Chapter 582: The Gap in Equipment (Add. 4)
Historically, the Battle of Britain ended in defeat for Germany, because Germany was mainly the attacking side, and they needed to fly over Britain, and the BF109 at that time had a serious lack of range, which made them unable to let go.
Moreover, no matter how good a pilot is, there will always be times when he misses, and for British pilots, it doesn't matter if they fall, as long as they don't fall to their death, pat the dirt on their bodies, and then fight.
However, it was not possible for German pilots, who were either dead or captured once they parachuteed, so, judging by the personnel, Germany could only be constantly consumed.
Now, the situation is different, the airspace where the two sides are fighting is only the narrow English Channel, and over the strait, hundreds of warplanes have gathered, rolling back and forth, fighting, and dazzling.
Obviously, a plane was in pursuit, but in an instant, it became attacked by other planes, and fighter jets continued to drag black smoke and fall from the sky.
At this time, even on the sea, the people who were quickly operating their ships were looking up intermittently, looking at the battle in the sky, it was really too fierce!
"No!" The fisherman Bailey, on his fishing boat, shouted loudly, and he looked up at the sky, and there were constantly warplanes painted with blue, white and red circles and falling down.
Of course he recognized it, it was his own fighter!
The fall of one plane after another is quite bad, can your own air force defeat the Luftwaffe?
He looked up and saw a pilot jump out of the cabin, and then a white umbrella flower bloomed in the air, and he immediately changed direction and drove in the direction where the other party fell.
He couldn't help but save.
If the pilot is still alive when he jumps, he may be saved by jumping into the sea, but if he is injured when he jumps off, he may be unconscious when he falls into the sea.
In this way, the other party has no hope of survival, and the parachute rope will wrap around him, wrapping him up like a rice dumpling, and letting him be swallowed up in the sea.
Saving anyone is saving, as an old fisherman who has been floating on the sea for decades, Bailey's face is bronzed, his beard is still with crystal droplets, and his eyes are full of concern.
Just like Churchill propagated, these people are like his children, whether it is the expeditionary force on the other side of the river or the plane in the sky.
"Whoa." Just then, an exhausted, naked man climbed up on his boat.
The man, apparently had been swimming in the sea for a long time, his whole body was red, his chest was constantly heaving, and when he came up, he lay there, unable to get up again.
"Who are you?" Bailey asked.
"Expeditionary Force, 3rd Infantry Division, Division Commander, Montgomery." Montgomery said to the fisherman, "Please observe the sea, my men must be nearby." ”
Montgomery finally swam over, and at this time, he had reached the middle line of the strait, and the more than ten kilometers of swimming made him almost exhaust the strength of his whole body.
You know, those who crossed the English Channel in later generations were fully prepared and had enough physical strength, but what about them? Hurriedly marched, fought, and until the final defeat, they jumped into the sea.
By the time they entered the sea, many of them had already lost most of their strength.
The coverage of the rockets allowed only a few of them to swim away, and some of these people, in the process of swimming, were physically exhausted, and were eventually swept away by the waves and disappeared without a trace.
He hoped to rescue his men, but Bailey couldn't see anything at all, and there were no new swimmers on the surface of the sea.
Montgomery lay on this fishing boat, looking at the sky, this air battle was fierce, but the German side firmly held the upper hand!
In ten minutes, more than a dozen Spitfires fell, but only one German fighter was damaged, a ratio that was absolutely unacceptable to our side.
Without air supremacy, it will be even more difficult for the expeditionary force that wants to save itself.
"Wow." The pilot who fell into the water was pulled up by Bailey, he drank many sips of seawater, and now, lying on the boat, vomiting weakly, spit out, it will be more comfortable.
"It's not that our pilots aren't brave, it's the gap in the performance of our fighters." Montgomery couldn't help but say with regret that it was not because his own soldiers were not brave, but because his tanks were too poor to compete with the Germans.
This is true on land, and it is also true on the sea.
"Yes." The rescued pilot on the side also gritted his teeth at this time: "The German planes are simply terrible, they can directly maneuver with negative G, if we want to do it, we can only roll and roll over first and then enter the dive to maintain positive G, so as to prevent the engine from stalling due to oil failure." ”
Just now, he was shot down by other German fighters because he did such a maneuver, which caused him to move slowly, and in the past, they never knew that the German fighters must not have used carburetors!
This small gap alone made the German fighters invincible, and when they followed the opponent behind and then aimed and fired, the opponent threw themselves off as soon as they made such a maneuver!
And once you are bitten by the other party, there is almost no possibility of escape!
Their own fighters have enough power, climb fast, and go around in circles in the horizontal direction well, but the German fighters do not take the bait at all.
It can be said that among the pilots in Germany, there are already a large number of old fritters!
Montgomery finally gave up on observing in the sky, and he silently closed his eyes.
He could already guess that Britain was really going to lose, and if the expeditionary force could not be withdrawn, then Britain would be greatly damaged, and the narrow English Channel could stop the German attack?
No! God will not let that madman rule all of Europe!
God will help the British Empire, even if the island of Great Britain is conquered, Britain will not perish, Britain and its imperial subjects abroad, they will continue to fight until the new world, when God thinks it is appropriate, to use all its power to save and liberate this old world!
At this moment, he remembered Churchill's speech, England, never conquered!