While the Germans waited for the attack, the British Expeditionary Force and the German air force were constantly fighting.

With the retirement of the war, the importance of the aircraft became more and more obvious, in order to counter the superior air force of the British Expeditionary Force, Germany did its best to develop a biplane with good performance, of course, the "performance is not bad" here is compared with the aircraft equipped by the German army before, and compared with the "strong wind" equipped by the British Expeditionary Force, the German biplane is still at an obvious disadvantage.

Despite the obvious inferiority of the aircraft, the German pilots bravely took to the air to meet the battle.

However, the gap in strength cannot be bridged with courage.

Southern Africa began to study aircraft ten years ago, during the Italian-Turkish War, when the aircraft was just unveiled on the battlefield, the Southern African Air Force already had quite mature tactics, although after the outbreak of the world war, the Luftwaffe was catching up, but in a short period of time, the Luftwaffe was the younger brother who had no ability to resist in front of Southern Africa.

The role of "younger brother" is estimated to be played by the German army for a long time.

Relatively speaking, the division of labor in the air force in southern Africa was clear, with fighter planes coming forward to seize air supremacy, and ground support aircraft attacking German infantry units.

The Germans were armed with anti-aircraft machine guns, but there were not many of them, and their air defense was extremely limited.

The number of German planes was not large, after all, Germany had been blockaded for four and a half years, and there was an extreme shortage of all kinds of strategic materials, and if it had not occupied Romania, these German planes would not even be able to take off due to lack of fuel.

Speaking of fuel, just last month, Germany and Romania signed an agreement under which Romania leases the vast majority of its oil fields to Germany for 99 years, with the Germans also having the right of first refusal if new oil fields are discovered in Romania.

This agreement is a testament to the greed of the Germans, who, like the Brest-Litovsk Peace Agreement, will not give up any opportunity to make profits, and it is almost like squeezing the marrow.

Now the triumphant Germans probably do not think that any gift that fate gave to the Germans was secretly marked with a price, how the Germans are now blackmailing the Russians and Romanians, and how France and England will extort the Germans after the end of the world war.

On the morning of the 21st, there was a thick fog in the sky of Fort Thierry, hundreds of British Expeditionary Force and German planes were fighting each other, from time to time planes with thick smoke swept through the air, some planes were hit by volleys and exploded, and various parts of the planes and pilots fell like rain, like an oil painting that was constantly collapsing, collapsing, disintegrating, and shattering.

The soldiers on both sides of the river were watching the battle in the air, and if a German plane was shot down, the officers and men of the integrated 1st Division would take off their hats and cheer collectively; If a plane of the British Expeditionary Force was shot down, the same would be true of the German soldiers on the other side of the river.

In order to better confront the Allied air force, the Luftwaffe has now also begun to study tactics, limited to the number of aircraft, the Luftwaffe used a two-plane tactic, one long plane and one wingman, to cooperate with each other to launch an attack on the air force of the expeditionary force.

The tactics of the Expeditionary Force Air Force are still a "large circle formation" composed of six planes, and this tactic has obvious advantages in the confrontation with the two-plane tactics, especially when the aircraft performance is superior, most of the downed planes are German planes, and only a few Expeditionary Force planes are shot down, and most of the pilots also parachute in time and are successfully rescued by the ground troops.

German pilots also parachuted when planes were shot down, and at the height of the air battle, a German biplane was hit, and the pilot was forced to parachute, which was located in the area controlled by the expeditionary forces.

Immediately, more than a dozen gendarmes of the 1st Integrated Division were chasing parachutes in armored vehicles to arrest people.

A German pilot did not control his parachute properly, and when he landed, the parachute hung on a tree and was directly captured by the gendarmerie.

Another German pilot had better luck, his parachute landed in a wood, and when the gendarmes arrived, only the parachute was left hanging from a tree, and the pilot escaped in time by cutting the rope of the parachute with a dagger.

After an urgent interrogation of the captured pilot, the gendarmes received the surprising news that the other escaped pilot was named Erich, the same name as the current chief of the German General Staff, Ludendorff.

It is no coincidence that this Erich is the youngest son of Ludendorff.

Ludendorff worked hard as a young man and was single until he was 44 years old.

Ludendorff at that time had not yet made his way and worked beside the legendary Generalissimo Alfred von Schlieffen, the chief of the General Staff of the German army, with the rank of major.

One night, Ludendorff was walking home after a day's work as usual, and it was raining that night, and on the way back, Ludendorff met a woman who was sheltering from the rain.

