return fire vs strike back

return fire

verb
  • To shoot at the person from whom fire is being received 

noun
  • The firing initiated after receiving incoming fire. 

strike back

verb
  • To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or opponents. 

  • To leave or set out (in a particular direction, often to where one has been). 

How often have the words return fire and strike back occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )