Chapter 669: Sky Death 3
"That's how one of our artillery batteries is over? Is that so? Little Moltke said with a calm face. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The 1st Long-Range Artillery Company has been decided." A staff officer next to him said.
Compared with Moltke's understated description, the brothers of the first long-range artillery company on the front line were moved, what black smoke rose in the distance, the shaking of the earth, the bomb smashed out a crater with a diameter of more than 20 meters, or something is nothing, they now have a more direct experience, after all, it is the first air raid, there are still planes that threw the bomb poorly, an incendiary bomb fell less than 500 meters away from the artillery position, the weight of this bomb is a bit large, plus a little wind, Hundreds of kilograms of napalm splashed out, the wind fueled the fire, and a line of fire rushed towards the artillery position!
"Just one special incendiary bomb can render half of a 75mm artillery battery incapacitated. It was definitely a demonic weapon, and the flames with napalm scattered like raindrops on the ground, and soon formed a sea of fire. An officer who had been involved in the firefighting and had half of his hair burned off reported.
"The effect is good, but it needs to be improved, when the napalm explodes, the scope is not too wide, resulting in a great waste of lethality, in fact, we can make the bomb completely barrel-shaped. Then design a horizontal pylon, press the stable wings on both sides, and when the bomb is thrown, it will roll like a drifting stone, and then spread the internal incendiary evenly over a large area ....... Huck summed it up after returning home.
At the same time, several other squads quickly found their targets, and needless to say, they threw bombs into the demarcated area, and in a very short time, the Bavarian Black Hawks took out a company of 150mm long-range artillery, a logistics supply point, and another company of 210mm heavy howitzers.
The last squad was eyeing a mobile Prussian mobile artillery detachment, accompanied by a battalion of soldiers, and two companies of 77mm rapid-fire guns were maneuvering along the newly renovated road under the tow of trucks, just as the German bomber unit arrived.
In this attack, the Bavarian Air Force for the first time tested several ...... of hypothetical approaches to low-altitude licking and bomb attacks in the face of open terrain descending troops. The first point is that in the face of a large number of soft targets, small bombs with a larger coverage area and a larger number are better used than large bombs. Second, repeated machine-gun fire over a long period of time can instantly demoralize an infantryman, even if the bullets do not reach the opponent.
In order to avoid damage, all the planes attacked a strip area almost parallel to the convoy, and the dull sound of shrapnel explosions came from a distance, and a second later, the flower of death formed by flying steel balls and shrapnel exploded over the bushes, and from the air, the patches of bushes seemed to be directly overwhelmed by a pair of huge hands. The blast wave and shrapnel easily shattered everything they came across.
The intense pressure from the whistling of machine guns and the explosion of bombs overwhelmed the soldiers who had seen the air raid up close for the first time, some ran in the opposite direction, some instinctively sought cover, or simply lay on the ground and died, while several vehicles trying to flee also fell into the mud puddle or swamp next to the road in a panic and could not move. Officers tried to restore order from the new one, but were unsuccessful until the group was withdrawn. And this unit was not surprisingly judged out.
And just when the four bomber teams were returning home, there was such a small episode, several Prussian planes ran into the Black Hawk bombers of a small team that was returning, when the other side tried to bite the tail from the rear, they actually found that the Black Hawk bombers that threw away the bombs and used up the general fuel were even faster than the fighters, and the Prussian pilots shook their heads helplessly.
Richthofen was a special case, using excellent anticipation and maneuvering to get in front of the German plane, while taking advantage of the altitude and starting a shallow dive attack. "Closer, closer!" The future Red Baron stared carefully at the target in front of him, and he chose a Black Hawk bomber to the left of the opponent's fleet as a target, and the simple ring sight gradually locked onto the opponent. "If it's a real fight, you'll be dead at 200 meters." Richthofen prepares to pull the camera button next to him as a record of the downfall of his opponent.
However, just as he was approaching 800 meters, suddenly tongues of fire flew out from the side, instantly forming a fine network of fire, which is at least more than ten machine guns to fire, the roar of the machine guns, and the sound of bullets whizzing past the side made the newcomer panic, and when a 12.7mm bullet rotated and bit off a large wing of the aircraft, Richthofen finally recognized the situation and began to disengage.
"Damn, I wasn't going to hit him!" Huck was also sweating profusely, he just wanted to scare this stunned young man, he really didn't intend to knock the other party down, so he chose to fire at a long distance, However, the ballistics of the 12.7mm machine gun are very good, and the density of firepower is also very large, coupled with the fact that the aircraft speed is too slow in this era, and Richthofen's luck is too bad, so the accident occurred, but fortunately, the bomber team also stopped quickly, and finally the future famous pilot drove the plane into a mud puddle, and he also learned the first lesson of air combat - never charge a bomber formation with strong self-defense firepower and flying in formation.
In the end, 35 of the 36 bombers successfully returned to the base, and one of the bombers had some problems with the fuel supply equipment on the road, and made a forced landing in the field, and then was dismantled by a team of engineers and transported back to the base in pieces. After successfully destroying 2 artillery batteries, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a storage warehouse along the way, he took 3 Prussian planes and 2 artillery observation balloons with him on the way back. The results are brilliant.
After returning to the base, the Black Hawk bomber formation went into more than one hour of preparation, and after completing refueling and hanging bombs, the second group of pilots immediately ran onto the plane, and according to today's preparation speed, it would take more than two hours to make a round trip, and it was less than 12 o'clock when they set off again. If you're lucky, we'll be able to blow it up again before it gets dark today. Three times a day. The prince was very satisfied with the attendance.
So, just as Moltke Jr. was eating lunch, the second wave of the Bavarian Air Force attack finally came, and coincidentally, one of the waves of bombers flew over Moltke Jr.'s head ....... Watching the huge shadows cast on the ground by these planes moving rapidly, little Moltke was not good
"Preparing for a meeting, our original plan is no longer needed!" Little Moltke said, throwing the spoon in his hand.
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