So Ludendorff invited the woman to share an umbrella, and Ludendorff sent the woman home, and this woman was Ludendorff's later wife, Margaret Penelt.

At this time, Margaret Penelt was married, had three sons and a daughter, her marriage was not happy, and later Margaret Penelt divorced, and Ludendorff immediately formed a new family with Margaret.

In this way, Ludendorff had three stepsons and a stepdaughter, fortunately the children all admired Ludendorff, and they all followed in Ludendorff's footsteps to join the army, the eldest son Franz was wounded in the first year of the world war and was awarded the Iron Cross, after recovering from his injuries, the military decided that Franz's injury was not suitable to return to the army, so Franz became a pilot after hard training.

In September last year, Franz's plane was shot down over the English Channel, and search and rescue personnel on the surface did not find his body, so he was added to the list of missing persons.

Erich, who escaped, is Ludendorff's youngest stepson, and he has a very good relationship with Ludendorff and is Ludendorff's hope, having just turned 18 this year.

Erich followed in the footsteps of his stepfather and brother to join the army, but was shot down at Fort Thierry, and the gendarmes immediately reported the situation to Henry Gardner, who sent a company of soldiers with military dogs to conduct a carpet search around Erich's parachute.

"Erich—come out, we know you're here, and we'll keep you safe—"

"Erich, think of your mother, he's waiting for you to come home, come out, we'll give you the treatment that matches your status-"

"Erich, I see you, don't hide from the little darling, I know you're behind the tree-"

The Australian GIs were looking for and shouting in the woods, and there were clearings around the woods, and there was a high probability that Erich was still in the woods, and he had nowhere to run.

"Look carefully, pay attention to every tree around you, every hole in the tree, every pit in the ground, don't rush to shoot, we have to catch it alive-" The officer brandished his pistol and urged the soldiers to search inch by inch, the ground in the woods was sporadic with snow, the footprints were still very conspicuous, and soon, the soldiers surrounded the hollow where Erich was hiding.

"Erich, I know you're inside, don't put up a senseless resistance, throw your pistol out, I promise to give you treatment that matches your status." The officer shouted to Erich, hoping that Erich would surrender on his own initiative.

"Dream, even if I die, I will not surrender to you!" Erich was emotional, his voice was still very immature, after all, he was a young man who had just turned 18 years old, but Erich was by no means short of courage, as the son of Ludendorff, Erich would never surrender.

"Don't be impulsive Erich, listen to me, you've done everything you can, it's not your fault that the plane was shot down, you've done your duty as a soldier, there's no shame in laying down your arms, it's the courage to face life is what a warrior should be, I promise, I won't use your status to do anything despicable, you just need to stay in our prisoner of war camps, and when the world war is over, you can go home-" The officer said bitterly, even if the British Expeditionary Force did nothing, as long as it could capture Ludendorff's sonThat's a great honor.

Erich didn't speak, clearly struggling internally.

"Erich, you are only 18 years old, your life has just begun, think of your mother, she raised you through hardships, she must not want you to die in obscurity in this tree hole, listen to me, throw out the gun, if you have a saber to keep, we will not take off your rank, so many people who are higher and older than you have surrendered, no one is too demanding of you, you have done a good job-" The officer does psychological work, shouting is actually a very difficult thing, No one knew that sentence would work.

"Shut up! I am Ludendorff's son, my brother died heroically last year, and I will not disgrace my family with my dishonorable deeds—" Erich's voice grew agitated.

"Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, we can temporarily withdraw from this wood, and give you plenty of time to think about it—" The officer, realizing that Erich might go to extremes, quietly motioned for several gendarmes to approach the hollow in the tree where Erich was hiding.

As long as Ludendorff's son can be captured, it is worth paying some price, not to mention that the value of life is the same, the life of a soldier is also a life, in the real world, the value of life is really different, not to mention that in a world war, life-

It's grass mustard.

"Don't come, don't come here, don't force me—" Erich howled frantically.

"Okay, okay, let's not go over—" The officer tried his best to reassure.

The gendarmes who were preparing to arrest people could not advance or retreat.

The soldiers around him with guns on guard had a cold expression.

Even the military dogs lay on the ground and did not dare to bark.

Bang!

In the silence of the woods, the sound of gunfire is exceptionally crisp!

ps: Out of chapter here, I'm sure I'm going to be scolded again, but this is the need for plot promotion - the point is, this chapter is 3000 words is enough-