooting to screening and viewing, 3D devices have not yet been popularized, so this regret can only be made up for the 3D version in the future.

The air battles were presented at a very fast pace. In each battle, Liu Ye and Leonardo cooperated more and more tacitly. In the later stage, Leonardo became Liu Ye's fixed wingman, and the two became the strongest combination of the entire Flying Tigers.

One day, the Japanese Air Force gathered a large number of fighter jets to invade, and all the planes of the Flying Tigers took off to the air to meet the enemy.

This is the largest battle and the most intense battle that the Flying Tigers have faced since its establishment.

The two sides fought fiercely in the sky, and the entire sky was filled with the sound of huge machine cannons, engines and the whistling of planes.

From time to time, a fighter plane fell to the ground in black smoke or hit the mountain, and the explosion was deafening.

All the commanders of the Flying Tigers, ground maids, and doctors and nurses were all tightly clinging to each other. They didn't know whether the Flying Tigers who took off to the sky to win this war and could come back alive.

The nurse played by Anne Hathaway was nervous and at a loss in the hospital. She looked out the window from time to time and asked for the battle situation. When she heard that a plane was injured and forced to land, she looked around and watched impatiently. All she thought was Liu Ye, and even quietly drew a cross on her chest, begging God to bless him to come back alive.

At this time, the picture returned to the air.

Leonardo and Liu Ye cooperated with each other and successfully shot down a Japanese Zero fighter jet.

At this time, the three Zero fighter jets found that the two of them had strong combat power, so they formed a formation to bite the two from the side and rear, trying to shoot them down.

Liu Ye used Professor Chennard's rolling maneuver to successfully slow down the plane in an instant and go around behind the enemy plane, but when Leonardo was maneuvering, he was shot in the left wing.

Immediately afterwards, an explosion occurred on his left wing, half of the wing was blown away, and the plane also turned around and fell toward the ground in an oblique circle.

After a moment, the ground exploded and the fire surged into the sky.

Liu Ye thought Leonardo had died, and while being angry, he opened fire fiercely at the Japanese fighter plane.

The other Flying Tigers also rushed to support and worked together to shoot down several enemy planes. The Japanese Air Force saw that it was at a disadvantage and was at the end of its strength, so it immediately retreated.

The Flying Tigers temporarily repelled the enemy at a tragic price. After a long battle, most of the fighters exhausted their fuel and began to return. Liu Ye flew back and forth several times at the location of Leonardo's crash. Without seeing any traces of Leonardo's survival, he could only return with heartache.

At this time, at the Flying Tigers Airport, everyone had already learned that the enemy was retreating, and the officers breathed a sigh of relief, and the others were celebrating the victory.

Aircraft began to land, and many of them landed with injuries, smoked and fired. Some even failed to land and exploded and caught fire. Ground personnel urgently dispatched rescue, and the entire airport was busy.

Anne Hathaway finished her work and ran to the airport, staring at the landing planes carefully, but all the planes seemed to have returned and landed, and she did not see the one Liu Ye had.

Anne Hathaway was anxious, but she still looked up at the sky full of red clouds, hoping to see Liu Ye's fighter plane.

At the same time, Tom Hanks also walked to the other side of the airport. He also looked at the sky anxiously, looking around, waiting for Liu Ye and Leonardo's plane to return.

Seeing that it was getting late, he said to his adjutant with a nervous look on his face: "Our two of our best pilots have not come back yet, God bless them not to have any accidents."

At this time, someone heard the roar of the plane, and everyone looked tight. Looking down, they saw an airplane emerge from the clouds and Liu Ye returned.

However, only Liu Ye himself was the one who returned.

When Liu Ye's plane landed on the runway, Tom Hanks and a group of officers rushed towards him together, and Anne Hathaway also ran towards Liu Ye alone from another direction.

Anne Hathaway was closer. When she ran to Liu Ye first, a hint of heart moved across Liu Ye's expression, while Anne Hathaway rushed into his arms without any pause.

