While the thunderous blow of the Huaxia Strategic Air Force was brewing in the clouds, the Luftwaffe interception forces were also gathering, waiting, and preparing. They did not enter the battlefield prematurely, but circled and waited on the periphery of the battlefield. The Germans lacked such a fighter as the Foxbat that could both fight in the air and intercept at the same time. The firepower of the FW190 is enough against fighters, but the penetration of the 20mm MG151-20 cannon is nothing in the face of the heavy armored defense of the Huaxia Eagle strategic bomber! The power of thin-shell bullets is very great, but it is useless to not be able to penetrate the opponent. So the Germans had to put heavier armaments on the interceptor planes. For example, large-caliber rockets, 30mm machine guns or something.

"The difference in national strength between us and the Entente can be seen from the composition of the interceptor group. The reason why our number of aircraft looks so large is that to a large extent it is achieved by reducing the number of twin-engine aircraft and increasing the number of single-engine aircraft. The cost of the former is about 1.5 to 1.8 times that of the latter. The combat effectiveness of twin-engine aircraft is generally not comparable to that of single-engine aircraft except for range. We built an offensive force, but we didn't think about how to defend it! And when Huaxia launched an attack on the Baku oil fields, our problems were fully exposed, so much so that the FW190 fighters had to take on tasks that were not suitable for them! After the battle, Garland wrote in his summary.

The problem of the German interceptor unit was greater than that of any other aircraft of the Air Force! The BF110 fighter has already proven to be a product of failure. The HE219 is a night combat aircraft, and the production is very small. The DO335 is a good interceptor, with high altitude and high speed, and a large bomb load and a long range. However, these aircraft were originally intended as long-range fighters. And in the more than a year of fighting, heavy losses, coupled with the difficulty of DO335 manufacturing, so the number of replenishments is insufficient. Although the Red Baron struggled to maintain the number of air force aircraft in Transcaucasia, part of the DO335 fighter force was transferred to Europe to meet the needs of the British War. And now the biggest problem facing the Germans is the insufficient number of intercepting aircraft!

When Garand took over as commander of the Transcaucasian Theater Air Force, the first thing he did was to strengthen the interceptor formation! However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. How can you not have enough twin-engine aircraft? Eventually, Garland turned his attention to the FW190 fighter!

The most important thing about an interceptor is speed, firepower, and defense. Mobility is thrown aside. The Germans first hung a twin 20mm cannon pods on each side of the wing of the FW190 fighter or a single-mounted 30mm cannon pod. Then add additional armor to the aircraft engine and cockpit, don't look at those 8 to 15mm iron plates, but after surrounding the engine and cockpit, the weight of the FW190 fighter's armor alone has increased by about 300kg! Plus two additional cannon hangers and auxiliary fuel tanks. The take-off weight of this FW190 fighter, known as the Assault Machine, is more than 5 tons!

"Can this thing fly?" When the first batch of assault pilots saw the somewhat distorted FW190 assault plane, a stunned young pilot couldn't help but shout. Come on, the FW190 is a compact little aircraft, very small in terms of size. Like a swift, but look at the current stormtrooper. The entire nose of the fuselage was covered in heavy armor, which appeared to be bulging, and the wings were also elongated, and huge cannon pods hung underneath. And the engine remains the same, it is the BMW 801 of the Germans for 10,000 years! "This thing must be quite sad when it flies in the air!" Another colleague said.

The Germans finally got a sufficient number of interceptors on paper by modifying the FW190. But after all, this is to catch ducks on the shelves. The flight performance of the aggravated FW190 assault aircraft can be described as diving, which is worse than the FW190F with a bomb on it! It takes about 18 minutes to climb from takeoff to an altitude of 7,000 meters! And the range has also decreased, making the already short-legged aircraft even shorter-legged! What's even more ironic is that the FW190 assault airborne mission actually needs the BF109 and other FW190 fighters to provide escort!

In addition to the FW190 stormtrooper, which was half-modified, the Germans also just got an interceptor! This is the me210 and me410 series, which have mixed reputations in history! It's different from historical games. This aircraft was designed from the ground up as a dedicated interceptor! In the lower part of the belly, there is even a six-pack rotary rocket launcher to launch S150mm rockets!