Liu Ye didn't know what to do at once, and he was very nervous, his hands were too cramped and had nowhere to put them, his expression was dull and dull.

At this time, Tom Hanks also arrived. When he saw this situation, he touched his nose awkwardly, and then asked Liu Ye, Leonardo's whereabouts.

Liu Ye looked sad and told Tom Hanks in detail about the entire process of witnessing Leonardo's crash.

Tom Hanks was stunned for a moment, his expression was full of sadness, and he instinctively recalled the scene when he bet against the unruly Leonardo at the Flying Club.

Liu Ye said at this time: "I searched low and could not find any signs of survival within my visual range, nor did I see an open parachute."

Tom Hanks asked: "Is the crashed area in the Japanese-occupied area?"

Liu Ye nodded.

Tom Hanks' expression appeared a little despair.

As early as when teaching pilots, he told these flying tiger team members that if they are forced to land or parachute, they should avoid the Japanese-occupied area as much as possible. When landing, they must seek help from local people instead of local governments, because no one is sure whether the local government has surrendered to the enemy.

The pilots who were forced to land in the Japanese-occupied area had a life-threatening death because the ground forces in the Japanese-occupied area were very sensitive to the pilots of the Flying Tigers. Their superiors had already given strict orders: once the Flying Tigers planes were forced to land or crash in the occupied area, they must find the wreckage and pilots. No matter whether the pilot was dead or alive, even if they were burned into a skeleton, they must be able to spell out one person. Otherwise, even if the entire occupied area was dug three feet, the Flying Tigers pilots must be found and executed.

Therefore, after learning that Leonardo's plane crashed in the Japanese-occupied area, Tom Hanks immediately determined that Leonardo would definitely not be able to come back alive.

Thinking of Leonardo's handsome and unruly smile, he murmured to himself: "I brought that child into this war. If it weren't for me, he should have lived his own life safely in Texas, but now, he left himself in a strange country on the other side of the earth. I can't even send his body back and hand it over to his parents..."

Liu Ye instinctively said: "I'm sorry..."

Tom Hanks wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, shook his head, and said, "It's not your fault, you have tried your best."

As he said that, he glanced at Anne Hathaway who was hugging Liu Ye tightly and said, "If the Japanese don't come tomorrow, don't train, have a good rest, and don't let the girl down for you."

Immediately, Tom Hanks turned around and left. Liu Ye, who was confused about the charm, subconsciously pushed Anne Hathaway away and chased after him and said, "Mr. Chennard, I don't want to miss any opportunity for training!"

Tom Hanks looked back at him, and saw Anne Hathaway running away with tears, and said helplessly: "What is your mind pretending? Can't you tell she likes you?"

Liu Ye said a little embarrassed, but firmly: "I have sworn that I will not drive away the Japanese and that I will not think about the love between children!"

"Hey..." Tom Hanks sighed and turned and left.

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The picture then returns to the air battle scene.

When Leonardo crashed, there was a Japanese Army patrol far away. One of the Japanese soldiers pointed to the plane that was spinning and falling in the distance and whispered: "That plane... should be from the Flying Tigers?"

The Japanese soldier next to him nodded and said, "Although it's a bit far away, it seems to be."

The captain-like man spoke, "The location should be in our occupied area, hurry up!"

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese soldiers immediately ran towards the crash.

At the same time, on a small hill, several Chinese farmers were also watching the plane. One of the older men said, "It was the Flying Tigers' plane that fell down! Erwazi and Sanwazi, come with me and see if the Flying Tigers' pilots are still alive!"

The young man called Erwazi blurted nervously: "Uncle Laotian, the Japanese have talked to the second ghost many times. Who dares to rescue him? The pilot of the Flying Tigers will be beheaded!"

The older man scolded: "The Flying Tigers are fighting in the sky and are not afraid of falling down. Why are you so timid? If you don't go, I'll go by myself!"

After saying that, the older man knocked his cigarette puddle on the stone, stuffed it into his waist and ran down the hillside.
Chapter completed!