On the nose are two 30mm guns and two 20mm guns, and the guns deployed on the central axis are much better than the FW190 machine guns carrying two 30mm gun pods! And in the inner wing section between the wing engine compartment and the fuselage, the Germans also designed a special 88mm rocket composite pylon! Each pylons can carry 7 rockets, which adds up to 20 rockets from a single ME210! This kind of firepower may not be called the last, but it is definitely unprecedented! None of the Foxbat interceptors in China have such firepower!

The Germans had good intentions in order to deal with possible strategic bombing, and they carefully polished the weapons that could smash the heavy bombers with one blow, and their heavy hammers were already unbearable, but when Garland raised the weapon in his hand and was ready to leave a lesson for the other side, he suddenly found out. There aren't enough troops to escort these monster killers!

"Wait, we need more planes to break through the opponent's defenses!" Judging from the feedback from the front, the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia fighter unit is very high, and the BF109 fighter unit has suffered heavy losses in the battle with the opponent. As a rough estimate, the exchange ratio between the two sides is around 1.8 to 1! This is still the result of playing with home advantage! So Garand could only wait for more German planes to arrive before making an operation, but Huaxia would not give the Germans this time, and the bomber formation would enter in half an hour, and in desperation, Garand could only put more than 900 various planes gathered on the periphery into the battlefield!

"The Germans are coming! Our first target was the interceptors of the Germans. The second target is still an interceptor! In the face of the German aircraft group rushing up like a torrent, the fighter unit that provided cover for the bombers resolutely rushed forward, and hundreds of various planes instantly hit a relatively small space, and a big war between the two sides finally broke out! If the previous confrontation between the two sides was more about fighting and consumption, then this wave is a real fight!

The fighter units of both sides were the first to respond, and the two huge groups of planes collided like two swarms of bees. A few minutes later, it was scattered into countless small fleets. They are distributed from 8,000 meters to 4,000 meters in the middle of the air! Countless planes scuffle in the clouds. Dexterous planes fly in gaps between flames and storms, fighting under the impact of bullets and fragments! High-speed figures passed in front of the pilot's eyes. They must determine the identity of the other party in a matter of seconds and then attack! The Germans fought very decisively in this wave of charge, and the interception of China was also leaky. In half an hour, after losing hundreds of aircraft on both sides one after another, the German interceptor units finally entered the field!

"Damn, why are there so many fighter units in Huaxia?" Lieutenant Colonel Alto, the captain of the Black Knight Interceptor Brigade, exclaimed as he looked at the Stone Tea Falcon fighters that were flying down from above his head! He really didn't expect that he would not be able to overwhelm his opponent in terms of numbers when he was fighting at home! Interceptors are not strategic bombers, they cannot cover each other through box formations. But at the same time, they had to maintain their formation in order to increase the density of fire against the bombers head-on! So in the last few kilometers, the black knights can only experience a baptism of fire and rain!

The swooping down of the Casa Falcon was like a sea east green attacking swan, they attacked the wide nose and wings of the ME210 fighter, 4 beating fire snakes poured down, as the fighter moved like a chainsaw to cut a German twin-engine aircraft into two sections, before about to collide, and easily pulled up, the plundering of several Casa Falcon fighters made a few holes in the German formation.

"Phew, the casualties are not very large, and they are still within the bearable range." Principal Alto let out a sigh of relief. But before he could catch his breath. Several black figures quickly rushed from the flanks. Their thick, solid appearance made the lieutenant colonel feel a hint of palpitations!

Several modified Foxbat fighters will act as interceptor killers this time! The two long-barreled 30mm cannons and the two 20mm Sispano cannons in the bow will easily knock away the opponent, unlike the relatively weak Casellia Falcon. The modified twin demon can easily destroy opponents from any direction! 30mm armor-piercing incendiary shells can be used even against heavy armored vehicles! And the full-coverage armor of the nose and engine compartment, as well as the large fuselage, also guaranteed the survival rate of the aircraft. So these interceptor killers dare to fight their opponents to the death!

"Useless struggle!" Several ME210 fighters spotted the threat from the flanks and tried to point the heavy nose in the direction of the attack, but alas, although the weight of the Foxbat fighter increased, it was still flexible enough compared to these heavily armed medium-bomber killers, and when the two sides staggered each other for a few seconds, the Foxbat fighter fired the first round of bullet raindown! The shells fired from the 4 guns formed an elliptical impact zone that was constantly moving forward, and a ME210 was torn to shreds with just a slight rub, although the German MK108 machine guns could also shred the opponent. But this weapon is too close to the range, and it is claimed that it is not suitable for attacking any aircraft at a distance of 300 meters! Before the Germans opened fire, the long-barreled cannon of the Huaxia had already solved the opponent! Feeling the vibration of the artillery S-fire, Meng Yun enjoyed the thrill of killing!

And a blow detachment. Unlike the Stone Tea Falcon, which is afraid of falling into a siege, this improved Foxbat fighter is specially designed to deal with interceptors, just to break up the opponent's formation! After Meng Yun succeeded in the first blow, he did not leave, but continued to attack through the opponent's flank through a hover, facing the cannonballs that hit the head and brain. The Germans could no longer maintain formation, the squadrons on the flanks were scattered first, and quite a few planes began to counterattack, even throwing rockets! The two sides are like heavily armored samurai, striking each other with heavy hammers at extremely close distance! The sound of the 30mm shell like an air hammer is chilling!

In the fierce confrontation, both sides suffered heavy losses, and only 7 of the 12 Foxbat fighters involved in the attack eventually retreated, and the Germans paid the price of two disabled squadrons! When the Germans were finally able to send the rockets out, Lieutenant Colonel Alto's Black Knights had only one or more squadrons to maintain a tight formation to attack! But before that, they first withstood a wave of 50 caliber machine guns!

"Dense bullets hit the armor of the aircraft. The armor in the nose and engine compartment perfectly resisted the bomber's self-defense fire, but some bullets eventually hit the wings or cockpit. I watched as the left wing of my wingman was honeycombed by a dense barrage of 12.7mm bullets and then slowly fell downward. And as I turned my head to move on, a string of bullets came in diagonally above. Directly knocked my backseat partner into a mess, and the flying blood even splashed on the front seat! "Not all ME210 fighters were spared from such an attack, and at the time of the attack, 4 more interceptors were destroyed!

After many bloody battles, the German interceptor unit finally waited for the moment to exert its might, and they fired rockets one after another in more than ten seconds, and then dispersed into the bomber group in China! The rockets like flying locusts flew to the target a few hundred meters away, several Huaxia bombers who couldn't dodge were hit, and several dazzling flames burst out from the bomber's fuselage, accompanied by a burst of tooth-sore metal fractures and a series of explosions, the hit Eagle bomber quickly disintegrated, and turned into a burning fireball and fell to the ground in the process of falling!

Then the German interceptors carried out another raid, destroying the other two bombers with murderous nose fire. In just a few minutes, Lieutenant Colonel Alto and his Black Knights destroyed and damaged at least 7 Huaxia bombers! Watching these huge guys crash and disintegrate from the sky, a sense of satisfaction arises! But that's the end of their attack, they have already knocked out all the rockets, the artillery shells have also consumed a lot, and more importantly, the Huaxia escort planes have rushed over, and if they wait, they will find death!

More than a dozen German interceptor planes launched an attack on the Huaxia aircraft group, and their fearless attack caused huge casualties to the other side at the same time, and at least 200 German interceptor planes were destroyed or damaged under the multiple flanking attacks of the Shicha Falcon fighters and the Flying Bat fighters. The huge Huaxia strategic bomber group marched forward in blood and fire, fighting in the storm of explosions and debris, and with the passage of time minute by minute, the huge group finally entered the sky over the target area!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, the first tank guards brigade for the reward~~~, as well as the book friend Kongchen, Fengyu 15, and a monthly ticket support for Thomson's small soldiers~~~. (To be continued.) )